New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-18
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
AMONG SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

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NowNED ALUMSI--MEMoRIEs OF JAY, KENT
AND HAMILTON.
The schools having been assembled 1t was consid-
ere proper for me to examine the Normal class They
were really hopeful race. sitting there neat as
nature, conscious courtthip and spontaneous as
mechanism. / rejected the textbook and began
a. random, on local science
Where is Columbia College"
Every big girl seemed anxious to tell every little
grrl seemed to say, What part of the geography is
that mp l pointed TO youngish thing, who
lsped:
Columbia College 18th up on Harlem River in a
boat-houth."
The next girl indicated. big, Quakery, and I'M
Imaginative. said:
"Coe-lumba College is in Coe-lumbia County,
Eew-York State"
She sat down like prize tnrnp I indicated
giil No. 8. who had sc netting sly about her:
Columbia College," she replied. has been run
Oy the Vanderbilt railroads and portions of
the remains are scattered about IL Central Depot
The girls great deal of the college about 8
O'Clock in the morning; toward noon it seems to
have run into the carhouse. 1t is of high anti
guilty and dates back to 1854. Its School of Mines
has been away all summer hunting for the Com-
stock lode. Alexander Hamilton and William
Kent. two of its graduates, are dead"
Great applause of a Uttered, smothered sort went
around the place since the Normal School had DIS
sprung and raising two fingers exclaimed:
"PRofessa Boquet please sir. know where the
College of the City of New-York is! It's where
Daniel Tompkins goesr It's painted all red this
summer and has eleven hundred boys in it almost
big Daniel"
81 How many colleges in the City of New
York 7" asked gravely
Everybody gave 1T up; teachers looked dumb; l
scratched my head sef-batled minute and said:
Girls. there's the New York University"
"Wheref where I" The whisper general.
"Please, sir, 1 know" exclaimed q romantic
young woman. It's where Cecil Dreeme wore
trousers down on the Washington parade ground,
shut up by that awful Dewsdeth. Professor Bou-
quet, was there ever any Cecil Dreeme, or was she
on the newspapers
"And there is Fordham College," lnterposed a
teacher. who had been possibly looking at the City
Directory. as if that knew. Bishop Hughes started
it in 1s41, with Cardinal McCloskey as president"
"Young ladies'" said 1, how could YOU or any
body, be expected to know the number of anything
benefcent literary in New-York, when the
fashion has been to multiply institutions instead
of adding to thems We have colleges enough on
this island and students enough in them to erect
one of the largest universities in the world. With
cut being mnutely informed upon the subject will
venture guess that at Columbia College there are
not under 200 pupils all the departments; at
the University of New-York 500, at st. Johns
College 200, and at the Free College of the City
200 more. In law, medicine aud engineering as
In academies, the instruction here is probably the
best in the Union. Yet few of che citizens and
scarcely any strangers know the location or
names of these different colleges. and the University
of Michigan or Cornell University reach further in |
unity and fame than the rich educational endow-
ments of this metropolis. II / am not mistaken |
Union College at schenectady draws its leading |
income from real estate within sound of the bells
&C Dol Il
Point by the foresight of Doctor Mott its president
The greatest endowments of Princeton College have
come from merchants of New York. whose wealth |
has been lavished on the older colleges throughout
the country. The Free College of New-York is |
the subject of frequent because it is
free, though it supplies the majority of rst-class
clerks to our merchants and bankers Even this |
Normal School, with its 600 pupils is not known
in location utility to any considerable element
of New-York, though perhaps il is, in operation |
the most beautiful sight to be seen here-beauty
mind ami discipline perfect as in brigade of
young Amazons."
Great involuntary applause at this point per- |
mitted by the pretty teacher who counted herself
into the compliment. Cries from the rear seeming
to say: Let of a bouquetw
"Who founded the public school systcmYn
"Robert Raikesw exclaimed one enthusiastic
maid.
Hosea Perkins, by lady from the upper part
of the island.
Benjamin Franklin !" by an electrical damsel.
1.-THE publi3 schools in New-York CITY younp
ladies, grew, and were not made Mr. William |
Dorsheimer claimed, when the Legislature moved |
into the new Capitol at Albany. that their first |
suggestion came from John of Nassau, brother of |
William the Silent Churchmen say they were |
begun by the Popes; Professionals say by Martin |
Luther. But these suggestions never effected the |
fact itself; America first made education general
and equal, and Hartford, Conn. put the ball in |
motion by law the year Oliver Cromwell burst into |
history on the battlefield. The New England emf
grants to New-YOrk and other States carried the
institution with them, but native Dutch and |
irish son of New-York stretched the hand of well
come to it from his place Mayor and Governor.
Dewitt Clinton was the great lawgiving school
master of these Middle States. Yet even he never
lived to see the flower of legislation blossom: and
not till 1851, when this had been made the issue OF
the political campaign, did the present school sys-
tenn prevail by the deciding vote of the CITY of
New-York, which gave nearly $4,000 majority to
ndorse 1t when it only passed by $4,000 in the
entire State, and fortytwO of the ifty-nine rural
counties gave 10000 majority for its repeal. The
act, however. against which this storm of oppos-
Jon had been aroused, bore date November. 1919
when our living fellow-citizen, Hamilton Fish.
was Governor. At thai election it passed the
people by 13S.000 majority. yet could not be car
red ont by of the opposition of rich tax
payers and absIuatulatiDG Boards Of Supervisors
In a tone of no mild reproof the schoolmarm here
" Take notice that 'absquatulating' is not found
n webster's Standard Unabridged"
hall va Iadi 1