ALBANY, N. Y., MAY, 1896. No. to.
CONTENTS.
Lierary AND PROFESSIONAL, PAGE.
‘A Legend of the Sea...
Geometry as a Factor
State Normal College — 1844 to 1846— Then and Now..
Arbutus -
Education.
Eprrortat. De Atumnis
‘The One Issue_
Froebel Celebrations
Lecture on the “ X Rays”
‘PERSONALS,
Amone Our EXCHANGE:
Aut Sorts.
Reviews.
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A LEGEND OF THE SEA.
HE fishermen skirt along the coast,
Ah! fearless men are they.
Yet who can say but the dead one’s ghost
Will rise at the close of day.
Will rise when all around grows dark,
Save where a crimson streak
Falls through the rising evening mist,
’Till it touch the boat's iron peak.
Ah! who can say? and the fishermen swift,
Unreef their fast bound sail
And throw the time worn canvas
Out in the evening gale.
Ah! who can say? and they shudder through
With a fear that is but half known
And toss their dripping fish net
O’er the red from the setting sun.
She came one bright spring morning
Unknown, unnaming she.
She came from a distant country
That lies far beyond the sea,
Her hair of the tints of the sunset
Was shining like crimson and gold.
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean
Where its secrets lie untold.
And all who saw her, loved her,
She was so rare and sweet.
And all both lord and peasant
Bowed down before her. feet.
But she scorned them all and questioned
Why love so hopelessly?
Where is there one among you
Half worthy now, of me?
One day as she sat where the window
Of the castle o’erlooked lea,
Where the green on the slope of the hillside
Seemed to rival the green of the sea.
There came a simple rider
Unheralded, unknown,
Who played a wonderous melody
As the sun was sinking down,
The golden rays from the sunset
Stole softly up to his feet.
The birds all hushed their singing
The music was so sweet.
The trees bent down to listen
Yet trembled, half afraid.
The ocean hushed its moaning
‘When the great musician played,
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She softly stole from the casement,
O’er oaken stair, through the hall
Where portraits, lords and ladies,
Gazed at her from the wall.
And over the moat, through the gateway,
She left her castle home
And followed the wonderous player
Where his music bade her come.
Out in the deepening twilight,
‘Through the valley and over the stream
She followed him, all unknowing
‘As one would walk in a dream.
She followed him on, as he led her
Down the path that leads to the sea,
Her whole soul, wrapped forever,
In the passionate melody.
And over the cliff to the ocean
He led her on alone,
Till the waves leaped up around her,
Then—the wonderous player was gone.
They found her there in the morning
On the shore of the ocean—dead.
Gray seaweed mixed with the tresses
That clustered about her head.
One little hand stretched outward
With the fingers upward curled,
Swayed gently up and downward
As the ripples broke and purled.
And still, so the fishermen tell us,
When the sun is sinking to rest,
She rises slowly upward
Out of the ocean’s breast.
With her form of the ocean’s vapor
And her shining auburn hair,
She beckons and waves her misty arms
‘And her dewy fingers of air.
And the fishermen homeward coming,
From his day of toil on the sea,
Is filled with a nameless terror
Of the awful mystery.
He sees the crimson shining
Through the ocean's misty vei
He sees it rise and tremble,
He hears the night winds wail.
And he mutter an Ave Maria,
‘And swings his sail out far,
To speed him on the faster.
Till he’s safe past the harbor bar.
Epitu Stow,
GEOMETRY AS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION.
“\ ITHOUT the geometrical faculty we
should be idiots;” that is, those per-
sons who have not the geometrical faculty are
idiots; for ‘‘ Geometry is the science of form,”
and persons unable to differentiate forms are de-
void of intelligence.
The child, at three years of age, can distin-
guish a multitude of objects by their forms, but
he knows number only to three; at five his
knowledge of form has been greatly enlarged,
but his knowledge of number — though number
is all about him—has advanced but two short
steps, for he (the average child) knows only to
five. He now enters the primary school, where
his number powers are sedulously cultivated,
He has
become familiar with the shapes and names of
most of the objects presented to his vision, and
the powers, once so active in studying the
yet his progress is slow and laborious.
“science of form,” and now so eager to con-
tinue that study, are almost entirely neglected,
and, perforce, fall into disuse— atrophied, as it
were. For nearly half a score of years his
mathematical education advances, almost exclu-
sively, on the number line — arithmetic and al-
gebra. At the expiration of this period, a geom-
etry is placed in his hands, and he begins, usu-
ally, by committing to memory a considerable
number of definitions; this followed by memor-
ing theorems, etc., and their demonstrations.
How valueless all this is can be best appreciated
by those who have tested it.
Much of this sort of work is, doubtless, an in-
jury rather than a benefit to the pupil — a stulti-
fying or stinting process. Furthermore, it must
be admitted that, aside from a few elementary
facts, the subject-matter is of no consequence
whatever to most learners, except as a help to
“counts” and a diploma.
The causes tending to perpetuate these evils
Hap-
pily some of them are slowly passing away—
are too well known for enumeration here.
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‘Geometry for the Grammar School,” and “In-
ventional Geometry ” are being introduced,
The young girl who said of her Inyentional
Geometry, “It’s so different from ordinary study;
there’s something about it that leads me on,”
revealed the essential differences between the
study of geometry from the text-book, as an act
of memory, and its study as an interesting, pleas-
ant exercise of the imaginative, conceptive and
reasoning faculties.
Truly, it is different from ordinary study;
there is always a pointed question involving
something to be done— graphically done, usu-
ally —calling into action, at once, imagination
and name, interesting the studént, encouraging
him to think, and leading him on to master new
truths, a little beyond, yet in such easy reach
that his interest is always alert, and he is stimu-
lated by the ‘‘ pleasure of discovery,” to renewed
intellectual activity — mental action adapted to
generate the power to think, and the habit of
thinking, so necessary in solving both problems
mathematical and problems practical.
What teacher has not noticed that in mathe-
matical examinations the failures usually occur
on problems which are new to the class, yet not
of more than average difficulty? We need not
look far for the reason. ‘To solve the problems
requires a grasp of the conditions and a degree
of independent thought beyond the powers of
the class; their inability discloses the weak spot
in their mathematical training.
A professor in one of our leading colleges re-
marks: “In the colleges it is well known that
the great majority of students do comparatively
little in the science (geometry), When they
have a choice they prefer as a rule to fake some-
thing easier. If this be true of college students
who have completed the high school course, are
four years older, and of much greater mental
maturity than high school pupils, then we may
surely conclude that geometrical work for the
latter should be largely concrete and all proposi-
tions quite elementary in character.
