Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-11
ss sEH Vol. 20, NO. 10.

ments two hundred and fifty>foui
| students.
Two of the college classes are IN.
usually small, but the incoming Fresh,
men are many in number, and will
raise the figures.
The Literary Societies in each de.
partment are we'll sustained, and in
dulge in considerable good natured
rivalry. That pest of college--a
secret Sociefy-is unknown at Beloit.
and the young men have their atten.
tention turned in more healthful
direction, besides saving the heavy
tees, which are always an attendant.
Not content with the ordinary facili>
ties for learning to speak extempore,
some support first class debating
society.
The students have sustained a
monthly magazine for fourteen years.
1t has now circulation of about four
hundred copies, has been lately en-
larged, and supports good reading
room upon the profits. This illus
trates the energy and business tact
OF the young men. They are emf
inently western in thought and ac-
ton, if by western we understand
manly and independent. Their study
means cork, and that they mean to
get real good and gain thorough dis
clpline-not to get together and have
rollIcking good witness the
character of the societies. They have
as keen an appreciation of sport and
good joke as any Of their class, but
it does not descend to the despicable
"hazing' of eastern colleges. A
Prep" or "Fresh" is as good as
Senior, if he behaves himself.
The instruction given by the coll
lege Is well adapted to give a young
man a thorough, practical training
to meet the actual experience of life.
While refined and cultivated schol-
orship issought after, tits the especial
aim to make men ofall who come un.
der its influence. So long as it is
not plethoric with stocks and estates
as some New England institutions
may be said to DC, enabling It to offer
many brilliant attractions, its ONLY
chance of success lies in affording
such thorough training, as will draw |
students in numbers to it's lecture
rooms. 1t is barely out of its teens,
and yet has outstripped many of oil
der years. Its course of study is
nearly equal to that of Yale, while
its smaller classes being taught by
professors in person from first to last.
instead of by tutors for couple of
years, as is common in larger insti>
buttons, if of necessity affords to each
individual a much better opportuni>
ty for drill and Improvement. Every
man IS OF greater Importance than if
forming one of a class of one hundred
and fifty, and is obliged to recite and
write and speak oftener. Yale or
Harvard, it is said, gives man
name at once, but in twenty-five
years or less probably one will be
proud of having graduated at Beloit
8esldes, the world more and more
demands not what man claims to be
but what he is. There is much in a
name" but more in q thing.
But my proffered column is full.
and what remains must be left nm
said, with the exception of the fol,
lowing extract. A gentleman late
trustee of Yale college, and now
prominent man IN Chicago, writes
Il wish our eastern capitalists, who
sometimes grow impatient at the
constant begging" as they term it.
OF these western Institutions
our eastern scholars who sometimes
sheer at these "one-horse colleges"
could spend three weeks, as | have
just done, in tour among these in>
sltutlons and could note, first, the
ability of these western college men,
and their courage ADD faith, and then
their stern and dauhtless self-denia.
Respect and sympathy would speed,
ly take the place of Impotence and
contempt. These western profes>
sors are no humbugs. They have no
trivial aims or superficial IDEAS
They mean to make american coll
leges" worthy of the name at all
prominent points upon the western
plains. Indeed | have not been able
to repress the constantly recurring
thought-as | have contrasted the
corruptions, which are creeping in
upon our Eastern colleges, and the
abuses of various sorts, which their
faculties are either unable or univill-
Ing to repress, with the order, come.
illness, morality, and earnest piety of
the great majority of western collie
ges-that the day may be not far
distant when the iavorite haunts az
learning, the most honored and influ
entail seats of liberal culture, shall
be found west of the Alleghanies.'
Z.