New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-10
NR CTRTIs'S GRAFTON.


MR.. CURTlS'S GRAFTON.
Tho great Puritan poet addressing the great Furl-
IAN General naturally recalled his famous fields OF pa'-
te hut contemplating other and different services 10
Tie state he exclaimed
"vlue Darwent streams with blood Of Scots imbru d.
And Dunbar field resound thy praises loud .iu.
And Worcester laureate wreath YET much REMAINS
r. conouer still Peace hath her victories
No less than those oil ar
Is NOT the drum beat nor the buGle-call the proud
clash of military and the thunder Of artillery
which now for nine years have hidden ms to the cen
tennial COMMUNICATIONS Of battles that summon uS
,odav Famous in war. the stately river upon whose
hanks VIC stand is not less renowned for It's victories OF
poaco In the long contest Of armed Europe dnr1nS
h ,bteonth century for the control of the Western
c,utipept A. IN the military strategy of the American
Revolution. the Hudson ldNel was SUI 'he P''-i
Tpon the Hudson the great contest cuimlh",Su an"
turned toward triumph pom 'ho huI u.s.. Ill maj,
us,te eueavur to seize By trcscherv what coulu ''
T. gained oy honorable force va l on'S . E,I a.
Hudsou the patriot army Was dl-bauded. ano H"h ',
mouth the defeated British army salled away ''SS
anon the bank. of the Hueon, also New ORR one oil
the united colonies constituted herself an Independents
So, anon be Hudson she rat fed the Constitution
of the United states, and upon the hudson W 1.'l- WI
wac inaugurated and the National toFerhmeh' : "a.
Upon the Hudson Robert Fulton, Win Happy u'llN-,
freed tho commerce of the world from dependence upon
The tickle wind. and Dewitt Clinton drew Co u- p'~ou
the harvosts Of the Western prarlcs and mado u thg
highway of commercial empire as nature 9"1 maui "
Tho path of military power crowned ana WIf"'"' "a
with the association OF great ana hencurcnt events, '"V
rejoicing river which lie drcoNtier h"prd Mi~hl 1'
..rtcr massage o. the spl od and golden last How
through region alrcr than tabled iath't ieeAih- :
with busy people humning Win '"Il'"a ii"u'lI as
spacious valley the home of greater happiness mt"h
pcuce aud prosperity than the valley OF any othri rN@
In the world Ii Ia 10 the shore of this historic stream
stl murmuring with the music oil me eentenilu o''
mcmoratiOu of victories Of the war thtl We come !"
celebrate the centenary Of an event not less -AluS'n
the first great victory Of the peace iA1i I9o" "a,
war, the organization Of the system oil education Ii
New-l Orh-
TIE NEw-ENGLAND COLLEGES.
The American colonial colleges we're generally
founded by graduates Of English Cambridge ana '1-
ford and chiefly by Cambridge men. The larger par'
Of the teachers of the same nyerslea ana ne
r t sind , and The general i-cipue were tAe same
A. mi the colleges Of the mother institutions ne cheI
difference of method Law Ia the couIeIlhg OF u'E ee''
which az oxford and aMbudge was thc especial l4Ae
ton Of The university ana not Oh me cD--ege b 49,
the colonial period there were at coAeSrs Va Wv co-
~. Harvard founded III 636, beng the oldest ana
Rg.er- I'D l17l. 40 tine very beginning 'I the he'ol'-
ton. tue Youngest. But most oil them we're poor au-
rifv W William and Mary. the second 10 tAe LIST, ana
5f. uoruer of the oldest o1 college creek letter So
ci.c. -hr Phi Bers Kappa. had authority Co grant
d.rr.as and IN 1880 II little better tlt4 h"Aid
IN school one of liz own fellows descilued ~ a. p
Caue.. without chapel. without ~ch"ldINI| Az"
without 4 stat q. library without books, e'I1tn
without led salary and burgess Wi'uo'' ei' r.
Tb- voln. Virginia planter owed little 70 ,Ac Isiua
cur-e He wac taught hy the domestic chaplain oi u
better education was sought he was sent To me no.
