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Title: Public documents of the State of Connecticut
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Connecticut Connecticut. General Assembly
Subjects: Administrative agencies Public administration Public records
Publisher: Hartford : Printed by order of the General Assembly
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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he School, tt 11 of their struggles and successes, and of theirplans and purposes for the future. Many of these boys bearvoluntary testimony to the good work done for,them in theSchool, and nearly every one returns in the same filial spiritwith which the more fortunate boy, who has gone out to makehis way in the world, seeks again the home which shelteredhis boyhood days, welcomes his recitals of past and presentefforts and encourages all his aspirations for further advance-ment. Letters are often received by the Superintendentfrom these boys telling of their fortunes since leaving theSchool, and acknowledging their indebtedness to it and itsofficers. The men who have furnished employment and pro-vided homes for boys paroled from the School often speakof them in terms of praise and commendation. Unfortunate-ly, however, the good work done at the School is frequentlylost sight of in the disposition, too ofteo manifested, to con-demn it because it does not succeed in reforming every bad
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COTTAGE A CONNECTICUT SCHOOL FOR BOYS. 17 boy committed to its custody. The great number of boyshelped to lives of usefulness and self-respect attracts no at-tention and calls for no comment, while the few vicious onesare very much in evidence. Critics forget that sometimesboys reared in Christian homes and surrounded with all thesafeguards of a fathers wise guidance and a mothers unselfishlove, prove utterly incorrigible and go out to lives of shameand crime. If the influence of the best of homes sometimesfails to keep boys in the path of probity, is it reasonable toexpect that any Institution, however good it may be, will al-ways succeed in reclaiming the vicious boy? Failures theremust needs be in many cases, but these failures are compar-atively few in number, and should not be allowed to obscureand offset the good done to the great majority of the boyscommitted to the School. In view of recent legislation requiring the testing of theeyesight of the pupils in the public schools, i

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