The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-09-27
The Baraboo Collegiate
Institute under Edward
and Marion Hobart


sipation which | am sure hadno temp
tation for him. Moreover, he was
a truly pious man and opened the
school day with appropriate read
ing and prayer. He was accustomed
to attend the stated services of the
church with his wife and to take
part by prayer or remarks at the
weekly prayer meetings. Likewise
on the anniversary of prayer for
schools and colleges, he attended
with the school in a body and quite
always took part, commencing
the Christian life to the young
men and women, which no doubt
had weighty influence in their
religious thought and feelings.
Whatever might be said, we we're
impressed with his sincerity, of
which the boys and girls of today
are not always so sure. Altogether,
he was manly man who command
ed respect from all classes by force
of his appearance and known
character.
But to describe the personal
characteristics of Marion, as the
professor was wont to address her,
would require the pen of HowelIs;
not because ofpaucity in materials,
but because Of their abundance
requiring due classification and
proper discrimination to give the
real personality. In appearance,
she was of a medium figure and
quite the ideal of grace and symme-
try; not that she was beautiful to
any except the professor perhaps,
and yet there was bewitching
something in her ensemble that
made her extremely attractive and
inetesting. At this time he mnst have
been about thirty-tive and she a
few years younger or in the very
bloom of young womanhood, the
picture of abounding life and
sprightliuess. She was no sleeping
beauty; admired the industriousj
even the poor young man who had
to pay his tuition by chopping cord
wood from the log to..feed the
school fires, and that during noon
time on the school grounds. With
in her sphere, which was. about
everything the professor left. out,
she was the more proficient teacher
of the two. a.. ..,
But first OF all she was a lady
with all the regard such appela-
tion implies and commands. No
one ever presumed to tresspass be-
yond the proprieties in her presence.
Even the wags of the school well
knew the limits of the dead line and
observed it implicitly. This was
however not always 50 with some of
the lady teachers employed to assist
when the attendance was unusually
large. A notable instance was
that of a new arrival from Oberlin
who lacked tact and the bad boys
would persist in putting crayon
characters on the pendant part of
her suit jacket as she passed along
the aisle, much to the modification.
Mrs. Hobart who did not confne her
! instruction simply to the prescribed
studies; she looked after the de-
pertinent of the young people as
we'll She would tell the girls not
to appear on the street uugloved
and the boys not to Yawn without
placing the hand over the mouth.
She would inform them how to con-
duct themselves in a drawing room
which must have proved very
valuable to many who in after life
were called into stations above their
early surroundings. For all these
things they could only thank the
good and thoughtful mistress of
the academy who unselfishlY had
their interest as her sole motive in
warning and chiding and commend
ing.
7 In her teaching she was devoid Of
pride, and would often call upon a
pupil who had completed the given
study with especial success as she
considered, to come into the class
and take her place for the recita-
4 lion during which she would retire
! Her insniration was the welfare Lf