THE
Normal College Echo
Vor. II. ALBANY, N. Y. MAY, 1894. No, 10.
CONTENTS.
Liverary. pace. | News. PAGE.
From the German of Hoffmann Von Fallerslebeu -
‘The Mystic Flagon.
From the German
The Sirens.
Jackanapes
Altruism.
Our History.
‘A Query and its Answer.
Eprroxiat Norss. ..
Eprroriats,
Does Special Preparation Pay ?..
Washington Park.
Phi Delta Debate.
An Amos Come to Judgment.
Epvcationar.
The Relation of Physical Training to Mental Growth
The Normal College Agassiz Association -
Organ Rehearsal.
Junior Class
Program
Ecuoxs..
Personas.
Atumnr Nores -
Hic Scnoot Norss
Amon THE CoLLecEs
Epvcarionar Norss
EXCHANGES...
Scripner’s Macazine
Boox Reviews -...
FROM THE GERMAN OF HOFFMANN VON
FALLERSLEBEU.-
What is the moon so bright and clear,
And twinkling stars that seem so near?
A shepherd watching o’er his sheep
‘That all within the fold may keep.
When day has fled from sable night,
He leaves his home of heavenly light,
To shed soft radiance afar
On earth where mortals sleeping are.
Then guards he all his lambkins dear,
In heavenly pastures far and near ;
For all the stars that twinkle bright
Are only lambkins fleecy white.
Brothers and sisters all they seem,
‘Their pathway lit by the moon’s bright beam.
‘They no wrong to each other do,
Ne’er act unkind nor yet untrue,
When I to heaven look and see
Such longing thoughts oft come to me.
Oh, may we ever loving be
As you bright stars in heaven’s blue sea.
Cuartorre E. Lansing, ’95.
THE MYSTIC FLAGON.
CHAPTER Il.
OLLY was seated in the vine-wreathed por-
tico knitting lace, and as the foamy points
and scallops crept from under her deft, dimpled
fingers, she hummed a little tuneless song, keep-
ing time with her slippered foot. A maiden
blush-rose rested in the cool white folds of her
kerchief and its mate nestled in her warm yellow
tresses.
‘As Peter approached she glanced up.
Peter! How are you?”
Poor fellow, his heart was filled with anger,
and he had prepared a set and dignified speech
calculated to awe her into regarding matters seri-
ously, but meeting the upward glance of her blue
eyes and hearing her careless query, his wrath
melted quite away. Strange, how easily can a
young and pretty woman upset a man’s strong
determination.
“Polly,” he said, softly, “you know that I
adore you. Let me tell you how much.”
Laughingly, she replied: “ Take a seat, Peter,
you will tire of so long standing.”
“Ab,
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“Polly, give to me no more of this nonsense.
All in earnest do I speak !”
“The sun és hot, Peter.
head?”
This was too much. No longer could Peter
curb his rising spirit.
“Now, then, young woman! you shall answer
my question. For the last time do I ask you:
‘Will you be my wife??”
Then Polly arose and dropping a curtesy, said,
mockingly: “Well, then, young man! this pleas-
ure do I take —to inform you that not for the
mere asking am I to be had.”
Much taken aback, he gasped: “ What, then,
would you have me to do?”
“Tf in all truth you say that you hold me dear,
I would have you prove it by some brave deed.”
“Zounds! these are not the days of chivalry
of which we read in Von Bellow’s book.”
“True, they arenot. That very clearly do I see.’
“Too hard with me, are you Polly, and too
much do you ask.”
“You it is who ask much and would give lit-
tle. You do forget that you speak with the
heiress of Corliss Von Woldefoguel.”
‘This nettled our hero’s pride of birth.
“Surely the house of Van Omydinger is peer
to that of Von Woldefoguel. Think of my im-
mortal ancestor, Rip Van Winkle!”
“Yes, Peter; but it is not your ancestor, but
you, who ask my hand. Why not do as he, ex-
plore the Kaaterskill and seek the mystic flagon ?”
“Ach, Himmel! Polly you know not what you
ask ! How could I cross the charmed ravine!”
“Could you leap like Hans Van Walkenstein,
that were an easy task.”
“That can I do!” But once across. Hast
forgotten the pig-faced Dunderberg, who ever
and anon, toils up the street bearing his load.”
“0, cabbage heart!” laughed Polly, “how
easily do you wilt.”
“But I come up again. And if for your sake
I brave these perils what shall be my reward?”
“Why — if I have time —I may think better
of your offer.”
“And if in safety, back, I do not come?”
“Oh” said Polly coquettishly, “I may die of a
Has it touched your
?
broken heart, or I may—O, I must run to feed
my poor canary !”
And off ran Polly with one wicked backward
glance.
“The little witch!” exclaimed Peter when
left alone, “what can she mean? It can’t be
that pig Van Walkenstein. Surely no girl of
sense on him could look with favor. But I must
be off if I would win success. 0, Polly! for you
alone would I face this danger, climb the mountain
and mayhap meet with Hudson’s ghostly crew.”
Ill.
Early on the following day we behold this scion
of the house of Van Omydinger making his way
up the mountain, the hot sun pouring down
upon him its blistering rays. His good mother
had provided him with an apple lunch to sus-
tain his spirit, but he had eaten it early on his
journey that he might not be hampered by
carrying it, On and up he went, from cliff to
crag, his thirst becoming almost intolerable. At
times he heard, or fancied he heard, the sound
of running water. Fancy pictured some cool
and shady dell hidden in the rocky recesses, but
seek though he may, Tantalus like, it ever evaded
him and remained an aguafatuus. Had Peter
been versed in poetic lore he might have ex-
claimed with Arthur’s knight— “The quest is
not for me.” But knowing no one with whom
to draw comparisons, he relied on himself and
pressed on.
At length, when the sun had passed the meri-
dian, and greatly inclined toward the west, he
reached a lofty precipice which jutted out from
the side of the mountain and commanded a view
of the whole valley. The country green was
somewhat tinged with the tawny hues of autumn,
but enough remained of its vernal tint to render
it fresh looking at that great distance.
“While off beyond the rugged slopes
Were meadows fair as youth's bright hopes.”
Aye, Polly, fair even as the bright vision of a
life-time of happiness spent with you, can your
wearied and thirsting lover still persevere on his
quest for the cup.
Looking eastward he could see the lovely
Hudson ; far, far below him, winding like a sil-
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ver ribbon, in and out, until lost to view. A
fair and pleasant prospect indeed.
On the other side yawned the deep and awful
ravine. Peter turned from it with a shudder,
“By the looks of the place this must be the
very spot where my grandfather sat down to rest,”
He proceeded to seat himself and as he did so
a curious feeling crept over him. He felt as if
transported back a century. ‘Truly odd, for a
man to feel identified with his grandfather.
