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The Dread Institute OF Worcester
NInSS

institution, his Virginia colonization
scheme and other public duties claiming hi
time. lie is succeeded as principal b,
Francis Fowler Esq, of Milton, Mass. Mr.
Fowler is graduate Of the University o
Vermont. lie is qualified for his new DO
sition by many years experience as teach
er and by high attainment in his profession
The Dread Institution is a young ladies'
school OF the highest class. Its annual ex.
animation is an occasion which ranks in
interest with many college commencements.
At its recent examination, Prof Hunting
ton, of Harvard, delivered an address, from
a report Of which IN the Traveller We ex-
tract the following
| Prof huntington subject was the Sci
! enco of Home panionsLp-the science
| OF being member Of Society. Bv Society
! the lecturer did not mean any association
| yoked by domineering fashions, or guided
by prescribed rules-not the society Of etI-
| quctte, hypocrisy, ceremony and diplomacy,
but society seeking the harmonious deve-
lopement ofall the powers of men, and exis.
ting under the majestic laws of intelligence.
freedom and charity the balance Of indi.
Vidual popularity with collective unity.
In a word--a Christian society rooted in
Christian convictions, expanding by Chris
tian culture, eliminating in IA Christian
commonwealth, society unlimited in num-
bers or by external conditions. Its essen
tial Characteristic is that different hearts
and lives touch, different hopes and wills
strengthen and stimulate each other, and it
may be realized in the family, in the school
tI,o,
the process of mutual formation is going on;
everywhere the same celestial opportunities
of unselfsh mercy stand wating-everv-
where the same temptations.
Social usefulness IS the crown of earthly
attalnments excepting the glory of God,
it is the last and highest object of human
learning. Study which does not tend to
this, is un,ousecrated. Z lucltlon in the
Christian sense never contemplates an iso
lated specimen.
The doctrine of social usefulness displac-
es intellectual selhshness, whether in the
form OF cOmphcency or ambi ion, which is
the radical disorder Of our schools and
olarship-torbidding US to stimulate the
brain at the expense of the heart. Pupils |
strive to outstrip each other, not to reach
a common goal. OF this he gave several
tOrclble examples. The boy Chatterton
begged an artist to paint him an angel with f.
trumpet and wings, to sound his name over /
the world. Plagiarism, forgery, m4dness,
suicide, were the horrible chapters in his |
biography. Titan, on the tonmost round |
OF Fame, was enviOus of the rising of Tin
toreIto and BOssuet, the master Of the in
tellectual nobility Of France. was afraid to
approve the Telemachus Of Fenclon How .
to contribute tae amplest gilt to the well .
ftr Of, l,.,t
ted and Of educating persons. Moreover.
the rational faculties cannot unfold to their
perfect proportions under any but the
broadest mouve-the good of others. And .
again, there are other faculties not of the
unierstanlin5-th reasoning faculty viz
those which have their seat in the heart,
and these find development only under this
golden and unseltsh rule And again, the
that education ought t. cOntem-
plate sJcia! service tends 10 correct the
habit Of anas-ing undgested and uudrec-
ted stores OF inturmatlon-lying like alco-
hol upon the brain OF the sOt while it al
50 furnishes US stimulus, and the only ad-
tquate and perfect one tJr unlimited ad-
in study.
Under the second division Of his subject.
Prof. II referred more directly to the sci.
ence Of home compauionshIp itself, on the
nature and method of its culture, analyzing
It's parts and noting its difficulties.
la society disgust alway, follows the dis
aoyery OF disguised competition, the most
common form Ot social seldshuess. Gold
smith sat apart sullea and silent, johnson
says, because he could not shine in the con-
Tersation of the wits. lie finds equals every
lay. Social selt-as5ertlon spoils talk, pc.
rifles humOr Iaralyzes sympathy and kills
IN \Ah 1Va n htv ,,,I
A. or B. come to be admired. Mirth is
and here lies one distinction
If humor and wit. Pride and ambition
nay be witty, but only sympathy and be-
levolence humorous, Wit sneers and hu.
nor laughs. Again, self-assertion DANA
,es companionship by dropping an invisible
Jut very Intellectual veil OF dlsappoint-
ID vanity. Contrary to the laws Of our
clence 1t always is opening paths for self
display and gratited vanlty-continua ~
iOgmatizes and asserts its own opinions
These parts of his subject Prof. II. illus
rated at length, with much acuteness and
lower of analysis
Another principle of the same science is
he necessity OF striking just balance be-
ween individual consistency and a tolera
ION of differences, i. Q. between indepen-
ience and courtesy, or honesty and charity.
How to be sincere without being censori-
Jus, faithful without being fussy, how to
stand fast on every ISSUE OF right and
wrong, and yet not torture people with
controversies-these are some
If the difficult problems of our science A
practical solution is one of the noblest
,races Of Christian education.
Again, II great deal of friction IN society
'omes from the demand Of some for exces-
i've sympathy. There are many who, as
Robert Hall acutely said, go through the
world, and seem to be offer ng a perpetual
u ology for the unpardonable presumption
II having been born. But the deepest dis
urblncu of all comes from the ialsehoOds
II social intercourse. Woget company TO-
,ether with lie; receive them with extrav-
giant welcome-another lie; fashions made
up Of composite illusions ornamenting them ,
With another, elaborate ceremonies to sus-
ain mock dignity, another, and dishon-
sty regrets at farewell dismissing them
With another. Who will dare to affirm
hat these lies do not enter appallingly in
o the structure Of what we call civilized
nd social llel
The laws OF social companionship for edu-
ated women are briefly, then, to call out
n each new mind encountered, its peculiar
,owers in their best and iaircst develop
nent. For this, women are especially quail
hed--to be the encouragers of genius, the
Infolders of reserved strength, the leaders
f the world hesitaIing valor, Wise heart
Il scnollrs, You will be sisters in uniyer-
al society OF the Sacred heart of Christ"
here is demanded, also, as another law, a
tcadfast and hearty sympathy with all hu-
AN beings as such. Tho third and final
rinciple of the social science, is, that each
eparate soul in the social system be occu-
lied and exalted by the great objects Of life,
nd so bea whole and organic creation in
tsef.