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ical system $ and I am resolved that I will not through 
humility become the devils attorney. I will endeavor 
to speak a good word for the truth. At Cambridge 
College the mere rent of a student’s room, which is only 
a little larger than my own, is thirty dollars each year, 
though the corporation had the advantage of building 
thirty-two side by side and under one roof, and the oc¬ 
cupant suffers the inconvenience of many and noisy 
neighbors, and perhaps a residence in the fourth story. 
I cannot but think that if we had more true wisdom in 
these respects, not only less education would be needed, 
because, forsooth, more would already have been ac¬ 
quired, but the pecuniary expense of getting an educa¬ 
tion would in a great measure vanish. Those con¬ 
veniences which the student requires at Cambridge or 
elsewhere cost him or somebody else ten times as great 
a sacrifice of life as they would with proper management 
on both sides. Those things for which the most money 
is demanded are never the things which the student 
most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item 
in the term bill, while for the far more valuable educa¬ 
tion which he gets by associating with the most culti¬ 
vated of his contemporaries no charge is made. The 
mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a sub¬ 
scription of dollars and cents, and then following blindly 
the principles of a division of labor to its extreme, a 
principle which should never be followed but with cir¬ 
cumspection, -— to call in a contractor who makes this a 
subject of speculation, and he employs Irishmen or 
other operatives actually to lay the foundations, while 
the students that are to be are said to be fitting them¬ 
selves for it; and for these oversights successive gener¬ 
ations have to pay. I think that it would be better than 
