Lyceum Phoenix of Friends School - Phoenix Echo Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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taxes on the investment, which is in land outside of the School premises proper. That is to say, it is not used for ordinary repairs, nor for the support of the institution, and there is no debt, except for permanent improvement, for which the property is now visible and unconsumed. Alumni avenue has been created and built upon, and Olney street extended to Arlington street. None of the groves or playgrounds are taxed, none have been sold, and none of the trees have been cut except for pruning purposes and to remove dead wood. The groves, with all their glorious memories, must never be desecrated by these heartless people who seem to meditate day and night to ind ways and means to slay more beautiful treesfk 'F It is not probable that there have been more persons under the instruction of the school at any time than during the present year. There have been more boarders some years. There will be in all about 260. The classes began to graduate in 1857. There were, in joseph Cartland's administration, graduates ..... . 22 In A. K. Srniley's administration, I9 years ......... .............. . .. 148 In the present administration .............. . 403 Total ..... ............... ...... . . . 573

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Sun of the North,', by Bradford, now in the hall, and Mrs. Brad- ford donated a beautiful cartoon of a shipwreck on the coast of Nantucket, over the door as you enter the library. Mary R. Osborne donated the exquisite copy of Andrea Del Sarto's Holy Family, now in the hall. She also gave to us the electrical apparatus, many years ago, by which the school-rooms were first lighted with electricity. We have received from George W. Whitaker, of Providence, three very valuable paintings-a free donation to the School, painted by himself. They are most highly- prized and appreciated. They are Mount Chocorua, Niagara Falls, and an excellent fruit piece in the dining-room. We have, in the library, a Hne view in Barrington-a gift by the painter, Elijah Baxter, of Providence. It has received much commendation. Hannah J. Bailey, of Winthrop, assisted in part by Ella J. Wheeler, has lighted up the whole house, in all its parts, with excellent art and beautiful pictures, which have contributed very much to the homelike, cultivating, and aesthetic infiuence of house and home. We received in 1881 the Abner and Sarah Slade fund of 351,5oo, a donation of Sarah Slade, of Swansea, in the name of herself and her deceased husband. This was expended for the library and for philosophical apparatus, and has been of vast benefit to the School. It was very much strengthened by another gift of Timothy K. Earle, of Worcester, Mass., of Egoo for the library. These two sums of money gave a new life to the literary spirit of the School, which has continued to this present time. Charles H. Smith, of Providence, whose son graduated here in 1895, gave a very noble donation of 315550, the income to be used for the purchase of books for the boys' and girls' reading-rooms. This was a beautiful and beneficent work, the influence of which will be everlasting. Ella J. Wheeler also gave to us a painting by one of our students Qformerlyj, Henry R. Kenyon. The picture had been received in the Paris salon, and now bears the mark I,452. Sarah F. Tobey, of blessed memory, left to us a beautiful collection of sea-shells- the work of a life-time. We received from the World's Columbian exhibition at Chicago a bronze medal and a diploma for excellence in wood-carving. It is a subject of great importance that no land has been sold, except to make permanent improvements on the property, or to pay

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