While it would be presumption to say with any
degree of positiveness just what changes should
be made in the presentation of this very valua-
ble—I had almost said most valuable—branch of
mathematical learning, an opinion may be ex-
pressed:
In the first place the work should be begun in
the grammar school. At about twelve years of
age, or earlier, the pupil should be introduced to
Spencer's Inventional Geometry, or to an easier
and more “ course, such as is now
in vogue in some of our eastern cities, The
pupil is thus relieved from the monotony of his
much-conned arithmetic, which, however, will be
practical
helped rather than hindered thereby—is encour-
aged to use his faculties in a new and interesting
manner, and at the same time acquires that train-
ing of hand and eye which will be of great value
to him whatever his future occupation.
Secondly, the subject-matter of demonstrative
geometry, for secondary schools, should be made
much simpler and easier.
Itrequiresno large experience with pupils under
sixteen years of age to convince one that their
“logical faculty” is but feeble, and their mathe-
matical muscles weak; both need to be stimulated,
cncouraged and strengthened by appropriate and
pleasurable exercise. This can be accomplished
by making the ascent more gradual, presenting a
much larger number of simpler propositions, and
relegating the more difficult topics to the college
In other words make the work in geom-
course.
etry to harmonize with that of arithmetic and
algebra, when the pupil is required and able to
work out his own salvation, rather than to
familiatize himself with those wrought out by
others.
It should be assumed also that the average
teacher of geometry is not in the full sense a
specialist; and, indeed is restrained by the limits
of time and strength, and by the requirements of
the “course of study” from doing for the pupil
what a properly prepared text-book can offer in
a more conyenient and usable form. Excep-
tional teachers can do exceptional work, but our
educational affairs should, in the main, be ad-
justed to the abilities of the average teacher and
the average class.
ALN. H
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THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
THE STATE NORMAL COLLEGE.
1844 TO 1896—THEN AND Now.
[e answer to a polite request for an article
from the Lone Star State, let me say that
although it may be difficult for an octogenerian
to interest the present students of the Normal
College, “the request, nevertheless, brings to
mind many vivid recollections of fifty years ago.
I will assume that the editors deem it of ad-
vantage to link the past with the present for
the purpose of contrast and comparison, and
it may be profitable to do so. Survivors of
the classes of 1845 and 1846, participating,
as they did, in the first organization of the
school, when only thirty students were en-
rolled —led and taught by the lamented Page
and Perkins—and occupied seats in the old
depot of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad
Company, on State street, near the old capitol,
ready to seek and acquire instruction in the art
of teaching, naturally think more intently about
that period than this, Hence, I may be par-
doned for writing afew lines of retrospect, as
suggested by the heading of this article.
David P. Page was a model teacher. His
memory is sweetly embalmed in the hearts of
those who were fortunate enough to sit under his
instruction or come within the reach of his in-
fluence. Horace Mann, one of the foremost
leaders of education in New England, made no
mistake when he recommended him as the most
suitable man he could find to head this moye-
ment to establish a normal school in New York,
As has been said of others, so of him, “none
knew him but to love him, none named him but to
praise.” His labor was unceasing and his anxiety
intense for the success of the movement with
which he was identified. An earnest, devout
Christian himself, he sought to combine Chris-
tian teaching with intellectual development, and
to impress his pupils with the same sense of moral
responsibility in the pursuit of their chosen pro-
fession, His career was, no doubt, prematurely
ended by anxiety and overwork.
George R. Perkins, his associate and successor
as principal, was an especial expert in mathema-
tics and an efficient co-laborer. Mr, Page died
in 1848 and Mr. Perkins resigned in 1852. With
their successors I have had no personal acquain-
tance. The marvelous prosperity of the college
attests their eminent abilities and fitness for the
positions they have filled. Though absent much
of the time in other states since 1856, and for
some years past about excused from active duties,
I have not ceased to be interested in the changes
that have taken place in location, principals and
other matters, and the proud standing in the edu-
cational field, of my adma mater. Page, Perkins,
Woolworth, Cochran, Arey, Alden, Waterbury
and Milne, will go down in history as an honored
galaxy of distinguished educators of their time,
and equaled in many instances on the roll of
honor as presidents, professors and teachers in
other colleges and institutions by those who have
graduated from their classes, For under their
administration and instruction, some 15,000 stu-
dents have matriculated, and an army of 10,000
cultured ladies and gentlemen has been sent out,
trained in the art of teaching, and reflecting high
honors on the institution that gave them its di-
plomas, Probably no educational agency in our
country, or any institution, having for its object
the improvement and development of common
school education, primarily in New York, and in-
cidentally over numerous other states, has done
more to accomplish that object, than the New
York State Normal College, during the fifty-two
years of its existence. The benefits have been so
numerous and far reaching, apparent probably to
all its original opposers, that some eight or ten nor-
mal schools, I am informed, have been established
in New York alone, while other states are rapidly
adopting similar agencies for training teachers for
their common schools. Many of these trained
teachers have located in Texas, from other states,
and our own State Normal School, giving us
schools in all our larger cities equal to the best
in the older states. The work the principals and
professors of the parent school at Albany have
done in elevating the standard of qualifications
for teachers, improving text books and methods
of teaching, and stimulating investigation and
thought on these lines, is of inestimable value,
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and cannot be too highly appreciated. If allow-
able I might tell the Ecuo something of our
schools and teachers in Houston, but you are too
far away to be interested and I will only say our
high school building is almost equal in size, style
of architecture and completeness of arrangement
to your college, having cost over $100,000 and is
filled with as earnest pupils and capable teachers
as any city can produce, the graded system con-
tributing pupils from a dozen other schools in the
city. Texas is proud of her educational system
and her magnificent school fund.
Please allow me to indulge a little in looking
backward. Your magnificent college building
so beautifully fronting on Washington Park,
stands very near the spot visited by me in 1832,
when a farmer boy of thirteen, to witness the ar-
rangement and running of the first regular
passenger railroad train, over the track built
from Albany to Schenectady. The starting point
was on Washington street about one mile west of
the capitol. The rails were flat bars, like the iron
now used for wagon tires, spiked to small long
timbers. The cars were two coaches of the old
stage road pattern, seating about nine persons
each, and the locomotive a small simple affair
imported from England costing delivered a little
over $5,000. ‘The engineer stood on a platform
alone with some barrels of wood on a light tender
near him. The speed I have forgotten. Soon
after this train ran down to a station on State
street, that stood unused in 1844 when it was
fitted up for the opening and use of the State
Normal School, till 1849 when the new building
on Lodge street was ready for occupancy. There
for thirty-five years till 1884 the school prospered
and grew in popularity, till moved to the splendid
site and building it now occupies. While a
student I used to spend some time occasionally
among the legislators studying parliamentary
rules in practice; and in the state library, re-
moved like the old capitol to make room for the
new, and once listened to an eloquent speech by
Daniel Webster in the senate chamber.
