cite hatred. I believe it may be done in the same way that God does it; that is by showing justice. If a teacher departs from justice, he loses his control. Let him show that he is just towards every scholar, and in the same way. I have in my desk a raw-hide and a rattan, and they are slumbering lions. I have not touched them for a year, and I may not for a year to come, and I may the first of September. I make no promises or threats, but simply wish to have it known that I will use them if necessary.

I had a boy, who had been a very bad boy, and had been sent to the Reform School. I took the greatest pains to let him know that I would be just to him. I found, one day, that he had a quarrel with another boy. I had a regular trial, and I found that he was not to blame; and my decision of the case made him my friend for life. I found that his resistance was proper, because he was first attacked. I made a great deal of capital for the government of the school out of that circumstance.

Dr. Miner. I do not rise, fellow-teachers, to remark upon any thing that has been said here. But the attention which has been given to the subject of prizes has called to my mind what I wish some member of the Boston School-Board, or Mr. Philbrick, was here to state to you. It so well illustrates the general doctrine which has been called up, that I feel it would be profitable to present it to you.

A few years ago, I had the honor to be connected with the School-Board in Boston. For some time, there had been great stress laid upon the medals. I think gentlemen connected with the press of Boston will bear witness that there was thought to be nothing quite so creditable as to have borne a medal. There was no old official called away by the grim messenger, of whom it was not said that he had had

the high honor of receiving a medal in the Boston schools. But we found that, when only five or six in a school received them, there would be as many more so near it, and who had so confidently expected one, that they were unquestionably injured. And I see in the audience a gentleman who was a master of a girls' grammar school, who, I am sure, will bear witness that the high pressure brought to bear upon the more delicate females was most injurious to them, and, in fact, to wholesome, sound intellectual development.

Chancing to be on a sub-committee for drafting a report, a worthy clergyman, also on the committee, who wrote the report, eulogized the medal system. I immediately said, I did not wish to enter upon any war with the medal system of Boston, if the author of the report had been content to leave the matter alone; but, as he was pleased to eulogize it, I must give my dissent.

I believe the prizes, as then given, were injurious, and were made the occasion of great perversion of mind in those who expected to receive them. The consequence of the discussion upon that matter has been, that the system has been changed; and I think they have been banished from the Girls' High School.

Mr. Brown, of Boston, said they had been banished from the girls' schools, and next year were to be banished from the boys' schools.

Dr. Miner.

As to the college of which I have the charge, I shall take the utmost care that the prizes given shall be for labor after it has been completely and fully accomplished, and that the system shall be one that shall not in any manner, by giving a prize to one, offer an obstacle to another.

The discussion was suspended here; and Mr. Stebbins, from the Committee on Nominations, reported a List of Officers. He stated that the evidences of skill and ability on the part of the present occupant of the chair, would have led the committee to report his name for re-election, had he not peremptorily declined. The same was true in regard to the Treasurer.

Mr. Allen, of Newton, presented the following resolution:

"Resolved, That Article Second of the Constitution, referring to the terms of membership in the American Institute of Instruction, be amended by striking out the word "gentleman," in the first line and inserting the word "person;" and that after the word "his," in the fourth line, the words "or her," be added; and that the Constitution be so amended as to conform, in spirit, to the above amendments."

The resolution was laid over for action at the next annual meeting.

Mr. B. F. Cruttenden, occupied the remaining hour of the forenoon in a most admirable description of "A Model School."

