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WANTED.· MonE MA"KET All the Normal College Trade. l 2 7 Congress Street. We guarantee all ou.r work in the Fed Tailoring Line. Bred ome Slaughtered. BOYCE, The Tailor. H Phone 339 2 R. Cor. Congress and Washington OYSiEUS, FISH HND GBJIIE IN SEHSOJ. Up Stairs. V6UGHT & R6GERS. e1ILL 1IT MY+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++x WALLACE & CLARKE'S· F0R Students i+ +I + + + Library 1 Parlor and l Come in and get weighed and if t+ Dining ·Tables. l You do not gain one pound a day t : It is because you do not t t Get your Meats from i + + ! F. C. Bal)gbart'S i !+ M,at Mark,t i+ + + l It was established in 1886. i l I sell nothing but home i l Slaughtered Meats of the very ; l Best Quality. l + + i F. C. BANGHART. . i l Meat Market, 207 Congress St. Wallace & Clarke, + i + 208 : + Union Block. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++� AD\IERTJSEMEN o'S. ,.If In doubt" t4.> wbcther your..... STUDENTS ��Eyes � I have just what you want in ....Are Klvlng )'OU S!ood servl<;e, aak•.•• STUDY TABLES, BOOK CASES, HEGLUND, DESKS, STUDY CH4/RS, 1 b,: Graduate Optlcla• tDd ll,efracUon1,t. ROCKERS OF ALL KINDS. New Building Suites and Single Rooms \Vilh All Conveniences. furnished, to Rent. J. E. MOORE & CO. MRS. E. M. NEWTON, Ne\\•too H. P.1\IRC:?HILO. Boarding House. 207 Hamilton St. Prapdetor <>( Hing Lee City /'\.e�t 1'\.�rl{tt. CHINESE LAUNDRY Ota.re... in Opposite the Postoffice. Salt, Fresh and Smoked Meats 1->oultry. Game and Fish. J. P. WESTLAKE, Tailor, Spreial atce,uioo th·en tu Students' T radc. Ov�r D.:nsmor�·s Clothing Store. Sufi! m.1de to No. 1,1 Huron .St. order, up ..to .. ad te ,lnd pr-ic¢$ are riAht. S.1ti,Ja,.. tion guarJntecd. N. B. -In conncctCon Miss Lizzie f.1.:i�gk will male;.>T ai1or Suits. m.1ke over ANO Coats, Fur!, etc. TRUNKS BAGGAGE Carried to all parls of the C:ity. Students H. CALBERT, 423 Perrin Street. Are invited to inspect our stock of Come in, Fellows! �'e arc located opposite the Ha'J.·kfns House at the old stand. You ,lre always Shoes. welcome. Our pl.1ce has long been the See for yourself that we h ..ve the BF.ST Headquarters for Students QUAJ,TTY f, r the LEAS'!' MONEY. The Finest "fhree,Chalr Shop in the Chicago Shoe Store. (;i,y. Sh.1mpO(ling and Hair Or¢S$ing a Specia fty. · KEUSCH & SHEPHARD. BDUCATB FOR BUSINBSS At' The Central . . . 'l'he leading Prescription Drug Slore of lh(;: city DUANE :SPALSBURY. I J 12 ConRress St. ADVERTISEMENTS. H. 0. GROSE, T'HE WHITE FRONT. 1900. 11881. IOS CONORESS STREET The Normal Photographer. We have been in the Grocery Business over eighteen years at this stand, and during this time we have advertised a great 416 Brower St., Opposite 1'{aln Entrance. deal with the Normal Boys and Girls. We invite you to iriveus a share of your patronage, and we will give you good Groceries to eat while you are getting Views, Club and Class Pictures, Interiors and Flash a good Education. Don't forget that you can reach us by telephone. lights. Finishing Amateur Work Our delivery lea-ies at 8:00 and 11:00 A, M., and 4:00 P. M. a Specialty. First Prize in Washtenaw Fair Contest. A. A. GRAVES. The Grocer. 105 Congress Street, • Ypsilanti, Mich. 11 12 1 2 Office Hours: to a. m.; to p. m. Telephone 144. A full pound of high-grade paper, neatly padded, for r o cents. Scharf Tag, Label & Box Co .. The Anti-Trust Printers ADVERTISEM r NTS. First National Bank. Buy Your.BAKED GOOPS from STUDENTS WELCOME. CLARK� Ci'155 Ypsilanti, Mich. And Get the Best. 119 eONGJlESS ST�e.eT. WE A.RE MEAOQUARTE.RS for 1000 thinir,i lo b�lp make your l'U.im�l Students of the Normal College fLOWEBS ... Who need anything in 'Ythecc yo11 c-au bll.Y'° Groceries, Baked Goods tbeus .t"'tcsb. l ha�·e a i;v<1ilauvpty at an tinic�. or Confectionery Charles P. Will find their best.interests Krzysske, Served by calling at St.ate•'Phone:' 26 228 Congress. un 21..'5 $. Washlt•t:rt<>o St, 'Phone t23. P. erman & Scott. Chase.