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Normal College Echo
Vor. III. ALBANY, N. Y., MAY, 1895. Io.
CONTENTS.
Lirerary. PAGE. PAGE,
Evolutionary Questions . x | Our ArsorgaL Ancestors meal
An Alumna’s Letter -.. 1 | Arsor Day Exercises. 8
‘A Fancy .... 3 | Crass Reception. 6
‘The Horsechestnut Bud 3 | Crass oF "95 &
Utility of Beauty 3 | Oprrvary... 9
Our Duty. 5 | Atumnr Nores ee
Preludes. 5 - 10
Eprroriat, Notes. - 6 oS
Eprrortats. Cortzce Notes - ne:
The College Pin. 6 | Epucarionan Norss .. Fe
Child Study 7 | Excuanczs . a
Por. Beupine’s Orcan Recrrai 7 | Review 4
EVOLUTIONARY QUESTIONS.
O tell me yellow aster,
Or green crysanthemum,
Who are you ? What are you ?
And whence and wherefore did you come?
O pollywog ! progressive frog !
Pray tell me if you can,
At what stage in development
‘You'll turn into a man.
M. G. M.
AN ALUMNA'S LETTER.
Yesivanti, Micnican, May 13, 1895.
Dear Ecuo: Somewhat as a bird trying its
wings keeps coming back to the home nest to re-
port progress, and tell of the great sights it has
seen, do I turn my thoughts to my professional
home in Albany, and am glad to be able to relate
something of the new sphere of action in which I
am placed in the Michigan State Normal.
When I found myself some months ago in the
beautiful little city of Ypsilanti, the home of the
State Normal, and viewed for the first time the
school buildings, I was much impressed by their
massiveness, beauty and dignity. Located on a
rise of ground in the western part of the city
they tower far above the surrounding structures.
The buildings, three in number, are located in
an extensive, beautifully shaded campus.
The main building isin the shape of a rectan-
gular cross, extending three hundred and four
feet north and south, and three hundred feet
east and west, and rising three stories in the
center and two in the wings. Broad, airy corri-
dors extend throughout its length, and breadth,
flanked by lecture rooms, class rooms, offices,
laboratories, society rooms, study halls and lib-
raries. The west wing of the lower floor con-
tains the rooms of the training school proper,
which is under the immediate supervision of a
director, and eight critic teachers, each having
charge ofa grade, and superintending the work
done there. Within the past few days the school
has had great reason to rejoice, for, thanks to the
untiring efforts of the principal, Dr. R. G. Boone,
and others interested, the legislature has granted
an ample appropriation for the bujlding of a new
training school, which will then give us the
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needed room for the Normal classes in the main
building. On the third floor are the laboratory
and lecture rooms in Natural Science, and a
large hall capable of seating one thousand per-
sons. Here the school assembles every morning
for chapel exercises. A large pipe organ occu-
pies the back of the stage, and by means of this,
and a chorus of about one hundred and sixty
voices under the direction of the professor of
music, delightful singing is furnished each day.
A little southeast of the main building is the
Conservatory of Music, two stories in height.
Instruction is here given in voice culture, har-
mony, counter-point, and literature of music and
lessons also on the piano and violin.
Southwest of the Conservatory, on a beauti-
fully terraced lot, is the new brick Gymnasium.
Its two large drill rooms, one for the boys and
the other for the girls, are finished in natural
woods, and it is well equipped with apparatus,
swimming baths, lockers, instructor's offices, and
examination rooms. A fine course in physical
training is here given, and enthusiasm is height-
ened by such games as “basket ball’? and “fox
and geese,” which are played weekly. ‘Lhe
building has been found a most suitable and
convenient place for receptions, banquets, and
other social gatherings.
On the campus, back of the main part of the
school are nicely kept tennis courts, which
furnish the with exercise and re-
creation,
In the fifteen departments of the school
there is a faculty of about fifty, which is
fortunate in having at its head Dr. Richard G.
Boone, one of the brightest educational men of
our country.
Noted throughout the State and country for its
excellent instruction in all subjects, the school
students
has also a fine course in methods, and a good
training department.
Within the past three years the course in
physical training has been entirely created.
In the Department of Drawing and Geography,
under charge of Prof. C. T. McFarlane, 8. N. C.,
"93, head of department, and in which I am in-
structor, considerable change has been made.
During the past year there has been added to
the courses in this department a course in : (1)
Preparatory Geography, (2) Lectures in Physi-
cal Geography, (3) Blackboard Illustrative
Sketching, (4) Methods in Drawing, and (5)
Sketching from Life. Next year the following
new courses will be added: (1) A course in the
Handling of Geographical Material (advanced
methods), (2) Lectures in Universal Geo-
graphy and (3) Clay Modelling. The other
departments have also experienced great growth.
In the library, which contains about fourteen
thousand carefully selected volumes, the students
have the opportunity of assisting the librarian,
and thereby gaining valuable experience in this
line.
While the Michigan State Normal boasts of a
finely appointed school, it is not, after all, the
buildings nor accessories that make it what it is,
but the scholars themselves. I have never seen
a more faithful, earnest body of students than
we find assembled here. Enthusiastic in- all
school matters, they also publish and maintain a
bright school paper called the Wormal News,
have formed four literary societies, a ‘‘ Mock
Congress” among the young men for greater
training in parliamentary affairs, a Students’
Christian Association, Normal Band, and a base
ball team.
The future of the school promises to far ex-
ceed its meritorious past, and to make it a most
potent factor in educational work.
Most cordially yours,
Exorse C. WHITNEY, '94-
In her ear he whispered sadly,
“ If my eye the signs can tell
Maiden, I have watched the cloudlets,
And we need an umberell.”
You cannot weigh grams'with a grammar,
Or sugar-cure hams with a hammer;
Stew plums with a plummer,
Do sums with a summer,
Or produce clams with a clamor.— Ex.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. ct
A FANCY.
HE leaves of the horse-chestnut tree have a
charm of their own, because of a little fancy
T once had about them. fs
It began in a certain spring-tide, when I
gathered a branch of the swelling buds on a
Saturday afternoon’s tramp. The next day was
a Sabbath glorified with blue sky and sunshine,
and the buds swelled more and more, and burst
out into tender leafage. Palmate leaves, we call
them, but do we all know that they are really
mimic hands? It was clear enough as I watched
those little leaves under the strong sunshine.
Farther and farther stretched their slender seg-
ments, with the sturdy reach of newly realized
strength, striving only after possibility, and not
yet contracting its efforts to the grasping of any
particular desire; farther and farther, until the
palm was disclosed—an innocent baby-palm,
reaching up to the smile of a mother’s face.
* * * % * * *
The summer had long been past, and mid-
winter had come. On a Sabbath, again I was
loitering by the way, with no companion but the
grieving wind. It rustled a few dead leaves
clinging still to the low branch of a tree hard by;
they were horse-chestnut leaves, and perhaps my
spring fancy thus recalled, gave form to my
thought now, for the leaves were like hands
again.
