Year: 1869

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the too frequent repetition of noun is


only used to supply the place of noun


when the pronoun makes the language


sound better than the noun repeated


would.


The other parts of speech were taken


up. and thoroughly treated, the absurdity


of the definition and distinction of the


text books were characterized in round


terms, and common sense presentation
of the subject was given, which was of
deep interest to all, and gave the study
of grammar an attractive interest which
if adopted in our schools, would render
grammar one of the first studies of which
children would desire to obtain a knowl-
edge. The necessity of great thorough
ness in all study was enforced, and the
principles laid down were copiously illus
trated by anecdotes and references to the
familiar thingsof every day life


After the conclusion of Mr. Olmstead's
remarks, Prof Johonnot delivered an in
teresting discourse on the principles OF
teaching. In the evening Secretary Ran
kin delivered his lecture on Woman
Rights" We have prepared very i'm
perfect abstract:


| II we have a good teacher TO educate
the children Of nation, il makes no
difference who teaches the men and wo-
men. The common school il of more i'm
portance than the college or university,
the world il governed by influence and
not by power. The child il always the
work Of the myther, and the influences OF
the mother and home form the character
(of the man, next to this influence il the
common school, and in this sphere also
woman presides, and there she exerts
greater influence than in other spheres


The difference between the condition OF
woman in past ages and in later times
was drawn, and Der former degraded con
dition and want of culture compared
with her enlightened condition and power
of the present day, and the declaration
was enforced that in her sphere woman
exertcd an influence more potent than
man. Woman's rights and woman's du-
ties We're taken up and the deduction
drawn that if the restrictions now rest
ing upon the sex were removed so that
they had the. opportunity to occupy the
same political, social and industrial posi-
the scale of being, that she would be sur
rendering up power itself for the mere
-emblance of it, and it will be a sad day


in the history of civilization the hand
will turn back upon the dial.


Woman's peculiar aptness is for teach


ing children. They should have the best
of education, and should be teachers but
when they feel that the elective franchise
would add TO their influence and refine
ment, she should be considered as mis-
taken, and be instructed in the errors Of
her aspirations, as what she might seem
TO gain would be an immeasurable loss 10
childhood, manhood, and womanhood.


me aPi'----s d.sis, ~ creative wisdom
seems to be that woman should be a teach
er Of youth, and she is crowned with at
tributes fitting her for the work, while
mans adaptations are for another field Of
labour, and there appears 10 be an ordi-
nance Of heaven that she shall be teach
or Of the young. a comparison Of the
mental operations places woman where
her intuitivo feelings give hcr the know
ledge which man obtains only by logical
deductions and reasoning g-con-cqucntl
she is fitted 10 preside over tho carly in-
tuitionz Of childhood, and should be In
structors Of children.


Though woman ha- cxeelled IN maxi
ing Swf-s watcher and l. peculiarly al. !
apted to needle work, yet she il more
fully suitable for teaching ON account Of
her patience and intuitive perceptions. II
il some patient industrious school mis-
tress who can teach first ideas 10 orators
and poets, and they should do the work |
they are designed for by nature. She
sible moral influence. The best part of a
teachers instruction is what they impart |
unconsciously, and the child ab-orbs into
his own nature the spiritual condition of
its virtuous teacher. Moral tuition be-
longs to woman. 1t is her kingdom Let
woman preach and pray and sing the
song Of purity. Let her be sermon, prayer
and song in Vermont school houses. She
does more good there than in the ros-
trum, and she not only elects future rulers
there, but she moulds them and makes
them what they are.


The school room is woman's place.
There is she at home, where character is
found. Her sympathies are naturally
with what is true and noble. She is
more religious than man. 1t is therefore
as Count Gasparin has said, woman saves
the race from boorishness, and from the
coarseness and vulgarity of club-room So
ciety. But if the salt has lost its SAVIOR,
wherewith shall it be salted If woman
learns her sphere, and makes limitations
of manhood, we shall be obliged to infer
with Hamlet about the players, that some
journeymen have made men and not
made them well, they initiate humanity
SO badly. Woman by being untrue to
herself, degrades herself, and descends
from holding her own heaven selected
role in life, where Christianity and edu-
cation have placed her, and become again
what in many lands barbarism has made
her.


Tomorrow we shall close our report of
this Institute, and shall give an abstract
Of the very able and interesting lectures
Of Prof. Johonnot ON the Principles of
Teaching and on Discipline, and of the
other gentlemen who took part in the ex-
ercises of the last day of the Institute.


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