DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. Dartmouth College. to avail themselves of its privileges. When his purpose became generally known, very liberal proposals were made by several of the then col onies to induce him to locate it within their limits. That of Governor Wentworth, however, appeared to combine most of the advantages which he sought, and accordingly its present site was selected in the province of New Hampshire. To gether with about twenty students he set off for Hanover, then an entire wilderness. For the Its history is singular and curious. It owes its purpose of enabling him to receive donations, as existence to the philanthropic exertions of the well as of rendering it more permanent and more Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D. D. of Lebanon in extensively useful, he solicited, and through the Connecticut, for the improvement and education influence of the governor, obtained a charter for of the Indians. This gentleman, observing the the establishment of a college with all the usual distrust and dislike with which the English were privileges and immunities-thus presenting the received among them, formed the design of es- singularly curious and anomalous spectacle, of tablishing a seminary for the preparation of teach- an incorporated literary institution, in the midst ers from among the natives themselves, who of the forest, remote from civilized society, where might, therefore, return to them qualified for all instruction was to be given in the polished com the duties of instructing, while they would be free positions of the Greek and Roman languages, in from the difficulties which their prejudices and log huts, and amid the lairs of wild beasts-and enmities threw in the way of the English mission- affording a striking though an extremely interest His representations were favorably re- ing contrast between the condition of its earlier ceived by the community, and his efforts assisted students, and that of those who resort to that by donations from many individuals who regard-pleasant village and throng its spacious and con ed with pity the unhappy condition of the unfor- venient Halls at the present day. Perhaps, in tunate aboriginals. The school was first open- deed, no institution now combines more conve ed in Lebanon, and from the name of the most niences for the student and means of acquiring liberal of its patrons, called Moor's school. After an education, with fewer of the causes which dis an experiment of some years, however, during which that part of the country had become thickly settled, its founder took the resolution of changing its location for one nearer the frontiers, avhere its immediate object might be more successfully prosecuted, and the natives more easily induced THIS institution is located about a half of a mile from the Connecticut river in Hanover, Grafton county, New Hampshire. Its immediate site is the easterly side of a large and beautiful plain, around which stands the village-elevated, and commanding an extensive and agreeable prospect of the highly picturesque scenery of the adjacent country. ary. commode and interrupt its pursuit. The seclu sion and retirement of its situation, its remoteness from large cities and towns, and consequent freedom from many of the temptations to the neglect of study, and the allurements to dissipa tion and vice, render it one of the safest and most advantageous-while the salubrity and Leggee, Earl of Dartmouth, from whom the beauty of its location, -olim sylvestribus horrida dumis embryo institution derived its name. Instruction was given for many years in the buildings which were erected by the first president and his students. In 1786, nearly twenty years after the the variety of the surrounding scenery render it incorporation of the college, Dartmouth Hall was one of the most agreeable residences for the erected, a large and convenient edifice in which, young in New England. As its establishment besides rooms for students, are a beautiful chapel, and its object were entirely novel, it attracted the Libraries, Lecture rooms, &c. In 1829--30 much of the attention of the community, and re- by the liberality of its friends, two new buildings ceived many donations from philanthropic indi- were erected solely for the use of the studentsviduals both in this country and in England, the the whole presenting a pleasing and elegant apmost liberal of whom was the Right Hon. William pearance. the state; Materia Medica and Obstetrics, by Dr. C. B. Coventry, of Utica; and Anatomy and Surgery, by Dr. J. Webster, of New York, the favourite pupil and the successor of the late distinguished Dr. God man. The classical department has at its head the Rev. Benjamin Hale, D. D., President; and in Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, Horace Webster, A. M.; Chymistry, E. Cuthbert, M. D.; Civil Engineering and Statisticks, Gen. J. G. Swift; Latin and Greek Languages and Literature, D. Prentice, A. M.; History, Belles Lettres, and Modern Languages, Theodore Irving, Esq. THE above cut represents the Medical Institution of Geneva College; an institution which promises ere long to be one of the most important of which the state of New York can boast. It is beautifully situated on the banks of the Seneca Lake, and we believe there are few villages in the world which can compare with it, in the picturesque beauty of its surrounding scenery, as well as in the associations which it brings to mind of an interesting race of inhabitants who have disappeared entirely before the march of civilization. The location for a medical college, is admirably adapted to the wants of the We are happy to announce that in all its departgreat west; and the moral and highly intellectual ments, Geneva College is in a highly flattering concharacter of the inhabitants of Geneva, render it pe-dition, and that by the continued increase in the numculiarly fitted for elevating the standard of medical education in the western portion of the United States. The respective chairs are all well filled-that of Chymistry, by the venerable and talented Dr. Edward Cutbush; of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, by Thomas Spencer; who is considered by far the strongest man in that particular branch in ber of its pupils, New York will have reason to be proud of its usefulness, and our western youth to con gratulate themselves on the advantages thus offered to them for the acquisition of learning at so pure a fountain. 