But could the tender baby-hands have grown
into this semblance — with wrinkled and yellow
fingers, drawn together as if in uneasy craving
for the touch of some treasure that had long ago
slipped from between them! It was fulfillment
over-past —the blighted remembrance of possi-
bility, left too long to mock at the opening leaves
of the coming spring with its sinister prophecy.
* ® * * * * %
The open baby-palms and the clutching fin-
gers of dead age were indeed one. Life and
death are one, and eternity is one In its unity
there is room for all extremes to meet together;
and somehow there is harmony ‘among them
all.
J. E. G., Feb., ’94.
THE HORSECHESTNUT BUD
’m a little bit of a baby
Wrapped up in a blanket warm,
And I lie in a little brown cradle,
‘That keeps me safe from the storm,
My blankets are wrapped up so snugly,
By Nature so good and so sweet,
Though the wind may be howling fiercely
It can only rock me to sleep.
The rain falls with a soft tapping,
‘The sun shines down on me warm
And I hear Mother Nature’s rapping,
For me to face the world’s storm.
My bed is so soft and so cosy
T hate to go out in the cold,
But Nature says, “ Hurry my posies
Or I'll surely have to scold.”
So I turned around in my cradle,
And found it exceedingly small
And when I came out and looked around me,
I wasn’t a baby at all,
Lavra E, Witson, Model Dep't. Age 14.
UTILITY OF BEAUTY.
Beauty is one of the great mysteries of nature,
whose influence we see and feel; but a general
distinct idea of its essentials must be classed
among the truths yet undiscovered.
Swedenborg tells us that, “Phe Lord God, the
Creator is divine good and divine truth,” and
that, “the beautiful is the good and true mani-
fested to man under sensible forms.”
We call that human face beautiful through
which a beautiful soul looks out. We behold the
face of nature and call it beautiful in proportion
as we distinguish the spirit of the divine Creator
shining through it. Isnot the beauty of sunlight
expressive of beneficence and grandeur? and is
not the beauty of a clear summer night expressive
of tender watchful care and silent benediction ?
Beauty then is expression. Taste is the ap-
preciation of the beautiful and genius is the power
of producing the beautiful.
Only as the human soul has been brought
into contact with the divine mind can it attain to
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its perfect stature. Only as it apprehends the
goodness, truth, and beauty of God can it see the
good, the true, and the beautiful in nature or in
art.
But while moral character cannot imagine or
create all beauty, since man is finite, yet the re-
generation of moral character begins to give
where it does not exist, a foundation for the art
gift, and where it does exist, deepens and exalts
it, and frees it from dregs and degradation by
harmonizing and refining the nature, and making
the renewed man as a child of God, heir of all
the gifts and visions of glory and beauty. It
rests with Godin His nurture of the new character,
and through His special gifts to His beloved, to
add one endowment to another, so that, as you
have often seen, the old man’s life grows mellow,
the old woman’s face grows beautiful, the prosaic
becomes poetic, and the untasteful, a beholder
of rare visions.
But when we are reminded of such men as
Byron, De Quincy, and many of our great actors,
or when we look back to Athens and Rome and
see that their “Golden Age” of art began only
when they had lost their freedon and energy, we
may ask, is there any relation between art and
virtue? But when we remember that the art gift
is only the result of the moral character of gen-
erations, that persistence in right conduct renders,
after a certain number of generations, human art
possible, we may be able to understand Ruskin’s
meaning, when he calls the art and beauty of
Athens and Rome, “the bright consummate
flower of the sturdy generations gone by.”
Character is substantially goodness and truth,
and conscience is its rule and square. They are
the arch and the strength of the arch. Beauty is
the form and symmetry of the arch.
Who so makes taste the rule and measure of
As soon as the beauty
of the arch becomes the first thought, its strength
becomes a secondary thought. Ashtabula bridge
was a beautiful form, Pemberton mills was a fair
exterior, but they fell. Men and nations, like
bridges, will fall when beauty is first, strength
secondary.
his life errs grievously.
Still insisting upon the supreme place for con-
science and love, we would emphasize the
thought that the beautiful is helpful to the good
and true. It leads to God because it comes from
Him. We trace the yellow ray back from the
spectrum to the prism, where we find it with the
red and blue, issuing from the sunbeam. Whoso
legitimately traces the beautiful finds it with the
good and true in the white light of God.
Beauty inspires, excites and adorns virtue. It
is the prize of truth and the polishing of good-
ness.
The arch is not only the strongest but the
most beautiful architectural form. Its beauty
allures to its construction, that we may have the
perfect symmetry as well as the strength.
As beauty is the “ bright consummate flower ”
of the good and true, we long for the plant which
can blossom thus. We earnestly desire the coat
of many colors which none but a Joseph may
wear.
The ruby and emerald, the exquisitely carved
gem, the vision of landscape beauty or cloud-
glory, the plot of flowers, the ideal picture, the
great musical composition or nightingale’s song,
excite to virtue, because it is the appointed
heritage that, ‘‘ No good thing will He withhold
from them that walk uprightly.” Tragedy
leaves the story of a good life incomplete, but
Christianity promises that “it shall grow brighter
unto the perfect day,” and that “the end thereof
shall be peace,” that “they shall dwell in a city
that hath foundations, each a precious stone, and
whose gates are pearls.” When imagination
fails, it affirms that, “ Eye hath not seen, ear hath
not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart
of man to conceive the things that God hath pre-
pared for those that love Him.”
Ss. 1. C.
A little girl, upon being told that heat expands and
cold contracts, said, “Oh, yes! That is what makes
the days long in summer and short in winter.” — Ex.
Teacher (while explaining a geometrical proposition
about two equal circles)— ‘Now, scholars, if you
should shut your eyes you wouldn’t know which of the
circles you were looking at.”
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO, 5
OUR DUTY.
THIS is an age of specialists, In colonial
times every man was carpenter, doctor and
blacksmith unto himself. Society then was
merely nominal, and self-preservation and free-
dom the chief aims of life.
After the Revolution, Americans felt that they
had something to work for ; with war over, they
had more time for private affairs, while freedom
gave an impetus to invention in every industry.
Since then the division of labor has gone stead-
ily on, until we find many of our citizens so en-
grossed in their business or profession, that they
are in danger of forgetting their duty as citizens.
We pick up a newspaper, and in bold type see it
announced that assemblymen have been indicted,
jurors accused of bribery, and that now the Leg-
islature has adjourned, the people breathe more
freely. Still farther on we read that it was neces-
sary to examine 1200 jurors in a case in New
York city, to secure twelve who would swear to
render an impartial decision on the evidence
submitted,
Certainly something is wrong. The student
of history finds that nothing occurs without a
cause. The Magna Charta was not granted by
chance; Columbus did not Aaggen to discover
America; nor was our Civil War an accident.
These events were the natural results of causes
as certainly as day and night occur from the
earth’s rotation.