In 1845 while at the Normal, the methods of
travel were so primitive that I took passage with
Mr. Page and a delegation of students over part
of the route on a canal packet boat, propelled by
horse power at a speed of four miles an hour, to
attend an educational convention in Rochester.
Now Normals take a palace car at fifty miles an
hour —soon electricity will make it seventy-five.
Mr, Page thrilled the audience by an eloquent
speech on the subject under discussion. The
several roads however, were soon completed and
consolidated, and passengers, after being hauled
up an inclined plane from the steamboat landing
at Albany by a rope and a windlass, could enjoy
a continuous ride by rail to Buffalo.
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Houston Texas, dZay, 1896.
ARBUTUS.
WALKED through woodland wild and sweet,
Through bush and tangled grasses,
Where nestle those shy, mountain flowers,
Delighting one who passes.
And all around the old dead stumps
In all the sunny places,
I found the sweet arbutus there,
Pure, happy little faces !
‘The green leaves sheltered tenderly
The flowers, some pink, some white;
And there contentedly they lay,
In that glad morning's light.
Their beauty brightened all the wood,
Their fragrance filled the air.
What fairer spot in all the earth
Than God allotted there?
They teach us many a lesson, too,
Of purity and trust;
And say: “Be humble and be sweet,
To be like us, you must.
“Through all the frozen, winter winds
We lay beneath the snow;
We trusted coming, sunny hours
As promised us, you know.
“ And so, if you in darker hours,
Would say: “’T will soon be lighter,’
You'd find sad days less often come,
And bright ones be yet brighter.”
They speak to us like some old seer,
And though their days are fleeter,
By their short life in these spring hours
All life is made the sweeter.
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‘es is the time to read spring poetry.
Ger your congratulations ready for those who
secure positions before commencement.
As long as some of the students, even, of the
State Normal College, continue to speak of it as
a school, we must expect outsiders to do the
same, Not school, but college, please.
AS an illustration of up-to-date method in
teaching Astronomy and Geology, Prof. Wetmore
has been showing his method classes some very
instructive, as well as intensely interesting, stere-
opticon views on such subjects as the formation
of the coal beds, the appearance of the sun,
spectrum -analysis, etc. Those who think that
Geology and Astronomy have no place in the
high school curriculum should visit this depart-
ment.
THE ONE ISSUE.
HEN President Cleveland in 1887 wrote to
Congress his now famous words, “A con-
dition not a theory confronts us,’ he raised an
issue which it was claimed would furnish the key
to all human misery in the United States. ‘This
year, for a change, the question bids fair to be
something else, if one can be found upon which
party lines can be drawn.
If we consider that in theory it was intended
that those questions of most vital importance
to the masses should form the dividing line be-
tween political parties, and then walk down town
in any large or small city and take a few obser-
vation lessons, we shall conclude that if the
theory had been practiced we should not be con-
fronted by the conditions that now exist.
Beside the question of the education of that
element of our population which gives us most
trouble, the tariff and the currency shrink into
insignificance. How can the tariff improve the
social condition of those who know not how to
live? how can a better currency lift to a higher
plane those who do not know how to use money ?
what else than crime can be expected of those
children who are turned loose upon the streets
to illustrate the law of the survival of the fittest ?
how can they become interested in higher things
without being able to read intelligently? how
can they govern themselves without the rudi-
ments of an education ?
We cannot presume to outline a plan of reform
for all these evils, but it is safe to assume that
hard times will exist until people are taught bet-
ter how to live and that education must form the
basis of all lasting reform. Dr. Parkhurst may
continue his crusade against corruption in city
governments; Frances E. Willard may pursue
her noble work for temperance, and statesmen
may wrestle with the currency and the tariff,
but they are trying to repair a superstructure on
an unsound foundation. There has been but
one paramount question since the Civil War, and
that is education, and until reformers and states-
men recognize it they are straining the gnat and
swallowing the camel.
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FROEBEL CELEBRATION,
ELE Kindergarten training classes of the city,
with their friends, celebrated the birthday
of Frederick Froebel, Tuesday evening, April
21, in the Kindergarten rooms and play room of
the College.
‘This is the inauguration of such a celebration,
which from the enthusiasm and interest mani-
fested, bids fair to be continued in Albany.
And it is indeed fitting that it should be so, as
those, who with sympathy and common sense
study Froebel’s ideas, will acknowledge.
The training classes from High street, the
city class and the Normal college, with their in-
structors, entered heartily into a program, which
gave the audience somewhat of an idea of Kin-
dergarten work.
The “morning circle” giving the story? of
Froebel’s life, the marching with various figures,
and the “ game circle” constituting season, bird,
trade, finger and family games made up this
program.
Refreshments and a general social hour fol-
lowed, during which time the guests were each
bidden to remember the evening by a souvenir
—a drawing of the German flag.
The rooms were decorated with German and
American flags and bunting —as American Kin-
dergarteners will always have a grateful feeling
to Germany for their son, the founder of the
Kindergarten, Frederick Froebel.
Iw his recent annual report, Supt. Skinner cites
the need of more and better supervision in our
schools, and, on the strength of this, advocates
the township system. In this connection it is
gratifying to note the success of those who go out
from this institution to fill positions requiring
supervision and criticism.
To educate a child requires a no less accurate
analysis of its mental conditions than does the
treatment of disease. Indeed, if we take the
ideal mind as a standard of comparison, educa-
tion must deal quite largely with mental disease,
so few are the minds that are entirely normal.
LECTURE ON THE “X RAYS.”
N unusually interesting and instructive lecture
on the subject of “X ray” photography,
was attended by a large and appreciative audi-
ence in the College chapel on the evening of the
25th of April. It was given under the auspices
of the Albany Collegiate Alumne Association,
by Prof. W. Le Conte Stevens, of the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute of Troy. The lecture was
illustrated with the use of two electric lanterns,
one being that belonging to the college, with
which photographs were thrown on the screen.