46 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. THIS building is pleasantly situated in the village of Worcester, Massachusetts. The central part was erected in 1819 and '20, and dedicated on the twenty-fourth of August of the latter year. The wings were added in 1831. The whole building is of brick, and is the liberal donation of the late ISAIAH THOMAS, LL. D. to the society. The society was organized in 1812, and held its first meeting at the Exchange Coffee-House, in Boston, November the nineteenth, of that year. Its officers are annually elected on the twentythird of October, that being the day on which Columbus discovered America. The first anniversary meeting of the society was held at Boston, October twenty-third, 1813, when an address was delivered in King's Chapel by the Rev. William Jenks, D. D. There are now two meetings of the society in each year; the first on the twenty-third of October, and the second on the last Wednesday of May. The objects of the institution are the collection and preservation of American antiquities. It was the intention of its founder and munificent patron, Mr. Thomas, that its library should embrace as perfect a collection of American literature as possible. No institution had proposed the accomplishment of a similar object, and the general preference given in our libraries to European over American books, had prevented in a great measure the collection of them, only to a very limited extent. It seemed very desirable that a remedy for an evil of this description should be provided. So little care had been taken for the preservation of the productions of our early American authors, that mary of them were found with extreme difficulty, while others were irrecoverably lost. By the establishment of an institution of this character, a convenient recepta. cle would be provided for the early as well as modern literature of the country, and when its objects should be generally known, individuals possessing books, pamphlets, maps, or manuscripts, might have a convenient place to deposite them, where they might be useful to the public. Interesting materials of the history of the country are profusely scattered in every town, which have never yet found a place in any of our public libraries. It is among the principal ob jects of this institution to collect and preserve these, as well as all the productions of American authors. Beside providing the society with a spacious building for the accommodation of its library and cabinet, Mr. Thomas also gave it between four and five thousand volumes of books, among which are many valuable works illustrating the history of the country, as well as many rare and interest ing specimens of early printing. He also provi ded the society with a fund for the permanent support of a librarian, and otherwise richly en dowed the institution with the means of making annual purchases of books and for meeting indental expenses. Visiters can have easy access to the library of the society, and it is always open to such as have occasion to use the books. As it is not local in its objects, but general or national, and from the means it possesses of making itself useful to the public, it must, eventually, rank among the largest as well as the most interesting public li braries of the country. AMHERST COLLEGE. Amherst College, Massachusetts. ble and enduring nature. It assembles together numbers of young persons of both sexes, from the capitals and towns along the seacoasts and remote quarters of the country; children, who and whose parents, guardians and friends, would nev er, perhaps, under other circumstances, visit the THE town of Amherst, in the county of Hampshire, and state of Massachusetts, lies eighty-five miles west from the city of Boston, and about eight miles northeast from Northampton, which is the capital of the county. Amherst contains spot. Here these pupils can receive instruction several thousand inhabitants, and is constantly increasing in business, wealth and population. Here are an academy and a seminary called "Mount Pleasant Institution." There are nine or ten instructers attached to the latter establishment, which has much celebrity throughout the state. Institutions, conducted upon so liberal a scale and with so much ability as this is understood to be, justly deserve to be known, and to receive attention and patronage from the community. We wish there were others like it in the various secions of the commonwealth. In fact, every inland town should possess one academy-at least one private or incorporated academy, higher in its objects and character than the common schools; for although the last are excellently-well managed, particularly in Massachusetts, and constitute places of instruction of vital and manifest importance to the country; yet most of them are open to scholars but a small portion of the year; and therefore cannot afford that opportunity for learning, which they might impart if open every day, situated in the same town, or employed as it were, in a sort of rivalry with academical seminaries of another, superior or more permanent description. The proper establishment or maintenance of an incorporated or private academy in any place in the interior, produces results of the most valua