Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-02-21
THl. UNIVERSITY HOBBY.

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Reform, in the CHRoNIcLE of the 9th
inst, but expressed the ultimate in the
MUD Of :. y. l., when he SO ably urged
the University for this continent as pos
sible future for this East Tennessee Uni
versity, 1t is but truism 10 affirm that
the Western world is to have, at SOM Time
and SOmcUhcrc, a University as much sur
passing Oxford or Cambridge as our mag
nihcent territorial domain SURPRISES the
ocean bound confines of the British Isles.
Where this shall be Is left TO the wisdom
of the matured convictions Of this rapidly
developing Western people to determine.
Why may il not he our own University
Reform certainly gives most excellent
reasons, from our climatology, why it
should be-. Here students can walk the
paths of higher learning-amidst the
proiigal grandeur of Il scenery the most
favorable to elevated thought, and with n
climate free alike from the consumption
breeding, marrow-ehilling breezes of the
North, and the enervating, malarial, siroc
COS of the South. To dream then of a
grand, continental University at Knox
Vile may be AolJYcol- fanatical and
foolish it certainly is not. But how to
realize the dream, that is the question.
Certainly by keeping our eye steadily
to the object, and going i'll at
every open door in that direction. To
concentrate here the educational interests
of the Cotton belt, surely seems the first,
and most practical, step. Here there are no
lions i'll the path, except the els s1cFticC of
our own objectionable donothingness.
Let ii be our first effort to overcome this,
by clear conception of what grand posi-
bilities we are thus foolishly hazarding. 1t
is to be hoped that /" Reform and men
like him, of vigorous thought and far
reaching views, will lend their aid in this
important direction. :. y. L. is not
Trustee, nor the son of q Trustee, yet
whatever of influence lie may have he will
cheerfully devote to what he conceives to
be the thigh vocation y of his " Alma
Matar.' He is gratified that the CHRoN-
tCLE,always wide awake to the interests of
East Tennessee, gives so promptly its voice
in this direction. He did think, however,
when it spoke of ttc0 hundred students i'm
this connection-it but saw, with recently
opened eyes, men as trees walking If
the writer i correctly informed, the Col
lege in Kentucky which received the
F" Agricultural fund for that State. matri-
culated during its last collegiate year ei1ht
hundred aud .ffty students. Raise your
sights aud aim higher Mr.. Editor. We are
Buffalo hunting'-not "Snipe Shooting
in the matter
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN BOYS TO-
GETHER.
One more thought presented by Re
form = is worthy of profound attention
the social and political effect of training
Northern aud Southern boys in the same
academic halls. II certainly would have
the effect of contributing to social and
political equilibrium between sections,
alas too long sundered, too often enbit-
tered by misunderstood or misinterpreted
motives. Anything that Will remove this
bitterness and restore mutual respect ana
confidence is worthy of being pursued as
an end by every sincere patriot and Christ
ian philanthropist. Much more when, at
the same time, We accomplish, as in such
an institution we should, the highest cul.
ture of both. The very collisions produced
by mingling together young men of iii
verse training and former mental habits
would develop thought and mould charac
ter in more enlarged and catholic forms
than is now any where attainable 10 eithe
section thus giving TO one nation a great
er breadth of philosophie thought for tn
higher walks of scientific learning, Snob
Ter craftsmanship for her legislative halls
than this country, or the world, has eve
seen. IL not this possible" Would it no
be "A grand, proyidential elucidation Q
good from evil, for such q result to follow
the .interningling of those elements q
discord which have scanned this continen
with graves. and deluged it in blood? %.
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