The Archive · 1908

THR END OF THE SCHOOLMAN

There are others, who are already feeling the pressure of being crowded oat. The Observer was going along one of the highways leading out into the country from our city, and overtaking a an who seemed to be a scholar got into conversation with him.

"Where are you going "To my howe, north of the © What your occupation Teaching school." "Are you prospering?" "No, I'am not. No one wants the old studies any longer and without English it is no go."

The principal of ove of the foreign schools in our city gave me a bunch of essays written by some of his students and asked me to get some one jerry friends to read and appraise them. [took them toa large official family of high literary standing ne of their teachers would said one of the sons, "Since the new learning hax come in we do not keep teachers that can do that work; therein no longer any need for them." But at last an old writer was found who had long been with the family and he was not afraid to pass judgement on the wer Must we part with the old time teacher also? Would there were some

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