Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-02

the advancement of her education, and
the trustees of either could have no 9th
er motive than desire, by means OF
combined effort and a combined fund, to
secure the largest measure of usefulness
to the public. While they have aimed
to secure for each these distinctive OBJ
iects, they have endeavored to make
such union conducive alike TO the inter-
ests OF all. In submitting 1t to your
consideration we desire to make some
further suggestions TO explain, and, as
we hope, to justify the course, we have
adopted.
LIST. BY this arrangement We consider
ed that we obtained 4 substantial com.
pllance with the conditions necessary to
the continued existence of our charter,
and that it was the only mode Of secur-
ing the success o: the important entcr-
prise committed to our charge
I'd. BY it We shall reduce the number
of rival institutions in our State, and
convert one Of them, at least, with its
friends and patrons, to our support in
carrying out this new and important eX-
pertinent.
Sd. BY means Of our common organi
Zation we can appropriate to our COM
mon use the same lands, buildings Ii
brary cabinet and apparatus, the same
corps of teachers and lecturers the same
financial management and discipline,
and thereby economic and greatly aug
ment the strength aud usefulness of
both.
4th 1t will require all the means Of
both institutions combined to carry out,
to any useful result, the Objects Cuntem-
plated in our charter, or 20 meet the
plan of instruction which rcr own
board Of trustees, in view Of It's require
ments proposed to prescribe
9Th In regard to the views We enter
tain OF the intention of the act of Con
gress, it will be observed thaJoGr ueigh-
boring States have adopted the same
liberal construction. 1t is understood
that Rhode Island has connected her
fund with those OF her University. New
Hampshire, it is now Supposed will do
likewise. Connecticut, with q fund
nearly twice as large as our own, has
connected it with Yale College. Massa-
chusetts, with q fund still larger, and
increased by large subscriptions, has es-
tablished an independent institution
and wisely located it in immediate proX-
unity to the Amherst College, with a
view, doubtless, to present mutual aid,
and, possibly, an ultimate union, and
the plan Of study does not essentially
differ from that we propose; while New
York, with the largest fund of all the
States bestowed the whole upon the
Peoples College, already chartered and
endowed by private munitiCenCe, with
the condition, in substance, that it
should give that course of instruction
and do all other things necessary to q
strict compliance with the act Of Con-
gress.
If we would ensure the success of this
important enterprise, and provide for
| such instruction within our own State
as shall keep pace with the advance OF
civilization and social improvement il
we would aid and stimulate intelligent
| effort in all the departments Of life, by
the development Of thought, and the APP
| pliCation of science to labor; if we would
| instruct our young men at home and re-
| tain them here as citizens of our State
| to forward the advancement Of its sOcia
| and material interests, we must, to s
| reaSonaUlt cAtont, provide tho f"UilitiU'
| for pursuing the same wide range Of
study which they may obtain abroad
| and which hitherto our own institutions
| have failed to supply.
| Much time has already elapsed and, o
the five years allowed, but little NOR
than one year remains in which to pro
| vide for such an institution as is re
| quired by the terms of the act Of Con
gress under which the donation has beef
| received. Earnest endeayors have beef
made by successive Legislatures, to MAX
q wise and prudent disposition of tn
funds-none Of which have been entirel.
successful. The arrangement, now pro
posed for the action and assent of tn
Legislature, we trust may meet wit
their approval, as we believe it will re
ceive the cordial support of large ma
iority of the industrial classes Of TIT
State, as well as that Of the friends G
education generally, and, without fur
Their delay, certainly go at once int
practical operation.
| In conclusion, we regard the Cours
we have herein recommended as the Onl
practical course to be adopted under tn
circumstances, unless the Legislator
shall provide the further amount re
quired by taxation, or shall deem it ex
pedient to surrender the fund.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL,,
ELIJAH CLEVELAND,
SENECA NJ. DoRR,
PETER 7. WAsHBURN,
ORvILLE G. WHEELER,
TRENOR w. PARK,
LEMUEL II. TABOR,
HORACE FAIRBANKS,
SAMUEL II. STEVENS,
GEORGE G. BENEDICT.
Montpelier, Oct. 10, 1865.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Universit
of Vermont and State Agriculture
College.
1t is hereby enacted By the General AsSemJ
Of the State Of Vermont, as fol!ouS:
Sec. l. The University of Vernon
and the Vermont Agricultural Colleg
with such other corporations as ma
hereafter become united Herewith, al
hereby united and constituted a bod
corporate by the name of the "UniveI
sity of Vermont and State Agriculture
College" for the purpose Of carrying OF