Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-31
EDUCATIONAL.
E. NJ. WOOD. A. NJ.


Promote as an object of primary importance.
lnsulHtions Tor the general diffusion OF know.
ledge. In proportion the structure az a Gov |
eEneni gives force 70 public opinion ills neces-
sary thar public opinion should be euliahfened
--Washington's Farewell Address
Without knowledge there can be no
sure progress. sstnner
DO not consider the present pleasure
but the ultimate good soloa.
The last regular meeting for the year
of the Philomathean Society win occur
Friday evening Of this week.
The various committees for the alum
nj reunion met and made further ar
engagements last Thursday evening.
"ABoer yrRTUE- Virtue is a good
thing set hold of. Whenever a teller
gets holt Of virtue, he better keep a
holt. Boys Composition
lsocrates wrote in golden letters over
the entrance to his school this express
siye sentence: If thou love learning
thou shalt all attain to much learning
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A petition has been presented to the
New York Board of Education, asking
that girls from 10 to u years of age
shall be taught sewing in the primary
grades
Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than standing army If we
retrench the wages of the school-master
we must raise those of the recruiting
sergeant EUeret.
The term draws rapidly to close.
Thirty-six weeks is not very long to ac-
complish an important work. We have
had several holidays; long vacation is
just ahead. Both teachers and pupils
ought to improve well the few remain
ing days.
An interesting feature of composition
exercises has recently been tried in the
intermediate and Second Primary de-
partments. The pupils write descrip-
tons Of classmates, without giving
names, leaving the class to guess the
persons described.
| One hundred and twenty-five years
ago, John Adams, school teacher
afterwards President-sat in his cham
| Der at Worcester and wrote: Il have
no books, no time, no friends. | must
( therefore be contented to live and die
an obscure, ignorant fellow" Why be
discouraged!-EG.
II those students who complain that
they can't think Of anything to write
for an essay only had the inventive i'm
agination and careless disregard of
! truth that characterize some country
I correspondents of county newspapers,
they would surely have no difficulty, ~
even without any information on the
| subjects
Not often do students study as well
in the spring term as in the winter. Our
High School, however, is an exception
this term: for, though the students prob
ably do not devote quite rs much time
in the evening to study (Which could
hardly be expected in these short even
ings), yet they are studying much more
attentively in the school-room than they
did last term. We have observed moth
ing during the year that seemed more
encouraging, or that promised more for
the future success of the School, than
this fact
1t is said that Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty So it IS of all success
and true prosperity. Ii any business
is neglected only for a short time, the
results are sure to be seriously detri-
mental. If school does not receive
the constant attention and support of
the people; If its management becomes
slack and 1t is allowed to deterorate
only for year or two, a kind of dry
rot attacks it and penetrates deeply into
its most important interests. 70 re-
store healthful prosperity, the decay
must all be replaced by fresh and living
structures. That which has become
bent and gnarled must all be care fully
Strengthened and pruned. New gratis
must be skillfully inserted. All losses
by neglect or mismanagement can be
repaired only by Il slow, persistent, and
laborious process. 1t is always most
easy, economical, and satisfactory to
maintain healthy condition of growth
and improvement.
On the day of the circus nearly half
of all the pupils were either absent from