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11 revisions | MaryV at May 10, 2025 05:06 PM 3the best. The University itself, has steadily advanced under
the generous impulse which began with it, and may now chal-
lenge a comparison with the best Institutions of America, not
to say of Europe also.
Nor are the advantages confined by the University solely intellect-
tual. It has achieved and is achieving Moral triumphs of a
character to make the heart of the Christian Patriot glow with
exultant thankfulness, whilst he anticipates for the rising youth
of the State, and of the South, a place of education where to the high-
est attainments in knowledge, are added the profoundest apprecia-
tion, and the habitual practice of truth, uprightness, and every
manly virtue.
1860-61 more than one third of the students, (upwards
of 60 in number), were professors of religion, of whom almost all
were zealously pious, and such was the good order, and so prevail-
ing the purity of those ten amongst the young men, that it may
[?] be said that a youth not already tainted with vice, would
have been not less safe in their midst, than in his father's house.
Falsehood especially, and want of [frailness?] towards the authori-
ties, had for many years been incited with such severity of repro-
bation by the students themselves as to have been well-nigh banish-
ed rom their midst. In short all the robust and manly [virtues?] flour-
ished vigorously under the benign & vigilant guardianship of
the public sentiment of the noble youths here assembled, and are
flourishing still. The moral and religious, as well as the intellect-
tual traditions of the Institution, were kept alive during the war,
by the handful of [halt?] & maimed young soldiers who resorted
thither, and now the industry, zeal, and propriety of conduct
which have marked the students of the present session, al-
most exceed belief, as it is believed to exceed all parallel. One
of their number, mingling largely with his fellows, lately remark-
ed that since the beginning of the session, he did not remember
to have seen an art, or scare to have heard a sound, to "Hear the
grace and blush of modesty."
the best. The University itself, has steadily advanced under Nor are the advantages confined by the University solely intellect- 1860-61 more than one third of the students, (upwards 3the best. The University itself, has steadily advanced under
the generous impulse which began with it, and may now chal-
lenge a comparison with the best Institutions of America, not
to say of Europe also.
Nor are the advantages confined by the University solely intellect-
tual. It has achieved and is achieving Moral triumphs of a
character to make the heart of the Christian Patriot glow with
exultant thankfulness, whilst he anticipates for the rising youth
of the State, and of the South, a place of education where to the high-
est attainments in knowledge, are added the profoundest apprecia-
tion, and the habitual practice of truth, uprightness, and every
manly virtue.
1860-61 more than one third of the students, (upwards
of 60 in number), were [professins?] of religion, of when almost all
were zealously pious, and such was the good order, and so prevail-
ing the purity of those ten amongst the young men, that it may
[?] be said that a youth not already tainted with vice, would
have been not less safe in their midst, than in his father's house.
Falsehood especially, and want of [frailness?] towards the authori-
ties, had for many years been incited with such severity of repro-
bation by the students themselves as to have been well-nigh banish-
ed rom their midst. In short all the robust and manly [?] flour-
ished vigorously under the benign & vigilant guardianship of
the public sentiment of the noble youths here assembled, and are
flourishing still. The moral and religious, as well as the intellect-
tual traditions of the Institution, were kept alive during the war,
by the handful of [halt?] & maimed young soldiers who resorted
thither, and now the industry, zeal, and propriety of conduct
which have marked the students of the present session, al-
most exceed belief, as it is believed to exceed all parallel. One
of their number, mingling largely with his fellows, lately remark-
ed that since the beginning of the session, he did not remember
to have seen an art, or scare to have heard a sound, to "Hear the
grace and blush of modesty."
the best. The University itself, has steadily advanced under Nor are the advantages confined by the University solely intellect- 1860-61 more than one third of the students, (upwards |
