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Silent Prayer.

The evening prayer at my knee had been said,

And I tucked my wee girlie all snug in her
bed.

We exchanged “Pleasant dreams;’
this way, you see,

I told her what to dream of and then she
told me.

it was

I wished her a dream of a gay fairy band,

Coming down on a moonbeam from moon
fairyland,

And dancing about near her crib in the way

That fay children do when their ring games
they play.

And she wished me a dream of two big
Christmas trees,

Full of all sorts of playthings, (the kind that
would please

A small child like herself), then closed her
bright eyes,

To await the dream fairies’ joyful surprise.

But opened them quickly again as she said,

“J want to go over and kneel by your bed,

And pray the way you do; may I, Mother
dear?”

I nodded permission, quite curious just here

To see what would happen. The little bare
feet

Pattered over the carpet, so noiseless and
fleet,

And the dear baby clasped her small hands
and knelt down,

A cherub, with white robe and fair shining
crown.

She knelt there in silence for some time, and
then
Hastened back satisfied to her own crib
again,

“And what did you say, little girl?’’ ques-

tioned I,
“Why, nuffin, of course,” came the ready
reply. — F. W.B.

A Western “Early Service.”

A bright Sabbath “ morning climbed
the world’s great side with light,” and
the sun’s warm rays began to melt the
diamond dewdrops into fine atmos-
pheric moisture. It was the hour when
on other days “ Labor with its hundred
hands, is knocking at the golden gates
of the morning,” but on this morning
the profound hush of silent night was
still undisturbed save by the numerous
wings of great hosts of honey bees
a-wooing among a million orange blos-
soms and countless roses in the sur-
rounding yard.

As I took seat on the porch, the early
service of silence and thanksgiving was
in progress and became profoundly im-
pressive. The clear, pure atmosphere
was unclouded by the smoke of break-
fast fires, and the early birds were
shaking themselves into wakefulness.
The bees seemed unusually active, as
they discovered that the lusty and am-
bitious young oranges were pushing
aside their infantile surroundings, and
their long white blossom robes were
falling like large snowflakes slowly
down through the stillness. Ona near-
by window sill an industrious little lin-

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net was earnestly trying to get some
pieces of soft string which were tied to
the fixtures of the window blinds.
She needed the pieces of string in her
nest-building enterprise. After tugging
with great energy at one piece after
another, she became a little dis-
couraged and flew away to consult
with her mate. Soon both came and
renewed the effort but without success.
They flew away again for further con-
ference and soon returned in eager de-
termination. During their absence I
quietly cut the strings loose and into
convenient lengths so that in their
third attempt they were most joyfully
successful and all the pieces soon dis-
appeared. Let no one even whisper
to them that their final success was not
wholly attributable to their own indi-
vidual determination and persistence.

But I had interrupted the worship-
ful early service of silence by helping
to build a linnet’s nest in an orange
tree. Other interruptions soon fol-
lowed. Now, the subdued but re-
proachful call of a maternal hen to her
wandering chicks,— now, a robin in
the tree top changed the program and
led in singing. In the sweetest tremu-
lous voice she shook her noisy throat
in quaint melody, and a score of other
early birds with chirp and twitter
joined in the lively orchestral chorus.
And now Sir Chanticleer struts to the
front, boastful and proud of his follow-
ing flock, and interjects a rousing
“Glory Hallelujah.” 1 stepped in to the
piano and gave them a resounding dox-
ology, and with uplifted hands, a silent
benediction, then retired to the library.

Thus ended an early Sunday service
on a May morning in a Sutter county,
California, home, May 8, 1904.

EG Bsteey53-

Further Evidence. —

On the crest of the protecting levee
along the Feather river, and near Yuba
City, California, a good old Dutchman
has lived for years, employed as watch-
man on a section of the levee, and with
him his wife and child. Their home was
a rude shanty. Not long ago his wife
and child left for the great beyond, and
he, with his faithful dog, became the
only occupant. He was an exemplary
man usually, but did not live a profes-
sionally religious life. In his lonely iso-
lation he became moody, reflective and
reminiscent of his life’s errors. Grow-
ing more and more despondent he soon
gave additional testimony corroborative
of accepted theories concerning a future
life.

A few weeks since “a storm came out
of a cloud by night,” and at a forty-mile
pace came upon him. It rushed upon
him and his shanty with all the potential
energy of the storm king. Infuriated, it
shook his rickety shanty, rattled on his
roof and pelted him with hosts of liquid
bullets. The good old Dutchman al-
most saw himself with his faithful dog
and shanty in the torrential river. The
sleepless and terrifying night was fol-
lowed by a quiet, serene morning, with
a few straggling clouds which could not
keep up with the storm lazily floating by
and dropping their scattered bullets
down through the sunlight, an unwel-
come and unworthy contribution from
the skyloft gallery, like the buttons in
the country church contribution hat.

The experiences of the riotous night
brought an exceeding moody spell
upon the good old Dutchman, who fell
into soliloquy as he laid down his pipe,
about as follows: “ Vatch, Vatch,”
whereupon the dog raised his head,
pricked up his ears and turned his in-

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quiring eyes to his master. “I say,
Vatch, I vish I vas you and you vas I.
You see, Vatch, ven you die you vas
ded, don’d it? I baid you two tollars of
dot.” Watch twisted his neck, scratched
his ear with his hind foot and rose to
listen more attentively. “ But ven I die
it vas different. Ven I die I don’d vas
ded yet. I must go to hell alretty, und
shday a long time, und neffer coom
back to mine home any more, don’d it?
I baid you two tollars of dot, too. O,

mine gracious.”
T. C. Estee,.’53:

The Pedagogy of History in Secondary
Schools.

History, in the usual interpretation of
the term, is thought to be made up of
a series of events closely related by time,
place or other external conditions. This
idea is fast giving way to the new and
more fundamental conception of history
as a process of growth. Underlying the
events, which stand out as landmarks,
are ideas and institutions, which must be
studied before the events themselves can
have any real significance. The pupils
must be made to realize that the event is
but the expression of an underlying prin-
ciple or idea. This conception must be
gained before the fundamental princi-
ples can be recognized.

These principles, especially those of
continuity and differentiation, while not
given their respective terms, may be
shown to be those underlying the entire
growth of history. Further than this,
the five lines of institutional develop-
ment, viz., political, religious, social, in-
dustrial and educational, under which all
events may be classified, as to causes and
results, must be discovered and made a
part of the pupil’s concept of history.
The important place which dates held in

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the old method of teaching history has
been supplanted by a realization of the
actual importance of cause and effect and
the only relative value of time. All of
these and many more may be said to be
the fundamental principles which must
be considered in all history works. It
would not be, however, until the pupil
has reached the latter part of his high
school course or even the first part of
his college work that these principles
would be given technical names and
studied as such. For example, in tracing
the development of architecture from the
crude hut of the savage to the “sky-
scraper,” palace or cathedral of to-day,
a child in the grades would not be told
that the principles of continuity and dif-
ferentiation were involved in this, but
would simply be led to see that one and
the same idea was the impelling force,
while the apparent changes simply
marked the expansion of that idea.
Before the matter of how history shall
be taught in the schools can be taken up,
the teachers themselves must be consid-
ered. There has been, and still exists in
the minds of some principals, school
boards and even teachers, the false no-
tion that history can be taught by any
one competent to teach at all, and that
special preparation is not necessary for
this branch of work. In this day of spe-
cialties along all lines of the teaching
profession history should have a promi-
nent place. Is there any other subject
as broad and comprehensive in the en-
tire curriculum of our school to-day?
Is there any other subject which is so
closely related to and interwoven with
all other branches of work? If this is
granted, and it can scarcely be gainsaid,
ought not the teacher of history to have
very careful preparation? A high
school course in history, however com-

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plete, cannot in itself furnish sufficient
preparation. From two to four years at
least of collegiate work should be re-
quired of any applicant for a history

position. Time is absolutely necessary
in which to take up the different
branches of this great subject and

thoroughly study them. Original inves-
tigation and research should form a part
of this preparation, for until the teacher
can weigh and determine the relative
values of different authorities and
sources he cannot lead the pupils to do
so. No more can he induce them to do
any research work, which is indispens-
able in high school, if he is not familiar
with the method of doing this. So we
claim as a necessity a thoroughly trained
student of history as a teacher of the
same.

In turning our attention to history as
taught in the schools, we find that one
of the most fundamental defects in the
history work of the grades below the
high school is its lack of unity. Even
in one grade the work is apt to consist
of a series of lessons having no relation
to one another, while that of the gradés,
as a‘ whole, is entirely disconnected and
lacking in unity. The work should be
progressive, that of one grade leading
up naturally and logically to that of the
next. If, as is very often the case, pri-
mary work in history is along the line
of American history only, the children
have no basis for their work and fail to
grasp its true significance.

Tt is claimed by many authorities
that the life of a child corresponds with
that of the race. He passes through
the stage of the primitive Aryan, where
the physical world puzzles and mysti-
fies him, and where superstition, built
upon a vivid imagination, holds sway.
The next stage seems to be that of the

Spartan and Roman, physical prowess
and the law of right and justice stand-
ing out as ‘the most prominent factors
of his life. Later, the age of chivalry
appeals to his desire for romantic ad-
venture, and his life for the time has as
its ideal the “Knights of the Round
Table,” etc. This is followed by the
love of stories of actual discovery and
adventure. If these various phases or
stages of the child’s life could be met
by corresponding phases in the world’s
history, a foundation, firm and sure,
would be laid, upon which could be
built, with a comprehension of its
meaning, the history of this new world
of ours. The pupil can be led to un-
derstand that it is not so much the
natural as the moral and intellectual
environment of the chief nations of the
earth which has made their history
what it is. This idea of adapting cer-
tain epochs of history to corresponding
periods in a child’s life is based upon
the “ Culture Epoch” theory. Primary
work should be given in the form of
stories. These should be interesting
and should appeal to the imagination
of the child. To do this, 'they must be
in concrete form and possess the quali-
ties of unity and simplicity. The lan-
guage, also, should be adapted to the
age of the pupil. History in the story
form may be used to advantage up to
the eighth and ninth grades, where it-
must begin to assume the form of study
and work.

In the eighth and ninth grades
American history can be taken up.
With the foundation of European his-
tory already laid, it will not be difficult
to lead the pupils to see why the
colonists came to America. The work
of these two years should be largely
that of the class room. A text-book
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may be used to supplement the class-
room work and for reference, but it
should not be made the basis of the
work. The teacher should map out the
work in advance, taking into considera-
tion the environment of her pupils and
on what grounds she can appeal to
their interest and’ make best use of
facts of local history. Some home
work may be assigned in connection
with the work of these grades, such as
brief sketches of the lives of famous
men, stories of local history, map work,
etc. Frequent tests are desirable to
keep the chief points in mind, while
tabulation of data is of great assistance
to the pupils. The children should be
encouraged to bring illustrative ma-
terial such as pictures, Indian relics,
stories, etc., for use in class. From the
work in the eighth and ninth grades,
the pupils should be led to see some of
the more difficult problems which grow
out of the nature of. history itself, as
well as the methods of its investiga-
tion.

When the high school is reached,
“ History,” as some one has phrased it,
“must partake of the nature of general
information, but must also be concrete
enough to develop a certain amount
of historic sense,’ Many authorities
offer curricula of history work in the
high school, in which they agree for
the most part on the work of the first
and fourth years, but differ as to that
of the intervening ones. A course
which offers as few objectionable fea-
tures as any, and many points in its
favor, is the following:

First Year.— Greek and Roman His-
tory.

Second Year.— Mediaeval and Mod-
ern History.

Third Year.— English History.

Fourth Year.— Advanced U. S. His-
tory and Civics.

The Greek and Roman history of the
first year lay a basis for that of mediaeval
and modern, which in turn is a founda-
tion for English history. The latter cer-
tainly ought to precede any advanced
work in American history, as that of our
mother country, from which so many of
our ideas of government are derived. In
speaking of United States or American
history, the word “Advanced” is used
because the elementary work was taken
up in the eighth and ninth grades. It is
for the first time, in the high school, that
a text-book is used for the subject-mat-
ter of the class work, but even here that
is not sufficient. A choice, even though
small, collection of books on history
should be placed at the disposal of the
pupils for reference work, and frequent
assignments should be made requiring
the use of these books. ‘The use of blue
prints, Perry and Cosmos pictures will
make the notebooks of the pupils a
source of interest and competition.
‘There are many such devices to be made
use of in securing the interest, enthusi-
asm and co-operation of the pupils.

The results of such courses of history
work, from the primary grades up
through the high school, are not difficult
to see. Primary history work forms a
basis for language work, and can be cor-
related with the geography work, to
the great advantage of both. It is also
closely related to the other subjects
taken up in high school. The develop-
ment of character is greatly influenced
by the study of history. A pupil invari-
ably has one historical character whom
he conceives a great admiration for and
whom he attempts to imitate. The de-
mand for the use of judgment in the re-

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search work of the high school also tends
toward the development of character, as
it affords training in justice, liberality
and many other desirable traits. A
breadth of view is obtained in this work
which is unsurpassed by any other study.
Thus we find arguments in plenty to
plead for a systematic course of his-
tory work throughout the schools.
Gene Ethel Markham, ’04.

Report of the Sexagesimal-Year Re-
union of the Alumni Association of
the State Normal College, Albany.

One of the most enjoyable reunions in
the history of the College was held
Thursday and Friday, June nine and ten.
Despite the fact that all schools were in
operation at the time, a good representa-
tion of graduates registered the first day,
and an unusually large number partici-
pated in the reception and the banquet
Friday evening. This fact alone speaks
volumes for the loyalty and interest felt
by the alumni of this Alma Mater. A
special feature of the occasion was the
class reunion of the decennial classes of
°54, 04, 74, ’84 and ’94.

This is a somewhat new departure on
the part of the executive committee in
planning successive reunions, and splen-
did results are looked forward to in fu-
ture efforts, as it already is looked upon
as an established and worthy custom.

On Friday afternoon at three o’clock
the literary exercises were held in Nor-
mal Hall. The following program was
rendered.

ORDER OF EXERCISES.
CoLtLece HAL, 3 Pp. M., JUNE 9.

Greeting song, by Miss Mary A. McClel-
land, 68.

MeEtopy, “AMERICA.”
Now thanks to God above,
That through his watchful love
We meet once more.

We come from valley wide,

From rugged mountain side

From ocean’s surging tide,
From rocky shore.

To grasp a schoolmate’s hand,
Make strong old friendship’s band,
We've gathered here;
To tell the deeds.we’ve done,
The honors fairly won,
O’erlook the race we’ve run,
Each other cheer.

For His own guiding hand,
Through drear and desert land,
Through wilds untrod;

For stars in darkest night,
For skill to yield aright
The sword in fiercest fight,
Thanks be to God.

If we have taught the eye
To read in earth and sky
Thy art divine —
Have taught the heart to feel
The love Thy laws reveal,
Thy care for human weal —
The work was Thine.

If error’s bonds we’ve riven,

The noble impulse given
To do the right;

Then hear us while we raise

The voice in joyous lays —

To thee ascribe all praise,
Thou God of might!

Forgive us that we’ve strayed,
Pardon the failures made,
Our prayer receive.
Ere yet the day is done,
Ere sinks the western sun,
Forgive, thou Holy One,
Do thou forgive!

Prayer, Rev, Win. Prall, Ph. D; Pie Dy
TDSAID)s

Part song, “O Lovely Month of Roses”
(Gaul), Elizabeth F. Stevens, Mabel Cary,
Elizabeth C. Tucker, Florence B. Haviland,
Clara E. Ball, Lavina S. Cole.

Address of welcome, Wm. J. Milne, Ph. D.,
LL. D., President of State Normal College.

Solo, a“ When Love Is Gone” (Stebbins),
b“ The Violet” (Jennie P. Black), Miss A.
Rose Markham.

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Address, L, M. Burdick, 80, President of
the Alumni Association.

Solo, “ Burst Ye Apple Buds”
Miss Mabel Cary.

Address, Beverly A. Smith, ’79.

Part song, “ Carmena” (Mildenburg).

(Emery),

Solo, “Sing On’ — waltz song — (Denza),
Miss Elizabeth F. Stevens.
Benediction.

A very pleasing feature of the program
was the music rendered by young ladies
of the glee class, who did efficient work
under the direction of Prof. Belding.

Following the introductory numbers
Dr. Milne extended a hearty welcome in
the following words of greeting:

Dr.

Dr. Milne delivered the address of
welcome to the large number of gradu-
ates of former years who assembled in
the hall for the exercises of the Alumni
Association. He congratulated the as-
sociation on the prospect of such a suc-
cessful reunion of members of former
classes.

He reminded them of the fact that the
sixty years during which the Normal
College had been in existence were the
most strenuous and progressive of any
similar period in the world’s history, and
that more has been done to civilize man-
kind, to develop its power and to in-
crease its comfort than in any century
of the past.

He reminded them, too, of the fact
that the Normal College had kept pace
with the progress of the years; that the
advancement in scholarship and the de-
votion to professional study had in-
creased as rapidly and as fully as had
been the advancement in the fields of
science, industry and the mechanic arts.
He said that the 5,000 graduates and an

Mitne’s Appress.

equal number of under-graduates. who
had been teaching throughout this State
and other States had done an immense
work in the line of educational advance-
ment; and the inspiration of the years
spent here had developed into a zeal for
learning that made the graduates con-
spicuous wherever they had been.

More than fifty of them had been col-
lege presidents and professors, two hun-
dred of them had been principals and
teachers in normal schools; a large num-
ber of them superintendents of city and
other schools; and the large list of prin-
cipals of high schools, grammar schools
and other schools contains names that
are in their special lines of work among
the famous in our land.

