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Milne: “Le collége! c’est moi!”
H-st-d: “ His heart is pure, his acts are just,
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mind.”
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W-tm-r: “Charms strike the sight, but merit
wins the soul.”
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H-d-: “ But to see her was to love her.”
Gr--t: “I’m but a stranger here, heaven is
my home.”
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Salutatory
9 IS not for criticism, not for show,
But in the hope that memory’s afterglow,
Now and anon
With soft and softening light will lend it worth,
That we, the Board of Editors, send forth
This first Neon.
A microcosm of intellectual life
Our school; a picture of this. pleasant life
Our Annual;
Of mem’ries fond, of names of schoolmates true,
Of goodly tho’ts, O may it be for you
A Manual.
If such the end we have indeed achieved
Our aim—to make this for you bereaved
Of college bell,
And you who answer now its summons clear,
A token of the days that were and are,
"Tis gained, all’s well.
With ardent hearts and deep affections too
lor Alma Mater, have we labored thru
Unto this day,
When now with pride and hope within our breast
This volume offer we with this request,
Accept it pray.
A shadow only of good things to be,
It is; vet proud of this the shadow, we
Hope and believe
The good things will grow greater things each
year,
As surely as from heights our college dear
Doth heights achieve.
To all who in this work their aid have lent,
To all who cheered with words and kind intent,
Our thanks are given.
By all who read, whate’er their judgment keen,
Be it remembered that at least ‘tis seen
That we have striven.
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WILLiAM A. RANNEY, & 4. Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager.
ALecK MacCutcHEoNn, # 4, Business Manager.
Eunice A. PERINE, 4 &, Secretary.
ioRa MM. CLARK, f° 1.
Enituy McErrRoy, 7 A,
{ ALICE KetTcHAM, A 4,
MabeEt PoweEtt, A 4,
EsteLLe Lester, H ®, Janet Kine, H 9,
RaymMonp D. MacManon, ® 4,
MARGARET LEONARD, 4 Q,
ALVAH Frost, @ 4,
WEBB Epwarpbs, ~ 8,
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Faculty
WEEEIAM Jo MIENE@ Pu. DD; DL. D.; PRESIDENT,
Philosophy of Education and School Economy.
ALBERT N-HUSTED, A.M. Pa. 0.
Mathemaiics,
WILLIAM V. JONES, A. M., Pu. D.,
Principal of High School Department (Model School).
German.
EDWARD W. WETMORE, A. M.,
Natural Sciences.
LEONARD WOODS RICHARDSON, A.M., LL. D.,
Ancient Languages.
SAMUEL B. BELDING,
Vocal Music.
Miss KATE STONEMAN, ELL. B.,
Drawing and School Law.
Miss MARY A. McCLELLAND,
English Grammar and History.
Mrs. MARGARET SULLIVAN MOONEY,
Elocution, Rhetoric and English Literature.
Miss E. HELEN HANNAHS, A. M., Pu. D.,
Psychology and French.
Miss CLARA M. RUSSELL,
Elementary Methods and Criticisms.
Miss M. HARRIET BISHOP,
Elementary Methods and Criticisms.
Miss EDITH BODLEY,
Secretary.
JAMES ROBERT WHITE, A. M., Pp. B.,
Principal of Grammar Department (Model School).
Miss ANNA E. PIERCE,
Principal of Primary Department (Model School).
Miss IDA M. ISDELL,
Principal of the Kindergarten (Model School).
Miss HELEN L. SEWELL,
Assistant in the Kindergarten.
Miss ANNA E. HUSTED, Pop. B.,
Assistant in High School Department.
Miss AURELIA HYDE,
Assistant in Model School.
GEORGE G. GROAT, A. B., Pp. M.,
Critic in High School Department.
CHARLES S. GAGER, A..B., Pp. M.,
Biology and Phisiography.
JAMES McTEAGUE, JAniror.
CHARLES WURTHMANN, ENGINEER.
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MARY A. McCLELLAND
LEONARD W. RICHARDSON, A. M., LL. D.
GEORGE G. GROAT, A. B., Po. M.
C. STEWART GAGER, A. B., Pp. M.
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Fratres in Facultate
James R. Waite, A. M., Pp. M.
JuLius Mertram, A. B., Pp. B.
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Fratres in Praesent
1900
RaymMonp D. MacManon.
WILLIAM A. RANNEY.
WINFRED DECKER.
ALVAH G. Frost.
DENNIS Moore.
Leon J. WAYAVE.
WALTER J. GREENE.
EUGENE HASTINGS.
FrANcIS R. PHILP.
CLARENCE H. ECKERSON.
WILLIAM ADAMS.
James A. CHRESTENSEN.
1901
Justus C. Hype.
J. F. BucHEr.
ALECK MacCutTcHEON.
EpWINn BRINK.
FREDERICK R. BLOOMER.
Phi Delta
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T a meeting of the Normal Literary Union, held January 8, 1892, it was voted that a com-
mittee of three be appointed to wait upon the president of the College, to ascertain his
views concerning the advisability of reorganizing into a secret society. That committee
consisted of Messrs. Slawson, Newberry and Patrie. At the following meeting, held January
15, the committee reported the approval of President Milne, and his willingness to aid in mak-
ing the change.
Thereupon, at a meeting held February 5, a committee of five was appointed to draft a
constitution and by-laws. That committee consisted of Messrs. White, Slawson, Newberry,
Streeter and Hunt. The president then appointed as a committee to draft a pledge, Messrs.
White, Hunt and Cook.
Thus, from the society known as the Normal Literary Union, was evolved the new secret
society that chose for its name “ Phi Delta Fraternity, Alpha Chapter.” This new secret
organization, absorbed into itself the life of not only the Normal Literary Union, but, also that
of the contemporary society, the Independent Order of Normals. ‘“E Pluribus Unum”
secured the directing motto, and never since that time has been questioned the wisdom oi
that guiding thought.
The joss of identity of each of these societies was more than compensated in the renewed
life and increased energy that resulted from their union. From the time when the new consti-
tution was finally adopted, February 12, to the present, nothing has occurred to mar this page
of our history, or to bring censure upon the course pursued by the succession of members.
One of the formalities incident upon the change was the signing of the pledge by each
of the charter members, to the effect that he would put his shoulder to the wheel and be ever
found at his post ready and willing to further the launching of the bark.
But after all the preliminary steps had been taken in preparing and adopting the new con-
stitution, by-laws, rules of order and ritual, there yet remained important problems to be solved.
It was only by careful planning and close management that at last the new chapter found itself
possessed of the necessary equipment whereby to do the work of the society and put itself on
a strong footing.
The name of the society and its motto resulted from frequent councils with Dr. Mi!ne.
When they were finally settled upon, a pin was selected, approved and adopted.
Then arose the all-important question of cap and gown. Once more, through the ready
aid of our president, was it permitted us to put our plans into execution. There could not have
been a prouder moment than when, for the first time, we were all assembled in full regalia, and
imbued with the spirit implied in our society name. 3
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No pains have been spared to make this organization all that is could be. Although the
membership never varied much from a score, it embodied much activity and force. Each one
worked with redoubled energy that success might crown the efforts of all. The general tone
of the society was made higher and higher, and the benefits derived from the intimate associa-
tion in its membership were felt to be more and more desirable.
The general aim throughout has been to maintain a high standard of excellence in its
membership and in its work. A succession of presidents have guided it during the succeeding
college terms, until to-day it stands an important factor in the college life.
Not a little of its pleasure has been in watching and furnishing in a brotherly way the growth
and development of its sister societies, the oldest of which is the Delta Omegas. In the days
of the past, when these two were the only societies: in the institution, not a little pleasure was
granted to both in an occasional joint meeting or open session, each favoring the other with
brotherly or sisterly consideration. In later years, other societies have sprung up, yet each
one adding to the pleasure and profit of the others. It is well known that healthy compe-
tition is most desirable.
Each succeeding generation of members has desired to further the interests of the society
in some tangible way. and it is not a little to be desired that sometime in the future a special
home may be owned and fitted up for the enjoyment of not only the student members of this
organization, but as a pleasant and open home for past members to rest in when occasion per-
mits them to return to their Alma Mater.
JAMES ROBERT WHITE.
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Minerva L. DE LAND
TRENE (D2 SWUESIOR. 2s oe ae a a a ee
MaseL E. LEONARD
SARA LOEB
Louise M. HERSEY
Maup R. HILT
CARRIE A. RICHARDSON
ANNA E. HUSTED.
Mary C. ROBINSON.
Maup R. HI xt.
GRACE D. Mac GREGOR.
ANNA BUDINGTON.
FLORENCE M. MANNING.
SARA LOEB.
[RENE L. MESICK.
Louise M. HERSEY.
LILLIAN KIpsy.
Mary F. STEBBINS.
MaBEL C. KINGSTON.
EpyvTtHE H. LITTLe.
MARGARET LEONARD.
Marie A. BERRY.
Delta Omega Sorority
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Members
In Facultate
President.
‘Treasurer.
age eat ee We ng ee at aS Pa De eect te eI hv, Se Critic.
sopra Mae ek Pe pel eee a is Editor.
PRORENCE IVs SIVEANINTNG oe ee ee es Marshal.
Mary He NIGET et a a ee vie ee Marshal.
AURELIA HYDE.
Active Members
CarRiE A. RICHARDSON.
EunIcE A. PERINE.
ROSALIE MANNING.
May LAMPHER.
Mary H. KNIGHT.
MARGARET ASPINWALL.
AGNES M. MARSHALL.
Mase E. LEONARD.
MABEL GORDON.
Atice B. NEUMAN.
JosEPHINE LOEB.
Minerva L. De LAND.
SARA WILLIAMS.
Vice-President.
Recording Secretary.
Corresponding Secretary.
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Delta Omega
ND so I, an old Delta girl, have been asked to write a short history of the society. If the
subject has aught to do with the value of the account, surely this article cannot be
utterly valueless.
The records tell us, and has it not also been handed down from one class to another, that
early in the month of October, in the year 1890, a meeting of some of the members of the Eng-
lish and Classical Courses was called to consider the formation of a society. A committee was
appointed to draw up a constitutiou, which was adopted, with slight changes, on the twenty-
fourth of the same month. This newly-organized body was soon known as the Delta Omega
Society, and the colors chosen were gold and white.
The motive of the society in those days was, as the constitution read, “ to promote physi-
cal, social and literary activity,” and this, with perhaps little emphasis on the first, has con-
tinued to be the motive of the society down to the present time. That we have always striven
to promote social activity is patent to all. That we have equally striven to promote literary
activity will be seen from the fact that it was from our society the suggestion of a college
paper came and it was due to the efforts of several of its members that The Echo was suc-
cessful at the first.
News comes to us within the last few years that the “Deltas,” residing in the Borough of
Manhattan and the region round about, hold an annual banquet and reunion at the Metro-
politan Hotel, in New York. Here, again, the fire of loyalty to old Delta burns brightly and many
are the stories that are told of the good times of college days. Have we not proved the truth
of the last stanza of our song?
“Mingling with our lighter dreaming,
Deeper thoughts we'll find;
| Heart to heart in friendship ever
Delta ties will bind.”
It has been a custom of the society for several years past to give a midwinter play. This
is the only thing of its kind that has been attempted in college so there is always the spice of
novelty added. Of course it would never do to praise one’s own productions, so here is a
newspaper clipping in its stead: “ The play was a delightful one and showed careful preparation.”
Thro’ many changes, “ Delta” has come to be the society she now is. She has done no
great things, neither has she attempted any. We have but endeavored to combine society
with work and with what success we will allow others to say.
So here’s to thee, old Delta Omega, and may you live long and prosper.
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PPCCUIBI Ss So a Ee 4g cr aa a JEANETTE LANSING.
VaeesP resident. 3 es i eee Mary Lucitte ALLISON.
SOETCLATY: G5 es ee a es ere JANET KING.
Freagsurer. 605 es ee ee a Ee as es Mary LoutseE RUSSELL.
Marsal. a ee es ee Cele Mary LovisE MeEtrcs.
CRaplai a ee ere i a eS eS GRACE Lacy.
Faculty Members
E. HeLen Hannaus, A. M., Pu. D. CLARA M. RUSSELL. ||
M. Harriet Bisnopr.
Resident Members
4 LaurA A. HASBROUCK. ELIZABETH McBuRNEY WELLS.
ALICE JONES. EMELINE BENNETT.
ANNA FROST. GRACE COOK.
Junta A. Ast.
} Undergraduate Members
MARION EVERITT. EstTELLA A. LESTER.
Myra CAMPBELL. ANNA MARVIN.
CoRDEA DEyo. Epitu BLAKE.
FRANCES MANSION. CyNTHIA R. BARNES.
M. Loutse MEIcs. ELIZABETH L. BurTON.
M. LovuIseE RUSSELL. WINIFRED R. WRIGHT.
JANET KING. ANNA VIDA MCALLISTER.
JEANETTE LANSING. Lou1sE Wooster.
Mary L. ALLISON. ABBY LELAND.
GRACE Lacy. M. GENEVIEVE LYNCH.
JOSEPHINE SMITH. ANNA C. BROOKS.
LELA PARKE. MaAupDE M. GILLETTE.
FLORENCE JONES. GERTRUDE MILILs.
FLORENCE BANGS. MACHTILDE VANDERVORT.
KATHERINE PIERCE.
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A Sketch of Eta Phi Sorority
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6¢@@m OR the past few weeks, if one had been a
f careful observer, he would have noticed an
unusual degree of animation among a few
of the college students. Furtive glances, full of
suppressed meaning and subdued whispers con-
taining the words ‘meeting, ‘Madison ave-
nue,’ ‘degree,’ ‘constitution, * pin,’ betrayed
the enthusiasm of these young ladies in behalf
of something or someone. * * * Later the
mystery was solved. A secret society of women
of the State Normal College had been organized
and was to make its debut at a tea given on the
special day of this year, February 205°
With these words, The Echo of February, ‘96,
announced to the College the formation of a new
society, the organization of which had, up to
that time, been known only to the fourteen girls
who were its charter members. The cause and
history of its organization may be quickly told.
When the writer of this sketch entered the
New York State Normal College, in September,
‘95, but one society for women existed in the
College — the Delta Omega. This society was
doing good work in promoting friendship among
its own members, but naturally its influence was
limited to a few, while a large and constantly
growing number of students in the College was
left outside this charmed circle. There was
little or no social life for the student body as a
whole, few pleasant acquaintances were made,
except in the classes, and few warm bonds of
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friendship forged in this strictly professional
atmosphere.
On January 24, 1896, the model chapel was
thrown open to visitors that they might inspect
the work of the department for the midwinter
term. While the guests were examining the
work a small group of students might have been
observed in earnest, animated conversation. The
topic under discussion was this lack of a social
and college spirit,and what could be done to alter
this. The remedy suggested was that a new
society be formed—and, then and there, Eta Phi
came into existence. The plan found other sup-
porters on that very day, and when the consent
of the president of the college, Dr. Milne, was
sought, the proposition met not only with his
approval but received hearty encouragement and
valuable suggestions from him.
Between that day and February 21, the com-
plete organization of the society was accom-
plished. The first meeting for a discussion of
the project was called on February 7, by Miss
Etta Snyder, at 474 Madison avenue. At that
meeting, there were present Arrietta Snyder,
Marguerite Mann, Lilian Moser, Ada Dunne,
Helen Pratt, Laura Stafford, Mary Cook, Eva
Pratt, Nan De Witt, Mrs. Franc Sproul and Julia
Ast —all but three (Catherine Gomph, Marie
Walradt and Margaret Hunt) of the charter
roembers.
When the purpose of the meeting was an-
nounced, there was a unanimous vote for a per-
manent organization. Committees were ap-
pointed to draw up a constitution and to
formulate a ritual. It was also resolved to invite
Miss Russell, Miss Bishop and Dr. Hannahs to
become honorary charter members, which invi-
tations, to the delight of the society, were
accepted. At the following meetings, February
14 and 21, all members, both active and honor-
ary, being present, the constitution was adopted,
the name of the society detérmined and the first
officers elected. The final organization took
place at 474 Madison avenue, on February 21,
with the following as officers: President, Arrietta
Snyder; vice-president, Lilian Moser; secretary,
Marguerite Mann; treasurer, Laura Stafford;
chaplain, Mary Cook; marshal, Julia Ast; and
on February 29 the society announced its exist-
ence at a tea given in the kindergarten rooms.
Such very briefly is the history of the formation
of Eta Phi.
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The society has at present three honorary,
forty alumnae and twenty-five active members.
Since its organization it has always kept promi-
nent its purpose to create strong bonds of
friendship between its members and to arouse
and strengthen the love for our College. It seeks
to provide recreation from the college work, but
its meetings are not wholly devoted to social
pleasures. At every meeting a literary program
is also carried out.
That the society has fulfilled its mission in the
past is proven by the strong interest and attach-
ment that its alumnae show for it and towards
each other. That it may in the future continue
to carry out the purposes for which it was organ-
ized, and to progress to higher degrees of use-
fulness, is a wish near to the hearts of all who
wear its pin.
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Miss JESSin TIURBANCE 5 tin oe, a ee es ee ke a's President.
Miss MaRGAKET TRiANEN fori os Pi ns i es Vice-President.
Miss) Ome? Ree yo a ps ee Treasurer.
Mass NER IIE UBIO Stas oe 8 a sR ge ca Secretary.
WEISS ME cs ea as sw he ey nen ee ees eS Corresponding Secretary.
WWireS EA O a a s s Fe se Director.
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Miss Epitu BopD.Ley. Miss HELEN SEWELL.
Miss ANNA E. PIERCE. Miss IpA M. ISDELL.
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Active Members
Miss SarAH McCormick. Miss ALicE KETCHUM.
Miss GERTRUDE M. VRoom. Miss FLORELLA HAWKEY.
Miss MARION GARDNER. Miss Mary B. Harnisu.
Miss ExvizABETH BISHOP. Miss SarA Moores.
Miss NELLIE DESMOND. Miss Maser A. POWELL.
} Miss ANNA K. COUGHTRY.
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f a member of the Kappa Delta Society,
to begin to write a history which shall
embody the trials and triumphs of its early days,
and the many praiseworthy events which have
occurred from time to time, it is no easy task to
tell what the end would be, but a restraining
voice bids timely warning and whispers, “ Let
not words but actions tell.”
Fortunately it is no difficult matter to fix the
time of its beginning. We need not search the
records of ancient time, nor peer among the
remnants of the Dark Ages for mention of its
existence, for in the fullness of time, June 16,
1897, an inspiration was granted to certain gifted
young ladies of the Normal College that there
was both room and need for yet another college
society. These were the founders of the present
existing society, whose charter membership
numbered fourteen. By these members the con-
stitution was framed, the organization, heartily
approved and supported by the faculty of the
College, was thus perfected and Kappa Delta
first made her bow to society November 6, 1897.
The principles upon which the society was
founded are expressed in its motto: “To the
best of one’s ability.” The end to be attained
was to afford a means of enlarging and enhanc-
ing what was noblest and best in its members;
it was formed for social and literary purposes,
so that by occasional draughts from these social
fountains, daily duties would cease to be a
routine and work would become more of a
recreation to its members and college life be
broadened, deepened and enriched.
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Kappa Delta’s growth, during the past three
years, as indicated by its enrollment, shows a
membership of fifty-five. It has had the pleasure
of placing thenames of Miss Bodley, Miss Pierce,
Miss Sewell and Miss Isdell on the honorary list.
The policy of extension has ever been conserva-
tive in order that the number of members might
not be too large to promote the cultivation of
close friendship among its members, yet it has
not confined its influence to its members alone,
for at least three times each year has Kappa
Delta entertained, as guests, members of the Col-
lege and of the other college societies. These
events have been enjoyed alike by entertained
and entertainers.
Below, and named in their order of election,
are those who have held the office of president,
from the organization of the society to the pres-
ent date: Edith H. Nichols, Margery B. Lough-
ran, Katherine V. D. Merwin, Mabel A. Powell,
Jessie A. Dorrance.
There has been shown from the beginning a
quiet, steady and persistent interest in the con-
duct and welfare of this society by its members,
whose efforts have been attended with merited
success. Well may she feel proud of her attain-
ments and cherish alike her trials and triumphs of
the past as no unimportant elements in the devel-
opment which have secured success. So, in leay-
ing the career of Kappa Delta, its past is secure;
its memories are a pride and an honor, and
may it ever strive to inculcate into the hearts
of its new initiates noble ambitions and right
impulses.
Marcery B, LouGHRAN.
Tc a ee ee ae et ae er
PRSST EW WV NIE a ds a ie ste oie sg 8 re ede ee
PENN VE es ae a is ak ea a
PLT ARBTH FU ee ee er og os pn oe ie ee
PART EN TOWRA ey oe es aS 2 eee
GENE VITEVE pis Bi i rs oe i CI ee
WARE SI ORTON ee oe es nee cee
MasBpeEL Morey
FLORENCE CRAIG TRAVIS.
SARAH M. WILSON.
LovuIsE WATSON.
EpitrH McE Roy.
HELEN TowaArrt.
Anna V. LITTELL.
Jess1E WHEELER.
GRACE TOMPKINS.
LENA ZIPFEL.
3ELLE WELCH.
LILLIAN STERLING.
EtsiE Doses.
Jess1e M. WRIGHT.
SusIE ROsE.
MABEL HorTON.
Mary BotTHWELL.
MABEL MOREY.
Psi
Officers
Gamma Sorority
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President.
Vice-President.
Recording Secretary.
Corresponding
Treasurer.
Critic.
Marshal.
Chaplain.
Secretary.
Faculty Member
Mrs. MARGARET S. MOONEY.
Active Members
1909
1901
LizziE TAYLOR.
GRACE DART.
MARGENE
CAROLINE SHEPHERD.
Lity MENZER.
Lora M. CLARK.
MAUDE SILLIMAN.
Mapieé E. NEwMAN.
ANNA M.
GLENA DAVIS.
SLAIR.
SMITH.
GENEVIEVE BAILEY.
KATHARINE RICELY.
ELIZABETH HILFIKER.
MABEL PERRY.
EpitH GLEN.
GRACE GRAHAM.
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PS| GAMMA
ROR AIDEN SS AN Ea
Psi Gamma Society
Fd
N the early part of the year 1898, the society
of Psi Gamma was organized. The first
preliminary meeting was held on February
the fifteenth. Then were enrolled the names of
nine young ladies, and a committee was ap-
pointed to draft the constitution and by-laws.
The second preliminary meeting quickly followed
when the name Psi Gamma was chosen, and
everyone, being enthused with high ideals and
lofty aims, went forth to the new work, taking
the society name as their motto.
