Old-time schools and school-books . ers. He taught in New Haven andsome smaller places; but for the last thirty-eightyears of his life was master of the Boston LatinSchool. He died at his post in i 708, at the age ofninety-four, after having given seventy years of con-tinuous service to the New England schools. Hisdeath was widely mourned, and he was long held inaffectionate remembrance, for he was more patientwith the slow boys and less severe and brutal with allboys than schoolmasters of that age were wont to be. Full to the brim with Puritan theo/ogy, he wrotea book called The Scriptural Pr
Old-time schools and school-books . ers. He taught in New Haven andsome smaller places; but for the last thirty-eightyears of his life was master of the Boston LatinSchool. He died at his post in i 708, at the age ofninety-four, after having given seventy years of con-tinuous service to the New England schools. Hisdeath was widely mourned, and he was long held inaffectionate remembrance, for he was more patientwith the slow boys and less severe and brutal with allboys than schoolmasters of that age were wont to be. Full to the brim with Puritan theo/ogy, he wrotea book called The Scriptural Prophesies Explained,and he was unflagging in earnest endeavors to helphis boys to become Christian men. The text-bookof his authorship to which I have referred was, AShort Introduction to the Latin Tongue, generallyknown as Cheevers Accidence. It enjoyed forover a century immense popularity. The first edi- Beginnings 15 Orbis Senfualium Pi&m. A World of Things Obvious to theSenfes Drawn in Pi&ures. Invitation, Invit& The Matter and theBoy. ~* Ome Boy, learn to be \j wife. P. What doth this mean, tobe wife ? M. To underpaid rightly, Magifter & Puer* M.\TEn\ Puer, difce fa*P. Quid hoc eft, Sapene?M. Omhia> quae neeejfaria^ First Lesson Page of Comeniuss Visible World. 16 Old-time Schools and School-books tion appeared in 1645, an<^ tne book was republishedas late as 1838. In the grammar schools Cheeverswas usually the first Latin book, and after the boyshad worked their way through that they plungedinto the dreary wilderness of Lilys Grammar with its twenty-five kinds of nouns, its seven gen-ders, and other things in proportion — all to bewearisomely committed to memory. The purga-tory of this grammar was early recognized, andCotton Mather said of it, Persisting in the useof Lilys book will prolong the reign of the only copies I have seen have been revisions ofthe original, yet the one I own, dated 1766, statesthat the unrevised is still printed and for
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