The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-29

ssid a r that the which hsd been met With in
the University laboratory due To- the brilliant Ams
London and Paris shows that that VI, scarcely the
caufs NO mean. the least gratifying part Of this
many females In the exiting state Of social sys
tenn there few things worthy Of the attention
Of good men, than that interesting class Of the other
Who are thrown upon their o~n exsrtions for support
Cut OF from those pursuits in which We may without
hesitation engage, they are brought in contact with
hs rsh and pess world Are there not thousands whom
batue has gifted with the scutest rensbtiss who
constrained by the Of society to choose between
labor Iadsa sm no advocate fl the 90 called rights
Of In the affairs Of lfa yours the passive
and the active duties Is for you to reign, aud
for govern. YOU cannot tell what qualification II
has been me- to have been instrumental In
appropriate and beautiful avocatioD, in which many
delicate womanly feeling; and in the argument am
pursuing in thus setting forth the claims Of this nstiu
ton Of learning feel that your earnest sympsthss are
with and that among you the University will find
advocates for the sake of what II has done in this way
The success which had thus been met with in wing
the possibility OF taking portraits by the dAguerreoype
led extended in respecting the chemical
action of the sunlight which continued uniner
eddy for than twelve years great many interest
ing and facts d. covered which though they
excited but little attention here viewed with inter-
eet in foreign countries The pa pers dealing these
which would form = volume of considerable size
printed condensed, or criticised in almost every Euro
pear capital In the reports the progress Of
chemistry made to the Royal Society OF Sweden Baron
Berzeus the highest authority among modern chem ts
SPOKE of them uniformly with applause with
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that this chemist IA e das before his death sent
his portrait with kind message conveying his appeca
cn OF what had been done here for science commission
OF the French Academy repeated OF cur series Of expe
rmepis and verified its correctness committee Of the
another. In Euespd Of the most eminent living
astronomers, SRI Herschel composed a memoir on an
place and the German chemists repeated great many
of experue ants ard discussed the explanations
had given In Switzerland, they habitualy reprinted in
full or IN abstract the greater part OF these publications.
indeed If Of DESTROYS Of knowing the particu
lars Of what University has done in these respects
you will learn with the OF the
Alps than YOU Will in the city OF New York Even in
la the experiments made here have excited attentive
confederation and some of them have been the sub.
ecs Of forms and atterug re port to the Royal Acsde
Of Naples, by of its most istpgushed members.
But Why shooh 20 on in this wsyS What have said
has been for The purpose of puttug the scientific depart
ment in eht position befo,e you, aud what bsvs said
is for that purpose more than enough. Let any,
that il has done
Extensive researches, such here spoken CT can
only be carried at heavy cost 1t will excite
smile norg learn that the amount devoted to the
support of the laboratory and intended to meet the
Of the Of lectures delivered to the
class. 1925 and Of late this had ceased
Yet during the aet fourteen the actual expenses
incurred have been many thousand dollars and it may
with perfect truth be said that the entire has come
not from the city, not from the University treasury
but from the private resources of single individual
Now that our accommc atoms are SO much improved
we can afford to talk about those times Our
then in little dark. back without ventilation
The struggled alr ost in vain to what
were coitg for the window panes covered with
ncopgruous arrangement of Venetian blinds and Gothic
mullions A hole N the ceiling led up into the chapel
lecture vas carried in tea tray. called 1t pulpit be-
cause they used to preach out of it; clergyman who
trough experimental in it; and this think it
y for recalling the Greek etymrlogy Of that cpl
thet plainly indicates the double function spiritual
well as chemical Our labor atory work commenced at
seven O'Clock in the ming, and continued unnter-
ruptsdIy till after Midnight and, migut have been
readily oreseen what wth the impure air and mental
application, the Individual Chiefly engaged twice
t'acted fever. and narrowiy escaped with his life.
In this imperfect aud bsf manner of summing up the
case say that the city has received directly and in
RI city, fem one department alone Of the University
known sll over the world as great commercial enpo
run but aspires to De recognized the metropolis of
America For that there is wanted something than
vste hfe-somethng more than the disspations of
fashion must have its opera hosses academies of
sry, great Libraries, museums, and costly es-
Establishments for the culture Of science-a better
science than that Of turning tables With the fast coming
wcAedness OF Paris must provide those noble Dstitu
items which the glory Of Paris As yet 1t is merely in
it, transition sta.e-it is passing from town to a
tropol-that state in which money the only of
person al distinction. But ten Year, will put end to
such conci.on The question viii then be not what
does q iuan own but shat has ne done? 10 a conntrv
where the is aneed arisocrscy, where high state
of civilization Is reached professional distinction will
eventually override wealth
wish to present the University to YOU uuse An
other point Of view. In 1871 establsheda Medical De
partn ent, which, though the ton Of its faculty
attained Of once the highest prosperity At this great
school many students have attended and about
twelve drd have completed their pofes educa
lon and graduated. These-your brother alumni-are
scattered every part the continent There ia
scarcely county into ~hich they have not carried the
repu alton of The University 1t is not for me
to speak OF the men who the founders of this ins
futoP Some are ia untiDely grave the victims of
undue intellectual eyerion, of anxiety OF those who
Iemsin ytu VIII 6n3 the names of some connected with
the prooupSes works Of pbio optical medicine and the
most splendid achievements Of surgery Doctrines which
have teen first taught in the public balls of that college,
IN the great body of scientific medicine But shrink
fop1 using this language Of p5ase towards tho.e who
have been nv associates the dead cannot hear me- ard
the living IL oGeDds. Let copiae myself the in
quy how the matter stands with tue city ths point.
The entire expenditure of the Medical Department of
TIE University has been up this time PROBABLY about
$4,000 which not emit has been outed oy the
city The ate at different times has given about $l2 900,
and beyond this everything has beeo supplied by the
tiops OF the faculty I'll ed that upwards of mil
Ion Of dollars have been brought to tne city by Students
snd Of this very large proportion he's been expended
houses, &c. At the present time this faculty supplies
medical advice and medcise to about 00c destitute per
Of the acadeical department has hung upon means de-
rived from the Medical Clle Fer diplomas nearly
S24 COO have been paid to the University
Can point out in any part OF the orld institu-
ton which has done for the of learning and
charity? Is not the city deeoy indebted to 1t the
wealth has here for the charities abundant
dispensed and Tor the scientific reputation givenS
From the facts thus presented you will infer that in
two of its departments the scientisc and the medical
the Upiverty offers example Of brilliant success.
1hep why IL It, with this before its eyes that the public
persists in the Misunderstanding alluded to at the out
set? Aresdy answer may be given.
Public opinion forced the University into wrong
course and gave it. at its inception. wrong shape.
Deriving its view Of what University sh 1uld be
from the English ecclesiastical institutions, IL trans.
planted here their spirit, and even their mechan.
ism. No allowance made for the difference Of
countries of times. 1t would have answered @e if
American college had immense church patronage to
besow The self supporting quality of such institutions
depends on two thiDgs-the right kind Of instruction
must be given, aud the pupil must have his of v-
ing furnished when his education Is complete II Is this
combination which crowds Medical Colleges, they
give thorough education and that completed the lucra
tive practice of medicine is the result It Is this which
fills West Pcint-an appropriate educaos and then the
army.
American Colleges for they have all tho construc-
ton, and all exhibit the resultinabyt to support
tbems eves II s be denied that their peculiar
arrangement has arisen from the influence Of the ecce-
siastical element From the Revolution no body of
has been profoundly impressed with the truth that
the continuance Of the American system depends the
education Of the people, the clergy have
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