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Normal College Echo
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ALBANY, N. Y., APRIL, 1896.
No. 9.
CONTENTS.
Literary AND PROFESSIONAL,
To a Spring Violet.
Correlation -
Eastern and Western Pedagogy
Professional Teachers
‘The Fountain of Life.
My impression...
Eprrortats,
Miscellaneous ....
Life-long Education .
Hymn Trrumexanr._.
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In Memonrant
Epucarionat Nores
‘Au Sorts.
Review Noras ..
TO A SPRING VIOLET.
OME, violet, peep from neath the sod,
We wait again thine opening eye;
Bright temple wherein dwells our God,
Reflect again His azure sky.
The winds of April bend the boughs,
And Mother Earth seems lone and drear,
Gives other climes her snowy fleece,
And gladden hearts, by her held dear.
Tell once again thy loving tale,
To all the suffering sons of men,
Keep courage, heart, thou shalt not fail,
The spring of Life has come again.
M.A. K.
CORRELATION.
O much has been said and written on the sub-
ject of correlation of late, that one runs the
risk of boring the readers of an educational paper
by adding his quota to the ocean of thought
which is beating and surging against the crags
of time-honored customs. Yet much of what is
before the public is very general, covering a
possible application in any and all grades; and
many teachers who are much interested in the
possibilities of the new idea, fear to test it, think-
ing that it will “interfere with grade work,”
cause them to “lose time,” etc.
That this is merely.an effect of a too vivid
imagination which pictures non-existent evils, it
shall be a pleasure to prove; for it is true that
children can be so taught that isolated facts,
pertaining to one subject which is apparently dis-
tinct from all others, may be so united with other
facts that the mind recognizes but one whole and
concentrates its effort upon that, despite the
truth that it is always made up of its parts.
As a proof of this our attention is called to
the intimate relation which exists between geo-
graphy and history. Where can a better time
and place be found to teach the great events of
our nation’s life than when traveling through
‘ies and states famous for incidents connected
with discovery, exploration, warfare, or conquest?
Almost every step of the way from Maine to
the Pacific coast has its stirring account of the
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heroes of “ye olden tyme,” whether reckless
adventurer or devout Puritan, the bold, sturdy
courage of the Revolution, the impetuous ardor
of the brave leaders in the Mexican War, or the
later methods of warfare, and cooler, more deadly
purpose in the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Reading lessons determine themselves in
selecting from so broad a field, and spelling les-
sons multiply until the “speller” of the old
régime finds its rightful place among the many
back numbers on the shelf of old ideas.
Science cries out for vengeance in the midst
of this enthusiasm over other subjects, and begs
for the place which awaits her. What can be
more interesting than to give lessons upon the
plants and animals which give the touch of life
so necessary in these ideal journeysof ours? The
simple wild flowers of the fields in our own sec-
tion of country are the result of the climate in
which they find their being. Hence the force of
contrast which arises from our visits to the sunny
South, where the facts the children have learned
in botany admit of a wider application, and bring
to their notice more complex forms of flower and
plant than is yet within reach of their young com-
prehension. The horizon broadens and they
await eagerly the day when more shall be
learned in regard to the wonders already known.
Concerning the study of zoology, room is found
for that in studying the characteristic animals of
a region, or a whole subject like that of fishes
when traveling over the many lakes and rivers
which are well stocked with the finny tribe, caus-
ing fishing to be an important occupation of the
people.
Insects have a place in connection with all
parts of the country where summer reigns during
a part of the year and hence may be studied at
any convenient period. Here again the reading
lesson is dependent upon the chief subject of
thought, so that poems, or charming bits written
by authors whose lives have been spent in close
contact with, and earnest study of Nature’s Won-
derland, afford the children a glimpse of the re-
alty of that pleasure which comes only to “him,
who in the love of Nature, holds communion with
her visible forms.”
Language and drawing, spring spontaneously
from the intimate relation existing between the
other subjects. In reproduction of facts gained,
the imagination of the child is encouraged to ex-
ert itself until a “story” is as necessary as a fact
In the careful correction of these papers by the
teacher, such mechanical details as the construc-
tion of sentences, correct grammatical forms, the
proper use of capitals and punctuation marks,
are brought to the attention and recognized as
the tools without which no good work can be
accomplished.
As regards drawing we believe that its great-
est educational value is derived from its use as a
means of expression of thought; and hence it
consists almost entirely of the representation of
objects studied, the drawing of maps to illustrate
work in geography, and the painting in water
colors of any plant, flower or animal, which has
been the basis of a lesson, or in which the chil-
dren are interest for any particular reason.
In closing it may be well to mention just one
more subject which finds its place most admir-
ably in the correlation of studies, viz., familiar
science, With our marked differences of climate,
great mineral wealth, and natural resources of all
descriptions, a list of lessons suggests itself in-
finite in variety and of interesting possibilities.
A few of these are coal, oil, iron, cotton, sugar,
rice and other grains, tobacco, oranges, hot
springs, geysers, waterfalls, etc.
Illustrations innumerable might be given to
show how one lesson grows out of another, but
matters of this kind are for the individual
teacher to decide as her work progresses. The
rapidity with which ground is covered depends
upon the interest and enthusiasm of the class
which must be both obtained and maintained.
The preparation in preceding grades also affects
the thoroughness of the work, and obstacles of
other descriptions will frequently arise; but where,
in a teacher’s career, do they not invite the exer-
tion of all her energy? She may be assured here,
that as compensation, she will see a broadening
of the minds under her care that will repay her
for twice the labor, and create a delight which
she cannot help but share.
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 3
EASTERN AND WESTERN PEDAGOGY.
O widely different are the pedagogical institu-
tions of the East from those of the West
that it is difficult, upon a limited experience, to
form a comparison between them.
In the first place the conditions of school life
in the common schools of the West are very dif-
ferent from those in the East. High schools are
comparatively few in number. It is only the
cities of the first and second classes which can
boast of as well organized and conducted public
schools as those so common in New York State.
Cities of lower rank are for the most part con-
tent with schools which, though dignified by the
name of ‘‘ High School,” are yet not farther ad-
vanced than the tenth grade. Then there are
regions, scores of miles in extent, which are pro-
vided with nothing better than “country schools,”
kept for about two months at a time, ungraded
and practically unfurnished. But we must re-
member that this is a very new country. When
the Albany Normal School was established,
Missouri was for the most part a forest, peopled
only by Indians and rough white settlers.
The constant improvement and establishment
of schools throughout the West has created and
is maintaining a growing demand for trained
teachers.
Formerly this demand was supplied almost
wholly from Eastern schools, but the West was
always independent, and is rapidly establishing
normal schools of her own.
Under the prevailing conditions a very small
proportion of the young people are able, even
with difficulty, to procure the rudiments of an ad-
vanced education. Private schools are numerous,
but these are expensive; therefore some provi-
sion must be made for students of the wage-earn-
ing class from which the ranks of the school
teacher are most largely recruited. This is, of
course, found in the normal school.
