Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were disappointed in the "Beautiful Slave," which the College Herald parades at the head of its "Literary" department. Its badness is hardly even enough to make it pleasant reading; yet there are a few passages for which striking is perhaps the best term. For instance, the extraordinary manifestation of second-sight in the first stanza...
After all the violent agitation of the temperance reformers, the most sanguine of them would scarcely say that of people who have acquired the habit of drinking, a tenth, or an approach to a tenth, consent to take the pledge. Even those who take it are not always faithful. The trouble is that by the pledge one motive only for abstaining is brought into play. It is assumed that even the most degraded, whose name has once been signed to a promise, will hesitate before he breaks that promise. Now in the majority of cases it is probable that...
...instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization has not yet penetrated - hesitate to pay this assessment. These people cannot themselves read, they cannot write, and yet they have lived, eaten, even amassed a little wealth, and perhaps have bought a piece of land. Very well; what need of learning in the management of their affairs! To milk cows or hold the plough requires no great amount of science. Then, too, the child can be useful on the farm, and is never...
...know their position, and either despise them or reproach them on account of their poverty. It is, in fact, a humiliating favor. For this reason it is now proposed to do away with this list of children who don't pay and make instruction free to all. But even were education obligatory and free, we still should not occupy a very high position among enlightened nations. And that this is the case is not due solely to the fact that the peasant does not like school, not knowing the value of education, nor yet is it because of the cost...
...bidding of both. Under the control of the cure because the cure is a man of great influence, he is also attached to him by other ties. A teacher is usually very poor. The minimum salary that he receives certainly cannot make his position brilliant. It does not even render him independent. A capable and intelligent man rarely remains a teacher, because he has few chances of advancement, and is almost sure to die of hunger. Consequently, capable men are not found in the corps of instructors. In regard to others, they are obliged, in order to live to take...