. The New England magazine. emornings were long and the eveningswere often late. Like an active gen-eral, the superintendent was straight-ening up the waving lines in everydirection. The rolls of attendance andpunctuality were to be compared be-tween different schools. Soldier-likepride in regularity and precision wasto be idealized and instilled. And sotwenty-five schools in rapid succes-sion caught the step, were fired withthe same enthusiasm,—and therewere no more little lifeless, un-interesting schools, for they were allone. But the superintendent of schoolsmet his Waterloo at last. There
. The New England magazine. emornings were long and the eveningswere often late. Like an active gen-eral, the superintendent was straight-ening up the waving lines in everydirection. The rolls of attendance andpunctuality were to be compared be-tween different schools. Soldier-likepride in regularity and precision wasto be idealized and instilled. And sotwenty-five schools in rapid succes-sion caught the step, were fired withthe same enthusiasm,—and therewere no more little lifeless, un-interesting schools, for they were allone. But the superintendent of schoolsmet his Waterloo at last. There were |those who did not appreciate mod- jern education ; so after his three yearsof trial, with such results as I havefaithfully indicated, he was voteddown by a narrow majority in two of Ithe towns. The other two could notmaintain the superintendency alone;and the schools of those regions for ja time lapsed into their old-timedeadness and hit-or-miss existence,with no stimulating connection with Jthe great outside
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