The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-06
COLUMBIAN COLLEGE

The education of our youth is now SUBJ
Ject OF vital Importance to US of the South.
Our fields desolated by four long cruel years
of bloody warfare, and since the return of
peace our every energy paralyzed by con-
slant succession of governments-now a civil
and now military-now a governor and now
district commander-that with nothing set
tied our people have hardly dared look further
than the day, leaving all thoughts of the NOR
row for the morrow's coming. But now that
there is ahead ofu some prospect disability
that there is hope that period of rest aud
tranqullityis at hand it behooves us to give that
attention to the arts of peace which at wars
grim advent we fastened to withhold. Hence
1t is that the subject of education now be.
comes soimportant-ourpe people, fully realizing
that the era of the supremacy of mind is about
to dawn, are anxious that their children shall
receive that preparation which will enable
them on their entrance into life to assume a
position worthy themselves and their country.
Nay, the peerless soldier Lee, deemed that
when bis sword was sheathed he could no bet
ter benefit his loved South than to devote him
knowing, then, this widespread want
among our people, it is with pleasure that we
call the attention of our readers to an institu-
ton which offers to them every facility which
they now SO anxiously desire. COLUMBIAN
College, near Washington, D. c., is an insti-
tuition which is worthy of more than passing
notice from every friend of learning, and every
well wisher of the youth of our country.
Founded as it was in accordance with the suo-
gestlon OF Washington, that college at the
federal capital would tend to the "assimila-
ton OF the principles, opinions and manners
OF our countrymen by the common education
OF a portion of its youth from every quarter :"
and proving as its existence has done, the |
wisdom OF this prediction, the college now de- |
mands the notice and patronage of Southern
youth, who, expecting, as they do, to live hereaf
ter IN one of the States of the Federal Union
should endeavor to cultivate those relations
with the future governing men of the North |
and West as will tend, when this generation
snail have passed away, to the drawing tighter
and tighter those bonds of mutual interest
which are destined to bind the various Sec
tons together. The facilities, too, offered
to the students of this college are uneoualed
by any other in the land. They can hear the
debates In Congress, and these, after the 4th
March next, will be worthy of attention; thew
can listen to arguments before the Supreme
Court, that assemblage of the best law intel
eet In the land; they can attend the lectures
of eminent scholars who naturally seek the
'apltal OF country; they have access to all
he immense scientific and other collections
which are accumulated at the seat of govern
nent In addition to these advantages pecu-
lar to ITSELF Columbian College offers to
Toung men, through its corps of able profes.
ors, its fine library and extensive apparatus.
is thorough preparatory course and its
ealthy location-facilities certainly as great
S those of any other collage in che country.
These few remarks have been dictated
olely by the desire on our part to respond in
ONE degree to that th rst for information
bout educational institutions which is now
D general Columbian College is one of the
est Of those institutions, and that is the rea-
IN fFe have here mentioned it, And let us
Id that 1t Is our earnest hope and expecta- :
on Mat, ere long, in the prosperity which ]
ow seems likely soon to bless our loved :
outh, we shall chronicle the rise of many an
her such an institution of learning and
lmaHlty as Columbian College