The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-11-06

We do not, rs q class, pride ourselves OF
our success in political matters, but we ar,
engaged in q work in which we may justly
be proud, for TO YOU, teachers, are these de-
voted lustructo rs---I might almos, SAY
these inspired men Of science and l;tera-
ture--in this "Athens Of Iowa. the Stst,
University, looking for more and better
work. that they may carry on 10 higher
perfesticn, thai which you have so nobly
begun.
The common school is after ali, the "Peo
pies College and the great mass of our
scholars will never enjoy the privilege OF
| any other.
Reaiing and writing are the open doors
! OF knowledge. ald' these, with arithmetic,
grammar, geography, history, and the new
iy added study Of physiology, are the tools
or implements with which our pupils are to
put themselves into practical or theoretical
relations with the busy world around them
The news from oil along the line is high
~ cheering. Iowa College, at Grinnell, is
| we'll filled, Cornell College, at Mt Vernon,
is Overlooking, and the halls Of this Uni
versity are Gro xded as never before. num-
bering in all its departments, over seven
hundred students. In all these schools it
will ever be . joy to know that the ladies
share equally with the gentlemen the ad-
vantnges and facilities for obtaining q bet
ter education, In all these schools am
happy to inform you, Tama county is we'll
| represented.
II may be Of interest to say something of
the qualification necessary to enter the
University.
Students Of every grade are required 10
pass an examination in the branches have
before mentioned, and in addition, elemen-
t.ry Algebra to Quadratics.
An incidental fee Of five dollars Is all
that is required for one term. Board costs
from three dollars and fifty cents to i've
dollars per week, aud the stu tent furnish
es his own fuel and lights. The large ma
jority of students are boarding themselves
and in this way make two dollars o week
cover the entire expense Of fuel rent Of
rooms and provisions. Those who fail to
pass The examination can attend the Acad-
envy, which is On Institution separate fron,
the University by paying $40 per term. Il
has one hundred aud sixty students in at.
tendance, SO that the classes are much too
la'ge for real benefit in fact the facilities
are no better than in the higher depart
ments Of our graded schools.
This le IDS me 10 say something on the
uch-needed High School in our county, q
subject to which have given much thought
because such a school has been SO much
needed, and if it were In existence to-day,
would be found TO be no visionary project
but solid reality, for it would be we'll fills
ed with students from oil parts of the
county, and many dollars saved to those
who are now obliged to 60 else where at a
much greater expense.
confess that in the past, my faith in
this project has been like unto a grain of
mustard seed, but it occurs 10 me now, that
with our new towns and new railroads, and
the rapil development Of the resources Of
the county, that the time has fully cine
when this subject should receive the atten-
ton it demands,
1t has been we'll said that the .'iearest in :.
terest Of notion 10 the education of its
children" aud il seems to me that these in
terests are 80 imperative in their demands,
in the present, 10 say nothing Of the future,
that our teachers and people will work this
matter up toa successful issue.
As to whether we shall have such school
or not, the voters of our county must decide
The question of its location could also be
decided in the same way.
The population of the county now num-
bers sixteen thousand, three hundred and
fartY-three, according to the State census Of
1878. Surely, in such great number must
there be friends enough 10 this good cause,
TO work out q ressl. 30 favorable to all our
best interests. IA The establishment Of this
county High School. 1t would not only re-
suit in great benefit to our teachers, but
would be a constant source of encourage
ment to the scholars in all our schools.
II we have schools we must have teachers,
and what element will 60 farther in max
ing our schools good than better trained
teachers? And how can we have better
trained teachers without greater facilities
than can be had in our common schools? or
course this has reference more particularly
to those who expect TO become teachers.
Much can be accomplished, however, by
scif-help. Each teacher should be q sub
scribcr for some wideawake, til .rough-go-
ing educational journal. Of which know OF
none that eets our wants better than that
published in our own State, "The Iowa
School Journal" and for which MANY Of
r teachers are already subscribers. What
would be thought Of q minister, doctor or
lawyer, who did not keep himself well
posted, each in his separate department!
10 ask the question simply is to answer it.
Allow me to suggest in conclusion, that
our teachers put more hours Of study upon
the How than upon the What to teach.