Transcribe
Translate
George C. Burmeister diary, 1861
1861-01-15 -- 1861-01-17
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
Tues. 15 I assure you it requires considerable effort to govern a school like mine without force, and keep it just right; I must put on all my dignity in the school-room. Although the present crisis is raging in the union, our farmers rejoice at the prices of their produce and pork, and while want stares the South in the face, the North is blessed with unprecedented prosperity, forcibly illustrating the difference between free and slave labor. Weather stormy. Wed. 16 Nothing of special importance transpired today. The experience I am daily receiving in the school-room is of great value to me, and by it I judge, that in every thing else practice in the desired vocation is to be preferred to theory no matter how thorough the latter may be. I never saw a winter in which we had so much snow as in the present. Some are satisfied with it others are not. Thurs. 17 Nearly every one of my scholars is more or less effected with a cold, and frequently the entire school commences a tremendous coughing spell, one especially has a forte in it, when he commences on his lowest base note it seems as if the ears could not bear it and I have to send him out doors until he has passed over the crisis. I also have a very bad cold, but no cough to quit.
Saving...
prev
next
Tues. 15 I assure you it requires considerable effort to govern a school like mine without force, and keep it just right; I must put on all my dignity in the school-room. Although the present crisis is raging in the union, our farmers rejoice at the prices of their produce and pork, and while want stares the South in the face, the North is blessed with unprecedented prosperity, forcibly illustrating the difference between free and slave labor. Weather stormy. Wed. 16 Nothing of special importance transpired today. The experience I am daily receiving in the school-room is of great value to me, and by it I judge, that in every thing else practice in the desired vocation is to be preferred to theory no matter how thorough the latter may be. I never saw a winter in which we had so much snow as in the present. Some are satisfied with it others are not. Thurs. 17 Nearly every one of my scholars is more or less effected with a cold, and frequently the entire school commences a tremendous coughing spell, one especially has a forte in it, when he commences on his lowest base note it seems as if the ears could not bear it and I have to send him out doors until he has passed over the crisis. I also have a very bad cold, but no cough to quit.
Civil War Diaries and Letters
sidebar
