Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-12-14
SAxTON'S RIVER.


Schools closed Saturday, December O..
The following are the names of the
pupils in the intermediate school who
were not absent during the term: Ruth
II. Barry, Rose Forgette, Anna Gates,
Alice Gates. Blanche Heath, Eddie j.
Joyce, Eva E. Joyce, Clara L. Lake, An
ma M. Marlboro, Fay G. Osgood, David
N. Stearns, and Raymond Severance.
Anna NJ. Bemis, teacher.
Vermont Academy.
The winter term opens on Tuesday,
january 2, the recitations beginning the
next days sssss A "a
The Senior class took ride to Chester
on Tuesday afternoon, returning after
supper at the Fullerton.
Next week closes the first term of the
school year. Examinations take place on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
President James NJ. Taylor of Vassar
College will visit the school December5,
and will address the students on the
evening of that day.
The new classes to be formed are those
in Greek history, physiology, English,
geometry, chemistry, moral philosophy,
christian evidences, English literature,
bookkeeping and geography.
The examing committee for the present
year consists of Prof. Thomas D. Sey-
mour of Yale University, Prof George
G. Wilson of Brown University, and Rev.
Edwin A. Herring of Brandon.
Among the old students present at the
Senior exhibition were Gertrude A. In
gals, 81, A. Maud Essex, Bertha A.
Weston. '92, w. ii. Irwin, Florence l..
Downing, and Abbie X. Leonard, '93.
Rev. c. II. Spalding of Boston deliv-
cred very enjoyable and inspiring
His subject was 'sGenius and Gumption.''
Mr.. Spalding also spoke at the Baptist
church Sunday evening on 1.-THE Re-
sources of outh for Christie
There is to be a competitive prize drill
in the Armory on Saturday evening next
between picked squads from the two
companies, under command Of the regu-
lar company officers. The victorious
company will receive banner to be held
by them for one term and then it will
be competed for again. The boys are
drilling for this event with great enthu-
siasm, and the exhibition will be we'll
worth seeing. Gov. Fuller has been in
vited to be present, and it is hoped he
may be able to come.
The regular Senior exhibition occurred
on Saturday evening last in Fuller hall.
Twenty-one members of the class pre-
sented orations. While the literary merit
of the productions was not above the
average of former years, the speaking
was on the whole better than we have
ever known it to be before. This is large
Iy due to th2 Systematic anu careful WORK
in elocution under the direction of Miss
Grace p. Conant, the teacher of elocu-
tion and physical culture. In the case
of each speaker, every word was dis
tinctly audible throughout the room,
The program was as follows
Prayer, Prof. Ellery
Zwischinspiel,
katherine Putnam Ainsworth
Agnes Ella Harvey
The Three Ancient Schools of Sculpture.
Mary Fidelia Aldrich
Honoring the Soldier, BENJAMIN Brush Benedict
Debate-Resolved, That Mary Stuart was a Bet
Woman than MsrY 9neep Ianse E15seetni ooieman, Ae
*Alice Adele Butterfield, Neg.
Accuracy, salmon James Clark
Frances Willard, Mary Frances Goodell
Spring Serenade, Locombe. Grace Chaplin
War or Arbitration, Wallace Brainard Conant
Voices from the Sea- Annie Rose Hal
the Moral and Religious Element,
*Charles Abel Brown, Aft.
William James Forbes, Neg.
Manners and Customs of the SaXons,
Agnes Ella Harvey
Impromptu op. 142 No. ,, Schubert,
Lillian Lepha Knowlton
Leland Stanford, Russell Chaffee Graves
True Courage, Mary Adelaide Haynes
Grover Cleveland, Harris Fuller Hamilton
A Colonial Citizen in Modern Boston,
Grace Agnes Mark
Comparison of Alfred the Great and William the
Norman, Ray Keyes Linsley
Spiders, Mabel Spaulding McCollom
Mazourka, S. A. Emery, Helene Aimable Roux
Dream, Jennie Florence Perry
Advantages of School Journalism,
Dallas Franklin Pollard
The HerOism of Uneyentful Lives,
Louise May Robbins
Two Graves on st. Helena, Alta May Tozer
Parliament of Religions, Louis Albion Thomas
Lady Henry Somerset, Julia Fisk E. Wilcox
The Classical Course. Julius Tuckerman
Breeze of the Night Lamothe,
| Prof. Snow, Prof. Eilery, Theodore Therrien,
j Churchill Hindes
Excused.