AFTERNOON SESSION.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

The Institute proceeded at once, at the opening of the session for the afternoon, to the election of officers for the ensuing year; and the following were unanimously chosen :

PRESIDENT.-John Kneeland, Roxbury, Mass.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.-William Russell, Lancaster, Mass.; Henry Barnard, Washington, D. C.; Samuel S. Greene, Providence, R. I.; Ariel Parish, New Haven, Conn.; George B. Emerson, Boston,

Mass.; Nathan Hedges, Newark, N. J.; Zalmon Richards, Washington, D. C.; John W. Bulkley, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Thomas Sherwin, Boston, Mass.; David N. Camp, New Britain, Conn.; John D. Philbrick, Boston, Mass.; Alpheus Crosby, Salem, Mass.; Ebenezer Hervey, New Bedford, Mass.; Henry E. Sawyer, Middletown, Conn.; Edward P. Weston, Farmington, Me.; Emory F. Strong, Bridgeport, Conn.; D. B. Hagar, Salem, Mass.; A. P. Stone, Portland, Me.; B. G. Northrop, New Haven, Conn.; T. W. Valentine, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. E. Littlefield, Bangor, Me.; Joseph White, Williamstown, Mass.; Charles Hammond, Monson, Mass.; Abner J. Phipps, Medford, Mass.; John W. Dickinson, Westfield, Mass.; Merrick Lyon, Providence, R. I.; Elbridge Smith, Dorchester, Mass.; Samuel W. Mason, Boston, Mass.; A. A. Miner, Boston, Mass.; Albert Harkness, Providence, R. I.; M. H. Buckham, Burlington, Vt.; D. W. Stevens, Fall River, Mass.; David Crosby, Nashua, N. H.; Wm. P. Atkinson, Cambridge, Mass.; W. E. Sheldon, West Newton, Mass.; Homer B. Sprague, New Britain, Conn.; George M. Gage, Farmington, Me.

RECORDING SECRETARY.- George T. Littlefield, Somerville,

Mass.

ASSISTANT RECORDING SECRETARY.-C. O. Thompson, Arlington, Mass.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES.-T. D. Adams, Newton, Mass.; J. J. Ladd, Providence, R. I.

TREASURER.-George A. Walton, Boston, Mass.

CURATORS.-J. E. Horr, Brookline, Mass.; Samuel Swan, Boston, Mass.; Henry C. Hardon, Boston, Mass.

CENSORS.-James A. Page, Boston, Mass.; C. Goodwin Clark, Boston, Mass.; Edward Stickney, Newton, Mass.

COUNSELLORS.-Charles Hutchins, Boston, Mass.; George N. Bigelow, Newburyport, Mass,; Wm. T. Adams, Boston, Mass.; A. G. Boyden, Bridgewater, Mass.; W. A. Mowry, Providence, R. I.; N. A. Calkins, N. Y. City; J. W. Webster, Boston, Mass.; D. W. Jones, Roxbury, Mass.; A. S. Higgins, Brooklyn, N. Y.; I. N. Camp, Burlington, Vt.; D. W. Hoyt, Providence, R. I.; E. A. Hubbard, Springfield, Mass.

TRUANCY- THE EVIL AND REMEDY.

Rev. B. G. Northrop was introduced at this time, and read a valuable paper upon the subject of " Truancy—the Evil and Remedy," which will be found in another part of the volume.

DISCUSSION.

The next matter, coming up in its regular order, at three o'clock, was "The proportion in which Knowledge and Discipline should be made the ends of Education."

Thomas Hill, LL. D., President of Harvard University, read a brief and comprehensive paper, introducing the discussion of this subject. His remarks will be found in another part of the volume.

Prof. Wm. P. Atkinson, of Cambridge. I was very glad to listen to the paper just read by the President of Harvard College. Not long ago I read a statement by a teacher in Eton College, that any branch of knowledge, except languages of antiquity, was nothing more than an accumulation of utilitarian knowledge, as it was stigmatized; that there was needed a certain sharpening process, and that was to be obtained by studying, not the useful branches, and that it was a merit in the languages that they were not practically useful. That, as we know, is the extreme view of many of the advocates of the old curriculum of study. On the other hand, we have heard the question, "What is the use of knowing where Neptune is ?" Suppose Neptune had taken it into her head to disappear, we might have said, "Go in peace, erring sister; we are none the worse for your departure." What is the use, for mental culture, of the Atlantic Cable?