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    Charles Edward Putney An Appreciation
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      Title: Charles Edward Putney

      An Appreciation

      Author: Various

      Release Date: July 17, 2011 [EBook #36761]

      Language: English

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      Charles Edward Putney

      An Appreciation

      Published by the

      Charles E. Putney Memorial Association

      What delightful hosts are they—

      Life and Love!

      Lingeringly I turn away,

      This late hour, yet glad enough

      They have not withheld from me

      Their high hospitality.

      So, with face lit with delight

      And all gratitude, I stay

      Yet to press their hands and say,

      Thanks,—So fine a time! Good night.

      —James Whitcomb Riley

      FOREWORD

      This memorial to a great Vermont educator is the happy thought of one of his pupils, Miss Caroline S. Woodruff. The idea immediately found favor wherever it was known that such a tribute was contemplated. An organization was perfected known as The Charles E. Putney Memorial, to arrange for the publication of this book. Hon. Charles W. Gates of Franklin, Vermont, was selected as chairman, and the preliminary expenses of the enterprise were taken care of by a finance committee consisting of Hon. F. W. Plaisted of Augusta, Me., Mrs. Fletcher D. Proctor of Proctor, and J. F. Cloutman of Farmington, N. H. The committee in charge of securing the material for the book and its publication were Miss Caroline S. Woodruff of St. Johnsbury, Rolfe Cobleigh of Boston, and Arthur F. Stone of St. Johnsbury. The publication committee realize that there are many former pupils of Mr. Putney who would have been glad to have contributed to this memorial, but believe that the tributes in the following pages are representative of the sentiments of all who sat under his inspiring teaching, and are stronger and better men and women because of his marked influence upon their lives.

      TO CHARLES E. PUTNEY

      On His Seventy-fifth Birthday

      February 26, 1915

      Still, still a summer day comes to my call,—

      A room wide-windowed, bright with girls and boys,

      A wrinkled Homer craning from the wall,

      A bee-like murmuring of ai's and oi's;

      And you, a king, dark-bearded, on your throne,—

      A king of gentle bearing and soft speech,

      No scepter ringing and no trumpet blown,

      But nature's own authority to teach.

      A stranger-lad I steal into my place

      And five and thirty years are quickly gone.

      The same sweet balsam breathes upon my face,

      The old Hellenic brook is purling on.

      See with how bright a chain you hold us true:

      We that would think of youth must think of you.

      Wendell Phillips Stafford.

      BIOGRAPHICAL

      Charles Edward Putney, the son of David and Mary Putney, was born at Bow, New Hampshire, February 26, 1840. He was one of fourteen children, of whom ten lived to grow to manhood and womanhood. David Putney was a farmer, and Mr. Putney's early years were spent on the farm. He attended district school and went later to Colby Academy, teaching district schools from time to time, and preparing himself to enter Dartmouth College, which he was about to do when the Civil War broke out.

      He enlisted in the Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and later became a sergeant. He was in the war over three years and took part in the battles of Fredericksburg, siege of Suffolk, Port Walthal, Swift Creek, Kingsland Creek, Drewrys Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Fort McConhie, Fort Harrison, and Richmond. He was one of the first four men to enter Richmond after the surrender.

      At the conclusion of the war he entered Dartmouth College, and was graduated with high rank in 1870. Directly after his graduation he was married to Abbie M. Clement of Norwich, Vermont, who died in 1901. He taught in Norwich until 1873, when he became assistant principal in St. Johnsbury Academy under Mr. Homer T. Fuller, whom he succeeded in the principalship. In 1896 he resigned on account of ill health. He went to Massachusetts and became superintendent of schools in the Templeton district, where he remained until the spring of 1901, when he took up his work in the Burlington High School. He died in Burlington at the home of his daughter, February 3, 1920, after an illness of two weeks.

      DR. SMART AT COLLEGE ST. CHURCH AT THE FUNERAL OF MR. PUTNEY

      It takes a man to adorn any calling; callings require or bring special fitness, but manhood crowns the fitness, gives it added scope, completeness, power and beauty—rejoicing the heart. Good doctors, good lawyers, good men of affairs, good teachers, are better if they are beyond reckoning. Wisdom is an intellectual thing, a property of the mind, but when it is perfect the heart pours through it as the rivers flowed through paradise. A poem in the Scriptures says that Wisdom created the world, not as a task, but as a pastime. Speaking of God, Wisdom says, I was daily his delight, sporting before him, sporting in his habitable earth. When one sees a man investing his work with personal charm, one knows the difference between a photograph and a painting—a photograph with its hard, incisive fidelities, and a painting with its living colors, its appeal to feeling, its lovely beauty, something luxuriously human in it. A teacher has a special reason for floating his service, if it may be, upon a stream of personal worth and personal charm, because he deals with children and youth who respond to what he is, as well as to what he teaches. Daniel says, The teachers shall shine as the stars. Our friend here had much of the oak, much of the granite in his make-up; something also of the morning scattered upon the hills, something of the son of consolation. He mellowed with the years. He planted climbing roses beside his strength, and in the heart of it a tender and delicate consideration; some of you loved him more and more to the end.

      In his early youth he had the

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