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Normal College Echo
Vou. II, ALBANY, N. Y. SEPTEMBER, 1893. No. 2.
CONTENTS.
PAGE,
Lirerary. Yo3's Grapuares
Love's Flower... z | Ecuozs
Roman Literature .. x | Persona 10
Who shall write Napoleon’s Epitaph? 2 | Avomnt Notzs.. 10
A Western Letter : 4 | Knvpercarren Notes.
The Pansies 4 | Curm’s Vierims. nm
Popular Literature . 5 | Seen ar tue Far "
Eprroriat Norss. 6 | A Famous Runner Ee
Eprroniazs Our ExcHancrs, re
Specimens Presented 6 | Amone THe Couteces . 1
‘Your Duty 7 | Evcartowat Notas 2
Class Organization . 7 | Hic Scxoor Norss. nm
‘The Columbian Exposition, 7 | Quickstnver Exection 3
Facuty CHances. Gurrinc TurowcH Cor 3
In the Grammar School department. 8 | Fanciss... 3
Department of Elementary Method: 8 | Amone THe Macazines. B
Miss Ellen J. Pearne. 8 | Rucenr Pusrication 14
Mrs Sara F. Bliss. 9 | Booxs Recetvep .. 4
LOVE'S FLOWER.
SLOWLY out of a winter's grave
A pure white flower grew,
Its roots were red by a fond heart fed,
And its cup held tears of dew.
Blanched as white as a first day’s snow,
It sprang by a mossy stone;
‘An angel’s smile changed into a flower,
And it blossomed there alone.
It fed on sunshine and on showers,
It drank the warm bright air,
There never a flower at Eden's gate,
Grew yet more pure and fair.
White and pure as a virgin’s soul,
Soft as an angel’s wing,
It seemed to breathe of the songs above,
‘Where seraphs in rapture sing.
I could but think it was a sign
Of happiness and rest,
But now the flower is crushed and torn
By the hand it loved the best.
It sprang from a lover's trusting heart,
“Ewas the purest thing on earth;
Now its fibrous roots are deep in the grave
Of the hopes that gave it birth.
ROMAN LITERATURE.
NATIONAL literature bears a close resem-
blance to the life and language of its peo-
ple. Simplicity of style and beauty of thought
are its presiding characteristics, When, on the
contrary, greater stress is laid on form and skill,
it takes no deep root in the nation’s heart, but
becomes a distinct literary class and language.
Thus it was with Rome. In the year 494 B. C.
the Latin dialect, hitherto very imperfect, be-
It was so
associated with the Greek that, at length, it be-
came its rival in dignity of pronunciation and in
lofty accent. Rome was destined to be “ Mis-
tress of the World.” Destiny impelled her in
her career of conquest, until she fell under the
overmastering influence of Grecian learning.
The conquest of Magna Grecia brought about
this sudden improvement in language, accom-
panied by an equally sudden revolution in taste
and literature. During the five centuries follow-
ing the founding of the city, the Roman mind
was being prepared for receiving the seeds of
came a written literary language.
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learning. Henceforward Rome’s literature was
purely imitative.
Nearly all the prose writers were disciples of
some Greek philosopher. The poets, appearing
at a later date, when the Greek Mythology was
more firmly established in Rome, founded many
of their finest productions on the Grecian legends.
This imitation was the greatest defect in the
Nearly every Greek author
was a model for some Roman. Xenophon had
his Cesar; Demosthenes, his Cicero; Thucydi-
des, his Sallust, and Homer, his Vergil. One
never finds in imitation strong, original impulse.
Doubtless in the mind of the true Roman were
many dormant literary powers, which, had they
been set forth and moulded into original, rhyth-
ges, would claim the high station which
the originality of Greece has won.
To say that the Romans produced nothing
original is far from the truth. But it is a
lamentable fact that the old heroic and national
poems, which should have been most carefully
cherished and preserved, were allowed by the
later Romans to be lost in oblivion. These,
surely, were the productions of an age far pre-
ceding any knowledge or imitation of Grecian
models; and yet, so much were they neglected,
that we can trace their existence only in certain
relics transferred from true poetry to the half-
fabulous histories of the infant ages of Rome.
There were then heroic poems, wherein the
poetical genius of the Romans found means to
express itself many years before it became the
pupil of the Greeks. The fabulous birth and
fate of Romulus, the rape of the Sabine women,
the combat of the Horatii and Curatii, together
with many other interesting legends of early
Rome, furnished abundant material for these
poems.
In all the works of the great Roman writers of
later periods, there breathes a spirit of the soli-
tary grandeur of their country, which animates
them all, and, like the unseen spirit of life, per-
vades and illumines the whole body of their
writings.
Much of the intrinsic beauty, both of thought
and expression, is lost in translation, Horace,
especially, has been given the title of the “ Un-
translatable.” His rhythmic and graceful odes,
breathing of love and contentment, and free
from cares of public life, cannot pass, without
peril, over the bridge of translation, from Latin
to English. No English writers, with however
extensive vocabularies, can describe, in that
Latin literature.
sportive and sprightly manner, the Bacchana-
lian revels and choral dances of the mountain
heights; nor can they transcribe those sudden
flashes of fire and wit which proceeded sponta-
neously from the pen of Horace.
Rome did not imitate without being imitated.
As Greece was her model in literature, so she
herself served England’s Muse. The influence
of Roman lyrics reveals itself in the poets of the
seventeenth century. While George Herbert
“decorates the altar with the sweetest and most
fragrant flowers of fancy and wit,” and Lovelace
breathes devoted loyalty, Suckling might be
regarded as the English Horace in his passion-
ate, half-jesting love fancies of grace and wit —
““ Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prythee, why so pale?
Will, if looking well can’t move her,
Looking ill prevail ?
Prythee, why so pale?”
Shakespeare, too, has woven into his dramas
many a thrilling tale from Ovid and other Ro-
man poets. Thus it is with each succeeding
age. One does not run its race and die. Its
influence lives on in the life and character of
that following it.
The literature of Rome has ever been con-
sidered a classic, and, as such, occupies a promi-
nent place in the history and civilization of man-
kind, Of what would an education consist, or
what would characterize culture and society,
were there no classics? The history of Rome
would be comparatively insignificant without
her literature. Although she reached the climax
of superiority, and is the center of history, the
true greatness and genius of the “ Imperial
City ’’ lies in the beautiful and sublime thoughts
which found shape and utterance under the
walls of lofty Rome.
Heena S. Curtiss.
WHO SHALL WRITE NAPOLEON'S
EPITAPH?
“The moon of St, Helena shone out, and there we saw the face
‘of Napoleon’s sepulchre, characters uninseribed.”
And who shall
and might.
rite thine epitaph? thou man of mystery
Shall orphan hands
Inscribe it with their fathers’ broken swords?
Or the warm trickling of the widows’ tears,
Chancel it slowly mid the rugged rock,
As the deep torture of the water-drop
Doth wear the sentenced brain?
Shall countless ghosts
Arise from Hades, and in lurid flame
With shadowy finger trace thine effigy,
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Who sent them to their audit unannounced
And with but that brief space for shift or prayer
Given at the cannon’s mouth?
Thou who didst sit
Like an eagle on the apex of the globe
And hear the murmur of its conquered tribes,
As chirp the weak-voiced nations of the grass,
Why art thou sepulchred in yon far isle,
Yon little speck, which scarce the mariner
Descries mid ocean’s foam ?
