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 and monopolies; but away with the experiments of constitution-mongers on our Universities, until they prove in what we require reform, and the fitness and adequacy of their means of effecting it. If they are so unpatriotically and parracidically partial to every thing exotic, let them turn their eyes to America, and look at the flourishing and active Colleges in the United States, where, it cannot be denied, Medicine is cultivated both with ardour and success; how little do we find that sagacious and intelligent people clogging themselves with the chlorotic fastidious fantasies of A. M., S. B., and the rest of the long dire catalogue of the University Neuroses.

These plans seem as if they originated in the myopic view of some mere citizen, accustomed only to the bickerings and skirmishings of duxes and monitors of seminaries and establishments for some gilt-book prize, or some bursary or mortification. They look like the suggestions of men whose brains are so crammed with the imagery of satchels and ushers, of problems and prepositions, so accustomed to see around them every facility for construing acquisition, that their intellectual vision cannot extend itself to other districts of the empire, where minds may be forming that are one day to shed lustre and renown on the art of healing, but who, from the want of classical schools, and from pecuniary inability to pension tutors, are denied the opportunity of "making nonsense verses