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WINTER TWILIGHT The trees are quiet now. All day the shining rapier of wind Has tortured them. All day the bitter rain has lashed Gaunt boughs that lift Beseeching mercy from the sky. The sky above them glows A deepening sapphire. The wind and rain have fled before the dusk The trees are still To-night the trees will cower ,neath the stars And moan, remembering. DOROTHY LORRAINE SPEAKE
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5 - ,lx lj,-x lkx fix 1' IRI' S 12355: A P1oNEER IN EDUCATION Af the seventy-prst convocation of the University of the State of N ew York in Albany, Dr. Campbell, Sapeifirztemlent of Schools, reviewed the prog- ress made in Erasmus Hall as an example of the model high school. By DR. HAROLD G. CAMPBELL HE first secondary school to be chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York Was Erasmus Hall Academy, , founded in 1787, in the old Dutch village of Flatbush, Brooklyn, by a group of public spirited citizens, among Whom were Alex- ander Hamilton, John Jay, Senator John Vanderbilt and the U Rev. Dr. John H. Livingston, who became its first principal. Erasmus had long since celebrated its Iooth birthday as a private academy, when in 1896 it became part of the public school system under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education of what was then the City of Brooklyn. The modern secondary school, Wherein the aim is to develop the Whole per- sonality of the individual child, owes much to this institution that dates back to the latter part of the eighteenth century, to the year of the framing of the American Constitution. When in 1896 Erasmus ended its days as a private academy and became part of the public school system, the late Dr. Walter B. Gunnison accepted the principalship With these Words: Erasmus Hall shall stand, as far as in me lies, for sound scholarship, for general culture and refinement, and for that character that shall be self-reliant and manful. The traditions of the past shall be cherished and shall ever be an inspiration for the futuref' Eleven
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