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ALBANY, N. Y., SEPTEMBER, 1892 No. 2
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ALBANY, N. ¥., SEPTEMBER, 1802.
VACATION is past. College has opened.
. The time for work, for thought and for
study has already come. The cycle of time
has brought another year before us. The
rest, the pleasures of the summer have fitted
us to take up our work anew. They have
prepared us for the enjoyments and benefits
which are derived from the instruction received
and the application of our minds for the
gaining of knowledge. In a great measure
the year will be what we resolve it shall be.
The results will depend far more than we
realize upon the persistency and determination
with which we endeavor to carry out our
plans.
Joy and happiness beamed from the counte-
nances of all as greetings were extended to
each other at the opening of college. It was
an indication that pleasure was felt at meeting,
that the anticipations of vacation had been
fully realized, that readiness for school duties
was felt by all, There is an enjoyment which
comes from the associations in college life
which is most delightful. This is experienced
and manifested by the greater number of
students; so our expressions are but a’natural
consequence after a period of separation.
We miss the many familiar faces of last
year’s graduates. Ere this number of the
Ecuo reaches them they will be filling their
various positions in the different parts of the
state. The excellent record the class made
in recitations and in teaching is, in itself, a
guaranty of the success with which they will
meet in the year to come, We understand
a large number of the class have secured very
desirable positions. We feel assured they
will bring honor and credit to our institution.
The Ecuo wishes them a hearty and cordial
God-speed.
There are about eighty students in the
entering class, Among this number are seven
who are graduates from different colleges and
universities. Ten are taking the kindergarten
course; twenty-five the classical, and thirty-
five the English, This shows a decided
increase, in proportion to the number of
students, in the classical department over last
year. The Ecuo extends greeting to the class
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individually and collectively and hopes their
connection with the college may, in every
respect, be pleasant and enjoyable. We
desire them to become interested in our paper
and invite them to send in literary articles or
any items of interest for publication.
The celerity of the registration of the
entering students and consultation with the
others; the rapidity with which the classes
were formed and work begun, show what can
be accomplished under well directed, method-
ical planning and guidance. The order with
which recitations were carried on the day
after the opening of college was quite marked.
This should teach us the desirability of good
executive ability in the school room, so that
unnecessary time may not be wasted at the
beginning of each term and year in the classi-
fying of students and arrangement of classes.
We hope the students will bear in mind
that as the success of our paper, from a
financial standpoint, depends largely upon the
advertisements, they should trade with those
firms whose business cards are found within
It is only in this way that our
advertising columns can be kept filled.
Already some of the business houses have
noted an increase of trade from the students.
We hope this will continue.
our covers.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
EORGE WILLIAM CURTIS died at his
home in Staten Island on the thirty-first
day of August, 1892. Because of the influence
which he wielded in American literature and
politics, his death called forth an unbroken
chorus of appreciation throughout the United
States.
The conspicuous characteristic of Mr. Cur-
tis’ spoken, as of his written style was grace —
grace and fastidious refinement. The culture
of Mr. Curtis was evident in every sentence
that he wrote or uttered in public or private.
He was universally recognized as the highest
type of American citizenship. He never spoke
without having something to say and he never
spoke without impressing his hearers with the
consciousness that behind and above the ora-
tor, who was such a master of his art, there
His con-
science was as scrupulous as his taste was
fastidious, It was the ideal behavior that he
strove for, and that he attained.
His death removes a fascinating personality
and closes the record of a blameless life. He
was gifted with insight to read, and with
genius to tell the secrets of Nature’s heart
and of the heart of the humanity that he loved,
that loves him, and will keep his name and
fame forever enshrined in literature.
was the self-respectful gentleman.
THE IMAGINATIVE IN LITERATURE.
“ Hi! diddle-diddle, the cat’s in the fiddle,
‘The cow jumped over the moon;
‘The little dog laughed to see such a sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.”
