The state has begun to send in hundreds of applications for admission to the college.
These young applicants come for personal interviews. They desire to teach and perhaps there is a place for them at State College.
They are met by the Student Committee on Admissions, who is the Mavasa College and explain the order of the day.
They'll introduce them to the faculty members who will decide whether or not they have the qualifications to take their place with tomorrow's teachers.
The first they'll have a medical exam. A healthy body and steady nerves are the first requirements for teaching.
Next is speech and voice test. They will have several conferences with other faculty members as soon as they can get acquainted and they may ask questions about what lies before them.
Finally, they'll return to the admissions office and the report to the various interviews will be reviewed by the Director of Admissions.
This is necessary so that everyone will receive a fair hearing.
A few short weeks may last before these young people receive official notifications that they have been accepted.
Not if all's gone well, they leave the campus with the feeling that they will be back in the fall.
When September comes that our new freshman arrives, the first big problem is to get acquainted.
Freshmen can't start things rolling.
The girl can't hidden away in the hills of the Drafton Mountains is an ideal spot.
Here sports, talk, outdoor fun, all play their part until at last acquaintances become friends.
The first big problem is to get acquainted with the students.
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When the weekend is over, the fash are caught in a swiftly moving current of registration.
The first days are busy ones.
There are 101 things to do and many of them are a bit confusing.
Classes to arrange, books to be purchased,
and one must get acquainted with the strange campus.
There is a place for the new student in one of our organized houses or one of our three dormitories.
Zeddled in his room, the new student begins to feel at home.
Who makes our found and life takes on a pattern soon to become familiar?
Activities A, the day for choosing extracurricular activities, it looks like fun and it is,
but it's also preparation for the job ahead.
Let's see how one thing leads to another.
The student who is interested in dramatic learns many things besides being an actor.
The student must learn to build a set, paint scenery, apply makeup, and many other things related to dramatic.
So this student is ready to take her glamorous place before the footlight.
Finally, under the guidance of a wise vessel, the director of dramatic, the student learns how to direct a plane.
Another year we'll find state college students showing actors in many New York state high schools.
How do we words on a page into living karma?
And so it is with many phases of work.
We learn first of all that we ourselves must be educated men and women.
We learn that we may teach others in our terms.
In chemistry, biology, literature, geography, the social studies, we are committed to the work of the students.
We are constantly made aware of new worlds to conquer.
The pattern of our activities is a nicely balanced routine between the classroom, the library, and the outdoor.
Classroom hours are devoted to lectures, discussions, and practical demonstrations.
We learn to use the tools of our profession.
We try to solve the world problems and soon become aware of the task we are at a phase with tomorrow's teachers.
As a part of our classroom study, a field trip is used to keep us in touch with reality.
Tiny water plants and animals we are read about in books are sought out in their native how to plant.
Each plant and animal's peculiarity are characteristic of living in study.
Whether they are friends or enemies of mankind is important to us and to our future citizens.
Those specimens which offer possibilities for scientific experimentation are taken into the laboratory, where the land waves and means of controlling their effects upon our culture.
Albany offers the serious students a rich educational environment.
It was the focal point in the British strategy to win the Revolutionary War, and is also the birthplace of Ben Franklin's Albany Plan of Union.
The name is such growing, Washington, Skylar, and many others bring to mind the historic background of this area.
Famous spots, makes history come alive.
Aside from being one of America's leading transportation centers, few people realize the magnitude of Albany's harbor and the Hudson.
It's the terminal of the barge Canal, Clinton's Big Ditch.
Here the student of commerce can see at first hand the products of the hinterland being loaded on ships with strange lands across the sea.
Many state college students visit sessions with the legislature where they can study democracy and action.
Others take advantage of the educational resources of the state department, located in Albany, where problems of education, health, conservation, and others are mastered.
The state library supplements the college library where we find that rare and valuable book we need in our search for knowledge.
The profitable hours can be spent in the state museum, which is one of the finest in the nation.
Here we find another contact with reality.
The minesters, stumbles, then moves forward as we learn.
Faculty members who have first familiar names in the catalog step out into real life and become friends.
We sing German leader or collect folklore.
Our discover great novel, the which we've never heard.
Our come to know our gracious dean of women.
Our sea the beauty of youth glids all.
Our meets the principle of male and high school.
Our without petting prey.
