Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-10

of ,he HIGHEST character, and can be obtained IN
no other way. The details OF tue conhec'loh
of the Bussey Institution VITA the OH !"
tifc School and the college, are MOI 4et
fully wrought out; but apprehend that H'lo
difficulty would he found in connecting II a'So
with tho grant from congless, if the gentlemen
who NAV be entrusted by the state WIN Tue
work will approach it with the perception oil 'he
absolute necessity for outstanding our mhterlal''
both men and money and concentrating all our
efforts upon making an institution worthy OF our
age and of our people. Its summit must rtayh
the highest level of modern science, anu us
heads must be those whom men VIII recognlzehs
capable of planning Il great worK anu Vi "o'N'
ing out great plan .. = NJ.
cbusetts celebrates the wisdom of our ancestors,
who $50 early as The year 1896 iaid Inc io9h-
dation of Harvard College, in which unlversl
many persons of great emenco nave, ny tNe
blessing of God, been initiated i'll those arts
and sciences which qualify them for public en-
ployments both in church and state, Iecltng
that "the encouragement of arts and sciences and
all good literature tends TO the honor OF GOu, INC
advantage of the christian religion, and the great
benefit Of this and the other United States vi
America" And it declares that 1t shall he the
duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all flu
ture periods of this commonwealth, To CHERISH
the interests of literature and the sciences, ana
all seminaries of them; especially the university
at Cambridge public schools, and grammar
ties, and public institutions, rewards and I'M
munties for the promotion of agriculture, arts,
sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, ana
natural history OF the country
venture the opinion that the advantages pre-
scented by the various institutions which now
cluster around the college may be so combined
with other institutions 10 realize more July
in actual experiment The true idea of universe
ty. | caunot doubt that the people of the com
monwealth have "A right To those benefits; the
-, Of ali tha "a If
ening of resources, the repetitons OF profess
orships libraries apparatus, aud other material
consequent on scattering instead OF concentra
ton Model farms, and experimental culture II
all the varieties OF soil our lands present, as The
wise and expert may hereafter advise, and alsC
branches or subordinate schools, are not to be dis
couraged. Neither are the schools and colleges
for academic study already provided or contem
plated nor any gifts or grants thereto, 10 be
less favored in the future. Nor does unity ol
plan and cooperation in method, of necessity
imply confinement of all the departments OF
an institution to one place The object should
be to centraze and economist means and power,
while distributing and popularizing education
and its fruits.
But, in order to fulfill the highest functions OF
university adapted 10 the wants and develop
ment of modern society, to an intellectual and
free people, its professorships libraries and APP
paratus should be SO combined and distributed
as TO include the faculties of divinity, of law
and natural science, all of them organized and
represented in the highest perfection. The fac
ulty of Divinity should have, as its basis, a
strong corps of scholars versed in Hebrew lit
erature and history, IN ecclesiastc history and
dogmatics Theology, admitting as professors,
members of every church competent to teach.
The teaching of the law school should include
the civil law, comparative Jurisprudence, pollt-
ical economy and diplomacy. The faculty OF
letters should combine the deepest scholars in
ipRlu inn M
other Oriental languages, as well as Greek
and Latin; and in the antiquities proper, histo
ry in all its ramifcations the modern languag
es aud their literature, philosophy in all i'll
branches with its history. For the faculties o.
medicine and of natural sciences, should be com
bined mathematicians, astronomers, physicists
chemists, niueralOgsts, bctansts, BIOLOGISTS, re
ologists, deyoting themselves chiefly to the sci
enutc pursuit of their study; and also men dis
tiDgushed for their eminence in the application
of the sciences to the useful arts, civil engneers
architects, mining engineers, military engineer
and agriculturists.
That we should continue to build on the four
dation our fathers laid, endeavoring TO max
actual in the life Of our society their ideal, !,
hgiously believe Let us plan to concentral
here the gladstone light" of universal science
Let learning be illustrated by her most brilhar
luminaries and let the claims OF every science /
Yindicated by It's bravest champion. Two-thiTC
of an amount equal TO the sum We annually, al
wisely eXpend i'll public and private instructiU
would found proiessorships aud furnish the iuI
which would give 10 Massachusetts universe
worthy the dream of the fathers, the history
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