Thou who didst hew
A pathway for thy host above the clouds,
Guiding their footsteps o'er the frost-work crown
Of the throned Alps; why dost thou sleep unmarked,
Even by such slight memento as the hand
Carves on his own coarse tombstone ?
Bid the throng
Who poured the incense, as Olympian Jove,
And breathed thy thunders on the battle-field,
Return and rear thy monument. Those forms
O’er the wide valley of red slaughter spread,
From pole to tropic, from zone to zone,
Heed not thy clarion call. But should they rise,
As in the vision that the prophet saw,
And each dry bone its severed fellow find,
Piling their pillared dust, as erst they gave
Their souls for thee, the wondering stars might deem,
A second time the puny pride of man
Did creep by stealth upon its Babel stairs
To dwell with them. But here unwept thou art,
Like a brave lion in its thicket lair,
With neither living man, nor spirit condemned,
To write thine epitaph.
Invoke the climes,
Who setved as playthings in thy desperate game
Of mad ambition, or their treasure strewed
‘Till meagre famine on their vitals preyed,
To pay thy reckoning.
France ! who gave so free
Thy life stream to his cup of wine, and saw
That purple vintage shed o’er half the earth,
Write the first line if thou hast blood to spare.
Thou, too, whose pride did deck dead Czsar’s tomb,
And chant high requiem o’er the tyrant’s band
Of sculpture and of classic eloquence
To grace his obsequies, at whose dark frown
Thine ancient spirit gnarled ; and to the list
Of mutilated kings, add the name of Rome.
Turn Austria, iron browed and stern of heart,
And on his monument, to whom thou gav’st,
In anger, battle and in craft, a bride,
Save Austerlitz, and fiercely turn away.
As the ruined war horse sniffs the trumpet flash,
Rouse Prussia from her trance with Jexa’s name,
And bid her witness to that fame which soars
O’er him of Macedon, and shames the vault
Of Scandinavia’s madman.
From the shades
Of lettered ease, Oh Germany | come forth
With pen of fire, and from thy troubled scroll,
Such as thou spread’st at Leifséc, gather tents,
Tents of deeper character than bold romance
Hath ever imagined in her wildest dream,
Or history trusted to sibyl-leaves.
Hail, lotus crowned ! in thy green childhood fed,
By stiffmecked Pharaoh, and the Shepherd Kings,
Hast thou no tale of him who drenched thy sands
At Jaffa and Aboukir? when the flight
Of rushing souls went up so strange and strong
To the accusing Spirit.
Glorious Isle !
Whose thrice unwreathed chain, Promethean like
Did bind him to the fatal rock, we ask
Thy deep memento for a marble tomb.
Ho ! fur clad Russia! with thy spear of frost,
Or with thy winter-mocking Cossack’s lance,
Stir the cold memories of thy vengeful brain,
And give the last line of our epitaph.
But there was silence ; for us no sceptred hand
Received the challenge,
From the misty deep,
Rise, Island-spirits ! Like those sisters three,
Who spin and cut the trembling thread of life ;
Rise on your coral pedestals and write
That eulogy which haughtier climes deny.
Come, for ye lulled him in thy matron arms,
And cheered his exile with the name of King,
And spread that curtained couch which none disturb.
Come, twine some trail of household tenderness,
Some tender leaflet nursed with Nature's tears,
Around his urn. But, Corsica, who rocked
His cradle at Ajaccio, turned away,
And tiny Elba, in the Tuscan wave
‘Threw her slight annal with the haste of fear.
And rude Helena, sick at heart, and grey
*Neath the Pacific's smiling, bade the morn,
With silent finger point the traveler’s gaze
To an unhonored tomb.
Then earth arose,
‘That blind old Empress on her crumbling throne,
‘And to the echoed question, “Who shall write
Napoleon’s epitaph ?”” as one who broods
O’er unforgiven injuries, answered none.
E. E, RACE,
4 THE NORMAL COLLEGE
ECHO.
A WESTERN LETTER.
L. L. Ciry, Aug. 31, 93.
Dear Ecuo.— In writing to you of our ex-
perience in the West, the first thought which
presents itself is the comparative idea involved
in the term West. When we remember that even
Chicago claims its position as east, it seems as if
the little corner of north-western Ohio, which was
our home for six months of last year, were only
another of Mother Earth’s children nestled in
her all-embracing arms. :
The eastern character of Warren was height-
ened by the character of its inhabitants, who
originally came from Connecticut, and still re~
tained the true New England love of education
and culture, and strict religious tendencies.
These characteristics, tempered with a delight-
ful touch of cordial western hospitality, suc-
ceeded in entirely revolutionizing whatever pre-
vious expectations we may have had of cattle
ranches, bowie knives or Buffalo Bill sombreros.
Having presented this description of the adult
portion of the population, it becomes an easy
task to imagine the character of the children.
These comprised, besides the representatives of
the families to which I have referred, the typical
public school children of the city, all having at-
tended public schools since their first introduc-
tion to a class-room.
The schools were of necessity unequally
graded, because of the fact that Yankee shrewd-
ness and good general information from the
better class of society were marching side by
side with stolidity and lack of culture from the
other. All still showed the influence of the in-
efficient methods of “ye olden tyme,” which until
within the past two years held undisputed sway.
This being the material, we carefully con-
sidered the best means of practically applying
the normal methods. We reached the conclu-
sion that the spur must be enthusiasm emanating
from the teacher, met by interest and love of
work in the pupil, while the curb and bit should
be constant drill and application. Keeping
these ever in mind, we worked and watched,
with what measure of delight you who are teach-
ing will prove the best judge.
And what were the results? Was the idea
always developed before the term was given?
Did we never do for the child what he could do
for himself? Methinks I hear these questions
echoing from Normal walls, and in answer I can
say that although we did not always reach our
ideal, we often came close enough to it to gather
inspiration from its encouraging countenance.
Satisfaction was derived also from the fact
that the children gained each day more of the
power to think. School was to them a pleasant
place, where they felt their powers expanding
under the silent forces of logical, systematic
work; and needless is it to say that their delight
was doubly ours.
These, then, were the flowers which sprang up
along the often thorny pathway, making it al-
ways possible to find a higher equivalent for
service rendered than what was gained in dol-
lars and cents, and verifying again and again
the truth of the statement, “It is more blessed
to give than to receive.” | Normally yours,
ALUMNA.
THE PANSIES.
ALE among the grasses
By the valley stream,
Hidden in the clover
Where the dew-drops gleam,
For the passing stranger
Waits a happy dream.
Years ago the summer
Shone upon a maid,
Weeping, faint and lonely,
Where the shadows played;
Sorrows rose to greet her
Whereso’er she strayed.
Dearest of earth’s blessings
Given from the sky,
More than all else meaning,
Balm for every sigh, —
Mother-love had left her
For the home on high.
With a tearful blessing,
She had breathed a prayer,—
“ May the gracious Father
All your sorrows share!
Send in mercy heart’s-ease,
With your earthly care.
As she wept in sadness,
All the weary hours,
Silently there blossomed
Fairy little flowers,
Fresh as they had fallen
From eternal bowers.
Soft as purple velvet
Painted in with gold,
Smiling from the grasses,
They their story told,—
“We are little heart’s-ease,
From the heavenly fold.”
