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seemed to prove the office of teacher is by no means
a sinecure and that the new doctrine of spoiling the rod
and sparing the child", in public schools, requires
tact and patience on the part of a Principal when
dealing with those who have had no higher discipline
than blows at home. Elizabeth G. Thomas had a
short poem " Watch your words", containing much
wisdom , and an historical sketch of the Friends
of Newport Rhode Island, where a Yearly Mtg. has
convened for 202 successive years. Elizabeth C.
Davis' offering was unique - a poem entitled " A
Strangers Wish" given by John G. Whittier to the
late Charles Abert believed to have been composed
by the gentle poet but never published. Esther T. Moore
had a brief extract from Ruskin upon " Imagination"
and Sarah E. Stabler verses " The world wants a
song". Sarah A. Bond read from a new volume
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox " The New Year" which
closed with -- "Sing all who will of dead years departed,
I shroud them and bid them adieu,
And the song I will sing happy hearted
Is a song of the glorious new".

The secretary gave a review and extract from the autobiography
of Mary A. Livermore also Kiplings beautiful jubilee
hymn " Recessional" which we were told is to be set to music
by Sir Arthur Sullivan. The sweet face of our late faithful and
beloved member, Hadassah J. Moore, smiled on us so
naturally from the wall as to call forth many
allusions to her during the meeting and tributes