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Normal College Echo
ALBANY, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1895.
Vor. IV. No. 5.
CONTENTS.
Lrrerary, PAGE. Pac,
‘The Prince of Peace - «| Eenoss... °
A Day at an Indian Training School. CoM iatae oma, aa
‘The Week Before Christmas... Cale serawel ~
‘The Teacher and the Human Voic 55 Fen Senos Nome &
‘Tue Eprror’s Sanctum. 6
Aut Sorts... ar
Annual Reunion of Graduates 6
Pie meen 6 A Curistmas Decision. 2
‘The Observance of Holidays. Fee GRBS ti
Away, Away, rue Track is WHITE By |e mionG Ur exer aners 43
A Sive-ticat oF Cotircr Lire. g | Coutece Notes. ue
Hoty Berries. 9 | Reviews... 4
THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
Proclaim abroad the message clear,
The Prince of Peace hag come !
Exalt the Saviour! Render dear
His name in every home.
Let every heart due homage give
To Him who dwells on high;
Who came to earth that we might live.
For us who came to die.
Sacred His mission here on earth,
Holy His work and life;
He came to give us second birth ;
And peace where all was strife.
Divine Redeemer, brother, friend,
All hearts to Thee do bow.
To Thee all praises do ascend ;
To Thee our solemn vow.
Proclaim abroad the message clear,
The Prince of Peace has come ;
Exalt the Saviour! Render dear
His name in every home.
A DAY AT AN INDIAN TRAINING SCHOOL
NORMAL Training School! would you
have called it that, I wonder, had you seen
its location on the edge of an Indian reservation
in Nebraska, had seen its crowd of pupils vary-
ing from the brown birds of five or six years to
the grave faced young men and women, and had
seen, most of all, the peculair training given at
this Normal School? Their claim to this magic
name is based upon the same thought that under-
lies all our work, that we may teach others in the
right way. And the subjects in their curriculum
are as broad as those demanded by civilized life.
In this Santee school, a group of noble, cul-
tured, earnest men and women have devoted
themselves to the often descouraging task of
civilizing and Christianizing these Indian children
gathered from near and remote, from Washing-
ton, Montana, the Dakotas and Nebraska, send-
ing them back fitted to lead their own tribes toa
higher life. The National government, appre-
ciating the value of such schools in the solution
of the vexed Indian question, has, until recently,
furnished one-half of the $20,000 needed annually
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although it is under the auspices of the Congre-
gational church.
A knowledge of the home surroundings of these
unfortunates might bring a clearer realization of
the purposes of this institution and compel us to
grant the justice of their claim to our name of
Normal.
Our long ride in the brisk October air and the
clearest of sunshine, the stretches of mile upon
mile with no habitation or sign of civilization
save an indistinct trail through the short prairie
grass easily lost and hardly regained, aroused our
spirits to such a height we were willing and
anxious to converse with the first Sioux we met.
And what slouchy, greasy, sullen specimens of
“noble red men” they were, often matching in
appearance the shambling nags they bestrode.
In answer to our “Is this the road to Santee?”
one ugly looking man grunted out “Santee,”
jerking his thumb in the direction of the agency.
They waste no words but an occasional “ How”
by way of greeting. Even when they understand
English perfectly, they will look at youin the most
dumb, uncomprehending way, unless perchance
you arouse their ire, then their words come fast
enough.
Within the limits of the old Santee reservation,
now held in severalty, Lo has built his noble
spacious residence with the lumber furnished him
by Uncle Sam. Oh, the repulsive filth and squalor
of those one-roomed huts! Not a sign of yard,
garden or cultivated field; not a tree or straggling
vine to cover the nakedness; the most noticeable
sign of occupation was a pack of yelping half
starved curs. These Santees, one of the Sioux
tribes, have advanced from blankets for their
only robing to clothes of peculiar styles, and from
teepees to huts for their regular dwellings, but
often use wigwams on their frequent trips from
home. Home to them hardly means “the dearest
spot on earth.” One agent, hoping to reduce
their nomadic inclinations, supplied them with
chickens thinking, to keep them at home at least
during the setting season. They were proud of
their new acquisitions; but alas for human ex-
pectations, they would pack hen, hatching eggs,
nest and all in their wagons and off they would go.
One of our strongest impressions was the utter
homelessness of these prairie huts. Their owners
certainly lacked “all visible means of support,”
and must either depend on the government rations
or steal fora living. This apparently does not
hurt their pride, for they seem destitute of the
common ideas of honesty, industry and independ-
ence, and show little desire for a more civilized
mode of life.
Their horrible sun dances and other religious
rites and sacrifices, where the flesh is slashed or
fairly torn from the body, are too terrible to im-
agine as taking place in the midst of a Christian
land.
Later this same day we noticed, mounted on
the brow of a distant hill, two motionless figures
evidently watching our motions, and it carried us
in imagination to a time when they might have
been sentinels with an ugly horde behind those
jutting hills, and gave the descriptions of frontier
life a new meaning. Nearer the agency we met
a long procession of vehicles of every description
in which the Indians were returning with their
weekly dole of food from the government supply.
Each greeted us with “ How-How.” One great
fat old Indian in the glory of a covered buggy
fast approaching the condition of the parson’s
“One Hoss Shay” was very important in his
big goggles. It is difficult to see, in these speci-
mens, the remains of by gone glory, or imagine
them impelled to brave or deperate deeds. The
faces of the older Normal pupils indicated a great
advance in thoughtfulness and culture and gave
promise of higher civilization for the prairie
wanderers.
At the school we were received by the princi-
pal, Dr. Riggs, a gentleman of more than usual
refinement and culture, and were entertained at
a large building of various uses, designated as the
dining hall. When our slumbers were broken
the next morning by the great bell tolling at 5.30,
we realized that one of the (supposed) virtues
taught was early rising. The stir immediately
began in the small community. We struggled
with our desire for sleep, but managed to be in
time for the breakfast by lamplight. ‘The great
dining room was very cheery, with its pretty
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light woodwork, its big windows with birds and
flowers, its long rows of tables, set with spotless
linen and wholesome food.
The great bell rang again. From the various
“ Homes” issued files of boys and girls, who en-
tered the dining room in the same order, the
boys by the door in one corner and the girls
from the opposite door, and took their places at
the tables facing each other. A tap from the
matron’s bell, silence, followed by a blessing
asked in Dacotah by Dr. Riggs or one of the
older boys.
The children looked happy, and were com-
fortably, even prettily, dressed in their uniforms,
for these are furnished by the school. Occa-
sionally merriment was evident, but it was very
quiet and orderly, as seemed natural among the
children of the darker race. You rarely hear any
quarreling or unkind words among them, or noisy
fun even on the play ground.