But our Western normals are not like your
New York schools. Nor at present is that pos-
sible. Coming, as the students do, from the
country schools and incomplete “high schools,”
the majority of pupils are found lacking in sub-
ject-matter. Until this deficiency is supplied in
the common schools it must be met by the nor-
mal schools, or there can be no normal system.
Therefore, though these schools were established
as exclusive training schools and are gradually
working toward that end, it is found advisable to
hold the professional work in abeyance while the
necessary instruction in subject-matter is being
given.
“The work extends over a period of four years,
Often there is a fifth year, preparatory, for stu-
dents who are very deficient. It is divided into
two courses, of two years and four years respect-
ively. The two-year course gives comparatively
little professional work, but the four-year course
includes a great deal.
‘The pedagogical work, though thorough, is not
complete. More attention is given to the study
of general principles than to special methods.
These special methods the student must develop
for himself in the practice department, where the
work is very independent, save as it fails to coin-
cide with the views of that august body, the
faculty.
‘A school so arranged forms a necessary step in
the educational system of the West. It is self-evi-
dent that all that 1s necessary to its completion is
a Normal College. No better articulated system
could be planned than the West would have with
the addition of a few normal colleges.
New York is justly proud of her normal schools,
rounded and completed by this institution of
which we all think so highly. Educational re-
form has been but a few years on the way, yet
here we find two hundred devoted students of
that very art which not long since was a despised
occupation, Our normal schools are an out-
growth of this reform, and enable the profession
to attain still higher ideals.
The course of improved instruction westward
holds its way, and there should be the teacher’s
paradise. What could give an ardent normal
college graduate filled with jin de siecl ideas of
text-books and methods—what could give her
more pleasure and satisfaction than to take charge
of a beautiful log school house, miles from any
railroad or town, and batter the dense, primeval
ignorance of those “Charitonites,” with her
“ Natural Methods of Development,’ untram-
meled by ancient prejudice and practice?
B.L, G., 797;
4 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS.
HE attitude of the public toward education
has undergone a decided change in the
last fewyears. People are beginning to realize
that teaching isa profession, and that teachers
must be properly qualified before they shall
enter upon their profession.
To be an eminently successful teacher requires
certain natural gifts, as strong individuality, keen
intellect, high moral character, and commanding
presence. ~
In addition to these qualities a broad, liberal
education is absolutely necessary. A person
without a thorough education can never com-
mand the respect and attention of his pupils.
Such an education is now available for all. There
is no reason why the energetic, wide-awake
young man or woman should not secure a col-
lege education. Fellowships, scholarships and
pecuniary aids are so abundant that a worthy
person cannot plead lack of means as an excuse
for poor preparation.
Is it advisable that aperson of the above quali-
fications should ayail himself of the normal train
ing? No matter how talented the person, or
how promising his future as a teacher, he should
secure the normal college training. The rarest
diamond, as found in nature, is not the brilliant,
lustrous gem which is so much prized. It needs
the skill of the diamond cutter to remove the
foreign substance from the gem, and give it the
form which best adapts it to its purpose. So the
would-be teacher needs to have those things which
will hinder his success removed, and have his in-
tellect and individuality so developed and molded
that he will be best prepared to meet the demands
of the high standard of education and civiliza-
tion of to-day.
Skilled labor is demanded in every branch of
life. No man would think of entrusting the
building of his house to a man who was not a
skilled workman, Will this same man in affairs
so important as the education of his children,
put aside this cautious spirit and sound judg-
ment? The normal college, the normal school,
the department of pedagogy in the colleges, have
arisen as a result of the demand of the people, a
demand which says: “We will not entrust the
training of our children, their preparation for fu-
ture success and happiness, and even the future
of our country, to the hands of unskillful and in-
competent teachers.”
The country has made ample provision for the
education of its children, and it is only just and
natural that it should insist upon the best possi-
ble instruction. For the possibility of the present
is the promise of the future, and only under the
most skillful treatment will this possibility ‘be
fully realized in the future.
Those who criticize the Normal College un-
favorably forget that the most skillful and suc-
cessful work will not make a gem of a piece of
ordinary stone. ‘The cutting only exposes to the
best advantage the natural qualities of the stone.
So the normal training only reveals and develops
the natural qualities of the individual for a cer-
tain definite work. If the individual lacks the
qualities necessary to make a successful teacher,
no amount of training can compensate for this
deficiency. The failures are due not to normal
training, but to lack of the natural qualifications
which are indispensable to success as a teacher.
D. S.C.
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.
AMELIA E, DALY ALDEN, ’68.
Ponce de Leon, weary, rich and old,
Heard joyfully the tale the Indians told
Of that strange fountain in the forest dim,
Whose limpid wave could give new life to him;
And with his followers, for many a day
He sailed from isle to isle, from bay to bay,
In hope to find those waters, and restore
His painful age to painless youth once more.
But whether in the depth of virgin wood,
Where the grim pine and solemn cypress stood,
Or whether in the fair and sunny reach
Of green savanna, or on sandy beach,
He knelt to drink from many a sunless pool,
Or quaff the bickering streamlet sweet and cool.
His quest was vain; the mystic fountain lies
All undiscovered yet by mortal eyes.
Ponce de Leon sleeps, and centuries
Have drifted by upon the sunny seas
Since, full of hope, he sailed from shore to shore,
Then with a drooping heart the search gave o’er.
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We read the tale half pitying, and yet
Is there not some faint, lingering regret
That in the sunlight of this wiser age,
We may not go on such a pilgrimage?
Fain would we seek—yea, let us own the truth—
Fain would we seek and /ind the fountain of youth !
For silently and swiftly as the spheres
In the great vault above us, glide our years;
And when, as now, we altogether stand,
Once more to take each other by the hand,
‘We sce with pain the sure and subtle trace
Which time has left on many a well-loved face.
We read the record of the fleeting years,
The hieroglyphs of care and toil and tears,
Of secret struggles and heart-wasting pain:
“Oh, could we have our careless youth again !”
We sigh, remembering the golden past,
When life was beautiful, and grand, and vast.
Not all a fable was the story told
Beside the Redman’s fire in days of old;
From the innate, insatiate hungering
Of human souls do all such legends spring.
They are the voice of nature crying through
The wilderness of time; in spirit they are true.
The life-renewing fountain surely flows,
Though from no earthly source its waters rise,
And he may drink, and keep his youth, who knows
To read the sorrow in another's eyes,
To cheer the lonely, and to change the sighs
Of troubled hearts to breathings of repose;
The starving soul with love and hope to feed,
‘And give a hand in every brother's need.
For him there springs, of life itself a part,
The fount of youth—a sympathizing heart,
THE TRAILING ARBUTUS.
