The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-03-13
For The
School Institutes.

Mr.. ED1ToR:-The excitement created
| by cousin Jim's" burlesque account of
the Institute, published in your last issue,
has caused a great deal of discussion as to
the utility of the annual Institutes which
have been the cause of so much commo-
ton. Do they pay is the question, as they
have been conducted? 1t is the opinion of
good many intelligent, observant persons
that they do not. A week has been lost of
the very limited time which many of the
scholars have to devote to acquiring an
education, who will, as soon as Spring
opens, have to quit school to engage in
labor in the fields. There is serious loss
to them, and what substantial gain has
been made by weeks frolic at the Insti
tute, to offset this loss, or who has profited
by ito
Another subject worthy of consideration
is the imposition upon the citizens of the
town where the Institute is held, by quar-
tering, for the greater part of week on
private families, all the teachers in the
county, numbering hundred or nearly so.
This piece of dead headism is submitted to
with as good grace as possible, for Ameri-
cans are proverbially the most enduring
people on the face of the earth, but there
is no question that the good-natured peo-
pie feel sense of relief when the Inst-
tute is over.
The good results of all the trouble and
expense of an Institute is attained in the
district associations of teachers, and the
only deprivation | can see in letting the
Institute slide, would be that Prof. Newell
would not have the opportunity to air his
scholarship and rhetoric, and lord it over
little band of school teachers and their
county Board, with the air of petty auto
crat. In word the Institute is considered
bore and a humbug by many intelligent,
sensible people who have given the matter
their attention, which might proitably be
dispensed with.
Another word before closing. | under
stand that the article purportng to be con
cocted by Cousin jim induced the irrate
School Board to threaten, if they discov-
cred that any teacher had been the writer
that the offenders certificate should be can
celed and the party driven out from the
ranks of the teachers of the county. 1t
strikes me very forcibly that the law pro
tects teachers from any such arbitrary pro
ceedines of a School Board. A teacher can
appeal from such VOL, nee, to a jury of
twelve men and the Circuit Court for pro
lection and damages. The rights and lib
critics of school teachers are as sacred as
other peopl IS, and are not to be wantony
trampled under foot 10y domneering School
Boards. They will soon find that the pub
lie will show its sharp teeth at any such
high handed proceedings.
Personal RIGHTS.
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Ground Bone, $40 per ton; Bone Meal, $42
do; at the mill without bags. Delivered in
bags at any station on P. & b. Central, P,
w. & b., or Peach Bottom Railroads: Bone
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with 81 per ton paid for return of Bags
within 80 days free of cost to us. We have
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shall endeavor to ill all orders promptly.
Thomas WARING Il Bro,
Colora, Cecil Co, Md.
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