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Our Book, 1911
SONIGTIAG BOATION
UR BOOK
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PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR
CLASS OF THE NEW YORK
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
CPN
BOARD
ED YORS
Helen Bennett
Edifor-inChief
Edithw Scot
Esther E Trumbull
Sarah Tremble 5)
Mary Norton
“35-9
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To
Margaret Sullivan Mooney
Fouorary Member
Our Book
is respertfully dedicated
hy the Class of Nineteen Hundred Eleven
ER dignity, strength, and goodness have endeared her to all our hearts.
H Her wealth of sympathy has always made us glad to take to her our
hopes and fears, sure of her friendly counsels. Her strong, quiet
influence has increased in us love, faith and hope. Our ideals are finer for
having known her.
For encouragement and guidance we thank her. May those who follow us
look back upon their college years with the sincere love and appreciation
which we have for our dear instructor, counsellor, and friend,
Preface
O all our readers, the faculty and students of the State Normal
College, we, as the representatives of the Senior Class beg
leave to introduce “ Our Book.”
In this volume we are planning to include something of
the finest and best of our work here in dear old Albany; to
publish a record of our doings for future reference. We shall
not burden you with weighty considerations, or waste your time with
vain trivialities. In brief, our purpose is to make Our Book one that you
will all enjoy, and always cherish.
We beg your clemency for errors, and your cordial support in this
new undertaking. We are showing future classes how a year book
should look. It rests with you to show how a year book should succeed.
We know, therefore, it cannot fail.
THE EDITORS
Fall Semester begins
Faculty Reception
Y. W. C. A. Reception
Delta Omega Tea
Hta Phi Tea
Senior Reception
Kappa Delta Tea
Psi Gamma Tea
as Vacation
German Play
Mid-Year Examinations
Junior Week
Junior Banquet
Junior Reception
Junior Prom
Spring Semester begins
Senior Party
Sophomore Party
Psi Gamma Dance
The Echo Play
Rta Phi Dane
Freshman-Sophomore Spelling Match
Sophomore Reception
Spring Vacation
Newman Club Dance
Delta Omega Week End
Final Examinations
Commencement
September 14
September 16
September 23
October 8
October 15,
October 21
October 29
November 5
November 24
December 22—January 3
January 13
January 21-30
anuary 31—February 4
January 31
February 1
February 3
February 1
February 1
February 17
February 21
February 24
h3r
April 8-17
April 28
Ma
June 6-15
June 20
ELS)
TRUST
ANDREW S. DRAPER, LL.B., LL.D.
Chairman
SAMUEL B. WARD, M.A., M.D., PH.D.
Secretary and Treasurer
LEDYARD COGSWELL, M.A.
THOMAS E. FINEGAN, M.A., PH.D.
JAMES B. McEWAN, B.A.
Che Farulty
WILLIAM J. MILNE.
Pp
Pu.D., LL.D., @BK
sident of the New York State Normal College
A.B., University of Rochester, 1868; A.M., University of Rochester,
71; Ph.D. University of Rochester; LL.D. De Pauw University;
Instructor in the Brockport Normal School; Instructor and Principal of
Geneseo Normal School; President of the State Normal College since
1880.
Publications: A series of text books on Mathematics
M BILLINGS ASPINWALL, Pp.M., Px.D.
ant to the President and Professor of History and Principles
of Education
J, 1896; Pd.B., State Ni ¢, 1900; Pd.M., State
ge, 1901; Ph.D, University of Paris, France, 1904; Mem-
aculty of the State Normal College since 1900.
ber of the
12 OUR BOOK, 1911
LEONARD W. RICHARDS
Professor of Greek and Latin:
A.B., Trinity College, 1873; A.M., Trinity College, 1874; LL.D., Trinity
College ; Instructor in Trinity College, 1873-1883; Member of the Faculty
of the State Normal College since 1805
Publications: “The Development of the Normal Schools.” Occasional
articles for the Monograph
WINFRED C. DECKER, A.M., Pp.B., ®BK
sistant Professor of ¢
erman
A.B. Columbia, 190:
Colum
College
Publications: Occasional articles for the Monograph.
A.M., Columbia, 1910; Post-graduate Student at
Member of the Faculty of the State Normal
CLARA B. SPRINGS iD, A.B., Pp.B.
Instructor in Latin and German
A.B. Mt. Holyoke College, 1908; Pd.B
Member of the Faculty of the State No
State Normal College, 1910;
mal College since 1910,
Hl, LOUISE McCUTCHEON, A.B., Pp.B.
Assistant Professor of French
PdB., State Normal College, 1903;
School, 1903-4; Member of the Faculty
e Normal Coll
~ Poetry 0
nee 1904,
auger and National Sentiment in France.”
M. HARRIET BISHOP, A.B.
Instructor in French and the Principles of Education
A.B., Barnard College, 1910; Member of the F
Normal College since 1893
ulty of the State
RICHMOND H. KIRTLAND, A.B., A.M
Professor of English
A.B., University of Michigan, 1900; A
Membe: the Faculty of the State No
Publications: Occasional magazine articl
University of Chicago, 1900;
al College since 1909.
MARGARET S. MOONEY
Assistant Professor of
Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College since 1887.
Publications: Text-books in English, entitled “Foundation Stud
Literature.” “ Composition Rhetoric.” ‘Occasional articles for magazines
and papers.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 13
ALFRED E. REJALL, A.M.
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy
.B., Columbia University, 1906; A.M., Columbia University, 1907;
‘Member of the Faculty of the State Ne College since 1909.
ANNA E. PIERCE
Lady Principal and Instructor in Education
Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College since 1886.
ALBERT N. HUSTED, A.M., PH.D.
Professor of Mathematics
AM milton, 1866; Ph.D., Wesleyan University,
the Faculty of the State Normal College since 18:
HARRY BIRCHENOUGH, A.M., Pp.B.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
A.B., Cornell, 1903; Pd.B., State Normal College, 1906; Member of the
Faculty of the State Normal College since 1908.
WILLIAM V. JONES, A.M., Pu.D.
Professor of Commercial Branches
1896; Member of
McKendree
ate Normal
A.M., Washington and Jefferson College, 18;
College, 1896; Member of the Faculty of the }
College’ since’ 1869.
ADNA WOOD RISLEY, A.B., ®BK
Professor of History
: Pel
ew York §
A.B, Colgate, 1894; studied at the University of Chicago, 1897-1900
Fellow in History, 1897-1899; Instructor at the Chautauqua Summer
School, 1900; Professor of History and Politics, Colgate ersity
1905-1900; Professor of History at the University of Colorado Summ
Session, Boulder, Colo. 1910; Instructor in History at the New Yo
ate Normal College since 1909.
DAVID B. HL HINSON, A.B. A.
Assistant Professor of History
A.B., McGill University, 1803; A-M., McGill Universit *
Harvard, 1901; D,B., Montreal Presbyterian College, 1808; Instructor
in Union. University, 1906-1008; Member of the Faculty of the State
Normal College since 1908.
i}
ADAM A. WALKER, A.B.
Assistant Professor of Government and Economies
A.B., University of Michigan, 1906; Member of the Faculty of the State
Normal College since 1908
14 OUR BOOK, 1911
EDWARD W. WETMORE, A.M., Pp.B.*
Professor of Physical Science
A.B., University of Michigan, 1867; A.M., Universi
Pd.B., New York State Normal’ College, 18
Seminary, 1867-1869; Special courses in M
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Instructo
College, Constantinople, 1869-187
Normal College since 1891
Publications: Occasional magazine articles; Papers before various
scientific and other societies.
of Michigan, 1870;
Auburn Theological
allurgy and Assaying in
Natural Science Roberts
Member of the Faculty of the State
BARNARD S. BRONS AB.
sistant Professor of Phy
A.B., Columbia, 1908; Instructor in Geneseo Normal School, 1900-1905 ;
Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College since 1908.
Publications: Articles for magazines.
ical Science
CLIFFORD A, WOODARD, A.B., Pp.B.
Assistant Professor of Earth Science
A.B., Columbia University, 1904; Pd.B., New York State Normal
College; Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College since 1907.
HARRY B. SMITH, A.B.
Director of Manual and Industrial Education
A.B., Cornell, 1901; Travelling Fellowship, 1908; Commissioned by
Dr. Draper to study and make a report on German’ Industrial Schools;
Member of the Faculty of the State il College since roto.
Publications glische Unterrichtssp Hilfshuch fir héhere
Lehranstalten,” | Joint authorship in." Pranzdsisehe Unterr
Pamphlets entitled “ Special Report on Industrial a
of Hamburg and Altona, with seterences to general education in Gere
many.” “Steps in Composition for Primary and Secondary Schools.”
6
NTON B. BURKE
Instructor in Wood Work and Supervisor of Shops
Instructor in Sibley College; Instructor in Cornell University, 1904-1910;
Member of the Faculty of ‘the State Normal College since 1910.
GERTRUDE PETERS
Assistant Professor of Domestic Science
ic Science, Columbia, 1909; Instructor in the
Normal School, 1909-1910; Member of the
al College since 1910.
Instructor i
Moorhead,
Faculty of the State }
* Deceased
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 15
EMMA P. GARRISON
Instructor in Domestic Art
1908; Instructor in Pratt
Graduate of Mechanics Institute, Rochester.
ulty of the State Normal College
Institute, 1908-1910; Member of the Fa
since 1910,
CORA. A. STEELE
Instructor in Domestic Science
ichers’ College, Columbia, 1909; Mem-
te Normal College since 1910.
University of Michigan, 1908;
ber of the Faculty of the S
EUNICE A. PERI AB.
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
A.B, Teachers’ Colle;
1900; Member of the
SAMUEL B. BELDING
Professor of Music
Columbia, 1910; Pd.B., State Normal College,
culty of the State Normal College since r900.
Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College since 1886,
FANNY A. DUNSFORD, BL.
Director of Physical Education
Western Res
Reserve University, 1904; B.L., Sargent School for
ducation, 1906; Assistant Instructor in’ Physical Education in
a Seminary, 1905-1900; Instructor in Bradford Academy,
1906-1909; Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College since
1909.
MARY A, McCLELLAND
Librarian
Member of the Fi
Publications: Si
culty of the State Normal College since 1869.
veral magazine articles on History and Education:
JOHN M. SAYLES, A.B., Po.B. .
Principal of the Normal High School and Supervisor of Practice
Teaching
, 1901; Member of the
A.B., Colgate, 1900; Pd.B., State Normal Col
Faculty of the State Normal College since 19
CAROLINE R. HORNE, A.B., Pp.B.
Critic, and Instructor in Latin
A.B., Vassar College, 1901; Pd.B., State No’
of the Faculty of the State Normal College
| College, 1903; Member
ince 1904,
16 OUR BOOK, 1911
CHARLOTTE LOEB, A.B., Pp.B.
Critic, and Instructor in German
A.B, V College, 1903; Pd.B., State Normal College, 1904; Member
of the Faculty of the State Normal College since 1906.
LOUISE CLEMENT, A.B., Po.B.
Critic, and Instructor in English
A.B., Mt. Holyoke College, 19
Member of the Faculty of the
ANNE L. CUSHING, Pp.B.
Critic, and Instructor in Mathematics
5; Pd. B., State Normal College, 1907;
ate Normal College since 1908,
State Normal College, 1899; Instructor in Geneseo Normal
School, 1902-1908; Member of the Faculty of the State Normal College
ce 1908,
ELIZABETH SHAVER, A.B., Pp.B.
Critic, and Instructor in Science
A.B., State Normal College, 1908; Pd.B.,
Member of the Faculty of the State N:
EDITH BODLEY
Secretary to the Faculty
te Normal College, 1904;
al College since 1908
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 17
Iu Memuariam
EDWARD WILLARD WETMORE
r | VHE death of Dr. Wetmore is a lo.
to the authorities
ormal College. For nearly twenty years he had been a member of the
to education and a grief as well
graduates and students of the New York State
Faculty, zealous in the performance of duty and faithful to what he always
deemed the high mission of his profe
ion. He was well fitted by nature
to instruct and guide his pupils, for he had an active and Inminous
intelligence and a spirit at once tender and strong. By temperament and
acquired habit he was a scholar, with the scholar’s instinctive reverence
for truth. In the class
room and in conversation the wide range of his
knowledge and its accuracy always appeared, and he carried his learning
so easily and so modestly that it was a pleasure to talk with him, or to
listen to his lectures. THe w it movements of
s also a student of the gr
history and was deeply interested in all the problems of the present age.
Nothing that concerned mankind was alien to him and he was eager to
The desi
help the unfortunate and to improve their conditions of 1 7
to make the world better and therefore happier was characteristic of him.
Yet his temperament had other marks than these. His artistic,
aesthetic nature was unusually rich. He loved and appreciated different
forms of art. Many types of literature appealed to him and he had a
fine sense of values in architecture, sculpture and painting, But it was
in the realm of music that his spirit was really set free and that the
Vision of Beauty touched his soul. All the varied and varying moods
of this art he felt and knew. Its harmonies, whether quiet or subtle. its
changing rythm and tempo, its pathos and its majesty —all its infinite
18 OUR BOOK, 1911
gradations of tone and color were revealed to him. His love for
music thus gave his life a certain quality of grace; and to this there
was added also another element of grace in his love for whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely and of good report. His nature was
very religious, and in Religion he found and vested in something more
satisfying than Art and deeper than Philosophy or Science. The poise
of his character, its harmonious blending of sweetness and strength, was
the spontaneous expression of trust in God. In an age of hurrying
transitions when so many cherished modes of belief seem to have lost
their influence, and when received traditions have been so fiercely ques-
tioned and assailed, he kept a faith simple and yet firm, for through
experience and self-discipline he had found in God a refuge for his soul.
Because of these qualities his friends and pupils loved and honored
him, and because of them they cherish his memory as a precious and
abiding possession.
“Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace,
Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,
While the stars burn, the moons increase
And the great ages onward roll.”
THE SENIOR
20 OUR BOOK, 1911
Seuinr History
HE history of one class in college is always very much like that
J of any other class; they have similar impressions, similar
experiences and similar interests, a fact which merely proves
the old saying that “ history repeats itself.” Nevertheless each
class deems itself different and apart from every other class,
and of such egotism is the class of 1911 also possessed. When
me here, the institution was just recove
we c ng from a heavy
blow, hence we found that our domicile for the present was to be
two churches. In such surroundings it was but natural that we should
which would not be crushed by any
form high ideals, ideals amount
of sordid work. But just as a plant will not attain full perfection out
of its natural environment, so our ideals did not fully develop here. We
were looking forward to our permanent home and when, after two years
of waiting, our desires were consummated, these ideals were in their
natural environment. For truly such surroundings as then awaited us
were a fitting habitation even for the ideals of 1911. We had still two
years in which to develop into the full-grown plant, into Seniors, into
alumnae of whom our Alma Mater must be proud. And so for two
more years we worked and sought for “beauty and light” and now we
have reached, if not the culmination of our ideals, at least the permanent
results of having ideals.
And what have they done for us? They have helped us in our work.
Much, that would have seemed mere drudgery, has become the noble
labor which alone will lead to success. ‘They have taught us that, in so
far as our souls soar above the sordidness of everyday work, to such an
extent does everyday work lose this quality and become an inspiration.
“The profession of teacher is second only to that of the clergymar
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 21
we are told. Here then, above all things, we need idealism. We have
not taught much, but we may hope that, in the little we have done, our
efforts and ideals may not have been lost. It may not have heen evident.
but for a subtle influence of good we may at least hope.
And now we ask, “ Could we have gained from college what we did
without our ideals?" We came here to learn facts, to acquire skill, to
strive to put into practice what we know. We leave with perhaps little
of all this, but with a purpose to keep striving for “the true, the good,
the beautiful,” and with the knowledge that in life is given us the clear
canvas on which we can paint what we will, good or bad. This our
ideals have done.
And, lastly, we have determined that wherever we go our influence
shall be, as far as we can make it, only for good. Whether we remain
teachers or not, we will come in daily contact with people who will look
upon us as a type of college graduate, and if we do not idealize the type
we are doing just so much harm to our institution. Look to your ideals,
therefore. Be true to them and to the college in which they originated,
to our Alma Mater. We may fail, we probably shall, but ever a
an
encouraging standard we have our hopeful motto, ** Nova initia e fine.”
Cy
22 OUR BOOK, 1911
The Gleam
1
Oh, beloved comrades,
You who are sojourning
Here by the wayside
In Youth’s pleasant valley,
Ere yet ye embark
On the sea of the future
List while I speak.
Lo, I am one of you—
Hark! That which speaks thru me,
“ Follow the gleam.”—
2
True is the messag:
Strong is its powe
The light has been in you
From earliest years.
The spirit of joyousness ;
Love of the beautiful ;
High aspirations ;
All that is mystery ;
The sad inexplainable ;
The best that is in you,—
Trust in your brethren,
ith in eternity,
hat is the gleam.
Watch while I trace for you
Joys you have lived in,
Hopes you have breathed.
