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

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N yd .- ,.,. 4 g M + -' .W of 1 4, a Q - - f ' 0 y . f .1 'Historic' Shats 2, i O ,St 1 fx - .-- . rg V E T is usually a very agreeable privilege to follow the wind- F , h ing courses of rivers, institutions, and human lives from A J their small beginning dow11 to the place and period of their QI.. ,T-1 supreme energy and potency. The mighty river starts with drops of melted snow at the summit of mountains which divide a continent, and sweeps into the ocean hundreds of miles away in resistless floods. The infant nurtured in some cottage re- mote from the centres of traffic, far from the seats of learning and wisdom, has developed until his hands swayed the rod of empire, or waldd to extasy the living lyre. Institutions like the British and Foreign Bible Society began with a little upper-room meet- ing of a few persons in weakness and doubt, and in a century grew to be vast, issuing IIo,ooo,ooo volumes in 2So different lan- guages. It has become one of the great forces of civilization and of the amelioration of the world. Colleges, universities, and schools in general have started small, like the mustard seed in the parable, and evolved trees with great branches. The most gifted Roman orator said, U The beginning of all things is small. The Hrst recorded movement toward the founding of Friends School appeared on the 25th day of the Third Month, 1779, at the Monthly Meeting held on that day at the Friends' meeting-house at Union Village, near W'oonsocket, R. I. The record made at that meeting is as follows: It having been the concern of this meet- ing, to promote the education of our youth in schools, under the government of solid Friends, and as this necessary care is much relaxed within our Yearly Meeting, from what our Discipline re-

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Base- Base Base Base Base Base Base ball Game -ball Game -ball Game -ball Game -ball Game -ball Game -ball Game with Kingston College, with Brown Sophomores, with Bridgewater Normal, With Maxey Hall, - - with Attleboro High, - with Rough Riders, with Woonsocket High, Saturday, 5 Wednesday, 9 Saturday, I2 Wednesday, 16 Saturday, IQ Wednesday, 23 Saturday, 26 JUNE. Base-ball Game with East Greenwich Academy, - Saturday, 2 Base-ball Game with Dean Academy, - - - Saturday, 9 Class Day, ----- Junior Exhibition, S Tuesday, 25 Commencement, - Wednesday, 26

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