The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-26
PRIZES FOR PUPILS.

The series of prizes that have been
offered to the pupils in the public
schools of the State, mention of which
was made in the Journal of May "a,
is given by the Vermont department
OF the Grand Army, with view to
awakening an interest in the minds OF
the children in patriotism and thus
elevating their conception of and
quickening their desire to attain to
good citizenship.
The prizes are divided into three
classes of ten each. The first class
consists of cash prizes of So each,
with certificates; the second, selected
books, with certificates; the third,
certificates of honorable mention.
Twelve prizes 60 to high school
students and eighteen are for gram
mar school pupils. Any of the child
rem in the public schools in the State
or those in private schools, whose
Tuition in academies is paid out of
public funds, may compete. A COM
mittee will be appointed to award the
prizes. The essays must be submitted
to the State superintendent on or be-
fore November /. Essays are limited
to 800 words, and must be signed with
a fictitious name and accompanied by
plain sealed envelope containing
the writer's real and fictitious names
and his school and personal history,
also a certificate from the teacher
certifying that the writer is pupil
in the school and that to the best of
the teachers knowledge the essay is
original. The subjects on one of
which each essay must be written, are
as follows:
Vermont in the Civil War, General
George J. Stsnnard, The Making Of
Vermont, The Green Mountain Boys,
The Battle of Bennington, Vermont
ers in the Battle OF Gettysburg, Ethan
Allen, Seth Warner, Thomas Chitten.
den, Justin S. Morrill,, The Oregon
and Captain CLARK, The Battle of
Manila Bay, Our War Governors,
Pre- Memorial Day in Vermont,
"Unole Sans Young Army" Why
We Honor the Flag, Abraham Lincoln,
Ulysses 8. Grant, Benjamin Franklin.
James Russell Lowell, Daniel Web
ster, The Lesson of the Civil War,
The Bronze Button, The Grand Army
OF 1904. The Louisiana Purchase,
General George H. Thomas, William
CLARK, The War of the Revolution,
The Spanish-American War, The
Lessons of Peace, Patriotic Songs,
Our National Emblem.
In writing to the teachers of the
State on the subject of Pre- Memorial
Day, Mr.. Ranger sets forth eloquently
the beneficent influences that come
from Memorial Day observances in
our schools. His paragraph reads as
follows:
vermont has reared many costly
monuments to the memory of her
soldiers of the civil war, her ora
torsand writers have again and
again paid loyal tribute to their
honor. and each new Memorial Day
grateful and loyal people. following
the lines of veterans, place flowers
upon their honored graves; but there
can be no finer tribute, no purer
honor, no sweeter reverence than that
offered them by the school children
and youth of our State, gathered in
their school homes On Pre-. Memorial
Day, the schools Sabbath of patriot
ism" In this beautiful memorial
the hearts OF our young people will
be touched by its holy inspiration
they will grow more kindly, more
reverent, more loyal to home, country
and God; in their lives will be per-
petuated those manly virtues that
make the grand passion of patriotism
and thus enshrining in human hearts
will be the more beautiful and en-
during memorial that Vermont gives
to her pAtriots.