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PAGE SIX THE LEXHIPEP MARCH 23, 192,'i THE ROBBINS RECORD Edited by the Students oj ‘Robbins School The Staff Grade 7 1 Ella Aaron Grade 7 II Louise Kirkman Grade 6 I Jame,s Raper Grade 6 II Bennie Huffman Grade 5 1 T. V. Kirkman Grade 5 II . Greiclien Sink Grade 4 A David Pickard Grade 4 B Earl Waitman Censor Miss Caroline Mann SIGNS OF SPRING Birds and flowers altogether Go to make up fine spring weather. When the violets raise theii- heads Out of their nice soft warm beds Then we also see the robins Plying to and fro like bobbins. Darting swallows on the wing Tell us plainly that this is i.pring. Daffodils all dressed in yellow Herald spring and sunny weather Brooks are running very fast So they can water the pretty grass. Children are getting as bad as can be For restless they get wnen fine weather they see. With these many signs I'm sure you can tell Spring truly is coming in hill and dell. FANNIE PORTER COWLES. WEST POINT known as the “Father of tiie Military Academy’’ became Superint indent of West Point. While he was Superin tendent .Edgar Allen Poe entered West Point. He was court martialed and was dismissed March 6, 1831. While Robert E. Lee wa.s Superin tendent James Whistler aged 16 en tered the Academy. Honesty, obe dience and promptness are taught just as much as Math at West Point. The motto of West Point is “Duty, Honor, Country, West Point”. SARA MARCH WALSER. MONITOR AND MERIUMAC On March 16, 1802, the day cele brated by West Point as its birthday was formally opened, with only ten cadets present. • The West P^iint vicinity was first fortified by the col ony of New York at the out break of the Revolution. A long time before the end of the Revolution the for tress of West Point had oeqome im pregnable to any force the British could assemble in America. It was the citadel of the Continental Army. All the noted men of the Revolution ary times came here and for nine months Washington had hiS head quarters at West Point. It was about West Point that the most dra matic episode of the Revolution was enacted, the treason of Benedict Arnold. In 1817 Colonel Thayer, who is On the afternoon of March 8, 1862, Just 63 years ago, five vessels of the United States Navy lav at an chor in Hampton Roads. Suddenly a, queer object appeared, coming from the direction of Norfolk, Virginia, which was in possession of the Con federate Forces. Men on board the Cumberland, one of the United States vessels, described it as “a long-shore meeting-house adrift.” Really it was a reconstructed United States ship, the Merrimac, which had been sunk when the Norfolk navy yard was abandon ed at the beginning of the war. The Confederates had raised the vessel, cut off the sides, covered it with iron and renamed it Virginia. The Mer rimac had a fight with the Monitor which looked like a cheese-box. Neither one could harm the other, so both withdrew and the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac wa.s one of the most important naval battles ever fought. HAL. HICKS. ALICE FREE.MAN PAIAIER bert Palmer, w’ho was Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. When the University of Chiaago was organized in 1892 she was made non-resident dean of women. The chimes in Mandel Tower at this insti tution were Installed in her honor by’ her husband. She died in 1902. LOUISE M OCK. TIIE D.YFFODILS Just to think of you pretty daffo dil would make the world place a smile upon its face. With your pretty, bright colors covering the sides of the lake and your dancing heads looking from one place to an other. I can not Imagine how many I saw as I glanced over them, but I know there were thousands of those beautiful flowers dancing and cheer ing as I was going by. I did not think at the time what a joyous company I was in, but as I went to bed it was not hard to see those danc ing gay daffodils on the side of the lake. IRVING LEONARD. CIL\PEL A very interesting program was rendered in Chapel, March 5. Miss Greenfield directed two songs and the two seventh grades sang “Free Honey”. Mr. Brown, Pastor of the Lutheran Church gave us a good talk. Mr. Cowles then gave a sh.yrt inter esting talk. For the Primary Exerdlses on March 6, the prayer was given by Louise Aaron. The pupils then sang “Can a Little Child Like Me”. The Scrip ture was read by Virginia Link, after which Mary Martin told th j story of “The White Rabbit”. The program closed with all singing “It Ne’.'er Pays to be Bad”. LUCILE PARKER. Alice Freeman Palmer was born in Colesville, N. Y., February 21, 1855 and graduated in 1876 at i.he Univer sity of Michigan. She taught suc cessfully at Lake Geneva, Ottawa, and Fast Saginaw, Mich. She was appointed in 1879 to teach History at Wellesley College and two years later she was made acting presi dent of the in.stitution. In 1882 she was elected President of this coliege. In 1887 was married to George Her Mi.ss Mann—“What makes your feet so wet?” Miss Burgiss—“I have been wear ing pumps”. Miss Burgiss—“Foy, define trickle”. Foy—'“It means to run slowly.” Miss Burgiss—“Now define anec dote”. Foy—“It means a tale”. Miss Burgiss—“Now, make a sen tence using both words”. Foy—“A little dog went trickling down the street with a tin can tied tc his anecdote”.
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