Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-01-26

believe the printers are uSudliy III seaso''
Irregularity may be very beautiful in ma
ture. and doubtless is so /; but an irregu-
lar and picturesque post-office establish
ment is outrageous. Mr.. Postmaster, look
you to this.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. We copy be-
low, from the Boston Daily Advertiser, an
abstract of the Annual Report Of the
Treasurer of the University. 1t gives in
small compass the receipts and expenses
of that excellent and venerable institution,
the glory of our land. and shows how the
income has been applied =
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. According to
the Report of the Treasurer of the College,
which accompanies the Presidents annual
report, the income of the institution for the
wear ending the 3lst of August last, amount
ed to $47, 427 Of.
Of the above amount, several sums max
ing in the whole S3,26S 10, the income of
donations for special purposes, are appropri
ated to certain accommodating funds, or other
speci6ck objects, and not applicable to the
current expenses of the college, and must
be deducted from the disposable income,
leaving the net sum of $44, l59 81.
OF the foregoing amount $23,252 are the
income of funds and property of the col
eye, $757, so were reserved for Degrees
and Diplomas, S23,204 IL from Term Bills,
including instructions, rent of rooms, use of
library, etc. and 1913 13, balance from
the Theological Institution.
The amount of expenditures, including
$4,000 appropriated for the purchase OF
books and printing catalogue Of the libra
ry, was $4l,36l 90.
Of this amount of expenditures, $2l,5ll
43 were paid for salaries of officers and in
structors of the University. The other
principal items of expenditure were for re-
pairs Of the presidents house and college
buifdings, for coffvge- fnrnitpre, es~eepine.
and charge of college rooms and yard fuel,
and commencement and Inauguration din
aers.
The estimated net income for the present
year, after deducting the income of sundry
donations, which must be added to the cap
ital, is $45,900.
the year is $44,O44 40, which estimate en-
braces $26060 for salaries, $4,000 for books
for the library, $1,000 for the law library,
and $500 for repairs, work on buildings
and college furniture.
We also subjoin an extract from the
Annual Report of the President of the
University. 1t embraces many important
particulars and salutary recommendations.
But we introduce the extract chiefly for
the remarks submitted by the President in
relation to the study Of ancient languages.
We confess we were among those who
feared some changes, not wholesome, by
the new head of the Institution. and al
though we were gratified with his eleva-
ton TO the Office, we were occasionally
dashed with little fear. But every fear
was allayed by the sound doctrines he ad-
vanced in his inaugural discourse and
it was exceedingly gratifying to be assur-
ed that he did not in the least give in to
the popular defamation that is spreading
over our land-the crusade, if we may so
call it-against the Greek and Latin lam
guages. There are certain gentry now,
little eyases @ho cry at the top of question,
who have taken upon themselves in their
happy state of ignorance, with their mouths
full of words. and with their minds abund-
antLy void Of ideas, and who know moth
ing OF the subject, to put forth their dictu
upon that useless study, as they are pleas
ed to call 1t, the study Of the learned Ian
guages.
These full blown notions are spreading ;
and 1t behoyes our scholars, we mean
those who are really scholars, to insist up
on the value of classical studies as the
only true basis Of liberal education.
Entertaining as we do this opinion, we
are pleased with the candid and forcible
manner in which the importance of this
part of education is urged by the Presi.
dent upon the attention of the Oyerseers
and of the publick. The following is the
extract from the report.
The President is well aware that, def
eient as the provisions Of the seminary il
the respect alluded to may be, they are We
equal to any and superiour to most, if not tt
all, similar institutions, on our continent
The duty of those who have the superin
tendance of seminary Of this kind is no
to be measured, however, by the compare
tive Deficiencies of other institutions, but b,
the positive efficiency of their own, in ref
erence to the objects they propose to affair
In the apprehension of the President thi
duty requires them to make very clear an