Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-12

Mr.. QUINCY here gave u humorous description oi
these three modes first, by iillipng the forehead
OF a dull or refractory pupil; next, by boxing his
cars; and, third by the instrumentnly of the fer
rule. lie really believed that il any one master
at the present day should employ the means then
used by all masters he would be compelled 10
take his choice between heavy fine, to be paid to
the parents OF the pupil, or soourn in the House
lot Correction. Nay, should some things now oc-
cur which then were common, his excellent friend
near him, (Chief Justice SHAW mild and amiable
as he was, would probably send the master to the
State prison for an assault with intent to kill
And IN science young men were then thoroughly
instructed, beginning ut the beginning They
learned the multiplication table then in college
they don't do that now. Pixies Arithmetic and
Webbers Mathematics were the collegiate class
books IN his early day bu, where we're they now
Ills hearers might not believe him, but he himself
when in the senior class, was assigned to q mnthe,
matical part at one of the college exhibitions, and
had absolutely progressed far to calculate an
eclipse. Indeed, he was induced to this by the
hope of Immortality; for it was told him that all
such mathematical productions would be preserved
as beacon-ghts for the instruction and admiration
! OF generations then unborn But it so happened
that in the course of years the faculty for want
of n better man, made him President of the College,
and OF course his first thought was to look after his
eclipse. Laughter. To his modification and as
constituent 1t was no where to be found. 1t had
gonc like the lost Pleiad, and might only be dis
coNerel perhaps Oy tne observations OF his astf0n-
omicol friends from Clover Den among the yet un-
resolved nebule. But recently he had received
from Prof. Pierce an address by him before the
Smithsonian Institute, and, strange rs it might
seem, mortifying as it must be to him, mathemati-
clan that he had been he could not understand two
thirds of it, laughter. M
Mr.. Quincy then passed to q consideration of the
habit of referring to the age of men. On every
occasion, whether in public private, an old man
was sure to be reminded of his years. Why was
this? Old age did simply consist in len 9Th of
days. for as the President had quoted
"Wisdom is grey hairs in man, ~
..'- And an unspotted life is his old age" "-- s -f
If it arose from sympathy, there was no ground
for 1t /; the sympathy was absolutely thrown away
so tar as his experience reached, old age was the
happiest period of life. And why not? Had we
not then got rid of the nonsense of love- laughter
the folly of ambition, the grumbling of envy, the
delusions of hope? lie repeated that old age was
the happiest portion of life, provided that in youth
of nature regulating health and strength, and leads
py and ong-lived it was important that there shoud
be a harmony between the beginning, the middle
and the end of life and especially between the be-
ginning and the end. The young man should cul-
tivate and foster the qualities which lie sees to he
respectable End esteemed in the old, and the old
man, on the other hand, should retain and seek to
perpetuate the feelings and yivacity of youth.
| The ex-Presdient closed with this sentiment:
"The hoary hairs with which wisdom crowns
the young and the unspotted life which is the crown
of man in every period of his existence" Much
cheering.