Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-03-15
For The Times.
EDUCATIONAL.

having recently atlenuea tne e&ainlna-
,ion Of several Academies and High-Schools
in this county, we were agreeably surprised
at the number of enterprising and talented
young men, who are preparing for Collie.
giate course of study, very many Of whom
intend 10 enter College at the opening of
next session. We were also present on the
22d and Odd inst. at the examination of the
students of Silver Creek Academy, in Ran
dolph, where we witnessed the exhibition
Of no ordinary atiainments, not merely in
the English branches, but also in the Latin
and Greek classics and the higher Mathe-
mates. Some ten or twelve young gentle
men, mostly residents of our county, from
this one school, have it in contemplation to
enter College next Fall. Of such country
Academies, our citizens have just reason 10
feel proud. They are the congeniul homes
oftrue ruiimental learning, end irradating
centres Of a most benign and enlightening
influence.
Among these young men, just about step
ping from the Academy to the threshold OF
the College, we have noticed the formative
elements, Of usefulness of no mean type.
As citizen, patriot and philnnthropist, we
cannot but feel lively interest in their fu-
ture education. We do not deem it in place
to write with view Of stimulating them 10
any new exertion-for 10 them, ardor is not
wanting, and their zeal is commendabe.-
They seem to appreciate liberal education
as the introduction to, and the means Of eff.
fecting, unbounded usefulness. Their am
bition is laudable, their hopes are high and
their means are not lacking. The query
with these young gentlemen is 'whtre shall
zoe go to complete our education The ques-
ton is important, and in answer 10 -oung
friends who have asked OUR advice, we hope
that as one deeply sympa'hizes with youth,
and whose highest ambition is 10 be most
useful TO them, we will not be charged with
officiousness in offering q few thoughts for
their consideration and that Of their parents.
We have no merely sectional preiudices.
Yet our first advice 20 our young friends is.
70 not 10 the North or East. Young men
Of the West have Zoo long patronzed Eas-
tern and Northern Colleges and drunk in
therefrom sentiments and sympathies and
principles, not merely repugnant to West
ern customs and modes Of thought, but at
deadly varience with some Of our most cher
ished social institutions. This is an evil 10
whose balsful influence no bounds can be
let 'Tis poison that is being insnua,ed
into the very vital Of our social fabric. One
Hometown citizen poisoned in his education
with Northern sympathies and sentiments,
Is far more dangerous than many imported
sbolitionists. Our youth should be educa-
ted not cor the North nor FOR the East
Young men of Missouri should be trained
up in the West, amidst Western feeling,
Western enterprise, Western sympathy, and
Southern institutions. Let the youth of
Missouri be taught and principled for citi.
zens of Missouri. Does the student ask
where can this be done?' We call his ut
iention to the fact that for such purpose our
State University was erected at great cost
and ia now ebly sustained. Our Legisla-
.ure in their patriotism and wisdom, have
spared no pains TO make it the proud and
beloved Alma Mater of the noble youth of
our State. Its tuition fee, instead Of being
Hiy or seventy five dollars, is but twenty,
tina, no one may make poverty plea for
neslecting to acquire finished scientific
and clpssical education. No other Institu-
lion of learning in the South or West, can
offer such advantages as this; none has
more complete, more highly educated, COM
pe;ent or gentlemanly faculty; none is more
happily situated, with reference either to the
country surrounding it, or the society about
il. We challenge all the West and South,
70 produce village more beautiful, more
healthy, more intellectual or moral than that
in which Missouri University is located
There is no place where, in many respects,
so happy influence will be thrown around
The Western student. The Institution, too,
unlike the various temporary denominations
schools and colleges, stands on permanent
basis. Centuries to come will find it yet
the pride of the Mississippi Valley. 1t has
slready acquired a reputation commensurate
with the Union. Indeed its name and char
sctsr unscathed OF home, (however vigor-
ously assailed by the interested friends of
the lesser schoOls,) is yet brighter abroad.
Let the sons of Missouri, then. moved alike
by motives of sell interest, and BY the more
generous impulses of patriotism State pride
and devotion to home institutions, patronize
their own State University in preference TO
all foreign Institutions, whatever. Let us
LII ,, Wastern titerattire by up-build-