Each place was supplied with napkin as well as
knife and fork, and the awkwardness of recent
arrivals proved their use to be strictly “ proceed-
ing to the unknown.” Indeed the inclination to
return to nature’s implements for eating was oc-
casionally overpowering when the morsel was
tempting and the fork rebellious. And the nap-
kin seemed even more useless and a greater weari-
ness of the flesh to the new comer. But the or-
dinary ethics of civilized table usages are part of
the intended education. In this as in other
lines, much that is learned entirely in the home
must be taught with great care and patience.
A brief time following breakfast was allotted to
devotional exercises, consisting of morning
hymns, led by the organ, a selection from Scrip-
ture and prayer, all in the Sioux tongue. Then
came the announcements for the day any special
duties or change in the assignment of work.
One of the three Chester Arthurs and Grover
Cleveland were sent to the blacksmith’s shop,
others were detailed to do carpenter work, vari-
ous farm duties or housework.
The pupils, on their arrival, drop their heathen
appellations of Three Feathers, Laughing Water
or Great Bear and select Christian names. We
were not sure but the preponderance of presi-
dential names might indicate secret aspirations.
Did you ever think of dish-washing as an edu-
cational factor, and that not in the spirit of Do-
theboys Hall? The pupils are taught the vari-
ous uses of water, for their education in this
direction has been wofully neglected.
After breakfast we started on our round of ex-
ploration, and found the school to be situated on
a pretty knoll over the Missouri on the north;
their cluster of buildings placed around a large
yard at one side of their section forms quite a
community of interests.
Our first objective point was the carpenter
shop. This is not manual training for intellect-
ual purposes, but for practical use; and this pur-
pose is apparent in the results, Chairs, solid and
well made, extension and work tables, picture
frames and beautiful inlaid work in chests, and all
parts of houses are made by the boys; one effort
was a miniature church, complete in every part,
A pair of dumb-bells, made by Charles Eastman,
a nephew of Mrs. Elaine Goodale Eastman,were
brought away from that shop.
One room at the end of the same building was
used for the shoe shop. While the boys were
taught to make shoes, their principal work was
mending. Judging from the long row of boots
stubbed out at the toes, they had an opportunity
to learn by doing.
The blacksmith shop was equally well equip-
ped, and here are made chains, shovels, crow-
bars and various other simple implements, under
the direction of a practical blacksmith, who also
teaches horseshoeing.
The farm work and care of the stock is as-
signed to the older boys, under competent
guidance. The boys receive ten cents an hour
for the work, and are required to pay for their
military uniforms, thus inculcating independence
as well as industry.
Of the five dwelling-houses for the pupils, we
visited first the Bird’s Nest, the home of the lit-
tle girls. Dolls and other toys indicated a happ
life for the little folks, “Though sometimes,”
said Miss Brown, the house mother, “the new-
comers sob with homesickness, and cry for sev-
eral nights for mother and the home teepee.”
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The funniest sight of all was permitted to the
ladies of the party when we penetrated the “sanc-
tum sanctorum” and found three little brown
birds in the big bathtub, who immediately hid
their heads under their wings. In an adjoining
room the waiting crowd were busily giving their
shoes the Saturday polishing.
The old adage ‘‘ Cleanliness is next to God-
liness” seems to be impressed in all depart-
ments; everything shone, With the exception of
the Bird’s Nest, all the dwelling-houses are kept
clean and in order by the inmates. The girls
take pleasure in brightening as well as scouring
their rooms; but the scrubbing and mopping is a
sore grievance to the masculine dignity.
The girls at the Dakota Home are taught all
kinds of sewing and housework, besides what
they gain in being detailed to clear tables, wash
and wipe dishes, aid in preparing meals, and put
the rooms in order at the dining hall. They are
required to realize their woman’s sphere by doing
the fine ironing for the young men.
In the Dakota Home was a sweet faced girl
suffering from that scourge of the Indians, con-
sumption. These cases are frequent, and strange
as it may seem, these victims often prefer to
spend their last days at Santee to returning to
the discomforts of their own homes.
One-half of the day is spent in manual train-
ing, the other half in school work. The school
rooms are furnished with desirable apparatus,
and the teachers seem to use good methods.
One peculiarity of this school which makes it
popular among the Indians is, that training in
Sioux is given with the English, that those who
choose may return to preach in their native
tongue. In the school room, our annoyance of
whispering is changed to unwillingness to talk ;
when a child takes a stubborn streak, it is diffi-
cult to make him say even a word. One of the
most discouraging features to the teacher is the
sluggishness of the young Indian. “He is very
indifferent to the explanation of whatever may
be strange to him. He is simply content to let
it remain strange.” All the curiosity that is the
boon and torment of the white child’s teacher, is
dormant in the darker child and has to be aroused.
Their English is another burden, and their
mistakes are often amusing. The more ad-
yanced pupils are allowed to work in the print-
ing office, when their improvement in language
is remarkable. All programs, lesson helps, golden
text cards and other necessary printing is beauti-
fully done. In addition they publish two news-
papers, “ Zhe Word Carrier” and “ Iapi Oaye,”
devoted to the missions of the Dakotas.
Another point of interest was the queer old
church. Here, every Sunday, Pastor Ehnamani
preaches in Sioux. He is a strange looking old
Indian, a former ringleader of plottings and up-
risings, now a leader in good things, and the
congregation give him close attention, for he is
earnest and impressive.
Thus, in every direction, efforts are put forth
to make these untaught boys and girls noble men
and women. To inspire them with a desire to
raise their own tribes to a higher plane mentally
and morally seems the animating purpose of the
school.
Thus Dr. Riggs expresses their platform: “For
Indians we want American Education! We
want American Homes! We want American
Rights! The result of which is American Citi-
zenship! And the Gospel is the Power of God
for their salvation.”
MarcareTt Mann,
THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
I/PWAS the week before Christmas at old Normal
College,
A gentle gloom shadowed that temple of Knowledge;
The students from Chapel passed solemn and slow
And wended their way to the classrooms below.
‘The teachers alarmed at the general grief
Assigned a few sketches to bring us relief.
But alas! even sketches no longer could cheer
When we thought of the Christmas vacation so near,—
The long dreary weeks we must pass far away
From our frolicsome lessons and College so gay,
And all over the Normal was great desolation
At the thought of those seventeen days of vacation.
All the students were sad when the week’s work was
done
And we met in the Chapel at quarter-past one,
The sun shining in with a faint golden glow
Gave a luster of jaundice to faces below—
And soon to our tear-brimming eyes did appear
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The form of the Doctor who brought us no cheer;
For his manner was stern, he was very much vexed,
He began a short sermon with this as his text:
“Your complaints have been heard by the great Faculty;
As result, your vacation’s not two weeks, but three,”
And then in a twinkling there fell on his ear
The dripping and dropping of each little tears
And the wails that came forth from that grief-stricken
crowd
Were wild and pathetic and stormy and loud.