He referred to the fact that more than
fifty men and women had been authors
of repute, mostly in the lines of educa-
tion.

He emphasized the fact that now more
scholarship was required for admission
into the Normal College than was re-
quired for graduation thirty years ago;
and he announced the important change
that is likely to be wrought in the future
in that the conditions for admission are
to be increased, and the scope of the in-
stitution greatly enlarged, so that in a
few years the efficiency and rank of the
Normal College will be equal to, or
greater, than that of any similar institu-
tion in America.

He referred to one striking matter,
namely, the proportion of men and
women who have been graduated during
the sixty years of the institution’s exist-
ence. Dividing the period of the Col-
lege’s existence into periods of fifteen
years, he said during the first fifteen
years forty-five per cent of the gradu-
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ates were men; during the second period
only twenty-eight per cent were men;
during the third period only twenty-
seven per cent were men; during the
next period, which includes the gradu-
ates of the last fifteen years, only fifteen
per cent are men. This shows the ten-
dency of the age to turn education into
the hands of the women.

He referred to the report of the
Moseley Commission, which condemns
our school system because of the lack
of the influence of men upon the young,
and suggested that at present there was
no indication of any serious loss because
of the predominance of women teachers,
but rather he commended the character
of the American youth in our schools
and believed that the spirit displayed by
them was far more manly and gentle-
manly than that discovered in the schoo!s
of similar grade in England.

He said that there had been eight men
in charge of the institution during the
sixty years, and that he had been at the
head of it for one-fourth of that time, and
Dr. Alden had also held his position for
a similar period. That during his own
administration one-third of the whole
number of students had been graduated,
and that probably one-half of the living
ones were persons to whom he had given
instruction and with whom he was ac-
quainted.

He assured the association that there
would be no step backward, that the
demands for higher scholarship would be
insisted upon, and that a more compre-
hensive and scholarly study of the prin-
ciples of education and of methods of
teaching would be exacted, and that the
development of the highest character
would be an end in the future as it had
always been in the past,

President Burdick’s address was as
follows:

I have a confession to make. I am
not what I seem. I am a mistake, a
fraud, an accident. Let me explain.

At the last business meeting of this
association two men, whose whitened
locks bore evidence of years of discre-
tion and’ wisdom, were making up a
slate. I believe that’s what it is called.
They had proceeded as far as — For
President, Marcus Weed, of Brooklyn.

Now note the occasion of my temp-
tation and subsequent trials and tribu-
lations. These two came to me and
asked me to accept the nomination for
vice-president. They painted its ad-
vantages to me in roseate colors. They
explained the amount of free adver-
tising I would get with no labor con-
nected therewith.

It so happened that I am afflicted
with a sort of vice-presidential mania.
IT have been vice-president of countless
numbers of associations of various
kinds. Dr, Milne will, perhaps, remem-
ber that when he recently attended a
dinner of the Male Teachers’ Associa-
tion of the city of New York, my name
appeared as vice-president. My wife
says she thinks there is a vice-presiden-
tial microbe, and that I am especially
susceptible to it.

With due reluctance, therefore, I ac-
cepted the nomination, and was elected
with the others on the slate. After

several months of fancied security,
rumor came to me that Mr. Marcus
Weed declined with regret. I added

mine, and that made a pair of regrets.
How many more the members of the
executive committee added to this pair
I had no means of finding out.

You see the members of the execu-
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tive commitee were in an embarassing
position. The question was, “ Shail
we allow a vice-president to preside,
or shall we exercise our prerogative
and elect a president?” Finally they
decided to “try it on the dog.” They
elected me president.

Hence, as I said in the beginning, I
am only an accidental presiding officer ;
a victim of circumstances. I hope you
will bear with me and forgive the
committee.

Besides, those two men who tempted
me were to blame. One of them is a
State officer and the other a prominent
physician of this city, but I refrain
from mentioning their names because
I have known and respected their
families for many years.

Prof. William James says: “The
outward organization of education
which we have in our United States is
perhaps, on the whole, the best organ-
ization that exists any country.
Having so favorable an organization,
all we need is to impregnate it with
geniuses to get superior men and
women working more and more abund-
antly in it and for it, and in a genera-
tion or two America may well lead the
education of the world. I must say
that I look forward with no little con-
fidence to the day when that shall be an
accomplished fact.”

This sounds optimistic; but, coming
from a man like Professor James, it
seems worthy of thought. That giant
strides have been made in the right di-
rection during the past generation or
two, I believe all will be willing to ad-
mit.

The educational qualification de-
manded of the teacher to-day, even in
remote districts, is much higher than for-
and is constantly increasing.

in

merly,

Many of the teachers who kept school
when some of us were pupils, and who
to this day are painful memories in more
respects than one, could find no place
in the schools of to-day. The man who
worked his little farm in summer and
taught the district school during the win-
ter months for four or five dollars a
week, and boarded himself, is seen no
more in all the land.

The Normal School has been a most
potent factor in working this change.
The people were not slow to recognize
the fact that the young man and the
young woman who had been trained in
methods of instruction made the more
successful teachers. Institutes held
throughout the country and presided
over by able conductors, and associations
of various kinds where teachers have met
together to discuss methods of instruc-
tion and the multitude of class room
problems which have confronted them,
have proved of great value.

This has continued. Our State Nor-
mal Schools have increased in num-
bers and efficiency, State Normal Col-
leges have been established, city Normal
Schools have been founded with special
practice departments; also training
schools for teachers, until now our
schools are well supplied with teachers
professionally trained.

But this is not the end. After prepar-
ing themselves in the subject-matter
which they are to teach, after becoming
conversant with fundamental psychologi-
cal laws and methods, and broadening
their intellectual horizon by a large fund
of general information, these pedagogues
themselves are not satisfied. The re-
sults which they obtain do not meet their
expectations; they look for better things.

To meet this new situation extension
courses have been established in colleges

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and universities. Think of the thousands
of teachers in New York city and vicinity
who are taking special courses in Colum-
bia University, the University of the City
of New York and other extension cen-
ters. Courses in education, psychology,
domestic science, economics, fine arts,
nature study, music, natural science, his-
tory, etc. Think of men and women
spending their time, money and energy
taking this labor upon themselves while
teaching, or spending their vacations at
summer schools——sometimes both.
Surely the way of the school teacher is
easy.

It may be that the motive which actu-
ates some of them is not the ideal one —
the love of the knowledge itself; it may
be that their real motive is the hope of
material advancement and consequent
higher salary. No matter. The result
is the same—-a multitude of teachers
better able to cope with the educational
problems of to-day.

To me one of the most favorable symp-
toms of educational progress is what I
shall term the educational union. The
time was when we had primary schools,
grammar schools, academies, high
schools, colleges and what not, without
once thinking of the relation of the one
to the other. They were all units in
themselves instead of forming as they
should a unit. The greatest gap was
that existing between the college and
university and the secondary schools. If
a young man wished to enter college he
was obliged to go to a preparatory
school or get a private tutor. I see no
reason why a boy or girl should not be
able to enter the elementary school, pass-
ing through kindergarten, primary and
grammar grades; thence to the high
school, and from that to college and uni-
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progress has been made toward this end,
and in time it will be worked out.

All these things are hopeful and tend
to justify Prof. James’ optimism. But
there are dangers in the way. I liave
time to mention only two or three.

First, we are still in the experimental
stage of the science. I know no people
who ride hobbies so fast and so furiously
and change their mount so often as
teachers. I have had vertigo several
times myself in attempting to “follow my
leader.” Prof. James writes fourteen
hundred pages on psychology, then in
the last chapter says he does’nt know
much about psychology —that the sci-
ence is in its infancy. If it has grown to
fourteen hundred pages in infancy, what
shall we do with it when it reaches the
adult stage?

The increase in population in this
country is confined largely to cities until
they begin to count their people by the
million. In New York city over half a
million children are in the public schools.
What an army! What a factory! What
millions of miles of red tape are pro-
duced annually! How great is the sys-
tem and how infinitely small is the indi-
vidual teacher who does the work! I
believe an educational system can be too
large for one head; I believe a school
can be too large for one principal. A
school with more than two thousand
children in it is such a one.

Then the foreign element. ‘Think of
the thousands upon thousands of foreign-
ers who enter our gates each year to find
permanent homes. Some schools in our
cities are filled largely with the children
of foreigners, many of whom are outcasts
from their native land. And these chil-
dren are to be made useful citizens of this
great commonwealth.

One thing more and I am done. It is
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a sad thing that so few young men and
young women begin teaching with the
professional spirit. So many men look
upon teaching as a genteel way of earn-
ing a little money to prepare themselves
for some other profession or to gain a
little capital to begin business with, and
sO many women use it as a stepping-
stone to matrimony. I do not wish to
discourage the young man in his desire
to become a lawyer, a physician, or a
minister, neither do I wish to throw a
wet blanket on the young woman's am-
bition to enter that which has been called
“woman's sphere,” but I do wish to see
the teaching profession looked upon and
looked up to as a real profession.

To this end, as I quoted to you in the
beginning, “All we need is to impreg-
nate it with geniuses, to get superior men
and women working more and more
abundantly in it and for it.”

We look to such institutions as the Al-
bany Normal College to furnish us with
these geniuses. ‘Give us teachers filled
with professional enthusiasm; teachers
with interest in their work, with tact,
power of leadership and common sens
teachers with a knowledge of fundamen-
tal psychological laws and good meth-
ods, and with the further knowledge that
there may be —aye, is a difference be-
tween theory and practice — between the
ideal and the real. When in contact
with the real, strive for the ideal.

Do this and we will rest and hope.

ADDRESS OF BEVERLY J. SmitTH, ’79.

T have a distinct recollection of the day
when I received my sheepskin in the old
building at the corner of Lodge and
Howard streets. I recollect that my
heart was in my throat, is there now, and
has been there ever since, but I took it

and said “ Thank you.” I remember a
great many things in connection with
that particular occasion. I remember
what life looked like to me that day, and
T have some sort of a conception of what
life looks like to me to-day, after twenty-
five years have gone by.

There are men and women of that fa-
mous Class of ’79 no longer living, and
1 drop a wreath of memory over their
graves. There was a man in the faculty,
a man whose life influenced mine, a great
teacher and a great man, who was cut
off early in his career, and yet impressed
men and women with the nobleness of
the cause, and that man was Joseph S.
. John. He is gone, but his memory
is with us. A prince of men, a rather
magnificent man, for there can be such
things, an acute, enthusiastic, happy-
hearted, progressive, cheerful, charming,
chivalrous gentleman was Joseph S. St.
John, and on this occasion it is but just
that this little word might drop to his
memory.

There are four persons in this faculty
that lead me to the school, and as long
as they live and are associated with it I
shall feel it a delight to return, and I
think of those four persons- with the
highest degree of respect. They know
it, and I declare now publicly that the
men and women who have influenced me
most in whatever success I have had in
life and whatever I have performed in
promoting to some degree happiness and
joy in the lives of others are Professor
Husted, Professor Jones, Miss McClellan
and Miss Stoneman. I have not yet had
the opportunity to take dear Uncle Billy
by the hand, but I hope to do so before I
leave here. I would just like to use the
other names of Miss Stoneman and Miss
McClellan, but I have not the heart.

But it is past, ladies and gentlemen, and

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the future is before us, and we are bound
to determine what the future shall be by
the use the past has been. In connec-
tion with men and women who want to
be teachers I have had a feeling that
somehow or other the teacher is an out-
cast among men and women; that is, that
in political questions the teacher, it is
thought, ought to stand aside and have
nothing to say. I would protest against
that. I am a teacher. I glory in it.
There is no other profession that makes
so much for the future of the race, for
the future of mankind, and for our city
and State as this work of teaching. We
who come from the city of New York
have to weld and mold into some sort of
a form more than three thousand people
every year, and in some sort of a way
teach them that this country is the place
where they ought to be; that this is the
place where they can best give their ser-
vice to God and the human race and
themselves; a place where they can be
made human beings in the right sense,
capable and self-controlled. This is the
duty we have in the city of New York:
this is the obligation that is laid upon us,
and there are many teachers there to do
that work.- I consider that profession as
the highest, the greatest, the best kind
of work in which men and women can
be engaged, and we ought to bind our-
selves together. We ought never to go
into our shells and feel that the fact that
we are preparing our work for the next
day excuses us, and that is the only work
we have to do,

I wish to pay a tribute, as far as I am
able, to the graduates of this school;
some that went before that famous com-
mittee on cities and that pleaded that
there might be set aside out of the public
funds a sum of money that might be en-
tirely and exclusively devoted to the pay-

ment of teachers; that the schools of the
city of New York should not be left un-
til prisons and other public needs were
provided for. This is the policy we have
been preaching for a number of years.
We asked the Legislature to set aside a
fund to be used exclusively as teachers’
salaries, and I am happy to say that in
that movement there were men and
women, graduates of the Normal College
in the city of Albany, who stood shoulder ©
to shoulder to bring their influence to
bear on the Legislature, and that a large
suum of money in the city of New York is
set aside exclusively for the teachers.

That tribute is to be paid to the gradu-
ates of this school, and I am glad to say
that I look upon it as what may be called
a true professional spirit of teachers.
You cannot estimate the work of the pro-
fessional teacher in the same way as that
of the lawyer. You can estimate what
the lawyer can do. I say, “ Here is the
situation; defend it and if you succeed in
winning this case I will give you so
much.” But with the teacher’s work it is
different. You cannot determine in dol-
lars and cents in a fixed amount the re-
sult of one teacher’s work against an-
other. Who can estimate the influence
of Dr. St. John or Dr. Milne? Their
worth cannot be computed in dollars and
cents.

It is hard to impress upon the public
the amount that shall be paid for teach-
ers’ salaries, and until the amount is ade-
quate the profession of teaching will not
attract to it men and women who want to
make it their life work.

Those of you who have been taking up
training and instruction, preparing to
take hold of pedagogic training, know
that this system, this practise, this sci-
ence is the thing that makes you more
valuable as a teacher in the future than
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those who graduated from this institution
thirty, forty or fifty years ago. Now I
plead for that professional spirit; that de-
termination of service by contributions to
the public press, by any form of influence
that you possess, that you use your influ-
ence upon this one point—that the
amount of money which shall be set
aside for your support shall not be left to
the determination of local authorities, but
by bringing your influence to bear upon
the Legislature of the State of New York
secure an amount fixed by law, and as in
the city of New York, secure a degree of
independence and sense of security that
will permit the highest professional work
with the least possible friction.

I have been somewhat struck in read-
ing this little extract from Ian Maclaren,
the prayer of the Scotch schoolmaster:
“Lord, deliver them from lying, cheat-
ing, deceit and stealing. Be pleased to
put common sense into their hearts, and
give them grace to be honest men to the
best of their knowledge.” This is the
secret of the teacher’s work. This is the
real substance of the work we have to
perform in this world. It does not make
any difference whether we are profes-
sional teachers or not —that is the work
of any person who in any way comes in
contact with human beings in his daily
work. That prayer is full of good sense
and philanthropy. The last line is the
most impressive — the charge to be true.

As I review the history of the work of
the forty-one men and women who were
members of my class I find that in a very
large degree they have fulfilled that pur-
pose. They have been imbued with com-
mon sense,

I would like to say something that
might be paternal from this class of ’79
that I represent. I am not here to give

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you any words of admonition, but out of
the experience of life’s years it seems to
me there ought to be something to be
said to those who are about to leave this
institution, and I do not know of any-
thing that is of more value than the
prayer of this Scotch schoolmaster.
First, its admonition that we shall be at
least honest to the best of our knowl-
edge, and second, that above everything
we shall be absolutely true to whatever
ideals we have for our future usefulness.
Our ideals may not always be the same;
there are surroundings in life that will
change our ideals. I do not know any-
thing that is of a higher degree of value
even to those of greater years than that
they in their work shall be true to their
ideals. It will have the tendency to make
them more valuable, and, second, perpet-
uate so far as is possible for human be-
ings to perpetuate, the usefulness and the
future of this institution.

I am glad, ladies and gentlemen, to
have had the pleasure of standing here
this evening. It has been an honor.
These words have come out of a heart
that is very full of love for this institu-
tion. Here I got whatever of education
I possess. Here I received the incentive
to do something in this work. Here I
tried at least to be true to my name and
to my teaching, and here I tried to form
some sort of an ideal of life. Whatever I
have been able to do I owe entirely and
exclusively to the influence that was here
exerted on my life.

