The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-09
Lecture by Hon. Horace Mann.

THE RELATION BETWEEN COLLEGES AND THE PEPoLE.
Hon. Horace Mann delivered lecture last evening in
the lecture room OF tho Mercantile Library Clinton Hall
on tho "Relaton between Colleges and the People" Mr.
Mann, IL will DO remembered, is tho President Of An.
toch College In which institution there has recently been
difficulty between the faculty and stadents, which
suited in the expulsion OF Of latter forcing
open OF their rooms and the eiecment of their effects
from tho windows also action at law still, pending be.
tween Of said students the President and Assistant
Treasurer OF said college.
large and attentive audience cordially greeted the
speaker a. he was introduced TO them. Ihs remarks
we're substantially a. follows
The relation which colleges bear TO humanity Ia but
little lees than that which the breu bears TO the rest Of
the human body. Lord Bacon said knowledge power
In more practical ago knowledge Ia government
Colleges fountains Of knowledge situated upon high
table land, whence eternal aow 70 fettlza
and bless mankind; would u God that no evil ever
mingled with their current Hero and thoro, 10 u true
solitary man exists who mover drank at those fountains
he is fountain in himself But how such
IN fve millions is too great o per centago
Practical mon sometimes make great achievements In
hfe but rs the philosophers who have thought out the
principle which they have brought into action
ID the college graduates who writc the books think the
science and oil the posts OF honor and fame throughout the
world. Tako tho 50 900 who to-day Ill the 80 900
poets IN this government which honor most aspires 10
and onvy most covets, and you win ind nnc tenths
them iod by college neutrality-suspicious. too Of colleges
Of rank of the tt which the West
called horse colleges and whecbarcw universities
college graduates who DO thinking thor training
caraotaiss them for IT, When Cato asked how God
Employed his leisure, he answered "He gcom-trizes
Thus oil worlds were planned and wrought out his mind
before they sprung into being clothed In robes Of light
Te what profession yon WILL and you win nnd
the mct honorable places lcd by college graduates
tho lawyers Judges phy sicisns sho have acheve honor
and celebrity i1 their peofessions, and you viii
nnd they are college graduates. know all who
come rum colleges arc not smart men, and
do not achieve success. No, colleges graduate
enough abuses 10 supply cvcrastng fund for Tho cst
cf the WIS who have been there. There two
classes Il young In colleges, there those who
10 70 college and those who sent % college Those
who 20 obtain learning by working those who sont
the acquisition ~ knowledge that they might have been
I'm IN the Garden Of Eden till this time, anil would
have eaten ~ the forbidden fruit An Irman has ben
defined " be machine for turning potatcs into human
beings colleges have bccn called institutions for pro
ducing fools, but thy arc our nobcst institutions for
.coo young IN the colleges o. tho United States
while they than loo 600 tho colleges and uni
versiics u Europe. That power sufficient ~ direct
for sending ont students ~ the scholarly minds AMI
Cambridge the more mathematical ones. ~ i S with
every coere s peculiar character v stamped upon
the students sends forth Tho st ncccssity o. clarac
ter y Temperance. ! regard every young man who can
control his er,ttc and uhcys every Law q 0ngcvity
already hsf gentleman half hero snd half Christian The
true idea a fast, under Christian dsprnSaton 10
bold fass when ono has cau enough, aud therein stand
iast Dccepton ~ in'emTerance and wrong dong y
almost bad Tho deeds themselves could have for
given Adam for eating the forbidden fruit Il 10 hal
been sneak and hid when called for and then laid Tie
blame On Eve.
Mr. Mann SPOKE energctcally against the prastce 81
playing tricks Al college, and apriicd the term oo-'
very freely ~ students years ago, aai NJ,
there three Ministers Of the Tinted states Europe
Who WIRE notorious drunksrdstwo q them hal hardly
ucid moment from ntoxcaton think you tina, they dd
not commence this practice in collcgog Colleges should
be ard easily might BE- such that Undergraduate would
dare " sit round table Of alcoholic beverages
than 20 erect lightning rod upon their heads and take
walk in \ thunder storm.
The SPEAKER went 70 deyclapc what The character o(
rolcgc students should bo since they 10 m the pro
fcasions They make the lawyers. true lawyer y the
yiosgercnt q God while true judges his ministers
W. rcnsnred severely the habit 81 bad lawyers defending
vice and vicious persons in doing they partook % e
crime True lawyers naturally developed themselves
into statesmen while petcggers naturally became poiti
cns and their eternal prayer is sour father who art
Hatcs =
NJ Mann closed HE remark. by reference 70 female
collegiate education lie rcjoiced exceedingly that woman
sphere being extended, the facilities for her mental
dcveopcmcnt increascd md her influence and position In
society more felt and appreciated.