American monthly review Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW. JANUARY, 1832. Art. I. ? 1. textit{Annals of Yale College, in New Haven, Connecticut, from its Foundation, to the Year 1831... more » ; textit{with an Appendix, containing Statistical Tables, and exhibiting the Present Condition of the Institution. By Eben- Ezer Baldwin. New Haven. Hezekiah Howe. 1831. 8vo. pp. 324. 2. textit{An Address delivered at New Haven before the Phi Beta Kappa Society. September 13, 1831. By James Kent. New Haven. Hezekiah Howe. 1831. 8vo. pp.48. The history of our literary institutions is to a considerable extent the history of our country. It embraces an interesting portion of the lives of most of our distinguished men in church and in state ; a period when the powers of the mind are pliant, and may be moulded by wise exertion to future valuable purposes. The pupils go forth prepared in part to sustain the duties of professional and active life, under the influences of the institution from which they proceed, and to reflect back upon the place of their education the character and distinction of riper years. The quality of instruction is a measure of the general intelligence and refinement of the community ; for no seminary of learning can be sustained, that lags in the rear of an improved condition of science and literature in the public around. Hence the higher institutions, in their aggregation of learned men, and the means and appliances of knowledge, form an important part of the great whole, and become of indispensable and incalculable value to the progress of national welfare and national character. They embrace the aspiring of every rank and condition in life, and lend all their aids in advancing the individual in sound and wholesome learning. VOL. I. NO. I. 1 With these views of the importance of literary i...« less