Childhood in fantasy
Fashioned with fairies
\ world of delight;
Followed a melody
Deep in your being,
Set to a tune, Magic,
Wonder, all that life meant
To you—all it could mean,
Thus thru a fairyland
Glided the gleam.
4
Out of this wonderland
Into realities ;
World’s to be conquered
Lay outstretched before you.
Valleys of loveliness,
Mountains of grandeur,
Caverns of gloom,
Rivers of terrors,
And forests of quietness.
You gazed on in wonder,
All you have dreamed of
You have aspired to
By the charm of the melody,
Breathed by the gleam.
5
‘Thus ye came hither,
Out of the home-land ;
Came to a land that seemed
Lonely and drear.
ITlere you found friendships
Dear, happy faces ;
Strong words of counsel
Brighten the world for you.
Yet we are waiting,
Waiting together
The war-note to call tus
Into the battle,
To fight for the gleam.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 23
6
Now whilst we hesitate,
Sad in departing,
Off in the distance
A melody rises
Stronger and loude
In measures suggestive
OF glory and triumph
Is our trust groundle
Are we too confident?
Nay! far out yonder
Beckons the gleam.
bd
Open your eyes to it,
Strive not to lose it.
Only by steadfastness,
Purpose and daring
Will you attain to
Triumph at last
Doubt will assail you
Ignorance blind you
Look to the gleam which shines in
the night.
8
Shadows are floating,
Dreams end in waking,
Worlds are attuned
To life and its harmony.
Out of the clouds,
Out of the darkness ;
Though to you dimly,
Yet not the less surely,
The haze will be broken
For those who are striving,
Inspired by the gleam.
9
Questions will come to you,
Love will seem lost to you,
Hope a mere phantom
To mock and deride.
Your faith may be shaken,—
Fail not, but cling to it;
Its glory will grow
With your power to conquer,
That failure is triumph
If you lose not the gleam.
\ touch of the fire
Of the spirit undying,
Will transform the world
Into beauty and love.
All is not desolate.
Tt lies in your power,
By love for your brethren,
By trust in the future,
By the best that is in you,
To grasp the ineffable.
Brighter and clearer
Shines the hereafter,
Richer and nearer;
Purity’s essence
Hastens the gleam.
10
Lo! It is finished,
The vision is fading,
Yet, let me speak again
Ere we disband.
Pathways may lead us
Far from each other ;
Still stand we together
Bound by the ties
Of love, hope, and loyalty
Bred in our being ;
Resolute hearts beat
With our purpose
To follow the gleam.
Eprru W. Scorv.
Motto Novy
@ Initia © Ping
Class Fi,
lower
Wary Carnarioy
Former Presidents
Freshman Vear
ALbER? Bacon
~ Sophomore Year
tor SARAH Try MBLEY
Junior Veay
Miture k ARTLUKE
Seuinr Ofticrrs
President
Etta W \TSON
) Vice-t resident
FLorency Wrrrar IER
Secretary
EDNA Watsox
a“ Treasurer
&
Esrier Rar ERTY
Echo Reporter
TSA BELLE Brecetara x N
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 25
Members of 1911
ELENA ACHILLI Fulton, N. Y.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.”
HELEN ALCOTT, Ao Troy, .N. Y.
“Modesty is virture's door-plate.”
DAISIE M. ANDRUS, H® Muskegon, Mich.
“With a smile that was child-like and bland.”
Member of the Junior Prom Committee, 1910.
ALFRED BACON Rensselaer, N. Y.
“— Pluribus Unum.”
President of the Class 1007-08
26 OUR BOOK, 1911
EN I.. BENN
The saddest are
ass
asurer of the C
Editor-in-chief of Year
I>
ISABELLE BIEGLEMAN, KA Troy, N.Y.
“If she will do't, she will, and there’s an end on't.”
Member of the Borussi; Member of the Prome-
thean Literary Socie Reporter for 1910-11
Member of the Ei 1910-11.
ESTHER BLISCH
“ Frailty, thy
Member of Borussia,
BERTHA M. BOTT
Neat, not gaudy.”
Member of the Newman Study Club; Member of
Borussia.
Of all sad words that
mber of the Clas:
ident of Athleti
r, AQ Waterville,
ake us hot.
these *O, I fe jal
lass 1908-09; Member of the Prom Committee,
1907-08 ; resident of
Basket Ball Team, 1910;
Association, 1910-11;
Book, i911
[a eee
Hobart, N. Y.
name is Woman.”
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 27.
MARGARE BOYLE
*L often have a
For a very good excuse.”
Member of Borussia; Member of the
all Team, 1909-10.
MARY BOYLE Westport, N. Y.
“The mildest manner, and the gentlest heart.”
ELIZABETH BRADSHAW
Lansingburg, N. Y.
“A good heart’s worth gold.”
Class Secretary, 1910; Member of Borussia; Mem-
ber of the Dramatic Club; Member of the Basket Ball
Team, 1909-10.
BEULAH HEL:
BRANDOW, KA
Catskill, N.Y.
“What is work, and what have I to do with it?”
resident of the Class, 1909-10; Pr
dent of
, 1910; Member of the Class Basket Ball
Team, 1909-10.
28 OUR BOOK, 1911
ANNA V. BUSH Ballston, N.Y.
* He is well paid that is well satisfied
Member of the Newman Study Club.
MAE CHANT, KA Johnstown, N.Y
“Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.”
SIE CLEVE ND, wr
Broadalbin, N.Y.
One tongue is sufficient for a woman.”
Member of Borussia; Member of the Promethean
Literary Society; Member of the Junior Prom Com-
mittee.
EMMA CONANT Granville, N.Y
“She will give even the devil his due.”
President of Y. W. C. A. 110-11; Member of
Boruss'
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 29
CATHERINE CONWAY Cohoes, N. Y
“Lives of great men all remind us
Life is really not worth while
lf we cannot leave behind us
Some excuses for a smile.”
Member of the Newman Study Club.
ELIZABETH DEEGAN Kingston, N.Y.
“But far more numerc
s are the herd of such
Who think too little and who talk too much
Member of the Newman Study Club; Secretary
of the Class, 1908-09; Member of the Echo Board
1909-10.
EVA ALBERTA DRUMMOND
\Ibany, N.Y.
“Dreams are but interludes, which faney makes.”
Member of Promethean Literary Society
OLIVE ECCLES Cohoes, N.Y.
“Don’t tell me of man’s being able to talk sense
Every man can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”
oa
30 OUR BOOK, 1911
ELIZABETH EVERETT, ao
Champlain, N.Y.
* True popularity takes deep root and spreads itself
wide.”
Member of Borussia.
Strykersville, N.Y,
evil propensity of the human heart is so
riul that it may not be subdued by Discipline.”
A FITCH, KA Poland, N. Y
“It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have
the habit of looking on the bright side of things.”
Member of the Promethean Literary Society
HELENA FRANK Schenectady, N. Y.
“Tell me, where is Fancy bred,
Or in the Heart, or in the Head?”
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 31
ANNA FRASER, AQ Champlain, N.Y.
Everything in this world depends upon Will.”
Vice-President of Y. W. C. A., 1908-09.
GRACE HEGEMAN Lansingburgh
“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing
well.”
Member of Borussia.
ie
CHLOE HENDERSON _ Valley Falls, N. Y.
“The first virtue is to restrain the tongue.”
ANGELINE HORN Albany, N.Y.
“Tf you cannot be brilliant, you can be brief.”
32 OUR BOOK, 1911
MARY HOTALING, wr Albany, N.Y.
“A good deed is worth a hundred promises
Member of Borussia; Secretary of the Dramatic
Club.
vA HUMMER Ravena, N. Y.
le is a fool who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will.”
L. ANTIONETTE JOHNSON
Norwich
“A maid convinced against her
Is of the same opinion. still.”
AMELIA KARTLUKE_ Green Island, N. Y
I find nonsense singularly refreshing.”
President of the Cl
Borussia; Member of th
of the 3asket Ball
s, 1909-10; Member of
Dramatic Club; Member
eam, 1909-10.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 33
FLORENCE KELLER, H&® — Albany, N. Y.
“When a woman has anything to
She can mostly find words to say it ir
MAE G. KENNEY Watervliet, N.Y
“Her golden_ loc
about her ears,”
for haste, were loosely shed
TINA LEICHT Harvard, N.Y.
Thou hast a mind that suits thy fair and
outward character.”
GEORGINE LEWIS Troy N. Y.
“Tam constant as the Northern Star.”
Member of Borussia.
34 OUR BOOK, 1911
JANE McHENRY — Middle Granvil ee
“He suspects himself to be slighted —and thinks
everything that is said is meant at him.”
Member of the Newman Study Club.
JUNIA MORS
“How poor are they that have not patience
Member of the Contributor's Club; Member of the
Promethean Society
KA Olean, N. Y.
HELEN MYERS, KA Valley Falls, N. Y.
hou art full of love, and honesty.”
MARY NORTON Middle Granville, N. Y.
“An able man shows his spirit by gentle Words
and resolute Actions; he is neither hot nor timid.”
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 35
PH OVITT, AQ Johnstown, N. Y.
was rather diminutive altogether, yet so
much the more precious
Member of Borussia; Member of the Promethean
Literary. Society.
MARIE PHILLIPS \lbany, N, Y.
“Our happiness in this world depends on the
affections we are enabled to inspire.”
Member of the Newman Study Club; Member of
the Contributor's Club; Member of the Echo Board,
110-11
ANNA QUACKENBUSH
Schenectady
The portable quality of good Humou
Member of the Promethean Literary
ESTHER RAFFERTY Albany, N. Y.
“It is by Words, by Tones, by
that affection is won, and preserve
Member of Boru:
stures, hy Looks.
36 OUR BOOK, 1911
FRANCES SCHRACK Port Henry, N.Y,
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by
always eat wiser by always reading.”
Member of the Promet
Member of Borussia.
an Literary Society ;
TONE SCHUBERT Catskill, N.Y
“No man is at all times wise.
Member of Borussia.
JOHANNA SCHWARTE Saratoga, N. Y
“A docile Disposition will, with application, sur
mount every difficulty.”
EDITH SCOTT Kingston, N.Y,
“Consider, I'm a peer of the realm, and shall die
if I don't }
Member of the Contributor's Club; Member of the
I atic Club; Member of the Promethean Literary
Society; Member of the Echo Board, 1909-10.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 37
EDNA M. SMITH, AQ Schenectady, N.Y.
“Good taste is the flower of good sense.”
FRANCES STILLMAN, KA Poland, N.Y
“Gently to 1 kindly to judge.”
Member of Promethean Literary Society
ANNA THEBO Fort Edward, N.Y.
“Would all my days were letter days of any shade
or color,”
MARY THOMAS Ticonderoga, N. Y
“Tf men wish to be held in esteem, they must
associate with those only who are estimable.”
38 OUR BOOK, 1911
MAUDE R. TOBY Pultney, N.Y.
nae trick of singula
Member of Borussia; Member of the Promethean
Literary Society
rity.”
TREMBLEY, H® — Utica
as is true Love, true Friendship is. still
rarer.”
Member of Borussia; Member of the Promett
Society; Vice-President of the Cl
resident of the Class 1908-09; Chair
an
ESTHER
RUMBULL, KA
Johnstown, N.Y.
‘The truest mark of being horn with great qualities,
SG ee
Member of Borussia.
EFFA M. VAN DERZEE, AQ Troy, N.Y.
nce, what art thou? Thou tremendous
‘Member of Borussia; Member of the Dramatic
Club,
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 39
ELLA R. WATSON
Genius is mainly an affair of energ
Member of the Contribute
; Member of the Promethean Literary
Dramatic C
tt
Society; Member of the
Chairman of the Play Committee, 1911; Editor
Chief of the Echo, 1910-11; President of the Class,
110-11
FLORENCE WITTME
seriously
Vice-President of Bo
Dra:
“Don't think so much of being amused; take life
tic Club; Vice President of the Class, 1910-11
Club; Member of the
Pl
Committee, 1910;
EDNA M. WATSON Albany, N.Y.
“T take it to be a principal rule of life not to be
too much addicted to any one thing.”
Member of Member of the Dramatic
Club; Secretary lass, 1910-11; Captain of the
Class Basket Ball team, 1909-10; member of the
Junior Prom Committee, 1910.
aR, WT
Fort Hunter, N.Y
ussia; Member of — the
ROSE WILKINSON Saratoga, N. Y.
“You traverse the world in scarch of Happiness,
which is within the reach of every man; a Con-
tented Mind confers it on all.”
Member of the Neuman Study Club.
40
OUR BOOK, 1911
FLORENCE VAN NOY, H® Albany, N.Y.
“T ove tranquil solitude, and such society as is
quiet, wise and good.”
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE Al
SOMETIME MEMBERS
[, i OF «\f .
Pol!
Laura WINpbsOoR Windsor, New York
KarHeriIne BurKE Troy, New York
GLabys CRAVER Albany, New York
Esa SHaw Albany, New York
Mes. Herbert Jounson (neé Veghte) Watervliet, New York
Mar Larkin ‘10 Albany, New York
3%
42 OUR BOOK, 1911
Conunvencement
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday, June 18, 1911
Class Day . Monday, June 19, 1911
Programme
Class History - FLORENCE WITTMEIER
Class Prophecy BeuLan BRAnpow
Class Poem Epira W. Scorr
Ivy Oration GEoRGINE Lewis
Color Ceremony Marie Prn.irs
Husted Memorial HELEN BENNETT
Memorial Presentation Bua R. Watson
Class Song By CLASS OF 1911
Commencement ‘Tuesday, June 20, 1911
Alumni Banquet Tuesday, June 20, 1911
Senior Ball ; ‘Tuesday, June 20, 1911
[: COLLEGE 43
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL
1911 Class Soy
Music by Mary C. Hotaling, “Il
Words by Edith W. Scott, ‘I!
—
le!
Dear memories now are the years just past As we wait fi
‘march tothe elds they fought. ‘Dur, aoe hat
es
a aa
Wen al of oar nach frie jee th la
The burdens, the sorrows we count as naught
DRAWING ROOM
46 OUR BOOK, 1911
Ab Freshes ad Suniores
The synopsis of a drama recently played by the Star Company
oft the Normal College
ACT I
The scene alternates between two churches, a Methodist and Presby-
terian, located on Lancaster and Willet Streets respectively.
Scene 1
Enter the Freshmen in small scared looking bunches; they are told
by Dr. Milne to behave themselves and keep out of the park after dark.
Scene I
The Freshmen are given their colors and with kindly aid of the
Juniors, organized into a class of seventy-five members, including six
men! Under Dr, Hannahs’ direction they learn to work in accordance
with the laws that govern them and everything goes along flourishingly.
Seene HI
ne
Miss Le Compte makes her first appe
r, and Mr. Storrer
short of it.”
as class-meeting-notice
and Mr. Fitzpatrick star as “the long and
The entire class plays an opposing company in a. short
comedy entitled “spelling” and is entirely successful.
arrives and the Freshmen depart.
Commencement
ACT II
The scene is laid in a beautiful new building on Western Avenue.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 47
Scene |
The characters who now appear as Sophomores are no longer scared
and begin to work as soon as they arrive. They may be seen at any time
admiring the new building —and the new Faculty member
the actors have dropped out, but it has been most truly a *
the fittest” and only those of sterling worth have survived.
Some of
survival of
Scene I]
There is great rejoicing as the company discovers that it has some
illustrious people in its midst. Mr. Dabney, author and dreamer; Miss
Barnet, lyric poet; Miss Parks, athlete, and several others. The comedy
of “Spelling” is again played, but with utter failure for the Sophomores
The roses bloom again and the class depart to swing in their several
hammocks and enjoy their several favorite authors.
ACT HI
Scene |
Same as in Act IT, but slightly worn and more homey that before.
The company, looking much older and wiser t
1 in the first two
acts, appear and are called Juniors. They are called to take part in the
“ Tragedy of Method.” and endure the trial with heroic fortitude. They
are told to get into the pupil’s point of view, which reminds them of
High School days and certain tacks with which they tried to make the
teacher accept that maxim. They enjoy the festivities of Junior week
and say good-bye at Commencement. with their heads and hearts full of
“teaching next year.”
The drama thus far has heen played with great strength and power.
Report has it that a fourth act is soon to be added and we are looking
ard to it with pleasurable anticipation. May the actors star upon
the stage of life as they have upon the one at College!
fory
JUNIOR CLASS.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE AD.
Suninr Class—1912
President
Vice-President
S
Treasurer
retary
Reporter
ANDERSON, ETHEL
Bar , HorTENS
, GRACE
Brew)
BoocHEVE
Brascu, Ge
Brown, ANNA
CaLkins, Ruta
Cuase, FLORENCE
Cook, HARLEY
Danney, Howarp
MARGUERIT!
Marjory
, ANNA
UDE
Farnam, Le
Fu rRICK, HOWARD
A
Jacoss, Ruru I.
