The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-07-08
AMERICAN MoRALs.-Tho grand evils
hich menace the people of America now

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trembling to be righted, are connected
with the great railroad corporations and
their combinations and monopolies. Tho
people by whose consent, aud for whose
benefit, these railroads wero built-rai.
roads to which have been devoted cuor.
nous areas of public land and stupcndous
perogatives and privilcges-arc dc.oruin-
ed to have something to say about their
management, and determined that their
power shall be curtailed. The CORPORA
tions which have built them aud are az
ministeriDg their affairs are maupulaiinv
or controlling legislatures, and super1u.
ously enriching all connected with them,
while the farmer cannot get paying re-
turn for his wheat at his door, and the
consumer buys his bread at an exorbi.eut
price. The fight of the people with these
monstrous powers is begun, and is to be
the great fight Of the next twenty vcqrs.
The issue is not doubtful, though it may
be long delayed. Little Vermont fnda
NJ nn,er her surprise that she has been imposed
tice and and bMastens has to do her people JUS
years the railway - ~ pi'uio, 'hi' III I've
bearing monopoles, and t.u suu inc over
which run railroads for the benehRSo r l, 'ns
managers, will oe SO thoroughly inVcs.
tigated" that they will find it for their
interest to conduct their operations with
degree of deferential reference to tho
interests Of the people whom they have
cheated and oppressed.
1t seems to us that there is at this time
very healthy public sentiment. No
public iniquity lives without protest. No
wrong.doer sits easy and upconcerned in
his place. The old apathy under wrong
and misrule is passed away. The good
elements III society and politics ore full
OF hope and courage; and VIC believe it
to be susceptible Of proof that no Euro.
pean country is less dominated By cor
rupt men than ours, or moro willing anI
efficient in the demolition of all forms Of
wrong. If there is an apparent difference
against us, it is simply because we nd
vertise our sins more widely than our sil-
ter nations, in order that the people may
take intelligent action against them.
UNIVERSITY TuroRs IN ENGLAND--ror
the rrac'ical business Of teaching the clas
sic AMI mathematics no method has been
hit on more satisfactory than that of the
best private tutors in the English univers.
tiles. Onc Of these gentlemen takes, per-
haps, lour pupils. He meets a at Q
o'cock. They sit at the same table y
does his work under his teachers eve
they study together. The Interest ami
life Of the teacher quickens the pupil.
The teacher shows the pupil the best waY
OF study. At ten o'clock he gives \ Iii,
directions for his private study, and meets
b alone for an hour, as he has met A.
AT eleven o'clock he meets G. Attwelye
o'clock he meets d. And at some other
hour in the day he meets them all aud
they all work together for an hour The
teacher is thus able to consider the per.
sonal need of the pupil, and to give him
the full advantage Of such consideration.
The pupil is able to ask the teacher Just
what he wants, and to show him inst
what are his difficulties. A. the same
time all the pupils meet each other in
study and recitation, compare notes, end
go forward with the stimulus and sym.
pathy of companionship,
Now VIC venture to say that the frs.
of the academies or high schools Of
this country which will adopt soma
such course as this, giving to every fou,
boys whom it fits for college one teacbe.
OF the first and best ability. whose chief
duty it shall be to see that they 20
through their last two years Of prepara-
tion thoroughly well, will be the school or
academy which will, at whatever charge,
receive the best and most promising pu-
pills, aud will receive the largest number
Of them. With certain steady demand
for superficial and almost worthless edu.
cation, there is another demand for edu.
cation of the very best type, the results
OF which may be relied upon. With the
increase Of the country in wealth, there
grows up the determination to have that
done in the best way which is dono at all.
And in proportion as the young men and
young women learn that there are ways
in which that can be done ia two years
which they now do in four ycara, they,
and those who direct their education, will
certainly insist upon the change.
The EsQUIMAux IN MAINE.-The Es-
quimaux who have been sent by the Sec-
rataru NJ tho Noyv 10 ooo,n,, e,,,,r-