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NORMAL COLLEGE Ecuo.
A COLLEGE JOURNAL DEVOTED TO EDUCATION.
Vou, VI.
ALBANY, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1897. No. 4
A PEDAGOGICAL ANALOGY.
TEACHER is a sort of intellec-
tual doctor.
The first thing for him to study is
the mental anatomy, the laws of the
mind, and how they govern mental
action and development. This is
called Psychology.
Bacon says : “ Histories make men
wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,
subtile; natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend. Nay, there is no stond
or impediment of the speech that may
not be wrought out by fit studies, like
as diseases of the body may have ap-
propriate exercises, so every defect of
the mind may have a special receipt.”
The teacher must also have a very
complete knowledge of the remedies
to be applied. This is subject-matter.
All this knowledge is futile, unless
he learns how to administer his
doses. This we call method.
It is well to make the doses moder-
ate, since very large and very small
ones are both equally dangerous.
The wise doctor of the intellect
knows it is best to give his pills a
sugar-coating. This coating is called
interest, or pleasure derived in taking
the medicine,
It is essential to know just what
effect you wish to produce and how
to produce that effect. This is the
knowledge and accomplishment of
the aim.
In medicine the doctors of the old
school are called allopathists. But at
the present time, homeopathy has
caught up with allopathy and actually
distanced it.
In education, just the reverse is the
Our grandfathers and grand-
mothers took their medicine in homeo-
pathic doses, if we may judge by the
text-books that they used.
Now we, after the true allopathic
fashion, cram the children with bol-
uses made from Nature’s simples, the
herbs of Botany, the roots and stems
of language.
In the day of the old regime, in or-
der to make a seemingly stupid boy
bright, he was first made more stupid
by dosing him with facts which he
could barely swallow, and could
neither digest nor assimilate, with the
hope, alas, too often vain, that these
two minus qualities would equal a
plus quality, namely —a brilliant boy.
In nine cases out of ten, the result
was unsatisfactory.
A good many are following the old
method yet, especially the general
practitioners in the rural districts.
There are quacks who practice merci-
lessly upon the sometimes deluded
and much suffering public; but they
are becoming fewer in number, par-
case.
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ticularly since special institutions have
been established where not only in-
struction is given, but where the stu-
dent may have actual practice with
patients, under the supervision of ca-
pable doctors of pedagogy, who, for
good work done, give him a degree.
Tt is to be hoped that the time will
come when all practitioners will be
Pd. B’s.
The doctor of pedagogy should
study his patient, watch the symp-
toms, and make a careful diagnosis of
his case, administering the right rem-
edy at the right time.
The age of the patient must also be
considered. Particular kinds of med-
icine are best suited for certain ages.
Young children should be fed with
fables, fairy stories, stories of personi-
fied Nature, to deyelop the imagina-
tion. They should practice daily easy
mental gymnastics to develop the
reasoning and memory muscles.
The menu for each day should be
carefully considered, and simple, but
nutritious foods given them, which
their mental organs can digest; and
not heavy courses of abstractions
which produce a mental dyspepsia,
too often chronic.
As time goes on, this diet needs
change, to suit the needs of the
patient.
Children should early be
science, especially the study of plants
and animals. This is good for cul-
tivating observation, judgment and
expression.
Tt was once almost universally be-
lieved that geometry was poor food
for young children, but it is now
known that geometry is one of the
first and most important articles of
food. It is about the first thing that
given
children devour, but they do not eat
it as it is commonly dished. They
must first have it a la concrete; this
gives an appetite for abstract geom-
etry later and makes it more digesti-
ble.
Language well-prepared is excel-
lent food for producing fine judgment
and nicety of expression.
A tea made from Greek or Latin
roots, well boiled down and sweet-
ened, forms a very stimulating bever-
age.
Physiologists say that a child
craves food needful for its growth.
The mind also craves different foods
at different times.
We would do well to follow Na-
ture’s course and supply those wants.
Authorities declare that the best
food for children, and even adults, is
a condensed compound in definite
proportions of all the elements which
develop the mental faculties.
It is much better than single pre-
scriptions given at stated times and
intervals.
These foods given in their proper
relations help one another in pro-
ducing a symmetrical mind. Hence,
a varied mental diet is best.
An ambrosia consisting of a study
of the beautiful in Nature and in Art
should daily constitute his dessert.
Let the doctor mix with this com-
pound, called correlation, the salt of
his own common sense, stirring in a
large amount of enthusiasm, and best
of all, a fine personality.
Thus, the faithful doctor of ped-
agogy will find in the improved men-
tal condition of his patients an ample
reward for his efforts in the applica-
tion of modern methods in education.
A. ELSEY KARNER, ’98.
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO, -
“A PEDAGOGIC REVERIE.”
EARS ago, near Canandaigua,
lived a man bearing the not un-
common Christian name of Joseph,
and the no less uncommon surname
of Smith. It was before the anthra-
cite age, and Joe Smith, in order to
secure a little collateral, used to draw
cord wood with his ox-team into Can-
andaigua and sell it.
Tt was his custom, invariably there-
after, to visit a rum shop. Indeed, it
might be stated that while his special
intention was to dispose of his wood
for money, it was always in his mind
in a general way to get whiskey. On
one occasion, having imbibed too
freely of what is called, by a metaphor-
ical antithesis, tanglefoot, he fell
asleep in his cart, en route for home.
An acquaintance happening along
thought it would be a good joke to
loose the oxen, and did so.
Lacking the sensation which the
impression from their driver's whip
and voice produced, and the con-
sciousness of being hitched to the cart,
anew train of associations was start-
ed in the minds of the oxen by the
pasture immediately before them.
Following the line of least resistance,
they passed by proper gastronomical
processes, from the known to the re-
lated unknown, and were so delighted,
and moved so rapidly that they were
well out of sight ere dawning came to
the beclouded senses of their driver.
Finally, the aforesaid Joe aroused
himself, and staring vacantly about,
remarked: “ Wal, ef I be Joe Smith,
Tve lost a yoke of oxen, and if I
be’nt, I’ve found a cart.”
