The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-31
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GENTLEMEN What we need now in or
der to the completion Of the Plan is to or
Eanize an extensive system of Scientific In
struction, by establishing distinct schools in
every Department. of knowledge. To equip
the Lay School for q more extended useful
ness, and to throw around it additional at
fractions more than one Professor w0uld be
required. The simplest organization of
Law School demands three chairs; and these
would beas follows l. A Professor Of the
principles and practice of Common Law.
2. A Professorship OF the principles and
practice Of Equity @Ss
s., A ProfessorsIip of international Law,
Of Constitutional Law, and of Legal and
Political Ethics ~ @ aril
!, As the means of enlargement and extern
sion might be furnished, there might be sub
divisions of these Chairs into new Chairs,
until the Law Department should be COM
pletely equipped Offering attractions and in
ducements equal If not superior to any in
the Land. At present we must content our
selves with the existing organization. Thus
far have we gone in the development of the
University system. 4e.-
Without designing to recommend an int
mediate organization of Medical School,
do wish to be understood to advocate such
Department as ultimately constituting an
essential element in our plan of University
Education. There was a time when the
idea was regarded as absurd of establishing
a Medical School in small inland town re-
mote from the great centres of metropolitan
enterprise, and destitute of the usual facil
tiles for the successful study of Anatomy
and Surgery, which are enjoyed in large
cities. But the close connection established
between allparts of the country by the nu-
merous lines of Railway, has in a measure
removed this objection, and with Memphis
on the North, and New Orleans on the South,
in direct daily communication with Oxford,
it is difficult to understand why this should
not constitute as eligible locality for the
establishment of Medical School as Char
1ottesville, Va, where in connection with
the University of Virginia, a Medical De-
partment has existed from its origin, which
has been, during all this time, in successful
operation. at I'll a
Furthermore, The University System will
not be complete until we establish and ex-
tend, not only Law and Medical Schools, of
the character that shall command respect,
and where Professional Education may be
obtained, but our facilities for the pursuit of
Science, to any conceivable point. 1t is true
that we embrace in our University cuTricu-
lum the study of almost every branch of
Literary and Scientific knowledge,
and to those not familiar with
the practical operation of this system 1T may
seem superfuOus and unnecessary to furnish
additional schools or Chairs to teach what
is already here taught. But two or three
considerations are sufficient to meet this
difficulty. LIST, The object OF college curri-
culum is not to make profound scholars, but
first to educate, strengthen and train the
mind for independent pursuit IL any Depart
ment, and ID, To communicate a certain
amount of knowledge, which will enable
the student to master preliminary obstacles
and serve to introduce him into the wider
fields of science and qualify him to advance
into the more profound and obstruse regions
of investigation. 3rd, The curriculum of
our scholastic training is acknowledged by
all to be unduly crowded, and the demands
upon the students time and attention dur
ing his four wears attendance, are so great,
SO numerous, and varied, that the result is
well nigh q defeat. of the above named OBJ
iect 1t is therefore on this account eminent
ly desirable that sOnles of the sciences now
crowded into our period of four years of
collegiate study may be transferred from it
to an entirely new Department where they
can be Taught, and where all of them may
be prosecuted dd LbitHn
4th. This College curriculum is beset with
another great trouble, to which for want of
separate Department., such as now re-
commend, we have been compelled to yield
allude to the custom prevalent here since
students to partial course of study. 1t
will, be readily perceived that great as is
this evil, it is under existing circumstances
one that is unavoidable. There are many
of the youth of the country who either rea l.
ly are or suppose themselves to be unable O
spend four years in obtaining an education.
Hence they. elect a course of study which
excludes one and frequently both of the
Ancient Classic Languages, and pursue
oil 0n No ,,n4
cants upon the ground of there being no
provision for instruction in the chosen bran
ches for the chairs for such instruction are
established and they are willing to place
themselves under the Professors and obtain
what they may. But this partial or irregu-
lar course cannot be made to har1nonize
with the regular curriculum and has ever
been the fruitful source of trouble to the
Faculty The arrangement of the schedule
Of recltatlons is made always necessarily to
accommodate the regular classes, and it is
impossible that it should be otherwise in
such an Institution. But the Irregular or
Partial course student must take one of
with one class, and another with
, different class and the reeitations more fire.
luently than otherwise are heard at the same
hour, and so he must drop the one or the
other, and the result inevitably is that he
inds his time only partially occupied, and
travis from the Institution or remains and
contracts habits of idleness and other habits
equally pernicious. It will be seen from
his representation 1.-THE truthfulness of
which may be attested by the experience of
very Faculty which has tried itl that the
partial or irregular course, when applied to +,
he close, or regular system, is an evil to
10Th the Institution, and the student him
eli Every one would rejoice to find some
00thOd of abating this ovs1 a,,d ,,,I..lsL
ing some plan whereby young men who de-
ire it may pursue the eclectic course 10
heir own advantage as well as to the
dvantage OF the regular CoIlepe
We reiterate the assertion therefore thar fl,a
My feasible and certain mode of meeting
hese wants is to organize, as soon as NAV Ia
onslstent with the means in possession. a
School, wherein every Department
I knowledge may be pursued independents
I. anu 20 any extent, and yet place it in
onnection with the University and LET *
orin part of ot1r system. / am aware Of the
bJection which will at once suggest itself
hat the necessary funds to put into opera
lon school so extensive, are wholly unat-
ainable, and that in such a tin1eaas stlIis
then the country is des0lated and impover-
he'd and oppressed with burden, of taxa
on almost unparalle led In history, it would
i'll advised and inexcnsable to ask of our
eople TO bestow upon us the amount needed
, erect this addition to the means of Pub
G Education. This is true indeed. and If
@ were dependent upon the resources Of
M fell0w-citizens Of Mississippi for this aid
e would never have conceived the idea of
resenting this subject at this time T3nt
apply for us there is opened to our view 4
respect Of accomplishing our object with
It extracting dollar from this already ex-
auScou pie