We cried in our sorrow: ‘‘ Resistance we rue;
We can’t stay away for three weeks! Make it two!”
Now, fearing effects of this turbulent grief,
The Doctor, much moved, spoke once more, he was
brief:
“As you feel this so deeply, Pll look from your view,
The weeks of vacation shall not exceed two.”
The tears how they vanished!
The tongues how they flew!
The noses resumed their original hue.
Quite contented to go seemed each student to be,
For two weeks are very much shorter than three.
The Doctor looked on till the tumult was ended,
Then gave a smile as the stairs he descended;
And the students declared as the end of this verse:
“Two weeks’ rest is hard, but it might have been
worse!”
JosEPHINE PERKINS.
THE TEACHER AND THE HUMAN VOICE.
NATION’S progress in civilization is indi-
cated by the attention which its people
give to the fine arts. The American Indian,
like a little child, was pleased with a few daubs
of gay colors, and correspondingly crude sounds
satisfied his uncultivated love of music. But,
with modern civilized nations, times have
changed. ‘The accumulation of wealth has less-
ened the struggle for existence and enabled its
possessor to gratify his tastes for the harmonious,
until now no home is considered complete in
which music is never heard, and whose walls are
unadorned with beautiful pictures.
Harmonious living being the chief end of edu-
cation, the study of music or art is certainly com-
mendable ; but there is an accomplishment sim-
pler than either of these which, if possessed by
the masses, would add more to the sum of human
happiness than most people seem to think. That
accomplishment is the proper use of the human
voice as a means of speech.
One of the characteristics of man by which he
is distinguished from the brute creation is his
power of articulate speech, and yet it too often
serves as a reminder of his close relationship.
It is not uncommon to hear men address each
other in tones that would better become some
wild beast or frightened bird, or nearly as bad»
speak in a confused jumble as though they had
a grudge against certain sounds.
The human voice is a musical instrument that
is just as much under the control of the will as
the violin or piano; and as every tone of the
piano produces its own effect upon the ear, so
each tone of voice leaves its effect upon the mind.
Yet there are many people who pride themselves
upon their power of mind who, either through
lack of ambition or self-control (it is not always
apparent which), do not make their sentences
distinctly heard or, even worse, absolutely spoil
the thought by the way in which it is spoken.
As teachers, these thoughts are worthy of our
consideration. Nothing more quickly chills the
atmosphere of a school-room than a shrill, snappy
voice, while the listless monotone is a sure cure
for sleeplessness. Persons must always retain
their individuality of speech, but by the judicious
exercise of lung power and the use of tones war-
ranted by the occasion, it is possible for us to
secure better attention to what we have to say,
and to fit our pupils to become better members
of society.
While the printing press bas to a certain ex-
tent superseded the voice as a means of com-
munication, speech is still the foundation of
society. Few have never met persons whose
voice lent a charm to their whole personality and
made their society eagerly songht. Let us, as
teachers, resolve, first, to cultivate a rich express-
ive tone of voice for ourselves, and then to in-
sist that every pupil under our instruction shall
speak in clear musical tones with that confidence
which should come from such knowledge as every
true teacher should impart.
L. M.D.
ET us remember we will receive as much
cheer during the Christmas Season as we
put into it,
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Tue Christ Child.
Let us adore Him who came to bring joy and
peace unto all men.
Tue vacation begins Thursday, December 19,
at 1:15 P. M. and closes at 9 a. m., Tuesday,
January 7.
Tur attention of subscribers is directed to the
clause in our terms on this page, which reads,
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Please remember this, and save yourself
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Jupeine from the severity with which Jack
Frost is holding Albany in his grasp-at present,
we may, with reasonable assurance, look forward
to a remarkably cold winter.
Tue Ecuo sends greeting to the faculty, stu-
dents and alumni of the State Normal College,
wishing all a very Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year. May each and every one enjoy the
holidays to the fullest extent, relegating to the
deepest oblivion, for the time being, all thought
of study.
ANNUAL REUNION OF GRADUATES.
OTHING does us more good in our years of
hurry and bustle, when we hardly seem to
have time enough to catch our breath, than a re-
turn to the scenes of our school or college days.
In the mad rush of our busy life we scarcely
can find time to think of our student life, much
less tear ourselves away from our cares and
duties for a brief visit to our Alma Mater, This
is certainly very much to be regretted. The
inspiration to be derived from meeting old class-
mates, renewing old friendships, and walking
through the familiar hails and classrooms, will
add ten years to our lives and make us feel twenty
years younger.
Therefore, let all the alumni consider it to be
one of their privileges for the year 1896 to attend
the annual reunlon of graduates on Friday,
January 3d. On page ro will be found the pro-
gram for the day.
PRAISE FOR THE ECHO,
INCE our last issue we have received the fol-
lowing :
From an alumna of the College, “I highly ap-
preciate all the gleanings from the Alma Mater.”
From an alumnus who was one of the founders
of the paper, “Allow meto congratulate you upon
the interesting issues you are sending out this
year.”
From a , “I appreciated very much the
copy of the Echo, as at last realizing what was
often talked of in my own Albany days, and as
being far superior in its English and proof-read-
ing to anything that my students have produced
after five or six years of unceasing effort on my
part to lead them from darkness toward the
light.”
‘After speaking about the necessity on his
part of a careful revision of the proof-sheets, he
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continues, ‘‘I could do more to improve the
appearance of the weekly, if I would apply the
red ink to the manuscript, but that is not my
province; though the thought suggests to me
this gleam of hopeful comparison, that perhaps,
some one high in authority does criticise the
matter, and read the proof of the Echo. If so,
I am comforted a little.”
We would inform our readers, as well as this
gentleman, that all work on the Echo is done by
the students.
THE OBSERVANCE OF HOLIDAYS,
ITH the near approach of the Christmas
holidays, our thoughts turn to the proper ob-
servance of them. An author once said, “we have
not too many holidays, but too many not properly
observed.” And in the main this is true. It cer-
tainly is so in our schools. A great many teach-
ers dislike holidays. “They break up the school
work so much. Pupils are restless and trouble-
some the following day. Lessons are not pre-
pared. It takes two or three days for the pupils
to get back to the condition in which they were
at the beginning of vacation.” These are some of
the arguments brought forth in opposition.