After a few days in the Normal
College, the student may still be tol-
erably sure of his identity, but he is in
somewhat the predicament of Joe
Smith, in that he does not ‘know
whether to rejoice more that he is in-
troduced to these new methods in ed-
ucation, or to regret more that his
former instructors should not have
known them so that he might stand
as a product of the new system. He
tries to imagine what the results
would have been. He knows that the
interstices of his universe are filled
with worlds, alive with interest, which
he has never been led to discover.
He tests all his former teachers by his
new standard. Not one of them
stands the test. The idea that he
possesses any knowledge or power fit-
ting him for his chosen calling is now
only a remembered delusion.
Just when he has come to this de-
lightful state, he is asked to write an
original essay on some educational
subject. The shock of this announce-
ment, coming upon a day’s sudden
sickness, induced in the writer a tem-
porary lapse of consciousness. He
seemed to find himself in a new envi-
ronment, in which not a vestige of
the old tread-mill ways of learning
remained, and the new education had
full possession. A city, and yet with
parks and plots so finely kept, that the
aroma which Nature distills was in the
air. The discovery was made that
here was a superior people, alert, but
poised in movement, noble in appear-
ance, with commanding brows and
flashing eyes, whose depths reflected
the glory of all the majestic and intri-
cate beauty of Nature. To one of
these gracious beings he approached,
and asked: “ Will you kindly tell me
where I am?” I felt that he took me
in with one kindly glance of his highly
trained eyes. “This, sir, is the city
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of schools.
our
Have you not heard of
institutions?
one.” To my delight he invited me
to visit the school. The building I
had mistaken for the City Hall or
Capitol of the State. Now it was
thronged with youths of joyous,
happy appearance, whose anticipation
of a day’s pleasure was very apparent.
School began. T visited several
rooms, of which IT have not time to
tell. The same quiet power was man-
ifested by all the teachers, the same
and brightness and
method were found throughout. The
last visit was to an elocution class.
Here the same principle of method
was exemplified, viz., that vivid ideas
and many associations precede and
stimulate clear expression. A young
man was to recite some piece. In-
stead of first committing the words
and then saying them with this ges-
ture here and another there, as they
had been given him, he was led to
grasp the thought fully, by presenting
the picture to his mind and calling his
imagination to frame it, so that his
mind being on fire with the ideas thus
vividly grasped and associated, the ex-
pression and gesture were a matter of
course. Upon meeting the principal,
after expressing my thanks, I asked
this question: “ Your teachers accom-
plish great results. They all use the
same methods. Is it the method only
that makes them so successful?”
He relied: “Tf you could know the
results fully, you would know how
truly wonderful they are, and the
methods are the same because they
are the best. They are essential to
our results, but to answer your ques-
tion: You remember how it was at
Missionary Ridge. There were the
Yonder stands
tifle pits ranged along and upon the
mountain, and the orders were to take
the first and then reform and so on.
But somehow those soldiers got a
vision of the summit resting among
the clouds, and the idea that on that
next night the stars andstripesmust
float and the Union camp-fires must
gleam along that summit. They
started in good order. They took the
first rifle-pits. They forgot the order
to reform. Thomas could not stop
them. Grant could not stop them, all
the officers together could not have
stopped them, and all because they
had had the vision of the summit,
and had caught the inspiration of
the upward movement to victory.
So the inspiration of the true
teacher, touching a young soul
wakes it up and wakes it up for
conquest.”
A yoice said to me: “ By diligent
preparation you may have a part in
this great work.” I thought of the
words of the sage of Chelsea:
“Blessed is the man who has
found his work, let him ask no
other blessedness.” W.M.S.
TO EDITH.
I wish for thee a life of joy,
But lightly dimmed by pain’s alloy.
Thy youth shall be a sun-kissed dream,
And in thy heart the fruit shall gleam;
Nor care, nor trial shall be thine,
But from thine eyes shall merey shine.
Thy womanhood. must be a life
Less dreamy; yet no worldly strife
May mar the happy fireside,
Where to and fro thy loved ones glide;
With thee shali dwell both love and
health —
A heritage beyond our wealth.
‘And when the years have bowed thy head,
And o'er thy hair soft silver shed,
Thy busy hands may folded be,
For loving ones will wait on thee
And when God calls thee to His
A peace divine will close thine eyes.
=A Ge
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 5
THE SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING
DAY
T was the week after Thanksgiving,
and, as I waited for my change
in one of our large department stores,
I overheard a bit of conversation be-
tween two ladies near by.
“And how did you spend Thanks-
giving Day?” the motherly little
woman asked her tall, well-gowned
companion.
“1? Oh, I went to a dinner party
at the Waldorf, given by Senator and
Mrs. Grey.”
To me it seemed almost a sacri-
ligious way of spending the “ Harvest
Day.” My feelings were reflected in
the face of the plain little woman, for,
when her rich friend moyed away,
she turned to me and said:
“Poor woman! I wish I could take
her up to mother’s, and let her see
what Thanksgiving means!”
How I wish she could! And all the
other poor deluded society people,
who have lost the true and kindly sig-
nificance of the day. Have they for-
gotten their childhood days, that they
are content to dine at a great hotel
with comparative strangers about
them?
An important factor in destroying
the old-fashioned gatherings on
Thanksgiving Day has been the inter-
collegiate foot ball games held on that
day for several years past. To the
college men and their interested
friends everything centered around
the great game, and for the first time,
perhaps, family gatherings were in-
complete, for the long-haired youths
must eat Thanksgiving turkey with
their rollicking friends in town.
To the small boy—and to many a
child of larger growth—Thanksgiving
The
dinner is, indeed, the pivot round
which the day swings, but who will
deny that it is the company assembled
round the board which makes the
pleasure of the day? Imagine your-
self seated alone at a table groaning
with dainties—would you not ex-
change the solitary feast for anhumble
repast shared with friends?
The night before Thanksgiving a
year ago, I was in the Grand Central
Depot, and, perhaps, I never before
realized what Thanksgiving meant.
While I waited, train after train from
the west steamed in; and there, in the
great noisy station families were unit-
ed that perhaps had been separated
for twenty years or more. The utter-
ances of thanksgiving drowned the
noisy clanging of the bells, as hands
were shaken, tears were shed, and em-
braces exchanged. The hearty kiss-
ing of two burly Germans, who were
weeping vigorously in each other’s
arms, did not seem ridiculous to the
by-passers, for their own hearts were
filled with the gratitude of the season.