The growth and success of the society has
been marked. From its origin to the present
time, there has been a steady advancement, step
by step it has been, but the steps have grown
firmer, as each obstacle has been overcome. The
society has grown in numbers, grown in ability
and grown in confidence, and is now recognized
as an important factor of our college life.
M. Loutse Watson.
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Sigma Cheta
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Honorary Members
Wma. J. Mirne, Pu, D.; LL. D.
GEORGE G. Groat, A. B., Pp. M.
C. Stuart GAGER, A. B., Pp. M.
Active Members
Class of 1900
LorEN C. GUERNSEY. WILLIAM F. H. BREEZE.
Mites S. HENCLE. CHARLES W. TOWNSEND.
Wess H. EDWARDS. Bryan O. BurGIn.
ARTHUR Z. BOOTHBY. CrLarRK H. Burpick.
Curis A. HARTNAGEL. GEORGE ARTHUR LUNDY.
Tuomas A. CHITTENDEN. WILLIAM B. THRALL.
WILLIAM B. ASPINWALL.
Class of 1901
EpWARD DEEVEY. Haro.p K. SEAMAN.
James F. VAvasour. Witi1aAmM H. GOODENOUGH.
GEORGE A. WAKEMAN.
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Se scsiisnger: Sitissitei ty
SIGMA THETA
Sigma Cheta
A® WE Sigma Theta Fraternity, in its founda-
¢ tion, was the direct outcome of the am-
bitious and progressive spirit which has
characterized the Class of 1900. When, in Sep-
tember, 1899, the class was augmented by many
men from literary colleges where monopoly is
unknown, but where competition is the very life
of the undergraduate body, a prompt and cor-
dial response was made to the suggestion that
a second fraternity be founded. It was to pro-
mote higher aspirations, to make better use of
opportunities, and to inculcate more into the
State Normal College, present-day university
ideas of literary and intellectual competition,
that eight men, realizing that a healthy rivalry
is the greatest stimulus to growth and improve-
ment, met on October 3, 1899, and organized
the Sigma Theta Fraternity.
Once formed, it began its existence with an
enthusiasm and strength, which steadily attracted
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members to it, until they now number twenty-
one, of whom eleven hold literary degrees, and
these characteristics of strength and earnestness
have, in the few months since its foundation, so
increased that the society has become an estab-
lished and respected factor in the college life,
and its influence is considered worthy to be
sought.
The aim of the society may be said to be the
mutual benefit of its members, through a close
association and brotherly intercourse in debate,
in literary exercises, and in social pleasures. It
seeks to represent no particular element or fac-
tion, to stand for no special policy, but always
to exert an influence in the direction of truth
and seriousness, and to embody in its member-
ship the strongest and soberest thought of the
college.
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History of the Class of 1900
&
HE Class of 1900 entered the State Normal
College fully too strong. Though her
ranks have been thinned — some leaving
on account of ill-health, some for other causes —
the places have been filled by recruits from
°99, and by collegiates. So to-day 1900 is as
powerful as on that day when each and all
signed the pledge under Dr. H ’s gentle
guidance.
When “the little lady in black,’ from the
reception room just off the marble hall, assigned
each freshman to his or her abiding place on
Elm, Madison or Lark, she little knew the
glory and renown which the new class would
bring to the college and to the profession.
Soon after our arrival, we were tendered a
reception, in Normal College Hall, by the Class
of ‘99, and we recall how bravely each member
of that ever-friendly class contributed his or her
’s little bank on the office
mite in Miss B
desk.
Throughout the year there has been constant
exchange of courtesy between classes and among
societies, and, as the number of societies has
increased, college life has become brighter. So
we say, “Success to the societies.”
3ut it remained for 1900 to inaugurate the
custom of giving a farewell reception to the grad-
uating class in June, adding one more to the
joyous affairs of commencement time. The
“naughty noughts” have always been well
known for their social tendencies, and even at
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class meetings the young men have been accus-
tomed to practice the steps learned a night or
two before at G <3 0c °C. ‘S:
Do the class'meetings always end promptly
at eleven? Oh, yes. The office clock is a little
fast, you know. Perhaps it was a little later
on that evening of the election of officers when
there were over 100 present. But then it took
a little longer time for each one to pick out the
best pair of rubbers.
For years our monthly publication, The Echo,
has carried the college news to the alumni and
spread abroad the name and fame of the State
Normal College. But 1900 again displayed her
ambition and the spirit of progression in sug-
gesting and carrying out plans for a college
publication which will class with the Scarlet
Letter, the Vassarian, or any other college an-
nual. Boldly she has undertaken the work and
success attends her efforts here as everywhere
else.
During this last year of the nineteenth century,
everyone has seemed full of life and energy, and
1900 has aided in the organization of several fra-
ternities and clubs: Sigma Theta, the Camera
Club, the Tennis Club, the Shakespeare Club, the
Westchester County Club. All these have grown
and prospered and we can foresee years of life
and social activity at our Alma Mater.
As the year draws to a close and our college
course is almost ended, we can look back calmly
over our successes and our failures. Undoubt-
—_
edly 1900 will sustain her reputation in the years
to come and the State Normal College may
expect to see in the graduates of to-day the
strong educational leaders of the future.
A fitting close to our years here will be reunion
in June, when faculty, alumni and undergrad-
uate will join in celebrating the unveiling of the
tablet to be erected to the memory of the brave
men who went out from the normal schools to
uphold the Union flag.
A note of sadness mingles with the joy but
in the future reunions we will see the pleasure
even in the parting.
HISTORIAN.
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Officers
SP PRSIGCHE: i eee Oe Ce oO ae eae ape el aS a WILLIAM ASPINWALL.
Pigs We reswiett | ob ess eee ee ee LorA CLARK.
ECON Vice-President, .. 6... ek a ee ee ee JANET KING.
HOCIAEAE Yair hs hos soars eget Bone eS es Ce ETHEL MILLer.
EVERRHLCES feo Fees oe ae ee ek eae ror a GRACE TOMPKINS.
PUISOM AR oe ek Song fa noe Ce, ae ee er ee FLORENCE Craic TRAVIS.
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Winifred R. Wright,
Phelps, N: Y.
Byran O. Burgin,
Walton, N. Y.
Alva G. Frost,
Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Mary F. Bothwell,
East Genoa, N. Y.
William A. Ranney,
Cortland, N. Y.
Mary A. Lawton,
Mohawk, N. Y.
Walter J. Greene,
Ray, No:
Lora -M> Clark:
Fort Edward, N. Y.
Winfred C. Decker,
Susquehanna, Penn.
Jennie A. Van Hoesen,
Watervliet, N. Y.
Charles W. Townsend,
West Hurley, N. Y.
Carrie A. Richardson,
Bath, Noy.
Sarah M. Wilson,
Albany, N. Y.
Gertrude M. Vroom,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Lucy R. Buell, Cora F. Bratton;
Holcomb, N. Y. North Adams, Mass.
Estelle A. Lester, Lilian Kibby,
Phelps, N. Y. Utica, N. Y.
Dennis L. Moore,
Freedom, N. Y.
Eudora M. Tanner,
West Vienna, N. Y.
FI C. Travi Caroline L. Stamm,
orenc . Araais. zg fee
. a Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Peekskill, N. Y.
Mary K. Harris,
Grace Lacy, : 3 Pennfield, N. Y.
Watervliet, N. Y.
Philippine M. Pfaff,
Janet King, Akron, Ohio.
Glens Falls; N- Y.
8 Eunice A. Perine,
Lily C. Menzer, Lysander, N. Y.
Yonkers, iN. Y;
Leon J. Wayave, E. Rosalie ecctitgn
Corning, N. Y. Albany, N. Y.
Anna C. Ebendick, Cora M. Littlefield.
College Point, Long Island. Rural Hill, N. Y.
Mary C. Robinson,
Margaret R. Hall, Albany, N. ¥.
CatskiiN:-y.
Sara Loeb,
Raymond D. MacMahon, Ticonderoga, N. Y.
Albany, N. Y.
Mabel E. Leonard,
H. Olivia Stiles, Albany, N. Y.
Kings Station, N. Y.
Jane E. Reamer,
Mabel A. Sherwood, Waterloo, N. Y.
Port Chester, N. Y.
Minerva L. DeLand,
Fairport, N. Y.
Walter B. Ford,
Albany; NoY-
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Harriet Bushnell,
Bath; N= ¥:
Webb H. Edwards,
Windsor, N. Y.
Sarah H. McCormick,
4d POy, NEY.
Agnes M. Carter,
Cohoes, N. Y.
Edith L. McElroy,
South Nyack, N. Y.
Niemont Hewitt,
Kingston, N. Y.
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Tyra I. Johnson,
Albany, N. Y.
Mabel L. Graham,
Albany, N. Y.
Jennie Robson,
Halls Corners, N
Mabel A. Powell,
Ghent, N. Y.
Arthur Z. Boothby,
Rensselaer, N. ‘Y.
Lizzie S. Taylor,
Albany, N. Y.
Mary B. Harnish,
Honeoye Falls, N
Ethel J. Miller,
Port Chester, N. Y.
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Class of 1901
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Summus classis, ne pensez-vous pas?
Noch nie war solche Klasse da!
S. N. C. Rah! Rah! Rah!
Xiltoe @vakbatrot Kat ete.
Motto: “ Do ye nexte thynge.”
Colors: Royal purple and white.
Flower: Violet.
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Officers
PP2RAC ee a ee eg a eA ee Marre A. BERRY.
ae OE oh es ee ON oe eC Ge a sae We’ Klaas Dees HAROLD K. SEAMAN.
Sea ape PESO OS ea hn oS Ba Oe bel ad ae GRACE SMITH.
SHORE ie ee bmn a by eee CVT eee aes ees Ee exe GERTRUDE E. BONNER.
PU MGME SSVOFELOP DS oe eka NE eae paw eV CR es PUG WA RG CLEMENCY KING.
1) PIER OF re Se ie Osher nk ee te eS eG eae Oe Say cie e a ALECK M. MacCuTCcHEON.
PIG a ee as Se Oe ee a oe ee a SS ee Marie A. BERRY.
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History of the Class of 1901
AM@TIERE was published some years ago in a
newspaper column, where spicy things
found their place, an article concerning
college graduating classes. It was an article
denouncing the fashion of naming classes in the
abbreviated way so common — Class of ’95, for
example — and poking all manner of fun at the
unfortunate persons whose appellation should be
“ Class of ‘or. The only possible way of giving
oral expression to this name would be, so the
writer claimed, as “The Class of Naughty
Ones.”
It is curious to consider how things come to
pass. Doubtless many a member of the present
State Normal College Class of 1901 read that
little quib with a smile and passing comment,
never dreaming he should come to be one of
those Naughty Ones. But here we are, and
we should like to take this opportunity of answer-
ing that bright jester.
When an ambiguity presents itself, each per-
son puzzled thereby is justified in adopting the
interpretation which to him seems most reason-
able. We shall not, therefore, be hard on the
jester whose views are not our views, but calmly
in return present our way of reading ’ot.
The figure one stands for this class, A No. 1.
A cipher means nothing, and here stands for
all that have gone before us. The apostrophe
signifies something left out: that is, ourselves
left out of the past history of the college. Con-
clusion: We are the people.
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But, seriously, we have many reasons for re-
joicing that ours is a class of 1901. To graduate
in I90I means to have entered in 1899. It means
to have beheld from college halls the close of the
nineteenth century and to have hailed with col-
lege-born ambitions the opening of the twen-
tieth. It means to have had the critical period
of our careers coincident with the turning of the
centuries. It means to have deep thoughts sug-
gested to us and to have born in us the hope that
as a Class we may be a pivot upon which great
events shall turn, as the centuries wheel round
us. It means to have aroused in us the ambition
and the endeavor to be a worthy forerunner of
the ninety and nine classes to follow in the
century to come.
At the time of making this record our history
is short — short in the number of weeks we have
been together; not short nor meagre, however, if
measured by experiences, by growth, by enjoy-
ment, by friendships made and ties formed.
For numbers our class quite broke the record
of many a year, we being 200 strong. It was
difficult at first to feel at home among so many
strangers. An observer in chapel exercises those
early September mornings could see many a one
reading a home letter in place of the hymn, and
weeping instead of singing. But where is the
college where no tears have been shed on the
opening days? Like discords in music, they
serve to emphasize the harmony which follows.
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Our class was formally organized early in the
fall. With our daily classes, where we met in
work and our monthly class meetings, where we
met in play, we soon came to know each other.
By the way, a normal college, as we soon
learned, is an excellent place for becoming
acquainted, in a way. Sooner or later each one
of us has had to appear for scrutiny before his
classmates, who, with daily increasing keenness,
observe his voice and manner, his attitude before
the class, the extent of his knowledge, the char-
acter of his preparation, his method of manag-
ing a difficult subject. If there is anything each
of us does not know about. the rest of us, it is
not because of lack of opportunity.
We have been gaining power in many unex:
pected directions. While it is one aim of our
training to make us beyond criticism in the art
of teaching, it is another aim, we have found,
to make us adepts in the art of fault-finding.
But we have received a training in greatness of
heart which offsets this questionable art. It is
not exactly if smitten on the one cheek to turn
the other also, but if punched once to be very
meek and quiet about it, and, if punched twice, to
rejoice at our persecution.
Our class meetings have been a source of
pleasure and profit. We think we showed our
good sense in the selection of our first president,
who so vigorously, surely, and well guided our
bark through the perils of a beginning voyage.
It shall be our endeavor to continue with
Ernst efforts to ply our Orr, nor ever linger
in the coolness of the Reeds along the shore. We
know that many a Glenn and Parke and fragrant
Rose will tempt us on our way to tarry in idle
sweet repose. But stay not, Ladds and lasses,
the Wolfe in sheep’s Hyde lurks. We mean to
spare no Paynes till heights like Everest’s are
gained. With such a band as ours, what cannot
be accomplished? We have Smiths galore to
keep in order the ships and Carrs in which we
travel over land and sea. We have a Baker for
our physical needs, a Bishop for our souls, and
a King to rule over us. To give us fame, great
men are of our band — Browning, Lamb and
Burns. What need we Moore? To put it mod-
estly, we think we’re Goodenough.
On Washington's birthday, we gave our first
reception and entertainment. With what a thrill
of pride and pleasure shall we always look back
upon that night! Our friends were received by
ladies in the quaint garb of olden days, and enter-
tained by seeing in pantomime the romance of
Miles Standish, John Alden and Priscilla. So
well did the actors take their parts, so perfectly
did they look the characters they assumed, one
almost thought for the time being he was living
in the village of Plymouth three hundred years
ago.
For our motto we have chosen the suggestive
words, “ Do ye nexte thynge.” Our colors are
royal purple and white, significant of the loyalty
and purity of heart needed in order to do “ ye
nexte thynge”’ well. Our flower is the violet, and
we like to dream of the profusion of violets purple
and white that will bloom for us in June, 1gor.
If the first quarter of our career as the Class
of 1901 can be taken as a prophecy of the rest —
and it can fail only in not telling enough
—-surely ‘the lines have fallen unto us in
pleasant places.”
HISTORIAN.
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STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
Al Sketch of the History of the Dew York State Normal College
Miss Mary A.
> @@w ROM Europe the normal school system
:) reached America. It came directly from
Prussia to the United States, through the
efforts of the Rev. Charles Brooks of Massa-
chusetts. In 1839 Massachusetts founded at
Lexington her first normal school. A few years
later New York established her first at Albany.
New York did not act hastily in this matter.
The founding of a normal school had been advo-
cated by State and by county superintendents;
it had been recommended by successive gov-
ernors in their annual messages; it had been
brought to the homes of the people by the Dis-
trict School Journal. Horace Mann and Henry
}arnard had spoken for it. Finally, it reached
the Legislature in the form of a bill, presented
1843 by Calvin T. Hulburd of St. Lawrence
county. This bill was successfully carried
through by his efforts and those of Michael Hoff-
mann of Herkimer county.
The school was to be an experiment for five
years. For its support during that time the sum
of $10,000 was to be paid annually from the
literature fund. The supervision and govern-
ment of the school were to be conducted by the
P superintendent of common schools and the Re-
gents of the University. The following executive
committee was at once appointed: Col. Samuei
Young, Rev. Alonzo Potter, Hon. Gideon
Hawley, Francis Dwight, and Rev. Wm. H.
Campbell.
Soon the committee was organized and the
work distributed among its members. Gideon
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McClelland
Hawley secured from the city of Albany the lease
of a building, together with $500, to help put the
property in order. Francis Dwight visited the
school at Lexington, to learn of its organization
and equipment. Dr. Potter went to Massachu-
setts, empowered to engage a principal.
No time was lost. The building was repaired
and equipped, a principal was secured, arid some
teachers were appointed. All was ready by
December 18, 1844. On that date the school
was formally opened by an address by Col.
Young before the executive committee, the fac-
ulty, and the twenty-nine students who had
assembled the first day. What is now Van
Vechten Hall, on State street, east of Eagle, was
the first home of the normal school. It was
agreed that tuition and text-books should be
free, and that a small sum of money to help pay
board bills should be furnished weekly to each
student.
It was a humble beginning: a rude building,
inexpensive apparatus, few students. It was all
all but the people;
very plain and common
the principal, the teachers, and the young men
and women in the classess These were more
than ordinary. Something must have been done
for those twenty-nine young people and the
scores that joined them, something to cause them
to go out and do good work in the world, and
to return years after with loyalty in their hearts
and tears in their eyes as they spoke of the old
school and of “the sainted Page.”
David Perkins Page, a New Hampshire man,
was the first principal. He was associate prin-
cipal of the Newburyport High School when
Dr. Potter went over there to engage him if he
should find him competent. Dr. Potter con-
versed with Mr. Page about half an hour, and
then engaged him.
Full of knowledge, love, enthusiasm, Principal
Page came to take charge of the New York State
Normal School. That he understood the secret
springs of mind and heart is learned from his
book, ‘The Theory and Practice of Teaching,”
and is attested by those whom he taught; and
that he “spared not himself,” is shown by his
early death. He died January 1, 1848, before
the time limit of the “experiment” had been
reached. “ Death or success’? was the watch-
word. He died, but first he achieved success.
George R. Perkins, the brilliant professor of
mathematics since the organization of the school,
was the next principal. He secured a new site
and a new building, and conducted the institu-
tion in a business-like manner till his resigna-
tion, July 8, 1852. He then took charge of the
calculations to be made in the process of con-
solidating the various lines of railroad between
Albany and Buffalo. He superintended the
erection of Dudley Observatory. He became
Deputy State Engineer and Surveyor. In Janu-
ary, 1862, he was elected a Regent of the
University.
The new building, for which an appropriation
was made soon after*the death of Mr. Page, was
erected in the rear of Geological Hall. There
on Lodge and Howard streets, it formed the
home of the normal school till June, 1885.
Samuel B. Woolworth, the successor of Dr.
Perkins in 1852, brought to the normal school
the knowledge and experience gained during
twenty-eight years of teaching. He knew the
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value of classification in the organization of a
He insisted upon a thorough divi-
sion of labor, appointing teachers who each
large school.
devoted his whole time to a single department.
Through his influence, a thorough reorganiza-
tion of the institution was effected by which the
departments were made more distinct, and
teachers of ability and experience were secured
This man was a potent
factor in the school for twenty-eight years, for
when he resigned, it was to become secretary
of the Board of Regents and so a member of
the executive committee in charge of the school.
Dr. Woolworth was succeeded by a member
of his faculty, a young man whom he himself
had chosen, and whom he regarded as a model
of manhood, scholarship, and general culture.
David H. Cochrane, A. M., Ph. D., brought
to his new position all that energy, grace, and
influence which had characterized his former
work, and which now made his administration
a marked success. He was aided by a strong
faculty — among whom were Professors Jewell,
Cooley, Kimball, and Husted; and Misses Rice,
Ostrom, and Butler.
It was during this administration that the
Civil War was waged. In response to the Presi-
dent’s call in 1862, certain young men of the
school put away their books, shouldered their
muskets, and marched to the front, accompanied
by Professors Kimball and Husted as command-
ing officers. In honor of those who died in the
service, there is to be erected in the college
chapel next June, a memorial tablet, contribu-
tions for which have been made by the alumni
of the institution.
In 1864 Dr. Cochrane resigned his position
to become president of the Polytechnic Institute
of Brooklyn. He was succeeded by Prof. Oliver
Arey, who also resigned after a short term of
for each department.
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office. Kindly and conscientious he was in the
discharge of his duties, and there are those who
remember him with gratitude.
On April 24, 1867, Joseph Alden, D. D.,
LL. D., was elected president. He was a life-
long educator and writer on educational subjects.
He had been a professor in Williams College
and president of Washington and _ Jefferson
College. Dr. Alden felt the importance of thor-
ough scholarship; method being somewhat sub-
ordinated to a comprehensive view of a subject.
He was vigorous, intense, original, sincere; and
many a young man did he influence for good.
His resignation in 1882 closed fifteen years of
continuous service.
On June 22, 1882, Edward P. Waterbury,
Ph. D., LL. D., was elected president. For the
first time in its history, the head of the institution
was one of its own graduates. From this time
on, great changes occur. Ideas crystalize into
definite forms.
A historical sketch of the school is written,
together with a history of its graduates for forty
years. Later, the work is extended for. five
years more. A pamphlet also is prepared, giving
an account of the chief work done by graduates
of the institution. When it is remembered that
in order to accomplish all this, Dr. Waterbury
had to reach between two and three thousand
people, distributed, not in the Americas only,
but across the seas as well, the work is seen to
have been no light task.
Next a new building is secured, the old one
being wholly inadequate. In carrying out this
project, Dr. Waterbury had the effective help of
the executive committee and of many other
friends well known in political circles. The
Alumni Memorial Window was planned also at
this time; an appeal being made to the graduates
in regard to it.
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The association of graduates, formed in 1851
by William F. Phelps, was reorganized at the
beginning of Dr. Waterbury’s administration by
Sherman Williams, Sumner H. Babcock, and
others. Under the new auspices, a notable
reunion was held December 27, 1883. It was
attended by about 600 of the alumni, many of
whom had come long distances. Near the close
of the afternoon session, the idea of a memorial
window was presented, and a resolution unani-
mously passed to the effect that ‘“ the ‘ window’
should be constructed by the alumni.” Com-
mittees were appointed to collect funds, and in
due time the handsome window was an accom-
plished fact. It was a matter of regret to the
alumni, however, that the work could not be
wholly completed in Dr. Waterbury’s day.
