The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-08
A $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP.
A Veteran Teacher Given a Recep-
ton at the High School.
A TRIBUTE TO MISS DOYLE.
Miss Doyle Was Presented with n Check
for $1,000, which VIII Be Given to
Brown University to Establish q
Scholarship for Girls.

Doyle from the principalship of the Girls
Department OF the High School, after
filling that Office for twenty years aud
after thirty.seven years of service in the
Providence public schools, was made
known the news was received with sin
cere regret by all who knew her.
So long has Miss Doyle been identified
with the educational interests of this city
and so many are the friends she has made
during her long and successful career.
the desire on the part of her former pu
pills to testify their appreciation of her
services was natural and in perfect ac-
cord with the sincere regard for her
which Is held by them.
A meetion of the executive committee
of the class of 1879 was held, and it was
decided To issue an invitation To one
member Of each class graduating since
1859 TO meet aud decide in what manns r
the valuation OF her merit should be ex-
pressed.
The meeting was held in the Elizabeth
building. Twenty-Five classes ere rep
resented The discussion was enthusias.
tic and 10 was unanimously voted to ten
der reception TO Miss Doyle at an early
date. The committee of arrangements
was appointed: Mrs. Cornelia A. Dab
cock) Upton, chairman; Miss Georgiana
Guild. secretary aud treasurer; Miss Lucy
ID. Carpenter assist ant secretary; Mrs.
Charlotte f. Q4eavltt Slocum, Mrs Flor
ence NJ. (Spencer) Preston. Miss Ellen s..
Read.
Last evening was the date set for the
reception. 1t was held in the High School
about thousand.
The exercises were held in the large
hall on the top floor. Music was fur
nished by an orchestra of young ladies
under the direction of Mrs. Abby Shep-
ardson Nauck. Each class carried a ban-
ner designating its year.
IL was a little after o'clock when the
gathering was called TO order. Mrs G..
A. Upton announced that the fund col
lected was TO be given 10 Brown Uni
versity TO be known as the Sarah K.
Doyle Scholarship. the proposition hav-
lug been fully approved Of by Miss Doyle
At this point Miss Doyle entered the
hall accompanied by guests aud the com
mittee of arrangements. This was "a
signal for applause without constraint
aud it Was not until considerable time
had elapsed that quiet was obtained
Longfellow's psalm Of Llfe" was sung
after which Mrs. Upton delivered an adj
dress of welcome. She introduced Miss
Jackson. a former eacher in the high
school, who told Of the beginning Of the
school.
a poem entitled "a Tribute" was read
by Mrs. Charlotte Lavi,t Slocum. A
song by Miss Abbie VI. Harvey, '66, was
then sung. after which Mrs. Anna Gar
lin Spencer presented Miss Doyle with a
cheek for $1,000. The scholarship she
said would be for the benefit OF the grad
uates OF the girls department of the high
school.
Miss Doyle responded in part as fol-
lows:
This meeting is an occasion that well might
awaken pride IN ones heart, IL IL did not also
cause sadness, for proud as your teacher Is of
the true women who welcome her, and whose
lives in some slight degree she may have in
fiuenced for the highest. she must regret mis-
takes she has made and feel how far short
she realized her ideal she asks here that in
your memory of her you will hold 10 the be-
lief that her errors did not spring from the
heart and that she gave you tue best she
knew. As time turns backward in its flight
for US tonight. sadly do we miss the bi ight
young lives that ere they fulfilled the promise
OF their youth "lost themselves in light"
vacant, too, are the places Of mature women
the Master-work that still blesses and bene-
fts-have left memo les 10 inspire and cheer
Us as we toll on, still learning lifes lessons.
IL the great enchanter's magic staff were
mine IL should summon for us the Spirit OF
the Past for the message he would have for
us, the Spirit OF the Present TO criticise and TO
ncite, and the Spirit of the Future to prophesy
what awaits the school so dear TO us. II does
not require much imagination To hear the
voice OF the past. It contrasts the building in
school which, inconvenient and insignificant
with this, is dearer To US who were scholars
there, than this more spacious building can
ever be to its graduates. The many women
who received their education within ITS walls,
now honorably fulfilling their duties in all the
varied positions OF lite 10 which they have
been called, prove that stately buildings,
while they may contribute TO material COM
fort, do not OF themselves make scholarship
or character, which are the intangible results
OF in material pine ip!es.
Manual tralhing, al the darkness of the
past, might have been considered as suit
able for boys only, but in the light of the
present, with the many varieties of work in
which women, driven by stern necessity to
support themselves, engage, ought not girls
10 have ali the advantages that are bestowed
upon their brothersf Co-education is n neces-
sity under some circumstances-they do not
exist In this school, and l believe that you
will sustain me in thinking that you were
not mentally or morally defrauded by being
educated in a girls school.
III have not over-estimated the teaching
you have, received, If Shakespeare has not
erred in his estimate OF the power of women,
there are other duties for you To perform in
this city, other fields for you To till than those
in which yo1 so wisely labor. The relations
which we hold 10 each otoer make IL most
natural for me To express my convictions of n
sphere Of work In which your services rightly
belong. The need of womanly element in
the school committee has long been felt by
me. From the strength of my conviction, Il
Is not too much for me To assert that one half
OF the school committee should be women.
No man knows what is best for n girl. as no
woman Is the best judge of n boys need.
Personally | am glad To acknowledge pub
licly the courtesy and respect rendered 10 me
by school officials who, had they felt the need
OF certain reforms as much as did, would
have had them made, but individual con-
siderations must not blind us To the claims of
right and justice.
At the end of her address Miss Doyle
introduced Mrs Read wbo had been her
own high school teacher. Mrs. Read
made n few remarks.
A gold WA ch was presented to Miss
Doyle by Mrs. A j. Gordon. given IN the
name OF oil the classes from 1859 to 1892.
Miss Doyle responded Aud Lang
Syne" was sungaud the event was ter
minated by reception in Room 10 whe re
all were given an opportunity to clasp
hands with Miss Doyle