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CONTENTS,
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LITERARY DEPARTMENT:
Nature Study, - - - - - - 3
How the English Study the
American Revolution, - - - 6
His Maiden Effort, - - - - 9
Literary Prescriptions, - - - 10
A Tragedy, - - - - = - - 13
Authors’ Birthdays, - - - - 13
WEAR ee ee
News Department,-- - - - - 15
Exchange Department, - - - - 19
Review Department, - - - - - 22
EDITORIAL.
October.
“My ornaments are fruits; my garments leaves,
Woven with cloth of gold, and crimson
dyed;
I do not boast the harvesting of sheaves,
O’er orchards and o’er vineyards I preside.
‘Though on the frigid Scorpion I ride,
The dreamy air is full, and overflows
With tender memories of the summer-tide,
And mingled voices of the doves and crows.”
—The Poet's Calendar—H. W. Longfellow.
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BOUT ten years ago it seemed sud-
denly to be discovered that the
students in our schools and colleges were
conspicuously deficient in knowledge of
the English language. The conditions
were not new; they had simply been ig-
nored. College presidents, recognizing
that students then being graduated from
the institutions over which they presided
were deficient in English composition,
began vigorously to inquire into the
causes of such a state of affairs. They
were not long in discovering that the
fault lay with the secondary schools. No
doubt this was true, for at that time
many of the college preparatory schools
were neglecting to train their pupils to
use the English language correctly, and,
above all, naturally. There was too
much of the skeleton of grammar and
rhetoric showing through the thin cloth-
ing of ideas which was supposed to con-
ceal the articulation of “metaphor,”
“simile” and “trope,” which the indus-
trious pupil, in his eagerness to show a
knowledge of “rules,” sometimes at-
tempted to illustrate in the short compass
of a single paragraph.
There is no doubt that the method was
wrong and that the time spent in the
study of composition and literature was
insufficient.
There was a general agreement among
the colleges to raise the standards in the
entrance requirements in English, and
the results have been beneficial to both
schools and colleges, but there is clearly a
great deal to be done yet in the English
work.
The question might now be asked: Are
the colleges doing their duty in advane-
ing the student in his knowledge of the
use of English? Those who are inter-
ested in this question will find a frank ex-
pression of opinion in the current num-
ber of the Educational Review; the ar-
ticle is on “Why college graduates are
deficient in English.” The author of the
article speaks fearlessly, and in her
opinion, the colleges are now at fault be-
cause they regard English in the light
of literature rather than in the light of
literature and composition. It is found
that in some colleges of high standing it
is possible, by careful selection of elec-
tive studies, to receive a degree with
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scarcely any training in English. If this
is so, and students are foolish enough to
avail themselves of the opportunity,
surely an added responsibility rests upon
the secondary schools.
“The discrepancy between the cata-
logue requirements for adm'ssion,” writes
Miss Searing, “and the condition of the
work done in junior and senior years is
inexcusable. It is inexplicable that a
student can get in and having got in that
he can get out bearing a degree, with
such an ignorance of ordinary English as
amounts to illiteracy.”
There is no doubt that the college
training in English is not what it ought
to be, and not what it will be when col-
leges are able to employ a large force of
capable critics to correct English work.
We must never lose sight of the fact that
ical work in compos’
and laborious.
Naturally it is pleasing to the teachers
of English in secondary schools to see
the colleges thus sharply criticised. Still,
the teaching of English in secondai
schools is far from perfect and teachers
need waste no time in self-congratula-
tion. What we need is better teachers of
English, those who have had training in
subject-matter and methods of instruc-
tion, for of all the subjects taught in our
public schools, composition and literature
are, pre-eminently, the culture studies,
and the time is fast approaching when
they will be recognized as such.
cri ion is both slow
Irish’s “American and British Au-
thors” has been adopted in a large num-
ber of schools, normal schools and col-
leges. Ata recent meeting of the board
of education of Columbus, O., it was
unanimously adopted for use in the high
schools of that city. They intend to use
it also as a supplementary reader in the
upper grammar grades. See advertise-
ment.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT,
Winifred L. Jones. Katherine V. D. Merwi
Leola D. Weed. Alvah G. Frost.
NATURE STUDY.
The Emotions of a Little Russet
Partridge.
[The Partridge tells her own story.]
You know that partridges go in flocks
and nest together in hollows or furrows
of the fields in order to rise at the least
alarm, scattering in their flight like a
handful of grain that one sows. Our
company was gay and numerous, settled
in a plain on the edge of a great wood,
having food and-fine shelter on two
sides. Thus, ever since I have known
how to run, being well feathered and
well nourished, I have been very happy
to be alive. However, something dis-
turbed me a little; it was that famous
opening of the hunting season of which
our mothers began to speak very softly
among themselves. But an old bird of
our company said to me often: “Have
no fear, Rouget”—they call me Rouget
on account of the color of my beak and
my feet—“have no fear, Rouget; I will
take you with me the day of the opening
and I am sure nothing will happen to
you.”
He was a very wise and vigilant old
fellow, active yet, though he had the
horseshoe already marked upon his
breast and some white feathers here and
there. When quite young he had re-
ceived a grain of shot in the wing, and
as that had rendered him a little awk-
ward, he looked twice before rising on
the wing, took his time and kept out of
danger. Often he took me with him as
far as the entrance to the wood. There
was a curious little house here nestled
among the chestnut trees, silent as an
empty nest and always closed.
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“Look well at that house little one,”
said the old fellow; “when you see the
smoke rise from the chimney and the
door and blinds open, it will go ill with
us.”
And I trusted myself to him, knowing
well that it was not his first hunting
season.
The other morning, at the peep of day,
I heard some one call again and again,
quite low: “ Rouget, Rouget!”
It was my old friend. His eyes had
an extraordinary expression,
“Come quickly,” he said to me, “and
do as I do.”
I followed him, half asleep, gliding be-
tween the hillocks like a mouse. We
went to the side of the wood, and I saw
in passing that there was smoke from
the chimney of the little house, light at
the windows and before the wide open
door, the hunters all equipped, sur-
rounded by leaping dogs. As we passed,
one of the hunters cried:
“Let us do the plain this morning;
we will do the wood after breakfast.”
Then I understood why my old friend
had brought me at first under the lofty
trees. All the same, my heart beat,
above all, in thinking of our poor friends.
All at once, just as we reached the out-
skirts, the dogs began to run towards
us.
“Keep close to the ground,” said my
old friend to me, lowering himself
quickly. At the same moment, ten steps
from us, a frightened quail opened his
beak with a cry of fear and flew away.
I heard a dreadful noise and we were
surrounded by dust of a strange odor,
very white and yery warm, although the
sun was scarcely up. I was so afraid
that I could no longer run, Happily we
had entered the wood. My comrade hid
himself behind a small oak. I placed
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myself near him and we remained con-
cealed there peeping between the leaves.
Tn the fields there was a terrible fusi-
lade. At each report I closed my eyes,
dizzy with fright; then when I decided to
open them, I saw the broad, naked plain,
the dogs running, searching in the grass,
in the sheaves of grain, turning upon
each other as if mad. Behind them the
hunters swore and shouted; their guns
shone in the sun. At that moment, in a
little cloud of smoke, I thought I saw
some thing like scattered leaves flying,
though there was no tree near; but my
old friend told me that they were feathers,
and, indeed, a hundred steps before us,
a superb gray partridge fell to the
ground, his head bleeding.
