PAGE. VII. SPECIMEN LESSONS IN TEACHING A PRIMARY SCHOOL, 467 Account of exercises of an afternoon in the model schools of the Home and Colonial 2. Plans of school-houses recently erected after designs by Henry Barnard and others, 549 3. Illustrations-School-houses as they were,.. 467 487 487 491 529 531 532 532 533 534 521 XII. J. I. FELBIGER-THE EARLY REFORMER OF AUSTRIAN SCHOOLS,. Memoir,..... GOO 603 603 Eulogy by John Lovell,... 604 XIV. EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITIES OF BOSTON,.... XV. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 606 613 Building,...... 613 Addresses at the Inauguration by Pres. Felton, Prof. Agassiz, and Gov. Banks,... I. THOMAS DOWBE, whose devotion to books under circumstan generally deemed unfavorable to culture of literary tastes, was of citedt during his lifetime to stimulate youth and laboring men form the habit of reading, and whose name is now inseparably ass ciated with several literary institutions established or enriched by s benefactions, was born at Charlestown, Mass., on the 28th of Doo ber, 1772, and died in Cambridgeport, on the 4th of November, 183 His father, Eleazer Dowse, was a leather dresser, and was drie with his family from Charlestown on June 17, 1775, his house bey one of those destroyed by the conflagration of that day. After. short time passed at Holliston, he established himself at Shertown, amall town in Middlesex county, the original seat of the family, ar there resumed his occupation as a leather dresser. At the age of six Thomas was severely injured by a fall from a tree; and a rheumat fever setting in before he had recovered from the effects of this acedent, a lameness resulted which continued, with frequent attacks of severe pain, through life. At the proper age, Thomas began to wor with his father, at his trade on the farm; forming at the same tim a taste for reading, which he indulged with so much eagerness that by the age of eighteen, he had read all the books he could procen in-Sherborn. All his little earnings were expended in the prelims of books. He had no education but what could be obtained at the town school. He continued to live at home as an apprenties to hi father till he had attained bis majority. He was then sained with a 2! a passage in a casting vessel; stol the depsire of the couster till the ves Norfolk, and tuis T4 Dowse lost the opportunity Abridged from a Discourse, by Hon. Edward Everett, at the opening of the Dowse Institute in Cambridgeport, and before the Massachusetts Historical Society. † See Note at the close of this Memoir. |