Litchfield enquirer., 1879-01-23

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 inconsistency is easy The college world differs
 so entirely from the outside worldthat young
 man may be entirely in place in the one, and entirely out of place in the other Something of it's old monastic character still clings to the university. Fhe student is still something of the monk, conversant with his own order, conver- sant with literature the world has forgotten, but ignorant of the ways of the outside world and full of an educated contempt for that which he understands so little. When at last he goes out into it, with that maximum of training and that minimum of knowledge which his college has given him, certain condescen- | sion'' may be remarked in his manner to- ward the inferior sphere in which he finds | himself such as Prof. Lowell has noticed in the European visiting America. Hence there may spring up an antagonism between the ! man of the college and the man of the outside world with whom he is now thrown in con- tact Such feeling arises from the fact that each is too narrow to understand the other. The student suffers most He cannot but feel certain Encouragement when his accu- mutation ofclassical requirement proves worth less, or nearly so. Like the business man whose property is sunk in bad investments, he must begin the world over agaln, and turn his training to account in acquiring new ed ucation that will be really useful. Many na- lures, however, prove too ineastic to meet the necessities of their new environment" They live always at odds with it-mere impractical scholars in practical, unappreciative world.
 Here again modern education neglects the teachings of that very ancient society whose least relics it regards with superstitious venera- ton. The young Athenian of Socrates day lived in the midst of the Athenian world. His education was the most practical of which his times admitted. How much of the college professor do we see in that born teacher of youth, that thorough man of the people, Socrates? Imagine him at the head of Harvard, even A Yale board of trustees would have given him the hemlock much earlier in life, we guess. than he got it at Athens. Least of all could we imagine the old Athenian instructor con- triving compulsory attendance at church and chapel to teach Alcbiades piety, or sending him to the present Collector of the Port of New Haven for instruction in English litera- uure.
 A bill is now before the legislature forenact- ing, substantially the New Hampshire law re- garding tramps By it beggars and tramps, on proof of their vagrancy are sentenced to hard labor upon the county or town property, or in any house of correction or common jail not ex- ceeding six months. And any act of begging or vagrancy shall be taken to be evidence of the commission of the offences above described. Provision is made for changing the prisoners place of confinement, when advisable, and for returning poor people, away from hene,to the towns where the belong Tine COurant, in an able editorial, favors the passage of this law. It seems pretty sharp remedy, but will any thing less severe effect the object
 The Willimantic Journal comments thus frankly on the opening of the Senatorial can vass at Hartford:
 With the influx of legislators at Hartford on Tuesday there arrived a paid force of lobbyists so large in numbers and impudent in their az gressiveness as to present most dlsgraceful spectacle; and these men were all working i1 the interest of Marshall Jewell, the ''business' candidate for United States senator, and pre- tended reformer Talk of Barnum's raid upon a legislature, or of Englishs, they sink into feeble proportions by the side of this over- whelning and presidential brood of employed agents III the interest of Jewell. There has been nothing like it seen in Connecticut before' Never was there so bold and unbushing an ef- fort made to overwhelm legislative body in the interest of any candidate.
 ing up to the fact that the conduct of their party in the recent Louisiana election is en- tirely indefensible. The Vicksburgh Herald candidly acknowledges that it's fellow Demo- crats across the rlver deserve punishment
 We would have been rejoiced if Gov. Nich oils had taken this spirit of bulldozing that he says exists in some parts of Louisiana by the throat and choked the life out of it, even if it necesstated the free use of hemp to do it. He, his courts and his Legislature must do this or confess that the republicans are fully excus- ed for interfering to protect voters in their rights.
 Conkling has been again abusing the admin istration with all that power with which he always attacks those who interfere with his personal interests. There seems no doubt that whether or not the present officers are confirm ed. Arthur and Cornell will never return to the New York Custom House. In this affair our sympathies are with the president, although we regret the fact that civil service reform takes the very narrow range it certainly does ence of federal officials has no doubt defeated Joseph R. Hawley for the Senate in this State.
 Katie Cobb finally escapes hanging. She testified and conducted herself during the trl- al with such consunmate ability, that nothing short of the most overwhelming evidence would have brought the verdict of guilty. There is a disposition to hang Bishop. No doubt he deserves hanging, but the weight of ability, and probably of criminaity, rests so decidedly with Mrs. Cobb that it would seem like pun ishng the accessory mere severely than the principal to do so.
 The papers are now giving personal descrip- tions of Senator Sharon, U, s. Senator for four years past but who is now in Washington almost for the first time. Few of his col leagues know him, even by sight, as he has not been in his seat for full month during all his previous Senatorial career. He is 5S years old and is described as short and thin, light-com- plexloned, unprepessessing in figure, and weighing hardly more than 100 pounds.
 The Romish Canon law is very strict in re- gard to the marriage of relatives. Two aristocratic Marylanders recently stood up to be married, when the priest refused to perform the ceremony because they are second cousins. The couple lacked the pluck to apply to jus tice of peace, and are dutifully awaiting the pspal dispensation which they will. TO doubt get-for consideration.