‘The following alumni registered at
the College during the reunion exer-
cises: Henry B. Pierce, ’50; Thomas
G. Smith, ’52; Mrs. Elizabeth Wood,
(52 eh TS a lelicy Se Oy. 54 Nliss
Buckelew, ’54; Miss Harriette E. Ab-

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bott,’54; Lyman G. Wilder, ’54; Rens-
selaer Howell, 54; Mrs. J. M. McRoberts,
255.5 (AN eiusted,.55; 1. A. Wilcox,
57; Mrs. A. N. Husted, 60; Mrs. Mar-
garet S. Mooney, “61; Miss Minnie K.
Adams, ’63; Mrs. Sarah C. Cameron,
63; C. IX. Judson, 64; Daniel F. Payne,
’64; Adelaide M. Sheak, 64; Ernestine
Stockwell, ’66; Kate Stoneman, ‘66;
Prances)-A: Westover, 67; W.
Westervelt, ’67; William V. Jones, 68;
Mary A..McClelland, 68; H. E.- Mere-
ness, ‘69; Mary E. Chase, ’71; Mrs. W.
Ver Jones,’-717;, Mrso Edear Miller, 71 ;
Mary M. Shaw, 71; Mrs.’ Sherman
Williams, ’71; Sherman Williams, °71;

Mrs. Donald Watson, °72; Lydia C.
Ghase,/72;-Annah LD .-lewis,.’72;; Mrs:
W. E. Snyder, ’72; Mrs. Anne Hyland,

"73; Mrs. Joel: €. Van) Horne; 773;
Eleanora Wark, ’73; Sarah A. Carey,
73; Kate A. Sawyer, 74; Mrs. Walter
Van Vorst Marsh, ’74; Mrs. Mary D.
Hinds 2777, llerbert,.C.. hinds, 797;
Imogene Adams, ’77; Isabelle Miller,
aspire Hog; Gortanie 78.5. belle
MacKinnon, *79; Mrs. William C
beli, °79; Mrs. Frank E. Warner, °79;
Mrs. Charlotte E. Lartee, “79; Byron
M. Child, ’79; Mrs. William G. Drake,
"703 Mrs. Ella 1B: Hallock, “79; Mrs.
George H. Fort, ’79; Beverly A. Smith,
WOoGW Ne Guminines,.<79s Dr 1G,
S. Edsall, ’79; Mrs. George H. Brown,
*80; Mrs. Mary A. McGraw, ’80; Loron
M. Burdick, ‘80; Charlotte Middle-
brook, ’81; Mrs. Emma A. Ball, ’81;
Mrs. Lina G. Clark, ’82; Katharine
A. Cullen, ’82; Mrs. GE. Cary, 83; L.
J. McMullen 3; LaMott Day, M. D.,
84; Mrs. Cornelia M. Day, 84; Mrs.
Charles G. Moak, ’84; Mary E. Berns,
84; James M. Edsall, °84; Mrs. Julia
R. Ashmall, 84; Walter A. Wood, ’84;

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E. Helen Hannahs, ’84; Ida M. Isdell,
"84; -Amna E: Pierce, “845 Mts. Ar
thetta R. Blessing, 84; Lynn J. Ar-
nold, °84; Ida M. Babcock, ’84; Ellen
Sullivan, ‘86; Lillian I. Phillips, 86 and

04; Mary A. Riley, 86; Mrs. R. ‘W.
Wickham, ’86; Helen L. Sewell, ’86
and 87; Mrs. W. B. Van Allen, ’86;
Edith Bodley, °86; Agnes Ruthven,
S75 vlucy > Bennett, 737. edna ie
Howard, °88; R. W. Wickham, ’88;

Mrs.J. H. Gardner, 88; Mrs. Martin
L. Griffin, 89; Thomas E. Finnegan,
*89; Grace O. Kyle, ‘90; Mira Snider,
’90; Dudley Howe, ’90; M. Irene Aus-
tin, 90; Mrs. Ella P. Easton, ’90; Mrs.
George EE. Lilly, “90; -Mirs)= Mary —E:
Cameron, ’90; Franklin C. Downing,
’91; Minnie A. Grandey, ‘91; Mrs. Lil-
lian B. Jennings, ’91; Lillian Temple-
ton, ‘91; Isabelle Hoppman, ‘91;
Luenda Gregory, ’92; Frances M.
Crawford, 88 and ‘92; Henrietta R.
Lyon, ’92; Mrs. Sophia A. Cramer, ’92;
Harriette A. Lacy, “92; Alice H. Hall
793; James R. White, “82 and ‘93;
Stella E. Whittaker, ’93; Frances M.

Coleman, ’93; Nellie H. Blood, *93;
Mary Eccleston, “94; Mrs. “W: B:
Matterson, ‘’94; Mrs... William M.

Strong, ’95; Aurelia Hyde, ‘95; Lucy

H. Osborn, ’96; Isabelle S.  Bar-
rett, ’97; Mildred V. W. Patterson,
“O73. @.) Stuatt. (Gaeer OF: saluliage te

Ast, ’97; Grace H. Cook, ’98; William
M. Strong, ’98; Mrs. B. D. Snyder, ’98;
Helen C: Fritts, ‘98; Mrs. Bertha B:
Gager, ’98; Edith H. chols, °98;
Sarah Ay Collier, 7/683 “Junius =e:
Meriam, ’98; Anna L. Cameron, ’98;
GertrudeE. “Hall, -768;,Harttet-4G.
Parker, ’99; A. R. Coulson, ’99; Har-
riet Bushnell, ’00; Grace A. Jones, ’00;
Erasta M. Mealy, ’00; Mary C. Robin-

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William B:.Aspinwall, ’0o;
Mrs. Florella H. Underwood, ‘oo;
Winifred R. Wright, ’00; Eunice A.
Perine, ‘00; Margaret Aspinwall, ‘oo;
Edith L. Blake, ’o1; Mary H. Knight,
*Oo1; Elizabeth V. Colburn, ’o2; Ada
M. Kelly, ’o2: Caroline Ruth Horne,
’02; Mabel Gordon, ’02; Helen M. Bal-
com, 702; Fannie F. Brooks, *03; Ara-
bella M. Welch, ’03; Edith McCabe,
’03: Ida M. Harrington, ’03; Georgietta
Willetts, ’03.

son, ’00;

On Friday morning, at ten, class re-
unions were held, and at eleven a busi-
ness meeting.

A spirited discussion disclosed the
fact that this seemed the most appro-
priate time of the year for the Associa-
tion meeting, and all seemed to favor a
banquet as an important closing
feature.

A nominating committee was then

appointed, consisting of Mr. Meriam,
*98, chairman; Mr. Aspinwall, ’oo;
Miss Babcock, °84; Mr. Smith, 79;
Miss Miller, ’

Appropriate resolutions were then

introduced and adopted, in which all
who co-operated to make this meeting
a success were recognized by vote of
thanks.

The following officers were

elected for the ensuing year:

then

President — Beverley A. Smith, ’79.

Vice-Presidents — First, ARES Ww.
Wickham, ’88; second, Harriet Burton,
’95; third, Miss Cornelia Jenkins Day,
84.

Secretary — Anna E. Pierce, ’84.

Assistant Secretary— E. Helen Han-
nahs, ‘84.

Treasurer — Byron M. Child, ’79.

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Members of Executive Committee
for Three Years — Dr. Henry E. Mere-
ness, ’69; Kate Stoneman, ‘66; Mrs.
Ella Sloan Cameron, ‘90.

Friday evening, June tenth, at 7.30,
Dr. and Mrs. Milne tendered a recep-
tion to the alumni and friends at Hotel

Ten Eyck. The spacious ball-room
was thronged with a brilliant com-
pany of more than 300. Most of

them were graduates of this College,
some dating back more than fifty
years.

At 8.30 about 260 sat at the banquet
tables, which filled the great dining-
hall.
the courses by Holding’s Orchestra.

Following the coffee, and just preced-
ing the introduction of the toasts, Mrs.
Lillian Burr Jennings, ’g1, delighted
all with her rendition of two selec-
tions, “ Yesterday ” and the
Girl,” to the second of which she played
accompaniment finished
manner.

‘The toastmaster then introduced the
following speakers, who responded in
appropriate words, elaborating the fol-
lowing suggestive thoughts.

Before introducing the speakers Mr.
Burdick recited Scott’s poem on “* Pa-
triotism ” as the keynote of the attitude
that the Alumni should take toward its
College.

The first speaker was Rev. Herbert
C. Hinds, D. D., who responded to the
toast “To the Front.” Superintendent
James M. Edsall, of Brooklyn, spoke
on “ Educational Development;” Dr.
Sherman Williams responded to the
toast “@ur Normal Schools;” Dr.
William J. Milne spoke briefly on
“Wigher Ideals;”” Dr. Albert Vander
Meer/on “The Regent; ”’ Dr. ‘Henry E.

Music was furnished throughout

“ Flower

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Mereness on ‘‘ Medicine;”? Dr. Albert
N. Husted on “ Education;” Mrs.
Margaret S. Mooney on “The Vete-
rans.” Other speakers were Mr. Junius
L. Meriam, Miss Eunice A. Perrine.

CLASS OF 754.

The secretary, acting for the Class
of 1854, reports that she sent out fifty-
three notices. In response to this call
to celebrate the golden anniversary of
graduation from the State Normal
School in Albany letters were received
from fourteen members of the class.
Of this number, four accepted and
were present at the reunion banquet
given at the Ten Eyck on the evening
of June tenth. They were: Miss Sarah
F. Buckelew, New York city; Mr.
Rensselaer Howell (Mrs. Howell ac-
companied her husband), Newburgh;
Mrs. Lucy M. Smith-Hoy, Albany, and
Mr. Lyman C. Wilder, Hoosick Falls.

Letters of regret were received from
the following-named members: Mr.
Henry C. Baker, Hudson, Wis.; Mrs.
Lydia K. Keyes-Becker, Elgin, Il1.;
Mrs. Clara L. Baldwin-Cross, Toun-
goo, Burma; Mrs. Harriet Gorsline-
Dingman, Battle Creek, Mich.; Miss
Mary A. Ford, Delavan, W ; Mrs.
Julia Abbott-Foster, Los Angeles,
Cal.; Mrs. Cornelia M, Fitch-Parnie-
lee, Piney Flats, Tenn.; Mrs. Julia Col-
lier-Reynolds, Stockport, N. Y.; Mrs.
Ellen L. Taggart-Newland, Lawrence-
ville, N. Y.; Mrs. Cornelia T. Wilbur-
Young, Fanwood, N. J..

For diverse reasons these graduates
were unable to be present, but the let-
ters sent by them showed loyalty to
their Alma Mater and a touching in-

st in the surviving members of the
affection for them,

and warm

ECHO,

Some recalled pictures of their class-
mates of half a century ago, pictures
unfading even after this flight of so
many years. Others gracefully paid
tribute to the memory of their dearly-
beloved president, Professor Wood-
worth, whose words, so often quoted
in his petition, “It is not all of life to
live, nor all of death to die,” seem still
to be heard. Professor Plympton, too,
the personification of gentlemanliness,
as the class all felt, was lovingly re-
membered.

Mrs. Fitch-Parmelee sent a photo-
graph of the old log church and its
congregation in Piney Flats, Tenn.
Mrs. Parmelee is superintendent of its
Sunday school and has taught many of
the children the three R’s.

Mrs. Keyes-Becker sent the follow-
ing verses, which she composed for
the reunion:

The varying years, like shifting sands

Within the simple hour-glass,

Have hastened on to reach and turn
The fiftieth mile-stone of our Class.

Hail to the members, near or far
In spite of distance,— weather!

A truce we bear to Father Time
For just one hour together.

We fling the score of fifty years
For anyone to ponder,

And challenge Fate to duplicate
Our members here or yonder.

My mind a glowing picture holds
Of more than fifty graduates,

All pink and white and tender green —
Enthusiasts and infatuates!

They went, equipped to lead the strife —
To conquer, as each felt he must,

The hydra-headed monster, Wrong,
And lay him vanquished, in the dust.

And some fulfilled their mission bold —
Finished their work and passed from sight
Resplendent in heroic deeds
And doubly crowned by Love and Right.
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But other some, learned slow, toiled hard
And strove, nor always gained;

They saw the swift advancing years
And little else by them attained.

Although for each the horoscope
Of mingled shadow and of sun —
Not one but had a proffered chance

His finest race to run.

Now, garners filled and cargoes launched
The toils and ills of life subdued,

‘We wait with grateful hearts to join
The throng with larger life imbued.

Hail, and farewell! if never more

We meet upon this hither strand; —
The shore we once discerned afar,

Is nearing now —is close at hand.

Hail, and farewell! a generous freight
Of heart-felt wishes forth I send
To every mate of fifty-four,
And blessings,— without end.
— Lydia Keyes Becker.
The four members of ’54 present at
the banquet sat together, and with
them were Mrs. M. Louisa Campbell-
McRoberts, of the following Class of
’55. Mrs. McRoberts, who has lived
in Pittsburg, Pa., for many years,
shows her loyalty and interest by her

faithful attendance at the reunions.
Mrs. Howell attended with Mr.
Howell.

The evening passed pleasantly, and
this little group of the early days of
the Normal separated, ready to sym-
pathize with those of its ranks who had
been in any way saddened, and eager
to wish for all happiness and God-

speed.
Luey M. Smith-Hoy,
Secretary for ’54.

CLass OF ’64.

Both classes of '64 were represented
at the metting of Alumni this year,
though the number was all too few,
and this fact became more evident

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after the meeting was over, and one
could realize what keen enjoyment he
had experienced, tempered only with
regret, as one after another old faces
and names came to mind that they
were not all present, indeed.

Miss Sheak came on from Boston
and entered.into the affair apparently
with as much interest as if she had
just graduated.

Mr. Payne, from Essex county, was
unable to remain after the first night,
as his extensive power plant for gen-
erating electricity is being installed,
and he is a hustler. He looks as if he
had not got half way through life yet.

A most interesting incident was the
report of Mrs. Whitlock M. Forfar,
of New Rochelle, made in the persons
of her two daughters—one doing
work in the kindergarten at the Col-
lege.

The class interest centers about the
receptacle for letters and reports from
the absent. They are plainly numbered
according to the year and contain let-
ters and photographs, clippings from
newspaper articles, replies from
friends, etc. Many of them are writ-
ten from the far west and indicate at
once the difficulty of having a com-
plete reunion of the surviving members
of the class.

It will be interesting to the ’64’s to
know that there were more ’54’s pres-
ent than ’64’s. Perhaps at their semi-
centennial the ’64’s will realize their
privilege of meeting.

The banquet was a grand success
and ought to be a feature of every re-
union. I wonder if the other classes
would join the ’64’s in a proposal to
make all graduates of ten years’ stand-
ing eligible to permanent membership
in the Alumni Association upon pay-

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ment of a fee of five dollars? Five
per cent of that would equal the an-
nual fee and settle our interest in the
Society for life, as well as provide a
fund from which to draw for current

expenses.
C. H. Judson.

Cass OF 774.
School-land is joy-land,
“When once you leave its portals,
You can ne’er return again,— save at a
reunion.”

After thirty years some members of
the Class of ’74 met together in Room
107 of the College and read eagerly the
yetters in the drawer marked 1874 —
the drawer consecrated to the class and
to which will be added the letters from
some of the members received in
swer to the invitation to attend
reunion. The letters from two of
members express so fully the feeling
of the class that I send them to The
Echo as embodying the sentiment of
the Class of °74.

I am writing this letter because, though I
have not sufficient self-esteem to keep alive
hope that I am nodt forgotten, I do remember
you — every one. You are as real to me as
you were when it was our happy lot to meet
in the dear old building at Howard and
Lodge. I shall not name you,
I must make this letter too short to say what
IT would like. I haven’t room for that nor
have you the time to hear. But I do remem-
ber you all. Our relations were too close,
our aims too unified, for me to forget those
who trod the toilsome but pleasant road with
me. So, accept this as my greeting and en-
joy your brief association to the full, under-
standing that I am with you in spirit as I
would I could be in the flesh.

Let me trespass upon your
patience long enough to relate an
Since the days of ’74 I have spent much of my
time in the West. A few years ago business
took me to ew York. On my return I
passed through Albany and remained there

an-
the
the

because

time and
incident

a few hours. I spent the time walking the
familiar streets. The first place I visited was
the old school building. How many of you
have done the same? I stood for some time
gazing upon it, while memory brought be-
fore me scenes scarcely less real than those
then before my vision. I do not know how
you may feel under such circumstances, but
what I felt has made me more charitable with
the Hindoo at his shrine and the Mohamme-
dan in his Sacred City. Far be it from me
to decry progress; I know the new building
and the new location, which I also saw, are
far better than the old, but I am much mis-
taken if I have not the sympathy of the class
of 774 in making of the old a shrine. Had
I been sufficiently blessed by kindly fortune
I would like to head a movement to purchase
it for the use of those who, like me, cherish
it for the good we accomplished there.

Once more, let me wish you a happy re-
union. With best wishes for all until we
shall meet for our final reunion above, whither
some are already awaiting us, I am

Sincerely yours,
C, A. Rounds.

I have deferred writing to inform you
whether I can attend the reunion of the
Normal College, hoping that it might be
possible for me to do so. I find, however,
that it will be quite impossible for me to do
so. Our annual examinations are coming on,
and it is not convenient for me to get away.
There are a great many Albany Alumni in
Newburgh, and I was in hopes the Board of
Education would give us a day to visit our
Alma Mater.

I send greetings to any of the 774 people
who may be there. I wish I could see them
all and take them by the hand. How quickly
the years have gone! * Most of us have done
the greater part of our life work, and I feel
sure that the ’74 boys and girls have done it
well. I have been true to my first love. With
the exception of one year, I have taught con-
tinuously since I left the College. My life
has been a busy one, for as many of my cla:
mates know, I have written twelve text-books,
Arithmetics and Algebras, which have been
well received.

With best wishes for all.

Very cordially yours,
Geo.

i. Atwood.
To be present at the banquet and

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came back for the- first time since
graduation.

to feel, by right of a bit of parchment,
to rightly belong to a brilliant assem-
blage, to hear Dr. Huested speak in
glowing and eloquent words of — sixty
years ago; to meet Dr. Jones, who is,
and always will be the same; to see
Miss Stoneman looking so happy and
so young that it seems but yesterday
that you were in the class-room re-
ceiving a drawing lesson; to receive a
cordial greeting from Miss McClel-
land, whose beautiful eyes are alight
with remembrance, as her sweet, low-
toned, cultured voice calls you by the
name, so long unused you can scarcely
remember the maiden to whom it be-
longed — thirty years ago; to hear Dr.
Milne, the honored president of the
College, to-day speak in eloquent
words of the past and the present, is to
be sure of the certainty of progress that
will make the College of great renown
in the future. To be an, honored
guest in the midst of it all is to have
an experience not ever to be forgotten
and to hold a memory gem priceless
for thrice thirty years to come.
Secretary, ’74.