without interruption, or pursue their studies without being diverted by the fashions and follies, the temptations and vices of the more populous, or metropolitan places. Here youthful strangers from divers and distant points meet one another, and enter into acquaintances or friendships, which are agreeable and useful in youth, and form a source of pleasure and satisfaction in after-life; while at the same time, when increased in age and knowledge, these students return to their parents or relations, they are imperceptibly led, through these connexions and intimacies, to dif fuse among the people of the various sections from whence they came, a better knowledge of each other and their common country; doing away many little prejudices and dislikes that would otherwise exist among the great mass, and consequently contributing in no small degree to cement more closely and firmly together the general bond of union. Here also the sons and daughters of the yeomanry may be educated in the higher and more elegant branches, and that, too, without heavy expenses, or being obliged to neglect those domestic exercises and duties, which they are occasionally so properly called upon to perform, in the cottage and farmhouse, and which promote habits of industry and morality in younger days, and contribute alike to health and prosperity, cheerfulness and the enjoyment WEDDED LOVE. COME, rouse thee, dearest !—'t is not well of life in maturer years. Besides, a praiseworthy | Here is something inexpressibly tender. It is addressed by rivalry will sooner or later arise between the stu- a wife to a desponding husband :dents of the grammar-school, and those of the academy. This emulation will be encouraged or participated in, more or less, by the older inhabitants. Attempts will be made to procure the best masters for each institution; a taste and desire for study will penetrate almost every dwelling; and in short, without enlarging upon the subject, it must be obvious to every reflecting mind, that under such circumstances as those to which we have adverted, our youth will become apter scholars, more enlightened in their views and feelings, of better manners, and better citizens, more useful to themselves and the community at large, than if bred and educated in places destitute of academies, or having no other schools than such as some transient persons might be hired to teach, three or four months in the year. In respect to seminaries of learning, the town of Amherst, for one of its size, is favored in a most liberal manner. We have already stated that it possesses an Academy and an Institute. But this is not all. The inhabitants likewise enjoy the advantages of a University. These they derive from Amherst College. A view of which is given in our engraving. This institution was established in 1821. Its resources were comparatively limited at first, and its success by some considered doubtful. But it is now in a highly prosperous state. It has a fund of fifty thousand dollars, made up from the contributions of individuals. This fund is invested under the direction of five trustees, chosen by the subscribers; and the interest is annually appropriated toward the support of the college. There are seven or eight professors, including the president, three or four tutors, besides other officers; and from one hundred and fifty to two hundred students. The yearly expenses of a student are from ninety to one hundred and eighteen dollars, including college bills and board. There are three vacations per annum; the first for four weeks from commencement, which takes place from the fourth Wednesday in August; the second, for six weeks from the fourth Wednesday in December; the third for three weeks from the third Wednesday in May. Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell And be what Heaven intended thee; I would not see thee bend below Full well I know the generous soul Which warms thee into life; For deemst thou she could stoop to bind Then rouse thce, dearcst! from the dream That fetters now thy powers; THE more accurately we search into the hu man mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it. If a discourse The number of volumes in the libraries, is sevon the use of the parts of the body may be con en thousand and upward; and the terms of ad-sidered as a hymn to the Creator, the use of the mission and the courses of study are similar to passions, which are the organs of the mind, canthose of Yale college. not be barren of praise to Him, nor unproductive The numerous difficulties which Amherst col-to ourselves, of that noble and uncommon union lege encountered in its infancy, are fresh in the of science and admiration which a contemplation recollection of many persons, as well as the vio- of the works of infinite wisdom alone can afford lent opposition which was raised against the ap- to a rational mind; while, referring to Him what plication of the trustees, for a charter from the ever we find of right, or good, or fair in ourselves, general court. discovering his strength and wisdom even in our own weakness and imperfection, honoring them where we discover them clearly, and adoring their profundity where we are lost in our search, we may be inquisitive without impertinence, and elevated without pride; we may be admitted, if I dare say so, into the councils of the Almighty, by a consideration of his works. The elevation of the mind ought to be the principal end of all our studies, which, if they do not in some measure effect, they are of very little service to us. Ir thou be ignorant, endeavor to get knowledge, lest thou be beaten with stripes; if thou hast attained knowledge, put it in practice, lest thou be beaten with many stripes. Better not to know what we should practice, than not to practise what we know; and less danger dwells in unaffected ignorance, than in inactive knowledge. |