THE
Normal College Echo
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post-office at Albany, N. Y.
Vou. x ALBANY, N. Y., APRIL, 1893 No. 9
CONTENTS
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Seizing the Favorable Opportunity 6
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THE
Normal College Echo
ALBANY, N. Y., APRIL, 1893
No. 9
THE
NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO
Pusisnep Monruiy py THE STUDENTS.
Terms —§1.00 per annum, in advance; $1.25 when not paid
by February ist; single copies, x5 cents.
Board of Editors.
Henry Emerson Apams, '93, Editor-in-chief.
Hutena B. Prerson, ’9q.
Auce H. HALL, '93.
BURY, '93, Financial Editor.
Contributions and items of interest are earnestly solicited
from students, graduates, and others,
Address matter designed for publication to the Hditor-in-
hief, business communications to the Financial Editor,
NORMAL COLLEGE EcHo, College Building, Albany, N. Y.
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ALBANY, N. Y., APRIL, 1893.
Tur change of our institution to a college,
and the excellent work done since that time,
has placed the State Normal college far in
advance of any of the other normal institu-
tions in the state. This is coming to be
recognized more and more in educational
circles, on account of the many marked fea-
tures of our work, distinguishing us from the
others.
One of the evidences of this difference, and
which, perhaps, has never been thought of by
the student body, is the character of the
graduating exercises. The distinction be-
tween the work in this line here and elsewhere
is readily perceived.
The commencement exercises at the ordinary
normal, especially in respect to the nature of
their essays, are more like the usual academic
closings, with their oft-repeated utterances
on ‘‘ Character,” ‘‘ Where there’s a will there’s
a way,” etc. But with us the nature of the
graduating essays has been, and will continue
to be, purely professional, None but such
subjects are permitted to be chosen; none but
s are accepted for graduation. This
calls for productions of high literary merit —
at the same time they are of great practical
This is carrying out the plan for which
the college was organized, and will be one of
the means of raising it to that high standard
for which it is destined.
such ess:
value.
University extension has had a trial and
some of its merits and defects are appar-
ent. It is yet too early to sound the whole
meaning of the movement to the university,
college, academy and high school. It meets
special favor in America for it is in harmony
with the sentiment that every citizen has a
right to the highest and best in culture.
The syllabus is in line with thorough instruc-
tion and rational methods. Discussion and
reproduction of lectures are helpful, while
topical investigation systematizes the facts of
knowledge and brings them into relation.
Much can be learned from this new educa-
tional impulse. To determine whether the
university or secondary schools will reap the
4 THE NORMAL COLLEGE
ECHO.
greater benefit is impossible, so the latter need
not be disturbed.
Now that Chicago university has established
a distinct university extension department and
appointed a corps of salaried professors, a
step of tremendous consequence has been
taken, She is the first institution of higher
learning to adopt university extension as an
integral part of the university. American and
European colleges have taken it under their
protection and furnished lecturers from their
faculties, But to Chicago belongs the honor
of being the first university to charge itself
with the responsibility of educating the outside
public. The organization of a correspondence
bureau as a department of the university ex-
tension division of the institution is significant
of President Harper's policy.
Such a stand by the colossal institution of
the inland metropolis can not fail to exert a
liberalizing influence upon its venerable sister
seats of learning in the east. After the efficacy
of this new and interesting educational ex-
periment is proven, Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
Cornell and Princeton must needs follow.
Then the university will be a civilizer in the
broadest sense, whose office it is to lay open
the field of the mind, to inspire higher ideals,
stimulate thought and widen the intellectual
horizon of thousands.
Two effects of this movement are easy to
predict: It will the attendance
upon our higher institutions of learning and
do much to break down what, for a better
name, may be denominated ‘ caste” in educa-
tion.
increase
Tue death of H. A. Taine on the sth of
March was a great loss to the literary world.
Since Renan he has been the foremost literary
man in France. His pre-eminence was in
history and criticism. English speaking peo-
ple owe the great Frenchman a debt of
gratitude. ‘‘ Taine’s History of English Lit-
erature” is a better book, as a whole, than
has been produced by any one to the manner
born, When we consider that he had first to
learn our language, we wonder at the few
cases in which he has failed to grasp the sig-
nificance of our writers, at the many he has
discussed with deep sympathy and discern-
ment. Every man has his limitations, and
such vagaries as his estimate of Tennyson and
Arnold’s criticism of Shelley have come to be
expected from every writer.
