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Professor Shaler completed the 21st year of his teaching in N. H. 4 yesterday. In all these years he has not been known to give a cut.
"From pastor of a little church of 150 members in Paterson, N. J., to president of the Bowdoin College is quite a promotion for a young man of 27, only two years out of a Theological Seminary, and but six years out of college; but the ability and acquisitions of...
The recent remarks of President Eliot and other educators, have directed fresh attention to religious teaching in public schools. To one who has followed the discussions of this subject for some years past, it is painful to observe that they are taking on a political complexion.
It seems most wise, if in this country, Saturday and Sunday do not afford sufficient time for specific religious instruction, and since churches are evidently unwilling to entrust parents with imparting such teaching, that the public school should be made acceptable to all denominations.
This can be done, first, by all classes of citizens uniting in choosing school boards of liberal character, who will see to it that nothing sectarian be admitted into the teaching of any branch or in any regulation, and secondly, by having only one session, closing at one o'clock...