GO lisp the baby voices of a little boy and
wee girl as they sit out in the moonlight,
on the old doorstep, in that favored after sup-
perhour, To the little mind that every day dis-
covers a hundred new things, there is no
absurdity in a cat in a fiddle. There she sits,
picking at the strings with her claws, and
now, yes, just this minute, as a dark cloud
floats over the night’s bright disk, they are
sure ’tis the cow jumping over the moon.
Old Towser as surely throws back his head
and ‘laughs to see such a sport;” and the
dish — why, that is the old flowing blue gravy
boat of grandmother's so carefully kept on the
top shelf of the china closet, for that has four real
legs and a twist in the handle just to hold the
spoon; and when no one is looking but the
children, it grasps the spoon, takes to its china
heels, and dashes away, with the laughing dog
in full pursuit, and both run afoul of the
jumping cow and are lost forever in a hole in
the moon. At the close of this exciting chase
comes mother to carry the babes to bed, and
as she tucks them into the crib, fancy still fills
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the little brains, changing only to the finer
picture as she sings —
“ The big stars are the sheep,
The little stars are the lambs above,
And the white moon shepherd is watching in love,
Sleep, baby, sleep.”
A year or two more and the children are
going to school. Now, through wise teacher
and wise mother, they make the acquaintance of
Little Red Riding Hood and Jack of bean-
stalk fame. With a red shawl draped about
her and mother’s market basket on her arm,
Mary goes through the woods to grand-
mother’s, and it makes no difference in the
reality that the woods are only currant bushes
and ‘‘grandmother’s,” a house of corn-stalks in
the corner of the garden, Any vine-grown
tree answers Jack for a bean-stalk and the
giant at the top is dispatched with a pocket-
knife.
A boy, taller grown, lies at full length in
the broad window seat, head supported in his
hands and a book before him which catches
the last light of the setting sun. Eking out
the fading light by the glow of the hearth sits
a girl also engrossed ina book. Useless, quite
useless, to speak to either; they cannot hear.
They are present only in seeming. In truth,
he wanders alone on a far-off island, which no
foot but his has ever trod, and now, only just
now, has discovered the footprint in the sand
and will not rest till Friday himselr is found
and rescued. She wanders with ‘‘Alice in
Wonderland,” and together they search forthe
white queen and think to find her behind every
rose and lily.
A youth and maiden grown, but still fancy
holdsitssway. ‘‘ Robinson Crusoe” long since
escaped from the island and now our youth
follows the Spy, with a pack on his back, into
the British lines and back unharmed to his
fortress in the Catskills. Our maiden dwells
for the hour in great London with Little Nell,
knows all the curios in her grandfather’s shop
and finally follows her through the fair
country side to weep at last as she is laid to
rest under the flowers that were such a strange
delight to her,
Now merging into manhood and woman-
hood the whole realm of books is theirs.
Boccaccio, Dante, Shakespere, Milton, Thack-
eray, Hawthorne; the great imaginations of
all lands and all ages cast their fancies before
them, and these never pale. He, when a man
of business, comes wearied at night to find
rest and forget care in following the fortunes
of the ‘Merchant of Venice” or wandering with
“Virgil” in lower shades. She, at the end of
the day, rehearses the marvelous tales to the
boys and girls growing up about her in the
same sweet ways of fancy which she trod.
Again the setting sun casts its level beams
over the scene; but ‘tis the setting sun of life.
In the chimney corner, bent with age and
crowned with its white glory, we see the last
of these whose happy lives we've traced.
More than ever dwells the mind on things
unseen, ‘and the twelve gates were twelve
pearls, every several gate was of one pearl,
and the street of the city was pure gold, as it
were transparent glass,” and gently glide
the lives into the beyond where the imagined
becomes the real and larger fancies fill the
larger mind.