Another class of travelers who ap-
preciated Thanksgiving day were the
school boys and girls coming home
for vacation. Less touching, but more
joyous were the greetings received
and given, as their friends seized them
and bore them away to the festivities
of the season.
Thanksgiving is what our friends
make it, not what the dinner turns out
to be. And though we may find the
happy, grateful spirit of the day, ming-
ling with the fragrance of cabbage and
onions of the tenement-house dinner,
yet after all, the ideal day is spent at
the old homestead.
Let me take you back to the dear
ineans only a day of feasting.
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old days when, with common accord,
we went countryward to join in the
family gathering at grandfather’s
home. Even the rattling and bump-
ing of the railroad train that speeded
us on our way chimed with joyous
tune that rang through our heads, and
the sleigh bells —as we jingled over
the bright, sparkling snow — rhymed
with the gladness of the day.
How good it seemed to meet all the
friends once more! The house seemed
fairly swarming with children, who
made the very rafters ring, while
grandfather and grandmother only
smiled contentedly, as they sat in state
on either side of the great open fire.
The dinner over—and do not let
us belittle that important event —the
pleasures of the afternoon were mani-
fold. Yet the sweetest part of the day
came with the approach of dusk, when
young and old gathered in the great
hall to listen to the story-telling. The
glowing, snapping logs with their fit-
ful flames, filled the room with a
changing, mysterious light, which
made the little children cling closer to
mother’s hand, as their wide eyes
watched the leaping shadows on the
wall,
On the hearth the rosy apples sput-
tered and wrinkled from the warm
kiss of the fire, while the busy little
blasts from the popping corn punc-
tuated the narrator’s speech. Per-
haps poor grandma fell asleep in her
big chair, and the children dozed, as
some more prosy tale was told, yet
they wakened when the next story was
begun, and this time the wild romance
that was spun allowed no little trips
to slumberland.
By and by someone would steal to
the old melodion in the corner, and
soon a merry song would drown the
tapping of the wind-lashed boughs of
the willow-tree.
Quite as much a part of the day as
the dinner, was the Virginia reel,
which came after tea. Chairs and
tables were pushed aside, and grand-
father and grandmother sedately
headed the long lines of prancing little
people and their more dignified elders.
What a merry time it was! The chil-
dren were loath to stop, yet quite as
happy in the games that followed.
But I must draw a tight rein on
memory, or my pen will never cease
to flow. Yet may this bit of reminis-
cence serve to make some one long
for the old fashioned way of celebrat-
ing the harvest festival!
KNEE DEEP IN SEPTEMBER.
Did you ever any day,
Just to while the time away,
And cut clean loose from work and care,
And have some fun and country air,
Pack an old shoe-box with cake
And sandwiches, so nice to take,
And get a girl, and two or three
Other girls and boys, and flee
Off to some cool, shady nook,
By plashing lake or babbling brook,
And just do nothing — every one —
But eat, and laugh, and joke? What fun
We had one day in early fall,
When autumn’s hues were over all,
And when it got so awful hot
None cared if school should keep or not!
’Twas just about sun-setting time
(L say it so to make it rhyme);
We took the trolley and our cake,
And girls, and pic-niced at Sand Lake.
How grand when just at setting sun
The moon rose over Albion!
How cattiously at first did she
Peer over on our little sea!
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Coqueting with the clouds at first,
I really think she hardly durst
Look boldly down at where we stood —
(Coquets, I fear, were in the wood.)
Then we all sat down to cat—
A peanut sandwich —one of meat,
A joke, a pickle, laughter, cheese,
(Another peanut sandwich, please.)
O dear, who sprung that awful pun,
“ Only did it just for fun?”
All right — please pass the chocolate cake,
Let’s go rowing on the lake.
* * * * *
Ain’t it heaps of fun to go
On picnic parties, and to know
You haven't got to be sedate,
And very dignified and straight!
AESTHETICS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL
EDUCATION.
HE discussion a few years ago re-
garding the Sunday use of
parks, galleries and museums, led to
more practical results than the mere
opening of those places. It strength-
ened a somewhat latent conviction
that a love for the beautiful is a deter-
mining influence of character. To ac-
quire a true appreciation of nature and
art we must first become students of
nature and art; and that study period
should be while the soul is unfolding,
expanding, receiving its earliest de-
velopment. The environment of child-
hood tones the thought and work of
all later life.
The instruction in our public
schools it is said, should be devoted
to essentials, not to accomplishments.
True, but what are the essentials of
education? The culture studies of two
decades ago are now crowding close
upon the so-called fundamental
branches. Music must be taught,
drawing must be taught. This work
may even encroach upon the time for
grammar and arithmetic. The so-
called accomplishments supply the
means of livelihood for a large num-
ber of people, and form the recreation
and highest pleasure of a still larger
number. Our public schools cannot
run the risk of dwarfing the finer in-
stincts of man’s nature. They cannot
afford to give no encouragement to
genius. In what ranks of life is gen-
ius to be found? Who would have
looked for an artist in Murillo’s slave?
The boy waited upon his master dur-
ing lesson hours, and slept in the
studio at night. One morning when
Murillo entered his studio he saw a
bee upon the canvas he was painting,
and walked up to the picture to brush
off the intruder, when, to his surprise
he found the insect had been painted
there. In his anger he accused his
pupils of the work. Investigation
proved his mistake. The slave had
put that bee upon the canvas. “ Who
taught you to paint?” Murillo asked.
“You, master,” was the boy’s answer.
“Tmpossible,” replied Murillo, “T
never gave you a lesson.” “No, but
I heard you tell the others.”
That which determines a man’s sta-
tion in life, need not be the circum-
stance of birth. A few years ago a
Swedish girl came to this country and
hired out as a servant. Why should
she be anything else than a servant?
She was poor and friendless, and had
but a meager education. One day the
mistress discovered that this servant
had a wonderful voice. Friends be-
came interested. At the conservatory
of music the instructors prophesy that
an unusual career lies before this new
pupil. To a locksmith’s apprentice at
eighteeen, moody, stupid, was given a
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position in a designer’s establishment.