CLass OF °79.

The class of June, 1879, observed
their twenty-fifth anniversary along
with the other exercises connected
with the reunion.

At the time of their graduation the
class was composed of forty-one mem-
bers, thirty-seven of whom ‘survive.
Mr. Beverley A. Smith, of New York
city, and Mrs. Carrie Beattie Drake,
of Newton, N. J., were the class secre-
taries. Letters were written to, and
responses received from, every mem-
ber of the class. Twelve members at-
tended the reunion, some of whom

A pleasant feature of the occasion
was the reception given to the class
by Mr. and Mrs. Child at their home
on Thursday evening.

The banquet table on Friday even-
ing was specially decorated and cake
was prepared and cut in commemora-
tion of their silver anniversary. Taken
all in all, it was an occasion never to
be forgotten by those participating.

CLass oF 784.

The reunion of the Classes of 1884
was celebrated by a dinner in the ban-
quet hall of the Kenmore Hotel at ten
o’clock on the evening of Thursday,
June the ninth. Those who sat down
to the table were: Arthetta Reed Bless-
ing, Frederick S. Blessing, Julia K.
Waldron Ashmall, George F. Ashmall,
LaMott Day, Cornelia M. Jenkins
Day, Ida M. Babcock, Ida M. Isdell,
Anna E. Pierce, Lynn J. Arnold, Wal-
ter A. Wood, Mrs. Wood, Mr. Came-
ron, James Robert White and E. Helen
Hannahs.

After the banquet messages and let-
ters from twenty-four of. our class-
mates unable to be present were read.
The necrology was given by Miss Is-
dell. The original class prophecy by
Emma Hard Mann was read by Mrs.
Day. Several surprising fulfilments of
Mrs. Mann’s foresight amused the class
and many interesting reminiscences
were recalled. In spite of gray hairs
and advancing years we succeeded in
making ourselves “twenty to-night,”
and some were even younger. At the
close of the evening all vowed to at-
tend the twenty-fifth anniversary re-
union in 1909.

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A class meeting was held Friday
morning at College, when four class
children were present, Misses Wood
and Ashmall, Masters Wood and Ash-
mall. At this meeting the photographs
taken at our graduation were the sub-
ject of study and meditation.

On Friday evening, at the banquet
at the Ten Eyck, special tables were
assigned to the Class of 1884. Our
number was increased by the attend-
ance of Mary E. Berns, Mary E. Reid-
Moak, Charles G. Moak and James M.
Edsall.

Our only regret was that not more
of our classmates could be with us.
Those who came did so at the cost of
much inconvenience and effort, but it
was surely worth all it cost. Everyone
who was here feels peculiarly
riched by this renewal of old associa-
tions and friendships.

E. Helen Hannahs,
Class Secretary.

en-

CLass OF ’94.

Tt is a source of deep regret to me
to be obliged to report utter indiffer-
ence on the part of the Class of ’94 to
the reunion and its interests, for
which the executive committee labored
so faithfully and earnestly. Of the
forty-seven to whom letters were sent
asking, if unable to be present, that
they would write a letter. Only one,
Miss Eccleston, of Oxford, N. Y., was
present at the reunion, and but seven
others took the trouble to write even
a few words. The names of those seven
are as follows: Mrs. Laura Woodward,
Wolcott, N. Y.; Mrs. May Baldwin-
Streeter, Buffalo; Mrs. Harriet Car-
penter-Radeker, Deposit; Mrs. Minnie

- six of whom were alumnae.

Hoyt-Conklin, Shelter Island; Miss
Frances Hamlin, Newark, N. J.; Miss
Helen Daley, Geneseo; Miss Jeanette
Graham, New Paltz.

Perhaps the Delta Omega girls may
be interested in a mention of the din-
ner held at the Ten Eyck Hotel June
ninth, at which twenty were present,
This was
followed by a reunion at the College
in the kindergarten, which was a very
pleasant occasion, all the letters re-
ceived by the secretary, in response to
the invitation, being placed upon a
table for perusal by those interested.
Could the absent ones have seen with
what eagerness those were sought out
and read and the pleasure which they
gave, I am sure they would never
neglect sending their messages on
another such occasion.

The reception and banquet Friday
evening was certainly most delightful,
for though there were but two of us of
’94, there were many familiar faces of
other classes, and all the honored
faculty of ten years ago, so that, al-
though the majority were strangers,
we felt, nevertheless, drawn together
by that ever strong bond of unity —
loyalty to our Alma Mater —and our
common interest in her welfare. After
partaking of the good-cheer and listen-
ing to most enjoyable speeches from
members of the faculty, Alumni and
others we again left the pleasant scene,
heartily agreeing that our absent class-
mates had missed a great treat and re-
solving that as often as possible we
would be present at the reunions of the
State Normal College.

Helma Curtiss Matterson,
Sec. ’94,
THE

Commencement — 1904.

June again and Commencement Day!
One of many o’er all the land,
But the only one to the happy band
Who joyfully, laughingly wend their way
Through the halls of the S. N. C.

The burning questions are not as of late,

“Expect to pass?” “Did you get that
Seupe
“Ts your essay finished?” “Are your

note-books up?”
“Do you think you are going to graduate?”
Things have changed eutirely.

Since the powers that be have settled their
fate,
Their brows have lost that anxious frown.

And “How do you think I look in my
gown?”
Is the question; and “See, is my cap on
straight?”

As they saunter up and down.

Another year and another June,
And the classmates scattered widely apart,
Have various other interests at heart,
But oft on their lips the same old tune,
2

“ Do you like my hat and gown?
—F.W.B.

Program of Anniversary Exercises.

Saturday, May 28th—Organ recital, by
Professor Belding, at First Reformed Church,
3 Pp. M.; Zeta Sigma reception to Class ’o4,
High School, 4 p. M.

Wednesday, June 1st — Exhibition of work
Primary and Grammar Schools, 3 P. M.

Saturday, June 4th — Eta Phi breakfast, 11
A. M.; excursion of Grammar Department;
class-day exercises, High School Class ’o4,
3 P. M.; Quintilian Society reception to Class
’04, High School, 5 Pp. m.; Psi Gamma Dinner,
Hotel Ten Eyck, 7 Pp. M.

Sunday, June 5th — Baccalaureate sermon,
State Street Presbyterian Church, 7.45 Pp. m.

Wednesday, June 8th— Closing exercises
of Primary and Grammar Departments, 10
A. M.; Kappa Delta luncheon, Hotel Ten
Eyck, 1 pv. m.; closing exercises of High
School Department, 3 Pp. m.; Alumni recep-
tion, High School, 8 Pp. mM.

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Thursday, June 9th— Class-day exercises,
Class 1904, 10.30 A. M.; exercises of Alumni
Association, 3 P. M.; Delta Omega dinner,
Hotel Ten Eyck, 5 p. M.; Class reunions, from

5 P. M.; Sorority reunions, 8 Pp. M.

Friday, June roth — Class reunions, 10 ‘a.
m.; Alumni Association, II A. M.; commence-
ment exercises, 3 Pp. m.; Alumni reception,
Hotel Ten Eyck, 7.30 Pp. m.; Alumni banquet,
Hotel Ten Eyck, 8.30 P. M.

Baccalaureate Sermon.

A new feature of Commencement
Week was the Baccalaureate Sermon,
which was delivered by the Rev. Dr.
Lawrence, of the State Street Presby-
terian Church, on Sunday evening,
June fifth. The Class of 1904 attended
in their caps and gowns. Many of the
faculty were present in the large audi-
ence which listened to Dr. Lawrence’s
eloquent sermon.

Class Day Exercises.
PROGRAM.

1. Selection, “ Prince of Pilsen” (Luders),
orchestra.

2. President’s address, Clarence D. Shank.
. Class history, Emma A. Reith.
Solo, Mr. Ben Franklin.
. Class essay, May Manning.
. Class poem, May H. Whitcomb.
. Idylle, “At Sunrise’ (Bratton), orchestra.
. Oration, subject, “A Great Teacher,”
Ralph E. Wager.

9. Solo, Mr. Franklin.

10. Class Prophecy, Elizabeth F. Shaver.

11. Selection, “Babes in Toyland” (Her-
bert), orchestra.

12. Presentation.

13. Intermezzo,
orchestra.

Class Officers — Clarence D. Shank, Presi-
dent; Frances Burlingame, Vice-President;
Edith M. Hall, Secretary; Florence M. Bat-
tle, Corresponding Secretary; Charles J.
Campbell, Treasurer.

Executive Committee — Floyd E. Gilbert,
Mabel E. Rose, Etta V. Martin.

PYangeo

“Vision”’ (Von Blon),
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The Class Day exercises, held in the
College Chapel Thursday morning,
June ninth, were well attended by the
faculty, the Alumni and members of
the student body. The rostrum was
tastefully decorated with palms and
other foliage plants, and immediately
in front of this was the orchestra, under
the leadership of Prof. Belding.

Preceded by two ushers, Misses
Marsh and Markham, the class, attired
in student cap and gown, marched in
and took the seats reserved for them
in the center aisle. A semi-circle of
seats upon the rostrum was reserved
for the class officers and those who
took part in the program. After a se-
lection from “The Prince of Pilsen”
by the orchestra, the president, in a few
well-chosen words, addressed his class-
mates and the audience, which had
gathered to witness the exercises.

The class history, by Miss Reith,
was enthusiastically received and
caused considerable amusement among
those who understood the allusions
made to different incidents of the class
career. Miss Manning’s essay and Mr.
Wager’s oration showed thoughtful
and scholarly preparation, while the
class prophecy, by Miss Shaver, was
exceedingly clever and amusing. Miss
Whitcomb’s poem bright and
original and was received with great
applause.
solos, and, as usual, delighted the audi-
ence with his great talent, and the se-
lections by the orchestra were all well
chosen and well rendered.

The exercises closed with the pre-
sentation of a very handsome chair to
Dr. Milne and the members of the
faculty. Mr. Baldwin presented it in
the name of the Class of 1904, saying
that they wished to leave some slight

was

Mr. Franklin sang several -

remembrance behind them as a token
of their appreciation of the training
they had received and of their love for
their Alma Mater. Dr. Milne then
thanked the cla for himself and in
behalf of the rest of the faculty. He
said there was nothing on the program
that called for a remark from him, but

there was something on the rostrum.
He said that the chairs for the College
were purchased from states prison and
they did not like to decorate the ros-
trum with prison-made chairs, but
thought that future classes might fol-
low their example, so that, in time,
when they returned, they would see a
row of such chairs. In conclusion, he
thanked the class very heartily, and the
exercises closed with a selection from
the orchestra.

President’s Address.

“Tadies and Gentlemen, Friends
and Guests of the Class of 1904.— In
behalf of the Class of 1904 of the State
Normal College, I bid you all a most
cordial welcome to our class day exer-
cises. It is a source of great pleasure
to us and we deem it an honor that so
many of our friends have gathered here
to-day to witness these, our last cere-
monies, as an undergraduate body.

Our College is ever happy to wel-
come to her halls those who are inter-
ested in her welfare. There is, how-
ever, one day during the year, which,
owing partly to the season and partly
to its pleasant associations, stands out
pre-eminently as the ‘day of days.’
That is one which we are here assem-
bled to celebrate —the Class Day of
1904.

The occasion is, in a sense, a very
happy one to us, for our work here is
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done. We are full of hope and eager
for the great world in which we must
take up our life work, not as here,
under the ever watcnful cy of our
faculty, but armed with that power
which we have acquired by two years
of honest effort under their direction.
We are even now straining at our
bonds to be free to take our part and
do our share in the great conflict. But
before we buckle on our armor it is
well that we should pause a moment
and review the circumstances which

have made possible this culmination
of our ambitions.

They have been happy days, very
happy days, and it is not without a
pang of regret that we enter the path
which shall separate our college life
from the broader unknown life before
us. The exercises of to-day will, in a
way, be a review of that life —a hold-
ing up of the mirror of our past.
Therein you shall see reflected the a
sociations and experiences which have
bound us together into one body.
Though our interests have at times
been diversified, yet our purpose has
been common, and th formed
among us a tie of allegiance which will
not soon be forgotten.

Fellow classmate: To-day we meet
for the last time as a class.
very fitting that within
walls, where we first assembled on a
pleasant morning in
years ago, we
Alma Mater. It is a moment of min-
gled joy and sorrow. Joy, that our
goal is reached and our work here fin-
ished. Sorrow, that the pleasures of
coilege life are over, that its pleasant
associations must be broken.

has

It seems
these four
September two
should take leave of our

For two years we have been actu-
ated by the same hopes and fears. A

spirit of mutual respect and confidence
has ever kept us harmonious, and
united.

To the College we have been loyal
and devoted. Every worthy effort to
extend her influence, to increase her
fame, has met with our earnest and en-
thusiastic support. In our record as.a
class we may justly take an honest
pride.

As we separate to-day let each bear
with him none but the pleasantest
memories of our college life; if there
is aught that is dark and bitter, may it
be left behind; if the hopes and am-
bitions. of any have not been realized,
let it be forgotten. Let the same spirit
which characterized our college
life here distinguish our after life. Let
our Alma Mater never be forgotten;
may we ever strive to maintain her
honor and promote her interests.

The feeling of regret that comes
over each one of us on this occasion is
fittingly expressed in the following
line

“My

has

classmates, of the thoughts this hour

involves,

The parting sighs and filial resolves,

No casual observer can conceive,

Nor any, who have never felt the pain

Of parting friends, who may never
again;

’Tis not alone at parting that we grieve,

But well we know, though some of us may
meet,

Some will be absent whom we used to greet.”*

meet

In parting, classmates, I will not say
good-bye, but farewell until we meet
again.”

Clarence D. Shank.
The History of the Class of 1904.

Ever since the time of Herodotus,
Thucydides and Xenophon various his-
tories have been written, but no ma-

24 THE Ecuo.
’

terial, you will agree, has afforded bet-
ter subjects for a history than this
Class of 1904, of whom I’m about to
relate.

Nature frowned upon us with a
dreary sky and a rainy morning that
9th day of September, 1902, when this
body of students, with inevitable mark
of freshmen, assembled within these
walls. After looking ourselves and
everybody else over we slowly filed
into the kindergarten room to see Mrs.
Mooney, who was busily engaged in
giving reference to boarding places.

How well most of us remember the
strange feeling of the next morning as
we slunk into the vacant seats in the
Grammar Chapel, waiting to be sent
to some other room, for we knew not
what, but it proved to be registering.
‘then we drew our text-books and all
felt thoroughly prepared for work, and
on Thursday morning we felt pretty
well established in all our classes.

After entering various class-rooms
and after recess we found ourselves in
Roem 219, where we listened breath-
lessly for a number of minutes to the
voice of the sage Dr. Hannahs, who oc-
cupied the seat that you still see occu-
pied. From here we rushed to the
College Chapel for music and with this
rush our College course began, and,
as we trace its rugged path through
sunshine and shadow we finally emerge
into the golden light of this commence-
ment week, and our career will prob-
ably end here with a rush, Friday, after
commencement.

To continue our discussion along the
jine of rushes, since that has come to
be one of thé most important elements
that go to make up a liberal educa-
tion, I might speak of the social func-
tions. Well, most of our number shone

at spreads, receptions and luncheons,
and, in fact, became as thoroughly im-
bued with the spirit of the times that
we have several cases, since then, of
chocolate dyspepsia, of bouillon on the
brain and daggers at the heart. I
might relate right here that at one of
our society functions two members of
our class, Miss H and Mr. W
had the extraordinary experience of be-
ing treated to one dish of sherbet,
with two spoons.

Our work may have seemed hard at
times and almost impossible to accom-
plish in the time given, but, neverthe-
less, there has always been time for
some pleasures.. There were botanical
trips, of course, educational in a way,
but some of the party seemed to be
more interested in other things than
the specimens sought for, so much so
that they tarried at Menands while the
rest of the party were on their way to
Albany.

During the study of astronomy
Tuesday nights seemed to be the time
for a visit to Dudley Observatory,
usually under the guidance of Prof.
Wetmore; but one evening one of our
collegiates escorted the party and all
seemed to have a delightful time —
but imagine the surprise of all when
they learned that said collegiate had
already the “degree” of matrimony
conferred upon him.

Excursions on the boat to Troy af-
forded much pleasure to many, but
especially to the party who took the
trip a few weeks ago. Unfortunately,
the boat had long left Troy when the
party realized that they must return
to Albany. They spied a trolley and
all boarded it, but who would think
that our most prominent student-
teacher in the Grammar Department,

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together with our president and two
other officers of our class, would allow
the car to be delayed for at least five
minutes until one of the party had gone
for peanuts?

When our senior year began there
seemed but few changes in our make-
up, and those changes were in num-
bers. The year opened with great ex-
citement, and with it our teaching
began. One year of Normal College
life had done us good; a great many
rough edges had been smoothed down,
and, although we embodied a great
many of the peculiarities that accom-
panied our professions, we felt some
improvement.

Criticisms in all departments on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at
three o'clock, have become an import-
ant part of our history. They were
really days to be remembered, es-
pecially those of the Grammar Depart-
ment, as the most interesting events
seem to have happened there. I won-
der if anyone will ever forget the view-
ing of the remains of the material and
the funeral processions. They were
certainly impressive ceremonies.

Along with criticisms public lessons
seem most natural to follow, because
“mental states that have been in mind
together before tend to return together
upon the reinstating of one of their
number.” Visitors at these lessons
usually caused much excitement, es-
pecially when the teachers’ brothers
were the only ones to appear.

The exhibitions of work in both the
Grammar and Primary Departments
were very profitable to those who have
taught, and also to those who will
teach, as they not only give ideas, but
also afford great incentives to work.

College life has many different sides

that are not known to all, even a bit of
romance ruffles the calm and even
tenor of our way. I will bring in a
“concrete illustration.”

It is, indeed, very pleasant at times
to seek a place calm and secluded, away
from the busy world, where one cannot
hear the clamor of voices, the clatter
of horses’ hoofs and the rumbling of
many busy wheels over the stony pave-
ments. In such a place one has a chance
to ponder over the more sunny side of
life. Possibly it is in the spring time,
toward the end of the month of May,
the most pleasant and beautiful seasong
of the year. Above the birds are flit-
ting to and fro and singing among the
leafy branches of the trees. Below the
flowers are budding and blooming, the
grass grows and everything seems to
rejoice that Mother Earth is once more
covered with nature’s blessings.

Possibly it may be in the shadows
of the evening when from above the
silent moon looks down as if a thou-
sand secrets might be revealed by her.
This portion of our history deals with
such a time.

The park had never been more beau-
tiful. The night was calm and warm.
The moon was full and high in the
heavens. A solitary traveler wended
his way through the shadowy avenues
of the park. His footsteps grated
harshly on the deserted graveled walks
as he strode swiftly toward his home.
The moon shone brightly through the
openings among the trees, casting
round, black shadows directly beneath
each bush and shrub. All at once the
attention of the traveler was called to
two rapidly-moving objects, apparently
following each other round and round,
through the thick bushes which adorn
the park. The traveler, without dread
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or apprehension, approached nearer to
the scene of activity, when all at once
his steps were arrested by the snapping
of underbrush and a startled cry of
“Q, my glasses!”

There was silence for a moment, and
then a deep base voice said: “I
haven’t a match; wait a minute and I
will get some.”

The dark shadow from which the
voice came glided out into the open,
and in the shimmering moonlight took
the form of a man, who started at a
double-quick pace toward Madison
avenue.

Seon the man returned laden with
matches, and together the man and the
maid groped about and gathered a
quantity of half-dry twigs to light the
dark recesses the moonlight could not
reach. The twigs were heaped and
match after match applied until the
last match was burned to the finger
tips of the man’s eager, trembling
hand, but the branches would not
ignite. Sighs of anguish and despair
rose from the now matchless man and
the glassless girl, and they began to
grope about on*hands and knees for the
lost spectacles. Long and diligently
they, searched without success. The
suspense was terrible. The search was
all. but abandoned, when the joyous
cry of an unseen hunter told that the
lost was found and happiness once
more reigned on earth.

The good angel who found the
glasses vanished, but when the owner
of them stepped into the full light of
the orb of night the unknown traveler
looked out from the dark spot where
he was concealed and saw the radiant
face of Miss M , who graces Hud-
son avenue with her presence and who
now. spends her evenings writing a

book on “The Dangers and Difficulties
of Playing Tag in the “Park.”

One of our collegiates seems to be
bearing a double burden, for whenever
anything is to be distributed among
the members of our class Mr. C
after receiving his own share, says:
“Tl take those others.” Upon being
questioned for whom “those others”
are for, he invariably answers Miss
McCammon. We would like to ask
this same young man why he tarries so
long at his meals? If it isn’t the after-
dinner coffee, what is it?

I am requested to ask if two of our
kindergarten teachers, Miss P and
Miss F , are still on. probation, or
if they have already been initiated
into the Nu Sigma Nu Fraternity?

Many other lines, aside from
romance, form an interesting basis for
discussion. For instance, it is said that
one of our collegiates, Mr. G 5
seems to have a very meagre idea of
the Bible, for when asked if he knew
where, “ Whither of the twain, will ye
that I release unto you,’ was found,
confessed that he did not; but one of
our juniors seems to know still less
about it, for she asked if ‘‘ Whither of
the twain ”
vice?

During our history the field of
zoology has been broadened by the re-
cent discovery made by Dr. Gager
that the prothallium and the protonema
bears the same relation to each other
as the horse does to the calf. We hope
Dr. Gager will clarify his views on do-
mestic animals and see the value of a
nature-study course.

Not only along scientific lines have
discoveries been made, but also along
the lines of amusements, for we learn
that Prof. White has introduced a new

was in the marriage ser-

4
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Vina J. Pierson, George G. MeHwen, Elizabeth Stevens. Clarence Shank, Edmund Cocks,
Florence M. Battle, Mable B, Rose, Elizabeth Shaver, Florence MeKinley,
Trene Ibert, May Whiteomb, Ema Reith. Marion Moak, Tillian Brown.
Edith M. Hall. (Bono or Horrors.) Tranees Mf. Bissell.
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feature into the game of “ pit ’— that
of a corner on pedagogy, which one of
our collegiates, Miss M , has so
successfully learned to fill. We feel
quite positive that this feature might
be introduced into the social world by
Miss C——, who always admirably
fills her duties on social committees,
but who never has been known to ap-
pear at an Echo meeting.

Another Miss C and companion
of the aforesaid, quite surprised her
society sisters when she refused to give
her toast at the Eta Phi breakfast, was
it due to bashfulness or was it a
“roast” instead of a toast, in a silent

manner?

Undoubtedly one of our number,
Miss ‘——, will take up the study of
French before a great while, because
secrets concealed in letters would be
so much more enjoyed, if a stranger
were not needed to translate the most
interesting part.

Probably our president and dignified
Mr. B are already uneasy lest I
may say something about them. I
cannot desist, however, but it is hoped
that these two members of our class

will keep their engagements through
life much better than they kept a din-
ner engagement with two other officers
of our class a few weeks ago. Can you
imagine the consternation of the two
young ladies when they reached the
appointed place at Minerva and saw
the two gallants rushing from the hall?
It is rumored that it will take more
than two photographs to set this mat-
ter right.

To balance all the unfaithfulness
among the men of our class, we have
one, and only one, instance of that
deep, true-hearted affection that will
last until the end of time. When a

young man can withstand for two years
the persistent smiles, wiles and guiles
of over 200 young ladies and think of
only one young maiden in the north-
ern climes he deserves to be mentioned
with the martyrs of our country. But,
as the old adage says: “There is no
great loss without some small gain,”
and mingled with our mournful song
is the joyous echo from the northern
maiden’s happy “The Camp-
bells are coming, O, ho, O, ho!”

We're glad to welcome in our midst
the “ Toosers,’ Miss H and Miss
= Although we fear that after
their absence on Sunday evening they
will fail to appear at commencement,
let us hope that Union affairs are al-
most over and that there won't be any
more Pierce’d hearts.

song,

Cousins have played no small part
in the history of one of our number.
She has discovered that she has sev-
eral she ever knew of be-
fore she came to the Normal College.
The one I have reference to is Miss
W ——, who comes to the
college town of Clinton.

As for our youngest, as Shakespeare
5 “Why should a man whose blood
runs warm within his veins sit like his
grandsire cut in alabaster?” Yet that
is the way Miss I. I. I. is sitting trying
to look unconcerned. I don’t know
why should be ashamed of her
youth, but every day she wishes her-

more than

us from

she

self a happy new year, and makes be-
lieve that she is growing older.

After thinking over various events
we call to mind now a very sad inci-
dent that occurred in Dr. Gager’s room
one day when Miss R’s_ scientific
knowledge overbalanced her and equili-
brium was not restored until she found
herself looking out from under the
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table at our professor, who was the
first to see the application of the inci-
dent to the subject at hand —that a
body in unstable equilibrium tends to
seck a state of stable equilibrium.

Still, the blonde in Psi Gamma won-
ders how Blick felt when she first
changed her professional preference
from eastern pharmacy to that of west-
ern law.

We must needs mention another
member who figures largely in all the
departments of the College, whose feet
are frequently heard pattering down
the halls, when, together with Miss
Bodley, he helps distribute the mail.
Long live Colonel. May his presence
here ever prove to be of great value
to the College, and may his be a lasting
memory in the minds of those who
leave our Alma Mater.

In the pages of our history there
stands out as°an important event the
exercises on Memorial Day. The pa-
triotic interest which was then shown
in song, speeches and applause will
long leave an impression on our mem-
ory, which time will fail to wear away.

Another among the valuable tracts
which our College life has afforded us
have been the seminars, which have
been given by the different members
of the faculty. We appreciate their
kindness and feel that the instruction
and pleasure derived from their talks
will ever be of service to us.

One of the most important efforts
which the Class of 1904 has witnessed
is the organization of the Y. W. C. A.
IXnowledge is not all that is to be de-
sired in this world, and the spiritual
good which this Society offers is most
beneficial and helpful to our College
life.

A hitherto long-felt need is now sup-

ported in the form of a gymnasium.
We congratulate both the faculty and
students upon the possession of this
new department.

It has also been our good fortune to
be treated to several organ recitals
given by Prof. Belding. These recitals
have been thoroughly enjoyed and ap-
preciated by all who attended.

One of our number is especially fond
of music, and the latest report from the
musical world is that Dockstader’s
Minstrels have been provided with our
Van and frequent concerts have been
given at Troy and elsewhere recently.
But the continuous performance this
week at 307 Hudson avenue shows the
general interest of the public and the
staying qualities of the players.

Another of our seniors has a great
fondness for flowers, especially violets.
They must be Miss M.’s compensation
for giving German lessons.

You all know, undoubtedly, that I
have related many facts to which I was
not an eye-witness, but Mr. G. claims
that most histories are written through
hearsay. In this manner I have learned
the fact that our vice-president is noted
for her fondness for cake and argument,
but that she never sacrifices the cake for
the argument.

I might continue this narrative to
greater length, but if I did so I should
doubtless keep withdrawing from the
truth, so I leave some facts to be re-
vealed by our class prophet. i

Our brief sojourn of the two years
within the walls of the State Normal
College'is at an end. The dear asso-
ciations we have formed we must sever;
the faces we have seen day by day we
shall see no more. When in after years
we return to the College on an occa-
sional visit and see only strangers where
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once all were our friends and acquaint-
ances, what wonder if we feel
“* * * like one who treads alone some
banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed.”
Emma A. Reith.

One Phase of Our Past and Present.

An article in a recent publication says:
“There is perhaps no better indication of
the civilization of a country than the
books it reads.”

Conditions surrounding the early set-
tlement of a country are not conducive
to extensive reading. Our forefathers
spent their days in toiling to prepare the
new land that they might see growing
the wheat necessary for their daily bread;
they must provide firewood by chopping
the tree down with the axe; they must
secure the furs of wild beasts for use and
for trading for store goods, such as sugar
and tea.

The women of the household, kept
busy by the endless round of cooking,
cleaning, spinning, weaving and sewing
found as little time as the men for
reading.

The evenings were short, and the light
given by tallow candles insufficient and
unsuitable for reading, and there was
very little to read. Take from your li-
brary all your editions of Cooper, Thack-
eray, Shakespeare and Dickens, take
away all the books on modern science,
take away the histories and books of
travel, take away everything but a small,
badly printed Bible, a similar copy of
Pilgrim’s Progress, an almanac and pos-
sibly a book of sermons, and you have all
the books found in the homes of our
early settlers. Illustrations were few in
number, if present at all. The task of
printing and binding, so tedious then,

made books too costly to be within the
reach of any but the wealthiest.

But an increase in the number of
writers, more leisure to read, the intro-
duction of artificial lights which gave a
more brilliant and steady light than the
tallow dip, increased greatly the number
of readers. Whittier, in his picture of
his snow-bound home, shows that the
supply of reading matter has been in-
creased by a volume of poems and aug-
mented by a weekly newspaper. That
newspaper was sorely missed when de-
layed for a week, and when it did come,
how much it meant, re-establishing the
connecting link between this family
world and the world of society, politics,
foreign life and scientific thought. How
completely this paper was read, not the
headlines alone, but every article and
every advertisement. Then, for a week,
its contents were re-read, related to pre-
vious knowledge and appreciated in all
their bearings. This re-reading was like-
wise given to every book in the house.
All the imagery and suggestion of Pil-
grim’s Progress was fully appreciated,
ideals were formed after the type of
Christian and Greatheart, and an infinite
amount of pleasure was derived from
each reading.

The reading matter of early days was
confined to the meagre home collections,
and libraries for use in the better schools,
public libraries were unknown.

Then an era of prosperity in the young
country fostered the genius of Cooper,
Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson
and Holmes, and the reading public
grew in numbers and in breadth of inter-
est. Volumes of sermons, formerly fill-
ing more space in publishers’ catalogues
than was held by books of any other
class, found themselves crowded aside by
a strong literature suited to the rapidly
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developing interests along the lines of
biography, science and humanity with its
motives. Every year there is a great in-
crease in the number of newspapers,
magazines and books read. A librarian
says: ‘The American people have dou-
bled their consumption of newspapers
and periodicals in the last ten years and
quadrupled it in the last twenty. Li-
braries have more than doubled in num-
ber in twenty years, and have quadru-
pled the volumes on their shelves in the
same time.” America is becoming a na-
tion of well-read professional men, busi-
ness men, mechanics and farmers, each
doing his work the better for the hours
he spends in teaching and improving
himself.

What is being read?

We are told that novels form seventy
per cent of the reading, but this includes
useful material in the way of historical,
ethical and sociological studies. Books
on social science are much in demand,
because people are seeking to know their
relations with the world of people. Books
on nature are being produced, and chil-
dren are eagerly reading these nature
stories, learning of the joys and trials of
the children of the forest, and forming
habits of kindness and gentleness toward
them. History, biography and travels
fill out the list of books, and yet the
scope and amount of reading grows
greater. The magazine aims to cover
all fields, religion, art, science, biography
and fiction. Signboards, trolley car
shop windows and passing wagons fur-
nish us with further information, and we
instinctively read everything presented
for our inspection.

Yet there is a higher standard of taste
each year; people are demanding books
of a better class, becatise education is
reaching out to all the people and be-

cause there is abroad such a spirit of eag-
erness for information. i di

But with all this reading are people
assimilating what they read, thinking
about it and making it their own, as in
the early days? The majority of people
read an article on telepathy to-day, an-
other on the future of Africa to-morrow;
a story of aboriginal life to-night, and a
romance of a modern chafing-dish to-
morrow night. From conglomerate
building material an unrelated, unclassi-
fied mass results, half forgotten and
wholly useless. If they stumble across
a great thought, it is unnoticed in the
mass of pettiness. America has her
great thinkers, but they are few as they
are in other countries. Of the majority,
some one has said that all of us can read,
but that would rather lie
down and die than to think. The article
is read but once; it is crowded from the
mind by the story on the next page; it is
not apprehended in all its relations, and
very little of cultural value is gained by
the mind, which is fed by little scraps of
knowledge, whereas it needs a full, rich,
stematic food supply. Holmes said:
The foolishest book is a kind of leaky
boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the
wisdoni will get in anyhow.”

But America is happy in feeling that
all her sons and daughters are becoming
readers. The farmer and his family are
deserving of our best respect, because
they have the standard magazines on
their tables, and while they work they
think about what they have read and
make it a part of their own
knowledge.

The business man is enlarging his
knowledge of geography and history so
that he may increase his trade, the me-
chanic reads technical articles to help
him in his work, and professional people

most of us

related
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make reading a most essential part of
their life work.

Past and present, yesterday and to-
day. Yesterday, in the scattered homes,
a few books and perhaps one newspaper
each week, poorly printed, unattractive,
yet each great thought in them living in
the minds of their readers, molding and
influencing characters.

To-day, millions of readers in Ameri-
can homes reading the 4,000 different
books printed in a year, and the thou-
sands of periodicals, each book and
each article made beautiful by its ac-
companiment of clear type and fine
pictures.

But there is nothing static about the
development of this reading habit; it is
easy to foresee a further increase in
books, periodicals and readers, and a
higher standard of thought in what is
read. Then will come discrimination,
choice, less unclassified reading, more
study of what is read, “ plain living and

high thinking.”
May Manning.

Class Poem.

Class-Day morn has come again,
Laurels all are won,
Commencement follows in its train,
Senior work is done.
Method pass cards far and near,
Honor marks and records clear,
Tell us that success is here
And student life is o’er.
Each college year shall pass
And each Senior lad and fass
Into the world shall pass
Alumni evermore.

This the day that fills our hearts
And crowns our years of care,
Happy are we, yet there starts
A tear and a farewell prayer,
Then a joyous song we raise
For our coming holidays,
Unto college giving praise
And homage o’er and o’er.

So may we ever be

Seniors loyal to thee,

Alma Mater, to thee,
When Alumni evermore.

Honored friends are gathered here,
Rejoicing im our power,
Teachers whom we love and fear,
Are proud of this year’s dower.
But college work we soon shall leave,
Professors, too — there’s no reprieve,
Our President’s aid no more receive
As in the days of yore. ~
This college year has passed,
We are its Senior class,
Into the world we pass, +
Alumni evermore.

Class-Day morn shall pass away,
Ebbing on life’s tide.
Commencement too, will not delay,
Summer will not bide,
And the coming fall shall say
Vacation time has passed away
In the light of autumn’s day
And duties lie before.
Other halls we then shall pass,
We of this Senior class,
Not as the student mass,
But Alumni evermore.

