Discourses And Addresses At the Ordination of the Rev Theodore Dwight Woolsey
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When, in his last hours, he was inquired of, whether he had any directions to give respecting the College, he merely express- ed his desire that its discipline might be preserved. Parents will not send their sons, at this critical age, to an institution 67 in which no effectual provision is made for their moral and religious interests. All will agree that order and morality must he maintained in a college. But it is not so easy to determine how this is to be effected. It is not by relying solel...y or mainly upon the law of the land, as is the case in the German universi- ties, where, according to the report of travelers, even the theological students are in the practice of fighting duels on the Sabbath. The statutes of a state or a city might as well be relied on, for the regulation of a family of children, as for the discipline of a college. The early age of our students, which renders college gov- ernment necessary, determines what should be the nature of that government. The imminent dangers to which they are exposed are to be ascribed, m a great measure, to the fact, that at this most critical period of life, they are withdrawn from the immediate superintendence and influence of their parents.
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