(67 WANDERED lonely where the pine-trees made
Against the bitter East their barricade,
And, guided by its sweet
Perfumes, I found within a narrow dell,
The trailing spring flower tinted like a shell
Amid dry leaves and mosses at my feet.
As, pausing, o’er the lowly flower I bent,
I thought of lives thus lowly, clogged and pent,
Which yet find room,
Through care and cumber, coldness and decay,
To lend a sweetness to the ungenial day
And make the sad earth happier for their bloom,”
MY IMPRESSION.
ES, I went down to visit him, while he was there at
school,
I thought I'd see how teaching looked, when done by
special rule.
But now I'm almost sorry that I spent a single day
To scehow much that boy'd forgot since first he went
away.
Well, I will tell you how it was; Tom took me to his
class,
We thought 'twould be a proper way the extra hour to
pass.
We hadn’t more’n got in there when our Tom was called
by name,
For he must act as pupil, and three other lads the same.
A pretty girl was teacher, and the rest sat ’round to
look,
‘And copy down whate’er was said, each in his own note
book,
Well, I was glad to be there, for I thought: ‘‘ Now Tom
can show
These city folks that farmer's sons aren’t all so very
slow.”
‘And so the lesson soon began, and all went well, until
The teacher asked: “‘ What is a spring ?” and every boy
sat still.
And then she called on Tom, and man! he said he didn’t
know!
To think that I should live to see my boy to manhood
grow
And all his life drink from the spring that runs by our
back door,
But down before those city folks, get out upon the
floor,
And say he didn’t know a spring from a New Hamp-
shire shingle.
I tell you, sir, it fairly made these ears of mine to
tingle,
And after class I told the lady sitting in the chair,
‘That he had always known a lot before he went down
there.
But dear me! if the rest he knows, like that slips from
his reach,
I don’t know what he'll ever do when he begins to
teach. Mary A. Burties,'97.
“Tu sentiments of the school-room are among the
most potent and enduring forces of life. The child
nature imbibes unconsciously the prevailing principles
of the hour; and the character is forming while the first
hesitant words are conned from the primer.”
6 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
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EDITORIAL.
O paraphrase the language of Garfield, the
Raines bill has become a law and the govern-
ment at Washington still lives.
We have decided not to declare for any presi-
dential candidate until after the convention, for
fear of embarrassing the situation.
Tue Echo desires to add a modest second to
the efforts of the committee who are endeavor-
ing to secure a new union depot for Albany.
Tue teacher who is able to maintain the regu-
lar attendance of his pupils, through the warm
sunny days that are supposed to be near at hand,
may be assured that his work is not entirely a
failure,
On Wednesday, May 1s, at t:1g o'clock, will
occur the regular term election of members
of the Ecuo staff for the first term of ’96-’97.
It was the intention of the College in providing
for an election at this time to give the newly
elected board an opportunity of becoming fami-
liar with the work before assuming control next
September.
The election will be purely democratic, and,
while no such system has been adopted as that
soon to be inaugurated at Syracuse University,
of awarding positions on the staff according to
the quality and quantity of matter submit-
ted for publication, we have no doubt that the
College will be glad to elect for their representa-
tives on the Ecuo those who have shown ability
in that direction by contributing to the support
of our college paper. Let those who desire to
become candidates contribute something for the
May number.
Governor Morrow has signed the bill appro-
priating $6,000 for the support of three summer
institutes, one each at Chautauqua, Glens Falls
and the Thousand Islands,
Mr. Murat Hatsteap estimates that for
forty years he has written a million words a year,
and it is said that Horace Greeley used to write
so much that he was compelled to bandage his
wrist to keep it from swelling. No wonder edi-
tors, as a rule, die young. Moral: Support your
college paper by subscription and contribution.
One of the alumni of the old Normal School,
in speaking the other day of his class, said that
while no one had attained any special distinction,
a majority were very successful in the quiet pur-
suit of their profession. In this, it seems, lies a
thought worthy of our consideration. It is the
mediocre man or woman upon whom rests the
responsibility. ‘The scientific genius may give
to the world some great discovery, like the
X ray, but its application must be made by the
undistinguished practitioner.
In searching for the cause of poor spelling on
the part of one of his pupils, a teacher recently
found it to have been caused by astigmatism in
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 7
early childhood when learning to spell. Had
that teacher been equal to the occasion he might
have discovered the trouble, secured, if possible,
the remedy, and thus saved a human soul from
the embarrassment of poor spelling and from the
awful consequences of an imperfect education.
This is but another illustration of the neces-
sity of making a careful study of each pupil if
the best results are to be secured in teaching.
Turoucu the courtesy of President Carnell,
the writer, a few days since, visited the different
departments of the Albany Business College.
Mr. Carnell, like most successful men, is some-
thing of an enthusiast over his line of work, and
as he showed us room after room, filled with
busy students, we fully agreed that his institu-
tion must be all that he claimed for it; but when
the door opened upon a class practicing steno-
graphy and the gentleman made the claim that,
in point of beauty he would match his young
lady students against those of the Normal Col-
lege, we would not hear to it even for a
minute,
Tuey have just moved in. Who? Why,
the young couple across the street. He is a
young veterinary surgeon who has just hung
out his sign. His prospects are not the most
brilliant, but his ambition and honest purpose
are not at all deficient. She is young, pretty,
and lovable, and, although among entire strangers
in a strange city, is as happy as can be. To-
night you sit by this window and watch. I did
so, and out she came to meet him, just as proud
of him as though he were worth a million and
had position and influence. After dinner he
came out and swept the walk while she looked
on and they talked of present and future happi-
ness. And as they walked around the corner
to get an evening paper, I heard the screams of
a woman in the next block, whose husband had
come home intoxicated and was beating her.
Just then I remembered that I learned in draw-
ing, that the contrast between light and shade
heightens the effect, but I could not help adding,
that high light throughout, in this case, would
be more pleasing to the eye.
LIFE-LONG EDUCATION,
S there are two sources of education, the
school and the world, and two kinds of
education, one received under the influence of
the teacher and the other in contact with the
world, it is our duty to put our pupils in the
way of acquiring this education which, like many
other free things, is not half appreciated.
The ability to assimilate the information which
is around us is a matter of no small consequence.
In answering the question,“Where did Abraham
Lincoln get his style?” Mr. Watterson says that
he was inspired, and we have no reason to dis-
pute him. Where did he get his education? In-
spiration may account for that, but it began as it
did with Benjamin Franklin, with the inspiration
to draw intellectual nourishment from the mother
earth of nature and human society. The years
of school life are few compared with the whole
span even if one is privileged to enjoy a liberal
education. How much more stress, then, should
be placed upon teaching a pupil how to learn
rather than upon filling him with facts.
There are in every community now men of
education who are a potent force in the educa-
tion of the community in which they are located.
