by administrator | Dec 21, 2010 | Grammar School
Written by E. A. Stewart The games among the students between 40 and 50 years ago were mostly “ball” and “pull-away.” There were two kinds of ball, single and round. Single ball could be played by three persons: a thrower, knocker and catcher. To be a knocker was the...
by administrator | Dec 21, 2010 | Grammar School
Letter from Jas. W. Strong, Aug. 23, 1888 …though sometimes stern, there was always a genial side to his nature, and he often gave his pupils amusing experiments with the air-pump, electrical machine and philosophical apparatus. One favorite pastime was to administer...
by administrator | Dec 21, 2010 | Grammar School
Letter from Jas. W. Strong, Aug. 23, 1888, Of course there were then, as now, among students, frequent love affairs. Mrs. William H. Wallace… was the second daughter of Hon. Geo. C. West of Irasburgh and unusually attractive. A young enthusiastic Canadian student fell...
by administrator | Dec 21, 2010 | Grammar School
Letter from C. F. Remick, Aug. 20, 1888 The academy and its grounds were the pride of my boyhood and they still linger in my memory. Then I thought them the most interesting of anything on earth and as near central as anything could be on this planet. Letter from Jas....
by administrator | Dec 21, 2010 | Grammar School
Letter from by C. F. Remick, Aug. 20, 1888 “I remember well… the stone boarding house… where I used to peddle apples from our ‘honeysweet’ tree, at 10 cents a bushel when I couldn’t get more; and if I could by chance sell a bushel for 25 cents I felt as though...