Seize the whole world through a geographer's eye.
And from these folks and their colleagues, we learn what people sometimes forget.
That a good teacher is something different from a mere specialist or bookworm.
A really successful teacher must be an interesting human person.
He must know many things he will never teach and be able to do more than that for which he has paid.
Music is a universal language and goes far toward developing a human understanding between teachers and pupils.
It's the same spirit which develops in others the earth for sports, in liberal and varsity teams.
A sense of their play and sportsmanship is essential in teaching.
You would help the life in recreation, the ability to be one of a team.
These will be the assets of tomorrow's teachers.
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When the work and play of school hours are over, there comes the relaxation of dinner in an atmosphere of dignity and calm.
These ours together are happy ones from which good fellowship and lasting memories result.
After dinner, there is time for relaxation before the fire.
Maybe some sport, a game of preach, or just a little gut.
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By 8 o'clock everybody begins to think of the special tasks that evening brings.
Tomorrow's lessons must be learned. Assignments must be prepared.
A story must be written for the State College News.
A basketball game needs some attention.
And a new moon requires some looking into.
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Time passes quickly in college. Months, days, and hours all filled with new and exciting experiences and many challenging things to do.
Moving update, today when each class moves up and the grand old seniors move out into a new and challenging world, which they are now fully prepared to accept.
Far as they have benefited from the teaching of others, future generations may now benefit from this.
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Between these signposts of our growth, we have learned much about ourselves about each other, about this exciting world where we had.
On moving update, we are thinking about our college, about ourselves, and about what lies before us.
We remember other moving updates with their color, pageantry, and excitement.
Through it all, we feel the thrill that comes with the knowledge that in this year, we have been successful in taking one more step toward entering upon our chosen career.
The moving update, which occurs in our junior year, is the one that means most to us.
Because from our ranks, our selected the leaders of the various college organizations.
We select the president of our student body, and the group known as Mesquania, our Supreme Court.
Aside from being the bridge of understanding between the students and the administration, it is a judicial body which interprets the constitution of the student organization.
At a weekly meeting, student votes are counted and verified.
Together with Student Council, problems relating to student life are taken to the administration, where a committee discusses a problem with President Collins.
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We are not afraid to go.
We are not afraid to go.
Between September and early fall, there are a few weeks when the seniors take full advantage of the autumn beauty of Washington Park, which adjoined our campus, and placed themselves in their practice teaching.
In Mill High School, young teachers learn the art of teaching.
This practice teaching in Mill is the combination of our college careers. It's the test of our ingenuity and our resourcefulness.
It's here that we polish our poise and self assurance. For three long years, we have studied heart so that we ourselves may first of all be educated citizens.
Through a curriculum equal to that of the best of our colleges, we have been improving our minds and training our eyes that we may understand our world and its past.
With the aid of a carefully selected faculty, we have learned in theory and through observation of skills and techniques of teaching.
Some of us took our classroom problems out on the campus before we saw them.
We have studied about children and their development.
How they develop into strong and healthy young citizens.
We have observed classes in Mill.
We soon gain the confidence that we can be successful teachers. At last, we have the opportunity to put our learning and observing to the test.
Each step is watched by the hope from eye of the supervisor. Like every young teacher we make mistakes.
But with health and advice, they are not sincere. Our lesson is checked over in the techniques which last year were big theories, become skills at our command.
We concentrate on the special problems of curriculum supervision, of guidance, of mastering the skills we should need in our work.
Through it all, we work with Mill and high school students, our students now.
For four months, we are given an opportunity to teach. To prove our worthiness, to be certified a high school teacher by the state of New York.
Toward the end of the year, requests from principals begin to come in for new teachers.
We write letters of application, our credentials are sent out. The placement bureau is a busy place.
They are arranged interviews between principals and members of the senior class.
Now is the time when the personality behind the training, the poise and self assurance behind the scholastic record begin to pay dividends.
Then, as the pen scratches our signature across the contact, we know that we are about to reach our goal, about to take our place with tomorrow's teachers.
It's June. The big day has arrived. Graduation is a reality.
All that remains is to say farewell to our good friends who remain behind. A new generation of teachers has left our campus to serve the people.
We are proud to be the teacher of the school.
Another offer. We face a new school with a new and challenging job to do. Like our colleagues in the field, we stand famed and equipped to bring the promises of this land closer to their fulfillment.
