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i fl !W THE LIBRARY We are happy over the setting of our school; we are more than pleased with our building and its equipment; but our crowning glory is our library. To Mrs. M. B. Koon, Mrs. C. C. Bovey, and Mrs. C. I). Yelie, who, in memory of the late Judge Koon, have donated a sum suffiicent to place us at once in possession of a good, working library, we are gratefully indebted. The selections for this nucleus have been most happy. Of reference works there are Nelson's, Appleton’s, and the Americana the last contributed by Mr. G. B. Clifford and numerous lesser, though equally useful, books on science, art, and music. The history student can enjoy not only the familiar Macaulay, Green, Prescott, McCarthy, and Guizot but the more recent Park man, Fiske, Lodge, and Wilson. The “Story of the Nations’' furnishes in an abbreviated form much attractive reading. In addition, there are volumes relating to the intimate life of peoples, both ancient and modern, that offer opportunities for much interesting and profitable reading, besides many entertaining biographies. “The Call of the Wild has a full shelf to itself, books attractive to the average boy, all of them well chosen. Of general literature and fiction full sets, many of them attractively bound, line the shelves; Shakespeare, Cooper, Thackeray, Eliot, Poe, Dickens, Scott, Lowell, and Kingsley. Stevenson, Mark Twain, and Kipling come in for more than .-IT JK A a w 11 J. A Hlrw c • -
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usual interest on the part of many of the boys. There are two shelves of miscellaneous fiction; one adapted to the intellectual capacity of the older boys, the other to the younger. So far more patronage has come from the lower forms than from the upper. However, as a taste for good literature can be cultivated, we hope to see a more active interest taken in the library by all the boys. For an adjunct to the cultural side of our school we are indebted to Mr. F. W. Clifford, who has presented so generously to Blake a collection of fine pictures. No school, perhaps, with so few years behind it can boast of such notable productions upon its walls. In the chapel is Abbey’s Holy Grail series from paintings in the Boston Public Library; in the library, the “Canterbury Pilgrims”; in the halls Blashfield’s “Washington Resigning His Commission,” from a painting in Baltimore, and “The Source of the Mississippi,” from the decorations of the Minnesota state capitol. St. Gaudens’ “Lincoln,” with its notable suggestion of greatness, graces the stairway and the Shaw Memorial honors the entrance hall. “The Selkirks” by Bierstedt, “The Ship of the Desert,' “King Arthur,” “Ivanhoe,” “Houndsin Leash,”and portraits of Shakespeare and Cromwell add to the beauty of other rooms. Over the headmaster's desk hangs Abbey’s “Justice,” a suggestion that may be taken as the key note in the administration of the Blake School. It is in the power of the boys of the school to make worthy returns to our loving friends; more, it is a duty. Ur- m a ''” ■ • z
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