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Show 'St. Mary's Academy The various literary societies throughout through-out the course aro how completely organized or-ganized and in good working order. The accomplishment of all that is laid out on the schedule of "requirements" and "recommended readings" in each several class, loaves no alternative but assiduous and strenuous efforts on the part of the ambitious scholar. The . members of Iho Mot her Tongue society, under tne presidency oi Aliss Keno, find their meetings unusually interesting, in-teresting, a fact which may be attributed attrib-uted only to the observance of parliamentary parlia-mentary forms in all the proceedings, but also to the varied and rather novel prognunmo afforded by the paying of self-imposed penalties for all" lapses from tlie standard of daily speech set by the constitution and by-laws of the association for its members, such lapses being spontaneously acknowledged by the culprits from week i,o week. Improvement Im-provement is the watchword of this little lit-tle club, aud its members are already convinced of the benefits to be derived from such a" method of mastering the difficulties uf "the finest of the fine arts" a correct, refined and elegant use of our noble mother tongue. A class excursion was enjoyed by the third preparatories. Thursday after-the after-the city library, being t;ho objective point of tho study. The childrens reading room proved to be the chief feature with its many attractions in the way of pictures and nature studies, as well as books. The first review of (he year in psychology occupied the fourth academic acad-emic during the period assigned that branch for several successive days of tlie week. The text was in the form of a competition, and tho questions proved of such abounding interest, and the discussions dis-cussions were so well sustained, that the opposing sides were loth to relinquish the chance of victory. Both parties however, deserved large shares of the credit that must bo accorded to those who merit the palm of diligent and whole-suuled application io study.even when that study is one of the most delightful de-lightful in the course. Classification in penmanship, "What is written is written:' and every one, from the graduate do'wn to the beginner, begin-ner, in the art of writing, well-know just where' she rauks as a penman when the reports are read out next Monday. Tho mouthlj' specimens will be a very good means of noting regular advancement, advance-ment, and afford the aspirants to a Palmer certificate a chance to prove their just claims to that finishing dc-grco. |