The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 132, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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DEDICATION OF THE McGUFFEY MEMORIAL AT HIS BIRTH-
PLACE NEAR WASHINGTON, PA. (At the left stands Naney
Pardee Newton of Ypsilanti, Mich., Designer of the Plaque.)
perhaps more often than any oth-
er sin, with an imperceptible in-
fluence on its , victim. Its first
pretext is inconsiderable, and
faintly termed innocent play,
with r.o more than the gentle ex-
citerr.er t necessary to amuse-
ment. The plea, once indulged,
is but too often ‘as the letting out
of water.’ Tiio interest imper-
ceptibly grows. Pride of supe-
rior skill, opportunity, avarice,
and all the overwhelming pas-
sions of depraved natures, ally
themselves with the incipient
and growing fondness. Dam and
dike are swept away. The vic-
tim struggles in vain, and is
borne down by the uncontrolled
current.”
“The Bible, the Best of Class-
ics,” “Religion the Only Basis of
Society,” “The Intemperate Hus-
band,” are the titles of other les-
sons, and many of these articles
are honored by the name of the
author in the index. That famil-
iar poem, “The Spider and the
Fly," is given in this reader.
“Directions for Reading” are ex-
pounded and rules for proper dic-
tion are stressed.
It remains for the Sixth Read-
er to begin with “Principles of
were of Knob creek, and how he
was saved from drowning there
by the quick aid of a chum. Not
much chance of drowning in the
creek now; it is little more than a
rivulet.
I If there is a house in the world
worthy to inspire music, it is “My
Old Kentucky Home,” near Bards-
town. While a guest in the house,
then owned by his kinsfolk, the
Rowan family, Stephen Collins Fos-
ter composed that deathless ballad,
“My Old Kentucky Home.”
He wrote the music, it is said, at
thedral, in which are displayed sev-
eral original paintings by great
nrs. They are believed to have
a gift to the church by Louis
in the part of the cavern reached
through the New Entrance. A “froz-
en Niagara” of salmon-colored rock
and a stalactite which, when illumi-
nated by an electric light placed be-
hind it, shadows the perfectly mold-
ed form of a beautiful woman step-
ping down as if to bathe in the sub-
terranean river, are unique.
There are onyx caves and crystal
caves; one might profitably pass
weeks going through them all. It
was in one of these that Floyd Col-
lins met his death.
Beyond Mammoth Cave to the
west winds the beautiful Green riv-
er known as one of the deepest fresh
water streams in the country.
In this neighborhood was shed the
first Kentucky blood of the Civil
war, when Granville Allen was shot.
Families were torn asunder by the
difference of allegiance. Few states
knew the horror of Civil war as did
Kentucky. To understand what war
meant to the border people, one
- needs only to be reminded that Jef-
ferson Davis was bom near Hop-
■ kinsville, not far from Bowling
Green, and that Abraham Lincoln
was born near Hodgenville, a few
miles to the north.
Birthplace of Lincoln.
' At Hodgenville, a stately memo-
rial shelters the humble log cabin
in which Lincoln was bora. Sim-
plicity marks the place as it marked
the great soul it fostered. Visitors
pause for a drink from the Lincoln
ville is a nr.ecca when the Kentucky
Derby is run at Churchill Downs.
Where Baseball Bats Are Made.
At the Louisville Slugger factory,
baseball bats for many of the fa-
mous players are hand-turned by
skilled workmen. The second-
growth ash comes to the factory in
rough billets. These billets are
rounded and laid on racks to sea-
son for 17 months before they are
made into bats. Because ball play-
ers are particular about the weight
and balance of their bats, each step
in the shaping of the sluggers re-
quires the utmost care. Special or-
ders are prepared by hand workers.
From Louisville it is a pleasant
trip to Frankfort, the hill-encircled
capital of Kentucky. The old State-
house, now a museum, ia-an archi-
tectural gem of pure Greek design.
Within it is a self-supporting circu-
lar stairway, one of the few remain-
ing. The new Statehouse is a splen-
did structure, with a magnificent ro-
tunda under the vaulted dome.
It is strangely fitting that Daniel
Boone is buried in the cemetery
overlooking the capital of the state
he helped win from the wilderness.
From the path around his tomb one
looks down to the broad valley of
the beautiful Kentucky river.
