The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-27
A GARD.

The undersigned has read with mucI
surprise in the Vermont Patriot and Wood
stock Age, Card purportng to be pub
lishcd by Committee Of the Trustees o
Norwich University commenting on the
Prospectus Of the American Literary, Sci.
entiic and Military University at Norwich,
VT, which Published few weeks ago
As | consider the aforesaid Card an un.
warantable and unJnslGable Interference hy
this committee, with the affairs of an lnsll-
tuition with which they have nothing to dn,
and with the private dongs Of an individ-
ual who owes no responsibility to them,
and with whose private concerns they have
no right TO interfere, | shall only notice
it by stating few facts most Of which are
Of public notorety.
LIST. 1t is fact generally known that |
established an Institution at Norwich YER
mont, called the American Literary, Sci
cntifc and Military Academy, which was
opened on the 4,h Of September 1920, and
which was sustained in successful opera
ton at my own expense and by my own
personal eXertions, until the spring of 1929
when it was removed to Middlctown,
Connecticut.
Cd. That in June 1881, re-opcned the
same Institution, with the same means, at
Norwich VT, and continued it under my
personal superintendent and direction I'm.
iii November lS32-when duty called me
to the supcrincndance Of an Institution on
the same plan, in far distant section oil
country.
3D.. That in 1884, | obtained the act
for the incorporation Of Norwich Unlyer-
sity (which in reality was nothing more than
Incorporating the American,L Literary, Sci.
enliic and Military Academy under new
name, as the plan of education was in eve.
ny respect the same; the same Quarters and
premises occupied, Mathematical Arpara-
tus, Library, Maps, Globes, &c. &c,
used--lhe same uniform worn, ana the
same course Of instruction pursued.
4th. was elected as President of said
University on its first organization as such
in 1S35-which station occupied until
the 18th of September lS43-when for
reasons perfectly satisfactory to myself |
resigned, and since then have had no con-
nection with the University-durng the
whole time presided over the same, it
was conducted in every respect like a Pri-
cate Institution, and was in fact as much
so as the Am. Lit, Sci. and Mil. Academy
excep; that the Board Of Trustee annually
went through the form ofrOIing diplomas to
such candidates as | presented them, but
of whose qualifications they were PERSONAL
y ignorant, as scarcely an individual OF
the above Board of Trustees ever atten-
ded our annual examinations. The Bull
dings occupied by the University, with the
Maps, Globes, Mathematical apparatus,
Announcements &c. SC, were all my pri-
vatc property, The Trustees never having
owned one dollar Of property in the Uni
versity, and from the autumn Of 1885 to
the period ofmy resignation,l was obliged
TO procure and make arrangements to pay
all the Instructors-the Trustees merely
sanctlonlng my appointments; indeed SO
well convinced were the Board fits total
inability to carry on the Institution (being
entirely destitute of runds)-that in 1910
aresoution was adopted, formally authoriz-
ing me to carry on the Institution on my own
responsibility and merely TO report to the
Board at its annual meeting what | had
doDc--this resolution was continued in
force to the annual session Of 1913.
From these facts it is evident that the
Norwich University, during the whole time
| presided over it, was wholly sustained by
personal exertions and at my expense and
that it was in every respect except mere
form, as much my Institution as the A. Il,
S. Nj. Academy, before any act Of incor-
poration was obtained.
9Th. The A. i. S. Military University,
the Prospectus of which appears so mach
to trouble this committee, s in every sense
of the word a continuation of the A. l.. s.
M. Academy of the Norwich University as
it was while | presided over 1.-THE Quar-
tiers, and appurtenances, Maps, Globes,