Seeking the cause of these political evils we
find it simply this: into our rapidly increasing
cosmopolitan population has come an ignorant
and unscrupulous element who know very little
of the meaning of free government, and some of
whom knowing little care less, Other matters
have so absorbed our attention that this danger-
ous element has gradually worked its way into
office and now we behold the evil results.
Last fall the tide seemed to have turned, but
we find that not all who shout reform are re-
formers, A Parkhurst in every city could not
enlighten the ignorance, nor arouse the apathy
which exist to-day, in matters of government.
And herein lies our duty. If it was the duty
of Christian people in New York to rise and
overthrow the crime which reigned in that city,
it certainly is the duty of teachers to see to it
that the next generation quits the school-room
eager and capable to become not mere voters,
but patriotic citizens.
It may not be consistent for the teacher to
become a partisan, but he can show by example
as well as precept that our government like our
character depends upon what we make it, and
that we should take as much interest in it as in
private affairs, Many boys and girls go from
school with a good knowledge of mathematics
and none whatever of civil government.
Many Europeans have made the observation
that our form of self-government is merely a
bubble doomed sooner or later to burst. Let us
so educate the youth of to-day that he will point
the finger of shame at the 75% of our population
who have no intelligent idea of why they vote
and for what measure they are voting.
Lasting reform can come only through educa-
tion, and the public school is the only means of
reaching the masses. Surely we cannot, if we
would, shirk the responsibility. When we send
out the American schoolboy with a good knowl-
edge of the general principles of government and
a spirit of loyalty to every American institution,
from the school-room to Congress, we shall have
fewer assemblymen indicted and less need for
talk of municipal reform.
wis M. Doucan.
PRELUDES.
HREE little words are often used
By pupils dull and slow;
Three little words so much abused
Are “ ¥ and “well” and “0,”
‘The Prof. propounds a question,
I must the answer tell:
Ido not know, O woe is me!
But then that little “ wed?”
Will make an introduction,
And after that maybe,
The words may come into my mind;
I’m gaining time, you see.
That “well” don’t seem to bring it;
Till strike another tack.
““ Y— please repeat the question,”
(Of brains I feel the lack.)
“« Y— 0—1 see now what you want;
I know, but I can’t tell.’?
He has his pencil in his hand;
Tl try another “ well.”
Oh, dear, I think he’s just as mean,
As mean as can be— so!
For in that little book of his
He's put a big round O.
Auice M. Jongs.
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NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
PusiisHep Monruiy By THE STUDENTS.
Tetms.—fr,00 per annum, in advance; $1.25 when not paid by
January 1st; single copies x5 cents,
Conducted by
MARY G. MANAHAN, "95, = ==
WILLIAM J. MILLAR, ’96 = - = -
Editor-in-Chief,
Financial Editor.
Assisted by
L, Louise Arriur, ’96.
Auice Bares, 96.
Snyper Gace, ’96
Contributions and items of interest are earnestly solicited from
students, graduates and others.
In accordance with the U, S. postal law Tam Ecno will be sent
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Address matter designed for publication to the Editor-in-chief,
business communications to the Financial Editor, Norma CoutmcE
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PRINTERS.
WEED-PARSONS PRINTING COMPANY,
EDITORIAL NOTES.
R a College pin.
SUBSCRIPTIONS now due.
Have you seen our picture?
A sLicut change in the weather.
WHERE are you going to teach ?
Now is the time when the prospective gradu-
ate says of the College, “with all its faults we
love it still.” Blessings brighten as we take our
flight.
A Sprinc Porm — “To a. Pollywog””— has
been refused at the office, and yet the poet Burns
did not scorn to address an ode to a parasite yet
lower in the scale of Darwinian development.
Supscrisers who have possibly forgotten that
their subscriptions are overdue will receive with
this issue of the Ecuo a gentle reminder. We
shall consider it a great favor if you will kindly
give this your immediate attention.
Iw the “ Popular Educator” for June appears
an extremely interesting article on Drawing by
Mr. C. A. Woodward, ’94. It explains the use of
the type solids in sketching natural objects, and
contains several original illustrations by the
author.
Dors History repeat itself?
those people in this institution who are so con-
“‘There are
temptibly mean that they not only refuse to sup-
port their College paper themselves, but criticise
adversely those who are giving their time and
energy to its support.”— Wormal College Echo,
Oct., 93.
How orren we hear the expression, “ O I
hate that subject!” Do you really mean it?
The way in which the subject is presented may
be hateful to you, but we question the possibility
of a rational being hating a subject in itself ;
te, the department of knowledge covered by
that subject. Knowledge is discovered truth;
and he who hates truth has a perverted moral
nature,
Do we appreciate the fact that while anxious
to give the child mental power we may overlook
the knowledge acquired? Is the knowledge
gained essential? And to what extent? While
we realize in arithmetic facts are important, are
they of as much importance in the sciences?
Such questions are staring us in the face every
moment; and it is the live teacher who considers
the importance of ‘meeting them with carefully
weighed answers. ‘To throw them aside is a
sign of weakness.
THE COLLEGE PIN.
‘Tux question of a college pin has been agi-
tated for some time past, but no definite action
has followed until quite recently. Several weeks
ago, a committee of ten, consisting of five mem-
bers from each of the classes, ’95 and '96, was
appointed to select a suitable design for the col-
lege pin. This committee reported at a joint
session of the two classes, May rs, and their
selection was accepted.
The design adopted is a diamond shaped pin of
Roman gold with raised border. In the center
of the pin are the letters S. N.C. The back-
ground of the pin is in royal purple. Thus the
college colors, old gold and royal purple, are
represented.
Not only the students but the alumni will be
pleased to know that we haye now a college pin,
and a very pretty oneatthat. Arrangements have
not been completed regarding the jeweler or the
price; but the probable cost will be one dollar.
Further mention will be made of it in the
June Ecuo.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. q
CHILD-STUDY.
T takes so little to make a child happy. With
what avidity he seizes on a trinket or a toy,
a bit of bright ribbon, a sparkling glass bead.
How he colors it with his imagination until it
becomes a treasure of infinite value. To me
there is something highly pathetic in this reach-
ing out, of each one, for his small share of
human happiness, his delight, if successful, his
sorrow, if disappointed. He expects to get
whatever he wishes, and has to learn from expe-
rience that the gratification of his desires is not
always within his control. As we grow older we
learn to expect disappointments, but the sense
of justice is keen in childhood. The hardest
lesson for a child to learn is that he must suffer
loss through the mistakes of others as well as
through his own.
The attitude of a child is always a curious one
—curious in the sense of inquiry. He instinct-
ively longs to know the truth, the reason for
everything, and hence his ceaseless questioning.
A child has the most profound respect, ofttimes
amounting to reverence, for those wiser than
himself, and after the parents, this feeling goes
out in fullest measure to his teacher.
