Excerpt from Public Lectures in School Buildings: Suggestions for Their Organization and Sources of Speakers and Topics
Now and then one of the class of white gowned girls who occupied seats together near the platform, would come down the aisle and whisper to a matronly woman, who would perhaps covertly hand her a handkerchief or shake her head for a decisive "No!" Presently one of the ladies on the platform rose and stood by the speaker"s desk. A hush came over the audience. "She"s the president of our club," a woman near me whispered. The presiding officer expressed her pleasure at the large number who had come and hoped that they would tell their friends of the succeeding entertainments. One week from that night they were to hear a lecture on the "Spirit of Our National Holidays," illustrated by stereopticon views, by Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, who would appear before them under the auspices of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Before listening to the speaker of the evening, they were to have music by pupils of the eighth grade.
The white gowned class then filed upon the platform and sang a lullaby with such success that they were obliged to respond to an encore. Then a boy"s chorus contributed an enjoyable song, and the musical part of the program was completed. The presiding officer announced that it was the extraordinary good fortune of the audience to have with them that evening a clergyman who. . . Immediately I spotted him on the platform. What, a Protestant! There was no mistaking his cloth.
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