The new building was erected on Willett street,
facing Washington Park. Into its walls was
wrought some of the material of the old capitol;
the brown stone slabs being turned and rough-
ened for the purpose. In construction and
equipment, the new building was a great im-
provement upon the old. Departments for
experiments in chemistry and physics, a refer-
ence library and reading-rooms, and a kinder-
garten were among the new features; as was also
the collecting of portraits to adorn the walls
of the college chapel, and to perpetuate the
memory of those who had contributed to the
success of the institution. The building was
constructed and equipped under the personal
supervision of President Waterbury. Toiling
early and late, with no thought for himself and
with much for the school, Dr. Waterbury de-
clined in health. In the summer of 1889 he died.
From a purely educational point of view, the
work of the old normal school was over in 1880.
For forty-five years it had provided teachers for
the schools of this State. It had felt its own
influence react upon itself in the better prepara-
tion of those who entered its classes. It had
given added importance and efficiency to teach-
ers’ institutes and teachers’ training classes; it
had seen many schools like itself spring up in
the State and in the country. But education had
progressed wonderfully in _ forty-five years.
Teaching was looked upon as a profession.
In October, 1889, the executive committee
invited Wm. J. Milne, Ph. D., LL. D., to become
head of the New York State Normal School. In
correspondence with the gentlemen of the com-
mittee, Dr. Milne stated very clearly the condi-
tions upon which he would consent to take
charge of the school. He desired to raise the
standard of admission, extend the course, and
turn the institution into a purely professional
school. The committee immediately accepted
the conditions and placed him in charge.
The reorganization of the practice departments,
and the addition of a high school, a radical
change in the character of the work done in
the college and in the practice departments; the
advanced standard of admission, together with
the numbers of college and university students
who enter in accordance with that standard; the
increased number of courses, the last provided
being a course for supervisors and commission-
ers; the conferring of degrees — Pd. B., regular
course; Pd. M., supplementary course; Pd. D.,
an honorary title: also a change in the college
life, the founding of Greek-letter fraternities and
athletic clubs; the successful management of a
college paper; the valuable lectures and other
entertainments provided each year; grand organ
recitals given by the director of music; afternoon
seminars conducted by members of the faculty,
and open to residents of Albany and vicinity;
a change of name, “ Normal College,” to har-
monize with new conditions —these are some
of the events connected with the administration
of President Milne.
The changes mentioned above necessitated
others in the building itself. To the south of the
college additional property was secured and fitted
up for the primary department; two class-rooms
were constructed out of a hitherto unused portion
of the building; safe and commodious means of
egress from the great assembly hall were pro-
vided; a marble-paved entrance court was con-
structed, the walls of which are frescoed and
hung with rare pictures —the light being soft-
ened and the beauty of the court being greatly
enhanced by two handsome - stained-glass
windows.
In 1894 occurred the semi-centennial jubilee.
From all parts of the United States they came —
young graduates of the new college and members
of the first class of the old normal school. As
no one building in the city could afford suitable
accommodations for the banquet, the two largest
hotels were engaged, the Kenmore and the Dela-
van, and every available spot in each was
occupied. Toasts, songs, wit and good cheer
caused the hours to go with flying feet.
On this occasion the degree of Doctor of
Pedagogy was conferred on the following mem-
bers of the alumni: Miss Emily A. Rice, Miss
Ellen G. Reveley, Mrs. Delia Lathrop Williams,
Sherman Williams, A. M., Wm. M. - Giffin,
A. M., and Edward L. Pierce, A. M. The same
degree has since been conferred upon James A.
Foshay, A. M., and Carl Ritter, A. M.
This brief account of the college shows prog-
ress along right lines. And it is believed and
hoped that certain plans now under considera-
tion will in their development add greatly to
the power and efficiency of New York State's
only Normal College.
ste
ee ee
amit
The following are the names of the distin-
guished gentlemen who have been, from time
to time, members of the executive committee:
Hon. Samuel Young, LL. D.
Hon. Nathaniel S. Benton.
Hon. Christopher Morgan.
Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL. D.
Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth.
Hon. Victor M. Rice.
Hon. Henry H. Van Dyck.
Emerson W. Keyes.
Hon. Abram B. Weaver.
Hon. Neil Gilmour.
Hon. William B. Ruggles.
Hon. James E. Morrison.
Hon. Andrew S. Draper.
Hon. James F. Crooker.
Hon. Charles R. Skinner.
Rev. W. H. Campbell, D. D.
Francis Dwight.
Hon. Gideon Hawley, LL. D.
Rey. Alonzo Potter, D. D.
Hon. Samuel Young, LL. D.
4. Romeyn: Beck, M: D.; ELD:
Hon. Franklin Townsend.
Hon. William W. Forsyth.
Hon. Samuel H. Hammond.
Samuel B. Woolworth, LL. D.
Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, LL. D.
Hon. John V. L. Pruyn, LL. D.
Amos Dean, LL. D.
Prof. Jacob S. Mosher, Ph. D., M. D.
Hon. Charles E. Smith.
David Murray, Ph. D., LL. D.
Edward P. Waterbury, A. M., Ph. D.
Hon. St. Clair McKelway, A. M.
Hon, Andrew 5. Draper: iL D:
Robert L. Fryer, A. M.
Samuel B. Ward, M. D., Ph. D.
S. N. Dexter North.
Robert C. Pruyn, A. M.
Marcus T. Hun, A. M.
Frederick Harris, A. M.
Charles L. Pruyn, A. M.
William Bayard Van Rensselaer, A. M.
Ledyard Cogswell, A. M.
Hon. Harmanus Bleecker, LL. D. The present executive committee are the
Hon. Charles L. Austin. following:
Department of Public Instruction of the State of New York
Pie. HARERS So SACIN NER bids, 219. 5 UUEPINICHOONE so os Se ee a ee Albany.
Hon. DanrortH E. ArnswortH, Deputy Superintendent... 2.300.000. eee ees Sandy Creek.
Executive Committee in Charge of the College
Hon) CusRirs: Ro SRINNE oly Ag MO. es ees bt iO etd wa ie ee Albany.
SAMUEL. B. WARD, M.D Pa. dD: Secretary and Treasurer ess 8 ak ee I Albany.
Senin as PE Nc NE es eG Ss Pee ete er acy Faia 5 Mason sed Sen ome Te aes Albany.
NV APRESS VAN SeoeNSie key Pa Be. ph hss A Ue Oe Ie Pe os ws ee aS Albany.
RAD SOR WEES a yt a ee ke ee tee eA ava eo Siniein ns Core mab ae ge Albany.
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influence react upon itself in the better prepara-
tion of those who entered its classes. It had
given added importance and efficiency to teach-
ers’ institutes and teachers’ training classes; it
had seen many schools like itself spring up in
the State and in the country. But education had
progressed wonderfully in forty-five years.
Teaching was looked upon as a profession.
In October, 1889, the executive committee
invited Wm. J. Milne, Ph. D., LL. D., to become
head of the New York State Normal School. In
correspondence with the gentlemen of the com-
mittee, Dr. Milne stated very clearly the condi-
tions upon which he would consent to take
charge of the school. He desired to raise the
standard of admission, extend the course, and
turn the institution into a purely professional
school. The committee immediately accepted
the conditions and placed him in charge.
The reorganization of the practice departments,
and the addition of a high school, a radical
change in the character of the work done in
the college and in the practice departments; the
advanced standard of admission, together with
the numbers of college and university students
who enter in accordance with that standard; the
increased number of courses, the last provided
being a course for supervisors and commission-
ers; the conferring of degrees — Pd. B., regular
course; Pd. M., supplementary course; Pd. D.,
an honorary title: also a change in the college
life, the founding of Greek-letter fraternities and
athletic clubs; the successful management of a
college paper; the valuable lectures and other
entertainments provided each year; grand organ
recitals given by the director of music; afternoon
seminars conducted by members of the faculty,
and open to residents of Albany and vicinity;
a change of name, “ Normal College,” to har-
monize with new conditions —these are some
of the events connected with the administration
of President Milne.
The changes mentioned above necessitated
others in the building itself. To the south of the
college additional property was secured and fitted
up for the primary department; two class-rooms
were constructed out of a hitherto unused portion
of the building; safe and commodious means of
egress from the great assembly hall were pro-
vided; a marble-paved entrance court was con-
structed, the walls of which are frescoed and
hung with rare pictures —the light being soft-
ened and the beauty of the court being greatly
enhanced by two handsome - stained-glass
windows.
In 1894 occurred the semi-centennial jubilee.
From all parts of the United States they came —
young graduates of the new college and members
of the first class of the old normal school. As
no one building in the city could afford suitable
accommodations for the banquet, the two largest
hotels were engaged, the Kenmore and the Dela-
van, and every available spot in each was
occupied. Toasts, songs, wit and good cheer
caused the hours to go with flying feet.
On this occasion the degree of Doctor of
Pedagogy was conferred on the following mem-
bers of the alumni: Miss Emily A. Rice, Miss
Ellen G. Reveley, Mrs. Delia Lathrop Williams,
Sherman Williams, A. M., Wm. M. - Giffin,
A. M., and Edward L. Pierce, A. M. The same
degree has since been conferred upon James A.
Foshay, A. M., and Carl Ritter, A. M.
This brief account of the college shows prog-
ress along right lines. And it is believed and
hoped that certain plans now under considera-
tion will in their development add greatly to
the power and efficiency of New York State's
only Normal College.
Q
!
civil
The following are the names of the distin- T. Romeyn. Beck, M. D., LL. D.
guished gentlemen who have been, from time Hon. Franklin Townsend.
to time, members of the executive committee: Hon. William W. Forsyth.
Hon. Samuel Young, LL. D. Hon. Samuel H. Hammond.
Hon. Nathaniel S. Benton. Samuel B. Woolworth, LL. D.
Hon. Christopher Morgan. Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, LL. D.
Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL. D. Hon. John V. L. Pruyn, LL. D.
i} Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth. Amos Dean, LL. D.
Hon. Victor M. Rice. Prof. Jacob S. Mosher, Ph. D., M. D.
Hon. Henry H. Van Dyck. Hon. Charles E. Smith.
Emerson W. Keyes. David Murray, Ph. D.; CL. D.
Hon. Abram B. Weaver. Edward P. Waterbury, A. M., Ph. D.
Hon. Neil Gilmour. Hon. St. Clair McKelway, A. M.
Hon. William B. Ruggles. Hon. Andrew S. Draper, LL. D.
Hon. James E. Morrison. Robert L. Fryer, A. M.
Hon. Andrew S. Draper. Samuel B. Ward, M. D., Ph. D.
Hon. James F. Crooker. S. N. Dexter North.
Hon. Charles R. Skinner. Robert C. Pruyn, A. M. |
Rev. W. H. Campbell, D. D. Marcus T. Hun, A. M. HH
Francis Dwight. Frederick Harris, A. M. i
Hon. Gideon Hawley, LL. D. Charles L. Pruyn, A. M. |
Rey. Alonzo Potter, D. D. William Bayard Van Rensselaer, A. M.
Hon. Samuel Young, LL. D. Ledyard Cogswell, A. M.
Hon. Harmanus Bleecker, LL. D. The present executive committee are the
Hon. Charles L. Austin. following:
Department of Public Instruction of the State of Dew York
Hon. CHartes R. SKINNER, LL. D., Superintendent... 00.0... cece eee cect es Albany.
Hon. Danrortu E. ArtnswortH, Deputy Superintendent... . 1.06.00 2 eee reese Sandy Creek.
Executive Committee in Charge of the College
Hon. CHarLes R, SKINNER, LL. D., Chairman. ..... 2 1202 ee ere cet eee teens Albany. ||
SAMUEL B. WARD, M. D., Pu. D., Secretary and Treasurer. . . 12.0 e eee ee eee neers Albany. i
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LICE RARY.
Inspiration
Margaret $. Mooney
HAT “Art is the handmaid of religion” has
been proven many times during the
Christian Era, as well even in our own
scientific nineteenth century as in the period
aptly called, “The Ages of Faith.” Those cen-
turies which produced the Gothic cathedrals and
churches of Europe, the religious mediaeval
drama, and the masterpieces of fresco and oil
painting were surely “ ages of faith.” In each of
these forms of art man sees to-day what man in
times past devoutly believed.
To trace the inspiration of the master archi-
tects who planned and wrought buildings fitted
for the worship of God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Ghost, we have but to go to
the Sacred Scriptures, where, in the description
of the building of Solomon’s temple and its orna-
mentation, we find that gold and silver, and
gems and precious stones were used lavishly, as
befitted the house of the Lord. Cathedral archi-
tecture reveals what the founder of Christianity
came upon earth to do — to redeem mankind by
His suffering and death on the cross of Calvary.
The Gospel story of the life, death and resurrec-
tion of our Saviour has been carved in wood
and stone, wrought in mosaic, painted on walls
and domes and inscribed in letters of gold, by
artisan and artist for the purpose of teaching
those who worshiped in the churches of Chris-
tendom the only means whereby man may save
his immortal soul. Writing of St. Mark’s in
Venice, Ruskin says, “ If one had time to explore
the minor lateral chapels and cupolas, he could
find in them the whole series of New Testament
history, the events of the Life of Christ, and the
apostolic miracles in their order, and finally the
scenery of the Book of Revelation; but if he
entered, as often the common people do at this
hour, snatching a few moments before beginning
the labor of the day, to offer up an ejaculatory
prayer, and advanced but from the main entrance
as far as the altar screen, all the splendor of the
glittering nave and variegated dome, if they
smote upon his heart, as well they might often, in
strange contrast with his reed cabin among the
shallows of the lagoon, smote upon it only that
they might proclaim the two great messages,
“ Christ is risen,” and “ Christ shall come.” So in
the hearts of the old Venetian people St. Mark’s
was far more than a place of worship. Ruskin
goes on to say, “It was at once a type of the
Redeemed Church of God, and a scroll for the
written word of God. It was to be to them both
an image of the bride, all glorious within, her
clothing of wrought gold, and the actual Table
of the Law and the Testimony, written within
and without. And whether honored as the
Church or as the Bible, was it not fitting that
neither the gold nor the crystal should be spared
in the adornment of it; that, as the symbol of the
bride, the building of the wall thereof should be
of jasper, and the foundations of it garnished
with all manner of precious stones?”
What the traveler finds in this beautiful Vene-
tian church he may find in hundreds of other
churches built during the middle ages. Each
ge REET ESS TT I EOE eet pete HEB st 2
RE RN SS TFC TE
one tells the Bible story of Christ’s passion, and
its bearing upon human life and destiny.
The mystery and miracle plays of the middle
ages present another form of art inspired by the
Bible. The very titles of these dramas reveal
their origin, their scope and their purpose. Here
is a list of the subjects, forming a cycle of
English “mysteries,” which may be taken as a
type of those acted in Italy, France, Spain and
Germany for five hundred years. The Creation,
The Fall of Lucifer, Adam and Eve, Man’s Dis-
obedience and Fall, The Sacrifice of Cain and
Abel, The Building of the Ark, Noah and his
Wife and the Flood, Abraham’s Sacrifice, The
Departure of the Israelites, The Ten Plagues, and
the Passage of the Red Sea. These are the
favorite events from the Old Testament. Those
subjects based upon the Gospels represent the
life of our Lord from His Nativity to His Ascen-
sion; and the events of His life, beginning with
His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm
Sunday, include His betrayal by Judas, His
apprehension by the Roman soldiers, His accusa-
tion before the Sanhedrim, His trial before Pilate,
His condemnation and crucifixion, followed by
His resurrection and ascension. These form the
scenes of the “Passion Play” of the middle
ages which survived in England until the time of
Elizabeth, in Germany until the eighteenth cen-
tury, and which still survives at Oberammergau.
The famous loggie of the Vatican, painted in
fresco by Raphael, is called “ Raphael's Bible,”
from the fact that he has depicted upon its ceiling
the same scenes from Bible history and Gospel
story that had been dramatized before his. time.
Of the hundreds of canvases painted by his
hand or designed by him how few can be traced
to any other source than the Sacred Scriptures!
Among the most famous works of art in the
city of Florence are the bronze doors of the
Baptistry called the “Ghiberti Gates” from the
artist who designed them. Here we see again the
power of biblical inspiration, for these bronze
doors are open pages of Holy Scripture, pictur-
ing as they do ten scenes from the Old Testa-
ment, and the chief scenes in the life of our
Saviour from His birth to His ascension. No
wonder Michael Angelo said of one of them,
“Tt is worthy of being the gate of Paradise.”
No name in the history of art stands above that
of Michael Angelo, and yet his grandest achieve-
ments are on Bible themes. His genius found
ample scope in expressing his knowledge of Holy
Writ and his reverence for its teachings in the
varied forms of sculpture, painting, and architec-
tural design. On the walls and ceilings of the
Sistine Chapel he has represented the same Bible
scenes that are found in Raphael’s frescoes and
on the Ghiberti Gates. -
Carlyle says, “A man’s religion is the chief
fact with regard to him.” The religion of these
men was certainly the chief fact with regard to
them. Inspired by it they gave it tangible form.
Their lives were spent in expressing to the world
what had been so deeply impressed upon their
own minds and hearts, and their works have been
an inspiration to those who, looking upon them,
have felt that such representations of the deep
spiritual sense contained in the simple Scripture
story speak more clearly and forcibly than words
have power to do.
The Bible was the one book so familiar to the
people of the middle ages as to be understood
and appreciated by those whom we would call
to-day the most illiterate; for the art which was
inspired by it became the means of translating it
into a language that was understood at sight by
the common people.
In the time of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and in
fact all the other great Italian artists, their
frescoes, statues and paintings adorned the walls
and ceilings of churches, chapels, palaces and
other public buildings, to which all classes of
people had free access, and where they not only
saw these poetical and religious compositions,
but learned from the conversation of competent
judges the meaning and the value of such works
of art. The common people breathed the very
atmosphere of art. The most famous pictures
and statues became as well known to them as
were the faces of their friends. One of our
present recognized methods of teaching is by
using “penny pictures ” which are copies of the
works of these old masters. Imagine what must
have been the effect upon the generations of
children who have looked upon the originals of
these masterpieces in all their beauty of color,
in their proper setting, and as an every-day
occurrence for the past five hundred years.
In our young republic most of our large cities
have art galleries which are free to the public on
certain days of the week, and on all other days
an admission fee is charged. When an especially
fine collection of pictures is exhibited it is visited
once or twice perhaps by the favored few who
have time at their disposal, and can afford to
pay the required fee. But even under all the
unfavorable conditions which have thus far
hindered our progress in the knowledge and
appreciation of art, we are beginning to value
the sacred and legendary art of our own times
which can be traced to the same source of
inspiration and to the same religious fervor as
that which moved the old masters in the middle
ages. The Tissot pictures, painted in response
to direct inspiration, and representing, as they
do, the life of our Blessed Lord in its most
minute details, should be the means of awakening
sweet hope and faith in the soul of every
Christian who learns their history. They testify
that Divine revelation is as active in the world
to-day, in spite of the engrossing commercial
and scientific pursuits of men, as it was when
Christian art was busy throughout mediaeval
Italy, translating the Bible into visible form.
Fphetdedeietsahin Re tsreny erent tes
A VIEW_IN THE PARK
Life's Golden Sunset
&
HEN the sun from round the hill Youth has fancy. Fancy held
Sends the shadows o’er the lea, For the time of earliest light.
In the trickle of the rill This maturer age dispelled
Comes a pleasant thought to me. For the gathering shades of night.
SaEa ey zt bestehes i stay
ae I had wondered long and oft For the en ee but say,
If the morning sun was best, _ Of a labor just begun,
eee PAT ee Ae ee Tis the dusky close of day
Or when sinking from aloft ae , ee E :
P re Brings the Master’s kind ‘ well done!
To the crimson of the west.
So the trickle of the rill,
Whether life is only bright As it hurries to the sea,
On this side its zenith-line, When the sun is ’round the hill,
Or a lingering sparkle might Brings a pleasant thought to me.
Reach its nadir of decline. —George Browning, ’or.
ge
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Che Albatross
&
“Tis said the albatross never rests.”
HERE the fathomless waves in magnifi-
cence toss,
Homeless and high soars the wild
albatross —
Unwearied, undaunted, unshrinking, alone,
The ocean, his empire — the tempest, his throne.
When the terrible whirlwind raves wild o’er the
surge,
And the hurricane howls out the mariners’ dirge,
In thy glory thou spurnest the dark-heaving sea,
Proud bird of the ocean-world — homeless and
free.
When the winds are at rest, and the sun in his
glow,
And the glittering tide sleeps in beauty below,
In the pride of thy power triumphant above,
With thy mate thou art holding thy revels of
love.
Untir’d, unfetter’d, unwatch’d, unconfin’d,
Be my spirit like thee in the world of the
mind,
No longing for earth e’er to weary its flight,
And fresh as thy pinions in regions of light.
Bee Fa, Noe Re OU,
The Awakening
T was on the outskirts of a city where a row
of neat cottages made a sharp division line
between the city and the spreading country
land. In front were paved streets and crowded
houses; behind, rolling fields reaching far and
far to dim blue mountains beyond.
It was a day in June, when the earth breathes
forth felt, now
marvelled at —like distant music borne on the
a faint, ineffable charm, now
wind, heard and then not heard, and after all half
guessed.
In spite of such a day, a mother — her spirit
all out of tune with the world, with life and with
mankind — had been cross all day with her little
son. Super-sensitive, heart-broken, he had
crawled away into the shadow of a syringa bush
and there he lay fast asleep in the gentle after-
noon, his waxen eyelids sealed with tear-drops.
Fast in his arms was a great black cat. The
child’s rich fancy had endowed the cat with all
the love and sympathy of a human friend. It is
well that children can find real love and pity in
the dumb creatures about them.
* You. love
What makes mamma so cross,
kitty?
do you suppose?
me anyway, don’t you,
Perhaps she can’t help it. I guess she doesn't
like little boys. But you do, pussy dear, don't
you?” And then tears of heart-hunger and self-
pity burst forth and heavy sobbing wearied him
to sleep.
It sometimes happens that a mother, like this
Little One’s mother, bears a child with a spirit
*
so different from her own that it seems as if he
cannot belong to her. With no training on her
part or by others —rather, in spite of her im-
penetrable hardness of heart and open hatred
of love —the Little One had developed a most
beautiful nature—sunny, gentle, tender,
his
fancies fed by the flowers that bloomed and the
breezes that blew
a very rose in the desert.
One cannot but believe — one longs anyway
to believe -— that there was at least potentially
in that mother as much sweetness and beauty.
