Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

By this day's Mail.

BOSTON, December 2.

THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, Says a correspondent, is in a more flourishing situation than at any period since its existence. The visiting committee from the board of overseers has for a considerable time past expressed their warm approbation of the state of things in this important seminary. It must be pleasing to the parents and friends of these young gentlemen to hear that there has not been a public censure passed on any scholar for more than four years, consequently on none that is now in college.--It is a fact that many of these young men have during the past season, been five and six hours in a day, either hearing lectures from the different professors, or reciting to their Tutors. There never was a period when there existed a greater harmony between the governors and governed, between the teacher and pupil. It is also a fact, which the whole town of Cambridge can testify, that since the bridges have been built over Charles-River, there has been less noise and riot after eleven o'clock about college, than ever was known before. The increased and still increasing number of lectures seem to have opened new prospects to these students, and to occupy their minds so agreeably as to leave little inclination for riot and disorder. It may be said with truth, and therefore it ought to be said, that the present set of students at Cambridge do honor to themselves and to the college.