‘Through the world of sadness
'Mid the tears of woe,
Where the smiles of pleasure
Send a radiant glow,
In our every pathway,
There the “ pansiés” grow.
Pansy-thoughts for heart’s-ease
May they ever bloom,
May we ne'er forget them
In our hours of gloom!
For they bring a blessing
From beyond the tomb. C., "94,
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POPULAR LITERATURE.
OULD the ghost of Dr. Johnson be remitted
to one of our public reading-rooms he
would find that since he dominated the world of
letters with despotic grace vast changes had
taken place, that new ideas are agitating man-
kind and new theories shaping its destiny, while
new and but yesterday unknown names are re-
garded with reverence. And could the spirit of
a Boswell chronicle the reflections which would
be awakened in the mind of the august shade,
we would receive much of practical value. If
such a revisiting were possible nothing perhaps
would interest the doctor more than to discover
how eagerly in this present era of our history
novels are written and, we may assume, read. In
his day the good novels of the English language
were numbered with a single figure. To-day
there are scores of good English novels, and of
bad and indifferent ones the name is legion. To
his natural disgust he would find the lot of Ras-
selas cast among weeds and briars —no longer in
the “happy valley” of public estimation ; that
the Vicar of Wakefield was sometimes spoken of,
but seldom read, and that the productions of his
friends (especially those of the vivacious Mrs
Burney, whose manuscript he had perused and
adorned with his massive didactic touch) were
almost forgotten. He would retire from the
library with the conviction that some thousand
or two men and women spent their days writing
novels while the rest of the world spent their
nights reading them, He would consider that
we had deteriorated, and on his return he would
express his dissatisfaction in majestically balanced
sentences, which the ghost of Boswell, now as
of yore his henchman and amanuensis, would
eagerly listen to and inscribe on his ghostly tab-
lets.
However false the supposition of such a visit,
the phenomenon still exists and is not without
its significance. A hundred deft pens are even
now careering over foolscap sheets pursuing the
careers of imaginary personages and producing
every week a hundred novels. Of course the
greater proportion of contemporary novels are
worthless or nearly so, yet as a set off, we have
more eminent names in this’special literary walk
than in almost any other. Strike off the poor
and indifferent novels and there still remains a
few exhibiting greater literary skill, more wit,
humor, imagination and observation of charac-
ter—in fact more general intellectual resource
than we shall find in any other department of
literature. The essay, the drama, and the didac-
tic poem have had their season of popularity,
To-day the novel is the favorite vehicle of genius.
Of the mass of books written in our time poster-
ity will concern itself with but few —not a single
drama, one or two poems, perhaps an essay or
two, and at most half a dozen novels, and it is
just possible the creation of the novelist will be
the most highly valued of all.
That the novel is popular at present we know.
‘That there is reason for this popularity we also
know, and this sufficient reason is not difficult to
discover. It may be assumed our most esteemed
novels concern themselves with the delineation of
modern life, and by virtue of our immersion in it,
the complexity of its relations can be more fully
and more satisfactorily represented by prose than
through the higher medium of verse. Society
beholds her mirrored self in the novel, and thus
becomes acquainted with her own countenance.
Verse can deal with the splendor of the court of
Dido, but only a novel can depict the modern
drawing-room. The time for the epithalamium
is gone when the flow of passion is clogged
by thoughts of doweries, Cupid relegated to a
place subordinate to the family lawyer, who
draws the marriage contract, and love cannot
flourish without a thousand a year. ‘Of course
such a situation is not without its possibilities,
put it is the possibility of the novel rather than
of the poem. It is the province of verse to de-
pict the heights of human passion, but of prose
to descend to the depths to which the experiences
of the majority of mankind are confined. Men
are moved most deeply by what touches them
most closely, and the novel, in so far as it con-
cerns itself with modern social relationships with
which the readers are inevitably brought in con-
tact, and as it delineates all the contrarieties of
character, and the complications arising out of
them, evokes an amount of interest which by
innate necessity is greater than that produced
by any other variety of literature.
Cus 94
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NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
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Torms.— §r.00 per annum, in advance ; $x.a5 when not paid by
February xst; single copies, 15 cents.
Conducted by
GEORGE A. BROWN, '94, = == Managing Editor.
GEORGE ©.STREETER,’94, - Business Manager,
Assisted by
HELENA B. PIERSON, ’o4, HELENA S. CURTIS, '94,
CHARLOTTE E, LANSING, ’o4.
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Contributions and items of interest are earnestly solicited from
students, graduates and others.
Address matter designed for publication to the Editor-in-chief,
business communications to the Financial Editor, Norman CoimcE
Ecuo, College Building, Albany, N. Y.
NEW MANAGEMENT,
Jel going to press for the first time under our
new management we wish to express the loss
we have sustained in the retirement from our
staff of ex-Managing Editor E. E. Race, to whom
immeasurably more than to any one else the
literary success of the Wcuo has been due,
Bringing to our aid ripe experience in news-
paper work, coupled with a wide and diversified
knowledge of literature, possessing at once origé-
nality, versatility and good sense, he proved a tower
of strength in the past, and his loss will be keenly
felt in the future.
G. C, STREETER,
Business Manager.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
HAT real pleasure it is to shake the hands
of old friends and to greet the newcomers.
SusscripTions now due,
Two new faces in the faculty.
More new students than last year.
Reap our advertisements; there is money in it.
Every department opens in a flourishing con-
dition.
SomeTuInG we would like to see—a reform
in the library.
Aut subscriptions not paid by January 1st will
cost you $r.25.
WANTED, at the Ecuo office, voluntary con-
tributions of poetry by the students.
A Lite care on the part of the students will
keep the books in our library in much less
confusion. Se
Five marriages since our last issue, and not a
single announcement on our table. Verily, this
is humiliating.
WE take pleasure in calling special attention
to Mr. E, E. Race’s masterly poem, “ Who Shall
Write Napoleon’s Epitaph?”
ANOTHER year of growth, such as the last,
will necessitate the provision of a new building
to accommodate some of our departments.
One of the most valuable offices of the EcHo
is to furnish a field for the display of the literary
abilities of our students. When your turn comes
be prompt to improve it.
Av the fair even he who runs must notice
what the new education is doing for the children.
Every specimen, animal, vegetable and mineral
means something. Thousands of specimens have
their quaint, sweet stories to tell that make the
juvenile eyes fairly dance.
We exceedingly regret that the contributors
to our Literary department are so modest in re-
gard to signing their names. It is hoped that
hereafter every production will be signed. It
will receive ten-fold the number of readers, and
will be of immeasurable interest to us all.
Vacation is over; another year’s work con-
fronts us, He who logically arranges his work
will accomplish most and do it best. Have
regular hours of study, of sleep, and of recreation.
Keep your body in good condition by taking
sufficient physical exercise. Keep your mind
exuberant by congenial and stimulating society.
SPECIMENS PRESENTED.
T is gratifying to witness the spirit of our
students toward our institution, Many have
been the gifts of our students, the products of their
own hands and brains, to the college. But ’Mr
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 7
C. A. Woodard and Miss Julia M. Smith are
especially worthy of mention.
Mr Woodard presented fifty different species
of zoological specimens tastefully arranged and
elegantly mounted. Miss Smith presented two
hundred and fifty excellent specimens.
YOUR DUTY.