When the sun was very hot, the firing
suddenly stopped. The hunters went
back toward the little house where a
great fire of branches was heard crack-
ling. They talked among themselves,
discussing the shots, while the dogs came
up panting, their tongues hanging out of
their mouths.
“They are going to breakfast,” said
my companion, “let us do likewise.”
And we entered a field of sassafras
which is near the wood, a large field part
in flower and part gone to seed. Beauti-
ful pheasants with reddish-brown plum-
age were picking there; they also low-
ered their red crests for fear of being
seen. Ah! they were less proud than
usual. During this time the breakfast of
the hunters, at first quiet, became more
and more noisy; we heard the click of
glasses and the popping of the corks
from bottles. My old comrade found
that there was time to go back to our
shelter.
At this hour one would have said that
the woods were asleep. The little pond,
where the deer go to drink, was not dis-
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turbed by any lapping tongue. Not a
rabbit's nose was seen in the wild thyme
of their feeding ground. One felt only a
mysterious trembling, as if each leaf, each
blade of grass sheltered a menaced life.
The natives of the woods have so many
hiding places, holes in the ground, thick-
ets, brushwood, and then the ditches, the
little ditches which hold the water long
afterarain. I confess that I should have
loved to be at the bottom of one of those
holes, but my companion preferred to
remain uncovered, to have plenty of
space to see a long distance and to feel
the open air before him. We acted
wisely, for the hunters now came into the
woods. Oh! that first fusilade in the for-
est, which riddled the leaves like a storm
of hail and scratched the bark! TI shall
never forget it. There were two or three
heavy flights of large pheasants and a
tumult in the low branches in the dry
leaves and in the air from the explosion
which agitated, awakened, frightened all
the creatures that live in the woods. The
moles ran into their holes. A horned
beetle, starting from a crack in the tree
against which we were hidden, rolled his
large stupid eyes, fixed with terror. And
then the little blue dragon flies, the bees,
the butterflies, poor insects, looked wild
on all sides. Even a little scared cricket
with scarlet wings came and alighted very
near my beak, but I was too frightened
myself to profit by his fear.
My old companion was as calm as ever.
Very attentive to the barking of the dogs
and the shooting; when they came nearer
he made me a sign and we, well con-
cealed by the foliage, went a little farther
out of reach of the dogs. Once, how-
ever, I believed that we were lost. The
path that we must take was guarded at
each end by a hunter lying in wait. At
one end by a large, gay fellow with black
whiskers, who made his hunting knife,
cartridge box and powder horn clink at
every movement; at the other end a little
old man leaning against a tree smoking
his pipe tranquilly, winking his eyes as if
he were sleepy. This one did not make
me afraid; it was the large one.
“You don’t understand, Rouget,” said
my comrade, laughing, and fearing noth-
ing, with wings spread wide, he flew al-
most between the legs of the terrible
whiskered hunter.
And the fact is that the poor man was
so embarrassed by his hunting imple-
ments, so occupied in admiring himself
from head to foot, that while his gun was
still on his shoulder, we were already
out of reach. Oh, if those hunters
knew, they believe themselves
alone in a corner of the wood, how many
little eyes watch them from the bushes,
how many little pointed beaks try to re-
frain from laughing at their awkward-
ness!
We kept going on and on. Having
nothing better to do than to follow my
old companion, my wings beat time with
his, but folded themselves as soon as he
alighted.
I have yet in my mind’s eye all the
places that we passed —the rabbit war-
ren, rosy with heather; the little green
alley where my mother partridge had so
many times built her nest, where we
jumped to pick up the red ants that
climbed to our feet, where we met the
proud little pheasants that would not
play with us.
I saw it as in a dream, my little alley,
at the moment when a roe crossed it, his
large eyes open, ready to bound away.
Then the pond where the partridges came
in flocks of fifteen to thirty; all rose on
the wing at the same moment and flew
to drink the water at its source and
when
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splash themselves with drops which
rolled from their glossy feathers. There
was in the middle of the pond a yery
thick cluster of alders; it was in that islet
that we took refuge. The dogs that
would have come to seek us there
must have had famous noses. We were
there only a moment when a stag came
dragging himself on three feet and leay-
ing a red track upon the mosses behind
him. It was so sad a sight that I hid my
head under the leaves, but I heard the
wounded creature drink in the pond.
The day closed. The shots seemed
farther off; they became more rare; then
all died away. It was finished. Then we
came back quietly toward the plain to
learn the news of our company. In pass-
ing before the little house by the wood
I saw something dreadful.
» At the edge of a ditch, the hares with
reddish fur and the little gray rabbits
with white tails, lay side by side cold and
still. There were little feet joined in
death which had the attitude of asking
mercy, lifeless eyes which seemed to
weep; there were the russet partridges,
the gray partridges which had the horse-
shoe on their breasts like my comrade,
and the young ones of that year which
had, like me, the down under their feath-
ers. Do you know anything more sad
than a dead bird? On the wing it was
so alive. To see those wings folded and
cold makes one shudder, A large deer,
superb and calm, its little red tongue
hanging from its mouth as if to. lick
again, appears asleep, not lifeless.
And the hunters were there bending
over their slaughtered victims, counting,
pulling towards them their game-bags,
without a thought for the bloody feet, the
torn wings and all the other fresh
wounds. The dogs stood still, wrinkling
their lips as if they were getting ready to
dart again into the copse.
While the great sun sank to rest and
they all went away, their shadows length-
ening upon the ground and the paths
moist with the dew of evening, oh, how
T cursed them, how I detested them, men
and beasts, all the band! Neither my
companion nor myself had the courage to
throw, as usual, a little note of farewell
to the day which had just ended.
On our way we met with the unfortu-
nate little creatures, killed by a chance
shot and left abandoned to the ants and
the moles; the magpies and the swallows,
struck in their flight, lying upon their
backs and holding their little stiff feet
toward the sky. The night came quickly,
but cold and wet, as it does in autumn.
But the most heartrending of all was to
hear at the edge of the wood, on the bor-
der of the meadow, and low in the osier
ground of the river, the anxious sorrow-
ful, scattered calls to which no one re-
sponded— [From the French of Al-
phonse Daudet.] Translated by Mar-
garet S. Mooney.
How the English Study the Ameri-
can Revolution.
The movement of events points to
much closer relations between the Ameri-
can people and the English people than
have ever existed in the past. The peo-
ple themselves are getting acquainted.
Governments may understand each other
and yet the people of each be quite es-
tranged. When governments converse,
it is in the smooth-tongued speech of di-
plomacy. Of this the people understand
but little. When the people of one na-
tion communicate with the people of an-
other, quite a different form is used.
Straightforwardness, sincerity, even
bluntness, are evident without the polish
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of high sounding phrases. Any such
communication, to continue for a period
of time to the advantage of both parties,
implies an understanding each of the
other, and a confidence that each will
strive for the good of both.
To know a people, the history of that
people must be understood. Not that
one must know the chronological order
of a long list of events. That may not
help in the least. The leading events of
the past affecting both peoples in com-
mon must be understood as to the spirit
of the age in which they occurred and
the motive which prompted them. The
way in which the American looks at Eng-
lish history, and the point of view taken
by the Englishman in noticing American
history must necessarily influence the re-
lations of these two peoples toward each
other.
It needs but a suggestion to call to
mind the instruction Americans receive
regarding England. It is much greater
in amount than that received by English-
men about America. No universities
have courses in American history.
Something has been done by Bryce in
his analysis of our government. A his-
tory of the land called America, to be
published in several volumes, is being
written by an Englishman, graduate of
Oxford. But these works are not for
the youth.
