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through. I am so glad I am out of it. Miss Orr said that Miss L. read a copy of her letter to me asking if she could do anything for me (was that in it, do you remember) and then my answer, to the teachers. She said she could see she was just boiling. She said she didn't know anything about it until she was called up from Mason Street. It was a mean thing to do in a way, or would have been, if she had been decent, but, as it is, I feel almost as though it was only a part of what she ought to have coming to her.

Wednesday after-noon Mr. Millington showed me and some other teachers how to run the moving picture machine and Thursday morning he came in and went through the films of Lorna Doone with me. They were rather poor so broke several times. He spent some time mending them and I spent Friday P.M. running them and one on the sponge industry and honey off for the children. Mr. Bates does not seem to exactly approve of me and my films. I guess I get after him too much. I call his attention to the fact that three years of such actions have preceded this of the senior class. The other day he came into senior class meeting of which I am supposed to be sponsor and without even addressing the chairman began to talk. In the back of the room the boys talked too. I told him afterward that he could see for himself how things went and reminded him that three years of such proceedings had preceded this one. Then the next day in class I asked the seniors what I was supposed to do in class meetings anyway. They said to keep order and see that things went right. I replied that in my opinion class meeting was their own affair and that I had no intention of interfering;  that