Whatever is introduced into the school
curriculum or eliminated therefrom, reading
is there first, last and always. And whatever
may or may not be used after leaving school,
reading will never be laid aside. People who
learn to read willread. Shall the schools teach
what to read and so make possible such lives
as have just been sketched, or shall they teach
simply how and leave the what to uncultivated
individual taste? What such taste is likely to
be is disclosed by an examination of the books
at any news-stand. There are those who
assert that the printing press is a curse rather
than a blessing; that the Bible and wholesome
books published are far outnumbered by those
of pernicious influence. Whether or no this
be true, the fact that so much literary trash
is produced and read simply shows the
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demand of the human mind for the imagina-
tive, the natural yearning for something
outside the common surroundings; for the
new, the novel, the unreal even. To make it
impossible for this yearning to be satisfied
with husks, to so feed it with true food that
it may never even know the taste of the husks,
is one of the possibilities of a teacher. The
cultivation of good literary taste has long
been supposed to be the business of the high
school and college, if indeed it has really been
considered the chief business of any school,
but it were as sensible to begin to care for the
physical body at fifteen or twenty and expect
any right development, To begin this culti-
vation with the first reading, where it certainly
must be begun to be effective, means a change
in the class of reading matter provided in
most schools even yet. The fairy tale, the
fable and story must take the place of the ‘I
go up,” ‘‘You go down” primers, and be
followed by the novel, the narrative and
dramatic in prose and verse. And much more
time must be allotted to reading in the higher
grades than is at present accorded. But, it
may be argued, there is enough that is true to
be learned without children wasting their time
over fairy tale and poetry. This arises from
a misapprehension of what is true, a con-
founding of true things and facts. Facts
may be full of the worst falsity, may be
wholly and only evil. The great city dailies,
full of fact, exemplify this. Fiction is not
fact but it may be more than fact, that is
truth. Not true in incident; it is true in what
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It is the romance of history that really holds
us, not the fact of it. We have enough of the
commonplace. Fiction presents the ideal;
more than that, it makes us see the ideal in
the commonplace and the ideal becomes real.
Which to us is the living, breathing woman,
which holds in our minds a living place,
Romola or Ann Hutchinson? And, so far as
our lives and living are concerned, are not
Ivanhoe and Ellen, Hamlet and Portia, Evan-
geline and Rip Van Winkle, more real person-
ages than the hundred people we meet on the
street every day of whom we never thought
before nor will again? It is this very real-
ity that gives mere creations of the imagi-
nation influence on life and thought, and for
this reason it becomes an easy channel through
which to teach much that is high and noble
and good in character and manner. We are
all imitative by nature and children especially
so, * * * Children are so thoroughly a
part of the story that interests them that
unconsciously they imitate the manner,
thought and speech of their heroes. Wise
teachers take advantage of this and so find an
easy solution to the problem: ‘‘ How shall we
teach manners and morals in school?” True
it is that fiction portrays with equal fairness
the evil and the good; but it is the peculiar
gift of the writer—since he can expose the
motives and the heart—to make only the
good truly admirable. Children make no
mistakes in this. They are often clearer
sighted than their elders, Little by little they
attain the refinement of their ideals. The
child who knows and loves the little hero of
“A Story of a Short Life” and comes to
appreciate and understand the struggle of
the helpless little invalid to be worthy just to
see a Victoria cross has learned more of true
courage than as though he could describe a
hundred battles. But he must know’ the
hundred battles, he must know history, and
there is no easier or surer way of interesting
child or adult in history than by means of
story. Literature and history are inseparable.
One supplements the other. History presents
the facts of nations; literature supplies the
life of the people. Literature bases itself
upon national life and historical fact, history
supplies the facts in full. * * * Romance
throws its fascinations around historic person-
ages and reveals just a glimpse of their lives.