Suddenly a voice broke the stillness. He
heard his name called —“ Peter Van Omydinger!
Peter Van Omydinger!” And the echo sent it
from crag to crag, Van Omydinger! Omydinger!
dinger! dinger! ding! dinger!
He rose, rubbed his eyes, and peered down
into the ravine. ‘There, toiling up the rocks, he
saw the self-same figure seen an age before by
“the dreaming one.”
“Peter Van Omydinger, come help me up this
hill!”
As in a dream he descended, took the cask on
his shoulders and followed his companions.
Never again was Peter able to trace his path,
winding as it did among rocks and brambles.
Perhaps because his shoulders were so bent
beneath his load that his glance was turned
downward, and took no heed of the natural fea-
tures passed.
From time to time they heard muttering as of
distant thunder which grew louder as they ad-
vanced.
“Ach! they play well and Hendrick is being
beaten. It forebodes a storm.”
These words, spoken more to himself than toa
listener, caused Peter to look at his companion.
As he did so the man made a sign for him to
drop the cask. This he did, then straightened
himself and looked around.
The ravine had been crossed and they were in
a weirdly charming glen. The rumbling noise
grew louder, then suddenly ceased, and achorus
of voices cried, “Dunderberg! Dunderberg!
Captain, he comes!” Peter beheld a number of
men wearing sugar-loaf hats and short doublets,
who had been playing at nine pins. As the
thunder of their rolling balls ceased, a short,
amed
Whom
imposing-looking man with a weather.
countenance approached and demanded:
hast thou there, Dunderberg?”
“A stranger, who carried the cask.”
“The cask! the cask! fall to it!” they all
cried, springing forth with such wolfish looks
that Peter shrank back behind his companion.
“ Bring forth the flagon!” ordered Hudson.
Dunderberg rushed to do his bidding and ap-
peared bearing a huge silver cup, gnome-wrought
and beautifully chased, with a handle of grape-
clusters, and on its sides miniature vineyards
growing on the banks of a winding river, where
a score or more of little imps tumbled head over
heels in the rack and mist.
The cup-bearer filled it to the brim and
handed it to Peter. ‘‘Give to the commander.”
But the sight of the purple vintage sparkling
against the silver so intoxicated the thirsty youth
that his head swam and his hand trembled.
The wine spilled upon the turf. Dunderberg
plucked him fiercely by the sleeve.
“No libation! Hudson waxes wroth !”
“Now or never!” thought Peter. Holding
the cup aloft he cried: “By the rights of hospi-
tality do I claim the honor first to taste the
cup!” He then drained it to the dregs.
“Hold! ahoy there!” cried the crew.
“What, are you already alarmed?
that alone I can finish the cask!”
“ear! hark to the braggart!””
“Silence!” commanded Hudson.
accept, but if thou failest, beware!”
And then, O marvelous outcome of thy train-
T wager
“We do
ing, good Frow Van Omydinger, flagon after
flagon drained Peter. Unlike poor Rip, who
was unused to liquor and easily overpowered, his
occasional treats by Nicholas Vedder not being
frequent enough to season him, Peter had been
used to the best all his life and plenty of it.
Therefore he nobly stood this test supreme.
Hudson and his crew viewed him with a sur-
prise that passed from amazement to incredulous
horror, Speechless they stood, until Dunder-
berg broke the spell.
“Der Teufel! he drinks the last! O woeful
day that I toiled up the mountain all in vain.”
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Then rose fierce cries of “ Flay him! the knave.””
Hudson interposed, “Mates, touch him not.
Our compact is sacred.”
But the crew were enraged beyond all control.
“He shall not escape! Plunderer, forager!”
They made a rush for Peter who fled carrying
the flagon.
‘Escape he must not!” roared Dunderberg,
who led the van. “He bears our mystic flagon!
On! On!”
Peter, having a good start, easily out-distanced
his followers, whose cries rang fainter and fainter
in his ears.
He reaches the cliff ; the ravine yawns below;
beyond is safety, but it seems far out of reach.
Alas! much wine-drinking is not conducive to
activity. The cries of his pursuers, confident
now, come nearer, nearer. He can hear the la-
bored breathing of Dunderberg ; his hot breath
fans his cheek.— Decision is instantaneous. Up
and out he springs.
Well done, Peter!
lies on the opposite bank, while on the rock he
sees, never to forget, the figure of Dunderberg,
darkly silhoutted against the lurid red ball of the
setting sun. He hears a last despairing cry
“Turn back mates! He has crossed the charmed
ravine o’er which we cannet pass.”
One moment—then the sun drops out of sight,
the figures fade from view and twilight settles
down on the mountain.
“Zounds! what an escape!” said Peter.
“They would have flayed me alive, had they
caught me. Ach! but my bones ache and my
head is swimming from the wine. A famous
brewing that! Its like may I never taste again.
But the flagon I have asa trophy. No one now
can dispute my tale.”
When the news of the adventure and marvel-
ous escape of Peter flew apace, people came
from far and near to hear the story and view the
wondrous flagon. They seemed never too weary
of examining its curious and delicate traceries
which showed new beauties on close inspection.
It was given the place of honor on the great
mantel, directly under the ancestral flint-lock,
where it stood a standing argument against un-
Panting and exhausted he
belief. Mynheer had now a new tale which he
loved to relate in detail. Peter modestly and
wisely shrank from narrating his exploit and so
avoided cross-examination and confusing ques-
tions from the over-inquisitive. For if you have
observed those who are living their romance are
not the ones who tell it. Story-telling belongs
to the period of retrospection, not of action.
Besides, Peter had other things to think of.
Polly, being a sensible young woman, could
not be insensible to such devotion as her lover had
displayed, even had he returned empty-handed.
How then could she refuse the hero of the hour?
Shortly after this I had the pleasure of being
present at their nuptials and assisting at their
bountiful wedding feast. At its close wine was
passed in the gnome-wrought flagon taken by
the bridegroom in his flight, and every guest
drank the health of the happy pair.
Whether the charm of the former owners still
remained, or whether the spell lay in its present
contents, I cannot say, but certainly, wine never
had nor never will have a more delicious flavor,
nor produce such an exhilerating effect as that
served to the merry party assembled to celebrate
the union of Peter Van Omydinger and Polly
Von Woldefoguel.
Mary G. Mananan, ’95.
FROM THE GERMAN.
Who has the finest lambkins?
The golden queen of night,
Who dwells behind our forest
In heavens blue and bright.
She comes in latest evening
When all in slumber lie,
From out her pleasant dwelling
‘Across the silent sky.
Then leads she forth the lambkins
Upon the azure wold,
For all the stars so milky,
Fair Luna calls her fold.
They have dissensions never,
But hold each other dear;
And sisters are and brothers
‘There in the starry sphere.
When I look up to Heaven
The thought oft comes to me,
That we should all as friendly
As these fair lambkins be.