Ten years later, he himself was at the
head of an immense business, and his
former master came to learn of him.
In both these cases a certain amount
of instruction had been given in the
common branches, but nothing had
been done to awaken latent talents.
What are the essentials of education?
They are the adequate materials,
means and room for the proper de-
velopment of inherited gifts — no less,
whether the child be rich or poor.
Witness the effect in the grammar
schools of Boston of “tempera” paint-
ing, or painting in opaque colors. The
work done by some of the boys—
small, uncouth and weak intellect-
ually as many of them are —is simply
astonishing. Color seems to be the
only thing that stimulates certain
pupils to work.
How great is the value, also, of a
study of nature—of minerals, of birds,
of insects, and of plant life. John Bur-
roughs was hardly known as a banker,
but as a writer on birds he is cele-
brated. George E. Davenport, one of
the best authorities on ferns in this
country, is a frame-maker in Boston.
Tt is unfortunate, to say the least, that
the public schools gave these men and
many others like them, no suggestion
of what they by chance stumbled
upon. and by which they have become
famous.
A system of education that does not
make a definite provision for the leis-
ure periods of life is sadly defective.
According to President Eliot: “It is
always through the children that the
best work is to be done in uplifting
any community.” Ts it not, then, the
duty of the public schools to prepare
pupils for the enjoyment of their leis-
ure time? — to prepare them not only
for a practical living, but for a com:
plete living? to create among them a
taste for an elevating, refining en-
vironment? to cultivate in them the
love of good music, good literature,
the beautiful in nature and art? —art
which, as Froebel said, is the visible
revelation and expression of the in-
visible spirit in man.
EDITH
M. BRETT.
MOTHER NATURE’S DRESSMAKING
ESTABLISHMENT.
OTHER Nature’s Dressmak-
ing Establishment now Open.
All the Latest Fashions ”— was the
advertisement which set the flower-
folks all in a flutter. The advertise-
tisements were written on rose-petals,
and the messenger who distributed
them was Mother Nature’s brother,
the East Wind.
The flowers were each so anxious to.
be the first to attend that they nearly
mixed spring and summer together.
The plants grew as they never had
grown before, but— would you be-
lieve it — the first ones to attend were
the modest snow-drop and violets!
They were soon suited, and came
away, the little snow-drops in white
and green, and the violet in a sober
gown of purple.
Now the rose family came, dozens
upon dozens, sisters, aunts, mothers,
brothers, cousins, etc. They had the
latest fashions from Paris, dresses of
gorgeous red, brilliant yellow, soft
pinks, and even a pure white dress
was donned by the more modest.
After this families of all names and
tribes. rushed in and went away, look-
‘
THE
ing as fresh as the new moon. Nastur-
tiums in red, yellow, orange, yellow
velvet revers, red with black
trimmings, pale yellow, dark yellow
and medium yellow.
Geraniums, with the mother in a
bright red dress, the father in a dark
red suit, and the children in pink,
white, and some in a Martha Wash-
ington costume.
The pansies’ saucy faces looked up
of yellow, red, blue,
white and royal purple. One little
dandy wore a waistcoat of yellow, and
purple breeches, and was the envy and
admiration of all the young ladies.
The petunias and marigolds came in
hand-in-hand, the petunias in white,
red, pink and purple —the latest dress
being white silk, trimmed with a col-
lar of red velvet, forming a star; and
the marigolds, some all in yellow, like
miniature suns, while their cousin
marigolds with dark trimmings on
their golden dresses, tried to rival the
suns in being partial eclipses.
All the pretty wild-flowers would
not stay in the city to spoil their
health, but betook themselves off to
the woods and meadows. Buttercups
dressed in gold, the clover in pink and
white, and the daisy with her yellow
hair and a white dress.
The larkspur also blossomed forth
in royal purple. Beautiful waxen
lilies with their hearts of gold nodded
in the breezes.
The sweet-peas had all their dresses
made after the same pattern — but the
colors. ‘What combinations” Pink
and white, lavender striped and mot-
tled red, and so many others, impossi-
ble to describe.
But I haye left out one of Mother
Nature’s favorites, which should have
with
from dresses
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come first, but being so modest and
retiring we passed her by. The deli-
cate lily-of-the-valley, clad in her spot-
less robe of white, swinging on her
emerald stem, like a chime of fairy
bells.
Others came and were clothed.
June, July, August and September
passed, and October came, Now all
the flowers but a few asters, sunflow-
ers and chrysanthemums had gone to
their last peaceful rest. The last-
named flower blossomed out in red,
yellow, white and pink —all from
Mother Nature's establishment. Frost
and snow came, but still they held
their place, until at last, one Novem-
ber night, clear and cold, a heavy frost
swept over the gardens, and the next
morning the sturdy chrysanthemums
were dead.
These flowers remind one of the
sturdy pilgrims who endured all they
could, but at some sudden trouble
many of them sickened and died.
Mother Nature’s establishment was
now closed until the next spring. But
she would not clothe these same chil-
dren of hers, but others, their off-
spring, she would clothe and cherish
the same as these.
So the world of flowers will go on
until all things pass away.
ELIZ. F. SHAVER (age 13).
My boy you are weary and wan,
You are working too hard with your
Greek,
To try from construction obscure,
Some plausible meaning to seek.
0, No!” he wearily said,
“The meaning I plainly can see;
But I’m worn out trying to make
The text and the pony agree.”
—The Oneontan_
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EDITORIALS.
ROF. HUSTED received his de-
gree of Ph. D. Illinois
Wesleyan University, not Seminary,
as was stated in our last issue.
from
HERE is a slight break in our
editorial staff this issue. Miss
Ruth Norton has felt obliged to resign
as news editor, and her place has been
taken by Laura P, Stafford. The other
news editor, C. L. Reed, has left
school, and his place is taken by J.
Archie 1 nompson. We welcome these
new ones to our staff, and feel sure
that they are well qualified for the
duties they will have to perform.