To furnish material for younger peo-
ple, and to influence them at the age
when impressions are so easily and so
permanently made, Mr. Samuel Plimsoll
has made a collection from twenty-four
books of English history. These ex-
tracts relate to the American revolution,
It is from them, as a part of English his-
tory, that American revolutionary his-
tory is to be taught more fully. They
are to be used in grades corresponding
to our second and. seventh, inclusive.
A close examination of these English
accounts, of which we know the other
side so well, proves very interesting.
King George III is roundly blamed
for the whole affair. “The king was
more to blame than any of his ministers,”
is found in the Royal English Reader
Series. “The chief causes,” says another
account, “are to be sought in the high
notions of prerogative held by George
Ii, his infatuated and stubborn self-will
and in the equally absurd self-conceit of
his English subjects. “In this there is an
agreement with the American’ patriot,
who objected to having every gamin in
London speaking of “our American sub-
jects.” Again is found: “George IIT
backed his ministers with his usual dull
obstinacy, which he took to be the firm-
ness of a great ruler.” Thus the children
on both sides of the water will have about
the same opinion of George ITI.
The accounts give much more space
to the justification of taxation than is
given to the same subject in American
texts. There are no statements, how-
ever, which would not be considered fair
to both parties.
The success of the Americans is attrib-
uted in Macmillan’s History Readers, to
“two things,” which “assisted them
greatly, one being the extraordinary
powers as a general developed by a man
among them, George Washington; the
other being the assistance that was sent
over to them from France.” Philips’
School Series states that “tu Washing-
ton was mainly due the success of the
colonists. This noble patriot might be
described as the type of an English gen-
tleman; a man without eloquence and of
great modesty, but having great adminis-
trative powers, moderation and self-con-
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trol. His character, great in itself, seems
greater when placed in contrast with the
men that surrounded and the opponents
that confronted him.” The word
“ patriot ” is striking when we remember
that to the English government pf 1776
he was a rebel.
Of Franklin but little is said. One ac-
count simply states that Benjamin Frank-
lin resided in London “as the agent of
the Massachusetts house of assembly.”
A tribute to Patrick Henry is given as
follows: “But eloquence as great and
more effective than Burke’s was at work
on the other side of the Atlantic. Pat-
rick Henry, an orator of the loftiest or-
der, brought forth resolutions against
the stamp act which were instantly
adopted.”
The accounts of Bunker Hill are short
and state that the British troops drove
the Americans from the hill. Yet the
true results of the battle are given in
about the same form as is found in
American accounts. “The attempt (to
hold the hill) failed; but it proved to the
colonists that it was possible for undisci-
plined patriots to meet on equal terms
the best troops England could send
against them. Thenceforth the success
of the revolution was assured.” Here
again appears the word patriot.
French aid is made very prominent,
emphasizing the fact that England was
involved in a war with France by the
act.
Of Valley Forge, the account in the
Royal School Series says: “ During the
winter the soldiers of Washington were
shoeless and starving in Valley Forge,
near Philadelphia, but inspired by the
noble patience of their leader, they bore
their sufferings bravely and thencefor-
ward America had decidedly the best of
the war.”
The lesson to England from the war is
pointed out clearly. In fact, the story
seems to be for the purpose of showing
England the benefit to her from her loss.
The epochs of English History Series
states that England “had much fight-
ing to do in America, where she
was beaten. She was fighting for a
bad cause, and freedom and good goy-
ernment came from her defeat. While
America gained very much, England lost
little more than the lives and the money
spent in the war.” In another place is
found: “The resistance in America had
taught them (the English) the lesson that,
powerful as the English government was,
it could not do as it pleased. From that
time there was more consideration for
the wishes of the governed in England
itself than there had been before.”
Speaking of the feelings at the present
day, one account says: “ For many years
after the war there was ill-feeling between
the two countries and quarrels fre-
quently arose, but in our day the feeling
is warm and friendly. The British
islands are looked to as the central home
of the widespread Anglo-Saxon race, and
even Americans own our queen as the
head of the English-speaking peoples of
the world.” “The inhabitants are fond
of business and clever at making money;
wealth, perhaps, occupies too high a
place in the thoughts of many.”
To return to King George; we may
hold a more favorable opinion of him by
taking some of his words spoken at the
time of the recognition of our independ-
ence. Their omission will be unfavorable,
rather than favorable, to a closer sym-
pathy between the two great peoples. In
November of 1783 he entered the House
of Lords and read a paper acknowledging
the independence of America. This
reading he closed with a prayer that
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neither England nor America might suf-
fer from the separation. The English
authorities treat this as a sincere utter-
ance; but John Fiske, looking over the
water from colonial New England, his
point of says that hoping the
Americans would not suffer, “ meant, of
course, that he hoped they would suffer
from such evils.” True, there was dan-
ger, as the period of Confederation clearly
shows; and it may be that the king ex-
pressed that danger. If we allow that
the prayer, or wish, as Fiske calls it, im-
plied that there was great danger ahead
of the young States, then it will not differ
greatly from the English interpretation.
For the king to imply that there was dan-
ger ahead does not necessarily mean
that he hoped the State would not escape
it. The real meaning of the king seems
more evident from the following: Re-
plying to our first minister, John Adams,
on June 1, 1785, the king said: “Sir, I
wish you to believe, and that it may be
understood in America, that I have done
nothing in the late contest but what I
thought myself indispensably bound to
do by the duty which I owed my people.
I will be very frank with you. I was the
last to consent to the separation; but, the
separation haying been made, and having
become inevitable, I have always said, as
I say now, that I would be the first to
meet the friendship of the United States
as an independent power.” Mr. Adams,
in writing of the interview, said: “The
king was indeed much affected and I con-
fess I was not less so.”
These various accounts all treat the
story simply and, on the whole, very
fairly. If English children become im-
pressed with the spirit which they show,
it is hardly to be doubted that they will
look very fairly back on the events of
political separation and recognize that
view,
fact, so difficult for Englishmen as well
as for Americans to acknowledge, that
they were in the wrong, and aroused too
far the independent spirit of the colonists.
It is this that can lead to the most profit-
able reunion. GIG
His Maiden Effort.
1009 Beacon Street.
My Dear Paul.—I am going to ask a
great favor of you. My son says that
you are not going home for the holidays
this year, and so I want you to run up to
Boston for a few days. I am sure that
you and Jim would have a fine time to-
gether; he has become so interested in
other things that he needs his college
chum to make him remember good old
My daughter Ethel is to be at
home then. It seems queer that you
two do not know each other. I am
afraid, though, that you will see hardly
any more of her now than you did when
she was away at school. Her literary
club takes up so much of her time.
And now that I have touched upon the
subject of clubs, I must tell you what I
want you to do forme. Won’t you speak
to my Working Girls the evening of De-
cember twenty-third? We are planning
a little Christmas entertainment for them
and we want it prefaced by an address. I
am sure that you, with all your knowl-
edge of social problems, are just the per-
son to give this. Of course, you under-
stand that I don’t want you to prepare a
scholarly speech. Give the girls a little
friendly talk and some good advice. That
is what the poor overworked things need.
Now, Paul, I am sure that you will do
this for me, and so I shall expect you
on December twenty-third, or before that
if you can possibly come.
Very sincerely your friend,
Elizabeth Miller.
times.
