A History of the city of Newark, New Jersey, Volume 2 by Frank J. Urquhart

Author:Frank J. Urquhart [Urquhart, Frank J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-08-10T22:00:00+00:00

DR. BURR’S LATIN GRAMMAR.

While doing all these things he found time, somehow, to write a Latin Grammar, to which the New York Gazette and Weekly Post Boy for April 27, 1752, refers in the following language: “Just published, and to be sold by the Printer hereof, Price 2s. 3d. by the Dozen, or 2s. 6d. single. A Complete Introduction to the Latin Tongue: Wherein is contained, all that is necessary to be learn’d on the several Parts of Grammar, in a plain, easy, rational Method: Comprehending the Substance of what has been taught by some of the best Grammarians, viz. Lilly, Ruddiman, Phillipps, Holmes, Bp. Wettenhall, Cheever, Clarke, Read, &c. Publish’d principally for the Use of the Grammar-School at Newark; and recommended to all who design to send their Children to New-Jersey College.”

The College of New Jersey was removed from Newark to the town of Princeton in the autumn of 1756, and there is no evidence that the Latin school remained behind. It is practically certain that it, too, was transferred, as it was intended primarily as a preparatory school for the college. Whether there was a lapse in secondary education after the departure of the college will probably never be known. in the meantime, the town school for the children was continued, and it is in the old Town Minute Book for March 14, 1769, that we find the first intimation in all Newark’s history that it was thought either desirable or necessary to provide education for the children of the poor. Hitherto, education had been considered much in the same light as food and clothing; a man was supposed to provide all three for his offspring. Freedom of speech, of thought and of action, for which the Puritans’ ancestors had fought in England, and for which they had contended after coming to this country, in ways be it ever so narrow, had never before, here, called for free education as an essential of actual liberty. So, in the records of the town of Newark for 1769 we read: “Caleb Camp bid off the poor at one hundred pounds light money, and is to keep them in sufficient victuals and clothing and grammar schooling to such children as require it, which said schooling &c., is left at the discretion of Samuel Huntington, one of the assessors.”

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