Jon
KEL
KLEBES, OLIVE
Knapp, [SABELLE
Officers
ETHEL G. EVERINGHAM
NEVA E. TILLAPAUGH
MARGARET JONES
HOWARD FITZPATRICK
HORT E BARNET
Mombers
1 Lancaster Street, Albany
5 Lancaster Street, Albany
Greenwich
Waterville
20 Dana Avenue, Albany
South Road, Poughkeepsie
104 Columbia Street, Albany
9 W. Morris Street, Bath
434 Hudson Avenue, Albany
123 Bradford Street, Albany
2424 Twelfth Avenue, Watervliet
Newark
Albany
Cazenovia
20
15.
159 Clinton Avenue,
1219 Avery Avenue, Syracuse
Ravena
731 Fourth Avenue, Lansingburgh
39 Pine Woods Avenue, Troy
Sacket Harbor
15 Jewett Place, Utica
West Coxsackie
243 Hudson Avenue, Albany
50
Lakin, MILLy
LAWRENCE, MARION
LAWSON, MILDRED
Le Compre, ADELE
MacDonaup, C. AGN
McConNELL, MARGARET
MAGEONGH, HELEN
Parks, BERTHA .
REYNOLDS, HELEN
Rice, STANLEY S.
ScHERMERHORN, HELEN
ScuLLy, MARION
Strouse, May
EWART, AGNES
TILLAPAUGH, NEVA
Witicox, GRACE
WILLIAMSON, ELIZABETH
Woo worth, FLORENCE
OUR BOOK, 1911
Hancock
Stillwater
Round Lake
5 Main Avenue, Albany
Clinton
Valatie
353 Clinton Avenue, Albany
300 Bishop Avenue, Syracuse
12 Gillespie Street, Schenectady
Rensselaerville
Poland
336 Liberty Street, Schenectady
Albany
Geneva
Se
Verona Station
3 Jay Street, Glens Falls
rd
203 Avenue A, Schenectady
SOPHOMORE
52 OUR BOOK, 1911
Sophomore History
NCE upon a time, in the far past, we were Freshmen, but
even then we were the finest class in college, for we out-
numbered any of the other classes, being more than a hundred
an strong, and, furthermore, we came with the new buildings,
and were therefore favored above all others. Thru the
kindly effort of the Junior, our class was promptly organized ;
a constitution was adopted, and the yearly officers elected:
Mr. Steer, President; Miss Grace Young, Vice-President; Miss Myra
Young, Secretary; Mr. Hargraves, Treasurer; and Mr. Cook, Reporter.
Besides the general social affairs of the college, which included
our “ Freshman Reception,” we greatly enjoyed the “ Frolic” given us
by the Juniors, the * Spelling-Match ” with the
di
socials.
Sophomores, in which we
inguished ourselves for reformed spelling, and several Freshman
As Sophomores, we have been phenomenally studious and quiet, hav-
ing indulged in only one social for ourselves, besides entertaining the
Seniors. But if we have not been very active in social affairs, we may at
least congratulate ourselves on a minimum of “ flunks,” and on the success
of the new literary societies which we have helped to support. At present
writing, we are looking forward to a spelling match with the Freshmen,
and to the “Sophomore Reception.” This year our officers are: Presi-
dent, Mr. Cook; Vice-President, Miss Hask
; Secretary, Mr. Steer;
Treasurer, Mr. Schneider ; Reporter, Miss Boochever.
Grac
M. Youn, ‘13.
MORE CLASS—1913
PHO
so
54
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Sophomore Class
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Reporter
ABLETT, HELEN B.
ALLEN, LELIA M.
ALLIson, Davip
Austin, A. LORETTA
BrisToL, LAURA M
Brozitsky, ANNA
Ciark, Bessie L.
CoGHLAN, FRANCES
CoE, Jesse G.
ConNELL, Mary C
Corson, FLORENCE
DENNING, ANNA
Donovan, Marié
DunBar, MARGUERITE
Duncan, Hore D.
FITZGERALD, AG)
GILLERAN, ETHEL
Guppy, Epna BELLE
Hai, EpNa
HARTIGAN, KATHERINE
Haskins, Jessie L.
HAYFORD, SAMUEL
Cc.
Officers
GRACE M. YOUNG
JESSIE L. HASKINS
HENRY B. STEER
ANTON SCHNEIDER
ALICE TOOLE
Mombers
Cohoes
Rock Stream
New York
Fort Plain
Ovid
Avoca
Cohoes
Albany
Albany
Watervliet
Albany
Canajoharie
Albany
Condor
Bryn Maur, Pa.
Cohoes
Ellenville
Auburn
Peekskill
Old Chatham
Granville
Albany
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 55
Hiceins, Dororny Troy
Jackson, FLORENCE Hunter
James, MARJORIE Albany
KAEMMERLEN, MARIE ADEL Haverstraw
Keuiy, ALTA M. Glover le
KENNEDY, ANNA Gloversville
Kervey, THER Ballston Spa
Kernan, HELEN M. Utica
Kine, Ora Waverly
KINNE, KaTHERINE : ‘ Ovid
Kiynear, Martua : Albany
LELAND, MARGUERITE Mechanicsville
LAUNSBURY, MADGE Peekskill
NARES, SARA Corning
Nye, EI Dundee
MABEL, BEAT Delhi
MAHAN, GRACE Rensselaer
MANNING, VERA Albany
Markey, GERTRUDE E Watervliet
MAXWELL, OLIVE H. Saugerties
McAutt Jessie M Albany
McCormick, Mary ‘Troy
McGovern, Rost E Peekskill
McNauiy, MARGARET F. Albany
McNamara, FLORENCE M Coeymans
MEADE, Mary Cobleskill
MircHELL, Estuer Albany
OvELL, HELEN RuTH Congers
PELLS, WILLIS J. Red Hook
PLoss, MARION Hunter
RIEFFANAUGH, NOLA ara Falls
RoBERtTS, REBECCA Coxsackie
ROSENBLOOM, JACQUES New York
SCHNEIDER, ANTON Albany
ScorLanp, MINNIE B. Cohoes
ScraFrorpD, Bess M. f Schenectady
Secor, ETHEL EarLe . 4 Albany
56 OUR BOOK,
SHARER, JOYCE
Suaw, CHarLoTre FE.
HIPPERS, JOSIE G.
SPENCE, JESSIE M.
STEER, Henry B.
Trames, Evma
TooLe, ALICE B.
Tracy, CHARLOT
Tymgson, MARGARET
Dyke, Karrina B.
Wave, MABEL
Wituiams, Worpsworta D.
Winston, ELIZABETH .
Woop, Amy
Woop, MABEL. F
Wricut, CHARLOTTE H.
Younc, Grace M.
Younc, Myra W.
ZIEGLER, ETHE!
Wellston, Ohio
Delhi
Glens Falls
Valley Falls
Menands
Schenectady
Pery
Ghent
Johnstown
Schenectady
Watertown
Philmont
Albany
Albany
Troy
Niagara Falls
Albany
Hartford
Albany
Albany
Coeymans
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 57
19 @ BA
FRESHMAN CLASS
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 59
Freshman Class—1914
Officers
President . 2 LOUIS WARD
Vice-President a . LESLIE WHEELER
Secretary EDNA MOAT
Treasurer ; ‘ : 7 ‘ MR. WOOD
Members
ABLETT, SERENA . F . Cohoes
ANDERSON, GEORGE W. . . . . Albany
Arrwoop, Lois. . Albany
Bowen, BALLARD L. i ’ ‘ c 3 : Buffalo
Burton, MARION 7 : - Waterford
Brapt, Mary E.. 2 i ; é Voorheesville
Carwart, LuciLe 7 5 i 4 a Coeymans
Carson, LESTER. . . . Fultonville
= ,Epirn , : Hudson
CAVANAUGH, EMILY
Carman, Ruts E. , $ ° x " s
Ciark, DELL H. é : ' ‘ F Pavilion
Comsrock, Vera J. : . Port Chester
Coucaiin, EvizaBera i . j ¥ Albany
Co ,CECILE . y i F ‘ Slingerlands
Darter, Chara E, . . . 7 z : Granville
Davis, JENNIE. . . . . . . b Waterford
Davipson, MArJoRIE ’ “ ; " . Beaverskill
Der Frrest, CHARLOTTE . 5 5 ‘ : . Albany
DESPARD, CATHERINE E. : c : : ‘ Altmar
DESPARD, FRANCES i s 2 : P . Altmar
Emery, Orris B. 5 R ‘ 5 i . Rochester
Esseistyn, KaTHarINe B. . e . . . 5 Clauvrack
60
Fisk, Karne. H.
Fiint, IRENE
Forb, IRE
Forpuam, Hope S$.
Gorwey, HaroLp W.
GUERNSEY, Ha
aL,
HALLORAN, WINIFRED E.
Hanaman, HyLa
Herper, ErHen M.
Kenyon, Howarp W.
LOBDELL, ELEANOR
Lyon, BERNICE
McCune, RutH E
Moar, Epna B.
Nucent, HEeLen M.
Orr, Leon A
¢, DoRoTHY
BY, LAuRA J.
Pier, Iona D.
PLANtz, H 7
PRA
Purpy, Iona E. .
Ropsins, MARY
RucG, WALTER
Scuraper, Emiiy J.
Simmons, HE
VART, ETHEL B.
HEI vb, BE’
Sram, HAZEL
Twocoop, FRANCES
Warp, J. Harry
Warp, Louis B.
Wait, Curistig L.
Wooster, ADELAIDE G.
Wincox, ETHEL,
WHEELER, LESLIE N.
WHEELER, Marian A.
OUR BOOK, 1911
Cincinnatus
Little Falls
Scotia
Stillwater
Albany
Albany
Cornwall
Troy
Binghamton
Albany
Albany
Albany
Richmondville
Slingerlands
Salem
Addison
Schenectady
Crescent
Slingerlands
Gloversville
Bushkirk Bridge
Schenectady
aratoga Springs
Oxtord
Southampton, L. Is.
Troy
Voorhi ille
Shushan
Cobleskill
Oneida
Aucrane
Albany
Crown Point
Upper Troy
Worcester
Van Wies Point
Waterford
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 61
Woop, CHESTE Waterford
2 \lbany
Albany
Hartford
62 OUR BOOK, 1911
FIRST YEAR HOUSEHOLD
ECONOMICS CLASS
HE fire, which destroyed its buildings in the year of nineteen
hundred and six began a new epoch in the history of the New
York State Normal College. From that moment the efforts
" of the President, Dr. Milne, and of the entire faculty were
Gly - , 5
He directed towards building up a better institution than had
Bm] ve existed before, for the education of Young America in
New York State. New and finer buildings were erected, new
and finer equipment was secured, and new and finer courses of study were
introduced.
Among these new courses is a two-year course in Household
nomics, which includes work in both Domestic Science and Domestic
Art. Although this is the first year that work along these lines has been
offered, there are considerably over one hundred students enrolled in the
class. If numbers’and enthusiasm are any indication of success, the
course in Household Economies is destined to be one of the best in college.
FIRST YEAR HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS CLASS.
64 OUR BOOK, 1911
Hirst Year Household Economics Class—1912
Members
Avams, ELIZABETH : 5 t ‘ ; : ‘ Coxsackie
Bacon, WELTHA . F : , : Waterloo
BARCLAY, JESSIE Palmyra
BRENNAN, HazEL ‘ Tae Fifth Avenue, Watervliet
BrownLow, LILLIAN . 32 Lexington Avenue, Albany
Burpick, EpNa i 935 Madison Avenue, Albany
CAMPBELL, JEANETTE 592 Central Avenue, Albany
Casey, Epiru ‘ : 5 : 5 Albany
CLuTE, ANNE R. F. D. No. 8, Schenectady
CrumMey, Mary : 7 Madison Place, Albany
CUNNINGHAM, FLo: $ Hudson Place, Hudson Falls
DANAHER, ELIZABE’ . P 446 Clinton Avenue, Albany
DuNNE, ISABELLE 284 Tenth Street, Troy
Epwarbs, Louise . " . 6 MacPherson Terrace, Albany
ELMENDORF, JEAN 545 Western Avenue, Albany
Exiwoop, Louise. : Fort Plain
Ety, OLIVE 436 Clinton Avenue, Albany
EpstkeIn, REBECCA 244 Hudson Avenue, Albany
Everson, ALTA . Fonda
FERGUSON, JESSIE f Medina
Fisner, ELIZABETH uy 1621 Second Avenue, Watervliet
FLemmine, Rira 26 K. Albany Street, Oswego
Fours, JESSIE. ‘ 3 s Herkimer
FRANKLIN, ABBY Ovid
Go.psmitH, FANNIE 86 Trinity Place, Albany
Grant, VIOLET , ti Albany
HALSES, GERTRUDE Hartford
HENpRIE, EMILig . F 107 Dalwere Avenue, Albany
HENZEL, ANNA 112 Phillips Street, Albany
HERBERT, ETHEL i Albany
Homes, JEAN. A 79 No. Allen Street, Albany
Houpertz, Linian 3 5 2 : Fultonville
James, MARGARET i : ip Myrtle Avenue, Albany
NEW YORK
Jonston, GRACE
Jorpon, CARLOTTA
KENNAH, Mary
LANAHAN, ANNA
Lievens, EpNA
MANNING, VERA .
MacNamara, FLORENCE
METZGER, FLORENCE
McIntyre, Mary
MILLER, FLORENCE
Moran, SAviIg
Moray, ANNA
O'Brign, Mrs. [RENE
Prart, Erne, G
Quick, HELEN
Roacu, MADELINE
Rosie, Mancr
SAwyER, GENEVIEVE
Sexton, La
Smiru, HELEN
SmirH, EVELYN
SprINGER, BEULAH
STELLER, Epirn
SrepHEeNnson, EpNA
SULLIVAN, MOLLIE
‘Torin, Mary
VEDDER, MARGARET
WALLACE, MARY
WALLACE, CLARA
Watsu, EpNA
WEBSTER, CORNELIA
WELLS, GERTRUDE
Winpsor, H. BELL
Woop, FRANCES
Worms, HARRIET
Wyman, Lucie,
ZINCKE, ANNA
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 65
27 Riverside Avenue, Rensselaer
193 Quail Street, Albany
608 Madison Avenue, Albany
31 Jefferson Street, Albany
153 Chestnut Street, Albany
225 Western Avenue, Albany
Coeymans
8 McClelland Avenue, Amsterdam
817 Second Street, Rensselaer
Herkimer
119 So. Hawk Street, Albany
222 Spruce Street, Albany
Delmar
Third Street, Albany
iors Go. Pine Avene, Albany
24 Fulton Street, Glens Falls
87 Lancaster Street, Albany
. Eaton
"$6 Joun Street, Utica
Eaton
Delmar
: Cornillus
217 State Street, Albany
Scotia
1211 Broadway, Rensselaer
160 Colonie Street, Albany
88 So. Allen Street, Albany
159 Elm Street Albany
223 Crane Street, Schenectady
301 Madison Avenue, Albany
Mohawk
is Bima Sheet Albany
Waterloo
7 So. Pine Avenue, Albany
Kingston
‘Tarrytown
Granville
186 Third Street, ‘Troy
LOOKING TOWARD SCIENCE HALL
GioluleiaeKe
Officers
President EMMA CONANT
Vice-Preside FLORENCE KELLER
Secretary GRACE BECKER
Treasure, FLORENCE CHASI
Advisory Conunitter
Mrs. W. B. Asprnwati, Chairman
Miss ANNA PIERC Mrs. Apa CratG WALKER
Mrs. F. C. Curtis Miss M. Harrier Bistor
Miss Liniian Templeton
Chairman of Committers
Religious Brutatt BrRaNpow
Bible Study Junta Morsi
Membership and Hand Book FioreNcr Ketter
Finance FLORENE CHASt
Missionary Mary THomas
Social Saran TREMBLEY
Practical Service Tone SHUBER
Banner FRANCES SCHRACK
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 69
YW. OC. A.
HE Young Women’s Christian Association is probably one of the
J most influential and beneficial organizations of the College. It
was organized in 1904, and has been duly elected to membership in
Young Women's Christian Association of New York and New Jersey,
and is thus associated with the national and world associations. Its
membership at present is quite large and includes students from all classes
The purpose of the Association is to unite the students of the college in
Christian fellowship and to promote the well-being of new sturlents.
Each year a committee of the Association meets the incoming
Freshmen, welcomes them cordially, aids them in finding suitable boarding
places and endeavors in every way to banish lonesomeness. Religious
are held once a week and missionary meetings once a month.
meeting
These meetings are lead by students, members of the Faculty, or returned
missionaries or other celebrated Christian workers. Among these was
Dr. Angie M. Meyer of China, and Chairman of the National Board of
the Y. W, C. A. A Bible
led by Professor Kirtland, and Mrs. W. B. Aspinwall had charge of a
tudy Club was held during the past year,
Mission Study Clas:
A reception is given to the Faculty and students in the early
\ Christmas sale is held each year at which dolls are shown, and later
distributed among the worthy poor of the city. Every year a delegation
is sent to Silver Bay to attend the Students’ Eastern Conference, Her
the students attend lectures, conferences and engage in the many sports
and merry-makings which the place affords,
The A
soon take in the whole student body and be the most powerful factor for
sociation is flourishing and it is our earnest hope that it will
social, moral and spiritual development in the College.
