309 sistant Professors-younger, or less accomplished teachers, employed in subdepartments, or to aid in departments in which the work cannot be fully done by one man. 3d. Lecturers, or non-resident Professors-men eminent in some speciality of art or science, who may be employed to visit the University at specified seasons, and give courses of lectures. 4th. Tutors, or young men employed temporarily to give instruction in the more elementary studies. The committee indicate the following as among the more important departments or chairs of instruction: 1. The Professorship of Practical and Theoretical Agriculture. 2. of Horticulture. In addition to these, the committee suggest the following Lectureships: 1. The Lectureship of Veterinary Science. 2. of Commercial Science. The Military Department will be made an important and efficient part of the University, and the plan reported by Major J. H. Whittlesey of the United States Army, for providing a system of National military education, will be acsepted, when offered, in all its details. Drill exercises will be introduced from the outset, and a uniform of Cadet gray will be worn by all the students after the opening of the next autumn term. THE LABOR SYSTEM. All students, unless excused on account of sickness or physical inability, will be required to join in the work of the farm, and the garden, of fruit growing and animal husbandry, for from two to three hours per day, for which compensation will be made. BOARD, TUITION, ETC. Students can obtain rooms in the order of application, in the University buildings, at $4 per term, or in private families. Meals are furnished at cost. Each student pays a matriculation fee of $10, and, if from Illinois, $5 per term; if from out of the State, $20 a year. The formal opening will be on the 11th of March, 1868. THE STATE AND EDUCATION. THE RIGHT AND DUTY OF THE STATE TO ESTABLISH, AID, AND SUPERVISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. American Authorities-Penn, Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Rush, Jay, De Witt Clinton, Kent, J. Q. Adams, Everett, Cushing, Bushnell, Mann,... 321 THE STATE AND EDUCATION, Second Article,.. 313 THE AMERICAN DOCTRINE OF TAXATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS,.. 323 324 English Authorities-Macaulay, Carlyle, Brougham, Smith, Mill,.. French Authorities-Montesquieu, Guizot,.... PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN THE CANTON OF ZURICH,.. Territory, Population, Government,... School Organization, Compulsory Attendance,.. 1. Primary Schools,.. Elementary, Real Schools, Repetition Schools,.. Seminary for Teachers of Primary Schools, 331 336 337 337 339 341 343 345 ... 346 I. THE STATE AND EDUCATION. AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW JERSEY IN 1838.* FELLOW CITIZENS:-We were appointed by the Convention of your own delegates to address you on the subject of Common Schools. We approach you with solicitude, as deeply sensible of the great importance of the interest intrusted to us; yet, as freemen speaking to freemen, with prevailing confidence. The points which we propose for your attention, and, if we might, would press into every heart, are few, simple and practical; the necessary consequences, it seems to us, from principles which all admit. We say that knowledge is the universal right of man: and we need bring no clearer demonstration than that intellectual nature, capable of it, thirsting for it, expanding and aspiring with it, which is God's own argument in every living soul. We say that the assertion for himself of this inherent right, to the full measure of his abilities and opportunities, is the universal duty of man: and that whoever fails of it, thwarts the design of his Creator; and, in proportion as he neglects the gift of God, dwarfs and enslaves and brutifies the high capacity for truth and liberty which he inherits. And all experience, and every page of history confirm the assertion, in the close kindred, which has everywhere been proved, of ignorance and vice with wretchedness and slavery. And we say farther, that the security of this inherent right to every individual, and its extension, in the fullest measure, to the greatest number, is the universal interest of man; so that they who deny or abridge it to their fellows, or who encourage, or, from want of proper influence, permit them to neglect it, are undermining the foundations of government, weakening the hold of society, and preparing the way for that unsettling and dissolving of all human institutions, which must result in anarchy and ruin, and in which they who have the greatest stake must be the greatest sufferers. A lesson, clearly taught by • The Convention assembled in Trenton on the 27th and 28th of January, 1838, Chief Jus tice Hornblower presiding. The address was prepared by the Rt. Rev. George W. Doane, in behalf of a Committee consisting of Bishop Doane, Chairman, L. Q. C. Elmer, M. J Rhees, T. Frelinghuysen, J. S. Green, D. B. Ryall, A. B. Dod, A. Atwood, and S. R Gummere. |