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Normal College Echo
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ALBANY, N, Y., DECEMBER, 1892
No. 5
THE
NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO
PusiisHep MontTHLy By THE STUDENTS,
Terms — 1.00 per annum, in advance ; $1.25 when not paid
by February rst; single copies, 15 cents.
Board of Editors.
Henry Emerson ApAms, '93, Editor-in-chief.
G. C. Srreerer, ’o4. ANNA Brett, '93.
E. E. Ra "93. Autce H, Hau
Mererrr EB. Newsury, '93, Mnancial Editor.
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Contributions and items of interest are earnestly solicited
from students, graduates, and others.
Address matter designed for publication to the Editor-in-
chief, business communications to the Financial Editor,
NORMAL CoLLEGs Ecuo, College Building, Albany, N. Y.
Press of Brandow Printing Company, Albany, N. Y.
ALBANY, N. ¥., DECEMBER, 182.
S the Christmas time approaches, one of
the questions that arise in the mind is:
How long has the world had this glorious
festival day?
Long, long before the Christian era the
people of heathen nations regarded the win-
ter solstice as the most important point of the
year—the time which marked the beginning
of renewed life and activity, not only of the
powers of nature, but of the gods of nature
themselves.
This was a time of great festivity among
Celts, Germans and Romans. And when the
early Christian church began to celebrate the
birthday of our Saviour they chose to let this
winter solstice represent the time of the com-
ing, the time of renewed life and hope and
progress for the human race.
With thoughtfulness, as well as with glee,
should we look forward to this time of gifts,
of peace and good-will to all mankind.
‘THE lack of that spirit of amity, and
unanimity which is so much to be de-
sired in our colleges, is keenly felt in some
of our institutions of learning. By college
spirit we mean, a general feeling of good
fellowship among the students, a willing
activity in and support of all worthy move-
ments inaugurated by them, loyalty to the
college in all its connections, an aroused
enthusiasm in its organizations, a less con-
sideration of self and more of interest in the
student-body and that which it represents.
Youth is the period of life in which such
manifestations are expected, the absence of
which is so often indicative of failure in life
caused by want of animation and energy.
That this spirit is productive of much good
is easily perceived where it exists. The
student-body coming from different grades of
society, is brought together on a common
level, The barriers which would naturally
arise are removed. All are benefited, for
associations have much to do with progress.
We know such an atmosphere assists in
producing more clever men and women. A
vibratory wave is set in motion, animation
exists, the honor and reputation of the col-
lege is held inremembrance. It does more—
it engenders such a love and reverence for the
“educational home” that the alumnus mani-
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fests it not only in thought and occasional
presence but by his munificent gifts.
All encouragement then of that fraternal
spirit which is true, noble and lofty!
ERY much is being done at the present
time to awaken the interest of the young
reader in such a way as shall lead him to
investigate for himself, It is largely through
stories from the world of nature that this is
accomplished. The child is initiated into the
mysteries of the animal and vegetable life.
He becomes acquainted with their forms and
habits. His imagination is quickened, his
brain becomes active and he longs to know
more of the world in which he lives. Study
is thus a pleasure and the acquisition of
knowledge a pastime. It was with this
thought in view that the volume lying before
us, ‘‘Leaves From Nature’s Story Book,”
was written by Mrs, M. A, B. Kelly, who last
year resigned her position as teacher of Com-
position and Natural History at the college in
order to devote her time to literary work.
The book is written in a most entertaining
and interesting style, and all the stories so
finely illustrated that it can not but be a
delightful, and at the same time, a very
instructive book for the young student.
We note the following as typical of the
work: ‘‘A Visit to the Bottom of the Ocean,”
admirably written and illustrated; also ‘‘ The
Records of the Rocks,” ‘‘Our Sam and His
Friends” making us acquainted with the
squirrel family; ‘A Botanical Baby,” a
prettily written poem descriptive of the horse-
chestnut bud, amusingly illustrated. Bird
life is made interesting in “‘A Bird With a
Gold Ring” and ‘‘ Three Little Stepmothers.”
We understand the volume (No. III) is
having a remarkable sale; although having
been published but a few weeks, over three
thousand copies have been already sold. It
has been adopted in the Boston schools, the
Oswego normal, and soon to be in our own
college.
Volumes I and II, for younger pupils, are
now in press and will soon be published. ‘‘A
‘Holmes’ Echo” and “A Bear Possibility,”
found among our verse in this issue, are taken
from the advanced sheets of these volumes.
It is with great pleasure that we note the
success crowning the efforts of one who has
so recently been connected with our institu-
tion; and, with the author, we hope the
study of nature through these books may
enable the student to attain to that high degree
of scholarship that finds ‘‘sermons in stones,
books in the running brooks, and good in
everything.”
