The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-09

Nj. ID. Mckenzie, formerly assistant
general passenger agent of the Central
Vermont, has been appointed general SUI
perintendent of the Mexican Central rail
way. with headquarters in the city of
Mexico.
These are among the Decoration day
speakers announced: Vcrgcnncs. Judge
Neazcy of Rutland; llincsburgh, Judge
Dunton of Rutland: WcybridgC, Lucius
BigclOw, editor of the Rutland Hcruld /:
Failhavcn, Pat NJ. Mcldon of Rutland.
\ writer in the CObicmpDgoIY Rcriclc.
published in London, writes as follows
regarding the influence Of Robert college.
Of which President llamim was so long
the head: obstruction is given i'm En-
gish; the library is furnished almost cX-
cmsivcly with English books, for of Bull
garian literature there is Practically none.
and for three or four years English is the
language through which the pupils re-
ccivc the ideas which are TO form their
character. 1t is hardly possible to doubt
that such an institution. under the CON
duct of DR.. Washburn, its present head,
must be thoroughly good influence as
far as its activity extends; and it is a
matter for sincere congratulation that the
college, being presided over by IN Amer
lean. is relieved from any possible charge
of political proselytizing which might
however unfairly, be attributed to I'm En-
glish institution. But besides the moral
value of the college rs an educational cs-
adjustment its work possesses some fca-
lures which are of special and unique in
tercst to Englishmcn. Both in Philippe
polls and in Sophia there are already
many young men who have received their
p a In Ia,
occupying posts of importance i'm their
respective countries. The fact is impor-
tant in itself, but it becomes doublv so
when we reflect that this is the first Occa-
sion on which Il newly formed European
state has borrowed its ideas, or any of
them, directly from AnTlo-SaNOn sources
Hitherto young men and coming pOliti-
clans of the nations who were compelled
to seek their education outside their own
country have rs Il rule turned their Stcps
to Paris. Berlin and Vienna. and in the
great universities of these cities have
learned much that was of profit to them
selves and likely to he of service to their
tCllOW-COuntrymCn But in none of these
capitalS-not even in Paris-havc they
come in contact with what may be called
the purely Anglo-SaXon. as opposed to
the continental. method of looking at po-
lltlcal questions. 1t is not necessary to
pretend that one attitude of mind is nee
csSarlly better than another. though both
we and the Americans are somewhat
prone To think otherwise. But that a
difference of Il very marked kind exists is
not to be denied. Frequent CONVEX satiuns
with men who had devoted the inforIna-
ton they had acquired at Robert college
to the services of the state in Eastern
Roumclia or Bulgaria certainly confirm
The impression that there is likely to be
IN element in the government of these
countries which is western and not CONT
mental; and that there is Il peculiar ring
in the tone in which the relations of The
governing Glasses to the governed is dis
cusScd by those who view the question
from an English or American standpoint.
which is never To be heard even in the
case of the most educated and Wcll-intcn-
toned students of French OF German pol
tics