Mucu is said of realism in the novel, the
drama and the picture. In this perplexing
age that greater realism of being yourself
finds few prophets. When every one is
striving to appear what he is not, to be one’s
self is not as easy as it would appear. Many
influences are fighting against us to make us
something else. Our fathers call to us from
their graves. Our teachers and favorite au-
thors call to us to be like them. A man must
fight for his life. But be sure that selfhood
is what the world is seeking in teaching or
what not.
Ir is more than fifty years since America
began the experiment of especially instruct-
ing and fitting persons to do the work of
teaching. Although the normal school has
had a phenomenal growth, it only furnishes
two per cent of those engaged in teaching, to-
day. There is much to be done to advance
the dignity and efficiency of the profession.
The normal graduate is duty bound to aid in
diffusing a knowledge of just methods.
Through institutes, associations, normal
classes and teachers’ journals he has an oppor-
tunity.
Tue editors feel very grateful to the students
for their ardent support of the Ecuo the past
year; but do not let your zeal wane, rather
stimulate this spirit of loyalty. When you
find it necessary to buy an article, consult our
advertisements and buy of our advertisers. It
has been our effort to secure only those busi-
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 5.
ness houses which can be depended upon and
which will furnish to our students good goods
at regular prices. Therefore make it your
business to trade only with those firms who
patronize us, thereby being loyal to your col-
lege by aiding its organ.
Wr take pleasure, in this issue, in presenting
to our readers an illustrated sheet containing
cuts of the different members of the faculty,
also one of the college building. We regret
the number is not complete. It is our inten-
tion to maintain this sheet for several issues,
presenting each time cuts that will be of es
pecial interest to our subscribers. Those of
the students who have not already subscribed
for the Ecuo will find this a desirable time
from which to date their subscription.
Tu class which leaves us in June is one of
which the State Normal college may well be
proud. The large number of collegiates and
classical students will give the institution a
standing not hitherto attained. From its
numbers, we predict, will rise many prominent
in the profession.
Very generously has the board of educa-
tion of Chicago acted in tendering to the
board of lady managers of the Exposition the
use of its buildings for dormitories during
the big fair, Those desiring to avail them-
selves of this privilege should address the
board.
Tue Ecuo heartily endorses the good, sound
judgment shown by the graduating class in the
election of James Robert White as their presi-
dent.
‘Tun “exams” are over and the last quarter
begun. The heights in advance look steeper
than before. But resolve will scale them as
it has done those behind.
A reacuer may be an earnest, faithful
worker and do his best, and yet never strike
a spark from the nature before him; and if he
has not, he will have failed. The teacher
must come in contact with the pupil.
Tue organization of the graduating class is
an event which always arouses an interest
among the members. June, ’93, has already
come into existence and is actively planning
for the approaching commencement.
Beware of catching up with your ideals.
Like the desert mirage they should ever lure
you on. To overtake them means dry rot.
Brcin to make your plans for visiting
Chicago during the Exposition. Go, if possi-
ble; it will be a liberal education,
Narure offers many attractions, and every
day application becomes harder. The best
specific is grit,
Bricur pupils need little attention,
the dull one who needs your help most.
It is
THE VIOLET’S SECRET.
TELL me, modest violet,
Why you always hide your face,
And droop upon your slender stem
With such a careless grace?
Are you guarding Nature’s cecret
That you turn your dainty head;
Do you guard it still while dreaming
Sweetly in your snowy bed?
Or has the blue-bird whispered
Words too sweet to impart,
‘That you have folded warm and close
Deep down in your purple heart?
Ah! floweret, keep your secret,
Nor breathe it in the air,
Lest wind, or bird, or flitting bee
Should lisp it everywhere.
Lin,
Als THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
SEIZING THE FAVORABLE OPPORTUNITY.
E have chosen as an illustration of our
subject the’ parallel lives of two great
heroes. Alexander the Great and Charles the
XUth of Sweden, were men of strikingly sim-
ilar characteristics and opportunities. The
events of their lives, separated as they were
by centuries, bear evidence that time and tide
are influenced by causes and effects which are
controlled more or less by the genius of a few,
possibly by one great mind; this genius flash-
ing out among the political affairs of a nation,
as flashes suddenly across a midnight sky some
meteor of gorgeous beauty.
