Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-08-19

We very much inclined however to give the
erend gentleman all thai is Jue 10 him and doing this
must admit that his machine for augmenng the power Of
water is inraiuobie invention and he is entitled
he thanks o his countrymen, and the freedom Of the
world for so important production. Those who wish
to behold this specimen Of modern ingenuity, and vast
discovery in hydraulics, are advised to pay it Wis.,
IT, at the place of its location, Leonard's Mill Dam,
where they will find it in the full tide Of successful opera
ton. We learn from those who know a thing two
about these matters that this Improvement will, beyond
doubt, eclipse the labor-savng machines Of ofArkwrgh,
| rs well as those Of Watt and Bolton.
But, to return from this EPISODE shall proceed to
say that however may be the mechanical genius and
conception the venerable President he does possess
the power Of rendering University popular and that
since he has managed it, it has gradually declined nd
now fingers the parapet of utter prostration.
When he assumed the duties Of the office which he now
holds, the University in the most prosperous cond
on and had acquired decidedly eminent rank through
the agency of ITS former Presidents, Messrs MANNING
| and MARCY. The present President went to its head,
under the most pleasant and auspclous
and nothing but positive inefciency of government
shameful delinquency, has impedod its marches to dis.
undivided patronage of the State; the peculiar features of
its Constitution secured to it, only the aid but the
devotion Of and powerful class of sectarans
many of whom would have been considered guilty o.
downright heresy and aposacy, il they had their
sons to any other College, to acquire educaton.-
The celebrity which MAxcY and MANNING had secur-
ed for it, arrested the attention Of neghborng and re-
mote States who with alacrity sent their children here
frst account Of the wellcstabshed reputation of the
College and secondly, because the climate known TO
be saubrious and peculiarly adapted scholastic fe
With these peculiar attractions, the College
filled with students, and every thing promised the
complete and certain The expectations of the
patrons Of the Institution raised to the highest
points but what they considered the harbnger of u-
mate greatness, in fact the of ultimate decen
sion. he University, instead of marching on to great
and renown, did, amidst all the advantages desra-
bic by its friends, and which were warnS deprecated
by Its foes daily and hourly fall into disrepute and at
present it is College without reputation, and without
fame.
How different has been the history of our University to
that of well known literary and scientific institution To-
Gated in the West, and which descrvedly stands
first among the colleges, academies and schools of the
Union We allud, Transyvlnia University, located
at Lexington (Ken) and presided over by the Rev.
Horace Holly, late of Boston, gentleman, who from
pure devotion to literature and the Sciences induced
to leave home, living, and friends, to extend the
marches Of tcrause, and the lights Of SCIENCE TO the
regions If the west.
This institution founded by the State Of Virginia.
previous the ccdng of the part of that State
which forms the beautiful and luxuriant region Of
Kentucky, and endowed 1t with nominal funds consist
ing in wild lands, estimated fifty thousand dollars
For number Of years, presided by the Rev.
James Blythe, of choeric disposition bsoted in
his principles, and violent and unsparng in his depor-
mcn Some twenty years did he hold his iron rod
the institution; and as he advanced in the number of
executive years, the institution dwindled and the
mencemcnt of the year 1917, found in ruinous con-
dtion--known only by its About this time,
era gentlemen, who had taken lively interest in its a
fairs determined a CHANGE, and if possible, to es-
tabsh for fame which would secure to the lasting
patronage of the West. With this view they called up
tho Rev. Mr. Holly of Boston, to accept of the Pres
idency. The call was complied with, and when Mr..
Holly visited Kentucky, he found the University occu-
pied by ten students, and Violent prejudice existing
in the minds Of the people, in relation it and its
officers. But undsmayed by the darkness that over
shadowed the prospects before him. he entered on his Of
hcia duties Days and nights devoted to its resus
cation and in the little period of six months, he found
the institution in prosperous and fourshing condition,
and its halls crowded with seekers after the lights of ed
ucation and scholastic lore. His success elected the
admiration Of his friends, and the friends Of literature
and the hatred and prosecutions Of his foes disap
pointed faction, party of sectarians assailed him. and
that most powerful of all engines, the PRESS teemed
with its abuse to destroy the hopes and damp the ardor of
the untlrng and unsubdued President. But his aims
were nobe the University his hope his sheet an
chor and his delight he buetted the sorms and tenn
pests, and the whirlwnds Of passion that assaled him
and he triumphed, by establishing a permanent ba-
sis, an University, which, in point Of responsibility and
numbers, is not surpassed by any institution on the con-
! tnent*
This was all wrought by judicous man, and by ju-
dicous CHANGE IN its government and is not the cx-
ample worthy Of the attention and candid
of the guardians Of the interests Of Brown University
| Gentlemen! you must make CHANGE, or you must be-
hold your avortc seminary enguled in the vortex of
in, towards which il is rapidly fastening. Your Presi-
dent be man, whose ambition and whose zeal is
not concentrated in dollars and cents, and three per
deferred, in the script Of the Blackstone
Canal. Give who will make the interests oft
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