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school, Mrs. Roosevelt was a particularly good teacher. She probably would not pass muster from the Teachers College point of view as a teacher, but she had a technique of interesting the students in the material that she was dealing with and of developing in them powers of analysis and judgment. She taught English literature. She developed powers of analysis and judgment that made them understand English literature and made them people of taste and some personal style, both in the writing and reading of literature. Certainly she had the capacity for attracting their attention to the basic, moral principles of life and the meaning of life, as well as the social obligations resting upon them - using “social” in its larger sense. All that she did very well indeed.

She enjoyed this business of running up and down to New York every week. I think she was in New York two, perhaps three, days a week teaching in connection with this school. The rest of the time she was in Albany. She did a great deal of social life there and was very ready with all these invitations for everybody to come. She went out in Albany to some extent. There was a certain limited group to which the Governor and his lady went occasionally. Since the Governor didn't like to go out and found the steps to people's private houses difficult, she often went. She





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