The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22
Written for the Sunday Sentinel
EARLY TEACHING THE SOUTHWEST.
Blk AN TX TEACHER.


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Is ii not little singular that the twomo.t
Important professions achieve no fame for
their votsrles? Who knows q civil eneineer9
The world would be wilderness we're Il not
for the az 1edncts hung in the clouds the
pictured rail way. the gossame. bridge Who
built them2 You mention Lesseps-but he
is a contractor. You suggest Esds Yes
bis name has been connected with public
works. and ne was examined by a Congress
sional Committee What other engineer
do you ever hear off And the poor dear,
hard working, learned teachers Are you
personally acquainted with teacher, The
; other cay plain lawyer wrote al article for
the Sentinel His name has been herslded
in half the papers il the State as Leading
and distinguished But the men and the
daring women who make civilization posi-
Bile, who eq7ip heroes ana send them forth
to conquer fsme-who are they9 When the
poetaster claimed Virgils verses he wrote
four times the words:
i Sic non vobis
and dared his rival to complete the verses.
II only teac hers we're to read this article L
would complete them in the original as vir-
gil & nished them. Bat in plain English the
com pleted lines were that thus it happened
to the bees, the sheep the oxen, and the
no rses, that Others got the glory aud profit
an d benefit OF their lives and labors. And so
We may say of the most intelligent the worst
paid, the mcst useful profession: .Sic vos
non vebis." Thus Il happens that the world
Il II
that is to say | was professor in "uni-
versity." The drst n light / arrived, with my
graduating honors thick upon me, was in.
vited to play freeze out poker for a pony.
I / objected partly because that particular
species OF poker had been left out of the COL
lege curriculum, and partly because | hsd q
Itingul Ar notion that teachers ought not to
play poker. My scruples were met by the
double declaration: | could never learn the
game more chesplyi the pony was only
valued at $50, and il only cost 81 to get in
and secondly every member of the Board of
Trustees OF the university was in the game
Since the election l scorn 10 throw away my
time on the Republican States of Ohio and
Illinois, and know that IL is not necessary
to explain 10 you Indiana readers what
freeze out poker Is IL goes with Vi say
ing that Information on this subject would
be like sending Goals TO Ne wcastIe
This University" was magnificent on pa
e per. The Autograph displayed building
about the size OF the main building at the
lew Orleans exposition. But the actual ed
lice was an old Baptist Church set on
stumps. The one room Was partitioned off
by thin boards, " hich did not reach the cell
ing by ten feet, into four rooms We never(
had TO muster all hands to witness punish
ment. When a boy gta licking We all
heard It No traveller can exaggerate 10 ne
the teas in the Soudan. Every hog in the
township made his hesdq uarters under the
lpuncheon floor OF that college building.
AS the Legislature is in session ana 1.-The
tConstitutloD would be busted ~ Judge
Fletcher used to say, unless every member
Introduces bill-l make q suggestion for
some neglected member To work up Let il
oe enacted that it shall be unconstitutional
e to put cushions in a teachers chair. With
plain woven seat the teacher can make q
" successful reconnaissance. Bat il is quite
Is i'm possible for the average teacher TO ind a
pin in cushion until be or she sits down,
q and then il is too late. L underst and the
It New South" is given to manufacturing en-
d terprise | venture to hope in the interest,
= of my former brethren that no
pins, except safety pins will ever be manu-
~ featured there Ii was the plan OF the uni
v versity to teach every thing We were all
e professors My particu ar department was
l. to teach the alphabet and intellectual arith-
" metlC. bUt IN the Catalogue i passed fOr
professor, just as the old Iri-hman did who
grsduated-ss all Irishmen do-at Dublin,
= and taught LstIn and Greek.
g 1t happened by some str uge freak that
!, lone of my boys wanted 20 learn political
>, ECONOMY. / think L may safely say that,
none OF the readers of the Sentinel know
u what political economy is. Although that,
boy and l went through Adam Smith, T
q confess to you that | haven't the most re-
e mote idea of what that branch of learning is.
% Ii is huge phantasmsgoria | used to take
q the book TO hear that boy tay his lessons, but
l. never could ind anything 70 ask him.
q With q key you gst along admirably in alge-
bra or arith metic- With translation hid
II den in your desk you are always safe IN
o Horace or Homer. But in political economy
,f there are no aids. T3u havs To work it out
t lyourself ani there is nothing 10 work out
Il SnlI il must have done me some good. be-
,e cause when l was a member of the Legisla-,
ture / heard several members from the
~ country remark th 1t I wss fine POLITICAL
- economist. In truth, 'wever, L was no
4 more skilled IN political economy than Sam
\ Randall ~.
;. My gentle and iesrned friends, the teachers.
= for whose benefit / have wr tteu this com.
n munication, are better of day than 1 was
,ri-boys do not as a gs4eral thing carry bowie
4 knives now.
Indiana IL q monument 70 her teachers. /.
take of my nat ~ the gentlemen, aud would,
If they would let me-kiss every darling.
woman among them