When you stand before a class and all their
eyes look into yours, searchingly, does not the
thought strike you, ‘‘And what am I, that I
should lead these little ones?” Think of whom
you have before you in the school-room ! future
artists or artisans, statesmen, mechanics, presi-
dents and presidents’ wives.
By no means the least part of a child’s educa-
tion is that which he derives from individual
contact with the personality of the teacher, and
hence the grave responsibility on the teacher's
part, that his aims be high and his motives pure.
Double-dealing, deceit and injustice always fail
in the end, for children are keen, impartial and
unsparing critics. It is not necessary to “talk
down” to children. Treat them as you do your
equals. Respect the future man or woman in
the child before you, and you will have the love
and respect of that man or woman in after
years,
ROF. BELDING gave his sixteenth organ
recital to the faculty and students on Sat-
urday afternoon, May 18. For several years,
through the kindness of Prof, Belding, the re-
citals have been given semi-annually, and many
Normalites have spent delightful afternoons in
the old Dutch church, but there has certainly
never been a more thoroughly enjoyable pro-
gram than that rendered last Saturday. It is al-
most impossible to select one number as being
more deserving of praise than the others; but
perhaps those numbers which received the most
applause were Bach’s Fugue, Buck’s exquisite
“At Evening,” the Overture to the Black Pro-
phet, and the selection from Lohengrin of the
organ numbers. Mrs. Coleman’s and Mr. New-
ton’s solos were both finely sung and richly
merited the applause they received. For the
benefit of those who were so unfortunate as to be
obliged to remaim at home, we print the pro-
gram:
Marche Religieuse .......2...esece008 «-Guilmant,
(Founded on one of Handel’s choruses.)
Overture—(Poet and Peasant). Suppe.
Toccata and Fugue—(D minor). Bach.
At Evening—Idylle Buck.
Baritone solo—Fear Not Ye, O Israel . .Buck.
Mr. Newton.
Grand Sonata—Op. f.........0.. . Thayer.
Gawodtcine Gi Gave ie Kingy wit pedal
obligato.)
Elevation in E..
March of the Magi Kings.
La Fille du Regiment (fantasie). ..
Overture—To the Black Prophet .. --Loretz.
Cantilene Pastorale Guilmant.
Soprano solo—Ave Maria, with violin obligato. . Proch.
Mrs. Coleman and Mr. Jos, Gioscia.
Introduction and Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin ......
Camille Saint Saéns.
Theo. Du Bois.
- Donizetti.
Wagner.
Violin solo—Ballade.. 62. .........0050.0 Groeswelt.
Home, Sweet Home—(transcription)............ Buck
We cannot be too grateful to Prof. Belding for
the kindness which gives us these red-letter Sat-
urday afternoons, and sends us back to the daily
grind with grand choruses and dainty melodies
still echoing in our minds, and sweetening prosy
work for many days.
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OUR ARBOREAL ANCESTORS.
SKELETON was unearthed on a farm near
Canandaigua Lake, during the summer of
1893, which was supposed to be the remains of
an Indian warrior. Upon careful examination,
it was found to have some of the peculiarities
of a prehistoric race of people. The skeletons
of these people make an interesting study for
those promoting the theory of evolution. In
the skeletons the tibia is flattened, somewhat
similar to that of apes.
Although we know it is not likely that man
was at time an ape, yet the similarities in the
skeletons of man and ape go to prove that at
some period in his existence, man had the habits
of apes.
In investigating the matter, one common habit
seems capable of causing this change in the tibia
and that is tree-climbing.
This with other evidence, shows that at some
period our ancestors were tree-climbers.
We can see how this habit would be of ad-
yantage to a race, living among wild beasts and
depending upon fruits and birds for their food.
We can see, also, how this habit would die
away as man increased in civilization and had
no need for tree-climbing.
Although discoveries of skeletons with these
flattened bones have been made among the
mounds of Ohio and other states, yet I believe
the skeleton at Canandaigua is the first “ find”
of this kind which has been reported from New
York State. Aol. os:
ARBOR DAY EXERCISES.
T noon on May 3 the faculty and the students
of all the departments met in Chapel for
Arbor Day exercises. The rostrum had been
decorated with potted plants and flowers and
these, with the spring sunshine and the bright
dresses of the children, made the scene a gay
one. The following program was well rendered:
Chorus—Arbor Day.
Essay—Our Forests ....... 000-0000 00 Miss Bussing.
Recitation—Noon (William Cullen Bryant),
Miss Patterson.
Reading—When to Plant and What to Plant (Mrs. Ed-
gerton in Women's Argus), Miss Breakenridge.
Recitation—The Gladness of Nature (Bryant),
Laura Wilson.
Music—Songs, (a) The West Wind, (oe Grade
(b) To a Daisy, Grammar Dept.
Reading—May Day in England 1052 (Bulwer Harold),
Mr. Garrison.
Essay—Washington Park on May Day 1895, Miss Gray.
Recitation—May Day (Herrick)....... Miss Munn.
Retitation—Somebody’s Knocking,
Ethel Anderson, Primary Dept.
Chorus—What the Birds Think,
Music by Mr. Myron Cooney.
Words by Miss M. A. McClelland.
Essay—Our Wild Flowers............. Miss Maxwell.
Recitation—Nature’s Awakening (Sarah C. Flint),
Daniel Jones.
Recitation—My Tree... .Bessie Murray, Primary Dept.
Recitation—Sunrise on the Hills....... William Grant.
Music—Songs, (a) The Song of the Rose.
(b) The Song of the Brook.
Solo by Miss Powell.
Essay—Trees in History..... ....0eeese00 Mr. Hunt.
Quotations by a Class from the Primary Department,
Recitation—Voices of the Night (Longfellow),
Daniel Pomeroy.
Recitation—The Birdie and the Children,
Agnes Stephens, Primary Dept.
Recitation—Daffydowndilly -Sadie Staats.
Chorus—The Brave Old Oak.
The essays of Miss Bussing and Miss Gray,
Miss Munn’s recitation, the songs by the Ninth
Grade and Miss Powell’s solos were numbers
that deserve special praise. The children of the
Primary Department gave a number of bright
recitations which were received with hearty ap-
plause. The prettiest song on the program was
“‘What the Birds Think.” One rarely hears
such a thoroughly melodious combination as
Mr. Cooney’s breezy music, with the merry, rip-
pling words in which Miss McClelland expressed
the sentiments of the neglected birds. It is very
likely that hereafter the birds will receive more
attention on Arbor Day, for the children through-
out the State who sang “ What the Birds Think,”
can hardly fail to be influenced by the idea
introduced.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 9
CLASS RECEPTION.
CONVERSATIONAL reception was given
by the class of ’96, May 4. The following
program was rendered in the early part of the
evening:
Opening Address
Piano Solo .
Vocal Solo
Reading .
Mr. Snyder Gage.
Miss Alice Jones.
-.Miss Annie Powell.
Mr, Hazlett J. Risk.
Mr. Lewis K. Rockfeller.
Miss Ruth E. Forrest.