E have before us, on the table, The
Fraternal World, the first number of
a monthly to be published in this city — Her-
bert H. Taylor, editor. While it is a journal
more especially for members of secret societies
and their families, yet, with its many articles
of merit, it will not fail to interest the general
reader, It is arranged in a most pleasing and
readable style. We feel assured a journal of
such high merit will be successful and fill
a long felt need.
ACATION is at hand, and the time is fast
approaching when we shall enjoy the
welcome of friends at home and the festivities
of Christmas time. It is the purpose of the
editors of the Ecuo to extend with this issue
to its subscribers and to the students of the
college a merry Christmas and a happy New
Year with a wish for many returns of these
happy events.
'O feel right is more important than to
think right.
To do right is more important than to feel
right.
To desire right is more important than to
do right.
And to be right is the end and issue of all.
—Christian Union.
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For the Ecuo.
A NEW YEAR’S REVERY.
HEARD the music of the wave,
As it rippled to the shore;
And saw the willow branches lave,
As light winds swept them o'er;
‘The music of the golden bow
‘That did the torrent span;
But I heard a sweeter music flow
From the youthful heart of man.
‘The waves rushed on; the hues of heaven
Fainter and fainter grew;
And deeper melodies were given
As swift the changes flew:
‘Then came a shadow on my sight,
‘The golden bow was dim:
And he that laughed beneath its light,
‘What was the change to him?
I saw him not: only a throng
Like the swell of troubled ocean,
g, sinking, swept along
In the tempest’s wild commotion:
Sleeping, dreaming, waking then,
Chains to link or sever;
‘Turning to the dream again,
Fain to clasp it ever.
Ri
‘There was a rush upon my brain,
A darkness on my eye;
And when I turned to gaze again
‘The mingled forms were nigh;
In shadowy mass a mighty hall
Rose on the fitful scene;
Flowers, music, gems were flung o'er all,
Not such as once had been.
Then in its mists far, far away,
A phantom seemed to be;
‘The something of a gone-by day,
But oh, how changed was he!
He rose beside the festal board,
Where sat the merry throng;
And as the purple juice he poured
‘Thus woke his wassail song —
Come! while with wine the goblets flow,
For wine, they say, has power to bless;
And flowers too—not roses, no!
Bring poppies, bring forgetfulness!
A Lethe for each departed bliss,
And each too well remembered scene:
Earth has no sweeter draught than this
Which drowns the thought of what has been.
Here's to the heart’s cold iciness,
Which cannot smile, but will not sigh,
If wine can bring a chill like this,
Come, fill for me the goblet high,
Come, and the cold, the false, the dead,
Shall never cross our revelry;
We'll kiss the wine cup sparkling red
And snap the chain of memory.
THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL.
ALL day long, over the face of heaven hung
nature’s mourning veil—a cloud, And
now, at even, her tears of consecrated sorrow
fall softly to the sympathetic earth in purest
snowflakes. A dreary day had it been to Ben
Eme who sits in his richly furnished room
before the open fireplace, watching the glow-
ing coals and reading in the fantastic forms
there fashioned the story of a life. Ben Eme
sits alone, The deep brown eyes, though
much of kindness still gleams forth, are
shadowed by the memory of long years of
selfishness; the mouth that might smile a
pleasant greeting is drooped with the weight of
a sad reflection.
“What matter if another Christmas eve has
come, the morrow brings no gift to me? It
matters not that I have wealth, knowledge,
friends, since the only gift I crave is withheld.
Of what value my knowledge if I have no child
to profit by it; of what use my wealth, if I
have no child, when I leave it, as I must, after
a few more Christmas eves have come and
gone? Why may I not have one, only one,
little child to love, and by whom to be loved!”
The glow dies away; he has read the story
to the end.
A strange mellow light fills the room. Ben
Eme feels a gentle touch and looking up be-
holds the Christmas angel. ‘‘Come!” Ben
Eme follows, out of the room, through the
hall, out into the street, beyond the city
limits, farther and still farther. Surely that
is the home of his childhood; there the chest-
nut tree in which he found the squirrel’s nest;
and this the house of one of his father’s ten-
ants,— his tenants now, ‘‘Why do you stop
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here?” ‘‘ Look,” answers the Christmas angel.
Ben Eme looks into a meagerly furnished
room within the weather-worn building before
which they stand, and sees the family of one
of his workmen. The little ones are scantily
clothed; there is no look of eager expectation
of what the good St. Nicholas is to leave them,
on their sober faces. Ben Eme and the angel
visit another and another of these dwellings.
The same joyless scene is presented in each.
“You ask for one child to love; to-night I
have shown you many children to love and by
whom to be loved.”
Ben Eme sits once more before the fireplace.
As the Christmas angel fades from his vision
the glad bells ring out,
“Peace on the earth; to men, good will!”
= a x x * * *
Years have passed and it is again Christmas
eve. Ben Eme is no longer alone. He stands
before the rail in the little chapel which his
wealth has built, bright with cheerful colored
carpet and festoons of evergreens. Behind
the rail the branches of a beautiful Christmas
tree are bending beneath the load of gifts
which his bounty has provided, that grows
lighter and lighter as each happy child comes
to receive its token of affection from the hand
of the well beloved Ben Eme. As he looks
into their youthful faces and listens to their
sweet voices while they joyfully sing his
favorite carol,
«Hark! a burst of heavenly music
From a band of seraphs bright,
Suddenly to earth descending,
In the calm and silent night,”
there is a wealth of gratitude in his heart for
the infinite blessing in bestowing love and
happiness on these little ones for the sake of
Him who was once a child.
x & * * % * *
Ben Eme sits before the grate, but he reads
a different story in the fire to-night. The
glow deepens, widens, softens, and the face
of the Christmas angel looks forth with a smile
of heavenly joy while the glad bells ring out,
‘Peace on the earth; to men, good will!”
E. Corney.
TENNYSON’S POSTHUMOUS VOLUME.
ORD TENNYSON'S posthumous volume is
a fitting close to aminstrelsy of over sixty
years, The last volume of Tennyson! We
can hardly realize the meaning of those words.
For half a century, five years have not elapsed
without his making some contribution to poesy
which has been a literary event. Now that
the sweet voice is hushed in death, only time
can tell how long before another master shall
wake such song.
The contents of this volume will come to be
ranked, we think, quite as high as the poet’s
best verse. The present limits will only per-
mit a short review. ‘‘The Death of Ginone”
is given the place of honor. This poem takes
rank among the classical idyls, from the
earlier GEnone down to ‘‘Demeter and Per-
sephone,” which Tennyson students love. ‘St,
Telemachus,” the next poem, ‘is a noble ex-
ample of blank verse.
eastern anchorite was called to Rome by a
vision and suffered death in the arena thereby
ending gladiatorial combat.
“‘Akbar’s Dream” is the longest of the
poems in this collection. The life of a great
Mogul emperor, a Marcus Aurelius of the
East, is its theme. It is mainly a monologue
in blank verse in which the great emperor
defends his policy of religious toleration, the
occasion of his martyrdom. ‘‘ The Bandit’s
Death,” and ‘‘Charity” are ballads of great
dramatic intensity. The beauty of ‘‘The
Bandit’s Death” is excelled by nothing in
Tennyson without it be ‘‘ Rizpah” which has
been unanimously called the poet's finest
ballad, ‘ Mechanophilus,” a short poem sug-
gested by the introduction of the railway, is
an example of how the poet moulds the
triumphs of civilization to his art, In the
master’s hands science becomes poetry.
‘Riflemen Form,” a beautiful lyric of earlier
composition, is given here by request. All
familiar with “‘The Foresters” will welcome
the exquisite lyric ‘‘The Bee and the Flower.”
The lines upon the death of the Duke of
It recounts how an
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Clarence again show Tennyson’s beautiful
Christian conception of the meaning of the
end of life. No poet has written more or better
upon the subject of death.
The note to which the whole volume is
attuned is faith. Strike that key and a
thousand answering chords awake. Years
have added strength to the poet’s belief in the
process of the suns. It is the old note so
often sounded, Spring follows Winter, but
sounded with greater volume. This serene
optimism scorns ‘‘the barren sophistries of
confortable moles” and looks evil squarely in
the face. Four poems of the present collec-
tion partake particularly of this prophetic
nature but space forbids separate mention.
The quartette of poems declare that we are
only living in the dawn of time and that the
past may be but a moment compared to the
ages to follow. The majesty of the poet’s
prophetic strain breaks forth in the grand
symphony: ‘(The Making of Man.” The
following lines reach the zenith of sublimity
and almost awe the listener. It is a message
to coming ages. The seer has made his vis-
ion ours:
“ Where is one, that born of woman, altogether can
escape
From the lower world within him, mood of tiger, or
of ape?
Man as yet is being made, and ere the crowning
Age of ages,
Shall not aeon after aeon pass and touch him into
shape?
“ All about him shadow still, but, while the races
flower and fade,
Prophet-eyes may catch a glory slowly gaining on
the shade,
Till the people all are one, and all their voices
blend in chorie
Hallelujah to the Maker, ‘It is finished. Man is
made.’”
Harvard college gave Whittier the honorary
degree of A.M. in 1860, and in 1866, at the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebra-
tion of the college, he received the degree of
LL.D.
NEW YEAR'S DAY.
OW tell what post shall be our last?
Behind in dim perspective seen,
Are stretched the mile-posts we have past,
Before dark shadows intervene.