10 ; TELE BO O%
When he had read this letter, Paul
Clarke leaned back in his study chair and
smiled. To be called upon to address
an audience so soon after taking his de-
gree was a bit flattering. The discom-
fiture would not be great in talking to
people of —well, inferior capacity. Be-
sides, there was the added pleasure of a
short visit to his college friend. A fellow
working for his second degree needed a
vacation as much as any freshman.
He sat up late that night preparing an
address full of helpful advice to working
girls, and when he finally slept it was to
dream of himself preaching to a large
gathering of women on the vanities of
the world.
When the 7.10 express from New
York pulled into Boston at ten minutes
before eight, Paul Clarke hurried out to
surrender himself to the first grasping
cab driver. But before he reached the
pavement outside, a negro in footman’s
livery touched him on the shoulder.
“Scuse me, but are you the lecture
man from New York?”
Paul bowed.
“Then Miss Ethel, she say will you
please step right into the kerridge, suh,
and she hopes you won’t min’ comin’ to
the club first, ‘cause its so late, suh.”
Meanwhile he had possessed himself of
Paul’s dress-suit case, and now led the
way to the carriage, shut the young man
inside with a decided slam of the door,
as if to make sure of his safety, climbed
up beside the coachman and they drove
off rapidly.
After a few blocks, the carriage
stopped, the footman again appeared and
ushered his charge up a flight of stone
steps and into a brilliantly lighted recep-
tion hall. “These Bostonians do noth-
ing by halves, it seems,” thought the
young man. He had taken off his great
coat and stood for an instant fumbling
in the pocket for his notes. A voice be-
hind him made him turn quickly.
“T hope you will pardon the lack of
formality, but the people are waiting —I
am Miss Miller,” she said.
Paul bowed in some confusion. “Ah;
most happy”
She interrupted him. “In here,” she
said, and Paul did the only thing pos-
sible — followed her.
He could not fail to notice the well-
dressed appearance of his audience.
They looked exceedingly intelligent, too.
He felt that he should meet with sympa-
thetic response to his remarks in the
minds of these girls.
The address was not long, but it was
extremely forcible, bringing out em-
phatically the two essential points in his
social creed, the dignity of labor and the
debt that civilization owes to the work-
ing classes.
ing in regard to the subject, the young
man’s views were almost socialistic. In-
termingled, however, with his expres-
sions of contempt for the rich people who
lived in idleness adding nothing to the
production of the world’s wealth, were
some practical suggestions which he
thought would be helpful to his audience.
He spoke of the foolishness of the false
pride which kept so many people from
entering the industries best fitted for their
capacities, showing how this was likely to
detract from the dignity of labor. He
compared many of the occupations of
women and pointed out that that which
seemed most menial, domestic service,
was really of just as much value in the
industrial world as many of the higher
professions. He exhorted his li
never to be ashamed of their condition
in life, however much they might desire
Owing to his intense feel-
eners
CE:
to raise themselves above it, and closed
with these words:
“ My young friends, it is not by going
out of the station into which we have
been born that we most benefit ourselves
and others. Within the narrow radius
of each person’s own world are her great-
est opportunities, to help by her sympa-
thy her fellow-workers, or to become the
mainstay of a home; for, in the long run,
it is upon the home and especially the
woman’s influence in that home that the
welfare of our nation depends.”
As the lecturer finished he looked
around for Miss Miller or her mother.
The people had risen and were moving
towards an open door at one side of the
No doubt he would find them in
a minute, and in the meantime it would
be better to make himself at home among
these young women. Perhaps some of
them would be glad of an opportunity to
talk with him. He felt that he had left
so much unsaid that might be of help to
them. Near him stood a young girl,
whom he afterward found to be Daisy
Owen, smiling in an amused way. He
smiled back at her. :
“Tt is always safe to follow the crowd,
Isuppose. Do you know the place?”
“Yes,” she “J like to come here
out of hours.”
“Then you are the person I want,” he
declared. “You can take me round and
introduce me to some of your friends.
Miss Miller seems to have deserted me.
Don’t you want to tell me about your
club; what are you trying to do through
itr?
“We try to have a good time,” an-
swered the girl, “ away from our families.”
“Yes, very restful; and do you have a
library here? Do you have an oppor-
tunity to read much?”
room.
ICING)
“We find some time for it, and we have
papers every week,” she said.
“Like Harper’s Weekly, for instance?”
The girl paid no attention to this last
question, only saying: “Please excuse
me, but my committee duty calls me
away. You might talk to that girl near
the door. I know it would please her.
She is rather shy, though.”
Paul Clarke might have wondered
what her idea of duty might be, had he
seen her hasten across the room and talk
to Miss Miller in an excited whisper,
after which they both disappeared into
the hall, only to take their position on
the other side of the heavy portieres not
five feet from himself and the diffident
maiden he was now addressing.
“Pardon me, if I introduce myself,
Miss 2
There was no response.
“One of your members has just been
telling me that the principal aim of your
club is social.”
“Indeed!”
“Tm afraid, if that’s the case, that my
lecture must have been very stupid for
It was so technical.”
ay
ah -
He continued: “I hope, on the whole,
you agreed with my conclusions, The
more I see of the world and the attitude
it takes towards unprotected women the
more strongly I feel that a woman’s place
is in her own home. Of course, a club
like this is a good thing, because it re-
lieves the monotony of life. Have you
ever thought, though, of adding other
features to your club, something educa-
tional, for instance?”
“No,” shortly.
Paul was beginning to despair of draw-
ing her out. Her shyness seemed to be,
indeed, an impassable barrier; but he re~
solved to make one more attempt.
12 THEE CHO;
“Ts your home conveniently near to
the club so that you can make frequent
use of its privileges? You must be glad
to have such a pleasant place to come to
after your day’s work is over.”
While he had been talking to the
young lady, he had allowed his eyes to
wander about the room that he might not
embarrass her by too close attention.
Now, as he brought them back to her,
he was startled by the flush that had over-
spread her face by what seemed a
haughty expression. In fact she was
positively glaring at him.
“You must excuse me,” she said, and
left him just as, to his great relief, he
saw Miss Miller approaching him.
Meanwhile, another conversation was
going on in the reception hall. James
Miller had dropped in to take his sis-
ter home, and, encountermg her friend,
Miss Daisy Owen, was indulging in a lit-
tle teasing of that charming young per-
n.
Fine lecture you had this evening, I
suppose.”
“Very delightful,” vouchsafed Miss
Daisy.
“A telegram announcing the lecturer's
illness came just after sister left and
mother said — she’s on to you girls, you
know — that you'd probably have an im-
promptu debate or something, and didn’t
bother to send the telegram around. I
bet you’ve had a regular gossip party the
whole evening and haven't left a single
one of your friends with a whole charac-
ter. Come now, confess.”
“We had an interesting lecture,” de-
clared Miss Daisy.
“You don’t mean the man came after
all?”
“T do.”
“Well, you fared better than’ mother
did, then. She asked a friend of mine
who’s grinding away down in New York
to get a second degree in economics, up
for a few days’ visit and, by the way, to
give a nice little talk to those precious
Working Girls of hers. He didn’t come,
and he didn’t send a telegram, éither, so
mother had to talk to them herself.
Where’s Ethel?”
“She has just gone in to talk to the
lecturer. Don’t you want to meet him?”
“No, thanks. I’m afraid I must be
going.”
“But you can’t, you know, without
Ethel.”
“Oh, well, then, since I must.” He
dropped into a chair near Miss Daisy,
with an alacrity quite astonishing in a
person acting under compulsion.
“You can tell me about the lecture,
and I won't have to be bored by talking
to him—see! Begin, I’m ready.”