E wish each one of our readers
a joyous Thanksgiving, and
each of the students a pleasant vaca-
tion. Let it be for you a vacation in-
deed, and as you again renew the old
home ties and associations, dispel all
thoughts of work and care, and give
yourself up to the obtaining of life’s
fullest enjoyment.
HE examinations of the first
quarter are over, and we have
entered upon the last half of the term
with no break in the chain. Those
who were successful with their work
are jubilant, while those who failed are
somewhat disheartened, and more
than ever determined to do better for
all future time.
E are glad to see such an active
society spirit manifested by
all of the societies in the college.
Great benefit is derived from society
life, and if each member does all that
she ought to do, she cannot fail to ob-
tain a just reward for her efforts. The
societies also, by their frequent recep-
tions and entertainments, attribute
much to the social life of the students,
and thus lighten the cares of our busy,
work-a-day life. j
ET each and every student feel
that he owes a duty to his col-
lege paper, and aid it all he can by the
contribution of meritorious articles,
interesting news items, and last, but
not least, by his subscription. Only a
small portion of our student body are
subscribers as yet, and we need and
want you all.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. ite
HE great outery all over this
country is, “ Politics is a mass
of corruption.” The “better class”
consider themselves too good (?) to at-
tend the primaries and caucuses, or
say, “It is useless for us to go to these
meetings as ‘the machine’ has its
slate made out and everything will be
carried out as the ‘bosses’ direct.”
Are you, as a teacher, one of those
good citizens? If you are, throw off
your false mantle and be a good citi-
zen by showing your interest in your
welfare. Teach your pupils
patriotism, and set an example, if you
are a man, by attending the primaries
and caucuses, and all public meetings
which involve the good of our glor-
ious Union.
It is not necessary that one should
be prejudiced by party affiliation in
order to teach patriotism. Train the
youth to reverence their country and
respect the ballot-box. Train them
to hold sacred their honor and free-
dom.
Esau, for one morsel of meat, sold
his birthright. It is sad to think that
this country is full of Esaus, especially
on election day.
The only way to eradicate an evil of
such character is to train the youth to
seek nigher ideals of life.
The teacher’s duties and responsi-
bilities cannot be overestimated in this
Peet ea
S the present month draws to a
A close there recurs a festal day
which is a fitting prelude to the closely
succeeding holiday season. For when
is one better prepared to surrender
himself to the cheerful greetings, the
generous expressions of good-will,
and the joyous festivities that are her-
alded by the bringing in of “ye yule
log,” than after careful, candid retro-
spect that is supposed to precede the
time-honored Thanksgiving day. To
different persons the day that was set
apart by our forefathers as a day of
humiliation, fasting and prayer, sug-
gests different thoughts or feelings;
and numerous are the ideas that ger-
minate from a brief consideration of
that peculiar time, or from the retro-
spects coincident with it. The “ Nor-
malite” successfully con-
quered the subjects of the first ten,
and left them forever behind, will find
a reasonable excuse for venting his
enthusiasm on the poor turkey; while
the one who has been unsuccessful
will surely try to smother his regrets
with an abundant portion of the royal
So, in either case, the crest-fal-
who has
fowl.
len gobbler must bear the burden of
our joys or sorrows. But doubtless,
our ancestors had causes of thankful-
ness that much transcend the petty,
yét important events of school life.
Ah! our ancestors were a worthy lot,
fearless and strong, and with such a
fund of common sense and reverence
as were better envied than dubbed
with the would-be sorrowful term of
“puritanical.” We boast to-day of
Nineteenth century independence; but
we are bound, willingly or no, by our
antecedents. No surer is the child
father of the man than we feel the
strength of precedents established a
century or more ago; and well for us,
if those tend to beneficence and truth.
We ought to be thankful to-day that
the foundations of our institutions
were laid upon such a firm basis, and
rejoice in the sense of right and jus-
tice which would concede an acknowl-
edgment of benefactions to the Giver
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
of all good and perfect gifts. It needs
but little pessimism to doubt whether
the welcome proclamation, “ therefore,
appoint —a day of thanksgiving and
prayer,” would yearly greet our ears
had its establishment been left for our
end of the century political fathers to
act upon.
But to us as American students
comes an especial opportunity on this
distinctively American holiday. The
delights of the holidays cluster about
the pleasures of home. The borders
of our little school world are narrow.
Let us at this Thanksgiving day look
out into the great world beyond and
note its events, review its triumphs
and failures, its agitations and assur-
ances;.wherein it has advanced, and
wherein it may improve; and thus get
in touch with and learn to cherish and
to aid that great throbbing body of
which we must soon form a part, and
which in turn has done so much
for us.
S. N. C. NOTES.
“COME Dominant Factors in Edu-
cation,” was the theme of Dr.
Milne’s address before the Hudson
River Schoolmasters’ Club, at their
last regular meeting in this city. At
the business meeting of the same or-
ganization he was chosen president for
the ensuing year.
The following members of our fac-
ulty have been in attendance at the
various institutes since our last issue:
Miss Pierce, at Hoosick, October 14;
Miss Bishop, at Phonecia, Ulster Co.,
October 27, and at Highland, in the
same county, November 10; Miss Rus-
sell, at Malone, Franklin county,
October 28 and 29.
A. D. Arnold, ’74, judge of Wash-
ington county, and his little daughter,
visited the college October 28.
E. J. Gregory, ’79, and wife, visited
the college October 22. Mr. Gregory
is now superintendent of the North
Pondre Land and Canal Co., at Fort
Collins, Colorado.
Miss Eloise Whitney, ‘94, visited
the college November 8.
Miss Mabel Parker has returned to
college.
Mr. Witton, of Rahway, N. J., re-
cently entered the college for the
year’s work.
C. L. Reed, one of our editorial
staff, has decided to choose some
other vocation than teaching for his
life work, and has severed his connec-
tion with the college.
W. B. Sprague, ’97, of Troy, was
present at the Kappa Delta reception
and entertainment.
Miss Kibby has been obliged to re-
turn home on account of ill health.
The following have recently been
on the sick list: G. C. Lang, Miss
Delamater and Miss Frances Stearns.
The latter has been quite seriously ill,
and has not as yet fully recovered.
