New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-11
EMMA WILLARD BANQUET.
KIND WORDS FOR THE PRECEPIhhSo
OF THE FAMOUS SCHOOL
MRS RUSSELL. SAGE MARGARET sANGsTEK AND
OTHERS LEAVE THEIR Tributes AT HER

MRS RUSSELL. SAGE. MARGARET sANGstIN AMI
OTHERS LEAVE THEIR TRIBUTES AT HER
sHRIxE-THB NEW BOOK.
The Emma Willard Association held It's eighth
annual banquet yesterday at the Windsor Hotel
large number of members and guests belhs IN AZ
tendance despite the storm.
The tables we're artsticaly decorated with fruits
and ferns while IN front Of the president OF the
association Mrs. Russell S7ge. was large basket
O. pink carnations. corresponding In color with
the sfken badges worn by the members.
AT the presidents table were seated the ON
c,-s OF the association and guests Of honor. among
thcro being Mrs Margaret Sangster. Mrs Stanton
platch the Rev DIT Kemp Of Troy; russell Sage.
Miss Helen Gould. Mrs Cyrus Mccormick. Mrs
Sullivan Miss. {. f. Dennis. of Auburn Mrs
Charles Edwards. Mrs. All-n c. Washington Mrs
Henry Wilson Mrs. II. Z. Mason. Of Troy; Mrs
s.ares Of Brooklyn: Mrs williamson wife Of
the Mayor Of New Brunswick Mis-. Randolph W.
Townsend and DR.. and Mrs. J. +. Mum
In the graceful welcome accorded the associa-
ton by its president dit OF business was SAND
viched in-embodying the report OF the business
meeting held the dey before
We are prosperous" said Mrs. Sage; the meet
ing Yesterday showed that the treasury ~ stu
sound We have never been in debt ana never
ovardrawn our account. The most arduous work
we have had the biographical record Many
who are in that book have ceased to live since u
was commenced. though they lonFcd Tor It's appear
ing We shall read Of them and bless the tender
memories which Will unfold themselves OF our
beloved preceptor and her earnest teachers whose
lives have enriched our own, and we shall say
OF them:
For the dead Will not bind ,,
our souls to grief Death cann U3 long oiVioe'
our garden wall had blcomcd the o>her side
y,ne Henrietta Reebe sang BE Ny Love" and
was followed by Srs. Margaret SanGster. who
smoke OF 1.-The Model Teacher.
"rhe thing the model teacher does for her pupils.
bows or girls" said Mrs. sangs;er. is to so tea,h
Them that they shall be equal 10 whatever oc-
cas,on may confront them in life whatever that
occasion may be"
To exert the great controlling influence OF noble
sincere personality and 10 instil love or letters
and harmonious adjustment to life Mrs. Sangster
regarded as the best that teacher can do for her
pupils She spoke Of the responsibility OF the
teacher
Girls" she said. have way OF worshipping
teachers and model themselves after one whom
they admire, consciously y unco9scionsy All
through Ufe the influence OF the model teacher
will be felt" She closed by saying that he model
teacher stands to-day in the front rank OF Amer!-
can womanhood. Another 1ong. tine Violet by
Mozart rendered by Nine. Beebe. and an address
by Mrs Stanton Batch on Expansion" closed
the regular programme.
we women think" said Mrs. Batch that We
when I came back from England. after two years
absence | found the boys IN all the schools public
and private deep in military drills. You might
have stopped that Don't get that spirit into the
hearts OF little children"
Mrs Blatch thought Americans might much bet
FER turn their attention 10 improving their roads
,bar looking afte. territorial expansion. and load
ing Nd the great Republic with inferior races Az
the close Of the programme Nine Beebe sang again
nv request and the guests adjourned 10 the parIor
10 see and discuss the new book entitled Emma
willard and Her Pupils Just published by Mrs.
Sage.
MRS sAGE's BOOK
Xo NOR. graceful or fitting tribute from a pupil
~ teacher from one earnest woman TO another.
whose beno6cent influence has helped 10 mould and
color her whole life could possibly be thought OF
than that Just paid by Mrs. Russell Sage to Mrs.
Emma Willard. founder Of the Troy Seminary ana
rioneor in securing higher education FOR women
"Out of the abundance OF the heart the mouth
rgbiishod by Mrs Russo, sage with the collabora-
Willard Association have answered 20 their names
s M" , Sp0 founder. NJ Emma Willard" there is
crystallized beautiful record Of aueCHon .udt
Witnesses to tho far-reaching influence Of Mrs.
The compiling Of the volume which bears IN, me
title Emma Ward ana Her Pupiis; 81 Or FLY
Years Of Troy Female Seminary. l&2,s'2 mas
been a hercuean work. hardly possible were 1t
The isrges, part Of the book IS taken up WITH
women VINO i'm days past sat al me Ieet oa ' IN,
feminine Gamaiiel gaining ron ner 'each'HsS IN
..ro trace Tho history" says the preface not
only ~ the alumne Of the school but OF All ne
century which began seventy-fve years ago. - (
find and Identify some seven thomsanu "o iithom,
lsd taken new names-some Of them more than
@s ana S wa OF a W80 the Ike Of Which was prob
ably never before undertaken ana one lar s''"'ei
than is originatOrs had ever dreahle1 ,,.
That The research was crowned with abundant
success the reader can be2r "i ms "of,er give
clearer idea OF events than the rays that fall from
one direction only 4. l. believed ihat thtse qu"l,
history Vii visiBly outline the steps Of woman's
advancemeut in The world q citers WINS my
% her whose work and worth we seek to com IN
memoTatc. In these days Of light ana D'ry Iol
are an accomplished fact and an open sesame IS
written the gateway OF every proi.s,si,ot "nrn
s.ders the physical culture Of children there Is te
favor o. ancient history in inc cnr% } or r sran9
mothers rs indicate ana that higher mathematics
was omitted from their curriculum before the
founding % Troy seminary. in 1871. 49,. ...o.s,.
gfi To- the ie Of The pioneer Of higher
,ducati'n for women thereby furnishing the rason
detre Of the Emma willard Association ana us
4 comprehensive biography of Mrs. willard. illus
husband and haIf-tones OF other members Of her
family. begins the soume and gives an insigh, INTO
Mrs Willard the acknowledged exponent OF graz |
Happy. indeed The selection from Lowell IN
scribed upon the title page:
Such earnest natures are the hery pith.
The compact nucleus round which systems grow
Mass after mass becomes inspired herewith
And Whirls mpregnatc with the central glow.
The volume is daintily bound in dark blue and !
Conferred e 1877 ~ Kns RSssrd III Of bod EnfA o
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