As teachers then we'll go our way,
From duty ne’er recoil,
As pupils’ lives we bend and sway
By our labor, love and toil.
People then will rise to say,
Normal College leads the way —
Raise to her your joyous lay,
Class of 1904.
So let our watchword be
Onward ever, brave and free
Backward never, steps shall be.
We're Alumni evermore.
— May Whitcomb.

Class Oration.
A Great TEACHER.

In the year 1827 there came to the
University of Munich a young Swiss
student, scarce twenty years ofage. He
was prepossessing in appearance, of
Herculean graceful and
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proportions,
possessed of a peculiar dignity.
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calm assurance with which he did
things soons attracted much attention.
One day he betrayed the secret of his
actions. When he saw his fellow stu-
dents absorbed in the pursuit of pleas-
ure, he said to his friend, “ Their motto
is ‘Ich gehe mit den andern;’ I will go
my own way,—and not alone. I will
be a leader of others!”

Soon afterward, in a letter to his
father, he said, ‘I wish it may be said
of Louis Agassiz that he was the first
naturalist of his time; a good citizen,
and a good son, beloved of those who
knew him. I feel within myself the
strength of a whole generation to work
toward this end, and TI will reach it if
the means are not wanting.”

Surely, the investigations this great
man made, the truths he discovered,
the theories he advanced and success-
fully championed, the volumes that
came from his pen, the enormous ex-
tent of his knowledge, and the pro-
found respect accorded him by his
fellow men, have rightly adjudged him
the first, naturalist of his time. But he
was something more.

The hundreds of scientific associa-~
tions bearing his name, the enthusiasm
he aroused in the study of the natural
sciences, and the rise of his pupils to
positions of eminence, prove that he
was something more.

The name of Louis Agassiz will he
remembered as that of a great natural-
ist, but his real value to the world must
be reckoned by this “ something more.”

After his death he was found to have
described himself in his will as “Louis
Agassiz — teacher.” Great as a scien-
“tist, he was doubly great as a teacher of
science! He regarded teaching as the
noblest of all professions. It was a
passion with him, He loved to learn

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that he might teach, and to teach that
he might learn. By his own efforts he
became a great student of Nature, but
Nature made him a great teacher.

Peculiar traits of character made him
what he was.

His stalwart athletic body gave an
impression of great strength, but his
acts betrayed strength in gentleness.
His hearty ringing voice and frank
good nature bespoke a cheerful tem-
perament; his ready sympathy,—a
great heart. He was known as “the
student’s best friend.” One loved him
instinctively. Did he meet a stranger?
He left a friend. Murchison said to
Longfellow, “ I have known many men
that I liked, but I love Agassiz.” i

His great sympathy made him in-

tensely democratic, both intellectually
and socially. He was as easy of access
by the poor as by the rich; by the ig-
norant as by the learned. But one
thing must the seeker have —a desire
to learn. He listened to the secrets of
the stonecutter by the roadside, the
farmer in the field and the fisher by the
sea. Then to the one he unfolded the
wonderful story of the rocks, to the
other, the secrets of the flowers, and to
the other, the peculiarities of the fish.
His enormous storehouse of knowledge
was open alike to all.
Nor was his labor one for personal
in. Although in his youth he had
aren trod on the heels of poverty, yet
the allurements of wealth never
chanted him. When asked by a
wealthy lyceum to deliver a series of
lectures, he declined, saying, “I have
no time to waste making money.” His
aim was higher and nobler!

Neither did he seek position in high
places. After coming to American in
1846, his scientific worth was generally

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known and appreciated in Europe.
Here he saw the unworked fields about
him. Here he found his life work.
Offers of professorships in Zurich and
Heidelburg might tempt but could not
persuade him to forsake his scientific
duty to the land to which he had come.

He was always loyal to the land of
his adoption. He came to America “in
the spirit of adventure and curiosity,”
and he stayed “ Because he liked the
Jand where nature was rich while tools
and workers were few and traditions
none.” Until the time of the Civil War
he remained a subject of the Prussian
king. In the darkest hour of that ter-
rible conflict, he became a citizen of the
United States, and cast his lot with the
Union cause. If possible, he labored
more strongly than ever to keep alive
the coals on the altar of Science. Be-
fore the war was ended he received an
urgent invitation to accept a position in
the great Botanical Gardens of Paris at
an enormous salary. This position car-
ried with it a seat in the senate. He de-
clined. Not long after it was more
urgently renewed. He declined again,
saying, “If I loved my adopted country
too much to leave it when all was
peace, I certainly shall not now that a
shadow has come over its prospects.”

He taught his countrymen a great
lesson. Nature is a great book. He
taught them to read it. From a mean-
ingless record of a thing in books, he
turned men’s minds to the thing itself.
His pupils had first to learn to see —
and see aright. He made observers of
them and not readers only. He led
them to nature and taught them to dis-
cover her secrets for themselves. He
made them independent in their ac-
quisition of knowledge.

In his attitude toward nature he

divulged the secret of his inspiration.
In his “ Essay on Classification’? he
says, “All the facts proclaim, aloud the
one God whom man may know, adore
and love, and natural history must in
good time become the analysis of the
thoughts of the Creator of the uni-
verse.” Every living thing represented
not so much animated matter, but a
thought of the Creator, and the group
to which it belonged, this thought work-
ing itself out through the centuries.
For he believed in an evolution. But
the evolution of Darwin did not exist
for him. He did not believe in an
evolution by transmutation. His was
an evolution, not by organic forces
within, but according to a great, intel-
ligent plan without. Not by a change
of one species into another, but by the
substitution of one for another accord-
ing to this great plan. His devout
reverence for the things of nature made
itself manifest in his work. He said,
“T never make preparations for pene-
trating into some small province of
nature hitherto undiscovered, without
breathing a prayer to the Being who
hides his secrets from me.” For him
the laboratory was a sanctuary. The
study of the things of nature, inter-
course with the Creator.

His reverence and devotion were
most beautiful. It was the dream of
his later years to found a summer
school for teachers. In the year be-
fore his death this was made possible
by the gift of a wealthy merchant,
The school was opened on the island of
Penikese in an old barn. It was a
strange scene. The rafters were fes-
tooned with cobwebs; the swallows
flew in and out at the open windows;
without the waves beat upon the shore.
The students had assembled from all
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over the land. Chosen for their zeal,
they had come to learn of the great
teacher. Realizing that at last his
dream had come true, the old man
arose before them, paused a moment
and said: “I do not feel like praying
before you, I do not feel like asking
any of you to pray. Let us spend a few
moments in silent prayer.”
“Then the master iti his place
Bowed his head a little space,
And the leaves by soft air stirred,
Lapse of wave and cry of bird,
Left the solemn hush unbroken
Of that wordless prayer unspoken,
While its wish on earth unsaid,
Arose to Heayen interpreted.”

His was a reverent life. A life lived
for a great purpose — the increase and
diffusion of knowledge among men.
As some good mother by the fireside’s
glow, spreads out the new book upon
her lap, and calling her children about
her knee, points out and explains the
pictures, so he, with sympathetic heart
and radiant smile, gathered about him
nature-loving spirits, and opening wide
the book of the greater mother, page by
page, pointed out its living illustra-
tions,— explained their meaning, their
history and their relations, their beauty
and their use.

The ambition of his youth was real-
ized. He was the first naturalist of his
time. He was a good citizen. He was
a good son. He was also something
greater. His sympathy, his patriotism,
his reverence, his unselfish devotion to
duty, his love for the truth, his desire
that all men should find it, and the in-
spiration he gave to others in their
search for it, made him—‘“‘a great

teacher.”
Ralph E. Wager.

Prophecy of the Class of 1904.

Perhaps you are astonished to find on.
your program a prophecy. You may
think that in this matter-of-fact age there
are no prophets. I rather thought so
myself when I found that I was called
upon to prophesy. And yet I have
prophesied with what success I will
leave the future to answer. The way in
which I obtained this power was as
follows: :

One evening as I sat writing a sketch
for the morrow I thought how many
people in our class were doing the very
same thing. I wondered what we would
all be doing ten years from then. IT
stopped work for awhile, and as I sat and
mused over this question many strange
thoughts came to my mind. How dif-
ferent the lives of the members of the
Class of ’04 would be. Even though
many should follow the profession of
teaching, what varied experiences they
would have. Some might travel in far-
distant lands, some stay at home, others
be prominent leaders in society or poli-
tics, some never heard of outside their
own village. I tried to imagine just
what certain ones would be doing after
so many years had elapsed, when sud-
denly I heard a voice close to my ear, a
little voice as in my childhood days I had
imagined a fairy’s voice. It said: “You
wish to, know the future of your class-
mates?” I answered “Yes.” The mys-
terious voice continued: “It is not well
to seek to know the future and it is given
to but few, but you are one of the favored
few to whom the future will be revealed
and you may read the future history of
the lives of some of your friends and
classmates. Only come with me.” I
arose and followed the leading of the
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voice, but as I went a faint remembrance
came to me of what my future would be
the next day with an unfinished sketch,
but deeming that I could endure it in or-
der to possess this strange new power of
prophesying, I departed. I was led by
an invisible guide through winding ways
and knew not whither I went. Suddenly
I was stopped by a wall of rock. Not
knowing what to do I started to retrace
my steps when a door appeared in the
rock and the same voice bade me enter.
I stepped across the threshold, the open-
ing vanished. I looked around, and
truly methought this is an enchanted
country and I knew not what to do.
Again the voice, “Step boldly forward.
Soon wilt thou be accustomed to this
place.” I obeyed, and seated in the mid-
dle of the cave I saw three beings. Have
you ever seen the picture of the three
Fates? I had, and surely, thought I, here
are the realities. “Are you the Fates?”

I asked, with trembling voice. “We
are,’ they answered. “For long years,
aye, centuries, have we dwelt here.

Never since the days of Greece have
mortal eyes beheld us. You are a fa-
vored mortal. What is your request?”
Ere I could answer, the voice replied:
“To read the future of her classmates of
‘o4.”” The oldest of the Fates said: ‘ Be
it so; follow me.” I obeyed, and hav-
ing passed through a labyrinth of wind-
ing passages we stopped. Nothing was
to be seen until my guide lighted a can-
die. Then I could see by the dim light
that I was in a smaller cave, at the end
of which was a large mirror. “ This is
the cave which conceals the magic mir-
ror,” said my companion, “and yonder
is the enchanted glass itself. Look
therein and listen carefully if you will try
the future.”

Breathiessly I waited. My guide took

a small basin and kindled a fire of aro-
matic herbs in it, muttering in a sing-
song voice the while, placed it in front
of the mirror and extinguished the can-
dle. The mirror was now illumined
brightly and the rest of the cave was in
darkness.

Suddenly I saw a change in the mir-
ror. I seemed to be looking into a hos-
pital Among the gentle nurses who
hovered around the beds of suffering, al-
leviating the pain and soothing the pa-
tients; one looked strangely familiar.
All these years had not changed her,
she was still the same happy Louise
Bonk, fulfilling the report known per-
haps only to a few heard in the first
year of college life at the Normal.

This vision faded, and I saw a large
and brilliantly lighted hall, filled with an
audience appreciative of good oratory.
The speaker came forward and began his
address. He held the audience as in a
spell. Now they wept, then laughed.
He turned them at his will. Who was
he, do you ask? It was—vwell, I'll
Wager you all know him.

Again the scene was greatly altered.
A quiet study now appeared, in which
a lady sat writing busily. Her back was
toward me, but soon she turned and I
saw Miss Whitcomb, who had entered
upon her poetic career as our class poet.
Several volumes of poems of which she
was the authoress lay on her desk, and
she was engaged in preparing another
volume for publication.

Then I saw the interior of a book
store. A school girl entered and asked
for a copy of Manning’s essays. The
clerk told her he had just sold the last
copy, but would have a new supply in
the next day. He turned to a gentle-
man and I heard him say: “ The schools
are studving modern essayists instead of
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the older ones, and Miss Manning is one
of the best of the recent writers. Not
until then did I perceive that our class
essayist had pursued this vocation with
such marked success after graduating.

As the book store still remained I con-
cluded there was more to be seen if I
waited patiently. Another young lady
entered and by some intuition I knew
she was a Normalite before she asked
for the book of questions and answers
for all sketches in drawing by Miss
Grant. The book store vanished and
my thoughts traveled back to room 402,
but these memories were quickly dis-
pelled by the sight of a large building
with a bulletin in front which announced
that a lecture would be given that even-
ing on “The Art and Science of Ques-
tioning.” I looked for the lecturer’s
name, and, would you believe it, it was
the very same person who upon gradu-
ating from High school had a book pre-
sented to her to write her questions in,
Miss Hollands, and I wondered if she
was still willing to wait a year or two
more.

Then I had a view of the Governor’s
mansion, and was not surprised to find
the Governor’s chair occupied by one
who had formerly taught civics and was
now practicing it, our President, Mr.
Shank. The door opened and a portly
gentleman entered, whom I recognized
chiefly by his deliberate walk and care-
less arrangement of his hair. As soon
as the Governor saw him he exclaimed:
“Why, hello Campbell.” From their
conversation I learned that he was treas-
urer of a large bank and that he had re-
ceived his first impulse in that direction
from his position in the Class of 1904.

Next I saw a beautiful garden in
which the principal flowers were violets.
Immediately I had a train of associa-

tions; the thought words, “a bunch of
violets,” and a visual image of the young
lady who was always well supplied.
Soon a lady and gentleman appeared
walking in the garden, and as she raised
her head, I saw it was — well, she was
Ethel Moseley in College, and I thought
“she must be as fond of violets as ever.”

This faded away, and I saw a room
in which sat Miss Rachel Williams. She
was talking to herself, and I heard her
say: “ Yes, I suppose I am fond of hob-
bies, I taught school, traveled, was a
private governess, and I wonder what
they’ll say to this latest wrinkle,” and I
wondered if it was the same Rinkle that
existed before she attended the Normal.

Quickly the scene changed to a doc-
tor’s office, and who should I see but
Miss Fear. Now, don’t misunderstand
me. I do not mean that she was a doc-
tor, but the doctor had conquered her
fear so completely that she was no lon-
ger known as Edna Fear.

Next was a store with a large ticket in
the window announcing that a demon-
stration would be given of the safety
hat retainer. I then saw the interior of
the store where Mr. Baldwin, the in-
ventor of the patent hat retainer, by
means of which gentlemen were sure to
find their hats where they left them, was
selling them as fast as he could hand
them out. I presume he had profited by
his experience with the medical students.

Then an art gallery appeared in
whichione of the small members of our
drawing class was putting into prac-
tice the rules which’ had been de-
veloped by her assistance so many
years ago, and I learned that Miss
Chismore had become an artist and had
her first picture hung “on the line.”

Then I saw a Quaker meeting house.
Within sat a quiet assembly robed in
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gray. Among the atdience I spied the
familiar faces of Mabel Meeker and
Dora Wallace. Next came a view of
the “heavenly twins,” known other-
wise as the “kittens” or “ pussy-wil-
lows.” They were chatting with the
brothers who attended a public lesson in
the ninth grade once upon a time. As
they conversed I found that Miss Rieth
had become a well-known artist, and
Miss Ibert, a sculptor, her inclination
for that profession having started in
modeling vases in the ninth grade.

Then I saw a beautiful field. It was
after the haying season, and Miss
McCammon was seated by the Cocks
(not hay, however). He was a pro-
fessor in one of the leading colleges
and she assisted in the same depart-
ment, especially when graphic repre-
sentation was needed. I saw Miss
Denslow coming across the field with
a gentlemen, and as she always did
Loveland in Iowa, I concluded that this
was the state in which the scene of
action was laid. She called him Russel,
and you see now why she enjoyed
teaching physiology in the high school.
Next, I seemed to be looking into a
class room, and there sat Miss Mark-
ham teaching history of pedagogy,
which had been her pet subject at the
Normal. She also taught history, and
I saw another class in which they were
discussing Mr. McEwen’s new work
of history which was no hearsay vol-
ume, but he had been an eye witness of
every event recorded therein.

I then stood before a boy’s school
and saw some of the teachers. ap-
proaching. As they came nearer I saw
among them two familiar faces, Miss
Hall and Miss Battle, and I wondered
if Miss Hall was satisfied now with
nothing but boys,

The interior of a church next caught
by attention, and, would you believe
it, the minister in the pulpit was Mr.
Gilbert. I was surprised for I could
have imagined him delivering a lecture
on “ Hot Air,” or sounding the praises
of Omega Oil, much more easily than
in his present position.

This, in turn, gave place to a large
concert hall, where the attraction of the
evening was the distinguished pianist,
Miss Stevens, who had played before
the crowned heads of Europe.

Now several views quickly passed
showing school rooms of every descrip-
tion from kindergarten to high, and
among the teachers were some familiar
faces, as Miss Ayers, Miss Burns, Miss
Wood, Miss Ford, Miss Martin and
Miss Winterstein.

Then I saw a beautiful reception
room filled with talented and learned
people. The hostess was Miss Talbot,
a great society leader, and it was con-
sidered a great favor to attend her
social functions.

The center of atraction this evéning
was Miss Clarke, one of the best of the
recent mineralogists. She had just re-
turned from abroad where she had been
collecting specimens for her already
extensive collection.

Next came a great contrast.
in darkest Africa, and who should I see
but Miss Rose, who had gone there as
a missionary.

The following picture took me to
Italy: A gondola floating on the canals
of Venice. In it was Miss Brainard.
She had gone abroad, met and married
and Italian count.

An Old Maids Hall formed the next
picture. Here that happy group of
girls who used to come from Troy, now
lived. Doubtless you all know them

I was
38 : THE EcHo.