Some teachers do not care to hold exercises
in observance of these days, Such claim that
it disturbs the regular routine work of the school;
affects the discipline; creates a certain amount
of restlessness among the pupils for several
succeeding days. The real trouble lies in the fact
that they either don’t wish to take the trouble to
prepare for the diversion, or don’t know how to
arrange for the entertainment of pupils and
parents. A teacher who may be fairly success-
ful as a routine teacher may make a dismal fail-
ure when some special occasion requires some
appropriate observance.
OT all teachers are born teachers. The true
teacher can adapt herself to her environ-
ment, and in this lies the secret to her success.
Probably, in no profession in life is there a
greater demand for ingenuity. Almost every
movement there is a call for ready invention, for
skillful minipulation of the ever varying forces at
her disposal. On the facility with which the
teacher can adjust the parts of a conglomerate
mass of details depends in a great measure her
true status in the profession.
Coming back to the question in hand, the ob-
servance of holidays, we are led to believe that
this very important problem requires no small
amount of attention. Whether it bein the small,
one-story, dilapidated shanty, standing as the
sole beacon of light on the outskirts of civiliza-
tion, or, perchance, in the palatial edifices, erected
at the present day in the majority of the larger
villages and cities of some of our western States,
the same problem confronts us with merely a
difference of degree. What course shall we take?
Ignore it? Our sense of duty towards those
committed to our care precludes the possibility
of entertaining such a thought. May we not
call the special days set apart for our observance,
“memory-gems” in our history. The lessons
taught us by these days must be impressed on
the minds of our pupils, and how better than by
appropriate exercises, calculated to make the
meaning of each holiday more real to them.
Disregard these days? Never! On the other
hand, enter heartily into the spirit of them. Se-
lect exercises which will include in the partici-
pation as many pupils as possible. Give short
selections to each one. Arouse enthusiasm
among them. Stimulate their desire to excel in
fitly celebrating the day. Encourage any sug-
gestions which they may make as to how the day
should be properly observed. Place the subject
of decorations entirely in their hands. They
will feel proud of the honor, and you may rest
assured your confidence in their ability to exe-
cute the commission will not be misplaced. The
more they are led to realize their part in the
work, their responsibility for the success of
the exercises, the more zealously will they strive
to do their best.
In the Christmas exercises see to it that songs,
readings and recitations are bright, cheery and
entertaining. Let the exercises begin promptly,
and have some spirit about their rendering.
Each exercise should quickly succeed another.
Prepare the program so that there will be no de-
lays. Above all, let the spirit of the gentle Sav-
iour animate your eyery action, and it will im-
print itself unconsciously upon the movements
of the children. Thus will Christ, the Child-
Lover, our Saviour and Redeemer, who came to
bring joy, peace and good will to all men, be
worshipped and adored.
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AWAY, AWAY, THE TRACK IS WHITE
WAY! away! the track is white,
The stars are shining clear to-night,
‘The winter winds are sleeping;
The moon above the steeple tall,
A silver cresent over all,
Her silent watch is keeping.
Away! away! our hearts are gay,
And need not breathe by night or day
A sigh for summer pleasure;
The merry bells ring gaily out,
Our lips keep time with song and shout
And laugh in happy measure.
—SELEcTED.
A SIDE-LIGHT OF COLLEGE LIFE.
Wee different methods of study prevail at
the Normal. There are people who write
up notes every afternoon, and prepare written
papers and next day’s lessons in the evening;
there are others who attend to their note books
once a week, do their hardest studying in the after-
noon, and their lightest work—no pun intended
—at night; still others who make up for several
weeks’ laziness by burning the midnight oil at
the end of the “ten.” The different plans of
study all agree in one point though: there is
hardly one of us who does not spend a goodly
portion of time at the State Library.
Imagine, if you are able, the state of affairs
that would exist if the library were moved away
or destroyed. Think of the predicament of the
crowds who “look up” preparatory to giving
special lessons in science and physiography!
Picture the faces of the members of a sanitary
science class, if they should be informed that
the State Library were no longer at their ser-
vice. What a blow such intelligence would be
to the girl who inquires for Bryce’s American
Commonwealth, and desperately takes notes
from a dozen other books on civics! What do
you suppose would become of the first year
Normalites, struggling in the depths—or, per-
haps, only the shallows—of psychology, if they
could not dive into apparently bottomless vol-
umes at the Capitol, coming out more hoplessly
puzzled than when they went in?
If any reader doubts the use of the library by
Normal students, let him stand just within the
south entrance to the Capitol on any afternoon
in the week and watch the people who come in.
A large proportion of them, with an air which
shows perfect familiarity with the route, will
start directly towards a corridor on the left. An
observer will note that the signs on that side
read, ‘‘State Commission in Lunacy ’—‘ De-
partment of Public Instruction "”—was it acci-
dent that placed the two together?
Once in the Library the people form a more
interesting study than many of the books. Some
go immediately to the catalogues, and after a
short hunt for a particular number, write a slip,
hand it to a page and wait calmly at the nearest
table. Those are the students who read steadily
for an hour or more, and go away with just the
material they came for. People who use the
books of the State aren’t all alike however.
There are some who look rather aimlessly
through the catalogues and cover their tables
with books only to dip first into one, then into
another, getting asa result a few pages of notes
more like bits of crazy patch-work than any-
thing else. But even that is better than the girl
who makes a few half-hearted endeavors to study
and ends by burying herself in the pages of the
latest magazine or novel. That kind of girl is
sometimes at the library in large numbers, but if
you are a frequent visitor you will notice that
she doesn’t employ that same method all the
time.
Some experiences which come to all who use
the library are invaluable in the opportunities
they offer for the cultivation of patience. Is
there anything more provoking than to be told,
when one’s subject-matter is rusty, that all the
text-books on that subject are in use in the Re-
gents’ Department where examination papers are
being corrected? Are we not all acquainted with
the condition of mind and body which exists,
when we are one of a whole class who have
come for the same book, when the lucky four or
five who came just before us are apparently
never going to finish, and when our supper hour
is rapidly approaching ?
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We grumble sometimes because we are obliged
to spend so much time in that big room on the
third floor of the Capitol, but what should we do
without the library? We have to spend so much
time getting to and from it? If it were not for
our walk to the library, some of us would not
get half of the out-door exercise we ought to
have. The State Normal College without the
State Library! It’s as hard to imagine that, as
to think of a sketch without a general aim.
The State Library and study there are two of the
most important institutions of life at the Normal;
and in years to come some of our most pleasant
memories will be associated with the library—
the busy yet quiet reading-room; the cosy, cheer-
ful light- under the green shades, the hours of
hard “digging” and of reading for pure pleas-
ure—all these will come back to us, and we shall
appreciate the State Library even more than we
do now.
L. L. A.
HOLLY BERRIES.
