The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-15

y Lon part The reports ON .tte co,,rae
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sfe house Her should have tisemsd t,ese
e ann a.oS ", adequate compensation for his
!. Professor james NJ. Garnet, president 81
~. sennss Go.iege. Annapolis. thinks, with
as ssls - ss,s, should come
ga yocated beginning Latin firSf thnI, siraal
ana then French, the frist.ti,rion ,,,vey
i WINCH ihof had the honor to f,rcsl6e t,a mia
Was that IL q student took Easin Tossiv no
.ust take at least one modern Iaric.iaee. II
/ ae took neither Latin nor Greek. he was re.
qn,faa TO study both French and (;ermar, :.
I NJ. II. d. Amber advocated stud y;np
Lati1 grammar before English because there
! was really no, competent elementary hn,ls A
English grammar. He asked Prnfassar.
tJoynes what treatise he used In teaching hin
own children. ,.',' tit''sei u -
/ Professor e. S.,Joynes said that really. he
used any English grammar and abused
almost all. edid not think, however. that
| child should study English grammar ~ n
philologlst. He wanted the facts not the
] philosophy of the language for them. II
was sure his friend, Mr.. Amber, must have
been very bad boy or he would never have
been put so early to earnfIatin--to keen
him out of mischief. He Judged his friend
1 by himself. They had put him Professor
Joynes) as Latin when he was less than six.
years old. He could not remember when
| he was not in Latin. though he ago remern.
| bered that he had flonndered in hopeless
It fho
Il, and always supposed ii a judgment on
| him for early ,transgressions. Professor
Joynes incidentally mentioned the fact that
he had been taught Latin by the same man
| who taught the late Or. McGuffey, an inter-
| val of FORT, years Intervening, thetwo pupils
of this ancient pedasogue.; t.. ~.
| The further consideration of the report of
Professor Turner was then laid over until
next year. r7zs.I d -gt 5T
The following resolution, offered by Pro-
| fesS0r Joynes, was unanimously adopted:
| "Resolued, That the female teachers of
Virginia be specially invited to attend the
| meetings of this Association as visitors, and
that railroads aud other transportation lines
be requested by the Executive Committee
to extend to such ladies all the privileges
usually granted to members"
The following, offered by General Francis
| IL. Smith, were also unanimously adopted:
"Resolued, /. That the thanks of this
4 Association are due and are hereby rendered
L 10 the citizens of Alexandria for the elegant
and generous hospitality with which they.
have entertained its members during the
present session; and especially to the Local
Committee Of Arrangements, John S. Black
burn, ESQ.,, chairman, for the wise arrange
ments and the liberal provision made by
them for the accommodation of members,
land for the meetings Of the body. .
90. That the thanks of the Association
are rendered TO the officers of the Baptist
and Presbyterian churches for having gen.
erousy offered their buildings for the meet
ings of the body. ..... ........-
"3. That the thanks of the Association
are returned to the officers of the various
railroads and other lines of travel for the
free return tickets granted to its members.
s4. That the thanks Of the Association
are rendered to the editors of various jour
nails in the State for their full and interest
ing reports of the proceedings of our body
during its present session.
The Association being about to adjourn,
the minutes were read and approved, and
the president, Professor Gildersleeye, made
some yaledctory remarks. 49,. f
He commenced by saying he was one OF
| the two men in the United States VINO could
not make speech, yet he would not declare
the Association adjourned without brief
retrospect of the pleasant session and OF the
| delightful sojourn we have had in Alexan-
| dria. .aJ
Never anywhere had members been more
Hospitality entertained or more warmly cher
| ished than here. Nowhere had they encoun-
tered a people more truly kind or more
thoroughly Virginian. As the child who
| holds to its mother by the border of her
dress clings more tenaciously than he who
nesties in that mothers bosom, so the peo-,
pie of this venerable town might in their de-
Yotion to the State challenge those Of any
situated nearer to its heart. AS an ASSocia-
| ton. we have, it is true, settled nothing, but
then we have unsettled a great deal, aud that,
| in the sense in which he meant it, for men
| who would grow ever wiser, was much. No
| man can 60 home from this. session saying
that he has exactly the same views he brought
| to it. .1;t
MANY and widely different topics have
| been discussed-fction and bistory--girls
and geometry "pretty nearly the same
thing,'' the speaker remarked parentheti-
cally,) have been debated, and much, very
| much has been suggested. Trains Of thought
| had been awakened by the earnest and elo-
quent address " of the gentleman Mr.. Abbott,
| who had spoken to us of the teachers, pro-
fesson, such as few would allow again to
slumber. "In high discourse, matched with
| high example, he had told and taught us
| much. In the interesting discourse of the
other gentleman General Smitl) who had
addressed us, we had had view OF our
brother teachers in the olden time, which
| was full Of valuable suggestion and rieh enter
| tainment." .-.' ~ ~
Professor GiIdersleeve thought there had
been much in this meeting to encourage us.
He referred in graceful and cordial terms to
| tue presence Of many representatives OF pub
| lie schools, whom he babe GOd-speed in their
| work. He believed in a higher and lower
education; he thought we must educate from
above downwards; thatJight naturally CAME
! from above, but that then there should come
hight from below to meet it. He had, how
| ever, neither respect nor sympathy for the
| teacher, be he high or be he low in the
| branches taught, who did not "believe in
vigorous work and earnest conservation to
calling" .,..,; = ~ :ss.
| Professor G. continued at some length
with characteristic wit aud great felicity, and
Iupon taking bis seat was heartily applauded.
| . The Association then adjourned until the
| second Tuesday in July, 1874. W.
EXCURSION TO MOUNT VERNON.
At S O'Clock in the evening, pursuant to
| notice, the members Of the Association, with
some ladies and other invited guests, went
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