“Shem,” imitating the manner of the
lecturer, “ Young ladies, there is nothing
so noble as labor, especially housekeep-
ing and washing dishes. That is the
duty for which you are best fitted; there-
fore, you should each hasten to have a
home of your own &
“Excellent advice.”
Don’t interrupt— because the con-
duct of the nation depends on you. You
see he makes us responsible for the ac-
tions of the men, I wonder who is re-
sponsible for him?”
“Ethel, I guess,” said young Miller,
for at that moment Miss Miller appeared
in the doorway and behind her was the
lecturer. iS
“Daisy,” she began, “may I introduce
——” but her brother had sprung for-
ward and caught hold of him,
“Why Clarke, old man! when did you
turn up? Did you and Ethel concoct
this scheme to ”
THE ECHO. B
“To play a joke on Miss Miller’s liter-
ary club? Hardly.” Paul Clarke turned
toward Daisy Owen, whom he had
thought to be only the “working girl,”
and said: “I have been apologizing to
the best of my ability, but to you—I am
wholly at your mercy. What can I do?”
Miss Owen, who from her hiding-
place behind the curtain, had enjoyed the
discomfiture of Clarke and his shy com-
panion, laughingly replied: “ Nothing. I
have had my revenge.”
R. McCall, ‘09.
Literary Prescriptions.
For action read Homer and Scott.
For choice of individual words read
Keats, Tennyson, Emerson.
For clearness read Macaulay.
For common sense read Benjamin
Franklin.
For conciseness read Bacon and Pope.
For elegance read Virgil, Milton and
Arnold.
For humor read Chaucer, Cervantes
and Twain.
For imagination read Shakespeare and
Job.
For interest in common things read
Jane Austen.
For logic read Burke and Bacon.
For loving and patient observation of
nature read Thoreau and Walton.
For simplicity read Burns, Whittier,
Bunyan.
For smoothness read Addison and
Hawthorne.
For the study of human nature read
Shakespeare and George Eliot.
For
Milton.
For vivacity read Stevenson and Kip-
ling — Exchange.
sublimity of conception read
A Tragedy.
Who's that walking on the moorland?
Who's that moving on the hill?
‘They are passing 'mid the bracken,
But the shadows grow and blacken
And I cannot see them clearly on the hill,
Who's that calling on the moorland?
Who's that crying on the hill?
Was it bird or was it human,
Was it child, or man, or woman,
Who was calling so sadly on the hill?
Who's that running on the moorland?
‘Who's that flying on the hill?
He is there—and there again,
But you cannot see him plain,
For the shadow lies so darkly on the hill.
Who's that lying in the heather?
Who’s that lurking on the hill?
My horse will go no nearer,
And I cannot see it clearer,
But there is something that is lying on the
hill.
—From “Songs of Action” by A, Conan Doyle.
Authors’ Birthdays.
George Bancroft . 3, 1800
Noah Webster ....... . 16, 1758
Helen Hunt Jackson. , . 18, 1831
S. T. Coleridge E205 EY Ye)
Thomas Hughes....... . 23, 1823
HE Ba laCaulayiaie wires . 25, 1800
Von Moltke : 26, 1800
Sir Moses Montifiore. . . 26, 1784
John Keats 1795
John Adams 1735
It was a music teacher’bold,
Who loved a fair young maid,
And when to her his love he told,
Something like this he said:
“Light of my sol! my liie’s bright re,
T love you near or fal”
The maiden turned her head away
And gently murmured “ La.”
“Such flighty nonsense doesn’t go,
You're not the man for mi;
I want a man who has the do,
So you're not in it, si?”
— Ex.
14 THE ECHO.
VERSE.
Bitter Sweet.
Creeping by the roadside
On a sloping hill,
Running through the fences,
Struggling as it will:
Grows a little blossom,
Long and green and white,
Grass and weeds and daisies
Shield it from our sight.
Long and low it hides there;
Strangers come and go:
Many flowers are gathered,
Still its tendrils grow.
Spring has turned to summer,
Summer turned to fall,
And this flower lies hidden
Lovliest of them all
Days grow short and shorter,
Winds blow loud and cold:
Flowers have ceased to blossom,
Trees their leaves unload.
When beneath these branches,
Berries red and gay,
With their scarlet centers
Form a bright array.
‘Thus it is with many,
Quiet, humble, shy,
Knowing naught of friendship
As the days go by;
Building for the future,
While their neighbors bold,
Striving for the power,
Leaye them cheerless, cold.
Working on in silence
Waiting for the time
When the season changes,
Like our little vine,
When the noisy people
Beat a loud retreat,
Forth they come in power,
Like our ‘Bitter Sweet.”
—Harriet Bushnell.
°Tis wrong for any maid to be
Abroad at night alone;
A chaperone she needs till she
Can call some chap ’er own,
—H. S. Journal.
Procrastination.
Procrastination, that well known thief of Time,
Will gather to himself all worthy things of
thine,
He'll steal and he’ll murder thy fame and thy
good name,
Oh, when begun, you'll surely lose with him ’f
you join the game.
So quietly will he enter and with you make his
home,
That seeing not, you still believe yourself
now quite alone.
From out the many hours you have, a small
part he will take;
And as there's a to-morrow no difference ’t will
make.
All things will soon go crooked, the world will
look askew;
‘The failures will be many and heartaches not a
few.
This thief though never visible, will leave his
tracks behind;
On all your plans he'll lay his hands, to spoil
them you will find.
Some more forsaken duties, more precious time
slips by
Unheeded by the thief, now standing ever
nigh.
He takes the sweet all trom you, the bitter
leaves behind;
Mourn now, too late! when emptiness you find.
Now when the awakening cometh, oh, how
much you have lost;
Though nothing you have gained, how peerless
was the cost;
You wonder how it happened, and ask, What
can it be?
‘The thief Procrastination then you can plainly
see.
Oh, Procrastination, that well known thief of
Time
Has gathered to himself all worthy things of
thine;
Has stolen and has murdered your fame and
your good name;
Oh, when begun, why did you play with him
and lose the game?
—M. A. E.
TEE
NEWS DEPARTMENT.
Grace D. McGregor.
Florella Hawkey.
Changes in the College Building.
Since last spring several important
changes have been made in the College
building. One of these is the removal of
the primary department into the building
to the south, which has been purchased
and remodeled and is connected by a cor-
ridor to the main building.
On the first floor may be found the
primary chapel and office, both of which
are tastefully furnished, the former being
noticeable for the new piano and chairs
and the beautiful pictures on the walls.
The class-rooms of the second, third,
fourth and fifth grades are on the second
and third floors, while the first grade at
present occupies one of the new rooms
on the first floor of the old building,
made by combining the former class-
rooms, 120 and 122.
The former primary chapel, once so
bright and attractive, has assumed the
grave and bookish air of the reference
library, which opens its doors to students
from 2.30 to 5.30 in the afternoon and
from nine to twelve on Saturday morn-
ings, being at these times in charge of
one of the College faculty. Many new
books treating on pedagogical subjects
are to be added to the library soon.
What formerly was the library is now
the President’s office, much larger and
pleasanter than the one formerly occu-
pied, tastefully furnished, being notice-
able especially for the new skylight, chan-
delier and the beautiful pictures on the
walls. At the right is a tastefully fur-
nished room where students may receive
calls and visits from their friends.