In their professional or business capacity they
are constantly disseminating knowledge, which, if
rightly appreciated, should increase the general
information. Then, too, much may be gained
from such men through the medium of conversa-
tion. It is true they are generally busy men, yet
but few men are so busy that they have no time to
talk with those who have good ideas and can ex-
press them intelligently. Right here comes in
the difficulty commonly met with. Persons are
unable to obtain knowledge by this means because
they find difficulty in expressing their own ideas.
This leads to timidity and embarrassment, and
retards mental development. Pupils must be
early taught to express themselves in good Eng-
lish, if they do nothing else. In this the precept
“learn to do by doing,” applies most strongly.
Let us have more pupils whom we shall send out
capable of questioning nature, carrying on intel-
ligent conversation, and asking intelligent,
pointed questions upon points concerning which
they desire information.
8 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
HYMEN TRIUMPHANT.
Na public address President Hunter, of the
City Normal College, bemoans the fact that
while the normal schools of New York have sent
out 6,000 women teachers during the last twenty
years, many of these graduates have ultimately
surrendered to the subtle importunities of Cupid.
The very qualities which render these women
good teachers, President Hunter declares, are
the qualities which go to make good wives and
mothers.
All of which demonstrates that none of the
female sex is so wedded to her art or profes-
sion but that, with the right provocation, she is
willing to be wedded to something more tangible
and substantial. Just how this difficulty is to
be surmounted it is hard to discover. To reduce
the number of women teachers sent out by the
normal institutions would be to reduce the num-
ber of good wives and mothers, while to increase
the number of these graduates is to increase the
number of happy firesides. Between two such
alternatives the great majority of right-thinking
people will be apt to say, “Let the facilities of
the normal schools be enlarged ad infinitum.”
If these establishments are really institutions
for the cultivation of devoted wives and mothers,
the founder of them builded better than he
knew. The education of children can never
suffer seriously under such circumstances. Be-
sides it is useless to resist. Love which laughs at
locksmiths is not likely to have any apprehensions
or qualms about crossing the threshold of a study
room.—[WV. Y. Advertiser.
COLONEL WATTERSON’S LECTURE.
ONDAY evening, March 30, was an evening
long to be remembered by those who had
the good fortune, as well as pleasure, to hear
Colonel Henry Watterson (to quote Lieutenant-
Governor Saxton, who introduced him), of the
United States, and more particularly, of Louis-
ville, Ky.
Besides the speaker on the platform were
Governor Morton, Lieutenant-Governor Saxton,
Superintendent Skinner and Deputy Superin-
tendent Ainsworth of the Department of Public
Instruction, President Milne and several other
distinguished gentlemen.
Representing as Mr. Watterson does, that
quartette of famous journalists, himself, Murat
Halstead, Horace Greeley and Charles A. Dana,
he is particularly fitted to speak upon a subject
involving an accurate knowledge of men of Mr.
Lincoln’s time. In speaking of newspapers he
expressed the hope that the time would soon
come when we shall have a journalism that will
criticise the deeds of public men, with an un-
biased judgment.
In speaking of the relations between the north
and the south, and of Mr. Lincoln’s character,
the speaker said that no other man then before
the public could have filled the place that Abra-
ham Lincoln did.
A gentleman who attended the lecture in
speaking of it afterward said, “I cannot tell
what there was about that lecture that made me
like it so much,” and others have expressed the
same sentiments.
Greater praise than this could hardly be given
Mr. Watterson. It shows that, through the heart
and soul of the speaker, his listeners caught a
vision of what was grand, pure and noble in
Abraham Lincoln that many lecturers of out-
wardly more attractive style are unable to give
their hearers.
A ZONE OF MIDNIGHT CALMS
COLLEGE girl was sitting at a table upon which
were piled note-books and text-books; varied in
size, color, and contents. “« Night’s candles were burnt
out,” but she, in anticipation of examination the follow-
ing afternoon, toiled on. She had arranged her books
in logical order that very evening: there were five books
pertaining to the subject of chemistry, three on rhetoric,
two note-books and two text books on physiography,
etc,, and yet she could not remember where that expla-
nation of ocean currents was, and she wanted to write
it in her personal book.
Suddenly she glanced from her book and listened.
What was that noise overhead? Stamping of feet, hur-
ried commands, running to and fro—well, down in
a minute went book and pen; compass and scales
sought shelter under some manuscripts and defied dis-
covery an hour later. Pens, papers and erasers looked
asif struck by a Kansas cyclone. Rushing to the door
with visions of a spoiled Easter gown, she screamed,
‘What is the matter?” ‘'O, nothing,” was the reply,
“only the chimney has just burned out.” As this
ripple on the midnight calm passed by.our sister was
heard to remark, “ How I wish I could keep my equa-
nimity when I am called upon to teach as well as I can
in case of fire.”
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DE ALUMNIS.
Wm. M, Fort, principal of the Chittenango
T. Union School, called at College Apr: 2,
92. Miss Alice Gilliland called during the week of
Mar. 30.
Mr. C, A. Van Auken called Mar. 3r.
Miss Anna McCann, of Middletown, visited Col-
lege, Mar. 31.
‘93 Mr. Wilson Failing is teaching at Chelamsford,
Mass.
Mr, Paul E. Reiman called Mar. 26. He will enter
Harvard next September.
Mr. E. G. Barnes, who is teaching at Peekskill, was
in the city Mar, 21.
Miss Helen Arnold, ’3, was married to Mr. Her-
man Luther at Palmyra April 6.
‘95. Miss Pulis, of West Troy, called Mar. 25.
Miss Anna Wood, of the Kingston Academy, spent
the Easter vacation with friends in Albany.
Miss Romaine visited College Apr. 3.
Miss Laura Sutherland, of Cohoes, called Mar. 27.
Miss Minnie Waite, who is teaching at Norwich,
spent a week at Easter time in the city.
93. W. S. Coleman gave a lecture on Wendell Phillips
before the young ladies of the Fort Edward Insti-
tute, March 28.
55. Professor Albert N. Husted recently gave some in-
teresting reminiscences of his services as lieuten-
ant in the famous Ellsworth 44th N. Y. regiment,
before Wm. A. Jackson Post of this city.
‘4. Mr. Wm. E. Freeman, principal of the Middle
Granville Union School, called at College Apr. 2.
95. Miss Sara E. Hawley was at S. N. C. Mar. 31.
Miss Keeney, who is teaching at Stillwater, was in
the city Easter week.
196. Miss Rose West, of Catskill, was in Albany Easter
week.
Miss Florence Lockwood has accepted a position
to teach at Castleton Corners, Staten Island.
Miss Helen E. Gere attended the meeting of ’96
March 27.
Mr. D. S. Carpenter spent Apr. 10 at the College.
95. Miss Ella Brigham, teacher of the training class in
Troy, called at College April mz. Miss Brigham
spent her Easter vacation visiting the Brooklyn
schools.
‘96. Mr. D. S. Carpenter who has been supplying the
principalship at Chatham, N, Y., has returned to
Albany.