NE of the most fatal mistakes a student
makes— alas, how often he makes it —is
to starve his social nature. He who confines
himself wholly to his text-book and to the class-
room commits suicide upon one part of his
nature.
There is no room for little souls, “Man is a
bundle of relations.” The teacher must be a
man among men or he is of little use. Mere
book-learning will not save him.
Then, fellow students, put yourselves in sym-
pathy with the institution. Take an interest in
the college paper. Attend the prayer meeting.
Identify yourselves with one of the societies. It
is a duty you owe to yourself, to your fellow-
students, and to the college.
CLASS ORGANIZATION,
‘HE, most potent power in the progress of the
nineteenth century has been the influence
of organized effort.
Through all the various phases of human
activity, in all the ramified relations of life, organi-
zation has extended its enervating power and
made this decade a fitting culmination of the
century’s progress.
In no sphere has organization accomplished
greater results than among the students of our
educational institutions. The heterogeneous mass
of individuals who enter college with diversified
aims and talents are converted by its benign in-
fluence into the homogeneous body in which
every differentiated talent finds its compliment.
Yet we, as students of the leading Pedagogic
institution of the State, have neglected this essen-
tial element of strength. Not a class within our
walls is organized. We neglect the broadening
influence of class fellowship, and narrow our
minds by the limit of narrow associations.
To the different classes of our college we
earnestly advise class-organization. To the
class of ’94 nothing is more necessary. The
duties incumbent upon them as a class demand
it, and the Junior class will find in organization
strength found in no other way.
In organization is strength, and strength is
success.
THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
ONGRESS voted to commemorate the four
hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ great
discovery by a World’s Fair. Every State in
the Union has fallen loyally into line, and all
nations have followed our lead. Many cities
strove for the honor of being for a few months
the Mecca of the intellectual world. Chicago
stepped gracefully but boldly to the front, and
none denied her the honor, fairly won.
With her characteristic enterprise and public
spirit —an enterprise and public spirit that have
made her the wonder of the world — she has taxed
to the utmost her magnificent resources to make
the World’s Fair the greatest fair of history, as
Columbus’ voyage was the greatest triumph of
navigation. She has furnished a site beyond the
possibilities of any other city; she has adopted
and carried out her plans practically without re-
gard to cost. Her transportation facilities have
amazed the multitude. She has dropped the
expense of living below any year in her history.
She has flung open her hospitality to the world
without a condition.
She has accomplished her undertaking with
but one exception, and that exception no fault
of hers, but of the unfortunate financial embar-
rassment, and of the unwillingness of the rail-
roads to lower fares. Nevertheless, when her
gates shall have closed she will have registered
the greatest attendance of any exposition, with
the single exception of the Parisian Exposition.
But her receipts will be the largest on record.
She has the most magnificent exhibition ever
brought together in one place, of all that wealth
and human intelligence have accomplished
through the centuries. No higher praise could be
given to the Fair than the exclamation of Morgan,
the infidel and socialist, standing before the cul-
ture of Chautauqua, flaying the church for its
enmity to the laboring man: “‘We must admit
that no man or woman can pass through those
gates, and see the maryels collected there, with-
out coming away a better individual, and a
better Christian.”
8 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO,
FACULTY CHANGES.
IN THE MODEL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT,
AMES ROBERT WHITE, B. Pd., principal
J of the Grammar School department of the
Normal College, received his early education in
the school of East Albany, and later graduated
from Public School No. 15, in this city. After
this he entered the old Albany Normal School, and
in June, ’82, was graduated from that institution;
the next two years he taught at Sand Lake, and
then determined to try mercantile life, and for
half a year he was a salesman in Hidley’s music
store in this city.
After the music store was closed, on account
of the death of the proprietor, he re-entered the
teaching ranks, for one and a half years teaching
at De Freestville.
About this time becoming interested in elocu-
tion he spent two summers at Boston, studying
elocution at the Boston School of Oratory, under
Prof. Moses True Brown, and during a long
time taught elocution privately.
In ’87 Mr White assumed charge of the
school at Couse, and during the four years he
remained at that school he made a reputation as
an able instructor, while the friendship with
which his former pupils regard him is evidence
of his worth as a friend.
To the many who were intimate with Mr
White during the years of his college course no
introduction is necessary. Of commanding pres-
ence and charming personality, he attracts all
who come in contact with him, while his tried
worth make firm friends of all who are for-
tunate enough to be intimately acquainted with
him.
Mr White possesses all the qualifications which
fit him for his present position. A thorough and
liberal education, combined with a comprehen-
sive knowledge of methods, keen discrimination
and good judgment, a great amount of firmness
and decision coupled with a large appreciation
of the difficulties under which a pupil teacher
labors, make him a just and able critic.
We know those whose lot it is to teach under
his supervision will find their work both pleasant
and profitable and pupils who are in his depart-
ment are espectally fortunate in being under so
able an instructor.
We feel confident Mr White is destined to
achieve distinction as an educator and ere long
will reach the height to which he is so nobly
struggling.
DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY METHODS.
Miss M. H. Bishop, who succeeds Mrs Bliss
as teacher of elementary methods and critic
teacher, graduated from the classical course of
the Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn.,
in the class of ’83, and later from the Welch
Training School in the same city.
After teaching for several years in the public
schools of New Haven, she took a course in
methods in the Oswego Normal School, and after
graduation from that institution she returned to
the Welch Training School in New Haven as
teacher of methods and critic.
During the brief week Miss Bishop has been
connected with our college she has created a
most fayorable impression as an able and syste-
matic teacher, thoroughly familiar with every
department of her work. She is of calm and
dignified demeanor in the class-room, yet ener-
gizing her work with spirit and animation. She
possesses the faculty of acute criticism and a
mind fertile in devices to remedy defects in
teaching. She bids fair to be a very valuable
addition to our faculty.
MISS ELLEN J, PEARNE,
CHANGE in the faculty of the college has
occurred this year, by which the position
of principal of the Grammar department of the
model school, for the past two years held by
Miss Ellen J. Pearne, has been taken by the
president of the class of June, ’93, Mr James
Robert White. In leaving the State Normal
College Miss Pearne followed in the steps of
many before her, which lead to “the school of
one pupil.”
Cards have been received by members of the
faculty announcing the marriage of Miss Ellen
J. Pearne to Mr James W. Beardsley, Thursday,
Sept. 7, at Zenia, Ohio. Her future home will
be at Lemont, Chicago, Ill.
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A lady of character and purpose, she was
highly honored and respected by all who knew
her. Having taught for two years in the Cort-
land Normal School, and spent some time in
travel abroad, she accepted the position of
principal of the Grammar department of the
model school in this institution, and began her
labors as such, in the fall of 91. She was well
qualified for her position, and was not only re-
spected, but looked up to both by the pupils and
by those who taught under her, as a critic.
Though we regret that her services are dis-
continued, we join with her many friends in
offering most sincere congratulations and kind
wishes.
MRS SARA F, BLISS,
RS SARA F. BLISS, who for the past three
years has been connected with the college
as teacher of elementary methods, has resigned
to assume a position on the faculty of Practice
School at Providence, R. I.
Mrs. Bliss is a woman of wide and varied ex-
perience in teaching. The keynote of her suc-
cess in her chosen profession was that her views
in regard to teaching were not only correct in
theory but admirable in practice.
