The daily gazette., 1875-05-12
THIRD EDITION.
Board of Education.

SPECIAL sEs EssIoN--REsoLUTIoNs ADoP-
TED RELATIVE TO TIE DEATH OF
JUDGE HALL.
The Board of Education met in spe-
dial session, at 10 o'clock this morning
President Shortledge in the chair, for
the purpose of taking appropriate ac-
tion relative TO death of Judge Hall.
The chair stated the object of the
meeting, and Mr. EcKel after few ap-
propriatc remarks offered the following
preamble resolutions:
WHEREAS, This board has been in
formed of the death of Hon. Willard
Hall, which took place at his residence
in this city, on Monday evening, the
10th day Of May, inst, and in the 15th
year Of his age; and
WAEREAs, It's fitting that the Board
Of Public Education, of which he was
for long series of years most valued
member aud its estimahle President,
should appropriately do honor to his
memory, therefore,
ReSol0ed, That if we view him as the
young and ardent lawyer on his lonely
way from his native Massachusetts to
seek new home in one of the "three
counties upon the Delaware" more
than three score and ten years ago; if
we look upon him as the able and in
tiuential practitioner in our courts; if we
behold in him the incorruptible Repre-
sentative of our State in the Congress
of the nation; if we see him as the able
and safe counsellor. giving to the pco-
pie the benefit of his enlightened
judgement in the Constitutional Con-
yention of our State; if we contemplate
him as the humble follower of his
Master, imparting to the Church the
magnetic power of his christian life; if
We find him the upright and impartial
Judge upon the exalted bench of his be-
Owed country; if we recognize in him
he great pioneer and advocate of pop
llar education, through whose wise
and practical counsels the public
schools of our State have been ]iftt d
from reproach, to standard at once
successful and clevating us institutions
bf learning; il we see him in the seren-
lty of his retirement from public care
and lnbor-calm, patient and resigned
with the vigor of his extraordinary
intellect unimpaired-in the full frui-
ZION of that strong christian faith and
hope which never abandoned him; in
whatever sphere or from what stand
point so.evcr we behold him, we see q
man whose cventfui and honorable life
has been marked by every christian
virtue and every moral and social
characteristic that could adorn and ex-
pit human character, and which points
him out as one whose greatness it were
honorable to emulate, and whose no.
bility of soul it were not impious to
| love, to honor and to hand down to
posterty as n model worthy its highest
ambition to attain.
Res0l0ed, That in view of his distin-
Euished scrviGes--especially in the
cause of Education this Bonrd desires
10 honor his memory, and therefore
we hereby direct that on tomorrow
| l(Thursday) the Pnblic Schools Of this
bity be closed, and that The Board at
tend the. funeral in II body.
Reso1red, That a copy of the resolu-
lions, properly attested, be transmitted
10 the flmily of the deceased.
The preamble and resolution, were
adopted and ordered to be spread on
he minutes.
The Board then adjourned until
/ Thursday, at 10. 45 A. NJ, when they
will attend the funeral in body.