| 1898 School News |
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The Princeton Press, Saturday, July 2, 1898: |
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WITHERSPOON STREET SCHOOL. |
An audience that filled the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church to overflowing assembled to witnes [sic] the closing exercises of the Witherspoon Street Public School on Thursday afternoon at half past two o'clock. The exercises were good, some of the numbers being excellent. The following was the programme:
Prayer................Rev. S. W. Smith
Chorus--"Hail to the Land of the
Proud and the Brave,"...Class
Work Song.........Several Little Girls
Revolutionary Uprising..Class of Girls
Solo...................Rachael Schenck
Doll Drill......Class in Primary Dept.
Recitation.............Evalina Bailess
Chorus--"Merry June,"............Class
Recitation.................Pearl Henry
Quartette--"The Hero of Manila,"
Rogers Gordon, Eddie Moore,
Freddie Whykoff, Henry Austin.
Handkerchief Drill,
Girls of Second Primary Dept.
"The Poets' History of America,"
Reeve Robeson, Alice Forman,
Annie Vansant, Louisa Robinson,
Olivia James, Lucy Duncan,
Pupils of Grammar Department
Solo....................Willie Schenck
Boys' Chorus--
"The Fife and Drum Band"
Solo..................Flossie Skillman
Fan Drill..Girls of Intermediate Dept.
Recitation...........Pauline Pendleton
Solo...................Rachael Vansant
"The Blue and the Gray," Class of Boys
Chorus........First Primary Department
Award of Prizes,..Supt. A. W. Hartwell
Chorus--"A Meadow Song,".........Class
Benediction.........Rev. W. D. Robeson
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GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT. A CLASS. | ||||
| Louisa Robinson, | 77.4 | Annie Vansant, | 73.0 | |
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B CLASS. | ||||
| Reeve Robeson, | 85.7 | Freeman Robeson, | 78.3 | |
| Lucy Duncan, | 85.5 | |||
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C CLASS. | ||||
| Rose Nixon, | 81.5 | Victoria Vactor, | 75.7 | |
| Helen Taylor, | 80.9 | Willie Miller, | 73.0 | |
| Olivia James, | 78.1 | C. Edwards, | 72.6 | |
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INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. A CLASS. | ||||
| Henry Austin, | 94.7 | Lizzie Long, | 82.4 | |
| Mary Denny, | 92.2 | Flora Wyckoff, | 75.3 | |
| M. Pendleton, | 91.7 | Emma Bergen, | 74.6 | |
| Laura Hageman, | 85.3 | |||
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B CLASS. | ||||
| Clara Clifton, | 88.5 | Jane Hardison, | 70.0 | |
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C CLASS. | ||||
| Louisa Jackson, | 90.2 | Sadie Moore, | 80.1 | |
| Freddie Whycoff, | 90.0 | Lizzie Robeson, | 79.3 | |
| Eva Royster, | 85.1 | Rachel Vanzant, | 76.1 | |
| Flora Simpson, | 83.4 | Clara Watkins, | 71.2 | |
| Leone Simpson, | 82.5 | Netha Lake, | 70.0 | |
| Lillie Onque, | 81.3 | |||
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SECOND PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. A CLASS. | ||||
| Syl. Robeson, | 83.0 | Mamie Doughty, | 74.0 | |
| Levi Booker, | 82.0 | Lizzie Forman, | 73.0 | |
| Richard Long, | 78.0 | Canna Wells, | 73.0 | |
| Sabra Robeson, | 76.0 | Bertha Hall, | 72.0 | |
| Emma Long, | 75.0 | Maggie Moore, | 70.0 | |
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B CLASS. | ||||
| Rosie Moore, | 80.0 | Francis Reading, | 78.0 | |
| Pearl Henry, | 78.0 | Jane Hageman, | 76.0 | |
| Callie Chance, | 78.0 | Ennis Simpson, | 75.0 | |
| Freddie Long, | 78.0 | |||
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AWARD OF PRIZES, | ||||
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First Primary Department--Evalina Bailess, 25 demerits, first prize, "Happy Children." Mattie Chance, 41 demerits, second prize, "Ring-around-a-Rosy." Second Primary Department--Lizzie Forman, 11 demerits, first prize, "Little Men and Women." Annie Austin, 14 demerits, second prize, "Prince Demple." Intermediate Department--Henry Austin, 8 demerits, first prize, "The True Story of Abraham Lincoln." Leone Simpson, 25 demerits, "Elsie Dinsmore." Grammar Department--Lucy Duncan, 25 demerits, first prise [sic], "Ivanhoe." Willie Miller, 40 demerits, second prize, "Boys of '61." Lizzie Onque, Lizzie Robeson, Freddie Whycoff, Louisa Jackson, and Rachel Vansant, each received a Teacher's Prize. A gift was presented to Miss Stockton by her pupil, Lizzie Long. | ||||
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