Frances P. Scurack, ‘11.
70 OUR BOOK, 1911
= ——— pe
Contributors’ Club
ontribulors Club.
Officers
President HOWARD DABNEY
Secretary ADELE LECOMPTE
Faculty Member R. H. KIRTLAND
Mombers
1911
Etta R. Watson Junza Morse
Epiru W. Scorr
ABELLE BIEGELMANN
Marte PHitiies
1gI2
Howarp Danney NA BoocHevER
Erne, Everincuam \ e Le Compre
1913,
Grace YOUNG Katrina Van Dyke
Dayip ALLISON
1914
Evizaneru G. Scorr
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 71
Che Contributors’ Clik
HE Contributors’ Club was organized late in the Fall of 1910, under
T the direction of Professor Kirtland. Membership in this Club is
regarded as an honor, the qualifications for admission being the
attainment of a high degree of ability in original literary composition.
The club has as its object the further development of the power of real
literary expression in the individual members, both as an art and as a
possible vocation. The opportunities of unrestricted individual effort
ion thus offered constitute a most valuable
and of f itical discu
supplement to the regular composition courses. The first year of the
club has proved most successful, the work being a source of keen enjoy-
ment as well as of remarkable value in personal development.
72 OUR BOOK, 1911
Aad.
PROMETHE AN
History of the Promethean Literary Saciety
HE students of the State Normal College have felt for some time
the need of a society for the promotion of social intercourse and
intellectual training. » meet this need a literary society was
suggested and those interested in the plan met for organization and drew
anization the
up a constitution, It was decided to call the new or;
Promethean Literary Society and the Motto “ Crescamus Faciendo™ was.
adopted.
The first regular meeting was held October twentieth, 1910,
and the following officers were elected: President, Miss Neva Tilla-
paugh; Vice-President, Miss Gertrude Brasch; Secretary, Miss Grace
Young; Treasurer, Mr. David Allison; Parliamentary Censor, Mr, Edwin
Hanson; Marshal, Mr. Samuel Hayford; Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Willis
J. Pells; Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr, Earl Tripp.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 73
meetings are divided into three sessions—literary, social and business.
ometheans hold their regular meetings every two weeks and these
The programs for the first session are arranged by alternating committees.
The study of the lives of prominent men and their works has proven very
interesting and instructive. Much pleasure has resulted from instru-
mental and vocal music— especially chorus singing by the society
The social side has not been neglected. After the literary session
a short social time has been enjoyed. Refreshments have sometimes con-
sisted of candy conundrums (?), but on February twenty-fifth occurred
the first “spread” and this evening afforded delightful and substantial
refreshments. The debaters proved that pie is more nutritious than ice-
cream, but their subsequent attitude was not consistent with their words.
=
After the transaction of the regular business a drill in parliament:
law has proven very profitable and decidedly amusing.
At the beginning of the second semester the following officers were
installed to serve for the remainder of the college year: President, Miss
Marjory Bennett; Vice-President, Miss Florence Jackson; Secretary
Miss Charlotte Wright; Parliamentary Censor, Mr. Wordsworth
Willian
Kaemmerlen, and Miss Florence Gardner; Critic, Miss Edith Scott. The
Marshall, Mr. Jacques Rosenblum; Sergeants, Miss Adelia
Treasurer holds office for a year.
The meetings of the society have been well attended and a genuine
interest has been manifested in all its work. It has proven a successful
organization and certainly worth while. There are now about a hundred
names on the roll and its increasing membership indicates greater
progress for next y
This very brief history of the society would not be complete without
a word concerning Professor Richmond H. Kirtland, who was. instru-
mental in organizing the society and who has given his persistent efforts
and tireless energy for its promotion. Professor Kirtland’s co-operation
and advice while the society was being formed and also since its organ-
ization, are most deeply appreciated by the members.
a
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Officers
President DAVID ALLISON
Secretary and Treasurer MARY C. HOTALING
History
HE Dramatic Club was organized in October, 1910, to fill a long-felt
need for some opportunity to discover and develop any histrionic
ability which we might possess. After several preliminary
meetings, our officers were elected, a constitution drafted and the organ-
ization put in running order. Our meetings were scheduled for every
other Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. A plan of work for the year was then
presented to us which we have followed in main points. After a
study of the old Greek tragedy, which included Sophocles’ “ Antigone”
and Euripide’s “ Alcestis,” we turned our attention to Longfellow and
with great delight became acquainted with the exquisite “ Pandora.
Then for a time we turned from the charm of Greece and her immortal
gods and entered the quite different atmosphere of Longfellow’s * Golden
Legend.”
Our meetings, although not as well attended as at first, have been
intensely interesting. The roles are taken by members of the club and
the reading is followed by interesting discussions. To conclude the year's
work we will present in May some drama, which has not yet been decided
upon.
Owing to Mrs. Mooney’s able direction, we have been led to see the
beauties of these noble productions and to take great pleasure in them;
and in the years to come we will look back with joy at the delightful
hours spent in our Dramatic Club.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 75
“Treue und Brudershaft.”
Ofticers
President ANTON SCHNEIDER
Vice-President FLORENCE WITTMEIER
Secretary and Treasurer ANNA BOOCHEVER
Critic W. C. DECKER
History
URING the early part of the school year (1909-1910) a German
| Society was organized through the efforts of Professor W. C.
Decker. All students interested in German were eligible for
membership. The name chosen was “ Borussia,” the name of the fraternity
of which the present German Emperor was amember when he attended the
University of Boun.
he offi
rs during the first year were: President,
R. R. Sherwood; Vice-President, Anton Schneider; Secretary and
Treasurer, Florence Wittmeier; Critic, Prof. W. C. Decker.
Some very interesting meetings have been held during the present
college year. Several members of the Faculty have given talks on German
student life, German songs have been sung, refreshments served and a
good time enjoyed socially.
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Characters in the Plav
uglisch ”
Presented by the Members of Borussia Jannary 13, 1911
Adele Treuuhr
Marie, ihr Médchen
Bakier, Solomon Ippelberger
Rosa, dessen Gattin
Edward Gibbon
John, dessen Diener
Billig, Gastwirt sum ,, Romischen Kaiser”
Kellnerinnen:
Gretchen
Hilde
Florence Wittmeier
Mary Hotaling
David Allison
Millie Kartluke
Samuel Hayford
Henry Steer
Anton Schneider
Sarah Trembley
Isabelle Biegelmann
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1CLUB |
eet
aa
Officers
President ROSE A. WILKINSON
Vice-President ELIZABETH DEEGAN
Secretary ANNA A, BROWN
Treasurer FLORENCE M. KELLY
Marshal JENNIE McHENRY
Chaplain ANNA V. BUSH
Reporter ROSE McGOVERN
Mombers
IQII
Marte PHitirs Mary Boye
Anna Busi Jennie McHenry
Evizaneru DEEcan Berra Bort
Rose A, WILKINSON
1912
Florence Keuiy Heven Fuanerry ANNA Brown
1913
Lorerro Austin Tueresa Kertey Rost McGovern
First Year Household Economics
Mary CruMMEY MARGARET FLAHERTY
Mary WALLACE MAbELINE Roacn
78 OUR BOOK, 1911
Neuman Study Club History
IHE Newman Study Club was organized in the Fall of the year
nineteen hundred and eight by a number of the students of the
State Normal College working under the guidance and with the
coéperation of Mrs. Margaret Mooney, charter and honorary member.
The purpose of the club was, as its name indicates, to make a thorough
and sympathetic study of the life and of the poetical, historical’ and
narrative works and sermons of the illustrious Cardinal John Henry
Newman, whose name ranks as one of the greatest among the illustrious
men who made the nineteenth century the pride of intellectual England.
For two years its charter members made a faithful and beneficial
study of some of the masterpieces which have come down to us from
his hand and initiated its new members into a comprehension of his life
and works. One of the most interesting and helpful works of the club
has been the carefully bound and treasured set of weekly papers, which
were written by the several members on the different periods of the
Cardinal's life. Yet the club showed its appreciation of the truth of the
sentiment, “ All work and no play,” etc., by the fortnightly social meetings
which were held at the homes of its members and the memories of these
will be carefully and lovingly bound up and cherished in our hearts in
sh and tender when the records of the
society are yellowed with age and dimmed by the dust of time.
The literary sorbed by
the founding of the Dramatic and General Literary Societies. Yet
this has by no means lessened the interest and enthusiasm of our mem-
Newman Club” as a
This year’s exodus of graduates sends forth all
but four of our charter members, but it is our fullest expectation and
our most earnest hope that the new members who take our places next
year may strive to fulfill the ideals which characterize the life and work
of our noble patron, Cardiral Newman.
the years to come and willl be fri
work of the club has been somewhat al
bers who have reorganized this year into the
social organization.
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Delta Onvga Surnrity
Officers
President ANNA FRAS
Vice-President ADELE LE'COMPTE
Recording Secretary FLORENCE GARDNER
Corresponding Secretary ADELE KAEMMERLEN
Treasurer LOIS ATWOOD
Critic ELIZABETH EVERETT
Editor
Chaplain HELEN OLCOTT
Penwith { MARION WHEELER
. | BESSIE SCHLIEPER
Members
IQIt
E rm Ov
Van Dt
ANNA FRASER HeELen Atcorr
Epna SmitH
1912
Hortensk BARNET Wootwortit
Erne EvertnGuam JILLIAMSON
Apite Le Compre NETY
1913
Erure Secor f KAEMMERLEN
FLo FARDNER
1914
Lors Arwoop Lestig WHEELER
Jennie Davis Epxna Mow
Marian Wut Ruri Bisseu.
First Year Household Economics
Ouive Evy E1iz. nH SCHLIEPER
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Eta Phi Surnrity
Officers
President
V
Secretary
E ANDRUS
President VAN NOY
Treasurer
Chaplain MYRA YOU
Marshal MARJORY MAY
Editor JEAN HOL
Critic SARAH TREMBLEY
Members
Igit
Frorence KELLE! Saran TREMBLEY
Florence VA Datsie ANpRus
1912
AGNES STUART Grace Wicox
Leta Farnam
1913
Myra YounG Jessiz Cote
Martrua KINNEAR M
TORY JAMES.
Erne. ZeiGeer Herex McHara
Esraer MircH etn
1914,
Marjory May Marian Burron
First Year Household Economics
Epna Burpick
Moiiy SULLIVAN
Jean Hor
Janer
ES
ELSIE DANAHER
MPBELL Eiry Henprre
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
Kappa Delta Sururity
Officers
President ETTA FITCH
Vice-President BEULAH BRANDOW
Recording Secretary ANNA BOOCHEVER
Corresponding Secretary
Treasurer
Beutan Branpow
Junta Morse
Myers
LEMANN
FRANCES STILLMAN
ANNA BoocHEVER
HELEN SCHERMERHORN
Amy Woop
Nota RIEFFANAUGH
Jessie Haskins
Crartorre Tracy
GERTRUDE WELLS
Eprrn Casty
CHARLOTTE TRACY
HELEN SCHERMERHORN
Members
IQIt
Mae Crantt
Tone SHUBERT
ANNA QUACKENBUSH
Esti er TRUMBULI
Erra Firen
Littian BrowNLow
1912
Ernen ANDERSON
IsAneELLE KNAPP
1913
Karrina Van Dyck
ANNA KENNEDY
KATHERINE RINNE
Lavra Bristow
1914
Louise GoopricH
Rorerta Smyrit
Epona Bunce
81
82
Mary Hor:
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Psi Gamma Sorority
Officers
President MARY HOTALING
Vice-President a,
Critic
Tr
surer
Recording Si CARLOTTA JORDAN
Corresponding Sec! EDNA HALL
Literary Editor HOPE DUNCAN
Chaplain MADGE ROBI
{ MARY ROBBIN
Marshals | IRENE, FLINT
Members
IQII
2 WITTMEIER
4913
Epya Han Cartorra Jorpan
Mary Ropsins
HeLen Quick
KaAruertne E
Hore Duncan
1914
First Year Household Economics
May McHare
Chara Wat
CORNELIA W
Wettua Bacon
»
7
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Phi Delta Fraternity
Officers
President HOWARD. FITZPATRICK
Vice-President STANLEY S. RICE
Secretary-Treasurer HARLEY COOK
Mombers
1gI2
Howarp B, Dabney Srantey S. Rice
Howarp J. Frrzparrick
1913
Samuet Hayrorp
Henry B. Steer
Worpsworti WILLIAMS
Haroip HarGraves
ATHLETICS
ay
86
Officers
President STANLEY §. RICE
Vice-President HELEN BENN r
Secretary FLORENCE KELLER
Treasurer WILLIS J. PELLS
Mombers
IQII
Anprus Das Kenny, MAr
BENNE HELEN Norron, Mary
Brisn, Esruer usu, ANNA
TARY FRANCES
TARGARE? Scurack, FRANCES
Brapsuaw, ELizanerit Tuero, ANNA
Branpow, BevLan Trempiey, SARAH
Busu, ANNA TrumButt, Est
Drecan, Bessie Watson, Epna
Eecies, OLIVE Warson, ELL
fraser, ANNA WILKINSON, Rosi
Hummer, Epna WirrM eter, FLORENCE
Karriuke, AMELIA Van Derzer, Erra
1912
Booc
CHASE
DaABNE
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Che Athletir Assuriation
Farnum, I
Franerry, Hi
FLORENCE Le Compre, ADEL
vES, MARGARET
, Howarp I
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McConNELL, MARGARET Rice, Stanuey
Macroucu, HELEN TILLApaucn, Neva
Parks, Berroa Woop, Marner
Woorworrn, FLoreNnc
1913
AuLison, Davin
Benson, GRACE ,
BristoL, Laura SA
Care, B: E
PirzGeRALp, AGNES uURY, MADGE
Duncan, Hove Mircnety, Esrit
Garpner, FLoRENC Heten
Hatt, Epona Ls, Wit.
, MARION
Np, MIN
"ORD, BESS
ENCE, JESSIE
k, Henry
TLARTIGAN, KATHARINE
Hayrorp, Samu
Hicains, Dororiy
Jackson, Fior
CE
Tootr, Avice
1914
\rwoop, Lois
Bisset, Ruri Orr, Leon
Bowen, BaLtarp Prris, Mr.
Comstock, VERA Prer, lona
Davis, JENNIE Prarr, Gerarp
Davipson, MARJORIE Quick, HELEN
Dore, Erie. Rosenpt.oom, JAQves
Dunnar, MARGUERITE Griswatp, RAci
ESSELSTYNE, CATHARINE Hype, ELizanerit
Fiske, CARMEL Kr y, Evizaperit
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May, Maryorte
McCune, Ruru
MAcKLER, Mr.
Moat, I
ns, Mary
INA
Roper:
Ruac, WaALrer
Sexton, LAuRA
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SuArrro, BARNEY
Sram, Hazev
SumMer, LAuRA
Puompson, Ruta
Warre, Curisir
WELLS, GERTRUDE
WHEELER, MARION
Wrisnt, Bearrice
Class in First Year Household Econmics
Barcay, Jessie
Burpick, Epna
Caner
LL, JEANETTE
Cosey, Epiri
CUNNINGHAM, FLORENCE
Henprie, EMiLie
Herevert, Erier
Prarr, ErHen
Woop, FRANcEs
ZINCKE, ANNA
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 89
History
aw@v ARLY in the fall of 1909 the college men formed an Athletic
4 Association for the express purpose of encouraging basket ball.
A little later, the gi Negotiations were
opened, a committee appointed, and by mutual agreement, a State Normal
College Athletic Association was formed with Mr. Roy C. Van Denberg as
President. The all important object of the Association was to encourage
all sports, but principally basket ball. Mr. Sherwood was elected Captain
s conceived the same idea.
and Manager of our erstwhile basket hall team, and work proceeded
rapidly. The team turned out well, and at the end of the season had an
average of 50 per cent., having won and lost an equal number of games.
Nothwithstanding
basket ball team opened i
by defeating St. Stephen's College in a very close, exciting game, the
score being 18 to 15. The season ended on Tuesday, March r4th, 19rt,
when we defeated the Albany High School with a score of 34 to 19. In
the middle of this season, three of our best men, Allison, Anderson, and
ons, and were it not for
ontinual shake-ups and alterations, the men’s
cond season on Friday, December 2nd, 1910,
Shapiro, dropped out of the game for various re
the timely arrival of Goodman, Mackler, and Pepis, our season's record
would have been greatly impaired. However, with the help of all players,
the season has been a very successful one, and a decided improvement
over last year.
The girls formed class basket ball teams and played Inter-Class
games. Each class played every other class, and at the end of the first
season the 1910 and 1gir teams had won the same number of games.
So it became necessary to pla
teams was the Champion team of the College. This game was played
May 26th, 1910, in which the 1911 team won, with a score of 10 to 9.