But somehow she had never attuned the harp
of her life to unison with God and the world.
And now, alas, this child, who was all she might
have been, grew to be a cause of irritation. Since
she could not sympathize with him, she would
not bear with him.
The Little One had once been told by a
stranger a charmed story of a “kind and dear
princess.” When his heart was breaking for
sympathy and love, his fancy often communed
with the good Princess and drew comfort from
her. She was his fairy god-mother who loved
him dearer each day.
As the Child sleeps beneath the fragrant bush,
a radiant smile lights his face and his clasp of
the kitty grows closer. He is dreaming of his
Princess. Her dress is white; her eyes are blue
and dreamy, and her glorious hair is long and
golden. Her soft arms are about him, she kisses
the tears away; she tells him that she loves him.
She whispers him tales of the wondrous world;
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she tells what the bees and the birds and the
blossoms are saying; she sings him songs; and
through it all she loves him.
The Child awakes from his sleep —at least
his eyes open, but the fascination of his dream
is still upon him. Never remembering home or
mother, he rises to his feet and starts in the
direction in which his opening eyes first looked
— across the fields towards a small dark wood
on a quite distant hillside. He had often gazed
at that dark wood, fancying there his Princess
lived and that he could see the gleam of her
golden hair as she moved about in her woodland
home.
He toddles through a field of golden-rod. His
golden head cannot be distinguished among the
golden flowers. Farther on, the yellow mustard
weed is blooming thickly; low flowers like golden
stars crowd under foot; yellow-backed bobolinks
are everywhere starting into flight and pouring
forth their rollicking songs. The fields are a
study in gold and yellow, with the golden sun-
shine flooding all. The Child talks with the
birds and the flowers, and they talk with him,
we know; and those who have been such a child
know what they say. It was not until, with
eyes following a joyous bobolink, he stepped into
a puddle of water in marshy ground and felt the
cold upon his feet, that he thought what he was
doing or remembered his mother. ‘* My feet are
wet! What will mamma say? I must go home.
— Home! to mother. Home! toa scolding. No,
I am going to see my Princess. Princess!
Princess! I am coming. See! I run. Keep
watch for me.” And, again, his real mother
forgotten in the thought of his dream mother,
he hurries on.
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At the edge of the wood he peeps curiously
in. Q, it is cool and green within! How deep
the shadows! How soft the grass! The tree
trunks form long aisles down which the shade
and sunshine play. A brook babbles by, not
five running steps away. And there — O Child!
O Little One! Yes; he sees it— beyond the
brook, quite far away, a flash of gold. “ My
Princess! my Princess!) I know you by your
golden hair.”
Outstretch thy little arms and run to her, dear
Child. If you believe it is the Princess, it 1s for
thee the Princess, although for those who see
with prosaic eyes it is but a gleam of sunshine
on the yellow leaves of a low bush. Run to thy
kind and dear Princess, thy source of love and
comfort, and feed thy hungry, empty heart.
Lavish upon her the love of thine overflowing
heart. Dear Child, thou shalt never know it is
not the Princess. For thee it is ever she.
With arms outstretched, face downward in the
careless, ignorant brook, his mother found him.
One foot still touched the stone which had caused
him to stumble; one hand still held sweet wild
flowers, whose stems drank from the stream.
How often, in the short-sighted judgments of
men, do things happen just too late. The mother
found her child too late to save his life, indeed,
but in time to save her own. The Child had
died with his heart full and satisfied. The mother
awakened to real life with her heart full. True,
the Child upon whom she longed to lavish her
new-found love was taken away. Still, through
that death, she awakened to find God, and the
world, and life, and universal love, and beauty,
and strength.
Marie A. Berry, ’ot.
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Margaret
T was with a great start that I awoke in the
twilight on that memorable night, last No-
vember. There were voices in the room, and,
evidently unconscious of any presence save his,
she was saying: “It is perfectly hopeless, dear ;
you must not plead with me, for | am weak; oh,
you do not, cannot know, how weak.” I lay
there in agony through the silence which fol-
lowed
the words, “ Philip, Philip you must help me!”
In answer to that appeal, he looked at her
a silence broken at last by a sob and
steadily for a moment, and then seizing her
hands, whispered: “ Yes, I will help you. Good-
bye, dear. God help us both.” And with that —
he was gone.
I wish you could have seen her as she stood
in-the firelight, which flickered unsteadily and
played among the gathering shadows with a
leap and a dance. I know that you would have
watched her in surprise, just as I have watched
her many times, while a growing sense of wonder
would have overcome every other emotion.
She was beautiful — ah, I cannot tell you how
beautiful; for it was a thing to dream about, her
beauty, and many a time as, with royal, free
step, she moved about, I have whispered, “ My
queen.” That only — but that told all.
She stood with her hands lightly clasped before
her, a tall, straight figure; but her face I did
not see until a flame of fire, leaping up, revealed
it to me in all its unutterable sadness. She stood
there, perfectly still, for many minutes, but, as
the darkness deepened and the light faded from
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earth, she went out, slowly, wearily. I knew
she would go to her room, not to weep, but to
learn to endure.
She is my only sister, you know, but I, who
should have been her help and her comfort, was
chained to my couch in never-ending misery of
mind and of body. Thus it was that, unable to
move, I had been the witness of my dear one’s
suffering. After she had left, however, with
nurse’s help, I crawled back into my own room;
and so it was here that she found me, when she
came to attend to my wants.
Kneeling down beside my couch, she took
into her hands, which would tremble in spite of
all, my own. Then knowing what I did, I said
softly, yearningly, “‘ Margaret, is it Philip?” I
suppose she thought I had read the story in her
face, for she did not seem surprised as she whis-
pered, “ Yes, dear,” but the voice was “full of
unshed tears,” and the firelight flashing up
showed me a white, set face, which was, never-
theless, a face strengthened by self-sacrifice and
ennobled by suffering.
How well I remembered the time a_ while
before, when my darling had come to me with
eyes and face alight, I] had asked her the same
question, “‘ Margaret, is it Philip?” and she had
said, “ Yes, dear,” but ah, with such different
meaning.
Now —and oh, the pity of it all—he was
gone. He had come to claim his bride, but she
had said him nay, partly for my sake —I knew
it only too well—and partly for the sake of
father. Poor father! Even when Margaret suf-
fered most, suffered for him and for me, I could
call him that.
It was when mother died that father wrecked
his life in the endeavor to drown grief. You
know what that means— why tell the whole
pitiful story. It is best to cover up the sins of
the past and of the present too.
The saddest part of all, to me, was that Mar-
garet had to bear the burden. When she refused
Philip at first, he would not give up hope. It
was hard, you know, for him to see the light of
his life go out into utter darkness. But from the
first I knew how it would end, and I prayed God
to let me die, that I might not see my darling
suffer. Coward that I was!
When the final blow came, and he had gone,
I could do nothing but put my arms about her
neck and whisper, “ Sweetheart, my sweetheart!”
The sense of my own impotency was galling,
and somehow, divining this, she rose from her
knees and walked to the window, till we should
both be more calm. Then it was that I said in
my heart, ‘‘ You are not a queen, but an angel.”
During the next two or three days an inde-
finable change came over her; it was inevitable,
of course. She was an angel, but she was a
woman too; moreover, a woman whose hopes of
happiness had been shattered.
It seemed to me that we lived in a dream for
many weeks — and all during that time I looked
first at father and then at myself, thinking how
pitiful it was that one helpless man and one help-
less woman had cost so much.
In those days, Margaret grew almost saintly
and so much so that at last when I thought of
purity, faith, hope, charity, I called them all by
one name — Margaret.
There has come to me, since I have been lying
here, this thought that those who suffer worthily
erow larger in heart toward all humanity. They
tell me, now, that among the children of the
poor my darling is called, “ Our dear lady,” and
I can well believe it.
Do you remember what Longfellow said about
Evangeline? Yes? Well, in my heart I repeat
those lines every day. It really seems as if I do,
indeed, behold “ gleams of celestial light encircle
her forehead with splendor.” It may be that
it is my love which transfigures her face, but,
however she looks to others, all know her
patience, devotion and love.
May God bless you, Margaret — my Margaret.
Jessie L. Wheeler, ‘oo.
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@ Morituri Salutamus
Fad
E loiter at the class-room door, I’ve had old note-books by the ‘score;
(J As fain to go, yet forced to stay, My friends’ best plans I’ve handed in;
We con our shibboleths once more, I never thought one lesson out;
And wonder what we'll have to-day. I really fear it was a sin.
O, lucky star, be with us yet, So, now, my cuffs with ink are wet,
Lest we forget; lest we forget. Lest I forget, lest I forget.
“From known to the akin unknown; ”’ Now, if perchance I should cast off
“ There’s but one Method,” we must say; Convention’s chains, and do a bit
_ “Have answers germane to the point; ” Of work that really was my own,
am What do you think we'll get to-day? I wonder what would come of it?
The ink upon our cuffs is wet, Rebellious heart! presumptuous word!
Lest we forget, lest we forget. But still the inner voice is heard.
“ Have definite and special aims ”’— Let’s cast all formulas away,
I know I cannot get it right — Think our own thoughts, and speak our mind;
“ And all the work must be clean-cut,”— Whate’er may hap, be our own selves,
I never was in such a fright! And leave all doubt and fear behind.
My lucky star, shine for me yet, No matter then what work is set,
Lest I forget, lest I forget. We need not fear that we’ll forget.
M. R. H., ’oo.
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The freshman
HEN the leaves of early autumn,
Tinged with gold, fall far and near,
Those who walk in Nature’s garden
Think and feel “ September’s here.”
But the dwellers in our city
Pay no heed to leaves of brown;
We all mark th’ approach of autumn
By the Freshman in the town.
We can tell it at the station
By the crowds that leave each train,
Where the cheeks of tender maidens
Sear a mark, not travel-stain.
More than ever do we know it
When th’ expressmen swear and frown,
As they point to loads of baggage,
And say: “ Freshie’s come to town.”
Note conductors on the trolleys
Marked “Pine Hills ” Belt
See th’ expression on bland faces
or Line
Slowly change to grave from gay.
They are frantic answering questions,—
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That are
Of the
put to them by dozens
Freshmen just in town.
Day by day we see them passing
On their way, the young, the brave;
Varied types with ages ranging
From the cradle to the grave.
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street?” “ Hudson?” “ Going down?”’
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IXach one talks of percepts, concepts,
Sketches, plans — not strange that sound,
We exclaim at once: “It’s autumn,
And the Freshman’s just in town.”
Every insect in the country
Knows it just as well as we,
And makes haste to warn his neighbors,
That together they may flee;
Thus escaping death which yearly
Comes to kin, for miles around,
In those crystal cells marked “ Poison,”
Kept by Freshmen in the town.
What a keen and watchful vigil
Must policemen in the park
Keep on every leaf and blossom,
Tree and shrub, from morn till dark.
Let there be a plant quite foreign,
One like which few can be found,
It’s the very thing that’s wanted
By the Freshman now in town.
Do you wonder then, that summer
Is to us a treasure dear?
That we hail its approach with pleasure,
After siege of winter drear?
In the grass now chirps the cricket,
In the tree tops thrushes brown,
Join the universal chorus:
“Joy! the Freshman’s left the town.”
— FE. A. L., ’oo.
Soliloquy of
Mary Stuart
Upon being allowed a walk in the Prison Park shortly before her execution
Tr. from the German of Schiller, Maria Stuart, Act II
That hides my prison walls from me.
I will dream myself happy and free —
Why awake from a vision so sweet?
Am I not by broad heaven surrounded?
Does not my gaze, free and unbounded,
Reach out over limitless space?
See! There where the dark grey fog mountains
lie
Begins of my kingdom the boundary;
(3 IVE thanks, my heart, to each green tree
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And these clouds, one another southward
chasing,
Toward the far ocean of France are hastening.
Hurrying clouds, ships of the air!
Would I might wander, sail with you there!
Greet kindly the land of my youth.
I am in prison, in chains I lie bound,
Be ye my envoys! No others I’ve found.
High and free through the air lies your way,
Ye are not subjects of Hate’s cruel sway.
—M.A.B., 4 2
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AS: that a» yawn? <1 . started. On. this
lovely summer day I had strayed far
from the road where my wheel was
waiting, and now was alarmed as the evidence
of a human presence near. The sound seemed
to come from beyond a group of shrubs. I
stepped up and peered over.
On the ground lay an old, old man, very tall,
evidently once strong and muscular, now
withered with age. His long white hair and
beard were in anything but picturesque confu-
sion, and his dress — tattered and ragged, so that
its fashion was almost unrecognizable, was
yet of no fashion I had ever seen, except in some
picture of “ The Landing of the Pilgrims,” or the
like.
He was sleeping but lightly, for at my excla-
mation of surprise he opened wide a pair of blue
eyes still bright and merry, and murmured,
drowsily: “Good day.” Then, eagerly: “ Who
are you? Where from? Where am I?”
I briefly stated my name and place of resi-
dence; also the whereabouts of the spot he had
chosen for a nap. Then he asked what year it
was. “Year?” I answered, “why, 1900, of
course. Have you been asleep for twenty years
like Rip Van Winkle?”
“Like Rip Van Winkle!” he repeated. “I
am Rip Van Winkle.”
“ But,” I stammered, “but Rip Van Winkle
died, I thought. He slept twenty years, and
woke to find his friends gone, and — he died,” I
concluded, lamely.
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The old man’s eyes filled with tears. ‘“ True,”
he muttered, “ gone, all gone ”— turning to me:
“ How do you know of Rip Van Winkle?”
“Why, a man named Washington Irving
wrote a story about him, which is printed in a
book and known everywhere, and a great actor
has made a play of it.”
A smile flitted over his face, which was, cer-
tainly, one of gratified vanity. “In a book,” he
said. “In a book and known everywhere.
Well, it was a wonderful story. But I didn’t
die. I came back to the mountains and went to
sleep again.” “But over there is the spot,” I
said, waving my hand. “I didn’t say I went to
the same place,” he snapped, “and how did you
dare come so far alone? Aren’t you afraid of
fairies? ”
“Fairies!” I laughed, “there are no such
things nowadays.”
“No fairies!” gasped he, “how then is any-
thing wonderful done?”
“We do it ourselves,” I laughed. “You may
mention any fairy tale that we can’t match.
Try and see.”
“Let me think,” he said. “Have you any
Seven-League Boots, such as the clever giants
used?”
“No, but we've carriages propelled by steam
that move at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
America has grown to be something like the
land where a fairy queen took the hand of a lit-
tle child named Alice, and ran with her at break-
neck speed; their feet never touched the ground,
ote BLS dit
they panted for breath; yet, on stopping, they
were in the spot where they began. ‘ Why,’
panted Alice, ‘this is a strange land. In my
country, when we run like that we always get
somewhere. ‘Pooh!’ sneered the queen, ‘that
must be a slow way of living. Here we have to
run as fast as we can to keep in the same place.’ ”’
“But you’ve no Prince Fine Ear, who could
hear the very insects humming?”
“No, but we’ve an instrument by which we
can distinguish sounds as fine as those you men-
tion; it is called an audiphone. And by
another, people thousands of miles apart can talk
to each other. And instead of Prince Hassan’s
Enchanted Horse that flew through the air like
a great bird, men go around the world on
wheels of steel. And do you remember how,
when a knight of old left his lady love, he had a
mirror, and whenever he looked into it, he saw
only her face? Now, the same look is caught
and held forever, and is called a photograph.”
“Well, you haven’t a Sleeping Beauty?” he
asked, so wistfully, it pained me to answer.
“ There is a case on record of a French woman
who had gone to sleep in 1808, and was still
alive and still slumbering thirty years later, fed
by an occasional crumb.”
Warming to the subject, I went on: “ We have
learned that William Tell is a myth, and that
Bluebeard really lived. The Philosopher’s
Stone, which turned everything it touched into
gold, is found to-day in one little, narrow lane,
called Wall street. Aladdin’s Lamp to-day is the
limitless purse of a multi-millionaire, which can
bring the treasures of the uttermost parts of the
earth at his bidding. The Eiffel Tower is the
beanstalk for our Modern Jack to climb, and he
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mounts it in an elevator. The mighty genie,
confined in the limits of a tiny jar, is the tremend-
ous force of electricity, which turns darkness into
light, or devours time and space at man’s com-
mand. The marvel of the speaking statue in the
Arabian Knights is excelled by a little box which
we may send wherever it shall please us to speak
the words we have taught it to say in the very
tones we used. The wonder-worker of the nine-
teenth century belongs to us Americans; this
fairy godmother is a man, and his name is
Thomas Edison. Red Riding Hood and her
wolf start out by different paths for the cottage
of the poor. We know the name of the wolf at
the door to be Hunger, and the little girl is
Help, but, thanks to the Christian charity of our
day and our land, Red Riding Hood is fleeter of
foot than the savage wolf, and reaches the cot-
tage first. The Giant Killer goes out to fight
against Ignorance and Vice, twin monsters, who
confront him while he is yet a stripling, but who
can doubt the issue, when his sword is strong
and supple, and is marked in golden letters on
the hilt: ‘A Common School Education?’ ”
Small, lonely three pair backs behold
To-day Alcestis dying;
To-day in farthest Polar cold
Ulysses’ bones are lying.
Still in one morning Times one reads
How fell an Indian Hector;
Still clubs discuss Achilles’ steeds,
Briseis’ next protector.
Still Menelaos brings, we see,
His oft-remanded case on,
Still somewhere said Hypsipylae
Bewails a faithless Jason.
Margaret Robinson Hall.
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To an Out-of-Date Note-Book
notes, that died
Ho: lie in state, the dearly treasured
In the bright glory of their second-
handed fame;
A mossy title page with but a date and name
Some epitaph that speaks the sacred flame of
pride
By which their former owner then was
glorified.
Thou ancient saintly book! thy myriad leaves
are loud
With sounds of borrowed thoughts of which thou
standest avowed.
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Thou speakest of a race long past that once
beside
The shades of patient Pestalozzi had lingering
lain
And breathed the sweet perfume his simple life
exhaled,
And caught the radiant gems of happy childish
grace.
Thou paper, product of a sadly seething brain,
Thy fate is sealed and all is lost! Thy life has
failed;
The century wanes, e’en methods change, thou
must give place.
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Drinking Song
F Jove, when he made this beautiful world,
Had only consulted me,
An ocean of wine should flow in the place
Of the brackish and bitter sea;
Red wine should pour from the fruitful clouds
In place of the tasteless rain,
And the fountains should bubble in ruby rills
To brim the sparkling main.
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No fruit should grow but the round, full grape,
No bowers but the shady vine,
And of all earth’s flowers the queenly rose
Should alone in her beauty shine;
I’d have a few lakes for the choicest juice,
Where it might grow mellow and old,
And my lips should serve as a sluice to drain
Those seas of liquid gold.
—H. L. R.
bat do you Suppose ?
IDE by side we sat, just we two,
Saying sweet speeches, as sweethearts do;
But ever feigning coy, shy ways,
Her deep, blue eyes she downward sent
Each time I tried to meet her gaze
Now what do you suppose she meant?
Upon my word, I told this miss
That truly, ne’er stole I a kiss;
She turned to me, with sweet accord
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While blushes to her temples went,
“And boast you, sir, of that record?”
Now what do you suppose she meant?
Silence followed with ne’er a word,
Not a whisper nor sound was heard;
Not even stirred a breath of air.
I asked myself, was this consent?
When up she spoke: “ Sir, did yor dare?”
Now what do you suppose she! meant?
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Spring’s Awakening
A Legend
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a
ING Winter sat on his throne high up in
his ice palace, and ruled over all the land.
His palace was built of blue and glowing
ice blocks, polished to look like marble and one
could see through them as though they were
glass. His throne was a great ice chair covered
with a bear’s skin, and on either side sat his
trusty advisers, Jack Frost and Santa Claus, on
smaller thrones. The king had a great high
crown set with lustrous snow crystals, and all
day long, the palace echoed with peals of laugh-
ter, for the ice fairies and snow elves are jolly
little people.
One day at the other end of the world, a little
brown bear awoke after his long winter nap and
sleepily thrust his nose out into the world, from
the door of the cave where he lived, but he saw
nothing but ice and snow, so he went back again
to sleep. In a day or two, however, he woke
again, and came to the door, and this time the
sun shone so brilliantly and the air seemed so
bright, that he hastily turned and ran back in
the cave. If one only could have seen through
the darkness of the cave, he would have had
something to remember. There, back in the
cave, lay two beautiful children, fast asleep. The
little bear ran back to them, and, pressing his
nose lovingly against their faces, he awoke them
gently. The children arose slowly and came out
to the edge of the cave. The taller was dressed
in a short green silk robe and, as he came to the
door of the cave, he reached out for his little
sister’s hand. She was dressed in white, em-
broidered with silver lilies.
“Let us come out for a walk, dear Easter,”
said the boy. Easter assented (for such was her
name), and the two went out a little ways. But
the air pierced through their frail clothes and
evens
brother,” said little Easter, ‘ I cannot go farther.
I am too cold.” The boy looked sadly around.
sharply pinched their delicate limbs.
“ Dear Easter, we must let the earth people know
we are at hand, but,” he added, as a fresh gust
shook them through and through, “I do not
see whatever we shall do.” Very sadly and
wearily the children picked their way back to
the cave. They sat down and looked at each
other blankly. “What shall ris
we do:
Spring, the brother. “ What shall we
echoed Easter.
said
do?”
He
spied the shivering children at the cave door,
and hurried to them. They snuggled up close
“What shall we do to
let the earth people know we are coming?” said
Spring. “Why not send a messenger?” asked
the West Wind.
Easter, her tender blue eyes opening wide as
violets. ‘“ Who shall we send?” asked Spring;
“the little brown bear is too sleepy; can you
Just then the West Wind came softly by.
to his warm, soft heart.
“Why not, indeed,’ said
“No,” said the West Wind, “I must go
go?”
to make Summer for other lands.
I have too
much to do. Why not send the squirrels?”
“The squirrels are too silly,” said Spring; “ they
will not stay still long enough to hear the mes-
sage.” “Then try the birds,” said the West
Wind. “Oh,” cried Easter, “the birds are only
just leaving the South, and they are too busy
with their own affairs.”
Just then a little bunny, with lovely soft brown
eyes, hopped up to Spring and said, wistfully,
“Dear Spring, could I take your messages? I
can run fast, and I will tell everyone I see.”
Spring and Easter clapped their hands, and
said together, “Oh, Bunny, you are the very
one to go.” “ But,” asked the West Wind gently,
“are you brave enough, little Bunny? Are you
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Bunny, trembling, “I am very much afraid; but
not afraid of the big men?” answered
I will try my best, just the same.” Then Spring
put his arms about the faithful Bunny's neck.
“Tell everyone you see, dear little friend, that
Spring is coming, and everyone must say good-
“And tell them, too,” said
Easter, looking lovingly at him, “that they shall
bye to Winter.”
live forever, for Spring always follows Winter.”
And she gave him a little green basket all filled
with bright colored eggs, to give to all men to
The West Wind kissed the
little animal, and Spring also kissed him, while
little Easter held him close to her without speak-
ing for a minute. Then the little rabbit, tremb-
ling with joy, sped swiftly away, and was soon
remember her by.
out of sight.
“Well,” said the West Wind, “I must get to
work.” “Thank you, so much, for all you
did for us,” said Spring, and Easter held out lov-
ing arms to the Wind who touched her soft, gold
curls lightly. As the Wind went away, the chil-
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dren sat quite happy, for they knew that the
rabbit was a faithful, brave messenger, and they
could trust him thoroughly.
The little rabbit ran swiftly over the country.
He made up his mind to go to the Winter King
first, for he knew him to be the most important
person in the world at that time, and, therefore,
So, though his
heart failed him, he made his way bravely
that respect was due to him.
through the snowdrifts, every tree that he passed,
and every bush he roused and said to them:
follows Winter and
And, behold! as the
rabbit ran, the air became milder, and on the
“Live forever; Spring
Spring is on the way.”
edge of the basket he wore around his neck, vio-
lets burst into flowers, blue and trusting as the
eyes of little Easter.
Two great, stiff icicle-guards were watching at
each side of the palace door, but, though they
were so tall and straight, they could not catch
the bunny as he scampered between them,
straight to the lower step of the Winter King’s
throne. Now, the Winter King hated the smell
of violets, it always made him sneeze, and he
began to sneeze so hard that his big crown rolled
off, clanging down to the polished ice floor.
“ Live forever! Spring follows Winter and Spring
And
wherever his feet had touched, the ice melted
is on the way!” cried bunny rushing away.
and violets came up in his footprints. Santa
Claus began to grow warm and had to take off
his red cap and open his red jacket, while Jack
Frost, who was the busiest person alive and who
never could sit still a moment, sat quite still and
quiet in a corner alone.
All through the land the bunny ran, telling
the birds, who were coming from the South,
rousing bees, flies, big and little animals till
finally he came in sight of a little village.
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“ Whatever shall I do to tell the men,” thought
the poor bunny. “ What should I do if they
caught me?” And he felt, quite troubled.
But, while he puzzled, some little children
came out to play. “ Oh,” said bunny to himself,
“that child looks like little Easter. Surely, she
won’t hurt me.” And he went up timidly to
them and said: “ Little children, live forever,
Spring follows Winter, and Spring is on the
way.”
The children were so glad that they rushed off
into their houses and told their mothers. The
mothers cames to the doors and said: “ Surely,
the rabbit spoke truth. How soft and sweet the
air is?’ and when the fathers came in from work
they heard it, too, so that everyone knew it, but
that was afterwards.
‘“ But did you thank the rabbit for his news?”
said the mothers. “ No,’ said the children.
‘“We were so glad we forgot it, but we will go
now and see if we can find him.” The bunny
was gone when they got back, however, and
where he had been there lay the little green bas-
ket full of eggs. The children were so happy
that they took out the eggs. The more they
took out, the more came into the basket, so that
not only the village children. had some, but
there were enough for all the children in the
world. And where the violets dropped from the
baskets, there they took root and came up, till
finally the snow was quite crowded off the
ground.
When the little rabbit had done his work he
came back tired and happy to Spring and Faster,
who awaited him joyfully, and when he had told
his success they told him that every year he
should go out and tell everyone the Spring
tidings.
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Then Spring and Easter went forth hand in
hand and Spring carried a rod of willow-pussies
with which he touched all the trees, and they
broke out into leaf and blossom. But Easter
touched them with a spray of sweet-smelling
white lilies and bade the flowers turn their faces
up to the great warm sun and to God and give
thanks for their renewed life, and all men, wher-
ever these two passed by, felt they should never
die, and fervent love sprang up in their hearts.
On their way the brother and sister met three
bowed-down old men. Easter recognized Santa
Claus. She felt sorry for him, he looked so
tired. And, as the other two looked up, the
children saw they were the Winter King and
Jack Frost.
‘Never mind,” said the King, as he faced
them, “ I am tired and must-rest; there will come
a time when all the leaves and flowers will be
tired, too, and then I will come again.”
“And I,” said Santa, “I, too, will come again
when I have finished my work in the toy-shop,
but there are so many new children in the world
that I forsee an extra quantity of toys will have
to be made.”
“T must hasten back, too,” said Jack Frost,
“and make my yearly supply of snow blankets
to cover the sleeping flowers and leaves. And
when you, too, are tired, dear children, I, too,
will come again and cover you with the softest
snows that I can make.”
So saying, they departed their way. That was
the last that was seen of the Winter King and
his friends for many a day.
As for the little brown bear, he spent all sum-
mer near a beehive where the bees gave him all
the honey he could eat.
And this is the reason why at Easter time we
see rabbits in all the store windows.
Mary W. Silliman, ’oo.
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Chapel Lectures
URING the college year from September
until April, the following course of lec-
tures has been given:
On Monday evening, December the eleventh,
Lieutenant Godfrey L. Carden, Ordnance Officer
of the U. S. S. Manning, of Admiral Sampson’s
fleet, delivered his illustrated lecture, “ With the
Men Behind the Guns,” in the college chapel.
Lieutenant Carden’s delivery and apt expression
was especially worthy of mention. There was a
marked absence of technical terms and when
they did creep in, an explanation always fol-
lowed. Many of the pictures thrown upon the
screen were taken by the lecturer, and he spoke
throughout with the ease and assurance of one
who had received his knowledge at first hand.
The views of the “ White Squadron” were
very beautiful. Lieutenant Carden praised the
men who stood behind the guns, saying that the
war has demonstrated that success depends more
upon the men than upon armor and weight of
metal.
A stereopticon exhibition of the paintings by
Tissot was given in the college chapel on Tues-
day evening, February the sixth, under the aus-
pices of the Albany Camera Club.
There was shown but a portion of the entire
collection, which numbers about 463. Consid-
ering that a large number of these views are
made from pictures hardly more than eighteen
inches square, and, in many of which, more than
one hundred figures are represented, the artist’s
skill falls little short of the marvelous.
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The pictures are wholly religious in their char-
acter, representing different phases of the life
of our Lord. One of the most striking groups
exhibited was the one devoted to His birth and
death. The views were explained by the Rev.
Dr. Archibald Love, who, as an eye-witness of
the places depicted, added many interesting facts.
One of the valuable ways of becoming ac-
quainted with new lands is through views illus-
trating the country and the life of the people.
When to this is added the experiences of one
who has made the country his residence, the
advantage is still greater. Captain Henry F.
Goldman gave the students of the college and
their friends an instructive talk on the Island of
Porto Rico, Monday evening, February the
twelfth.
The lecturer treated the subject from com-
mercial, educational, social and political points
of view. Some of the slides were very attractive
from the fact that they were colored, thereby
adding beauty and naturalness to the scenery and
objects presented.
On the evening of February the fifteenth, there
was given an illustrated lecture, the title of
which was “Good Roads.”
It was the purpose of the lecturer, through
the aid of the stereopticon, to show the need of
reform in the making of our roads. While show-
ing these reproductions, he took occasion to
teach the advantages of good roads from the
pictured contrasts of those in America and in
Europe.
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During the past month, the College has had
an opportunity to enjoy several delightful enter-
tainments given by the Albany Camera Club.
The first of these exhibitions represented a
wide range of scenery and of studies in Hamilton
and Toronto, Frankford and Orange. Every
lover of the fine arts was well rewarded for
attending, as the collection contained many pic-
tures of rare harmony and beauty.
On December the fourteenth, views were
shown, illustrating scenes in New York, Brook-
lyn and Philadelphia; and on January eighteenth
scenes in Montclair and Newark were exhibited.
Again on the evening of February the fifteenth,
the faculty and students of the college had the
pleasure of gathering together to see another of
these fine exhibitions. This time, the views
represented scenes in Orange, N. J., Montreal,
Ottawa and Toronto. The pictures presented
were unusually interesting and beautiful and
could not fail to please those who were so for-
tunate as to see them.
"Tis Sweet Indeed
o WIS sweet when summer-time is near,
And odor-laden days are long,
In thicket, bush and hedge to hear
The birds’ soft melodies of song.
Then all the pulses in us thrill,
And praises to the Maker fill
With echoes every dale and hill,
“ How fine!”
’Tis sweet to watch the bud unfold
Its tiny petals; sweet to see
The rose, e’er in it yet is told
A half the story there to me.
Its mem’ry’s like an endless chime,
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Kept ever ringing in a rime
With perfect cadence-tune and time,
“ Divine! ”
"Tis sweet, by tender care, to see
Th’ unsullied colors, clear and new,
Which tell to man again that he
Untainted first in Nature grew.
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And sweeter — that the rose to-night,
Effusing all that’s pure and bright,
Upon her bosom’s stainless white —
Is mine!
—G. B.
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HAT an infinite stretch of distance, rep-
resenting that upward struggle and
myriads of activities in mind and heart,
lies between the cannibal feast of the Fiji
Islanders and the intellectual banquets of a col-
lege commencement, with its suggestiveness of
endless hope and promise for the future welfare
of the nation and race. This does not mean that
graduates are finished and perfect specimens of
humanity. No, the senior is not perfect; at
least most of them are not, nor do they think
themselves so.
As the senior hears the president say, “ Pro
auctoritate mihi commissa,” and receives his
diploma, he is dazed. Behind him, happy child-
hood and youth, before him, manhood’s battlings
and strivings. He hears the surges of the great
sea, calling him, inviting him to try his powers.
His life has floated down a stream thus far; from
its very source has he followed it, until to-day
he floats out upon the sea. It is smooth sailing
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now. The setting sun shines kindly on him, the
cooling breezes fan his fevered cheek, and the
murmuring waves clap their hands in joyous
welcome. He looks behind; the river of the past
is radiant with the reflection of the setting sun;
as he grows older, this happy past of his will
glow with brighter and brighter brilliancy, and
when clouds are darkest, when winds are wildest
and waves highest, some pleasant scene of his
childhood will glow like a diamond surrounded
by blackness. He will often long to sail those
smooth stretches again. He looks forward; the
great sea is before him. How soft its caresses
now, but how sharp its concealed claws. He
is alone on the sea of life. Night is coming on.
He must toil in darkness till morning breaks.
Perhaps it will never break—for him. He
knows not. He only hopes, and with a last,
long, lingering, loving look at the sunset-radiant
river, he turns resolutely to the rolling, pathless,
limitless ocean — the future.
To the Faculty
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Punch our cards with tenderest air;
Punch them once to show we're there,
-oh, do we dare
Punch them twice,
To hope our strife may meet success,
And grant to us a rich redress
For all the strain and brainless stress
Of sleepless nights in labor spent
In copying notes by others lent!
Then, Powers that Be, when locked behind
Those heavy doors that blot and blind
To student eyes, thy looks so kind,—
Remember, then, our earnest prayer
Look, see, consult, compare!
Punch, punch, punch with care,
Punch in the presence of the office
Punch our cards with tenderest air;
Punch them once to show we're there,
alas — beware!
Punch them twice!
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Some Apt Advice from a Practical Educator
HE sole purpose of education is to teach
people to think.
Prove all things and hold fast that
which is good.
The weakest of all persons to get things
accomplished is a scold.
About the only men who can be influenced
by logic are the judges of the Supreme Court.
A teacher who can interest and keep good
order will be a success even if she violates any
recognized educational system.
You can drink from a dirty tumbler with a
great deal more safety than you can perform
experiments with a dirty test-tube.
The teacher who expects his pupil to remem-
ber all the facts he has been taught is a rank
tyrant.
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Never allow an emotion to develop within,
without letting it work out into some kindly
action.
The principal may find a real cantankerous
teacher whom he has to sit on, but if he can
get her to think she’s doing as she pleases,
while she is really doing as he wishes, he’s a
success.
Be an expert in some one thing. Don’t try
to embody all psychology in one essay, it’s too
broad. Remember the fate of the German who,
in dying, said to his son: “ Hans, in my life work
I have made a great failure. I sought to master
the third declension. I should have confined
myself to the dative case.”
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OST of us are sluggards, more or less.
There are very few to whom the
so-called “taking it easy” offers no
While we may not be _ besotted
do-nothings, content to sink into our graves
with only blanks on the credit side of life’s
account, yet at present we are _ principally
engaged in paving a certain broad road with
good intentions. Our plans for the future are
good. We shall do something worth while some
But just now there are difficulties hinder-
It is very
evident that these lions, whether real or imagin-
charm.
day.
ing us — there are lions in the way.
ary, are dangerous beasts, dangerous to the best
thing a man possesses — the power to do good
work.
The slothful man is ever making excuses for
his conduct. If he is a farmer, we find him
neglecting the cultivation of his fields because
the weather does not suit him. It is either too
cold or too hot; too cloudy or too wet. If he is
a merchant he finds imaginary excuses in the
conditions of the markets. Commodities are too
high or too low. If he is a mechanic, he finds
difficulties in the place, the tools or the materials
with which he has to work. If he is a student,
he finds opposition in everything — uncongenial
classmates, incompetent instructors and a
wrongly-planned curriculum. The human mind,
if not occupied with honest business, finds time
to create many excuses. But the industrious
farmer finds no difficulty in the weather, the in-
dustrious merchant no difficulty in the market,
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the industrious student no difficulty in the work
mapped out for him to do. The difficulties of the
sluggard are purely imaginary; they are merely
dreams of idleness — the trouble lies not in his
surroundings — but in himself. Brete Harte, in
a little poem called “ Fate,” shows the usual end
of those who find excuses in their surroundings
for delaying duty:
The sky is clouded, the rocks are bare;
The spray of tempest is white in air;
The winds are out with the waves at play
And I shall not tempt the sea to-day.
The trail is narrow, the wood is dim,
The panther clings to the arching limb;
The lion whelps are abroad at play
And I shall not join the hunt to-day.
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But the ship sailed safely over the sea,
And the hunter came from the chase in glee;
And the town that was founded upon a rock,
Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock.
That “procrastination is the thief of time,” is
an old saying, but it as true as it is trite. ‘To-
morrow is a dangerous creditor upon which to
burden the unliquidated debts of to-day. To-
morrow is yet a sealed book. Yet how many of
us defer our best life’s chances on to-morrow’s
uncertain performance of duty. The sentimental
idealist may drift along on the waves of hope,
trusting to reach to-morrow’s shore in safety, but
if the current is not properly measured to-day
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he is likely to become a wreck upon the surging
morning tide. To-day is our vantage ground.
To-morrow, like yesterday, is in the mysterious
hands of fate.
But difficulties are not all imaginary. There
are often real difficulties in the path of our en-
deavors. Difficulties that must be fought with
and conquered in many a grim and hard-fought
battle. But, suppose such is the case; have we
even then an excuse for lying on our backs and
bemoaning our hard circumstances? Just stop
a moment and let us ask ourselves the candid
question: What right have we to be crying about
difficulties? To what end have we been given
nerve and muscle, brain and brawn, but that we
might have the where-with-all to battle with the
difficulties we meet, and if we needs must fall, to
fall fighting. It often takes a great emergency
to bring out what is best as well as what is worst
in man. Natures are then stripped of their ve-
neer, and, standing out in bold relief, are seen for
just what they are. We all know the difference
between military parade and war. The military
evolutions of a company are quite different in
the absence than they are in the presence of the
enemy. There are men who are useless on
parade who are excellent men in the actual con-
flict, and vice versa. The time to test the mettle
of a soldier is when he is under actual fire. His
value is determined by how well he can face the
enemy. We are all coming or have come into a
state where we are to be tested, and the way we
carry ourselves in that trial, whatever that trial
may be, will be the real test of our character.
An eminent writer has said: “Struggle is
essential to strength. If nature would grow a
pumpkin she lets the thing lie close down in the
lap of earth and covers it with broad leaves and
surrounds it with rank vegetation. Thus shel-
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tered from wind and rain there is nothing for the
mass of pulp to do but vegetate.
When nature wants an oak tree, she makes
the sapling stand forth in the open; bare its life
to all the storms of heaven and bend its strength
against every wind that blows.” So great ob-
stacles are not to check action, but to give power
for development. It is only as difficulties are
conquered that one’s nature is ennobled.
We cannot afford to relinquish our purposes at
the sight of difficulties, for, by doing so, we brand
ourselves as pumpkin-made or cowards.
We must not look upon our struggles as hope-
less because they are hard. Nothing ever has
been accomplished which was not first begun.
No man can cross a river by standing on the
bank, and no man will accomplish a purpose by
looking at the difficulties in the way. In every
undertaking there is a Rubicon to be crossed,
after that there may be weary marches and hard
battles, but victory -is at the end. What has
been done can be done again; ask only “Is it
right? Is it expedient?” If it is then go at it
with a will.
It is for us to set out ideals boldly, to place
them high, and then strive for their translation
into life. For making the ideal real in character
is the purpose of the years we spend on earth, of
the tears we shed and the joys we experience.
With this as the final goal of our life the end
cannot be defeat.
Suppose we all follow an ideal that is as im-
possible of attainment as the “pot of gold” at
the rainbow’s end; suppose we come to the close
of life and find ourselves no nearer the “ pot of
gold,” and looking up see that even the beautiful,
alluring rainbow colors have faded and vanished;
have we then failed? No; for the struggle has
developed strength.
Do you think that Norseman who held his
narrow vantage-ground at Stanford Bridge,
alone, against many Saxons, was vanquished
when he met his deathblow by a spear thrust in
his back? No! he was just as much a conquer-
ing hero as if he had escaped at last without a
wound.
Most of us have seen a picture of that splen-
did relief, “Death and the Sculptor.” The
sculptor, after years of trial,-is just lifting his
chisel to put the finishing strokes to his work,
when death, the messenger with ,the calm, in-
scrutable face, stretches forth his arm and touches
the eager figure, and the worker’s hand is
stopped, the artist’s work is not completed. But
he has not failed. For in the years of labor, the
soul of the laborer had become nobler through
the dreams of beauty within which he had been
trying to chisel in the stone without.
Yes, he who strives, though vanquished, still
is victor.
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Big and little, great and small, Our report cards all are there;
lai With much chatter and confusion, Now some smile and seem light-hearted,
Waiting till the blow shall fall. Others’ brows are dark with care.
Val Presently up looms the Doctor, One by one the cards he hands out,
i And we straightway hush our noise, One by one we leave the room,
Knowing that, if we’re not quiet, And outside we look for punches —
ait He'll soon squelch us girls and boys. For tis thus we read our doom.
And when next we meet together,
We can. tell with little trouble
Which one’s cards were punchéd single,
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Bea ee cr ne Se ne to seek eas Kee 5 Ea ie aes oe od oe October 14.
Pi Catal a a Wd Ce ee oi es bores oy oi isia hao ene eee oo November 11.
Oe Re a re On re whee Sha erg om tae oles November 18.
PPA Ee ere ee a es 8 his as hoa eh Sa a ny oe ee cae December I5.
WOR A eee Oe ei ae 2 ik ee ek aS oa ee ee SER ee ee 8 gs ONG January 7.
Rectpiion tenderal-te the Glass of 1000 by 1901 on. oe ee February 22.
SON rn Set Gn cs ase eos a ek ep oR os Ss pas oe ee oe February 24.
Pst Rapa en ent ee aos rs Se SNe a ied ia oa March 9.
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A Soliloquy
(With apologies to Mr. Longfellow )
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A@\ELL me not, thou deceiving one,
re Method work’s a thing sublime!
For my poor brain is quite undone,
Writing sketches all the time.
Plans, they haunt me! Sketches, too!
And in dreams I see them still;
The point, the matter (my hoodoo),
And the method, if you will.
Not to write and then be done,
Is our destined end or way,
But to write again another one,
Such is our work for each day.
Toil is constant, and Time is slow,
And our hopes, though once so high,
Now, and always, do ever go
Down and down, howe’er we try.
From known to related unknown,
From the simple to compound;
Please do not blame me if I groan,
For I heard some awful sound.
Trust not yourself, what once you learned!
For the dead Past is out of joint.
Take notes! —and all else be spurned;
"Tis not germane to the point.
Let us then be
Development and induction;
Oh, which is best to be used?
Or, doesn’t he want deduction?
Oh, now see how I’m abused!
But our faults can still remind us,
We will mark their fads in ink,
And, departing, leave behind us
Foot-notes in our books, methink.
Foot-notes that perhaps another,
Toiling o’er this weary fen,
Some poor, tired, brain-sick brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
We'll warn him of sound sensation,
And of thoughts contiguous;
Association train to shun;
For they’re mistakes disastrous.
But for ourselves, ’tis Pd. B..,
That we now must strive to get;
And then, indeed, you'll surely see
How soon all else we'll forget!
No more of sketch and plan we'll dream;
Of development no more;
But with forgetfulness we'll teem,
And with joy forever more.
—W. B. A.
up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving,
still pursuing,
Tho’ we have to sit up late.
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Class Day Exercises
Thursday, June 15, 1899
Normal College Chapel
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Selection—‘‘Serenade” .. . ek ok er ere,
resets deta To-day for the last time we meet in thy halls
President’s Address
And pledge our allegiance to thee
ARCHIBALD J. MATTHEWS
é To continue thy children whatever befalls
Class History
WINIFRED L, JONES And true to old Albany be.
Entr’ Acte et Valse et Coppelia . . . Delzsbes
ORCHESTRA
The future will bring us its pleasure and pain,
Class Essay
Mack Wea Will bring us its sorrow and joy,
Class Poem | But whenever we think of our college again,
FANNIE M. PENDLETON |
May nothing our pleasure alloy.
Selection—‘‘ The Fortune Teller” seas cadereere
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Oration—Subject: An Important Issue Let us ever preserve recollections so dear
WALTER B. FORD
Vocal Solo—‘‘ The Lavender Girl” . . Tyroteré |
R. D. MAC MAHON | And now as the time of our parting draws near,
Of the days we’ve so happily passed,
Class Prophecy
ANNIE LOUISE CUSHING
We linger : we would they might last.
Morceau de Salon—‘‘ Amaranthus” ... Gilder
ORCHESTRA May the friendships we’ve formed ever constant remain
Presentation Oration
CHARLES M, SLOCUM
As the years swiftly by us shall pass,
ae | And though in the future new friends we may gain,
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May they ne’er take the place of our class.
