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Students’ Day at Le Moyne.
PROF. A. J. STEELE, MEMPHIS.
April 23d was Students’ day at Le Moyne. This interesting day was a complete success in every respect. The school was under such excellent discipline that there was no hesitancy in surrendering it entirely to the students for a day’s experience. The faculty were chosen by the school with a great deal of judgment, and on Wednesday morning they took their places upon the platform.
The new principal is a man of a great deal of promise—the principal of the intermediate department, a young man Who is an earnest student and who has already had some experience in teaching. Other teachers were equally well chosen.
The lower schools came up as usual, marching to the music of the piano. After appropriate devotional exercises, the pupils re-passed to their school-rooms below, and the other classes to their respective duties. The work in the classes was as usual, and the order and attention were remarkable. The teachers deported themselves with much dignity, and seemed anxious to avoid an assuming, overbearing manner, which might have been expected from the newness of the positions.
Many visitors were in and out during the day, and remarked upon the order and good feeling manifested. The influence of these days upon the school is most excellent. We can but feel that being thrown upon their own resources in this way, their executive ability and devotion to work is tested to the utmost; and it requires no small moral culture to avoid temptations to disorder that might come to those whose hearts are not thoroughly in the work.
Our year has been greatly broken by the time lost at the beginning of the year by the epidemic, yet the school never seemed to be in a more prosperous condition. Both the normal and intermediate departments are filled to overflowing. Our horizon seems brightening more and more, and we hope at the close of the year not only to have gained in popularity, but to have extended the influence of the school for good.