Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-01


ties. Upon that question Offer no opinion. But
II is obvious to remark that the experiment here
has been tried under conditions very different from
those which would surround the same scholars as
| members of college distant from their homes and
| removed from oil the home influences which CON
tribute so much to mOuld the character and reru-
late the conduct of the Young. And it should also
| be said that the experiment whose results are so
| cordially endorsed BY the committee tried I'M
/ der the supervision of gentleman, Mr. Blbridge
| G. Smith, the first principal of the school, who
| seems 10 have been a most accomplished teacher
and rare discipnariau.
IcannOt forbear further TO say of Mr. Smith that
! he was an early and generous benetactOr of the
school, giving several hundred dollars, the proceed
of course of lectures delivered by himself for the
| purchase of philosophical and other apparatus for
It's This sum- together with liberal donation
at the time from the Hon. Stephen Salisbury,
whose recent benefacton TO the school shows that
/ he has lost neither his interest IN the cause of
popular education nor his habit of judciOus giving,
/ constituted the fund with which most of the APP
| p2ratus now in the school was procured.
Judging from the tone ofthe annual report of the
school board it is safe to infer that the high scnool
| during the first wears Of its existence fulfilled the
anticipation of its founders ana patrons, and an
object of pride to the town. But these were followed
by years ofdepressiOn in its fortunes and from
eause the school became less object Of popular re-
| gard but in the year 1853 new interest was
awakened in behalf of the school and renewed i'm.
| pulse was given TO the better and more ambitious
| class oil its members by the l1beraity OF
/ our fellow-eitizens, from whom you will soon
| have the pleasure of hearing, IN giving TO the
city the sum Of SlO00 to be set apart as fund, of
/ which The annual income shall be appropriated,
under the direction Of the school committee for the
encouragement Of merit in scholarship and dcport-
ment in both sexes, in the high school OF Worces-
| ter. The income Of this sum was, by recommends
| ton of the committee annually expended in the
purchase OF twenty silver medals for distribution
among the scholars most distinguished for excel
lence in the several departments OF the school. For
seven years these medals continued TO be distributed
among the twenty scholars adjudged most meritori-
| Gus.
But, says the report OF 1865 the good results ex-
pected were not realized from this method OF app
plying the proceeds of the fund, and. with the com
sent Of the donor, in February, 1868, the name was
changed TO the Bullock fund for the high school If
brary and apparatus to which purposes it has since
There has been connected with the school for
| some years a debating club miniature parlia-
ment, wherein our future statesmen have been or
are now being trained. This is a voluntary and
self supporting association or undergraduates.
The number of scholars has varied from year to
year, beginning with 49, as already stated, and
reaching 1856, which was the number at the COM
meneement OF the present year. which is a larger
number, as | am informed, than have ever been
members of the school in any former year. There
is no reason 20 doubt that this number will be in-
creased to 500 within few years; for it's believe
the settled policy to make this, not select school,
but popular school in the best sense of that word
| and to bring its advantages within the reach of
every boy and girl in the city who is willing and
able to devote the necessary time to make the adj
| yantages available TO themselves.
The proportion Of graduates to the number who
have been admitted to the school for the past four
teen years, which covers all the time of which [
have been able to obtain any authentic record has
been nearly Or quite a. large as that shown by the
reports OF the most successful h1gh schools in the
commonwealth. This fact is highly creditabe both
| to scholars and teachers.
This brief sketch would be signalIy incomplete
without, the statement that the Worcester nigh
sSIooa mas lts own eiight ron oi lonor on Whlch
graduates will be found, who served in the armies
frtoo ~ b .H !" IL =. I'M se ~ 4 anu
| of liberty and good government. Twenty-Five OF
IS iitt i ~ Ist ~ I".Riu9 rom mt
bopiS he inscr, va or Al 'rese names
bO,5 ,5 in.5 ~ O iiIL.i islLaoV Lii.2le =!
g,2iE ~ p,aGg III soig apptopIlate pGsltio4 ~
,,oi,l,- Jon ~ - " - 9 ny 4 IA Si Etty
ars a c9Dst9n III insis"i ~ ,I VI 9 I
doo5 iSl"'ion 10 loiE IesolFe anu brave
Snd ,o,,, - o,,, ,,i- e -; l.. 49, 4.
