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wish you to purchase one for me, as I told you I possibly 

 might. On reading the work more attentively, my first 

 impressions are confirmed. Not that I suppose that it 

 contains any designed misrepresentation, but for some rea- 

 son or other, there are in it demonstrable errors in point 

 of fact, particularly as respects Yale College ; and I think 

 likewise that there are in the book very manifest errors in 

 point of opinion. The latter, of course, it would be more 

 difficult to prove to the satisfaction of the public ; yet even 

 here I should not despair of some success. The work as 

 a literary performance has certainly great merit ; and the 

 body of the information in it is without doubt correctly 

 given. Whether I shall make any remarks on this work 

 publicly, is still uncertain. If I should determine on it, 

 I shall find it necessary, perhaps, to visit Boston to con- 

 sult a few books, which I cannot procure here ; or I have 

 thought of trying to borrow several volumes through my 



friend Mr. Worcester College is very quiet 



There are some things in the present religious movements 

 which I can hardly approve of; but I hope for the best. 

 One evidence of the " genuineness of the work," is, that our 



Faculty meetings pass off with little or no business 



I have received from Dr. Beck a copy of the pamphlet on 

 the proposed changes in the studies at Cambridge. This 

 is a much more radical proceeding than I anticipated. I 

 am a little curious to see the operation of the new system. 

 I am not bigoted in my attachment to old plans of study ; 

 nor am I disposed to be caught with every novelty. Let 

 them at Cambridge try experiments, and we will try to 

 profit by them. They are better able to experiment than 

 we are. . . 



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