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received kindly and politely by the professors, but 

 the prejudices of the majority of their fellow pupils 

 against the institutions of the United States, and 

 still more their rude remarks about the vulgarity 

 of all Americans (of whom they knew scarcely any 

 thing), had so wounded their national feelings, that 

 they had written home to entreat their parents to 

 allow them to attend classes at Paris, or in some 

 German University, to which they had reluctantly 

 assented. These young men, being of good families 

 in Kentucky, were gentlemanlike in their manners, 

 in this respect decidedly above the average standard of 

 students of the same profession in England, and they 

 spoke with no bitterness even on this annoying topic. 

 Talking over academical matters, some elders of the 

 company complained of the wish of the democratic 

 party to apply their favourite dogma of &quot; rotation in 

 office,&quot; or &quot; let every man have his turn,&quot; not only to 

 members of the executive and the election of judges, 

 but actually to University professors. &quot; You may 

 amuse your countrymen,&quot; said they, &quot; on your re 

 turn, by telling them of the wisdom of our sovereign 

 rulers, who would shorten to a minimum the term of 

 service even of men who fill literary or scientific 

 chairs.&quot; I informed them that nearly the whole 

 University lectures at Oxford and Cambridge, had of 

 late years, in opposition to earlier usage, been trans 

 ferred to temporary occupants of tutorships, who 

 looked forward to the resigning of their academical 

 functions as soon as they could afford to marry, or 

 could obtain church preferment ; so that the extreme 

 democracy of Kentucky would at least have no 