Mr. Alton M. Moore.
-Miss Bertha Smith.
Piano Solo .
Fifteen minutes was then given to engaging
partners for the conversational topics. The
topics chosen were: Spring Weather, College
Enthusiasm, Foot Ball, Trilby, Glee Class, Our
Superiors, Closing Days, Class Days, College
Fads, College Pins, The Japanese War, Ladies’
Dress Sleeves, Those Little Envelopes, Woman’s
Suffrage, and Our Gymnasium.
Three minutes was given to the discussion of
each topic. The halls were prettily decorated
in violet and white —the class colors. ‘The pro-
grammes were printed in violet ink — the topics
arranged as the numbers on a dance order.
After the topics had been duly discussed, a
yote was then taken to determine the best talkers.
Professor Husted and Miss Van Arsdale were de-
cided upon. The reception was well attended,
and was pronounced by all a success.
CLASS OF '95.
HE. officers of the class and those who have
received class-day honors, are :
President... ccc cocccns Hazlett James Risk.
Vice-President. . -Anna E. Husted.
Secretary... -Mary M. Van Arsdale.
Treasurer... Sarah Jane Harper.
Valedictorian -Harriet Wright Burton.
Salutatorian . -Joy Ashton Reed.
.Edith Holliday.
+Sarah Jane Harper.
.Nellie Stacy Fish.
.Mary Genevieve Manahan.
. Edna Alcie Bliss,
Katherine Toohey.
-Charlotte E. Lansing.
.F. W. Brown.
.George C. Strassenburgh
Musician
Reader ...
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Toast-Master. . .
OBITUARY.
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IED, at her home, in Albany, N. Y., May 8,
1895, Ellen Wade.
The Class of ’95 of the’State Normal College,
wish to extend to the family of our late friend
and class-mate, Ellen Wade, our sympathy, and
to express our deep sorrow that she has gone
from our midst. She had grown into the affec-
tions of all who knew her, and in many ways dur-
ing her student life displayed those traits which
reflect a beautiful character. To all who knew
her she was a source of inspiration, on account
of her earnestness, steadfastness of purpose and
devotion to study. Her associates will cherish
her memory as one who was a fine scholar, a true
friend, and a noble girl. We may feel that her
death is an irreparable misfortune, but we can-
not tell how far-reaching and potent the influ-
ence of such a life may be.
Harriet Wricur Burton,
Joy A. Rrep,
Rose L. Wesr.
Died, at East Albany, N. Y.,on May 23, 1895,
Charles M. Frost.
“ Life and thought
Here no longer dwell;
But in a city glorious —
A great and distant city — have bought
A mansion incorruptible.
Would they could have staid with us!”
At a meeting of the Class of ’96 the following
resolutions were adopted :
Whereas, Our beloved classmate and friend, Charles
M. Frost, has been taken into the divine keeping of our
Heavenly Father; and,
Wuerras, His deathhas caused deep grief to us all,
on account of his loyal, noble and Christian character,
which has called forth admiration from all who knew
him;
Resolved, First, that we, the members of the Class of
’96 of the State Normal College, do hereby express and
record our most profound sorrow in the sudden removal
of our classmate.
Resolved, Second, that we shall ever be influenced by
the memory of his exemplary life.
Resolved, Third, that we sincerely sympathize with his
bereaved family in their great loss, and trust that though
10 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
their sorrow is great, they may be comforted by the
thought that it comes from the hands of Him who doth
all things well.
Resolved, Fourth, that these resolutions be published
and a copy of the same sent to his family.
ELia M. Raynor.
Mary L. Coox.
Serra Eckert.
Wuereas, Our Heavenly Father has called unto him-
self our beloved friend and brother, Charles M. Frost;
and,
Wuereas, His death has caused sincere grief among
us, for his relations with us were such that he enjoyed
the confidence of all on account of his genial manner
and the influence of his Christian character; therefore,
be it
Resolved, That we, members of the Phi Delta Frater-
nity of the State Normal College, do hereby expressand
record our sense of deep sorrow and loss in his death, a
loss to his brothers of one whose example was ever that
of loyalty and devotion to duty.
Resolved, That we hold his memory as a legacy to call
us each and all to a degree of fidelity we have not known
heretofore.
Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved family our
heartfelt sympathy, knowing well that they will look to
Him whose wisdom we cannot fathom for that solace
which no human agency can impart.
Resolued, That these resolutions be published, a copy
of the same be sent to the family, and that they be placed
upon the minutes of the Fraternity.
Hazterr James Risk.
: Writ1am J. Matar.
Louis R. Herzoc.
H. F. Buxssine, President.
Everne Wooparn, Secretary.
M.A-L.
HE mysterious letters M. A. L. seen on badges of
pale blue and white, signify that the wearer isa
member of the Model Art League, which has been
The idea
originated with the eighth grade drawing-class, but
formed lately in the Model Department.
others in the department who are interested in art and
The ob-
ject of the league is to cultivate an appreciation for the
The
members aim to do work in crayon and water color, time
Meet-
ings are held bi-weekly and work is progressing finely.
desired to join have been granted admission.
beautiful in art, and to develop natural talent.
for which is not possible in-regular class-hours
The results may be seen at the June exhibit.
ALUMNI NOTES.
49. Stephen H, Tilden died at his home in Waukesha,
Wisconsin, March 25. Mr. Tilden attended the
college reunion, last June.
50. Mrs. M. J. Milliken, formerly Oriline O. Sutton,
died at Canandaigua, January 23.
75. Mrs. Herbert Carl, formerly Lu Williams, and her
niece, Miss Hewitt, of Kingston, visited college,
April 25.
84. Principal Theosophus Johnson, of Woodside, N.
Y., visited college, May 10 and 11.
‘90. Miss Helen C. Schofield, visited college, April 29.
‘or. Mrs. C. W. Clark, formerly Jessie K, Dingman,
died of typhoid fever, at her home, in Summit,
N. Y., April 8.
Sarah Smith, a kindergartner, who is teaching in
Utica, spent the week of May rst in Albany and
called at college.
‘93. Effey Blauvelt Smith was married to John D. Dunn-
lap, May, °95-
PERSONAL.
RS, M. A. B. KELLY, visited college, April 23.
Miss Jean Hamilton returned May 2.
Miss West returned April 29.
Mrs. Romeyn called May 2.
Mrs. C. S. Mann called May 10.
Miss Flinn, of Saratoga, called May r.
Mr. Fowler visited college April 25 and 26,
Mr. C. H. Bradshaw called at college May 6.
Rey. Rufus King conducted the chapel exercises
May 8.
Miss Mary Boldt, of Schenectady,
May 3
Miss McClelland attended an Institute at Chatham
May 10.
Mrs. H. M. Willard and Miss Lewis visited college
April 29.
Mr. V. L. Davie, of East Orange, N. Y., visited col-
lege May 13,
Miss Nellie Powers, of Saratoga Springs, called at
Ecuo office May 9.
