1928.3.27 March 27 1928

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March 27, 1928.

The President of the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club presided at the meeting held in the Unitarian Parish House March twenty-seventh.

Notice of the teas of the week of March twenty-sixth was given also of the Club play the afternoon and evening of April seventeenth.

In cooperation with the Boston Better Homes Committee the Club will keep open house the week of April twentysecond which is known as "Better Homes Week." Tea will be served at the usual price and Mrs. George O. Richardson will be in charge.

Mrs. Rees stated that the D.W.A. Bulletin published by the Danvers Women's Association contained an article by Miss M. Gertrude Gould, a member of the Tuesday Club on the Loring-Greenough House.

It was voted that the application of Miss Mary C. Downes for membership in the Club be accepted and her name placed on the waiting list.

Mrs. *Dave, Chairman of the Literature Department, introduced Professor Dallas Lore Sharp whose subject was "Five Days and an Education.

In a witty but serious talk, the speaker portrayed to his audience five days of his life that stand out *vividly which he has called

a day of investment a day of adventure a day of wonder a day of power a day of weakness.

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and mentioned how fortunate he had been in having teachers of understanding and emphasized how divine it is to be a born teacher and not a disciplinarian. The speaker referred to the magnificence and impressiveness of the American schools from the Atlantic to the Pacific but doubts if the children of to-day are any better educated than their parents and laid particular stress on the fact that children are individual persons and that they cannot be equally educated.

Tea was served in the Loring-Greenough House and Mrs. Harry H. *Hull, Miss Mary M. Perry, Mrs. Gillian H. Prescott and Mrs. George E. Seabury poured at the table decorated with pink sweet peas and tall lighted pink candles.

Respectfully submitted Blanche W. Eldridge Rec. Sec.

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