New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-24


Although on reviewing this would not alter
word still cannot but feel decided satisfaction az
not being subject to your orders or wltnlA your
power.
What have written is solely of my own motion ;
give notice that II my brother is very sooH SUB
Jecled to further annoyance at your hands, saau
not acquii you OF doing 50 out OF spite against my
self
Enough. Ysu are welcome to use this letter
ia 'uItheraTce OF your call on Congress ior ao-
ditioI 81 aid to help you to do justice. join my
ufgeAt voice to yours in that APPLICATION ana also
cal o. the Good Lord to lend you an upright MIND
ana SINGLE heart to serve as better sort OF Judge
Advocate within your conscience, there 10 plead 1ne
cause of the Injured and the weak.
Your very obedient servaot,
f.,,rrugfi Dec, 49, 1851. WILLIAM j. FLAGG.
TIE Union of Education with Labor rs Illus
trated at Oberlin College.
To the Editor Of The Tribune:
SIR: Having been often asked to state
the features of the Educational system pursued
at Oberlin College, and believing that some, at
least, Of the readers of your journal would be
pleased to learn the results of the plan, as far as
they have unfoded themselves, place at your
disposal some facts in respect to some OF It's
most striking peculiarites. Do with them what
your discretion may dictate,
will first say word about our plan Of Manual
Labor.
The founders and ofiicers-and | am glad to
believe a majority of the patrons-of the school
at Oberin feel great interest in this feature of
the enterprise They believe that the health of
the student, his morals, his practical common
sense his hope Of long life, his self-rellance, his
intelligent sympathy with labor and the laboring
clio nd in hpl 81 an est
mental culture, alike demand regular and vigorous
physical exercise With these fixed Impressions
they encourage every one to labor, and furnish all
the facilities in their power for the successful
prosecution OF remuneratlve labor. \ farm OF
$50 acres OF improved land is under the control
IF person who agrees 10 furnish the students
with fixed amount of labor each year. Many
who do not labor on the farm OF the
Institution, take smaller pieces OF ground to
cultivate Tor themselves others engage Ia the
various forms Of eardening-many prosecute
some trade or handicraft with which they are
more or less familiar. Thus, all may find work
work, too, that is useful, manly and moderately
~. ,a,is oiirr aiiu 80,
five TO fifteen cents per hour. 1t should be un-
dcrstood that the system of labor adopted AT
Oberlia is voluntary. For several years after
the school was opened, every student was TO-
ouircd TO work two or three hours per uay'
But the number of students soon became so
great that the Institution, IN It's poverty was not
able 10 provide them all with productive LABOR. IL
was deemed hardly proper torequlre the students
10 90 what the Institution could not supply them
with the means of dong. Hence the rule MAKING
labor requisilon was rescinded but the stufents
were earnestly recommended, nay urged, 10 iaCoi,
ara all the avenues 10 employment, ooIa on me
property of the Institution, and In the community,
were freely opened to them. The results OF thiS
change are on the whole encouraging; more Work
is done, ard better dGne than uncer the former
rule the students labor with more pleasure en-
ployer and employed are brought directly lHIo con.
TACT, and each feels reciprocal responsibility ana
dependence moral consider atoms take the place
of command, and labor IS thus elevated IRON the
condition of mere drudgery TO the sphere OF hisn
moral moral and social duty. Now 90 nov say lht'
We should make hasty induction from TINS expert
ence " ours but state these facts because tney
are such, and because they are suggestive OF class
Of considerations which men are. perhaps no'
enough disposed TO ponder.
Our scheme in this regard has been quite success
ful. Several circumstances have contributed great
ly to its success. The following especially deserve
mention:
FIRST: Labor is honored and honorable in O5erln
No one loses caste because his hands are hardened
with toll or his features bronzed by the sun Ihs IS
no, poeuy-as fear ittoo often ls-DuI simple id,,'
Second The teachers of the school set their pupils
vigorous example by laborlng themselves. IL may
be gu. STONED whether without this aid manual LABOR
will succeed in any school. Certain IL IS thA' az
Obern the example OF the teachers has Done much
tow ard making labor popular with the students
Third The community at Ooerlin have aided the
good cause in this regard by furnishing the secents
all the work which they could furnish Inc thought
full and ntell gen, cooperation OF the good people OF
the place is one OF the elements when nave entered
most largely into our success 80
Fourth Most OF our students have oeen OF sum,
c,ent age TO appreciate the advantages oil manual
labor and have been prepared by their previous
habits 10 enter on the system with ease and PIE
Fy0h; Great numbers OF them have needed .ie
pecuniaIy assistance derived rom iaoor' 10 eNaoie
them TO prosecute then studies 49,, -
Such are the principal ClfCuuS dHCtS "hiOh
helped to make labor so common ana SO su;oessln
at Oberlin. IN
tua results of the scheme, as they are wrought ou'
year By year In reply, would say 1ha' these TO-
suits have neither fashed the predictions OF science
nor belied the expectations OF Jddicious iie"u''-
Let me mention a few OF them. ,., -,
The health Of our students Is vastly promoIeI Oy
exercise. Those among them whose conSsIlulo.ii
was not impaired when they came ID ooerth, dnI
who have steadily pursued manual LABOR, nave =,
almost all cases, prosecuted their studies anu ICY
the school with unbroken health The last lIienn'' al
Catalogue of Oberlin College Is no" oei3ie no'
Ary one acquainted with the NUMBER AM the age oi
the sracEafes Will be struck win The couh' 81.
which IL gives the views Of those wa inSsL uioss
strongly en- manual labor among students: ol1 o,
| the whole number Of college graduates during :
years ony 10 have deceased, and OF THESE se'eIa.
| were preosposed to pulmonary disease ~neh Va. ,
CONNIE need study. Severa. more nege cIeo EXERCISE
and several more died Of acute disease Inc s'eaoi
lumber OF those nLo are living are vigorous ins ~
| AID Women 1t would be Oltlcut 10 anu oSu' ~
persons ia any profession who are IN oetlsI me- :.
| tksn they. For this they are largely ladeo'eu ~
| manual labor. =. ,bs
| Manual labor, We find, conduces greatly 70 'he
| morality O. the students Statistics cannot ~eH =
given on a point like this. But every one whp ~
Serves the matter or the ground. sees what mlsn *
rrsS,c,ed WITHOUT expe rimenttnali the healInlul a'
manly employment Of the leisure hours oil inc s'u
cent. shuts on, many forms OF temptation IL ODE
saftty-ysve ior the efervesceni ACTIVITY ol -,
i, ~ Sienitv 10 the aims and character oil IA;
student, Idlenessis the parent of folly and e.
:. Fiu the bushel,p says the quaint John Ne "S
with woe al; aid there Will De no room 20.
Iissmopg our convictions At Ooerin lhas ma so,
lstcr cmr,isutes IN the long 10 the highes' a..
ucst finished scholarship. On This POM; DER
{. be understood. student may doao'..s', RE- RE-
.orm more stucy in a gwen time, sp ,. h
naths or ,iI months or possibly a year. wi.aO To-
nSysIcsi exercise than With II. But this WIN no
true curing a whole course of s.uiy- 80 m