SCHOOLMASTER OF OLD.
DID NQT SPARE BOD.
An occasional copy of the "People's Magarine" for 1836, was found in a New England's "attic Kbrarv." In it is a CMual mention of a statistical matter that might be of interest to present-dav pedagogues. It is stated that a certain schoolmaster named John James Hauberle had taurfn school fifty-one years. In that time he bad given the youths entrusted to bis C*re 911,937 blows with a stick. 24.410 strokes with a rod. ifl.SPfl ferrulings. 136.715 blows with one hand. 10.325 slaps on the chops. 79n.i hoxes on the ear, 1.115.000 raps on llie head. N«*« : Benes with the Bibic. catechism. Fml«Book and pramma. . and had. made beys kneel (513 ti mos on peas and 777 tunes a three-cornered block of wood. r
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 9
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130SCHOOLMASTER OF OLD. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 9
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