House and they had
seen her wedding presents, she gave
them this signed photograph.
A piano and a phonograph at one 3. Furnishings
end of the room make it possible for
the girls to enjoy dancing during the
noon hours on three days of the week,
and to have musicals on other occasions.
Shelves filled with books line the 4. Library
walls of a smaller office room opening
off the schoolroom. On two days of
the week during the noon hour, the
teacher read aloud to the girls until
they were able to read for themselves.
Then they were permitted to take
books home with them. Besides this,
they have been encouraged to use the
public libraries, after being shown how
to make out applications for library
cards.
"One girl is reading 'The Promised Concrete example
Land,' by Mary Antin," Miss Meyers has "human interest,"
tells you, "and thinks it is a wonderful as related in
book. She was so much interested in the teacher's own
it that I asked her to tell the others words
about it. Although a little shy at
first, she soon forgot herself in her eagerness
to relate Miss Antin's experiences.
She told the story with such
dramatic effect that she quite carried
away her classmates. If we had done
no more than to teach this girl to read a
book that meant so much to her, I believe
our school would have justified
its existence."
Mary Antin herself accepted the Is this paragraph
girls' invitation to attend the graduation out of logical order?
exercises, and made a short address.
The pupils' written work was exhibited V. RESULTS SHOWN BY
on the walls of the room on the occasion PUPILS' WORK
of the exercises, and showed conclusively
the proficiency that they have
attained.
The greatest progress made by any 1. Italian's theme and
of the pupils was probably that of an progress
Italian girl. Before coming to this
country, she had attended school and Example of greatest
besides this she had been teaching her progress is put
father at night whatever she had first
learned during the day. Her short
essay on her adopted country read:
This country is the United States Note use of narrow
of America. It is the land of freedom measure without
and liberty, because the people qu
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