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


Ihave heuri Is this han without saying
eh1t I think q the man ! honor
The exposition % the administratien
s ike IRE uan who drove sharp har
Ieaius he bought shoes three sizes
too large because be got more leather
for his money. his hat fell over hi
earE for the same reason; 80 when be-
married 10 knew the license and the
ministers Zee would be no mere II he
took a woman globose and expansive.
He did She weighed six hundred
pounds. One day a friend met him
weeping and asked what was the mat
ter
"Oh-oh wife sick"
well. what's the trouble
"Oh-oh- appendicitis"
"Well. don't worry-it viii be all
right The doctor will operate"
"Oh-oh- that's the hell Of III The
doctor doesn't know whether TO oper-
ate or to blast"
The opposition have decided to
blast, but they are blasting at the
wrong rock They are blasting at
Mason Stone. who hes no official con
nection with education ri Vermont.
They are blasting AZ nr Hillegas, who
is alive and gone. They promised to
blast at the state boau II education.
They don't DO Il excer' by insinuation,
but II an they say about tte iniquities
Of Mason Stone and Pr Hillegas were
true, it would not Ee 10 the point in
the least. Those men aro gone And
If all which they do not dare TO say
about this CHASTITY state board Of edu
cation were true, sim insist upon il
that is not to the point AT all. The
state board Of EDUCATION is q changing
body-these bills put before you are
two opposed systems Of teacher train
ing, one Of which will be permanent.
Forget the state board Of education
until you have chosen between them.
Then if, 10 a separate question, you
want to clean the state board Of edu-
cation Off the slate, go to it, and halle
lujah for little rest 70 FIVE weary
menl
Last Wednesday evening the presi-
dent Of Middlebury College rose and
announced that he would read the
Scriptures. Quick as a fash became
pious and unfolded my ears ! ex
pected he would read. as well as ex-
emplify. that passage where Samson
killed a thousand Philistines with q
weapon which it would be superhuous
TO name. Instead, he read the touch
ing Scripture which says:
"Middlebury had a little eve lamb,
It's fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere U. v NJ went
Tint fleece. perhaps, might go"
You cannot blame the good doctor
for being worried over a cosset which
has developed such high powers Of
suction. In his perfectly background /.
"a fear that Els argument would re-
veal the fact. Or. Collins told you that
he had studied the normal school ques-
ton. ! have studied the Bible, and
for the benefit Of any Sunday school
who may happen TO be pres
ent. let me saythat the Bible was not
written TO prove that Guy Bailey
steals sheep.
The proposal for aifiliation came not
from the university bat from the state
board Of education. In behalf Of the
state we demanded absolute control Of
the teachers college. They gave it,
and the agreement was closed. But
over and over again, for some fancied
defect. we asked them TO reopen the
ease and make larger concessions to
cur demands until I told my col
leagues that If ] had been the presi-
dent of the University Of Vermont ]
should have told the state board q
to 90 20 Guinea, long ago.
Nobly, generously, the university gave
us everything we asked, until the last
degree Of state control is sure. ! say
this that you may know the university
is not reaching out for what it can get.
It has given everything. ] could not
make this more emphatic, if could
swear like a doctor Of divinity.
DR. Thomas gives you to understand
that $500 600 viii not erect a respect
able college building, and he warns
you in the most solemn terms never to
affiliate with any college. This letter
which ! hold in my hand is dated from
.he ofce Of the president Of Middle
hurry College II begins, "Mr. dear
Or. Hillegas." and after the prelimin-
airy paragraph, It makes these pro-
posals:-
/. The board Of education to locate
at Middlebury a state schooLof educa-
ton.
III. Middlcbury college TO transfer
b the state board Of education its