Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-07-17

rary institution hs country with ths ex cepiou per
haps, oil one or two, still II might be much improved;
ana the INSTITUTION cannot expect desire that it's pro-
iessors should furnish any part OF its apparatus. The
College Library extremely deficient and has no, been
at all improved Tor many years. And the college
grounds and buildings should all be enclosed in order
preserve then, and 10 give them the appearance that
ei airy institution ought have These are the wants
OF Hampden Sydney; wants. which the public wiilper
ceve cannot he sntshcd by sum Of money, short OF
rs or $50 600 To say them the trustees have al their
disposal shout three hundred OF poor land, living
in the vicititv OF The college, and about six thousand
i've hundred dollars yielding interest Of six per cent
per annup The question arises, where are the ru,.
tees to obtain the funds necessary TO supply this grca.
deficiency! virginia has very large fund for literary
purposes, perhaps the large.t in tho Union with the ex
ceplion OF one or two; and that fund belongs equally
the psople oil every portion Of the State; and might
be surposod that Hampdch Sydney could get some
thing from that source. as it is well known that
she Is All object of much solictude and regard with
the South Eastern section Of the State--Bul appi.
cation after application has been made for ten years
past. 10 the legislature for aid from that fund, and
those applications have been often rejected upon
frivolous pretex o. other. The only Left il
one which has failed Hanpien Sydney in time of
necd-pricdfe iberoiiy The question now TO be set
tled, is not whether Hampton Sydney will go on to
make these advances aud improvements which de-
srahie; but n IN. whether She shall continue Der pre-
sent very useful operations, shall decline. Should
the present applications fi shall be compelled 10
behold our students Tearing Tor want OF sh el;cr from
The weather. and our professors going 10 other iOstu
tons or 10 other occupations, because furnish
them with houses 10 live in salaries 10 support them.
ne people must sustain the institution il must
90 down. On The citizens OF the distant sections
oil the state the trustees Of Hampton Sydney have
claims, because OF the Intrinsic value of their ns.
tion because Of the good service she has rendered
10 The State and because OF the Very small proportion
oil the proceeds Of tho Literary Fund which south.
eastern Virginia lias received On south astsrn Vir
GINA they have peculiar claims, because that section
OF the sate has experienced principally the benefits
suiting from their past labor and because IT, in pccu-
liar manner must be benefited by the future prosperity
OF the institution For there il proposition clearer
than that the citizens Of that lion of The State a.
we'll as every other will find it greatly their advan-
tagc 10 educate their near-lome, we'll in saving
expense "a in preventing the formation OF vicious ha-
it's sndin securing the moral and literary Improvement
their children. To the alumni OF the institution (and
Hamrden Sydncy IL proud 10 her sous occupying
most important and useful situations la socioy the
tees most earnestly and confidently apply, exert that
intelligence and influence for which they are in great
measure indebted 10 cold II 'mpden Syney,' in pro
curing all for their "Ama Mater in this her time Of
pre- ssing mead.