The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-10-21

Correspondence from Iowa City.

ilyernS ana DOafQlnu houses WtIc oNcI
lowing with customers. On Sept. l3tl
cxamirations of candidates for admissio,
ID the University began, and on Sept. l6tl
he first or Fail term commenced. Student
- qfeat be seen during the entire day
4 .ocbing from all quarters TO this mucl
! -Dved Alma Mater.
tits believed that the youth Of lows
md adjacent States, who may come hith
,r to qualify themselves for their variou:
spheres of life, will find here all the
means for professional and liberal culture
t!at they can profitably employ. The
University is annually sending forth {
o ODDLY number of graduates and teachers
to all parts of the world, Who are accom-,
piishing a noble and appreciablc work in
thcir chosen field.
Doubtless, Mr.. Editor you are aware
nat Toledo NAY boast of the first two
ltly representatives in the Acadcmica
department. Of the University, from Tama
county. lama County has nine NAL,
preventative in the University; three OF
,.hom are in the Medical, five in the
..cademical, and one i4 the Law Depart
Ilent, and two ladies. Also two gentlemen
il VIM. McLain's Academy, and one
ia Ward School.
The total number of students here lasl
year was six hundred and twenty, and ii
j. thought the number will approximate
:tven hundred the coming year.
The sixth regular course of lectures OF
The Medical Department will commence
,p Wednesday, Oct. goth, 1875, and close
ELarch list, 1876. The Department of law
Is now in the tenth year Of its existence
Nearly three hundred students have al
ready received the degree of l.. L. B..
Hnd the number of graduates increases
atcadily with each successive year.
INTERNAL Wharf.-The COMMANDER OF BAT
TALON HUNG IN EFFIGY.
Last year q Military Department wa,
instituted in the University. The Bat,
tllion was to be composed soley of such
S,udents as chose to join it. The conse-
Vuence was that the Military Department
r.oved a failure. Then, as if in retalia-
ion of the latter, at the last meeting Of
i'ie Boaru or Itesvurv ~a~oroa was issued
c,mpeLting all the able-bodied students
1, perform military service. This com.
Iulsory system has proved itself SO an
'agonistic to the best welfare of the in,
sritution that its identification as a bub.
&c can not be ignored or denied. The
.,oard of Regents whose lives hang by
he brittle thread of an impaired consti.
i~dtion, %worshiping at the shrine Of which
u barbaric military science is the Deity,
j. no argument against the hollowness of
lie bubble. AS a general rule, the stu
rnts of the University are more enter
Kissing, energetic, and robust, than those
! almost any of the other colleges of the
Vest. There are but few if any colleges
Il the State, but that advise and, in a
Measure compel strict adherence to the
usual College Curriculum, and to attend
my College other than the University
would be to assume a course of
study the completion of which would re-
1uire from four to six years. The major
j y of the University students is adults
whose financial affairs do not allow them
t, remain long in college. They come
to pursue only an optional course of
Judy. Then, in such an institution as
lac University has been and will be,
rrthing but a fallacious argument can be
l.oduced, why the University students
>'Iould be compelled to perform Military
~~vrvice. The former part of the day is
,ansumed wholly by rccitations and other
ycrcises. In the latter part of the day
. "ey are expected to prepare their stud.
IS for the following day. The lessons
are so meted as to contine the average
-tudent one hour and n half to each
ranch. Every student is required to
} ursue at least three studies. The stu
lint who does not wish to impair his con-
: tuition will not enter upon his mental
issk before half past one or two, p. m.
j ;oviding NJ time is lost, the average
eradent will have completed bis lessons
! ' half past six p. m. Now. if he must
sc n hour and a half for drill, right
in the middle of his best study hours, he
just that much daylight and is
to study by lamp light and in
instances, permanently lnjure his
rye sight. And, in addition to the usual
course of study, the students have exer-
Uses in English Composition, Original
tleclamations and Preparation of Themes,
-ffter allowing sufficient time for the lat
r exercises, we need not lake into con-
l~eration the case of the inferior stu
mt to prove the unreasonablencss of
AS Military project. The compulsory
irill is detrimental not only to the Collie
iattf,l but also TO the uon-Collcgia.e stu
.calssw'iso haveconiy a very limited time
rfesYote to mental culture; much less TO
iNtGssld stand around on damp, cool days,
ndl,,percbanee, have nothing to break
ic3IEaenotony of the rudimentai Military
but. a na4hing shower that
+ ppens't to fail frosltbete,aeri regions.
That the students are full of iindigna-
oDl, against the compulsory Military sys-
'ml.was forcibly manifested when, On
nc morning of Oct. .4th, Lieut. A. d.
cIaeGc3s, COMMANDMENT Chief of the
iiversity'Batt.ion ,sfas rfauad hanging
= efigy, in a conspicuous place of the
Diversity Campus.
!3at as wild beasts can only be tanned
~ hunger, SO the Regents, hungering
,ag and ia vain for its good fruits, will
convinced of the detrimental effects
.at this obligatory military duty will
'oduce on the students of this institu-
On, when they come to spend IA few
in the year, solely for the pur-
osc CT mental culture and intellectual de-
Sopment. 1t must not be argued that
SIS dfin ia conducive TO the. general
..ilth of the institution, for all the ladies
i'd all disabled male students are
and they are most emphat-
allyitke persons who ought to have the
4 Gymnasium it provided for the stu
MS which affords ample o. portunities
+ athletic exercises. Now, ! appeal to