WARMING & VENTILATING WAREHOUS Nos. 51 and 53 Blackstone Street, Boston. Chilson's Patent Tri WE give our personal attention to Warming and Ventilating public or private ings. School-houses, academies, seminaries, colleges, &c., receive our first att Our improvements are constructed on strictly scientific principles, and are meetin great success and favor with school committees, teachers, and other scientific men, far surpassing any other mode of warming and ventilating educational bui either in this or any other country. The great object sought, and by these improvements fully attained, is, first, pur warm air, free from red-hot iron heat and coal gas, so common with the common ir hot-air furnaces, to which may be attributed more causes of sickness and disease an both teachers and pupils, than all other causes together. Secondly, a free circulation of fresh air through the school departments, mode of ventilation. Third, the great durability of the furnace, and the ease and facility of its manag Fourth, the new economical plan of burning anthracite and bituminous coal, wood without any change in the apparatus. Fifth, impossibility of setting the buildings on fire in which the furnace is locat At either of our Boston or New York houses may be found an extensive and assortment of Warming and Ventilating apparatus, among which are CHILSON'S P AIR-WARMING AND VENTILATING FURNACES, Dr. Clark's school stove for coalpattern of wood ventilating stoves for school-houses, &c., Portable Furnaces, Em Ventilators for roofs of buildings, Smoky Chimneys, &c., Hot Air Grates, Ceilin Wall Ventilators, Arnott's and the self-acting Room Ventilator, &c., &c. THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER. EDITED BY A COMMITTEE OF The Massachusetts Teachers' Association. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. VOL. VI.-MARCH, 1853.-NO. 3. CONTENTS: Page. A Massachusetts Teacher, Webster's Legacy to School Teachers, Book Notice,.. Changes,.. Rev. Mr. Hall's Address at Dedication of Dorchester High School,.... 65 Roger Ascham,... ......... Remarks on the Anglo-Saxon Language, (Continued,) A Complete System of Public Education,.. Letter from the Sandwich Islands, (Concluded,) ........... 70 BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COOLIDGE, No. 16 DEVONSHIRE STREET. TERMS: $1.00 per year, in advance, or $1.50 at the end of the year. Printed by DAMRELL & MOORE, 16 Devonshire Street. AGE, any distance in the United States, SIX CENTS PER YEAR payable in advance. Officers of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association for 1853. President.-William H. Wells, of Newburyport. Vice-Presidents.-Benjamin Greenleaf, of Bradford; Rufus Putnam, of Salem; D. S. Rowe, of Westfield; Geo. A. Walton, of Lawrence; Geo Newcomb, of Quincy; Caleb Emery, of Boston; Eben S. Stearns, of West Newton; C. C. Chase, of Lowell; Samuel W. King, of Lynn; D. B. Hagar, of West Roxbury; F. N. Blake, of West Tisbury; N. 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Advertisements will be inserted in the Teacher on reasonable terms. SAMUEL COOLIDGE, PUBLISHER, 16 Devonshire Street, Boston. At the Dedication of the High School in Dorchester, Dec. 7, 1852. BY REV. N. HALL. Friends and Fellow-citizens : It seemed good to the School Committee-into whose charge this building has now passed-that before it should be appropriated to its destined use, its existence and purpose should be finally recognized by some public services; that, in obedience to ancient custom, and in view of that custom's intrinsic fitness, with the voice of prayer and sacred song, we should commend it and its objects to the favor of Him, the Source of all intelligence, the Author of all blessing-Him, whose gift it is, with all the instrumentalities and privileges connected with it. We are here, then, to set apart, to devote, to dedicate a new structure for the purposes of public education. Apart from any circumstances of a local character, an interest attaches to the simple fact we thus express. Might we suppose ourselves in some other county, some other State, some other country than in our own, the simple fact that there, wherever it might be, we were standing within a new structure to be devoted to the public education of children and youth, this fact alone, rightly considered, would have a commanding interest for us. sider what the human mind is; consider what education proposes to do for it; consider the important relations which the young sustain to all existing institutions and interests; consider the influence they are necessarily to exert, for good or evil, upon their own and succeeding times, and you will not need to ask Con where and in what that interest lies. In each additional strueture, rising no matter where upon the earth's broad surface, for the intellectual and moral training of the young, the philanthropist sees new cause for rejoicing, new grounds for hope; sees another battery opened against the hosts of Error, another fountain of restoration for diseased humanity. How enhanced that interest, if such structure rise within one's own land, and considerations of patriotism as well as of philanthropy connect themselves with it. How yet more, if within one's own community, neighborhood, town-if our own children are to be the direct partakers of its benefits, if from our own homes its seats are to be peopled. But over and above what these considerations give, is the interest which attaches to this occasion. It is not merely the erection of an additional school-building that we celebrate to-day, but the establishment among us of a new grade of school. We behold, to-day, the worthy completion of our system of public school instruction; our educational pyramid capped and crowned. What many of us have so long looked for, has indeed come. The vision has grown into a reality. Dorchester has been true to herself, her pilgrim founders, her honored name, in the noble offering she this day makes to her aspiring youth, of the facilities, to be here enjoyed, for an advanced education. Much had she done before for this great interest of education. But need was there she should do more: for her children's sake, her honor's sake, her material interest's sake, that she should do just this which she has done. We will not cast reproaches upon her for what might have been, after all, a wise delay. We will honor her, that when she saw the time had come, the word was given, and the work was done. No reproaches will we breathe to-day, but congratulations only. The school to be gathered within these walls we call a High School, and perhaps I could not better occupy the remainder of the brief space allotted me in these exercises, than in speaking of some of the advantages and ends of that higher education which such an institution is intended to afford. Our idea of the worth of education is likely to be a low and superficial one. The tendencies of our common life incline us to it. We are prone to measure its advantage, as that of other things, by a utilitarian standard. We calculate its worth by what it will bring of outward, palpable profit. A boy goes to school -for what? 66 Why, what should he go for," (is the common thought) "but to learn to read and spell, and write and cipher -by all means to cipher ?" And why to learn these?" Why, simply because they will be needed, you know, in his trade, his calling, his occupation. He would be less likely to get on in the world without them." Good reasons these, undeniably, |