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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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by. He wasyounger than either of the Worcester children and, I amafraid, somewhat less well behaved. He scorned theirrather quiet amusements and led a strenuous and indepen-dent existence which gave me some uneasiness. He rushedaround over the ship with the utmost carelessness, deliver-ing orders in a strange jargon to his little Filipino nurse,who was always rushing after him just far enough behind tobe utterly useless in case anything should happen to him.It was a certainty that should he fall overboard she wouldreach the rail just in time to see him sink. Some of thedeck rails were low, but strange to say he came throughwithout accident. I think Charlie must have acquiredsome of the surefootedness of a cat. He had been twicearound the world before he was eight years old, and that hemanaged to grow up into an unscarred and quite decorousyoung man was certainly not due to natural caution on hispart nor to over-restraint on ours. It was an interesting party gathered on the Sumner. 158
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J. EJ V. 1/2 2iX. - d s s. y < s. ZC X RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS Among others were the Atkinsons. Mr. Atkinson was theSuperintendent of Public Instruction who had recently comeout from Springfield, Massachusetts, and who was mak-ing this trip for the purpose of seeing what steps should orcould be taken to introduce a system of public instruction ina practically schoolless land. The Commission had appro-priated just as much for the establishment of public schoolsas the treasury could spare, this being the natural Americanthing to do under the circumstances, and no time was to belost in getting down to practical work. And, I should like tonote, that in no enterprise which America has undertaken inthe Philippines have we received such enthusiastic supportand co-operation from the Filipinos as in this. That theywere tremendously alive to the value of the educationalprivileges offered to them is proved by the phenomenal suc-cess attained by the public school system which was intro-duc

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