L. HANKS.
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THE SIRENS.
Hee you read of those sirens of old
How they sang on the coast of the sea;
How they charmed ee’n the sailors so bold
With their songs of treacherous glee ?
Oh! woe for the voyager's bark
When their melody rang o’er the wave,
It sank to the nether world dark,
And Neptune had no power to save.
Yet no one had e’er left the sound
Of their voices alluring and sweet,
Till Ulysses passed by, homeward bound,
While his men plied their oars sure and fleet.
They heard not his cries to delay,
For they wisely had closed up their ears;
So they merrily rowed on the way,
Never heeding his pleadings and tears.
But who else would dare sail so near
A danger whose shoal is unseen?
How full would the heart be of fear,
Though calm shining waves rose between.
And the answer the wisest would say,
When asked of life’s perilous bar:
* Oh, seaman! seek not, on your way,
How near you can sail, but how far.”
M. Laura Wooparn, ’94.
JACKANAPES.
MONG the many half-forgotten stories of
childhood there is one which used to be
especially interesting. It isa little story by Mrs.
Ewing — “ Jackanapes.”
Jackanapes’ nurse had taken him out for a
walk one day when something attracted her at-
tention from him and Jackanapes wandered off
after a little yellow gosling. The gosling started
for a pond, so Jackanapes followed. When his
nurse arrived at the pond there was “one yellow
thing rocking safely on the ripples that lie beyond
duckweed, while the other was washing his drag-
gled frock with tears because he too had tried to
sit upon the pond and it wouldn’t hold him.”
Of late this little story has seemed to have a
meaning which it never had to the youthful
reader. How many there are who prepared, as
they hope, for life’s work, will start out this June,
leaving the college which has so long sheltered
them. They are able now to do for themselves.
How many will discover, as little Jackanapes did
so early in life, that there are many trials and
tribulations. There will be many, if I mistake
not, who will be found “washing their frock
with tears because they, too, had tried to sit
upon the pond” and found out that it “ wouldn’t
hold them.”
But let us all take heart, trying, each of us, to
find something in the “fund of life ” which will
hold us—something that we can accomplish
and accomplish well. And, although leaving our
Alma Mater with sorrow, yet remembering “ Hin
charakter bildet sick nun ine strom der welt.”
Mary E. Bassirr, ’94.
ALTRUISM.
OWN beside the great blue ocean
Even by the broad Atlantic,
Where the waves with ceaseless motion,
Ever break upon the shore,
Once there dwelt a little oyster
Safe within his tiny shell,
Like a monk within a cloister
Or a hermit in his cell.
And he dwelt thus in seclusion,
Learning naught for world outside,
Subject of a strange delusion
In his life of sweet contentment.
Said he, “Tam not depending
Upon any of my fellows,
Neither am I spending
Any of my life to help them.”
So with quiet satisfaction,
Lived he in his little palace,
Deeming every little action
To be only for himself.
But how little was he thinking
That from out his very being
E'en then a little crab was drinking
All the nourishment he needed.
He who thinks that he is living
Close within his little shell,
Is in spite of all things giving
Something to his fellow men.
Poor mistaken human being
Who thinks only of the ego!
For the life is only seeming,
Which exists not for another.
M, A, Sura, ’95.
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Tue Alumni will be interested in the program
of the semi-centennial of our institution, which
we present in another column.
Dr Lintner, State Entomologist, in a recent
lecture before the members of the Agassiz Asso-
ciation, said: “This is one of the institutions of
the State where entomology is well taught.”
Tur new order of work, by which an oppor-
tunity is presented for specialization in different
lines, has proven highly satisfactory to the stu-
dents,
Bur afew weeks more and the members of
the class of ’94, the rooth class who have gradu-
ated from our institution, will take their place
among the teachers of New York State.
DOES SPECIAL PREPARATION PAY ?
UR last year’s class graduated a young man
who had never taught a day in his life and
placed him in a $1,500 position. This year’s
class places one of our number in $2,400. We
have in mind several young men of last year’s
class who left $500 and $600 schools, came here
and spent a year or two and were placed in $800
and $1,000 positions. Not one so far as we
have learned changes places this coming year,
and they report an increased salary of from $100
to $200, with no indication that they have yet
reached the top of the ladder.
WASHINGTON PARK.
EXT to Normal halls, the dearest spot in
Albany to Normals will be Washington
Park. Nature must be a closed book indeed to
him whose soul is not thrilled as she lays at his
feet the prodigality of her splendors. As we
haye stood before the King fountain we have
thought it had a lesson for us. As Moses struck
the rock and the sparkling waters gushed forth
to slake the thirst of the weary Israelites, so
Nature enthroned in Washington park soothes
the fevered brow fresh from the toils and noisy
whirl of the world, lightens the step, touches the
cheek with the rose and sweeps her hand over the
chords of the soul.
Who shall forget those bright, happy hours,
the shady nooks, the delightful strolls, the
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strengthened ties of friendship? Flowers with
their gaudy colors and fantastic forms dazzle the
eye. The air is redolent with perfume. From a
hundred tree-tops pours a limpid stream of bird-
song. It is such hours that lend to life half its
sweetness and all its charm.
PHI DELTA DEBATE.
RIDAY evening, May 18, at 8 o’clock, the
Modei chapel was well filled with students
and faculty upon invitation of Phi Delta Frater-
nity. A few moments later the fraternity, capped
and gowned, marched in, six taking their places
on the stage with Most Worthy Brother Stanbro,
presiding officer of the evening.
Mr Stanbro, after welcoming the guests,
stated that Phi Delta would hold an open ses-
sion in which the principal feature would be a
debate upon the resolution: Resolved, that the
word male be stricken from the suffrage qualifi-
cation of the Constitution of the State of New
York.
Affirmative — George A. Brown, Samuel Slau-
son, George C. Streeter.
Negative — George R. Green, Henry F. Bless-
ing, Ernest E. Daring.
The leaders were allowed twenty minutes each
and their colleagues fifteen minutes each. Each
debater was rapped down before he had had half
his say. Every one was full of the subject. In-
terest in the audience never lagged for a moment,
and the closest attention was interrupted only by
the frequent rounds of applause and bursts of
laughter. The debate showed thorough prepara-
tion, but its chief charm lay in its spontaneity,
no debater having memorized a sentence nor
using manuscript.
While the judges were out, Brother Warde gave
a reading, which was well received. Then the
ladies were asked to vote on the resolution re-
gardless of the merits of the debate. Fifty-
seven per cent demanded the right of suffrage.
The judges declared the resolution lost.
AN AMOS COME TO JUDGMENT.
[From the School Bulletin for May.]
