er end.'

"At the same time no efforts will be spared to keep their young
budding minds from vicious associations, and to render them as
sweet as innocent, as innocent as gay, as gay as happy:--

"'Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated, needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with his face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.'

"Knowing this to be true from experience, the principal and
vice-principal of the Philomathian Institute will do all in their
power to keep their pupils in the paths of wisdom, and
pleasantness, and peace, as Shakspeare, the sweet swan of Avon,
says. In one word, it will be the object and aim of Mr. and Mrs.
Wheelwright to qualify the young gentlemen to act nobly their part
in this republican monarchy, and the young ladies whose education
has been so long neglected--whose minds have so long been evolved
in Siberian darkness--and as it were wasting their sweetness on the
desert air--for the wives and mothers of freedom."

Added to this eloquent and promising proclamation, introduced as we
have already seen, by the editor, were the names of sundry presidents
of colleges, reverend doctors, editors, especially of the religious
papers, various public officers, among whom were the governor of the
state, the mayor and recorder, several classical teachers, and other
gentlemen, as references--most of whom when applied to, declared that
they had never heard of the concern before; others admitted that they
had allowed reference to be made to their names, because they knew
nothing against it; while a few assented to the high qualifications of
the teachers without scruple.

As to the morality of such an unauthorized use of great names, on the
one part, and the authorized use of them on the other, merely to avoid
the utterance of a monosyllable of two letters, when the effect is a
deception upon the public, it is not a subject for present discussion.
Both practices are abuses of the times, which have been carried to such
an extent that nothing can be more unmeaning than references of this
kind--in regard as well to schools, and "institutes," and "seminaries,"
as to the publication of books by subscription, and the superior merits
of patent blacking and razor-straps; as to which, by the way, it has
always been a subject of speculation to the writer, why a reverend
divine or an eminent phys