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 holes and supported upon four feet; it is movable. C, space for charcoal. D, upper 

 diaphragm, (movable ) E, space for the colored syrup. F, wooden cover lined with 

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Art. XIX. — ^n Introduction to JVatural Philosophy ; designed as 

 a Text Book, for the use of the students in Yale College ; by 

 Denison Olmsted, A.M. Professor of Mathematics and Natu- 

 ral Philosophy. In two volumes, pp. 346 and 352. New Haven : 

 Hezekiah Howe. 



We have long regarded the objects of a liberal education as three- 

 fold : — first, to develop and discipline the powers of the mind itself; 

 secondly, to store it with useful truths; and, thirdly, to give to it the 

 power of communicating its ideas to others. Or, briefly, thus : it is the 

 great purpose of a collegiate education to learn us to think, to furnish 

 us with ideas, and to teach us how to express them. We fully be- 

 lieve that all the different studies that compose the system of educa- 