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9 WWAS an evening in September,
od When from turret and from tower,
Chiming loud upon the stillness,
Struck the solemn midnight hour,
Sat I at my study table
Pondering many a problem o’er,
When I suddenly seemed standing
At the Normal College door.
Silently the door swung open,
And within the darkened hall
Stepped I slowly, half affrighted,
At the sound of my foot-fall.
ag And a woman came to meet me,
"Round her brows a crown of light;
But her face was sad and careworn,
And her hair was snowy white.
‘“ Daughter, I am Education.”
‘ Mother, I am seeking thee;
Grant me but to touch thy garment;
Let me sit beside thy knee.”
“ Daughter, dost thou know the troubles
That will lie thy feet before?”
& “ Mother, I have heard them often;
Aye, a thousand times and more.”
Then a soft and gentle radiance
Overspread her features mild,
Lighting up her face with glory,
And I knew she had smiled.
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Up the stairway passed we quickly
To a class-room on the right;
While behind us and before us
Lay the shadows of the night.
In this room a woman met us,
Tall and stately fair to see;
Education led me to her;
Thus I found Psychology.
“I, my friend so true and faithful,
Bring a pupil unto thee;
Take her by the hand and lead her,
Teach her truth, Psychology.”
Soon we started on our journey.
Many friends I met that night,
Of whose helpfulness and wisdom
"Tis beyond my power to write.
Science clothed in sweeping garments,
Like the seers of long ago;
Mathematics, brave old warrior,
Clad in mail, from top to toe.
Latin, next, the stern young Roman,
Bearing sword and shield of gold;
And his mother, Greek, beside him
With her face so fair and cold.
History, whose varied stories
Have and ever will allure;
Rhetoric with honeyed accents,
And her sister, Literature.
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Pass we then before a class-room
With a grating o’er the door,
And such groans from thence proceeded
As I never heard before.
“ Pause,” I cried, “ Oh pause and tell me
Of these tortured shades we pass.”
“They are ghosts of practice lessons
Taught before the method class.”
Ah! My conscience pricked so sorely
That I scarce knew what to do;
For I felt that I had murdered
Many of that mangled crew.
When at last, the day was dawning,
And the rosy fingered maid
| Opened wide the gates of morning,
Then the last farewell was said.
At the door stood Education,
Beckoned to us by a sign;
Then I seemed to stand before her,
With the Class of ’99.
We stood in silence, then her voice
Rose clear upon the morning air,
Like distant bells whose mellowed chime
Rings out and summons earth to prayer:
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A poet once compared our lives
To ships that meet and speak and part.
The sea is wide on which they sail;
A glance exchanged, a friendly hail
That echoes on from heart to heart,
And then each vessel onward drives.
A moment and they both have passed,
Like white-winged birds they flit away
Into the night and then are gone,
Yet ever does each ship sail on,
Completes its course and one fair day
It reaches anchorage at last.
And thus you meet a little space.
You pledge your friendship each to each.
A little time and then you part.
One wish I give you from my heart
Before you pass away to teach;
And others come to take your place.
Where e’er the ships that meet to-day
Shall onward sail and fade away;
What e’er the storms that o’er them blow,
And the breakers roar on the rocks below,
May the beacon lights burn bright and pure,
Be the hand on the rudder firm and sure,
And the ships of your souls be given at last
An anchorage safe when the voyage is
past.”
—Fannie M. Pendleton.
Class Essay
5d
What People Call Amusements
ENTURIES ago a French chronicle said of
the English people that they amused
themselves too gloomily, meaning that
such strenuous efforts were exerted for amuse-
ment that its true object, recreation after work,
was forgotten. To a certain extent this is true,
not only of our English forefathers, but of the
American people to-day. Society in general
stands in need of honest and enjoyable recrea-
tion, which will enable men and women to per-
form the duties of life more completely and more
satisfactorily.
As long as an individual has surplus strength
after the toils of the day are over, so long will he
crave for amusements. When hope and energy
depart recreation is no longer sought for. This
is well expressed by Tennyson in the beautiful
little poem where he describes the vitality of the
fisherman’s boy and the blithe sailor lad who
sang as he plied the oars; but, alas for the one
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who was intent upon “ the touch of the vanished
hand and the sound of a voice that was still.”
Joyousness had fled from him, and in its place
had come sorrow.
One needs only visit the metropolis of America
to discover the so-called amusements of the
present. When the work of the day has been
accomplished, the busy New Yorker is eager for
pleasure and he heartily enters into play. His fay-
orite place of amusement is the theatre. He likes
best romantic plays and social dramas and farces,
for he loves to laugh, and, therefore, he does not
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care for tragedy, unless, perchance, there appear
in it some idol of the stage like Irving. Regard-
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ing this, one man said: I have enough sad-
ness, enough trouble, enough tragedy in my
business life to completely depress me. What I
want in the evening is an hour or two at the
theatre or opera, where there are music, laughter
and singing.” Scarcely a more interesting sight
can be imagined than the scene presented in some
large opera house at the appearance of a great
singer. The building is literally crowded with
human beings. All are full of animation, and the
applause that arises is deafening. Nowhere will
you behold more beautiful women and nowhere
will you see a more dazzling display of jewels.
Amid all this splendor and excitement one fancies
that he has been taken back into the romantic
days of chivalry. If he will linger for a time he
will be impressed with the fact that many are
inattentive to the music. It may be that the
voice of the singer has been overwhelmed by the
charms of society gossip, one of the greatest
amusements of mankind, although it is not
generally so conceded. The social prominence
gained by attending these operas is eagerly
desired, and whether or not one cares for music
he seeks the most fashionable kind of amuse-
ment, knowing that it will increase his social
prestige.
Besides the theatre and the opera there are the
bicycling and riding academies, the skating rinks
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the charity fairs, the balls given by political and
social clubs, the formal dinner parties, the
innumerable receptions and scores of other
amusements. These may afford pleasure at first,
but they soon come to be exceedingly monoto-
nous. However, money is liberally contributed
for them, and if one were to look at the financial
side of pastimes he might very well conclude that
the country was dotted with gold mines. In New
York card playing and dancing are no longer
sufficient in themselves. Musicians and actors
must be engaged to entertain the guests during
the progress of an evening, and a wealthy man
frequently spends a thousand dollars for this
purpose.
Lectures and entertainments of the lyceum
form very profitable amusements for the more
serious and reflective audiences, but generally
speaking the lecture is no longer popular. If it
could be made a sparkling presentation of wit
and humor it would be more favorably received.
If a study be made of the pastimes of a people
it will be found that there is a constant fluctuation
in their popularity. this factis noticeable in the
history of some out-door games. For a time
tennis had great social prominence, but now it is
played mostly by experts. With the decline of
tennis, bicycling gained favor. For a long while
the latter was considered a pastime fit for the
lower classes only and those who indulged in it
were called in derision “cads on castors.” That
feeling has passed away, and bicycling is now
enjoyed by all classes.
It is evident that there is need of a more
rational system of amusements. Many of us
have dull hours, when we sigh for relief in the
form of true recreation. Different individuals
require different forms of amusement in order
that the mechanism of life may work with as
little friction as possible. Amusement, therefore,
is more than a privilege; it is a duty, indis-
pensable to the best development of all sides of
man’s nature. Some claim that intellectual
amusements are what the world needs. If pas-
times of this nature become popular, tact and
perseverance will be required. Then when those
who are old no longer possess sufficient vigor to
enjoy these forms of recreation, others should be
devised, lest, like Sir George Lewis, the aged
exclaim: “The world would be very tolerable
but for its amusements.”
It must be acknowledged that the nineteenth
century, with its progressive tendencies, has
failed to discover a variety of suitable forms of
recreation. Here is a task which might well
occupy the attention of a genius, and if he
succeeded all life might be rendered more enjoy-
able thereby. When men shall come to a realiza-
tion of the fact that life’s hours are too precious
to be spent in any way that will not yield an
ennobling influence, then will they be ready to
accept true amusements which will tend to uplift
rather than to degrade. If rightly managed, the
opera and the theatre may have this ennobling
influence. There is nothing more soothing than
the strains of beautiful music. All the quiet, all
the rest which the world affords are to be found
in it, while in dramatic action the deeds of the
past are wrought again and the thoughts of a
Shakespeare inspire and elevate the soul. To be
thus amused is to uplift character, and it is
amusements of this kind only which are worthy
for mankind to enjoy.
ALICE WALRATH.
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First Sopranos
ELIZABETH A. BISHOP. HELENE FITZGERALD. FLORELLA HAWKEY.
KATHARYN C. BURNS.
CHRISTINE C. ERNST.
MARIE A. BERRY.
MARY F. BOTHWELL.
MAY R. CRAWFORD.
GENEVIEVE BAILEY.
FLORENCE HE. BIBBINS.
Mrs. NETTIE BUCKNELL.
B. O. BERGIN.
J. F. BUCHER.
E. DEEVEY.
W. H. EDWARDS.
AGNES G. FOY.
MAUD M. GILLETTE.
GLENA J. DAVIS.
LILLIAN KIBBY.
LORA M. CLARK.
GRACE C. GRAHAM.
ESTELLA A. LESTER.
J. C. HYDE.
A. M. MacCUTCHEON.
A. G. FROST.
W. H. GOODENOUGH.
ALICH lL. KETCHUM.
M. GENEVIEVE LYNCH.
Second Sopranos
MARIA F. A. MAINES.
MABLE T. PERRY.
Altos
ANNA M. LITTEL,.
LULU A. TIMMERMAN.
Cenors
JAMES L. REESE.
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Bassos
E. HASTINGS.
RAYMOND MacMAHON.
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JOSEPHINE M. SMITH.
FLORENCE C. TRAVIS.
GERTRUDE M. VROOM.
SARA SADLER.
MARTHA TUMPOWSKI.
ELIZABETH L. TROTTER.
JENNIE WINNE.
L,. J. WAYAVE.
HAROLD SEAMAN.
CHARLES W. TOWNSEND.
The Dormalite’s Lament
N Geography we’re flunked,
Lest we graduate too soon.
In Astronomy we're told to
Look for sun spots on the moon.
In Nature Study we're sent
To catch a lot of flies.
In Number we’re made
Many methods to devise.
In Physics we launch
Out into Induction’s laws.
In History we're informed
Each effect must have its cause.
In Huested’s Mathematics
°Tis there we have our fun,
But though he makes things easy,
Yet the work is always done.
In Psychology we trace
Our associations’ train,
And then we realize
The smallness of our brain.
In Latin we’re drilled
On discourses indirect,
And if we're “non paratus,”
Low markings we expect.
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But in German, alas!
It is there that we meet
A terrific fate,
A downfall complete.
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Der Lehrer est stern
Er hort keim petition,
And the end thereof is
Dass wir hab’ ein condition.
And our teaching, ah me!
With subject matter pat,
With animation plenty,
We get criticised at that.
When through, we’re capable
(Laying aside all mirth)
Of teaching anything
And everything on earth.
There’s a cure for all our woes,
Which delights me much to tell;
Even now it stills my heart
As I hear the old electric bell.
When your're called up to recite
On some question rather fell;
There’s nothing you’d rather hear
Than that old electric bell.
When you're not at all prepared,
And can almost hear your knell,
The thing that gives you most relief
Is the old electric bell.
When you’re up before your class,
Trying some hard thing to tell,
Rather guess you’re mighty glad
To hear that old electric bell.
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Constitution
ARTICLE J] — NAME.
SECTION I. The name of this society shall be
the “State Normal College Cocoa Club.”
ARTICLE IJ] — MEMBERS.
Sec. 1. Only such shall be members as pos-
sess the where-with-all and are not hard drinkers.
Sec. 2. Only such as are good at keeping
secrets shall become members (hence ladies are
not eligible).
Sec. 3. The maximum number of cups of
cocoa shall be six, unless by a unanimous vote,
a half cup more be allowed.
Sec. 4. Any member found sober at the end
of a session shall be expelled.
ArtTIcLE III — MEETINGs.
Bet. 1
directly as the financial state of the coemptor.
SEC. 2.
members coming up.
ARTICLE IV — MatTERIALS.
Sec. 1. The brand of cocoa is Baker’s.
is used because it is best.
BEG. a,
shall be the dearest.
SEc. 3. The club shall not use any sugar but
that furnished by the landlady.
ARTICLE V — AMENDMENTS.
Seco i. Lae Constitution
amended.
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The number of meetings shall vary
Extra meetings may be had by the
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| Lity C. MENZER. LILLIAN STERLING.
| LOUISE VERMILYEA. HELEN M. Towarrv.
i Este Dopps. GRACE E. TomPpkKINs.
r FLORENCE C. TRAVIS. GRACE GRAHAM.
| ETHEL J. MILLER.
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EFORE the present collegiate year, the
State Normal College had, among its sev-
eral societies, no organization which was
purely literary in motive. Many of the students
felt that the help and inspiration from such a
society would be of no small moment, so, in the
early part of the year, The Shakespeare Society
was formed.
It was thought advisable to spend the first
half of our time in the study of Shakespearean
dramas. Scenes from the plays were to be
enacted in costume, so that our talented members
might give us the benefit of their histrionic abil-
ity; papers on subjects suggested by the dramas
were to be read and discussed.
The program for the latter part of the year
was not to be restricted to the reading of Shakes-
peare. We desired to become better acquainted
with other dramatists. Among the plays con-
sidered were “The Rivals,” “She Stoops to
Conquer,’ and as the crowning point of the
year’s study we planned to have parts of Sopho-
cle’s “ Antigone.” But, alas! this alluring pro-
gram has not been carried out in full.
However, since The Shakespeare Society has
now become one of the organizations of the State
Normal College, we trust that those who follow
us will better fulfill the ideals of the Society, and
so we Say, “ Success to our successors.”
Normal College Tennis Club
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Presidente 3s ec oe ee ee
WVice-Presifent) <0. Gian ee ee i a
Secretary ooo. ieee ee os Ses
VTteasirer.- 3 a a ees ee
Members
M. JANET KING.
GERTRUDE M. Vroom.
| WINIFRED R. WRIGHT.
ANNA BROOKS.
HELENE M. FITZGERALD.
a GENEVIEVE BAILEY.
Leon J. WAYAVE, JR.
GRACE GRAHAM.
GRACE TOMPKINS.
Committees
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EDWARD DEEVEY.
Bess BisHop.
JAMES F. Vavasour.
Epita McELroy.
WILLIAM ASPINWALL.
SARAH WILSON.
JANE CUSACK.
W. C. DECKER.
Mary C. Rosinson.
On Prizes—Sarah Wilson, William Aspinwall, Mary C. Robinson.
On Chasing High Balls — Helene Fitzgerald, Grace Tompkins.
On Refreshments— Edward Deevey, Winifred R. Wright.
On Borrowing Racquets and Balls — J. F. Vavasour, Genevieve Bailey.
On Holding Court— Leon J. Wayave, Janet King.
& Referee — Harold K. Seaman.
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Lora M. Crark.
Haroip K. SEAMAN.
ALECK MacCuTcHEon.
ETHEL MILLER.
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Constitution of the Tennis Club
ARTICLE [.
The name of this organization shall be The
Normal College Tennis Club.
ARTICLE II.
The club shall meet each afternoon to practice
tennis and other things.
ARTICLE ITI.
SEcTION 1. Officers shall consist of president,
vice-president, secretary and treasurer.
Sec. 2. The duties of the president shall be
to teach the meaning of Jove and other fine points
of the game, and to have supervision of partners
during intermissions.
Sec. 3. The duties of the vice-president shall
be to see that each member has a racket; in
general, to support the treasurer.
Sec. 4. The duties of the secretary shall be
to announce engagements and to secure the
license.
Sec. 5. The duties of the treasurer shall be
to procure racquets, balls, ice-cream, soda water
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and Le Page’s Liquid Glue, special preparation
for broken hearts.
By-Laws.
I. No gentleman shall appear on the tennis
court alone. It is not good to play alone.
II. Five minutes in every hour shall be spent
in playing tennis; the remainder in the court-
(ing).
IlI. Forty to love shall be the limit; the game
shall then be called.
IV. No member shall let his right arm know
where his left arm resteth.
V. Ina 4o-all game, each player shall raise
the deuce.
VI. All members who at the end of the year
shall not be engaged for a continuous set, shall
be severely censured as not having taken advan-
tage of their opportunities.
AMENDMENTS.
At any time the constitution may be amended
by a two-thirds vote.
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LOUISE MEIGS.
ESTELLE LESTER.
SARAH McCORMACK.
RAYMOND MacMAHON.
MALLIE BRENNEN.
M. AILMIRA CRANE.
Normal College Camera Club
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Vice-President... 5.0 a ie ec eG ALICE KETCHUM
MECTCEALY: ase see ae os Seale 5 0 dg Po OT PEON
PRCASIIET, eG Se os aes kas ELIZABETH BISHOP
Camerist:< i000 Sat ce er ce WILLIAM GREENE
Members
W. A. RANNEY.
GERTRUDE VROOM.
SARAH LOEB.
FLORELLA HAWKEY.
JUSTUS HYDE.
LORA CLARK.
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MARY ALLISON.
AGNES MARSHALL.
EDWARD DEEVEY.
MARIE BROOKS.
ANNA BROOK.
EDITH McELROY.
JANET KING.
ALICE KETCHUM.
ALECK MacCUTCHEON.
WILLIAM J. GREENE.
ELIZABETH BISHOP.
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Treasurer
Captain
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Twentieth Century Cycle Club
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Officers
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Pees ee eh wk oy Sen bee ee eae KATHERINE LUCEY.
Pee ee eG WG ees ie ae Ne ee JANET KINe.
ig aide ee ps es i us ke ee hc pe SARAH M. McCormick.
pa a os eee es ee oe ed cs at Pes eae ee JAMES F. VAvASouR.
Dea e One N tay cour Reno. bee Matha se be ee JOSEPHINE M. Smirtu.
eGo eke oe eo ae rs Sans a ee eek Epitu McE troy.
pre ol Cee Pte ke ee ye ae ee Ce fae a eS EDWARD DEEVEY.
Haroutp K. SEAMAN.
LoLa CLARK.
AGNES M. CARTER.
ETHEL MILLER.
ALECK MACCUTCHEON.
GRACE C, GRAHAM.
JENNIE E. BEEBE.
FLORENCE BIBBINS.
KATHERINE V. OSTRANDER.
WILLIAM J. ADAMS.
CLEMENCY J. KING.
MINNIE RYER.
CHRISTINE C. ERNST.
WILLIAM B. GOODENOUGH.
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Phil Wee hae ieee toe wight ts (a ae a ae GRAcE A, Lacy.
ANNA MARVIN.
E. Louis—E WORCESTER.
Emma C. MEYER.
WINFRED C. DECKER.
Maser E. ZoLLMAN.
ALICE L. WESTERMAN.
LENA ZIPFEL.
Cora A. TURNER.
ALFRED J. KAUFMAN.
ALICE SCHALL.
ANNA Brooks.
WILLIAM B. ASPINWALL.
Curis. A. HARTNAGEL.
Our Cycle Club
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LBANY, like ancient Rome, is built upon
Al hills, and yet these are not of such a
nature as to make wheeling, within the
city’s boundaries, unpleasant. Two fine parks,
a splendid boulevard, and good pavement within
the limits, and several good roads leading from
without, serve as sufficient enticement to counter-
act any tendency toward the non-usance of
cycling which, otherwise, the hills might cause.
Being appreciative of such conditions and of
the rapid advances made toward the more har-
monious and concerted action of the student
body, and being not unmindful of the numerous
advantages and pleasures resulting from an
organized body, a large number of enthusiastic
wheel-riders have started, what promises to be,
a prosperous cycle club.
The title of this organization is The Twentieth
Century Cycle Club, a name perhaps more appro-
priate than euphonious. However, whatever
lack of euphony there may be in the name, we
can boast of the harmonious and _ frictionless
spirit of good fellowship existent between the
members of this body.
The direct aim of this club is to encourage
cycling by making it enjoyable, and with this
end in view several party trips have been planned
for this spring. These trips will be a striking
feature of the work of this club as there are
numerous beautiful places, particularly inviting
to cyclists, which surround the city.
The schedule of runs, as arranged, is:
Saturday, April 14.—Called “A Study in
Local History,” visiting the Schuyler Mansion
(Albany), Fort Cralo (Rensselaer), and Forbes’
Manor (Bath). :
Saturday, April 21.— To Slingerlands.
Saturday, April 28.—To the Cohoes Falls, via
the Northern Boulevard.
May 5.—To Schenectady, via the cycle path.
May 12.— To Averill Park (a picnic party).
May 19.— To Kenwood.
May 26.— Elective.
May 30.—To the Indian Ladder - (picnic
party).
June 2.— Elective.
June 9.— To Sand Lake.
These trips, with one exception, that of May
30, are to be taken during the Saturday vaca-
tions. Thus the students will not only be able
to see the beautiful surroundings of Albany, but
will do so without any loss of time from the
daily preparation of class-room work, and in
similar manner everything is being done with a
view toward the perpetuation of one of the most
realistic and energetic clubs ever established in
this institution.
James F. Vavasour.
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Normalite Jingles
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HERE was an old maid from Peru,
Whose methods, she thought she’d review.
So she packed up her trunks,
Came up, and made flunks,
And they tell me her mind is askew.
There was a sweet primary teacher,
Whose critic oft swore to impeach her;
The questions she’d ask
And the tright of her task,
All threatened to kill the poor creature.
There once lived a most pedagogical maid;
The youth of her village she kept quite afraid;
Her views educational
Seemed very irrational,
But the next generation were wonders, ’tis said.
There was an amazingly rustic young miss —
Her greenness and verdure amounted to this:
When she went in the street,
The first teacher she’d meet,
With loud and explosive warm kisses she'd greet.
There was a remarkably brilliant young lad;
He took to psychology mortally bad.
To his mind he subjected
Stimuli unsuspected,
And now no brain-centres for sometime he’s had.
There once was a young college graduate sweet,
Whose scholars bowed down to the soles of her
feet;
Her learning extensive
Made man apprehensive
That all the great minds of the day, she would
beat.
There was a young lady called Seraphine Barton;
She started to teach in a free kindergarten;
As she thought that to sit on the floor was
improper,
And she sang like an owl, the trustees they did
drop her;
Though that was the end of Miss Seraphine
Barton,
Why that was a very good thing, I’m sure sartin.
There once was a sweet pretty Syracuse girl,
Who gave up the fun of society’s whirl
To come to the Normal,
And live quite informal,
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And study to teach young minds how to unfurl.
