On Tuesday, March 7th, a notice was issued
to parents and guardians that the school would break up that day week for
a premature Easter holiday, and at the end of the usual three weeks
reassemble in some other locality, of which nothing could as yet be
specified except that it was to be healthier than that we were leaving.
The proposed experiment--to transport a large public school from its
native seat and all its appliances and plant to a strange site of which
not even the name was yet known, except as one of several possible spots,
and to do this at a few days' notice--was no doubt a novel one. But the
resolve, if rapidly formed and daring, was none the less deliberate and
sane. Its authors must not be charged either with panic or a passion for
adventure. All the data of a judgment were in view, and delay could add
no new fact, except one which would make any decision nugatory because
too late. It was wisdom in those with whom lay the cast of the die, to
take their determination while a school remained for which they could
determine anything.
It was a sharp remedy, however.
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