In the Spring of 1910, two very interesting tennis tournaments were
held, Mr. Sherwood, ‘10, and Miss Le Compte, ‘12, securing the honor of
being School Champions. In the Fall of 1910, another tournament was
played by the girls in which Marjorie May, ‘14, won the finals. She then
Le Compte and defeated her by a score of 6 to 2 and 7 to 5.
a final game to determine which of the two
played Mi
90 OUR BOOK, 1911
Callege Basket Ball Tram
1910-11 Season
NAMES OF PLAYERS, LEFT TO RIGHT
STANDING: ALLISON, RICE, SHAPIRO, FISKE
SITTING: MACKLER, PRATT, STEER, PEPIS, GOODMAN
SN. GC,
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 91
34
187 Total.
Season's Record
First Congregational Church of Schenectady,
St. Stephen’s College, 15
Albany High School,
Average for season (1910-1911) .625%
NAME
Steer
Pratt
Allison
Shapiro
Fiske
Pepis
Anderson
Rice
Goodman
Mackler
Scotia High School, 13
R.P.I. 1914, 25
1
Albany Academy, 1
Union 1914, 2
R.P. L 1914, 2
1
Total Opponents, 154
Standing of Individual Players
POSITION
Center
Guard
Forward
Forward
Guard
Forward
Guard
Guard
Guard
Forward
GAMES PLAYED POINTS SCORED
8
PeownrREUN
86
11
31
15
28
8
6
2
Total Points, 187
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1911 Basket Ball Team
Iuter-Class Champion for the 1909-10 Season
NAMES OF PLAYERS, LEFT TO RIGHT
TOP ROW
LOWER ROW: 3
BOYLE, BRADSHAW, BRANDOW
KARTLUKE, WATSON, BENNETT
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 93
Record of Iuter-Class Games for 1909-10
{ Seniors, 6 { Juniors, 14
March 3rd April 22nd <
Juniors, 4 | Freshmen, 12
{ Sophomores, 15 { Seniors, 12
April 5th April 28th
| Freshmen, 12 | Sophomores, 6
{ Seniors, 6 { Juniors, 23
May 18th | and +
| Freshmen, 10 | Sophomores, 18
{ Seniors, 9
Final Championship Game, May 26th
Juniors, 10
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TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP CUP, 1910
Players in Tennis Tournament, Fall of 1910
FLORENCE GARDNER Evrzazeru HItvis
Grace BENSON VIRGINIA KELLY
ANNA BoocHEVER Marjorie May
Laura BristoL GerrrupE WELLS
Mary Rossins Anna ZINCKE
Cup was awarded to Miss May, who after winning the finals, defeated
Miss Le Compte, the Spring champion, by a score of 6-2 and 7-5
LITERATURE
96 OUR BOOK, 1911
T is for Triumph we felt when instated ;
H is the Honor with which we inflated ;
E the Enthusiasm that would not be abated.
is for Energy, of which we had store;
is for Coin, we should have had more;
is for Hardships we met by the score;
OmoskH
is for Obstacles we needs must deplore.
is the Board in its present condition ;
the Outcome of its hazardous mission ;
is its Apathy to honored position;
is Relief to make disposition ;
URProw
is Delight to quit and go fishin’.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 97
Che chu
A is intimated above, every member of the Eciro Board is assured, at
the outset, of two most agreeable sensations — joy at the election of
himself, and joy at the election of his successor. Why there should be
this change of feeling may be learned from the perusal of a brief history
of the Ecno itself. Practically all the records and files of the magazine
were destroyed by the college fire, so that information concerning its
early life is but fragmentary. It was established in 1892, with Henry
Adams as editor. It was called the Norma Cotvece
Ecno, and was
printed on large paper. In 1808 a part of its name was dropped, and
since then it has been known simply as the mo. Its present neat and
convenient form was adopted about three years ago.
Sometime in its shady past, the Ecro acquired an appetite for spirit,
specifically, college spirit— and in their attempts to satisfy this craving,
the Ecno Boards have always met with difficulties so serious and so
numerous that the ardor with which they entered upon their labors has
soon cooled to indifference, only to be set glowing again — not by renewed
interest in their work, but by malicious joy in electing a succeeding board.
And the remedy for this deplorable condition is so simple! The
thirst of the Ecrto is not inordinate nor unquenchable — if every student
in S. N. C, would show sufficient college spirit to subseribe to the magazine
devoted to the life and interests of his Alma Mater, the Eco Board
would be able to accomplish what it now dares only to dream of — the
publication, ten times a year, of a magazine which, for literary excellence
and general interest, it would be hard to surpass among college periodicals,
98 OUR BOOK, 1911
Che Bowry of Linen"
AIT a minute, Becky, I'm comin’ right down your way.” Stephen
Gaile tore himself from the clerk at the back end of the store
and started for the front door pursued by several scraps of
the interrupted conversation. Once outside, he turned his attention ex-
clusively to the strong, active girl whom he had asked to wait.
“Land sakes, I'd be talkin’ in there till supper time an’ after, ef
you hadn't started. I never see such a feller to talk as that Jimmy.
Well how be ye, anyhow. I ain’t had a chance to talk with ye, sence
T got back.”
“No, I ain't seen you, either, since you got back from the war. I
heard about your being wounded, but I thought you were all well again.
That's what they told me.” She had noticed the painful limp in his walk.
“T guess I'm as well as I ever shall be, Becky; It’s pretty tough,
thinkin’ I've got to hobble around like this the rest of my days,” he
said rather bitterly, then added, “I ain't complainin’ tho’, When there's
war there’s got to be wounded, an’ I’m lucky I didn’t get killed, like
your ——,” he paused and lowered his voice to a more gentle tone, “ like
your father, Rebecca.”
She turned away to hide the quick-wetting tears which still came
at every reminder of her recent loss, for Rebecca Mason had recently
been doubly bereft. Her father had been killed in the South, and her
mother had died shortly after.
Stephen cursed himself inwardly for the break he had made, and
determined to express his sympathy now, so that he need not speak of
it again.
“T didn’t mean to make you feel bad, Beck)
without thinkin’. I’m awful sorry about him, an’ her, too. She y
always more like a mother to me, than anybody else, ever since I c
remember.” Stephen had lost his own mother before he was three yea
old. “I wish I could help you some way but I don’t see how T can, not
now. Of course everything's diffrunt now.”
Rebecca's thoughts were turned away from her own grief, by his
* Awarded Prize in the Year Book Contest.
it just slipped out,
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 99
last words. How manly, how generous, and protecting he was! It was
almost worth the sorrow of remembered loss, to have him speak to her
so gently. And yet, he had said he couldn't help her; that things were
different. What did he mean? “Thanks, Steve,” she answered. “It
has been awful hard, but everybody has been mighty good. Uncle
Jeremy an’ Aunt Fanny ‘ve taken me in to live with them, you know,
an’ they treat me just like I was there own.” She paused a minute; then
added, * 1 don’t see what you mean about things be diff'runt tho, un-
less you mean my bein’ there instead of home.”
“No, I didn’t mean that,” he answered. “I meant my bein’ lame—.”
She stopped impetuously,
“T have been walkin’ too fast, why didn’t you tell me? I never
thought. Will it make it worse?
“Oh, that don’t matter. It’s all right—but I don’t know as you'll
be carin’ to walk with me much now. I wus thinkin’ it over an’ [ thought
maybe you'd be ashamed to be seen around with a cripple.”
“Why you ain't a 1imed. Then she stopped, re-
alizing for the first time that he was, at least in a measure. She had
always thought of a cripple as a man on crutches. ** At least, not much,”
she continued, “ an’ anyway that don’t need to spoil our friendship.
hey had reached the gate of Jeremy Mason’s place, so she added, cor-
dially, “come over this evenin’ if you ain't too busy. Uncle Jeremy ‘ll
be glad to see you, an’ so will Aunt Fanny.”
“T guess [ can come over for a spell after supper, if you want me
to,” he replied. So they said “Good-bye,” and Stephen went on down
the road alone.
The hush of late afternoon was in the ai
of cowbells in the distance. He knew he ought to be home to help with
and he heard the tinkle
the milking, but still he did not hurry. He had grown out of the habit
of hurrying, since the long days when he lay in the hospital. He was
pondering over a question which had troubled him a great deal, since
his recovery. Should he ask Rebecca Mason to marry him? That he
loved her, he had not the slightest doubt; but whether she loved him
Wwas another matter. She had always treated him with an air of comrad-
ship, totally different from the coquetry of the other girls he had known.
This was what drew him to her and yet repelled him, He had often
thought, in the days before the war how he would, some day, turn the
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conversation into a more intimate channel, but when the time came, it
always seemed out of place to say anything sentimental.
Now he was lame. Perhaps she wouldn't want to marry a lame
fellow, he thought. He remembered that the wound had been in the ser-
vice of his country, but would she look on it as honorable, or would she
be ashamed of his impediment? He could not decide whether he ought
to ask her to marry him or whether he was now an undesirable person
on account of his lameness, He reached home with the question as un-
decided as before.
Stephen called at the Mason home that evening and many evenings
thereafter, but nothing was said to bring them on more intimate terms.
Neither could Stephen persuade himself to give up his interest in
Rebecca. So matters drifted.
Rebecca, on her side, was in great uncertainty, and was contin-
ually worried and harassed by the well-meant attentions of her uncle
and aunt. Uncle Jeremy was always teasing her and asking pointed ques-
tions. Aunt Fanny was full of practical suggestions. As they, with great
kindness, always left the young people alone together, they were far
from seeing how matters really stood. They took it for granted, that
Becky
and Steve were soon going to be married, and took no pains to
conceal their gladness that she was to make such a good match. Rebecca,
usually perfectly frank, knew no way to undeceive them without mak-
ing them feel disappointed and angry that she and Steve were so slow
to arrange things, so she waited, hoping that what they believed would
soon be true, and that she would not have to deceive them longer.
One night, Aunt Fanny, not having succeeded in getting Becky
started, took it upon herself to make some suggestions to Uncle Jeremy.
So as she and Rebecca were clearing away the supper things, she stopped
with both hands on the table, and leaning over, addressed Uncle Jeremy
across the table.
“Jeremy, be you goin’ to town, to-morrer?
“T s'pose I'll be gettin’ the mail,” he answered from the depths
of his newspaper.
“ Hadn't you best take Becky ‘long with ye?”
“What ‘ud I take Becky for?,” he asked looking up. “Do ye need
* But Becky had hastily vanished out the
anythin’ up to town, Becky?
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back door with a plate of chicken-feed, so Unele Jeremy turned to his
wife.
“ What is it Becky needs, Fanny?”
“Why I thought you'd want to get her some linen. She'll be
wantin’ to make up sheets an’ pillow-cases an’ such like ‘gainst her
weddin’ day. She ought to a been at it long ago, but I couldn't get
her to ask you.”
“ When's
“T don't know as they've set the day yet. Becky don’t say much
she goin’ to be married?”
about it, but it seems like it can’t be much longer. I don’ see what
they'd wait fer. They're both old enough, and I heard old Jack say
Steve cud have half the farm any day he’d a mind to bring his wife
home.” Old Jack was Steve's father, and in view of his well-known
er, it seemed strange to more than one, that Steve didn't get married.
Uncle Jeremy ag
Aunt Fanny informed Rebecca over the dish-pan, that she was to go to
town with him in the morning. Rebecca was aghast at the idea, and
searched diligently for an er
ed to the proposition of getting the linen, so
use.
“But who'll help you with the work, Aunt Fanny? I can’t leave
it all for you. We'd planned such a lot for to-morrow.”
I guess I can spare you well enough, some of the work ean w:
if it has And when Rebecca said she didn’t think she ought to
accept so much from them, Aunt Fanny used unanswerable arguments,
in reply to Rebecca's objections.
Now, look here, Becky Mason,” she said almost severely, “ your
an’ there
him, Anybody'd most think you wanted to go housekeepin’ without any
uncle’s got his mind all made up to i no use tryin’ to cross
sheets for your beds, the way you've been makin’ excuses. Ef your
uncle don't buy, who is goin’ to? That's what I want to know. Your
father did'nt leave you nothin’ but the farm an’ that’s so run down that
the Barneys has all they can do to get a livin’ off’n it, to say nothin’
of payin’ rent. They'll have all they can do keepin’ body'n’ soul together,
now he’s gone to the war. You'll go long up to town and buy your
things, an’ do it to-morrow, too, an’ even if you ain't got the day set,
you'll want some time for doin’ your sewin’, an’ gettin’ things read)
Rebecea was silent, and so Aunt Fanny composed herself and went
on washing dishes. It seemed to Rebecca that now, more than before,
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she couldn't tell them the truth without disappointing them dreadfully,
but it wa
equally impossible for her to go on and buy the linen, If
she told her uncle, he would be almost sure to say something to Stephen.
If she bought the linen, it would soon be town-talk that Rebecca Mason
was going to be married. Stephen would hear of it, and what would
he thin
? She lay awake that night trying to think of a solution to
the difficulty. If Stephen would only propose, and she was sure he
cared for her! She finally decided that she would put it off a little
longer anyw
would save her from buying the linen next day, Steve would be over
to-morrow night and perhaps—. She fell asleep thinking.
y and so she settled, after much thought, a plan that
In the morning, Rebecca seemed perfectly contended. If there
Was a trace of excitement in her manner, it might easily be attributed
to her errand in town, Aunt Fanny thought she had conquered Rebecca's
scruples at last. When Uncle Jeremy came in, after doing the barn work,
he said with a signifi
ant smile,
“Well, Becky, goin’ to town with me this mornin’?
“Tl get ready right off,” she answered, and ran upstairs. There
she attired herself in a clean calico dre:
When uncle Jeremy drove up to the door, Rebecca ran out and started
to get in to the wagon. Suddenly she stopped
, and came back down stairs.
“Oh, [ haven't got a handkerchief. I'll have to go ba Do you
mind waitin’ a minute? Tl hurry.” She pulled her hand out of her
as empty, and ran back to her room, Once there,
pocket which really w
the handkerchief was forgotten. She stopped by her door, hooked her
idently torn her apron the
day before, and deliberately jerked away. The result was a beautiful
pocket over the nail, on which she had a
big tear that reached half way to the hem. She ran back down stairs,
and out to the wagon where Uncle Jeremy was still waiting. Aunt Fanny
looked up as she passed, but said nothing. She went out to the wagon
and held up the big tear for inspection.
“Look, Unele Jeremy, I've torn my dre:
“Tt would take an awful long time to mend it. T'll have to wait till
some other day, You'd better go on without me.”
He leaned over and looked at the dress.
“Hm. That's too bad. Guess I can't wait fer ye to change or
mend it, Ye'll have to wait till next time.” So Uncle Jeremy drove off,
she
id. sorrowfully.
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and Rebecca went in to show her aunt, after assuring herself that he
was past recall. As Uncle Jeremy urged his old horse into a trot, he
reflected :
“Too bad to disapp’int the gal. She'd proba'ly work on the stuff
this afternoon, ef she had it. S’pose I might get it m’yself. S'pose
Fanny’d say I didn’t know how to pick it out. Guess I might manage
it, tho. If I get the best they got, she can’t say much anyhow.” So
Uncle Jeremy bought Rebecca's linen, yards and yards of it, because
he didn’t know how much was needed, and the very finest in the store,
because the other might meet Aunt Fanny’s criticism.
“ Gettin’ it for Becky,” he confided to the clerk.” She was comin’
up herself but she tore her dress, the last minute, an’ T couldn’t spend
time to wait fer her to mend it.”
“Oh, that was too bad,” said the clerk sincerely enough, for he
did not find it at all unpleasant to gossip across the counter with Rebecca.
“You're being quite generous with her, Mr. Mason, but she surely
deserves to be well set out. She’s had trouble enough for one while.
Mighty fine girl, isn’t she?”
“Now you jest bet she is,” replied Uncle Jeremy, enthusiastically.
“You ought to see her take hold of the work, an’ help her aunt. Keeps
I s'pose this will cost consider'ble,
ain't every day a gal gets married,
an’ T calculate to see her fixed out smart.” The doting uncle rambled
on, extolling Rebecca's virtues, between his remarks about quantity
and quality of the goods. Childless himself, he had found her a great
blessing in the quiet old home.
everythin’ slick as grease, she does
but as ye say, she deserves it. "T
on
When Uncle Jeremy came home, he brought in five big bundles,
s feet. She looked up in amaze-
s satisfied smile.
and dropped them down at Rebece:
ment, to meet her unc
“Guess there’s enough to keep ye busy fer a while, Becky, eh?
Took ye kinda’ by suprise, didn’t 1? Maybe you'd a rather picked it
out yourself, but I guess ye wouldn't ‘ve done much better,” he chuckled.
Rebecca didn’t have the heart to disillusion him, so she smiled back,
and thanked him; then bent over the knotted strings to hide her dis-
appointment. When the package finally fell open, and she saw the cloth,
her exclamation of pleasure was genuine. Tt was nicer cloth than Re-
becca had ever seen used in her own poor home or even in the more
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comfortable one of her uncle. She realized what generosity had prompted
the gift, and thanked him again, with a kiss, this time.
