The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-08-30

Education and his assistants are in a
large building on 6 street, opposite
the Patent Office. The number of
employees of the bureau is not large
and only a few rooms are required.
These are fitted up neatly and with
taste, not with elaborate furniture
and costly mirrors. The room occu-
pied by General Eaton is furnished
Just as we'll as those of the clerks Of
the bureau, and NO better.
The duties Of the Educational Bureau
are limited by the act of Congress
creating it to collecting and dissem-
mating information concerning the
educational interests Of the country.
They are more advisory than author
itative in their nature. The commits
sioner has no power to compela single
school officer, or superintendent, or
teacher, to make q report Of any kind,
yet such is the sympathy Of the edu-
Gators of the country with this insti-
tuition that its appeals are never dis
regarded. The mass of information
it is constantly gathering and classi-
flying and condensing is simply sur
prising. It would require large
amount Of space to give even toler-
able description Of the amount and
kind Of information received in any
one day. AS to the information dis
seminated the public knows more.
Circulars are issued frequently, and
the regular annual report has become
SO widely and favorably known as
to need no comment. The latest re-
port is the best and will be better ap-
preciated than any former ones. The
latest circular, issued D couple Of
weeks since, contained On account Of
the progress of education in British
India. The next circular, the proof
sheets of which are now being read,
will be devoted to the subject Of col
lepe comnshcements.
General Eaton is now in Europe on
a tour of observation. 1t was his in
tcntion to be at Vienna on the 18th
inst, (last Monday the day Of the
formal awarding of the prizes. The
Bureau of Education was awarded a
diploma, the highest award Civ en- land
the officers of the bureau are, quite
naturally, very proud Of their achieve
merits at the great Worlds Fair. Let
tiers from General Eaton are expected
daily, and they will doubtless contain
much interesting information. It
should be a source of national pride
that our country's educational inter-
ests, were so we'll represented that we
were able to carry off four Of the high
est prizes, and that among all the ma
tons of the earth free America stands
foremost in progress in educational
affairs.
The seeking or desiring of Oh adj
vantage over competitor Or antag-
onist is either an acknowledgements of
weakness or sign of cowardice. In
contests of physical kind this fact
has always been admitted. The pu-
gilist who would ask to have privi-
lcges not permitted to his antagonist
would at once concede that he had
not confidence in his own physical
or if he would not make this
but claim himself equally
strong, would, in the asking Of an ad-
vantage, acknowledge himself COM
ard. The student about to undergo
q competitive examination for prize
on account of scholastic attainments
could not ask any special privileges
without admitting that he himself did
not have faith in the superiority of
MS own qualifications, or he would
show woeful want Of pluck. The
'uitor before q court of justice could
lot ask that the scales be adjusted
lnevenly in his favor, for by 30 doing
he would confess the weakness of his
;ause. Indeed the element Of cow
Irdice grows out of the sense of weak
less. The pugilistic individual would
lot hesitate to engage in eqnal CON-
,at if he believed himself stronger
han his enemy. The student would |
lot hesitate to enter into competition