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100 Years Ago: Teachers Save Jobs Through Self-Sacrifice
Just about everyday Marlborough Patch will highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.
Sept. 12, 1911: Teachers Agree to Adopt Plan: "Stand by Each Other" the Feeling Expressed at Meeting
One of the most important gatherings of school teachers ever taking place in this city was that at the High School building Monday afternoon, when a suggestion of the committee of the school board that the teachers be each given a month's vacation without pay was adopted by a unanimous vote. The vote was by written ballot, and although many of the teachers felt the cut keenly and thought that they would retain their positions under the new order of things, their spirit of loyalty towards each other was so pronounced that rather than have one of their number dropped they ungrumbilingly (sic), unhesitatingly and unanimously donned the robes of self sacrifice.
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