Miss Josephine Perkins spent April 28 to 31 at her
home in Amsterdam.
Joseph Donoghue, of Newburgh, visited his sister
Miss Regina Donoghue ’96, May 18.
Dr. Milne attended the semi-annual meeting of Nor-
mal principals at Brockport, May 14 to 17.
visited college
Miss Hastings, school principal of New Winsted,
Conn., and Miss Veghte, of Troy, called April 22.
Dr. Milne attended Institutes at Chatham, May 9,
Sandy Hill, May 8, and Altamont, May 10,
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Professor Wetmore attended an Institute in Westerlo,
May 14.
Miss Harriette A. Ingalls, of Saratoga, visited college
May 20.
Mr. Moore, ’96, spent Sunday at his home in Mat-
teawan, May 19.
Dr. Levermore, of the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn,
called May 10.
Mr. Lewis Rockefeller has been seriously ill with
typhoid fever for two weeks.
Miss Russell attended an Institute in Warrington,
St. Lawrence Co., May 15 to 17.
Miss Mary Wingate, of Schenectady, spent Sunday
with her sister, Miss Ella Wingate.
Professor Edward Sanford Burgess, of the New York
City Normal College called, May 20.
Miss H. W. Darling, of Albany, and Mrs. McKay
visited college May 8. Mrs, McKay is a native of
Formosa. Her husband has been a missionary on that
island for twenty-two years.
ECHOES.
LOVELY birds who sang of spring,
Why have you changed your note?
From tree and house-top now you sing,
“Get out your winter coat!”
Are you going to have a college pin? You would
better, even if the pin isn’t just what you would have
chosen, There are as many “best” designs as there
are students, you know. The committee has tried to
split the difference. By the way, I wouldn’t have my
class year on the pin if I were you; circumstances over
which you have no control might make this embarras-
ing.
Patronize
sprung up next door.
and ice cream on tap.
considering its situation.
Did you attend the reception given by ’96, May 4?
You missed a good time if you didn’t.
Professor Belding’s second organ recital, May 18.
the enterprizing little store which has
Ink, glue, candy, note-books
Quite an ideal establishment,
O Muse I seldom ask thee
For rythm or ideas,
But now I must invoke thee,
Ym sadly in arrears.
No frantic rhymer ever came
So near to desperation,
For O, to write my note books up
T pray for inspiration.
Lay your plans to attend the National Association of
Teachers, at Denver, in July. Special reduced rates
are offered.
Strains of Wild West music are heard in the land.
The High school is wildly excited, and even the sober,
methodical Normal hearts beat faster.
I knew a maiden—sad to tell—
Who loved this institute so well
She lingered here.
The rumors state she fell below
In Algebra—but 'twasn’t so;
She loved the Normal Work, you know,
And lingered here.
COLLEGE NOTES.
T is said that one-fourth of the students of the Uni-
versity of Berlin are from this country.
Illinois State University has 716 students.
‘The University of Wisconsin has ten debating socie-
ties,
There are forty men in training for the Columbia
track team.
Vassar has two hundred more students this year than
it had last year.
The captains of Harvard, Yale and Princeton elevens
all play end positions.
Brown is the first university to offer course in Dutch
language and literature.
In the past twelve years, Yale has scored 5,614 points
in foot ball to her opponents’ r19.
The University of Chicago has formed a glee club,
consisting of sixteen women.
The faculty of Amherst have decided that there shall
be no more freshmen athletic teams.
A Freshman dancing club has been formed at Le-
high. There are about thirty members.
‘A new cedar shell, to cost about $500, has been or-
dered for the Harvard freshmen crew.
The Harvard faculty has been severely criticized at
alumni dinners for condemning foot-ball.
Military companies have been formed from the aca-
demic and scientific senior classes, at Yale.
Brown University, with an enrollment of 740 stu-
dents, has eighty-three members in its faculty.
Yale has a committee on concerts that will furnish
the college with high grade concerts during the year.
A new Greek letter society, called the Delta Delta
Delta, has been organized at the University of Michigan.
The members of the junior class at Yale have de-
cided to wear caps and gowns on all Sundays of the
senior year.
The Harvard ’98 base ball team will have a training
table from May rst until the second game with Prince-
ton ’98.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
The largest salary given any college professor in the
world is that received by Prof. Tutner, of Edinburgh,
$20,000 per year.
The University of Pennsylvania has a souvenir spoon
with a cap-and-gowned figure for the handle and a
variety of bowls in different designs.
An Indian college was opened in the Indian Terri-
tory last week, and they say that the freshman’s college
yell can be heard to the remotest confines of Oklahoma.
The faculty of Wellsley college have decided to let
the girls practise rowing, and an eight-oared barge has
been built for them. However, it will not be used for
racing.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Aiccetding to careful estimates three hours of ‘close
study wear out the body more than a whole day of
physical exercise.
TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR TEACHERS.
All the leading summer schools and assemblies now
make provision for the needs of school teachers, but a
few long-established and well-attended institutions are
devoted exclusively to pedagogical science and methods.
This is true of the Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute,
at Cottage City, Mass. which will open its eighteenth
annual session July 8. Among the lecturers the present
season will be President Payne, of Nashville; Prof.
Royce, of Harvard; Prof. G. H. Palmer, of Harvard;
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, ex-president of Wellesley
College; Dr. J. W. Dickinson, Mrs, Mary H. Hunt and
Mrs. Eva D. Kellogg, of Boston. Prof. William A.
Mowry, of Hyde Park, Mass., is president of the Insti-
tute. The location of the school is attractive to such
as enjoy the sea air.
A similar school has been maintained for some ten
years at Glens Falls, N. Y., under the successful man-
agement of Prof. Sherman Williams. It is known as
the “ National Summer School.” While this school deals
incidentally with subject matter, it is really a school for
professional study, bearing about the same relation to
those summer schools that deal only with subject mat-
ter that a normal school does to an academy. The
instructors in this school are men and women of
national reputation, The students come from every
State in the Union, and from all classes of schools,
from the wayside district school to the college. Nor-
mal school instructors and principals and superinten-
dents are largely represented. Conferences or “‘ round
tables” of those engaged in the same kind of work are
held each day. Special attention will be given the
coming session to kindergarten work and to its relation
to the work of the first year primary, The instruction
covers the whole range from the kindergarten to the
high School. Psychology, Pedagogy and School Man-
agement will be presented by Dr. E. E. White, and the
other departments will be under the management of
instructors of like eminence. The school will open
Tuesday, July 16, and continue in session three weeks.
Still another of these teachers’ schools which can
claim a national constituency is that known as the Cook
County Normal Summer School, at Chicago, under the
presidency of Col. W. F. Parker. This school is held
for three weeks, beginning July 13. The faculty is
composed entirely of the regular teachers in the Gook
County Normal School, all the apparatus of which is
placed at the disposal of teachers attending the Summer
School.
He who tries, though fails, is more worthy than he
who would not try for fear of failing.