Each of these great men was the inheritor
ofathrone. Each began his royal and mili-
tary career when very young. Theconditions
which prompted each to action were seized
with avidity, cherished and developed. Su-
preme moments there were, as there are in
every field of action, when opportunities be-
come the soil from which may spring rich and
abundant harvests.
Alexander was confronted by the Persians.
Charles was confronted by the Russians.
Alexander turned his back upon his native
country, intent upon the conquest of other
worlds. Charles, intoxicated by the triumph
at Narva, took his course into Poland and
Russia. The temptation of personal ambition
claimed each for its victim. Alexander met
Darius. Charles met Peter the Great.
Incredible as it may appear, the Swedish
king traced the marked similarity of his own
life to that of Alexander, and with an excess
of superstition adopted the ancient hero as
his star of inspiration, vainly hoping to
achieve his marvellous reputation and renown.
John Lord says that the signal defeat of
Peter the Great did not discourage the noble
man, but spurred him on to still greater exer-
tion—one of the numerous instances where
defeat is better than victory. The czar was
conscious of his own strength; he was also
conscious of his weakness. He knew that he
had unlimited resources, but that his troops
were inexperienced and he made up his mind
for disaster at the beginning, in the hope of
victory at the end. The Swede, on the other
hand, acquired that fatal presumption which
finally proved disastrous to himself and to his
country, Peter, sensible of his own motives,
was sure of final success, and he who can be
sustained by the consciousness of ultimate tri-
umph can ever afford to wait. It is the spirit
which sustains the martyr. It constitutes the
distinguishing element of enthusiasm and ex-
alted heroism.
The supreme moment in the life of Peter
the Great was when he discovered his present
opportunity to establish for the Slav a
place among the nations of the earth. He
seized the favorable opportunity, laboring for
the greatest good to the greatest number.
Conquest by war was the best and only way
open to him, God is the God of nations as
well as of men. He measures the intents and
purposes of the heart, and himself guides the
helm of state.
Not in the history of political affairs, butin
a far less noticeable, unwritten history of edu-
cational interests we have chosen our part.
In our profession there are for us supreme mo-
ments when we may leave enduring impres-
sions as worthy, if not as renowned, as those
we have cited. Charles had his Alexander;
we may have ideals as grand and far more un-
selfish. The opportunity is ours to establish
correct principles for mental growth. It is in
our power to direct the course of moral and
spiritual action, and we, like Peter the Great,
can afford to wait for results that are sure to
be fulfilled.
The University of Bologna is the oldest in
the world, having been founded in 1119.
Dartmouth college has received a valuable
collection of fossils, geological specimens,
etc,, bequeathed to it by the late Ralph But-
terfield, and also $200,000 from the same be-
quest.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 4.
For the Ecuo,
CHIVALRY.
FROM ont the deep and soulless gloom,
‘That his own hand could scarce relume,
A voice was heard as from a tomb,—
“For God and her!”
And straightway in the darksome time,
The cloister belis began to chime
In sweet rare notes of song sublime,—
“ For God and her!”
Athwart the gloom bright arms flashed light
While on the lance he bore, each knight
Inscribed these magic words of might,—
“« For God and her!”
‘Then ghastly shadows fled away,
And through the darkness stole the gray
Of Hope’s fair morning, and the day
“For God and her.”
And when at last within its tomb
The knight that swept the lingering gloom,
Achilles.like he faced his doom,
“For God and ber!”
The knight is gone; but yet we see
Within best manhood beating free,
‘The ancient heart of chiyalry,—
“Wor God and her!”
A FEW CONTEMPORARY TRAVELERS.
JF thou hast not the time for travel, or if it is
the wherewithal thou lackest, console thy-
self with the reflection that many of thy con-
temporaries are illustrious travelers who are
penning in glowing words descriptions of the
lands they visit and their experiences therein.
With the return of April comes the old rest-
lessness which afflicted mankind in Chaucer's
day and of which he sang so quaintly :
«© Whan that Aprille with his schowers swoote
‘The drougt of Marche hath perced to the roote,—
* * * Es * *
‘Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.”
In our eagerness to know more of the lands
from which the sun and the birds are return-
ing, we should recall the names of those who
have given us faithful descriptions of them.
