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Their work was not so much one of invention as of selection, elimination and arrangement.
Being indisposed to embark on the sea of untried experiment, they have deemed it wiser to
accept the conclusions of the past and to confine themselves mainly to digesting such of these
as were entitled to the greatest consideration, and to working them up into a system applicable
to our peculiar social and political condition. With this work, the committee now in session,
have been occupied for some days past. It is understood that they have agreed upon the princi-
ples which shall constitute the basis of their plan, and have made such progress in the details
as to enable them to determine the character of its organization. It will follow closely no one
system, but will be eclectic. It will embrace features from the English, the German and the
French; such as have stood the test of experience, and combine harmoniously. When
embodied, they will, it is believed, present to the country all that the most earnest and san-
guine friends of the enterprise could desire. We may thus have at our own doors a Univer-
sity in the largest sense, combining all the best provisions and appointments offered by the
leading institutions of the most cultivated States of Europe.
The report of this Committee is to be presented for the consideration of the Board of Trus-
tees at a meeting to be held in New Orleans, on the second Wednesday in February next.---
In the mean season, the large domain of the corporation, which is to be the future seat of
its operations, is being laid out, with a special reference to the objects for which it has been
secured. Not only for the reception and appropriate disposition of the University buildings,
which may from time to time be erected, but also for the accommodation of that large num-
ber of Southern families already designing to make it the place of their future residence, the
seat of social refinement as well as of letters and science.
Arrangements are also in progress for laying the corner stone of the centre building, some-
time during the ensuing Summer. The vigor with which the whole work will be pressed
forward to completion must depend on the promptitude with which our countrymen shall re-
spond to the application of the Commissioners appointed to raise the endowment.
These gentlemen, who are members of the Committee on the Consitution, will shortly
resume their task. And it is confidently believed that the enlightened and patriotic zeal and
liberality with which this part of the great work has been so successfully inaugurated, in the
gift of the large amount already received, (now near$500,000) is but an earnest of what the
men of the South are prepared to do to carry it forward to a glorious consummation.
X.
MONTGOMERY, JANUARY 17, 1860.
| 2{U of South
VAULT/Early Papers Bo
Folder: "1860: Supscrip
&
Gifts
Curch Suppor}
Their work was not so much one of invention as of selection, elimination and arrangement.
Being indisposed to embark on the sea of untried experiment, they have deemed it wiser to
accept the conclusions of the past and to confine themselves mainly to digesting such of these
as were entitled to the greatest consideration, and to working them up into a system applicable
to our peculiar social and political condition. With this work, the committee now in session,
have been occupied for some days past. It is understood that they have agreed upon the princi-
ples which shall constitute the basis of their plan, and have made such progress in the details
as to enable them to determine the character of its organization. It will follow closely no one
system, but will be eclectic. It will embrace features from the English, the German and the
French; such as have stood the test of experience, and combine harmoniously. When
embodied, they will, it is believed, present to the country all that the most earnest and san-
guine friends of the enterprise could desire. We may thus have at our own doors a Univer-
sity in the largest sense, combining all the best provisions and appointments offered by the
leading institutions of the most cultivated States of Europe.
The report of this Committee is to be presented for the consideration of the Board of Trus-
tees at a meeting to be held in New Orleans, on the second Wednesday in February next.---
In the mean season, the large domain of the corporation, which is to be the future seat of
its operations, is being laid out, with a special reference to the objects for which it has been
secured. Not only for the reception and appropriate disposition of the University buildings,
which may from time to time be erected, but also for the accommodation of that large num-
ber of Southern families already designing to make it the place of their future residence, the
seat of social refinement as well as of letters and science. |
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