EXCHANGES.
Hereafter the exchange will be placed ona shelf in
the reference library so that any who wish may con-
sult them.
Of all the ridiculous nonsense
That ever troubled me,
The worst is that absurd tangle
Of X, Vand Z.
Sometimes the X is a man’s age,
Sometimes the age of his son;
Again ‘tis only what A does,
And Y what B has done.
Sometimes it equals the number of sheep,
Again, the leap of a hare,
Or even the strength of the current
When a man is rowing there.
Can some of you wise ones tell me
The secret that shadows that X?
Methinks ’tis a snare and delusion,
Invented to puzzle and vex.
We welcome “ The Monthly Visitor” to our exchange
list, but we would advise the board of editors to be
more critical when they correct the proof, because sev-
eral mistakes in spelling are very noticeable.
If the gentleman who keeps the store with a ted head
will return the umbrella of a young lady with whale-
bone ribs and an ivory handle to the grocer’s store, he
will hear something to his advantage, as the same is the
gift of a deceased mother, now no more, with the name
engraved upon it— Ex.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 13
We commend the neatness and regularity of “* The
Stevens Life.”
Small Boy (enthusiastically) —*« Oh, Grandma, Harry
broke the record at the college contest.”
Grandma —“ Well, I declare, that boy is always
breaking something. What will it costhim to fix it, or
will he have to gct a new one?”
We would apologize to our exchanges for our utter
negligence in making our exchange column more use
ful to them. Weare a little bashful in criticising, you
know.
It is said the following conversation took place re-
cently in a hotel
“ Waiter!”
“Yes, sir.”
“What's this?”
“Tt’s bean soup, sir.”
“‘No matter what it has been; the question is, what
it now?” — Ex.
“‘T am going to have my dog’s tongue split.”
“Why, my dear boy?”
“Don’t you know I think it would put creases in his
pants.” — Ex.
We consider ‘St, Paul's Chevron” one of our best ex-
changes. The New Woman, and Violets-Faithfulness,
are stories worthy of consideration on the part of any-
one.
An IDEAL Cass.
The chemistry class finished their first term's work
with honor, and there is still some apparatus left.
Myrus or THE Moo.
The moon has been worshiped among nearly all the
nations of the world from time immemorial. Indeed
her cult has been asserted to be much older established
than sun worship. The Peruvian peasant hurries
home out of the cold moonshine, afraid of the stern
eyes of Mamma Quilla, and the Egyptian fellah lounges
across the sands where the sphinx’s shadow lies black
at his feet, with a prayer on his lips or in his heart to
Toth—Thoth, the master of wisdom, the lord of the
Ibis, in whose absence the fair land of Khem has been
brought down very low. Swabian girls still refuse to
spin by moonlight “lest they should anger her,” they
say vaguely, and in Germany children firmly believe in
Horsel or Holda, whose boat is the moon, whose flower
is the flax and whose delight is to reward industrious
little maidens. Dante makes the man in the moon
Cain, In Egypt he is Horus, held to the breast of Isis,
his mother and the moon. In Rantun the man in the
moon is a giant, who at flowing tide stops to pour
water on the earth and at ebb tide stands upright in or-
der that the water may subside.
A curious eastern fancy is, that the figure in the moon
is that of the pattern wife Ina, who weaves the clouds
into white cloth, and who, after the lapse of many
years, sent her mortal husband back to earth by the
rainbow bridge in order that death might not defile her
heavenly home. The cat and the panther are both con-
nected with the moon in some vague, occult fashion.
Indeed in Australia the moon is represented as a native
cat, and also in Egypt. In China the Celestials say
that there is a frog in the moon, a metamorphosed
beauty called Chango.—Ai! The Year Round.
TeLeGRarnic MISTAKES.
The telegraph has indulged in many witticisms at the
expense of the members of both houses of Parliament. It
has transformed a classical allusion to “Cato and Brutus”
into “Cats and Brutes,” the celebrated phrase used by
the late W. E. Forster in a speech on his Irish policy,
“‘mauvais sujets and village ruffians ” into “ wandering
savages and village ruffians;” “tried in the balance and
found wanting” into “tried in the balance and found
panting; ” ‘the cow was cut into halves” into “the cow
was cut into calves,” and “ the militia is a great consti-
tutional force” into “ the militia is a great constitutional
farce.” —Macmillan’s Magazine.
AN OLp Custom.
Ata recent wedding it was noticed that the old shoe
to insure good luck was not thrown after the bride, but
raced for by all the spinsters present. It was thrown
as far as possible, and the one who succeeded in reaching
it first it is supposed will be the next bride. The bach-
elors were drawn up in a second row, and the young
woman who picked up the shoe threw it among them.
The one hit by the decadent foot-gear will, according to
the omen, be the next man married, The custom is
one honored somewhere in provincial England. —NVew
York Post.
Tue Cuinese Ways.
Ifa man falls dead in the street, where he falls there
he will remain until the knowledge of his death reaches
the officials in some roundabout manner, for to go to see
if anything could be done or to move the body toa shel-
tered spot would at once implicate the too enthusiastic
philanthropist. So, too, may one look in vain for aid
in the case of personal injury, even in one’s own house,
the mere sight of blood from a cut finger often serving
14 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
to precipitate all the servants to their own quarters below
stairs, where they remain in a stolid, unconcerned man-
ner, behaving in the way least likely to cause suspicion
to rest upon themselves in the event of the injury’s prov-
ing fatal.
It is stated that when the history of the present dynasty
comes to be written it will be recorded that, when the
Emperor Chia Chi'ng was attacked by conspirators
while passing in his chair through the streets of the
capital, only six persons out of the large crowd came
forward to help their sovereign in the moment of dan~
ger. Ifo little altruism is shown toward the “son of
heaven,” it may be imagined how much is likely to be
displayed toward an ordinary human being. To be seen
near a man recently dead renders a Chinaman liable to
be suspected of some interest in his death, and suspi-
cion means official exaction, for lying in China is an art
and not a sin, in spite of the Confucian classics. Thus
we see that, just as the wire runs through the body of
the clay images hawked in Chinese streets, connecting
each limb to the body, so does there run throughout the
body corporate of the Chinese people the fixed principle
of mutual fear and distrust, of terror of their rulers and
indifference to all around them,—Fortnightly Review.
Tue Micron Sunscriers.
The first folio and illustrated editon of Milton’s
“ Paradise Lost,” was issued to subscribers in 1688, by
the well-known bookseller, Jacob Tonson. The list of
“the names of the nobility and gentry that encouraged
by subscription the printing this edition of Milton’s
“Paradise Lost,’” appears at the end of the volume and
fills six pages. It contains more than 500 names,
among which it is interesting to note those of many of
the poets of the time, including Waller, Dryden, South-
erne and others. The names of one or two famous ac-
tors, such as Betterton, are also noteworthy, but it a is
curious proof of the strength of the feeling which still
existed against Milton, on account of his political
opinions, that very few of the English clergy appear in
the list.
