Great care to be taken, that all read, write, speak, and behave properly.
All the statutes to be in English, and read to every scholar or student at admission, and thrice a year, at Easter, Whitsuntide, and Christmas, publicly.
No cards, dice, or gaming of any kind to be allowed, on pain of expulsion, or dismission, by masters, tutors, professors, students or any officer or member of the college whatsoever. No music but divine psalmody; such as Butt’s Harmonia sacra, Knibb’s and Madan’s collection of tunes.
All are to be taught Bland’s Manual Exercise, by some deputed officer, but not bound to attend on musters or other exercises, unless on account of an alarm.
Nobody shall be suffered to run in arrears above half a year: some caution money to be paid down.
All students to furnish their own rooms, but to lie on mattresses, and the successors to pay thirds.
No one suffered to go to town without express leave from the master, or persons deputed by him.
Breakfast at seven o’clock, dinner at twelve, supper at six, through all the year; the utmost neatness to be observed and maintained in every room.
All orphans and students shall be obliged to learn and repeat, and, if capable, to translate into Latin all the thirty-nine articles, or those specified in the act of toleration. The homilies to be read publicly, distinctly, frequently and carefully, every year, by the students, deputed in rotation. All to be first thoroughly instructed in the history of Georgia, and constitution of England, before they are taught the history of Greece and Rome. Kimber’s history of England is a good one for beginners, then may follow Rapin’s. The young negro boys to be baptized and taught to read. The young negro girls to be taught to work with the needle. The following divinity books to be read, Henry’s Comment,—Doddridge and Guise,—[♦]Burkitt,—Clark’s Bible,—Wilson’s Dictionary,—Professor Franck’s Manuductio, especially the preface de Impedimentis Studii Theologici,—Doddridge’s Rise and Progress,—Boston’s fourfold State,—ditto, on the Covenant,—Jenks, on the righteousness of Christ, and his Meditations,—Hervey’s Meditations, and Theron and Aspasio,—Bishop Hall’s Contemplations, and other works,—Edwards’s Preacher,—Trapp on the old and new Testament,—Poole’s Annotations,—Warner’s Tracts,—Bishop Leighton’s Comment on St. Peter’s 1st Epistle,—Bishop Pearson on the Creed,—Edwards’s Veritas redux,—Owen and Bunyan’s works.
[♦] “Burkit” replaced with “Burkitt” for consistency