Passing along the corridor to 211, the
old Echo office, we find it has grown, with
the addition of 212, into a fine large reci-
ECHO. 15
tation room. The Echo office is now lo-
cated in 123 on the first floor of the
building. Rooms 213 and 214 have also
been combined into one large room used
by the method classes in Latin.
On the first floor the small class-rooms,
115 and 116, 120 and 122, formerly used
by the primary grades, have been com-
bined into two larger rooms, one of
which is used by one section of the ninth
grade of the intermediate department and
the other by the first grade. The old
first grade room, 127, is occupied by one
section of the eighth grade.
Not the least among the changes are
the two new class-rooms on the fourth
floor. They are lighted by skylights and
are reached by stairs ascending to the
right of the door of the High School
chapel. The one at the left, 403, is the
best lighted room in the building and is
used by the advanced science classes.
The one at the right is used by the draw-
ing classes and is furnished with some
very fine desks.
Another additional change is to be
found in the twenty-seven copies of some
of the masterpieces of art distributed
along the corridors and adding much to
the appearance of the building.
M. A.N,, ’99.
Kindergarten Lectures.
Under the auspices of the Albany Kin-
dergarten Association, a course of eight
lectures and lessons for kindergartners
and primary teachers will be given by
Mari Ruef Hofer, of Chicago, at the
State Normal College, October twenty-
eighth to November fifth. The lectures
will begin at eight o’clock. Admission
for the course, one dollar; single admis-
sions, twenty-five cents. Tickets may be
obtained of kindergartners. The follow-
ing is a list of lecture topics:
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1. Voice as Vital Expression — Cul-
tivation through interpretation.
2. Interpretation of Songs —Their
vocal treatment.
3. Children’s Voices — Vocal princi-
ples applied.
4. Piano Music in the Kindergarten:
Rhythm, Musical Sketches, Marches,
Breathing, etc.
5. Analysis and Classification of
Songs — Music Programs.
6. The Music Language —How to
present to Children.
7. The Symbols of Music — Nota-
tion and Music Reading.
8. Illustrated Rhythmic Movements
and Games in the School Room.
New Pictures in the Corridors.
It is of the utmost importance that the
pupils in our schools should become ac-
quainted with the beautiful in art. The
man or woman who comes to maturity
without this knowledge misses a great
part of life, and should at once make an
effort to acquire an education in this
direction.
With the idea in view of pleasure and
benefit to the students, a large number
of fine pictures have been gathered to-
gether and now charm the halls of the
College. Some of these pictures are
copies of famous works of art and others
represent places or buildings of histori-
It is needless to say they
are a source of much pleasure to all.
At the west end of the hall, just at the
left as one enters, is the picture of St.
Mark’s, Venice. Its style is Byzantine,
and is world renowned for its grace and
beauty.
As one passes on toward the east, in
the direction of the stairway, he will see
at the right a view of the cloister of “St.
cal interest.
Paul’s, beyond the walls,” in Rome.
Next to it is the bust of Hermes, now
ascribed to Praxiteles, who lived in the
fourth century B.C.
At the left is the picture of Parthenon,
and next to it is the Winged Victory, re-
cently found on the island of Naxos; this
is sometimes called the Winged Nike,
and is one of the great attractions of the
Louvre.
Turning to the right from the great
hall, one will see the view of the Acropo-
lis, and the Cologne cathedral. At the
left is the Erectheum and the Matterhorn.
On the west wall of the gallery hangs a
picture of St. Cecilia. It is a copy of the
famous painting which is now in the
Royal gallery, Dresden. On the same
wall is also a picture of the grand canal,
Venice. On the south wall is a copy of
Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, and a pic-
ture of the Milan cathedral. Opposite,
on the north wall is a copy of Murillo’s
Madonna of the Immaculate Conception,
a picture of the Vatican library and The-
The latter is a picture of a piece of
sculpture taken from a frieze of the
Parthenon.
In the north hall is a picture of the
Pyramids and Sphinx; in the south hall
hangs a picture of the baptistery, cathed-
ral and leaning tower of Pisa.
seus.
Dr. Milne attended the semi-annual
meeting of the Principals of the New
York State Normal Schools at Oneonta,
Friday, October fourteenth. Every prin-
cipal was present at this meeting.
In the State of New York there are
eleven Normal Schools and one Normal
College. Five out of the twelve princi-
pals have been elected within one year:
Dr. McLachlan, Jamaica; Dr. Poucher,
Oswego; Dr. Smith, Brockport; Dr.
THE ECHO. 17
Hawkins,
Oneonta.
Plattsburg; Dr. Bugbee,
Through Dr. Milne, the College has
secured the services of Prof. E. G. Scrip-
ture, the physiological psychologist of
Yale University, who will deliver a lec-
ture the evening of November eighteenth
on the “Science of Sight.” This lecture
will be illustrated by lantern slides and
apparatus. To this entertainment, the
Hudson River School Masters’ Club, of
which Dr. Milne is the president, is most
cordially invited.
Institutes.
The institute at Hudson was attended
by Dr. Milne October 11th, Miss Bishop
October 13th, and Mrs. Mooney October
14th.
The institute at Lansingburg was at-
tended by Dr. Milne October 4th, and
Prof. White October 7th.
Prof. White attended an institute at
Berne October 25th, where he spoke
three times during the day, and lectured
in the evening.
Miss McClelland attended the same
institute Wednesday, October 26th; Miss
Russell, Wednesday, October 26th, at-
tended an institute at West Sandlake.
Dr. Milne also attended the West
Sandlake institute, Thursday, October
27th,
Dr. Milne will attend an institute at
Whitehall, Tuesday, November ist.
Personals.
Within the past month there have been
many visitors at the College. Among
them there have been: Miss Ehman, ’94,
Chatham; Miss Mary Nichols, ’97, Kin-
derhook; Miss Eleanor Nichols, ’97,
Wallkill; Miss Bergen, ’97, Wallkill;
Miss Tuthill, ’93, Hoosick Falls; Miss
Bancroft, ’97, Port Henry; Miss Cas-
saday, 98, Hudson; Miss DeWitt, ’98,
Hudson; Mr. Zimmerman, ’98, York-
town Heights; Miss Disbrow, ’98,
Plainville, Conn.; Miss Gagen, Akin;
Miss Fawcett, ’98, Rondout; Miss Ban-
non, ’98, West Newburgh.
William E, Pettit, ’98, has been seri-
ously injured, and will be laid up for
some time. The nature of his injuries
was not learned.
It is with deep regret that we learn of
the death of William Melville Pride,
which occurred at Florence, Alabama,
September roth. Mr. Pride was a mem-
ber of Company B, First Alabama Vol-
unteers, and while in camp at Jackson-
ville, Fla., contracted a fever which ter-
tminated in his death. The many friends
of his sister, Miss Susan Pride, extend
their heartfelt sympathy to her in her
sorrow.
’99 Class Reception,
On Saturday evening, October 8th,
the Class of ’99 held a reception to the
faculty and students at the College build-
ing. As the guests passed through the
front corridor, which was decorated with
palms for the occasion, they were re-
ceived by the class officers, Mr. Gurley,
Miss Pendleton, Miss Orcutt, Miss Wil-
son and Miss Vinton. An orchestra in
the playroom induced some to enjoy
dancing, and all had a pleasant evening
of social intercourse.
Kappa Delta.