We find this in the V7. Y. School Journal for Feb. 3:
In looking over the Normad College Echo published by the stu-
dents of the Albany (N. Y.) Normal College, a dispassionate judge
tmust say with Whittier, or some one else, “ How many things are
done that had better not be done!” There isno more need of an
Echo for these students than there is for the men who run the trol-
ley cars up State street. Suppose they are able to get 250 to takeit.
‘There is $250 gone, with no result for the college orthemselves. Let
an old student's advice be heeded. ‘Turn your energies into other
channels; publish your poetry in the Zvening Journal or Express,
and don't waste time and money on what cannot be of enough good
to warrant the effort made.
It does not need his reference to himself as “an old
student” to recognize the ear-marks of the writer, the
senior editor of the Yournal, Why a man of Mr Kel-
logg’s bland smile should go out of his way to snub ill-
naturedly the students of the Albany Normal College
we do not see, unless he remembers the very unpleas-
ant experience he had in trying to collect money he did
not owe from Thomas E. Finegan, when Mr Finegan
was a student there. As an Albany graduate himself,
Mr Kellogg should take pride in the advancement of
its interests, in which this Vormal College Echo plays no
small part. It is an unusually creditable example of a
kind of periodical that serves an excellent purpose.
It advertises the college, to begin with, making it
known by its monthly issues as no catalogues or circu-
lars or even advertisements in the School Journal could
make it known. It keeps up an interest in the college
among the alumni, by continually recalling their school
life, and by giving personal news of those who were
their fellow students, with a detail that no journal of a
more general character could afford. It serves for an-
nouncements and news and memorabilia for the present
students, becoming an indispensable record of their
college experience. For whatever the class of students
at the Albany Normal may have been in Mr Kelloge’s
time, the present students have some common ends and
purposes and experiences not parallel with those of
“the men who run the trolley cars up State street.”
Finally, for the editors it gives a literary and business
drill perhaps nowhere else equalled.
So the dollar apiece the subscribers pay is not so ab-
solutely squandered after all. Of course Mr. Kellogg
thinks they might better pay it for the School Journal.
Now we get every issue, both of the School Journal and
of the NorMAL CoLiEcE Ecuo ; and we read a very much
larger proportion of the Ecxo than we do of the Journal.
For the Ecuo has a definite field of its own, it fills it
adequately, and it works for the general benefit and not
exclusively to blow the horn and fill the pockets of its
editors: three points of marked superiority over the
‘School Journal.
8 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO,
OUR HISTORY—FOURTH DECADE — 1870-
1880.
“ ACARCE feeling we ascend the gently ris-
ing hill of time.” To-day we pause in
this ascent and backward look to the fourth
decade of our Alma Mater.
It is February, 1877, and alone in a back
room, third floor, Dove street, facing the east,
we stand in the evening, looking out upon the
gas-lit city. The wind from the frozen north
dashes the snow against the pane. We have no
light in the room, preferring to drown our lone-
someness in the feeble rays which steal in from
the moon, nearly hidden by wintry clouds.
To-morrow we are to enter the Albany Normal
School, and life forever after is to be directed in
channels of whose beginnings we do not even
form dim conceptions, Like our fellow. stu-
dent from near the St. Lawrence, we have ideas
of our own,
We have taught school a few times,
and are in blissful ignorance of the cold baths
already awaiting us at the hand of the genial pro-
fessor of mathematics, who jingles the system of
notation in such a manner as to produce in the
victim results akin to those caused by Mark
Twain’s railway conductor, who punched with
care, punched in the presence of the passenger.
We have no presentiment of the scorching
blasts that are to burn and blow away nearly all
our preconceived ideas of the English language.
We are not prepared for the carefully devised
arrangements for extracting the nonsense and
treasured conceits from the ambitious Junior First.
But we survived. We became a pattern of
meekness.
The lapse of time is necessary to exhibit the
full benefits of a course of training, ‘The master-
pieces of art cannot be judged at close range,
and David Page and his successors established
and maintained in the Albany Normal School, if
not the perfection of the art of teaching, at least
as near an approach to it as was probably to be
found in America.
During this decade, Dr. Joseph Alden stamped
his impress upon the school.
A man of the
broadest culture, he sought to furnish, as far as
possible, the training afforded by the study of
other languages, while confining the student to
his mother tongue. The courses in thought
analysis, study of figures, use of synonyms, ac-
quirement of style, evolution of ideas, and the
many features of language study as then taught,
afforded a most excellent drill ; while the prun-
ing knife applied to all literary productions nip-
ped in the bud our aspirations for literary fame.
Dr. Alden was a severe critic, with but few
superiors. We cannot forget the majestic pre-
sence and severe dignity which this venerable
man presented to his students, and yet few per-
sons had a keener appreciation of wit, A case
in point occurred during a recitation in mental
philosophy. The doctor was more abrupt than
His questions were thrown
out to test the student’s power of thought, rather
than his knowledge of the text ; and having pro-
usual that morning.
pounded some particularly knotty point, he called
upon the staid Mr. Johnson, “Well, Johnson,
what can you say about this?” Whereupon, Mr,
Johnson, carefully feeling for an idea, began to
talk about as near the question as the Wilson
tariff bill is now to the needs of the American
people. The doctor listened but a moment to
the circumlocution of the gentleman, and broke
in upon him with great impatience about as fol-
lows: “Johnson, why in the name of common
sense do you persist in putting the cart before
the mule?’ “Because,” was the reply, “it. is
the safest place for it.” The severity of the doc-
tor’s face gave place to a broad smile, and amid
the laughter of the class he quietly marked 10
upon his class-book opposite Johnson’s name,
and dismissed the subject.
The faculty of the Normal School in those
days could have desired no greater popularity
with their students. Natural as it is for students
to honor worthy teachers, and to love the insti-
tution with which they are connected, yet the
loyalty of the students of the fourth decade to
the old school was deep, and their love for their
teachers sincere and touching.
Noble Professor St. John, so soon called to a
higher life, made the department of Physics and
Chemistry an inspiration. He was so deeply at-
tached to his work that he found everywhere an
open book to illustrate his teachings. His stu-
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dents will ever treasure in memory the delightful
excursions which he led us to the fields, the fac-
tory, the gas-works, and even to the limestone
ledges and caves of Schoharie county. He was
ever the helping friend and trusted adviser.
Much as we should like to render a word of
tribute to each member of the faculty as we knew
it, yet space will not permit. It may be well for
the present generation to know that Prof. Husted
was young and facetious in those days. Prof.
Jones was, upon rare occasions, called severe.
Miss Stoneman occasionally gave evidence of
being a trifle strong minded. Miss McClelland
was charged with having frozen a poor junior
stiff for attempting to enlighten her upon the
mysteries of the English subjunctive. Miss Hyde
was sometimes called exacting, especially in Ge-
ometry. Miss Farrand allowed no nonsense.
