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Show ' ' - - - -! r--' r " . . . . . . ' . - - - with a bruised eye to present it, to her oq a silver waiter. In the-West a teacher of Miss Rogers' cali berMs considered a heroine and she-is one, too, j (This Pretty Teacher Deserves a Medal. Rhode Island ought to be proud of Miss Mary S. Rogers, a pretty graduate of Wellesley, who is one pf the most talked-of young women in the State to-(Jay. to-(Jay. Her jump into fame occurred when she bunched the six-foot captain of the high school foot-pall foot-pall team in the nose so hard that the blood came, and thumped another youth of the same class with such, vigor that the young man went home to his : parents with his right eye blackened. All this Miss Rogers did without other weapons than the good fists with which nature provided her. It all came - about because Miss Rogers was the "new' teacher. In-other words, it was her first day with this high school class and the evidence at hand tends to show tbjt the brawny youths of the class thought it eminently emi-nently proper to have fun with her. The captain of the football team who got a bloody nose as a result re-sult of his encounter with the new teacher is George McNeil, six feet in his stockings, weight 180 pounds. The boy who got the black eye is William Campbell, Jf-p feet seven inches, weight 140 pounds. Here is 'vrtiat Miss Rogers said about the affair: "It was all a matter of school discipline. Continued disobedience, dis-obedience, impertinence and remarks which I considered con-sidered improper were the cause of it all. It was my first day as teacher at the high school, and it soon occurred to me that things were at loose ends, so. far as respect toward me was concerned. It may Jfc-frtbat the measures taken to demonstrate that I ft orjld maintain discipline were somewhat drastic, tut what I did was entirely justifiable. I regret Jhat the matter must become public, but as long as ft must, the facts should be stated, and I believe hat it will have a good effect. If it will result in Better discipline it will be something accomplished," It Is announced that the school committee is investigating inves-tigating the case and that thetrustees are Inclined to side with the chastised pupils on the ground that the discipline; was too strenuous. This is a most extraordinary ex-traordinary state of affairs. In any other StateMn ths tfnion an ovation would have been tendered this brave woman. This school committee ought io vote Miss Rogers a gold medal and compel this slx-faot captain of the football eleven and th man |