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The trustees flatter themselves that this institution is not to be 

 in competition with any otlier part of our educational system, but 

 to meet the wants of a class not hitherto provided for. The 

 common schools are not to be touched, either in their finances or 

 their educational arrangements. The academies, as preparatory 

 institutions, are to be benefited; as the field, for preparatory 

 studies, is to be enlarged to meet the wants of this. Our colleges, 

 so well suited for professional training, are secure from encroach- 

 ment. This is to fill a space not occupied; like the Asteroids in 

 the solar system, it is brought to fill the place of a missing planet. 



[ig. Trans. J 