At that date there were many people living who had
been through the troublous times of the civil war, and
to them its asperities and bitternesses were still a recent
memory.
EXCHANGE.
We quote from the editorial in Art Hducation for
April:
“ Do you teach Drawing as though it ended in itself? As though
to draw well meant no more than the mere mechanical skill indi-
cated? Or do you regard it as one of your helps in character
building, the spirit of which shall permeate all of your work and
‘your pupil’s work, and thus become one of the influences you have
the God-given opportunity of bringing into their lives? Do you
use art study (and that is what Drawing rightly taught is) asa lens
through which your pupils can better see the beautiful, the true
and the noble in the world, in which they are to help work out not
only their own salvation, but the salvation of the human race? If
so, drawing in your school is a grand success.”
REVIEWS.
Art Education. A journal devoted to manu-mental
training. Publishers, J. C. Witter & Co., 853 Broad-
way, N.Y.
‘This is the finest of all the art publications to which our attention
has been called Something of the scope of its contents may be
rained froma glance at the April number. ‘The value of Clay
lodeling in Elementary Art Education,” by W. A. Mason;
“Technical Skill in Art.” by Hannah Johnson Carter; *
the Aisthetic Idea be Developed?” by V. I. Shuin. Mlustrated
by pupils’ work.
‘The complete novel in the May issue of Lirrixcort’s, is“ The
Lady of Las Cruces,” by Christian Reid. It gives a later (and the
last) episode in the Iife of that beautiful and gifted Mexican who
was the heroine of "* The Picture of Las Cruces,’ in the magazine
for February, 184.
“Martha’s Headstone,” by Edith Brower, is a strong and touch-
ing story, with an uncommon motif,‘ Odi i
Calvin Dill Wilson presents the first and second
courses of “The Menu of Mankind.” “* Fliers and Low
Fliers” are our native birds, as observed by W. Warren Brown.
“The Young Corean Rebel,” whose story Haddo Gordon nar-
rates, was the leader of an important movement in the Hermit
Kingdom ten or twelve yeats ago.
In An Artist's Habitat,” W. J. Linton, the well-known en-
graver, describes some of his belongings, George Grantham Bain
Waites of Climbing the Social Ladder” in Washington.
‘The poetry of the number is by Grace F. Pennypacker, John B,
Tabb, Clinton Scollard and Joseph Wharton.
Geography of the Empire State.
DEEN, published by C. W. Bardeen:
By C. W. Bar-
Syracuse, N. Y.
‘The author, having long seen the necessity for a book on local
history, writes this one, which is very carefully planned and
worked out. The filustrations are a very Important element in the
book, and seem to have been selected very carefully.
‘The book: is adapted, not only to older pupils, but may be profit-
ably used in the ftth grade,
_ We would commend the arrangement of the topics and illustra~
tions
Tt is a book whi
advise you to purchase one,
should be in every teacher’s library, and we
‘The price is but 75 cents
an papers.
of Meteorology” is desoribed in an instructive article by Prof,
rank
Waldo, of Princeton University. Two most timely contributions
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 15
ont fThe{Income}Tax, ” areialso given, the Hon. George S.\Bout-
well,fex-Secretary of the Treasury, treating of "The Decision of
the Supreme Court,” and * The Spirit of the 'ax,” being commented
upon by a well-known economic writer, who ‘prefers, in this in-
stance,jto be known as ‘ Plain-Speaker.” In the '* Personal His-
tory of “the Second Empire,” Albert D. Vandam eile principally
with “The Alliance with England,” and the Japanese Minister at
Washington considers in a thoughtful paper "The Future of
Japan." Other topics, dioussed are “ Indaism and Unitarianigm
by the Rev. Maurice H Saale ase Word onan, Old Su
ject,” by One of the Naggers; “The Latest. News of Mars,
fol, Bawara & Holden: und“ Morulty in College Athletics)” BY
Oliver S. Jones.
In his department of * The Progress of the World,” for May, the
editor of the Review of Reviews sums up the significant events of
fite month preceding, “Prominent topics thus treated are the income
tax decision, the Chicago election and the triumph of civil service
reform, the Cuban revolt, the Venezuelan boundary issue, and the
British claim in Nicaragua, The editor makes some interesting
comments on recent progress in the South, notably illustrated by
allroad and other industrial development in Florida, the improve
ment of various southern harbors, the enforcement’ of the South
Carolina liquor law, and other encouraging signs. At the same
time the low prices of sugar and cotton are discussed in their rela—
tion to the prevailing feeling of unrest among the agriculturists of
the Gulf Stat
‘phe rapid growth of the summer conference idea @s a factor i
American progress is illustrated by a somewhat elaborate article in
it, in which forecasts are given of not less than seventy-five import-
aht, scientific, religious, patriotic, reformatory and educational
gatherings to be held in the United States during the next six
Months. The article is of value to teachers and other intellectual
folks as an_aid in determining the mooted question, “ Where to
Spend the Summer.”
i publishes a character sketch of the Right Hon Herbert Henry
Asquith, England's Home Secretary, Stead, who
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rennant, and describes the ups and downs of the young Home
Secretary's courtship.
‘As if to further stimulate the interest in art matters developed in
connection with the spring exhibitions of our great cities, it presents
fimely sketches of two living artists whose careers are well worthy
of study. Mr. John La Farge, who has been honored by the
French government with an invitation to exhibit his work in con
junction with the Salon of the Champ de Mars, is described as a
Fepresentative American artist—at first as an ilustrator in black and
ite, then as a painter, and last, but by no means least, as a
Worker in stained glass (ah art in which American skill is recognized
allover Europe, but which, strangely enough, was not given the
slightest recognition in the Art Department of ‘The World's Fair).
Passing from American to British art, the Rev’ew publishes a char
acter sketch of Sir John Everett Millais, from the pen of the late
John Underhill. Both articles are elaborately illustrated with
Portraits and reproductions of pictures.
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The women count a lot on well-dressed fellows—and why not?
Twenty-three dollars.
That’s what it will cost you to have us cut up some of our Hop-sacking
suiting — that’s the new goods for spring—into the swellest suit you ever
wore.
This goods is the long wear kind —our work won’t be anything less
than the best tailoring. Larger quarters, larger stock, practically a new
custom department.
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Good Teachers with Good Records.
We have had many calls for teachers during
the past year, when we had no satisfactory
ICE CREAM candidate, and could not fill the place. For
this reason we urge wide-awake and pro-
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er i i us an opportunity to help them,
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ef HARLAN P, FRENCH, Manager,
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE STUDENTS
Wear the B. & M. Hats, because they are the best. Young Men’s Hats a specialty. Try one
of our $3.00 Derbys, none hetter. Men’s Mackintosh Coats, all wool, at $8.00. A Box Coat,
velvet collar, $9.00. Agents for Dent’s and Adler’s Kid Gloves. Special discount to students.
A call requested.
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