Temperance in the Public Schools

The revised statutes of Massachusetts, Sec. 10, Chap. 33, have the following on teaching temperance in the schools of the State: "It shall be the duty of the president, professors and tutors of the University at Cambridge, and of the several colleges, of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and of all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety and justice, and a sacred regard for truth; love of their country, humanity and universal benevolence; sobriety, industry and frugality; chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornaments of human society and the basis upon which a republican constitution rests; and to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above-mentioned virtues, to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices."