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UNFOLDING YEARS 27 during school hours, but there were frequent parties on holidays when the boys and girls mingled freely and got acquainted. He encouraged dancing, and on Saturday evenings the older students had a Literary Society at which time there was a half hour intermission for social recreation. This new arrangement worked very well. Many friendships were formed and a few marriages resulted. As I look back is seems to me it could have been greatly improved. Our parties should have been better supervised so that we could have learned more of the niceties of life. There should have been games and other amusements for those who did not dance, instead of just strolling up and down the halls and verandas or sitting in the parlors engaging in rather inane conversations. Nevertheless, it broke up the monotony of social life and gave us much to talk about. I had little part in all this until my third year when I became a Third Junior and was therefore eligible and duly elected to the Literary Society. This meant that having gone home Friday afternoon I must return Saturday evening for Society. As First Juniors we felt quite grown-up. We were no longer restricted to one class room under the same instructor, but recited to different teachers going to each in his or her class room. Outstanding among our instructors was Mr. George Tannehill, a blind man of commanding stature and a genius in mathematics. He guided us through higher arithmetic, algebra and geometry. We had no books nor did I ever use the metal slates common in some of our schools in those early days. Mr. Tannehill and his students solved all problems mentally and here I was in my element. At the beginning of this my third year Nan returned to school and naturally took her old place with Emma, Ena and Blanche. I conceded her claim without question being assured privately by the others, and especially by Blanche, that they should miss me. So the years passed--for the most part on joyous wings. When I was a Second Junior, Emma and Ena graduated. Ena came from South Dakota where there was at that time no school for the blind. Her
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UNFOLDING YEARS 27 during school hours, but there were frequent parties on holidays when the boys and girls mingled freely and got acquainted. He encouraged dancing, and on Saturday evenings the older students had a Literary Society at which time there was a half hour intermission for social recreation. This new arrangement worked very well. Many friendships were formed and a few marriages resulted. As I look back is seems to me it could have been greatly improved. Our parties should have been better supervised so that we could have learned more of the niceties of life. There should have been games and other amusements for those who did not dance, instead of just strolling up and down the halls and verandas or sitting in the parlors engaging in rather inane conversations. Nevertheless, it broke up the monotony of social life and gave us much to talk about. I had little part in all this until my third year when I became a Third Junior and was therefore eligible and duly elected to the Literary Society. This meant that having gone home Friday afternoon I must return Saturday evening for Society. As First Juniors we felt quite grown-up. We were no longer restricted to one class room under the same instructor, but recited to different teachers going to each in his or her class room. Outstanding among our instructors was Mr. George Tannehill, a blind man of commanding stature and a genius in mathematics. He guided us through higher arithmetic, algebra and geometry. We had no books nor did I ever use the metal slates common in some of our schools in those early days. Mr. Tannehill and his students solved all problems mentally and here I was in my element. At the beginning of this my third year Nan returned to school and naturally took her old place with Emma, Ena and Blanche. I conceded her claim without question being assured privately by the others, and especially by Blanche, that they should miss me. So the years passed--for the most part on joyous wings. When I was a Second Junior, Emma and Ena graduated. Ena came from South Dakota where there was at that time no school for the blind. Her
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