text:  How many would then pursue pleasures and studies most congenial with their usual academical education and thus occupied be rescued from pursuits that too often lead to profligacy and ruin; and sacrifice to pleasures that cannot last those which where once fostered have ever been permanent! * * * * * The FIRST LECTURE is a summary of ancient art--one rather of research than interest--more calculated to excite the curiosity of the student than to offer him any profitable instruction