New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-10

Have YOU ever seen or heard of a prosper
Gus Manual Labor school or College, The notion -
not new one The truth that uIderlics il - seifevi-
dent viz That the body needs rsining well NJ the
mind Then too the economy Of the plan y az oeast-
full az Savings Bank and ss feasible. seemingly.
Marietta College. OberEin College Western Reserve
College Lane Seminary Peoples College MT Peasanf
Ohio) and m,py minor institutions have tried TO set
both sails But in Ohio the Manual Labor sa viii not
,,rpd 60 also In Indiana Crawforisvlc, Greencastc,
New Albany have tried il and failed Illinois testifcs
Jacksonville Glesburgh Marion City and others vote No
Now these institutions have not been serve copies OF
sny one faulty original and have met common fate
Financially they occupy the whole scale from epdow-
ueut down TO zero. Rehgiously, they vary just 10
widely Ia discipline they have tried everything from
Work Sir or leave usr down Tor up) to . Please
10 lend us a hand Mr.. Sophomore" Yet Labor, Manual
Labor, langushes in them all Various occuparons,
Farming Gardening Printing shoe Making Carpen-
try CoOpering, Cabinet Making. Broom Manufacturing,
Book Binding all these the writer hes seen tried But
Manual Labor viii not work There e a screw loose in
your theory somewhere. Manual Labor and successful
study thus far have proved incompatible. Can you tell
vour readers ehrS AaP.
Answer-Not altogether perhaps; but
some of the reasons for these alleged failures
as follows:
/. Because the great body of pupils are students
mainly because they hate work. They submit to
the drudgery of Study only that they may avoid
the still more repulsive drudgery of bona hds
Work. Of course, you see, Manual Labor
School lie not at all to their taste.
2. Because we have no body Of Teachers who
love and practice Manual Labor.
3. Because false and mischievous public senti-
ment deems Manual Labor degrading and mental,
and dictates the current talk of the dignity Of
Labor &C., only by way Of humbug, soft soap
and blarney.
4. Because we have not, and never yet have
had, any seminary wherein adequate provision was
made for proper variety of Industrial pursuits,
with adequate devotion to and respect for Labor
on the part of the projectors and managers.
5. Because most Of the students resorting to
Manual Labor Schools have done so only because
they were not able to attend any other. They
went to them as the thief goes to State Prison.
for want Of practicable alternative.
6. Because speaking generality horalists do not
teach and Parsons do not preach the absolute duty
Of every man to be Industrious, no matter how
great may be his riches.
T. Because our whole Social polty is based an
the assumption that Mankind are naturally and
ing and the Working-the former to do tsubstan-
tally all the thinking, the latter all the working,
for the whole body.
We could render more reasons for tho as
sumed fact which puzzles our correspondent; but
space is precious. Let the above suffice for the
present.
Understand, however, that we do Mt admit the
facts tn be entirely ns our correspondent states
them. We do MT admit that Oberlin has given up
Manual Labor-far from it-though 1t has been
somewhat staggered in its adherence thereto,
mainly because of its inability to provide labor for
all its pupils, especially in proper variety. And
then if "A. s. p. will just look in at the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum in this very City, our friend DR..
Peet will show him Manual Labor Seminary Of
many years. standing which has not abandoned the
principle and is not a falure-by ever so much.
But suppose the facts rere as our correspond
dent puts them--what thenl Was any great and
good idea ever actualized without difficultyl Does
not the naked fact that an idea is in advance Of
public sentiment imply such difficulty Consider
how often and how long the colonization by Eu-
ropeans of this very coast we live was failure
so pronounced the basis Of repeated and
earnest experiments. My friend have You ever
reflected that this world of ours moves onward to
its Divinely appointed, benignant destiny, maialy
by means of the efforts Of fanatics and 'visona.
ries,' put forth in what are (up to the moment of
indisputable success) regarded by the wise aud
prudent as decided failuresr ED
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