Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-27
AT DR. WARES.

chael Green"
 1 ''Oh, no. of course not-there's no ob- 1 jection, but l want to know if I may go to Aunt Campbells this evening?"
 { T hope there will be no objection, Mi chael Green," Dr. Warr repeated, with marked emphasis. ..
 l could not make out what my new schoolmaster meant, and was going to question him further, when one of the boys came up and pulled me away. saying, 'What muf you are, aint you? Why,
 he means you may go, of course" You see was fresh to the school then, and i didn't understand the Doctors ways, or I should have known he was never accustom- ed to use stronger affrmatives or negatives than T hope so, trust not, I hope there will be no objection; Yes" and :'No" being weighty asseverations reserved by him for the most solemn occasions when 1 other men would employ an oath. This was the Doctors reading of ''Let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay''; but as we nev- CT once i'll all our lives heard him employ i those words, we used to fancy he read the passage, 'Let your yea be I hope SO, and your nay I trust not '" Indeed, it was 8 standing joke in the school that when Dr. Warr married Mrs. Warr, and was asked if he would take that lady to be his welded wife, he had undoubtedly replied, with gravity, ''I hope there is no objection"
 If you had met our schoolmaster in com pany, you would probably have thought of h1m only as a quiet, mild little man of about eight and thirty, whose dress you would remark as rather shabby You mig ght also have noticed the peculiar deference with which he would listen to the conver- sation of other people, seldom obtruding remark of his own. He was one of the very few who are not content with admiring Carlyles precept, "Speech is silvern si- fence Is golden," but act upon it. You would require to see 8 great deal of our Doctor before it would occur to you to rec ognlze In such a gentle, quiet, unobtru- sive man the deep thinker and the subtle philosopher which he was It was a great treat to sec him when new boy described his attainmentsin Euclid, algebra, trigo- nometry, Greek, Latin or Hebrew. Only an old boy could distinguish the odd twin kle in the Doctors eye as he congratulated the newcomer on his knowledge, and trus- ted we should find it so 'sIt is my prac- tice, " he would say, ''to begin at the begin ming, and it will doubtless prove beneficial to you to refresh your memory with the first three rules of arithmetic and little of the earlier portions of the Latin gram mar" Asimple sum in substraction or di- vision, or some odd question on the Latin declensions, as Dr. Warr would put it. was always sufficient to floor the new boy. Our Doctor would never teach & pupil until he had made him feel exceedingly ignorant, which IS only another word for teachable. and then he would begin with him on first principles.
 Doctor Warr kept school neither for profit or fame. A wealthy man, and a wise one, LID. of Dublin University, he thought he could best employ his leisure for the benefit of others in teaching. And probably no one before or since ever con- ducted school in the same manner am sure no one ever knew the ways of boys better. Our number was rigidly restricted to twelve boarders and six day scholars, that being as large number as Dr. Warr thought he could personally superintend with efficiency. waited two years before vacancy occurred, and it was thought even then piece of good fortune to get into his school at Vizborough In addi- tlon to his own instruction, we had resi- dent tutor and lecturer, and two professors camo twice week from Marbury College, besides drawing and music masters. The first innovation noticed on ordina. fy Scnool practlce was th1s, We had no school hours. There was so much work for each boy to do every week, and masters were always ready at specified times to hear lessons. It mattered nothing aohen they were done, so long as they rere done Certain classes and lectures had to be at tended, but without any of the ordinary restraints of school hours. Each boy was thus placed on an independent footing similar to that of a man at college. If a boy could get through his weeks work in five days, so much the better for him, if he liked holidays. These were not given us; they were earned; we bought them. For all our school business was regulated by a currency of paper money, in which we were each day we made out bill for work done, thus;
 DOCTOR WARR,
 Dr. to MICHAEL GREEN