Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection 1/ Rochester Public Library Reference Book Not For Circulation Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection EAST HIGH SCHOOli, iilBRARY. n Z7 I -f~" " Haec olimforsitan inemitiissejuvaliil." Vol. 1. No. 1. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Monday, Sept. 26.'81'81 . f* 55OOtsaYear the field of battle ; in 1863, chief of staff 01 the Army of the Cumberland and the trusted JAMES A. GARFIELD. adviser of Kosecrans and the peerless chief- Born in Orange, Ohio, November, 19, tain Geo. H. Thomas; elected the sane 1831. year to fill the seat made illustrious by Josh- ua R. Giddings ; vee'ected in 1864, in 1866, Died at Long Branch, New Jersey, io 1868, in 1870, in 1872, in 1874, in 1876, in September, 19 1881. 1878,and during all that time an acknowledged leader in congress; in January, 1880, elect- There is much in the story of our mar- ed United States senator, and in June of the tyr president's life to excite the sympathy, same year, nominated President by the party kindle the admiration, and appeal to the whose principles he had with distinguished pride of the young and the old alike,who en- ability, vindicated on the floor of congress, joy the possibilities, and exult in the dignity on the rostrum, and on the battle field; of American citizenship In 1840, an or- elected President of the United States on the phan left to struggle for himself and others 2nd of November last; inaugurated on the 4th and receive a hard earned pittance on a j of March, with imposing ceremonies, in the farm ; in 1847, supporting himself and his presence of the representatives of the people widowed mother by "driving team" on the I from all parts of the republic, surrounded by canal and bravely enduring the hardships and i the members of his family among whom sat ! drudgery of a canal boatman's experience; his aged mother; foully assassinated July in 1849, a zealous, hardworking student ati 2nd, by one Guiteau ; died after eighty days an academy; in 1850, a teacher of a country j of suffering, dearly beloved and deeply school, earning means to push forward his j mourned by the people of every land and ambitious purpose to become an educated I every tongue. man; in 1854, an earnest, tireless student at Such, in brief, is the outline of the extra- college ; in 1858, a graduate, bearing the : ordinary career of him whose remains a sor- honors of his class and manfully struggling ! rowing nation entombs in Lake View Ceme- to satisfy the debts incurred in educating ; tary, Cleveland, Ohio, to-day. himself; in 1859, President of Hiram Col- Pure and courageous as a boy, ambitious lege, Ohio, and state senator ; in 1861, colo- and self-reliant as a man, aggressive, even nel of a Union regiment and commander of a tempered, and upright as legislator and lead- brigade driving forward with resistless energy er in Co'igi'es"1s,h6kliiig'frist thn-ugfc lHejC-'iry into eastern Kentucky and routing the rebel i friend" of, \\'\?' jio.utl^, liic 'niinlwo'd, 'a'ndj })is general,Humphrey Marshall; in 1862, a brig- riper years, keying in affectionate embrace adier-general and then a major general for every comrade oT the ww.| and commanding, gallantry in action and important services on at all times, 'the Vste'eih Y)f • men1 'of everv Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection creed, political or religious, James A. Gar- Following this prepared speech there are field dies more widely and sincerely la- hisV>pponents arguments to be answered,and mented than any other man of this century. tliis gives excellent practice in extempor- His life marked by hard and unremitting aneous speaking, more useful perhaps, be- toil, distinguished for faithfulness to duty, I cause more often iised than the studied or- and crowned with true success, will serve, in ; ation. all future time,to every poor boy in America, Jt also produces that quickness and re- as an incentive to virtuous endeavor. tentiveness of mind, which is the key to ! success in every occupation. Nothing else, probably,confuses a young School Societies. speaker as much as being tripped up in de- II. S. ('AR1.KTON'. hate by rules of order, havng his train of One ofthegreatest privileges enjoyed by thoughts broken by some wary antagonist, any man is the right of freely expressing who is only too eager to find him violating his thoughts; and every citizen of the some of tlu; established rules. United States knows that he has