The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

differing, command different classes of |
snbserve a variety of interests in |
the community, and make their appeals
for greater capacities for usefulness to q |
greater variety of benefactors. Nor are |
these institutions az some apprehend mar
rowly local and doomed to n perpetual |
field fight +; they occupy realm that ex-
pands with longitude itself and need no
more conflict with each other than do the |
meridians.
If now, in thus speaking, have not wan
dered wide of the truth, 1t is quite obvious
to us all that the Vermont college, this or
that, If it succeeds in the midst Of these
seemingly adverse circumstances, it will do
it by seeing things as they are, and by 60
ing to work to do things as they ought to
be done. IL cannot ignore the changed re
lation of things. 1t must exercise a wise
circumspection. 1t must disclose spirit
in harmony with the progressive tendencies
of the age. 1t must forget things that are
behind and reach forth unto those that are
before and press towards the mark of
supreme excellence. 1t must be quick
with a life all its own; a thing of pure
quality and genuine merits and unalterably
consecrated purpose.
This leads me to consider the college in
another respect; and TO inquire into some
of the conditions of her success. 1t is OBJ
vious that she may be relieved from all en-
barrassment arising from the old question
of union and have accorded TO her the
whole country as her field of labor, and yet
offer no such facilities and assert no such eX-
cellence as to command the regard of the
public and an extended patronage. She must
recognise and acceed to the memorable ne
cessity of making progress by successful
competition. To fall back upon her digni-
ty and to refuse to enter the field and as
sert her imperial claim to the regard of the
world by evincing spirit Of advance and
its fruits, is to gather about her the cerv-
ments of the grave. But in considering
this matter of the success of the college,
let us not be extravagant in our expecta-
lions concerning the ertent of it, or mis-
take in respect to its qudtity. II would be
all unreasonable to anticipate tor our col
lege in the present generation-l presume
not to say what shall be the compass Of
her work in ages to come-a crowd of stu
dents such as we see at some other col
leees. Our ambition will suffer no chagrin
if we can see in each of our classes, that
number of students required in order to
awaken genuine enthusiasm IN study that
heallhful invigOrating excitement that
comes from adequate competition of mind
with mind in the class loom. The success
of a college turns not upon the number of
its students, as the preachers turns not
upon the number of bis hearers. The quail
ity Of the work done as well as the number
to whom it relates must be taken into the
reckoning. The real power Of college is
not longitudinal, but perpendicular, ii is
determined not so much by the numbers it
may encompass ana influence, as ny me
ihoroughne's and Depth OF Its work in
those committed to II. college that has
in it a class OF seven may he mace by some
an object OF 1est nut when II is made to
| appear that DR.. Nathan >. >. Beaman,
Hon. Daniel ~. Buck, Chief Justice Ste
phen Royce. and Governor William Slade,
| were four Of its numbers, it may be par
doncd for retor'iug by bringing that same
class along side of other classes IN other
| triennals five times that number. With a
true standard If college success before us.
moi where numbers are simply considered,
but where power is expended and general
ed, let us advance. Every college put into
| operation soon comes to be SUI aene'3S-to
have HE OF It's own distlngulshable IN It's
type anu character, from all others OF It's
kind. The men who lad its Foundation
and chris'cned II, the people That stood 10y
1t in its early struggles the guardians whf
have supervised it, the professors who have
piled in 1t the instruments OF discipline ano
culture, and especially the successive
classes who have not lett 1t without stamp
ing II with ther impress and oequeathint
10 IL the rich legacy OF honors that shai
gather upon ihem--and gather upon then
after inc ueatn STARS nave iisen upon tnen
names-aii, al unite 10 constitute It's I'm
| nres9lnr Snlrlt. and 10 invest IL with III
peculiar sactities. III is accounted as ont
OF inc MONIES OF the gnds Ana now yo'
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