New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-12
The College Questfon-staristics Of Hamilton
College, &c.

MHIEsIOWNf APIA - 4ctts
To DE EdaoT Of The Tribune;
send you by this Mail the last Catalogue Of the
Students ~ Hamilton College Since this Catalogue
YVES issued a considerable addition has been made TO
the nu mber On looking II you will perceive that
the number Of students L. Ill, distributed follows
Seniors "a Juniors ~ sophomsres 60 Freshmen 30.
If you will take the trouble 10 examine the last page
but one, you will tina. the whole expense Of the
College Course per snnum, dncluding Board is from
S6f 70 S94! Is this price so that none but
the sons Of the Rich obtain an Education II you
think so, On turning over the lesf you will the
last page that Any student whose circumstances rem
der IL necessary and who shall present satisfactory tes
tiTnonials OF the fact provided he proves himself
worthy member Of the College, and bis Undergraduate
Course is completed in this Institution, have bis
bills for tuition rergiiisd' Now my object In sending
this Catalogue to you is to show you that you ones
publish statements in your paper Usually - o0rec)
that are exceedingly incorrect
Your Albany correspondent in a letter published In
the last Weekly Tribune under date VI the sd uumo,
puts the number Of Students in Hamilton College at 100;
and of these he says large number sent free BY the
ocIh0ldrs The truth is there nearly 80 poor stu
dents who receiving instruction in that College
gratis.
have taken your paper Daily or Weekly from It's
commencement, and have obtained for 1t hundreds Of
subscribers in all and continue 70 think il one OF the
best papers published In this Union. But do think
your Albany correspondent is permitted liberty rather
too large he not only abuses the Colleges and the
Teachers therein--by calling them lazy Professors
&c.-at oven the Members of the Legislature, who
happen TO differ from him 10 the best course 10 be
pursued in relation TO these Institutions abused in
good set terms. Now submit with all Difference,
whether the publication of all these letters with your
endorsement is the part Of wisdom-whether some
thing after all is due TO political friends In the
Legislature who may chance 10 differ from your cor
respondent-and whether they ought TO be held up az
objects unworthy of the regard OF those who are op
posed TO aiding Colleges At least would suggest
that facts should be regarded and that Colleges should
not be represented as Corporations divided into shares
with stockholders &c. and that the number OF scholars
should be accurately stsed attempts made to state
the number at a-and that when il becomes necessary
speak OF the Teachers they should not be called lazy
Professors unless is deemed discredtabe 10 teach,
and we are to understand that every who does not
dig the earth drive the jack plane Is unworthy and
should be spoken Of only in the language OF con-
tempt. u.
Remarks.
Our respected friends statement Of facts is IN
serted with great cheerfulness and We take his re-
Dukes as 10 the conduct OF The Tribune with due
humility. We protest however, against taking
our castig alton over the back Of an Albany cores
pondent The principal and responsible ofenderin
the premises is the Editor of The Tribune. who is
not very thin-skinned, and who objects to having
bis faults attributed to another, whether through
mistake or ahectation. This College question is
one we have very much at heart, and we are deter
mined to discuss it thoroughly. We are grateful 10
our friend for his effective and persevering exer
tons in behalf Of The Tribune but il he expects
to requte them by suppresslng truth or waving
discussion which we deem essential to public JUS
tice and well being we must say that the conditions
are harder than we can conscientiously agree to.
Our Albany correspondent may have used harsh
l.. I'll tr.s he hao
made any material msstatement of facts, our read
ers will now see it though we cannot and censure
him duly. AS to lazy Professors" we do not
remember that he has used any such phrase with
special reference to Hamilton College. All he
meant, we presume-and II no did -. -s'SAA-s.-.=-
dds to aver that the principle, VI 10 principle
ON which money has heretofore been granted
by our Legislature to CoIleges-arbitrarily ca
priciousy, without reference to any known or IN.
known standard Of claims, services or merts-is
manifesty calculated to make lazy Professors"
and sinecure functionares Of all kinds. Is not
this so!
But admit all that our Whitestown friend
aifirms in the above letter. and Low is the case
affected Has he come within gunshot Of the
main question How many more times must we
entreat the friends Of State appropriations for Col
eges to give us a chance TO acquiesce in their lead
ing purpose Howmany times must we ask them
to answer this question, and act as their answer
shall dictate Ough appropriations Of the Educa-
tiORol Funds Of the uhole People Of Our State 10 be
be made on some equalifine pro rata, 'reiidefaed
priHcipie9 Jas they uniformly have been and ere
to Academies and Common SchoolsD or, Shall
they continue TO be made no principle chaterer
We ask, and ask and are answered by what seems
to us, with due respect, to be mere pe,tiiogging
about this immateral point caviling at that IN
considerable detail Shall it be always thus =
Once for ali, Shall the money of the whole People
be appropriated TO Colleges, if at all, on some well
defined principle, as now to Academies and Com
mon Schools If not, uhy not Are not the vices
and Inequalities OF the present system palpable =
Is it not clear that money must often be given to a
comparatively undeserving College, in order to Sc
cure the votes OF its friends for the bill Is 1t not
clear that expense must be incurred in getting and
the time of the Legislature squandered IN giving
aid to this or that College Would not all this be
saved by pJppery guarded law, enacting that
each College II the State certified to be worthy by
the Regents of the University, shall receive its
ratabe proportion annually OF such sum as the LIE
gslature shall see lit to appropriate from the Lite
nature Fund in support OF Colleges lis there any
answer to these questions there is, why with
hold it from us
As to the irreverence Of which our Albany cor
respondent has been guilty in regard to Members
of the Legislature it is possible that we have set
him the example. in thought if not in words which
has tempted him TO the temerity. We are rather
apt, when men do a thing that seems to as quite
wrong, to call it wrong, though the men may IN
part be Wings aud even Members Of the Legisla- /
ture II is unpleasant. we feel, to differ openly
with friends, and 70 speak evil Of dignties but how
else are wrong measures TO be prevented or amend
ed If Legislature is TO be deemed infallible,
and all earnest discussion Of its acts preoluded is
not the danger OF its going wrong UNNECESSARILY
aggravated Do consider I'd IHo /
This is fruf Of many foadu'es, and OF those we think
our correspondent, stated IL I'd Ifio'
ERRArA-Rogz SAemaa.-our Albany correspondent
r. s in his epistle of the Sd inst spoke about 'ear
Of officials" and the Polk and Purdy hire Your /
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