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petition in teaching, which is common in some of the 

 Continental universities, where a professor extraordinary 

 occasionally carries off the pupils from the ordinary pro 

 fessor. Discreetly applied, this principle may do good. 

 But, in a university with small endowments, if unneces 

 sarily introduced, it might disgust good men, and drive 

 them from the institution. 



The poverty of the Brown University is greatly in 

 favour of the energetic and broad movement of Dr 

 Wayland. Where the professors have comfortable and 

 secure endowments, they are naturally disinclined to 

 novelties ; and where a university has scholarships enough 

 to buy students, its heads will not trouble themselves 

 with the wants and wishes of the public, or consult how 

 they may make their institution most useful to the 

 country in which it is placed. And yet, what a waste 

 of pecuniary and mental power in suffering so much 

 excellent machinery to employ itself in preparing so 

 unsatisfactory a material ! 



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