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The GARLAND SCHOOL

" 2'o Sweep the Cobwebs from the Educational Sky U


BOSTON, MASS. -- DECEMBER -:- 1926


OPENING DAY AT GARLAND SCHOOL

Beacon Hill houses glowered disdainfully at our newness to Beacon Hill
ways, that Wednesday morning. Black cat foot turned up their
iron - at our hadess heads. Scotch temers eryoeaufohdpSw
then

that the walk up the hill seemed endless and we home girls, ltontgde in
and slackened our pace. Still
strangers to each other in the confusion of those first hours at 2 Chestnut
we felt like well friends. Things moved so quickly our heads
throbbed trying to grasp it all.iMJaisp Dr. Young";
" oft the white paint ; "New girl, remember to get your locker
ke; "Division A"; "Hello you back?"; "Wa the lockers, any-
way?"; Keep off the white paint please.""She's not like a regular principal
is she?" Where now?" -to teach the ideals of home life." Please
keep off the white paint" On and on. What was back of all this bewilder-
ment? What was the.good of all this medley of impressions?
Then out of the confusion of greeting advice and warning came a crys-
tal clear thought a realization that on this first day a coda, a theme was
being played for us. It was a theme we would study for a few months
till it became ours to enrich and improvise the remainder of our lives.
Here was a theme taking form out of the jumbled disconnected notes of
-our past training and experience, a theme which would change our purpose-
less living from the turn of a street grinder's jingle to the rhythm
and fullness of a symphony. Here was a theme around which the molto
teneroso the andante, the allegro tranquillo the greatest moments we
should know would be builded. This theme was only a few simple words,
yet new desires, new powers, new ideals awakened in us, and we knew
that because we had heard he who makes the home makes the world and
- its virtues," our future lives were to be more resonant and full
constructed symphonies.
MAlty CULLINAN, '27
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