The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-27

ton of being the first classical teacher IN the
citv. had been rendered the position, but de-.
clined it. We deeply regret this. His reasons
for doing so were, no doubt, sufhclent 10 MIN.
self. but the college has lost the services oi
one whose abilities would have done honor 10
the Institution.
To raise the standard of education in our
schools and make classical instruction, in lis
lower stages, something more than mere
name, we must have frst-class professor in
our college.
The whole character of our schools, as pre-
paratory institutions, depends on this-proVi-
ded our youths are to be kept at home. If they
are not, if parents prefer to send them abroad,
well and good; let this protessorship be given
to whom you please, or better still, let be dis
continued and the college with it,and the funds
appropriated to some other purpose. But II
have our sons educated at home, and desire
for them every possible advantage-now is
the time to see to it that this chair be properly
filed. We must have no sham professor,
who will crowd the curric ''um with host Of
textbooks, serving only te terrily, by for
midable array, the timid applicant for admis-
sion but this we must have. In our new
professor we must have q man, who will In
stinctively command the respect and attention
OF the students-who shall be thoroughly versed
in the ancient authors, and so deeply imbued
with love for them that his earnestness
shall kindle corresponding interest IN the
students. But we would not have him so
blinded by the beauties of thought as to over
look the niceties of syntax and analysis. In
his examinations for admission, particularly,
we would have him rigid in his requirements
| on these points. Let him appoint what course
| of preparatory reading his judgment may dc
| tate as necessary for admission; but In every
case let him fully satisfy himself that the
youth before him has not been crdn1nled Tor
| the occasion, but has been carefully aud intel
| ligently trained. We would have no scholar
| of ours passed. as a matter of course, or as o
| favor. Let each stand or fall according to
merit. Though teacher, and fully realizing
that the teachers Office is no bed of roses, we
would have not one jot of its burthens abated,
when by so doing the true interests and future
prospects of our scholars are endangered. We
accord 10 every teacher credit for the inten-
ton OF making his scholars as proficient as
possible. II such be not his intention he fails
In duty, ana we would be rejoiced to feel that
when we have transferred them as precious
metal, highly polished, TO the care of the pro-
fessor, they will at least be kept polished.
But, as teachers, we may be behind the age.
| Our attempts at accuracy may not come up TO
| the requirements Of the day. Who Is to con-
vict us of this Not professor, surely, who
| Is as careless as ourselves, or, perhaps, more
Indifferent to those living beauties that Vltaize
| these dead languages
In behalf, then, of the entire corps OF teach
| ers In the city-though authorized 10 speak for
them only by that brotherhood of feeling and
interest that binds us together-we beg this
committee to be careful In It's nomination
we ask the faculty to be circumspect In their
decision. Let US have true man, one whom
we ourselves can look up to tor instruction,
whose fine scholarship and accurate training
shall act as model for our Imitation.
A TEACHER.