These branches are equally necessary to the
divine as to the other professional or civil characters, to enable
them to fulfill the duties of their calling with understanding and
usefulness. It has, therefore, been in contemplation, and suggested
by some pious individuals, who perceive the advantages of associating
other studies with those of religion, to establish their religious
schools on the confines of the University, so as to give to their
students ready and convenient access and attendance on the scientific
lectures of the University; and to maintain, by that means, those
destined for the religious professions on as high a standing of
science, and of personal weight and respectability, as may be
obtained by others from the benefits of the University. Such
establishments would offer the further and greater advantage of
enabling the students of the University to attend religious exercises
with the professor of their particular sect, either in the rooms of
the building still to be erected, and destined to that purpose under
impartial regulations, as proposed in the same report of the
commissioners, or in the lecturing room of such professor. To such
propositions the Visitors are disposed to lend a willing ear, and
would think it their duty to give every encouragement, by assuring to
those who might choose such a location for their schools, that the
regulations of the University should be so modified and accommodated
as to give every facility of access and attendance to their students,
with such regulated use also as may be permitted to the other
students, of the library which may hereafter be acquired, either by
public or private munificence.
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