New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-04
FREE ACADEMY E.XAAINATION

At the continuation OF the examination Of the Free
Academy, yesterday the Senior Glass manifested its
appreciation of the publicity given to the TRANSACTIONS
OF its champions in the last issue of The TRlBUSE.
When our reporter appeared at the Academy, the cry
Of "put him out e. arose from these young gentlemen
They crowded together, and their elective remarks
were respectful in nothing but the distance from which
they were made.
This unexpected exhibition OF that strict order and
gentlemanly department which is required by the
faculty taken together with what called 1t forth, COM
petes the data requisite for just estimate OF the KIND
OF education furnished by the Academy Ut an e1'
pendiure Of more than $500 O00 hundred and ten
graduates have been produced. The present gradu'
sting class should be better than any preceding, and
the best four scholars in that, write in this way. We
reproduce the passages corrected by the originals,
some of the students having found fault with our yes
terdays copy:
rRArsLArloSs FROM THucYDiDEs.
BVMc Best Student ~ tie Ac0dcmy.-T specially
makes evident TO me the weakness of former times
for before the Trojan War Greece appears 10 nave
done nothing in common, nor as II seems TO me, up 10
10 this time had all the same name: but 10 the times
before HELEN the OF Deucalon, this name did NOS
exist at ALL but among the several tribes and espec-
ally the Pelssgan they took the name from them
selves And the sons of HELEN becoming powerful 10
Phthiotis and men inviting them for aid into their
cities they called Helenes rather on account Of
their intercourse with one another, nor was this
iname) able to prevail among all for long time.
Homer especially proves this for though born long
time after the Trojan war nowhere has he called them
all by this name any ol them, except those with
Achilles from Phthiotis, who were the original
Hellenes, but in his poems he calls them Dana Ar
gives and AchaiaDs.-BoOk |, Chap. 8, Scot. l-3.
By he Second Best StVdeRt.-And the reason was
rot so much the want of men as the want of riches
For through the want OF sustenance, they led Their
army smaller and such az they hoped would subsist
81 H. a,,ipO ybapb bav
ing come they prevailed in battle; aud this is evident
for they would not have built the iorticaou for the
camp and they appear not to have used all their force
there but to have turned to the tlage of the Cher
sonnese and 10 piracy through want of sustenance.
Through which the Irojans the rather they being
,cattered held out by force these ten years beiug
equal TO those from time 10 time left behind.
BIZ the TRtrd-Bea StudeAt.-But if they had come
20 the Expedition having food enough for subsstsnce
and without the Necessity Of cultivating the earth
and foraging and had carried on the war without in
terruption, quickly eoDquering in battle they would
have taken it but they were not united; but con-
tended part being present from time TO tune. Ii
they had sat down 70 the sege in less time and with
less difficulty they would have taken Troy. But on
account Of the want Of money the Expeditions before
this weak and this the greatest of those before
appears in fact TO have been less than is reported
by fame, and than the report even now made current
by the poets concerning it.-Chap. IL.
BIZ tie FOurtR Best Student IN the cl1ss.-Such
rd to have been the ancient affairs, being difficult to
be believed from want OF certain proof. For men re-
ceive the accounts of those things done before them
even in their own country without inquiry. For eI-
ample the mass Of the Athenians think that Hip
parchus being tyrant was slain by Armodus and
Arsogeton, and they do not know that Hppias being
the elder ruled the of Pesistratus, and that
Hipparchus and Thessslus were his brothers. Ar
modius and Aristogeiton expecting something that
day and that very tune, information being given to
Hppias by Of their plcos, abstained from
attacking him as being forewarned and wishing TO 90
into danger having done something, meeting Hip
parchus forming the Panathanck game called Deo-
korion sew him.-Thucyd. Book l. Chap 20, Sect
l,2.
The examination Of the Junior Glass in Moral Phi.
osophy, yesterday, revealed the fact that among the
duties of not to eat delicate dishes to dres.
comfortably and modestly and not to torture one self
as the IIindoos and South Sea Islanders do