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The schools of the past winter it cannot be done. have closed. The records are made It is a question whether the counup, and they have passed into his-try children shall have as good a tory. This history, no doubt, sug-common school education as the gests much of failure, with much, town and city children. On the abperhaps, of success. Human effort stract question, whether the country is hardly ever unattended with fail-children ought to have as good & ure. Especially is this so in the in-common school education as the cipient efforts of all great revolu-town and city children, we are all tions. Failure is a great teacher, agreed. We all say they ought. But and not an u mitigated evil. It de- we begin to diverge after we leave velops the muscle necessary to grap- this point, some maintaining that we ple and hold great success. We can systematize our country schools have been struggling for some time and others that we cannot. We to elevate our country schools. We stand on the affirmative. We would have been compelled to contest ev-be ashamed to be on the negative. ery inch of ground gained, and But while we stand on the affirmasometimes we have seemed to give tive of this question, we are free to way, and let the enemy regain a part confess that much has yet to be done already captured. But the ground to make our affirmation good. The will be fought over again, and the negative is in the ascendant now, if next victory we gain (we hope) will we are to judge from what we see land us farther than ever into the around us. But we have this cheer, enemy's country. The fight will be ing remark to make, viz: that counrenewed next fall. In the meantime, try school education is approaching what will we do to organize and dis- nearer and nearer the standard that cipline our forces? Before we at obtains in our best-conducted town tempt to answer this question, it and city schools. This is especially may be well to state, as definitely as the case in the counties where the we can, what is in dispute. On the schools are graded. In those counone hand it is contended that our ties where the schools are not gracountry schools ought to be as com- ded, we suppose that little or no |