Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-03-19

not worse, than if there was nothing appro-
Ipriated for their maintenance. They would
succeed as we'll if left, as before, to rest for
their support upon the force and action of
public opinion, and the exertions necessary
to success and support on the part of the
instructor. The present diminished sala-
rles render our disorganized system of in
struction essentially Uagrant, for they pro-
cure temporary or wandering teachers who
seek situation to supply present want,
and as soon as that is satisfied they break
up and move off with much the same pro-
pensity which impels beast of prey to sa-
tisty present appetite by temporary effort.
Such persons teach without any care for
their own character or standing as teachers.
| They seek the situation without design of
permanent situation in life, and with a
perfect carelessness as to their manner or
capability of teaching.
The Secretary of the Board of Education
OF Massachusetts calls the attention of the
Board of Education of that State TO this sub
ect in his last report, and pronounces their
present salaries to be insufficient 10 retain
and secure at home their best ability. He
suggests that five hundred dollars will not
be found to be too large salary, because
wherever is found the greatest demand for
the use of instruction, to that direction will
instruction move, just as an object thrown
above the earth will descend by the force
Of attraction. 1t may with truth be said,
that of al the nations that have existed on
the earth, Massachusetts presents the first
example of a system Of intellectual and
moral instruction, engralled upon her con-
slitution of government. 1t forms part Of
her written constitution. and the clause
which gives it its being is peculiar in its
Iphraseology. If our constitution had been
so formed, and such clauses as these below
had been inserted in it, with the substitution
of ST. Johns College in the place of Cam
bridge University, our situation would have
been very different from what we now find it.
Chapter 9th. ''To the University at Cam
bridge and encouragement Of literature;"
and section LIST. 'The University" article
1st. "Whereas our wise and pious ancestors
SO early as the year one thousand sic hun
bred and thirty-sir, laid the foundation OF
Harvard College, in which University many
persons of great eminence have, by the bless
ing of God, been initiated into those arts and
sciences which qualified them for public
employment, both in church and State. And
whereas, the encouragement of arts and
sciences. and all good literature tends to the
honor Of God, the Advantage of the Chris
tan religion, and the great benefit of this
and the other United States of America ii
+ is declared that the president and fellows oil
Harvard College in their corporate capacity.
and their successors in that capacity, the
officers and servants, shall have, hold, use
exercise, and enjoy all the powers, autho-
rity, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities.
and franchises which they now have, or are
entitled to have, hold, use, exercise and en-
,Ijoy: and the same are hereby ratified and
confirmed unto them, the said president and
=, fellows Of Harvard College, and to THEN
successors, and to their officers and servants
respectively forever' 'And whereas, there
have been at sundry times by devise, pre-
sents, gifts, grants, devises of legaces, lands
tenements, goods, chattels, and conveyances
heretofore made, either to Harvard College
in Cambridge, in New England, or to the
president and fellows of Harvard College
or to the said College by some other des.
cription under several charges successfully
it is declared that all the said grants, devses
t Ilegacies, and conveyances are hereby for
ever confirmed unto the president and fell
lows of Harvard College, and to their sue
cessors in the capacity aforesaid, according
to the true intent and meaning of the dono
or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor O.
: devisors."
= "5th. And whereas, by an act of the Gen
t eral Court of the Colony of Massachusetts
Bay, passed in the year one thousand sever
hundred and forty-two, the Governor ant
t Deputy Governor for the time being, ant
: all the magistrates of that jurisdiction were
+. with the president and number of tht
: clergy, in the said act described, constituted
: the overseers of Harvard College; and i
: being necessary, in its new constitution o
government, to ascertain who shall be deem.
+. ed as successors to the said Governor. De
putty Governor, Council, and Senate of this
=, Commonwealth, are and shall be deemed
t their successors; who, with the president
of Harvard College for the time being, to-
gether with the ministers of the Congrega-
tional churches in the town of Cambridge
: Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury
f and Dorchester, mentioned in the main act
r shall be, and hereby are, vested with all the
powers and authority belonging or in any