and. Wherefore your Committee go on to observe,
as first principles:

"1. That a college is a public institution, designed and incorporated
to qualify young men for leaders of the Church and the State.

"2. That the requisite qualifications for such leadership are
knowledge, wisdom, and virtue. Accidental accomplishments are
important in giving prominence and effect to more substantial
qualities; but these are fundamental and indispensable. Without them
the public interests, so far as connected with college, have no
security.

"3. That these qualifications are valueless in separation from each
other; and are then likely to be injurious in proportion to the degree
of culture. Knowledge without wisdom is insane and mischievous; and
both without virtue serve but to give greater energy and efficiency to
those naturally destructive elements which are common both to
individuals and society. Virtue alone, if it could be supposed to
exist without knowledge and wisdom, would be but an idea, or an
emotion, and practically futile.

"4. That the organization and discipline of a college constitute what
we denominate its order; and the highest responsibility rests on its
appointed guardians, to perfect and preserve this necessary order
agreeably to the highest standards that are known among men.

"5. That the ultimate standard, binding on all Christian educators, is
the Scripture; and their ultimate responsibility is to God. Great
latitude is given them by the State; and they are not held accountable
to the civil authorities, in the widest exercise of their discretion,
while they infringe not upon the civil statutes. The State leaves them
to their own opinions and policy, within the terms of their chartered
privileges and the laws in general. The Church has no control over
them whatever but in respect to patronage, when they are constituted
as mere civil corporations; and it may not interfere with them but as
individual men; nor then, if they happen to sustain no individual and
personal relations to it. But the State and the Church are equally
ordained of God; and all educators are responsible to Him that the
comprehensive order of their institutions shall be in agreement with
the principles of His Word, and thereby subservient to the public
good.

"6. That the order of a college is, first, mechanical, in respect to
its forms, arrangements, and observances; and, secondly, moral, in
respect to principle.

"7. That college me