The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-12-21

and unfeeling barbariry. Facts concusively show
that they have thrown needless impediments IN
the way of applicants, embarrassing them with ab-
surdities and worst of all judging of their qua:f-
cations by rules destitute of suitable candor and
fairness. Supposipg that an applicant has chosen
the philosophical process of showing the 9Th arith
meticaI question; yet the slightest mistake in |
multiplying, ifIeft unrectifed would diminish his
chance for certificate, as much as solution man.
ifesting dotic stupidity. This assertion is based
on the testimony of successful candidate on a
Former occasion. Such rule is fagrant out
rage on justice, common sense and the County.
Persons guilty Of the capital blunders committed
(stupidly or oIherwise.) in the statement of the
6h arithmetcal question, ought view with
e iient eye the triviI iuaciyerlences of persons
hedged in by embarrassments. Arilhmetcal
questions, numbered and 9, clearly indicate
settled design to seek opportunities for pouring
their vials of scornful and malicious contempt on
their unsuspecting feow-beings.s The 7th will
remain just as impossible the oh, till relieved
| by additional data. A Board, who can thus need
lessly embarrass class, composed in part of La
dies, display highhanded, reckless disregard of
the public welfare, and notorious deficiency of
/
upon such deceptive, shameful imposition!
In reference to the Examination on Grammar,
l weulG merely observe, that if the candidates for
certificates were required to number the rules vio-
lated by those ungrHmmatical sentences, they were
baffled by impossibility, worse than the one
specified by the Board. That this was the rule
on previous occasion, have the assertion of
one who was present. Now, it is well known that
grammatical rules bid fair to rival the ncacuIable
multiplicity of patent pills. Therefore, they nigh,
os well require applicants to number the rules
necessary to regulate the confusion of languages
at ancient Babel In view of such arbitrary regu-
a,ious. we are led TO surmise, that success fell to
the lot of those, aided by the power of partiaIty
or some kind spirit of This progressive age. In
deed little further progress viii deprive US of al
teachers, excepting fully developed +" mediums
Teachers can take the hint and prepare them
: selves accordingly.
! If any deem these remarks too severe, let then
, bear in mind the provoking indigDes offered t.
persons bafled in their efforts TO gain certificates
by premedtated design, manifested by proposing
impossibilities. We have proof that this unfortu
nate class, have been sneeringly termed :. Far
mer's Boys" and "Bullheads,'' by of thei
+ mercilsss Examiners. These " Builheads'' nigh
well retort, that the of insolent aristocrac
: can boast of at least two three Superlativ
, Whales. Should these +" monsters of the deep
t discover hereafter, that they have encountered a
: army of Sword fish, instead of Bullheads,' lie
them thank their whae-ke stupidity and rash
ness. 49,
But the people Of Portage will not long suffe
!, their intelligent County to stand monumer
among its neighhors, not of ignorance, but of th
: deporable consequences of aristocratie, oyerheal
IL ing, hypercritcal intolerance. They still censide
their own sons and daughters abundantly qualife
a. to manage their Common Schools. They wi
} claim that Board of School Examiners, who er
courage obedience to that sum of all vilainies
c. the Fugitive Slave Act, shall at least, enable the
, to obey that law which taxes them heavily for I'll
, support of their Schools. and insist their
y tnuanre during sevsn months in year and the
clhm will be demanded in such tones of energ
. irmness and unanimity, that couceited arrogans
~ itself, will fear to dsobey.
P. o. CHAPMAN.