The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-10-03
SCHOOLMASTERS.
How They Enjoyed Their Positions in ths
Olden Time,

How They Enjoyed Their Positions in the
Olden Time.
Sohoolmasters have always had rep
utation for severity. and have excelled
in the use of the cane. In fact, floggine
seems to have formed part Of the sys
TEN of training in force at public
schools The great reformer, Erasmus
remarks Archdeacon Farrar, has left us
painfully graphic account of how ht
saw a poor boy at st. Paul's cruelty
beaten by grave and reverend divine
for no fault whatever. but merely to
show him the discipline of English boys
And so for centuries the bad custom o.
cruel education cont nued. 1t was fol-
the purpose of securing milder treat
ment of children at school that Roger
Asham wrote his celebrated work or
1.-The Schoolmaster, but it does moi
seem to have effected any reform. 70
beating was thought the best way of re
ducng boy into proper form or shape
At the end of the eighteenth century
Southey was expelled from Westminster
school because he had boldly denounced
the system of flogg ng, contending thai
it proceeded from the devil. Even
more brutality was exhibited at ST.
Pauls school during the present cen
fury. Sergeant Ballatine was s
day scholar at this school and
he has wr tten graphic account
of his masters, who were all tyraats
cruel, cold -blooded, unsympathetio
tyrants. "Armed with cane" he
says, land surrounded by halo o ter
Tor. they sat at their respect
i've desks. Under Durham the smaller
boys trembled. Edwards took the next
in age. Each logged continuously
The former. a somewhat obese person
age, with q face as if cut out of a suei
pudding, was solemn in the performance
of this, his favorite occupation. Rev.
Mr. Edwards. on the contrary. though a
cadaverous-looking object, was quite
funny over the fortunes he inflicted
One of the favorite modes
of inflicting pain adopted by these ty
rants was, when the boys came in on a
winters morning, shivering and glove
less, to strike them violcntly with the
cane over the tips of the fingers.
nearly learned at that school the passion
of hatred, and should probably have
done so but that my mind waS too fully
occupied by terror Bean was short,
poigy, pompOus man, with Insignificant
features. HIS mode of correction was
different in form. and can see him now,
with flushed, angry face, lashng some
little culpr t over back and shoulders
until his own arm gave way under the
exertion. Among the amusements OF
this gentleman, one was to throw book
generally .Ent ck's Dictionary if
remember rightly-at the head of any
boy who INDUCED in yawn, and if he
succeeded in his am aud produced a
reasonabl. confusion he was in good
humor for the rest of the day. l have
met them all three since my school days.
and found them shallow and ignorant
no doubt with plenty of Greek and Latin
in their heads, but without knowledge
of human nature or power of appre-
eating the different dispositions their
pupils.-AH The lear hound.
"A lame paper says: There is
preaching in certain rural town in
Maine a gentleman of fine culture. Of
rare literary attachments, of great gen.
eral information, Of profound religious
experience, of original powers OF thought
and express on. He receives salary
of eight dollars week, He has vo-
luminous library, is walking encyclo.
pedals the village factotrm. He is
college bred and is the best definition
Of Christian perfect gentleman. :"
An eminent phys clan thinks that
men should not run after thew reach
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