Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 12
Articles in this issue
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Report of the National Assembly meeting at League headquarters in Boston, covering officer elections, a membership renewal rate of eighty percent, a cash balance of $72.80, and appointment of League Day for May 30 as a Silver Jubilee celebration.
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A nostalgic poem recalling the simple homemade Valentine card a boy sent to his schoolgirl sweetheart long ago, and the bittersweet discovery of it years later by his wife while sorting old keepsakes.
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A February miscellany noting the month's notable birthdays — Washington, Lincoln, Lowell, Darwin, Dickens, Longfellow — and reflecting on February as a month traditionally associated with purification and the goddess Neptune.
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A short poem by Susan Coolidge arguing that commonplace suns, moons, and stars make up the whole of life, and that God fashions something beautiful out of the accumulation of ordinary days.
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A comic poem celebrating a woman's courage in wearing last year's hat to church as though it were a crown, comparing her defiance of fashion to the heroism of famous women warriors throughout history.
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A poem by Charles Swain using the image of flowers that do not remember the killing frost to argue that holding grudges is as unnatural as a field refusing to grow because it once knew a storm.
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A note on the special committee appointed to co-ordinate the League's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, including representatives from the Boston Bicycle Club which gave the League its first president.