The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1896-06-09

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Need / remind you that your
speaker was Threatened with death
Oh sight at the pointof q shotgun
Only think had the would-be des-
perado executed his threat, you
would have been spared this paper.
But thanks tony guardian angel,
or the desperado's accurate knoWl-
edge of the exact range Of my own
trnsty foWling- piece, heneyer came
III sight Of me, and We both live,
and I am here to exhort you one
and all, to- avoid such dangerous
and awe-inspiring experiences, by
never striking another mans child,
even though the man should in
struct you to beat him to death if
he should not obey. Your reputa-
ton will suffer, your influence will
fbe impaired, no matter what may
| be the result of court trials or shot
sun experiences.
No one will deny that ninety
Eninesof every hundred parents, es-
pecially the mothers, and they will
arouse the sympathy and indame
the passions of the fathers, riff
she happens to be q widow, Of the
majority Of the comnunit say,
The one will deny that ninety
llof every hundred parents will re-
sent the infection Of blows, more es-
Ipecially should you intentionally,
Ior otherwise, it makes little differ
fence, happen to make bruise on
1.-The child, only one inch long, and
scarcely discernible. That bruise,
Vim the feyered imagination Of the
sympathetic community, immedi-
Rately expands into . gaping wound
LOT frightful proportions, from
(which issues forth, at every pulsa-
ltion, that dear, innocent boys life
blood. The picture has shifted,
/ the scene has changed. The Will
ON incorrigible urchin has been, as
liz by magic touch, transformed in
to an angel, lacking only wings to
transport him in rapid flight to the
realms above, while the prosecuted
teacher has become a demon Of
| the vilest type, blood-thirsty
monster, fit only for association
with the occupants of sheol.
No one will deny that corporal
punishment fails in many, if not
majority of cases, to produce the
desired effect on the child, and af-
ter repeated trials the discouraged
teacher is forced to resort o.some
other means of punishment, or dis
miss the offender from school.
No one will deny that the use Of
the rod u repulsive to Che average
teacher, male Or female, and to
those Of sensitive nature it seems
an intolerable burden.
Having discussed thus briefly
the question Of corporal punish
lnent from the standpoint Of the
Welfaresof the teacher. let lis now
look at it in its effect upon the
child. a
Whenever and wherever this
question is discussed, one Of the fa-
yorite arguments of the advocates
|4of the rod is to cite instances Of
prominent men who, having suffer
ed punishment during boyhood at
the hands Of some thrashing ma
chine of the old regime, return III
naturer years to the scenes of their
boyhood, and in excess of graft
tlide, on meeting the now aged ped
agogue who once hayed them alive,
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fall upon his neck, embrace him,
and with tears in their eyes thank
him for never having ''struck them
a lick amiss.' "A.
Oil how dramatic and pathetic!
One would imagine from such pic
turing of such scenes that the only
avenue Of approach to the heart of
the child was through HIS integu-
Inent. It Is doubtless true that
these men do feel grateful in after
years to those who may have tried
by any means to restrain them I'M
their wrong impulses and actions,
and they attribute, however, false-.
", sone,ohat Of their success in life.
to this same restraint. But who.
will venture to say how much great
er might have been the success of
those men, to how much higher.
heights Of glory they might have
attained, had they been restrained