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Title: Annual report of the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania for the year 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools for the Year 1884
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Publisher: Lane S Hart, State Printer
Contributing Library: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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older pupils expressed a wish to unite with the differentchurches of the place, and as their deportment indicated that they weretrying to lead a new life, they were encouraged to do so. The good seedthat produced such a glorious harvest was, most of it, sown by a Christianmatron in a quiet way. Divine service Sunday mornings, Sunday-school and singing-hour Sun-day afternoon, prayer-meeting Wednesday evening, morning and eveningchapel exercises, and kindly talks by resident clergymen, constitute ourregular means of religious instruction. Early last fall, the school met witha much-felt loss, in the removal from the place of the Reverend B. F. Brown,who for two years had given Bible talks one evening in each week. Our hard-working and conscientious school-room principal still makesthe progress of the more advanced grades her especial care, and from thereports of the examiners, the markings of the pupils, and from what we 3 s JO PI B - 3 a >2 en w ra o X00r >5-33 2 Pi B (4 O 00 - TJ
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Ex. D SUPKi NTENDKNT 01 SOLDIEBS OlUIIANS. 29 know of her work and that of her thorough assistants, we feel assured thatour children are receiving educationally the best possible training. Ourninth grade has twelve pupils; those first promoted are able to enter theBenior class of the normal school. Eighty of our less advanced pupils, forming a model school for the nor-mal, arc in charge of a principal well fitted for the position, and the prog-• ! the pupils in that department is certainly complimentary to himand the teachers over whom he presides. The five sixteeners sent by the State to the normal school the pastyear have been a great credit to us; two of them go out to teach and threeenter the senior class for next year. We have now an instructor in mili-tary tactics, who will drill the boys regularly through the whole year ac-cording to the system used at West Point. Subject to his inspection, the1-oys have already become more tidy in appearance. A good teacher ofmusic has also

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