At the beginning Holt and I were the speakers, although later as our treasury grew fat with the proceeds of our picture show we used some of the money to bring in lyceum lecturers and at least once a month some specialist from the Agricultural School. Our subjects were limited either to American pioneer history of the East or to practical talks on farming. One thing we insisted upon was that they must be put into popular and entertaining form. For instance, I in my first talk had as my subject “Early Tillers of New England Soil.” I spent a good deal of time at the city public library in looking up my material, picking out interesting facts about the nature of the soil at that time, the implements in use, the difficulties that had to be overcome and the results obtained. I put a good deal of emphasis on the difficulties as compared with those of to-day and yet pointed out how cheerfully the early settlers went at their task because they worked at it in freedom. In connection with this we ran a film that was supposed to describe the departure of the Pilgrims from England and their landing in this country. It was wonderfully vivid and made it seem almost like an event of yesterday. Holt treated in much the same fashion “The Fighting Spirit of Our Ancestors.” I tell you he made a warrior of every man in the audience before he was through and a warrior’s mother of every woman. We ran with this a realistic Indian fight film. At another talk Ruth spoke on the “Women of Early New England,” describing their lives and their work and what the women of to-day owed to them. “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” was the film we used with this and it was so popular that it led later on to the acting of a series of tableaux founded on Longfellow’s poem. This was the big social event of the winter, coming at Christmas time and ending with a dance.