The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-03
OLD BARRE
ACADEMY
Some "reminiscences Re-
lated By Writer in Watch
man 40 Years Ago
PICTURES OF
DIR. SPAULDING
K And Facts About Proni-
nent Men Sent Out
From School

II Some "reminiscences OF the old Barre
n academy are gained through the per
nsal of an article which appeared in
the Vermont Waterman and journal
of forty years ago July 2S, lSs0l, the
article having been furnished by Mrs.
Stella c. Averill of North street.
The article was signed "Sol," the pen
Il name over which Scion Carpenter, a
Y former student Of the old academy and
prominent rs u newspaper writer OF
40 and so years ago, wrote many inter
csting articles. Mr.. Carpenter was in
Washington, d. G., at the time. His
article follows
In the death of DIR. Spaulding the
/. community in which he lived mourns
ii the loss of leader whose place, it
may be said, it is impossible to fill.
In this sense his death may be termed
public calamity. To his old stu-
dents-those who have sat under the
wisdom of his teachings and profited
BY his father1y counsel--the announce
inent Of his sudden demise comes with
he shock Of saddest tidings. To them
4 il tells of the loss Of one who held
another nd nearer relation than mere
/ " public one-the loss of hene-
factor. at once. and friend. As the
days and months go by since the sad
news was told, and we become more
accustomed to think of Barre academy
without the presence of Mr.. Spaulding
strange and unfamiliar as it will al
ways seem-the mind naturally re-
\ verts to those good old school days
spent at Barre, and we are impelled
to recall some of the old familiar faces
and few of the scenes and incidents
which have occurred there during Mr..
Spaulding's administration OF over
Twenty-Five Years.
And right here we would take 9cca-
sion to congratulate the trustees OF
the academy, its present patrons, and
the public generally, upon the fact
that the time -honored institution we
all love so well is to be so well and
ably governed as it is sure to be in
the hands Of the new principal Mr..
Nheelock. Under his teaching and
guidance, and with the aid of an ex-
iFcellent faculty, the academy can still
retain its deserved popularity with the
present generation and those who are
to come after. To the scholars of five,
ten and twenty years ago, however,
ii can never seem the same. The niche
which Uncle Jacob" filled, and which
was so peculiarly his own, will always
appear vacant to their eyes and hearts.
The excellent words spoken by Pres
dent Hubert at the SILVER wedding"
in Ell, concerning DIR. Spaulding and
his connection with the academy, re-
ceive added force and effect by the re-
cent loss which the academy has sus-
tanned, while his language regarding
the future of that institution, and the
effect which that very loss would have
which has really occurred, seems, in
Z the light of the present reading, de-
cdedly prophetic. The eulogy pro-
nounced by President Buckhani at the
funeral was so thoroughly fitting and
appropriate that no words are neces-
sary here concerning DR.. Spaulding's
] life and character, or the great in
yfiuence which he exerted for the good
s.pf his fellow men. No man of the
present day held wider sway in
forming the minds and shaping the
destinies of the youth of this country
during the last thirty years than he.
This may seem broad statement, but
we believe it to be true, nevertheless.
Look about you over the country, in