The Civil Campaigns of an Old Grey; Or, the Annals of the Parish of Dollar. Exposing the Conduct of the REV. Dr. Mylne and His Elders, in the Management of the Academy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: exorable. As these gentlemen were unwilling to come to a, rupture with the Doctor, knowing that the reputation of the institution would suffer from any report going abroad, that a want of harmony existed between Dr Mylne and the masters, and as the greatest unanimity prevailed among these four gentlemen, they tried every effort in their power to effect a reconciliation with Dr Mylne; "but all their endeavours were rendered abortive through the selfish, slavish, sycophantish submission of the English teacher and writing-masters, who prided themselves in being the Doctor's heralds, to proclaim his royal will and pleasure in their classes, and flattered his vanity by their own subserviency; and if reports speak true, they indulged in worse propensities, as every word spoken by the other masters, was sure to reach the Doctor's ear the same day. In the appointing of teachers to a charity school, the greatest possible attention ought to have been paid in the selection of properly qualified masters for the English and writing classes, being the only education for the children of the parishioners in general, as from the poverty of their parents, they could not afford to maintain them longer at the Academy than to attend these two indispensible classes. But how did Dr Mylne discharge his duty to the trust, and the interest of his parishioners? not by appointing the most efficient masters, but by installing into the English class an intimate friend (some say a relation) of his own, whose only pretensions to teaching were, that he was brought up in a counting-house of a tenth rate; and in proof of his incapacity for teaching, the Professor of Humanity of one of the Universities, at a public examination of the Academy, ordered him to go to the Sessional School in Edinburgh, and take lesson...