Wouldst thou this passing mile-post view ?
Alas, it gives our years now flown;
But oh, of years to come no clue,
Behold an index-hand alone!
A BEAR POSSIBILITY.
A BEAR and a zebra once met in a show,
But they both were locked fast in their cages;
“ Halloa,” cried the zebra, ‘friend Bruin, halloa,
Why, we two haven't spoken for ages!”
“The fault is not mine,” said the bear with a growl,
“ Bor this bedlam is not of my seeking;
‘That wolf, at my tight there, does nothing but howl,
‘And this parrot will never stop shrieking.
“The old clumsy elephant travels about,
While his trunk in the air he keeps switching:
And that cage of snakes, with their forked tongues
run out,
Have just set all my poor nerves a twitching.
“But you, my fair zebra, I long to embrace,
For I love you as I love my brother;
And should we some day, meet alone, face to face,
Then I’d hug you”—“‘to death,” said the other.
M. A. B, Kuity.
A “HOLMES” ECHO.
ARK! Hear you not that long, shrill strain ?
‘Where is the singer hid?
T’'ve looked, and looked, but all in vain.
Where are you? ‘Katy-did”
Comes back in answer to my call.
“Did what? Did what?” ery.
But “Katy-did,” and that is all
He gives me in reply.
Please tell me Katy’s other name,
I really want to know;
For should I find her much to blame,
It would not vex me so.
‘To whom does this strange Kate belong,
Is she your little wife ?
And have you sung that noisy song
‘Through all your married life ?
And thus I question; but in vain,
For in the darkness hid,
He utters not another strain,
But that shrill “Katy-did.”
M. A. B. Kexty.
Dr. 0, W. Homes made a “wrong guess” on the female
Katy-did. ‘It is the male only that sings,
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CHRISTMAS RENEWALS.
YE who dearly love each other,
Sister and friend and brother,
In this fast fading year
Mother and sire and child,
Young man and maiden mild,
Come gather here:
And let your hearts grow fonder
As memory shall ponder
Each past unbroken vow.
Old loves and younger wooing
Are sweet in the renewing
Under the holly bough.
TO LOVE.
NCE Love among the roses
Spied not the hiding bee,
It stung poor Cupid's finger,
‘Then flew away in glee.
Love running to his mother
With his dainty outstretched arms,
Sobbed on her breast his sorrows,
And screamed his wild alarms.
“Mother, a naughty wingéd snake
‘The farmers call the bee,
With its swift and stinging arrow,
Has shot and wounded me.”
“Ah! Cupid,” answered Venus,
“You think you suffer aught ?
What woe to mortal beings,
Have thy flying arrows brought?”
From Anacreon, Evizavern M. Sumeeite,
ECHOES.
S KATING.
Vacation.
Rings versus pins.
The commencement season approaches-
Who will commence?
The last month of Leap year.—‘‘A word
to the wise is sufficient.”
Make yourself a Christmas present by sub*
scribing for the college paper.
The Christmas vacation commences Friday,
December 23,and ends Monday, January 2, ’93.
Many of the students will be able to reach
their homes Thursday.
A party visiting the Dudley observatory
lately, claim to have seen that much-talked-of
comet.
The cap and gown bill is among the latest
which have been laid upon the shelf by the
would-be graduates.
The so-called slang expression ‘‘too thin”
originated from the classical pen of Shakes-
peare.
The graduating class now meet President
Milne every Thursday afternoon in chapel.
We are greatly indebted to Prof. Wetmore
for our scientific notes.
Dr. R. V. K. Montfort, supt. of schools,
Newburgh, visited the college December 8.
Professor Warren, principal of the Boys’
academy, Albany, was at the college Decem-
ber r.
A number of the students took part in a
concert given by the Congregational church
of East Albany, Thursday, December 8.
The Albany Kindergarten Teachers’ Associ-
ation held its regular monthly meeting at the
college, Saturday afternoon, December ro.
By the development method, an isosceles
triangle was defined as, a triangle which is
not lame. This definition doubtless surpasses
any given by Webster or Worcester, and will
probably be adopted by the best authorities.
A student in reading the motto “‘ Love God,
your country, and one another,” omitted the
syllable an-. The questions now are—was it
intentional, and is such an interpretation of
the motto permissable?
One of the many proofs that the Ecuo is a
literary masterpiece is that it bears out so well
the law of suggestiveness, It suggests far
more than it expresses.
The Latin seminary class has taken up for
its consideration the Commentaries of Cesar,
and under the direction of Prof Bartlett is
studying exhaustively this writer’s forms and
construction,
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The announcement of ‘‘lost” and ‘‘found”
articles has become a part of the regular
morning exercises in chapel. An ingenious
plan has suggested itself to the Ecuo, by
which this apparent nuisance may prove a
blessing, and the paper may receive the finan-
cial support of all. Hereafter editors will make
it their business to collect these. Then,
“any one losing such and such an article may
reclaim it, by calling at this office and paying
for this notice.”
