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{ Inc ORVenpOrt 0Qzetke 0S We nave
before noted, in its Issue Of the 3lst
ult., contained labored article in de.
fense ofattaching departments forpro.
fessional education to our university
at lows City, thought was doubt
less the aim of the writer to de-
fend the medical department Of the
University. This article was called
out because the physicians of the
State (Allopathists) have declared
against such department. The Ga
xette then calls into requisition the
Constitution of the State, refers to
the institution at Iowa City as Uni
versity, and then quotes Noah Web
ster as to what is university, and
this definition includes theology, med
icine, law, and science, to constitute a
university a congregation ofcolleges.
II all these must be included to make
a university to comply with the con-
stitution, (for the Gayette's chief argu-
ment is constitutional one,) tnen,
indeed, have we got an elephant on
onr hands, AS people. There are
three or four quite prominent schools
Of medicine, and the good Lord only
knows how many schools Of theology,
and since it is beneficiary institu-
tion Of the government, or what is the
same, of the whole people, if they pay
their money, all ought to be able to
have their particular school Of theol-
ogy and medicine tlught there. If the
Ga=ette's theory be correct, that to
constitute q university, all the things
noted must be taught in il. then the
name university for our present es-
tablishment at Iowa City is a misn6.
mer, and some of the other nniversi.
ties of this country, and even in the
Old World have arrogated to them.
selves name which they are not en-.
entitled to. The university can en-
brace very widespread system ol
education without embracing distinc,
schools for the professions, and we
are decidedly of the opinion that thi
alone ought to be the scope Of oul
university. We might compromise Sc
far as to let the law department re
main, for the very valid reason that i
can remain peaceably, without th'
introduction Of a hornets nest thro
the various sects which exist in theol
agy and medicine. The writer of tn
Gazette article would have univers
lity in Allopathic doses, but no small
pills in his heretofore, but finall,
In the extremity Of saving totterinl
cause, he sarcastically admits that tn
little pills may be admitted, and hav
professors of the "uncontaminat
heavenly blue" to teach them.
/ Thus it is seen how spitefully thi
writer in the Gazette makes . shov
Of yielding to the Homepathist'
This question has been fought owe
in the Michigan University, and thu
the Gasette writer intimates that it |
settled there, 1t is not. The quarre
| Is just as bitter as ever, and the bes
efforts Of legislators and courts hav
been called in to quiet them withou
avail. A full fedged State Universit
would lodge in the institution d
Iowa City the same battle over secta,
4 ian teachings, which now agitates ou
common school system. Make th
] Iowa University . school Of the yer
highest order in literature, the arl
and sciences, and at the very earliel
date make it, by means of its rich er
) dowmcnt by the General Governmen
self-snpporting. We gravely dout
the propriety Of levying an annu,
! tax for all time for the support Of th
institution. Most assuredly we OF
lpose the levying Of such tax to max
the institution 8 university accordin
to the idea Of the Gazette. But th
writer Of the article, arguing for b
plan Of university, says it is done
England and on the Continent, an
cites the universities of Oxford, Can
bridge, Heidelberg, Halle, and other
. 1t must be remembered that Englan
has its State Church, while we hol
as fundamental the separation {
Church and State, and cannot, ther'
fore, support by tax, any theology {
school Of theology. 1t might, also, |
| appyopos here to say that by tax OF
people do not desire to support m
or all schools Of medicine. In Enrol
the nobility and crowned heads Al
, supposed to govern the people an
!, care for them, hence the support of
church, and educating the few At Il
expense Of the people, in church pc
ity, or, If you please, in some particl
lar school Of medicine. But here o,
people govern themselves, and the
!; is no royal road to the pcople's'pocl
! cts for any particular school oftheol
. gy or medicine. Harvard Universi
is cited by the Go<ette writer rs
grand example of a university. Is
supported by the public? The Ha
yard catalogue for lS74-75 shows til
in the Law school the price of tuitis
!, for the first year Is $3.50, and for d
second year $l00. In the Medical d
: partment the tnition for one year
$500, and for one term sl20, and
q this 10 added the fees for matricul
8 ton, graduation, &c.
VI Now, ii there must be, or il IL