Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
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from Knoxville Daily Chronicle March 10
che last No. Of the Grange outlook
hb an editorial under the above title,
witch contains a number of such pos
i've misrepres entations, that it is
wlnderful any respectable Journal
wluld publish them. The only suf-
fident reason for noticing them by
Its communication, is that the Col
leic, which Is the growing ornament
0fthe city, county and State, may be
u1ustly Injured 10y them.
klmOst at the start, the editor makes
TN mis- statement that the last Report
Ofthe Trustees of +. T. University
" blows falling off from last session of
fidS fl We students ~ when the Report,
aspe Immediately quotes, states, and
staes correctly, that the average
abundance of students, q" the present
(GsU term of the College, is about the
sane as that Of the corresponding pc
ridl last year, Through lack of clear
reception of the facts of the case, lac
ha evidently confounded the figures
of term, and those Of collegiate years.
The most of the Misrepresentation
witch follow, are based upon one of
tn, grossest mistakes which any in~
teIigent person with his eyes wide
optn could commit in dealing with a
public document In critical way. The
catalogue upon which he animad-
vets, distinctly states at its
head in large type, that
the students whose names it gives are
Shte students. But, right in the face
of this statement in the document be-
fore him, he proceeds to declare that
,'kis very remarkable and interest
ing fact, that on scrutinizing the cata-
ltgue,n i'm the report, "he did not find
single student from these States
alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, OF any other State, except Ten
nessee.n a very remarkable and in
teresting fact? Why, 1t would be
wonderful, indeed, it in II list which
distinctly states at Its very outset that
il is n list of State students from Ten
urssee, he should find the name of q
single student from any other State
How he could eS pect anything else
passes comprel eHsiOn, except upon
the hypothesis that his mind is Sc
blinded with r'judice and hostility
! that he can not read large print cor
rectly, His failure to find what he 81
diligently Lht, only adds anothe
testimony to the admirable accurac!
| of work manship, for which theUniver
sjty has oltvtdy such high reputa
! Uun.
Not content, however, with this ex
hibition of his deplorable ignorauc
of his subject, he actually goes on il
two more successive paragraphs, to d,
the very same thing, so that all men
acquainted with the subject may b
thoroughly convinced that he has un
dertakeu, without understanding.
The gentlemanly editor is nothing
il not - perSOnni The title page @
| the Report shows II To bo from tn
Trustees it's first sentence states tnA
it is so; if he knew any lmng of IN
State Law on the subject, he woul
know that il requires 4 Report, Tx
from the President, but from the Tru!
tees. That which they, regularly cor
venCd, have adopted, and commune;
ted formally to the General Assembl
OF the State, is theirs and theirs only
So all publicists who are governed /
the conventional prophecies Of lit
either in State or Church, would COZ
slider it. Notwithstanding, again an
again he speaks Of the Report a. Il
Report of the President, Juggling
his surname. The President, he ave
: "has no student from any other Sc
tiou of the United States, except h
own State" This lie does, in the IA,
of the fact that the General CatalogI
: for the collegiate year ending Jun
3 1874, and then published by the Tru
} tees, contains the names of studeu
from Alabama, Georgia, MiSsi
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas al
, Texas, and that during tn
collegiate year, the number
students from other States thu
: Tennessee, are at least, or more th9
doubled. Not Satisfied with this futi
= assault, he then declares, with evide
relish of his own unparalleled skill
: the discovery and relation Of wonder
that "another remarkable fact is, the
4 are but twelve students attending Il
College from Knox county. This
I quite surprising And then to ~
! sharpness and force to the fact, viii,
would be remarkable, indeed, if
n were, as il il not, true, he goes wi
= profound learning into the statistics
u Knox county and Knoxville; Civ
n their respective populations, and asl
from a heart too heavily burden
|
explanatory way: land is it pOssit
T. that out of this large number of inha
!. itants, there are only twelve studer
G whose parents desire to give them
collegiate education? The college
G he adds, "seems not to be popula
either at home or abroad !" Q, II
countrymen what an editorial crit
g of Universities, is this ?' The field
- occupies is plainly too narrow for /
o capacity. Only at Harvard or Yale SHIT
10 he find sufficient eXpanse for his efiusi
genius in hyperbolical statement. o.
? ly twelve students in the institutiO
e from Knox county Why the gener
q catalogue, published June, lSi
T. showed there were ninety-hve fro
that county, during the previous &C
l. legiate year, and the number is abo
f. the same this year But why go {
with this analysis and exposure
errors? For the present, enough. II
College is bound to go up and forwar
., but it il pity that a certain amou
~ Of energy and zeal seeks expenditu
:, concerning it in attempted agltatit
;, and destructiveness, which might
= more iudiciously and hOnorably
" employed in cooperating to devel
~ IL and build il nm If that eDprUv al