The other was kindly loaned for the purpose of
throwing on the screena powerful beam of light,
Dy whose means the phenomena of Zuminescence
and fluorescence were most brilliantly shown.
The lecturer of the evening, after a happy in-
troduction by our president, Dr. Milne, began
with a historical resume of the course of scien-
tific discovery which led up to this latest wonder
in science, showing portraits of Herz, Crookes
and Roentgen, with a view of the laboratory in
which the latter performed his work. It was
very impressively shown that this, like most other
epoch-making discoveries, was a logical result of
most thorough preparation on the part of the
experimenter involving previous laborious study,
highest manipulative skill and the keen percep-
tion which recognized the new phenomenon and
from a mere band of shadow on a sheet of paper
was inspired to work back, from effect to cause,
till he had evolved that which has set the scien-
tific as well as the popular mind on fire.
The lecturer then, by means of a few well
chosen illustrations, made clear in succession
the points of the wave nature of light. the rela-
tion of wave lengths to heat, vision and chemical
action, the extent of the infra red and ultra violet
spectrum, how the latter waves falling on certain
substances can haye their wave period so length-
ened that they can be perceived by the eye as
light. The experiments with the fluorescent
screens on which were drawings of flowers, a
butterfly, and finally a portrait of Prof. Roentgen
done in Thallene and made, by action of the
almost invisible violet light, to glow a brilliant
green, were especially beautiful.
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The construction of the Ruhmkroff induction
coil was next explained, with the varying effects
of its spark in air, in a partial vacumn, in the
Geissler tubes and finally in a Crookes tube
The latter had unfortunately been punctured, so
its action could not be shown.
Then followed a series of about fifty photo-
graphs, taken through an otherwise opaque cover
of black, hard rubber, showing how organic sub-
stances, gems and even the metal aluminum are
translucent to these marvelous radiations from
the negative pole of the Crookes tube, just as
even gold, in thinnest sheets, is translucent to
ordinary light. Most impressive were the pictures
taken through the hand and arm of a living per-
son, showing clearly the shadowgraphs of the
bones, some natural, some fractured, eaten away
with disease, or with foreign substances, as bul-
lets, imbedded. Even more surprising were
pictures taken through the body and head, show-
ing respectively the ribs and some detail of the
skull.
We wish that more such highly valuable lec-
tures could be enjoyed by the students of our
college.
“A GREAT MAN OF LETTERS.”
It is a great treat to hear a purely literary lec-
ture; and such Mr. Hamilton Mabie gave at the
College, Thursday evening, April 3oth—the
second in the course of the Association of the
Collegiate Alumne, Under his scholarly touch
the Elizabethan and Georgian eras took form
and color, to the delight of the audience no less
than to their instruction.
Samuel Johnson is hardly more than the
shadow of a name to most persons; and yet he
is one of the great personalities in literary his-
tory. Ina vague way he is remembered as the
author of a dictionary which, as we were kindly
reminded not long ago, is full of mistakes, as a
critic of English poets whose prejudices are
more interesting than his judgments and as the
irascible hero of a biography, by one Boswell
whom Macaulay did not altogether fancy.
Mr. Mabie, however, would have convinced
the most indifferent listener that Boswell’s Life
of Johnson is one of the most fascinating of
books and that the bluff old doctor is well
worth a more intimate acquaintance. He first
contrasted the Georgian with the Elizabethan
era, showing the limitations of the former.
Then he pointed out with great clearness the
distinction between the literary artist and the
men of letters, among whom, of course, he
classes Johnson. An interesting outline of the
life and character, the friends and acquaintances
of Johnson followed. His strength and his
weaknesses, his industry and his services to liter-
ature were all well indicated in the sympathetic
analysis to which we had the pleasure of listening.
An admirable revelation of his independence of
character and a fine example of his style are
given in the celebrated letter to Lord Chester-
field, which Mr. Mabie read. It deserves all the
praise that it has received. Less familiar to the
majority of readers, but equally worthy of fame,
is his tribute to one of his early friends, which
we venture to quote in part, to show the tender-
ness and the sentiment which were such marked
qualities in his nature. ‘There are, indeed, very
few passages which are more touching in the ex-
pression of affection and regret :
“ Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my
mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.
I knew him very early; he was one of the first
friends that literature procured me, and I hope
that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his
notice,
“His studies had been so various that I am
not able to name a man of equal knowledge.
His acquaintance with books was great, and
what he did not immediately know he could, at
least, tell where to find. Such was his ampli-
tude of learning, and such his copiousness of
communication, that it may be doubted whether
a day now passes in which I have not some ad-
vantage from his friendship.
“ at this man’s table I enjoyed many cheerful
and instructive hours, with companions such as
are not often found — with one who has
lengthened and one who has gladdened life;
with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be
long remembered; and with David Garrick,
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 9
whom I hoped to have gratified with this char-
acter of our common friend, But what are the
hopes of man? I am disappointed by that stroke
of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations
and impoverished the public stock of harmless
pleasure.”
Mr. Mabie’s lecture leaves a lasting impression
upon the mind, a sure test of such efforts. We
hope that it will not be long before we may wel-
come him again. Such lectures are among the
things which make for culture, that sweetener
of life and friend of noble deeds.
DELTA OMEGA IN SESSION.
HIS afternoon a regular meeting of the
Delta Omega society is being held in the
kindergarten rooms, at the State Normal col-
lege. ‘The program consists of a recitation from
Von Weber by Miss Bradshaw, accompanied by
Miss Chace ; poem by Miss Stowe, which she
wrote for Harper’s a short time ago; solo by
Miss Husted; Tennyson’s “Dream of Fair
Women,” read by Miss Arthur, piano accom-
paniment by Miss Chace. The fair women are
Iphigenia, Miss Collier; Thomas Moore’s daugh-
ter, Miss Jean Hamilton; Jeptha’s daughter,
Miss Wood; Fair Rosamond, Miss Lyons;
Helen of Troy, Miss Owen; Cleopatra, Miss
Hunter; Eleanore, Miss Harris, and Joan of
Arc, Miss Crissey. A paper on “American
Poets,” by Miss Howes and the concluding num-
ber is the Delta Song by quartet and chorus.
The faculty and friends of the society will be
present, and light refreshments will be served.—
Times-Union, April 24, 1896.
‘96 MEETING.
HE regular monthly meeting of the class of
96, for April, was held Friday evening,
April 24, in the Kindergarten rooms. A large
number were present and important business
occupied the first part of their evening.
