Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction Volume 30 (Paperback)

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. 1866 Excerpt: ...above $50,000 00 Endowment Fond, consisting of securities, good notes, and reliable subscriptions, (not liable for the indebtednes, ) for the most part at interest, $65,000 00 DBSION. Under the Amended Charter, it is not the design to assume the duties of a University or Professional College, and prepare students for any specific avooation in life. It is designed, however, by requiring students to prosecute a thorough and systematic course of study, --such as is approved by the best educators in the country, --to secure that mental discipline and development which alone are worthy the name of a Collegiate education. To accomplish this work successfully, the Institution must be able to provide the best instructors, and must have means to enable these persons to devote all their time to their several Departments, and not compel them to teach a variety of sciences. It is only by securing such-men and furnishing the Institution with good libraries, full museums, excellent apparatus, &o, that proper instruction can be given, or that the Institution can become what its title indicates, a College. The successful establishment of such an Institution is not the wort of a day, nor of a year; it is the result of the sacrifices, toil and growth of years. We believe that the faith, energy, perseverance, and the enlightened and enlarged liberality of the Methodists of Michigan, and other friends of a thorough Collegiate education, will accomplish the work. All of which is respectfully submitted. GEO. B. JOCELTN. Pres't Albion College. V3ITOR8 REPORT. Hon. O. Hospord, Bupt. Public Instruction: Sir: --Soon after his appointment as a member of the Board of Visitors on the part of the State to the Albion College, the undersigned waited upon the persons named as his colleague...