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...began last autumn at a Hallowe'en party in Pompey Hollow's snug little one-room schoolhouse, after the party rowdies stole a halyard from the school flagpole. Trustee Armstrong hung the flag in an alcove near a small oil stove where the pupils warmed their lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang...
...last week 15 of Pompey Hollow's 19 families had lined up with Miss De Lee, petitioned the State Department of Education to remove their trustee. For his part, Mr. Armstrong bolstered his case by a new list of grievances. Miss De Lee had been insubordinate. She recited the wrong version of the Lord's Prayer. She forbade the singing of "America." She arrived late and slept during school hours. She kept animals in the schoolroom. She taped the lips of naughty pupils...
...stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens and rabbits to the classroom. Said she, "I asked Mr. Armstrong if he thought we were breathing fowl air." Superintendent George T. Fuggle of the Pompey Hollow School District put in a judicious word. The dismissal, Mr. Fuggle felt, was unjustified...
Back to Pompey Hollow that night, long after milking time, trekked the 19 families. This week, pending a decision which might be months in coming, the hamlet went back to work. School opened with its third teacher since Esther De Lee was dismissed...
Washington College, in 1865, was a hollow shell. David Hunter's Yankee raiders had passed that way in 1864, and its library had been gutted, its laboratory equipment smashed or looted. When Lee took charge at Washington, part of the campus was being used for farm land. Although not a first-rate "academic beggar," Lee administered what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce...