The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-30
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY w. j. MCKoNE.

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LILLE BROwN-MORRICE II. S. LYCEUM.
Maud Muller, on q summer day,
Plain food is quite enough for me.
So with the glories Of the dying day,
My country It's OF thee.
Twas jolly old pedagogue long ago,
Descending the broad hall stair,
With fainting steps and slow,
Swallowed by the black despair.
Mary had little lamb,
With fingers weary and worn,
And every where that Mary went,
Shows man was made to mourn.
Listen my children and you shall hear
Thirty days has September,
They saw his crest apper
And his eyes were deep and tender.
Lives of great men remind us,
We must use our men with care,
Or departing leave behind us
Half our natural crop OF hair.
Sweet Auburn lovliest village of the plain.
Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose
That longs to launch into a bolder strain,
To husband out life's taper at the close.
Honor and shame from no condition rise,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning
flight
What were this then, you dog he cries
One fact is clear, whatever is, Is right.
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere;
His fleece was White as snow,
Old things die out whilst new appear,
Perhaps you'd like to know.
Curfew tolls the lInell of parting day,
Ferry me over the ferry,
Bringing TO Winchester fresh dismay,
Her lips were as full as cherry
'Tis the voice of the suggard,
heard him complain
Oh when shall day dawn
On the night of the gravey
Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again,
Ger the land of the free and the home Of the
brave.
COUNTY NOTES.
Owosso will graduate a class of six this
year. Exercises to be held June %.
Perry and Morrice school boys crossed bats
at Morrice Saturday, May "a. While the
result was not entirely unforeseen yet it did
not suit us. Nc Euen will tell you the score.
Report of school district No. 5, Hazelton,
may be found in the Reporter. If we can
not have them here we will locate them in
the woods and tell you of them.
Everyone now make ready for the educa-
tional excursion. Rates are so that all can
go and will make it grand success as
usual.
Shiawassee county teachers and pupils
will visit the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, Saturday, June ID. Train will leave
Owosso at 9 o'clock, arriving in Ann Arbor
in time for picnic dinner in the coaches.
Fare for the round trip from OwOsso, Cor
unna and Vernon, S1.30; Durand and By
ron, S1.10.
HISTORY.
The soul of the history is in its story.
Without the story there are no actors and
tall oarafuIIu calaof-
ed and properly wOrded stories that pupils
will love to hear. History is full of these
stories. These can be arranged in chrOno-
logical order, and thus cause and effect may
be taught Children can never learn his
tory by committing to memory dates and
names; each date must have with 1t the
story of one or more persons. IL both pri-
mary and advanced teachers will remember
this fact, great good will be accomplished,
and great interest awakened.
OUR SCHOOLS MUST BE AMERICAN.
Hon. ID. l.. Kiehle, state superintendent
of public instruction of Minnesota, In his
report for the year 1887 and 1883, makes
some plain statements i'm regard to what. the
schools should do towards imparting a
knowledge of and love for our institutions,
which we are sure all patriotic Americans
will heartily endorse. He says:
.'Our common schools must be American.
The time has come when the state must
give additional emphasis to the importance
of the common school as an ally of the state
in training an intelligent and loyal American
There are three things that should be said
Of every good man: First, that he loves his
home; second that, he fears God; and third;
that he is good citizen. The special train
ing and instruction i'm the first two qualities
are given In the home and the Christian
church, and the public school must be so
conducted that its spirit and instruction
shall never be against, but always friendly
and helpful to these two divine institutions
of society. But to the public school Is
specially committed the training and in