She also possessed in a remarkable degree
that subtile element of success known as sym-
pathy. Students far removed from home and
friends did not long in vain for a sympathetic
ear into which they might pour their trials and
aspirations, While inexperienced teachers, dis-
couraged by the press of work, found in her a
ready listener.
Notwithstanding the fact that she had strong
and decided views in regard to education her-
self, she was very liberal as to the opinions en-
tertained by others.
One of the pleasantest features in her method
classes was that her pupils could express their
views with perfect impunity, and whether in ac-
cord with hers or not they were treated with due
respect and consideration,
An enthusiast herself, she inspired all who
came in contact with her, and to this influence
is due the success which many of her pupils have
attained.
93'S GRADUATES.
Efforts to obtain a complete list of the positions of
the graduates of ’93 have been made, but being unable
to obtain the desired information of a few, we present
the following as nearly complete as possible.
CoLLEGIATE Courss.
Raymond E. Brown, Ph. B. Granville, N. Y.
Hattie E. Burdick, Ph. B... Belmont, N. Y.
Daniel Jordan, B. S. Albany, N. Y.
Alvin A. Lewis, A. B. Margaretville, N. Y.
Ernest E. Race, A. B Crown Point, N. Y.
Catherine M. Rider, B, L... Worcester, N. Y.
Sarah P. Williams, A. B.... Warren, O.
Elizabeth M. Sherrill, A. B. Warren, O.
Ruth D. Sherrill, A. B Warren, O.
CLaAsstcat Courst.
Franklinville, N. Y.
Albany, Boys’ Academy.
Tottenville, N. Y.
Johnstown, N. Y.
Norwich, N. Y.
Margaretville, N. Y.
State Normal College,
Albany.
Geneva, N. Y.
Conneaut, O,
Alice H. Hall.
Edward B. Harris.
Nathan J. Lowe...
Merritt E, Newbury.
Georgianna Roberts.
M. Agnes Taylor .
James Robert White.
Stelle E. Whitaker. .
Elizabeth L. Young.
ENGLISH COURSE.
Henry E. Adams...
Russell H. Bellows.
Jennie J. Campbell .
Joanna R. Cleary .
William S. Colman .
Canaseraga, N. Y.
Fort Plain, N, Y.
Hobart, N. Y.
Newburgh, N. Y.
Stassburg, N. Y.
Evelyn B. Gatchell Fonda, N. Y.
James K. Gatchell West Troy, N. ¥.
Etta Gracey... Yonkers, N. Y.
Roxey J. Griffin Utica, N. Y.
Ida E. Hill....
Myrtle E. Hook .
Grace E. Long.
Roselia Noon.
Jessie Owen.
Katherine Smith.
J. Elizabeth Surdam.
Eliza A. Tuthill
Carrie M. Underhill,
Allen H. Wright.
Anna B, Akins....
Nellie H. Blood .
Luella C. Bolenbaker....
Anna S. Brett,...
Adelaide F, Carson.
Oscar E, Coburn..
Pelhamville, N. Y.
Margaretville, N. Y.
South Bethlchem, N. Y.
Lynes, N. Y.
Waterford, N. Y.
Croton Falls, N. Y.
Lower Nyack, N. Y.
Peekskill, N. Y.
Port Chester, N. Y.
Bouckville, N. Y.
Tuckahoe, N. Y.
Mill Point, N. Y.
. South Egremont, Mass.
Flushing, N. Y.
Woodside, L. I.
Kinderhook, N, Y.
10 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
Gloversville, N. Y.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Atlantic City, N. J.
Springs, N. Y.
Pittsford, N. Y.
Lenox, Mass.
Fishkill, N. Y.
Hackensack, N. J.
Binnewater, N. Y.!
Glen Spey, N. Y.
Rock City, N. ¥.
Sayville, L. I.
Canandaigua, N. Y.
Newburgh, N. Y.
Locust Valley, L. I.
Warren, O.
Lower Nyack, N. ¥.
Woodbridge, N. J.
Haverstraw, N. Y.
Bath Beach, N. Y.
Port Chester, N. Y.
Central Valley, N. Y.
Ypsilanti Normal School,
Mich.
Bachellorville, N. Y.
Shelter Island, N. Y.
Shelter Island, N. Y.
Cambridge, N. Y.
Livingston, N. Y.
. Long Island City, L. I.
« Patchogue, N. Y.
. Athens, N. Y.
Cedar Hill, N. Y.
Pine Plains, N. Y.
New York City, N. Y.
Eureka, N. Y.
.. Baldwin, L. I.
. Sheepshead Bay, N. Y.
« Johnstown, N. Y.
‘Amsterdam, N. Y.
Locust Valley, N. Y.
. Cambridge, N. Y.
. Tappan, N. Y.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
West Troy, N. Y.
Nellie L, Cochrane...
Frances M. Coleman.
Evie Corney....
Walter J. Decker .
Alice J. Drake,
Mary Dugan...
M. Lillian Duncan
Jessie C. Dunlop .
Wilson R. Failing.
Sara M. Gillespie.
Grace A, Gilliland
Katherine F. Haines
Mary S. Hall...
Hannah M. Henry
Alfred V. B. Howell
Martha Hunt.....
N. P. Banks Johnson.
Mary E. Keliher.
Mabel L. Lewis
Alice C. Mackey...
Ida E. Martin.. .
Mary E. McFarland .. .
Charles T. McFarlane.
Elmer A. Myers ..
Kathleen E. Nolan
Sarah E, Nolan...
Burton B. Parsons.
Robert G. Patri
Eliza D. Payntar.
Anna B. Phillips.
Lucinda P. Pratt.
Paul E. Riemann ..
Georgia Ross
Grace M. Seaton.
Harriette Slater,
Emeline L. Smalling.
Effey B. Smith...
Anna K. Swartwou!
Clara B. Sweatman,
Cora E, Utman..
Mae E. Vincent
Clara E. Warren.
Adella K. Whitney,.
Clifford A. Woodard
ECHOES.
REETINGS.
Repairs.
‘Water needs boiling.
Section rooms abolished again.
A familiar quotation, ‘ What are you teaching.”
The high school department opened Monday, Sept. rx.
Now is the time to subscribe for the Ecto, at the
opening of the year.
Invitation to old subscribers —renew your subscrip~
tions, you can’t do without the Ecxo,
Why not do as other colleges? Organize the June, ’94,
class now, and not wait until the eleventh hour.
The kindergarten training class has the limited num-
ber, ten, and other applicants were turned away from
the course.
On Monday morning, September 11, the heretofore
method students donned all their dignity and proceeded
to their class-rooms as teachers.
A few more copies of the Normal College edition of
the New Albany, containing pictures of the faculty, can
be obtained by addressing James McTeague.
Another suggestion—Let the ’94’s give a reception
before the close of the quarter, as was the old custom.
Surely the new students wish to become acquainted
before that length of time. Think on these things.
PERSONALS.
ISS ELIZABETH SUTLIFFE will teach at her
home in Cherry Valley this year.
Miss Laura Aken spent the summer in Canaan,
Mr Edward Burt and wife visited the college Sept. 8.
Miss Susie McDonald has engaged a school at North
Bush, N.Y.
Miss Delle Govro has a position as teacher in Broom-
ville High School,
More congratulations! “Charles” has recently be-
come the happy father of a son.
Miss Marie Wilfert and Miss Alice Lynch do not re-
turn to college, because of ill-health.
