sermons and repeating them publicly in the hall. " "The studies of the third year included exercises in Hebrew and Syriac. " "In every year and every week of the college course, every class was practised JMcCrie's life of A. Melville, p. 369, N. Quoted by McMaster in his Inaug. at M. U. p. 38. Claims of the Bible. 109 in the Bible and catechetical Divinity. Such were the principles of education established in the college under Dunster. Nor does it appear that they were materially changed during the whole of the seven- teenth century ""* " Every morning a portion of the Old Testament was read out of Hebrew into Greek, and every afternoon a portion of the New Testament out of English into Greek. " To obtain the degree of A. B., a student was required to give proof of his ability " to read the original of the Old and New Testament into the Latin tongues, and resolve them logically, "f In 1721 a Professorship of Divinity was endowed by Thomas Hollis, of London. Its design was stated in the following language: "I order and appoint a professor of Divinity to read lectures in the hall of the college unto the students." The ordinances assented to and established by the corporation and Hollis, provide that the Professor shall give a course of lectures on systematic and controversial theology, every year