The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-03-29

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We print two verses of this "original
and noteworthy poem" to give our
readers some idea of its true merits,
hut the other twenty-eight verses we
fail TO find room for in this number.
THE BEAUTIES or SPRING.
Spring right after winter comes,
When all the bees begin TO hum,
And snow melts of the ground away,
And wagons run Instead of sleighs
The warhing birds chirp through the air
Each one with mate makes just pair.
The whis,ling winds sweep through the trees,
And make US all catch cold and sneeze
We forwarded the plug of tobacco ac-
cording to agreement.
JUNIOR EXHIBITIoN.-Th popular
exhibition came off last Tuesday eve,
according to notice. The attendance
was not quite so large as usual, owing
perhaps, TO the surfcit of entertain
ments in town of late, but those who
were present were well repaid in the
orations and the music. We will not
particulariZc as TO the orations, but
they were all very good. The follow
ing is the programme of Orations:
Oration-Social Nuisanccs. John w.
Chapman, Middlcbury.
Charles Sumner, William
Dawson, Putncy.
Oration-Growth, T.. III. Farnsw worth,
Concord, n. ii.
Oration-What does our Intellectual
Culture owe TO Skcpticism? Sidney NJ.
Harris, Panton.
Scientific Oration-Thc Influence of
Astrology and Alchemy on Present
Thought and Language, II. NJ. Parker
reacham.
Poem-Thc Spirit of Sombcrg Head,
|. f. Leonard, Hampton, n. Y.
Oration-Declinc in Oratory, Dugald
Stewart, Middcbury.
Oration-Imagination in Science,
Frank +. Whipplc, Dandy.
Classical Oration-The Literary
Supremacy of the Greeks, Edward r..
Brainerd, st. Adams.
Literary Confcrence-''Them Lite
rary Fellers,' Henry w. Hubert, Mid
dlebury.
Cclloquii . Persona Edwin Sidney college
graduate, political aspiranp. L. H. Farnsworih.
Rev: liezikiah Jenkins ian un.political divine,
man from the 9th District.), F. L. Whipple. Il.
Emerson stedman "a literary mani, II. W. Hui
bert
Excused
The Sophomores had out their tradi-
tional Grams" which were distributed
without the hall and made no trouble.
Sophomore brilliancy was quite well
exhibited in the sheet.
The action of the school meeting,
last Tuesday, in cutting down the sala-
ries of the teachers in our school, ought
10 be carefully considered by orr citi-
zens. Economy that takes such meas
urcs without due consideration is apt
IL cause more loss than gain. The
fierce economists at the meeting seemed
to labor under the impression that the
woods are full of teachers who will
snap at any salary offered. But we do
not want that class of teachers in our
schools. We want the very best ones
to be found, and only with such teach
ers will the district obtain results
which will justify the great expenses of
the past.
The meeting, after voting TO leave it
with the committee to make all posi-
BILE reduction in expenses for the COM
ing year, forthwith proceed to take the
matter out of their hands by voting to
reduce all salaries of teachers twenty
per cent. $500 is the pay of the teach
ers in the lower schools, and out of this
sum they have TO pay all the costs of
their own living, besides some of them
contributing TO the support of friends
at home. 10 take sixty dollars from
their yearly wages is a cruel act, and
The man who proposed it and
the men who favor il ought TO be
ashamed of themselves. The district
ought TO rcpudiatc it. There are
plenty of servant girls in Middlebury
who get more. These teachers have 10
meet many expenses demanded by
their position. We can afford, and
ought 10 pay them so that they can
enjoy their hard-earned vacations as a
season Of rest. instead of spending
them in laboring, as is the contempti-
BILE suggestion of some individuals.
We demand of them that they shall be
The ladies they all are, and they ought
to have the means of meeting the
demand.
AS to the higher salaries, there is this
TO consider. Mr.. Mead, the PRINCIPAL.
is gentleman who has made teaching
his business. lie has a special talent
for the vocation, and ranks high among
the educators of New England. His
position is one which requires lust thc
qualifications he possesses. Every one
acknowledges his excellence as leach
or and the great superiority of our
schools under him. Now it is q diff
cult thing to find good teacher who
can Ill position at The head of large
school, cause it to go OH without fric-
lion or jar, and show the best of results
in the standard of scholarship reached
under him. Not one man in thous-
and can fill his place. The same may
be said of the teacher of the high school.
Such talent always has commanded lis
price, and probably always will. No
one not Immediately connected with
the school can Judge of their work,
either in amount or quality, and the
talk at the meeting in regard TO This
point showed much ignorance on the
part of intelligent men.
No one wants 10 lose these teachers.
The idea seemed 10 be general that the
reduction so ungraciously made would
be accepted. IL it is accepted, no harm
will be done. If not, the result will be
to deprive us OF two teachers whose
places il will be very difficult to Gil. We
risk the disorganization of the school.
the loss of the greater share of the tuition
patronage, and the lessened efficiency of
all the teachers under O less efficient
head. The parties who were active in
passing the vote, who in nearly every