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| − | [1822 Jan. 28] stock, a misfortune peculiarly injurious at this time. | + | [1822 Jan. 28] |
| + | [Report on Bowd. & Waterv. Colleges] | ||
| + | stock, a misfortune peculiarly injurious at this time. | ||
From the statement made by the Officers of the Waterville College it appeared to your Committee that there were seventeen students belonging to it - and that five students are in the Theological School and eight in the Latin school connected with said institution pursuing studies to qualify them to enter the college. They have no Philosophical Apparatus and but a small Library. The Trustees have recently elected a respectable and learned divine for their President, who has not yet accepted the office and probably will not unless the institution shall receive assistance from the State or from private benefaction. | From the statement made by the Officers of the Waterville College it appeared to your Committee that there were seventeen students belonging to it - and that five students are in the Theological School and eight in the Latin school connected with said institution pursuing studies to qualify them to enter the college. They have no Philosophical Apparatus and but a small Library. The Trustees have recently elected a respectable and learned divine for their President, who has not yet accepted the office and probably will not unless the institution shall receive assistance from the State or from private benefaction. | ||
| − | + | The Constitution enjoins the Legislature to make provision from time to time for the encouragement and support of Colleges and other seminaries of learning, as the circumstances of the people may authorize. This important duty will never be neglected by a wise and patriotic and enlightened Legislature. | |
The great and permanent blessings of education, religion and morality will always be duly appreciated by a people tenacious of their civil privileges and desirous of having the government administered by men of knowledge and integrity. | The great and permanent blessings of education, religion and morality will always be duly appreciated by a people tenacious of their civil privileges and desirous of having the government administered by men of knowledge and integrity. | ||
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[124] [1822 Jan. 28] [Report on Bowd. & Waterv. Colleges] stock, a misfortune peculiarly injurious at this time.
From the statement made by the Officers of the Waterville College it appeared to your Committee that there were seventeen students belonging to it - and that five students are in the Theological School and eight in the Latin school connected with said institution pursuing studies to qualify them to enter the college. They have no Philosophical Apparatus and but a small Library. The Trustees have recently elected a respectable and learned divine for their President, who has not yet accepted the office and probably will not unless the institution shall receive assistance from the State or from private benefaction.
The Constitution enjoins the Legislature to make provision from time to time for the encouragement and support of Colleges and other seminaries of learning, as the circumstances of the people may authorize. This important duty will never be neglected by a wise and patriotic and enlightened Legislature.
The great and permanent blessings of education, religion and morality will always be duly appreciated by a people tenacious of their civil privileges and desirous of having the government administered by men of knowledge and integrity.
The flourishing state of Bowdoin College cannot but afford high satisfaction to the friends of science. It must ever be the dictate of wisdom and sound policy to impart all the aid to this Institution which the resources of the State will admit.
The College at Waterville is an infant establishment, but promises with suitable support to become highly useful to the community.
The claims of these institutions founded on their peculiar circumstances can never be preferred to the Legislature with more urgency or greater propriety than at this time. It is cause of painful regret that the state of the public finances will not justify a liberal appropriation of money in aid of these valuable seminaries of learning. But your committee fully impressed with the great benefit of a a general diffusion of