Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-19
For the Fayetteville
Milton COLLEGE,. /

MR.. GDlTOR:--Ien tnpuSdnU u0l-
lars have been subscribed, an d most
Of it already paid, BY citizens of our
town and its Immediate WEN ity, for
the building of the College edifice
But an edilice alone does not consti-
.tute a College it must be endowed
with sum of not less than ST Gty-fve
or sew enty thousand dollars This
sum would produce annually pot more
than three thousand three hundred
dol topay professors andm bet other
contingent expenses, while the a nnual
patronage funds sho uld be e expended
in procuring and enlarging the Col
lege library, apparatus, &c. Tonnes
see Presbytery have agreed to raise
by donations made and the sale Of
scholarships, twenty THOUSAND dollars
as a beginning towards the requisite
endowment. The interest arising
from this amount it'll the patronage
expected from the public, It is be-
lieyed, will enable the tru stees to
open the school. But this sum is
quite insufficient to give to the insti-
tuition that ihdepehdenc e requisite
to make it Pc rmanent. Now where
are the otheI endowmen ut funds ne
.cessary 10 col me from? Do our citi-
zens expect the bubble a broad to
raise it and bestow it upo b Milto II
College, because we have paid te n
thousand dollars in the ediicb? Sue h
thing cannot be E expected. And
yet, many Of our citizens sec m to en-
terrain this unreason able and prepos-
ferrous anticipation. W e of ten hear
the m say, "we are exempt Fl ON con
tributing anything towards the en-
dowment; we have bhilt the Iedifce-'
Nov, suppose the Presbyter ~ make
up the promised twenty thousand
dollars. independently Of those who
have contributed 10 the e Office, as
she is resolved to endeayor to do
what then? Will this be sufficient
endowment? : and yet she will have
done all she promised to do, and will
have doubled in amount what the
bpilding cost. Now. wish to S show
to the subscribers to the building,
and our citizens generally, who plead
exemption from further efforts to
establish our College su rcessfully
because they have built the
house, that they are nisef ably him
deripg and crippling the qnterprize
by acting upon such principle, and
greatly disc ouraging liz eral help from
abroad. True, the College edilice is
a noble builing, and the citizens have
done well for themselE yes that they
have built it. But thi Is is only the
beginning Of a magnificdn Mt enterpriz e,
and cannot bear comparison with the
advantages to be realized by our
immunity from such an institution
put into successful operation in our
midst. Let US contemplate these ad.
vantages for one moment, and we
viii see. First, as I'd educational "a
,ilities: Tr ue, there are a few capital
SITS among US, who d re able to send
heir sons abroad to be Educated, and
.hus assis t to build UP and sustain |.
Institutions from home But there
ire hundreds of boy whose parents
ire not able to send them off to be
,ducated, who are eduP billy as gifted
" nature, and if ed cated, would i
make perhaps as usefdl and distin-
,aished men, as those Of the rich
5ut such boys must tbrever be de- ,,
rived Of the advantages of an edu-
alton, md the State a I'D the q hurch h
nd the learned professions idebriyeh {
f their support, unless the fac llltles {
II obtaining it are brought no me to 6
rem. And with such hn ins titutioh !,
is contemplated in Fhyetteyi lle, it >
certain that ten boys will shh re III c
Ne advantages of "a cl 4ssical educa- n
on to one that could h ve any pros "
scl Of It, without such |facilitieB fur
she'd in our midst. / do not say r
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