The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Collegiate Institute.

organization will be given the ocwanec
Collegiate institute, in this place, by
The 1st Of January next. The prinei
pal--Rcy.. MIR, Hunt--isnow in CORES
poajcncc with q gentleman Of high
character ard well qualified for the po-
sition Of Commandment Of Cadets
Should his services not be secured, ut
tcntion will be directed elsewhere uatil
suitable person shall'bc obtained.
This is 4 subject which should at.
tract the immediate attention and oner
IS -four citizens, and especially Of the
Trustees Of said institution. We be.
liovc That, with reasonable effort on thc
part Of those few individuals, to be
found in every community who initiate
ana establish nearly every cntcrpris,
that rebounds to- the general good, the
Scwanec Collegiate Institute would be.
come an ornament to the South, and
do more for the pecuniary prosperity
OF Winchester and vicinity than any.
thing else we can now think Of.
Without appealing to the pride o
oUrpoopleto establish u military schoo
Of their own, where sectional prejudice,
will not prcpondcrate to the disadyan.
tagc Of Southern students, We viii only
in this paper briefly attempt an appca'
to The public spiritclness orouF people
in Winchester and yi%cinity--a public
s~piritcdncss which will require only &
temporary sacrifice Of private interests
in order TO bring Il rccompcnso Ct five
hundred per cent in u few years. In
this light we might say our appeal is to
that natural love oriGdcpcndcncc vino!
makes man calculate rs to the saresl
ald spccdicst method Of increasing bis
amount Of moacy. The merchant, me
chanic, Professional man and aglicuitu-
rist-all--makc this calculation, and to
such we are nov particularly address.
inc o~ursclf. Now is the time TO assist
in building up q good military school
in Winchester, because, if you delay,
some other place will outstrip you in
the good work. You should come up
promptly with a lew thousand dollars
and purchase good parade grounds, fol
tho exercise OF the students, and the
consequent benefit ofthcir physical and
mental capacities, This feature alone
will attract many scholars, forall OF us
know that it is an exception when ;
weak, circminatc man becomes great
except as q garnet poet. Too many
minds have been ruined, or rendered o
little use, by a neglect of hygionic law:
for view years in a school room, ant
We might well advert here to the Greek.
and Romans rs good instructors for u
Of this age. They seem to have bccI
thoroughly convinced that the mint
could not possibly be in a healthy stat
unless the body was likewise in perfcc
health, and no means were thought ci
Their by philosophers or physicians TO
he more conducive 10 preserve or re,
store bodily health than w~eli-rcguIatc'
exercise. In the imparLing of healt'
and beautiful development to the body
they also impaired power and clasticll
TO the mind, and no wonder we read o
giants Intellectually in those days
These facts will be forced upon OF
people after q while, when they fin
that rs fast rs their sons and daughter
are graduated, a sexton must be pal,
to dig graves.
Then, military discipline is such n
to preserve obedience and organization
q want Of which was the main cause o
the blight which fell upon the brigh
prospects of Sewanee Collegiate lnsti
tutc a short time since
But, TO return to %pecuniary consider
atoms. Such n school, Offering the
advantages of a thorough classical ed
ucation, and the ~prolongation ifnotin-
ccpiion of good health, will undoubt-
cdly be attended by large numbers. Say
that 200 come from a distance. They
will spend in this community an aver.
age ofS400 per annum. This is Il very
moderate calculation, and much less
than would be spent at any other town
in the State, or in the South. Two
hundred multiplied by 400 will make
$4,000. This amount would go to
the merchants and agriculturists main
", and no small portion of it to the
mechanics. Is it not plain that a few
thousand dollars raised ut o;ce to de-
fray the expenses incident to the incep-
ton of such a school wouldbe q good
Investment? Will not some one make
the trial to raise q few thousand dollars
to be paid for the establishment of this
school upon a plan that will make it an
ornament to on town as well as a
source of revenue?
beyond all question, IL VIC expect to
ever prosper as a people, if we expect
to keep of slavery for ourselves as a
people, we must prosper pe~cuniarily,
forit is true, as asserted by an eminent
writer in The Round Table, that there
can be no permanent liberty where
there is no general material prosperity,
and there can be no general material
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