Mrs. Mooney was absent from col-
lege October 29 to November 4 on
account of the death of her father,
Thomas Sullivan, of Watertown,
N. Y. His death was not unexpected,
as he had passed his eighty-eighth
birthday, and had been feeble physi-
cally for several months; but he re-
tained his mental powers to the last.
Before paper and slates were in-
vented, people multiplied on the face
of the earth—Ex.
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 13
ETA PHI.
HE members of the Eta Phi So-
ciety were “at home” at the
college Saturday, the twenty-third of
October, from four to six o’clock. The
beauty of the new hall was enhanced
by the palms and other decorations,
making an ideal place for the assem-
bly of guests.
The singing of Miss Patten and Mr.
Van Woert added greatly to the pleas-
ure of the afternoon.
Tea was served by Miss Suits and
Miss DeWitt from a daintily decorated
table on the landing of the new stair-
case. The President of the society,
Miss Bennett, and the Vice-President,
Miss Cook, received the guests.
DELTA OMEGA.
N Saturday afternoon, October
30, Dr. Leonard Woods Rich-
ardson gave the Delta Omega Society
and its friends a delightful literary tall
on “Three English Poets— Keats,
Shelly and Coldridge.”
Dr. Richardson did not weigh and
estimate the works of these poets, as
a critic, but as a friend and lover. He
pointed out the sweetness and beauty
of their songs in such a way as to
make his hearers catch the very spirit
of poetry.
After the talk all were invited to re-
main to meet Dr. Richardson and the
members of the society.
The hall was prettily decorated with
palms and chrysanthemums.
Misses Bennett and Hilt presided at
the tea table, which was decorated
with the society colors — yellow and
white. Other members of the society
served the guests.
KAPPA DELTA.
HE faculty and a large number of
college students were enjoyably
entertained by the Kappa Delta So-
ciety Saturday, November 6. A song
by Miss Fawcett was followed by a
short but interesting talk on the liter-
ary work of such a society, by Mrs.
Mooney. After a piano solo by Miss
Fairchild light refreshments were
served. The rooms were attractively
decorated, and the society is to be con-
gratulated on the success of its first
public appearance.
The Kappa Delta Society was or-
ganized June 16, 1897, and until very
recently its existence was known to
but few.
It was organized with fourteen
charter members, and during the pres-
ent year its ranks have been increased
to twenty-five.
The chief object of the society is to
promote social and literary advance-
ment. Its deliberations are presided
over by the following officers:
President — Miss Edith H. Nichols.
Vice-President — Miss Edna Steenburgh
Secretary — Miss Mabel Eddy.
Treasurer— Miss Margery B. Loughran.
Director — Miss S. Mabelle Honsinger.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH.
N unusually large number of the
faculty and students were pres-
ent at the First Reformed Church to
listen to another of Prof. Belding’s
charming recitals. Themes both
dainty and dignified, familiar and
strange, passionate and measured,
rendered the program one of sufficient
variety to please the most critical.
“Old Folks at Home” was especially
pleasing with its delicate arpeggios
14 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
and sympathetic rendition. And no
one of these recitals would be complete
without the transcription of Wagner’s
“Tannhauser,” which appeals to all as
possessing all the qualities of truly
classical music.
Prof. Belding was assisted by Prof.
Holding, so universally recognized in
our city as a master of the violin, and
by Miss Sadia Claire Bailey, who has
won high praise for her sweet singing.
It is to be regretted that a severe cold
prevented her from appearing at her
best.
We wish to thank Prof. Belding for
his effort to instruct and entertain us,
and shall look forward with pleasure
to the twenty-first recital. The follow-
ing is the program:
Grand Offertoire (St. Cecilia) op. 9,
No. 3. : Batiste
oe Watian Tel) transcribed
Dudley Buck. . -Rosini
elas Nuptial. . . Du Bois
b. The Village Harvest Home (in-
troducing rustic music)....Spinney
Violin Solo — Andante Religioso, in
Thome
Bach
ne cud Fugue Ga Danined),
March Funebre and Chant
aphique. i
Soprano Solos —
a. Your Voice (with violin obli-
gato). .
wn:
_Guilmant
.Denza
b, I will Exel Thee. Costa
Fantasie (Ill Trovatore). . Verdi
Old Folks at Home (with varia-
tions). . . Foster-Buck
Nocturne op. 9, No ...Chopin
Tannhauser (Transcription). ..... Wagner
Thunder Storm (requested).
INTER-SOCIETY AGREEMENT.
ELIEVING that each society
owes a duty of loving ser-
vice to the institution and to the
body of students, and believing that
each in its work and ideals per-
forms a certain function in the
college organization, we must con-
sider that whatever lessens her effi-
ciency by introducing into the college
life elements of discord and ignoble
rivalry should be, if possible, elimi-
nated. The question as to how the
societies may learn to work together
without friction, without jealousy,
whether a mutually suspicious attitude
is necessary to the preservation of
their integrity and independence, is
one of vital importance. To meet this
problem, the following code of inter-
society rules has been drawn up and
adopted by the societies Delta Omega,
Eta Phi and Kappa Delta.
CODE OF INTER-SOCIETY RULES.
A. Invitations for membership.
1. During the year invitations shall
be sent only on the third Sat-
urday of each month.
2. All inyitations shall be written
and sent through the mail.
3. Until members elect have re-
plied to their invitations the
exclusive right of communicat-
ing with them with regard to
society matters shall be re-
served to the President of the
society.
B. No society member, either honorary
or active, shall attempt to discover
in any way, or shall intentionally in-
fluence the society opinions or pref-
erences of a non-society girl, with
regard to any society.
C. No student shall be invited to join any
society until she has been in college
one quarter.
D. No change shall be made in these rules
without the consent of all the
societies. :
E. These rules shall go into effect when
adopted by all the societies, and
shall continue in effect until June,
of eighteen hundred and ninety-
nine, when they shall be open to re-
vision at the call of any one of the
societies.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 15
CLASS OF ’99.
HIS is one of the largest classes in
the history of our institution,
and naturally the class spirit is quite
rife. The following officers have been
chosen to preside over its delibera-
tions for the ensuing term:
President — R, B. Gurley
First Vice-President — Miss Stoneman.
Second Vice-President — Miss Fisher.
Secretary — Miss. McGregor.