At the invitation of the Kappa Delta
Society, a large company assembled at
the College Saturday evening, October
ist. The kindergarten play-room was
tastefully decorated for the occasion with
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palms and autumn leaves. A vocal solo
was rendered by Miss Bailey, after which
Prof. Wetmore gave a delightful talk on
“Constantinople.” No one is better
qualified to speak upon this subject than
is Prof. Wetmore, who spent some time
in that city several years ago and is
thoroughly acquainted with the manners
and customs which preyail there. At the
conclusion of his remarks the company
returned to the new world and after a
pleasant social time bade their hostesses
good night.
Psi Gamma.
That the Psi Gamma did themselves
credit by their first’ public appearance,
was the opinion of all who had the pleas-
ure of being present at the talk given by
Dr. Leonard Woods Richardson, under
their auspices on Friday, the 16th inst.
The talk was given in the main hall,
which was tastefully decorated with
palms and autumn leaves. The presi-
dent of the society, Miss Watson, in a
few well-chosen words, welcomed the
guests and introduced Dr. Richardson.
His subject, “Books and Reading,”
was especially suited to the literary char-
acter of the society.
He discussed Emerson’s famous say-
ing that you should read no books but
those which are a year old, those which
are famed and those which you like. He
agreed with Emerson that in reading
books fresh from the author’s pen, we
read much worthless trash, but also that
on that basis we would lose much of the
spirit of the time which could be gained
by reading magazines and the novels of
the day.
In discussing the second clause of Em
erson’s saying he recommended the
works of the four great masters of liter-
: Homer, Dante, Shakespeare
ature, vi
and Goethe. The writings of each tell
us much of the life and spirit of the time
in which these authors lived.
In regard to the last clause he spoke
of the fact that we could get much more
out of a book if we liked it. The society
is to be congratulated on having such an
able and interesting speaker for the en-
tertainment of their guests.
After the talk, the guests were asked
to see how many autographs they could
secure on the cards with which they were
provided. This proved a delightful way
of passing a few moments, and a prize
was given to the one who secured the
most names.
At six o’clock the guests departed feel-
ing that the Psi Gammas had proved
themselves royal entertainers.
The Eta Phi Tea.
From._four to six o’clock Saturday,
October 14th, the young ladies of the Eta
Phi society entertained in the reception
hall of the Normal College. The Presi-
dent, Miss Everett, assisted by the vice-
president, Miss Hasbrouck, and Miss
Russell, Miss Bishop and Miss Hannahs,
of the faculty, received.
Friends of the society added to the
pleasure of the Miss
McLaughlin, a graduate of the Emerson
School of Oratory, recited the “Boat
Race,” and “Seein’ Things at Night,”
with so much effectiveness that “My
Ships” was also added by request. The
vocal solos, “ Lullaby ” and “ Laddie,” by
Mrs. Kellar, and the two violin solos by
Miss Collins, were charmingly rendered.
The hall was beautifully decorated with
autumn leaves and large ferns in vases,
entwined with pink. The prevailing pink
in the costumes of the young ladies com-
pleted the harmonious effect.
afternoon.
ABB) NEVE lal), 19
Class of 1900,
The first regular meeting of the Class
of 1900 was held Friday evening, October
14th. After a short business meeting, a
large representation of the class enjoyed
an interesting program prepared by the
charge. Hereafter the
regular meeting will be held on the sec-
ond Saturday evening of each month.
The following is a list of class officers:
President, N G, Frost; first vice-
president, Miss L. M. Clark; second vice-
president, Mr, E. Brink; secretary,
Miss M. B. Harnish; treasurer, Miss W.
TH. Edwards.
Executive Committee— Messrs. Dee-
yey and Bloomer; Misses Kent, Camp-
bell, Purdy.
Program Committee— Misses Lester,
Moe, Wright, Boyles; Mr. Eckerson,
Social Committee— Mi: McBur-
ney, Brooks, Lynch; Messrs. Vavasour
and Boothby.
committee in
High School Notes.
The current topics of each week are
given on Friday by a member of the
graduating class. They are very inter-
esting and prove beneficial to the stu-
dents.
At a regular meeting of the Class of
’99, the following officers were elected:
President, Nicholas Devoe; vice-presi-
dent, Isabelle Eckert; secretary, Myram
Devoe; treasurer, Clinton Hawn.
Miss Josephine Rock has left school.
Married—At St. Patrick’s church,
Watervliet, N. Y., September 13, 1898,
by Rev. Father Curtin, Mr. James Quin-
Jan, of Albany, and Miss Johanna Fitz-
gerald, of Watervliet, Class of ’98.
The Athletic club has begun its regu-
lar meetings in preparation for the sea-
son’s sports.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
Fannie M. Pendleton.
Gertrude M. Vroom.
Among the Colleges.
Plans are being drawn for a new li-
brary building for Stanford University in
California, at an
$150,000, and with a capacity for 80,000
books.
Willard L. Dean, treasurer of Vassar
College, died at Poughkeepsie October
5th. Mr. Dean was fifty-seven years of
age and had been connected with Vassar
College twenty-seven years and held the
position of treasurer for fifteen years.
estimated cost of
The freshman class at Dartmouth Col-
lege numbers nearly two hundred.
Col. Oliver H. Payne has given
$1,600,000 to Cornell University. This
princely donation is to be used in found-
ing and endowing the greatest medical
college in the world. The building for
the college is to be constructed in New
York city. Six hundred thousand dol-
lars will be expended for an entire block
of land and the fine building to be erected
upon it, while the remainder will be an
endowment fund.
At a recent meeting of the corporation
of Brown University, the resignation of
President E. Benjamin Andrews was ac-
cepted. Benjamin Clark was chosen to
succeed Dr. Andrews.
Columbia University began its 145th
year October 3d, with 2,000 students.
David J. Hill, ex-president of Roches-
ter University, has been appointed assist-
ant secretary of state to succeed John
Bassett Moore, resigned. Dr. Hill is a
scholarly man and is particulary known
for his knowledge of international law.
Cornell is to have a new and hand-
some Alumni Hall. The funds to erect
the building are to be raised by subscrip-
20
Plans for the
hall were submitted by alumni and $500
was divided into five prizes of $100 each
for the successful competitors.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine’s gift of $250,000
to the University of Chicago to establish
a college for teachers, was put to use Oc-
tober 1st.
tions from the graduates.
Harvard graduates in Boston have
given $14,000 to the athletic committee
for use in the improvement of Soldiers’
field. During the summer changes were
made which will increase the ground
available for athletic purposes to forty
acres — twice the present area.
The new year opens at Hamilton Col-
lege with a class which, when all are
there, will number about forty-five.
Theodore Roosevelt, the candidate for
the Governorship of New York State,
graduated from Harvard.
President McKinley has received the
degree of LL. D. from Chicago Univer-
sity.
The entering class at Williams contains
ninety-nine members,
Harvard has expended $14,000 on im-
provements at Soldiers’ field this year,
and has raised $18,000 of the $25,000 in-
tended for a Varsity boat-house.
Prof. E. B. Frost, of the department of
astronomy in Dartmouth College, has
been called to a similar professorship in
Chicago University.
Williams Football Schedule.
October 8, Yale at New Haven.
October 12, Union at Williamstown:
October 15, Carlisle Indians at Albany.
October 19, Colgate at Williamstown.
October 22, Wesleyan at Williams-
town.
October 29, Trinity at Williamstown.
Walls; “13/6 1s((0),
November 5, Cornell at Buffalo.
November 12, Dartmouth at Hanover.
November 19, Amherst at Williams-
town,
Amherst begins her 78th year with the
largest entering class in five years, 120
men, and a total enrollment of 370 men.
Several additions to the faculty are
reported. :
Amherst Football Schedule.
