The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-21
OUT AND ABOUT.


The engagement was announced yes
4erday of Miss Florence E. Smith of
Newton to President G. Stanley Hall
of Clark University. The wedding
will take place in the Baptist church,
Newton Centre, in July.
Miss Smith has attended the Clark
summer. school so many years that she
has a good many friends in this city
as well as in Newton Centre, where she
lives in the family residence at Al Cy-
press street. and in Boston. She is
about IS years of age, and is charming
in manner and in personal appearance.
Though not college graduate, she
possesses a brilliant and original mind,
as is evinced by her management of
the F'roebel school at IS Beacon street,
where pupils are fitted for college by
one continuous curriculum from the
kindergarten to the university. The
conduct of this school and the arrange
nent of the curriculum has been large
~ influenced by the child study move
ment. One of the .peculiarities of the
system is never to explain or antici-
pate any principle to a pupil, but al
ways to allow him to discover it for
w
the direct outcome of his intelligence,
he never forgets it.
DR.. Hall and Miss Smith first met, it
is interesting to know, at the Clark
summer school five years ago. Miss
smith was at the school last year and
the year before.
After the wedding, they will spend
SIX months or more in Europe. and will
then return TO Worcester to live.
The completion of the tenth academ-
ic year. of Clark university will be cele-
brated by the presence of distinguished
men and series of meetings, bothpub-
lie and private. It is proposed to de-
vote a week to this anniversary, and
TO bring together not only famous men
or science from Europe to lecture, but
also American scientists from Ameri-
can universities President Hall de-
Sires to avoid the conventional methods
followed by other colleges in observ-
ing their anniversaries, and it is likely
that Clark's celebration will consist
largely of sessions in which the notable
visitors viii participate, with at least
one day, which shall be public, with
popular addresses on the aims and the
achievements of the university during
its first decade.
Under the title of Reflections on
various themes, Lieut.. Samuel Hath
away has published -four short pieces Of
prose and verse. The booklet, which is
tastefully bound in dark green, opens
with a brief essay on easter morn, :"
suggested by the beautiful musical ser
vice which Mrs. Henry Harris gave
upon retiring from the First Congrega-
tional choir after IA years as soprano
and conductor THE glory of the COM
ing of the morning" is little descrip-
tive sketch, while THE 18th of April"
is written in historic and patriotic
vein The last number is called The
Doxology," and is an eight-lined poem
upon old age and immortality. Each
composition is characteristic of the au-
thor.
One Of the enjoyable social gatherings
for which the Normal School is fam
Gus was held on Wednesday, in the
graduates rooms. It was a reunion of
the classes of January and June, 1879,
which met to celebrate the goth anni4
versary OF their graduation from the
school. There were present Mrs. Edwin
D. GoodeIl of Brookfeld, Mrs. Frederick
n. Hunter of Spencer, Miss M. Resale
Goddard, Mrs. Fred +. Sprague, Miss
Hattie S. Putnam, Miss Abby b. Shute,
Miss Nellie F. Lindsay, Miss Emma NJ.
Plimpton and Miss Henrietta A. Muir
ray.
As a souvenir of the occasion, pho
tographs of Miss Florence Foster, a
former teacher Of the school. now de-
ceased, were distributed to those pres
emit The pictures were bromide prints,
beautifully copied by Mr.. J. c. Lyford,
from q photograph in the possession
Of the school The chronicles Of the
class were read by Mrs. Hunter. A
chafing dish supper was served. and an
evening Of "Reminiscences followed
Mrs. Dell Ten Eyek Freeman's bird
class for children, opened yesterday at
ternoon at the Natural History So
ciety's rooms, and 40 boys and girls
learned about some of the early birds,
when and where and how to look for
them and how to identify them. Mrs.
Freeman told many interesting expert
ences with birds and drew observations
and experiences from her young audi
ence. Three cases of specimens illus
trated the talk. The first field day will
come on Monday, when Mrs. Freeman
will meet the children at West and
Highland streets, at 4.45 o'clock. and
take them on a tour of observation
through Elm Park across to the peat
meadow on the other side of Newton
Hill. where It is hoped that a few song
sparrows and meadow larks win re-
ward them.
Miss Edith Kinney entertained the
Woman Suffrage League yesterday af-
ternoon at her home. Westminster
strest. A report from the W. G. Z. Z.