& Sanbourn's Choice Teas and STU DENTS! TRY $ Coffees. .... I.eave orders at.... $ G. B. DUNLAP. 416 Brower Street, ....or .... To the Deaf. Normal Book Store, ....for .... A rich lady, cured of !:er Deafness ,t1id Xuises in t,ba Head by Dr J\ichol son's /\rtifich1l Ear Drums, gave $10,. QENEKAL [)"AYINQ.- 000. tobis Institute, so th,it deafpeoplfl tnmble to procure the E,ir Drums ma.y Students' IVork A Specialty. h"'vo them frrie. Address. E. D. MAYBEE, Drayman. No. 5878c1 The Nicholson lnstitute, 780 Eighth Avenue, Ne\\' York, u. $./�. Call 'Phone 14. ADVERTISEMENTS Students-----<.... 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SIHIAl.lL Goods ,..-arraute .We will make you the best at $2.00 ??• ?????• ???? • _;:::·���:"/ All />kl,. per doz�n Cabinet size in the latest style. llave just got in a lot of new ????????????? :tf:� cards, you should see tbetn. Extras at $1.50 per dozen. ??????????????? PILBEAM'S PHOTO STUDIO, Makers of Up·to·Date Photos, 124 Congress St. G. M. GAUDY MAKt� Of Ttl e Famous "Delicious" and "Bittersweet" Chocolates. Ackno"·ledged by Hll tQ be the finest couft:ction on the market. FRESH. PURE. DELICIOUS. Oor lee Cre::iu,1 Ices and Punch are leaders ; waking new cus tomers J. O. DIMOSH, G, 8, DEMOSH, DEMOSH &. SON. Fine livery No. 3 Congress Street, PHONlt 54. YPSILANTI, MICH. 272 THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. Open Mindedness, 33. DIRECTORY. Our Nation's Safeguard, 198. LITERARY SOCIETIES. p A theneum Society. · Problem and Function of School Supervision, President, Frederic Zeigen. The 222. Vice - president, Edna Doty. Pi Kappa Sigma, l7, 56,118, 147, 236. Secretary, Emma Adams. Phi Delta Pi, 17, 117, 175, 207. Q Olympic Society. President, 0. E. Balyeat. Queen Victoria, 227. Vice-president, Ellen P_ilcher. R Secretary, Gertrude Greely. Robert,, E. Lee, 1. Crescent Society. Rome History of, 2 9. President, Joseph Gill. Report of the Junior Class " Kicker," 150. Vice-president, Edith M. Thomas. Religious Characteristics of the Government Secretary, Kate M. Morse. of Massachusetts Bay Company in New England, 161. Athletic Association. R, The Letter 180, 239. President, Omar M. Gass. Reporter, The 212. Vice-president, Phillip Dennis. s Secretary, Carey Ireland. Treasurer, Prof. S. B. Laird. Schoolmasters' Club, The 89. Basket Ball M.anager, M. Everett Dick . Sistine Madonna, The 94. Base Ball Manager, Leon A. Stebbins. State Teachers' Association, 109. M. I. A. A. Director, L. P. Whitcomb. Singing School, The 113. Spring Idyl, A 168. Y. M. C. A. Sociological Study of Ypsilanti, 189, 216. President, Horace Z. Wilbur. Some Evidences of an Education, 195. Vice-president, J .. E. Van Allsburg. Seven-twenty-eight, 209. Corresponding-Secretary, H. E. Rice. Ship Ahoy, 231. Y. W. C. A. Shakespeare on Baseball, 242. President, Bertha Van Riper. Sigma Nu Phi, 117, 147, 207. T Vice-president, Emma Parmater. General Secretary, Helen Elgie. Training School, The 50, 90. Ora!orical Association. The Use of the Historical Novel in Teaching President, Charles E. Leforge. History. 201. Vice-president, Alice M. Hunter. Tale of a Stamp, 211. u Secretary. A. 0. Goodale. Webster Club. Use of the Historical Novel m Teaching History, The 201. President, E. C. