New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-21
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Professor Morgan Hart has paper entitled
The College Stuu, ~" offering some jndicous STRIFE
tiro, routine Of public oleiton In THIS country
TIE si Of caste according 10 the writer Is the most
notable feature n American COLLEGE life, growing out %
locality the mode teaching ana ESPECIALLY the dai1n
tory syetem This system. Professor Morgan airnS, ea
cost tao country dear cxpcndug for tend and brick and
mortar sufficient 10 cnIuw hundred; OF praUss'rshps
and give vigorous lie 30 many colleges mat are nov
dragging a ckiy ana miserable existence Tie eA
lcrcucc Of Curue. wlch he refers, is very much ("
the point when the Cornell University was founded
some Of the trn-ses opposed the erection o. dorn!t0i1e
DtlciE assuming that people Of Ithaca to Whom
college was novelty, could not would not furnish
sul,sia accommodation, argued taat doimiioI1cr were
~ absolute necessity ilcy carried thc point; me CAS-
cadi.a was converted Uto large boarding house for
botn professors etd students and tic greater part o
south Jniyci sitv laid cut IN atudrnt-rooDs B"h
buildings were .ull Tlis STATE o: affairs letd during
The t=t year and part OF the second Disturbance ~
vaiious kinds ro nfrcqucn' and although no one
81 Lcn vac ycly st1us ~ 10 aggregate they werr
"a severe tay upon the iacGy's TIM" and iaticnce BAT
before me end secono year uany Of the students
discovered that lie IA town was more comfortable ami
accordingly they their university room, ~ tie
opening o. the Hcaicuic yea: ls7o-7l perhaps three
fouithr. certainly r~othIds. were lodged Ia town re
change wac significant During tie entiI" year. Hith ugh
! Individual students disciplined Tor inhvidnal
oftnses. faculty not once iOrc~f ~ punish public
disorder Th;s VG1BoneuO;. will appear eth more ic-
narkahle when We consider thnt m,anwhc the sOcaci
cass feeling Inc sprung up and that rudrn admitted
other col had endeavOred 10 Introduce certain
Traditional PRACTICES. The ls7U7l I'rrhal-
good to he repeated. The next year Witnessed ~
least one d-cerrsg,ns exhibition OF student manners.
aud since then have been posons tiae 10
time For oil that; the general tone at Cornell Is excel
lent The tTaGsDry dlsiurraucDs eocm 70 leave behind
them 10 abiding Nlwls aud there Ii certainly le-s irc-
to-. between faculty and students than at any lise in
st,tuton Nowhere ia this country Is college life more
FREE rom petty annoyance, dislike nnh mlsHg-', aud
hereditary proiudics IL should b. added l. u tho-c
suqenis who reside In the university buiing be
.ong almost exclusively wla: Is known the wort
lug corps They tyPesStteIs tn the printing flee.
OF are engaged Upon the University iiru Or
In the workshops CONNECTS led with the de-
partment Of t.N mechanic arts Their time
is to valuable 70 tGem 10 be wastAd.' Cor
nell is alao quoted proof o: the advantage OF
trte selection OF Ftudes In the academic course fh"
studeuts names arranged In alphabetical order,
whou; regard to distinction Of cses and sections
are uiadc up studies OF studcns OF oil the four
years Even the COURSES not nfcxible. md rigid
,1uivacnts are accepted There perhaps not twenty
students at This time IL the university who have Nctcd
she by side Oh cGac; tine subjects and Ia tn" same
order Og trc years Hence there sno strong c!us feel
ing Every stuGent acts on his responsibility; iDdi
yidua freedom Of opinion is toe rule and class tyr
amy thus becomes impossible