The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-29

Classics A French 43 music 30 drawing
and painting 81. More than four-fifths OF
the students were pursuing higher and or
namental branches. In 1915 with total
of 203 names there were in the classics ~,
music 80, French 33, ornamentals 53. just
for one moment imagine 1876 young persons
of both sexes out Of 203, pursuing extra
branches under such teachers as Il. Hal
lock, John G. Churchill, Eber d. Munger,
James Hope, Nancy NJ Miner, Elizabeth
f. Clark, and Emeine Churchill Nearly
200 names arc in the catalogue of 1852, and
almost every one in some Of the specials
mentioned above. Discipline instruction,
SUCCESS. Castleton medical college in 1856
graduated "a young men from 12 different
states. In 1916, the class numbered 101,
and the graduates for the year were 90. In
lS47, there were "a graduates, and in 1861,
about the same number, while the honored
names of Joseph Perkins, Ezra s. Care,
Middleton Goldsmith, VIM. Sweeton,
Corydon L. Ford, Adrian r. Woodward,
and S. Gridley Perkins, formed galaxy of
stars of the first magnitude which all de-
lighted to name and honor. AS Theodore
Tilton says, there was "a hole in the sky"
then, and moral and intellectual light, clear
and radiant came down, and, resting awhile
upon our seminary and college, shoDe
brightly on this entire community. Hon.
Chester Spencer the life long veteran of
temperance, religion, general good works,
and "the evidence Of things not seen" is
the last one of that ''solid twelve members
of the corporation now living in Castleton.
Wright. Howe, Adams, Langdon, Hyde,
Woodward, Harris and Jackman have
Joined the great procc 'sion ever moving on
ward to "the undiscovered country from
whose bourne no traveller returns" Yer
mont needs just one normal school and no
more.
1t was n very absurd mistake for the legis-
| lature to establish one in every congress
| ionsl district. For the same reason New
York should have SO, Pennsylvania 81,
Ohio 90, Massachusetts IL, etc; Whereas,
the great state of New York, with pop
pulation OF 3 600, 900 has only 6 normal
schools, to each of which she gives $l8..
900 yearly New Jersey has about 1.0O0,
900 inhabitants, and has only one normal
school, to which she gives 100000 an
nually. Michigan gives to her normal
school S17,500. The largest appropriation
to any school of this character is made TO
the rrmal university" of Illinois, viz.
1928. 097 Every stale that has normal
schools, except Vermont, has wisely glad
uated the number in proportion to the pop
ulation aud wants of the inhabitants. Du-
ring the seven years that we have been so
"sicn lily blessed" about 100 students
have gradua'e ed, averaging perhaps, bar
bers dozen each year, and the classes instead
of increasing are diminishing. We need
as many colleges in the state AS we do nor
nal schools. Instead of one flourishing
well patronized college, with classes among
the fifties and higher, We have three poorly
pa,ronized ones and it is seldom that a
| clo or
The catalogue of Middlebury College for
1875 rs has a grand total of fifty-three /;
whereas if we had ore in place Of three,
as n H.. has, che would have as large
classes as Dartmouth, and would be hailed
with delight by her alumni as tue one bright
star, which, not only never sets, but always
grows brighter Vermont sends more
young men to college out of the state,
than she does to her own colleges. To be
sure we get some students from other states,
but not as many as we lose; hence there is
q constant drain upon the intellectual and
pecuniary resources of the state that will
never cease until young men. desiring an
education stay at home. Combine the
three, locate the one either at Middlebury.
or Burlington, or Mortified. or any where
else, even ON the top Of Birds eye or Kill
lington, AMI we should at once have first
|
either OF our colleges now possess for i'm
parting knowledge and acquiring the same
The never failing "logIc of events" has
proved conclusively that Castleton does not
want normal school, unless the three in
the state be united and located here. All
who have watched the prosperity OF our
schonls with an ANXIOUS avuire tOr the great
orT number, are convinced that ''our nor
NAL school, as certain pub func" POM
| moi zlxr mol lie hoa &
a blessing to colleges. And why2 For the
very evident reason that it las sucked the
very life blood and marrow out of the sem
mary, and has not left as good a substitute
, in its place. But on the contrary we have
a sickly, consumptve school. the standard
of which is far below that of a first class
''seleCt school" and little if any above a
good old fashioned district school. So coon
as a boy or girl has arrived at the wonder
fully elastic age of fourteen or fifteen, he
or she is matriculated with grand "hour
; ish of trumpets, run through forty weeks
course of study, and turned out n finished
teacher with diploma, and authorized by
law to teach for five years, any where in
the state without examination. Any one
with common sense, can but know that
very few of these paper graduates are pro-
perly prepared 10 presiGe over schools
y
; knowledge Of the science of teaching, in
, fact they possess only few of the quail
ficatiens requisite for instructing the growth
of our land. To be sure they acquire fair
knowledge of arithmetic, grammar and
= geography,-if they had not obtained il
before, and a something of physical geo.
graphy physiology etc, etc. The second
course is better than the first, for algebra,
geometry, rhetoric and philosophy are in
the curriculum, and no one can be proficient
in these without gaining that correct men,
tal discipline which is indispensable tc
good thinkers. There is no royal highway
| 70 distinction in literature. There is no way
to obtain positive acquaintance with the
n arts and sciences, and "br0ad, wholesome,
Chart tbe views of men and things" az
Mark Twain lays, but by hard work.
2 An well acquainted with msn who wa
seven long years in preparatory schoo
, | and college, poor fellow he was dull
= and has been teaching nearly twenty years
and yet he considers himself quite an ordi
i nary teacher, and others are Of the SAINT
II opinion. AS the Poultney Journal o
last week truly says, "We are too mucl
! in the habit in these latter days, of doini
:, all our mental, moral and religious worl
by machinery. The people will learn b.
and by that there are many things we shall
!. have to do in the good old way, if we d.
u them well. Legislative tinkeIing in ad
n vance of the wishes and wants of the PEG
II pie, will, in the end, prove not even neg
II alive good, but positive evil When
can we find corps of teachers such a
/ Deacon Joseph Joslin aud George Ransom
d of Poultney were twenty or thirty year
,e ago, also Ralph Richards of Hamp
ton, and Sam Wood of Farhaven, an
:, Reuben Moulton and Daniel Kuapen o
u Castleton q? Deacon Josln stood at th
,e head of that class, and deservedly too, TO
n he was probably the best teacher that wa
a ever bonn and raised. and has lived an
- taught, and will die and be buried in Poul
T. ney, Vt, All Of these distinguished teach