. Charles Brooks and his work for normal schools . o glance has-tily, but to study a scrap-book, especially such a personalone as this. In our own experience we find ourselvesat times perplexed as to why we preserved some clip-ping. It was probably Brooks experience as well. Andyet, after reading what he said about the educationalantiquary, one is struck with these lines, pasted just be-low his printed signature on a circular regarding theClergymans Aid Society. It seems as if he may haveagain been looking into the future. 11 be forgotten as old debts By persons who are used to b
. Charles Brooks and his work for normal schools . o glance has-tily, but to study a scrap-book, especially such a personalone as this. In our own experience we find ourselvesat times perplexed as to why we preserved some clip-ping. It was probably Brooks experience as well. Andyet, after reading what he said about the educationalantiquary, one is struck with these lines, pasted just be-low his printed signature on a circular regarding theClergymans Aid Society. It seems as if he may haveagain been looking into the future. 11 be forgotten as old debts By persons who are used to borrow;Forgotten as the sun that sets When shines a new one on the , like the luscious peach That blessed the school boy last September;Forgotten, like a maiden speech Which all men praise, but none remember. But later he wrote these lines, when he was in a rem-iniscent mood, and dated them 1865. And though some hopes I cherished onceDied most untimely in their birth, Yet I have been beloved and blestBeyond the measure of my CHARLES BROOKS (1795-1872),At Eleven Years, 1866. Silhouette by King, a <leserveilly Famous silhonettist nf the period CHARLES BROOKS AND NORMAL SCHOOLS. 9 The question arose as to how fully these clippingsrepresented the newspaper accounts of Brooks work,and so it seemed well to examine a file of a cotemporarynewspaper. The Hingham paper was selected, as thatwas the paper of his town, and the result showed thai-Brooks clipped and preserved in the scrap-book practi-cally all the references to himself that appeared in thepaper. Mr. Brooks relied on the press for much helpduring his active work, but the methods of that daywere much different from those of ours. There wasnot the appeal to the interest of all classes and condi-tions of men; the reading public seems to have beenlimited in numbers. But there have been many changesin thought and life during the seventy years that haveelapsed since Charles Brooks was doing his grand workof
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