Letter, 1814 September 22, Thomas Cooper (Carlisle) to Thomas Jefferson

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rejecting as you see good. Accept too of my best wishes for the success of the establishment, and your health and comfort. Thomas Cooper

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Accompanying the foregoing letter (101) the following: It appears to me desireable (sic) that in an University, should be taught 1. Languages (close bracket) antient. Latin. Greek. (close bracket) modern. French. 2. (open bracket) Mathematics. Plane and Spherical Trignometry. Algebra. Fluxions (open bracket) Nat.Philosophy(bracket close) Mechanics. Hydraulics. Hydrostatics. Pneumatics. (open bracket) (close bracket) Optics. Magnetism. Winds. Clouds. Meteors (open bracket) (close bracket) Dew. Vapours."(open bracket)" (close bracket) Chemistry as applied to Agriculture, Arts, & (close bracket) Manufacture. 3. Chemistry. (close bracket) Electricity and Galvanism, & their connection (close bracket) with Chemistry. (close bracket) Mineralogy and Geology. (close bracket) Natural Theology. Foundation of moral obligation. (open bracket) Ethics. (close bracket) Duties of a man and of a citizen. (open bracket) (close bracket) Ontology. Cause & effect. Nominalists & realists. (open bracket) (close bracket) Abstract Ideas. Species intelligible &c history (open bracket) (close bracket) of these questions to the time of Lock. Liberty (open bracket) Metaphysics.(close bracket) & Necessity. Hobbes." Leibnitz &c Scotch School."(open bracket) Ideol-(close bracket)Reid. Dugald Stweart. English School. Hartley."(open bracket) ogy (close bracket) Priestley. Belsham." French School. Condiallac."(open bracket) (close bracket) Cabanis " Dutens Tracey."(open bracket) (close bracket) Connection of Ideology with Physiology."(open bracket) Account of the Logic of Aristotle. (open bracket) Logic. Logic as applied by the Schoolmen, its (open bracket) uses & abuses. Aquinas. Bradwardine."

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Curriculum 2 Scotus." Modern abridgements of Watts, Duncan &c. Exercises in Syllogisms, their properties & laws. (close bracket) Spirit of antient & modern history. Progress" (close bracket) of civilization in laws, language, & manners. (close bracket) History of forms of Government. Theory of Politics 5. History."(close bracket) (close bracket) Political Economy & Statistics. Political Arith-" (close bracket) metic or arithmetical questions dependant on" (close bracket) these Subjects. (close bracket) Elements of Anatomy & Physiology.""(close bracket) [empty line] natural history of Animals" (close bracket) [empty line] Botany on the system both of Linnaeus 6. Natural (close bracket) & Jussieu, which is now necessary. history (close bracket) History of Man, his races, varieties,migrations, (close bracket) manners and habits in various ages, climates (close bracket) & geographical situations (close bracket) Law of nature and of nations. Civil law. (close bracket) Characters & varities of the State Codes (close bracket) as to their general features. 7. Law. (close bracket) Municipal Law as applicable to the United" (close bracket) States, wherein of common, statute, &" (close bracket) chancery Law. Drawing. Fencing & the Manual exercises. I think it should be scrupulously exacted, that no young

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Curriculum 3 person should be admitted a member of the university, who cannot pass an examination in some of the easier classics, and in the common rules of Arithmetic; including vulgar & decimal fractions, & the mensuration of superficies & solids. For this purpose, would not a grammar School connected with," but at some distance from the University be of use? The boys at a grammar school, are such nuisances in the bounds of a university, that the two Institutions ought not be near each other. I speak from experience here, and else where. I take the present as I take every opportunity of urging (whether in Season or out of Season) the great value of in- cessant translations in & out of the languages that are to be taught. The preceding plan appears to me to require 7 or 8 pro- fessors. It might be filled up, not at once, but gradu- ally."