Miss Minnie Hammersmith has joined the ranks of
those not returning to college. Don’t ask why. Just
congratulate her.
Miss Mary Foley, who was obliged to leave college
early in the spring because of ill-health, has returned to
her studies this fall.
Miss Charlotte E. Lansing, our Exchange editor, has
recently been madea member of the quartette choir of
the First Presbyterian Church.
Miss Kate Stoneman was asked to address a meeting
of women lawyers in Chicago, August 3 and 4, under
the auspices of the Queen Isabella Association. }
Mr Samuel Slauson has followed the example of those
returned for the classics, and yea more! He has re-
turned with reinforcements. The Ecuo extends con-
gratulations.
ALUMNI NOTES.
D, CONLEY, vice-president and professor of
+ Geology and Physics in Wyoming State Uni-
versity, visited the college, Aug. 2r.
‘70. Charles H. Pierce is now principal of the State
Normal School at Los Angeles, Cal.
‘63.
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’87. Miss Elizabeth Lettis visited the college, Sep. 7.
Miss Edith S, Dickey sailed for Europe, July 6,
expecting to spend a year in study at Paris.
‘91. Miss Minnie E. Grandy has been taking Greek and
Drawing at Round Lake this summer,
Miss Adee is teaching in Locust Valley, L. I.
Mr Smith, of the June class, returns to Port Wash-
ington, L. I,
‘92. T. J, Morse has returned to Texas.
Miss Mabel Westcott will teach in Haverstraw, N.
Y., the coming year.
Miss Mary Woode has a position in Tottenville, and
Miss Carrie Pussing at Bethlehem Center.
Miss Evelyn Palmer has charge of a new kinder-
garten at Dolgeville, N. Y.
Miss Jean McLaughten has charge of part of the
kindergarten training work at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lewis R. Herzog and Henry F, Blessing have re-
turned to college for the classics.
Miss Lucy Smith enters the Woman's College at
Baltimore this fall.
Mr Hawkins, of the February class, has a position
at East Marion, L. I.
*93. Clifford A, Woodard treads the Normal halls as
one of the classical students.
Daniel Jordan has improved the summer by teach-
ing French at Chautauqua,
W. S. Coleman spent the summer at Round Lake.
Miss Georgianna Roberts visited her Alma Mater,
Aug. 25.
Miss Catherine Rider has been spending two weeks
in the city, before beginning her duties as pre-
ceptress of Worcester Academy.
Russell H. Bellows called at the college, Sept. 16.
Miss Jessie Owen has been teaching a kindergarten
at Round Lake a part of the past vacation.
A. B. Hunt has entered a drug store in Buffalo, pre-
paratory to studying medicine.
Mrs Maria Henry has returned to her position in
Yonkers, after a pleasant visit to her parents in
England.
Merritt E. Newbury, business manager of the Ecuo,
’92 and ’93, spent a few days in the city, the first
week of September.
Ernest E. Race, managing editor of the commence-
ment issue of the Ecuo, June, '93, visited his
former editorial sanctum, Saturday, Sept. 9.
KINDERGARTEN NOTES.
THERE are eleven young ladies in the training class.
The kindergarten exhibit at the World’s Fair was very
creditable.
The kindergarten congress held in July was especi-
ally beneficial.
In some departments the U. S. kindergartners have
outdone even their German teachers.
‘The kindergarten is turning pupils away. Every last
year’s graduate from this course has a position.
The first meeting of the Albany Kindergarten Asso-
ciation will be held September 30 in our kindergarten
rooms.
The exhibition from the ‘‘ Pestalozzi-Froebel House,”
Berlin, was especially creditable to the German mem-
bers of the profession,
The exhibit at the Fair which especially interested our
kindergartners was the display of paper cutting work,
showing new ideas developed in different sections.
‘There has been a class formed in the city for the study
of Froebel’s ‘Mother Playand Nursery Songs,” and
later Mrs Lucretia W. Treat will deliver a course of
lectures on the above book.
Mrs Hooper, editor of the “ Kindergarten Magazine,”
who has a table in the child’s building at the fair, re-
ports the manifestation of the greatest interests in the
kindergarten and all departments of juvenile education,
showing a greater appreciation of the educational op-
portunities of childhood.
CUPID'S VICTIMS.
Ee missiles of the Jéind god are ever being hurled,
and as certain of the former students, as well as a
teacher of our own institution, have proven themselves
unable to avoid and escape them, we feel constrained to
notice them under an especial heading.
Miss Maude E. Lewis, ’9t, was married to Mr Wil-
liam H, Neviele, June 22, at Middleburgh, N. Y.
Miss Jennie Shepherd, ‘91, to Mr Fred Peck at
Dean’s Corners, August, ’93.
Miss Charlotte V. Stemm, ’g0, to Mr William A.
Reeves of Plattsburg, N. Y.
Miss Margaret Vosburgh, ’93, to Mr William Nodine.
Miss Ellen J. Pearne, formerly principal of the Gram-
mar department of the model school, to Mr James W.
Beardsley, Thursday, Sept. 7, at Zenia, Ohio.
A FAMOUS RUNNER.
Mr. Charles Kilpatrick of our High School is rapidly
becoming famous as a runner.
Since April he has competed in twenty-seven races,
not losing one, and bringing to Albany six gold medals
and several other valuable trophies.
‘The races varied from eighty rods to three miles.
They were won in the Manhattan Club races, the Royal
Arcanum field day sports, the Saratoga Athletic Club,
the Columbian Exposition of “crack” runners, and
several other places.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
OUR EXCHANGES.
If you want to be well informed, take a paper. Even
a paper of pins will give you some good points. Ex.
Normal College Echo, Normal Echo, etc., seem to be
favorite names among our list of exchanges.
We congratulate the Oneontean upon the excellent
picture which it prints of James M. Milne, A. M., Ph. D.,
principal of the State Normal School at Oneonta, N. Y.
We are glad to see again the University Herald of
Syracuse. It stands among the first in artistic excellence.
We welcome the Normal College Echo of New York,
and also the Barnard Aion as newcomers.
The newsy High School Recorder of Brooklyn is again
with us. The poetical features reflect great credit.
We take great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt
of the Student, resplendent in a new dressand red type.
The Lever of Colorado Spr. is a new acquaintance,
and bids fair to become a fast friend.
A German gentleman innocently gave this reading of
a familiar saying: ‘The ghost is willing, but the meat
is feeble.” — Normal News.
The Pratt Institute Monthly gives a very excellent
idea of the operations of the institute which it represents.
We noticed with pleasure a plea in the Cornell Era
for literary societiés.
One of Amherst’s professors uses no chair in the class
room. We suppose he sits on the class.
Some of our June exchanges showed the weakening
effects of warm weather.
We wish “The South” had more representatives on
our exchange table.
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
OLUMBIA, Dartmouth and Williams have dis-
pensed with commencement exercises,
‘The Class of ’94 at Dartmouth has adopted class but-
tons.
Allegheny College has a man who can make love in
six different languages.
Twenty per cent. of Dartmouth’s undergraduates go
out teaching during the winter months.
The Wesleyan faculty have voted to allow the stu-
dents a hand at the helm of government,
The Princeton Club, of New York, has offered a
prize of $100 for the best entrance examination to that
college.