The next commencment exercises will be
held January 31. A large class is to graduate.
The new term begins the day following.
The literary society recently organized by
the young gentlemen of the high school
department is called the Elite Literary Society
and not the I. O. N.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
NE of the marvels of modern miniature
achievement is a Liliputian steam engine
recently made in Chemnitz, Germany, by a
Mr. Max Kohl.
model, whose boiler is 20 mm. by 8.5 mm.,
while the cylinder is 5.5 mm. in length and
of 2 mm. bore. The entire engine, with its
boiler, fits into a walnut shell for a case.
It is a complete working
An interesting discussion is opened in the
current number of Science as to the influence
of the moon upon rainfall. Probably there
are few notions more firmly rooted in the
minds of sailors and farmers than that the
weather changes with the so-called changes of
the moon. One frequently hears such an ex-
pression as, ‘‘ Next week will be full moon and
we shall have pleasant weather.” Doubtless
Prof, Merriman, of Lehigh university, is cor-
rect when he affirms that topographical con-
ditions must very materially affect the result.
For instance, he finds that at Bethlehem, Pa.,
during the past decade, the maximum rainfall
occurred pretty regularly at the time of full
moon, while the minimum was at or about the
first quarter» Mr, Hazen, on the contrary,
finds that at Philadelphia and New Haven the
maximum was about the time of new moon,
from 1870-1890, the results during the first
decade being quite diverse from those of the
second. So far as the writer has observed,
about all that one can safely predict is, that
at the time of the moon's changes we are
likely to have a spell of weather of greater or
less duration,
It is well known to experienced teachers in
science, that one of the gravest dangers inci-
dent to the now widely adopted experimental
method of teaching is that pupils are liable to
acquire the notion that two or three crude
experiments, with their results observed and
recorded, are all that is necessary to discover
and establish any one of the great laws of
nature. A ball is set rolling down an inclined
plane, arranged according to directions given
in some one of the Laboratory Manuals. Its
position is noted at certain units of time, as
near as they can guess at it from the motion
of a pendulum, These measured results are
tabulated, inconvenient fractions being con-
veniently disregarded, and the student is then
told to ‘deduce a law.” Under the circum-
stances of this particular experiment there is
no known law that can be deduced, for there
is none that applies, There is a law which
tells what the body would do if there were no
ipmediments, and this law was in the first
place discovered and can be now established
after an infinitude of most exact and painstak-
ing observations. Even then there are dis-
turbing errors due to friction, resistances,
inequalities and the constantly present “per-
sonal equation.”
Even our great astronomers can be com-
pletely upset by some vagrant comet whose
orbit they set themselves to calculate, and
find it a very easy matter to affirm that itis
coming “‘head on” to the earth, while at that
very moment it is hurrying away, with caudal
appendage depressed—to use a canine simile—
as though wearied of our companionship.
10 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
Laboratory work for young students and all
beginners must be in the very nature of the
case simply illustrative of known laws, The
student can be led toward them by judicious
inductive exercise upon experimental work
which he has performed, and he will thus re-
ceive most valuable mental training, particu-
larly if it be accompanied by the caution, fre-
quently repeated, that he recognize the fact
that every result is more or less inaccurate,
while laws depend on accurate results. Then,
if he be led to use farther experiment to illus-
trate phases of application of this known law,
if he be trained to deductive reasoning from
the premise of this law, testing his con-
clusions by experiment, and, most of all, if he
be plied with ‘nature questions” to be
answered from this law, he will have gained
all that can be accomplished in the teaching
of any elementary branch of Natural Science.
PERSONALS.
PRESIDENT MILNE addressed the teachers
of Rochester, Saturday, December 17.
Mrs. Bliss addressed the
chanicsville, Tuesday and Friday, December
6 and 9.
Prof. Wetmore, who was absent from the
college a few days on account of illness, has
recovered.
Miss Vosburgh has returned to the college
after a short absence,
institute at Me-
Miss Anna Brett is suffering from a severe
attack of the grippe.
Miss Somers, who entered in September, is
ill at her home.
Miss Cochrane spent December 10 and 11
in New York.
Miss Mary McFarland spent the Thanksgiv-
ing vacation in Montgomery, at the home of
Miss Laura Smedes, formerly of the college.
Mr. George Brown has been appointed one
of the reporters of the Ecxo.
Miss Dempsey has left the college, her
eyes not permitting her to continue her work.
Miss Alice Gaffers, of the High School de-
partment, has given up her studies on account
of illness.
Mr. Charles Kilpatrick will enter Union
college after completing the preparatory
course in the High school.