1. [JOLLY berries, holly berries,
Red, bright, and beaming,
Thro’ the dusky evergreens
Like sprays of coral gleaming ;
Ye have pow’r to fill the heart
With memories of glee,
Oh, what happy thoughts can cling
Round the holly tree.
2, When I see the holly berries,
I can think I hear
Merry chimes and carols sweet
Ringing in my ear;
Christmas with its blazing fires
And happy hearths I see,
Oh, what pleasant thoughts can cling
Round the holly tree.
3. Bring the glowing holly berries,
Snow is lying deep,
All the gay and blooming flowers
Till the springtime sleep ;
Let them grace our happy homes
With their crimson light,
Mingling with the sombre fir,
And the laurel bright.
—SELECTED.
ECHOES.
ERRY
Christmas!
To you all!
Glee Class instead.
How do you like it?
No seminary Mondays,
Are the High School teachers mad?
Oh! no, they love to write “ Plans.”
Did you have a good time Thanksgiving vacation?
‘We hope you will have a still better one Christmas.
February graduates are now preparing their graduat-
ing essays.
If your Ecuto is damp, it is because there is so much
due on it.
The Camera Club gave one of their entertaining ex-
hibitions, Dec. 3.
Bring your skates back Christmas; the Park Lake
will be ready for you.
Has our weather this Fall been some left over from
last Summer’s, or is it a sample of next Spring's?
Music in Chapel:
“ Heard sounds are sweet, but
Those unheard are sweeter.”
«Of all the cants that are canted in this canting world,
though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant
of criticisms is the most tormenting.”
Several of the College students, invited by Miss
Husted, and chaperoned by Miss Hannahs, attended the
home talent presentation of “Pinafore” at Cohoes,
Dec. 4.
We sce many cameras around College and hope good
pictures are being ‘turned out.” Surely with all the
instruction we have had in “ Development” we ought
to expect fine results.
Some time ago, one of our second sopranos in the
Glee Class, having “sat beneath the Abeles old” for
some time, went to the dictionary to see what “ Abeles”
are. It will doubtless interest many to know they are
simply white poplar trees.
What do you think of this? A member of the Botany
class went to a floris’s and asked for flowers with
stamens, The clerk replied, “I am very sorry but we
are all out of stamens, There has been a great de-
mand forthem lately. We'll have some next Monday.”
Mrs. Frederick C. Curtis of Washington avenue, and
her cousin, Miss Bancroft, ’96, entertained very pleasantly
Miss Isdell, Miss Sewell, Miss Bishop, Miss Hannahs,
and the members of the Kindergarten Class, at after-
noon tea Saturday Nov, 16,
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Several of the college friends of Miss Husted, with
others, spent the evening of Nov. 15 at her home on
Hamilton street. That Miss Husted and Miss Mabel
Husted sustained the fine reputation they have always
had as royal entertainers, is a sufficient guarantee of the
pleasant evening spent.
The program of Prof. Belding’s organ recital was
published in last month’s Ecio. It is perhaps unneces-
sary to speak specially of any of the numbers, as we aly
know from experience that his selections are always the
best. The large number present surely testified that
we all appreciate and enjoy these entertainments that
Prof. Belding so kindly gives us.
DE ALUMNIS.
NVITATIONS have been sent to the alumni of this
College for the Annual Reunion of Graduates, on
Friday Jan. 3, 1896.
The business meeting is at1r 4. m. Luncheon will be
served in the Kindergarten rooms from twelve till two
and various class meetings will be held.
Addresses in the afternoon will be made by President
Milne, Rev. Milford H. Smith, ’78, Rev. Charles C.
Pierce, '79, and Dr. Henry E. Mereness, ’69.
‘The day will close with a reception in the evening by
President and Mrs. Milne.
’ox. Miss Josephine Packer has accepted a position in
the Freeman Office at Kingston, N. Y.
’o4. Many friends of Miss Graham, ’94, who has been
teaching at New Paltz Normal School, will be
pleased to know that she is quite well again after
her serious illness.
Miss Sayre, '94, and Miss Smith, teachers in the
Kindergarten at Saratoga, visited College Nov. 15.
95. Miss McNeil, ’95, is teaching in the Primary schools
of Lawrence Station, Long Island.
Mr. Blessing, ’93, called Nov. 4 and 5 and again
Nov. 15.
Mr. McLaury, '95, visited friends in Albany Nov.
22-25 and called at College.
Mr. Brown, ’95, called at the Ecuo office during the
Thanksgiving recess.
Miss Sara Briggs, ’95, who has for so long been
dangerously ill, is on the road to recovery.
Miss Balcom, ’95, spent Thanksgiving with friends
in the city.
The many friends of Mr. Strassenburg, ’95, will be
pleased to learn that he has a responsible and
lucrative position at Haverstraw-on-the-Hudson,
‘Mr. Perrine, ’95, has accepted a position at Springs,
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PERSONALS.
Mss O'BRIEN, of Catskill, called Nov. 14,
Mrs. Stowe, of Clyde, visited Miss Stowe, ’97, Nov.
842.
Miss Hanna, ’96, spent Thanksgiving in New York
city.
Miss Reed, ’96, has returned after a two weeks’ ab-
sence.
Miss Clark, from the Regents’ office, visited College
Nov. 19.
Miss Snell, of St. Johnsville, visited Miss Tarr, '96,
Nov. 12.
Mr. Sprague, '96, visited relatives in West Troy, Nov.
27 to Dec. 2.
Miss Dunn, '97, visited relatives in Cohoes during
the vacation.
Miss Pratt, ’96, spent Thanksgiving with cousins in
‘Amsterdam.
Miss Robb, ’97, spent the week of Nov. 4 at her home
in Staatsburg.
Mrs. Perkins, of Amsterdam, visited Miss Perkins,
"96, Nov. 4-8.
Miss Morton spent Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 with her aunt
in Schenectady.
Miss Russell attended the Institute at Irvington, Sat-
urday, Nov. 16.
Miss Moser, '96, spent the Thanksgiving vacation in
New York city. ‘
Miss Beaty, ’97, visited her aunt in Johnsonville dur-
ing the vacation.
Miss Weston and Miss Morey have returned to com+
plete their course.
Mr. C. A. Van Auken visited College with Mr. Van
Allen, ’97, Nov. 4.
Mr. G. S. Becker, of Valatie, spent Nov. 3-4 with
Mr. Rockefeller, °96.
Miss Alice Hunt, of Warrenville, visited her sister,
Miss Hunt, ’97, Nov. 27.
Mr. William Sproul, of Fairport, spent Thanksgiv-
ing with Mrs. Sproul, ’97.
Miss Stoneman took Miss Hine’s place in the draw-
ing department Nov. 12-15.
Mr. John Martin, of Springville, visited College with
Mr. Krull, "96, Nov. 25.