By a request of the program committee, the
Delta Omega program given that afternoon was
repeated,’and the class quartette, Miss Stuart,
Miss Hunter, Mr. Rockefeller and Mr, Parker,
added two selections, to the delight of all.
‘The comparisons of different members of the
class with common flowers, as planned in a
unique way, by the social committee, completed
the evening’s pleasure.
Through these meetings the members of ’96
are becoming much better acquainted and the
class spirit growing stronger, and the class will
always look back with pleasure upon these few
meetings.
“IN THE TOWER.”
ONDON tower still stands and looks as old and
4 grimas it did centuries ago, when a maiden, Eliza~
beth, was led through its gates. No crown adorned her
head save her beautiful golden hair, for she was only
princess as yet.
Into a dark and solitary cell she was led and as she
passed through the door a ptayer arose from those who
stood around,— ‘Save her Lord, for thou canst save.”
No one wasallowed to go near her, but four little
children, babies, who abode in the tower, discovered
her and no one could prevent them going to see her.
They brought her flowers and tried to make her happy
for they seemed to know by human instinct, that she
was sad.
One day they found a key and bringing it to the cell
handed it to Elizabeth, saying: “Mistress, you are
free. You can go aboutat will, but we pray that you
wlll come back to us.”
It was discovered that Elizabeth had the key, and the
babies were brought before the council-lords and were
forbidden to go near Elizabeth again.
The children said nothing but they longed for their
playmate. The soldiers were guarding her cell so they
could not disobey if they would.
Only once a tiny boy sought and found a hole in the
wall and putiing his rosy lips to the hole, cried: “ Mis-
tress, are you there? They will not let us come to see
you any more.” Then he heard the sentry’s step and
hurried away.
Did the princess hear the voicc and wonder why her
little friends had deserted her? Did she think of them
when she became England’s queen? History does not
say.
This little childish tale still lingers about London's
great old tower and travellers from distant lands who
visit the tower, smile when they remember the little
ones who played there with Princess Elizabeth.
Hee B. Asus,
Grade VITI, Model School.
10 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
ECHOES!
RB OT weather
Has come at last !
Only five weeks more.
The last one will be gay.
Have you been on a bicycle yet?
Glee class is working hard and long.
“Blessings brighten as they take their flight.”
High School Glee class practice Wednesdays.
Have you noticed the Quicksilver’s new book-case?
Wanted —a few trains of associations and some syl-
logisms.
There are Primary and Model excursions legion, these
Saturdays.
Many college students attended the Union Glee club
concert April 22,
And the High school geology class made one to
Indian Ladder, May 9.
They were also well represented at the various con-
certs of the Musical association:
Members of '96 are beginning to get positions, and
they can tell what these strange men are here for.
The little people in the Kindergarten, and their
teachers had an interesting time sitting for pictures
May 1, The results are unusually satisfactory.
Kodaks are doing hard work as well as students
these May days. On the college steps, in 216, and in
the park seem to be favorite scenes for posing.
Certain echoes we hear yearly
‘And we think you hear them too—
There is one that comes now, clearly,
“Ts it warm enough for you ?”
Scene— Delaware avenue, time, 8 r. M. College
student looking at the moon: ‘Say, if the diameter of
my eye was six times as long, would that moon look
six times as big?”
A number of the High school students, members of
the Virgil and German classes, were charmingly enter-
tained by their teacher, Miss Moser ’96, at her home on
Madison avenue, Friday evening, April 17.
O! these are the days when the students are busy,
The graduate’s gown is the subject in hand.
We're counting the days to the wished-for vacation,
And the voice of the glee class is heard in the land.
On Friday, May 8, at 11:45, the High school, Model
and Primary pupils gathered in the college chapel
to celebrate Arbor Day.
The following program was most successfully ren-
dered :
Sone — “ Arbor Day ” — College Chorus.
Dec.— ‘‘ A New Holiday” —
Mr. Rosecrans, High School.
Rec.— “ Beautiful Trees” —
Anna Williamson, Model School.
Rec.— “ Spring House Cleaning ”—
Agnes Stevens, Primary.
Reapine —“ Plant a Tree” —
Miss Mary Kelly, High School.
Cxorus —“‘ Greeting to Spring” — Model School.
Dxc.—‘‘ Cutting off the Forest ” —
Raymond Jones, High School.
Essay — “The Planting of the Apple Tree” —
Miss Podmore, High School.
Comrostrion— “The Oak” —
Miss Hallenbeck, High School.
Quorations— Primary Grades.
Soto — Miss Grace Stuart.
Rec.—“ Palm Tree” — William Grant, Model School.
Rec.—“ The Spirit of Poetry” —
Miss May Kennard, High School.
Rec.—“ The Beautiful Brown Seed in the Furrow” —
Emma St. John, Model School.
Rac. —‘ The Joytime of the Year” —
Mary Mattimore, Primary.
Cuors —“ Gay Little Dandelion” — College Chorus.
Duc.—‘ The Oak Tree” — Dean Patten, Model School.
Quotations —‘‘ Hiawatha’s Canoe Building” —
Primary pupils,
Cuorvs — “Oh! The Sports of Childhood ” —
College Chorus:
ATTENTION '96.
Are your note books up to date?
Have you plants and bugs in store?
Better get to work,
For there’s only five weeks more.
Doyou do your drawings daily ?
Have you learned your part for glee?
The work is piling on,
And just five weeks more you see !
Have you been down to Cornell’s
To make a date for sitting?
Don’t wait a single day,
For these five weeks are flitting.
Have you sent home for some money
And bought that gown so dear?
Hurry! for in five weeks,
Commencement will be here.
Doall these little duties
To-day, or very soon,
For ’tis only five short weeks
°Till the nineteenth day of June.
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95-
‘93+
DE ALUMNIS.
. Died at her home in Albany, Ida V. Birch, ’78.
. T. Johnson, ’84, called at college May 4 and May 6.
. Jonathan Hoag, Jr., ’87, and Miss Adelaide K.
Strong married at Ft. Myers, Fla., April 28-96.
. Maud Miller, ’91, wife of Frederick K. Wood, died
at Philadelphia. Penn., April 24.
. Mr. F. B. Morse, ’92, of Pittstown, N. Y., who has
been in the mercantile business for the past two
years, was greeted by old friends at college April
17.
April 13, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John El-
wood, nee Caroline Bussing.
At New York, Wednesday evening, April 8th,
Mary Esther Carpenter, ’92, was married to Isaac
Astley Colon.