We are not satisfied until history has told us
all there is to tell concerning them. * * *
Religion has always produced books. It is
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almost as closely interwoven with literature
asis history. The student of general litera-
ture gains a broad comparative idea of all
teligions and sees God as the foundation,
recognized or unrecognized, of all that is true
in any religion.
see nature's God, but many would never dis-
cover Him there without the guiding aid of
books. To read many such works as ‘The
Vision of Sir Launfal” or ‘‘ What’s Mine’s
Mine,” is to be brought so close to nature that
the throb of the great God-heart of the uni-
verse is felt in the tiniest green growing thing.
But admitting that the story and the poem
will aid in all these lines, is it worth while?
is it practical? This is the great cry of the
present day. The school must teach only
what is practical, and the practical, to ninety-
nine people out of every hundred, means that
which will bring in dollars and cents. We
almost wish we might say, “No, such educa-
tion will never bringin a penny, but it will give
something better,” It w#// give the better
thing, but it is quite likely also to bring in the
desirable penny, say rather the pound, since
brains not hands make fortunes. It is brain
power and not hand skill that is the practical
thing.
system in his brain who commands fifty thous-
and a year, not the man who can run the
It is slowly
coming to be acknowledged that literature and
history cultivate better reasoning powers and
judgment than mathematics, develop more
general intelligence and common sense than
much that has long been considered practical.
A knowledge of men and a keen perception
of character are invaluable in business and
social life, and the habit of studying character
is gained largely from character study in books.
“‘Middlemarch” and kindred books can not
but form this habit to some degree é the reader.
But the higher good which the love and
appreciation of the best literature will bring
is happiness, and happiness is the most practi-
cal thing in the world,— the one thing always
Through nature we come to
It is the man who can carry a railroad
engine or do the office work.
and unfailingly practical, which can be put to
use at once and continually for one’s self
and the world,— the thing to obtain which all
other so-called practical things are desired.
The man or woman who has learned to find
pleasure in good books has an unfailing source
of happiness, for ‘‘of making of many books
there is no end,” and were there an end to-day
there is enough of the good, the true, the
beautiful already embodied in books to outlast
the longest lifetime of study. He who can
get the most happiness out of life and put the
most happiness into life is the eminently
practical man.
While the ability to do this is largely within
the reach of all, the teacher has especial
opportunity to carry this theory into practice,
to open up many avenues of happiness to
secure the result so much to be desired.
Harriett W. SHARPE.
A NORMAL GIRL’S SOLILOQUY.
(Evening of Sept. 7.)
I,
Wwett back again to this dull round of toil—
A strife for tens which more times wins zeroes,
E’en though I often burn the midnight oil
And seldom think of my vacation heroes.
Il.
‘Those happy, happy days, alas, are o'er ;—
‘Those drives and walks, that dance, those tennis
“rackets,”
These college chaps! Humph, what a dreadful
bore!
As well be in a nest of yellow jackets.
Ill.
And now I’m told that I—that I must teach,—
‘Teach in the model school, abomination!
I'd sooner study Algebra or Greek; —
I wonder how I'll look at graduation,
Iv.
And shall I read? Ah, grand anticipation!
If so, I’d be as happy as a linnet;
If not, why then there's one sweet consolation,
‘That is, ‘tis sure the boys they won't ‘‘be in it.”
Vv.
How time does fly! I know I feel no older
‘Than last year when the register was passed,—
I wonder if she knows the fibs I've told her,—
I’m glad the one to-day will be the last.
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VI.
But now these days of toil are nearly done,—
For two long years in Albany I've tarried;—
And shall I— must I teach in years to come?
Well, yes, that is, if 1—if ] —-- —.
C. A. Woopwarp.
HE following poem was written for the
Delta Omega closing last June and read
at that time by the author,
FAREWELL.
(June ts, 1892.)
it
And what is so sad as a last farewell,
Spoken with sighs, perchance with tears?
Better, perhaps, were its mournful sound
Ne’er uttered to echo thro’ coming years.
a)
‘And yet were dear friends to steal away
‘With never so much as a parting word,
Our hearts would yearn full many a day
For the tender message still unheard.
Ill.