It is a noteworthy fact that the names of our
most illustrious travelers are associated with
the lands where the sunshine glows most
fiercely. The recent works on Africa are nu-
merous; most of them are readable, while
many are intensely interesting. Among the
names associated with travel in the dark con-
tinent may be mentioned those of Stanley,
Amelia B. Edwards, Paul B. du Chaillu, and
Professor Drummond, who is, perhaps, better
known as the author of ‘‘ Natural Law in the
Spiritual World,” but whose ‘“‘ Tropical
Africa” is considered one of the best books on
the subject.
Though essentially American in spirit, Paul
B. du Chaillu is, as his name indicates, of
French lineage. This fact may account for
the brilliancy and vivacity of his style. His
“* Stories of the Gorilla Country,” ‘Wild Life
Under the Equator,” ‘Lost in the Jungle,”
and ‘‘The Country of the Dwarfs,” are of
especial interest to boys, as they are full of
adventure.
But, in this particular field of literature, per-
haps no writer is more popular with young
people than Hezekiah Butterworth, who has
been for years one of the associate editors of
the Youths’ Companion, and whose zigzag net-
work extends not only over the Levant and
the sunny south, but over almost all of the
known world.
How everything seems to glow with poetic
beauty and artistic coloring when connected
with the countries of southern Europe! All
the sunshine of Italy seems to linger about
the writings of De Amicis, In 1877 he was
comparatively a new name in contemporary
Italian literature. His first book was ‘‘ Vita
Militare,” later he gave us the accounts of his
travels in Spain, Italy, France and Constanti-
nople.
He is a sympathetic writer not merely a re-
alistic one, his sense of beauty would prevent
his being that. As to his character, he has
been called ‘‘The most genuine of all the mod-
ern Italian writers.” His style has been
likened to ‘‘A Greek temple under a Greek
sky; all sunshine, and chaste without being
stintedin form,” You think of him not asa
writer bound to entertain you but as a man
whom you would like very much to know.
Last, but by no means least, may be men-
tioned the names of a few women who have
proved themselves invincible travelers. The
first name that occurs to one in connection
with travel in Japan is that of Isabella Bird
Bishop who penetrated to the interior of that
unknown country, bringing back not only
thrilling tales of adventure, but a great deal
of fresh information. It is doubtful if any
more interesting account has been written than
her ‘‘Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.”
It is not, however, for this alone that Mrs.
Bishop is distinguished. It is she who was
called ‘‘The fair Amazon that rode like a Cen-
taur over the roughest passes of the Rocky
mountains;” and we have her lively, enthusi-
astic account of her adventures in this region
in ‘A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.”
We have also from her pen, ‘The Hawaiian
Archipelago,” and “Six Months in the Sand-
wich Islands.”
A list of contemporary travelers would be
incomplete without the names of Nellie Bly,
whom you all know, and Mrs. French-Shel-
don, whose name you will probably know bet-
ter in the future. Were you to consult sucha
list you would be able to select from it many
books that are more fascinating than fiction;
and when you come to visit in person the
places about which you have read you will
feel as though you were merely renewing your
acquaintance with old friends.
Caruerine M. Riper.
GOD'S LOVE.
“THERE'S naught in earth’s expansive scope,
From grim despair to smiling hope,
‘That can the heart of grief beguile
Like unto God's approving smile.
Remorse muy wrap the soul in gloom,
And not a ray of joy illume
Its labyrinths of night profound,
When horror’s revels loud resound.
Yet, if a beam of “love divine”
Upon this restless spirit shine:
How quickly will its powers expand
Like frost-nipped buds by warm gales fanned.
PERSONALS.
MISS WILLIAMS, who has been absent on
account of illness, has returned.
Miss Agnes Taylor spent March 18 and 19
at Schenevus.
Mr, Hazlett Risk spent Sunday, March 19,
at his home in Canajoharie.
Miss Hill has returned to the college after
an illness of a few days.
Miss Margaret Slater has returned to her
home in Cold Spring.
Miss Mary Wilcox spent several days at her
homein Oxford.
Miss Katherine Toohey visited in Schuyler-
ville, March 19.
Miss Lena Van Derlip spent Sunday, March
19, at her home in Watkins,
Miss Carrie Underhill was called to her home
in New Rochelle, by the illness of a relative.
Miss Antemann visited the college March 27.
Miss Surdam, who has been absent on ac-
count of a sprained ankle, has returned.