The heart of the Blue Grass is the
home of the thoroughbred. To one
who has striven futilely, baffled by
crab grqss, to encourage a lawn,
the sight of those blue-grass pas-
tures brings mixed feelings. One
does not feel outraged to see splen-
did horses browsing on such lawns,
but one is hard put to escape taking
affront at cows and sheep feeding
on the velvety carpets.
Horses in the Blue Grass are
monarchs of the earth. On some of
the famous farms the huge circular
stables house quarter-mile exercise
tracks floored with tanbark.
The thoroughbred is nurtured
more carefully than a baby-show
contender. A few hours after he is
bom he is fitted with a halter, that
he may become used to the equip-
ment. He is permitted out of doors
only when . conditions are* exactly
right. If he scratches his silky
skin, he is plastered with antiseptic
and put in a hospital. He drinks
only from his own special bucket
and his diet would be the despair
of a French chef.
The owner of one farm cut by a
highway has a tunnel under the
road through which his thorough-
breds may be led without danger
from passing automobiles. .
There is a thrill in visiting the
stable that housed Man-o’-War,
Golden Broom, Crusader, and Mars.
Lexington I* Charming.
In itself Lexington has a wealth
of charm as well as historic inter-
est. The University of Kentucky is
there, its mellow old buildings scat-
tered over a shady campus. In the
study room at the College of . Engi-
neering, heavy tables, with tops
fashioned of thick sections of a ven-
erable sycamore tree that once
grew on the campus, are treasured
relics covered with carved names
of alumni.
Another fine educational institu-
tion in Lexington is Transylvania
college,, the first school for higher
education west of the Alleghenies.
There Jefferson Davis and Henry
Clay were once students. The li-
brary of this school contains thou-
sands of volumes so rare that schol-
ars from all over the world come to
consult them.
Ashland, restored home of Hen-
ry Clay, stands on the outskirts of
the city. On the walk behind
house the magnetic orator
statesman used to pace back
forth planning his speeches.
Through the perfect green of the
Blue Grass country you may drive
to High Bridge, where a railroad
bridge 317 feet above the water
spans the Kentucky. Crossing the
river cm a ferry, you approach old
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OME 48,000 acres of land,
much of it magnificent virgin
forest, will be included in the
Mammoth Cave National park
in Kentucky. In the long struggle
to establish this national park,
Maurice H. Thatcher, for many
years United States representative
ffom Kentucky, was a prime mover.
Discovered in 1803, Mammoth
Cave was considered the largest na-
tional cavern in America until the
exploration of the Carlsbad caverns
in New Mexico.. The underground
passages are of remarkable extent,
probably undermining the entire,
area of the proposed park develop-
ment. Almost every dweller in the
neighborhood has a cave of his own,
to which he seeks to attract visi-
FIRST READER TITLE PAGE
children that it was a sin to ab-
stain from “licking the plate
clean” they were repeating the
title of a little drama in McGuf-
fey’s Fourth Reader. “Lazy
Ned,” “Meddlesome Matty.” “A
Mother’s Gift, the Bible,” “Ex-
tract from the ’Sermon on the
Mount* ” are some of the other
well-remembered titles.
The Fifth Reader has the title:
"McGuffey’s New Fifth Eclectic
Reader? Selected and Original
Exercises for Schools.”^ Hero
we find old friends: “Maud Mul-
ler,” “Shylock, or the Pound of
Flesh.” “Effects at Gambling,”
which begins:
“The love at gambling steals.
United States Supreme court not
infrequently was colored by the
readers he had studied 50 years
before. Ida M. TarbeU, the late
Albert J. Beveridge, and many
others credit McGuffey with hav-
ing had a large share in shaping
■their minds.
The story of the McGuffeys
goes back to August, 1774, when
William and Anne (McKittrick)
McGuffey emigrated to this
country from £|eotland. Landing
at Philadelphia, they journeyed
to the southern, border of York
county, Pennsylvania, where they
settled. This Scotch family had
one son, Alexander, who was six
years old when they arrived in
America.
Alexander grew up to be a
scout and Indian fighter, serving
in Ohio and western Pennsyl-
vania under Arthur St. Clair and
Anthony Wayne. At the end of
the campaign of 1794 he married
Miss Anna Holmes of Washing-
ton county, Pennsylvania, and
settled as a farmer in that coun-
ty. Here, William Holmes Mc-
Guffey was born, September 23,
1800.
When the lad was two years
old, the McGuffeys removed to
Trumbull county, Ohio, where
Alexander McGuffey purchased
a farm of 165 acres in Cortsville
village, Cortsville township, in
the Connecticut Western Re-
serve.
