This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...the mortification in a recent instance of losing the services of a professor-elect, distinguished for high reputation and eminent abilities, even after he had taken the trouble to visit the university from a distance of 1,500 miles, and that simply because the inadequacy of the illustrative apparatus iu his department ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...the mortification in a recent instance of losing the services of a professor-elect, distinguished for high reputation and eminent abilities, even after he had taken the trouble to visit the university from a distance of 1,500 miles, and that simply because the inadequacy of the illustrative apparatus iu his department was such as to convince him (to use his own words) that he could neither satisfy himself nor give satisfaction to others. Certainly no true Mississippian can be content that the institution of learning recognized by law as the State University, and therefore as the representative of the State in the highest department of education, should continue to be so miserably provided iu all those particulars on which its respectability depends that he dare not compare it with any other of its class in the country. One further consideration bearing upon this subject remains to lie noticed. With the undersigned it is one which has great weight. Hitherto it has not been unusual" with our fellow-citizens to send their sons for education to a distance from home. The colleges of the Northern and Eastern States have educated great numbers of the present generation of Mississippi and not a few also of the youth who are abont to come upon the stage to succeed them; but n deep conviction has at last fastened itself upon the minds of our citizens that, if we wonld educate our sons in the true spirit of attachment to the institutions among which they are born, we must educate them upon our own soil. It is perhaps in a measure due to the recent rapid growth of this feeling among ns that we attribute the unexampled success of the University of Mississippi in commanding the attendance of the youth of this and neighboring States; and as the feeling is one which i...
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