The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-01-08
UNIVERSITY OF NGRTH-CAROLINA.

SO-NSOAsD>
HoN. W. W. HOLDEN Dear Sir The
University of North Carolina is at length
Iheginning to attract the public attention.
Being yourself trustee of that institution
| and at the same time warm advocate for
the diffusion of knowledge among all class
es of the people, l thought would submit
some OF my views on this subject for your
consideration. 1t is to be regretted that,
we have no literary or scientific periodical
to furnish a proper medium for such COM
munication, because the full discussion of
the subject requires an array of facts, de-
tails and arguments, which would far ex-
coed the limits allowed newspaper cores
But it is not my intention to attempt a
complete review. In addition to the incon-
venience referred to. there would be required
means of information and time for investi-
CATION, which few could command. l shall
be content, therefore, with the humble part
of merely sketching the outlines of what l
conceive to be well-grounded University
system, a system not claimed to be the best
that could be devised, but claimed to be an
improvement on that, which has heretofore
existed in North Carolina.
L
distinct and independent departments or
colleges; viz:
L MATHEMATICS 1. Pure g Applied
II. NATURAL SCIENCE. /. Physics; 2.
Chemistry; 3. Mineralogy; 4. Botany; 5.
Znology: 8. Geology; 7. Astronomy
III. LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE. L.
Ancient Languages and Literature 2. Mod
ern Languages and Literature.
". PHILOSOPHY. 1. Physiology; 2.
Psychology; g. Logic; 4. Metaphysics 8.
History.
v. LAW. 1. Common Law; 9. Civil
Law; g. Constitutional Law; 4. Interna-
tional Law: 8. Statute Law of North Caro-
lima.
vi. GENERAL COLLEGE 1. Mathemat-
les; 2. Natural Science; 3. Languages and
Literature; 4. Philosophy; 5. Law.
am aware of the difficulty of arranging
cursus free from objection. Perhaps it is
an impossibility. No classification of the
sciences themselves has yet been presented.
which is proof against criticism. Nor can
such classification be effected until all the
sciences are complete and blen led into ONE.
How great, then, the difficulty. when to the
classification of the sciences, is superadded
the classification of departments in colleges
intended to answer Il practical purpose! At
( best, we can have but an approximate accu
racy, and I think that, in this respect, the
foregoing scheme is not less perfect than 9th
ers of the same character.
l call your your attention to the sixth, or
General College. You perceive that. its
sub divisions are the five preceding collie
ges. The object of this college will he to
give the results of the sciences taught in the
other colleges and not the sciences Themselves
Thus the young man. who chooses civil en-
gineering for profession and enters the
Deollege of Mathematics, may not have the
time or the inclination to take up the addi-
tional burden of the college of Natural
Science; but he may wish to obtain general
view of these sciences and of their connec-
4 ton. His wish will be aratifed by attend
ing the lectures IN the sixth college Our
y young aspilant for legal distinction, while
|, devoting his main energies to the college of
n Law, may desire to expand his range of WIS.,
A3ion by knowing something about the forms
eN1 Conditions, of thought or about CLASH
hi literature He will be accommodated in
he sixth college And so on around the
tce. The lectures in this college will be
popular cast, and one of its advantages
be, awakening and stimulating dispo-
LON for further investigation. No degree
will be given in this college.
You will observe that there is no special
place assigned to Rhetoric. The laws OF
Ataste Will be illustrated in the college of
- ansand Literature. Political Econ
,ur missing. Why9 Because it is
the Hence. AS well have included
ID the age, when Voltaire ac-
counted fhe fossil shells by saying that,
they ! yen dropped by the Crusaders,
and his Moments attributed them to the
Noachian }Deluge
q you wiz observe further that have Civ
~ no place to a Medical College. My rea-
\psA Mare that, in reforming the University,
IN Sst consult economy and build, as far
I've can, on the old foundation. To insti-
Edicaf College, which would be
the State, would require
eors at least equal in num-
tumbcr of professors with
Fersity could begin its exer-
as expensive. It would give
5reponderance to this depart
would be long time before it
5me selfsustaining.
g Of AgFiculturs rsmaias to be