Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-09
HARVARD COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

dent EVERETT and said that having performed CRATE
fu duty paying tribute to the memory of departed bene
factors it douby incumbent them not forget the
vvors and among the living friends and patrons
OF the University he should be excused by every
in singing OUT on this OCCASION the Of the Hon. An
Borr LAWRENCE who had within few weeks made dona-
on to the Institution of fifty thousand doars-a larger sum-
Is believed than has been bestowed this country
one gill; by living beneactor. scarce know Continued
MI sere' IN what proper terms of unexaggerated Justice
10 speak OF THIS munihcen endowment Of place collegiate
educauon made by gentleman who has gone far in his
own person to show to what such institutions may
be dispensed with For repeat of Mr.. Lawrence
what was so well said by French Academist Nothing is
wanting to his glory he is wanting to ours"
What the need, may be asked of schools of scientific
and practical education, if without them minds and charac-
tiers like those Of benefacor be formed If an init
acquaintance with the whole range commercial nor-
nation, the highest and broadcast scale il knowledge of
every thing which pertains to manufacturing system not
merely general knowledge but substantive familiarity with the
matters of fact that fortunes by himself and
others the accuracy of the calculations in word COM
pee mastery of all that makes useful intelligent and pros
porous be attained without scientific schools WHY
endow them Could not our friend have employed his money
better
/ Now this is a matter, gentlemen which am willing to
leave to him. and for one satisfied with the he makes
OF it. Moreover the question thus raised is one it
applies the whole work of education It's institutions
exceptional individuals The Frankns and the Fultons the
Rumfords and the Lawences and the other great Of
scientific and practical @ their teachers their own
school, But why should dstrst the judgment of these
selaught when they themselves proclaim the import
ance of early systematic education
admit that any other way could be pointed in which
possible to educate considerable part of the rising
generation into characters like that of benecto would
be time for academic despair Why, point of
stye (Which is thought than other accomplish
ments to require scholastic drilling think have pc
rused piece of English composition that thought read much
better than Mr. LawIences letter of the 9TH of last June
nouncng the fifty thousand dollars Is there equal number
Of sentences in Burke Johnson the point What
the of rhetoric these solid com
pendious paragraphs
Nor the moral qualities displayed by Patron less
worthy OF commentator than his berality and dscernment
requires great give away large Of money
ones lifetime never blame the wealthy for eservng their
beneactions particularly if at last they us and
am sure the height ofnustice compare hem the
singing sarcasm of Pope
To silver saints, by dying msers given,
To bride the rage of ill-requited Heaven
heard OF rather striking a few years since, which
shows the strength Of needed by who is known
to have the ability and suspected have the disposition,
be Macenas in the nineteenth century, An adventurer
poronless though belonging wealthy family emigraed
in his youth from Newcastle in England found his way
Vermont the northwestern part of New York. and passed
his life for years that region handwriting farmer At
length bright morning in October spruce young
gentleman from the city of New York to inform Mr. Majors.
Naurs something like it, or that the name that.
a thousand
sterling. Not your "great Jennings property" your
great Chase property other moonshne of that Sort
but bona tide pounds shings, and pence-coal mines farms,
and three per cent consos to the tune Of half million of
pounds The worthy first supposed the good
be practical joke, and would give heedwas rather
annoyed at being trifed with, but slept upon for night
and concluded the next morning pocket the aon and the
legacy He went down New York and received undoubt
ed proofs of his good fortune in the shape of various authen
tic documents from England, and began to show, by
of benecence those around him. that the bounty
of Providence had fallen into liberal hands The of his
wealth and generosity spread together and the world of beg
gars, high and low, commoion. Individuals, insitu
TONS and societies. (whether colleges and universities
among them, do say committees Of every and for
every object benevolent literary educational moral patri
oc, eeconeerng depuied and volunteer every person and
every thing that could and beg, his door, To
expressive vugarism, sit beat all = it certainly
beat poor Mr. Naurs, and drove him of the country.
He changed his name took the first for Europe bought
old castle in Switzerland, and placed and draw
BRIDGE and walls eleven feet thick, between himself and his
sturdy prosecutors.
be hoped that generous benector will suffer
severely for his munfcence But should not be at all
surprised if with modesty not inferior to bis hberay, he
had absented himself from to-day escape another Of the
penalties which bountul wealth exposed and withdraw
himself if not from other solicitations at least from thanks
But he not therefore, be defauded of his just need
of praise and shall make acceptable communication
the company when tell them that the Corporation have this
day passed that token OF their grateful acknowledge
of Mr. Lawrences lberaty, and in perpetual
Grafton Of the same the Scientific School just founded in this
Seminary shall he called a. Tar LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC
SCHOOL UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE" There, sir,
if sangune hopes not disappointed will live and be
remembered till the last traditions of New England shall per-
ish There, while the pursuit and the diffusion Of knowledge
the training for usefulness and the formation of character
tnue be the honest pride Of community the recoec
ton of his bounty will be cherished and blessed
sion Of generous young men, reared this foundation and
annually going forth help forward, and often guide the
great industrial interest Of the country will forever do credit
his memory Yes, and surely intellect is destined
ouve the vicisstudes Of matter and surely a
bic project survives the brass marble which
memorsedeven though the day should Heaven
may be far, far distant , when the new born city which he
and his enterpng associates calling into being shall have
sunk back the dust from which rising like
halaon and all the Lowes and Lawrences which he and
they planting the land shall be like Bruges and Ghen
and the other silent cities Of Flanders aye like Carthage and
Tyre and Nneveh-even them and those who succeed
faithful trust his and his bounty shall be
held in fresh remembrance.
Richly as our benefaco earned for bis bright
est crown of praise il alone his acts of pncey
munifcence various and multiplied they II seems to
be family trait vein OF generosity through the blood
They cannot help doing good.
We regret 10 learn that in fight between Mr.. JoHH I.
JOHNSTON and Mr.. JoHN NJ ELLIOTT, in Warren county,
Virginia, Sunday last the latter gentleman killed by
stroke received with fence rail We have heard nothing
Of the circumstances relating the affair." and forbea making
any comments Mr.. Johnston recently q candidate for