There is a poor lady named Rosabel Jones.
She studies the flesh of her, all off her bones.
Her mind is appalling,
And simply enthralling;
Her studies do bind her, in spite of her groans.
There was a young student devoted to bugs,
Lepidoptera species,
coleoptera slugs;
His best girl most died
When close up to her side
A small cerambycidae grub she espied.
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September 13. College opens. Troops of
freshmen wander about with no “special aim.”
A great poet has come among up — Yea, verily,
a second Browning.
September 22. Phi Delta elects officers.
September 23. Delta Omega’s reception.
September 29. Delta Omega and her friends
visit Kenwood.
October 2. Students assemble in chapel at
1.15. The gentlemen are requested to end their
tete-a-tetes at ten P. M.
October 4. Phi Delta initiation.
ALIEN
October 6. A reception tendered to the fac-
ulty and students of the College by the Class of
1900.
October 7. Eta Phi gives an “at home” to
welcome new students. Miss Travis entertains
Psi Gamma and her friends.
October 10. Tr. (talking about agriculture) —
They have an agricultural course at Rutgers, do
they not, Mr. Ranney? Pupil (to himself, I am
no farmer) — Yes, sir!
October 13. The new men of the College
entertained by Phi Delta.
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October 14. Kappa Delta Society breakfasts
with Miss Powell. Kappa Delta receives.
October 18. Prof. Gager—Is Miss C——
absent? Pupil— No; she is teaching a public
lesson to-day. Prof—Well, it is just as neces-
sary to get an excuse from the office for that as
for a circus.
October 25. Dr. Richardson gives a talk on
“Self Culture” to the Delta Omega Society and
their friends. Football: Normals vs. Christian
srothers’ Academy.
October 28. Football: Normals vs. Albany
Academy Cadets.
November 4. Football: Normals vs. Union
Classical Institute. Score: Normals, 23; U. C.
ie.
November 6-10. Chittenden Dart-ed beside
the register just outside the chapel door.
November 11. The Fates aid Psi Gamma
Society in entertaining their friends.
November 14. Dr. Husted arouses interest
in his class by kicking over a chair.
November 18. Football: Normals, 5; Chat-
ham High School, 5.
November 20. Mr. Ranney enters the History
of Pedagogy class to gratify his desire to be
called “my dear.”
November 22. Football: Normals, 5; Chris-
tian Brothers’ Academy, 17.
November 27. Tr. (talking about wagon
tongue)—TIs that true, Mr. Hartnagel? You
know about such things, I know. Hartnagel —
Yes, sir; it is as you have stated.
November 29. Normals vs. Albany High
School; football. Thanksgiving recess begins.
December 1. Mr. Frost (reciting in History
of Pedagogy) — They were the Hindoos. Tr.—
Yes! yes! They were your brothers and sisters.
December 8. Mr. Charles F. Underhill imper-
sonates Sheridan’s “ Rivals.’ Miss Leonard was
seen in chapel.
December 9. Professor Belding tenders an
organ recital to the faculty and students of the
College at the First Reformed Church.
December 11. Lieutenant Godfrey L. Carden,
of the U. S. S. Manning, delivers his illustrated
lecture, “ With the Men Behind the Guns.”
December 12. Phi Delta elects officers.
December 14. Albany Camera Club exhibit.
December 15. Phi Delta reception.
December 18. Mr. Ranney reads thesis in
Pedagogy class, instead of discussing the ques-
tion asked. We wonder why.
December 20. Tr.— They teach from objects
in Yale and other colleges for men, but I can-
not say what is done at the ladies’ colleges. Who
knows anything about it?) Mr. Vavasour raises
his hand. Tr.— Ah, Mr. Vavasour will enlighten
us! What college do you know about in respect
to object teaching? Vavasour— Vassar. (Up-
roar in class room.) Tr—Ha ha, Vavasour!
I always knew that you were quite a ladies’ man,
but I never thought that you were quite as bad
as that.
December 22. Vacation.
January 2. Bergin failed to shave his upper
lip.
January 5. Board of editors for The Echo
elected. Psi Gamma elects officers.
January 7. Delta Omega reception.
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January 11. College choir furnishes music at
the unveiling of the statue erected to Edward
Austin Sheldon.
January 13. Miss Leonard entertains Delta
Omega. Mr. Bergin appears at class meeting.
January 15. Mr. Christensen swears an oath
that he too will raise a tash.
January 16. Prof. Wetmore jumps six feet
vertically into the air to illustrate a point in
physics.
January 19. Thomas B. Aldrich visits college.
January 29. Model and primary exhibits.
February 2-7. A short rest for the weary.
February 7. Term begins.
February 6. Stereopticon exhibit of the “ Tis-
sot pictures.”
February 8. Prof. Groat was seen to smile.
February 10. Class of 1900 elects officers.
February 12. Captain Henry F. Goldman
gives an illustrated lecture on Porto Rico.
February 13. Even Miss McClelland’s foot
went to sleep in History of Pedagogy.
February 15. Illustrated lecture on “Good
Roads.”
February 17. The “Naughty Ones” elect
officers. Members of the Class of ‘oo are po-
litely requested to withdraw from the meeting.
February 21. Mr. Reese loses his moustache
in honor of Washington. Mr. Decker gets his
hair cut.
February 22. Class of ’o1 give a reception to
the faculty and students.
February 23. The students declined with
many thanks the proffered Easter vacation.
February 24. Delta Omegaentertains —play.
February 25. Miss Janet King was seen at
church!
March 2. Ranney, Decker and MacCutcheon
call at the same house at the same time.
March 3. Miss Clark’s birthday; hereafter she
will have one every two years.
March 4. Miss Smith barely escapes being
run over by a sleigh. Cause: A mouse.
March 7. Student pupils of the Phys. Geog.
class requested to leave all impedimenta baggage
at their seats.
March 9. Seminar in Homer begun by Dr.
Richardson. Friends of Psi Gamma entertained.
3aby Brink returns.
March 10. Dr. Husted took the part of Liv-
ingalli before the Solid Geometry class.
March 13. Is it true that Mr. Reese clears
equations in Geography class?
March 16. Dr. Husted illustrates a point in
Algebra by touching the scrap basket with his
foot, so that the basket and scraps spin across
the room.
March 20. Dr. Milne expresses his approval
of Mr. Vavasour’s personal appearance.
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Prof. Groat.
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One Bessie sic a ee ee a a Miss Bishop.
ihe Ministers Wooing (3.500. cag a. Miss Hawkey.
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<iur Mata rriende 520i Gaia is se or 3 Phi Deltas.
Never. 106 Jiate to Metids so te Miss Harnish.
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Miss Vroom.
The Office.
Miss McCormick.
Miss Moores.
Miss Sewell.
Prof. Merriam.
Kappa Delta.
Miss Miller.
Miss Brennen.
The Faculty.
Miss Bishop.
Miss Powell.
Mr. Townsend. |
Class in Homer.
Mr. Chittenden.
Miss Powelson.
Mr. Decker.
Excuse Office.
Miss Chandler.
Mr. Wakeman.
Mr. Breeze.
The Flunkers.
Miss Brooks.
Miss Isdell.
Mr. MacMahon and Miss Vroom.
Mr. Boothby.
The Idea that Nature Study was a Snap.
Miss Hall.
Miss S. Loeb.
218 Elm Street.
Mr. MacCutcheon.
Mr. Brink and,Miss Ketchum.
The Faculty on a Sleigh Ride.
Mr. Button.
Miss C. J. King.
Mr. Aspinall and Prof. Belding.
Miss Deyo and Miss A. Smith.
Mr. Deevey.
‘oo Class Meetings.
Mr. Hyde.
AC Voie Sst WGI «5 5 oo en no eae eh eas oie Miss Ketchum.
GGG SES Ry SOA 1h tS es Fs cs’ Se RP es Mr. Seaman.
Parsin RRs ooo ins ei hain oe Paes Mr. Hastings.
ROSG BE AMOOIN. 6 eel Fo SE pen ae Mrs. Freudenthal.
She JGse Stish Walt. is Nee Ps ae Mr. Edwards.
Where Anvels Fear to Tread: f.. 00. or ose In Latin Method Class.
mE Mie WIGISOE S55 os aca spores Veta es Mr. Ranney.
Ae Orava i APOtGHs 0 oss oe SS eee German Method Class. ;
ihe City OF rcaGu DIRE Gas ae oe a Troy.
Phe Hee Feast ee ea es ee hs Nature Study Class.
idle Thoughts: of an: Idle’ Fellow ..... ...5..+,. Mr. Adams.
Piste IG toils es Fee Cy 6 oe ee vs History Method Class.
RGVETICS Or Tee CTEION Ak oe 5 sos OS ee ose Mr. Wayave.
Beyond the City ee a ig ee vel yee wo aes Mr. Lundy.
A St 8 am ee re ea eos ee eg Bud eo To Go to the Office Out of Office Hours.
A Knicht- of the AiAth Century...°..5. 52... Mr. MacCutcheon.
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Wie Wallac WY tae. i es ee ws Mr. Green. |
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SCENE 1,
(A Girl’s Room at — Lark Street.)
7 A.M., LHURSDAY.
V——: “Oh, joy! it’s snowing. Now those
boys will give us that sleighride that they've been
talking about so long.”
5 “dont you be too. sure! “its. easy
enough to talk, and those college men can do it
to perfection, but I won't believe that we’re going
until ’m actually in the sleigh and flying along at
a good rate.”
V—: “Well, if it keeps on snowing like
this, by to-morrow night there will be fine sleigh-
ing and they will really have no excuse for not
taking us.”
i “T certainly hope that the ride will
come off. Won't it be fun! I wonder who the
chaperones will be?”
SCHAE iL
8.45 A. M., THURSDAY.
(In the corridor at Normal College.)
Mr. M——: “Good morning, Miss V——.
Isn’t this a great old snow storm? We college
men are planning to give a sleighride to-morrow
night. Will you go?”
Miss V.
talking about it this morning over at the house,
“To be sure I will. We were
and we wondered if you boys were going to
seize the opportunity to give us girls that long-
heard-of ride. (A_ bit sarcastically.) You're
quite sure it won’t fall through this time. Such
things have been known to happen.”
Mr. M (rather coldly): “ Usually when we
plan things we carry them through. There’s the
bell. Tl see you again at'recess, if I may.”
(They depart to chapel.)
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10.30 Pp. M., THURSDAY.
(Girls’ Room at — Lark.)
V—: “Well, you see, I was right. The
boys have decided to have the ride to-morrow
night. Mr. M
this morning. They aren’t so slow after all.”
i (dolefully): “‘ We haven’t really started
yet, and you know, ‘there’s many a slip ’twixt
the cup and the lip.’ ”
V (with a hug): “Oh, you dear old
croaker. Now, don’t sit up late. You must be
fresh for to-morrow’s ride, you know.”
told me about it before chapel
SCENE IV.
7.30 FRrpAY MornInc.
(Boys’ Room at — Washington.)
Mr. M (yawns and stretches, looks out of
window): “ Say, W
this time. That ride must come off. Sleighing
is fine and that saucy little Miss V gave me
to understand yesterday that the girls think we
are slow and that this ride is just a fake, after all.
Let’s put the thing through — make it a case of
do or die.”
, old man, we’re in for it
Mr. W—: “I’m with you, old fellow.
(Meditatively.) I think I’ll ask Miss W—— to
go with me. She is certainly the prettiest girl in
the College.”
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A selection from a letter written by Miss L——
to a friend at home, Saturday evening, 7.30:
“ Well, last evening at this time there were the
jolliest sounds in front ‘of — Lark. We rushed
to the window and there was a big sleigh half
filled with a shouting, screaming, laughing crowd
of young people. Some of them were blowing
on horns and some were singing, at the top of
their lungs, ‘Come Away from dat Window.’
“Imagine our delight — we had thought it was
all off, the boys had looked so glum over at Col-
lege and had kept so mum on the subject all
VER kopje, vaal and veldt,
And other things not easily spelt,
To Lady Kruger they ran with haste —
Her Transvaal garden she calmly paced.
day. Our hearts now reproached us and we in-
wardly resolved to do our best to give the boys
a good time. All this took but a moment. We
raised the window to say that we’d be with them
soon when the sounds of
7? Isak, rah. rah,
“* Siss, boom, ah —
“* Albany High School,’
burst on our ears. What a blow for us! This,
then, was the High School crowd come for the
daughters of the house.
“ We closed the window and went silently back
to our work of writing plans and preparing les-
sons. Miss V was heard to murmur as she
retired to her own room, ‘ Well, those boys are
slow!’”
“Our news,” they cried, “could not be worse;
Sufficient grounds you have for divorce.”
With Dutch directness they came to the pith —
“ Your husband’s arms are about Lady Smith!”
The president’s wife, whose mien phlegmatic
. Betrayed no passing mood erratic,
Said, as she smoothed ample skirts ungored,
“Tm afraid Lady Smith will be dreadfully
Boered.”
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A Proposition in Geometry
THEOREM. Three-quarters of an hour with
the Professor of Geometry is equivalent to forty-
five minutes of plane wit-and solid pleasure.
Data: The Professor of Geometry; acute
class.
To prove. A little nonsense now and then
is relished by the best of men.
Proor. Dr. H.— Let’s see, how is it we are
studying geometry? Is it geometry by geom-
etry, or geometry by guess?”
Class (in chorus) —“ By guess.”
Teacher —* Could there be another base than
A, B to the triangle A, B, C?”
Student —“ Yes, A, C; by turning the triangle
over on its side.”
Dr. H.—*“ Teacher, may we see that triangle
turn over on its side?”
Miss S. (uncertain of the correct answer) —
“ That is not the point under discussion.”
Mr. R—y (demonstrating) —* Take the cir-
cumference W. A. R.”
(Hand raised) —‘ Where did Mr. R—y get his
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Student —*“ Take the point, O.”
Dr. H.—* What color is this point, and what
effect did it have on you after taking? ”
Under B.’s football hair he has such a multi-
tude of ideas that he finds it difficult to cease
talking even beyond the “point under dis-
cussion.”
Dr. H. (during discussion of important ques-
tions in a class of seventy-five students) —
“ How many think so?”
(Seven hands raised.)
“ How many don’t think so?”
(Four hands raised.)
“ How many don’t know whether they think so
or not?”
“How many don’t think at all?”
Teacher —“ Let the arc, C, D, fly.”
Student —* How can I, when arks only float?”
Dr. H.—“ Let’s see, why is it you bring your
geometries to class?”
Brilliant Pupil —* To sit. on.”
Dr. H.—* O, yes; nice soft cushions.”
Theretore, ete: OO. 2.
(Exit class.)
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+ New psychologies. By ® — new society pins.
A bill passed in the Legislature forbidding the By ¥ I’— more honorary members.
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Two punches on our cards after every subject. By & 4 —more members.
By Moore, the photographer — a new camera. By ~ 6 — lots of things. |
By Class of or — more men. By all the societies — society rooms in the
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By Class of ’o1—a course in dancing and Col
ege building.
skating.
By Class of ’oo
soloists.
a piano to accompany the
A Letter Form in Great Demand at S$. D.C.
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The Faculty of the State Normal College:
Enclosed find $1.00 for which please give me a
supplementary examination in Physical Geogra-
phy.
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Yours respectfully, |
Is It Really True
1. That Browning, ’o1, has had his hair cut?
2. That Miss Isdell gives to every girl the
same personal crits?
3. That Miss Hall is the only student at Nor-
mal College who is not “common?”
4. That Miss Bishop gives five-hour exams.
in reading?
5. That there is always an element of identity
between two revived mental states?
6. That correlation schemes are wiped out of
existence?
7. That the history exams. are to be made
easier?
8. That Dr. Milne has no place in the College
building which he can call his own?
9g. That Miss Bodley makes out all the sub-
ject-matter exams.?
10. That Professor Groat has at last lost his
heart?
11. That Dr. Jones has formed the habit of
flunking at least three-quarters of his German
method class?
12. That Professor Gager intends to invest
the money which he gets from sups. in Phys.
Geog.
13. That Professor Belding has requested the
members of the faculty to be present when the
students meet for chorus class?
14. That Dr. Husted has names written on
those little slips in that box?
15. That the Camera Club has all those meet-
ings announced in chapel?
16. That Dr. Richardson has for his ideal
the “cultchahed ” gentleman?
17. That “he who is false to a present duty
breaks a thread in the loom,” as Prof. Belding
says?
18. That Mrs. Mooney ever lost her temper?
19. That human slavery still exists in the
Empire State? History, indeed, repeats itself,
for the rumor is current that on June fifteenth,
in accordance with an emancipation proclama-
tion, signed by the president, slaves to the num-
ber of 108 will be set free in Harmanus Bleecker
Hall.
20. That Miss Berry, Class of ’o1, holds the
honorary position of Private Literary Critic of
The Echo?
It has been suggested that Mr. Wayave can
give the student body information on this im-
portant subject. oe
21. That the Annual Board burned seven bas-
ketfuls of rejected manuscript?
There seems to be little doubt that this last
is really true.
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“Without or with offense to friend or foes,
We sketch the world exactly as tt goes.”
“T charge thee fling away ambition. By that
sin angels fell.” M-r- R-b-ns-n.
“ This world seems not the world it was.”
K-ng.
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He smoked, no wonder he lost his health.”
H-st-ngs.
I talk wildly, I have lost my wits.”
B- -l-y.
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‘How long, O Lord, how long!”
T-wns-nd.
“
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth.”
-l]-s-n.
“A youth was there of quiet ways,
A student of old books and says.”
Dr. B-ck-r.
“Most glorious night! thou wert not made for
slumber.” Kn-ght.
“AJ] nature wears one universal grin.”
B-nks.
“ She had a set of childish rules,
Which you may see below,
Such as in all her former schools
Her pupils had to know.”
J-hns-n.
“ He seemed a cherub who had lost his way.”
Br-nk.
“Truly, I would the gods had made me poeti-
Cal. —The Annual Board.
“T am not in the roll of common men.”
B-tt-n.
“And topping all others in boasting.”
D-lt- —m-g-.
“The Time I’ve lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light that shines in woman's eyes,
Has been my last undoing.”
H-d-.
“T would my horse had the speed of her
tongue.” H--th.
“She appeared as tall as an ordinary church
steeple, and took ten yards at every stride.”
L-mpf-r.
“A giant of brass on legs of clay.”
—dw-rds.
“T am resolved to grow fat and look young.”
B-shn-ll.
“Judge me not by what I am, I know I am
queer.” S-Il-m-n.
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“And he said: ‘Go saddle me an.ass,’ and they
saddled him.” G--d-n--gh.
“*Tis well to know when to be silent.”
St--de-.
“The times have been that when the brains
were out the man would die.” W-k-m-n.
“Cut your wisdom teeth as soon as you can.”
F-tzg-r-ld.
“Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
The W-l-ons.
“Framed to make women false.”
—d-ms.
“ My life is one demned, horrid grind.”
Mo--r-.
“ Continual verdancy! Unbounded cheek! ”
W-ll-tts.
“’Tis now the hour which all to sleep allow,
And slumber heavy sits on every brow.”
Class in Hist. of Ped.
“Had I been present at the creation, I could
have given some useful hints for the better cr-
V-n H--s-n.
dering of the universe.”
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Tho’ defeated she would argue still
P-t-rs-n.
“She hath a lean and hungry look.”
W-Il-c-.
“
When one is past, another care we have;
Thus woe succeeds a woe as wave a wave.”
Sketches.
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“Going as tho’ she trod on eggs.
J. Sm-th.
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
Ea ha A
“Man seems the only growth that dwindles
here Sk
“Tam the greatest man on earth;
My greatness is in three parts —
Gall, gall and gall.
I never read,
I never think,
I never listen to advice,—
I just say a thing is so
And then it is.” D-ck-r.
“Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.”
H-rtn-g-l.
“A lost angel of a ruined paradise.”
D-ev-y.
“Thou art long and lank and lean and slim
Gr—n-.
as one of Satan’s cherubims.”
“Cease repining; tall oaks from little acorns
grow.” Sm-th.
“T have not loved the world or the world me.”
W-y-v-.
“She had a name at which the whole world
grew pale.” T-mp-wsk-..
“Not pretty, but massive.” P-w-ls-n.
“What strange things will blow in.”
Br-wn-ng.
“T choose to walk high, with sublime dread,
rather than crawl in safety.” L-st-r.
“Wisdom, gravity and profound conceit.”
R-nn-y.
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“Your spirits are too bold for your years
IQOl.
“Man delights him not, nor woman neither.”
Re-s-.
“Expressing oneself beyond expression.”
Psychology.
“Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
P-wl-s.
“One of the hardest things for me to do is to
keep quiet.” Z-pf-l.
“Tm sorry that I spelled the word,
I hate to go above you,
Because, because, etc.
Mr. D--v-y to Miss L-c-y.
“An infinite deal of nothing.” B-ckn-ll.
“°Tis better to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all.” H-ll.
“He agitates his anxious breast in solving
problems mathematic. B-rg-n.
“A full-blown cupid very much admired.”
—sp-nw-ll.
“And must I work? Oh, what a waste of
time.” \-v-s--r.
“Lax in his gaiters, laxer in his gait.”
G--rns-y.
“ Slowness personified.” B-rr-ll.
“Set not thy mouth going and then go away
and leave it.” Wh--l-r.
“T do not go by the * Standard,’ Worcester is
my authority.” Frost.
“Thou com’st from New Jersey meadows fresh
and green,
As by your actions plainly can be seen.”
B-rd-ck.
“The substance of things hoped for.”
sase Ball Nine.
“Past hope, past cure, past help.” R--s-.
“Lord of himself, a heritage of woe.” Fr-st.
“And panting time toiled after him in vain.”
B--thb-.
Decker — There they go.
Brink — I'll Ketch ’um.
“Swans sing before they die; ’twere no bad
thing did certain persons die before they sing.”
Normal College Choir.
“Fortune and victory sit on thy helm.”
1900.
“With his mouth full of news.” S-a-an.
“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of
none.” MacC-t-h-on.
“Pure gold and true as steel.”
J-n-i- R-bs-n.
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Rejected Mss.
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Lest those who have submitted articles for our
consideration may be under any false impression
as to their fate, we give below a partial list of
the rejected manuscripts, with reason for not
publishing:
Everett — Photography. Article over sensi-
tized.
Kingston — Political Adjustments. Subject
not fully under control.
Manning — Honor an Organization for Its
Age. Evidently reports not all in.
Guernsey — Why Worth is Not Recognized.
