Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-17

ests have just begun to be felt. The city
is the seat of the highest judicia
tribunal in the State, and here assemble
her representatives to discuss measures
cfpublic importance. HT
1t is great railroad centre-no less
than five systems pouring their streams
of wealth and life into her streets daily
whilst the good old Cumberland, like o
steady friend, connects us by living water
with the Ohio, Mississippi, and the Gull
of Mexico.
NUMBER OF STUDENTS. M
Now then to the point Nashville has
within itself attractions of no ordinary
character; and, arguing from the past, it
would be safe to say that, with good
faculty and scientific appliances, the
University in her different schools would
soon number five hundred students. Add
two hundred for the Montgomery Bell
and you have the grand total of seven
hundred young men and boys assembling
here yearly to secure an education, and
q profession also if desired.
How much money would these students
spend in the city2 That is the question.
Put down each one individual expenses
at five hundred dollars, multiply 700 by
500, and you have the good round sum
of $350,000 to gladden. the boardings
house keepers, the merchants, the tailors,
the shoemakers, the book merchants, and
you might say the whole community in
cidentally. Besides, houses must be
rented for boarders, and for the teachers
and professors Rents would be steady,
and real estate would be in demand. The
hammer and the trowel would awaken
the echoes of the streets.
This is not all Fortunes are said to
be made by saving. How many parents
have now to send off their sons to other
institutions All this stream of wealt b
would be turned back upon our commu.
nifty and help to enrich and build it up.
1t is too plain for argument The writer
knows many places that have owed their
prosperity entirely to the schools and
colleges in their midst.
MORAL EFFECTS.
1t is a disputed point whether colleges
ought to be located in cities. Many
dread q continual fghtbetween the stus
dents and the town people. This nay
result, but not Of necessity. These
young men are our sons and brothers.
Shall we drive them from the polish of
the city to seek knowledge in the wild
woods, merely from a faneied trouble2
Shall we deny them the dearest privis
lege Ct young man, viz: the refining
society of young ladies, because youth
is sometimes bOisterous2 Treat them as
gentlemen and my word for it, the great
heart of the boy-msn would be with you
and for you. He would lower his crest
before the eye of beauty, and the gentle
Una would lead the lion by the name
All the great universities are in cities
or near them.
My observation sums up as follows:
There will be some nOise-some dissipa-
ton in all colleges. But the deepest
the lowest-the least redeeming moral
depravity-has been found in isolated
places, away from the influences of the
world. They felt there was no eye upon
them-no restraint Of public opinion
no one to encourage them in the path of
virtue, and no background of sweet
faces and happy homes to cOunteract the
sad effects Of wild and reckless COM
partnership.
The boy has superabundant life and
spirits, because he is a boy; and if he
does not find vent for it in innocent fun
in something sanctioned by society, but
restrained by its laws--it will burst forth
like the lava, and devastate the fairest
hopes and brightest prospects Do not
Danish the youth to "brutish beasts" but
treat him as human being, full of fiery
impulse and unreasonable demands, it
may be; and he will return your kind
ness, as only youth can, with friendship
and devotion as pure as it Is true and
courageous.
ANNUAL FESTIVALS.
How delightful it will be to the man of
letters, to the earnest seeker after truth,
to come up from the dusty highroads Of
life, and find refreshment and repose
amid the classic shades of great univer-
sity. Every glorious June would wits
| ness the grandest assemblage of wit and
beauty and fashion from every quarter
to .es the sons of the land take their de-
grees. Methinks l see the long process
sion, like another PanatheR9a ascending
the Aeropolis with the Peplus worked by
the hands of maidens, gladdening the
hearts of these young aspirants for the
fame that rewards the efforts of mind
Music would lend its charm to arouse
the soul to energy, and fire the ambitious
heart.
| As contemplate the picture, it re-
wives a scene in the "long ago" | Sc,
again the Governor, and judges, and tn
great men and lovely women of another
State assembled to witness the com
mencement day. There are the ele gan
debating halls, with the portraits an
busts of men great in story and famou
in action looking down from the wall
and the inches upon an admiring throng
The very air is redolent with thought a
the eve gazes on the shelves, containing
the intellectual stores of the past.
NV heart CLOVIS, Messrs. Editors, with tn
thought, and | only wish | could rub m.
old lamp, and see the delightful yisio
realized in all its grand and beautiful
| nroDOrtiOns Is. "