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Flag Day Exercises Flag Day. No. 10 of Vol. I of the McEvoy Magazine was a Flag Day number. As original copies and reprints are out of stock, the material is presented in revised form. As a viewpoint then and now, an excerpt from the editor's page of June, 1009, seems pertinent. "Out of the conflicting theories of the meaning of education there comes the accepted agreement that the American citizen must be equipped to satisfy the obligations of American life. The varying qualifications for this adjustment may not be clearly defined, but still the American ideal is exact enough to direct our education toward the attainment of serviceable power of intellect, feelings and will. Under this conception of our ideal, I insist again that the Flag Day exercises be made worthy of intellectual appreciation. Use jingling rhymes if you wish, but let some of the better minds attempt to inspire the school by reproducing the words and the spirit of Sumner and Holmes and Beecher. Many of the thoughts may be above the comprehension of pupils, but the present effect will expand into fuller appreciation with the passing years in school and in active life. The emotions and the will cannot fail to respond in sympathetic action when the intellect is moved under such a stimulus. I have seen an audience of five hundred stirred to rapturous applause by an eloquent negro boy's speaking of Beecher's utterance that our banner is not a painted rag; I have seen a Brooklyn school moved to tears by a boy's delivery of the declamation, Foes United in Death; and I have seen veterans of the Civil War start from their seats in response to a young girl's recital of Custer's command in The Battle-Flag at Shenandoah. The same material, similar emotions, and a favorable occasion are ready to be utilized on the fourteenth of June." Contents Flag Day as an Opportunity Suggestions for Illustrative Charts Suggested Program History of the American Flag Quotations for Flag Day Recitations for Flag Day Stand by the Flag The Flag Stream, Old Glory The Red, White and Blue Our Flag The Little Soldier The Battle Flag at Shenandoah The American Flag God Bless Our Stars E Pluribus Unum Old Ironsides Union and Liberty Declamations for Flag Day The National Flag—Sumner The American Flag—Beecher The National Ensign—Putnam Our Banner—Best History of Our Patriotic Songs History of Patriotic Salutes to the Flag End of Preview.
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