Miss Alice Drake, who was called to her
home in Rochester by the death of a relative,
has returned to the college.
Miss Gove, who spent her Thanksgiving
vacation at her home, was unable to return
on account of illness.
Mr. E. R. Riemann, formerly one of the
Ecuo's most efficient reporters, has resigned.
THE REUNION.
“THE annual reunion of graduates of our institution
will take place December 30, 1892.
Class meetings will be called at eleven o'clock in
the forenoon.
A light lunch will be served in the kindergarten
tooms from half past twelve to two o'clock, for the
convenience of those attending class meetings.
‘The literary exercises will begin at two o'clock
in the chapel, and will be followed by a business
meeting. At this meeting the executive committee
will recommend that the next reunion be held in June,
1894, the semi-centennial of the institution.
A reception from half past six to half past seven
will be given by President and Mrs. Milne in the par-
lors of the Delavan.
An alumni dinner will be served at the Delavan at
half past seven.
We take great pleasure in announcing that the
Alumni window costing $5,000 is now complete and
that funds sufficient to pay for the same are in bank.
An interesting program has been prepared, good
speakers chosen and a pleasant time is anticipated.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
MHERST has given to the world 200 col-
lege professors and twenty judges of the
Supreme Court.
Professor Eduard von Holst, whose ‘Con-
stitutional History of the United States” has
made him almost as well known among stu-
dents in this country as in Germany, has
arrived in Chicago, to begin his duties at the
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. Ir
new university there, He has just completed
the last volume of his great work, which was
begun in 1873. The professor's wife is an
American girl, a graduate of Vassar, and
English has long been the language of his
family circle.
Among the students of the University of
Michigan are Messrs. Toothacher, Green-
stalk, and Champagne, and Miss Annie
Rooney.
The University of Pennsylvania now ranks
fourth in point of number, having 1,760 stu-
dents; Harvard, Michigan and Yale outnum-
ber it.
Harry A. Garfield, oldest son of the late
President Garfield, and a recent graduate of
Williams, has an appointment to a professor-
ship in the new law school of Western Reserve
university at Cleveland, O. He is regarded
as a lawyer and teacher of great promise.—
Pennsylvania.
The articles in the Horum, by Dr. Rice, are
attracting considerable attention in the educa-
tional. world.
President Elliot, of Harvard, has a very
interesting production in the December num-
ber of the same magazine.
School Commissioner Lusk, of Broome
county, advocates teaching agriculture in the
rural schools,
After considerable delay it has been decided
a separate building, at the World’s Fair, is to
be devoted to the interests of education.
Rev. Dr. J. C. Mackenzie, of Lawrenceville,
N. J., has been appointed by the United
States commissioner of education, chairman
of the congresses on secondary education, to
be held at the Columbian Exposition,
—Tracuer—“What is the gender of
promise?”
Purm—‘ Masculine, for we often see its
breeches,”
ALUMNI NOTES.
ME. T. J. FINNEGAN who succeeds Mr.
E. C. Delano, as the chief examining
clerk in the department of public instruction,
is an alumnus of the college. Mr. Finnegan
visited the college December 5.
Miss Lillian A. Robertson, of June, '92, won
the second prize at the Institute spelling con-
test, held recently at Schuylerville.
Mr. J. H. Campbell, June, ’92, visited the
college Monday, December 5.
Mr, W. J. Somers, February, ’92, spent
Thanksgiving day in the city.
Miss Lillian Lampson who has been teach-
ing at Wallkill, was at the college December 9.
Miss McGuire, June, ’92, spent several days
with Miss Gertrude Dugan.
Miss Ada Marvin, June, ’92, who is teaching
at Washingtonville, spent the Thanksgiving
vacation with friends in the city.
Miss Elayne B, Garrett, June, ’92, formerly
an editor of the Ecuo, has been obliged to
give np teaching in East Orange, N. J., on
account of illness,
Mr. William E, Long who graduated in
February, ’92, was married Thanksgiving day,
November 24. The Ecuo, as the voice of the
college, congratulates Mr. and Mrs. Long,
and wishes that every anniversary may be a
Thanksgiving day for them.
Rev. M. S. Maben, a former graduate, has
been installed pastor of the Christian church,
Manchester, N. H.
Miss Henrietta Lyon,’92, and Miss Eugenie
Buck, ’9r, have secured positions at Hudson.
Mr, E. A. Fuller, a graduate of the class of
gt, who has been at the college the past term,
has secured the position as principal at Fill-
more,
Miss Jean Stuart Brown, a former graduate,
is a public reader and teacher of elocution,
meeting with unqualified success. We hope
we may have an opportunity soon of hearing
her.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
FANCIES,
The Destiny of the “Turk.”
