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Cuestión XV.

and moral philofophy, which might have been of fome fervice, became of very little. The revenues too were exhaufled in accommodating thofe who came only to acquire the rudiments of fcience. After the prefent revolution, the vifitors, having no power to change thofe circumftances in the conftitution of the college which were fixed by the charter, and being therefore confined in the num- ber of prefefforfhips, undertook to change the objedis of the profeflbrfhips. They excluded the two fchools for divinity, and that for the Greek and Latin languages, and fubftituted others ; fo that at prefent they ftand thus * A Profeflbrfhip for Law and

Anatomía y Medicina:

Natural Philofophy and Mathemetics:

  • Filosofía Moral, el Derecho Natural y de Gentes, las Bellas Artes:
  • Lenguas Modernas:

Para el BrafFerton.

Y se propone, tan pronto como la legif- latura tenga tiempo de abordar este afunto, folicitar de ella autoridad para aumentar el número de cátedras, tanto con el fin de fubdividir las ya inftituidas, como de añadir otras para otras ramas de la ciencia. A las cá- tedras habitualmente eftablecidas en las uni- verfidades de Europa, parecería ade- cuado añadir una para las lenguas y la literatura

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