Miss Mary Roberts, of Bainbridge, recently
visited her sister, Miss Georgiana Roberts.
Miss Susie McDonald spent March 26 at her
home in Johnstown.
Mr. Harris Moak, of the High school, has
recovered from his recent illness, and is again
at school.
Miss Janette Milne, of the High school, is
absent on account of illness.
Miss Hess, who has been suffering from a
severe attack of the grip, has returned to the
High school.
Miss Katherine Lozier spent Easter at her
home in Newburgh.
Mr, J. F. Burt, of Mechanicsville, who
formerly taught at Niskayuna, Schenectady
county, entered the college last month.
Mr. Charles Kilpatrick will compete in the
Tenth Battalion Athletic contest, which is to
be held at the armory, April 26. Mr. Kilpat-
rick will wear the college colors.
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No, 67 South Pearl Street, Albany, N. Y.
Miss Harriet J. Carpenter spent Easter and
the week following at her home in Johnstown.
Miss Fitch, formerly of the college, is at-
tending the Albany Business college.
Mr, William Swart, of Duanesburg, visited
the college March 25.
Miss Balls recently lost an infant brother.
Miss Daisy Van Derlip was the guest of her
sister, Miss Lena Van Derlip, on Easter and
the week following.
Mr. E, J. Towner, formerly of the college,
now a lawyer in New York, was at the college
March 22.
Mr. Thomas, superintendent of schools, in
Warren, Ohio, visited the college Tuesday,
March 28.
Miss Elizabeth O'Connor, of the Potsdam
Normal school, was at the college March 23.
Miss McClelland was absent several days on
account of illness.
Mrs. Baker, superintendent of the educa-
tional exhibit of the Cambridge Fair, was at
the college March 26.
Mr. E. G. Barnes spent March 29 and 30 at
his home in Lumisville.
Miss Carrie Lockwood, of Port Jervis, is a
pleasant guest of her sister, Miss Florence
Lockwood.
Miss Elizabeth Root, of New Hartford,
spent Easter with Miss Elizabeth Sherrill.
Miss Elizabeth Sherrill is at her home in
Palmyra for a few weeks.
Mr, Herbert Wilford has accepted a pro-
fessorship of Greek and Latin in the Middle-
town High school for a few weeks.
Miss Zora Houpt and Miss Lulu Sheehan,
June, ’92, were at the college April 4.
Miss Gertrude Dugan, February, ’93, was
in the city during the Easter vacation.
Prof. Johnson, of Watkins, visited the col-
lege Tuesday, April 4.
‘Miss Maud Stuert, ’93, has been called home
by the death of her father.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 9
Miss Burke and Miss Person, a graduate of
the Buffalo Normal school, were at the college
March 29.
Miss Pine, of New Paltz, visited the college
Monday, April 3.
ECHOES.
SERENADES.
Reception.
Editorial banquet.
Good Friday, March 31, was a holiday.
Examinations mark the close of another
quarter.
The graduating class of June, ’93, has or-
ganized.
Lessons are given twice a week to the stu-
dents of the ninth grade by members of Pro-
fessor Bartlett’s Latin methods class. For his
lesson Mr. White prepared a very beautiful
and perfect model of the Roman Forum in the
time of Czesar.
“The night shall be filled with music,” Fri-
day night.
The views of the college, which were taken
for the World’s Fair, are particularly fine.
Another exhibition was given by the Albany
Camera club in the chapel, Wednesday,
March 29.
A very pleasant reception was given by the
graduating class to the faculty and students
Saturday night, April 8.
A magic lantern exhibition was given by
Professor Wetmore, April 3, before his class in
methods in geology.
The week preceding Easter, which was a
vacation for the city schools, there were anum-
ber of visitors at the college from the Albany
High school.
Sarah P. Williams, A. B., a member of the
graduating class, delivered a lecture on
“Alaska,” before the students and faculty of
the college, March 16, 1893. With the aid of
numerous illustrations and her delightful
reminiscences, the evening was very enjoyable.
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A Kindergarten lecture was given in the col-
lege Tuesday, March 14, by Miss Wentz.
The remaining issues of the Ecuo will be
numbers of special interest. Extra copies can
be obtained at the Ecuo office.
The work done in the Kindergarten depart-
ment, which is to be exhibited at the World’s
Fair, was displayed at the college, Thursday,
March 30.
SOCIETY NOTES.