196. Miss Golden, of Matteawan, paid Albany a flying
visit April 11.
“95. W. H. Good, of Bath-on-the-Hudson, called Apr. rr.
’96 SOCIAL.
HE class of ’96 held their second monthly meeting,
Friday evening, March 27, in the Kindergarten
room.
By eight o'clock, a pleasant company had gathered,
and roll call was promptly begun, each member re-
sponding with a current topic of general interest.
After the business meeting, Miss Willard, vice-presi-
dent, in the absence of President Perry, announced
the program, which was opened with a solo by Miss
Grace Stuart. Then a session of criticism was given,
which was based on various jokes and peculiarities of
the members of ’96, and was duly appreciated by each.
A vocal solo by Mr. Rockefeller was followed by a
reading by Miss Mary Deane, this completing the pro-
gram.
The social hour was spent in trying to draw on the
blackboards, something to represent a book, the name
being provided on slips of paper. A pleasant time was
spent guessing and_admiring the various productions,
which were ingenious and striking.
After other music and a general singing of college
songs, the pleasant meeting adjourned till April 24.
IN MEMORIAM.
HE following resolutions upon the death of
Miss Alice L. Ryan, which occurred March
25, have been adopted, as a token of the high
esteem in which she was held, and as an expres-
sion of sympathy for her afflicted family:
In the death of Alice L. Ryan, the class of ninety-
seven has lost a member whose cheerful disposition and
unselfish life gained for her the friendship of all who
knew her.
As a student, by her earnest, faithful and persevering
efferts, she won the esteem and admiration of her
teachers.
In behalf of the college, we extend to the bereaved
family our heartfelt sympathy in this, our mutual afific-
tion.
SARAH COLLIER,
EMMA GEORGE,
MINA COOK.
Student, never suffer your energies to stagnate. The
old adage of “ to many irons in the fire” conveys an un-
truth, You cannot have too many—poker, tongs and
all—keep them all going.—Zz.
In the course of an ordinary woman's life she abso-
lutely wastes more time than would take her through
college and make her one of the best educated women
of her day.— Ex,
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
ECHOES!
ions of spring !
Leaves are budding,
The covering is off of “ Moses.”
How do you like your new class?
Post-mortems on exams. are in order.
Science teachers are getting specimens.
Did you get your school economy essay in on time?
Ten weeks of steady, hard work, then ten weeks of
rest !
Special lessons in the Model Department with stere-
opticon views.
Time for rides on the Belt line and to waste your
shekels on soda,
Have you anything more than the outline done on
your graduating thesis.
The pedagogy class have absorbed the life of Pestal-
ozzi during the last ten and are now airing their knowl-
edge.
Those of our students who attended service at St.
Peter’s on Easter Sunday, were surprised and delighted
to find Prof. Richardson assisting Dr. Battershall in
reading service.
The first of a series of readings from Shakespeare, by
John F. Howard, of Boston, was given Thursday even-
ing, April 9. Many students and Albany residents were
present. The series consists of Hamlet, Macbeth and
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
On the evening of April 9th, Governor Morton and
family, Superintendent Skinner, Dr. Milne, and a few
friends, assembled in the College chapel to see some
excellent views of Governor Morton’s estate at Rhine-
cliffe; also some fine colored plates of our native
birds.
For several weeks the Ecito had a rival paper in col-
lege. The students of the Model department, repre-
sented by Masters Albert and Charles Skinner, issued
a daily paper, entitled The Tribune. Those who saw
the paper daily have words of praise for the young
editors.
Several friends of Miss Ella Lyons were delight-
fully entertained at her home on the evening of March
31, at a progressive euchre party. Our College students
were well represented, and acted well their parts in carry-
ing off prizes. Miss Estelle Hunter won ladies’ first
prize, and Miss Jennie Hanna ladies’ “‘ booby,” while
Mr. Will Jones carried off gentlemen’s “* booby.
PERSONALS.
ROF. BOTHWELL, principal of School 14, of Al-
bany, visited College March 30.
Mr. O'Shaughnessy has left College.
All the Newburgh girls were home for Easter.
W. H. Perry ’96 isill at his home in Buskirk’s Bridge.
Miss Alice Bates visited Miss Mary Deane ’6 April
3-6.
Miss Clara Ewalt spent Easter with friends in New
York.
Miss Olive Lyon ’97 was home in Amsterdam for
Easter.
Miss Lillian Moser spent April 2-6 at her home in
Syracuse.
Miss Derfla Howes '96 spent the vacation at her home
in Utica.
Miss Lovell of Buffalo, visited the Kindergarten
March 26.
Mr. Kimberly from West Troy called at College
March 25.
Miss Christine Dunn’97 spent April 3~4 with relatives
in Cohoes.
Miss Neva Suits ’98 was at her home near Oneida,
for Easter.
Miss Ruth Sherrill was at her home in Palmyra
April 4-7.
Miss Setta Eckert of West Troy called at College
March 31.
Miss Genevieve Crissey ’96 spent April 9 with friends
in Saratoga.
Miss Katherine Orr
Schenectady.
‘96 spent April ro-12 in
Mr. Lewis Rockefeller '96 was at home in Valatie
over Easter.
Miss Ella Daley spent Easter at her home in Benning-
ton, Vermont.
Mrs, Long and son Warren of Buffalo called at Col-
lege March 24.
Miss Genevieve Crissey ’96 was at her home in War-
wick for Easter.
Miss Margaret Sullivan ’96 spent April 3-6 at her
home in Nyack.
W. B. Sprague ’97 is detained by illness at his home
in Crown Point.
Mr. Eugene Woodard '96 spent March 20-23 at his
home in Hartford.
Miss Marion Goodhue ’7 has returned to College to
resume her studies.
Miss Helen Hamilton ’96 spent March 27-30 at her
home in Greenwich.
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Mr. J. Fay Putnam spent the week of March 30 at his
home in Johnstown.
Miss Clara McClintock visited Miss Helen Hamilton
at Greenwich, Easter.
Miss Mary Nichols has returned from a several weeks’
visit in Newark, N. J.
Miss Blanche Willard ’96 spent the Easter vacation
at her home in Clinton.
Miss Hattie Wilcox, astudenthere last year, attended
the class social March 27.
Miss Laura Stafford ’97 was at her home in Benning-
ton, Vermont, for Easter.
Miss Anna Hathaway ’98 spent her Easter vacation at
home in Bennington, Vt.
Miss Bertha Elwood called at College with Miss
Sylvia Youngs ’96 March 20.
Miss Harriet Platt of Rome spent the week of April 6
with Miss Lunetta Platt ’97.
Misses Kathleen Hurty and Lois Palmer of St. Agnes
School, visited College April 8.
Mr. Lewis Dougan ’97 went to his home in Middle
Granville April 1, for a few days.
Miss Whittaker, of Clinton, called at College with
Miss Sarah Stewart 96, March 23.