Pleased as she was, with the fineness of the cloth, Rebecca could
not help thinking, “ what will Steve think, when he hears?” for hear he
would she did not doubt. Buying so much fine linen in war time was
not suprised then, when a
well-known figure appeared at the door rather earlier than usual. She
s just finishing the supper dishes, and she bent closer over her task,
unwilling to meet his eyes
‘ Becky,” he said after greeting the older fol
get thru there, do ye want to walk down the road a piece?
too unusual to pass unnoticed. She was
Sa:
when you
“Td just as soon, if you want to,” she replied. If she must tell him,
she at least wanted to escape the scrutinizing eyes of her uncle and aunt,
and she made haste to escape before they could inform Stephen of the
morning's transaction. Once out of sound of the house, she became
acutely conscious that neither she nor Steve had spoken again, after
arranging for the walk. Just then Steve broke the silence.
“J was over ta the town this afternoon, Dec!
he continued, “ an’ got to talkin’
with Jimmy. He tol’ me your uncle was up this mornin’, an’ bought a
lot o° stuff for you, cloth, linen, an’ such. Say, is it so?” He looked
She was looking
ion in the gathering
y "—Becky’s heart
sank —“‘an’ I stopped in to the stor
down at her curiously, but her face was turned away
out over the river, and he could not read her expre
dusk. Finally she turned and looked up at him beseechingly
“Oh, Steve, I don't know what you'll ever think of me. I didn’t
know he was goin’ to do it, or I’d a’ stopped him.” He could see that
ssed,
she was genuinely distr
“Ye ain't goin’ to marry somebody else, then?” he asked to make
sure,
“Why no,” she said suprised at the question, “TI didn’t think of
your thinkin’ that.”
Stephen did not answer immediately. When he did he spoke slowly.
feeling his way.
“Then T s'pose, if ye didn’t want the linen, it’s ‘cause ye don't
want to marry me, with my bein’ lame?” he questioned.
“Oh, it ain't that,” she answered quickly. “only, [——" she
stopped uncertainl
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 105
“Well, if that ain’t it, what
don’t you want the linen?”
” he questioned more boldly.“ Why
She blushed crimson.
“Why, Steve, I, I——,” she hesitated.
“Well if ye are willin’ to marry me, I don’ see why ye would’nt
be glad to have him get it fer ye. Come on, tell me why it was.” He
stopped her by turning her around till she faced him, and making her
look at him. ‘ Why was it?” he said looking into her eyes searchingly.
Tt was easier to answer him, with his arms about her so. “You
never
cd me before, Steve,” she said softly, “an’ I didn’t know
No other ex-
ary. As they walked home, the moon was well
but the rest of her sentence was smoothered in a kiss.
planation was nece
above the horizon. “ We won't tell Uncle Jeremy an’ Aunt Fanny,” said
Rebecca, but Aunt Fanny, at least, guessed the truth from Rebecca's
radiant face, and Stephen’s adoring glances.
Grace M. Youn.
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Ouw Future
Our future, that elusive goal hid deep
In life's own mystery ; mirage of hope
That gleams or glowers and slips beyond the slope
Of Time; dim
That mocking fades or grows ¢
Of d
How do we cry aloud in joy or sorrow
sion of a dreamy sleep
otesque at peep
unknown, unknowable To-morrow,
Are there no promises that she doth keep!
Reach but to touch the universal soul
in waking dream,
Meet one atunéd heart with love supreme,
Love all mankind and each as a part of the whole,
Then, listen, as the winds this promise tell,
Lf you now live in love, your future will be well.
Howarp Dapney, *12
By love of woods and wave
Know Thyself
Know thyself; thou dost not know thy friend.
That knowledge was withheld when he was made
A soul apart from thee, another spark
Of Life’s great altar flame. So know thyself:
And turn within the recess of thy heart
A searching light, a self-discovering ray.
What am I here, whence came I, and for what?
What gift have I intrusted to my care,
2 What song have I
Whose melody is singing on my lips,
That I dare not negl
Whose words I now must tear from out my heart?
O soul of mine, when thou hast learned thyself,
And found thy path,—then only art thou fit
To seek the holiest altar of thy friend.
BE. buck, “ta.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 107
A fistory of Lombardy
WRITTEN FROM THE IMAGINATION
BY
FLORENCE E. WITTMEIER
To show my gratitude for the inspiration given
me in the class of History of Civilization
I dedicate this book
TO
PROFESSOR DAVID HUTCHINSON
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“© Lombardy, dear Lombardy!
May gratitude be thine:
For tho’ “tis somewhat tardy,
This history is fine.”
Crarrer |
Concerning the Ancient Lombards
ND behold, in the north of Europe there dwelt a tribe called the
Winnili.
The Winnili now were a brave tribe, who feared naught, neither
the fishes of the sea, the birds of the air, nor the beasts of the field.
And it came to pass that as they struggled with their neighbors, they
vanquished them.
However, there was one tribe, the Wandals, whom they could not
subdue.
And this caused them sore distress.
Cuarrer II
Concerning Origin of the Name Lombard
Behold, the Winnili began to struggle with the Wandals.
And the Winnili beseeched their god, Wotan, that he give them the
victory,
And forthwith he promised to give the victory to those upon whom
his eyes first fell upon rising at dawn.
Now, the wives of the Winnili let their hair fall dishevelled about
their faces
And as the god Wotan, looked upon this sight, he ed in tones
stentorian :
“Who are these dreadful longbeards?”
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 109
And it came to pass that Freya, his
hast given them the name; give them als
Thus did it come about that unto this day the ancient Winnili are
called “ longbear
spouse answered, “ My lord, thou
‘o the victory.”
” or Lombards.
Cuarrer HI
Concerning the Migration
And it came to pass that the intense fogs in the north caused the
Lombards to think of migration.
Therefore, a horde, consisting of 1000 males, 900 females, children
and other animals did hasten southward.
And this was a select bunch, for the halt, the lame and the blind
had been rejected by the chieftains.
And those who were left behind did cry and shriek and stamp their
feet, but all to no avail.
So it was that the Lombards gave to posterity one of the earliest
examples of the survival of the fittest.
Craprer IV
Cone
ning the Journey
And it came to pass that the first part of the journey was taken in
peace.
But this peace was of short duration, for behold! out of the thickets
of the Black Forest came a dog, hissing and barking like an enraged
beast.
And the Lombards did fight him valiantly and thus did su
‘or their
temales in distress.
But nevertheless many of them lost their beloved lives in this
encounter, while the dog continued hi
rampage.
And this is one of the pivotal points in the history of Lombardy, for
it has given the bards and the sages an immortal theme.
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And Oswald, the minstrel, has written this sublime epitaph to immer-
talize their bravery:
“Here lie the Lombards, whose lives were cut short,
By a rambuncious dog who was having some sport.”
(From an ancient MSS.)
Cuapter V
Concerning Bugs in Lombardy
And Io! there were no bugs in Lombardy.
Cuaprer VI
Concerning the Iron Crown of the Lombards
Behold in several years the Lombards had conquered Italy.
And it came to pass that in token of his esteem, the Pope did give
them an iron crown.
And this crown was so heavy that it gave rise to the epigram:
neasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
And the kings of the Lombards became so vain that they spent their
time in admiring their physiognomies.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE Wl
Now, one day, as King Authari was gazing upon himselé in the glass
and was bowing to his reflection,
Behold, the i
on crown did fall off his head and roll away.
And this crown has never been seen since, even unto this day.
Cuarrer VIL
Concerning the Religion of the Lombards
In discussing the religion of this people, we must first think:
Were the Lombards polytheists, animists, anthropomorphists,
deists,
theists, pessimists, optimists, neo-platonists, or monothei
By the method of historical exposition, we eliminate the first eight
religions and discover they were monotheists.
Crarrer VII
Concerning the Literature of the Lombards
And behold, the literature of the Lombards was wonderful, and has
served as a model for other countries.
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Now, the first writer was Thorwalt, whose famous epic on “ The
Lombards ” begins thus :
“The Lombards were a fair-haired tribe,
Who came from Germany.
ibe,
Among them was no Latin s
Nor any dominie.”
And since then many a writer of renown rose from the rank and file
of the Lombards.
Craprer IX
Concerning the Destruction of Lombardy
And it came to pass that in 774, Charlemagne, that boorish king,
made an expedition against the Lombards and destroyed them.
And thus endeth the history of Lombardy,
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 113;
Sir Anthony Absolute
Captain Absolut
Sir Lucius O° Trigger
Faulkland
Bob Acres
Fag
David
Boy
Mrs. Malaprop
Lydia Languish
Julia
Lucy
The Rivals
CHARACTERS,
David Allison
Roy Van Denburgh
Willis J. Pells
Wordsworth Williams
Howard B. Dabney
Harley Cook
Ernest Wilson
Harold Walker
Hortense Barnet
Florence Keller
Frances Kitts
Elizabeth Deegan
114 OUR BOOK, 1911
“She Stonps ta Conquer ”
The Players
Sir Charles Marlow
Young Marlow
Squire Hardcastle
Twist
Hastings
Tony Lumpkin
Diggory
Slang
|
)
Aminadab
yervant \
\
Muggins
Jeremy |
Pot Boy
Stingo
Mrs. Hardcastle
Kate Hardcastle
Constance Neville
Maid, to Kate
Edgar Palmer
Howard Dabney
Samuel Hayford
Mr. Rosenbloom
Willis J. Pells
Harold Goewey
Ballard Bowen
H. D. Smith
Carmel Fiske
Henry Steer
Louis Ward
Edith W. Scott
Elizabeth Deegan
Florence Wittmeier
Ethel Ziegler
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 115
Editorials
The Capital Fire
NCE or twice ina lifetime a community may suffer from a terrible
calamity. An earthquake will destroy an entire city, hundreds of
lives will be sacrificed in a single railroad wreck, or a flood will
ch sweep over the country devastating life and property for miles
Es around. But all of these losses
except that of human life —
I+++4] time will repair. Cities will be rebuilt, farms resurveyed and
devastated land reclaimed. But never in the history of this
nation has the entire country suffered from such an irreparable loss as
resulted from the fire which broke out in the New York State Capitol
during the early morning of March 28, 1911.
The portion of the Capitol destroyed contained the State library, and
various State offices, The Educational Department, including the Regents
of the University of the State of New York has lost many valuable records,
and has been forced to move from the Capitol because of injury to their
rooms by fire and water. The destruction of their records will be felt
in every town and city in the State. The State Library comprised
excellent medical and law libraries, the traveling libraries, and one of the
best geneological libraries in the world, Their loss can hardly be
estimated. Tt means that many small towns and cities are deprived of the
only libraries available to them, that an invaluable reference library is
school is
lost to the various colleges of the city, and that the library
restricted in its workings,
This deprivation will be felt even in Europe, and the minor incon-
veniences to which the departments have been put sink into insignificance
beside it. Yet plans for the continuation of the State business have been
made and these affect the State Normal College for a part of the Edu-
cational Department has been moved into the lower floor of our Administra-
tion building,
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very student has felt personally the destruction of the Capitol;
and we should all be glad that it is possible for us to aid the officers of
the State by accepting the crowded conditions with thoughtful courtesy
and consistent cheerfulness. We can appreciate the difficulties under
which the department is working, for we ourselves have experienced
them in the years past. We ought to be eager to be of assistance to
the State which has so well made it possible for us to receive the training
for our future.
College Wark and College Play
QUES
any educational institution is the number of social functions com-
TION of permanent interest and of periodical discussion in
patible with efficient work. This problem (as do all others) re-
quires special treatment in our college because its main purpose is to
provide us with our future “stock in trade.” Ours is a professional school
and consequently must needs be more serious than most colleges.
cations most in!
The quali istently demanded in a teacher are com-
plete mastery of subject matter, and ability to manage, or an abundance
of a particular kind of common sense. Which is the more important,
we hesitate to say, because they react so upon each other. Except in
elementary work, discipline is almost impossible when the teacher is not
sure of the subject, for high school pupils are wise enough to discover the
“weak spots” (and the discovery usually leads to a loss of respect),
and are not wi
enough to realize that even the teacher cannot be
infallible. On the other hand, each one of us can count many among
instructors from the elementary grades up, who were particularly brilliant
and bri
ny, but who could never be called successful teachers because
they could not realize the difference between a student who bluffs all the
while and one who bluffs once in a while; because they didn’t know what
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE V7
to see and what not to see; because they couldn’t come into cl
e enough
contact with their students to know how to get from each of them what
they wanted when they wanted it; because their training had given
them information on every point but human nature, and to get that
information they had entirely shut off from their lives every possible
avenue of social contact at a time when they needed it most. No one
can expect to live unto himself absolutely for four long years and to find
at the end of that time friends particularly zealous in making themselves
First, the
agreeable and entertaining. There are two reasons for thi:
friends have been forming new interests and making new acquaintances
and now find their time more than full. Second, one has acquired a
dent air that seals to those whose
certain bookish, retired, reserved, di
stock of information is smaller, all one’s hard-earned brilliancy.
Yes, most of us are willing to admit that “ scholarship” has been
either mis-construed or over-valued. The chief aim of our college is not
or, at least, should not be to pour in information. If it were, we should
quite readily approve of the six-day week suggestion. Our subject matter
classes should lead us to the sources of information, should teach us
how to continue increasing our stock and should make no pretense of
giving vs full understanding of the subject.
Our theory, method and pedagogical courses aim to give us the other
requirement, school-room executive ability. But they repeat each other
sides the only way
so much that considerable time and energy are lost. DB:
to learn to manage people is to manage them; and while ability to manage
a group of people of one age does not necessarily imply ability to manage
a group of a different age, it brings us nearer to the real article than
talking about management ever can.
It is at this point that we wish to show the value of the so-called
social distractions. The more organizations we have, the more
prominent those organizations are, the more truly big social functions
we have, the greater is the number of people who are acquiring real
executive ability. It takes taste, judgment, coaxing, wheedling anid
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driving power, (as well as discrimination to know when to use which)
to present a suci
sful literary or musical program, or to run a winning
athletic team. Tt takes patience, self-control, a good memory for details,
energy and ability to shift the attention to get irresponsible people
(of which there is always a goodly number in college) to do what they
have promised to do when they promised to do it, whether it be for
a college paper, a sorority dance or a dramatic production.
Is it possible to do both? Can those who play at College be proud
of their work? We think there is a way. Sophomores and Freshmen
should not be permitted to manage our social affairs, but they should
make it their business to attend them (when they are admitted, of
course). If the first two years are spent in conscientious, intense,
regular work (even grinding if nece
ry), the last two belong entirely
to the student to do with as he prefers; he can continue to “dig”
or he can combine fun, real executive training and study. If you have
the means and the opportunity to spend most of your life as a student in
some special line of work choose the former course. But, if you must
earn your food, clothing and shelter by teaching school, choose the
latter. E.R. W. ’rr.
History of the New York 44th Wol. Infantry
HERE have been many books written about the Civil War since 1865
—many of them histories of the various companies of the North
or South who distinguished themselves throughout the entire
conflict by deeds of splendid valor and conspicuous bravery. Yet not one
of these books is of such peculiar interest to the students of the New
York State Normal College as the one recently published entitled
“History of the New York 44th Volunteer Infantry.” It is of interest
to us not only because it is a history of brave men and brave deeds,
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 119
but also because some of these men belonged to us— were organized
and went to the front from the very institution which we now attend.
Indeed, a captain of the 44th New York Volunteer Infantry is an honored
professor in our college to-day —Dr. Albert N. Husted.
The book was not written by one man, but by several men and officers
of the company who gleaned their materials from memory or from lette!
diaries and other memoranda. Among these writers was Dr. Husted,
who contributed chapters designated as “New Company E” and
“Gettysburg in Perspective.” The work was compiled by Eugene A,
Nash, who died before it was published. The publication, however, was
carried on by an able committee who completed their work in the present
year of 1911. The volume stands as a lasting monument to this noble
company of volunteers who fought for the integrity of our Union,
Mouth
ITUATED under his nose, between his ears, in the south central
portion of his physiognomy, every individual has a mouth; it may
be a rosebud mouth, or it may be a watermelon mouth, but it’s a
mouth just the same. Inasmuch as we are possessed with the mercenary
spirit of the age we shall be forced to inquire and w!
for?
to eat, to talk, and to smile with.” The first of these functions concerns
is the mouth good
To this extremely pertinent question the reply is, “to sing, to kiss,
those who fill the stage and church choir and doesn’t affect us very much.
The second is perhaps the most abused function of them all. The
kiss is one of the most sacred expressions of love, the bond between
husband and wife, the sacred seal of motherhood. However, no such
lofty ideal is observed in this day. Two women meet in the station or
on the street and exclaiming, “ My, how glad I am to see you!” suddenly
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collide and a kiss from the mouth of one hits the other on the back edge of
her ear. A young and enthusiastic creature meets a mother with her
baby and she literally slathers the youngster with kisses until he erie:
not for more but for less. High School girls after an absence of two days
are like long lost lovers, and as for the lovers themselves — well that is
not the subject of this paper. So it is we abuse our mouths and our
beautiful custom and make the kiss merely a street-corner ceremony.