One day Rev. Thomas Hughes,
Presbyterian, minister, was rid-
ing by the lonely McGuffey cab-
in. He overheard the mother
praying that her young son, Wil-
liam, might have the opportu-
nity to secure an education that
would fit him for life and for the
ministry. Reverend Hughes ar-
ranged to have the boy attend
school at the “Old Stone acad-
emy” which he had opened at
Darlington, Pa. The tuition was
$3 a year and board 75 cents a
week. Here William received his
academic training and by the
time he was eighteen was ready
for a collegiate course.
He went to the nearest college,
Washington college, in Pennsyl-
vania, and there came under the
influence of Dr. Andrew Wylie,
president of the college. He stud-
ied Latin, Greek and Hebrew as
well as English and was gradu-
ated with honors in 1826, receiv-
ing the bachelor of arts degree.
A Pioneer Teacher -
While attending Washington
college he supported himself in
part by teaching. He taught a .
pioneer school in Kentucky, his
work being observed by the first
president of Miami university
that had been founded at Oxford,
' Ohio, in 1809. This man. Rev.
Robert Hamilton Bishop, at once
recognized the power and devo-
tion of the young undergraduate
student and offered him a posi-
tion at Miami, to begin in the
autumn of- 1826.
The minutes of the board of
trustees show that he was em-
ployed as professor of languages.
Miami tradition tells that he rode
into Oxford with his little brother
Alexander with his personal cop-
ies of Levy, Horace, Memota-
bilia and the Greek and Hebrew
texts of the Bible in his saddle
bags.
Soon after coming to Oxford he
met Harriet Spining. daughter of
Judge Isaac Spining of Dayton,
who was visiting her uncle in Ox-
ford. They became engaged and
were married April 3, 1827.
While at Miami,McGuffey
wrote the first andsecond of the
graded set of readers—the first
in 1836 and the second in 1837.
Both the third and fourth read-
ers were written Gt Cincinnati in
He remained at the
institution until his
May 4, 1873.
had lived to see hie
readers selling into the millions
and extending their influence in-'
to other lands by being translat-
ed into many foreign languages.
How great that influence was is
impossible to estimate. But there
is no doubt that their serious pur-
pose, their kindly spirit and their
high moral tone made children
of an earlier generation better
men and women today. At least,
that is the unanimous testimony
of the devoted members of the
zard over ah excel-
was therethat the
through the door opening
slave quarters. That
still stands in its
most precious of
relics.
strange sect who believed in celi-
bacy and the coming of the millen-
nium.
Another place of interest in a
swing south of Lexington is the old
so
tin
poi
HE other day a great
crowd of people gath-
ered in the little city of
Oxford, Ohio. They
were there for a double
purpose—to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary
of the publication of a book
but more particularly to honor
the memory of the man who
wrote that book by unveiling
a statue of him.
The man was William Holmes
McGuffey and the book which
he published in 1836 was the
first of the McGuffey Eclectic
Readers. Of him it has been
said that “he was the most pop-
ular American of the Nine-
teenth century, the man who
had the largest influence in
determining the thoughts and
ideals of the American people
during that period and the man
to whose work many great
Americans of the present day
pay tribute as being the foun-
tain of their inspiration to
aspire and to achieve.”
That is-why many American
notables—authors, editors', edu-
cators, industrialists, statesmen
—were present when the statue,
the creation of one of America’s
leading sculptors, was unveiled
at Oxford. But the greater part
of the crowd there was made up
of “just plain folks,” members
of the numerous “McGuffey
Societies” scattered all over the
United States, who still cherish
in their hearts thejessons they
learned from this "Schoolmaster
of a Nation” in his Eclectic
Readers.
The memorial at Oxford is the
second which has been erected
in his honor within the last two
years. In 1934 another great
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the fifth and sixth readers.
After some time at Miami,
Professor McGuffey, whose in-
terest lay in the field of litera-
ture and philosophy, was ten-
dered a professorship of mental
philosophy. He carried on theo-
logical studies privately and on
March 29, 1829, he received his
ordination into the ministry of
■ the Presbyterian church, with
the degree of doctor of divinity.
JZ-Guffey recognized the
dearth of reading material in
the common schools of the time.
He had a keen literary sense and
was able to select much that ap-
pealed to young minds. It was
this selection of lessons from a
wide range of authors • that
caused him to name the readers
McGuffey Eclectic Readers.