~ - - ~ Oiiy - 70 ~ mt, ~, 70 pass 10
boed ro+ ec ~ MP ul 6or aHtnofI,y1 Us the
Of tba.a arnDo b1i 9voD, " ' t, m
oor5a &c - ! aseu tu-ut' 70 tile
,ilIor Iiab b So4 ~ n s ailu 10 Ile
lisving with fba fTar1ar of o,,r i "a HoI, ~
Hon o9 y,,'ott IN. % ~ "ui'ii US itu"
to o nj ~ wa" mlsuUi ana knowledge
of IA ,,a,,,ia "a , sS-e'lJ among the body
| thpir r{rhfs and - IOr me preservation Oh
lerGieS, THIS community has ever
-A--s=-f7Su ana with liberal hand sustained, the
| cause OF popular education. ana "e shall expect
VI yo "iu 4oul 'sssocitsg ieacltrs mat you VIII
nor ohY teach our sons ana daughters the apfslnts
"a lessons from the DOCKS put mat you Will Incu-
cate IN tSh me loFe OF virtue ana OF every NOBLE
| manly ana Womanly qualtY Whlch goes TO make up
tne cnaractef OF true man Or woman, and whleh
- Ian ~ tle gtLllS 81 tIe scaools %i,u-
! -
ScuooaI 'alu I'm liiS great duiy ana TINS most
| Hoho'aole anu responsible trust commit TO you
Snese keys
Mr.. Davis came forward and accepted the
| 1. ~ IL H. r -,
| NeAs anu ulAue the ioho"lhS IenlafhS'
ADDRESS OF HiR, DAVIS.
Mr.. Chairman: accept these keys as the symbols
| of great trust and OF grea responsibility; for
| they sare 10 open doors |on golden hinges turn
| ing' TO receive the hope Of the ety's future. To
! the teachers whom ! represent is eonfded NOT
merely the custody Of this beautiful building but
| largely the mental and moral nurture of the Young
| manhood and young womanhoOd That are to give
| that future Its stability and beauty.
Looking, therefore, to the interests involved il IS
| evident that our vocation is burdened with The
grayest responsibility and that it can yield TO no
| other in dignity and significance. DR.. Charming
| once Remarked 'Much as | respect the ministry Of
the gospel believe it must Yield III Importance to
upon perls6able canvas or marble, or more last
ing brassi" but with sklllful unskilltui hand ne
ESSAYS to mould that which IS indestructibe as the
stars and precious the breath OF divinity Holding
under his sway the future state ii he does not qlvp
10 "the very age and body OF the time his form aud
pressure he is reCreant TO his duty or ignorant OF
MS opportunity.
| if education meant only Accommodations of know!-
edge as Is sometimes notwithstanding would be
| an easier and an inferior business. The teacher
| would be little more than peddler of facts On
the contrary It'll his privilege 10 be in the fullest
| sense, an artist, He sees in his pupils not empty
vessels to be filled, but immortal spirits waiting to
| be developed and disciplined under his magic touch
TO the athletic aud heathfu use other powers. SAID
! dian of Louis XIV, "You are to strive with every
| effort to make yourself useless" The teacher
| touches SUCCESS when he makes his pupils self-pro.
peing. Hence the best teaching is that winch puts
The pupil in complete possession of himself: and
nai II ig 0sE eel 6 3 9ag %ch charms the
imparts courage and patience and manlinessMthe
Iee VI mLio Is eh i rGousI anu e9mely
inc Influences The hearts Of The nennle sbonid h
twned about IT, Their feet shouId love to yisit if
Their FOOD words and roOd v,ishns eboHld brigbtan
| every room like ''the Golden rules Of sInsh1nS
This stately pdiice is witness that fhn citiyane
| of Worcester hold the canse of educ1tion door
| Thav have wisely chosen fo conv somatvhot tha
| maGnifoenca of tbpns rather thS3u fha niainnoss
| of SPARTA Inc Atheniaps. BELIEVING thar fosfatII
| objects fire the imaginafion and kindie SeIins
adorned tbpir little CITY with temnles arcbas 6n,n
fains. sfofues-yyIth eyervthinc thot conId nioSso
! the sense If haoutv F
| ,tTbev Untitled battep tl,op +be,, t.r,o,,, ,,
| for tIair ro5ts heroes orstors bisioria,,p to+-
| mon nbitosonbars to9atbsr 1ril tair L,oi.,7, 81
rn1ns and r1fned ARCHES arc tha ineitnctcre Cf ,y
kind to-lav The Spart9ns bqnishiny ta orts a,id
sciences beouae fbai Ia fbe world nn5 bor,as ~
bnroic virtuas yose var o,d f;,,n 10, ,oaa
transmifted IN ms in tba terat1ra oF hlr 49, go
| cacions ri,raI VI ' Oie g"
In behaif of rn,sa1f civ and no INV e,,,o,, +aob
ers I THANH thiS cofn7n1p,f,r Srr tbeir Nm; 5,+
rft Proyidnnca assistjr 20 ShoIi he fiti fi
9ns vioilant and or,iisnf snSrIioT az H., tt o.
nosed In ns Dresent t6o The beert1 ftaps oi