Mr. Palmer Wood of Herkimer visited his daughter
Miss Zinnia Wood ’96, March 23.
Miss Toohey ‘96 and Miss Meta Toohey ’96 were at
their home at Fishkill over Easter.
Mr. George W. Humphreys from Yale, visited Col-
lege and Albany friends April 2-3,
Miss May Bishop of New Haven, Conn., is visiting
her cousin, Miss M, Harriet Bishop.
Mr. Byron H. Stebbins, Cornell '97, was at College
with Miss Netta Breakenridge March 3r.
Miss Hines, a kindergarten teacher from Utica,
visited our Kindergarten Department April 8.
Mr. Frank J. Reveley of New Haven, Conn., visited
his sister, Miss Ida L. Reveley, 96 March 30.
Mrs. Sarah A. Snyder from Newburgh, visited her
daughter, Miss Arietta Snyder, ’96, March 28-37.
Mrs. Valentine and Mrs. James of Albany visited the
Kindergarten and Model departments March 27.
Miss Mary McClintock of Mount Vernon, N.Y., spent
Apr. 2-8 with her sister, Miss Clara McClintock, ’96.
Mr. Addison S. Pratt '96 of Yale, stayed over a few
hours with his sister, Miss Helen Pratt, ’96 on April 8.
Mr. Evans S$. Parker was at his home in Geneva
March 19-23, and again over Easter — significant
frequency.
Mr. Will Clawson of Warren, Ohio, called at College
March 31, with Miss Ruth Sherrill and Miss Jennie
Delin ’97.
Miss Katherine Gomph ’96 has accepted a position as
teacher of German, History and Latin in the High
School at Pittsford, her home, for next year.
COLLEGE NOTES.
‘Tis said that Columbia college takes the lead in being
a strictly provincial institution. Of the 1,943 stu-
dents, 1,084 live in the cities of New York and
Brooklyn.
The students of Dartmouth college have been in the
habit of “ horning” their professors, when those worthy
gentlemen did something which did not meet with their
approval. A “horning” by the Darimouth students did
not mean anything very pleasant to the person who was
“horned,” although it never included any personal
lence. Recently one of the classes tried this old prac-
tice, and it seems that this was the one time too many.
Several of the students who took part were expelled
from the college. President Tucker, however, called a
mass meeting of the students and they agreed to do away
with this old custom, and those who were expelled were
allowed to come back, on agreeing to have nothing more
to do with the horning.”
All examinations in the Northwestern university are
oral. Ex.
The cost of sending the University of California foot-
ball team on its tour east, last summer, was $3,210.11.
—Ex,
The University of Pennsylvania has sent a geological
expedition to India.—Delaware College Review,
“Lorna Doone” was voted the most popular modern
novel, by a majority of men taking the course in mod-
ern novels, at Yale.— The Vidette,
One of the requirements for a man seeking college
honors at Amherst is that his college expenses during
the last year, shall not have exceeded $300.—Zx.
The oldest college in the United States after the Har-
vard is the William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Va,
chartered by William and Mary, in 1693, Thomas Jef-
ferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence,
was one of its graduates.—Zyhe Student.
‘The University of Paris has the largest attendance of
any college in the world.—Zx.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
AYS J. G. Holland: “The first great lesson that a
young man has to learn in life is, that he doesn’t
know anything and that the world cares nothing for
him.” This is the introduction to an article in the
March Crucible, entitled; ‘<A Vision of Life,” There
is many a good moral lesson in this article, but the
quotation from Mr, Holland as it stands alone contains
thoughts to furnish material for much meditation.
Think of it for a while, but do not let it make you take
too dark a view of life, but
“ Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”
Considerable information concerning historical trees
may be gained from an article in Tie Student. It is
very interesting to know of the trees connected with im-
portant events in our American History.
We wonder why some of those bright little papers,
which we receive, lack an exchange column. If a
good exchange column can be worked up in a paper
it adds much to the value of that paper, and it must
necessarily broaden one’s views and bring us into closer
communion with our fellows, and their work in the
different institutions,
Students of history, are you interested in Burgoyne’s
invasion? There is a prize essay on this subject in the
March Calendar.
The sentiments concerning school life expressed in
some of our high school exchanges are very noble and
inspiring, and we are glad that our young men and
women look upon their school-life, as such an important
epoch in their life work. If we would but keep the
thoughts, that are given in many of the articles, in mind,
and put into practice these precepts, our lives would be
purer, nobler and more useful to the world.
At the present every one is‘interested in the X rays,
and the ablest men of the age are giving their attention
to the subject. Among ‘The Talks by the Faculty”
in the March number of the Wesleyan Argus there isa
very interesting discussion of this topic. This article
gives some of the fundamental ideas and thus enables
one to gain a better understanding of the subject. This
same paper also contains a well-written article on
“Mars,” which would be interesting as well as instruc-
tive to one studying Astromomy.
Strange wrappings come around some of our ex-
changes. For instance, one of those received last
month was carefully enclosed in leaves torn from a
Sunday school quarterly.
We are glad to receive The Undergraduate from Mid-
dlebury college, Vermont. We find much to please us
and hope we shall see it again.
The Purple has a good article on “The Olympic
Games,”
Many of our college exchanges devote much of their
space to news and notes concerning their different
fraternities. This makes those papers doubly interest-
ing to members of other fraternities, as the progress
made in the different fraternities may be seen and thus
a pleasant rivalry is aroused in the different societies,
and each will strive to do as well, if not better, than his
neighbor.
Athletic exercises imply society and a social disposi-
tion, and if a solitary man like Robinson Crusoe were
to be found daily practicing on the bars and rings, we
should think him engaged in anything but pleasure.
The pleasure of being strong, lies in the fact that those
around us are strong, thereby furnishing us competition
and companionship.— The Normal Exponent.
We are much pleased to find anong our papers this
month Tie Souzenir, from Neosho, Mo. It isa well
written paper, containing several interesting articles.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
T is quite possible that the largest educational meet-
ing that was ever held in North America will be held
in Buffalo next July. There were enrolled at Denver
18,500 persons, and Buffalo is so much nearer to the
mass of population, and so easily reached, that this
number is likely to be increased considerably.—Zz.
It is only recently that England has realized the im-
portance of the college journal. Her first college
journal has just been issued from Edinburg Univer-
sity — Lx.
CULTIVATING ONE’S SPECIALITY.
