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Title: The schools of Cincinnati and its vicinity
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Foote, John P. (John Parsons), 1783-1865
Subjects: Education
Publisher: Cincinnati, (Ohio) C.F. Bradley & Co.'s Power Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e course of the institution so as to avoid this class ofevils, — though they may perhaps discover others requiringequal vigilance to guard against or remedy. Whatever may be the future course of the College, it is amatter of congratulation that we have such a building,situated where it is, in the heart of the City, to retain its nameand keep alive the remembrance of the praiseworthy efforts ofthe pioneers and early fathers of our City. A building whichwill be a durable monument of their efforts for the welfare oftheir posterity and successors, in the form and manner mosteffective for that end. One of the original founders of the Coflege, Ethan Stone, athis death, a few years since, bequeathed to the College a rever-sionary legacy, but of what amount is not known. It is notexpected to be large, but it was a mark of an early attachmentto a worthy object, continued through a long life, and not forfeit*-ed by its misfortunes and poverty, and it is an example recom-mended for limitation.
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CHAPTER II, HIGH SCHOOLS. Foreigners, in giving the characteristics of our countrymenjhave generally given prominence to their idolatry of the Al-mighty dollar, and this has so often been repeated that we)ourselves, have adopted the opinion, and are frequently foundlamenting the stain which such a stigma has made on our Na-tional character. This form of idolatry is common in all civilized, or partlycivilized, countries ; but it is less so in the United States thanany other. We have, indeed, more need, and need of more, money thanany other people, because we want all those improvements ofthe most advanced state of civilization, of which older countriesexhibit specimens—and we have always been determined tohave them—and to have them without waiting the slow pro-gress by which they have been obtained in the old world—andwe have exhibited an eagerness to obtain the necessary meansfor our projected and ever progressing improvements, that seemsto arise from an inordinate love of money

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