resume its care and oversight " in the hope that justice might now be done to the great number of Scholars which had of late entered that School," at which Mr. Beveridge expressed great Satisfaction with the care the Trustees had taken to engage Dr. Alison's assistance. 4 As to the Latin Grammar, " Mr. Peters and Mr. Stedman were appointed a Committee to confer with the Members of Faculty, and with them to settle a good Latin Grammar 5 in order to be forthwith printed for the use of the Latin School." This resulted in the Grammar printed by Steuart, whose typographical errors afforded Hopkinson so much merri- ment as to lead him to publish his key to it, and thus give unconscious offence to both Alison and Beveridge, which harm- less humor shut him out from any share in the Commencement exercises of 1763, as narrated by Dr. Peters in his letter to the Provost already quoted. Beveridge's want of care was the cause of this : had Dr. Alison been as careful in details as Dr. Smith, the book would have had his own careful supervision and would not have appeared from Steuart's press in the form which invited Hopkinson's ridicule. 6 At this time there were reported eighty-four boys in the Latin School. Upon Mr. Beveridge's death some difficulty existed in finding a successor to him ; the Trustees met the same day, showed their regard for him by bearing his funeral charges, and proposed to advertise for a suc- cessor. Young Wallace, soon after his graduation in the fol- lowing November, offered himself, and in December "entered upon three Months trial in the Latin School * * * and if not then appointed Chief Master, to have the common Salary of an Usher if he should chuse to continue longer." 7 But search was continued for another, and "it was recommended to Mr. Peters and such other Trustees as should meet the Maryland Commissioners at Christiana Bridge, to take that opportunity of
- Minutes 13 January, 8 September, 1761, 24 March, 1763.
5 Ibid 13 January, 1761. " Dr. Alison and Mr. Beveridge * * now acquainted the Trustees that it was printed by Mr. Steuart under their Inspection and Correction of the Press and he had delivered to them five hundred copies for which they had agreed to give him according to his Bill." Minutes, 9 November, 1762. 7 Minutes, 9 December, 1767.
