The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-05

Fitchburg, Jan. 26.
| Mrs. England served light refresh
ments and invited the ladies TO meet
with her again, March 4th.
Mrs. William A. England OF Cedar
street gave dinner in honor of her
niece. Miss Lillian B. Wetherbee of
lLeominster, Friday evening.
The Lend-a-Hand Club of the Church
of the Unity has followed the custom
for number of years Of giving a sup
per at the Home for Aged Women on
or near the clubs birthday. Yesterday
the members of the club and of its
auxiliary spent a most enjoyable after
noon and evening with the % ladies' of
the home. In addition to the dainty
supper, each lady found at her plate
pox OF peppermints. a bunch of flow
ers, and tiny silk bag containing a
quarter of a dollar The tables were
further decorated with candelabra and
birthday cakes that bore IL lighted
tapers. pleasant feature of the af-
falr was the rendering of some of the
old songs and ballads by Miss Mary
Fowler.
LIS <NuSii~d brdiHefo Cnafee gave
the second in her series of art lectures
In Providence Saturday afternoon. at
the Trocadero. before a cultivated and
appreciative audience. The subject
was "Ruskin on Turner and Turner
IN the National Gallery" The next
lecture will be given Feb. IS, on asir
Edwin Landseer."
DR.. G. Stanley Hall leotured Thurs
day afternoon before the FaH River
Teachers Association. His subject was,
Inc critical years Of youth"
Politeness is like an air cushion and
eases the 1olts OF this world wonderfuls
ly.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Worcester is prominently represent
ed in the February number of Educa-
ton. The opening pages are by SUI
perlntendent G. +. Carroll, who dis
cussed in spirited fashion the sugges1
ton made by Mayor Quincy at the
meeting Of the Schoolmasters Club in
Boston last December that there are
too many people in the high school.
Too many pupils in the high
school, exclaims superintendent Car
roll. Whose child shall be excluded
II every man is taxed for the support
of the high schools? How duh must
boy appear that he may not be allowed
the enjoyment of his birthright-that
distinctive feature that marks us as
different from any other nation under
the sun? Why should this line be
drawn at what is now known as the
high school age? Why not cut off the
ounces at ten or twelve years OF age
and let them contribute to the wealth
Of the country rather than to waste
their time in seeking to attain the i'm
possible?'
Later on. he acknowledges the thu
initiating fact that high school teach
ers are, at the present time, wholly
unframed in the art of teaching" And
further on, THE first year in the high
school reminds us of the first cam
paign of volunteer army uf1seasoned
and untried in a tropical climate" But
In this connection, he takes occasion to
pay handsome compliment to Wor-
cester teachers. Our Worcester high
school teachers" he says. ''are a mag
nihcent body of men and women.
can bear living testimony upon this
subject. Many of the instructors have
been with us for many years, and many
early came to appreciate the value of
human life and the need of individual
sympathy on the part of children. They
are worthy of reputation and an, adj
yertisement which they never receive,
though they are quietly honored by the
community and by host who pass
through their hands,"
To place the requirements so high
that only the genius can pass the ex-
aminations would be- Supt. Carroll
thinks, to cater to a class upon who's
neither society nor civilization are de-
pendent. occasionally, college vale
dictorian proves to be a good business
man and contributes his apparent share
to the enrichment of the world, but the
valedictorians with whom / happen to
be acquainted would have a very low
average estimate upon this basis. In
fact some Of them present but pitt
full spectacle to their classmates and
early admirers. A poll of the men today
most useful, most effective in educa-
ton, in the spiritual, the social, the
business world, of the state and the
great city, would scarcely warrant the
theory of discrimination and of elm
ination before us for consideration"
In conclusion, the author insists upon
the point that intellect no longer holds
the supreme place among the philoso-
piers and best thinkers of the hour, but
that emotion, and feeling, and charae-
ter, and will are given new place, and
that to subordinate them to under
standing is inconsistent with the his
tory of mankind and the ordinances of
heaven.