Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-05-08

trough once law was passed forbidden,
any ecclesiastic of Roman adherence in tn,
colony, there is no tradition of its enforce
ment, and, strangely enough, Baptists
Episcopalians and Quakers Jared much
harder at the hands of Government thar
did Catholics. Nearly fifty years ago 8
mob burned the Ursuline Convent a,
Somerville, and the new cathedral here
has used in its walls good deal of brick
from the old burned building, moved prob.
ably by sentiment not unlike that that
raised the tablet in the Old South record.
ing the fact that the building was desc.
Grated by British soldiers during the Revo.
luton.
referred, in an earlier paragraph, to the
writing and composition test applied to
pupils taught after both Boston and Quincy
public school methods. These two methods
are on trial before the country, and any
test that proves anything is valuable and
interesting. Roughly speaking, the Bos.
ton method may be said to include almost
all the more commonly desirable depart.
ments of study. The Quincy method
seems more practical, and chiefly spends
itsef upon the elementary branches, in.
spring an enthusiasm for knowledge, and
putting boys and girls in the way to them.
selves make use of books, facts and all
sources of information they are to en-
counter in life. When one considers that
most public school scholars must have all
done for them that school can do in about
eight years, that time seems miserably
short in which to crowd all the topics taken
up, all the
SPECIAL TRAINING
Undertaken by the Boston system. The
Boston regime is perhaps an ideal one for
the bright boy or girl who has nine or ten
years to give to it, and nobody worth
troubling about how about the back.
ward scholar, and how about anyone who
is to need good eyes, lungs, back, stomach
and muscles ? The Quincy method seeks
to arouse faculties rather than to fill an
unready storehouse with information. The
teaching is very largely oral, and the
teachers are of the best. They are not
overburdened, they are not struggling
against time and overburdened scholars,
and the system is the natural one in which
mind strikes upon mind. The interest of
Quincy scholars in their school work-the
interest OF the average scholars-is q
strong argument in the methods favor.
But with such teachers as the Quincy sys.
tenn possesses even the dry bones of the
country district school system, or no
system, would leap with life, for the teach.
er ia the potent factor in any method.
The test What is my school doing for
me?" was perhaps not widely enough
applied to have its answers very trust
worthy, but, in its limited use, the Quincy
writing was better, the spelling more acu.
rate, the expression more idiomatic. Still
there was great go in what the Boston
scholars wrote, and conclude with the
paper of little fellow seven and hall
years old which think should satisfy the
parent of any such small chap taught any.
where, by any method: "My school is
teaching me arithmetic, geography, read.
ing, spelling, writing, singing, to be care ful
in my work, to do my level best in every.
thing, and to be good boy. Almost all OF
these things are fitting me for good posi-.
tions in manhood. Reading will allow me
to read books and get knowledge from
them. Writing will allow me to write
letters and to keep accounts. Arithmetic
will allow me to be ook.keeper in a
store, or to be cashier. No one can
cheat me by not giving correctly the money
that belongs to me. Spelling will enable
me not to make blunders in letters, SO that
nobody can read them. Geography will
tell me about things in our own and other
countries, 20 thst'-20 minutes up.
is MISTRESS MIvFrowrp