Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-04-09


and hands As nearly as we can now determine,
the number out ofthe College Graduates is 95,
or 70 1-6 per cent, and of the Theological
Graduates, 81, or SO ~ per cent Some few
of these have received occasional aid from
friends, and to a very small extent, part of the
time, from Boards Of Education; but in the
main they relied upon themselves, and did, in
fact, sustain themselves by teaching school dur
ing the Winter, and by the labor of their hands,
and sometimes by teaching in the lower depart
ments of the Institution during term time.
In justice to the remaining fraction, it should
be added that almost every one even of these
have abored; and several have earned nearly
enough to meet their expenses.
2 During the year ending Aug.
o. 1912, according to reports OBJ
tanned from the students, the amt
of their receipts for manual labor
was $6,Ol7 40
Total for teaching, performed
during term time, and vacation 5,405 80
Total earned by young ladies by
manual labor and teaching I,54O 81
This report probably falls a little short of the
truth as to the receipts for manual labor, in con-
sequence of not getting complete returns 1t
is doubtless much more defective in the amount
to- teaching. A nearer approximation to the
AVERAGE resnits under this head would be -
Teachers of District Schools during %!nter va
cation, $50 to 200; average time l-2 months
average price per month"; Is to l6 dollars.f
Total receipts in round numbers, $500 to 49,
O00
The Preparatory Department is taught chief
| ly by the more advanced students.
g. 1t has been found in several instances by
special examination of whole classes that the
average weekly earnings by manual labor were
from IS to 80 cts Probably If the inquiry
had included only those who rely on their own
resources, the average would not have fallen far
short of one dollar per week-the common price
of board.
A. The expenses of thoroughly economical
students here may be set down, averaged for the
whole nine years course thus
For the term of 40 weeks-board at
Loo, $4,000
Charges for room rent and ncdentals $500
Washing, &c. Books, 81; Tuition,
SIS; 1928 90
Total, $75 90
g. The results of Manual Labor combined
as it usually is here, with plain diet, are dec-
dedly beneficial upon health Cases of sick
ness, and even of those moderate ailment which
excuse the student from study. are very rare
The record of mortality for ten years stands
thus-Average number in Theological Depart
ment for ten years, At. Number of deaths,
one, and for the last nine years, nOne Average
number in College, ia. Number of deaths
, six, of which two were by casualty on Lake E.
RE, and four by consumption.
6. The results of Manual Labor upon sue
cess in study deserve notice 1t is a common
remark among students, that all of our class
who labor regularly are diigent students Teach
ers invariably expect Of such students at least
regular habits of study and gradual improve
ment. It is not claimed that Manual Labor be-
gets genius-but it frequently begets what is
worth full as much to the world-studious and
sober habits, sound thinking and an adaptation
for practical life.
7. 1t seems hardly necessary to say that hab-
its Of Manual Labor promote good morals in
students The hours of recreation are filled
: with useful labor instead of useless fun or reck-
less mischief, and hence the students tempta-
tons to evil are nonplussed; his superAuous
physical excitability is let off gradually, during
his three hours labor, and hence all occasion
for an explosion is quite obvlated
1t is momentous part of all right education
to work thoroughly into the mind and habits the
idea of being useful Keep the student doing
good-exhaust all his time and all his energies
in doing good, in some way, to somebody, and
you are training him for such life as will bless
and not curse the world. In this point of light
we value highly the Manual Labor appendage to
our system of education.
Manual Labor students are almost with no
: exceptions, the friends of humanity-the sym.
pathising brethren Of their race. They have
sympathies with that vast mass of human beings
whom their Maker teaches them to regard as
their fellows, and for whose elevation and we'll
being every philanthropst and Christian loves to
toll. This age of the world needs mighty
host Of young men educated to toll for the mass
es of Earth's population. Give them therefore,
a sympathy for those massess-else, what are
: they good forl
+ Need we say word of the influence of Man
nal Labor on the good order and regulations of
a College! A family in which all the sons and
: daughters have all their time diligently and use
fully employed is governed with great ease-rel-
: atively ldleness begets mischief, insubordina-
0 ton outbreaks, almost, if not entirely, without
f exception. Our Manual Labor students sustain
and do not assail the good order of the institu-
r ton, and need no other authority than their own
y good sense and good moral principle In be.
9 half of Committee of Faculty
/ HENRY COWLES,
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= *These numbers do not include nearly all who have
enjoyed more or less extensively the benefits of educa
ton here considerable number for various reasons
have left before graduation
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