We live in an age of specialists — an age in which, if
a young man or young woman would secure a perma-
nent foothold, each must give evidence of preparation
along definite lines, and for a definite purpose. The
clever amateur who dips into many things may be a de-
lightful person to meet in society, but where the gospel
of work is preached and practiced the specialists hold
a monopoly and carry off the prizes, Nor is this fact
without a legitimate foundation in ethical and psycho-
logical principles. ‘‘ There’s a work for me and a work
for you,” although simply expressed, is a law of the
universe that has been placed upon humanity, whose
comfort and happiness depend largely upon the extent
to which this fact is recognized and acted upon. In-
deed, much of the tragedy of life is due to a violation
of this law by too many men and women who fail to
succeed because they are outof place. Gifts vary both
in kind and degree, but everybody has some specialty,
be it ever so humble or obscure, which it is his duty to
cultivate to the best of his ability.— Mew England Con-
servatory Quarterly.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 13
There is one fact with regard to that complicated
array of wheels within wheels, yclept the schoolboy,
which seems to have escaped the attention of modern
school authorities It is that the sensitive faculties come
to maturity long before the intellectual, and that the
former are evidently intended by nature as instruments
for the development of the latter. It follows that argu-
ments to convince the young must appeal strongly to
their sensitive perceptions. It is therefore a mere
waste of time to talk to thoughtless children (as the
New York teachers are obliged to do) about the evil
effects of stimulants on the circulation of the blood and
the lining of the stomach. The average boy knows
little about the existence or conditions of such things
and cares less. No physiological arguments ever pre-
vented him from climbing a tree, or eating unripe fruit,
or bathing in ice water, or damaging his fingers with
firecrackers, There is then very little reason to sup-
pose that similar arguments will prevent his indulgence
in forbidden stimulants if pleasurable excitement is the
result.-— The Purple.
Education proper promotes the natural growth of al!
the powers of the mind symmetrically and gives the
greatest possible adaptability to thought and action
along all legitimate lines. ‘The system of education
that fails to do this is a failure in the highest sense.—
[The Tattler,
‘Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown’s School
Days and Tom Brown at Oxford, recently died.
The University of Pennsylvania is making quite
elaborate preparations for Arbor Day, April 10. Gov.
Hastings of that State will take part and a tree is to be
planted upon the University campus, which is to be a
sprout of the elm under which William Penn made his
treaty with the Indians. This sprout is to be obtained
from Gen. Paul A. Oliver, of Wilkesbarre, who has.a
tree fifty-six years old which was grown from a branch
of the original tree.
ALL SORTS.
HE three greatest mediums of exchange — the kiss,
money and the college paper.— The Spectator.
Definition of one who never works — “ one who has
no business in this world.” —Zz.
Old lady — Does your little sister go to school, my
dear?
Little girl — My little sister is a little boy.
Who has a rising position? The elevator boy.
Six things are necessary for a good time. One of
these isa large party, and the other five are money.—
High School Recorder.
What do the new women do when they don the
bloomers? Hypnotize (Hip-no-ties).
Don’t try to tell something in class that you do not
know. Let some one else tell it. Zar.
Why does a man’s hair get gray before his moustache ?
It is so much older.—Academy News.
Freshman Year — Comedy of Errors.
Sophomore Year.— Much Ado about Nothing.
Junior Year.— As You Like It.
Senior Year All's Well that Ends Well.—Z..
A grave digger buried a man named Button and
brought in the following bill to his widow; “For
making one Button hole, $5.”—Te Student,
A girl isa monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
—Alex. Pope.(?)
There are two things, which every man believes it is
better to give than receive, Advice and Medicine.
According to ‘The Skirmisher:” ‘Brevity is the
soul of wit.” Mr. B—,a man of few words, once
wrote to his nephew the following laconic letter:
Dear Nephew:—
To which the nephew replied by return mail:
Dear Uncle:—
‘The long of this short was that the uncle wrote to his
nephew: See my coal on, which is a se-mi-col-on ex-
pressed; and the youngster informed his uncle that the
coal was shipped by simply saying co/-on.
Four good remedies:—For drunkenness, drink cold
water; for health, rise early; to be happy, be honest; to
please all, mind your own business.—The Stranger,
Comenius introduced the journey method in Geo-
graphy but he omitted the use of putty maps.—D-¢-n,
The days are growing longer;
The sun’s last beams glow, pale, and fade away,
Beneath the stealthy stealing gloom of night
In tardier movement each succeeding day,
As ruddy blood makes glad the cheek once pale,
So hope of spring makes glad the somber sky.
Roses will bloom again. The day grown long.
Sunshine is coming by and by.—Zz.
«Tf history repeats itself,”
He murmers in elation,
“ Hereafter I'll try ditto marks
Instead of recitation.” —Zz.
We say: Welcome! gentle spring, whose great power
and quiet ways often cause the drooping, discouraged
spirit of man to revive and put forth buds for better
fruit than it was wont to bear.—Zz.
14 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
REVIEW NOTES.
The next volume in the Century Science Series will
deal with the work of James Clerk Maxwell.
Macmillan & Co, announce for publication in March
the eagerly awaited work on The Principles of Soci-
ology, by Franklin Henry Giddings, M. A., Professor
of Sociology in Columbia College. This work will be
primarily a contribution to the theoretical organization
of sociology, but it is an outgrowth of actual university
instruction and has been written with especial reference
to the needs of university students. It will differ from
previous treatises on sociology in two important respects:
First, in its account of the differentiation of social phe-
nomena from phenomena of all other kinds; second, in
its exclusion of topics that are properly economic or
political rather than sociological. The entirely just
criticism has been passed upon sociological theory as
heretofore stated, that it has lacked unity. While po
cal economy has worked out a consistent theory of
studying the consequences that follow from asingle trait
of human nature, namely, the desire for wealth, ab-
straction being made forthe time of all other mo-
tives, sociology, without a guiding principle of
its own, has attempted to piece together the results of
many sciences of man and his relations. Professor
Giddings attempts to supply the guiding principle. He
discovers in one particular state of consciousness,
which is co-extensive with potential society and with
nothing else, the true cause of all distinctively social
action, and deduces from it the sociological laws. The
work will consist of four books, as follows: Book I.,
The Elements of Social Theory; Book II., The Elements
and Structure of Society, with four subdivisions,
namely: Part I., The Social Population; Part II., The
Social Mind; Part III., The Social Composition; Part
IV., The Social Constitution; —Book III, The Histori-
cal Evolution of Society, also in four parts, treating,
respectively, of four stages of progress, namely: Part
I, Zodgenic Association; Part II., Anthropogenic Asso-
ciation; Part III., Ethnogenic Association; Part IV.,
Demogenic Association;— Book IV., Social Process,
Law and Cause. The doctrine of the historical chap-
ters will be that association was the cause of the evolu-
tion of human qualities in the transition from animal to
man and not vice versa, and, in like manner, that the dense
populations of modern times have been made possible
by the civil form of association. The fourth book will
deal with the relation of volition in society, and the at-
tempt to realize social ideas, to physical causation work-
ing through natural selection.
Special importance, at the present moment, attaches
itself to a consideration of ‘The Raines Liquor-Tax
Law,” by the Hon, J. Raines, the author of the famous
bill, who succinctly points out various objects and pro-
visions in the Worth American Review for April.
