As the bell finished ringing the Director of the Institution walked upon the stage and after rapping three times with his gavel declared the Assembly open.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith
The cruelty of first scolding a child, then trying to terrify him from asking questions by telling him that "robbers, murderers, and all kinds of criminals began their downward career by asking questions," then rapping him on the head, and finally sending him to bed without a light, is admirably described.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I scrambled, got my place, lost it, rambled and was roused to my position by the short rapping of the conductor's stick on his desk.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker