St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-20
Public Opinion.
THE TARIFF AT WILLIAMS.

THE TARIFF AT WILLIAMS.
If the trustees of Williams college
should undertake to offset the teach
ings of Prof. Perry, it would either be
because of their ignorance of the true
! scientific method, or because they were
influenced by the social or financial
standing of those who petition for IL
change. 1t is well for Il college to set
up high standard for its students,
even though in after life self-interest
may induce many of them to depart
widely from it. The professor of ethics
should not he compelled to lower the
tone of his teachings because some of
the students who afterward enter into
mercantile life find it expedient to
make money by cheating their neigh
bOrs.- Boston Herald.
A CLEAN EX-PRESIDENT.
X. b. Hayes is now in that position
of an eX-president, where the popular
opinion of him resembles the western
view of the Indian, that he is of no
good until he is dead. He will gradu-
ally emerge from that shadow and en-
JOY the honor due to him as one of the
purest and most even balanced men
who ever occupied the presidency, the
success of whose administration went
far to reconcile the country to the re-
suit of the electoral commission, and
seriously undermine the boss power
and the spoil system in our politics.
There seems to be for Il time no utility
and no honor for an eX-president, but
as his administration retreats into the
distance and we see how other men
behave, some who have had great hon
ors, Mr.. Hayes will regain his true
place in the popular respect Spring
field Republican.
HOW TO HAVE GOOD TEACHERS.
A good teacher must be a man or
woman who not only has knowledge
and is capable of imparting it, but
who has zeal, enthusiasm in his work
who, i'll word, puts his heart into
it. \ man is only Jealous in the pro-
fession which he has chosen as a career
for life into which to throw his best
knowledge and power. How many
men have deliberately taken up the
work of teaching, meaning to give
their lives to it Not one in thou
sand. The women hope to drop it as
soon us they are married, and the ma
.jOrity of men use the business only as
bridge to something better-tempOr-
airy support, before they betake them
selves to the law, to medicine or theol-
Ogy. The reason is simple enough. A
man of talent knows he will be better
paid in any other profession than this.
Yet none surely are more honorable or
useful. The conclusion is plain. If
we want good schools, we must have
good teachers. And to have good
teachers we must discriminate between
the men who make teaching a mechau-
zeal trade and those who put their
finest aspirations, their most faithful
work and the hopes of their lives into
it; and we must see to it that these
last are as well rewarded for the train
ing of our children as they would be
for any other labor. The best work
for the best wages holds good in every
profession and trade New York
Tribune.
ABSURD USE OF "PROFESSOR.n
Perhaps the best-abused word in the
language is "Professor." There ap-
pears to he a mania for attaching it to
all sorts and conditions of men. Time
was when the word carried with it a
certain significance, but nowadays
that significance is found only in its
insigniticance. A tledgling of one and
twenty, who, to use the expression of
Ephraim Smooth, "rubbeth the hair of
the horse against the bowels of the
cat" or in other words, plays the fid-
die, is dubbed a professor the bruiser,
Nk-hn only hItInn ~ 10 TO, lypnnl-
of all semblance of humanity the face
of his opponent, is a professor of the |
manly art; " the negro who pOlishes |
your boots for the munificent remuner-
alton of five cents, is perfOrce pro-
fessor; the collector of the city's gar
bage and the driver of the street |
sweeping machine are professors and |
so also is the operator to whose tender
mercies You submit your chin to be |
reaped with serious misgivings con-
corning the safety of your throat, and |
50 on Gd iRfnitum. This may be all
right. for it is a leveling age, and what
right has any man, no matter what his |
moral and intellectual standing, to |
possess and enjoy IA title, which his |
fellow man, no matter how far down in |
the social scale he may be, has not the |
same right to appropriate 7 But for all
that, the indiscriminate use of the |
word borders on absurdity, and if
there is any significance whatever in |
the use of the title; if it carries with
it any peculiar honor, or if it is SYM
bolical of any especial fitness as APP
piled to the teacher of any of the lib
eral arts and sciences, then it should be |
applied only to those who are entitled |
by high intellectual standing to rightly |
wear it Boston Traveller