St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-04-14
Strong Defense of
st. Johnsbury Academy

He said that this idea had also bee.
endorsed by the Federal government
and that Il representative had recent
ly been here looking up the matter
Nj. Young said the housing prob
lem was almost as serious as far It.
the schools were concerned as fol
houscholdcls and that in the near fu.
tulc more accommodations must be
arranged at the school houses 1T
Fairbanks village, Paddock village
and Maple street. In the latter place
q four room schoolhouse should he
built. He said the Junior high school
needed better ventilation and the
school should have more rooms. He
spoke of the best way to educate the
backward children and this led to
quite a discussion in which many OF
the members joined.
Senator Harry H. Carr, speaking
for the school board, said there was
a great need of closer cooperation be-
tween the public school system and
the Academy and the management Of
our schools ought to be under one
head. Speaking of specific needs in
the public schools he said the time
was close at hand when a new heating
plant should be installed in the Sum-
schoolhouse, and he believed
that the change though expensive at
first would save the town a gre 1T
annually in coal and janitor service.
He then explained how the school
tax was raised and just what amounts
St. Johnsbury received from the state
and Federal government.
DR.. c. A. Cramton spoke of the
advantage of medical inspection and
said that this was compulsory in New
York city. He said in St. Johnsbuly
the eyes, cars, nose and throat of the
children were well attended to by the
local physicians, but he was satisfied
that many parents did not realize the
harm of keeping children in school
with these and other defects, such as
adenoids, etc.
Others participating in the open
forum included Mr.. Haffncr, Rev. i.
B. Richards, Rev. F. A. Poole and
l.. N Smythe.
The last speaker of the evening
was z. F. Hazcn, who read the fol-
lowing paper:
AS is generally known, the Acad-
envy was established in 1912 through
the public spirit and generosity of
Erastus, Thaddeus and JoseDh p.
Fairbanks. These gentlemen decided
certain property in 1S43 to certain
as trustees of st. Johns
bury Academy "and to their asSoci-
atcs and successors in Office" This
deed cnjoined upon the trustees to
make the courses of study means
Of thorough intellectual discipline
and a school of moral and religious
Instruction. 1t provided, as cond:-
ion Of the validity of the deed that
he trustees should be men of piety
md members in regular standing Of
,omc orthodox Congregational
church or churches.
In 1876 Thaddeus Fairbanks con-
eyed to the trustees certain addition
Il real estate and he incorporated in
o hi, deed the same condition as TO
he requirements for trustee men,
'crship which was imposed in the
ICED of 1843.
In 1878 the Legislature of Vermont
rantcd charter Incorporating the
Trustees of St. Johnsbury Academy"
nd the following year all the real
nd personal property belonging to
he Academy was conveyed by the
oard of Trustees to the newly or
anized corporation. This deed Of
necessarily contained the
Tine provision respecting the quail