American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-07
NO. 80.
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holds out IS promise, not perform
ance. a "live PreSident.n to use
their own slang, is to transform the
whole institution, and bring it into
harmony with the spirit of the ace.
He is to adopt new system, which
is nothing but an abandoned scheme
that has failed wherever tried, and
which is at best a miserable compro-
mise between the old curriculum aud
the university method. He is to
show his dislike to SouthernerS by
treating eminent men Of the South
with distinguished rudeness, and he
is to make use of the South by invit-
ing to his chairs Southern Professors
from institutions which he takes
pains TO ignore, and by getting up
Alumni associations in Southern
cities. Under this eminent leader
they are going to do wonders. But
are you going to elevate the teach
er'S work, and the scholars work too
Are you going to raise your Profes-
sors above the necessity of selling
their real life to outside contractors,
of giving their w rking time to the
bookseller, and fobbing off their
scholars with their leisure 2 Are you
going TO breathe honor into your
students by other means than the
prizes which you offer for gentleman
ly behavior, very much as B9Otia
offered prizes for plastic art? Then
indeed you will have life from the
dead, and we shall congratulate you
on your success. But we are already
alive. and need not experiment. Our
saceesS is assured by long years of
trial, and We point you to largo com
munities Of Southern young men who
live with their Professors on terms
Of social equality, of mutual good
feeling, mutual respect and regard !;
to colleges and universities where a
hateful police is rendered worse than
useless by the purity of the moral at
mosphere, .iustas carbOnic acid would
be nuisance OH the fresh breath of
spring; where an examination cheat
would be drummeI out of college by
his indignant fellow students; where
the standard of attainment is so
high that the graduates of your
Northern colleges cannot command
i'll our Southern country, which they
once supplied with teachers, half the
salary pressed upon those who re-
ceive the honors of our best lnstitu
tions. Impoverished as the people
of the South are, there is no stint OF
money when the services of our
young teachers are claimed, and sue
cess in the leading departments of
such schools as the University of Vir-
ginia is rewarded by salaries and
positions which ought long since to
have attracted to the South shoals
of Northern students, who can at
least understand the argument of pc
crniary emOlument. In view of all
this, does it not seem, to say the
least, exceedingly strange that any
tigure-head, however typical" its
g FORM" should have the hardihoOd
to urge upon the patronage of the
Southern people an untried expert
ment, not to say proved failure
when we haye within our own bor-
ders schools Of the highest character
known to America, in admirable
working order, with standards con
tinually rising, with appliances stead
lily increasing, crowded with Jealous
students, and conducted by conscien-
tious, laborious, and-Boston, for
give lis s!-learned Professors. Ger
tainly, whatever we may want of the
North, we do not want anything OF
Princeton. Her arms, stretched out
in cursing in 1861, are Outstretched
still. 1t is a convenient attitude.
for ii dole or for a blow. Oh Alma
Mater Ne0- CPsdriensis,-we of the
South have reason to remember you
Your curses lighted on some noble
Virginia heads. Thank God YOU
malignity did not wither their gen
erous hearts. You will have no more
Randolphs, or Harrisons, or Lees
. among your alumni.