The Misses Allan, Madden, Lenehan,
Hunt and Kavanaugh. They had all
settled down to a single state of
blessedness, and as each had a pet cat,
I concluded they had lost all hopes.

Another doctor's office appeared, and
the sign read I. C. Wicks, M. D. I was
not so much surprised for her inclina-
tions had always turned that way.

I then saw a study in which Miss
Rouse and Miss Kidd were compiling a
It was

new geography for teachers.
right up to date, containing a full set
of development questions for all phases
of the work detailed descriptions of
journey methods, etc. It was to be
published in four volumes and would
be welcomed as a boon by all teachers
of this subject.

Miss Dolan was in the next picture
busy in a laboratory, for she had proven
to be one of the noted botanists of the
day and was devoted to her work.

Next Miss Soule in such an environ-
ment that I concluded here were “two
souls with but a single thought.” She
had Settled out West and was enjoying
life as much as she always had at the
Sane

A view of Union College which was
now co-educational. Among the stu-
dents were a few familiar faces. I no-
ticed especially Miss Simms and Miss
Haviland, who were taking special

courses. They had always believed that
in Union there was—shall I say
strength?

Again I saw a large hall, where Miss
Ball — who would ever have thought it
—was presiding as president of a
Woman’s Rights Association. Among
the members were Miss Breed and Miss
Pierson, who were debating on the ques-
tion, “ Shall men be allowed to vote?”

A view of the Normal now claimed

my attention, and one thing seemed very
familiar. Miss Thompson was _ still
there assisting in grammar department
work. She had plenty of other posi-
tions offered, but she preferred to stay
there.

Another view revealed Miss Van Val-
kenburg as a noted singer. She was es-
pecially fine in Scotch songs, of which
her favorite was “The Campbells are
Coming.”

Then came Miss Burlingame, who was
teaching in a well-known high school,
loved by all her pupils and highly es-
teemed by those with whom she was
associated.

A large and attractive building next
caught my attention. On the lawn sat
Miss Robinson surrounded by a host of
children. She was matron of an orphan
asylum.

As this picture disappeared, I closed
my eyes a moment. When I opened
them I gave a start; I was in my own
room and the clock was striking one.
As I looked around I found that from
force of habit I had taken notes of the
pictures shown me by the mirror. When
I discovered I did not have a picture of
all the members I determined to try and
find the magic glass again. But all my
searching was in vain, so I decided to
present the glimpses of the future of
those I could, and to tell the others to
wait patiently for what the future has in

store for them.
Elizabeth F. Shaver.

Presentation Address.
Dr. Milne and Faculty:
From the moment of entering the
Normal College we have looked forward
to the goal which we have this weel: at-

tained. During the time that we have
been here we have learned to love our
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Alma Mater with a love that neither time
nor distance can efface; and though soon
we enter upon new fields of work, we
shall always hold the Albany Normal
College in grateful remembrance. While
we appreciate the instruction and the
professional training that we have re-
ceived here, we hold in still higher esti-
mation the benefits and lofty ideas de-
rived from contact with our instructors.

To you, Dr. Milne, we are especially
grateful. We are deeply conscious of
the zealousness of your efforts in our
behalf.

We hope to be remembered for what
we have done. We know that we can
confer no greater honor upon the in-
stitution of which we are all so proud
than by conduct befitting the instruction
received here; but we wish to leave some
slight token of our gratitude.

Dr. Milne and Faculty, it gives me the
greatest pleasure to present, in the name
of the Class of 1904 this chair as a me-
morial to the Albany Normal College,
together with our unspoken but heart-
felt wishes for the continued welfare of
our Alma Mater, whose interests we
shall always have at heart.

Reverdy E. Baldwin.

Commencement Exercises.

The commencement exercises of the
Class of 1904 were held in the College
Hall on Friday, June tenth, at three
o’clock. Upon the rostrum were seated
members of the faculty, together with
the Rey. William Prall, Ph. D., D. D.,
LL, D., and the Rev. William Force
Whitaker, D. D., while the class occu-
pied seats reserved for them in the front
of the hall. After a selection by the or-
chestra prayer was offered by the Rev.
William Prall, of St. Paul’s Church, The

“Allen

address of the afternoon was delivered
by the Rey. William Force Whitaker,
of the First Presbyterian Church, who
spoke eloquently upon the theme “The
Ideals of a Teacher.’ After the presen-
tation of the diplomas by Dr. Milne the
audience was dismissed with the benedic-
son, which was pronounced by the Rey.
William Prall.

Grabus

JUNE 10, 1904.

Collegiate Course — Winifred Clare Bene-
dict, A. B., Canastota; Edmund Cocks, A. ze
Cornwall; Floyd Edgar Gilbert,
Athens; Charlotte Loeb, A. B., Albany; ne
Ethel Markham, A. B., Herkimer; Geor;
Grattan McEwan, A. M., North Tonawand,
Mabel Estey Rose, A. B., Brooklyn;
Elizabeth Talbot, Ph. B., Stottsville;
Edmound Wager, A. B., Round Lake.

Classical Course — Reyerdy E. Baldwin,
Cassadaga; Stella Agnes Brainard, Oriskany
Falls; Faith Crosby Brigham, Solsville; Ruth
Randall ‘Brodhead, Perth Amboy, N. J.;
Frances W. Brower, Troy; Frances Burlin-
game, Albany; Emma E. Chismore, -Ilion;
Blanche E. M. Cooke, Irvington; Julia
Dolan; Albany; Samuel B. Fares, Selkir'
Edna Clare Fear, Holland Patent; Blanche I.
Haddow, Bainbridge; Aurelia Helena Halli-
nan, Little Falls; Leah Hollands, Watervliet;
C. Edward Jones, Alban Maud C. Kelley,
Skaneateles; Mary L. T. Kidd, Troy; Ruby
Mary Lyon, Herkimer; R. Anna Madigan,
Catskill; Margaret Marie Malloy, Newburgh;
Norman Sayre Martin, Worcester; Ethel
Moseley, Cambridge; Grace Powell,
Amsterdam; Elgrieda Henrietta Roth, Water-
vliet; Clarence Davis Shank, Jr., Auburn:
Elizabeth Frances Shaver, Watervliet; Eliz:
beth E. Soule, Savannah; Stella Idylle Stebbins,
East Hamilton; Elizabeth Frances Stevens,
Albany; Mildred Walsh Thompson, Ameni
Helen S. Van Valkenburgh, Greene; Nellie
Catherine Walrad, Herkimer; May H. Whit-
comb, Batavia; Inez C. Wicks, Johnstown;
Emilie Vaughn Wilson, Albany; Mathilde
ZurLinden, Sag Harbor.

Cora
Ralph

English Course— Bessie Louise Allan,
Troy; Mary E. Ayers, Watertown; Florence
M. Battle, Copenhagen; Iola M. Blackburn,
40 THE EcuHo.

Matteawan; Mattie B. Brenzel, Cohoes; Mae py Closing Exercises of Grammar and

Berchman Burns, Albany; Mary B. C. Byrne,
Troy; Helen I. Campbell, Hoosick Falls;
Elizabeth Mary Clarke, Watertown; Joanna
V. Colbert, Cohoes; Elizabeth A. Delaney,
Newburgh; Edith L. Denslow, New York
Mills; Edith H. DuMond, North Tarrytown;
Mary Madeleine Dwyer, Sandy Hill; Edith
May Hall, Canisteo; Ethel Louise Harris,
Newburgh; Mary Frances Higgins, New-
burgh; Gladys S. Hitchcock, Mannsyille;
Margaret M. Hobbins, Amsterdam; C, Eliza-
beth Hunting, Albany; Irene Ida Ibert, Va-
latie; Ethel J. Jameson, Gloversville; Belle
Jessup, Boonville; Evangeline M. Johnson,
Pearl River; Mary Anna Kelly, Palmer; Mar-
garet Gertrude Killian, Fort Edward; George
William Kiump, Pawling; Sara Marie Lahey,
Newburgh; Edith Olive Lake, Eagle Bridge;
Catherine Austine Larkin, Watervliet; Jo-
sephine Dawson Madden, Troy; May Man-
ning, Harpursyille; Lillian Agnes May, East
Greenbush; Edith Alida McCammon, Little
Falls; Anna Frances McMullen, Poughkeep-
sie; Mabel Meeker, Schenectady; Myra W.
Morse, Brocton; Catherine Mary O’Connor,
Waterford; Lina M. Pierce, Carthage; Vina
J. Pierson, Ballston Spa; Mary Alice Pilling,
Schenectady; Emma A. Rieth, Utica; Anna
Lina Riley, Sandy Hill; Clara Belle Robinson,
Cohoes; Sara Rouse, Stuyvesant; Harriet L.
V. Vanderpool, New Baltimore; Jennie Van
Hamer, Ellenville; Dora Thayer Wallace,
Hoosick Falls; Mabel Edith Walton, Dundee;
Arie Gertrude Webber, Albany; May Estelle
Wellman, Rochester; Blanche L. Winterstein,
Portyille; Helen Marion Wood, Albany.

Kindergarten Course—Clara Emily Ball,
Valley Falls; Bessie Evangeline Bishop, Tar-
rytown; Jennie D. Bryant, Greene; Anna
Irene Dale, Little Falls; Kathleen M. Fitz-
Gerald, Fort Edward; Lillie Jane Ford, Rens-
selaer; Florence Bertha Haviland, Glens Falls;
Emma Hisgen, Albany; Margaret Marion
Loudon, Troy; Etta Viola Martin, Albany;
Lillian I. Phillips, Albany; Caroline Oakley
Pingrey, Millbrook; Alice Louise Potter, Al-
bany; Florence Etta Redington, North Wil-
braham, Mass.; Lillian May Reed, Albany;
Mary A. F. Rook, Poughkeepsie; Edith Juliet
Williamson, Canastota.

Special Course—May Breed, Central

Square.

wu Primary Departments:

awe

The commencement exercises of the
Primary Department, held in Normal
Hall Wednesday, June eighth, at ten ™
o’clock A. M., were witnessed by a large
body of people, who were much inter-
ested in the little people.

The principal feature of the occasion
was an operetta, “ Cinderella in Flower-
land.”

The characters were well chosen and
the parts were rendered in a very pleas-
ing manner by the little ones.

PROGRAM.

March, “ The Jolly General,” Maude Keith
Giles.

Song, “ Hunter’s Song,” (Kinross).

Recitation, “ Thoughts fer the Discuraged
Farmer” (James W. Riley), Thomas Charles

“Tn the Woods” Ger-
y Valentine.

Song, “Spring Blossoms” (Valentine).

Recitation, “Almiry Ann,” Ethel Gale
Everingham.

Vocal solo, “ Springtide”” (Edwin Greene),
Jessie Louisa Sewell.

Recitation, “The Ruby-Crowned Knight ”
(Henry Von Dyke), Homer Irving Mesick.

Songs, (a) “The West Wind” (Barnby),
(b) “ Every Night” (Foster).

Recitation — ‘The Deacon’s Courtship ”
(Mrs. L. D. A. Stuttle), Saida A. McCarty.

Piano duet, “ Scherzando” (Kullak), Adele
Le Compte, Margaret Murlin.

Operetta, “ Cinderella in Flowerland ”’ (Ma-
rion Loder), Primary Department, Char-
acters: “Cinderella”? (Daisy), Ruth Robin-
son; “ Proud Sisters” (Holiyhock), Geraldine
Murray, (Tiger Lily), Harriet Tedford; “ God-
mother” (Nature), Marguerite Root; “ Bon-
nie Bee” (Little Page), Edna Hedrick; “ But-
terflies ’ (Charioteers), Janet Brass, Kather-
ine Rolfe; “ Robin Red” (Prince’s Herald),
Florence Stevens; “Prince Sunshine” (of
Sunshine Castle), Margaret Cox; “ Guests at
the Ball” (Poppy) Vera Retan, (Buttercup)
Marietta Keenholts. (Pansy) Bessie Biair,
(Daffodil) Harriet Patten, (Violet) Louise

(original),

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Ogden, (Sweet Brier) Eleanor Patton,
(Mignonette) Hazel Pearsall, (Lily Bell)
Jeannette Brate, (Sweet Pea) Catherine
McEntee, (Narcissus) Edith Dolan; “Sun-
beams,” Anna Wooster, Dorothy Roberts,
Frances Keliogg, Marion Packer, Hazel
Roberts, Marguerite Taylor; “ Raindrops,”
George Goodwin, William Story, Wilson

Carleton, Livingston McEwan, Albert Good-
win, Ralph Richmond, Irving Goewey.
Piano solo, “ Moonlight Sonata”
thoven), Maude Keith Giles.
Song, “Song of April’? (Fairlamb).
Presentation of certificates of promotion,
Fifth Grade,
Song, ‘ Voices
stein).
Presentation of diplomas, Ninth Grade.
Song, “Joy, Joy, Freedom To-day” (Ben-
nett).
March, “ The American Girl,” Jessie Louisa
Sewell.

(Bee-

of the Woods” (Ruben-

z GRADUATES.

Grammar Department— Emily E. Beale,
Myron ©. Bray, John T. Brennan, Mae
Briare, Janet Elizabeth Bright, Bradley B.
Dunham, Ethel Gale Everingham, Leroy
Deitz Fowler, Loretta Magdalen Furlong,
William Cheesebro Gaffers, Maude Keith
Giles, Raymond C. Goodrich, Mary Green-
man, Margaret Catherine Harlfinger, Clarence
G. Kirby, Adele Le Compte, Saida A.
McCarty, Homer Irving Mesick, Alice Hakes
Moses, Margaret Murlin, Logan K. Palma-
tier, Philippine Pruess, Susie Emma Sam-
brood, Jessie Louisa Sewell, Thomas Charles
Stowell, Edna C. Traver, Gertrude Crissey
Valentine, John Van Salisbury, Jr., Robert
Orlin Wheeler.

Primary Department — Bessie Blair, Janet
Brass, Margaret R. Cox, Jack Goewey, Henry
Hunter, William McChesney, Catherine
McEntee, Geraldine Murray, Louise Ogden,
Harriet Patten, Hazel Pearsall, Ruth Robin-
son, Katherine Rolfe, Marguerite Root, Flor-
ence Stevens.

The Exhibit of Work in the Pri-
mary Department

During the afternoon of Wednesday,

June first, the Principal, assisted by the

teachers of the Primary Department,

welcomed the parents and friends of the
pupils, and took great pleasure in show-
ing them what the children had accom-
plished during the past twenty weeks:

The work of each grade was so ar-
ranged that one might obtain a very
good idea of the kinds of work presented
during the term. It was arranged in
such a way that an observer might pass
from grade to grade and note the won-
derful improvement made by the chil-
dren of the different grades.

As a whole, the worl: in this depart-
ment showed thoroughness and ability
on the part of the pupils and reflected

great credit upon both pupils and
teachers.

In the first grade the drawing work
attracted much attention, especially the
color work in connection with the work
on Holland, which consisted of drawings
on delft charts, illustrated by blue paper
figures of objects representative of Hol-
land life, cut out by the children. Writ-
ing and language work, taken up in
connection with the study of Holland,
was arranged in booklets. The work
was very good for such little people.

The color work of the second grade
was excellent, the outlines for most of
the work having been made by the pu-
pils. The coloring of certain wild
flowers was almost perfect. Reading,
language and written work were ar-
ranged and illustrated in form of bool-
lets.

The third grade work in drawing and
nature study was good. The reproduc-
tions of the geography, nature study and
reading lessons were well expressed.

In the nature study work the idea of
pressing and mounting flowers as illus-
trations was a new idea. Good relief
maps were drawn in connection with the
study of Albany county.
42

The map work of the fourth grade de-
serves especial mention for their neat-
ness and correct representation; the re-
lief maps of New York State were done
in black and white and in colors. Re-
productions of the reading lessons
which were attractively illustrated,
formed neat booklets in this grade of
work.

The work in the fifth grade was fine.
Excellent relief and rainfall maps of the
United States and production charts, as
well as other charts, illustrating natural
scenes in the Yellowstone region, were
among the most interesting kinds of
work shown. Nor must the exception-
ally good color work in drawing be
omitted.

An inspection of the work was of great
profit to the visitors and also to the
pupils themselves, who, seeing what
others had accomplished, could not help
but be inspired to do still better worl
in the future.

Vise WC AL

The annual meeting of the Young
Women’s Christian Association was held
on the afternoon of June fourth in the
Grammar Department Chapel. Reports
were given by the president, the secre-
tary and the treasurer, reviewing the
history of the Association since its
formation, on January fifteenth. Dur-
ing the half year the Association has had
116 members, of whom 94 are active, 16
associate and 6 honorary. Regular de-
votional meetings have been held on
Wednesday afternoons at four o’clock.
Two receptions have been given, and
afternoon teas have been held at the
close of examinations. The treasurer
has paid all bills and reports a balance
of about twenty dollars.

The chief feature of the Association

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work during May has been the canvass
to raise money to secure the services of
a general secretary for next year. That
the Association has already become a
valuable factor in the College life is
proved by the ready response made by
the students who have pledged over $300
toward the necessary amount. Assist-
ance has been rendered by the faculty
and the friends of the College, so that
the oft-repeated question, “Are we
really to have a secretary?” was an-
swered at the annual meeting when Miss
Markham introduced Miss Jean James
as the general secretary. Miss James is
a graduate of Vassar College, and is
well fitted for the work by experience
and enthusiasm.

