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4/ conceited, I guess. He had heard that some of the numbers of the M.C. (meaning me) had been criticising the management and discipline of the school, and to please not do it again, to come to him privately, for us to attend to other things and they would manage that end of it, etc. etc. our secretary - who is also wife of the Mayor - sprang at once to her feet and made an impassioned speech. Told Mr. Gross he was mis-informed, etc. - that the M.C. had said nothing but for the good of the school and so on - Another member sprang up when Mrs. Swearengen sat down and also defended the M.C. - she has had 40 yrs experience teaching schools from Portland, ore. to eastern New York, and she said she had never found a school but where the pupils were required