Miss Howes, '96, spent the Thanksgiving vacation
with her sister in Carlisle, Penn.
Miss Alma Fraats, a former student of the College,
called at the kindergarten Dec. 6.
Miss Todd, who was obliged to leave College on ac-
count of ill health, visited us Dec. 9-
Miss Mary MacDonald, of Johnstown, spent Dec.
5-6 with her sister, Miss MacDonald, ’96.
Miss Anna Wood, ’96, spent Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 with
Mr. W. A. McConnell and wife at Kingston.
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Miss Wilson, ’96, visited Miss Helen Hamilton, ’96,
at her home in Greenwich, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Mrs. Dodds, a former graduate at the College, is tak-
ing a course in the kindergarten department.
Miss Frances Hayes, superyisor of the public kinder-
gartens of Albany, visited our kindergarten Dec. 5.
Miss Stetson, '97, has left College, having trouble
with her eyes, but she expects to return in February.
The family of Mr. Krull, 96, has returned to Albany
after a visit of some weeks at their home in Clarence
Centre.
Mr. Sime, '97, resumed work Dec. 4. Weare glad
to see him back after his enforced vacation of several
weeks.
Hon. W. J. Youngs, a member of Legislature, wife
and daughter, from Oyster Bay, L. I., visited the Kin-
dergarten Nov. 19.
Mr. Ben Moore, of Wolcott, visited his cousin, Miss
Bradshaw, ’96, and accompanied her to New York city
to spend Thanksgiving.
Mr. Long, ’96, and Miss Long, ’96, were called to
their home in New Scotland Dec. 2 for a few days on
account of their mother’s illness.
Mr. E. C. Delavan, who attended college last year,
was married early in November to Miss Eva Reese, at
Evans Mills, They are living in Ilion.
Among those who had the privilege of being home
Thanksgiving, we have learned of the following:
Misses Willard, ’96; Crissey, ’96; Northrup, '96; Orr,
"96; Deane, ’96; Cain, '97; Fitzpatrick, ’97; Boughton,
"96; Gagen, ’96; Huntley, ’97; Lyon, '97; Moir ‘97;
Birch, ’96; Moss, ’96; Sullivan, 96; Geirsback, ’97;
Hayes, ’97; Cassidy, '97; Young, ’96; Snyder, ’96;
Wood, ’96; Montfort, ’97; Hunter, ’96; B. Smith,’ 96;
J. Hamilton,’ 96; Pickens, '97; Gibb, '97; Senior, '973
Tarr, '96; Desmond, '96; Oakley, '97; Bacon ’97; Foote,
97; McClintock, '96; Gregory, ’97; Kelley, '97; Veeder,
96; MacDonald, ’96; Breen, ’97; Toohey, '96; May
Toohey, 96; Eckerly, ’97; Daly, ’97; Wingate, ’97;
Goodman, ’97; H. Hamilton, ’96. Messrs. Rockefeller,
796; Dougan, ’96; Millar, ’96; Parker, ’96; Center, ’96;
Ferguson, "96; Woodard, ’96; Bloomer, ’97 and Arm-
strong, '97-
ERRY bells are ringing now,
Ringing loud and clear;
Music wakes the sleeping earth,
Christmas time is here.
Let us catch the tuneful strain,
Let us join the sweet refrain,
Christmas time has come again
Merry Christmas time. ss
—SmLEcTED,
HIGH-SCHOOL NOTES.
ISS SCHNEIDER hasbeen absent about two weeks.
Miss Greenhalgh visited school Nov. 11.
Mr. Radley is absent on account of illness.
Quite a number of the class-roomshave been changed
since examinations.
Mr. Hunt, who has been teaching at Sampsonville, is
with us again,
Miss Carrier of Pittsfield, Mass., visited Miss Ambler
Nov. 22-25.
The H. S. clock has passed its examination and is
now in its usual place.
Miss Ruso and Miss Morey are absent on account of
Ilness,
Miss Taylor, who has been absent some time, has re-
turned.
Mr. Vandenburgh has resumed work after a week’s
absence,
Mr. Putnam spent Thanksgiving at his home in
Pittsfield.
Miss Nichols and Miss Ambler are unable to be with
us on account of illness.
We are glad to see Miss Du Bois back, after an ab-
sence of some weeks.
Four new members have lately been initiated in the
Adelphoi society.
Miss Archibald visited our classes December 9.
Miss Nellie Harding was with Miss Murray Nov. 13.
Miss Maude Keator has gone to New Paltz.
Mr. Nicholas De Voe end Mr. W. Tygert are not
with us on account of illness.
ALL SORTS.
OY, joy forever! Our tasks are done !
We're going home: vacation’s come.
May —Just think, Bob is playing on the Yale foot-
ball team !
Clara — That's jolly. What is he, half-back or quar-
ter-back ?
May —Neither. He’s a draw-back. Charley Pruy-
enne says he is the greatest draw-back the team ever
had.— Youth's Companion.
A good, highly recommended tonic for delinquent
students—catchup.— The Calendar.
Query: Does the student who habitually has the
night-mare disobey the rule if he takes a ride?
“Johnny,” said his teacher, “if your father can do a
piece of work in seven days, and your Uncle George
can do it in nine days, how long will it take both of
them to do it?” “They'd never get it done,” said
Johnny, ‘They'd sit down and tell fish stories.”—
‘Academy Graduate.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
To single blessedness inclined,
I pay my way;
When thoughts of marriage fill my mind,
I weigh my pay.—The Vidette.
Heard in the geometry room:
“All ye who enter here leave hope behind.
Blessed is he who taketh not geometry.”
—School Bell Echoes.
‘A hammock hung in the dim, dark shade,
Its occupant is just one maid.
A college fellow, a likely son,
He lost his heart, and the maid won.
A few months later the deed is done,
Some brief words spoken--they’re made one.
Professor in Cicero— Give the parts of ‘ occido.’”
Advanced student —“‘Occido, occidere, o(k)iddi,
o(k)iss 'um.—Zz.
Purdy —“ Was that you I saw buying fifteen dollars
worth of handkerchief’s yesterday?”
Mills — “* Yes, it was, why?’
Purdy—‘ Nothing, but wasn’t that a pile of stuff to
blow in?”— Zz.
“The melancholy days have come,”
Of which you have often read,
When folks get in their winter coal
And the butter will not spread.
—University Herald.
“Do you like geometry?” she asked. “Yes,” he
replied, ‘‘when I am allowed to prove that nothing
bounded by acurved line is equal to bliss.”
She heard them giving the college yell,
For joy she scarce could speak;
She cried, “Oh, father listen to
The boys a talking Greek.”— he Cue.