Treasurer — E. S. Pitkin.
Assistant Treasurers — Miss Everett,
Miss Deyo.
Executive Committee—The Messrs.
Bennett and Thompson, and the Misses
Briggs, Merwin and Swarthout,
Social —The Messrs. Wendell and
Smith, and the Misses Wilson, Hawkey
and Bangs.
Program —The Misses Wheeler, Bur-
nett, Coughtry and Walker.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Misses Ulman and Goldthwaite have
returned to finish the term’s work.
Much interest is being manifested in
the election of officersinthe Adelphi
Literary Society. Besides the regular
ticket there has been put in the field a
strong opposition ticket. And in ad-
dition to these one gentleman has en-
tered the arena on an independent
ticket. Enthusiasm runs high, and the
most spirited election in the history of
the society is anticipated.
Some of the students are absent on
account of illness.
ALUMNI NOTES.
*90 — Mr. Flint was recently elected
school commissioner at Athens, Pa.
Previous to his election he taught stc-
cessfully at Sharon, Germantown and
Athens,
’97 — Miss Alice I. Adams has se-
cured a position in the High School
at Hudson, N. Y.
‘95 — Miss Daisy Stowe is teaching
in the High School at her home in
Clyde, No Y.
’o97 —G. P. Allen is now principal
of the public school at Richmond Val-
ley, Staten Island. This is the same
place where Mr. Allen taught before
entering school the second time. His
post-office address is Tottenville, S. I
and he would be glad to hear from all
old friends.
*45 —N. Warren De Wann died at
Providence, R. I., October 25, in his
seyenty-second year. His life was
spent in educational work; he was for
a time superintendent of schools at
Elyra, O.; he taught many years as a
grammar school principal in Provi-
dence, more recently in Boston, until
failing health compelled him to retire.
’48 — Emerson W. Keyes was born
in Jamestown, N. Y., January 30,
1828, and graduated from the Albany
Normal School in 1848. In 1857 he
was appointed deputy State superin-
tendent of public instruction, and in
1861 became acting superintendent
upon the resignation of Superintend-
ent Van Dyck. He was succeeded im
1862 by Victor M. Rice, but remained
in the department as deputy till 1865,
when he resigned to accept the posi-
tion of deputy State superintendent of
the banking department. In this posi-
tion, which he filled until 1870, he ex-
ercised great influence on the organi-
zation of the present banking systenr
of the State. Mr. Keyes was admitted
to the bar in 1868, and during 1867
and 1868 edited an independent series
of unreported cases of Court of Ap-
16 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
peals’ reports in four volumes, pub-
lished by W. C. Little. He was the
author of an exhaustive “ History of
the Savings Banks in the United
States,” “The Code of Public Instruc-
tion of the State of New York,” 1879;
“Principles of Civil Government as
Exemplified in the Government of the
State of New York,” 1875; and a
“Special Report on Savings Banks,”
1868, which was the foundation of the
present law of the State, and is re-
garded as standard authority through-
out the United States. For many
years previous to his death he has
been connected with the Brooklyn
Board of Education. He took an ac-
tive part in the arrangement of the
educational chapter in the Greater
New York charter. Mr. Keyes pos-
sessed a genial nature, which, coupled
with recognized ability, gained him
hosts of friends. Although he has
passed, by nearly a decade of years,
the time allotted to man on earth, and
has received in that time far more than
a proportionate share of the honors of
this world, his friends and his fellow-
citizens can with difficulty be recon-
ciled to his departure, and mourn sin-
cerely the loss of an earnest friend of
education and an honored citizen. At
the “semi-centennial jubilee” of the
N, Y. State Normal College, June,
1894, he delivered the historical ad-
dress, an able and comprehensive
summary of educational progress for
the preceding fifty years.
The beauty which old Greece and Rome
Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home;
We need an eye and ear
In all our daily walks to trace
The outlines of incarnate grace,
The hymns of gods to hear!
—Whittier.
EXCHANGES.
“POHE best guarantee for success in
teaching is the personality of
the educator. Virtue can be taught
only by virtue. A great deal may be
done by means of methods and de-
ices, but example accomplishes infi-
nitely more. Whatever
your pupils to be, you yourself ought
to be.
in the teacher of morals and manners.
Grow better and your schools will
grow better."—The Teachers’ Insti-
tute.
you want
This is particularly important
The “New Education” contains a
fine article on “ Management.”
The October Crucible has a long,
well written article on “ Literature in
the Grades,” by Elma Ruff Todd,
which is well worth reading for its
broad and lofty treatment of the sub-
ject. To the teacher of any grade it is
suggestive; to the teacher of literature
practical and valuable.
The same paper gives some practi-
cal results of child study from a lec-
ture by Dr. Hall.
We are glad to receive “The Kal-
ends” from the Women’s College, of
Baltimore. An attractive college paper
of the first grade. It contains a num-
ber of bright well-written Hallowe'en
stories.
The New York Normal College
Echo contains a charming story con-
nected with Major Andre and a little
girl of eight, whom he met on his way
to Tarrytown on that fatal September
22, and how, though a patriotic little
American, “she loved him just the
same” when he stood on the scaffold.
The purpose of all true science
teaching is to lead the pupil to ob-
serve, think, and reason for himself;
Sent
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO, 7
this being true it is obvious that in
teaching zoology, the object to be
studied must be presented to the pupil.
No amount of detailed description or
illustration by the teacher can take the
place of an actual presentation of the
specimen to the pupil—The Teachers’
Institute.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Cornell University issues a daily
newspaper.—The Baldwin.
Williams College is to limit its stud-
ents to 300—The Polytechnic.
Another gift of $15,000 is an-
nounced for the Yale Law School.
The donor is John W. Hendrie, of
South Beach. He has now given
$50,000 to the institution—The Uni-
versity Forum.
Of the undergraduates in this coun-
try, women comprise 55 per cent. It
seems that in this respect the gentler
sex are ever on the increase —
Ten hours of study, eight of sleep,
two of exercise, and four devoted to
meals and social duties is what Presi-
dent Eliot, of Harvard, recommends
to students —Ex.
