180 WVTTEMJACU. 



Qui studet optatam carsu contingere metatn 

 Abstinuit venere. 



Tlie student's profession is to be his raistress, and it is as true here as 

 in anything else, than "•/jo man can serve two masters.'''' The reasons are 

 obvious. The society of ladies introduces an entirely diilerent set of 

 ideas into the raind — -utterly inconsistent with, our studies. Who would 

 be so rude as in the elegant society of young ladies to talk about those 

 old heathens the Greeks and Romans ? It would be the most ridiculous 

 pedantry. And if you do not go into society generally, but devote your- 

 self to one pariicularly.1 the case is still worse. You are the miserable 

 victim of passion. Your days are devoted to preparation for your eve- 

 ning meeting, and your nights to dreams and visions of your beautiful 

 Dulcinea. Poor wretch ! how is it possible for you to study .^ Flow 

 can you concentrate your thoughts upon the abstractions of science ? 

 Hoping that this is not your sad case, 1 remain, as ever, yours truly, 



Philo. 



WYTTENBACK. 



Holland has ever been distinguished for her learned men. Her in- 

 tellectual history is exceedingly rich and interesting. No where do we 

 find names more conspicuous in Letters and Philosophy. In classical 

 philology Germany alone can claim a higher rank, lier scholars have 

 accumulated treasures of most valuable materials, and by their extensive 

 acquisitions have secured the praise of all Europe. And a country that 

 can boast of such illustrious names as Erasmus, Dousa, Scaliger, Lip- 

 sius, Heinsius, Gronovius, Perizoiiius, Valckenaer, Hemsterhuys, Ruhn- 

 ken, and VVyttenhach, is justly entitled to a prominent position among 

 all nations. They would shed lustre upon any land. 



But of all these philologists there is none whose character and suc- 

 cess in study we so delight to comteniplate as Wytlenbach. The influ- 

 ence which he excited, the sway which he exercised over the realm of 

 letters, and the reputation which his works have won, will, doubtless, 

 justify a brief sketch of him in the Record. And would ! that those who 

 are engaged in classical studies, at the present day, possessed the same 

 irrepressible enthusiasm, always the harbinger of success, the same ar- 

 dent love in their prosecution, the same patient industry and inflexible 

 perseverance which he evinced; then, indeed, might we look for pro- 

 found scholars and thinkers, instead of sciolists ; tlien would the stu- 

 dent reap all the advantages from the classics which their study is de- 

 signed to impart. 



