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HISTORY OF OHIO. 



sioiial men, and unless our colleges are equal to eastern ones, 

 there will be a falling off, in learning at the bar, in the desk, 

 and in the halls of legislation. As the state increases in num- 

 bers and wealth, more, not less, learning will be required. 

 It requires something more than a mere superficial education, 

 to carry on the business of this great and growing common- 

 wealth. We fear that one reason, why our western young 

 men who attend our higher schools, obtain no more education, 

 while actually at school, is owing to a want of application to 

 their studies, such as eastern colleges require. That youth 

 should not have all the wisdom of age, is not surprising, but 

 that they should not feel willing to submit to hard study, to 

 labor and diligence, would be their own and their country's 

 misfortune. They will soon take our places, and govern the 

 country; if well, they will be benefited by it, and if not, they 

 will suffer for it, not their fathers, who will be in their graves. 

 The world will be theirs who take it, not by sloth, but by la- 

 bor, toil, diligence, activity and vigorous exertion. 



Let us hope that our sons and daughters may surpass, not 

 fall behind their parents, in all that is manly, good and fair 

 so that in every age, Ohio will shine brighter and brighter, as 

 a star of the first magnitude in the constellation of the Union. 

 So DeWitt Clinton predicted in his speech in the United 

 States senate, when we were admitted into the Union,- and so 

 may it be. 



COLLEGES, ACEADEMIES AND COMMON SCHOOLS. 

 KENYON COLLEGE 



Was founded chiefly through the instrumentality of Philan^ 

 der Chase, D. D., L. L. D., the first bishop of the Protestant 

 Episcopal church in Ohio. 



It was first established as a theological seminary for the edu- 

 cation of pious young men for the ministry in that church. 

 Funds for this purpose were obtained in England in the year 

 1824, and in the same year an act of incorporation was grant- 



