The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-27

Inc catalogue OF MddleOury college Tor
1876 70 has a grand total of fity-lhrec;
vic cas-, if we hid one in place of three
as N. H., has, she would have as large
classes as Dartmouth, and would be hailed
with delight by her alumni as the one bright
star, VIII. Gu, not only never sets, but always
grows brighter. Vermont sends more
young men to college out of the It lte
than she does TO her own colleges. To be
sure we get some students from other state, g,
but not rs many as we lose hence theIe Is
constant dram upon the intellect n and
ptcuniary resources of the stare that will
never cease until young men. desiring al
education stay at home. Cumbioc The
three, locate the Cna eiilcr at Midi cDury
or Burlington, or Mortified. or any where
else, even on the top of Birds eye or Kill
lingtJn, AMI we should at once have first
lass college with greater faciiiti,s than
either OF our colleges n0~ possess for i'm
parting In Jwledge aud az quiring the same
The never failing "logic of events" has
proved conclusively tn 1t 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
schools with an anxious desire for the great
EFT number, are convinced that sour nor
NAL school," as certain pub func' pom
pously calls it has been n curse instead of
blessing to colleges. And why? For the
very evident reason that it fas sucked the
very lite blood and marrow out of the SEM
mary, and has not # as good suits itu'e
in ite place. But, on the contrary we have
sickly, consumpiye school. the standard
of which is lar lie ow tina of first Claes
''seett SCHOOL, and Ii tie if any above a
good old fashioned district school 81 coon
as boy or girl has arrived at the wonder
| fully elastic age of fourteen or fifteen. he
or she is ma,riculated with grand flour
ish of trumpets run through forty weeks
course of study, aud turned Gus finlshed
teacher with diploma, and authorized by
law to teach for five years, any where IN
| the state without eXamii ion. Any one
with common sense, can but know thAt
very few of these payer graduates are pro-
perry prepared TO pre- c over schOola
They lack experience they lack thorough
knowledge uf the science of teaching, IN
tact they possess only few of the quail
fic lliens requisite for nsruciing the growth
Of our lanu. To be sue they acquire fair
knowledge of ar tAmct C, grammar and
geography, If they had not Obtained ii
before, and Il SOMETHING of physical geo
grapDy physiology etc etc The ,eclnd
course is better than the first for alge brp
Geometry, rhetoric and philosophy are in
the curriculum, and 10 one can be roficlent
IN these without gaining that corr eCt men
tai dscp inc which is indiSpenS Irle To-
good tn n<ers. There is no royal highway
TO distin ton in l. erature here is no way
to obtain positive acq1lintauce with the
arts al sciences, and broad. wholesome.
chart bic views Of mtn and things" as
Mark Twain 'ays. bu' by hard work.
am well acquainted with man who Wa
seven long y ars Ill preparatory school
AID college ,-p1or fellow lie va. dull
and has been teacii z nearly TIVE Nv years.
and yet he C, n,iders hilaself quite a ord-
nary teacher, aud other ae Of the same
opinion. As The Poulu ey JOuradl Of
S week truly SAYS. ''Nc 4rr % mach
ia rhr h hi in iese lalief Cayl. of dome
all our menil, moral ~ d reiliUus work
10y machinery. the people will team 10y
4, d ny tut There are IN ans ih,nl we Shall
nave Ca DO III good ODD wy, If we d
them well. l. Il ut " inkri = in ad
va Of the wishes AID wants of the pc
pie, will. in the tn1, prove not even a nel-
alive good, hut r positive evil" WI. II
csn We liUd corps Of teachers such a,
Deacon Joseph Josin d George Raus,n
OF Poultn'y were twenty or thirty year,
ago, also Ralph Richards of Hump.
ton, and sam Wood o; L irhNven, ana
Reuben Moulton and Panel Knspen OF
Caet,etou Deacon Josln stood At the
head of that class, and deservedly too, los
he was probably the best teacher that WA
ever BON aud raised. and has lived an,
taught and viii Il and be buried ia p ull-
ney Vt An OF these it n lulshc t'nch,
ers exal ed and adorned tne probes -iou, Il d
we're splendid models Of exec lc
aud "f gyism" IN tue sppi at ON oi
the science Of school teaching e.