Baedeker's new guide book of America rates the
large colleges in the following order: Harvard, Johns
Hopkins, Cornell, Columbia and Yale.
Oberlin College has conferred the degree of LL. D,
upon Miss Helen C. Shaffer, the president of Wellesley
College. She is the second woman in America to
possess this degree.
The faculty at Princeton have resolved to place stu-
dents on their honor in examinations. All supervision
will be abolished, and students will be required to sign
a declaration at the close of the examination.
A New York State Inter-Collegiate Oratorical League
was formed at Syracuse, June roth. The following
institutions at present form the League: Syracuse Uni-
versity, Rochester University, and Union College. A
meeting will be held early next year, when other col-
leges, desirous of entering, may have their applications
considered.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
‘There are 200 distinct University degrees.
France has nearly a million students in her kinder-
gartens.
The first woman’s university in Germany is soon to be
established.
Of the 3,000 students enrolled at The University of
Berlin, 800 are Americans.
Johns Hopkins University is now open to women on
the same terms as to men.
There are now 17,000 Chautauqua circles in the world.
One has been established at the Cape of Good Hope.
There are but thirty-seven schools in Alaska, and out
of about 10,000 native children but 1,788 attend school.
The Government Industrial Training School at Santa
Fe, N. M., will be changed into a normal training school
for the preparation of Indians to take the place of white
teachers in their own schools.
‘The common school teachers of New York State are
respectfully invited to meet in the Capitol at Albany on
the zoth of September. The convention is called for the
purpose of increasing the pay and influence of teachers
in the State.
‘The American Association for the Advancement of
Science have adopted a uniform system of pronunciation
in chemical and geographical words. Strugglers over
quinine, bromine and other words of similar termina-
tion will rejoice.
Emperor William, of Germany, has conceived the
scheme of compelling every child in the German Empire
to undergo a theological education. In other words,
religion in the public schools of Germany is to be put
on a par with geography and chemistry.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
UR number is larger than ever before.
‘A new carpet has been placed on our rostrum,
Why don’t we have a foot ball team?
Now is the time to boom the literary societies.
Let us have an organization, class colors and a yell.
Several of last year’s graduates are now college
students,
Many of the members of the first year class are fre-
quently seen at Geological Hall.
We think our department has a monopoly of the
pretty girls of this institution.
Last year the members of Prof. Bartlett's Latin
method class gave aseries of lessons to the junior
class of the grammar school, and as a result, we have in
the high school a class of sixty-four beginning Latin.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO,
SEEN AT THE FAIR.
Miss M. A. McClelland; Prof. A. N. Husted; Miss C.
Russell ; Prof. W. B. Jones and wife ; Miss A. E. Pierce;
Miss M, H. Bishop; Miss E. J. Pearne ; Miss K. Stone-
man ; Miss E. H. Hannahs ; Miss I. M. Isdell ; Miss H.
L. Sewell; Prof. J. R. White, ’93; Prof. W. M. Grif-
fin, '73; C. H. Willett, 63; N. Y. Kingsley, ’83 ; Prof.
Chas. H. Pierce, '70; Prof. James H. Van Sickle, 73;
H. L. Taylor, ’79; Prof. Geo. H. Benjamin, ’60; C. C.
Conover,’84 ; Sarah J. Stewart,’73; M. E. Newbury,’93
F. J. Morse, ’92; R. E. Brown, '93; G. A. Brown, ’94 ;
Miss J. Owen,’93 ; Miss J. Warnham ; A, J. Lewis, ’93 ;
Miss A. Heusted, ’95 ; Miss A. Drake, ’93; Miss A.
Hall, ‘93; Miss R. Sherrill, 93; Miss M. Roff, ’95 ;
Miss Taylor, '93; W. E. Freeman, ’94; N. J. Lowe,'93;
Miss E. Sherrill, ’93; Miss Arnold, ’93; Miss San-
ford, '93; Miss Evarts; Miss Lee; Miss L. Smith;
Miss E. Bradner, ’9t; A. A. Dodds, ’91; Miss M.
QUICKSILVER ELECTION,
HE Quicksilver Reading Circle met last Wednes-
day and elected the following officers for the
coming year: President, Hazlett J. Risk, ’95; vice-presi-
dent, Charlotte E, Lansing, ’94; treasurer, Minnie B.
Waite, '94; secretary, Miriam M. Groat; managing di-
rector, Mrs Margaret Sullivan Mooney.
GETTING THROUGH COLLEGE.
IRL in library,
Reading book.
No one near her,—
Cory nook.
Man comes along,
Seeking knowledge,
Must get through the
Normal College.
Ce ernie
Girl in library,
Cozy nook,
Man now near her,—
No more book.
C. A. Wooparp,
FANCIES.
Sap To RELATE.
‘THERE'S a maiden I cherish past glory or gold;
So loving, so tender, so gracious;
Her presence is rapture, her smile, wealth untold,
Her service than freedom more precious,
‘The crown of life’s triumph, the balm of life’s woes,
Far dearer than sisters or brothers;
My heart's living Idol! But sad to disclose
he's exactly the same to tro others.
—A soft snap —a woolly dog.
—Does a bee-line have wax ends?
—A summer resort — the front gate,
— Adam's first ale was made from an apple.
— Music seems to be organic with Italians.
—A motley history — that of the Dutch republic.
—In “higher education” the s#ul! is on the college
course.
—A litterateur becomes a noble man when he is
baron of ideas.
—The merriest place in the world,— where all bodies
lose their gravity.
Common cenés people are the ones who get along
best in the world.
—Reverses try men’s souls, except when
reverse their cuffs.
—The “school marms” consolation —they may sit
in the lapse of ages.
— How are ideas conveyed from one mind to another?
—by trains of thought.
— Young ladies do not object to
you never catch them treating.
—It is not discourteous to say that the unwedded
“ school marm” is a matchless beauty.
—Three school girls abreast constitute an object of
passing interest, It is a close squeeze if you can
pass it.
they
setting up,” but
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
writ
Girard,” are readily distinguished as belonging to the fin de sidcle.
Duncan Campbell Scott's * Harvest” is worthy of a careful read-
ing. Mrs, James T. Field’s lines on an ‘‘Autumn Birthday” are
timely and very pretty, The illustrators are many, and their work
makes this number of Scribner a particularly artistic one.
The September number of the Cosmopolitan has more than roo
illustrations, giving the chief points of interest in the Columbian
Exposition, and the Fair is treated by more than a dozen authors,
including the famous English novelist, Walter Besant. “The Mic
way Plaisance,” by Julian Hawthorne; “ Electricity,” by Murat
Halstead ; the ‘ Liberal Arts Building,” by Kunz, the famous
expert of Tiffany & Co.; the '‘ Department of Mines,” by the chief
of that department, and other articles. A feature of this number is
astory by Mark ‘Twain, entitled ‘Is He Living or Is He Dead?”
‘The publishers of the Cosmopolitan are satisfied with the experi~
ment of selling their magazine for one-half its former price. ‘That
the magazine is unchanged, and even bettered, is seen from only a
cursory glance at the writers and illustrators, The publ
anticipate an increase in the sale of copies, thus making advertising
space more valuable. The American people will appreciate the
effort to furnish them a magazine of the highest class at a price so
‘unusual and so small as to be almost nominal.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS,
Classic Myths in English Literature. By Cuarces
Mitts Gayiky. Ginn & Co.