Miss Bishop was demure, but she sometimes for-
got that in teaching elocution, Miss Seaman was
a veritable Shaksperian character, while dear
Mrs Kelley was reported to have actually cracked
a joke in the presence of the teachers of the
Model School. In this connection, we must not
forget Prof. Marsh, who made us sing who had
never sung before, and who have never sung
since.
The Normal Literary Union and the Inde-
pendent Order of Normals were strong rival so-
cieties in those days, and the weekly bulletin
boards were eagerly scanned to see what was to
be the order of the next meetings. No less
flourishing was the Philomathean Society of
ladies.
Looking back through the perspective of fif-
teen years to our departure from the Albany Nor-
mal School we can say that time has not lessened
our estimate of its work. As one of the great
pioneer institutions of its kind, it was a powerful
demonstration of the value of thorough training
for teachers. It has ever been very conserva-
tive, and perhaps at no period of its history has
the science of teaching been more in need of con-
servatism than during the decade in question.
The air was full of newly discovered methods of
instruction, It seemed as though every institute
instructor, every educational journal, and nearly
all training schools were on the warpath flourish-
ing some wonderful device for teaching the
young idea how to shoot. The term psychol-
ogy was tossed about as suggesting something
new, strange, and marvellous. During all this
uproar the “Old Normal” kept on in the even
tenor of its way, holding its students to the
grindstone, and recognizing no method that did
not include, as an absolute requisite on the part
of the teacher, thorough scholarship, eternal vigi-
lance, and an enthusiastic devotion to the pro-
fession of teaching.
It recognized the individuality of the teacher
and the pupil, and always considered the acquire-
ment of mental strength the paramount object
of study. Painstaking, accurate work, honest,
persistent application, and clean-cut analysis,
were exacted of its students, and no method was
suggested that did not embody these essentials.
The fourth decade nearly finished the career
of the school in the Lodge street building, with
its plain rooms, tedious stairs, and noisy sur-
roundings, It was soon to occupy nobler halls,
and claim more aristocratic surroundings. Still
methinks
The old to us seems dearer than the new ;
*Twas there we battles fought with comrades true,
And victories gained, and hard fields won ;
*Twas there we said “God speed” when all was done.
We hail the new, rejoicing in its fame,
And yet, it cannot be to us the same
‘As was the dear old place we knew so well.
Let others of the new her glory tell.
Wits D. Graves, "79.
Delhi, N. ¥.
A QUERY AND ITS ANSWER.
HALL we gather at commencement,
Where bright feet before have trod,
Where the crystal tide forever
Mirrors each, when green the sod?
We shall reach the shining river,
Then lay every burden down,
For the weary there is rest,
E’en without a cap and gown.
Soon will come the happy day,
Soon our student life will cease,
When with quiv’ring hands we clasp
Prized sheepskins and rest in peace.
F. A. Morrissry, ’94.
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THE RELATION OF PHYSICAL TRAINING
TO MENTAL GROWTH.
‘HE progressive pedagogue of to-day is alert
to discover any means by which he may
arouse the faculties of the mind. He studies the
mind asa whole and in parts; he attempts to
formulate the laws that govern the mind under
every existing condition, thus endeavoring to
secure the ideal education, In the pedagogical
profession is not the maximum of attention given
to the mind itself, with no care for its warden —
the body?
According to the philosopher Locke, the idea
of education is “‘a sound mind in a sound body.”
The training of the body was an essential
feature of the ancient Greek and Roman educa-
tion. The wise solon placed physical and intel-
lectual training on the same footing. Plato
conceded the value of gymnastics, Aristotle
includes gymnastics among the elements of in-
struction, and Juvenal originates the the saying,
“a sound mind in a sound body.”
The prevailing opinion among the early Greek
educators was in favor of physical training not
as an end but as a means of aiding mental and
moral growth,
In the Athenian republic the education of the
body received the first attention. So important
a factor of education did the people consider
physical training that the State provided for the
direction of the gymnasia.
The early Romans followed the ideas of the
Greek educators, adopting at first in their system
of education little more than physical and moral
training, later dividing time equally between
mental and physical training.
The brilliant minds of the Greek and Roman
scholars of this period furnish sufficient proof of
the correctness of their views regarding the train-
ing of the body.
The history of education furnishes a forcible
comment on the close relation between the phy-
sical and the mental development in citing the
fact that the intellectual asceticism of the middle
ages was accompanied by physical asceticism.
During this epoch of civilization, when the Bible
was the only book permitted, the body was
treated as an enemy, to be punished by fasting
and injuries to the flesh. During the Renais-
sance the same views regarding the dependence
of mental growth upon physical training obtained.
Rabelais emphasizes the necessity of physical ex-
ercises by making his imaginary pupil exercise
his body and mind in the same proportion.
Comenius, the first evangelist of modern peda-
gogy, gives physical exercises a place in his cur-
riculum of education.
Mr. Herbert Spencer complains that “our
modern education is too wholly intellectual,
neglecting the body.”
Were it not for stupefying the mind, the physi-
cal condition of the body demands some care
from the teaching profession.
The slouching attitude and shambling gait of
the majority of the growing youth indicate that
something is radically wrong with this part of the
school training. Only when the boy forgets
himself in the chase for the ball does he know
how to carry himself erect. His mind responds
to the increased activity of the body, and the
boy on the field is no kin to the listless pupil of
the school room.
There is no one who denies the necessity of
physical training as a promoter of health, also,
that a healthy body makes a healthy mind; but
how many schoolmasters fail to devote time to
some simple regime of gynmastics that shall bene-
fit the pupil?
When we reflect that those educators, whose
principles we follow, believed that better devel-
opment of the mind can be secured through the
training of the body, the care of the body be-
comes doubly important.
Though there are those among the teaching
profession who consider physical training a loss
of time, and the acquirement of graceful manners
an effeminate accomplishment, the teacher does
not fail in his professional work if he makes the
awkward boy forget his hands, shows him how to
walk with easy manner, and to sit without loung-
ing.
If the possession of pleasing manners were the
end, the simple gymnastics and marching, neces-
sary to secure these manners, might, with some
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reason, be condemned. These exercises, how-
ever, arouse the sluggish mind and seem to infuse
new life into the dormant body.
Let him who doubts make the test. After a
fifteen minutes’ drill in gymnastics, call the reading
class — the readiness with which an erect position
is assumed, the energy and expression displayed
in the-reading, the unusual ease and rapidity in
recognizing the words, indicate an arousing of
the mental faculties. Does not this exercise
demonstrate to the skeptic that the theory of the
relation between physical training and mental
growth is not an imaginary one?
Our school regulations should call for a system
of physical training, and careful attention should
be given to the physical development of the boys
and girls. Excellent training in this line is pro-
vided in some schools, and the question of how
best to carry on the work should be one of pro-
fessional interest. The utility and value of phy-
sical training cannot be disputed, and a thorough
trial of its ability to stimulate the mental facul-
ties will be conclusive.