Dr. Chas. Foster Kent and wife, nee Elizabeth
Sherrill, 93, spent May 2-4 with Miss Ruth Sher-
rill, 93.
Miss Sarah Williams, '93, spent May 1-2 with Miss
Ruth Sherrill, ’93.
Prof, R, H. Bellows, of Fort Plain, is again able to
be about the house after a two months’ illness of
pulmonary trouble.
Miss Sheehan, ’95, spent April 2q with friends at
college.
Miss Mary G. Manahan, ’95, special drawing teacher
for D, C. Heath & Co., called at college April 15.
Miss Ella DeWitt, ’93, who is teaching at Johns-
town, spent April 30 to May 2 with friends in the
city
Mr. McLaury, ’95, was at college April 30 and
May 1.
Miss Laura Sutherland, ’95, of Cohoes, spent April
a1 in the Kindergarten department,
Mrs. Charles, ’95, and Miss Pease, ’95, spent the
week of April 20 in this city,
Prof. Wetmore lectured at the Madison Avenue
Reformed church April 27.
Mrs. Mooney visited the Oswego Normal school
May 4.
Prof. Huested visited the Oswego Normal school
May 7, and Cortland Normal school May 8.
Mrs. Babcock, of Rome, has been spending two
weeks with her daughter, Miss Alice Babcock,
106.
G. C. Strasenburgh, B. L. B. S. Pd. B, ’95, of
Haverstraw, was with us May 7.
PERSONALS.
M ISS VAN ESSEN called at college April 16.
Miss Frances Crawford of Cohoes called April 13.
Miss Lillian Moser, ’96, was at her home May, 1-3.
Miss Bump, ’96, spent April 28-31 in New Haven,
Conn,
Mr. Lewis Rockefeller, '96, spent May 1-4 athis home
in Valatie.
Miss Charlotte Bancroft, 96, visited friends in Troy,
April 26-28.
Mr. W. A. Sproule spent April 16-18 with Mrs,
Sproule, ’96.
Mr, C. H. Bradshaw spent April 14-15 with Miss Es-
telle Bradshaw, ’97.
Miss Zinnia Wood, ’97, was home April 15 to attend
her sister's wedding.
Miss Mabel Parker, ’97, has returned to college to
complete her course.
Miss Shiland, from Cambridge, visited Miss Bertha
Reed, ’96, May 8-10.
Mrs. C. H. Bradshaw spent April 21-22 with Miss
Estelle Bradshaw, ’97.
Miss Ruth Forrest, ’96, has accepted a position in
Deposit for next year.
Miss Estelle Bradshaw, '97, spent May 1-4 with Mrs.
Gatchell, at West Troy.
Mr. Albert A. Osborne, '97, spent May 1-4 at his
home in Poughkeepsie,
Mr. Stevens H. Parker of Geneva visited his son, Mr.
Evans Parker, '96, May 2.
Miss Mary Fenwick, of Schenectady, visited Miss
Bertha Reed, ’96, April 14.
Hon, Hadley Snyder, of Middleburgh, visited his
daughter, Mrs. Nelson, May 1.
Mr. Wm. H. Perry, president of Class of ’96, has re-
turned after his recent illness,
Miss May Chace, ’96, spent April 24-27 with Miss
Laura Sutherland, ’95, in Cohoes,
Miss Margaret Calderwood, of Gloversville, visited
Miss Myra Adams, ’96, April 25.
Mr. John A. Foote of Catskill visited his daughter,
Miss Florence Foote. ’97, April 25.
Miss Sutliffe, ’96, of the February class, now teaching
at Yonkers, called at college May 2.
Miss Marion Goodhue, ’97, returned home after ex-
aminations, to re-enter next September.
Miss Florence Braniff, of Staten Island, was at college
with Miss Elizabeth Seaton, ’97, April 13.
12 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
Miss Schultze, ’97, spent May 8-11 at her home in
Canajoharie.
Mr. George H. Payntar of Long Island City visited
his daughter, Miss Payntar, April 22-25.
Miss Mary Burlingham from Cooperstown is vi
her sister, Miss Josephine Burlingham, ’96.
ting
Dr. Milne attended the semi-annual meeting of Nor
mal School Principals, at Buffalo, May 13-15
Rev. James Deane, of Crown Point, visited his
daughter, Miss Mary Deane, '96, on April 27.
Miss Jennie Hanna, ’96, spent May 2 with Mrs. Jose-
phine Wiswall Morse, at her home in West Troy.
Miss Myra Adams, '96, will assist Mr. Brockway this
summer in establishing a Kindergarten in the Reform-
atory at Elmira.
Dr. Montfort, superintendent of Newburgh scl.ools,
was in chapel with his daughter, Miss Helen Montfort,
’97, May 6.
Mr. Sewell H. Stewart, of Allentown, Penn., spent
May 8-11 with his sisters, Miss Annie Stewart, ’97, and
Miss Sarah Stewart, '96.
Miss Lilian Moser, ’96, has accepted a position as
teacher of modern languages in Granger Place school,
Canandaigua. for next year.
Miss Florence V. Williams, who has been absent a
long time, on account of illness, called April 13. She
will return to college in the fall.
May 4 was the hundreth anniversary of the birth of
Horace Mann, At chapel Prof. Richardson gave usa
most interesting address on the life and work of this
pioneer in the cause of popular education, Our
thanks are due to Prof. Richardson for his instruct-
ive and profitable talk. It is to be regretted that
opportunities of this sort donot come more frequently.
Why may we not notice the birthdays of other prominent
American educators?
A delightful excursion to the Helderbergs on Satur-
day, May 9, was arranged for the geology classes of the
High School by their teachers, Misses Birch and Hanna.
Prof. Morrill, of the State Geological Department,
accompanied the party, and by his familiarity with the
subject and the region added much to the profit and
pleasure of the occasion. The number of specimens
brought back testify to the interest and energy of the
young geologists. The party lunched at Thompson's
Lake, and on their return came down the Indian Ladder.
The specimen secured from this historic spot was petri-
fied “aqua pura,” a rarity which was speedily subjected
to a test by each member of the party.
The excursionists were unanimous in voting this
day among the hills long to be remembered.”
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AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
‘DHE April Hermonite contains an interesting article
on the ‘Birds of New England.”
We are glad to receive The Argus again, and we quite
appreciate the descriptions of Swiss scenery.
We fully appreciate what has been so kindly said by
some of the exchanges concerning our paper.
We are always glad to receive the Normal Exponent.
