The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-10-18

10 pursue. his rs often no fault of the
teacher. but arises from the necessity OF
bis position The school is committed
to him with the distinct understanding.
that he is to live from it, if he can-to
starve, if he must Knowing. as he does,
that no school, on the sclf-supporting
principle, can be properly furnished with
teachers, apparatus. libraries, &C., con.
Quoted in the most legitimate way
solely for the good of the pupils-and
furnish an adequate pccuniary compen-
sation, he has to choose between a spec.
dy abandonment of the profession and
mode of conducting the Institution Who'll
ly at variance with his own convictions
of what is truest and best The first is
tho mere common choice. aud the State
| thus loses the services Of many of her
best aud ablcst teachers, who carry else
where and into other pursuits the cner.
gy and scholarship, which they would
gladly devote to Institutions at home
making them an ornament and blessing
to the community, were they permitted
to conduct them, without making sacri.
fees repugnant to conscience and and
high sense Of personal honor.
In addition to their fnctuatinr char.
acter. most Of our Academies are sean
tily furnished, if furnished at all. with
Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus.
Maps, Globes, &c and are TOO poor to
employ enough teachers to turn such
means of experiment and illustration 10
good account, if, in few instances, they
chance to possess them.
Institutions in this condition are not
prepared to furnish properly qualified
teachers for the State of Vermont. The
State owes it to herself to take better
care Of her higher interests than to trust
them to schools thus disqualified for
their mission, and ought at once to OK.
tend to them. as is done in New York
and other States, such aid MS shall eff
fcctually rescue them from the degrada-
ton into which they have fallen, Of be.
ing only transient, pecuniaryjobbing es
adjustments. We have not space to en-.
large on this subject here, and may re-
cur to it again, but cannot conclude.
without expressing our decided and long |
cherished conviction, that he, who would |
do anything cffeciual for the interests of
education in Vermont, mus; begin By
breaking ground on the question Of pla
cling our Academies on a more perna-
nent aud liberal pccuuiary basis, and that
whatever else he may succeed in doing,
t must prove a failure. while this is un.
lonc 1t requires but moments re.
lection to perceive that, without god
Academies. VIC can have noi,ler good
Colleges. nor good Common Schools
Carr Lrcr who was supposed TO
ave been lost at the tmo of the coils.
on of Tie arctic. was fiually rescued,
$ ill be Seen by Geographic reports
rom Quebec The Captain passed
Trough MiddlcIury Monday last, in the
ars, on his way to New York
However much we may commend the
manly daring of the Captain and somc
Their officers Of the A,cfic, in this aw-
nj scene, We must be driven to the con-
fusion that somewhere there was Grim.
nal carelessness, IN running at their
sual speed in dense fog, in a much
requentcd portion of the Atlantic,with-
ut giving any sort of signal Of their
lear approach to other vessels. The
world at large i, becoming insane ,impcr.
eptibly though it may be. on the sub
Get of annihilating time, by making the
Quickest trips from place to place.
When We look back upon the last year,
with all Its awful calamitics upon the
leep, our blood runs cold, to think of the
helpless condition Of those on board the
many vessels that have been destroyed
BY fre,by collision and by being wrecked.
We ask, when will the captains on ship.
board, and conductors on railroads learn
and so graduate their speed aud |
take such other precautions as viii en-.
sure the safe arrival of those committed |
to their carc2 Let the shricks of those |
on board the arctic. MS she was making
her final plunge ST Il ring in the cars Of
those, to whom is committed such pre-
cious freight. Let the figure of the fran
tic and distracted mother, as she learns
the fate Of her darling child, pass con.
stantly before their eyes. Let the silent
and crushed fathers look of despair, as
he thinks of bis darling boy now lost for
ever, be stamped upon their hearts, never
to be effaced, SO that this last and most
awful admonition may prove lasting
benefit to mankind
EI- Our frieads Mcssrs Davenport
& Clay, had ihrce pieces of their excel
lent Cloths on exhibition. We judge
that in the class of goods to which they
devote their attention, they are unsur-
passed by any mandatory and VIC hope