Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-13

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81 hope there will be no objection, Mi
chael Green" 81, iss4 s...l n q. ~ ass,.
"Oh, no, of course not-there's no OBJ
lection; but want to know if q may 60
to Aunt CampbelPs this evening Z, ~.
al hope there will be no objection, MI
chael Green" Dr. War; repeated, with
marked emphasis. gg yssG s.es Is
/ could not make out what my new
schoolmaster meant, and was going to
question him further, when one of the boys
came up sand pulled me away saving,
"What nuff you are, amt YOU? Why,
he means you may go, OF course You
see I. was fresh, to the school then, and
didn't understand the Doctors ways, OIL
should have known he was never accus-
toned to use stronger alternatives or mega
tiyes'than /" hope so, Is" THRUST not,a ~
hope there will be no objection :; Eyes
and "No" being weighty reservations re-
served by him for the most solemn, ocear
sions when other men would employ an
oath. This was the Doctors reading Of
"Let your yea be yea, andyour nay, nay !;
but as we never once in all our lives heard
him employ those words, we used to fancy
he read the passage, Let your yea be Il
hope SO, and your nay Il trust not" In
deed, it was a standing joke in the, school
that when DIR. War; married Mrs. War;,
and was asked if he would take that lady
to be his welded wife, he had undoubtedly
replied, with gravity, II hope there is no
Objection"aa 81 s. seij 3s.p sdt sijag 7s.sl i j
If you had met our schoolmaster in COM
pany, you would probably have thought of
him only as aquiet, mild little man of about
eight and thirty, whose dress you would
remark as rather shabby. You might also
have noticed the peculiar Difference with
which he would listen to the conversation
of other people,. seldom 'obtruding a re-
mark of his own. He was one of the very
few who are not content with .admiring
Carlyle's precept, Speech is silvern, 81
lence is golden" but act upon it. You
would require to see a great deal of our
Doctor before 1t would occur to you to
recognize in such gentle, quiet, unobtru-
sive man the deep thinker and the subtle
philosopher which he was. 1t was great
treat to see him when a new boy described
his attainments in Euclid, algebra, Crigo-
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
trusted we should find it so. at is my
practice" he would say, ste, begin at the
anu ~ w Ill ttOdObiCoo I'IOfO JUL
eficial to you to refresh your. memory with
the first three rules of arithmetic
and little of the earlier portions of the
Latin grammar" "A simple sum in, sub
traction or division, or some odd question
on the Latin declensions, as DR.. War;
would putiit, was always sufficient to floor
the new boy. Our Doctor would never
teach a pupil until he had made him feel
exceedingly ignorant, which is only anoth-
er word for teachable, and then he would
begin with him on first principles.
Doctor War; kept school neither for
profit nor fame. "a wealthy man, and q
wise one a LED. of Dublin University,
he thought hecould best employ his lei
sure for the benefit of others in teaching
And probably no one before Or since ever
conducted aschool in the same manner !! i
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.. War;
thought he could personally superintend
with efficiency. ! waited two years before
vacancy occurred, and 1T was thought
even then piece of good fortune to get
into his school at Vizborough. In addition
to his own instruction, we had resident
tutor and lecturer, and two professors came
twice a week from Marbury College, be-
sides drawing and music masters. s 80, ~.
The first innovation noticed on ordi-
nary school practice was this, 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. 1t mattered nothing aohea,
they were done, so long as they qoere 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 man at college. IF
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 paid for everything we did, At the
close OF each day we made out bill for
work done, thus:
DR.. to MICHAEL GREEN,