Now let us pass on to the third function of the mouth, which is
important, for who does not eat and who does not chew his food, even
tho he be not a Fletcherite and swallow it before the one hundredth
mastication, There is wonderful opportunity for fortune telling at a
dining table, Father, the man of business, swings his jaw gravely up
and down, reading the morning news betweenwhiles. Mother has sort of a
s-in-but-I'd-like-to-take
it-out chew, as if she might be wondering
whether Mary mixed the biscuits with her fingers or a
spoon. Daughter
dear, hops her food with graceful agility from one side of her mouth
to the other, that her dimples may show with equal advantage. And last
but not least, Bobby, the angel of the household, shovels his food from
table to stomach with as little delay as possible for chewing, Thus the
family chews and displays its characteristics at the meal and so do we all
chew and display our characteristics at every meal.
But alas, how many more of our characteristics do we display when
We open our mouths to talk! The college girl has a dainty mouth until
“ Did the Math. Prof.
didn’t pass that quiz in Trig
we hear her say
y we'd flunk the exam., if we
We admire the firm lips of the business
man until they open, and “Tf he’d a took my advice he wouldn't have got
into no trouble,” comes forth, We may soil our mouths by bad English
and also by bad sentiments. A naturally sweet and pretty mouth is
entirely spoiled by the utterance of an untimely reproach, an evil prophesy,
or a slir upon the reputation of another. This moral soil is not so
apparent, but its eff are more lasting and destructive. Then we may
spoil our mouths by not using them; by omitting to speak kindly, to say
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a word of sympathy when it is needed, to commend the discouraged toiler
for his labor and to speak well of other people.
The last and most important function of the mouth is to smile, and
tho we may fail in all the other functions, we need not in this one. We
may not have been blessed with a good education, we may have been
endowed with a somewhat hasty temper, but we can smile! I don’t
mean a cheshire cat grim that would make any sensible person turn his
ssion
back and run, but a genuine, hearty, sunshiny smile. Haye this poss
and you need have but few words in your vocabulary, the world will
receive you with open arms.
Thus we each have a mouth to use or misuse as we like. We may
make ourselves and other people happy or miserable and —the sermon
is ended. The audience will please refrain from conversation as they
pass out.
G. Ev ‘T2.
Err
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Callege History
HE
State Normal School” was founded in 1844. It was the first
OD) sctioai Sar the beining of Gacticts i New York stateyand was the
only one of its kind until 1863. It was begun as an experiment
to be tried for five years. At the end of that time the school had
proved itself so successful that it was continued and a permanent homé
found for it on the corner of State and Lodge Streets.
The school was chartered a college with the power to grant degrees
of Bachelor of Art, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Pedagogy in
1905.
Buildings and Appropriations.
1844. The school was first held over the New York Central Railroad
Station.
1848. In this year a new building was completed on the corner of
Howard and Lodge Streets, at a cost of $25,000.
1885. About this time the school found a new home on Willet
Street. The building was erected at a cost of $100,000.
1906. In 1906 the Willet Street building was destroyed by fire and a
new building was begun on Washington Aye. For this building — our
present home—the State appropriated $350,000.
Principals and Presidents
Davin Perkins PAGE 1844-1848
Georce R Perkins, 1 is 1848-1852
Samuet B. Wootworru, LL.D. 1852-1856
Davin H. Cocran, A.M., Ph.D. 1856-1864
1864-1867
sepa Atpen, D.D., LL.D. 1867-1882
Epwarp Waterbury, Ph.D., LL.D. 1882-1889
Wittram J. Minne, Ph.D., LL.D, 1889-
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Secretaries and Treasurers
Francis Dwicut 1844-1845
Rev. W. H. Camprett, D.D. 1845-1851
T. Romeyn Beck, M.D., LL.D. 1851-1855
Samuer B. Wootworru, LL.D. 1855-1880
Davin Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. 1880-1889
Samuen B. Warp, Ph.D. 1889-
First Executive Committee
Cot. SAMUEL YOUNG Rey. Dr. Atonzo Porrer
Hon, Gipson Hawiry Francis Dwicut
Dr. Wa. H. Camppere
Present Board of Trustees
Ayprew S. Draper, LL.B., LL.D., Chairman
Samuet B. Warp, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., Secretary and Treasurer
Lepyarp Cot » MA.
Tuomas E. Finecan, M.A., Ph.D.
James B. McEwan, B.A.
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Syunpsis of an OW, OL Tragrdy
Enacted many times with great success
ACT 1.
(Situation :)
Pa Demonstrates
Dean Evaluates
School Assimilates
AGL EE
Scene |.
(Rising Action)
Boy Depreciates
Alas! Proerastinates
Often Participates
In little Téte-a-Tetes.
ACT TIL,
Scr.
(Cri:
Finally, Quizes
eight !!
Mind in awful state
Brain cells hesitate
Ideas come too late.
Scene IT.
(Falling Action)
Dean Invest
tes
Then Ejaculates
Straightway Computates
No longer Hesitates.
Scene TIT.
(Catastrophe)
Boy Remonstrates
Dean Recalculates
But Facts Accumulate
Boy must Em:
126 OUR BOOK, 1911
Kuocks
Midnight at the College, A Shakespearian Travesty.
Nore:. In the classical Walpurgis night of the Faust, Goethe has made
the field of Pharsalia the rendezvous of the slain, In this, we have made the
main corridor of our college halls, the rendezvous of departed celebri
Dramatis Personae.
Socrates Psycnotocy Pror
Jutius Carsar ARISTOTLE
Queen Evizaneri NAPOLEON
Mary, Queen of Scots
Various other celebrities of the past.
(Darkness, followed by two phosphorescent gleams as Caesar, with
Socrates behind him, enters).
Socrates (slapping Caesar on the back): What mean you, Caesar *
Think you to go forth?
Caesar; I never stood on ceremonies, and I shall hie me thru these
buildings, while yet there is time.
Socrates: Well, what then? what then?
Caesar: Sir, altho I speak it in your presence, you have a noble and a
true conceit of godlike amity.
Socrates: You cram these words into mine ears, against the stomach
of my sense.
Caesar: Well then, mark this well behind your ears,
To-night we spirits of the lower world
Are summoned here by order of a mortal;
Who hath conjured us here for his own secret purpose—
But ‘tis my honest thot —its for philosophy.
Socrates: Ah, good master,
Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pi
Or so devote to Aristotle's checks,
As Ovid be an outcast quite—
(Enter Aristotle)
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 127
Aristotle: What ho! my lords! what ho!
Who takes my name in vain?
Socrates, bait not me,
T'll not endure it.
Socrates: Go to; I shall.
dristotle: Away, slight man!
Socrates: O, ye gods, ye gods! Must I endure all this?
Aristotle: Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant !!
Socrates: These words are razors to my wounded heart.
Aristotle: O, tremble, for you hear the lion roar.
Caesar: For shame, you generals! What do you mean?
Love and be friends as two such men should be:
For T have seen more years, I’m sure, than ye.
Aristotle: Get thee hense, sirrah; saucy fellow hence!
Socrates (whispering to Caesar): My worthy sire, our friends now
come! I know them by their gait.
(Enter a large company of departed celebrities, dancing the dainty step
and singing as they enter).
Socrates: Is that not like Napoleon who leads them?
Caesar; As thou art to thyself ; so frowned he once, when, in an angry
parle, he smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
(Company of spirits halts at feet of Minerva. They gaze about them).
Napoleon (looking at Minerva) :
Mark, company, mark! I understand her signs;
Had she a tongue to speak, now she would s
Aristotle: Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.
Napoleon (as he crosses over to Queen Elizabeth): Yet more
quarrelling with occasion?
(Company breaks up into small groups.)
Caesar (to Mary Queen of Scots): But what warmth is there in your
affection towards any of the worthy men that haunt these buildings?
Mary: 1 pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest them, I will
describe them, and according to my description, level at my affection,
Caesar: First, there is Harley Cook of the Echo.
128 OUR BOOK, 1911
Mary: Worthy man! He cannot but with measure fit the honors,
which we devise him.
Caesar: Then, there is the basket ball captain — Steer?
Mary: 1 fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows
old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. He hears merry
tales and smiles not.
Caesar: How sa
y you to the actor, Dabney ?
Mary: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world,
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs; and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Caesar: What think you of the dramatic genius, his friend Allison?
Mary: All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights are spectacled
to see him,
Caesar; How like you the young professor of math.?
Ma He hath a stern look but a gentle heart. With his grim looks
and the thunder-like percussion of his sounds, it is not necessary for him
to use the “ birch enough.’
Caesar: How like you the men of the Education Department on this
flooi
Mary (sighing)
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights.
Yon men, they have a lean and hungry look;
They think too much; such men are dangerous.
Caesar: What think you of —
How now, whom have we here?
By my troth, ’tis your fair cousin Lizzie.
Mary (looking at Elizabeth) :
A serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelica!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st !
©, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace.
Caesar: Bilistered be thy tongue for such a thot!
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 129
(Napoleon and Elizabeth conversing.)
Napoleon: Let's away to part the glories of this happy day.
(Leads her to a settee.)
Elizabeth: On sucha day, did I sign the warrant that killed my cousin
Mary.
Napoleon: On sucha day did the friends of Europe banish me to E
abeth: On such a day as this Williams methinks was thrown into
the lake, and sighed his soul toward the college walls, ere in the water he
va.
splashed.
Vapoleon: On such a day as this the prc
Elisabeth: On sucha day did Schneider undertake his Dutch Kommers
stung all the funkers.
then ran dismayed away.
Napoleon: On such a day as this one of the professors, like a child,
was stricken with the mumps.
Elisabeth: 1 would out-day you, did nobody come; but, hark, I hear
the footing of a man.
(Enter the professor of psychology.)
Professor:
Angels and ministers of grace, defend me!
What are these,
So withered and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants of the earth,
And yet are on’t?
Socrates: All hail, professor! Hail to thee, O pedagogue!
Aristotle: All hail, my friend! Hail to thee, philosopher !
Caesar: All hail, psychologist! Ruler of your classes !
All: Al hail, great master! grave sir, hail! We come.
To answer thy best pleasure.
Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode;
Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait.
Elizabeth:
What misadventure i
That calls our persons from our
Midnight's rest? May I be bold
To think these others spirits?
so early up,
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Professor:
Spirits, which by mine art
I have from their confines call’d to enact
My present fancies: therefore speak softly
All’s hush'd as midnight yet.
Napoleon: O blessed heavens!
Professor:
I conjure you, by that which you profess
Howe’er you come to know it, answer me
To what I ask you.
Elisabeth: Speak.
Mary: Ask.
Napoleon We'll answer.
Professor:
Even for that I thank you.
Then, noble auditory, be it known to you
My confrére in philosophy, Doctor Lyons,
Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I;
But, soft! methinks I do digress too—
Caesar: Be brief; good sir; be brief.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Professor: Well, then;
Tell me where is Fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
Aristotle: Ah!
There are more things in heaven and earth, professor,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Napoleon (to Professor) :,
Master, I am in all affected as yourself,
Glad that you thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Aristotle: | pray thee peace ;
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However much he writ the style of gods,
And made a push at chance and sufferance.
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Professor: Of your philosophy, you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils.
Socrates: Hang up philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a spirit,
Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,
It helps not, it prevails not; talk no more,
Professor: Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up.
To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
Mary; Hark! hark! the lark
At heaven's gate sings
And Phoebus ‘gins arise.
Farewell!
Professor: Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
Napoleon: It was the lark, the herald of the morn.
Professor: Tarry a little; there is something else.
Napoleon: We cannot but obey the powers above us.
Adieu, adieu! Professor, remember us. (Exeunt)
Professor: all you host of heaven! Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain. (Exit)
Epilogue (spoken by the Professor) :
Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine own,
Which is most faint. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ;
Which peirces so, that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
F. BW. ort.
132 OUR BOOK, 1911
A Faculty Merting
One day
In the corridor on a settee,
Enjoying a few leisure moments;
I was sitting
A beautiful thot came to me.
I thot of a faculty meeting;
| the instructors were there.—
Each the other was greeting
While Dr. Milne sat in his chair.
He tilted leisurely backward,
And said in stentorian tones.
“What shall we discuss to-day?
When up jumped Doctor Jones,
And in his deliberate tones he thus began:
* Ah—ah—lI think sir — well really sir —ah—don't you think that
we ought
ah—to discuss the Senior: Hum — we — ah— haven't
discussed them for quite a while — ah —
He paused ; the others smiled the while,
And each in his wa)
suppressed that smile.
They knew what he was thinking of—
*Twas not the Seniors, ‘twas not love ;
‘Twas Heidelberg on the Neckar
So, to relieve him, thus spoke Herr Decker,
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 133
“Also, meine Freunde, der Herr Professor Jones hat ganz recht
Let me call attention to these lines,—
Heil dir; © Senior Kla
Wo ich auf $
Schoen ist dein Klang.
Es schalle durch die Luft,
sse,
chiiler_ passe,
Von Berg und Felsenkluit,
Von Wald und Wiesenduit
Dein Lobgesang.
Tho he had finished his little pun,
Immovably sat Doctor Richardson.
Then, adjusting his specs, the latter begun:
“ By the way that reminds me of a modified ode of Horace,
“© class of Nineteen Eleven, splendidior vitro
Dulce digne mero, non sine floribus.’
He finished; one rose who w: ight and tall —
All turned to listen to Professor Rejall,
He talked very quickly, the while eyeing the wall;
“Tn the last analysis, I think the class of 1911, one of the best that
will ever leave these portals. My friend, Doctor Lyons, also thinks it
has many brilliant individuals. I’m sure this class will provide some of
the tip-top people of the future.
When he had given this unheard of “puff”
Impetuously began Prof. Birchenough.
“Whenever I think of the Senior class, poetry flows from my mouth
like nectar from the mouth of Homer.
* Nineteen ‘leven — | now delight in thy praises
Tis less for the sake of the high sounding phrases,
Than to speak of aught but your fine cl
By George! but you're great —like the fourth dimension.”
attention.
134 OUR BOOK, 1911
To allow not a stain on our own escutcheon,
Tall, stately, and quiet rose “ Angel” McCutcheon:
“T have but few words to say, except that the Seniors in the truest
sense fulfill the meaning of * Noblesse oblige.’”
As she thus spoke unto them all,
She met with good attention.
Then, as by an electric shock,
Up jumped Mister Bronson.
“ Friends, I, too, have given much thot to the class of 1911. Let me
adapt Goldsmith's words to them.
“Class of 1911! Lovliest bunch of S. N.C.
Where health and beauty cheer the Pd.B.
How often have I paused on every charm —
The pretty face, the social belle, and the school-marm ;
How often —”
But he was not destined to finish.
A crash and a thump
The creaking of chairs
And a bump,
And every one was
Obliged to jump
Why?
Some one who was
A trifle plump
Was lying there
All in a hump.
And you can imagine the rest.
Sut I had heard and seen enough to know that the profs. were well
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 135
disposed toward us. “Ah,” philosophized I, “I can see the time when
not only the faculty, but royalty, will sing our praises, when —
But alas, for our leisure moments,
Alas for philosophic thots,
Alas for the Pd.B.
A cold dark hand gripped me;
I woke up all at sea,
And looking around I found that I
Had been stung by a bee.
IQIt
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
Name: Johnnie Jones
Class: 1909 Course: A. B.
| Courses |
U4 | Education 6
|
ig | 1
Due $4.00
136 OUR BOOK, 1911
Our Confidential Bonk Review
Here, Tere aNp Every WHERE.
This charming little volume will be appreciated by every one of
our readers, especially as the living image of the hero is known to us
all.—Charles.
Tur Gapety.
I think, my friends, you will hardly need an introduction to
“The Gadfly,” for she is known to all of us—F. Cunningham.
Nt PLACES
THe Sit
he Silent Places” is not very well known. However, the work
is very refreshing and is highly recommended by Dr. Milne and other
distinguished educators.
1 ann My True Love.
This little story is intensely interesting and very popular. There
is at least one edition which belongs to the State Normal College.—
Wheeler and Williams.
Some Lapres 1x Hast
Of all the books which we have mentioned in our Book Review
this is perhaps the best known, [ts popula
ity may be partially
estimated by the fact that the ses several
te Normal College poss
hundred ec
pies, which may be found at the end of every period in the
gymnasium or locker rooms.
Ir Can Never Happen Acatn.
We mention this wor!
to warn rather than to recommend,
Although it is very interesting— even highly entertaining, — at the same
time it is trivial in its detail, even silly at times, and decidedly not worth
while. The writer only perused it once, at the . . . . Freshman-Sopho-
more conflict.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 137
How to TeLt a Story.
