tions, and the community has its ; and no school can rise to the full measure of its capacity that has not the best efforts of each. The school that is not inspired by the sympathy and judicious supervision of its patrons will not do its legitimate work; and the men and women who close their pupilage in it will go forth to their work measurably dwarfed in capacity. Thus we see that the essential and fundamental work of society, that by which our Christian civilization is to be elevated and our institutions transmitted to posterity, cannot be delegated to representatives, but must be performed by each in his lot, or our duties to the children, to the State, and to God are left undone. C. C. Coffin, of Boston, told in glowing words the story of Bunker Hill, Bennington, and Gettysburg; battles in which were displayed that heroism and courage, devotion and patriotism, which come from the intelligent love of country, instilled in the schools. The story of the Vermont Brigade at Gettysburg was told so grandly that it seemed new to those who had heard it over and over again. This devotion and courage have given America her great power in material affairs. The reaper in the Western prairies is the greatest factor in British politics. Napoleon said Europe would either be republican or Cossack. Our country's influence makes it republican; but we have yet much to do. One of our greatest needs is civil-service reform; another, equal pay to men and women, and fair rewards for honest toil. With these conditions, the teachers, who educate, may make this country all that their bravest fancy may picture. Judge Davitt, of St. Albans, who was introduced as an old Jack. son Democrat, said that in sorrow for the President there were no party lines, -all mourned alike. The three most popular Presidents we ever had-Jackson, Lincoln, and Garfield - have been made the mark of the assassin's pistol; but let us hope that Lincoln shall remain the only martyr of them all. The Judge expressed the regret which was felt at the President's absence, and closed with an eloquent denunciation of the cursed spirit which led men to throw a nation into mourning. Hon. T. D. Adams made a few closing remarks; after which the audience sang, "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," and President Mowry declared the Institute adjourned for one year. FIRST DAY: EVENING SESSION. LECTURE I. ABSTRACT OF LECTURE. — CHOICE AND USE OF BOOKS. By M. H. BUCKHAM, LL. D., PRESIDENT University of Vermont. M ISS EDGEWORTH tells a story of two Esquimaux whose comments on the city of London, after they had been taken. through the streets for the first time, were, "Too much smoke, too much noise, too much houses, too much men, too much everything." So one whose reading has been confined to his single newspaper, when introduced to a great library, is apt to feel, if not to say, "Too many books, too many magazines, too many newspapers, too much everything." But it is the literary enterprise of the world that has made the abundance of books, ⚫ as it is the commercial enterprise of the world that has made London what it is; and the man who secludes himself from books and periodicals in good variety cuts himself off from the civilization of the times. It is true that the man of one book |