Mary Baldwin College - Bluestocking Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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W The Augusta Seminary Aiimial. Conclusion. 1. Comparison of the two Plans for Conciliation. 2. The Speaker ' s plan secures the power oi Refusal which is the richest mine of Revenue ever discovered. 3. Governments will be aided by parties which must ever exist in a free country. 4. The Speaker ' s protest against compounding England ' s demands. 5. Experience shows that a Revenue cannot be collected from countries as remote as America. 6. England ' s hold on the Colonies is secured by their par- ticipation in the English Constitution. 7 . It is the love of the people which gives England her Army, Navy, and Revenue. 8. Magnanimity in politics is the truest wisdom. 9. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American Empire. English privileges have made it all that it is; English privileges alone will make it all it can be. 10. The speaker lays the first stone of the Temple of Peace on moving that the Colonies have not been represent- ed in the High Court of Parliament. Pattie Alexander.

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The Aui itsta Saninary Anuual. II Removal of Objections. First Objciiion. — That the doctrine contained in the pream- ble to the Cliester Act proves too much. The Speaker s Answer. (1 ) These are Parliament ' s own words. (2) These preambles are favorable both to Parlia- ment and to the Colonies. (3) The object of grievance in the Resolution is taken from the Durham Act, which falls in exactly with the case of the Colonies. (4) The Colonies should not be judged by their con- duct in times of disturbance. (5) All government is founded on compromise. (C) The Americans will have no interest contrary to the glory and grandeur of England when not oppressed by the weight of it. (7) The Empire will not be destroyed by indulgence. Second Objection. — That the power of granting vested in the Assemblies will destroy the Unity of the Empire. The Speaker ' s Answer. (1) Experience shows this false in the case of Ches- ter, Durham, and Wales. (2) England cannot be the head and the members too. (3) Ireland ' s having a separate legislature has pro- moted Union of the Empire. Lord North ' s Plan of Conciliation Criticized. The Proposition of a Ransom by Auction cannot be ad- mitted because — 1 . It is a mere project. 2. It is an experiment which will be fatal in the end to the Constitution. 3. It does not give satisfaction to the complaint of the Col- onies. 4. It will plunge England into great and inextricable diffi- culties unless universally accepted.

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The Augusta Seminary Annual. 21 A Contribution to the Boston Folk-Lore Society. Among the subjects brou.s ht up for discussion at the last meeting of the well-known Folk-Lore Society of Boston, was that of Superstitions common among school-girls. So much interest was expressed, and so little information could be gained in Boston by the learned gentlemen on this par- ticular subject, that a committee, appointed for the purpose, dispatched an intelligent daemon to one of the largest girls ' schools in the South, with instructions to bring back allthe information on the subject that he could collect. When the messenger, clothed in his invisible mantle arrived at his journey ' s end, it was long after ten o ' clock, and not a sound was to be heard, not a light to be seen any- where about the Seminary building. His quick eye, how- ever, spied, far above the ground, a second-story window left op en a few inches for ventilation. In a moment he had leaped into the room, skipped nimbl} to the top of a screen, thrown off his cloak, and settled himselt to await the com- ing of day. All night long he sat patiently upon the frame- work and kicked his heels against the gail} beflowered sur- face of Violet Deering ' s screen. I think, had Violet opened her eyes and seen the Folk-Lore Society ' s messenger, her pretty brown hair would have stood out upon her head even more stifQy than it did now with its knobs of twisted paper, crimping-pins, and tiny plats. Happily for her, she slept on in blissful unconsciousness of her queer little visitor, un- til awakened bj the rising-bell next morning. The daemon, roused by the same sound, hastened to don his invisible mantle. With many yawns and groans, Violet tumbled out of bed, and commenced her toilet. — ' Oh, Violet, there ' s a letter in the post-oflEice for you, exclaimed her school-mate. Where, cried Violet, anxioush ' ,lookingat her foot, greatl} ' to the daemon ' s astonishment. Oh yes, I see, patting with a loving hand a rent in her stocking, and I just believe it ' s going to be a great long one from home, and she went on dressing with a hopeful smlie. About this time the daemon indulged in a little nap, and was only roused when the breakfast-bell rang. He