The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-09
by teaching the family cleanliness and

by teaching the family cleanliness and
better things
This Director is not bad man, but
he does far more harm than if he were.
4 He is misft in a school founded for
the purpose named in the charter OF the
Institute, and every citizen of Port De-
post knows it. 1t is plain to be seen
why such man would affiliate with
the Observation-Disclosures teachers who
have never failed, in season and out OF
season, to express their contempt for
the weak students from Port Depos-
it," as did their spectacular land la
mented leader. New members of the
Faculty have been found on inquiry to
know nothing OF the purposes of the
Founder in establishing the school.
To the third negation it is sufficient
to say that the teachers selected by the
present Director for the high school
have been principally without training
for the work of teachers, and many OF
them without teaching experience
young fellows just from college, full of
Latin and Greek, but knowing nothing
of the science which they practice upon
defenseless children. They would not
attempt to practice medicine or law
without preparation, but teaching!
AS result some of them forget to
meet their classes, and parents COM
plain that one young amateur teacher
INDUCES in profanity and vulgar cpl
thets in the class room. The atmo-
sphere of the school is not moral one
Dancing, card-playing, smoking, drink
ing and drunkenness are INDUCED in.
Many of the teachers indulge freely in
the four first named, and few have
been known to indulge in the last
named evil.
| To illustrate the fear-type of gov
eminent used in the dormitories as 1t
was in the days of Pickwick, let us give
the case of Roy Tome, son of Cor
nelius Tome, a nephew of the Founder.
The head master and disciplinar1an OF
the dormitories suspicioned Roy of theft
and gave the other students to under
stand that he believed him guilty The
proof was entirely circumstantiai, and
so, after bearing the ignominy for days,
Roy ran away. The parents, living
near, had not been told of it, and moro
than twenty-four hours after he left,
they learned OF it from student On
| going to the dormitory, the learned 81
Doctor met them with statement OF
the trouble their boy had caused him.
And this boy was Tome! His father
can give full particulars.
| The authorities, apparently, do not
want to employ teachers qualified for
the work they are to do. The COM
mercial department needed second as
| sistant. A young man who had studied
| the science of education, and college
graduate, with several years expert
| ence as a commercial teacher, was in
duced to agree to come to the Insti
tute for $3.50, although he was then re-
ceiving $1,000 When his name was
presented, the Director refused to have
him elected, and insisted that young
teacher of Latin from Delaware, at
5000, would be equally satisfactory!
That the subjects of study have not
been largely of the character desired
by the Founders is we'll known to all
While there are courses of study in
commerce and manual training, the vo-
cational element is eliminated in both
as far as possible, thus doing little or
nothing that may be called fitting for
usefulness in life" The constant and
insistent demand that the students take
the college preparatory courses, and
the object lesson of graduates of those
courses, who, unable to go to college,
hang about town doing little jobs here
and there, able to do nothing that an
uneducated person cannot do as well,
is conclusive proof that the subjects OF
study have not been of the general char
acter desired by the Founder. but are
of that old type to which the ultra
conservative, non-progressive college
man and his imitators have chung to
for centuries. Note results in answer
to No. 8.
To prove that negative reply to
No. 4 is . matter of common knowl
edge, it is only necessary to recall that
DR.. Mackenzie brought with him from
the $1,000 year Boys Boarding
School at Lawrenceville, N. J., one DR..
Randall, who received salary OF
$500 for doing practically nothing;
also one Professor Peck, who received
who as fgurehead librarian asked:
"Who is that man George Eliot, any
how? l never heard of him before"
l ALSO one EIOIcSSOT lIeHCH, whose Sal
airy was $1,000 for teaching singing and
piano playing; also former Lawrence
vile student, just out of college, one
Hodge Jones. When DR., Abraham
Harris came from the University of
Maine, he also brought with him, or
called in short time from the Uni
versity of Maine, Professor Flint for
supervising engineer; also one PROBES
sor Fernald, son of a professor in
the University OF Maine, and just
out OF college; also one O.. c.
Dunn, formerly janitor in the Univer-
sity of Maine, to be janitor at the Jacob
Tome Institute; also from Maine, Miss
Wilson, to be head of the department
of domestic economy; also Mrs. Briggs,
from University of Maine, to be war
den in charge of younger boys; also
Miss Allen, from University OF Maine,
to teach in the Junior School; also
half dozen lady teachers from New
England, and especially from the Nor
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