HE Elite Literary society installed the fol-
lowing officers at its last meeting: Presi-
dent, E. W. Van Hoosen; vice-president, R. J.
Hotaling; secretary, John Bogardus; treas-
urer, C. J. Baum.
Thé Philomathians will vary their usual pro-
gram at their next meeting by holding a don-
bon soirée,
Preparations are already being made for the
closing of the Alpha Chapter of the Phi Delta
fraternity in June.
The Elite society expect to have a mock
trial at the beginning of the next quarter.
The Quintillion and Elite societies of the
High school are making preparations for a
joint public entertainment to be held in June.
An unusually interesting program was ar-
ranged by the literary committee of the Delta
Omega society for its meeting on March 25.
It is the prevailing opinion among the mem-
bers of each society that their great need is a
room which may be used for their regular
meetings, and which may belong exclusively
to its members.
Under the direction of Mrs, Mooney, the
Quicksilver reading circle have read this term
some of Shakespeare's historical plays and
comedies, and are now studying Milton’s
Comus and Paradise Lost.
Among the books which the members of the
Quicksilver reading circle have recently pur-
chased, are Bryant’s Iliad and Odyssey, book
of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge, Ad-
ventures of Telemaque, Paradise Lost and
Tennyson’s complete works.
For the EcHo.
ON ENTERING A WOOD.
ERE let busy turmoil cease;
Every sound here echoes peace;
Whispering winds that murmur here,
Gently dry the falling tear,
Soothing while they wake the heart,
Bidding earth-born care depart.
Here the spirit walks abroad;
Here the soul communes with God.
Sacred silence of the wood!
Let no thought on thee intrude,
Saye what may the notes prolong
Of all nature’s Sabbath song.
LECTURE ON MEXICO.
VX LARGE and interested company attended
the lecture given by Wm. Wells, LL.D.,
of Union university, on April 4. Prof, Wells
isa scholar of profound attainments and his
extensive travels have made him exceptionally
well qualified to discourse on Mexico, where
he has traveled while studying the manners
and customs of that interesting people.
His manner and delivery were very enter-
taining and the audience were more than
pleased.
ALUMNI NOTES.
Miss LILLIAN ROBERTSON, June, ‘92,
visited the college March 16.
Miss Cora Roy, June, ’92, spent Saturday»
March 25, in Albany.
Miss Grace McCormic, June, ‘92, was at the
college March 23.
Miss Vosburgh, February, '93, spent Easter
in Albany.
Miss Flora Bostwick, June, ’92, visited the
college Thursday, March 30.
Mr, N. P. B, Johnson, February, ’93, has
left the college to accept a position in New
Jersey.
Mr. E. P. Riemann, February, ’93, was in
the city March 18 and 19.
Mr. Walter Decker, February, '93, who is
teaching at Niskayuna, spent April r and 2 in
the city.
Miss Minnie Lewis, February, ’91, who is
teaching at Middleburg, was at the college
March 22.
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Miss Florence Brainard, June, ’92, was in
Albany Saturday, March 18.
Miss Lucy Smith, June, ’92, spent the Easter
vacation in Albany,
Miss Alice Gilliland, June, ’92, who is
teaching at Port Henry, was at the college
March 30.
Miss May Brown, June, '91, whois teaching
at West Winfield, recently spent a week in
Albany, the guest of Miss Griffin.
Miss Jessie Simpson, June, ‘92, delivered a
lecture on the subject of drawing before the
Teachers’ association at Cedarville. Miss
Simpson was in Albany April 1.
Miss Anna Brett, February, ’93, visited the
college April 3.
Miss Marie F. Marshman, June, ’91, was at
the college April 3.
Principal W. J. Somers, June, '91, of Cleve-
land, visited the college March 30.
Mr, C. F. McFarlane, February, '93, who
has been elected professor of drawing and
geography in the Michigan Ypsilanti Normal
school, visited the college April 6.
Miss Schoonmaker, June, ’91, visited the
college Monday, April 3.
Miss Blood, February, ’93, has secured a
position at Mill Point.
Miss Chambers, '83, and Miss Parsons, '85,
of Amsterdam, were at the college March 28.
Miss Bertha Paine, of Oneida, is visiting in
the city.
COLLEGE NOTES.
CHICAGO university is to have a new 4o-
inch telescope, costing $500,000, which will
be the largest in the world.