The Review of Reviews for April contains an interest-
ing account of the industrial relief work now being
done among the Armenians of Van under the super-
vision of Dr. Grace Kimball, an American medical
missionary, who has profitably expended more than
$12,000 for this purpose, much of which has been con-
tributed in the United States.
Under the head of “ English Response to the Appeal
for International Arbitration,” the Review of Reviews
Publishes about thirty letters from such representative
Englishmen as Lord Rosebery, A. J. Balfour, Mr. Glad-
stone, James Bryce, Herbert Spencer, William Watson,
George Meredith, Prof. Norman Lockyer, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Durham, Cardinal
Vaughan, John E. Millais, G. F. Watts, Alma Tadema,
Wilson Barrett, H. M. Stanley, and Henry Norman.
These letters were read at the great Anglo-American
demonstration held in London on March 3, and gave
expression to a remarkable unanimity of opinion on the
desirability of arbitration as a means of settling inter-
national disputes.
The anniversary of the death of President Lincoln is
signalized by an article in the April number of the
North American Review entitled ‘Recollections of Lin-
coln’s Assassination,” by Seaton Munroe. The stirring
events of the memorable night of April 14th, of which
Mr. Munroe was a witness, are most vividly and
graphically described.
The April number of the North American Review con-
tains a symposium of decided political timeliness enti-
tled, “Governor Morton as a Presidential Candidate,”
which is participated in by ex-Senator T, C. Platt, the
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, ex-Senator Warner Miller,
Edward Lauterbach, and C. W. Hackett, Chairman of
the New York State Republican Committee.
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FOUNDATION STUDIES
IN LITERATURE.
By MARGARET S. MOONEY,
Teacher of Literature and Rhetoric, State Normal College,
Albany, N. VY.
Published by
Messrs. SILVER, BURDETT & CO.,
110-112 Boylston St., - - Boston, Mass.
PRICE, $1-25.
WASHINGTON PARK DRUG STORE.
Proprietor, C. M. SEGER, Ph. G.
Druggist and Pharmacist,
Madison Ave., Cor. Willett St. ALBANY, N. Y-
Prescriptions receive careful attention.
HENSY HAHN,
Ladies’ and Gents’
BOOTS AND SHOES.
7o Washington Avenue, ALBANY, N. Y.
Special inducements to students
Byres is « 1%
ROSES, LILLIES AND VIOLETS
Call and see them.
Telephone 208,
GET HOME-MADE LUNCHES
NEXT DOOR.
ll NORTH PEARL ST.
Hot Coffee always ready.
Fruits, Confectionery, Stationery.
WM.E.MORRIS, - - - 98 Willett Street,
FACTS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
89 Places, at Salaries Aggregating $54,660, have been Obtained for 74 Albany
Normal Graduates and Students, by the School
Look at this List:
Geo. A Bolles,
E, S. Boughton,
Alvin Conyerse,
Sara L. Dennis,
W. H. Doty, M. Blanche Doty,
J. H. Forrester (2), Margaret E. Ennis,
C. D. Hill, Mary E. Evans,
S. H. Lyman (2), Nellie Farnham,
E. H. Porter, Lizzie Garrity,
Chas, F. Randall,
Wm. G. Reed (2),
John W. Roe,
Geo. N. Hight,
H. L. Taylor (3),
E. H. Thornhill,
D. D. Warne,
EF. M. Westfall,
Frank M. Wiggins,
H. E. Wilford,
Julia A. Babcock (2),
Mary J. Baker,
Anna C, Boardman,
Alida W. Brooks,
Annie L, Carey,
Mary J, Chalmers,
Cornelia E. Crafts,
Ellen Golden,
Laura Guiteau,
Estelle Hallock,
Alice F, Halpin,
Emma Hand,
Ella A. Holmes,
Frances M. Crawford,
Frances E. Dewey,
Alice M. Garsden,
Jennie C. Godfrey,
Carrie R. Harmon,
Cora M. Hill (3),
Marion H. Imrie,
Nellie F. Jackson,
Morelli Kinsley,
Lulu L, Lamson,
Lunette McFarland,
Mrs, J. McHench,
Mrs. Charlotte S,’ Mann,
Bulletin Teachers’ Agency.
Ella S. L. Marshall,
Laura A. Mathews,
Lou Messenger,
Lena M. Munger,
Sarah F. Neally (2),
Mary E. Payne (3),
Mary S. Persse,
Augusta Porter,
Sarah G. Rennie,
Genevieve M. Rogers,
Belle A. Ruddick,
Louise Sanford (2),
M. Blanche Sheldon,
Annabel Sherman,
Libbie Stackpole,
Cora M. Stearns,
Jennie A. Tallman,
Kate C. Turner,
S. Louise Valentine,
Caroline Wandell,
Hellen A, Webster (2),
Cora E. Welch (2),
Lizzie S. Weston (2),
Belle C, White.
(@F Send for circulars, and see what we ean do for you. CO. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. ¥.
16 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
The women count a lot on well-dressed fellows—and why not?
Twenty-three dollars.
That’s what it will cost you to have us cut up some of our Hop-sacking
suiting — that’s the new goods for spring—into the swellest suit you ever
wore,
This goods is the long wear kind — our work won’t be anything less
than the best tailoring. Larger quarters, larger stock, practically a new
custom department.
HEAD AND FOOT, zy”
Man, Woman and Child Z
51 & 58 North Pearl Street, Y)
8 fl
ALBANY, N. Y¥.
G. W. ANDERSON, Albany Teachers Agency
“Pearl” Confectionery, Seon Goad Betton for
Good Teachers with Good Records.
We have had many calls for teachers during
the past year, when we had no satisfactory
ICE CREAM candidate, and could not fill the place. For
this reason we urge wide-awake and pro-
Me ND CANDIES gressive teachers to register at once and give
ne He ¥ us an opportunity to help them.
Supplied in any quantities and at Popular Prices. ‘Send stamps for circular and Application
“WARRANTED STRICTLY PURE.” oe
HARLAN P. FRENCH, Manager,
No. 99 North Pearl Street, ALBANY, N.Y. 24 State St., ALBANY, N.Y.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE STUDENTS
Wear the B. & M. Hats, because they are the best. Young Men’s Hats a specialty. Try one
of our $3.00 Derbys, none better. Men’s Mackintosh Coats, all wool, at $8.00. A Box Coat,
velvet collar, $9.00. Agents for Dent's and Adler’s Kid Gloves. Special discount to students.
A call requested.
BOYCE & MILWAIN, The Young Men’s Hatters, - - - 66 and 68 State St.
JOHN T. JOHNSON,
‘TAILOR AND IMPORTER,
85 Maiden Lane, ALBANY, N. Y.
5 ... Millinery Bazaar,
37 NorTH PEARI, STREET, ALBANY, N. Y.
KEELER’S
HoTEL AND RESTAURANT,
26 and 28 Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
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