Commerce and Agriculture Subjects of University Instruction [pp. 502-516]

COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE IN UNIVERSITIES.
more complete than any now existing in the Union, and in time equal
to anything of the kind in Europe. The importance of this to a great
commercial city whose destinies are everywhere written in glowing
terms, submitting to comparison with scarcely another in the world,
cannot be over estimated. Enlightened merchants appreciate now the
value of such information, and know the difficulties of obtaining it here
at any time. We must go the North to collect much of the data necessary every day in our operations, and frequently to Europe, for no
public library in New Orleans now supplies the want, and none in the
Union is fully adapted to meet it. The professor, too, whose mind
from long and continued study, becomes imbued with this knowledge,
would always be ready and at hand to communicate at the moment and
in a reliable manner, whatever the calls or exigencies of the times or
of trade may require. The Chamber of Commerce of the city would be
connected closely with the professorship, having perhaps a common
hall and mutually promoting each other's interest.
The endowment of such a branch to the University could be
secured by a subscription for twenty or twenty.five thousand
dollars, yielding an annual interest of two thousand or tw(o
thousand five hundred dollars. This would be the fixed remunera,
tion of the professor whose sole and entire labors are obtained,
and who should be allowed in addition as a further stimulous to exertion and reward for such services, certain moderate fees from indivi.
duals attending his classes or private lectures, withl the exception ot'
those whose means are limited, and who shall receive the advantages
tiree.
The State should be required to furnish the appropriate hall in the
University, which it will undoubtedly be happy to do, and make a firther provision annually towards the library, say, perhaps, five hundred
dollars more. It will be seen directly how this money shall be ex
pended.
We shall now proceed to make a brief exposition of the duties of
the professorship, its organization, &c., and give the outline of its la
bors. In this we are without guide from any other quarter, but give
our own views, the result of long and continued reflection upon these
matters.
PROFESSORSHIP OF PUBLIC ECONOMY, COlMERCE AND STATISTICS.
Embracing the Theoretic and Practical Departments.
I.-TIJEORETIC.
Origin of Society and Government; Theory, Forms, and Ends of Government;
Rights, Duties, and Relations of Governments; Sources of National \Wealthl and
512.