The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-28
He Was Not Brilliant but He Was Patient
and Mastered the Problems.
NO COLLEGE COURSE FOR HIM NOW.
although Re Is but Twenty and Ms Bride THIRTY
Five Years Of Age, Young Rasbrouok Is
Exceedingly Happy.

New York June 2s.-NTss Grac,
! Thwing, principal of the high school a
] Port Chester. was married In the hom
of her brother at Mount Vernon yester
day 10 Harold Jansen Hasbrouck, he
pupil.
She has light brown hair blue eye.
that radiate Intelligence and wit. Sh,
has been teacher applauded by Por
Chester for fifteen years. Her father
was the late Rev. Or. Thwing. One oi
her brothers is a preacher in Alaska
the other is missionary in China.
Her work had the fervor of theirs
Education was her vocation. 1t absorb.
ed her entirely. Late in the evening Q
light at her window indicated her APP
plication to studies of her classes. She
was inimitable in her ability to convey
the Information that she gained pa
tiently. by dint OF incessant labor. And
no one could think of her alert, smiling,
scepticism of the tradition that con-
demns the burning of midnight oil.
Miss Thwing burned SO much of il
that when the high school of Port
Chester was founded three years ago
she was wise enough to be it's princi-
pal.
Miss Thwing might have been super
intendent OF all the schools of Port
Chester. The place was offered 20 her.
But she preferred her pupil. Harold
Jansen Hasbrouck.
He had not been bright, but he was
patient and anxious TO learn. He would
have future without anxiety about
money, since ihis parents were wealthy
He would never have the necessity TO
study after he left school. He hated
mathematics, without which one may
never advance.
Miss Thwing's interest was captivat-
ed by his application. She was not In
favor of the system that teaches the
same things to ALL A young critic of
Mount Vernon had compared her class
to rows of jars wherein she poured
science instead of preserves. The
criticism had been friendly and pleas
ant She wished TO prove that IL was
not just
To develop individual faculties was
her intention. She studied the charac-
teristios OF her pupils and tried 10 inn
prove i'm them their inclinations TO eX-
cellence I'm special departments of
learning. Hasbroucks was literary.
But TO be a graduate OF the high school
he had to solve a great quantity of
mathematical problems. She decided
to help him in these.
After the classes were out every aft
ernoon Miss Thwing taught mathe-
matics TO Hasbrouck. In the first days
he was grateful only. Her attention
Obliged him to be painstaking. Then he
was amazed. Enigmas that had been
blacker than Erebus became clear tc
him. He learned algebra, geometry,
trigonometry.
He had loved only poems. He had
said that the exact sciences wounded
imagination cruelty. Now. he knew
that the equations OF calculus could
be carried into the infinitles. He was
the brightest pupil ever formed at Port
Chester. The school season was at an
end. He was twenty years OF age.
"Will you go TO Yale or Harvard?"
his father asked.
They had TO solve grave problem
in the principals room that day
Mrs. Hasbrouck Is 20 years of age
seventeen and "A half OF days and sev-
enteen and a half OF nights" SAYS Has
brouck. His wife is. apparently. young
er than he. They were married yester-
day. at the home of Eugene Thwing. at
No. 343 North Fulton avenue. Mount
Vernon, by the Rev. Thomas Nealson.
pastor OF the Memorial Presbyterian
church OF Brooklyn.