Now on the narrow isthmus
Of breathing time between
‘Thanksgiving day and Christmas
‘The turkey struts serene,
And full of satisfaction
He gets fat and fat and fatter,
But Turk, December twenty-fifth
‘Will land you on the platter,
—A Greece spot — Athens.
—One out of a hundred — ninety-nine.
—A Christmas story —“‘I didn’t expect any-
thing this year.”
—‘‘ Another train wrecked!”—an awkward
fellow stepped on it.
—A cheap way to get to the World’s Fair
—the Journey method.
—What an awful thing it must be for a
mule to have cold ears.
—There is no stir in the parlor spoon.
—A fountain pen should give flow to a fel-
low’s ideas.
—These mornings make a fellow wish he
had less get up.
—The man with a library has many friends
who are book keepers in truth.
—Hisrory Tracuer—‘‘At what time did
the institution of chivalry begin to decline?”
Purt,—‘At knight-fall” (night-fall).
Of Interest to “Coeds.”
Full sleeves— those with arms in them,
The best thing in gloves—a girl’s hand.
Beware of cut steel beads for they give a
studded effect.
Bell-shaped skirts ought to give tone toa
lady’s dress.
There is a decidedly new movement in
handkerchiefs this month.
Trains should not be worn in the street.
Dress skirts should clear the ground a little
over two feet.
Next,
When music, heavenly maid, was young,
And played upon the lyre,
While yet in early Greece she sung
With soul and lips afire,
Did e’er she dream a girl would play
Upon an upright grand,
Or that there’d be some future day
An amateur brass band?— Boston Courier.
‘When Mathematics was a kid
Beside the flowing Nile;
And fashoned Sphinx and pyramid,
Rock tomb, and peristyle,
Did e’er he see in dream seductive,
Or fancy, fitful, mystic,
A Milne’s ’rithmetic, Znductive,
Or Husted’s plan heuristic?
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
‘Scribner.—“ Mural Paintings in the Pantheon and Hotel de
Ville of;Paris,” by Will H, Low, is’an article which shows the
civie pride and dignity of the French capital and how it
recognizes the utility of beauty. ‘The able critic, F. D. Millet,
declares in “The Decoration of the Exposition,” that the
buildings of the Big Fair will furnish a more extensive archi-
tectural object lesson to the world than it has had since the
palmy days of the art. “A West Indian Slave Revolt,” is a
true story by George W. Cable. A symposium by Will H.
Low and Kenyon Cox ably defends “The Nude in Art.”
A discussion of “ Norwegian Painters,” an article by Are!
bald Forbes, entitled “Historic Moments, The Triumphal
Batry into Berlin,” with the usual quota of short stories com-
plete the table of contents.
The Century.—The “Present Day Paper,” by Washington
Gladden, discusses “The Problem of Poverty,” and is worth
digestion. H. S. Williams contributes a penetrating psycho-
logical disquisition upon “The Effect of Scientific Study
upon Religious Beliefs.” Mr. Williams believes that scientific
study can not fully develop the religious emotions. Sense
perception is often exercised to the neglect of the emotional
nature. Therefore, the spiritual nature needs special cultiva-
tion, “Picturesque New York,” by Mrs. Schuyler van Rens-
selaer, points out the pictorial pleasures of our own actual
New York. ‘Impressions of Browning and his Art,” by
Stopford Brooke, “Leaves from the Autobiography of Sal-
vini” and a character sketch of Jenny Lind, form a trilogy
of interesting articles. Stopford Brooke’s article is one of
the few honest and sane utterances concerning Browning.
Archibald Forbes contributes “War Correspondence as a
ine Art.” “The New Cashier” and “My Cousin Fanny,”
are lifelike and humorous character sketches by Edward
Hggleston and Thomas Nelson Page. “Benefits Forgot,” isa
promising serial by Wolcott Balestier. ‘There are three short
stories
Harpers—“& New Light on the Chinese Question,” by
Henry Burden McDowell is just what its title purports.
“Some Types of the Virgin,” by Theodore Child, is a well
illustrated and critically appreciative article on the supreme
conceptions of the Virgin, by the painters of the Fifteenth con-
tury. A special feature of the number is a play by Mary D.
‘Wilkins, entitled “Giles Corey, Yeoman.” It isa long, effec-
tive and ambitious dramatic composition, founded on the
witchcraft delusion. “Lord Bateman,” a hitherto unpub-
lished ballad, by Thackeray, with comment by Anne Thackeray
Ritchie, partakes of the usual weak character of literary
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gleanings. “Do seek their Meat from God” and “Crazy
Wife's Ship,” are two commendable sketches by G. D,
Roberts and H.C. Bunner. “A Christmas Party,” by Con-
stance Woolson and “Fan's Mammy,” by Eva Wilder Mc-
Glasson, are short stories of merit. “Le Réveillon, A Christ-
mas Tale,” with a French background, by Ferdinand Fabre,
is the principal contribution to fiction, It is a holiday tale
of unusual virility.
