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Laura Virginia Spielman, after finishing a summer course at Harvard in was given the of instructor in that study at the High She always in solving the difficult problems which of us so distasteful. I saw her diligently endeavoring to elucidate the puzzles to a large class, who, after her careful explana- tion, could not fail to understand. The big words John Lemuel Ward used to get off frightened the lower and even the older students of tell wished an unabridged were COI1- venient conversing with him. Those wbom he thus awed by his lan- guage thought he must be a great Shortlv after his graduation at Princeton Divinity School he one of \.yest~rn Maryland's daughters, helieving one anticipating the ministry should not be alone. Remarkable suc- cess and renown have attended his ministerial career. Bessie Ober Herr stood in the choir of a great church and swayed the crowded audience to tears or roused them to enthusiasm with the wonclerful magnetism of her voice. She is fresh fr0111 the training of the best masters and again in her native country where she is war-mly welcomed. Bessie' Herr is a singer for the people, rather than the musicale expert. Her clear soprano voice has a marvelous power of carrying the simple of the old melo- dies to the hearer's heart. She has passed through intellectual and clas- sical phases of her art and cares now only far the spiritual. Georgia Wilson Strayer was on her reading tour the European countr-ies. She had appeared before the crowned heads and been covered with glory wherever she was heard. Even the haughty Englishman, 11'110 is so averse to acknowledge an especial gift possessed by anyone other than his countryman, IV