‘A student of chemistry wants to know if a man who
has fallen into a tub of white-wash can be considered a
white precipitate—Zx.
In chemistry class— pupil at the board ready to
work :
Teacher — “ What do you take up first?”
Heard from the back seat, “Chalk.”
Professor in mineralogy“ What is one of the most
important ores nowadays?”
Student — ‘Stroke ore” (oar).
Teacher—“‘ Give the derivation of the word ‘ equi-
nox,”
Pupil —“ Oh! that’s easy enough. It comes from
the Latin ewes, meaning horse, and nox, meaning
night. Therefore, the words mean night-mare.
ACHRISTMAS DECISION.
2/WAS close to the Christmas vacation,
With the problem of gifts near at hand,
When the funds are most carefully counted,
To be sure supply equals demand.
And up ina small cozy chamber,
(The wind told me this—I’ll tell you)
‘A maiden sat thinking intently,
As to ‘what in the world” she should do.
“T must get papa a nice present,”
She murmured in tones sad and low,
“And Bess and mamma and the others,
’Twon’t do to let any one go.
My purse is ’most empty already,
T’ve bought so much candy this fall,
I haven't the time to embroider,
Oh ! what shall I get for them all?
I almost believe I must give them
Some old things I’ve had given me;
They won’t know but what they are new ones,
What have [a lot of? let’s see.”
Again there was a silence—she pondered
Her possessions she tried to recall,
“What have I the most of? I have it!
A method 1’ll give to them all.”
Mary Burries, 97.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
ICTURES AND STATUARY of high order are
silent educators — sources of inspiration that lead
us from the sole thought for our mortal clay to higher,
nobler action.— Vormal Exponent.
It is high time that a general protest should be made
against the enormous amount of written work, note-
taking, outlining, etc., that it is now the fashion to re-
quire in nearly every grade of school work. We believe
in getting the very best text-book to be had on a given
subject, and then in mastering that before the pupil is
burdened with written outlines, supplementary notes,
etc., etc. In the majority of cases this outline and sup-
plementary work is all twaddle and nonsense and worse
than useless. In this day of rapid and cheap printing
and book-making there is no good excuse for so much
note-taking. Life is too short for pupils to waste it in
such foolishness. If there is no text-book in your sub-
ject good enough for you, write one yourself and have
it printed, but do not, if you have any love for human.
ity, attempt to foist it upon already overburdened pupils
in the shape of notes and outlines.— The School Record.
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The aim of education is broad. But there are em-
bodied in it many special aims that must be recalled
from time to time, particularly when the conditions of
the times demand it. One of them needing especial
consideration just now is, that the schools must,
through training, instruction, and government, develop
patriotism.—The Teachers’ Institute.
The new Temperance Law was discussed at the Super-
intendent’s Council meeting at Newburgh. The Schoo?
Bulletin contains an account of that meeting.
“The efficiency of a teacher, then, does not depend
so much upon the knowledge he imparts as upon the
habits he induces.”— The Crucible.
The Constitution of the State of Utah grants women
the privilege to vote.
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
MERS” CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
The New Education contains many hints for teachers.
‘The love story in the High School Reeorder was very
interesting.
There is a whole peck of advice in “ Our Girls,” in
Rocky Mountain Collegian.
One very pleasing feature of The Calendar is the de-
partment, college correspondence.
Surely all the teachers who read he School Journal
are filled with Christmas thoughts.
‘The Art Education could not have chosen a more ap-
propriate name, for the paper is verily an education in
art.
The Racquet is smaller than some papers, but what
it does have on its pages is always of an excellent
quality.
From the article“ Dangers that Threaten our Govern-
ment,” in Zhe Hermonite, we judge that the author is, or
will be, a “« properly qualified” voter.
Much has been written about Dr. Pasteur since his
death. The Normal College Echo of New York city has
an interesting article concerning the value of Dr. Pas-
teur’s work, with reference to its value to the scientific
world.
We acknowledge The Omnium Gatherum, The Poly-
technic, University Forum, The College Forum, The Stu-
dent, Our Times, Youths’ Companion, The Monthly Vis-
,, Princeville Academy Sol, The Tattler, and The
misher.
We regret that the Pacific Wave had cause for criti-
cising the September issue. Taking into consideration
the form in which the article appeared, we feel that they
had just cause for so doing. However, we hope that the
succeeding numbers have convinced them that it was
a mistake, not a theft.
The Normal Forum is filled with good material.
“What men want isnot talent; it is purpose” interested us
“Success is the natural result of well-directed action.
Purpose is man’s helm, guiding him in his every move
ment toward his goal. Without it all his powers, be
they ever so great, cannot keep him from being turned
and drifted away by storms and waves, and he must be
turned into port by others,”
If we would but pause and think, there are two chains
in our lives, the golden chain of happiness of which
each link represents a passed pleasure, and every day
we are adding a link. For one has said, “The links of
small pleasures complete the great chain of happiness.”
The other is the leaden chain of unhappiness. Each
link presents to our minds a disappointment or sorrow,
that perhaps some one has forced upon us thoughtlessly;
these links are also added to every day.—Z'vhe Stranger.
Almost every day we meet men that intellectually
have gone to seed. Their remarks are dry, uninterest-
ing and pedantic, and their company is not inspiring.
‘The trouble is, they have dried up all the fountains of
spirit and enthusiasm by too close relationship with the
arid plains of abstruse science, far-fetched philosophy
and theoretic psychology. Such men should be closely
confined in asylums where they cannot pour their buck-
ets of cold water down the back of the enthusiastic ma-
jority. Young men, avoid such a mental condition;
steer clear of pedantry in every form; keep yourselves
alert and active and in touch with the progressive ele-
ment in the world.— The Normal News.
“A College Library” is the title of an article in Zhe
People. This article is full of suggestive thoughts. We
clip the two closing paragraphs.
“Our libraries are to be our colleges after we have
left our Alma Mater; if we make good use of books
now, our education by their means later on, will be ren-
dered more easy. If, on the contrary, they have been
neglected by us, we shall be compelled, if we wish to
acquire even the semblance of an education, to go back
over the same road we should have traversed years be-
fore, under the added disadvantage of being obliged to
undo the carelessly performed work of our earlier
years.
“Tn college we are but beginning to train for our real
education, which does not begin until we have won our
degree. And just as when an athlete is training for a
race of any kind, he endeavors to take that exercise
which will best fit him for success in it, so ought we, as
we are but beginning to train for our real education, to
take such mental exercise in the use of a library as will
help us to be learned men. If the proper training is
neglected, then we cannot expect success but defeat.”
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COLLEGE NOTES.
TIS expected that fifty more pupils can be accomo-
dated at Sage College than before it was enlarged.
Two hundred American colleges publish papers.