Cosmopolitan —The important articles are a critical and
biographical essay upon “Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by George
Stewart and a novel entitled “The Wheel of Fortune” by
Henry James. Mr. Stewart's article is well considered. Mr.
James’ peculiar mannerisms, pretty phrases, and personages
ruled by the three fates all greet the reader in his new novel.
‘The articles entitled “ Varieties of Journalism” and “French
Journalists and Journalism,” by Murat Halstead and Arthur
Hornblow respectively, afford an excellent opportunity to
compare the American and French Press. The weakness and
strength of the institutions in both countries appear by com-
parison. “A Japanese Watering Place” is the second numebr
of “Japan Revisited” by Sir Edwin Arnold. “The Silent
Monks of Oka” is a pictorial and historical sketch of that bit
of medievalism in Quebec. The five subordinate articles are
interesting and well written,
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
‘The Nature and Elements of Poetry. By Edward
Clarence Steadman. New York: Houghton, Mif-
flin & Co.
‘The volume is a revision and extension of the author’s
course of lectures delivered before the students of Johns Hop-
kins university. Steadman is one of the few critics who con.
siders poetry the voice of the future as well as the past. He
is a practical idealist and has done much to counteract the
utilitarian tendencies of our educational system. His object,
as avowed in his preface, is to set forth the “quality and
attributes of poetry itself, its source and efficiency, and the
enduring laws to which its true examples must conform.’
‘The subject is epitomized in eight lectures covering 297 pages,
viz,: Oracles, Old and New; What is Poetry?; Creation and
Self-Expression ; Melancholia; Beauty ; Truth; Imagination ;
‘The Faculty Divine : Passion; Insight, Genius and Faith.
The subject has hitherto been treated either from the
yiew-point of the transcendentalist or the technical artist.
Steadman takes a middle ground and considers both the es-
sence and incarnation of poetry. He propounds the elemental
laws of the minstrel’s art and theseare the most abiding. The
author's creed is a sane ideality the principal tenet of which is
that art is always modern, Steadman’s applied criticism as
exemplified in his two yolumes on Victorian and American
poets is true to the theories of this book. The above three
volumes are the best exposition of the “New Criticism.”
Tt was a favorite dictum of De Quincey that “before absolute
and philosophical criticism can exist, we must have a good
psychology.” Steadman has applied to criticism, the light of
the newest psychology. Methodical critical dissection is re-
garded by many as a cold and disenchanting process, But
however cold and disenchanting, it is indispensable to the
person who would fully appreciate the nature and elements of
poetry.
Barbara Dering. A Sequel to the Quick or the
Dead. By Amelia Rives, r2mo, pp. 285. J. P.
Lippencott Company.
Barbara Dering has the same examples of pompousrhetoric,
exaggerated description and gushing sentimentality by
Dr. A. Vineberg & Co.
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which most of Amelia Rives’ novels are characterized. It is
due the author, however, to say that she has an intuitive
insight into human nature and a poetic sympathy which are
obscured by rhetorical dress. Her example of misdirected
genius should rather provoke the critic's regret than scorn,
The Ivory Gate. By Walter Besant. New York:
Harper & Brothers,
‘The doctrine of a double or possibly a multiple personality
lurking in exceptional characters recently propounded by
psychologists has opened a new field for novelists as hypno-
tism also has done. “Archibald Malmaison,” by Julian Haw-
thorne, was one of the pioneer novels of this class and shows
how imagination may run riot with this idea. Robert Louis
Stevenson became fascinated with the psychological possibili-
ties of the problem and the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
was the result. Walter Besant’s novel, “The Ivory Gate,” is
a study in the same direction, but lacking the insight of Mr, |
Stevenson’seffort. Although deficient in psychological pene-
tration, the story possesses interest from the complications of
the plot, Mr. Edward Dering is a prosaic lawyer engrossed
in his practice, who appears in his other self as Edmund Gray,
a romantic socialist. This gives the author opportunity to
propagate many eloquent social pleas which are interesting
even if they are visionary. The fate of the hero when his
dual existence is discovered, is left to conjecture.
A MODEL COLLEGE PAPER.
‘THERE is a great deal of “college journal-
ism” that is a very poor sort of stuff.
There are exceptions, of course, and Albany,
along with many other features of its educa-
tional institutions of which it may be proud,
rejoices in what may be fairly termed a model
college paper. Perhaps it is because the stu-
dents at the State Normal college are accus-
tomed to hard work, from the beginning to the
end of their course, that they know how to
work at other things in the right fashion.
Certainly their monthly paper represents them
most creditably. The November number of
the Normat Correcr Ecuo is the fourth of
the first volume and is the best yet published.—
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