Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-10-15

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receiving maturer principles. AS education
consists in the development Of the faculties,
we should select those studies which will efiec-
tuay p.omote this object. know of no sys-
tenn which is better calculated to eflac this, e,
than that of Brown University. 1t will be re-
membered that young men from lS to 20 years
and upwards, are considered a lille school
boys. What then can be of greater benefit to
these lads. than long aud pompous caia-
logue Of subjects to be Investigated by them,
before their faculties are fully developed.
What can offer better advantages 10 such
youths, shan the repetition oi EnGeids Natu-
raj Philosophy, or Lord Kaines' Criticism, for
ore College year? What can better improve
and exercise thc taeats, or coalirm ihe couf
donce, than partial attention to composition
and defamation: What can afford more, and
better light, than the eglcc, OF Lectures con
uectcd with all The IN erestng Sciences 7 WHAT
can be better suited to cXcte ambition, ma
ialaohood and liaiIory Can man devise a sys-
ten of instruction. more peculiarly ada pied 10
the wants OF The present generation. Of more
characteristic Of the present advanced con
dtIon oil literature
In addition, to he knowledge which may
be acquired at an Academy, our College gives
none, and takes away from ignorance only It's
humility and power OF beng instructed. Peo-
| pie may nnogne that there Is something in a
colleglate education, which raises man
above those whose opportunities have been
more limited. All thus may be perfectly true
| upon the supposlton, that all tue Universities
IN this country were not conducted upon s"cli
narro w-nnded principles, as is our own Look
| AT Cambridge and Yale. VIII person derive
no greater cneiit from instiuction IN either Of
these Colleges, than he would IN Blown UNI,
versity! And yet the PreSident labors TO make
! Tho public believe that the ad,un,ages IRE.
are equal to those Of ANY University IN TINS
| country. Wherever reoi advantages are need
ed lie has supplied iniaeiaqry ones For IN
stance, the last term IL senlor year, according
| 10 his declarations and p omses, is TO embrace
essentially all the studies of the preceding
| terms. The Senior Class aie to instruct and
encourage the younger, both by procept and
, example. They are TO study Hebrew
| French, the American Constitution, and Gen
cral Law, Botany and Mncralogy, Deolsma-
ton, Composition, and General Critic ifm.-
All this is to be acquired. when the Class, (by
! his PERMISSION are abscn, from Ioilcge.-
surely nothing IS easier than to besow on an
institution imaginary cndowmcnte. In these,
Brown University profusely abounds and of
their worth is distinguished example.
] II is melancholy fact, tha, the wsest and
most bcnevolen, of human establishments often
fail Of accomplishing their object, and dcoene-
rate into the empty sound of name. Brown
University was designed for the cdncaton of
youag men 1t was intended that the liberal
arts and sciences should tl~re c taught "a
tho'e, whose intellectual powers were fully
deyo 'oped and matured in the rrdm,n,s ol
knowledge. Had that object been kept IN
view. and pursued as j, once was. BY indlclous
measures, it would still have been an Inst tu-
ton, honorable to Rhode Island, and cherished
w'th pride by It's inhabitants. Bn alas 1t l.
nop sem'nlry for chlidscG. Boys OF thirteen
years aud upwars, may now resort ,huhsr,
and con over their Latin aud Greea. repeat
tasks in Kaimes and Stewart, aud come away,
wise in roll Of sheep skin, ped,nlIc in an
| empty head, and naughty in IA shrunk purse
aud thread bare coat.
Ono orcnmcnt tir II msv,bc so c,,L.n urr,J
n r, 20, of ,bo r,,Ioo, iy,ho ,,.,o ,,,.. ans.
!" ''.O' o' ,'0 ,"'rgf / '"o '''s0 e''SS enter
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