,-r .. Ilrrr- lr to England IL 10 Nev-l-uc and.
usrra'v thar the most efficient colleges we're found
fr thew all -rang the same de"ojed and ~ rdl
.ririt tbst had established Harr ard Tie legend Of
Dartmouth the eighth college founded ID the country
W.T. -vox CLAIMANTS ia descrt'. And upon iAe soil
taiv shores OF the upper Connecticut III .o5 where
SUI the wildcat cried I'm the tnIcket, aid tie wolf
lowered about lac farm aId tie rgoIs % tAe cu''t
Gad Che exposure ~ me FRONTIER We're ".t' I'' tI' 4
college QeN Utrd % the higher education might Nc c
Itself voice CRYING IN the wilderness Bur tie char
scter that Needed the voice tle impulse which founded
md sustained the college the feeling which years
lr. he NH of D..
the purpose Co send his SOIL tther, ana when u"-i
i1ed H. the breast the desire 60 gothis loyalty
{ know edge source If power. an- 10 -Aiel ectl
training a. the means OF IT, 'AocuF eA.'sy Is On. '
lie proudest instincts Of human nature and one OF The
vital sources % American greatness
Into this realm ot the higher education New ork,
trading colony with lu.~tou of various na;ioua
tic~ was slow 90 enter and r was not until one hun
dred and twenty after he settlement that cot
Lee was founded The chief citizens of the colony
were merchants. snd their sons passed from The gram
mar school 90 the counting house and ~ ne W. Id
tia Islands. The 1rst historian If New ork, l--af
Justice SHith SAYS That i9E many yeas Ie and 'l'
deputy udzes the ONLY college graduates. cAcep
tn clergy Of the English Church. AID I'D lao, the
year which "a law passed authorizing lottery q
provide 10 found college. ne kue" Out thittti
graduate. IN the province, and a.. % them Il-- men
Tho historian dIaws sor.oVfA picture w tAo .aa
d.uOu u education He praises warmly he charms OF
L. lovely country women, but he admits thai there
nothing that they generally neglect ~ lea14hS ia
the schools are of the 0wes order tie suctors want
mg instruction; the common speech exit Le4t cor
ruptcd aud bad tsste every where evident ia al pGoA
and puySte proceedings
There was naturally a feeling Of shame in The prov
hce that the English unIvor,te- AID The colleges Of
New England should educate the Young New-l or6cr
AID. although with evident Doubt and difficulty. a
length IN l1S1. tRe money raised and after aom
vigorous discussion and opposition lest the insr
tuon should fall under seetarian control. the cole 2
va, chartered Kings college IN l1o4 II was
memorable epoch In history In June ~ mat yea
tie Albany Congress assembled 10 which Ut. Fralh
In proposed his Of colonial nnion and ID me sam
year the French built Fort Du9uesne upon tie pIesen
sit OF PittsbuTg in Pennsylvania The next year o
two. while the college president was teaching IL
dozen pupils we're the wears Of the French expulsion
from Nova Scotia, Of aslln gtons march 70 Fort IN
gursne and II Brsdd0cEs defeat OF the vain az ~
OF Sir William johnson upon Grown Point, and o. N
opening contest for the American continent between
france ana III, gland which Vac % end upon th'
Heights of Abraham. Frederick the Great was con
querlng II Germany Robert Give Wa suDdmng an
stripping India and William Pitt. Prime Ministe
England, held the mighty thuAderbolts Of Britain
has hand, aud every day broke with the fash ana tn
thunder OF British victory.
KINGS COLLEGE AND ITS SERVICES.
This wac the moment when Kings College opened 10
modest doors IN the lt;le town Of ten thousand IN
habitants the mouth Of the Hudson and is curll
u contrast its beginning and development with IN
University Of Gottingen ia Germany which the s&m
King George the seoond-from whom the New oIl
college takes IT. naIne-Lad founded tweufv wears los
fore IL smaller town IN another part VI lis dOmuions
Toward the eDl Of the century, GottIugeq was III
most brilliant university Europe for The emineuc. u
is teachers and the variety and value of it, lecture.
IL less THAI a hundred years from it, foundation
counted three thousand students. eighty nine pro
fessors. and among them Of the most fanou
scholars N the world a library Of three huudre,
thousand volumes and five Thousand manuscripts an,
thousand inhabitants The American college when
had completed its first century, IN town which ha