The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-03-03

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81 Thomas p. th
is has broken faith a con
tracts Ia undertaking g sehoo' ef
sogy because g Vas forever IS hayg
rs deciding object Instruction b
agriculture and mechanic arts hH E
talking abeU 3 two-foli naaon
''rhe University Of Vermont and STATE
College Of Agriculture Tho hitter IS
land grant college established under
the Morrill, act Of 1865. and must for
ever have INSTRUCTION II agriculture
and mechanic arts" as Il lending oh-
ject." But this requirement ha no
relation whatever 70 any either pan af
the University Of Vermont. chartered
by legislature in 1891, two 3 ncrations
before the land grant colleges we're
born, and free to do what il may
please Did not Or Thomas know
perfectly well that he WIS confusing
these two things in our minds?
DR.. Thomas says that the uuive
has an annual appropriation Of $4,000
originally intended for teacher tuia
ing or free TO be used ia that manner
He says, "lf they want % dc some
thing in teacher training Why don't
they use that-it is all We use Very
well. What then becomes ~ the rest
Of the $4,000 vhieh annually they rC
ceive?
Mr.. Stearns says that New Jersey
has three normal schools and instcad
Of abolishing or ceutralizinF them has
q bin in the Legislature @ establish
a fourth. Yes, but where In a little
place like Johnson? No, in Jersey
City. The others are II Montclair
Newark, and Trenton. Tho lowest
number Of instructors IS q. By far
the lowest Of these schools in property
value is Montclair with buildings vai-
ued at S398.03O plus library and
equipment valued at $58976 lerscv
City has a population Of 29lNG1
Newark, 4f4,216i Trenton, ll9.2s9
and even Montclair mot quite one
quarter so large as the smallest Of il
sisters) has population of 1854
people more than that If Castleton
added to johnson added 70 Burlingto
New Jersey has furnished us ever
thing from mosquitoes 10 Woedrn
Wilson; we are perfectly willin f
70 hould furnish u argument
normal school question.
We are blamed for seeking e
vice Of on expert outside the
when we wanted 70 make an upr
udiced survey. We are told that
expert is d man who has failed aad
then gocs about telling others h
succeed. Does DR. Thomas
other man dare say that ~
Chandler BaglcY SIZE only
under consideration The NM who
does not respect TIE uamo of B3.le,
does not know So much abou. t5e
caHonal world as Ri
about The Holy Trinity though
admit it IS unfair to lead Balaam
into a discussion already crowded with
better material. It may hive beer
wrong 70 70 out of'the state for Bag
ley, but when Middebgry college
wanted 4 president it took John Mar
lin Thomas, born at Fl Covington
N. ", and pastor at East Orange ~
J. Castleton found IN IFS successful
Charles A. Adams, a mar
who laborcd in the West from the year
in which Bryant was first candidate
for president 10 the year he was las
candidate. We were blamed for visit
np Iowa for educational ideas and
last night we were told Of a principal
NJ Johnson who really was
and filed the school with pupils Who
was this Johnson saint? Archibald G.
Pcake. born in Greene Iowa; educated
At Upper Iowa normal school; teacher
in Iowa high schools from 1898 %
1904; then assistant principal in the
training schools at St. Louis. When
for the first time, did he hold an edu-
rational position east Of the Missis
sippi river? When, in 1913, he came
10 johnson normal school II we have
done wrong in going out Of the state,
surely Middlebury and Castleton and
can forgive Us for following
their own example. II we must never
get ideas from any but born Vermont
Frs why not do yet better and consult
,nlv those who have never been out
side the state?
You have heard how ono commission
lfter another for fifty years has re-
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