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Ilfl, This letter was rlotiwfl l'Y UW WWW fflffl the Tribime, the latter of which joined in critiei:-sing the City Superintendent of Schools Iwi-:mee yu. very indiscreetly gave his lllflUl'SCZlllIfl'll, in 414, vance, etc., The City Siipeririteriderzfs reply expressed thanks to Mr. Banta for calling his attention U, the matters contained in his letter. Letters approving the Presidents course Came in from fellow trustees, vice-presidents and mem- bers of the Society. One trustee characterized the articles in H arper's M agazine as extra. ordinary i and atrocious, another as utterly superficial and common-place, a third regrets that education in this city should be entrusted te Hrnamby-pamby mediocrity. One vice-presi. dent is pleased at this exposure of such mis- representations and falsiiications of history, and another thinks it a shame and an outrage to parade the effusions of janvier as 'history. ' A former vice-president Writes that he has been at once amused and disgusted at these articles, which are amazingly inaccurate. From the foregoing it appears most unmis- l3akab1Y that 3 Strong, sensitive and jealous Dutch patriotism slumbers just below the Sw-. face of the Holland Society, and needs but- the right impulse to start into vigorous action, 'D ,fe
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