There is something attractive even about the cover.
A very interesting story has been begun in The Vor-
mal College Echo of New York, and we await with interest
the arrival of the next issue.
The Student has in it an article entitled “A Pioneer
Dakota School.” One interested in the progress of
education would take especial pleasure in reading this.
A popular subject among the contributors to the lit-
erary department of many of our exchanges seems to be
toconsider woman in her various relations to historical
events.
Among several new exchanges received this month
we welcome ihe Hobart Herald, The Chronicle, The
School Record, Educational Gazette, High School Life, and
The Morris Academy Mirror.
Very many of our exchanges contain articles on the
Roentgen rays, some of whichare very interesting. We
are the better able to appreciate these articles since
hearing the excellent lecture a short time ago.
Avvaluable paper for one engaged in the profession
of teaching is the Teachers’ Institute. Many of the
suggestions would be very helpful, although, no doubt,
there are some which are more beautiful in theory than
in practice.
The Normal News contains a practical article on the
“Value of Personal Identity.” The conclusion is, “Men
who have been themselves have met the scoffs of the
world, but the world has been made better for their hav-
ing lived in it.”
We have received several new exchanges lately and,
perhaps, one of the most interesting of these is a little
paper published by the students of the Spelman Semi-
nary, Atlanta, Ga. From this we may gain some knowl-
edge of what is being done for the colored race in the
south.
The Educational Gazette has a very good article on the
subject of Geography and how it should be taught.
We are glad to find that this article agrees in its essen-
tial points with the ideas gained in the ‘ Methods in
Geography,” which we have had here and which we
have appreciated so thoroughly.
One of our very best exchanges is The Observer. On
the outer cover we find the statement that Zhe Observer
is intended ‘for people who see and think.” This is
THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO. 13
certainly proved true by the contents of the paper, and
much valuable information may be gleaned from its
pages.
The Oncontan has a good atticle on Popular Education
in France. Wt is very instructive and is written ina
manner such that the thought of the author can easily be
followed by the reader because the laws in force in France
are contrasted with those of our own country. One in-
teresting point is that in France there are one hundred
and seventy-two normal schools in a territory less than
four and a half times the size of New York.
The New Woman Question is quite thoroughly dis-
cussed in The Monthly Visitor. This little paper con-
tains two articles on the above question, one for and the
other against the new woman. From one of these
articles we note the following: “The woman's rights
movement is led and supported by representative
women, and women considerably above the average in
both intelligence and morals.”
The Union School Quarterly has in itashort but inter-
esting article on ‘School Journalism.” From it we
quote: “ Perhaps the character of a school paper is nota
fair measure of the work done in the school; it proba-
bly is not, as it is generally the work of a comparatively
small part of the pupils, but it is a pretty fair evi-
dence of the school spirit.” If this is true, and we
think it is, we should be careful that our paper shall
give to those outside our college a fair idea of the work
done here and of the spirit in which it is done.
ALL SORTS.
‘TRAGEDY IN Five Acts.
esson hard,
Teacher too,
Yellow sheet, \
Zero blue,
Boo-hoo !—Ex.
A good bookkeeper—a book case.— The Calendar.
A sign on one of our principal streets—Fotographer.
“Dear sir,” said a farmer writing to the secretary of
an agricultural society, ‘put me down for a calf.” —Ex.
Mr. Brown.—What kind of a tree do you call this?
Artist.—O! Just plain tree.
Why are books your best friends? When they bore
you, you can shut them up without giving offence.
—The Spectator.
Opportunities fly in a straight line, touch us but once
and never return; the wrongs we do others fly in a cir-
cle and come back to the place from which they
started.—Wew Ideas,
Teacher in Philosophy.—‘ What makes the food pass
down the zsophagus?”
Pupil.—‘‘ The law of gravitation.”
“What time did the hotel catch fire?” “At mid-
night.” ‘Everybody get out safely?” “All except
the night watchman—they couldn’t wake him up in
time.” —Ex,
Teacher.—‘‘ Johnny, you may give a sentence contain
ing the word unaware.
Johnny.—" My mother went to an unaware sale the
other day.”
Professor (to young lady student).
very low, and you have just passed!”
Young Lady.—‘ Oh! I’m so glad.”
Professor (surprised)—“* Why?”
Young Lady.—‘I do so love a tight squeeze.”—Zx.
Your mark is
School Teacher (who has spent a long time in making
a scholar understand a very simple matter).—“If it
wasn’t for me you would be the biggest dunce in
town.” —Ex.
A minister on receiving a basket of potatoes from one
of his parishioners said: “What's this?” ‘‘ Please,
sir,” replied the man, ‘it’s some of our very best tators
—a very tare kind. My wife said you must have some
of them, as she heard you say in your sermon yester-
day, the common-tators didn’t agree with you.”—Zx.
Habit is hard to overcome. If you take off the first
letter it will not change “abit.” If you take off another
you will stil] have a‘‘bit” left. If you take off another,
the whole of “it” remains. If you take off another it
is not ‘‘t”otally used up. All of which shows that if
you wish to get rid of a “habit” you must throw it
away altogether.— The Argus.
The following are some answers received froma prize
competition for the best definition of the new woman :
Madam become Adam.
Man’s last and best reason for remaining single.
The unsexed section of the sex.
One who has ceased to be a lady and has not yet be-
come a gentlemen.
A creature of opinions decided and skirts divided.
A new damn on the original blue stocking. —Zz.
The common things around about everywhere afford
the keys to the interest, attention, and consequent de-
velopment of all the different subjects; and the teacher
who is an adept in serving this mental food has nearly
solved the knotty problem of a correct system of educa-
tion.—New Ideas,
Never dawdle. It is worse than not studying at all,
for, with every minute wasted, the power to put our
whole selves into our work is definitely weakened.—Zz.
14 THE NORMAL COLLEGE ECHO.
COLLEGE NOTES.
LL the commissioners on the Venezuela Boundary
Committee are Yale graduates.—Zz.
The ladies’ literary societies of Oberlin, have been
holding a mock session of the House of Representa-
tives.—Zx.
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's son, Vivian, the original
“ Little Lord Fauntleroy,” isa Harvard student.—Zz.
Any student at Cornell who receives eighty-four per
cent for a term mark is exempt from examination,—
The Stevens' Life,
America has three hundred universit’es and England
ninety-four, yet there are two thousand seven hundred
and seventy-eight more professors in the latter than in
the former. — Zz,
The petition made by the president and faculty of
Middlebury College, Vt., asking for the adoption of
the metric system of weights and measures, has been
presented fo Congress.
