Letters April 4, 1908 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from Alfred Farlow, Wm. H. Tolman, Jerita V. Blair, Ira F. Thompson, Emma Alice Kreutzer, Laura W Burt, Katharine V. Ilgenfritz, Mary Geimmett, Fannie Bogardus Hunt, Fannie L. Bonner, Katherine C. Baker, Charles Albion Clark

Boston, Mass., March 9, 1908.

Dear Teacher:—You remember that a few years ago critics affirmed that your first husband, George W. Glover, was not entitled to be called Colonel, and that some of the North Carolina students claimed to have discovered that he could properly be called Major but not Colonel. During the past winter I took up that question again, and I have learned, upon good authority, that Mr. Glover's position as a member of the governor's staff made him a member of the staff militia, the governor of the State being commander-in-chief of the State militia, and that it was a custom all over the South to apply the title "Colonel" to one who had occupied that position. Thus you may note that you were correct in referring to your husband as Colonel George W. Glover, and in saying that he was sometimes called Colonel and at other times called Captain.

Your loving student,
Alfred Farlow.

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