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scholars. The school committee of Port land, and we presume it is the case with town schools in all places, have the mortifi- cation to find that nearly one third of the whole number that profess to go 10 school, are class of gentlemen and Judy visitors, who step in occasionally 10 take lesson and to note the progress of the instructor or instructress. They profess indeed to he scholars. but they have no claim to the name, because they never continue at school long enough to obtain any advan- tage. Parents should remember that by dctalning their children at home for slight or insufficient causes, they not only niure the scholars, but injure the school. The scholar is sensibly affected, inasmuch as he is thus put behind his class, or has missed a lesson, the loss of which is like the loss of step in flight of sta,s. The more steps lost, the more difficult is the ascent of the scholar. It is an injury to the school, because he is a dead weight upon the efforts of constant scholars. His recitations must be poor, because he has no time to study lesson, and thus his bad example operates like contagion, upon whole school"

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