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"A college education shows how devilish little other people know."
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s
King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia –
1829
From
– An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia by T. C. Haliburton

Windsor is the shire town 1
of Hants County. It contains, (beside a number of respectable private houses)
an University, an Academy, an Episcopal Church, A Roman Catholic Chapel, a Methodist,
Presbyterian, and Baptist meeting-house; a Court House and County Jail. The former
[King’s College] has a Royal Charter, bearing the date at Westminster, the 12th
day of May, 1802. By this Charter it is ordained that "King’s College"
shall be deemed to be a University, and shall have and enjoy all such and like
privileges, as are enjoyed by Universities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, as far as the same are capable of being had and enjoyed by virtue
of said letters patent. And that the students in the said College shall have the
liberty and faculty of taking the degrees of bachelor, master, and doctor, in
the several arts and faculties, at the appointed times.

The Archbishop of
Canterbury is Patron of the Institution, and the following persons compose, ex
officio, a board of Governors:- His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, The Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, The Hon. The Chief Justice, the Judge of
the Court of Vice-Admiralty, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Attorney-General,
the Solicitor- General, the Secretary of the Province, and the Rev. the President.
The board has the power of making statutes and by-laws for its internal Government
and regulations.

The Following extract from the statutes of the University,
will shew [show] the course of studies established for the students:-
"Regular
courses of lectures, as soon as the establishment shall admit of them, shall be
read every year by the Professors in the following branches of literature, science,
and knowledge. Each course shall begin in Michaelmas term, and shall be completed
within the year – upon the evidences, practice and doctrines of the Christian
Religion, Grammar, universal and of particular languages.

The Greek and
Latin Classics, Hebrew, Rhetoric, Logic, Mathematics,- including Arithmetic, Geometry,
Algebra, Trigonometry, and the Conic Sections, with their application in Mechanics
and other useful practical Sciences. Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Ethics, General
Jurisprudence, The Law of Nature and Nations, The Civil Law, and the Theory of
Municipal Laws, Political Science, Economy, Metaphysics, Geography and Chronology,
History, ancient and modern, Anatomy, Botany, Chemistry, The Materia Medica, and
the Practice of Medicine in clinical Lectures.

The four following Professorships
shall be now established, to which others shall be added, as soon as the revenues
of the College shall render it practicable.
1 – A Professor of Hebrew and
Divinity
2 – A Professor of the Moral Sciences and Metaphysics
3 – A Professor
of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy
4 – A Professor of Grammar,
Rhetoric and Logic.

Masters shall be procured to teach the modern languages,
particularly French, to whom small salaries shall be allowed, and whose fees for
instruction shall be settled by the President. Students may likewise receive permission
from the President to attend instructions in the arts of drawing, dancing, music,
fencing, riding and other polite accomplishments. It is requisite that the president
shall have taken a regular degree of Master of Arts, or Bachelor in Civil Law,
at one of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge or Dublin, in the United Kingdom.
The students are eligible for matriculation 2,
at age of fourteen years. This period is perhaps too youthful, but has been adopted
on account of the limited means of the Country, and the custom which universally
prevails in America, of introducing young men into business as soon as possible.
The first matriculation took place in the year 1803, and the first degree was
obtained on the 18th of November, 1807.-There have been conferred 67 degrees of
A.B. 15 of A.M. two of B.D. one of D.D. one of B.C.L. and one of D.C.L.; besides
eight honorary degrees of D.C.L. total 95. There are 12 Divinity scholarships
attached to the College, by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
parts. Candidates for these scholarships are nominated by the Bishop, and appointed
by the Society. The object of these endowments is to enable Clergymen and others,
to educate their children for the ministry of the Church of England; each scholar
enjoying £30 Sterling per annum, for seven years. There are also four scholarships
on the foundation, which are each of the value of £20 Sterling, and are
tenable four years. These are designed as a reward for those students who are
most distinguished at the annual examination. There are resident at present sixteen
undergraduates and two bachelors. The College contains a large and well selected
Library, and a valuable Philosophical apparatus.

The buildings consist of
five wooden houses under one roof. These Bays are three stories in height, and
consist of two suits [suites] of rooms on a floor, each suit [suite] containing
one parlour and two bed rooms, for the accommodation of two Students. The situation
of the College is extremely pleasant, and the most eligible that could be selected.
It is about one mile from the town of Windsor, which is the most central point
in the Province. The climate is peculiarly healthy; and it is remarkable that
there never has occurred an instance of mortality among the Students since the
first establishment of the institution. The buildings are erected upon an elevated
spot, commanding in front a delightful view of the most improved and best cultivated
parts of Nova-Scotia [Nova Scotia]. In the rear the scenery is equally fine, the
landscape being much embellished by the meanderings of the Avon and St. Croix.
The ground belonging to the College consists of about one hundred acres. The respectability
of this establishment, its liberal endowments, the learning and exemplary conduct
of its officers, the number of Gentlemen whom it has educated, and its influence
it exerts upon the morals and manners of the Country, render it an object of the
highest importance, that should be cherished and promoted. Subordinate to the
University under its controul [control], and within the limits of its grounds
is the Collegiate School. The building is composed of free-stone, and erected
at an expense exceeding six thousand pounds. There are apartments in it for the
head master and his family, his ushers, and about 40 borders. This Seminary is
in a flourishing condition, and very numerously attended. The system of education
is in accordance with that of the College, for which it is intended as a Preparatory
Academy. At the school there are also twelve Divinity scholarships of £30
which may be severally held for seven years, or until matriculation. The object
is the same as those at the College; to these scholarships the Bishop also nominates,
and the Society appoints.

1
– shire town – British : a town that is the seat of the government of a shire

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