Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-08-23

complish, it must be pronounced "iSo
one, For its purposes nothing better IMAM
the curriculum " has yet been devised, or
;s like to be- Yet there are those who do
not like, or do not need, or fancy they do
potpeed. one or others of the old prescribed
course who wish to study the sciences, OF
special scienc es only, or would take the
classics and leave out natural history. There
are those who would have the best training
for certain special pursuits, would become
mechanicians, or metallengists, or engineers,
and the like. Many too, and hence comes
much of the pressure just now, have not
time for full course, but can afford one,
or two, or three years to prepare them
selves, as best they may therein, for some
already chosen career. Some also are con-
strained to like course by the scantiness
OF their pecdniary means.
It is well that all such needs and wishes
should have fit provision made for them.
The men who feel them are, just now, pro-
baby the majority among us, and so, the
Institution which opens most promislngly
the way for them makes the best bid, SO
far forth, for popularity, and it may be for
permanent success. AS we are advised, our
University has, for some time, offered this
chance to our young men that for years
past one might confne his studies to few
selected branches, and enjoy in them all
the privileges of the most favoured, with
no necessity of attending to any others
and in the student, SO limiting his range,
has been entitled to his several diploma of
proficiency, or might become a "Bachelor
in Science" Unhappily this method has
been practically smothered by the name OF
a"Partial Course, " and SO the public have
heard little of it, and the Institution has
been harshly judged for defect of which
it was not guilty. But now this system
may easily be enlarged, and the public dis
tinctly informed of it. If the old currlcu-
lum is retained, even this method should
receive q full development and generous
application. The details of it cannot be
suggested here, and must be the result of a
deliberate examination of the whole sub
iect by those who are in authority. Of
course they must be so arranged as to slim
ulate the sluggish, and give free scope to
the forward and ambitious, and to insure
fit rewards for those who shall deserve
them. With all this there should be a
scheme of fellowship and prizes !; and by
no means of least importance abundant
libraries and all means of illustration.
To adopt the scheme now in operation at
Chapel HILL to these two ideas, would pro-
al, +I,o,o
is commonly imagined. Surely, the Trus-
tees of that Institution have not been so
unmindful of the progress in the notions
Of men about education, nor the Faculty
regardless of their duty to keep pace with
the times The fact, rather, is believed to
be--strangely as it may sound to many
that the main hindrance to the enlargement
Of their plan of study and instruction has
been for years, certainly ever since the
breaking out of the war, the aCant Of money.
Inc Faculty have always stood ready to
carry out the directions of the Trustees
and certainly the more active members of
the Board have been alive to the movement
around them, and busy in devising ways to
go along with it. The hindrance referred
to above has been fatal obstacle in their
way And now, if our people insist on the
alterations we have described, this want
must be supplied by the generosity OF in
diyiduals, or by the aid of the Legislature,
or what is better than either, and must be |
superadded to both, large and speedy in
crease IL the number Of students. It can
not be expected that the officers of the
University can make bricks without straw.
They must decide wisely and act earnestly
and there must be hearty and general CO.
operation of our people with them. There
should be needed on the part of the Trus-
tees only q distinct assurance that they
know their duty, and will do it, to insure
that cooperation. And when, on both |
sides, such efforts are made as should, and |
may easily be made, we congratulate our
selves once more that the day is not far dis
tant when, beyond doubt, we shall see
among US such an University as ought to
be in North Carolina. CIvIs.
EalIandigham Negro Suffrage and
the Currency.
4 short time since Hon. G. L. VALLAN-
DIGHAM delivered speech at Middletown,
Mahoning county, Ohio, which has created