Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-03-03

Academies AND PREPARATORY SCHOOLS or 1sz
STATE or Inv YORK.
Vital wants, sooner or later, somehow make
themselves known and felt. Such want j.
beginning uow to lie ksenly felt IN respect to the
academies AID preparatory schools Of the State
of New York. Many schools snl academies New
York las, that her citizens DO not undervalue
They rank well with the majority of those thst
are around then. They even surpass many that
rank high IN be communities when they are 10
Gated. Yet it is true that there is not in the
large, populols and wealthy State Of New York,
Empire though She be-, single acaiemy or
P eplratory cchool OF the first class-none that
take rank with Philips Academy, at Andoyer,
Mass, the academies at Exeter and East Hamp-
ton, and several others hat might be ma ned in
New Eag'anL This is the unqualified and
public declaration Of her most responsible citi-
zens, presidents aul professors Of colleges, Iesi
ing ministers and men thst have carefully ex-
smined the subject, and know well what they az
firm. This is felt to he great loss and gri e,s-
Gus reproaeh TO our State Il depriyes her Of
multitude Of her brightest and best young Lien
and women, in 2 most important period Of th cir
lfe-a period when their influence can
lesst be spared. The inf lcnce Of a young
man or woman of high al ms in the family,
neighborhood, and coz munity to which
they belong. while they 9re in the prepara-
tory or collegiate course OF their education, can
not be computed. nor compensated Yet New
York is to day losing the best influence Of four
huHtref such young men. for this is he number
Of young men belonging 10 the State that are in
training IL colleges OUTSIDE Of the State. How
many axe in academies ans' high schools outside,
We know not, but proba by double or triple
this number. And this At cause her academies
first, and her colleges afterwards, do not furnish
them the advantage Of instruction and disci-
pline they demand and will hsye, even though
they must expstri ATE themselves to obtain them
New York, or any other State, might as well
allow her most Intelligent f.nd enterprising bust
ness men 10 be withdrawn from her towns, and
villages and CT ies. Yea, be might as well sup
pose she can have health. and strength, and
prosperity vi en- the pure rygen IS taken out Of
the air she breathez, as 10 allow this state of
things to co ntinue To remedy it. to redeem the
os=, and axe awsy the rvprosch that rests
both upon the church and State Of New York,
by pro7idi q at last one school of the highest
'lsss, n ovement has legIn, and been going
5swari for year pasr in the Presbyterian
church the State, TIN ougt the synods of the
church. j is not a mower ent to establish an
oclesi IS ical or sectari An sciool, though begun
y fin gle branch Of the church, but 10 supply
great want in all the chu rches, and in the
,ene:sll society Of the State
Il IS hoped also, in u is way, to reach and
aise 'at colleges Of the State These too as well
s the academies ne q 10 be elevated. They
nuEt be raised togetf er or Il either is to take
lrecederce, must i not be the academy The
cademy Is the ste piping stone 10 the college,
nd 10 the highest rank in college. No college.
whatever be the lcellence Of It's course, or the
choisrshiP and ability # its professors, can
AIRY farthest f0 ward on the road to learning,
NJ turn out n the end the best disciplined
len, from thost who enter upon their courses
oorly prepared 81. 1t is in this better fitting re-
uirei, and fu ,nished too while it is required,
through the b tier academies Of Mass. and New
ngland, as well as in the better m inning of
er colleges, that Harvard and ale. Brown,
lliams anc Dartmouth have greatly the sd-
antsge ov the colleges Of New York, the
middle and Western States The entefprising
Dung mer Of New York who demand and OBJ
lin this b tier fitting that .he better prepara- !
ny schoo = Of New England give, will not, and
lghi net 10 come back and join the classes in
lr cole res made up Of young men many of
ZEN POI rly fitted, and who will act as drag
pon tn m through the whole course. Hence
Is, II part, that the catalogues Of Harvard
nd Is e rose up to the thousand, while those
+ Ne' York are kept down within the small
ul d. eds. They only conform to the general
sW tn =; the bes; equipped win.
4. D. 3.
Wilpboro. \. Y. Feb. 1870.