DOMINES AND SCHOOL-TEACHERS 101

proper to find a convenient place for their accom-
modation and for that purpose petitioner is granted
one hundred guilders yearly."

Can we wonder that New Netherland did not
secure a particularly learned and distinguished
type of pedagogue in the early days? In 1658 the
burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam
with a view to founding an academy petitioned the
West India Company for a teacher of Latin, and
Alexander Carolus Curtius'was sent over to be
the classical teacher in the new academy; but he
was so disheartened by the smallness of his salary
and by the roughness of the youthful burghers
that he shortly returned to Holland, and his place
was taken by ^Egidius Luyck, who, though only
twenty-two years old, established such discipline
and taught so well that the reputation of the acad-
emy spread far and wide, and Dutch boys were no
longer sent to New England to learn their classics*