In number of students, the Univer-
sity of Paris claims the honor of lead-
ing the universities of the world. Dur-
ing the year ’95-’96, her enrollment
was 11,755, Berlin came next with
9,375:—Ex.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
graduation of the Harvard class of ’7:
is to be celebrated by the gift of a
clock for Memorial hall. The cost of
the present will amount to $6,000—
Ex.
Student self-government is branded
as a failure at Northwestern Univer-
sity. The system of student advisers,
student courts, and student councils
has been found wanting, and is to be
abandoned. President Rogers says
the university stands as another wit-
ness to the fact that students left to
govern themselves are not governed
at all. For seven years a student
council, organized by the students, of
the students, and for the students, has
been granted the privilege of advising
the faculty before any action was taken
touching student interests or affecting
their personal freedom. For two
years a student court has been nomi-
nally in existence to try all cases of
cheating in examinations, and to
recommend to the faculty punishment
or pardon, as the culprit deserves.
The council was organized at the fac-
ulty’s suggestion, the court at the sug-
gestion of the students. Both have
failed. Hereafter the faculty will lay
down the rules, and boys and girls will
be expected to conform.—Ex,
R. H. M. POLLOCK, the newly
appointed professor in the City
High School, is not only an accom-
plished scholar, but a fine writer and
lecturer as well. This winter he is lec-
turing on “Germany and the Ger-
mans” to schools and Teachers’ In-
stitutes.
ALL SORTS.
Old Gentleman—“ Do you mean
to say that your teachers never thrash
you?” Little Boy—“Never. We
have moral suasion at our school.”
“What's that?” “Oh, we get kep’ in,
and stood up in corners, and locked
out, and locked in, and made to write
one word a thousand times, and
18 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
scowled at, and jawed at, and that’s
all."—Ed. Gazette.
The following incident actually took
place in a public school in Chester
county, Pennsylvania, and indicates a
natural aptness for English composi-
tion. Teacher —“T want each of you
to make a sentence, using the word
‘delight’ in it.” Small Boy (colored)
—“ De wind come in de winder, an’
blowed out de light.”—The Tattler.
Professor in Zoology — “ What ani-
mals are characterized by their big
heads?”
Students — “The seniors.’”—Rocky
Mountain Collegian.
Prof. in History — “When was
Papal Church established?”
John (after much earnest thought)
—“ About 5000 B. C.”—The Spec-
tator.
“That settles it,” exclaimed Cupid,
as he picked up an arrow that had
failed to reach his mark. “That’s the
last time I shoot at a new woman.
Why, the point is bent double.’"—Chi-
cago Post.
“There is but one rule without an
exception.”
“ And what is that, pray?”
“Why, that there is no rule without
an exception.”
Cleopatra— “Tell me Antony, do
the nobles of Rome earn their living?”
“Nay, my lotus bud, they urn their
dead.”—Ex.
Tommy’s Share — Tommy: “ Papa,
I want a bicycle” Papa: “Well,
Tommy, and what will you furnish to-
ward getting it?” Tommy (after
thinking deeply for a moment): “I
will furnish the wind for the tires.”—
Ex,
“The rich man becomes insolvent,”
says the Manayunk Philosopher, “the
poor man dead broke.”—Philadelphia
Record.
“Boswell,” said Dr. Johnson, meet-
ing tne biographer on the street, “I
have been reading some of your man-
uscripts. There is a great deal about
yourself in them. They seem to me
to be Youmoirs rather than Memoirs.”
—Puck.
A minister who used to preach in
Somerville had a little boy. A few
days before his father left the city to
go to his new parish, one of his neigh-
bors said to the little boy: “So your
father is going to work in New Bed-
ford. ishe?” The little boy looked up
wonderingly. “Oh, no,” he said;
“only preach.”— Somerville Journal.
Pupil (translating Cicero) —“ You
have ensnared the youth by your art.”
Teacher —“ Alice, do you under-
stand that?”
Pupil (absent-mindedly) —“ Yes, I
have done the same thing, myself.”—
Central Luminary.
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BOOK NOTICES.
“*Round the Year in Myth and Song,”
by Florence Holbrook. Cloth. 12mo. 200
pages, Illustrated, Price, 60 cents. Amer-
ican Book Company, New York, Cincin-
nati and Chicago. This is intended as a
reading book for the third and fourth
grades in school and for the home circle.
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It is at once attractive in its appearance,
and entertaining and instructive in its con-
tents. Some one has said that inspiration
and illumination must precede instruction.
The myths as told here are as interesting
as stories, and will not only awaken the
child’s imagination but furnish a key to
many beautiful things in literature and art
which will prove an unfailing source of
delight in after life. They can also be used
to awaken an interest in the study of var-
ious natural phenomena and other forms of
nature study. The poetical selections are
skillfully arranged to celebrate the seasons
and the months, commencing with Sep-
tember, the beginning of the school year,
and closing with Lowell's beautiful de-
scription of a day in June. The illustra-
tions are most beautifal and appropriate.
An intense love of nature, an enriched
imagination and a strengthened ethical
sentiment will result from the study of
this book by children. No better book
could be put in their hands, either at home
or in school,
“Gems of School Song,” selected and
edited by Carl Betz, Supervisor of Music,
public schools, Kansas City, Mo. Cloth.
4to. 190 pages. Price, 70 cents, Ameri-
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nati and Chicago. This is a choice collec-
tion of songs, suitable for children of all
ages and for schools of different grades.
Notwithstanding the numerous books of
this class there is still a demand for good,
fresh and tuneful songs for school use,
and this book certainly meets this want
the best of any we have seen. The songs
represent a large and varied repertory, in-
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are ever fresh, and the latest and best
of the present. Many of the songs
are those which are used in the schools of
Germany and for the most part have never
before been published with English words.
They are arranged topically, leaving the
selection of pieces for particular occasions
to the taste and judgment of the teachers.
The following outline will give a good
idea of the subjects, number, and char-
acter of the songs included in this book.
Morning (10 pieces), Evening and Night
(17), Lullabies (3), Spring (27), Summer
(a5), Autumn and Winter (11), Forest
and Stream (15), Flowers (10), Birds and
other Creatures (19), Home (30), the
Hunter (6), the Soldier (5), Pleasure (19).
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