The University of Pennsylvania has 1,800
students.
Michigan will tax all property 1-6 per cent
to support its university.
The first summer meeting of the Society for
University Extension will meet at U. of P.
from July 5 to August 3.
The old Harvard Union has been dissolved
and two new debating societies, The New Har-
vard Union and the Wendell Phillips club now
exist.
Ex-President Harrison will be offered the
presidency of Indiana’s State university at
Bloomington.
Manager S. L, Adams (brother of H. E.
Adams) of the Cornell Glee, Banjo and Man-
dolin club, has completed arrangements for an
extensive western trip.
Colgate celebrates the 75th birthday of its
founder, James B. Colgate.
A. S. Draper, city superintendent of schools,
Cleveland, O., will deliver a course of lectures
before the Teachers’ college of the city of New
York.
President J. G. Schurmann, of Cornell, lec-
tured at Columbia March 24.
°93 ORGANIZED.
ONDAY, March 27, the graduating class
assembled in room 3or and became an or-
ganized body. Merritt E. Newbury was made
chairman, and Miss Georgiana Roberts, sec-
retary. After the adoption of rules of order,
the class proceeded to the election of the fol-
lowing officers, in which selection ’93 shows
its power to be not ordinary: President, James
Robert White; vice-president, Jessie Owen;
secretary, Anna McBride; treasurer, Nathan
J. Lowe; executive committee, Raymond E,
Brown and Miss Elizabeth M, Sherrill; ora-
tor, Russell H. Bellows; valedictorian, Sara
P. Williams; essayist, Alice H. Hall; poet,
Helen S. Daley; historian, Mrs. Evelyn B.
Gatchell; prophet, Miss Catherine M. Rider;
reader, Miss Eliza Tuthill; toastmaster, Henry
E, Adams.
After a free discussion of many important
questions, its reception, appointment of com-
mittees, etc., the class adjourned subject to
call of president.
FANCIES.
ANTICIPATION,
Now doth the winsome Normal student
Grow merry as a lark,
Because he knows he soon will see
His school marm in the park.
Tue Port's Misuap,
His eye in a fine frenzy rolled
He burned with an exalied rage,
He went to dip his pen in the ink
And hit by hap the mucilage.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
—The order of the day—play ball.
—A military ball—the cannon _ball.
—In need of rocks—the babies.
—Going for a song.
to the opera,
a couple on their way
—A maiden speech —‘‘One ‘stick of tutti
frutti, please.”
—A heavy train of thought never makes a
great rumbling.
—Many author's works might better be
called their reader's works,
—It often takes a match to light up a young
lady’s countenance,
—You can not make a boy work—but you
can ‘‘work” him.
—“Oh, what a difference in the morning,”
would have been appropriate sentiment for
Rip Van Winkle when he woke up.
—Why were you so particular to praise her
Easter hat? Because I knew she trimmed it
herself,
—Teacher: ‘What isa monopoly?” Bright
boy: “A corporation in which the other fel-
low holds the stock.”
—Student (reading Vergil) “ “And twice I
tried to throw my armsaround her,’ that, that,
was as far as I got, professor.” Professor:
“That was quite far enough.”
—‘“Iam like a tree,” he observed, as the
clock struck eleven, “I am rooted at your
side.” ‘Yes, but you never /ave, do you?”
said the maiden. And he ud forth.
KINDERGARTEN.
HE exhibit sent to the World’s Fair, from
the kindergarten department, represented
the children’s work and part of the pattern
work of the training class.
‘The general subject for the children’s work
was iron. They learned where and how it is
obtained and its different uses. The black-
smith game was chosen as the trade game
which would best illustrate the use of iron,
The children visited a blacksmith shop,
where they saw the tools, saw iron welded,
and a horse shod, Then they were ready to
learn the words of the game and to express
them in play. At one time the child black-
smith pounded the iron; at another, turned the
wheel which regulated the action of the bel-
at another, shod a horse; and at times
all the children were either blacksmiths or
horses. A picture of this game formed part
of the exhibit.
In both sewing and pricking, a horse, an
anvil, a horseshoe, hammers and tongs were
In drawing and stick work, the in-
side of a blacksmith shop, as they saw it, was
represented. With blocks, a forge, an anvil,
a sleigh, a stable and a shop were built. With
clay, anvils, horseshoe nails and horseshoes
were formed,
Through this play they were forming habits
of observation and attention, carefulness and
learning of form, color, number,
position, direction, to control the hand, to ex-
press their ideas by word and deed, and to
believe in themselves.
