National Republican., 1882-12-23
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Interchange OF Presents Between Teachers
md PnniIa I'm thc PnhIIc Schools.

Interchange OF Presents Between Teachers
nnd Pupils In the Public Schools.
The public schools yesterday closed until
the Sd of January, 1883. In nearly all special
exercises were held during the day, and it
was made the occasion of the interchange of
presents between the teachers and their
pupils. In the third grade school of Miss
Helen D. Robinson in the Memorial church,
corner Of Vermont avenue and N Streets the
scholars presented their teacher with an
elegantly bound edition of Tupper's "Prover-
bal Philosophy" and ? pair of vases. 1ndi-
vidual scholars also brought other presents of
books and flowers. Miss Robinson, as she
closed her school, wished all her little girls a
merry christmas, and presented each with a
handsome christmas card.
Many of the little children in the first grade
at the Franklin building carried gifts of books.
| flowers, and, in some cases, articles of iewelry
to Miss VI. F. Pumphrey, and Miss Mclean,
teacher Of the sixth grade in the same build
ing, was given a handsome handkerchief box
by her pupils, beside receiving other presents
of books and flowers from individual scholars.
Similar exercises were held in the colored
public schools and in some of them quite ex-
tensive programmes were carried out. At the
high schools of the seventh and eighth divis-
ions the exercises were as follows: Music,
Bruce Evans ("Over the hills from the poor
house "; essay, Julia Pierre "a How money is
made W; defamation, Alice Ashton (" Good
influence" W; music, instrumental duet, Grace
Shimm and Emma Scott; defamation, Geor-
gle Simpson ("Ic giveth His beloved sleep');
reading, Willie Nickols ("The. two glasses W;
defamation, Eloise Bryant ("Where the Rhine
runs down to the sea W; musical chorus
("Wait till the clouds roll by') defamation,
Alberta Taylor ("The costly jewel'') essay,
Grace Shimm {" Silent cities W; music, duet,
Pale Morn, Emma Scott and Alice Wills, dec
lamation, Bette Hudnel C'Somebody's S
mothcr"); defamation, Rebecca Baldwin
Little Mabel" defamation, Hattie Nor
mon C"Only sixteen"); music, chorus ('Spring
song"); quotations.
At the John +. Cook building the eighth
grade school, of which Miss NJ. P. Shadd is
principal, the school room was beautifully
decorated, and the Whittier exercises COM
priscd the following programme: Chorus,
Blessed are They" biographical sketch of
Whittier by the school; selections from the
"Ccntcnnial Hymn" Helen Collins Charles
West, Ebbie Pinkney, Marion johnson, John
Smith, and Mary Thomas; recitation, Seed
time and Harvest" Lucy Webb; chorus,
Suffer the Children y recitation, Maude
Muller" jamie Bell; recitation, Barbara
| Freitchie," Lettia Williams; chorus, Jesus
Lover of Ny Soul" recitation, In School
Days" Katie Wall; recitation, "The Robin y
Rebccca Norton; chorus, Joyful Hearts and
Smiling Faces recitation, "Angel of Pa
tience," Elizabeth Browne; recitation, Mary
Garvin," Emma Kinner; chorus, Far
Away quotations from the author by the
school presentation of a Christmas basket to
the .ianitor, Mr.. Thomas, by the teachers OF
the building. After appropriate speeches by
Mr.. II. p, Montgomery of the seventh di-
vision, and Mr.. Scott Montgomery, of the
eighth, the exercises were concluded by wish
ing all "merry christmas and happy new
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