But parting tho’ sad, is sorrow so sweet
‘When hearts are bound with friendship’s tie,
We could wish that Time had leaden feet,
While we were bidding this last good-bye.
Iv.
So long as our life shall be what it is,
‘Phere must ever be those who come, who go,
And we who are leaving you, sisters dear,
A sacred trust upon you bestow.
v.
It seems as we glance o'er the college year
And take of its scenes a brief survey,
The memories held by us all most dear
‘Are clustered around «Society Day.”
VI.
‘Those golden hours we can never forget,
‘When, casting away all sense of care,
‘As a loyal sisterhood we met,
‘The pleasures of the hour to share.
VIL,
And thus upon you who again return
Does the fate of Delta Omega rest;
‘That from this charge you will never turn,
We little doubt who know you best.
VIII.
And when in your turn you shall bid adieu
To the Delta Omega, we only pray
‘The sisters you leave be as loyal and true
As those with whom we part to-day.
Tx
But why should we grieve as we say farewell ?
We are still united by love's strong tie,
And for Delta Omega our hearts shall beat,
Long after we bid you our last good-bye.
Lucy F, Cornett.
OUR COLLEGE DAYS.
(Rondeau,)
OUR college days, how swift they fy,
Like clouds across a summer sky,
We scarce have entered ere we go
From the familiar scenes we know,
‘The fortunes of the world to try.
So throughout life as oft we sigh
For the old days now long gone by.
Ah! would that more of life were so.
Our college days.
Joys which all care and grief defy,
Friendships bound fast by many a tie.
E’en though our locks be white as snow
And cheeks have lost their youthful glow,
We'll sing thy praises till we die.
Our college days.
— Bowdoin Orient.
ECHOES.
“ec "THERE was lost, mislaid, or stolen,
‘A pocket-book, pen knife, or key.
By returning each one to the owner
You'll be gratefully thanked,” do you see ?
‘Well now, if these careless people
Would advertise at the same time
For the wits they lost in the losing,
No cause would there be for this rhyme.
An unusually large number of visitors have
been seen at the college this fall which gives evi-
dence of the growing importance of our insti-
tution.
Professor Jones was not seen in his accus-
tomed place Friday, September 23.
The fame of our institution is not only
being spread throughout the Empire state, but
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 9
reaches even across the ocean, for we notice
among the new students this fall one from our
sister republic.
Among the ingenious students of this college
may be mentioned Mr, James R. White, made
evident by a model recently prepared by him
and used in his work in the physical geog-
raphy method class, representing a glacier in
all its stages.
see it.
We hope every student may
Professor Wetmore has arranged a series of
very interesting and profitable subjects for
discussion in the Sanitary Science class.
There is an unusually large number in the
High School Department this term.
Quite a large number of students are tak-
ing methods in French under Miss Hannahs.
The rooms of the grammar and primary
departments have new seats throughout, add-
ing much to comfort and appearance.
For the next issue of the Ecuo, each student
ought to have some contribution to instruct or
amuse its readers.
It is thought by some that the singing,
mornings in chapel, by students is much
superior to that of the past few years.
The commencement last June of the col-
lege was highly commended by the press of
this city, and each year a greater interest in
our institution is manifested by the citizens of
Albany. The high literary merit of the essays
was commendable. In this issue, through the
kindness of one of the readers, we are permitted
to publish her production.
We notice visitors are much interested in
examining the pictures found upon the walls
of the various rooms.
We recall with regret the death of Miss
Cora Wilkie, of Glens Falls, who was a
member of the June class of '92. Miss
Wilkie was a diligent, conscientious student
and was held in high esteem by her classmates.
To her friends we extend our most sincere
sympathies in their bereavement.
Mr, Bradley, a member of the college last
year, died at his home last June.
Our next issue will contain, as far as_possi-
ble, the names of the June graduates and
where they are located.
