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{U of South
VAULT/Early Papers Box
Folder: "1860: Subscriptions & Gifts
Church Support}

UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
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The Commissioners for raising the Endowment of the Uni-
versity of the South, beg leave to call your attention to the fol-
lowing Communication, which is authentic, and which indi-
cates the progress and present condition of the movement.

From the New Orleans Picayune, of December 20th, 1859.

SAVANNAH, GA., DEC. 1, 1859.

MESSRS. EDITORS :--Your readers will be pleased to hear, in these times especially, something
of the progress of the University of the South.

They may remember that at the meeting held in August last, the Committee to whom
had been entrusted the duty of preparing a Constitution and statutes prescribing the plan of
organization, and system and range of instruction, reported, and asked leave to sit again.

In their Report, they stated, that they had been collecting materials for the performance of
their work, but were not yet in possession of all they deemed necessary. They had access
to a large number of European publications, in the public and private libraries of the Country;
and through a correspondence which they had opined with the Government at Washington, they
had obtained the latest expositions of the plans and working details of the principal Universities,
Colleges and other institutions of learning of France and the German States, and were now
collecting those of Great Britain and our own country. They desired also to have the advan-
tage of a personal examination of the leading Colleges, Universities and Schools of the
United States. All of which they hoped to accomplish in time for a meeting they proposed
to hold in this city in the end of November.

The request of the Committee was granted by the Board, and all they desired they have
been enabled to effect to the extent of their wishes.

Through the American Ambassador in England, and other agencies, they have obtained a
large amount of the most valuable publications, embracing the "Reports of Her Majesty's
Commissioners, appointed to inquire into the state, discipline, studies and revenues of the Uni-
versities and Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge;" the "Report of the Comissioners," of the
same Government "appointed to consider the best mode of reorganizing the system for training
officers for the Scientific corps;" the Reports on, and Calendars of, "Queen's University,
Ireland;" "King's College, London;" "The London University;" together with reports on
a number of Schools of Law, Medicine, Theology, Agricultural Colleges, Schools of Applied
Science, of Art, &c.

As many principles embraced in the programmes of these various institutions in Great
Britain and on the Continent of Europe have been introduced to a greater or less extent into
the Universities, Colleges and other Schools of our own country, it was desirable to make
personal observation of their working on American soil. Members of the committee have
been occupied, therefore, in visiting and examining all the principal educational establishments
of the United States---those of the Carolinas, the University of Virginia, Harvard, &c.---and
in communication; by letter or otherwise, with such minds as might aid them in the
solution of the problem assigned them. While their task was one of great labor and
responsibility, it was lessened by the large amount of material at their command. An amount,
indeed, comprising the results of the experience of mankind in the higher walks of human
learning.

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{U of South
VAULT/Early Papers Box
Folder: "1860: Subscriptions & Gifts
Church Support}

UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
------------------------------------------

The Commissioners for raising the Endowment of the Uni-
versity of the South, beg leave to call your attention to the fol-
lowing Communication, which is authentic, and which indi-
cates the progress and present condition of the movement.

From the New Orleans Picayune, of December 20th, 1859.

SAVANNAH, GA., DEC. 1, 1859.

MESSRS. EDITORS :--Your readers will be pleased to hear, in these times especially, something
of the progress of the University of the South.

They may remember that at the meeting held in August last, the Committee to whom
had been entrusted the duty of preparing a Constitution and statutes prescribing the plan of
organization, and system and range of instruction, reported, and asked leave to sit again.

In their Report, they stated, that they had been collecting materials for the performance of
their work, but were not yet in possession of all they deemed necessary. They had access
to a large number of European publications, in the public and private libraries of the Country;
and through a correspondence which they had opined with the Government at Washington, they
had obtained the latest expositions of the plans and working details of the principal Universities,
Colleges and other institutions of learning of France and the German States, and were now
collecting those of Great Britain and our own country. They desired also to have the advan-
tage of a personal examination of the leading Colleges, Universities and Schools of the
United States. All of which they hoped to accomplish in time for a meeting they proposed
to hold in this city in the end of November.

The request of the Committee was granted by the Board, and all they desired they have
been enabled to effect to the extent of their wishes.

Through the American Ambassador in England, and other agencies, they have obtained a
large amount of the most valuable publications, embracing the "Reports of Her Majesty's
Commissioners, appointed to inquire into the state, discipline, studies and revenues of the Uni-
versities and Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge;" the "Report of the Comissioners," of the
same Government "appointed to consider the best mode of reorganizing the system for training
officers for the Scientific corps;" the Reports on, and Calendars of, "Queen's University,
Ireland;" "King's College, London;" "The London University;" together with reports on
a number of Schools of Law, Medicine, Theology, Agricultural Colleges, Schools of Applied
Science, of Art, &c.