In editing this admirable work, Prof. Gayley gives a long needed
book to the public. Mythical alllusions, in both English poetry
and prose, are 50 frequently made, that much of the delight in our
best English writings is lost because of ignorance as to the meaning
of these allusions, Many classics for children have hitherto been
14 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
published, but the older student has had no books of reference ex.
gepting, perhaps, the classical dictionary and Bullfinch’s “Age of
fable.”
‘The Introduction shows the benefits to be derived from “the
i¢ importance of a thorough and com-
prehensive knowledge of ancient myths, by these comparisons,
nits technical execution the book is artistic— the facts are stated
in a most interesting style, and the illustrations and maps are both
decorative and helpful. No work has recently been published that
50 meets the requirements of the secondary schools as this. Every
teacher and student should tead for himself these classic myths as
edited by Prof. Gayley,
School Classics, Vergil’s Hneid, VII. By Wa. C.
Cortar, A.M. Ginn & Co., Boston, Mass.
In this number of the School Classics the seventh book of Vergil’s
Aineid is gotten up ina most attractive form, under the editorial
Supervision of William C, Collar and John ‘Tetlow. ‘The series
will be limited to those Latin and Greek authors deemed most suit-
able for secondary schools, and will include in small volumes the
several books of those authors, separately edited by competent
scholars of experience as schoolmasters. The object of the series
is to furnish a wider and more varied selection of books to be read,
thus affording greater growth in the scholarship of both teacher
and pupil. The copious annotation, the full and carefully prepared
vocabulary, the word groups and numerous references in the
vocabulary, are distinctive features of these classics. ‘The editors
believe thal the Atneid should be studied much less than usual,
from the grammatical and philological side, and much more from
the literary side. Accordingly the text and translation are printed,
in some editions, facing each other with Latin synonyms under the
text, As the entire series is to be prepared with the same idea in
the foreground, these little books will do much toward hastening
the important change that is already slowly taking place in the
Classical instruction of this country.
Exercises in Greek Prose Composition, By Witt1aM
R, Harrer, Ph, D., LL. D., and CLarnce T, CAstuz,
Ph.D, American Book Company.
‘To most students of Greelc or Latin, the name ‘* Prose Composi-
tion,” sirikes fear, With Harper aud Castle's delightful method
of pursuing Greek Composition the fear vanishes. ‘The turning of
English sentences into Greek sentences js not done as an end, but
asa“ means for learning the principles of the Greek language, that
they may become the key to unlock the literature.” ‘The method
is inductive and incites the student to observation and investigation,
‘The authors would have composition begin with the first page of
Greelc that is read, and continue daily, till the principles of the
language are mastered, The exercises are selected from Xeno-
phon's Anabasis, and are so many in number that the teacher can
choose from these as he finds them adapted to his class. We note
two excellent original features of the exercises,” the "suggestions
on composition” which are intended to aid the learner in his first
acquaintance with the subject, and the “Inductive Studies” in the
uses of the Greek modes, which are designed to help the student
toarrange for himself the detached facts of Greek syntax.
The authors have, indeed, succeeded in arranging a pleasing and
useful book for classes in Greek Composition.
Practical Lessons in Language.
uN. American Book Company.
‘This book has been written in response to the demand for a series
of graded language lessons covering the last two years of the
Primary course and based on the principles of modern pedagogios,
‘Phe lessons are arranged under the heads of “Things to Notice”
and" Things to Do.” “The exercises under the second head are
{aried and cannot fail to interest the litte pupil. ANl through the
book the child must see and do for itself. ‘The principle that the
upil must clearly comprehend the thought before he expresses it
intelligently, is never lost sight of. The matter is excellent in its
atrangement and well adapted to the understanding of the grades
for which it is written. ‘The “ Practical Lessons in Language” is a
valuable gift to the little people, as they are led to discover, daily,
some new facts of their language and to form their own rules for
constructing it. Every teaclier can profitably follow the suggestions
given, if each pupil cannot be given a copy of the book,
By Benj. Y. Conx-
Swinton’s School History of the U.S. By WiLtAM
Swinroy. American Book Company.
‘The author of this history prepared it some twenty years ago for
those teachers who aim at some definite results in the study of his-
tory. The style of writing is simple and free from those, details
found in many school histories. The author claims for his book
the following points of superiority: 1. The plan of paragraphing.
2, The use of short and direct sentences. 3. A new method of
Topical Reviews. 4. The separation of the history of the States
from the history of the Administrations, 5. ‘The separation of the
leading facts of American Progress from’ the history of the Ad-
ministration. A new edition ina more worthy dress is now offered
to the public by the revisers, who have added chapters on Pre-
historic America and the settlement and growth of the Three Colonial
Genters, ‘The arrangement and literary excellence of this history
attract the notice of the progressive teacher.
History of the Philosophy of Pedagogics. By
Cuanies Wesizy Benverr, LL.D. C. W. Bardeen,
Syracuse, N. Y.
Dr. Bennett late professor of historie theology in Garrett Biblical
Institute, was peculiarly fitted to write a treatise on this subject.
From his little work of only forty-three pages, on account of its
conciseness and clearness, the student can gain as much as from
a book of four hundred pages. ‘The writeris conscious of the mass
of material from which he must choose, and so discusses, briefly,
the most important and influential systems of the Post-Reformation
period. ‘The terseness and directness of this short essay are ils
chief charm. The reader js forced to constantly admire the con-
densation of so vast a subject. Pictures of the typical reformers
of each period embellish the pages of this brief treatise, which ap-
ears in a very effective dress, ‘To the student of limited time the
ook is especially helpful, as he must of necessity have a sure and
clear knowledge of the subject after a single reading.
Sohrab and Rustum.
ARNOLD,
A very neat little copy of the “ English Classics Series” comes
tous {his month, containing Matthew Arnold's "Sobrab and
Rustum." The Introduction cites a few facts on the Life of
Matthew Arnold, comments on the style and character of his
writings. A short explanation regarding the source of material for
this poem gives the reader an intelligent understanding of the
“Episode.” The foot-notes also interpret any obscure allusions,
and by their fuliness and clearness assist the student to better
appreciate this mysterious and most beautiful piece of literature,
The Riverside Song Book. By W. M, LAWRENCE
and O, Blackman. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston,
Mass. Paper, 30 cents. Boards, 4o cents.
The Riverside Song Book contains classic American poems set to
standard music. Among this selection of songs are found many
that are national favorites, and all are chosen with a special adapta-
tion to schools, and are suitable for all grades, ‘The collection is
worth many tines more than its price to any school. We cannot
commend the authors too highly for placing in the hands of
teachers a book of songs which contains from the first page to the
last the choicest words of our best poets set to the most pleasing
melodies.
An Episode.
American Book Company.
By Marraew
BOOKS RECEIVED.
English Composition. By ALPHONSO G. Newcomer,
Ginn & Co,
The Educational Labors of Henry Barnard. By WiLL
S. Monroz. C, W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y.
English Classics — The
Reliance and Compensation,
SON.
American Scholar, Self-
By Rateu WaLpo Emmr-
American Book Company.
‘The History of Educational Journalism in the State
of New York, By C. W. BAxbEEN, C. W. Bardeen,
Syracuse, N. Y.
Outlines of Rhetoric, Ginn
0,
By JouN F. Genuna,
CC BY 4.0