The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-07-03
For The Western Democrat.

Mr. EDfroR: send you for insertion in your
columns the subjoned article which appeared IN
q late issue Of the n. G. Presbyterian Its irony
is keen, but that is not its highest merit When
read Alright it will be found to am wittsa clear
eye and strong hand, an effective blow at the root
Of evils which often ascrbed to causes tar re-
mote from the real ones. In very distinct terms
it tells by what means the progress OF many
promising youth 10 our schools and Coneges II
retarded his habits of study undermined, induce
ments to itlieness and diss patton supplied and
! all the ford hopes which gathered around INN,
blasted. The mischief is done IN many, many
cases at home and from home-done by those
who least suspect their agency in it.
But l leave S. "A. Y, whom L thank for his
honest and timely exposure of the source of such
evils, to speak for himself. could wish that his
voice might he heard through every press in our
State and reach every parent who has son, or a
daughter, in any Of our public institutions OF
learning. H.
How TO MAKE YOUR Son A GoOD SCHOLAR
/. IN COLLEGE He goes but once in lifetime
it is the most valuable period, the forming one
1t is at great expense ; you expect he Will
come out an honor and satisfaction to you -
What are some Of the directions to arrive at that
result2
l. Send him before he is we'll established IN
moral principle so that he fall INTO temptation,
and become vicious, the disturber OF all good
students Send him badly prepared In his
studies, so that he willrabor under great dlsad-
Vantages all the way through.
2. Keep him at home week or two after the
term begins, so that he may be behind his class
send for him once twice in the course OF
the. term to attend meeting OF trlends-a Pic
mic, party, a political meeting-to relax his
mind from hard study, especially mathematics.
Send for him to come home before the end OF
the term, to avoid the examination, because he
-dislikes that
8. Let him dictate his own studies; and when
he gets lazy and the regular course too hard,
write to him to drop those studies that tax his
mind so much, and take an irregular course
4. Send him every week large bundle of
newspapers with abundance of love stories,
or scurrlous political TRADES, that will take a
large part of his time to read he cannot study
80 much.
5. Listen to all abuses of the Faculty, that
tyrannical body and the object of much en-
nifty in all colleges, sympathise with him in
this enmity and in his prejudices against those
who exercise any restraint over him. And, as
of course he will complain Of his fare at the
boarding house, permit him to change his
boarding every few weeks
g. Furnish him with large sums of money to
spend in night-suppers and in other entertain
snents, where he can show his liberality aud
become popular in college. Let him wear a
gold watch with two or three heavy chains; a
half dozen fngerriags, and good supply Of
breast-pins.
These are only few hints which have occur
red to US, after experience of many years in
teaching and the observation of the practice of
many parents. Almost any one can extend
them and Fill them up. And if, after all this
counteracting Of the care and efforts of the
Facility, your son is not first rate scholar in
every department; of course they are much to
blame, and "you will never send another son
there" S. A. X