The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-19
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conviction of its merits and an increasing
interest in its successful progress. For Mis-
sissippi the University is an old institution.
Its alumni are conspicuous in the learned
professions, and in high official stations. 1t
was chartered in 1874. The site was chosen
on account of the absence of all local causes
of disease. 1t is in latitude 34I north, and
Ia longitude 121 west from Washington /;
and placed amongst the hills of central
North Mississippi, in the elevated ridge
country which divides the waters which
flow southwest into the Mississippi, from
those which flow southeast towards
Alabama. The natural drainage is per-
! feet Mountain and valley we have
not, bat surrounding the University
are hill and dale There are no swamps.
It is the region of the springs which form
our creeks and rivers. No healthier place
is to be found in the United States. ''Thers
has been but one case of serious sickness
amongst US during the year, said the Chan
cellor in his annual report to the trustees.
The important advantage of healthy situa-
ton, is assisted by rigid sanitary precau-
tions in and about the University.
The grounds are beautiful Grand old
native oaks shade the freshest and greenest
sward. l don't think lever enjoyed more
/ pleasing prospect than that offered by the
well kept grounds, and the neighboring
hills covered with forest trees, through
which you get glimpses, here and there of
mansions and cottages. In our fiat country
| further south, We have forests more majes-
| tic, but there our one line of vision is
bounded by wall of trees. The country
around the University is broken into hills
of varying form and height, and forest and
field are seen in every point of view. The
ivy finds home there, and is rampant and
luxuriant notwithstanding the old couplet
The oak, the ash and the bonnie ivy tree,
Flourish best at home, in the north countrie
| observed tall brick house with wall
and parapet completely enyeloped by that
rare old plant" Hawthorne, in his En-
glish Notes. asks: "Why have we not the
ivy in America" 1t is getting to be obtru-
sively familiar at the University. The sur
rounding country is amazingly fruitful
peaches, pears, apples and grapes flourish.
1t is good grain country. Lafayette county
is one of the centers of the revived stock
breeding enterprise, A gentleman we'll
qualified to give an opinion on such matters,
remarked to me: ''There is no better grass
country than this" Abundance reigns
there to increase the comforts and to reduce
the cost of living.
The expense of living at the University
is paid by the students. Education there
is free. There are ten professorships, in
eluding the professorship of law, an instruc-
tor in modern languages, and preparatory
high school, with its principal and two as
sistants. The work of instruction is COM
prehensive and well divided
The methodsof teaching are substantially
the same everywhere in the United States.
What the teacher must do, and what must
be done by the student, is asjudiciously APP
portioned in our University as it is else
where.
The government of the University is
lodged in Board of Trustees, fifteen in
number, who are apo inted by the Govern
er, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate. Five of the trustees are re-
quired to be alumni of the University, and
at the head of these stands Judge Chalmers
of the Supreme Court. The Governor of
the State is &c oficio the presiding officer of
the Board. 1t is a legislative body, with
power to enact all laws for the government
of the University, not inconsistent with the
constitution and laws of the State. The
Trustees elect the professors and all the
officers of the institution, and fix their sala-
ries. They have charge of the finances
regulate the expenditures, and make appro-
priations to meet them. The faculty adj |
ministers the laws. Annual reports are
made by this body through the Chancellor, |
to the trustees. The Chancellor's report |
gives history of the transactions of the |
year, and makes suggestions and recon-
mendations. The Board divides itself into |
committees, to whom are confded the sew
eral matters of the Chancellor's report. A |
better system Of government could not be
devised.
The moral discipline of the University is |
about as coed as it is possible to make it. |
There is complaint now and then of too
much rigor, but this charge against South |
ern educational institution implies virtue. |
No new discoveries have been made in the |
science of governing boys Their fun, and |
fun is a necessary pabulum, consists in |
"pIaying the mischief" The invention oil
fun without mischief for the use of college |
boys, which shall satisfy them, is something
we must wait for.
The design was, in founding the Univer-
sity, to establish and maintain an educa-
tional institution of the highest rank, and |
the design has been fully accomplished. |
The institution is there complete in all its |
appointment under wisely framed govern
ment and numerous and learned faculty.
It's advantages are offered to the youth of
the country free of charge 1t is an acquisi-
ton of inestimable value to the people of
the State.
The session of the Board of Trustees for
the year was signalized by an enactment
admitting females to the rights and privi-
leges of students of the University. The
duty of zociety-of government to provide
for the higher education of women, that is
to say collegiate education of the same
grade which is supplied to males, is con-
eCoOu' AhO HdI has gone lOEbn. ne mat
ter has ceased to stand on debatable
ground. The question which divides {
public opinion, and which continues '
to be agitated, is, whether in provid- {
ing this education, we should also pro-
vide for separation of the sexes by estab- q
fishing female colleges. On the score ofpub- g
lie economy the establishment of separate '
colleges ought to be avoided, unless, co-edu- {
cation, that is the education of the sexes |
together, will be attended with evils which 6
considerations of expense. Actu- j
81 experiment in the United States and
elsewhere, has demonstrated, that the evils G
apprehended are purely imaginary. A
majority of the colleges of the United '
States admit both sexes on an equal footing, C
and no harm has come of it. l have con- '
versed with ladies educated on the co-eduea-
ton plans, and they informed me that the
feature. of the association of the
sexes in college is an intense rivalry between q
hem for college honors. The girls and 9
young women are combating the charge of t
Intellectual inferiority. Ambition in men C
s languid compared to that which sHays t
women. In them we have seen it displayed v
N the trivial matters of dress, equipage, a