Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-05
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
OPENING OF THEIR ANNUAL MEETING
IN THIS CITY.
Interesting Discussions at the Morning
and Afternoon mountaineering
Address by GOV. Pingree in
the Evening.

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agreeable for people to 20 outdoors but
there was n fair attendance of superin-
tendents and teachers from different sec
lions of the State as well as residents of
this city. In the absence of the president,
Prof. a. l.. Hardy of st. Johnsbury, the
first vice president, occupied the chair.
The session was opened with prayer by
Rev. G. II. Merrill of Brattleboro. Mayor
L. \. Woodbury. then welcomed the mem
bers of the association to this city with
the following words
MAYOR wooDBURY's ADDRESS.
Nh. President ana members Of the Yer
mont YCdChCrS' dissertation:
1t gives me much pleasure to welcome
you to Burlington. We recognize in you
an important factor in the prosperity of
our State. While you are directly con
nected with her educational interests, you
Indirectly exert Il great influence upon her
material prosperity. This is too obvious
to need specification. On intellectual and
moral fields your efforts are directly APP
piled and felt, and by your unseltiSh and
often poorly requted lahors the youth of
our State are lifted out of the bondage of
ignorance to possibilities of usefulness
and positions OF prominence
The relation you sustain with your
pupils is intimate, and influential for good
or evil, and it is to your credit that your
influence is always eNerted upon the side
of right. You supplement the influences
of good homes and counteract the evil in
tluences of bad ones, and in the communi-
ties in which you labor you are power in
the cause of morality and religion. 1t is
for what you are and what you accom-
plsh that we honor you. The schools of
Vermont stand deservedly high i'll the es.
eiha.iot Oh Ime peoPIe o. our YIN own aI h
1 tai 90, orToI"io MA ~
the schools of our city, but we are still
Satisfaction is antagonistic to progress.
There las been great change for the bet
Ter III the SCHOOLS o. erhont Wlthlh uhe
last tElrty years. ne teachers are pet
ter equipped Tor their work ana the syS-
tenn oil teaching mas peen llilch improved,
l mention thirty years ago because tried
TO teach a little about tnat tlme. lhen
the teacher VINO spared the rod was not
1aNorlte Dut now us use Is almost as
carded, presume the change III TINS re-
spect may ne Tor the better, but DeIeVe
mat sometimes there Is hotnihg more
Denenclal TO a refractory pupli, OF more
satisfying 10 a long sulerln! ana lhsultetl
teacher, IMAM 10 warm the jacket OF such
q pupil until he realizes ms duuy OF oDe,
dlence. linen the teacher boarded
arouhu ana allhouSil uStitlly receiving
the best eacn mousse afforded, SOMETIMES
IL was not OF uhe cholceSt KIND NOW thlS
Is changed Tor the one GOOD place. Any
teacher VINO mas warmed all the spare
Deds III ermoht school ulstrlct curing
Il WINTER OF thlrly SeitrS ago, would pe en-
tltleu 10 license W lecture upoll Nlltt1 nc
OF she KNOWS apoul lhe arcIIG regions
Again bidding you welcome ana wishing
you Il pleasant Time curing your stay WIFI
us, thank you Tor your attention.
Prof A l. Hardy of St Johnsburv then
PROF HARDY RESPONSE.
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In behalf of the members of the state
Teachers ASSOCIATION l thank yoll Tor the
very hearty welcome that you have eX-
tended to us. We appreciate the high
compliment that you pay us in relation
to our connection with the highest inter
eSts of the State. | have lived in Vermont
only six years but have already become
greatly interested in its educational pro
gress and have made many visits to this
centre of learning to draw from the eX-
perience of the educators. | have visited
your high and grammar schools and
have obtained many valuable suggestions
as to methods of instruction. 1t is fitting
that our meeting should be held in this
city and it is also fitting that our sessions
are to be held in this room which is con-
secrated to true, earnest, hopeful work III
the cause of education. We expect that
these meetings will be Of great aid and
value to us and that we will carry back
to our work much that will help us. We
also welcome YOU and the residents of
m ~ Uu tho,, ndIracSod q fo,, or,
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