The New York herald., 1845-02-28
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Correspondence Of the Herald
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to the Police IrapeHing Improved Harvard
College agaim-Banle Royal bstweem the Old
H.nkers and the Foundation Diggers-The Last
Trumpet, &c. &c,
j. G. BENNETT, ESQ >
We are in the midst Of glorious "spell of wea-
ther," a sort of cross between an Indian summer,
and keen, invigorating March weather. Here, In
the city of notions, we almost always have little
of lnterregnum between winter and spring, tor a
couple of weeks in February, kind OF neutral
ground upon which the two hold truce, as II to
agree upon terms of succession. But the grizzly
old tyrant always breaks the truce, gets the upper
hand, and plays the very deuce between us poor
mortas, showing and blowing, and freezing and
sneezlng, and smoking and aking through the
month OF March, like all rossessed; So it will now
be, dare say, and therefore will spare my COM
pliments on the weather.
On Monday night, the " native" ball, IN honor Oi
Washington's birthday, came off as per agreement
1t was very snowy affair, and about one thousand
gay-hearteo people were present. The music was
excellent Old Faneuil is tall place tor ball
and no mistake, and one of these odd days, you
must come on and shake leg there. The cele.
brated editor of the Herald might very well create
sensation in the Old Cradle, when,such cosey,
unobtruslye mortal as Mayor Harper. was to be
made lion OF. But the Mayor did not come on,
just as told you he wouldn't, and there was much
"native" disappointment IN consequence The
better received oplnionis, that Harpers name was
merely used TO draw house. Just as the locos
sometimes do when McClay, McKeon, Butler, or
some other "great gum from New York is posted
Of the distinguished speakers expected to be
present The natives" though new party, are
up to trap, you see.
Gov. Briggs gave the natives cold shoulder too,
and sent them a namby pamby letter.. saying thai
that he never attends political junkettlngs. He is
sent, being something like the Hon. Josiah Quincy,
jr the first whig candidate tor Mayor in the Tecenl
trials, who told them that $ he had come to no de
finite conclusion But not so the whig office
Wis is elected they have come to very definite
conclusion, viz: to swear that they voted for Davis
through thick and thin, at every trial From the
city marshal down to the honest tip-staf, every
in confidence that he believes he is the only city
officer who voted for Davis. Some faint notion OF
keeping their places may possibly induce to this
sudden Frightening up of their recollectons.
mark again by reason Of the copious rains we had
on Monday, day and night, and the warm sun since
then Vehicular locOmOtion Is not now more dan
gerous than western steamboat travelling, though
where, as John Milton said, or meant to,
"Chaos reigns supreme"
And then look out for broken necks, dislocated
shoulders, and such like effeminate luxuries of ex
ces i've civilization. 1ah LI
Yesterday the adjourned meeting of the over
adjournment, and as ! predicted the other day,
there was quite an explosion. AS soon as Gov.
Briggs took the chair, old President Quincy, who
has ruled the college solus for about sixteen years
ever since good old President Kirkland died, gol
up laboring under the most intense excitement
There was no subject in order before the Board
but the old gentleman was evidently charged
With fiery SPEECH about something, and at it h
went, right and left, tripping, suffering and blum
derng in the most pitlful manner. It was eviden
that the bomb shell thrown into the old nest of aris
tOcracy by Bancroft, at the previous meeting, hac
not exploded without effect, There was terribl
stir kicked up In the old wlgwam, and Quincy wa
evidently deputed to cruelty the audacious reform
er. This he undertook to do by attacking the re
port presented by Bancroft, as untrue, and by .
shuffling, involved and deceptive statement as t.
the expenses OF education at the University. H
went on to show, by some figures he had cooked
up, that Bancrott's statement that the expenses q
tuition for some terms were at least 335 per cent
larger now than when B. was at College, givins
for this purpose the average amount OF Bancroft,
bills per year, and also OF student at the presen
time.
While President Quincy was going on with this
speclous statement, the most venomous expression
in his trembling tones, balefulfire in his eye, an,
his countenance distorted with the rage OF de-
mon, and in the very midst OF sentence, vi
sprung Bancroft, and in tone clear as trumpet
which rang through the hall, exclaimed
MAY it please your Excellency, arise to cor
rect misstatement of the President of Harvar,
College. arise to correct the President of Har,
ward College for evadlng the true meaning of my
statement. and giving an entirely different bearin.
to it,"
Had the last trumpet rung through the Stat.
House. summoning the honorable reverend mem
bers to their last account, they could not havs
seen more suddenly transfixed with astonishmen
than they were to hear the hoary headed presider
thus publicly rebuked tor misstating facts.
AT length the members drew breath again, anc
one and another called out, "order.'" "order."
sc m / n n order IN aysn N ovploiu
Gov. BRIGGs-" The gentleman is in order
Does the president give way for explanation %
Quincy. (pale with rage y" No, cannot yield
the foor.''
Mr.. Quincy then proceeded in his speech. assail
ing Bancroft's report, and Justifying or paliatDs
the abuses OF the college, and in the course of hi
remarks, admitting that the annual expenses o,
students at Harvard College were more than twic
as large as the average of the other New Englan.
Colleges, and thrty.three dollars per year large
than those at Yale College. To paddle out of th,
way OF this admission, Mr. O. stopped TO the in
sinuation that other charges were made by thes,
colleges, besides those which appeared upon th,
term bills. He then went on to compare Yale will
Harvard, and admitted that there were some lao
students more at the former than at the latter, bu
accounted for this by saying that almost the who'll
OF that majority were students from the south;
were poorly educated, with bad habits and wors,
manners, and if reducing the expenses of instruc.
uon would bring such students to- Harvard, hs
hoped that the State would provide some Law
student, in Virginia, a tutor, as at Yale, the
murderers might not be let off with mere fine
WDrveller, driveller," was heard in suppressed
tones from different members of the Board
The President at last came to the great question
Of questions, the Sectarianism Of the college, ant
in the first place oenied it, but admitted that it a.
an Unitarian College; contending. however, thai
Unitarians were not Seclarians! He next gave hi.
views OF Sectarianism, and defined il as the prin-
ciple that there was no salvation out of the pale
our church. This he said was not held by Unita.
rlans, and OF course, they were not Sectarans
Sectaranism, he said, originated with the Catho,
lie church, which established the dogma that 81
Peter held the keys of Heaven, and no one could
get In there without passing through the Catholic
church. This was the lever Of Archimidcs. placed
without the world, with which to move the world
As retormers OF one kind and another sprung up,
they denied the truth Of this dogma, but were care
u to copy il as far as possible in their own creeds
and to establish little pass-key as the true means
Of admission, which key they alone possessed
This pass.ke he represented as being full efec-
tual as the great keys Of st; Peter, and much ess
cumhersome The TInifarians l,e aaid had ~.