H. B. P. ’94.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE CHAPTER OF THE
AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION.
NE of the most instructive and entertaining
societies in connection with the College is
the chapter of the Agassiz Association. It was
organized this year by the teachers and students
interested in scientific study and investigation.
Although less than five months old it has real-
ized the ideals of the most sanguine. ‘That it is
a necessary and important accessory to the work
in College is recognized by every member.
The meetings are held every two weeks. Mem-
bers who have pursued a special line of scientific
work address the meeting, giving the society the
benefit of their personal observation and re-
search, treating the subject illustratively when
practicable.
The address is followed by a discussion led by
the speaker, and ideas are freely advanced and
exchanged.
The value of this line of work to a lover of
nature cannot be overestimated, especially to
those who expect to inspire a love for nature and
awaken and direct the spirit of inquiry in the
minds of others.
We are occasionally entertained by an invited
speaker —a specialist in some line of scientific
work,
We give below the topics which have been
considered and the speakers at the several meet-
ings. Space forbids details.
At the first meeting, February 9, C. A. Wood-
ard entertained the society with an interesting
and instructive talk on Cocoons, illustrating it
with specimens, showing different kinds, their
habits, ete.
At the next meeting, February 23, Geo. W.
Gates read an instructive paper on Bacteria
Tuberculosis, illustrated with microscopic exam-
ination of specimens. He also showed the pro-
cess of mounting specimens, preparatory to
microscopical examination.
Prof, Wetmore entertained the society on March
9 with a talk on optical projections, showing how
they were adapted to different kinds of work.
With his new instrument he gave some fine
projections, illustrating its usefulness in the dif-
ferent departments of the natural sciences.
An open meeting was held on April 6, and
was addressed by Sergt. A. F. Sims of the Albany
station of the Weather Bureau on “Weather
Forecasts.” Sergt. Sims has been closely iden-
tified with the development and advancement of
the Weather Bureau Service. He treated the
subject in a very concise and comprehensive
manner.
On April 20 the meeting was conducted by
Miss Julia Smith and Miss Wellhauser, who gave
the society an idea of the work accomplished
during the previous quarter in their microscopy
class under the direction of Miss Russell.
Miss Smith first read a paper on “How to
Make Permanent Mounts,” and constructed a
slide before the society as an illustration of her
various points. Miss Smith outlined very clearly
the steps to be taken.
First : The dehydration of the specimens (to
prevent cloudiness), by soaking in alcohol.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO,
Second: The “‘clearing” of the specimen by
placing it in oil of cloves, or any other substance
which drives out the alcohol.
Third: The mounting. This is done by plac-
ing upon the glass slide, which has been carefully
marked to show the exact center and which is
perfectly dry, a drop of Canada balsam. The
specimen is then placed upon the balsam and
exactly over the center of the slide.
By means of a forceps, a round cover glass,
perfectly clean and dry, is gently lowered to
position over the specimen, and exactly centered.
She then briefly outlined other methods of
mounting, stating the value of each, and also
spoke of the hardening, sectioning and staining
of vegetable and animal tissues.
Miss Wellhauser then read a paper describing
the different parts of the microscope and their
use; the necessity of taking good care of the
microscope, and of the desirability when pur-
chasing of selecting a good, substantial one.
She then exhibited under the microscope some
of the slides which the class had made and for
which the members deserve commendation on
account of the neatness and accuracy of their
work,
Among the specimens shown were mounts of
pollen grains, sections of stems and leaves, the
antennee and wing scales of a moth, and sections
of the crystalline lens of the eye.
PROF. BELDING’S RECITAL,
ATURDAY, P. M., at the First Reformed
Church, Prof. S. B. Belding favored the
faculty and students of the Normal college with
his fourteenth complimentary organrecital. Prof.
Belding’s recitals are always looked forward to
as among the choicest entertainments of the
year, and this one was especially enjoyed by the
well-filled galleries.
Though the selections were long and classical
they were well appreciated as the perfect stillness
and hearty applause indicated.
The solos by Mrs Eva Gardner Coleman were
especially enjoyed, exhibiting a remarkable sweet-
ness and flexibility of voice.
PROGRAM.
PRretupE — B Minor. a Back
Mancur Reticteuse. . aie Alex. Guilmant
(Founded on one of Handel's choruses)
Fanraste (Maritana).... Wm. Vincent Wallace
Vonrsriex (Otho Visconti)... .... Frederic Grant Gleason
uae ie “Gently fall the shadows gray”... Newcomd
6 “Sing, Smile, Slumber”... + Gounod
Mrs Eva GARDNER COLEMAN.
Granp Orrerrome, de St. Cecile, Op. 9, No.3.. Batiste
FANTAIsIE De Concer’, ‘O Sanctissima”........ Lux
a Nocrurne, Op, 9. No.2. . Chopin
6 SPRING SONG...-s0065 ++ . Cade
Overture, “Poet and Peasant ”.... . Suppe
JUNIOR CLASS ELECTION.
At a recent meeting of the class of ’95 the fol-
lowing officers were elected :
President,....... Mr Charles M. Frost,
Vice-President .. Miss Genevieve Pratt.
Secretary. . Miss Marie M. Van Arsdale.
Treasurer. . Mr M. Randolph Spicer.
White and gold have been chosen as class
colors, a committee appointed to arrange for a
class yell, and active work is being done in
preparation for a part in the commencement
festivities.
PROGRAM.
Tuesday, June 26.
3P.M.
College Commencement at Harmanus Bleecker Hall,
Washington Avenue.
8 P.M.
Inauguration of the Semi-centennial Celebration at
Harmanus Bleecker Hall — Hon. James F. Crooker,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, presiding.
ADDRESS,
President D. H. Cochran, LL. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
ADDRESS, Principal Oliver Avery, A. M.
Appress, Governor Roswell P. Flower.
ADDRESS, Chancellor Anson J. Upson.
Chancellor University of the State of New York.
Wednesday, June 27.
AP STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
9A. M.
Prayer, Rev. Frank D. Abrams, 69, Hancock, N. ¥
Appress, Wm. F. Phelps, A. M., ’43, St. Paul, Minn.
President of the Alumni Association.
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ADDRESS, Wm. J. Milne, Ph. D., LL. D.
President New York State Normal College.
COMMEMORATIVE PoEM,
Mrs Amelia Daley Alden, ’68, New York city.
2:30 P.M.
Hducational Conference.
Rev. Daniel S. Gregory, D. D., LL.
The New Watchword of Progress,
Rev. Daniel S. Gregory, D. D., LL. D.,'s6, New
York city.
Education and Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents,
C. W. Manchester, ’75, Randall’s Island, N. Y.
The Teacher a Moral Factor,
H. C. Van Lien, Pd. M., 81, West New Brighton,
N.Y.