This issue of the Ecuo will be sent to the
alumni of this institution, so far as known, as
a sample of what this periodical will be. We
hope to get a general response from the
alumni, which will prove that they are inter-
ested in their alma mater and are ready and
anxious to note its advancement.
Miss Julia P. Hall, a member of the board
of editors, has not been able to return to col-
Her
many friends hope she will soon be in her
accustomed place.
lege this year on account of illness.
The class in methods in Elocution, which
commenced work just after the death of John
G. Whittier, laid aside Monday, September
The
regular order of work was dispensed with,
and the period was devoted to readings
including sketches of the poet's life and
An inter-
esting discussion, which followed, served to
12, for special exercises in his honor.
selections from his various poems.
bring into prominence some of the pleasing
characteristics as well as the true patriotism
of the Quaker poet, whose love for his native
soil forbade his ever leaving it long enough
to know
‘How in other lands, the changing seasons come
and go,”
until called to leave it forever,
Nelson Boucher, a graduate of the first
class of the Albany Normal school, is a retired
farmer at Boston Corners, Dutchess county,
Ny,
There is a growing wonder by the city folk
at the erudition of the average Normal stu-
dent.
10 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
At the meeting of the Quicksilver Reading
Circle, held September 21, the subject under
discussion was Tennyson's ‘‘Dream of Fair
Women.” Each of the eight historical or
mythological characters alluded to in the
poem was searched for, determined upon and
discussed by individual members of the class.
The director, Mrs. Mooney, kept before the
circle the faultless and expressive language
used by the poet.
President Milne attended the State Com-
missioners’ Association at Watertown, Wed-
nesday, September 14.
Mrs. Sara Bliss is to discuss the subject of
Geography with the teachers of Washington
county at their Institute Wednesday, Septem-
ber 28.
Many of us, in connection with the relating
of the good times enjoyed during the summer,
are enabled to tell of the number of pounds
avoirdupois procured and added to our stock
in trade.
We have just received copies of The Alfred
University, an interesting paper publ d by
the trustees of Alfred university in the inter-
We note Miss Maxon’s
name under the faculty as professor in the
normal and preparatory schools.
ests of the institution.
Miss Anna Brett and Miss Alice H. Hall
have been elected by the board of editors to
fill the places of Miss Alice M. Gilliland,
A. B., and Miss Elayne B. Garrett, who
graduated last June.
The class in methods in Physical Geography
is greatly absorbed in the consideration of
the Nebular theory, erosion and glaciers, in
their relation to the appearance of the earth
surface,
Teachers are noted for stubbornness, perhaps
because they are so full of facts—‘‘facts are
stubborn things.”
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GRADUATES DECEASED SINCE 0UR
LAST ISSUE.
OSEPH H. PALMER, ’47, suddenly at
Yonkers, N. Y., June 27. He taught
mathematics in the College of the City of
New York from 1850 to 1870; afterwards was
school commissioner for one term.
Tunis S. Quackenbush, ’48, at Newburgh,
N. Y., September rs.
labored suce
After graduating he
sfully to secure uniform text-
books in the schools of the state. Fora num-
ber of years he was a member of the school
book publishing firm of Ivison, Phinney &
Co., of New York. He gave largely to
benevolent objects and at his death was a
“wealthy retired merchant.”
Isaac W. Lake, ’56, at Ausable Forks,
August
and penmanship in the State Normal school
1859-1862, resigning to engage in business.