While they were drawing, one little girl
said to another, who was timid about starting:
“Tf you say you can, you can, and if you say
you can’, why, you can’t.”
The square was chosen as the subject for
the training-class exhibit, and a sequence in
squares worked out in all the different materi-
als. These materials, in kindergarten lan-
guage, are called the occupations.
In obtaining the “gifts” the solid is analyzed
until the corner, or point, is reached. Com-
mencing at this point in the occupations, the
solid is built by synthesis.
In the pricked work, representing the corner
of a solid, the vertical and horizontal lines were
indicated, the two united, and the ditferent
squares combined. The raised pricking was
illustrated by flowers arranged in the form of
a square.
The sewed work, representing the edge of
the solid, illustrated the same principles.
With lacing strips, partly edge and partly
surface, the squares with single and double
corners were outlined and laced,
outlined,
neatne
The lacing strips were united to form a
surface in the weaving, some patterns being ar-
ranged according to the rainbow colors, and
others showing dark squares on a light back-
ground.
In the paper-pasting each square was cut
into parts and then pasted so as to represent
asquare. Free cutting was illustrated by the
front view of the college, Columbus's ship, a
horse and fanciful forms.
The surface of a solid was represented by
paper-folding. Each square of paper was
folded according to a fundamental form, and
from that all the others, simple or complex,
were made.
The solid, itself, was represented by clay
modeling.
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
Scribner's Magazine for April opetis artistically with a rich
group of illustrations by Robert Blum, who has recently re-
furned from a two years’ residence in Japan. He has written
several papers detailing in a most entertaining way his ex—
petionces in that country, and each of these will be illustrated
rom his remarkable collection of sketches and pictures in
that country. The paper is entitled “An Artist in Japan,”
and is taken ttp with the vivid first impressions of an artistic
temperament. In another article in this number, “A Ne:
England Farm,” writer, illustrator and engraver are united in
‘one person. Octave Uzanne, the well known French author,
contributes a deligntfal paper, suggested by the recent exhibi-
tion in Paris, on “The Arts Relating to Women,” which is a
summary of the characteristic customs of fashionable women
during the century 1790-180. It is well illustrated, The
selection of Carlyle letters given in this issue is different
in tone from any that have been published and a few are
remarkable expressions of his personality. The ‘ Historic
Moments ” series gains a notable contribution by Archibald
Forbes upon “The Crisis of the Schipka Pass,” in the Russo-
‘Turkish wat, “The Restoration House ” describes the houve
in which Charles II slept on tie eve of the restoration of the
monarchy, It isthe same as Dickens describes as “Sates
House,” in “Great Expectations.” “The Cities that were
Forgotten” concludes the groug of papers on the Southwest,
and describes the ruins of New Mexico, known as the Quivire
‘The fiction of the number includes another instalment of
‘Mrs, Burnett’s serial, “The One 1 Knew Best of All.” ‘The
“Glimpse ofan Artist,” isa striking short story and “In Rented
Rooms” is a pathetic little sketch,
‘The gre at feature of the April number of the Cosmopolitan
magazine is the marvellous story “Omega: The End of the
World,”’ by Camille Flammarion, which begins in the current
issue. ‘It keeps the reader at the highest, point of excitement
By the vivid description of the alarm and despair excited by
the approach of a comet, whose collision with the earth had
een declared inevitable, The description begins at atime
when the business of the world has been suspended, and at a
great mass-mecting held in the Institute of France we hear
fiie discussion of scientists as to the possibility of a second
deluge, the drying up of all the surface water of the globe, or
the total destruction of human life by cold, together with all
possible phases of death, paralleled by. the history of the
jnoon. For scientific statement and sensational effect this
characteristic product of French genius is unique. Apart
from its absorbing interest this piece has @ scientific value.
‘Articles on “Lent Among the Mahometans,” “The University
of Chicago,” and ‘“The Great Florida Phosphate Boom,” are
timely and will be read with interest. “Purses, Pockets and
Personal Receptacles” by William Beck, and “Historic Figure
Heads” by Robert G. Denig, are two readable subordinate
articles, Sir Eqwin Arnold’ verse in thisissue is tedious, Tt
is the only blemish on the number.
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