We have seen many indications of rapid growth in
the Western States, but perhaps one of the most strik-
ing instances may be found in the fact that Ohio has
more colleges than any other State in the Union. Illi-
nois follows after having the next largest number.
“Delegates from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn-
sylvania, Cornell and Columbia met representatives
from various preparatory schools last month, in order
to obain uniform entrance requirements, so says Zhe
University Herald. This seems to be a step in the right
direction,
We find that the young ladies in some of our western
institutions of learning are becoming very much inter-
ested in athletic sports. The young ladies of two of
these schools have been preparing fora contest which
was to consist of a basket ball game, a thirty-yard dash
and a 120-yard hurdle race,
Cornell was the successful contestant in the debate
with the University of Pennsylvania, which was re-
cently held in Ithaca, The question was: Resolved,
That the Federal Government should provide, by pub-
lic taxation, for the establishment and maintenance of
a National University at Washington.” Pennsylvania
had the affirmative.—2z.
According to the will of the late Hart A. Massey,
several of the colleges of Canada have received liberal
endowments. Mr. Massey also bequeathed to the
American University, Washington, D. C., $50,000 for
the purpose of erecting a building to represent Cana-
dian Methodism in that University. Besides this he
has bequeathed $10,000 to the Rev. D. L. Moody’s
schools at Northfield, Mass.
Eliza M. Mosher, M. D., has recently been unani-
mously appointed professor of hygiene and woman dean
of the University of Michigan. ‘This is another step in
advance and shows that people here in the United States
do not intend to be far behind the people of England in
recognizing the abilities of women.
REVIEWS.
The Review of Reviews for May is an exceedingly alert, and
well-planned number, true from beginning to end to the well-
Imown methods and’ ideals of, this unique periodical. ‘The in-
dispensable department of Leading Articles of the Mouth, which
the original features of the Hevicw, of Reviews have sometimes
seemed to be crowding just a little, fs allowed in the May number
fo have its full space. In the compass of about forty pages one
finds a remarkably thorough and Varied digest of the most sig-
nificant articles in the newest issues of the principal American,
English, and continental periodicals. The illustration of thé
Review of Reviews has been improving decidedly during the past
few months on account of better printing. The Review goes to
press after the other monthly periodicals are all printed, and in
view of its timeliness requiring very rapid mechanical execution,
its typography and pictures are temarkably handsome, ‘The
most important orizinal feature in this number is entitled “The
Great. Occasions of 18%,” Tn a rapid narrative fashion, with
due regard to dates and precise facts, the reader is apprised of
all tho great gatherings and conventions of a political, religious, or
educational character, foreign expositions, and noteworthy events
in general that:the coming six months will afford to American and
Huropean travelers. Mr. W, T. Stead, furnishes a character sketch
of that ever interesting personality, M, de Blowitz, of Paris, the
cosmopolitan journalist who represents the London Ties.
Sir. Chatles D. Lanier writes with sympathy and discemment
concerning the life and literary work of the late Judge Thomas
Hughes, author of that most famous of all boys’ books Tom
Brown at Rugby.” Mr. Albert Shaw, editor of the Review, gives
an account of Mr 'R, George's interesting experiment
uummer vacation camp, where
‘ork are
maintenan
‘The experiment is one that might well be attempted in the
vicinity of every large town in the country. ‘Phe editor's depart-
Iment, entitled "The Progress of the World,” coversas usual the
field of American and European politics, and of general social
progress, while the department of ** Current History in Cariea~
lure,” with about thirty reproductions from the work of Ameri
can and foreign cartoonists, throws many a keen and pertinent
sidelight upon the course of events, This number of the Review
is entertaining from beginning to end.
‘The North American Review tor May contains an article on
‘The Engineer in Naval Warfare,” by several prominent naval
engineers. i
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, writes on ‘Western Feeling
‘Toward the East.”
The Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstoue contributes the fifth of a series
of articles on “The Future Life and the Condition of Man
wherein.”
G. Irvin Hopkins, teacher of mathematics at Manchester, N.
HL, has written a book called “Plane Geometry on the Heuristic
jan.”
‘This book was published primarily for the benefit of the au-
thor's pupils, and secondarily for teachers who are using pro-
gressive methods and fail to find a suitable text-book,
‘The work consists principally of questions and propositions.
‘The original problems are not mere side issues,
Demonstrations are given only when the average child would
be at a loss to proceed. i
‘The old division into books has been abolished. Sac
‘There are comparatively few diagrams, the pupil making his
own as he needs them,
‘The pupil is required to state the reverse of propositions, and
also to make practical application of the knowledge gained.
‘This book deserves success.
D, 0. Heath & Co, publish a text-book entitled “ Geometry for
Grammar Schools,” by B, Hunt, LL. D.. ‘This text-boole con-
tains some algebra, Some equations are included, and letters
are used to quite an extent. The plan of teaching is develop-
ment by dictation, 'The pupil is required to think: and do.
"he selection of a text-book in geometry for use in Schools
requires great care, as — A
“hings ill-begun make strong themselves by ill,
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A SUGGESTION
HE editor reads the pile of exchanges on his
desk and in, some obscure paragraph per-
haps, catches a thought that starts a train of ideas
and results in a leading editorial. The lawyer
with an intricate case on his mind in reading
he trial of a case entirely unlike his own mayt
find something that suggests an opportunity for
securing more evidence bearing upon his own
case.
These illustrations show that, whether in law,
journalism, or in pedagogy, to catch an idea
work it out, and apply it while it has value con-
stitute a large measure of success.
It matters not whence the suggestion comes,
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at some dawn of knowledge or those that show
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the case may be has attended certain practices
and that accordingly they should be repeated or
avoided. “Straws tell which way the wind
blows,” and “A word to the wise is sufficient.”
The true interest is not in the book but in the living,
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be no monotony in the schoolroom, for no two minds
are alike, no two pupils are demanding just the same
thing, The lessons are like an ever-changing kaleido-
scope. Each day is anew life, each lesson a new and
pleasant experience. The pupil has never been just
there before, and so the teacher is wandering in new
and ever-varying fields, guiding, assisting, enthusing
the minds that confide in his leadership.— The Oneontan.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing
what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do,
without a thought of fame.— Longfellow.
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of study; pile up your thousands in costly buildings
and modern equipments; place in charge the wisest
and best trustees and most devoted superintendent, and
all must fall a dead, flat failure if you neglect to provide
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