leaving the profession of teaching, he has discharged with honor various important public trusts. He was the Treasurer of the State of Massachusetts during the recent war. He is still engaged in the public service. J. WILDER was a teacher in Watertown, Mass. I have not been able to obtain more definite information respecting him. NOTE C. It will be interesting to notice with some minuteness, the labors of the seventeen gentlemen who gave lectures before the Institute, at its first session in 1830. Of FRANCIS WAYLAND it is not necessary further to speak, than to say that he has probably done more than any other one man, to teach the great principles of moral and intellectual philosophy and political economy, to the youth of America. His strictly educational works are as follows: Elements of Moral Science. 1835. The same, abridged. 1836. Elements of Political Economy. 1837. The same, abridged. 1837. Elements of Intellectual Philosophy. 1854. Thoughts on the Present Collegiate System in the United States. Besides the above, he has published upwards of seventy books, pamphlets, or articles, on moral, religious, and political subjects. This bare statement will give some idea of the immense labors of his life. He never wrote unless he had something to say; and he never wrote anything that was not worth reading. JOHN COLLINS WARREN, in medical education, was a pioneer. He belongs rather to the department of professional than public education; and the importance and extent of his services are too well known to require repetition here. WILLIAM J. ADAMS was a teacher of eminence, in both the public and private schools of Boston. SAMUEL READ HALL was born in Croydon, N. H., 1795. He is regarded as the first Principal of a Teacher's Seminary in this country. He was emphatically a teacher of teachers. He began his labors as a normal teacher, at Concord, Vt., in 1823, and remained there until 1830; then went to Andover, Mass., to take charge of the Teachers' Seminary there, and remained there until 1837; thence he removed to Plymouth, N. H., to take charge of what promised to be a Teachers' Seminary, with an ample endowment. The endowment failed, and the institution declined for want of means. He afterwards continued his work at Craftsbury Academy, in Craftsbury, Vt. Mr. Hall's publications were numerous: — Geography and History of Vermont. 1827. Child's Geography. The Grammatical Assistant. The School Arithmetic. Lectures on Parental Responsibility and Religious Training. A School History of the United States (and in connection with the Rev. A. R. Baker). Lectures to Female Teachers. Teacher's Gift, and What Every Boy can Do. WILLIAM RUSSELL stands high in the first class of American Teachers. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was educated in the Latin School and University of that city. Coming to this country, he taught in a private family and in an academy, in Georgia; afterwards removed. to Connecticut, and taught the Hopkins Grammar School. In 1826, he became the editor of the American Journal of Education, and continued in this service for three years. He has been for many years the most approved teacher of Elocution in New England, and given instruction in many of our colleges and theological seminaries. He established a Teachers' Seminary in New Hampshire (1849); and in 1853, at Lancaster, Mass. He has published – Suggestions on Education. New Haven, 1823. A Grammar of Composition. New Haven, 1823. An Edition of Adam's Latin Grammar. New Haven, 1824. American Journal of Education. Vols. I., II., III. Boston, 1826, 1827, 1828. A Manual of Mutual Instruction. Boston, 1826. The Library of Education. Vol. I. Boston, 1830. Journal of Instruction (semi-monthly). Philadelphia, 1831. Lessons in Enunciation. Boston, 1830. Primary Reader. Boston. 1844. Sequel to the Primary Reader. Boston, 1844. Introduction to the Primary Reader. Boston, 1845. Introduction to the American Common School Reader and Speaker. Boston, 1845. The American Common School Reader and Speaker. Boston, 1845. The Introduction to the Young Ladies' Elocutionary Reader. Boston, 1815. The Young Ladies' Elocutionary Reader. Boston, 1845. Lessons at Home in Spelling and Reading. Boston, 1846. Harper's New York Class-Book. New York, 1847. 1852 A Manual of Instruction in Reading. Manchester, N. H., Andover, 1852. An Address on the Infant School System of Education Boston, 1830. An Address on Associations of Teachers. 1830. A Lecture on Reading and Declamation. A Lecture on Elocution. Boston, 1853. A Lecture on the Education of Females. A Lecture on Female Education. 1844. 1837. Andover, 1843. Hints to Teachers on Instruction in Reading. 1846. 1850. An Address at the Dedication and Opening of the NewEngland Normal Institute. 1853. Encouragements to Teachers. 1853. JOHN PIERPONT (clarum et venerabile nomen) is too well known to fame to require extended notice. He was graduated at Yale College in 1801, in the same class with John C. Calhoun; first studied law, then became a merchant, and then entered the ministry. He was a member of the committee that drafted the plan for the English High School, and was for years an efficient member of the school-committee. He was the author of the following school-books: which are of great excellence : The American First Class Book. |