The Spelling MatchFrontispieceFACING PAGEThey Came Carrying Babes in Arms16Young Men and Women Whose Chance Had Come18Arithmetic Was a Popular Study28A Man Aged 87 Entered and Put to Shame the Record of the Proud School Girl of 86 of the Year Before38They Were Schoolmates, and That is a Tie That Binds44Letter From a Home Department Pupil45A Class of Moonlight School Pupils All Past 50 Years of Age48Letter Written After Three Lessons80Letter Written After Six Lessons80Letter From Pupil After Attending Full Session of Moonlight School80Letter From Man of Draft Age94Letter From a War Veteran108Letter From a Student in Prison118Letter From an Alabama Pupil124Letter From an Alabama Pupil125Letter From a North Carolina Pupil126A North Carolina Moonlight School128Oklahoma Moonlight School130Letter to the State Superintendent of Schools, Oklahoma130A Class of Mexican Mothers in California Learning to Read and Write132Letter From New Mexico Moonlight School132Letter From a Georgia Moonlight School134Jewish Mothers in New York Improving Their Education140Mother of Twelve Children Learns to Read and Write190Alex Webb, Aged 98, Who Learned to Read and Write in the Moonlight Schools192