Daily Republican., 1880-06-15
DIR, MACKENZIE


lHNN"~NS VI Ash6SJ @AN"NacNyt Nv
acceptable to many of our readers. He
said the English population some CEN
turios ago, did not pay much respect 10
education. Shakespeare, in his play
Of Henry vi, made Jack Csde leader OF
: e revolt, exhibit the ignorance and
envy of plebian tyrant in his black
| list Of the offsnses Of Lord Say, Eigh
Treasurer Of England, and an ancestor
jof Edward Gibbon the historian. He
accused him of luxury, OF
d treason, Of speaking French, the Ian
guage Of highlands enemies, adding,
l"Thou hast most traftorously corrupted
the youth Of the realm In erecting a
grammar school, and whereas, our
fo-efathers mad DO other books but the
score and the tally, thou has caused
printing to be used, and contrary TO
the King, his crown and dignity, thou
hast built paper mill. 1t will be
|proved to thy face that thou hast men
about thee that usually talk OF a noun
and 3 verb, and such abominable words
as no christian ear can endure" So,
the poor nobleman was instantly
massacred.
Scattered all over England an
Wales are numerous grammar schools,
many of which possess pecuniary en-.
dowments Of considerable and increas-
ing value. Many of these are mere
sinecures, yielding no benefit to the
public, but lucrative to Head Mastea,
and an assistant or two. receiving sala-
ries for doing nothing. There are maAy
exceptions, however, such "a Eton Col.
lege, such ara Harrow, Christ's Hospi-
tai, the Charter House, Shrewsbury
and others, from 200 to 300 in all.
Among the most illustrious of the great
seminares of the Old Country, Rugby
school has not had superior during
the last fifty years. Rugby is a small
market-town, in shakespsare's County
of Warwick, which may be called the
very heart Of England. 1t has about
5000 inhabitants and is great railway
rendezvous drawn in fact, as such by
Dickens in his sketch OF the great Rug
by Junction.
In 1867, early in the reign of good
Queen Bess, one Lawrence Sheriff. who
had made money as q shopkeeper in
Londcn, founded grammar school in
Rugby, his native place, and left lands,
houses and money to sustain his school.
1t is now attended ty an average of
400 pupils, and the endowment yields
some $25 900 year, out Of which are
many exhibitions varying from $500 to
$400 year, and tenable from four to
seven years, by necessitous pupils to
support them at the University. Uno
doubtedly, Rugby School owes most of
its celebrity to its having had DR..
Thomas Arnold for its head master.
His career at Oxford University had
been unusually brilliant.
He took Holy Orders at the age of 22;
and devoted the next ten years of his
life to preparing pupils for the UnlvSr.
sity. Within that period, too, he was
writing much medl,ated work, A His
tory Of Rome, in which, better than
any S!hsr English writer, he separated
fiction from fact, as Niebuhr the German
had shown how. Suddenly, on the
score OF merit, he was elected Head
Master of Rugby school, a charge of
high honor, responsibility and emolu- I
msnt. The income depends On the 1
number of pupils, but, in his case, it {
became very large from his success.
Arnold had just turned his 33fd year,
when he took charge of Rugby, an I'M r
usually early age tor trust so impor- :
tant. Fortunately be was fond OF 5
young people, accustomed to partici-
pate in their ont of door athletic sports
md had the intuitiye art of making !
himself generally loved and respected
when others had only been Eeared. 9
He guided ths public opinion, tne very
conscience Of the school.
Dean Stanley, his biographef, wrote: !
''In the higher classes any attempt at ;
uriher proof Of an assertion was in
'tantly checked by him. Ii you say so, .
hats quite enough; of course believe Z
Iour word; there grew up in sonse- q
lueace, Il general feeling that it was d
hams to tell Arnold lie--he always n
believed person" His rpigH at Rugby
,egan in August 1928 and On June II,
S42, he died Of a sudden and severe C
leart disease, at the age Of Al. His D
Immediate successor was DR.. TAFT, who Z
low is Archbishop of Canterbury - "
There was deep grief, in many hearts z!
nd homes over the unexpected and IL
ariy death OF Arnold. His pupils Ia
The scarcely knew how much they el
owed him, Until he had passed away re-
rom earth, grieved as If he had been W
ne of their nearest and dearest kins- "a
ian. b,
One of them, Mr.. Thomas Hughes, iu
tho has highly distinguished hiWs"lf m
s autbor and lawyer, Published in
95S o charming and truthful volane at
ntitled "Tom Browns School Days at ar
ugby," the scene of which is Rugby oh
chool and the hero, DR.. Thomas Ar pc
old.
To You, young gentlemen, whom
lay not improperly designate as Amer
an Rugbeians, need not describe tn
lat book; each Of you, doubt not, :.
familiar with it--and, If so, must have dill
cen deeply touched by its tender ws
I'd truthful pathos. For my own part he
have read it at least twenty times, bo
rely without being subdued into tears
, Tom Brown was, when came to the dr.
assing away of a good man 30 worthy We
all respect and love. know, too, a
lat my respected friend, Dr.. Murphy, an
els as deep respect for Arnold as su
ousands besides myself have felt and u.s.
el in many a land. May Gsd grant tW
at you, the students OF Rngby Acade-
y, here in Whining on, may 30 act, ma
1t alone in youth under due course DO
instruction, but one and all, in after
'ars, 20 as to confer honor on the name