Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-04-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED
MISCELLANY.
tcoMMUNIcATED.]
Ii WN UNIV RSITY.


Brown University, which has just been
published, that this respc ctable institution
is in furnishing condition. 1t is the
only Collegiate Institution in our state
and everyRhode Islander should feel an
interest in its welfare. The plan of study
which is marked out for the young men
seems admirably adapted to elicit their
powers and prepare them for the active
duties of life, land it is interesting to know
thai the plan proposed IS pursued. The
supervision in the University is exact and
paternal, and at no period in its history
perhaps, has there been greater promise
afforded by the youth of future useful
ness, than at the present.
The learned and respectable faculty
who are entrusted with the care of the
Colleges, have pursued steady course,
they have proposed high standard and
they see the success which they antici-
pated and have the full confidence of the
friends of the Institution. One arrange
ment which has taken place under the
administration of the Rev. Dr. Wayland,
particularly pleases us-we mean the
distinction made between nominal and
actual officers of instruction This is
honest and as it should be. The mere
appendage of great names to a College
list, may dazzle, but will not edify.
The acting officers Of instruction are
/ Rev. +. WAYLAND, ID. ID. President
| VIM. G GODDARD, A. M. Prof. O
Moral Philosophy.
Rev. ROMEO ELTON, A. M. Prof O
Languages.
Rev. A. CAswELL, A. M. Prof. Mat
and Natural History.
JOHN WAYLAND, A. b. Tutor.
dHo. BURGESS, A. M. Tutor.
There are five other gentlemen who
hold nominal profeseorships.
/ There are at present lO4 students in tn G
University. The graduating class is %.
H COMMUNICATED.
Il II is strange indeed that men who dis
| play strong common sense in the man.
agement of their secular concerns, who
employ able lawyers to plead their
|
worldly interests, skilful physicians to
alleviate their bodily sufferings, should
place their eternal concerns in the hands
Of the ignorant, and even agree that ig-
norancc is essential to, or at least COM
patiblc with aptness to teach the myste-
ries of the gospel
Such men are ever fond of talking a.
bout the first teachers of Religion-but
THEY had the Scriptures in their own
vernacular tongue-but the case is far
different with us. The words of eter-
nal life are in languages which have
long since ceased to be spoken-we
have indeed admirable translations for
which we cannot be too thankful and all
/ men may read the wonderful works of
God, bat the idiomatic phrases of Ian
guage differ so widely that to translate
as closely as possible and have all the
force of an author in another language,
is a most difficult and sometimes imprac-
ticablc task. GA word may have va
rious senses, some of which it may pos
sess in common with several words in
another language, each of which may
have some meanings which do not be-
long to the word in question and be de-
icient in others which do pertain to it.
There are also many words in every Ian
guage which can be translated by nc
single word in another, but require par
alhrastic circumlocution, so that trans
lator sometimes approaches to COM
mcntator and hence it is that version
of the scriptures, respecting which there
have been so many Theological contcn-
tions,will be tinged by the opinions of him
who translates" 1t is of conse quenco
then that teacher Of the inspired wri-
tings be able to read them for himself
Ii will give him clearer idea of the pre-
else and full sense ofthe inspired writer's.
A thousand beauties and much force of
expression must be lost to him who reads
only with translation. If the statutes
and laws of this state, were written in
Saxon, Greek or French, would lawyer