Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-11
The State University.
From the Wisconsin Farmer.

The fall term of this institution
commences on the Goth OF this month
The University, as now organized
embraces the following colleges and
departments:
1st. The College of Arts I'd. De
parLment of Mi itary Tactics and
Civil Engineering Sd. Department
OF Agriculture 4th. College of Let
ters 5th. Preparatory Department ;
9th. Post Graduate Course; 9TH.
University Students 9Th. Depart
of law 9th. Female College.
Our State University, with its re-
organization and more ample means
has entered upon a new career of
prosperity and usefulness which ev.
cry friend Of Wisconsin must desire
to see continued and augmented. A
sufficient corps of able instructors
has been provided to meet the wants
CT all, or nearly all the colleges and
departments embraced in the organi-
zatlon, especially whom supplements
ed. as their instructions are to be,
By courses OF scientific lectures by
competent men from abroad not
permanently connected with the in
stitution. It now affords the best
OF facilities for giving to young
men and young women u finished
classical education, or for fitting
them for any speciality TO which
they may have devoted themselves.
and ought to command at once a
choice OF students TO its full capacity
for accommodating them.
we DO not anticipate great things
from the Military Department, nor
at present, from the Department of
Law. Students whose main object
is the pursuit of sciences and letters
useful in civil pursuits, will not care
much for military tactics, were it
possible (Which it is not) TO acquire,
with every thing else, a respectable
military education. That kind of
training may promote their physical
development and cultivate manly
bearing and thus benefit them indi
vidually. If they could be carried
just far enough to see that military
science is great study and that it
requires thorough military educa>
ton to make u competent general, it
might be Of some use TO the country
in case of another great war; but the
more probable result will be that it
will raise up q host of pretehders
who will cost the country hundred
thousand lives to get rid Of
Educate commanders throughly at
exclusively military schools, and the
rank and file will very soon learn to
''shoulder arms"
We question whether the regents
have not acted prcmaturcly in or
ganizing Law Department. 1t is
true that the public libraries of Madi-
son afford extra facilities for pursu>
ing the study of law. But it does not
appear that the resources Of the
University, az yet, furnish the means
for paying a single competent pros
tessor Of law a salary sufficient to
enable him to devote his whole time
TO giving instruction. The three
judges of the Supreme Court are
placed on the corps of professors.
But what three judges of an itinera
ting supreme court, with all the vast
business of the State on their hands,
can do in the way of giving college
instruction, is not very clear, and
we cannot divine why they were
placed there except as needed make
weights. The organization of this
department looks very much like
boys play, and will be more lkely to
injurc the University than to helpit.
Better wait till we can pay at least
one man of commanding talents and
attainments for devoting his time to
the duties of his chair.