The American students in France number nearly 2000,
The Yale Medical Course has been extended to four
years.
The number of A. B’s who have graduated at Bryn
Maur is 145.
The study of all branches except that of English is
optional at Harvard.
On Nov. 22, the state inter-collegiate press associa
tion met at Syracuse.
The president of the University of Rochester, David
J. Hill, has resigned.
Vassar has graduated twenty-nine classes. The total
number of graduates is 1182.
The library and herbarium of the late Prof. D. C.
Eaton have been given to Yale.
The University of Chicago now admits high school
graduates without examination.
‘The work on the new building for the medical de-
part of Syracuse University is progressing rapidly.
Sheffield Scientific school at Yale has a chemical
laboratory completed a short time ago, the cost of which
was $135,000. Many pieces of apparatus have been ex-
ported from Europe to fit it up.
REVIEWS.
‘The Review of Reviews for December, in its “ Progress of the
World’ department, plunges as usual into the discussion of import-
ant current topics. “The assembling of the Fifty-fourth Congress,
at home, and the disturbed condition of Turkey and some of the
European povrers at this moment present questions which eall for
extended comment this month. The editor also devotes several
patagraphs to the boundary dispute between Great Britain and
Venezuela, and the results of the recent elections in various States
are reviewed and summarized,
England's claim to be considered an “ American power” is ques-
tioned, the Review taking the ground that the mere holding of pos-
sessions in Sonth America does not in itself constitute Great Britain
a South American power.
A striking and suggestive article by Robert J. Finley in the De-
cember Review of Reviews, on The Cartoon in Politics,” gives
the outline of the recent campaign in New York as it appeared in
current caricature.
‘The extraordinary interest in Senator Sherman's book is ampl®
justification of the sixteen-page review of that work, Simon Po-ka-
xon, of the Pottawattomies, contributes a brief, statement of his
views about the Indian Territory “Squaw Men” and the question
of Indian reservations. His article is sententious and direct and
withal not lacking in the picturesque phraseology of the Indian's
language.
‘The subject of this month’s character sketch in the Review of Re~
views is Mr. HerbertSpencer, The sketch was written by an in-
timate friend whose indentity is not disclosed. It is the most com-
plete record of the great philosopher's life and achievements that
has yet appeared.
‘The complete novel in the December issue ot Lispincott’'s is the
“ Old Silver Trail,” by Mary E. Stickney. Tt deals with Colorado
mining life, with Strikes, plots, and various underground, proceed
ings, as well as with scenery and mountain breezes. The hero
loves his enemy's daughter, and his pluck and manliness triumph
over many obstacles.
The scene of "* Bennett's Partner,” by James Knapp Reeve, is in
a wild and lonesome part of the great West, which lends ‘itself
Ralurally to exciting adventures. ‘Harry Stillwell Edwards, ina
striking tale, shows Where the Glues Met,” which was in Georgia.
“ Three Fates,” as outlined by Virna Woods, are varying fortunes
which would, or might, have befallen the California heroine, ac-
cording to which of thrée suitors she married. The End of Cap-
tain Ferguson,” by Beulah Marie Dix, is a brief but vivid sketch,
in the modera heroic manner, from old’ wars in Germany.
“English Medieval Life” is pleasantly described by Alvan F.
Sanborn, and “ Athletic Sports of Ancient Days,” apropos of the
coming revival of the Olympic Gamesat Athens, by Thomas James
dela Hunt, Lyman Horace Weeks gives an account of Japanese
Sword-Lore.”” As a pendant to these foreign topics, William Cecil
Blam tells of * Gunning for Gobblers ” in Virginia,'and Lawrence
Irwell of ‘ Orchids,” now so much cultivated among us. Calvin
Dill Wilson enumerates the various kinds of “ Meats” eaten in ail
Parts of the earth.
Under the title * Opposing View-Points,” Frederic M. Bird con-
siders the question whether editor and’ contributor are natural
enemies.
“Shrived,” by Margaret Gilman George, is an unusually suc
cessful revival of the old pallad style, handling a delicate. subject
with vigor and feeling. ‘The other poems of this number are by
Elizabeth Harman, Alice I, Eaton, and Carrie Blake Morgan,
‘With characteristic timeliness The North American Review for
December opens with a symposium on “The Work of the Next
Congress,” which is discussed by such eminent authorities as M.
‘Hazeltine: Representatives ‘Thomas C. Catchings, of Miss-
issippi: Jonathan P. Dolliver, of Iowa; George N. Southwick, of
New York, and John C. Bell, of Colorado. Mrs. Lynn Linton
writes on “Cranks and Crazes,” vigorously depicting the various
fads of modern times, and Prof. N. 8. Shaler contributesa though.
ful paper on '*The Last Gift of the Century.” ‘The Rt, Hon, Lord
Norton who has devoted a great part of his life to the study of
mendicancy in Great Britain, tells“ How London Deals With Beg-
gars.” The '' Results of the’ Bering Sea Arbitration” are carefully
Considered by the Hon, John W.. Foster, ex-Secretary of State,
while Prof. Goldwin Smith, in ‘*Christianity’s Millstone,” elo-
quently=contends that the books of the Old Testament are simply
Uistorical books devoid of any religious inspiration. | Our Bene~
fits from the Nicaragua Canal” are logically set forth by Arthur
Silva White fand in the “ Personal History of the Second Empire.””
Mr, Albert D, Vandam appropriately devotes the twelfth and con-
cluding installment to “'’The End of the Empire.” Dr. Louis
Robinson furnishes another clever paper on “ Wild Traits in Tame
Animals,” this time choosing as his subject “The Pig.” An im-
ortant, paper is that by the Clerk of the House of Commons, Sir
eginald F. D. Palgrave, K.C. B., who in ‘The House of Repre-
sentatives and the House’of Commion ” defines the difference in the
procedure between these two great bodies. Other topics dealt
pith are © Gongress and the Next Paris Exposition,” by Theodore
Stanton; “Some Memories of a Great Lawyer,” by W.
and" A’ Plea for the English Wife,” by E. M.’ Nicholl. A care
fully compiled Index to the one hundred and sixty-first volume ac
companies the number.
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“Elementary Lessons in Zoology.” written by James G. Need-
ham, is intended for use in those schools desiring to follow the
scientific method in the study of elementary zoology. It is de-
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and environment, than as a text to be committed.
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‘: Paychology in Education,» is published by the American Book
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of the author in writing it, being to quicken the interest in mind
study as applied to education.
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Because of long experience in training teachers, the writer in
presenting the subject, is enabled to combine practical experience
with the knowledge of the needs of teachers as learned from obser-
vation. He claims that psychology sustains the relation to edu-
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practice of medicine; and that the teacher should know why he
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