October 12, Harvard at Cambridge.
October 19, Wesleyan at Middletown.
October 22, Trinity at Amherst.
October 26, Wesleyan at Amherst.
October 29, M. I. T. at Amherst.
November 5, Dartmouth at Amherst.
November 19, Williams at Williams-
town.
In the Realm of Pedagogy.
Geography furnishes a field as large as.
the world itself in which to show nature
in all her marvelous wonder— School
Journal.
Are we sure that our ideals are right?
Dr. Stanley Hall has had a glimpse of
that as a proper question, for he some-
times says our failures may be due to
the fact that in our wisest endeavors we
work at cross purposes with nature.
Granting that nature’s plan has been to
lengthen infancy and childhood and de-
lay maturity are we not endeavoring by
all means at command, intimidation and
pressure, to shorten that period and bring
maturity of mind to immature bodies?—
Journal of Pedagogy.
There is something radically wrong
with a teacher who has no educational
creed. Education is a responsible and
complicated work, which must be care-
fully planned from beginning to end.
There must be a definite aim and a clear
understanding of the ways and means of
Wale alC sly 21
reaching it. In other words, the edu-
cator must have in mind some fixed prin-
ciples of action. Without them he is like
the captain of a ship without a compass.
Every fad that stirs up a breeze may turn
him from his course. If he is a routinist,
his pupils will be deprived of many op-
portunities for educational development.
In short, only a teacher who has clear
and rational educational convictions can
be safely entrusted with the training of
children.— School Journal.
“History is, for the most part, a story
agreed upon by posterity.’— Thoreau.
The teacher is often surprised to find,
aiter reading a selection to the pupils,
that it does not moye them as it did him.
The mental preparation of the teacher
had fitted him to respond to those ideas,
but they meant little to the pupils. Pre-
cisely the same is true of adults. Who
of us has not at some time been chag-
rined to note how flat a paragraph from a
favorite author has fallen, although we
read it in our very best manner to a circle
of grown-up people? If we had taken a
few minutes to prepare their minds, to
develop the proper associated ideas, and
to point out kindred facts in their own
experience, the case might have been dif-
ferent Ohio Educational Monthly.
The thought that grows in the mind
and heart and goes out into the world
by the aid of skillful hands and holy lives,
is the thought worth preserving and pre-
senting to the growing, ripening years
of humanity— New York Education.
We must place before the children in
our schools the best the world has in art
and literature and all responsible for the
education of the child should aid him in
reading the stories of the long ago trans-
mitted to us by the intellectual giants of
the ages—— New York Education.
In Lighter Vein.
* Jokes of all kinds, ready cut and dry.”
“ Laugh and be fat, sir.” —Ben Jonson,
“T believes,” said Uncle Eben, “ dat de
human race would be consid’able wiser
an’ happier ef you could git ’em to foller
an ahgument as easy as you kin git ’em
to foller a circus puhcession.”— Wash-
ington Star.
A Juvenile Logician.—* Ma, is there
any pie left in the pantry?” “There is
one piece, but you can’t have it.” “Ma,
Tve had it.’"— Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“Well, what do you want, sonny?”
asked the grocer. “I ’most forget what
mamma sent me for,” said the perplexed
little boy, “but I think it’s a can of con-
demned milk.”— Our Dumb Animals.
Why is a horse the most curious feeder
in the world? Because he eats best when
he has not a bit in his mouth.
“T wish,” said the soldier in the
trenches, “some military genius would
think of a scheme to allow the man who
goes to the front to leave his appetite in
the rear.”— Puck.
“Tell your mistress that I’ve torn the
curtain,” said a lodger to a female do-
mestic. Very well, sir; mistress will
put it down as extra rent.”— Christian
Endeavor World.
The master was asking questions —
masters are apt to ask questions, and they
sometimes receive curious answers. This
question was as follows:
“Now, boys, how many months have
twenty-eight days?”
“All of them, sir,” replied a boy in
front.— Ram’s Horn.
Oh wad some power the giftie gie
To cast o'er ithers spells,
And thereby make them always see us,
Just as we see oursels. — Ex.
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REVIEW DEPARTMENT.
Edna M. Fisher.
M. Louise Watson.
+ Dhe Tidess”
The wide diffusion of scientific knowl-
edge, with all the benefits resulting there-
from, was made possible only when sci-
entists abandoned Latin and began to
write in the mother tongue. A great
mass of scientific fact is still, however, so
deeply buried in the language of mathe-
matics as to make it inaccessible to a
large body of readers, and any attempt
to popularize this portion of scientific
literature is heartily welcome. Such is
the nature of “The Tides,” by George
Howard Darwin, from the press of
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., August, 1898.
“A mathematical argument is, after all,
only organized common sense, and it is
well that men of science should not al-
ways expound their work to the few, be-
hind a veil of technical language, but
should, from time to time, explain to a
larger public the reasoning which lies
behind their mathematical notation.”
The above quotation from the preface «
suggests the nature of what is to follow,
and the reader is not disappointed.
Chapters 1-3 discuss, respectively,
oceanic tides, seiches in lakes and tides in
rivers, and, what is fully as welcome to
teachers at least, tell how the facts are
obtained. Chapter four-traces the his-
tory of man’s ideas concerning the tides
from the early Chinese writers to New-
ton. The nature of the tide generating
force is set forth in a remarkably clear
and concise manner, so that the cause of
“the tide on the side of the earth oppo-
site the moon,” that bugbear of teachers
of physical geography, is made perfectly
clear and simple. The remaining chap-
ters discuss, in a non-mathemiatical way,
the physical principles involved in an un-
derstanding of the tides, the equilibrium
and the dynamic theories, tides in lakes,
tide tables and tidal prediction.
BGHO,
That the genesis of the moon, the
shape of the earth and of the orbits of
the planets, the evolution of celestial sys-
tems and Saturn’s rings should have any
connection with the subject of the tides
will be wholly new to many readers, yet
this connection is shown and the treat-
ment of these subjects made very inter-
esting to the general reader.
This volume is the first attempt at a
thorough and at the same time popular
treatment of the tides, and will be eagerly
sought by those who have so often been
discouraged in trying to get any light
on the subject from such discussions as
the article in the Encyclopedia Britan-
nica, which is admirable, but so intensely
mathematical as to be unintelligible to
most readers.
CXSeG.
The Review of Reviews for October
contains several articles of especial in-
terest just at present. Under the title of
“The Man at the Helm,” Gen. A. B. Net-
tleton reviews President McKinley’s
course of action from his nomination to
the close of the war. In the questions
arising at the opening of his administra-
tion he showed himself dominated by no
party, but seeking the fare of the
whole people and this nation’s proper po-
sition among the others of the world. In
war he has ably filled the position of com-
mander-in-chief, consulting with others
in authority, it is true, but in the end re-
lying on his own clear judgment. To
this fact is due in large measure the
brevity of the war. How he will settle
the problems now arising can be conjec-
tured only by judging the future by the
past. Dr. Carroll Dunham writes on
“Medical and Sanitary Aspects of the
War.” The work done by the army and
by the navy is proportionate to the physi-
cal condition of the two bodies. The
condition of the navy can be traced di-
rectly to long discipline. If we had kept
a standing army whose numbers bore
any proportion to the increasing popula-
tion and, whose discipline was rigid, the
men would have been better trained to
act and the officials to care for them.
Ee Loy
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WILLIAM J. MILNE, Ph. D., LL.D.
eSIDENT OF THE NeW YouK Stats Normat Cour
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