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the best. The University itself, has steadily advanced under
the generous impulse which began with it, and may now chal-
lenge a comparison with the best Institutions of America, not
to say of Europe also.

Nor are the advantages confined by the University solely intellect-
tual. It has achieved and is achieving Moral triumphs of a
character to make the heart of the Christian Patriot glow with
exultant thankfulness, whilst he anticipates for the rising youth
of the State, and of the South, a place of education where to the high-
est attainments in knowledge, are added the profoundest apprecia-
tion, and the habitual practice of truth, uprightness, and every
manly virtue.

1860-61 more than one third of the students, (upwards
of 60 in number), were [professins?] of religion, of when almost all
were zealously pious, and such was the good order, and so prevail-
ing the purity of those ten amongst the young men, that it may
[?] be said that a youth not already tainted with vice, would
have been not less safe in their midst, than in his father's house.
Falsehood especially, and want of [frailness?] towards the authori-
ties, had for many years been incited with such severity of repro-
bation by the students themselves as to have been well-nigh banish-
ed rom their midst. In short all the robust and manly [?] flour-
ished vigorously under the benign & vigilant guardianship of
the public sentiment of the noble youths here assembled, and are
flourishing still. The moral and religious, as well as the intellect-
tual traditions of the Institution, were kept alive during the war,
by the handful of [halt?] & maimed young soldiers who resorted
thither, and now the industry, zeal, and propriety of conduct
which have marked the students of the present session, al-
most exceed belief, as it is believed to exceed all parallel. One
of their number, mingling largely with his fellows, lately remark-
ed that since the beginning of the session, he did not remember
to have seen an art, or scare to have heard a sound, to "Hear the
grace and blush of modesty."