The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-01-24

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this important billwill become Law
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For the Daily Clarion.
No. 3.
The Work that Remai ns 20 b
Done.
To he Members Of the Legislature mr.
GENTLEMEN What we need now in or
der to the completion Of the Plan is to or
ganize an extensive system Of Scientific In
struction, by establishing distinct schools il
every Department Of knowledge. To equip
the Law School for more extended useful
ness, and to throw around IL additional at
fractions, more than one Professor would be
required. The simplest organization of q
Law School demands three chairs; and these
would be as follows !. A Professor Of the
principles and practice Of Common Law.
2, A Profcssorship Of the principles. and
practice of Equity.
of Constitutional Law, and of Legal and
! Political Ethics. qKe EgqEH
| 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 Ii 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.
| Without designing to recommend an I'M
mediate organization Of Medical School, l
do wish to be understood to advocate such
Department as ultimately constituting an
| auaautiaI N nj n nur nlan nf TTui "
Education, There was time when the
idea was regarded as absurd Of establishing
a Medical School In O 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 all parts of the country by the nti-
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
lottesville, Va, where in connection with
the University of Virginia. Medical De-
partment has existed from its origin, which
has been during all this time, in successful
operation
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 curricu-
lum the study of almost every branch of
Literary and Scientific knowledge,
and to those not familiar with
the practical operation of this system it may
seem superfluous 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 q college curri- |
culum is not to make profound scholars, but |
first to educate, strengthen and train the |
mind for independents pursuit in any Depart
ment, and I'd, To communicate certain |
amount of knowledge, which will enable
the student to selliinary as-esdles
fields OF science and qualify him to advance
INTO the more profound and obstruse regions
If investigation. 3rd, The curriculum of
'ur scholastic training is acknowledged by
III to be unduly crowded, and the demands
lpon the students time and attention dur
ng his four years attendance, are so great,
10 numerous, and varied, that the result is
we'll nigh defeat of the above named OBJ
ect. 1t is therefore on this account eminent
y desirable that some of the sciences now
rowded into our period of four years of
ollegiate study may be transferred from it
0 an entirely new Department where they .
an be taught, and where all Of them may
&c prosecuted dd hbitam.
4th. This College curriculum is beset with {
mother great trouble, to which for want of |
separate Department, such as l now re-
ommend, we have been compelled to yield.
allude to the custom prevalent here since
le origin of the Institution of admitting I
udents TO . partial course Of study, 1t I
i'll be readily perceived that great as is !
his evil, it is under existing circumstances
no that is unavoidable There are many j
the youth of the country who either real
are or suppose themselves to be unable to
lend four years in obtaining an education.
ence they a course of study which
Icludes one and frequently both of the
ncient Classic Languages, and pursue
lrtial course. We cannot reject such appli-
Ints upon the ground of there being no
DIVISION for instruction In the chosen bran :
les for the chairs for such instruction are 4
tablished and they are willing to place ~ ~
emselves under the Professors and obtain - =,
hat they may. But this partial or irregu- II
T course cannot be made to harmonic -
It'll the regular curriculum and has ever q,
Iculty. The arrangement of the schedule =
Rotations is made always necessarily to -
the regular classes, and it is az
possible that it should be otherwise in a.
CHI an Institution. But the Irregular or ~
rtial course student must take one of A'
studies with one class, and another with =.
different class and the recitations more fire. "'
emily than otherwise are heard at the same l..
ur, and so he must drop the one or the ~ ~
Ter, and the result inevitably is that he ~
DIS his time only partially occupied, and p
either becomes discouraged and with Al;
Avs from the Institution or remains and ~,
ltracts habits of idleness and other habits ~
Tally pernicious II will be seen from g.
s representation (the truthfulness of "
ich may be attested by the experience Of az
Try Faculty which has tried it) that the -
'tial or irregular course, when applied to ~.
close, or regular system, is an evil to ~
h the Institution, and the student him. "a;
I Every one woald rejoice 10 find some NJ, nj
thod Of abating this evil, and substitu- In
2 some plan whereby young men who de- w
. II may pursue the eclectic course to pl,
IT own advantage as well as to the a.
antage Of the regular College an
reiterate the assertion therefore that the -,
7 feasible and certain mode Of meeting ~,
e wants Is to organize, rs soon as may be Co.
sistent with the means in possession, q -,
'nSiho School, wherein every Department ~
knowledge may be pursued independent
md to any extent, and yet place it in g
nection with the University and let It -
n part Of our system. am aware Of the NJ
ction which viii az once suggest itself. 4
the necessary funds 70 put into opera =
school 50 extensive, are wholly unat- aei
able, and that in such a time a. this. on
a the country is desolated and impover- e t.
and oppressed with burden Of taxa 80 ~
almost unparalleled In history, IL would Plo
] advised and inexcnsable to AJAX of our -
lie to bestow upon ms the amount needed 'ee;
ect this addition 70 the means Of Pub - y
ducation. This j. true indeed, and il w.
rere dependent upon the resources Of ~
OF Mississippi for this aid -
-ould never have conceived the idea Of III -
,nting this subject At this time. But s.-'
ily for rs there is opened 20 our view a w
lect Of accomplishing our object with Y.
dollar from this already ex- ~
ted people. .ne
JOHN n. wADDEL. the
NEW SocfAL DTsTINcTIOS.-A ne NJ
was arrested in Lynchburg for tic
ing another, snd taken before NJ n,
Mayor He plead in extenustion, was
The News, that the negro struck tee 9
nged TO the cold Issue" (meaning ~
he was free before the war, and he