He was teacher of arithmetic
HE resolutions adopted at Saratoga as
summing up the feeling of the National
Educational Association are broad and pro-
gressive. These resolutions urge the employ-
ment of trained professional teachers only;
the increase of fa
pedagogy; oral
sciences; the teaching of free hand drawing
and of manual and physical culture; they
endorse the kindergarten; emphasize the need
of moral training; dwell upon the importance
of coérdinating the graded school systems;
urge the definite teaching of the principles of
patriotism and good citizenship and condemn
cramming.— The Christian Union.
ties for the study of
instruction in elementary
The precocious boy had just been inducted
into the mystery of double letters such as
double 2, double ¢, etc., when he came upon
the following sentence in his first reader:
“Up, up, John, and see the sun rise.” What
was more natural than that he should proudly
read it: “Double up, John, and see the sun
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
SENATOR STANFORD seems determined
to advance the new Leland Stanford, Jr.,
university in California to the front rank of
American institutions, It has recently come
to light that he has given $125,000 to the sup-
port and education, through the four years’
course, of any one hundred students, who are
too poor to pay their own way. To young
men anxious for a higher education, this pre-
sents one of the finest opportunities ever
offered, and for that reason is one of the
noblest charities recorded in recent years.
The Drexel institute of Philadelphia has
received G. W. Childs’ entire collection of
rare books, autographs and manuscripts.
The collection is valued at $100,000, and
includes the original manuscript of Dickens’
“Our Mutual Friend.”
Dr. M. W. Stryker, of Chicago, has
accepted the presidency of Hamilton college
much to the delight of the trustees, alumni
and friends of that institution. Dr, Stryker
is the pastor of a leading Presbyterian church
in Chicago and receives a salary much larger
than that offered by the college,
David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell,
who worked his way through college by hard,
constant, untiring labor outside of school
hours, is the president of the Stanford uni-
versity. His salary is $15,000 a year, the
largest paid to any college president in the
United States.
It is announced that Miss Amelia B,
Edwards left almost the whole of her property
to found a professorship of Egyptology, under
certain conditions, at University college,
London. It is believed that the value of the
chair will amount to about $2,000 a year.
The University of Mexico lays claim to
being the oldest college in America. It is
fifty years older than Harvard.
Of the last class at Wellesley eleven
return to Wellesley or go to other colleges to
pursue special studies. These will take up
the study of social problems in connection
with college settlements in cities. Three go
to foreign mission fields, two will enter jour-
nalism, one medicine and one philanthropy.
Three go to Europe for study, eight will teach,
and one goes west to take charge of a ranch.
Yale now has six United States senators,
Evarts, Dawes, Gibson, Wolcott, Hig-
gins and Dubois.
THE SOCIETY.
‘THE Quicksilver Reading Circle held its
first meeting last Wednesday. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
James Robert White; vice-president, Miss
Mary Dugan; secretary and instructor, Mrs.
Margaret S$. Mooney; assistant secretary,
W. S. Coleman; treasurer, Miss Mattie A.
Hunt. Mrs. Mooney has already planned a
very interesting course for the ensuing term.
Prof. Bartlett is deserving of a large share
of the praise for the music of the Phi Delta’s
closing, for which we hear so much praise, as
he gave them the benefit of his exceptional
talent in this direction, by acting as instructor
of the male quartette.
The Delta Omega Society met Friday, Sept.
16, for the first time this year. The number
of members present has greatly decreased
since the society was so well represented in
the June graduating class. So many, how-
ever, have already applied for membership,
that it will doubtless soon assume its old
flourishing proportions, Miss Julia Hall still
holds her position as president of the society.
The Philomathean Society has commenced
its regular work. This is a literary society
composed of young ladies of the college who
meet every Friday for the purpose of instruc-
tion and entertainment. The Philomathean
is the oldest young ladies’ society in the col-
lege, having been organized more than twenty
years ago, The president of the society is
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
Miss Mary Dugan. Young ladies of the col-
lege, not members of other societies in the
college, are cordially invited to become mem-
bers.
The closing of the ladies’ societies of the past
June was notably different from that of Feb-
ruary, nevertheless their entertainments were
no less pleasing but showed greater intellect-
ual effort.
The Phi Delta Fraternity lost only three
members by graduation last June, therefore
it opens strong in old members and the ardour
is undiminished as of old.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
EMBERS of the Delta Omega Society
extend a cordial invitation to the faculty
and students of the college to attend a literary
entertainment which is to be given by them
Friday p. m., October 6, in the college
chapel, ~
The benefit derived in the past from the
association known as the students’ prayer
meeting, has encouraged its members to con-
tinue it this year.
