The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-30

In accordance with this, the students OF The
ology have always been placed, in certain
sense, under the Professors watch and care.
They have been recommended to seek his coun-
sci, and in the course of their studies to repair
to him for assistance and light.
Previous to the foundation of the Society
for the Promotion of Theological Education
in Cambridge, in 1876" considerable sums were
collected, which constituted the fund, on which
the School was founded that year. These funds
were obtained in the name Of the corporation
10Th the consent of the OperSeerS. And gen.
tlemen in Boston and in various parts OF the
country were addressed, at that time, by Pres
i6ent Kirkland in behalf Of the corporation,
designating them as committees for obtaining
subscriptions, and soliciting their good offices
in a matter, which was Justly deemed interest
ing to the churches. The President Of the C0I,
lege acaS, from The first, and er-oticlo, the head
of the School and there is nothing an the ntw
statutes modifying and attending ats relation
to the College, iehich in any degree changes the
nature of that relation, or conveys TO the Pres
ident ofthe College any further power or intiu'
enee, as head of the Theological School, than
that, with which he was invested by the adop-
ton in 1916 Of the constitution of the Society
The Society itself stood before the corpora
ton in the character of a donor. 1t had no con-
troll in the School, except that its Directors
performed certain specific duties IN the over
sight of the internal affairs of the Institution,
as the agents of the corporation, by their per-
mission and request This was never in any
respect the School of the Society, but belong,
ed 10 the University; and was as much under
the Jurisdiction of the corporation, as was the
Medical or Law School
I In 1919, regular Theological Faculty was
established by the Corporation, and the stat.
utes were submitted, agreeably to tae usual
/ form, to the Overseers, and by them approved.
/ The measure was not hurried lhroug h, as has
been enormously stated There was full I'M
Outstanding of the purposes and objects OF the
/ Board. The statutes were referred TO com,
mittee, who recommended at an adjourned
meeting, which took place after several days
J that they should be approved. and the report
was accepted
Finally, let it be considered, that the subscrlp-
/ tions, donations, &c, made previous to 1916,
and now constituting the fund for the Theolog-
( ical School, were given for the cypress purpose
! of establishing the School 1etthin the UNIVERSE
/ ty that they were the contributions OF large
! number of individuals that to change their d.
rection. or to divert the fund to n school dis
tinct from the College, would require the con-
sent of each donor that the corporation, there
fore, were not at liberty to consider the e1pedt-
encv of uniting the School with the College
/ They were required TO do so by the very terms
ofthe subscription
The question, therefore, and the only ques-
ton before the Board of the Overseers, at the
late meeting, was 1chether the statutes 0dopt-
/ ed az 1919 should continue IN force or wheth-
( er certain improvements and notifications of
them should be accepted, the aVoWed object,
and the only possible effect, of these modifica-
| tions were, to improve and to extend system
aLreadu in operation We must repeat, since
there are those who will persist repeating TO the
contrary, that it was not to establish Theo-
logical School, but to improve one already es-
tablished; that it was not 10 connect the The
illogical School with the College; or to consti-
tue the President, for the first time, its head.
For the School from its very foundation has
I been connected with the College, and the Pres
ident of the University has been always re-
garded, and has invariably acted as its head.
| Neither is it true, as has been stated that the
provision for religious instruction in the Uni
versty by all the Theological Professors is a
I new a--A~ sA+aeat by HA~ss ~tat"tns 10 $50
provided for by the statutes of 1919; and it will
at once appear by reference to them, that the
corporation contemplated, provided, and were
at any time competent to call for, the religious
. instruction of all the Professors in the Chapel
and to all the students in the University.
After these statements, which have been
made once and again, and which no man may
controve1t it is a matter for unlegned aston
ishment and regret, that men should be found
who for purposes which they best understand
should be guilty of abusing the public mind
and By personal dgrimagsS into distant part!
1 Of the Commonwealth, and insinuatlons, which
are not easily refuted, should misrepresent ant
pervert the simplest facts, which, if but simply
stated, would be at once by all candid citizens
understood and approved.