They anticipate no difficulty in calling the
ghost of old Plato from elvsium. to occupy the
professor’s chair, and that La .caster will be a
rnodcren improved edition of old Athene,
"Amid her groves, the musing youth,
Forget the world and seek for truth.’
Now I am not exactly so sanguine—but
‘hare io an obvious ne-essiry that w* should
have an institution of learning, adapted to the
progress of the pupils in the village and neigh
borhood. And in my opinion, this school, call
it by what name you r>'<a M. will not flourish
unless it b»; access to Ihe public fund*. No
difference how elegant or well sdaptsd a
building may be. or how able a teacher occu
pies it, the patronsg* of the institution must
be, to a great extent, limited to Ibo village and
neighborhood—in f»ct to Lancaster School
District. There io such a jealous erprit du
corps among the emulous town* of Wiscon-
sin, that ev*ry village will have its own high
school, and will patronize it; and though we
may have * higher steeple and a louder bell, yet i
neither sight nor sound, will allot* many
scholar* away from their own schools. The
foreign and country patronage, must h* divided I
among numerous competitor*. Then had we
a building of Partan marble, and a teacher :
ever so able, it* hall* would be empty, or
nearly so. a* long as the district school had a '
good teacher; and a good teacher it would i
sometime* have, to say the least. Thetii* i
trict school could afford to I*ach cheaper, and
the pupils would follow the district fund a*
minnows follow a pin hook or s lump of ha- :
eon. If ottr high school depends on its tui-|
tion fee* for sustenance, it would famivh when
ever the district school had a teacher as pop
ular ss it* rival, end the high school, like the
dromedary, would have to travel to freaher,
richer pasture*. Sine* the independent and ■
and public school* are alike to be supported
from >h* same territory, that will grow and !
flourish which has access to the pitb'ic pap. i
the other will become a sickly egotio. 