PORTRAIT-Rev. Philip Lindsley, D. D..... 1. PHILIP LINDSLEY, D. D. By Leroy J. Halsey, D. D.. 2. Educational Labors at Nashville, Tennessee. 3. Plans and Purposes as to a University. 4. Spoken and Published Addresses.... The proper location of a University. Education should not be denominational.. 6. Results and influence of his life.. On college education in the south-west... On Tennessee and Nashville...... I. Historical, (continued from No. 16, p. 65,). 7. History of the Universities in the Nineteenth Century. Introduction; the author's academical experience... 1. Relations of the societies to each other and to renouncers. 2. Distinctions among students........ 3. Provisions respecting injuries to Bursch-honor.. D. The Wartburg Festival, Oct. 18, 1817... Correspondence of Jena with German Universities. Dr. Bahrdt with the Iron Forehead.... Tübingen Statutes for the formation of Students' Committees. V. JAMES MCGILL AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MCGILL COLLEGE. By J. W. Dawson, VI. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF UNIVERSITIES, or Essays on Academical 3. Obligatory lectures. Optional attendance. Lyceums. Relations of the philo- 201 206 223 I. PHILIP LINDSLEY. BY LEROY J. HALSEY, D. D. THE eminent services of Philip Lindsley, D. D., late president of the University of Nashville, as an educator of youth, have been widely known in our country, and most highly appreciated at each of those points or centers of influence where, in the providence of God, he was successively called to labor. Especially is this true of Nashville, and the surrounding region, in which he may be said to have been the pioneer of classical learning, and where, for a quarter of a century, he exerted a controlling influence upon the cause of education, not only in Tennessee, but through the whole South West. Whether we consider the auspicious time at which he began his labors in Tennessee, their long continuance, or his own rare qualifications for the work, it could not be otherwise than that such a man, in such a cause, should make a deep and permanent impression upon his generation. He seems from an early period to have regarded himself as set apart to the cause of the higher or more liberal education. He ever looked upon it as the great work of his life. The steadfast zeal with which he pursued it, and the distinguished success which crowned his efforts, entitle him to a place among the foremost educators of our age and country. And it is our present purpose to give some account of him and his work in this his chosen field of labor-to tell of his plans, purposes, opinions, trials, and triumphs, as an educator of youth. In order, however, to form some just conception of his character, both as a man and a minister, we shall first preface what we have to say of him as an educator with the following biographical sketch, which we abridge from Dr. Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit." PHILIP LINDSLEY was born December 21st, 1786, near Morristown, N. J. His parents were both of English extraction; the Lindsleys and Condits being among the earliest settlers of Morristown, and influential Whigs of the Revolution. His early youth was spent in his father's family, at Basking Ridge, N. J., and in his thirteenth year he entered the academy of the Rev. Robert Finley, of that place, with whom he continued nearly three years. He entered the junior class of the College of New Jersey in November, 1802, and was graduated |