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formally, carrying all the semblance
of court trial, and probably will not
be finished until late hour this after
noon. Miss Davis was represented by
Attorney J.. Lightfoot, who occupied
the entire intervening time of the
morning session in the presentation
of her case to the commission.
Attorney General Alex. Lindsay was
present to see that the. hearing was
conducted in a perfectly legal man
ner, and he halted the proceedings in
talk to request that Prof Wood he
sent for. He argued that much of
Lightfoot's statement was in the ma
ture of evidence, concerning the verify
of which none save Miss Davis and
Prof Wood had direct knowledge. and
to do justice to both sides Prof. Wood
should hear Miss Davis version. The
hearing was halted fifteen minutes ac-
cordingly, until Prof Wood appeared
on the scene. .-......- -. >.-.
According to- the evidence on which
Superintendent Pope refused to re-
appoint Miss Davis to position at
the Normal school, she had beer at
tempting to teach in the third grade,
but had shown absolutely no control
over her pupils. School Inspector Glib
son. written report of d visit he paid
her room on Sept. Is, 1912, states that
he found utter confusion and chaos
reigning, that she did not know how
to handle the students, and that when
a cadet teacher was sent in TO relieve
her the latter proved the more salts
factory. Concluding, he says:
Attacks the Teacher.
!. My opinion is thatlMi Davis is
utterly impossible as ID teacher: and
that 1t is a sinful waste of public
funds to continue her salary. From
what have seen of Miss Davis and
her work am forced to believe that
she is an extremely cratic person or
rot quite sane" s=..-... ~. o-:
In the same evidence is a copy of
a letter purporting to have been writ
ten by Mrs. May T.. Wilcox, one of
the commissioners, dated Sept. 20.
This says in part: .,.
Il went to Miss Davis room Friday
morning, September 90. and remained
there from $3.50 to 11:10 a. m. She
was trying to teach the weather chart
to her pupils. She did not try to teach
any other lesson during the time was
in her room. She spent the time walk
| ing up and down the aisles trying to
get her pupils into order.
Jump Out of Window.
-Four boys jumped out of tine WIN
' II : A niPlc HIpoT a
standing on table in the front part
, of the room. One boy jumped from
desk to desk down a whole row of
seats. The floor was strewn with
pieces of chalk which the children had
thrown at each other and their teacher.
One boy struck the teacher and took
the ruler out of her hand.
The utmost disorder prevailed dur
ing the whole morning and the pu.
pills did no work of any kind. Miss
Davis was unable to control her pu-
pills, and made no effort to teach any
lesson other than the weather chart. "
College Trained.
Telling of Miss Davis training and
experience, Attorney Lightfoot de-
clared she is unusually we'll equipped
for her work She attended Bryn
Mawr four years, after some years in
smaller institutions. She specialized
! in philosophy and mathematics, took
A., B. degree, then spent two
years at Harvard College, taking the
/ Phi. d. degree there. After that she
did special work in psychology at
Cambridge for seven years.
Her eyes then becoming affected,
, she sought a change of climate, and
through a teachers agency. was in
/ duced to take the position in Hawaii.
He said Miss Davis never pretended
! to be a grade teacher. and declared
, it was distinctly understood she could