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    teachers have hearts for the work to give th ^| best efficacy to the use of their well stored intellects ; there fe ^ not a ; jot of cutand-dried mummery among them . I have observed them diy after day , hour after hour ; now with the mathematical class , or Greek and Latin , French and German ; no leaping to satisfactory conclusions because memory has laid hold ofwoVds ; things are taught and understood . In the Anatomical

    museum , now at Botany , Geography ( the mode of teaching which is the most fascinating and advantageous of any I ever heard of ) Drawing , Music , Gymnastics , Dancing ; and in the Chemical laboratory , which does not consist of a mere glass-cased show of apparatus to dazzle a visitor with , " You see how philosophic and scientific we are here ;' but is a substantial building apart from all other rooms , with furnace , forge , retorts ,

    alembics , &c . &c , all complete ; the science is practically taught by an adept and a true lover . In all I observed ( for I could not resist , it was my greatest pleasure to be with the boys at their lessons and lectures , while fifty miles barefoot through ancle-deep mud , with the driving sleet in my teeth , would be a race ot ecstacy to get away from most school-rooms ) in no instance did I see a frown of impatience , or hear a tone of irritation at carelessness or inattention , from the instructor .

    Especially , in every department , and on all occasions , the most delicate and wise care is taken that no boy shall . feel himself degraded by an exposure to invidious comparison , or reproof before his fellow-students or companions ; the censuring lecture is given without a witness , the offender is himself sole audience ; what is the consequence ? All is happiness , in school , at board ( where there is neither stinting in quantity nor stingy meanness of quality , and a man of fastidious

    appetite would drop in accidentally to a dinner which he would congratulate himself on finding ) in rambles and in p layground , every different and successive lesson and occupation is a change and renewal of comfort , satisfaction and pleasure . It is an harmonious blending of the music of all the nobler and gentler feelings and brighter affections , with the varied processes of intellectual training into vigour of thought and

    mental power . A true manly beauty of spirit is cultured into a flourishing and self-sustaining strength ; deformities and weakness are thus made to die , or rot innocuously in the soil , as aoon as the smallest shoot is seen to force itself to the surface . Under the wise but geiitle , the firm but tender , touch of such a modeller ' s hand , the ductile metal is formed into a glorious

    shapeliness , which holds its adhesive force while it retains its power of expansion into the fullness of maturity , without fear of flaws from rough handling , undangered b y the dread of fractures , but certain of completion into soundness , eubstan-

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    JPourtem Days at School * 121

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/74/