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to every child who came within their walls for instruction. No great success in life was ever reached without effort, and the strong men of to-day in any department of society are those who toiled early and late in their youth. He would not have children, from any false alarm, deterred from a reasonable amount of hard work or study. He also urged the importance of having live and healthy teachers, up with the times. He hoped the idea once so prevalent that "anybody would do for a teacher" was forever abandoned. A broken-down minister or lawyer was formerly almost sure to turn up a school-master; but that day was passed, and he believed the community were putting a just estimate upon their labors. In conclusion, he asked for the new master and his corps of teachers the co-operation of parents, and justly stated the relation which should exist between scholars in school and their teachers, and parents at home, to be one of entire good feeling and reciprocity.

Hon. JAMES M. KEITH, a member of the City Council, was then called upon. After the many who had preceded him, he felt like Ruth of old; he was but an humble gleaner. He said twenty-two years ago he too was a school-master, but, as he looked back upon the little room where he held dominion, what a contrast to this splendid structure! Twenty-five feet by thirty, in a low structure, some fifty or sixty children were gathered on benches around the four sides, with the teacher and a stove in the middle; and yet those hours were happy ones. He eloquently en

larged upon the mission of children, showing how they helped to educate those who taught them. They add greatly, he said, to the delights of home, and he took occasion to give it as his opinion, based as it was on a long experience, that the chief happiness of a right-minded man was in his home, and if that were denied him there is but little else in the world worth living for. He was glad to be present, and he bade them God-speed, teachers, scholars and committee, in their glorious work.

Rev. ANDREW MCKEOWN was the last speaker. To him this was a very gratifying occasion. It was ominous of a glorious future. The past had done well. Our fathers, who landed at Plymouth, were not only zealous for religion, but they laid deep the foundations of public education. They built the church, and not far distant they built the school-house, and between them, upon the pleasant green, the children played. He would educate the heart and the head. The school educates in wisdom and morality, the church in morality and wisdom. He was glad to see in all denominations a disposition for a higher education. He would have a pious learning and a learned piety; a generation thus grounded in the elements of a true manhood would be sure to become the pillars of our republic.

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THE RICE GRAMMAR SCHOOL-HOUSE.

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