WASHINGTON 



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WASHINGTON 



Washington's Birthday 



SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMS 



I hope I shall always possess firmness 

 and virtue enough to maintain what I con- 

 sider the most enviable of all titles, the 

 character of an "Honest Man." 



Song, America 



Roll Call, Quotations from Washing- 

 ton, including Rules of Conduct 



Flag Salute 



Essay, History of the Flag 



George Washington J. H. Ing ham 



Essay, The Boyhood and Youth of 

 Washington 



Hatchet Drill 



Washington, from the Commemoration 

 Ode Harriet Monroe 



Essay, The Winter at Valley Forge 



Song, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean 



Minuet, by pupils in colonial costume 



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Song, Hail Columbia 

 \ Roll Call, Quotations about Washing- 

 ton 



Unveiling of picture or bust of Wash- 

 ington 



Tableau, George Washington and the 

 Cherry Tree 



Washington James B. Hope, 



Essay, Washington, the Soldier 



Flag Drill 



Essay, Washington, the President 



Washington's Statue.,. H. T. Tuckerman 

 j March, the pupils laying flowers before 

 the picture or bust 



Song of a Thousand Years 



gained a victory over them in the Battle of 

 Fallen Timbers in 1794. In the next year two 

 important treaties were negotiated; one pro- 

 vided for the cession of 25,000 square miles by 

 the Indians; the other gave the United States 

 the free navigation of the lower Mississippi, 

 then owned by Spain. 



In political matters Washington's second 

 term was marked by the widening of the 

 breech between Hamilton and Jefferson and the 

 gradual development of two opposing parties. 

 The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whit- 

 ney in 1793, which was destined to bring about 

 an industrial revolution, was no less important, 

 in its political as well as economic results, than 

 the organization of political parties. The Ya- 

 zoo Land Frauds (1794), the sale of the West- 

 ern Reserve by Connecticut in 1794, the de- 

 cision of the United States Supreme Court in 

 1793 in the case of Chisholm vs. Georgia 

 (which led to the adoption of the Eleventh 

 Amendment to the Constitution) ; organization 

 in 1789 and 1795 of several counties in Illinois, 

 then the outposts of the West ; the construction 

 of the first woolen mill in Massachusetts 

 (1794) ; and the admission of Tennessee (1796) 

 to the Union, are all worthy of special mention. 



On September 17, 1796, Washington delivered 

 the historic "Farewell Address," which stands 

 with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and his Sec- 

 ond Inaugural Address and the war messages of 

 Woodrow Wilson among the gems of American 

 thought. 



Be Americans [he said]. Let there be no sec- 

 tionalism, no North, South, East or West ; you are 

 all dependent one on another, and should be one 



in union Beware of the baneful 



effects of party spirit and of the ruin to which its 

 extremes must lead. Do not encourage party 

 spirit, but use every effort to mitigate and as- 

 suage it. Keep the departments of government 

 separate, promote education, cherish the public 

 credit, avoid debt. Observe justice and good 

 faith toward all nations ; have neither passionate 

 hatreds nor passionate attachments to any; ;m<I 

 be independent politically of all. In one word, be 

 a nation ; be Americans, and be true to your- 

 selves. 



His Last Days. At the end of his second 

 term Washington returned to live at Mount 

 Vernon. He found his estate in sore need of 

 his attention, and in a letter written a month 

 after his return he said that he was "already 

 surrounded by joiners, masons, and painters; 

 and such is my anxiety to get out of their 

 hands, that I have scarcely a room to put a 

 friend into or sit in myself without the music 

 of hammers or the odoriferous scent of paint." 



