Year: 1866

ATTHE OPENING OF HIS SCHOOL IN BLOOMS


f4 BURG, APRIL 9, 1866.


Respected Students IL desire your care
ful attention to a few remarks that l am
about to make upon our mutual duties and
relations.


, 1t is presumed that yeur special object IN
becoming members of this school, is to avail
yourselves of its advantages, to improve
your minds and hearts, and thus fit your
selves for usefulness and happiness to cul-
tivate your manners, and thus render your
selves agreeable to those around you. As.
you viii, and have right to expect that we
as teachers will be faithful in the discharge
of all our duties, SO we have right to re-
qrire of you faithfulness in all that shall
tend to your physical, intellectual and moral
Developments Your success depends more
upon what you do than upon what IS done
for you: A few moments spent in contenl-
plating the nature and importance Of the
work you have in hand, may serve to render
your school life, both more pleasant and
profitable; and to aid you in such contem-
plation permit me to suggest First resolve
to comply cheerfully with every require
ment, and faithfully to perform every as
signed and reasonable duty, and do not
allow yourselves to decide upon the reasona-
bleness Of requirement, until you have
carefully examined into the effect that such
compliance or refusal viii have upon your
future well being. Cultivate and manifest
kind and accommodating disposition towards
school-mates, and respectful and confden-
tial regard for your teacher, being assured,
that, though fallible, we shall at all times
seek your highest good.


Your success in school and in after life
contributes to the pleasure and honor of
your teachers; from the very nature of the
relation of pupil and teacher, it cannot be
otherwise than that their interests are one;
come to us then, with ,your troubles, and
confde in us as your friends Regard your
school as sacred to the improvement of all
your higher faculties, and to gaining power
! over your passions and evil impulses, Let
| it be community of well bred young ladies
and gentlemen, who never indulge in rude
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any conduct that would be considered unbe-
coming in any good society of gentlemen
and ladies' Lend your influence in every
possible way to improve and elevate the
character and reputation of each member of
the school By your own example and kind
counsel assist in correcting the bad, if any
there should be, and in forming good habits
on the part of each and every member of
the school Observe order and neatness.
''Have place for everything, and every
thing in its place" Cultivate this habit as
virtue.


Marking % writing on books, desks, walls,
or any part of the school premises manifests
a very bad taste, if not a vicious disposition.
Is it too much to say that none bat a reckless
or vicious person viii indulge in this habit ?


Seek for high standard OF scholarship
the means to be employed are study and rec
itation. In these exercises you should aim
at perfection, In study depend upon your
selves Seek aid of no one until you have
made the greatest possible effort to solve the
difficulty then come to your teachers. Dis
| cipline and independent thought are as
much to be desired asthe knowledge obtain
ed Do not assist each other or ask per-
mission to study together. Learn your les
sons with view to know them, and not to
simply answer the questions that may be
asked


All communications with other pupils dur
ing study and recitation hours should be
avoided Each student should study and
recite as if no other one was in the class or
room. Never meddle with the desks, books,
or property of other students.


Maintain the strictest integrity in all your
relations in the school and community
Truthfulness is the basis of character; the
want of it radical defect The one in
spires respect and confidence; the other
brings reproach and degradation. For your
own sake, therefore, cultivate an artless in
tegrity and strive to be good that you may
be great.