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one is all-sufficient, in having two sets of professors when only one is required, 

 and by this economy securing a museum, apparatus, library, &c., so necessary 

 for the proper instruction of all occupations, whether professional or industrial. 



Under like gi-ants we have the following universities : Ohio, at Athens ; 

 Indiana, at Bloomington ; Illinois, at Springfield ; Missouri, at Columbia ; Wis- 

 consin, at Madison ; Iowa, at Iowa City; Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Since these 

 universities were established many others have been, in these and other States, 

 mostly by religious denominations, in which is usually found such course of 

 instruction as is adapted to professional pui-suits ; but not to the industrial, for 

 want of the museum, apparatus, library, model farm, &c., mentioned by Mr. 

 Owen. Why retain these State universities as competitors of these private 

 colleges ? Why not render them efficient, economical, more ttuly State institu- 

 tions, by consolidating the grants, and thus creating a college competent to the 

 thorough education of all occupations ? The sound policy of such union is the 

 more obvious when it is remembered that the last act does not allow any of the 

 fund created by it to be used in buildings. The former grants have provided 

 these and a skeleton library and apparatus, with a fund competent only to sus- 

 tain a faculty inadequate to such instruction as the wants of the age and of our 

 condition demand. But all these would constitute a basis on which, as the 

 funds from the recent grant were realized, colleges adapted to these wants could 

 be built up. 



These views are now placed before the public in compliance with the requests 

 that have been made, and with the hope that they will lead others to express 

 theirs. 



ISAAC NEWTON, 



Com7nissi(mer. 



