Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-08-14

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Is not tho outward roll Ol tho ocean
bat a narrowing gulf
As Vet comparatively few South
ern students have 80 Ear fOrsolleI
the events oftho rst few years q
TO seel, an education among thos
who arc alien TO them ia blood, 4
habit, and feeling, Such palronag
as tho North receives from the Soutl
comes mainly from Northern set
tiers, who aro Sonlherhers IN lhoi
post offices alone; and even these
IL they understood their trno inter
osls, would do we'll TO look aroun'
them aud SEQ whether States, so rlel
IN all material resources, are AiloI
all so poor IN the appliances OF high
or education. One thing We can tel
thom, that candid teachers at th'
best aud most progressive OF tbs
Northern colleges have not only OK
pressed their astonishmont at ih'
elevated character ofour standards
but have virtually acknowledged
the inferiority ofthcir own methods
aud their own results, Tho mora
tone Of our students Is so far above
their belief, that wo cannot hopo to
mako Northern converts TO our sim
plo plan Of trusting tho honor Of Il
gentleman and spies and monitors
and policemen will DO regarded
among thcm, perhaps for all time
rs vitally y necessary to the existence
ola college. But intellectual results
many OF them can understand, and
cvcry year moro and moro look
Southwark, littlo obliqucly, IL is
truo, If so bo any good may como
out Of Nazareth. Wo do not claim
perfection, We do not thrust forward
invidious comparisons, but VIC do
claim tho need Of honest cndcavor,
and arc not ashamed Of the fruits Of
long experience aud unrcmitting
toll. -
1t is, to say tho least, unwisc in
Northern colleges TO brag so loudly
of their achievements, In view Of
the fact that so many Southcrncrs
arc alumni of Yalo, Of Harvard, and
of Princeton, and know so well tho
of those very schools
which claim such vast superiority.
How many of these Southern alum
nj would gladly buy back those cycars
Of misdircctcd effort, Of sporadic
study; how few of them send their
own pupils to Alma Mater. For
''Alma Mater" is no name to conjurc
withal. She can no longer win TO
her arid bosom tho sons whom she
cursed n few years ago with all the
Icrvor of Mucklowrath, and all the
venom of Sycorax. The hot breath
of those curses burned up such slcn-
lcr tics as bound tho Southcrncr TO
,hc Northern school, and the South
,rn alumnus has as much lovo to-
ward his Northern Alma Mater as
coward n landlady who had fcastcd
hin with pumpkin-pies, charged
lim with pinc.applcs, given him a
photograph with her bill, and then
lrcnchcd him with soapsuds. Nay,
most assurcdly Alma Mater is no
lamc to conjurc withal, whom the
Southern student finds in aftor
lays that he has been lurcd by ono
,r two names of Fictitious celebrity
% waste tho most precious years Of
lis life in a humdrum routine, dur
ng which most Of his training was
by halfeducatcd tutors
md halfaedgcd theological stu
lcnts. Now and then the great
guns of tho college fired blank car.
ridges over his head, by way on
,loriication at tho successful swim
lie to which they wcro partners
,ut slnallIproft had he from tho
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