Focus . , N. Y., this year, doing light housekeepingwhile Mr. McDonald is taking a special course at Cornell. Nellie Bristow, class 12, spent the week end (Feb. 28)with home people in Farmville. Clair Burton and Imogen Hutter, class 08, came to S. in February, to assist in the play given by the Lynch-burg High School. Minnie Blanton, class Jan. 09, and Nora Garrett, class08, are teaching in the Farmville High School. Nellie Johnson, class 09, is teaching in RivermontSchool, Lynchburg. Virginia Paulette, class Jan. 13, has accepted a schoolin Bristol for the remainder of the session. Olive
Focus . , N. Y., this year, doing light housekeepingwhile Mr. McDonald is taking a special course at Cornell. Nellie Bristow, class 12, spent the week end (Feb. 28)with home people in Farmville. Clair Burton and Imogen Hutter, class 08, came to S. in February, to assist in the play given by the Lynch-burg High School. Minnie Blanton, class Jan. 09, and Nora Garrett, class08, are teaching in the Farmville High School. Nellie Johnson, class 09, is teaching in RivermontSchool, Lynchburg. Virginia Paulette, class Jan. 13, has accepted a schoolin Bristol for the remainder of the session. Olive Swecker, one of our classmates, has recently goneto Catawba for treatment. We all hope she will improverapidly and soon be with us again. THE FOCUS 91 Lelia Robertson, one of our last year graduates, is visit-ing in Farmville. Julia May Paulette, class 10, the assistant alumnaeeditor of The Focus, spent the fourth in Washington,and reports the best inauguration we have had for sixteenyears. 92 THE FOCUS. S^ ?MM. %zS DR. SMITHS LECTURE The fourth lecture in the seriesof University of Virginia ExtensionLectures was delivered by Alphonso Smith at theNormal School Auditorium on lastFriday evening. Dr. Smith spoke on the Old English andScottish Popular Ballads, with the aim of arousing theinterest of his audience in an effort he is now making tocollect the survivals of the ballads that are still being sungby people in Virginia. In order to show what a ballad is he recited the one calledThe Hangmans Tree, or The Maid Freed from theGallows. Though he said the ballad is the most elusiveof all types of literature and has been found by students tobe the most difficult to define, he ventured to define it asA poem for the people, of the people, and by the next propounded three theories held by scholars as tothe origin of the ballad. After explaining and illustratingthese theories in a delightfully entertaining way, traced rapidly the history of ballad literat
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