that privi- Hut, this is never seen in a young man lege.knows that no man has the right to re- who has had sufficient training in the school strain him in the free exercise of it, knows i society, for all the best of these societies that he may step forth and address directly strictly enforce every parliamentary rule. and indirectly his ten million, more or less A young man with greal natural ability of fellow citizens. is elected, perhaps by met us of influential Vet how t\'w seem to realize the magni- friends, who think that his genius will in tude of this privilege, how few avail them- time place him among the most eminent of selves of it. the nation, to a seat in one -of our legisla- Every educated American has opinions ture halls : he makes his first speech; what of his own concerning the great political can we expect '•' questions ofthe day,yet if they aie express- He has previously had no training in ed at all, it is probably to a few of his in- that kind of work, he has little confidence timate friends, not from the speakers plat- in himself, and his first effort in speech - form to the whole nation. making is a failure : discouraged he never And this results mainly from a want of again, probably, makes a similar attempt-, confidence in bis own powers, or from the and the eminence to which his ability the know 'ledge that his powers are latent, m.ght have lead him, is lost, for the want and thai he is now to far advanced in life of a little early training. to commence their development. Having di&apointed his friends in his It Is to remedy this evil thai school de- first term, he is never again a candidate for bating societies have been formed. :\ high office. They commence with the pupil at an Hut disregarding after life results, tl.e early :ii,re when he is most siisivpl jlilc to school society is the best assistant of the Impressions from without. teacher of decision in existence. This is Opening the debate by a speech for seen by the difference in the speaking of whose preparation^ bat U£.«l,s{>erhabs, a the pupils in the public exercises of those schools which have a prominent society. siiw1llu-.il! ilfOM-r'ari'rtirly' sWdie'l orations and those which have not. Yet some which ha*v jjuji »f &e3r I iy<(ducei> sucll teachers try to suppress these societies by power in ouj ll'gisla»*ivj' -hollies; every means in their power. Hut the time Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection is not far distant when all tVie teachers will their arrow into Southern Europe and the be ex-members of some society ortfiis class, distant Asia. They traded with South Am- for there is hardly a pupil 111 our colleges erica, Atrica, the isles of the ocean, China, at the present day who does not belong to j India and japan> leavim5 indelible traces of one of them. their civilization, etc. Miscellany. —The sale of the Sunderland Library, —The National Library in Paris contains London, which was postponed, has been 2,978,000 volumes, more than twice the: fixed for Dec. 1, 1881 The library was number in the British Museum. Austria j formed during the reign of Queen Anne and leads all other European countries in the George I., and consists of 30,000 volumes. It is celebrated for its early editions of the number of its ppublic libraries, which contain 5, 475,198 volumes, divided among 577 li- \ Greek and Latin classics, and includes also r>^4jraries. rare editions of the great Italian authors, a 1^ collection of early printed Bibles in various I —The earliest p rinting press, to which languages> including a copy on vellum of (£both a date and a locality can be assigned, ' the first Latin Bible with a date; a nurnber was used near Groen-en-dad in the forest of j of ear)y printed and rare French chronicles » Soignies, in the province of Brabant, before j and memoirS) books of prints, and a few an- r^the year 1440. It is quite possible that fur- j dent manuscripts# Some of the books are ther investigations may reveal to us the ex- I printed on vellunl) aml many are fine large J istence of other centers of printing activity j paper copieg) chiefly in fine o]d morocco at dates considerably earlier. binding. ^—These are the ways in which the London C^o papers severally spell Shakespeare's name: —"Shakespeare," says The Academy, Shakespeare—Times, Standard,Daily News, "was counted one of the 'meane' or humble Telegraph, Morning Advertiser,Globe,Echo, folk in 1604, when his full Hamlet was first Era, Spectator, Graphic, Guardian, Rock, _, .