“Præcipué, Te, collegii et academiæ hujus Præefecte venerande! summâ benevolentiâ a nobis observari par est. Tu gressus nostros, dum subtilioris sapientiæ recessus curiosé indagamus, direxisti. Tu nobis, mansuetioribus musis operam impendentibus, orationis simplicis ac perspicuæ regulas, venusta ornamenta ac veneres accuraté eleganterque explicuisti. Tu, quid sit magnificum tum in verbis, tum in sententiis, tum in figuris, edocuisti, omnesque sublimitatis fontes, ipsius Longini majestatem et acumen feliciter æmulatus, auditoribus tuis admirantibus retexisti. Qui vult fieri disertus, scripta tua, tanquam præceptorum exempla luculenta, sæpius versato; animum intendat ad argumenta multifaria, quæ tam varié, tam numerosé, tam abundanter, tam illuminaté, tum rebus tum verbis tractasti.” Footnote 260a: Mr. Jackson was professor of languages and master of the Latin school, in the college, until the spring of the year 1758; when he accepted of a captaincy in the provincial service, in the expedition under general Forbes, against the French and their Indian allies. On the resignation of his professorship, Mr. Jackson was succeeded by Mr. Beveridge. ----- In the year 1765, the original plan of this institution was greatly enlarged, by the addition of the Medical School;[261] with the appointment of Professors,[262] for reading lectures in anatomy, botany, chemistry, the materia medica, the theory and practice of physick, and also for delivering clynical lectures in the Pennsylvania Hospital.[263] Since that period, and after the erection of the whole of the College-establishment into an University, the Medical department has been still further extended, by the creation of other Professorships in the Schools of Medicine, and filling these new chairs—as well as those originally instituted—with men of distinguished learning and abilities: By which means, the Medical School in Philadelphia, connected with the University of Pennsylvania, now justly vies with that of Edinburgh, in celebrity. ----- Footnote 261: