No candidate shall be admitted into the College unless he shall be able to render into English Caesar's Commentaries of the Gallic War, the four orations of Cicero against Cataline, the first four books of Virgil's Aenead, and the Gospels from the Greek; to explain the government and connection of the words, to turn English into grammatical Latin, and shall understand the first four rules of arithmetic, with the rule of three.

"They will....lay the foundation of Civil War."
-Constitutional Convention delegate and anti-slavery advocate Elbridge Gerry, in a letter to his wife.

Named. Los Angeles, by local Spanish authorities. The small village was originally settled by 46 men and women, most of whom were of Native American and African descent.

Published. By Noah Webster, a 25 year old teacher from Goshen, NY, The American Spelling Book. Webster's book standardizes American spelling and usage that differs from the British.