New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-27

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life, or tAat impes the locomotive TO speed
| outstripping the wind or that produces rich
barvosis from the once barren soil. They
provide for reaching the masses Of mankind, CIV
ng them not what would he useless % Their pursuits
and conditions but knowledge that would both tighten
the burdens of the wsrkDgn.n and render his labor
more available 10 hs own advantage sad the adyan,
| tege Of the public. They rese to nev, but merhei
importance, branches Of science that had been viewed
Of Inferior rank such as the science of nsructon,
whether III the Common School or Acsiesy. T1ey
provide for Improvement in professional education CO
tablishng courses Of medical instruction thss wouio
not only multiply PHI siciAns, but elevate the stand
| ard of medical knowledge; creating a Law tcllty
| that would not only educate profound lawyers out
would free the noble profession from its honda TO
obsolete forms and enable II TO speak, not IN buln
jsrgon, go barbarous that lawyers themselves are
not ambitious 10 understand At, but IN the
| inielis ibe Yernaoular OF the citizen, WHOSE
rights il PROCESSES both 20 teach and TO guard They
also include PrOfCssoTships OF Comparative Legisla-
ton and Jurisprudence, OF Civil and Moral Statistics
ali going to instruct the American citizen IN the EN- a
cy Of free Institutions TO promote the happiness
and increase the numbers OF the human iamy, thus
making the University school for siafesmea ln the
future service of country They purpose to sane
tify knowledge well to enlarge It's boundaries
and TO show that all the discoveries OF science, 80 lar
from conflicting with religion can be auayed around
her affairs both 10 enrich their glory and to increase
their safety against the assaults OF nhdety. Despite
the croakines of those who predicted failure to our en-
terprse we unfured our flag TO the breeze. We di1
uOt tAptNs tuos W.
scheme would be accomplished at once. But from the
bes inning we gave prominent place 10 branches OF
learning lying far beyond the usual studies OF Col
leoe COurHe simultaneously with appointment OF
Faculty for tie instruction Of undergraduates we
filed the respective Chas Of Architecture, Of Civil
Engineering of the Literature of Design, and of the
Hebrew, French, German, Italian and Spanish Lat
erature and Languages. Soon aiterward we added
the Chairs OF Persian, Arabic, and Syrac. OF the
Philosophy OF Education, of three Professors OF Law,
providing meantime for a scheme OF Medical IN
strucon that might render Negfork as distng ushed
for the numbers of her medical students her position
is advantageous for the cultivation OF medical science
while at the end offouyears from the time when listruc
ton had been commenced we had placed the institu
ton IN tbs noble edifce, giving 1t not Only local
Labitaon with its name, but also insuring to !. an
anchorage in public sentiment and pubic sympatlles
that would enable it the BITTER to outrde the storms
through which new institu Ions OF ITS KIND haYe gen
orally TO pass. Ii our purpose, fixed and unalter
able that rs II institution bore the name OF UNI
yersity il should give the public from its origin
full pledge in its Distinguishing features that was to
be what it was called. Every department Of instruc-
ton felt the benefit OF this policy Even the uuder
graduate CLASSES, which some feared might oe over
Swallowed and injured, mounted up TO number that
surprised the most sanguine. We placed the higher
branches of learning in tie hands OF men possessing
wide reputation and their names reflected lus
the whole institution. Not TO mention Others, among
them was the who Is now acknowledged both at
home and abroad as the inventor OF the electric tee
graph, and within these walls were the wires hrst
TAUGHT 10 sneak q language that now pcryades the
globe Another was the civil engineer who first made
the surveys and marked out the course OF the prlncey
aqueduc. which brings the Croton to our dwellings,
Douglass too is sleeping IN his grave Peace 70 MS
ashes Such gentlemen, were the views and the pol
lev of the men who founded the University SUCH was
the form which they gave II from It's bth; ami every
sentiment of gratitude, of high regard for the cause OF
science aud Letters and of wise fOrethOught for
the future requires that their comprehensive
scheme be neither abandoned nor curtailed
Gentlemen Alumni need not ask how far such full
orbed Institution would meet your appreciation. can
have no doubt 10 the readiness with which you VIII
nr pr cate the liberal scheme of the who founded
your Alma Mater. The Rev. Speaker then dilated on
tbe progressive spirit of the age, aud said all who did
not keep up with 1t must expect 10 be rampled down
in the race He continued even Oxford aud Cam
bridge though surrounded by thousands Of haowed
memories having, with their untold wealth, too long
dozed over Greek prosody and dry mathemahcs, allow
ing their youth to know more OF Port wine and hot
supuers swift horses and hounds than about useful
STUDIES now find the hand Of the Reormer reaching
them and requiring them to give an account OF their
ardship Indeed all the Oldest seats OF learning are
about TO pass into q state of transition. Science
throughout the civilized world IS required to lay
aside her statelness, and to come forward aud
even stoop down to what ale can devise and do
for the practical benefit of man. Tue LOUD ana earnest
cry of Bacon when he asked, Is knowledge ever
bnrren2' begins TO be heard Far aud near an ong the
high and the low; and in 10 land on which the sun
shines il this CRY go loud, SO earnest prolonged in
orr own She has risen up, and CONSCIOUS oil her giant
strength though yet in ler youth, she has announced
to the nations her lofty purpose to create new era Ia
the history of the human race; new era IN the
Knowledge and assertion Of civil and social rights;
nc era In the wider extension of education that
will hberatc elevate. and stimulate the whole mass
Of mind in nation, qualifying them both Tor self
government and selfproecton; new era IN the
cultivation of science by scientific men, giving
them both the will and the means TO discover
the vet secret powers of every element III nature,
and TO draw them forth in applications 10 the ser
vice of mar. See what she has already done with
that subtle aud powerful element the electric fluid.
One of her sons first chaued it to rod TO protect
lives and dwellings from lie deadly stroke and another
as already ntmaied has tanned down the once dread
ed thing that seemed powerful only for eyi and has
made il the obedent messenger to carry our thoughts
around the world with the speed of thought ITSELF Ii
mistake not electricity has only begun TO do Its des
fined work | believe the day IL coming when with an
increase of safety, and with an economy OF ume snd
cost as yet unknown, 1t will Inpei our SHIPS across
the oce an and our cars the ral.road wheu II VIII
drive the press that prints books when viii even
effect new wonders in agriculture, as IN everything
else and viii produce rich crops from SOILS now aean
doned 10 barrenness and desolstion. And as II was
under American mno that the lightning received its
first schooling IL is reasonable to suppose that 1t Will
finish IFS education under masters OF the same nauon
But if In such achievements for pubic gOol, the
elastic eyer-actve indomitable genus OF our country
is TO take OF continue in the lead she must nave nst
iutions of learning and science thst VIII JAR 70 se
beyond the usages of past centuries, and that VIII
ouoken the minds Of her TO invent, 10 explore 10
fest everything that the Creator OF earth, AR and sea
has placed within their reach institutions embracing
a sptere of instruction that leaves no one Orahch Oh
science or letters to stand alone, isolated from others
hat xopld tend 10 their mutual improvement Il
united. but in which all may be grouped
as in bright constellation, where every ne star that
il ADDED renders the whole sky the more brilliant ana
heavenly. And now let me ask II tue nauoh heeus
secb seat of learning to develop her intellect aud
TeDare her TO run the race before her, where can
she pant IL with so much advantage to all az Ia the