The officers and the cabinet of the
Association for the ensuing year are as
follows: President, Grace C. Codner;
vice-president, Lillian E. Brown; secre-
tary, Florence McKinlay; treasurer,
Agnes Kilpatrick; chairman member-
ship committee, Lillian E. Brown; chair-
man Bible study committee, Marion G.
Moak; chairman devotional committee,
Violet A. Parrish; chairman missionary
committee, Julia IX. Bent; chairman so-
cial committee, Elinor Marsh; chairman
finance committee, Agnes Kilpatrick;
chairman intercollegiate committee, Ara-
bella Wilman.

Psi Gamma.

The regular meeting of the Psi
Gamma was held May twenty-fifth, at
three-thirty. The following officers for
the ensuing year were elected: Presi-
dent, Frances Kimball; vice-president,
Elizabeth R. Sherman; recording secre-
tary, Eda B. Sherman; corresponding
secretary, Anna Mariah Blessing; treas-
urer, Mabel M. Kingsbury; chaplain,
Mary 3B. Johnston; marshals, Jennie
Kemp and Margaret M. G. McGee.

Miss Ruth Seaman was suddenly
called home on account of the death of
her mother.
THE EcHo.

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Alumni Notes
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Class of 1904 2
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EDITORIALS.

HE editors of The Echo have en-
deavored, as their contribution to

the success of the sixtieth anniversary,
to make this issue of the College maga-
zine a complete record of all the events
of the closing week that will be interest-
ing alike to those who were present and
those who were absent. It has been

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their aim also to have this issue reflect
the present life of the College so clearly
that it will put the Alumni in touch with
existing conditions at the State Normal
College. The bond of sympathy which
should exist between a colleges and its
alumni cannot exist, unless the alumni
keep themselves informed of changes in
the college. The channels of communi-
cation between the College and_ its
Alumni are the Alumni Association and
The Echo. Many of the members of the
Alumni Association are not subscribers
to The Echo, and the names of some of
the Alumni are not found on either list.
We ask each one of them whether it is
not worth their while to know what is
being done at the Normal College?
Send your subscription for next year at
once to Mr. William
Subscription Manager of The Echo,
State Normal College, Albany, N. Y.
You can make The Echo more interest-
ing to your classmates and friends by
sending information about yourself and
by contributing articles whenever you
have opportunity to do so. We cannot
by letter urge each one of you to help
us, but we are more than glad to receive
and publish voluntary contributions.
The weakness or strength of the Alumni
Department depends upon the Alumni
themselves, and when you say that you
do not subscribe because The Echo con-
tains no information about your friends
and classmates, remember that you are
yourself one of those through whom
Alumni news must come.

We this issue there is sent as a
supplement the photograph of
the present board of editors. The
names of most of them are enrolled with

the Class of 1904, and hence their con-
nection with The Echo is now con-

D. Van Auken,
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cluded. The editor-in-chief wishes to
thank her associates for their hearty co-
operation and their earnest efforts for
the success of the paper. Whatever
excellence the paper may have had dur-
ing the last five months is due to the
patient work of the editors and the help
of a few students and Alumni. Thanks
are also heartily tendered to all who
have contributed to the magazine and
to the members of the faculty, whose
advice and help have been so willingly
given. To our successors we leave the
task of raising The Echo to a still
higher standard.

MEETING of the students was
held on May twenty-fifth to elect
a board of editors for The Echo. It was
voted to leave a vacancy in each depart-
ment, to be filled after the opening of
College in September. The election re-
sulted as follows:
Editor-in-Chief, Bertha E. Hall.
Literary Department, Charles Bazzoni,
Fanny Drevenstedt, Mabel E. Tucker.
News Department, Lillian E. Brown, Jen-
nie M. Anthony.
Alumni Notes, Marion G. Moak.
Class of 1905, Florence McKinlay.
Exchange Department, A. Rose Markham,
Anna Horth.
Review Department, Ethel B. Hall, Caro-
line H. McFerran.
Business Manager, Charles J. Campbell.

Subscription Manager, William D. Van
Auken.

Y the presentation of a memorial

to the College the Class of 1904

has set an example worthy to be fol-
lowed by other classes. Dr. Milne, in
accepting the gift, suggested that the
chair presented by the Class of 1904
would form such a contrast to the
“states prison ’’ chairs now on the ros-
trum that perhaps other classes would

be led to present similar memorials.
Whether or not the same form of me-
morial ‘be chosen, the practice of leav-
ing some gift to the College is to be
encouraged. We become interested in
objects as we give of our money, time
or labor for them. Each class receives

something from the College. The class
which leaves a memorial gift is likewise

giving something to the College, not as
a return for benefits received, but as a
token of gratitude, and is establishing
a bond between itself and the College.

The new catalogue issued by the
State Normal College shows several
important changes from its predeces-
sors. The courses are arranged to com-
prise not more than twenty recitation
periods per week, and much of the work
is elective. Many new courses are of-
fered, such as history of philosophy,
pedagogical literature, special schools,
commercial subjects, methods of con-
structing and using scientific apparatus,
ete. Thus the curriculum is much en-
larged. A change in the length of the
College day is made by the addition of
two periods of work in the afternoon.
Another attraction will be the new gym-
nasium, which was recently made pos-
sible by voluntary subscriptions from the
High School and College students, and
which is open to members of both de-
partments.

Several months ago the Hon. Francis
Burton Harrison instituted a contest
among the Normal Schools of the State
by offering medals for the best essays
written upon the subject “ The Teach-
er’s Responsibility for Training in the
Duties of Citizenship.” One of these
medals has been awarded to Francis W.
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Brower, ’04, to whom the congratula-
tions of all are cordially extended. We
regret that the essay is not available for
publication in The Echo.

Mary E. Kennedy, ’03, has received
an appointment in the Schenectady
schools for the ensuing year.

Frances M. Crawford, ’88 and ’92, is
teaching in Public School No. ro1, Bath
Beach, borough of Brooklyn.

Faculty News.

From the “School Bulletin ”
clipped the following item of interest
to all our readers:

William James Milne, first president
of the Albany Normal College, after
graduation from the University of
Rochester in 1868, taught in the Brock-
port Normal till 1871, when he became
the first principal of the Geneseo Nor-
mal. In 1889 he became first president
of the Albany Normal, which had been
raised to the rank of College. His
executive power is native and marked.
In 1886 he was the candidate of the
united teachers of the State for Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, and he
has probably exerted a wider personal
influence than any other teacher in the
State. He is always welcome at associa-
tions and institutes, speaking in a
familiar, off-hand manner that pleases
and convinces. He is the author of an
extensive series of mathematical text-
books that is in general use, the first
volume having been issued in 1876. His
brother, John M. Milne, succeeded him
as principal of the Geneseo Normal.

is

The High School Department of the
Model School will hereafter be under
the chargé of Dr. William B. Aspinwall

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as principal. Dr. Aspinwall, as assistant
in that department, has already gained
the esteem and friendship of both teach-
‘ers and pupils, who recognize his fitness
in scholarship, professional ability and
character for the responsibility of the
High School Department.

The sincere sympathy of both faculty
and students is extended to Miss Bishop,
who was recently called home by the
death of her father.

Organ Recital.

The  thirty-second complimentary
organ recital, given by Prof. S. B. Beld-
ing to the faculty and students of the
State Normal College, took place yes-
terday afternoon at the First Reformed
Church.

This has for many years inaugurated
the commencement exercises at the Col-
lege, and the event of yesterday was one
of the most delightful ever given, and
again illustrated Prof. Belding’s artistic
ability.

Assisting was Mr. Alfred Piccaver,
who gave two tenor solos, ‘‘ Far From
My Heavenly Home,” Rathbun; “ For
All Eternity,’ Mascheronie, in his usual
creditable manner.

The program follows:

“La Gasso ladra’’—the Maid and the
Magpie — (Rossini).

“Largo” (Handel).

“ Grand Offertoire ” — St. Cecilia — F
minor (Batiste).

“Cantilene Pastorale” (Guilmant).

Theme, “ Variations and Finale” (Guil-
mant).

Overture, “ Stradella” (Flotow).

Melody in F (Rubenstein).

Elevation, No. 6, Op. 23 (Batiste).

Fantasie, “Il Troyatore” (Verdi).

Tannhauser, “Transscription ” (Wagner).
Albany Argus, May 20, ’o4.
A feather and a ribbon and a <<ll of pretty
lace

Will make a frame hewitching for ‘most 2any
maidep’s face

But when you meet the senic~ it is then
your heart is stormed,

The college girl in cap and gown is beruty
unadorned.

Hat off, bow down!

You met your Waterloo

When the senior donned her cap and gown

And sweetly smiled on you.

The gown falls from her shoulders with a
graceful, classic air.

Yhe mortar-board can not confine the ten-
drils of sort hair.

The long sleeve folds about her arm like a
protecting wing.

The tassel flutters ’gainst her cheek. The
tantalizing thing!

Hat off, bow down!

You met your Waterloo

When the senior donned her cap and gown

And sweetly smiled on you.

in smoke you drown,

There flcats across your memory the girl
of cap and gown,

And in her eyes the courage that you saw
there years before.

And somehow single blessedness becomes
just then a bore

Hat off, bow down!

You met ycur Waterloo

When the senior donned her cap and gown

And sweetly smiled on you.

And when in bach'lor reveries your cares Ci
€

At last content before the fire you sit in
study brown

And close beside you, quite demure, the girl
of cap and gown.

And high above the mantel hangs a treasure
that you hoard,

It is that irresistible, that saucy mortar-
board.

Hat off, bow down!

You met your Waterloo

Wher the senior donned her cap and gown

And sweetly smiled on you.

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Died.

Miss Addie Duncan, who graduated
from College in June, 1881, and was
principal of one of the public schools of
Detroit, Mich., for a number of years,
died April eighteenth of tuberculosis.

For the past three years she has been
in Denver seeking to better her health
in that climate, but to no avail. Her
remains were brought back to Saratoga
for interment.

Miss Duncan was a highly-cultured
woman, of rare charm and grace. Her
patient resignation to her trouble was
a lesson in cheerfulness to all who
knew her.

SOCIETY NOTES.

Delta Omega.

At the regular meeting of Delta
Omega, held on May twentieth, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
Mary R. Patton; vice-president, Ellen
Morse; recording secretary, Elinor
Marsh; corresponding secretary, Fanny
Drerenstedt; marshals, Laura Weaver
and Elizabeth Burlingame; critic, Caro-
line McFerran; chaplain, Jennie An-
thony; editor, Rose Markham.

The annual dinner of the Delta Omega
Society was held at the Hotel Ten Eyck
on June ninth. The table was prettily
decorated with ferns and the Society
colors, gold and white. The president,
Miss Brainard, acted as toastmistress.
Toasts were responded to by Miss Pat-
ton, Miss Vrooman, Miss Hoppman, of
Schenectady; Miss Collier, of Oneonta,
and Miss Perrine. Beside the active
members of the Society there were pres-
ent Miss Hyde and Miss Perine, of the
faculty; Miss Collier, Miss Hoppman,
Mrs. Strong, of Brooklyn, and Mrs.
Matterson, of Norwich. :

Later in the evening the first annual
reunion of Delta Omega was held in the
kindergarten room of the College. A
feature of the program was the installa-
tion of officers for the ensuing year.
Among the alumnae present were two
charter members, Miss Hoppman and
Miss Whitaker, who spoke interestingly
about the early days of Delta Omega,
which is the oldest of the present socie-
ties at the State Normal College.

The evening closed with a joint re-
ception of the four societies, at which
Dr. Milne and several other members of
the faculty were present.

Those present were: Mary Knight,
Troy; Mabel Gordon, Watervliet; Isa-
belle Hoppman, ’91, Schenectady; Stella
Whitaker, ’91, Troy; Sarah Collier, ’98,
Oneonta; Mrs. Anna Huested Strong,
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Helen Fritts, Painted
Post; Mrs. Matterson, Norwich; Aure-
lia Hyde, S. N. C.; Eunice Perine, S. N.
C.; Helen Balcom, ‘’o2, Saratoga
Springs; Minnie Waite, ’95, Brooklyn;
Florence Lockwood Tallmadge, Albany.

Kappa Delta.

At an election of officers, held May.

twenty-seventh, the following were
chosen: Florence McKinlay, president;
Bertha E. Hall, vice-president; Marion
Moak, secretary; Anna Horth, corre-
sponding secretary; Jennie Shaw, treas-
urer; May Durfee, Elizabeth Thornton,
marshals; Mary B. Lansing, chaplain.

The annual luncheon was held June
eighth at the Ten Eyck. The table,
prettily decorated with red carnations
and ferns, was set in a small room ad-
joining the mezzanine gallery. Miss
Mildred Thompson, president of the So-
ciety, presided as toastmaster. Toasts
were given as follows: “ Kappa Delta’s
Past and Present,’ Anna Horth; “The
Kappa Delta Girl,” Helen Van Valken-
burg; “ The Faculty,” Clara Robinson;
“Kappa Delta’s Future,” Florence
McKinlay.
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Among those present were Mrs.
Underwood, of Minnesota, a member of
the Class of 1900; Miss Pierce, Miss Is-

dell, Miss Sewell, Miss Horne, Miss
Edith McCabe and Miss _ Florence
Weast.

On the evening of June 9, 1904, the
Kappa Delta Sorority gave a most en-
joyable evening to the faculty, the
‘Kappa Delta Alumni and guests in the
Primary Chapel.

The room was tastefully decorated,
and the cozy corners, gay with scarfs
and pillows, were most inviting.

The pleasure of meeting different
members of the faculty and the Alumni
in the first part of the evening was en-
hanced by the rendering of the follow-
ing program by members of the
Sorority:

The retiring president, Miss Mildred
Thompson, presided, and, with a_ few
well-chosen words, introduced Miss
Larima Cole, who gave an original ad-
dress of welcome to the Kappa Delta
Alumni. This was followed by a solo,
“O, Wert Thou in the Cold Blast,”
Mendelssohn, rendered in a pleasing
manner by Miss May Manning. ‘The
next number consisted of two recita-
tions, (a) ‘‘ The New Child” (b) “ His
New Brother,” given by Miss Clara
Robinson. No feature of the evening
‘was more enjoyed or more heartily ap-
plauded than this one. Miss May Whit-
comb then read a history of the Kappa
Delta Sorority, prepared by herself. If
special mention were to be made of any
number, this is perhaps the one, as it
gave to the later members definite ideas
of its organization, its progress and the
high standard the members have always
striven to maintain. The program
closed by the singing of the Kappa
Delta Song, after which all adjourned
to the general reception.

Announcement.

Rey. Benj. F. Jackson, ’58, wishes to an-
nounce to his friends and co-graduates of the
N. Y. Normal College, that he has nearly
ready for the press, a volume that will male

Ecuo.

about 500 pages, royal octavo, on “ The Mes-
sianic Reign.”

That the revelations of this work will be
new and startling to the American people we
may well believe. Yet it is no human theory
that I offer, which would be an impertinence
in such a case, but a rigid review of the his-
toric facts and events foretold by the inspired
seers concerning the ‘“‘ Nation” of the Mes-
siah, supposed heretofore to predict the
“Restoration of the Jews” to world do-
minion in the last days.

But in the brighter light of this age this
proves to be an error, and critical investiga-
tion shows that this Promised Nation is to be
of Japhet, not of Shem, is to be Christian, not
Mosaic, i. ¢., under the sceptre of Shiloh, not
of Judah. Also, that it is to be a Republican
government, even the Union of the States
being announced; planted by direct Divine
agency, with a chosen and godly seed, in

““The Wilderness.” And that out of this
“seed” an “elect,” “covenant,” “ invinci-
ble” nation is born, destined to achieve

planetary hegemony.

Even the exact date of its birth is foretold
to a day.. And into this “expanding ” nation
a resistless tide of immigration will flow, and
find here “a Safe Fold and Fat Pasture,” on
whom will descend “showers of blessings,”
spiritual and temporal. ~

As old Israel must needs have “a nation”
as a house and shelter for God’s church in
that age; so must Messiah have a “nation”
for the same reason, in this dispensation. For
the want of political protection the faith was
exterminated on three continents, the church
losing 200,000,000 martyrs in 1,700 years, giv-
ing significance to our Lord’s words: “ When
the Son of Man cometh (to build his nation)
shall he find the faith on the earth?”

The “Restoration” then will be a “na-
tion” under Messiah, 7. e., under Christ. as
King. Not that he will be here visibly and
have an earthly court; that was the mistake
the Jews made; but he will be present; rule
by his Spirit; and guide by his Providence,
notwithstanding the obstructing “tares”
which will temporarily infest “the field.”

All this is repeated in a thousand forms,
with a multitude of detail, forming a con-
nected panorama of the most stupendous

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events in the history of the world. Indeed the
leading events in the career of this unique
power are set forth in every form of art and
literature, in prose and poetry, symbol and
image, song and story; and everywhere it is
the same image, the same form and features,
the same people, the same resistless power,
obedient to the Divine will, made invincible by
the Divine hand, till it brings all nations and
all sovereignty under its flag.

This is accomplished in the final great war
of Armagedon, which occurs about A. D.
2tor, when this “Israel” of civil and re-
ligious liberty is assailed by the whole con-
federate world of Absolutism Then the
corporate and yisible kingdom of Satan is
crushed tnder Messiah’s feet, finally and
forever; and “The Messianic Reign” will be
victorious and universal “unto the ages of the
ages.” And under the protecting flag, the
gospel will “be preached to every creature,”
and “all men shall see the salvation of God.”
The conquered nation finally come in as
States, forming the United States of the
World. Also the Jews are converted and re-
stored to Judea at this time, as a State in. the
Christian World Union. That the church
universal will accept this view, and join
hands in this “day of his preparation” I am
sure.— Indianapolis, Ind.

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