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in our grand enterprise the future v/ould seem dark indeed. Some of 

 the trustees advocate closing temporarily. Brother A has with- 

 drawn from the board ; Mr. Virtue refuses to do any thing more for 

 us ; our creditors are j^roving to be most inveterate duns, and no way 

 seems to be open for going on. Still, we must go on ; inaction Avould 

 be fatal. Some rich friend ought to endow us lil)erally a great uni- 

 versity like ours cannot be permitted to die. In our two o^Dening 

 years we have done as much work as did either Yale or Harvard in 

 the corresponding periods of their youth; why should we not rise as 

 they have risen ? We appeal to the public at large for support to 

 all friends of true education, of high culture, of moral civilization. 

 Let it not be said in despotic Europe that Americans cared so little 

 for intellectual advancement that they allowed their most promising 

 university to fail. Let the rich give us money liberally for the glory 

 of the denomination which we represent; others who cannot give 

 should send us their sons and daughters to be educated in the true 

 principles of life and the faith of the early fathers. No matter how 

 dark the present may appear, the future is bright before us ; great 

 success must eventually attend our labors ; unborn generations will 

 one day look back and say, " Our ancestors sustained that university 

 in its hour of trial, and have transmitted to us the inheritance of its 

 greatness." Statesmen, poets, and chieftains, shall hail our university 

 as their alma inciter^ and contribute gladly to its glory and its support. 



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THE WxiEFARE OF SCIENCE.' 

 Bt andeew d. white, ll. d., 



PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UNITEE SITT. 

 II. 



I PASS, now, to fields of more immediate importance to us to 

 Anatomy and Medicine. 



It might be supposed that the votaries of sciences like these would 

 be suffered to escape attack; unfortunately, they have had to stand in 

 tlie thickest of the battle. 



As far back as the latter part of the thirteenth century, Arnold de 

 Villa Nova was a noted physician and chemist. Tlie missile usual in 

 such cases was hurled at him. He was charged with sorcery and deal- 

 ings with the devil ; he was excommunicated and driven from Spain.' 



Such seemed the fate of men in that field who gained even a glim- 

 mer of new scientific truth. Even men like Cardan, and Paracelsus, 

 and Porta, who yielded much to popular superstitions, were at once 



' Draper, "Int. Dev. of Europe," p. 421. Whewell, "Hist, of tbe Induct. Sciences," 

 vol. i., p. 235 ; vol. viii., p. 36. Fredault, "Hist, de la Medecine," vol. i., p. 204. 



