New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-02

The season in which Our public INSTITUTIONS OF
learning are most prominently obtruded upon the
general attention is rapidly passing, and from acad-
emy, college and uni7ersty-words which have
long since lost their pristine and perfect slgnh-
csnce-our young men are emerging. The cloister
il left for the circus and the yceum for the Olym-
plan games. Thousands of our youth who are or
should be in tie flower of their physical strength,
and who have been trained, or should have been
trained to teach themselves, to exchange theory
for practice ard to demonstrate of how much
value in the rough battle of Life are diplomas aud
medals. 1t must he admitted that In the mere fact
of graduation and of titular dignity, there is no
necessary guaranty of that great public usefulness
which is great public success. The experience Of
the coantTy has shown thst numerous and opu'ent
chances Of culture, however much they may mul.
tiply the average Of general requirement do not
proportiOIately increase the number OF leading aud
representative meD, who almost always make them-
selves against chance ard in the face Of difficulties
which they convert, by the necromancy of the will,
into support and assistance. II should not, per-
hsps, be matter of regret that so many OF those
whose training has thus far been that OF theoretical
scholastci,m, will now throw away props which
are mere pretensions, and, having played with
pedsntIy to the satisfaction Of their fnendr, will 90
retolutey to work in more congenla if n less orna-
mental fields. For scholars, considered simply as
scholars, tie demand is thus far small in Americs.
Putting theology aside, law and physic, We may
notice, require very much the qualifications 10
their profe essors as cotton-,pinning aud potato
digging, viz: good constitutions, mental and physi
cal, aud love Of ard capacity for hard work.
DexteIi.y and muscular development supply the
place Of learning until experience adds to the stock
in trade He, everybody knows, does not make
tie mo,t distinguished lawyer who has pned
over the Pandects, ard grown thin IN trying
TO hunt down the real opinion of Mr Justice
Story. That ply scian who has devoted 81 much
tue TO the study during his novi!ate Of Louis and
MscenGie, finds that to secure a country practise
he mus. be able to ride by day and by night, and
that for diagnosis be must forgetting his books,
RELY upon bic own brains; or, if he be fool e.ough
70 60 TO the city, that good house aud decent
eGujpsge ard silver door plate more necessary
than learning; and that show of prosperity must
precede prosperity itseh. In this country per-
bsps more than in any other the liberia professions,
9, they aIe called demand business tact and talent.
The most scholarly novice soon discovers THE. He
dscards his reverence for books as books, and
heuceforh they are bis helpers ard not mis- .s!ers.
Hs tra.es upon his knowledge, but he no more
wo,sbips il than the fruiterer does his figs. Hence
professional devotion is very rare with Us. 1t is
| not an uncommon thing for the preacher to skip
from the pulpit to the bar, or from the bar to the
buggy and the bedside. There is nothing 10 regret
in tbs except perhaps, loss Of tine, which is worth
60 much 10 our hurIying people. Bu: this easy
facility of change fortunately hss is limits or there
would soon Re robody TO teach. We have few
deyotees of learning for tie sake OF learn.
ING ard we're it not for these, We
should ere long have no learning at all
For the whole tendency Of American lie AID
habit is 70 chespen and to save labor. The client
who has hard case pending In the courts seeks
for LAWYER whose reputation almost ns0res the
verdict: who can bully witnesses, broxbea. th'
JuSse srd bauboozle the Jury, and then render
meds rate bill of costs. The sick man sends not Z
the doctor. but to the village grocery, for bottle
the celebrated tbrse-shilpg Sitters. Our younl
LAWYERS AID doctors growl at this they pl,ntt them
.slses upo their dignity, and earnedly ofquack
and of pettifossers; they do this while they ar
yourg AID c.liow, but they DO it no logger was