View not broad enough, theory bad, orthography
poor.
cf 2
MacMahon — Music for College Song. Too
many accidentals.
Moore — Prose article. Excessive use of the
expression, “ The influential ones.”
Thrall — Equestrian Games. Fiction better
than fact.
Decker — The Management of an Annual.
Too awfully discouraging.
Auf Wiederseben
We pause at the door for a word of farewell
Ere distance shall part us and time intervene,
But memories golden, which naught can
dispel,
Will still join us all though apart and unseen.
The realm of the future looks brilliant and
vast,
But we for a moment would cling to the
past.
However, new labors are waiting us now,
And duty points out with imperative hand
The work to be wrought; to her mandate we
bow,
And turn to the things which our effort
‘ demand.
Exploring the valley or scaling the height,
We seek in achievement our greatest delight.
a
Our triumphs will not be expressed in per cent.
Our noblest endeavors, the friends we most
love
May fail to appreciate: we are content
To know that our aims are recorded above.
Our record in school we have tried to keep fair.
May all work as hard for good standing up
there !
For twentieth century effort endowed,
We turn from the State Normal College to-day,
And start for our homes with the consciousness
proud
That here we were classmates; and fain would
we stay.
A clasp of the hand and a glance of the eye
?
Are quickly exchanged — must we say it!
Good-bye.
Eugene M. Hastings, ’oo.
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Adams. Manian. 324.022.2006 Owego, N. Y.
Adams; Marearet Ate. oe. ou ese Gatskall,. N.Y.
Adams, Willian joo. A oe eo Rensselaer, N. Y.
Ailen oAlirdetta were or ae ee eee cr Welta. No Yc
Allison, ‘Mary Ioicilés) 2. a es Akron, Ohio.
Andréws; Alice: Toot ss so eee ee Warren, Ohio.
Aspinwall, Margaret R22. 352.9025 Loudinville, N. Y.
Aspinwall Wine Bos. 2. 22k es Loudinville, N. Y.
Bailey, M. Gefievieve, =: 365 ka eee Phelps, N. Y.
Bakers Elizabeth Missi aeha ee Salem, N. Y.
Baker Aarace lee. aa ae ee Salem, N. Y.
Baker, Saab ts e ae eee Port Ann, N; Y.
Ball falas oe oe tee Watervliet, N. Y.
Banks: -tiorence 3M. a.0 53234 abe ese Waterville, N. Y.
Barnard, telena Cole os es eee Rensselaer, N. Y.
Barnes; Cynthia Rw.5c a ee Proy;: Na Y:
Barrell, Hinels 9.0 svar ote ae New Providence, N. J.
Bates, Alice Mise 3 eee, Schenectady, N. Y.
Baughn: elizabetic. 1... 6 oe ete ss Catskill, N. Y.
Beene: Jenimie L025 ae es ok Johnstown, N. Y.
Beli Sard sehr et we ees Bath-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Beapows Alice Fo 0s Ss 26s ei a Amsterdam, N. Y.
Benway. Mabel (Re... oocs es ee Albany. Ne
Berry, Mane Asti. 20 oe New Laltz Ni 7Y:
Betty; May J -.)52: edn bed sae See ee Albany, N. Y.
Bibbins:-Piorence, By... 2st es Port Leyden, N. Y.
Bishop; PAizapeth Ax sess Cs ee Warsaw, N.Y:
Blair; Marsenessc 2205. 55 sos Germantown, N. Y.
Blake ( Biadith ss ei ie Waterford, N. Y.
Blanchard, Mabelle Aa) os Round Lake, N. Y.
Blooms: Hila je onic ee ie Chittenango, N. Y.
Bloomer, Frederick R. M........ Baldwin Place, N. Y.
Boland: Cathennecl 753622 cos Cambridge, N. Y.
Bonner Gertrude 6 3. ee as Bilortda, IN. 7¥.
Boothby Artin Las aa Rensselaer, N. Y.
Bothwell Maty Biss 0s2i..3 oc oe East Genoa, N. Y:
Branch. Asadrat a oss cise eee (Corning, N.Y.
Bratton; Gorm: so. North Adams, Mass.
Breeze. We Be os ec a Aur NS LY:
Brennan Marparet. 2.62 oe ee ee Troy, Nowy.
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Tig ee Gt Pog ose oad Amboy Center,
Brink, Pawan ooo ee Hammondport,
Brooke pe ANia Moe, Aces Se ce Geneva,
BLOOKS VIAy Be ee ea ee. Cambridge,
BLOWHE led lidane Mek oe ss Riverhead,
Browhine, Geo. Wee eee ae hee Clinton,
Buchermyacon Pie. oe ee aS Oakfield,
Bucknell Nettie Aloe Troy,
Budineton Anna. 226 3e ee Kingston,
Buel ACV rca) tema ewe eet oi. eS eee Holcomb,
Burdick. Clark ie i Sees eee Te Rapids,
iw om -Bryaa Oxi coi ess aioe eel Walton,
Burns, Catnenne-cdese: hese Ss Watervliet,
Bitton; Piuzaper ws, os. eee oe Albany,
Bushnell, Hariets ileus fs vac. Po es Bath,
Button, Colonels Ellsworth so: 236. oe Albany,
Calton Hieanon. Roles). 7 ee Rochester,
Campbell} ina Aseuises. 5 62s West Hebron,
ATID DEL Wily ha I ee nia se ns oe 8 gs ae Jordon,
Carmody, oaran Becton as ot Johnstown,
Cart Mary Wee oie Sua lk ta eee Rensselaer,
Carrols Amnn he se i ea oe Rensselaer,
Garter, Aone. WG eis eae ses oo his Cohoes,
Chandler, Me -Auocusta..2.4 2.2... 22. Newburgh,
Ghapinany Giace Aus. sce oss Fort Edward,
Ghittenden, Vhomas Ai 405.20. - sSyracuse,
Ghrestensen. James “Acve P3020 6.22) 3 ed Andes,
lark dota Me ies ee Fort Edward,
(EG CAVAT IVT AGT Bey, aka S. onte ee ie oe Amsterdam,
Goibutt,< Plizapeul’ Vv dose oes ee Albany,
Coletaan s Rata oes eae be ss ee Troy,
Connelly: Pitta Gee en ee re Kirkland,
Costello; tielen (Ak vei ee Schuylerville,
Gottrelly: Martha tt... 22 ios Eagle Bridge,
Cotcnutry. Ania fe Ps os Feura Bush,
Grane Al iitae ne ek soo. vee es Marion,
CrawiOLlas Via. tones elect ee teed Albany,
Gusack; Jennie ti. . e c Poughkeepsie,
Watt, Grace ee cee 0s lara re oe Stamford,
Havenpott, Wired d.525 5055 0cin Waterville,
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Deckers Wantted: AG ross oe ssc fs Se Susquehanna, Penn.
IDCOVEY HG Warld'e so eke ese bes Albany, N. Y.
Dehrecst, tions (Mei. ee ee gk ad Albany, N. Y.
DelLaniater: Jessie 5. Sie eek se Hudson, N. Y.
Weisang « WinenVva Gs eis on ses ee Fairport, N. Y.
DIC Ne Ae ois oes oh es eae ses Nunda, N. Y.
Desmond: WNeluew. 2: 2.6 Se ee. . Middletown. Now’.
Devane. Weila wise ois se cau See wed Albany, N. Y.
DEV OR 4 COMI Ds sis os sed head 5 Canandaigua, N. Y.
Devo 7Gordinwwls 3 8. ese ee eee Saratopa, Noy-
Dickey, wGatherine | Ko oie sees ae Shas ks Cohoes, N. Y.
DOs: inion treye ct eae eee sos Hartsdale, N. Y.
Donton: .Matdaret Vics .< os cx SdatAtera Oprings, N.Y
Dortamncet Messie Ni. aa 4 ele ake Troy; N. ¥-
DouonerVidty Ascetic s oe Cohoes, N. Y.
DOW TESCO dL Glare ee nai. acca ee Stamford, N. Y.
Dat itil ible sey ee cs oes oss <ce Waterloo, N. Y.
Dinca, a Ulla es aS oes ss Weedsport, N. Y.
Dunlap, Katherine 33.72% 5. -3. 2... Amsterdam, N-Y:
HPbendick: Anna.©... 2. 67: College Point, Long Island.
Bekerson, @larence: HW. Marlborough, N. Y.
HGWaAtGS | WNEDD This cee oe ie he oe ie Windsor, N. Y.
Eldred;-Bettha: Ms 230.535. North Petersburgh, N. Y.
Passa nina Os ee ee sa eas Cohoes, N. Y.
Binstonrstine Goo.) 655s. fos oes ed Albany, N. Y.
HVCrESts Aiea 2 yee hee a si Gloversville, N. Y.
ENGI AaVUATIOR Ac Pe ae sae. Albany, N. Y.
HiClds MepGie tle ee ois oe yale os Sees Clyde, N. Y.
Pashers muda Meo es. se ee esse. Binghamton, N. Y.
bitzeeraidelene M oo 2 se Fort Edward, N. Y.
Hlanapatle Vatia Wis Co. ita ss eee ae Cohoes, N. Y.
Portiachon, Marie? lee .266 8225 c New York, N. Y.
Poy; ones: (Gertrude: 65. soos. ed Albany, N. Y.
Bias Mera NG a a, See ey Corinth, N. Y.
Rreudentialy uve 5 222s Sandusky, N. Y.
di POSE MA ayaa soo oc ok ee wk Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Gardtt; Jenne mR: oS ee i es spencer, N.Y.
Gardiner: Miarion dss 620 Charlton, N. Y.
GateseVinty ies. ha. en See se Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
GGepner, Margaret... 5.055. 2%. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Gillethes I aid Vie es es ee se oe Marion, N. Y.
Gillvese M6 lata; As Yc eo se Newburgh, N. Y.
Glen. fidith De Bath-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.
Goldens Nimnie MS i oS; Wellsville, N. Y.
Geodenouwh, Wihham Hic 2 62.6 3. Carthage, N. Y.
(SOrGGns Wieatvel! 2 2 se on os ok Waterford, N. Y.
GOTtOm: (cornea: | 2 tee Ee ce Waterville, N. Y.
CoP atiar SS, 65 S80 ei a sons 5h s Yonkers, N. Y.
Graham oMabel 5.55 ee ee. Albany, N.
greene. AN aster?) oo ee a Ray, N.
Greenwood, Florence M.270 233022 Syracuse, N.
Greetie; Mabel B22 3 ee Gloversville, N.
(iernsey. looren Go .5 io ee, East Cobleskill, N.
BAGiey, ida Be ae Pulaski, N.
dadsell: Rhoda ‘Avc..5 2. Gloversville, N.
aroht. Felen 4. 264 -c Auburn, N.
$ea, Mareaect Re ea Catskill, N.
PrAliauer Nelson obs ee ee Webster, N.
eeatvigu. Maty .B..s.3s.4, eel Honeoye Falls, N.
starsingion, las Meo os i Watervliet, N.
Platts «Wary. 12.2 tsa ee Pennfield, N.
TOTO SAALY Fo. sd inw ev cee Valatie, N.
Hattnacel, Christopher, A s...22sio5: 35. Newark, N.
Harwood: -tiorence Mii: 34% 2 Pawlet, N.
Tiss. Wawene Mss ese ais Lacona, N.
Reaewers Mlaty Al 7 4 25 sass he Hoosick Falls, N.
tawny, Fiorella. : 2 Aa Poughkeepsie, N.
Hayden: Jilia Lotraines.0 es Rensselaer, N.
teat tuanea Wie oe ae eee Pultneyville, N.
teeter ANNA ss iceskes oie West Charlton, N.
eemistreet,. Penma Mos. 20-0. es cave Ohio, N.
PARTIC ROL POGOe ae haa Albany, N.
Hence Miles 8 fi oe ee ee Baldwinsville, N.
Faenderson, Martha Geo. oes bo sks Newburgh, N.
Preteen: CAAA SS. 24's nee oa Saratoga Springs, N.
hiprsey. Louise M ooo eck ese Watertown, N.
Hewitt, Nieniont 26. 34 oe a eek Kingston, N.
itnker, Plizabeth © 4.03 eee eos Rochester, N.
TAME Mande OR i eon bec hase ne Rensselaer, N.
PLONE, DLALY Bs s 655 oe see aa ek bea Amsterdam, N.
Tite, MEE a iS eutew aac er lals Salamanca, N.
Holleran: Margaret aC: 3% 23.8 eee Waterloo, N.
Holmes; Adela Bein. oc. Saratoga Springs, N.
TIOTMIR A TOG Fig cay Johnstown, N.
Horton Mabel? oni 055 os eee a Albany, N.
PAGtaling. MGMACEs cent ory ee Gallupville, .N.
Howe, Marion isso. s5ses canes: Stamford, N.
Piuiett, Mercedes: Ao Jj jeicc soca ee: Castleton, N.
Hutchinson, Edith C...... Bath-on-the-Hudson, N.
faye; Justia es ov aaa, eed os Afton, N.
JPUNSO NM Myra Ace Le es ed Albany, N.
Jones; <Plorencte:s 2) 6 ssc es ee ee eat Rensselaer, N.
Jones, GtracG Awe os ance ee Clinton Heights, N.
JOY: Dertha- rises Sots Soma Ce oe yee es Albany, N.
PRA PON: Fes 5 sik cae Rensselaer, N.
MOCK; Mare Asher ces es a pase iy ae caine Clinton, N.
Relivo: AdacN cers sors 2 soue eos occ e ad Albany, N.
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PCONANY. MANIY Voce, ek. coe eo Cohoes, N. Y,
mennem Marote Go eco: West Winfield, N. Y.
WiC nit AUICe Less te er ee Baldwinsville, N. Y.
LET E sige LET vr eae Saar cr DEANS Far a A9tica. Ns Yo
Peis: OA ME ATOE Rok, ee ab ec ieecel. Troy;iN: Y:
RRAtGAI RAREST ot ec skew tks ain ATOW A INS Yo
Waite a ereney. Lois asc ee oe ee oR Wellsville, N. Y.
ienD: Manet <<. tent ae ee ar Glens Falls, N. Y.
Kimaston, Mabel Coc) eS Little Falls, N. Y.
Telia, a aetiet Pics, 22 e5 as ee Chaumont, N. Y.
Motiene.. Tova 3 oo ee a es Watervliet, N. Y.
nent, Mary. Mo se Lansingburgh, N. Y.
Roowison;:. Mary Te. ses eae ae. Troy, N. Y.
Kaait, Rosella: Messer se see Schodack Center, N. Y.
RaACKay, SN ay eS. oes West Winfield, N. Y.
NEAIGY, AGEACE 3 82 Bo oe a ee Watervliet, N. Y.
icand..Bhatwery A oes oe sa i Gs Chittenango.
Lait, Aiice.! oo coke eet Lansingburgh, N. Y.
anpher May. Psthet ace se oa Norwick, N. Y.
iearisine: “Blorente: 13 ai ae ee mipariy,: Ne<y:
Juamsitve: Jeanette Ve iss hi ee oa cane Fs Troy; Nw Y.
Ieawtonsi Mary Aes es ee eae Mohawk, N. Y.
Ioeainy ROSA AS ee see ee West Rutland, Vt.
Belang ADby Pest. ee ee Mechanicville, N. Y.
EeOnaGT, Mabel terse os ieee bd Albany, N. Y.
eedhard Miatwarel: 2.3 os we cas Syracuse, N. Y.
IUeSteTeESiellG cA cas Sore yes ae Phelps, N. Y.
WVeWAS MATICG UM ole uss es ol cl td Amsterdam, N. Y.
Lea Rae en Pow eek a Me ees kee Colton, N. Y.
diiddell (Aung i73c ack. os Ogdensburgh, N. Y.
Wittell = Ailes Mis Gees eee ase ood Albany, N. Y.
Dep Wage Eh soe ot ek oh iw ss Menands, N. Y.
isitteiicld Cota My sess Rural Hill, N. Y.
Lockwood, Mar: Hi i23 os. South Westerlo, N. Y.
eoeh, Toneghsne : owas bya eeu oe is Ticonderoga, N. Y.
SG et 8 SG es ee Ticonderoga, N. Y.
leowenstein,: Minna. os eS. as Amsterdam, N. Y.
Davey, hatherine He. esac es iittle Balls; Novy.
PANY AGCOTC eS Ain OC Sa es ew Lscoy, N.Y:
bynicn. Margaret Ac 03 s456 ee. ck v. Rensselaer, N. Y.
ieyneh,. M. Gefievieve.... 2650. 665% Ogdensburg, N. Y.
NIPAGEERAGIOCE 2925s a ee eerie Phoenix, N. Y.
eet Apatioute Boo. .6 ee. i62 Chittenango, N. Y.
Malcolm, Emma B...... er te Ticonderoga, N. Y.
Martining; ti. JROSAle!.. Sic oe fs cod Albany, N. Y.
Manning, Piorence Mi 220S5. 6s Sse st Albany, N. Y.
WagsiGi 7Prances (Als 2250S ee los Ttoy.N. Y:
rarshatie «A ones Mi So ce oa eed Albany, N. Y.
Mattsay ita No ses ees ol ee Albany, N. Y.
Matting Plorencei Nl. 2 oe ye ee ts es Albany, N. Y.
Mortal Annas ko. ee ook Middletown, N. Y.
Wieastews, Nemes To, eal oi ies or del Albany, N. Y.
Miagtiess Mata 1) Aes, oes he od Albany, N. Y.
Memilister (Anna Wis. vs eer eee, ee: Walton, N. Y.
MacCnicheon Aleck 3325..205.0 05; Germantown, N. Y.
MacMahon, Raymond Dice. 6.0.0.3. Albany, N. Y.
Mach opens: Clara Nea sean ee Albany, N. Y.
McCabe, uzabeth Me oo. oo. ss Albany, N. Y.
Matidrdies Alice. Meee cosy eee Kingston, N. Y.
Meltare* Pisrente 6 io oe. Fe Watervliet, N. Y.
ACC lomaG. A tata fore OS ho. oe Sas cy Warren, Ohio.
MCUOMIBele Saran 94 oe oes os Se oe PTOY,UN Xe
MeCullouch. Pilivabeth 27205 2..5 fe. Newburgh, N. Y.
MeCuNguon, Matty 6. .ci tee Newburgh, N. Y.
McBAroys Edith tse tuk, ores os. South Nyack, N. Y.
Peetaslade. JOaMeo yhoo eyo e564 New Berlin, N. Y.
McGregor, AGtace 40) as oe aie, Witca: Ne
WEEAM; JOSCHIIINE A560 7 5s ns 5 ss cs eed Albany, N. Y.
LB Aiy) eaAStas Mine et ie ed Ce TG: INE Ye:
Mewes, iany, 4a. eo he i ee Geneva, N. Y.
NIGH ZerA Mey Cae es sais ee Yonkers, N. Y.
MISSICk sl rete tty oe. ees Little Palls;-N. Y-
Mevetautonamdia Go. eles es Albany, N. Y.
Meyers) Bertha 915 52s 5s oon ee Springville, N. Y.
Maller Shel Jaca a ee a sk Port Chester, N. Y.
Des eee, 0, oe ian So dee Albany, N. Y.
NEOG Ada AS et oo a Union ‘Springs, N. Y.
Minomet> Mary. boo os So ok ee Watervliet, N. Y.
Moody, Wlary Wire os ee. ais a ees Troy, N. Y.
MOOLE* Dents: 125.53 oss ee Freedom, N. Y.
MGOre sGiaAcCe Gs... 6065 eee we eek Watervliet, N. Y.
Nioore Mary Fee 85 os atc Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Mp Gre Nel Ay os ose oe Catskill, N. Y.
WIGGRES pata ee ee ‘roy, NZyY.
Morey Mabe ls: tics. 2s ake ss Rochester, N. Y.
Munger: Nellie Pit. Os sue oe. aes Warsaw, N. Y.
Newitans SANGO Book oho. tec cos Whitestone, N. Y.
Newari Widty, Ieee ese nc ey Amenia, N. Y.
NG rue ele A, hoc oe es cs Watkins, N. Y.
MNMILONE, JESSIE Aig oes ore Soe a Watkins, N. Y.
(Siisriehny ait oe i ae ee ae she Herkimer, N. Y.
(SORHOT NAL ee ee Spencer, N. Y.
GC) Wea TSteliag Pwo. hos ess wees Cohoes, N. Y.
Ooden, siessie+ Gores ec 5 Middletown, N. Y.
Olivet, Withan 7 Aco eS 5. 5. volngerlands: (N.Y:
© Nets eaine Bee a ns ah se oe is Whitehall, N. Y.
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Patterson. May Vion 6 se ae Wimple,
Daye Heleme Ww) ats ie Ballston Spa,
Paynes Tillotson sa se eee Ballston Spa,
PEACOCK ANTACe mm GItin snes. 6 scones Fairport,
Perime?) Hanicex Ages, .o8 i ke Lysander,
Petry, sMabe 2 oe cts Watervliet,
Pian Tatiopne- Moss A On,
Philp, pele Shae os ce Reading Centers,
Phalp; Haancis tee ee oe ee Reading Centers,
Pierce, -Wathenne tis eo. oe ee Waterville,
Pierce, Aina avs. eee eee. Champion,
Pin STey Walla Ws ig ot is cee Se Andover,
Potters Palaiitae ee ese eee Green Island,
Porter: Minnie: Avge: Chittenango,
Powell: Mapel: Aca ae no echo. iin oe Ghent,
Powelsons: Nethe 2 op hoe, oe Middletown,
Powless Rachel (seco oe ose eee ase Sparkill,
Palsifer ss Blivabetn Wars. 6 5G Se een Auburn,
Pardy,; Nelies Bee ks New York city,
Rasbachs Bessie dee soe a ee Herkimer,
Ratiney, “Walliam ©Ao. s 3 ose ee Cortland,
Reames JANE He coo ee ea oe tae Waterloo,
Rebhune Maerds ies ois ees ee ke Albany,
Reedy Jenmeg Mi. dak Coals Corning,
Reed) Mae so ote ek oe eed bane,
Reese james sty clk oe he Westmoreland,
Reid; NMinniey Wises ane ek a ae: Greenwich,
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Tue curtain falls in silent state;
The plaudits of the crowd abate,
And hurrying through the green-room door,
The wearied actors leave the floor.
I only at the footlights wait.
The play is all of youth’s estate,
With college loves and joys elate:
And yet a sadness comes before
The curtain falls.
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*Tis no great story we relate,
Be to its faults compassionate.
We only cry, with those of yore,
Nunc plaudite! The play is o’er
At last, good night! the hour is late.
The curtain falls!
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