Sunday at 4 P. M, at the college, It is
earnestly requested that all students give this
association their support by their regular
attendance.
The Phi Delta Fraternity meets each Friday
evening in their rooms on the first floor for
the purpose of literary culture. Its meetings
are secret and number of members restricted,
but applications for membership are gladly
received.
This meeting is held every
“(He only is great of heart who floods the
world with a great affection.
“He only is-great of mind who stirs the
world with great thoughts.
“He only is great of will who does some-
thing to shape the world to a great career.
‘“And he is greatest who does the most of
all these things and does them best.” — Zos-
well D, Hitchcock, Christian Union,
“The California Snow plant is so called be-
cause it thrusts its stem up through the snow
to the height of nine or ten inches, and
flowers when no other vegetation is to be seen.
This curious plant which belongs to the order
Ericacae, is allied to the pine drops, but has
much larger flowers, an elongated style and
wingless seeds.
which is an erect herbaceous parasite, with
succulent, scale-like leaves, and a long raceme
of pendulous flowers. The whole plant is of
a blood-red color.”—Woonsocket High School
Record,
There is but one species,
“ About 1887 a horse shoe was found under
the ice of the glacier Theodul, in Switzerland,
which leads geologists to think that the pass,
3,332 metres high, was formerly not imbedded
in ice. This has been further confirmed by a
recent find of coins bearing the likeness of
Augustus and Diocletian.” — Woonsocket High
School Record.
“A promising youth of only seven sum-
mers, who had been accused of not always
telling the truth, cross-examined his father:
‘Father, did you used to lie when you were a
boy?’ ‘No, my son,’ said the father, who
evidently did not recall the past with any dis-
tinctness, ‘Nor mother, either?’ ‘No; but
why?’ ‘Oh, because I don’t see how two
people who never told a lie could have a boy
who tells as many as I do.’”
A CLINCHER.
“A young man home from college, wishing
to inspire his little sister with awe for his
learning, pointed to a star and said:
«Sis, do you see that bright little lumin-
ary? It’s bigger than the whole world.’
“No, ’tain’t,’ said Sis.
“Yes, it is,’ declared the young collegian.
“Then why don’t it keep off the rain?’
was the triumphant rejoinder.”
THE NORMAL | COLLEGE ECHO. 13
Time and the seasons change, fashions and styles
come and go, but one thing, like Tennyson's
“ 1 ty ”
brook,” “ goes on forever.
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FANCIES.
«NO wonder we poor weak mortals are
sometimes sinful when the heavenly
bodies exhibit such bad habits.””
“T don’t quite see —”
“Well, it’s perfectly plain that they have
high times up there—the moon is quite often
full, and even the little stars scintillate (sin-
til-late),”
Tt would be dangerous taking a trip to
Europe just now for the cholera would be
pretty apt to collar a fellow.
Prof. (in physics)—‘‘ Oscar, if an irresisti-
ble force should come in contact with
immovable body what would happen?”
Oscar (perplexed)— ‘Why, the—the irre-
sistible force would have to go around, that’s
all.”
an
Nor an Uncommon Cass.
“You are writing poetry for the papers
now, I believe.”
“T write poetry, but not for the papers.”
“Why not for the papers?”
“Because the papers won’t take it.”
“Nonsense, Mr.
“Tt's really too bad.”
“What's too bad?”
“Why the girls—they can’t go home to
vote.”
“YT find that sending a contribution to a
publisher is a good deal like casting bread
upon the water.”
“Why, how is that?”
“Tt always comes back.”
A minister dining with an editor and ob-
serving the scant table, asked a blessing as
follows: ‘‘Lord, make us thankful for what
we are about to receive, and strengthen us to
journey homeward after we have received it.”
—Allanta Constitution.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
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