New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-11

forests OF American youth with jealous devotion
10 tho broadcast and most thorough cultivation OF those
interests was never before represented In institution
OF learning And those persons who imagine that In
some great school abroad. English German, or French,
they find for their sons better chance OF culture
certainly cherish deuson "a unfortunate for their own
hopes as 1t unjust TO the hopes and labors OF body Of
men such AZ make up the force Of instruction and gov
ernmont In Yale College
Tho unul1lled tendencies OF tho College are now cher
y in tho direction OF philosophy and elOquence, or
thought and the utterance Of thought and more ber
atty the method OF instruction and discipline III
grows more and more evident that police guidance and
restraint however friendly and parental Its spirit
should occupy secondary place in an ideal system OF
superior instruction coming in as tho penalty rather
than the preventive OF inatention and unlathiunesS
Tho higher grade Of students even 1t DO no more IMAM
one In ton reasonably ask to be put upon their hohor
and manhood and guided to the best study, rather IMAM
set broken lessons bit to-day and another bit tonor
row. and daily inspected, like boys that cannot De
trusted very large waste Of time. and to very ser
GUS injury OF continuous and interested effort III this
daily attendance meant instruction instead Of inspection,
the case would be- better 1t actually MEANS to large
proportion, wearsOme and vexatios waste OF both
time and interest Dispense with it, and let consulta-
ton of tho teacher about difficulties be left to the occa
for it, and rigorous examinations, every SIX OF ten
or 10 days. be resorted for testing work. and manly
hitching along with feeble aud doubtful steps
Give out for certain period; LOT ns ex
perRaps from half Dozen and one student of literary
tastes might read well the whole half dozen, While
study of but one and others would each take an ind
vdua path according TO some special taste or interest
as special honor with the higher grade OF students
only that the instructor afford opportunity for oonsuta
ton with him about difficulties. and that the exanha
tons for testing work be so rigorous TO render hasy
examining them impossible And In the same spirit,
the student approved higher grade should attend
regular prayers and the public worship OF sunday, q
measure of freedom being granted and he standing upon
his honor TO be negeotfu To report and explain ms
omissions and to respect the suggestions ana Wishes OF
his guides guardians not from fear or the penalty OF
disobedence but from courtesy and manliness ana
good COINCIDENCE toward things which are OF good report
seems likoly that the College may slowly LIT large
portion OF It's students TO tho university level hethes
sacrificing and giving for license, the pane OF
unyerstes England and Europe, nor making law an
offense and stumbling-book. - J..
About tho last thing except Thought, Whlcn can De
taught anywhere Is eOquence the effective uterance
Of thought Instruction in this department Is tne hard
est OF all 10 attend without special labor with eacn
individual and careful and constant discipline directed
not only to tho external method OF speaKhg out 70 an
the motions and carriage OF the mind, which determine
beforehand the character OF the uterances OF the Ups
i has been necessity tneIelOts no t ,fSi man % r.
but very slight attention And this misfortune has been
peculiarly great under system Of instruction whose
most animating expectation that Of laying solid
foundation for Christian elOguence. IL intens1es the
regret with which the failure here must be contemplated
70 see how wide Is the modern. and especially the Amer
lean demand for effective utterance, only the eo
quence Of the pulpit but that OF the platform ana the
new and great field of the press the eOquence of which
perhaps the finest fruit Of all the Efforts OF man 10 SO
speak to instruct and move and cOnsran his fellow
single department and chiefly for that reason the most
neglected of all the departments Of superior education
especially when consider 1t closely related 10 the
cultivation OF thought and see mat true eOquence can
not be dissociated from philosophy. $500
Tho mind OF to-day Is nothing If it be not thoughtful
without serious depth Of thought science carries II 9Eay
into skcpticsm, speculation into Wild maginngs ana bar
lOgOmachics and religion into yagarleS OF creed
and worship which arc shame ana sorrow 70 lntelli
gence well instructed and hearts well disciplined But
thinking is ut venture and task requiring force
aud sagaclty or ind sch as rev possess without IhOr
Ough instruction In methods of intellectual exercise and
considerable initiation into the secrets OF INSPIRATION
the possibilities and limitations OF genius Inc nEnest
power the richest culture, the largest study and the
fullest experience needed TO make such master as
ingenious youth require for elective training IN Thought
and the uteraDce OF thought, in philosophy and eO-
quence. It is department In which would be most
nearly adjusted TO modern needs the Old Hebrew school
of prophecy OF Greek academy inspiration, religion
and ethics coming TO the aid OF letters and science 20 form
man of ideas OF living influence of word and power
like the word and power OF Reason, OF of God.
The suggestion OF these yet unattaned results In the
line of Jrerton of fhe progre,s OF Yale College is too
conspicuous to it unimporant to consider as we
have DONE what these high and far aims are and to turn
expectation snd faith to them as reasons for more en-
distinctly fOresadOwed successes of the institution the
greatness which right before it, and the high service
Z1On will remain ideals only If means are Genied to
expand and strengthen very greatly its administration
Bnt with sufficient IL might Immediately swell TO
the full proportions OF great university true seat or
philosophy and school OF eOquence FOUNTAIN or IDEAS
envy OF the studies by which youth is launched upon
manhood. II IN the history OF our country wisdom
now the seats OF Yale amid the traditions OF her
progress for well toward two centuries and demands
her friends that they heap their treasure Into her
bosom, IN full assurance that she Will multiply every
spcious moment, when much has been done already
and when grand au opportunity lies open far to sur
NeC Hdoeni Conn., July g. lS72