‘The Old School and the New,
Sherman Williams, ’71, Glens Falls, N. Y.
Benefits of Professional Study to the Teacher,
Wm. M. Griffin, A. M., ’73, Chicago, Tl.
Discussion of the papers read.
D., '50, presiding.
8 P.M.
Reception by President and Mrs Milne, and Social
Reunion at the State armory, Washington avenue.
Recitations by Miss Jean Stewart Brown, '77, New
York city, and Miss J. Anne Sheridan, ’78, River Falls,
Wis.
Thursday, June 28.
oA.M.
Business Meeting.
9:30 A. M.
Rev. Lewis B. Twitchell, ’91, Madison, Me.
HISTORICAL ADDRESS,
Hon. Emerson W. Keyes, ’48, Brooklyn, N. Y.
PRAYER,
Necrotocy,
Miss Kate Stoneman, ’66, Albany, N. Y.
Memortat TaBLers,
Rev. Milford H. Smith, Mechanicville, N. Y.
Five Minute Apprusses BY ,
Hon. D. E. Whitmore, ’46, Marathon, N. Y.
Levi Cass, A. M., ’49, Albany, N. Y.
Rev. Andrew Parsons, ’50, Catskill, N. Y.
John W. Cole, ’s6, Troy, N. Y.
Hon. J. W. McNamara, '58, Albany, N. Y.
H. L. Taylor, Ph. D., ’79, Canandaigua, N. Y.
Eugene Beach, M. D., ’s6, Gloversville, N. Y.
Rev, L, A. Bigelow, ’69, Proctor, Vt.
Sumner C. Webb, M. D., ’4s, Homer, N. Y.
Judge A. P, Smith, ’53, Cortland, N. Y.
W. G. Bronson, M. D., '53, Noroton Heights,
Conn., and others.
2:30 P, M.
Darwin G, Easton, M. D., LL. D., presiding.
Appzss, Religion and the Schools,
Rev. George F. Greene, M. A., '76, Granford, N. Y.
Appress, Fifty Years’ Growth in Science,
LeRoy C. Cooley, A. M., Ph. D., ’53, Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.
Appress, Normal School Influences,
Charles H. Peck, A. M., ’s2, Albany, N. Y.
Apress, Educational Journalism,
Amos M. Kellogg, A. M., ’51, New York city.
7P.M.
Banquet.
‘The meetings of Wednesday and Thursday, both A.
and p. m., except the class reunions, will be held in the
college chapel; the Wednesday evening reception in the
State armory, corner Washington avenue and Lark street.
ECHOES.
ARM WEATHER.
Too pleasant to study.
Who's going to graduate?
Commencement not far distant.
The societies are hustling with their programmes.
From the “bugging expeditions” we judge 129 will
have several more inmates before June 26 than it has at
the present writing.
An entertainment was given by the camera club at
the college, Wednesday evening, April 25.
Several members of the graduating class have already
secured positions, and we hope there are more to fol-
low.
As a class memento the ’94’s have a pin in the shape
of a flag, enameled in blue and gold, bearing “S. N.
©. '94.”
We would advise all who have obtained positions to
first inquire “how much ground the school covers.”
Arbor day was observed with appropriate exercises in
the college and each department of the Model school.
A party of students, numbering about twenty, took a
pleasant trip to Forbes Manor Wednesday afternoon,
April 25.
A small party made a visit to the arsenal Friday,
May 4.
Commencement music is being eagerly practiced,
with great effort to make it a success.
We are hearing of many alumni who are coming to
the grand reunion in June.
Three of the science teachers have recently taken
their classes to Pine Hills on botanical and zoological
tours.
The Delta Omegas have decided to have their closing
Saturday evening, June 23.
14 THE NORMAL
COLLEGE ECHO.
PERSONALS.
ISS DAISY VAN DERLIP, of Watkins, was a
guest of friends at the college Wednesday, April 11.
Dr Milne attended the Teachers’ Institute at Sara-
toga, Wednesday, April rr.
Prof, Evans, of Worcester, N. Y., visited the college
Wednesday, April 18.
Supt. Caswell, of Little Falls, was a guest at the col-
lege Thursday, April 19.
E. H. Chapin, of Mechanicville, made a hasty call at
the college Monday, April 23.
Miss Brisbin, of Saratoga, called at the college Thurs-
day, April 19.
Dr Milne was absent from college April 26 and 27,
in attendance at an institute at Babylon, L. 1.
Prof. N. F. Woodhull, of the training college of New
York city, visited our college Monday, April 30.
Gen. John F, Rathbone, of Albany, was a guest at
the college Friday, April 20.
Hon, Palmer M. Wood, of Herkimer, visited the col-
lege recently.
Mrs Field and Mrs Hinman were guests of Miss
Stone Thursday, April 26.
Prof. Capen, of the New Paltz Normal School, was
recently seen at the college.
Miss Jennie D. Horton, of Denver, a former student
of the institution, visited the college Wednesday, May 9.
Mr Teller, President of the Board of Education, at
Unadilla, N. Y., visited the college Tuesday, May 8.
Prest. Milne spent several days in Potsdam, at the
meeting of Normal school principals of this State.
Prof. Harris, an entomologist from Webster, N. Y.,
visited the science department Monday, May 14.
Prof. James A. Estee, Supt. of Schools at Glovers-
ville, called at the college Saturday, May 6.
ALUMNI NOTES.
‘gr. | J ISSES EUGENIA BURKE and Mary Driscoll
visited the college Friday, May 11.
193. Miss Clara Warren was seen at the college Thurs-
day, April 19.
Mr Burton Parson, who for the past year and a half
has been teaching at Cambridge, N. Y., has ac-
cepteda position as professor of mathematics in
the Oneida High School, and will begin his
labors next September.
Miss Jessie Owen was welcomed by her old friends
at the college Wednesday, May 2.
Prin. R. H. Bellows, of Fort Plain, visited the col-
lege Friday, May 11.
Prof. M. E. Newbury, of Johnstown, was shaking
hands with old friends and acquaintances in Al-
bany Saturday, May 12.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
He you seen the class pins of ’94?
Mr Hallenbeck visited this department Thursday,
May to.
Miss Hungerford is now very often seen in the High
School.
‘The two classes in zoology, taught by Miss Hasbrouck
and Miss Tuthill, went on a zoological expedition
Wednesday, May 9, with successful results.
The Adelphoi Literary Society gave their first public
Friday, May rt. The programme consisted of a mock
trial, which was original with the participants. They
received much applause for their creditable acting.
Mr J.C. Bogardus spent Sunday, May 13, with Mr
Kilpatrick of Union,
Mr Freeman's astronomy class of last term visited
the Dudley Observatory Monday evening, May 14.
The occasion was greatly enjoyed by all who availed
themselves of the opportunity.