To read them is to catch a
glimpse of the stern reality of
life in the America of the Nine-
teenth century. Humor is ab-
sent from every one of them—
from McGuffey’s New First
Eclectic Reader, from which the
smallest children learned their
ABCs and were fascinated by the
quaint woodcuts of birds and an-
imals, to the New Sixth Eclectic
, Reader, a
solid and
scribed on
ercises of
with Introductory Rules and Ex-
amples.”
Moral Lessons
of the stories in this vol-
ended with a moral and
of the poems were set to
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the cl
3w Memorial .o McGuffey j
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
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A LEAF FROM THE PRIMER
soliloquy and “The Fall of. Car-
dinal Wolsey,” from “Henry
VIII;" Scott’s “Lochinvar” and
"Marmion and Douglas”; Gray’s
Elegy; Macauley on “The Im-
peachment of Warren Hastings”;
Tennyson’s “Enoch
Poe’s “The Raven”; Longfel
low’s “Evangeline,
Psalm of Life.”
In 1836 Doctor McGuffey left
Oxford to accept the presidency
of Cincinnati college. In 1839 he
became president of Ohio univer-
sity at Athens. In 1844 he re-
turned to Cincinnati and served
as professor at Woodward col-
lege, afterward known as Wood-
ward high school.
In 1845 McGuffey went to the
University of Virginia as profes-
sor of philosophy. He was pop-
ular with his students and he
taught, says one writer, “with the
simplicity of a child, with the
precision of a mathematician,
and with the authority of truth.”
An old friend left the following
description of Dr. McGuffey: “A
man of medium stature and
compact figure. His forehead
was broad and full; his eyes
clear and expressive. His fea-
tures were - of the strongly
marked rugged Scotch type. He
was a ready speaker, a popular
lecturer on education, and an
able preacher.”
> Dr. McGuffey’s conscientious-
ness was proverbial. When he
was nearly seventy-three years
old he prepared a 500-page book
on philosophy. It was the result
of ten years of careful research.
But he was so critical that after
the book was already in type he
decided that it was not worthy
of publication and ordered it
withheld.
Virginia
death on
All
ume
some
music for singing. At the end of
the book were the Ten Com-
mandments in verse and this ex-
hortation:
-“With all thy soul love God
above.
And as thyself thy neighbor
love.”
Back in the eighties every
child was told more than once
by his parents: “If at first you
don’t succeed, try, try again!”
They got that maxim from a
poem in McGuffey’s New Fourth
Eclectic Reader, as they did the
admonition to “Waste not, want
not.” When they taught their
far from the town is Geth- Shakertown, once the home of a
»’ a retreat of Trappist
one of two such monasteries
WILLIAM H. McGUFFEY
throng gathered near Washing-
ton, Pa., to dedicate a huge gran-
ite boulder on the site of the log
cabin where McGuffey was born.
The crumbling remains of that
cabin were removed to Dearborn,
bfich., in 1928, rebuilt and added
to the Edison institute collection
by Henry Ford, through whose
efforts 70 acres of the McGuffey
farm were purchased for a per-
manent memorial. At that time
tfr. Ford made one of his few
public addresses. It was this
aconic statement: “I am glad to
: oin you today in giving honor to
doctor McGuffey. He was a
great American. The McGuffey
Readers taught industry and mo-
rality to America.”
Tributes From
But Henry Ford
in paying tribute
schoolmaster. In fact, the list
of those who have acknowledged
their indebtedness to his teach-
ings is a veritable American
“Who’s Who.”
Herbert Quick! in writing of his
childhood in rural Iowa in his
xx>k, “One Man’s Lite,” says:
“I had a burning thirst for books.
On those farms a boy or girl with
my appetite for literature was a
frog in a desert. The thirst was
satisfied and, more important,
was stimulated to aspiration for
further satisfaction by an old
dog-eared volume of McGuffey’s,
the standard school readers of
my day. My mastery of the. first
and second readers—just the
opening of the marvels of the
printed page—was a-poignant de-
ight and gave me a sort of ec-
stasy. Those text-books consti-
tute the most influential volumes
ever published in America.”
Newton D. Baker, secretary of
t W once
melan-
Fifth
Education,” which is considered
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under six heads: 1. Articulation.
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phasis. 4. Reading verse. 5. The .
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voice. 8. Gesture.
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All faults to be remedied are
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meticulously listed. Indeed, les-
feet
sons in articulation start with
the second reader, and proper
terg<
emphasis and correct pronunci-
ation are stressed all through the l
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