Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-04
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academy for boys. To the first Of our
articles many tentative responses were
. received, but nothing came of them. as
they were not made by proper persons.
, More recently, however, a gentleman
has come into our midst and begun a
school which we hope will bloom. next
year. into the institution which we desire
to see established.
There has been for many years
throughout the United States an almost
insane desire to found colleges, and
worthy people have endowed many of
them only to the extent that they con.
tlnue to live. but can confer very little
honor with a degree. OF the four or five
hundred colleges" so-called. which ex-
ist throughout the country there are not
a dozen which have a national reputation.
and not more than fifty that have state
wide renown The merit OF educoion
in them is very much that which comes
of soldering in the militia-it is in the
name of the thug. In the one the
scholar ''has been through college,
just as truly as ii the institution were
really a college, and in the other he has
just as truly become a major or a col
onel as if he had really been a soldier.
This sort OF thing has brought more
or less discredlt upon colleges, and it
has come TO be almost universally felt
that rather han increase. 1t would be
wise to restrict their number. While
we need no more colleges, we sadly
need in many parts of the state acade-
mics which afford a good substan-
tial business. or even classical educa-
tion, up to a certain point, fitting young
men for college, OF for graphing with
the affairs of the world at once. This
we especially need in Lexington, There
is but one high school for boys in the
county, the second ward school in this
city, and it IS hardly worthy of the
name. Not that its teacher is not COM
petent and Jealous, but he has in the
same building a graded school, from A.
B. c. up. and as the large number In at
tendance plainly shows it is Impossible
that sufficient time can be devoted to the
higher grade scholars without neglect
ing the little ones, or the reverse.
We have three prosperous female
seminaries in Lexington. Parents who
send their daughters here to be educa-
ted very often desire to send their sons,
too, for many very good reasons, but
they have not heretofore been able to do
SO because there was no place to send
them.
Lafayette county alone has oyer six
thousand boys growing up. all to be
educated. Out of this six thousand .
there should certainly be enough bright,
young fellows who desire something
more than the district school can afford
them. to make an academy here sue
cessful.
Another element which will go to-
ward the success of such an institution
is the fact that Lexington is already
known throughout the state as an edu-
cational point. because of her splendid
female seminarles. In truth we see ev-
cry reason why 1t should succeed, and
none why it should not, if properly
managed.
What is necessary? A young, active.
moral, intelligent man, with good man
ners and some money. He must be a
graduate of a college In good standing.
and enter into the thing with his whole
heart, as his lite work. To such a per-
son success must come, and we believe
that he has been found IN Mr.. Hobson, j
whose school opened here but a short
time ago. 1t is not necessary for US to
speak of Mr.. Hobson's qualifications,
either in mental training or character,
as we have done so before. aud they are
known to our readers. He came too
late to organize an academy such as is
for this season but with a view
to doing so next year. by proving hlnl-
self in the community as a teacher, he
has taken a class of boys, and he can
accommodate a few more.
We write all this by no asking OF Mr..
Hobson. We know his lntention--to
establish a thorough boys academy. 1t
had u good word beforehand. We
now desire to impress upon the minds
parents in this county the Importance
encouraging this gentleman. Not
because 1t is he; but because he is
the right man in the right place. |.
In the bids for immigration what
ranks higher than good schoolsp We
see in our personal columns, often. the
names of gentlemen who remove with
their families to this city "to educate
their children" With a good male
academy, we will have developed our
educational facilities as high as they
ought to go. 1t is the duty, therefore.
OF all parents in Lafayette county, who
can do SO. to aid in the good work by
making Mr.. Hobson's present school as
iSS 40 PoS'ioAos Oue uOIC PAL LlCuldTly
by early resolving and letting it be
known that they will send their boys to
the academy next year.
No expense will be spared in prop
erly equlpplng a suitable building, and
we hope, ere many years, to know that
a Lexington Academy sheepskln will be
more priced than that OF many a college.
1t is scarcely worth while to mention
that the Intellig encer never SAID that
not a single warrant had been drawn
on the state treasurer that had not been
promptly paid The stupidity OF such
an u%tterance marks it as never having
been made In these columns, and we
venture the assertion without looking
at our files. We generally know some
thing of what we write. The state
ment would not be true of any t~reasu-
rer the state has had for many years.
New York World: .Whenever q
republican orator or newspaper any
where in the United States makes any
allusion to the corruption OF Tammany,
,ua ;or;to tbo ~oo,o,k IN