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
CHANGE has been made in the curriculum at
Syracuse University by crowding all the required
work into the first two years and leaving the last two to
be filled out with electives.
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has
received a gift of $25,000.
Dr F. A. Cook, ethnologist of the Perry expedition,
is to be the leader of a party of college students who are
to make an Arctic trip this Summer. The students are
to be selected from the leading universities of the coun-
try and will sail in June.
Harvard clubs all over the country will unite in com-
memorating Pres. Eliot's 25th anniversary as president
of Harvard by presenting him with a gold medal at the
alumni dinner on commencement day.
The Stinnecke scholarship of Princeton is the largest
given by any American institution of learning. It
amounts to $1,500, and is given for excellence in Latin
and Greek. [Zz.
Five students and twelve instructors comprise the
smallest university in the world, located at Africa.
A course in scientific German will be given next se-
mester at Leland Stanford University.
Radcliffe College (formerly known as Harvard An-
nex) has over $200,000 of productive funds.
University of Kansas and University of Nebraska are
to have a joint debate soon.
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A bill to license all college graduates as teachers with-
out examination, died in the committee on public edu-
cation in the assembly.
University College, London, announces a practical
course of instruction in psycho-physiology for the Easter
term.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
HE REV. FATHER SYLVESTER MALONE
of Brooklyn, who has been elected a member of
the Board of Regents, will be 73 years of age on the
roth of May. He came to this country from Ireland
fifty-six years ago.
The New York State Teachers’ Association will hold
its next meeting at Saratoga Springs July 9-10-11.
An American patriotic salute has been suggested by
Col. Geo. T. Balch of New York. The salute is as
follows: We give our Heads and our Hearts to God
and our Country! Our County! Our Language! Our
Flag!
Ali Pacha Bey, nominal ruler of Tunis, has issued a
decree creating a eycée (classical college) modelled after
those of France. Ex.
EXCHANGES.
HE VERSE in the April number of the University
Herald is of an unusually high order.
The Living Stone, published by the students of Living-
stone College, Salisbury, N. C., has reached us for the
first time this week. It is well up to the times and con-
tains many good things.
“ A trip to Europe,” now running in the Pacific Wave.
deals with an extremely hackneyed subject in an inter-
esting style.
The Lducational Gazette still continues to be a joy.
The teacher who cannot get good points for Arbor and
Decoration Day is indeed hard to suit.
The Warren School Revise, though somewhat local in
character, evidently lives up to the purpose of its founders.
If 1993 fulfills all the expectations of the imaginative
writers in our exchange list —what a great year it will be,
Congratulations and good wishes to the students of
Public School r4, Rochester, who edit the Vigilant.
‘The High School Star has evidently grown thin during
its long absence. The cover this month is many sizes
too large and the printing also is not much improved
from last month.
A Junior wrote home to his father— “ Dear Dadd:
It costs a good deal to live here,
Please send some more money.” He soon got a check—
A check on his college career.
— Yale Record.
We acknowledge the receipt of several other new
exchanges — among them. ihe College Forum, The
Monthly Visitor, The Spectator, The Senecan.
SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE.
Scribner’s Magazine for May opens with an article of unusual
importance, entitled * Some Episodes of Mountaineering,” by Ed~
win Lord Weeks, describing some of his own stirring adventures
while mountain-climbing in the Alps. With illustrations by his
own hand, equally skillful as a picturesque writer and as an artist,
he has in this article given a reality to Alpine mountain-climbin
that no previous popular article has given. | Captain John ee
Bourke, U.S. A., the Indian fighter, who has long been stationed
in Texas, has written the story of one of the most romantic regions
inour country —the Mexican border along the Rio Grande. Glaree
Sidney Darridge has written an article on ‘* Working Girls’ Clubs”
in New York, which is one of the best statements possible in small
compass of the actual machinery and organizations of these excel-
lent clubs which have passed beyond the stage of social experi-
ments and are a positive force for good
A short article on “A New Portrait of Franklin,” by Paul
Teicester Ford, reveals much of the humorous side of the great
man’s nature. ‘Other illustrated articles are “he Provincials,” bj
Octan Thauet ; “Climbing for White Goats,” and Philip Gilbert
Hammerton’s brief article on Jules Muenier, whose painting * A
Corner in.a Market,”’ serves as a frontispiece for the number
‘The fiction includes “That Good May Come,” by Edith Wharton,
and installments of the serials by George W. Cable and William
Henry Bishop. Essays on the ‘*Ethics of Democracy” and
“Womanliness as a Profession,” are both of umusual significance
at the present time.
BOOK-REVIEWS.
First Lessons in Our Country’s History. By WittiAm
Swinton. New York: American Book Company. Price,
48 cents.
A well prepared, neatiy arranged, and well printed little volume,
prepared as a class book to meet the wants of the lower grades.
he salient points of our country’s history are brought into the
foreground, many unnecessary details being omitted. Simplicity
and good sense are combined with good effect in the matter given,
The work is so well arranged that it relates the history of America
from its discovery to the present day. The chapters are divided
into distinct paragraphs, with questions in the margin, while maps,
portraits and illustrations, add interest and value to the work. We
take pleasure in noticing this work, valuable at the same time for
brevity and excellent quality of material.
Inductive Studies in English Grammar. By HARPER
& Burerss, New York: American Book Company.
Price, 4o cents.
‘This revised volume of ‘Inductive Studies" has been prepared
by these well-known text book authors with the idea that alarge
proportion of the failures in Latin in our high schools is due to a
{acit of practical mastery of English grammar. By a eolentific and
thought-inspiring method of presenting the subject of grammar. by
reducing the number of facts presented to the few which are abso-
lutely essential, by emphasis on important points, and by adopting
the terminology and method of presentation more closely to that
used in German and Latin grammars, the authors have attempted
to overcome the common errors in the presentation of the subject,
Tn connection with the text bool the pupils are to use note-books
for recording the results of their observations. The plan of the
work is a new one, and the ideas are excellently carried out. Itis
a book deserving more than a passing notice.
Hume's Treatise of Morals. With introduction by
Jams H. Hystop, Ph. D. Boston, Mass,: Ginn &
Company.
‘This work is the initial volume of an ethical series, the second of
the set and the prospectus of the series will be found in last month’s
Ecuo.
Hume, the writer whose works paint the religious, semi-philoso-
nical skeptic and whose unpremised arguments have sometimes
improperly been taken as the basis of a philosophical school pre-
sents a worthy subject for so well-fitted a critic as Dr. Hyslop.
‘The introduction gives a clearer idea of Hume and the personality
of his philosophy than can be obtained anywhere in the same com-
pass. Clear, concise statements, impartial judgment and good
sense are the features we commend
“The Treatise of the Passions” in
nection with ‘The Treatise on Morals,
it is also to be found in con
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