The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-02-03
DLPL OAA TIC RELA 77ONS WITH
GERMANY F4AV We BEEN BROKEN

1--WE ana IN a way Wnere the money
expended shall produce results and
not be wasted.
Each school should be properly
equipped, stated and maintained for
h;mmoson-ln
the economical minimum OF students
AS many schools should be provided
as there was demand to supply stu
dents. Sectional or partisan influence
es should not govern except so far as
the distribution be made to make
them the most convenient to the stu
dent.
ITO have anything less than the
best possible is crime to the youth,
in that his whole life is shaped and in
fluenced by these years of work; and
if the influence is bad or the educa-
tion deficient, 1t Is only the exception
al few who will recover from 1t.
with all the needed expenditures
that the state should make for educa-
tional purposes let no money be vast
ed
LAS yet there has been no demand
for instruction that one school couldn't
take care of better than two. II there
be need for two schools make suffi-
cient appropriation and have them
such as in future years and future re-
suits the state will be proud OF and
the people profit by. II there be need
for one only, face the proposition. and
whether at Randolph or Lyndon. make
1t such as will be credit to the state
and benefit to the people Of the
state
1T was never my purpose to pro-
vide all the agricultural practical edu-
cation for the state. nor to go into
competition with the state. therefore
when the state assumed that field
turned over TO the state my school
that / might give such attention and
time as | could to the development Of
the training and education of the chill
dren in home industries and the girls
in domestic rural duties.
"The state was offered the property
at Lyndon in good faith 1t was in
tended as expressed to make II the
leading school of its kind In the state.
Presumably 1t was accepted in good
faith. while there were some questions
raised. a mere statement of facts an
swered all of them. A provision was
made that il the state did not want
to carry out the obligations connected
with the gift that the property should
revert to Lyndon Institute for educa-
tional purposes on rural lines for
girls. There is no other provision or
activity in this direction as yet, ex-
cept that now going on at Lyndon In
stitute.
1T the state does not want to main
tain two at present, and wants to con-
tinue Randolph, let the reversion
clause take effect. Then both boys
and girls will be taken care of so far
as rural education is concerned.
THE only thing that / am interested
in is that so long as the state contin-
ues the Lyndon property as a boys
agricultural school. the spirit of the
gift and acceptance should be observ-
ed, and when for any reason the state
concludes that it does not want or
that is not wise to do this, then let
the clause for reversion take effect.
The state as whole will not lose
while possibly the girls might be bene-
fitted.
The Lyndon Institute could then
be made the leading institute of its
kind in America, where every Yer
mont girl could get an education in
those industries which should be
known and understood be every house
wife no matter what be her social
position; be educated in everything
which is necessary to make a resi-
dence or abiding place comfortable
home.
THE property Is valuable one
either to operate or realize upon. The
farms even under the disadvantages
that have existed, have been practical
ly self-sustaining.
IL respectfully submit this for the
consideration of those who will have
the decision, and trust that the prac-
tical advantages and neither personal,
partisan or sectional reasons will con-
troll that decision.
Very sincerely,
"Theo. N. Vail.
"P. S. am sending this letter to
the members of the Legislature and
the papers"