New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-14
THE UNIVEESITY C0YVOC4rI0N

ALBANY, July 13.-'rhc attendance at the
University conyocation to-day much larger than il
was yesterday Tho subject for The morning session, was
College Education" and under it Warden Faitbarn
ID LID, Of St stevens College, read paper on Ed
Ucati3n in Small Colleges" lie spoke on he ques ion
whether intellectual education coad be conducted v!t
success in small college. Very much had been said in
Gparagcmcn OF small colleges he said and the pre.i-
dent of Columbia College, in address years ago
advanced the theory that proper education could not be
had ia small colleges, and that TIE student pursued his
CON sc in such An Institution nj rCa sacrifice II was
sometimes said that We had nearly 400 colleges while in
Germany there were only twenty universities leading
the inference that such colleges pretended to pc on IN
equality with German univ crsity These io questions
bore intimately on each other because they inyolyeu
consideration Of tie proper work of college the re-
laton OF that work to the WORK Of Il uniyor,ity
Che cssayist demonstrated the object which college
had in view showing that the work required that col
eges should he multiplied The college was intended to
train lads, to develop their minds to bring into con
Fci0us operation their powers and facultiesa word
oclucatc them. II was an intermediate step between
the school and academy and the professional school
The eSSayis contrstcd the courses of study in colleges
and universities, and compared the colleges Of this coun
try with those OF England France and Germany. lie
also commented on tho benefits undoubtedly resulting
from collegiate education The college bred man was
trained man, with his powers and faculties his com
mand, ready to do what apperains educated and
trained man to do This was the work OF colleges the
small college, with professor each of Latin Greek
mathematics, ogic aud mctahys!c English language
and literature natural philosophy astronomy and one
0! the natural sciences; whose CLASSES shall never
exceed twenty FIVE; whose apparatus Shall be sufficient
to Illustrate tho textbook; win no tutors; with lo
work turned off into the hands OF inexperienced men
Could not the slal college thus furnished do success
luly and thoroughly the work of
ing, cducdilnS ana aducEg tAe powers, capacities and
a'tn' iaouiIcS or the mature minds Of tdsi C"ud
not tAc small college DO tuS WGl. ana s
thOl ouSy as the larger cOege with divided c .Cs
ana system Of tutorsf then slowed that TIE ips,i
TAU ms OF learning in France ana Germany whose
curriculum core ponds with that Cf colleges tho
proportion was greater than tho number colleges in
IDS country ~ compared with the population. In
France there was Of what light be called colleges one TO
every 10000 OF reputation III Gcrlnauy ore to every
10000 and N the United States every 40 uco
the supervisors Of The Regents, which ourht tn
be Benefit the small colleges as il tendon
TO keep them up 20 work, which the standard
OF tie COLLEGIATE education, and ought To srorrisc
the same bcueucin Influence that the I-niS rrsltv
Cambridge. our StU"cuts ought to bc made to Il pa ti
tax rCut alton Their i.i 'a GcVcoI,e and their
but only on tie ability ul the institution to b.in into
conscious opera on all the capacities facilities I'll
the human mind.
4 paper was discussed Nv the Rev Dr. Upsoo tbo
Rev c. W. Baidecr OF syracuse, ana By Professor Co.
Principal F. D. Palmer frcrr the committee TO consider
q change the time az aeetiDg of the enti1G and
a 80 the representation reported by resolution fol
esolrea That the Board Of Regents he requested 70
cAhnse e time Of meeting urut the Wednesday
Ing aitcl the second Thursday January OF each
tha' without desiring to change the constitution " the
tl""c Recommend ihti inHttuohS cutiled TO
ntaiOo m the convention have the
% sending DELEGATES to It's meetings. Tabled
Professor 81 williams read Il paper Palpon toll
OK as Bearing on tlo Theory OF ErolutiOus."
Other papers were read rs follows:
On College Discipline" b} Brother Anthony. Manhat-
TAN COLLEGE, 0nt Professor Frink, Hamilton College on
" lnstruc Oh IN Philosophy MOrdern Agnosticsm Con-
sideTed il Reference Ia its Phosol Basis" by Pro