A great many people pass this book by with only a glance. The
y seem a bit commonplace, but the book proves itself well worth
reading. It has been used, and is most highly recommended by one
of the Faculty of the State Normal College—Professor Walker.
title ma
ep GENTRY.
tery pervades each page of this little volume. The reason for
Licut-Fince
My
certain actions and events which take place are not cl
arly understood,
Even when the tale is told, the reader hardly knows “ who's who” and
“ what's what,” and there is still a question in his mind as to who are
(tres
the Light-Fingered Gentry ??!!
Forty Minutes Late.
We all know the dis:
ous effect of always being a little behind
time. This tale is a favorite of a great many people with that habit.
The plot is very simple, and the principle character is... . Helen
Bennett.
and a very thorough one of that
simple rule
subject. None after a careful study of
should cease at eleven o'clock,”
uch as“ Dancing
a faur pas. We
are told that it is the constant companion of .. . Miss Anna E. Pierce.
could possibly mal
Tue
This book is the best seller of the day. It is possessed by consider-
ably more than half of all the students of the country and is particular
popular among women. It is much more popular in America than in any
other country in the world.
has not yet been published, but is running as a serial in
the “State Normal College Daily.” The last chapter will be published
in June. It is well known, but not well liked. One's morals are not
benefited by its perusal.
10
138 OUR BOOK, 1911
Overheard in the Senior Lorker Room
“Has the second class passed yet? No? Then I'll— Hey, any-
body got a button hook? — Hairpin? No!—One of my boys actually
threw a piece —I said to Mr. Rejall— Twenty dollars! Right out of
her locker! Oh, of course, she didn’t have it locked— Isn't that the
sweetest waist? Its lovely. Miss Garrison will—A Superintendent?
To the office? Now? Heavens, how can I, with my hair like this? Here
somebody, lend me a—My! this Cale is awful! Did anybody get the
one where the Integral of Theta— Oh, give me a bite! Um-m-m— The
Freshmen have an elegant team. Why, to-day Gertrude Wells — Just
hear those crickets — I've lost my key, and Miss Pierce is away. I don’t
dare ask Miss —Oh, aren't they dear. And powder and soap and all —
Have you written up the Chemistry experiments? They're long this
time —Oh, there’s the bell. Good-bye.
Chanson Apropos
“It’s the pretty things you say” H. Dabney
“Come, all ye faithful” Class Meetings
“Do they think of me at home?” Freshmen
“Holy, Holy, Holy ” Dr. Milne’s Office
“One sweetly solemn thought ” “TL can take a Sup”
“In the sweet Bye and Bye” F. Van Noy
“She sells Sea Shells on the Sea Shore” Elocution Class
“Sweet and Low” ? ? ? Conversation in Halls
ery day is Ladies’ Day with me” H. Steer
“The Midnight Crew” Calculus Class
“You are the Ideal of My Dreams” The Critic
“Gee! I wish that I had a girl” A. Bacon
“ Auld Lang Syne” Our Book
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL. COLLEGE 139
Limericks
Of course Colonel eats them,
Bless his little heart!
He snaps at every cracker
And that's what makes him smart.
Here lie the memories of the “Select 16,”
Which Doctor Lyons made so keen.
Now, under the Weeping Willow they lie—
A warning to every passer-by.
The mountains insurmountable did s\
With difficulties did the La
The “pony” with one bound did overleap—
in teem,
And then in peace and comfort we could sleep.
She whispered in class,
nior so sweet,
So the cruel professor
Changed her seat.
140 OUR BOOK, 1911
Trade Marks
Mr, Saves: “To cite a specific instance.— if you please.”
Miss McCLettanp: “Yes dear, yes? Certainly!”
Mrs. Moone “Nonsense! Perfect nonsense! Nor ar ac!”
Dr. Hustep: “ Continue, continue!”
Mr. Broxson: “ So, con-se-quently . ..”.
Mr. Reyatt: “Now in the last analysis, other things being equal,
the Tip Top men are the ones who get their food, clothing and shelter
in the easiest way. Do vou agree with that statement, Miss Ednerem?”
Dr. Mitne: “Now, when IT was a boy...”
Mr. Woopwarp: (10:42) ; * Well,— that will be all for this time.”
Dk. Hurenixsox: This is important, and you'll get this on the
examination.”
“Then the answer in the book is wrong!”
: “But 2x4=8, not 6.
Mr. Be: * All right! You people look after the arithemtic and I'll
ebra. I never could do arithmetic, anyway.
Mr. I
Briguy Srupi
look after the a
Dr. Rictarpson: “ By the way, have you read Wordsworth's
* Ode-on-the-Intimations-of-Immortality - from-the-Recollections-of-Early-
Childhoox If you haven't, you have a great pleasure in store
for you. You will find it intensely interesting.”
Mr. Kirkeanp: “ Thank you, sir!”
Mr. Decker: “Unless you take my course in Phonetics, I will not
recommend you to teach German. But take this ‘cum grano salsis’”
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 141
Pardon
If any Grind you do not like,
We ask your Pardon,
For any one which we thot fit,
But which you think an unjust hit,
We ask your Pardon,
If we have really been too bold,
We beg your Pardon.
If all is Dross, and nothing Goid
And you would like to fret and scold,
We beg your Pardon.
Now loose no time, but mend your ways,
And when you've done it
You'll find when next * Our Book” comes out
You will not need to frown and pout,
But smile about it.
Schedule of Untes Cast by the Class of 1911
Achilli, Elena.
Alcott, Helen
‘Andrus, Daisie.
Bacon, Albert
Bennett, Helen. .
Biegelmann, Isabelle
Blisch, Esther... .
Beulah
Busch, Anna
Chant, Mae... ..
Cleveland, Jessie
Conant, Emma...
Conway, Katherine. .
Deegan, Elizabeth. .
Drummond, Eva. .
Eccles, Olive
Everett, Beth
Fischer, Fred
Fitch, Henrietta.
Frank, Helena
Fraser, Anna.
Hegeman, Grace.
Henderson, Chloe
Horne, Angeline
Hotaling, Mary.
Hummer, Edna...
Johnson, ‘Antoinette.
Elizabeth...
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Schedule of Wotes Cast by the Class of 1911—
Leicht, Bettina.
Lewis, Georgine
McHenry, Jennie
Morse, Junia .
Myers, Helen
orton, Mary.
, Bessie
s, Marie
Quacl enbuish, Anna
Frances
Schwarte, Johanna
Schubert, fone
Scully, Katherine
Scott, Edith W.
Smith, Edna
Stillman, Frances
Thebo, Anna
Thomas, Mary
Trembley, ‘ah
Trumbull, Esther
Van Derzee, Effa
Van Noy, Florence
Wi
Wilkinson, Rose
Wittmeier, Florence . .
apt to succeed.
Most popular
Most eccentric.
Handsomest.
(contin)
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Greatest nuisance
Hardest to rattle.
Most cheerful.
Most conceited.
ay
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Most versatile.
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Ayppreciation
is finished! But now as we come to the conclusion of our work,
there is still something to be done. We wish to extend our thanks
to Dr. William B.
Aspinwall for the encouragement and aid which
have made this work possible; to Mr. Frank H. Evory for his courtesy
and untiring effort in our behalf; to Mr. Daniel Brown for his long suffer-
ganizations for
ing patience and kindly interest ; to the class and college or,
their substantial help, and to the student body at large for their
codperation and good will.
Tue Eprrors.
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BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE CO.
DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF
GERMAN SOCIETY PINS
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
College Organizations contemplating the purchase of Emblems
are invited to write for designs, samples and prices. With the
workshops on the premises, this Company is enabled to furnish
emblems of the best grade of workmanship and finish at the
lowest prices consistent with work of this high quality.
COLLEGE AND SCHOOL EMBLEMS
an illustrated Catalogue, mailed free on request
1218-20-22 Chestnut Street PHILADELPHIA
Complete Line of Pennants Sporting Goods OpromeTRIST SETICLAN
JOHN S. MURRAY
BEN. V. SMITH
BOOKSELLER, STATIONER AND
ENGRAVER
EYE GLASSES
Periodicals, Novelties and Leather Goods
50 N. PEARL ST. ALBANY, N.Y.
88 Maiden Lane ALBANY, N. Y.
Our Stock one of the largest to select from |
ec WHITTLE & RIGGS
W. F. ANTEMANN & SON ;
Florists
JEWELERS
Hudson Avenue Cor. Grand Street
nto the repairs of
and Jewelry ALBANY, N. Y.
Special attentic
Wate
21 No, Pearl St. ALBANY, N. Y. |
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 149
McClure & Cowles Te Beauttul brug Store
MORRIS’
26-28 North Pearl Street
ALBANY, N. Y.
P lanos an d Albany’s Progressive Drug Store
Player-Pianos
INVESTIGATE
Chocolates“ and Bonbons
IMPORTERS OF
Satin Boxes, Baskets and Novelties
64 N. Pearl St. ALBANY, N.Y. Open evenings until ten o'clock
35 North Pearl Street
Warren & DON’T ENVY
Company ‘Those who are fortunate
enough to al have
their home decorated with
fresh cut flowers. Have
Makers of High Grade Emblematic th aes ave
Jewelry, Class Pins, Fraternity Emblems,
Athletic Medals, Rings, Cups, etc., of
Special Design.
us
fiowers for the ho
You'll find it is not as
costly as you would imag-
Dept. of Stationery and Engraving ine and then you get the
offers what is best in Class Stationery, most fashionable flowers
Commencement Announcements, Wed- Both Phones Prompt Service
ding Stationery, ete
ep you supplied with
Write for quotations and samples. THE
499 Filth Aveme | ROSERY FLOWER SHOP
NEW YORK CITY 76 Maiden Lane ALBANY, N. Y.
150 OUR BOOK, 1911
FLOWERS for “EVENTS” HERMAN BUCHHOLZ & SON
There are times and events
Qs: seem to demand the pres-
ence of flowers —and when these
occasions do arise i
know just where
choicest and finest
moderate prices.
THEATRICAL— HIsTorIcAL
ariety at most Sasa
Whether you desire a bouquet
of beaut cat flower — same ww GOSTUMELS
blossoms for your home decora- ———
tion or a funeral tribute to the
memory of some departed one,
you will find our flowers to be
the very best and our prices— Paints, Powpers
invariably moderate.
Wics, Bearps, Masks
All ‘phone orders have our
immediate and careful attention,
EYRES | 275 MAIN STREET
11 N. Pearl St. Both Phones 208 SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
AJH.CLAPP | Frederick W. Ridgway Company
Books PLUMBING, HEATING
Stationery AND GAS FITTING
Engraving
Office Supplies
BotH PHones, 956 Main
32 Maiden Lane 16-18 James St.
Residence {1213 Main q
ALBANY, N. Y. (2752-3 Main 11 Washington Ave.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 151
Get your
FLOWERS
for Graduation from
MANUFACTURER
DESIGNER IMPORTER
COLLEGE FRATERNITY Whittle Bros.
JEWELER -
10 No. Pearl Street
Class and Society Pins
Medals, Prizes, Ete.
Fine Grade Goods§Only
Choice Flowers Cut Fresh
Every Morning
11 John Street NEW YORK
The
Albany Trust Company
Make a specialty of small accounts
Yours is invited
| ART TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
will find excellent materials for
Main Office: teaching of drawing and decora-
Broadway Cor. State Street ting ‘work in Japanese arts. If
you are engaged in teaching and
South End Branch: wish to secure such things for your
schools will send you samples on
approval or for exhibition pur-
poses. Inquire for particular term.
| E. T. SHIMA
|
114 E, 23rd Street NEW YORK, N. Y.
145 South Pearl Street
152 OUR BOOK, 1911
CRAYONS
“STAONAL”
For Kindergarten, Marking and Checking
“DUREL”
Hard Pressed for Pastel Eifects
“CRAYOLA”
For General Color Work, Stenciling, Arts and Crafts
“AN-DU-SEPTIC”
Dustless White and Colored Chalks
BINNEY & SMITH CO.
81-83 Fulton Street NEW YORK
rF 2 IE ut Ie [Sc IE]
TOOLS and BENCHES
l for
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS
We have been handling this line for over 25 years and have equipped schools and
colleges in every State in the Union. We supply only the
very best grade of Tools and Benches
To those who are interested we will send a special catalogue covering this line.
Please mention Catalogue No. 2893
—
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & CO.
NEW YORK, SINCE 1848 4th Avenue and 13th Street
os el
SS —Sa—=
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 153
Albany Art Union
College Photographers
=— FOR SEVEN YEARS ==
48 North Pearl Street
. A man is known by the Candy he gives
Palm and Flower Houses, .
Danker Farm, —Give Her—
744 Cer 1 Avenue *
——— HUYLER’S
BRADT DRUG CO.
Two Srores:
7 and 8 Central Ave. 556 Broadway
Danker
Florist
Framep Picrures
WILLIAM H. LUCK
PICTURE FRAMES
40 anv 42 Maipen Lane
208 WASHINGTON AVE.
ALBANY, N. Y. Just above Lark Street. ALBANY,N. Y.
First
National
Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits
$850,000
Frederick A. Mead, President
John J. Gallogly, Vice-President
Horace G. Young, Vice-President
Hugh A. Arnold, Cashier
35 and 37 State Street
ALBANY, N. Y.
William B. Chapman
DESIGNER AND
WORKER IN
ART LEADED
GLAS §S
222 Hudson Ave. ALBANY, N. Y.
OUR BOOK, 1911
Wall
Decorations
Memorial and Art
Windows
James Blocksidge
Estimates and Sketches Cheerfully
Furnished
Number Two High Street
Near State
ALBANY, N. Y.
Telephones
Fine Wall Papers General Painting
Fireproof European Plan
The Ten Eyck
Leading Hotel at
ALBANY, N. Y.
Orchestral Concerts Daily during dinner
and throughout evening
A special program Sunday evenings
FREDK. W. ROCKWELL, Proprietor
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 155
This Gabinet is a Money Saver
Ordinarily costs $2 but is now being sold for
50 cents with the Onliwon Toilet Paper.
This cabinet prevents waste—in that it auto-
matically delivers but two sheets at a time—and
thus saves dollars every week. We are now offer-
ing it with the
Onliwon Toilet Paper
A. sanitary, quality paper—16 packages,
amounting to 16,000 sheets, costs you $2.00 —
with the cabinet — a handsome, automatic,
nickle-plated accessory for 50 cents extra (to
cover packing and shipping). In other words,
here is $4.00 worth for $2.50 delivered anywhere
in the United States.
Both paper and cabinet are guaranteed or
money back if not satisfactory from every point
of view. Try it for ten days on this basis.
Foreign orders, $2.50 f.0.b. steamers at New
York or San Francisco.
A. P. W. PAPER COMPANY
COLONIE STREET ALBANY, }
EW YORK
Special rates to all S. N. C. students
... Photographs of Quality...
Studio at 55 No. Pearl Street
Albany, N. Y.
156 OUR BOOK, 1911
EXCLUSIVE F. M. HOSLER
STYLES
7 . Manufacturer of
Your choice of
Materials,
Patterns
and Styles ICE CREAM
No re- Ne
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this way CONFECTIONERY
in
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SS CO
PRICES, $3.50 and UP
Ss. TELEPHONE 193 LARK STREET
85-87
EMERY North Pearl Street
American Book Company
FLEISCHMANN’S
Publishers of the
COMPRESSED
Leading School
and College YEAST
Text-Books HAS NO EQUAL
E. S. PACKER
68 STATE STREET ALBANY, N. Y.
NEW YORK STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
COTRELL & LEONARD
ALBANY, N. Y.
Makers of
Caps, Gowns
and Hoods
To the American Colleges
from the Atlantic to
the Pacific
Also Makers oj
Gymnasium Suits
Tailored Suits, Furs, Millinery,
Neckwear, Shoes, Rubbers,
Umbrellas, Bags, Trunks,
Carpets, Rugs
472-478 BROADWAY 16 JAMES STREET
Subscribe for.........
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The College Monthly
$1.00 per year
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G. LYON PEARSALL
Photu
Craftsman
29 NorTH PEARL STREET
ALBANY, N. Y.
OOOO I AAAI AIA
Best ICK CREAM
In the City—Our Own Make
All Kinds of Candy
made on the premises
Light Lunch
TURNER
94 Robin Street
Caramels
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
KITCHEN
(Branch)
The Wareham, 88 Willett Street
Select Catering
i
The Young Bride’s Ally.
Culinary inexperience is a formidable handicap to the young
bride who has started out to make her husband comfortable and
keep him happy. At this critical period blessed is she who can cook.
Only when preparing dessert is the housewife with no experience
in cooking on the same footing as her more accomplished sister.
JELL-O
serve the saine delicious desserts, their preparation
requiring no greater skill than the ability to “‘boil
wate
They can be made in a minute.
Nothing short of magic could produce dishes so
delightful and so beautiful from any other material.
‘They are so good that they cover up very agree-
ably the deficiencies of any dinner.
JELL-O costs 10c. at all grocers’.
The beautiful Recipe Book, “DESSERTS
OF THE WORLD,” illustrated in ten colors
and gold, sent free to all who ask us for
The Genesee Pure Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y.,
and Bridgeburg, Can.
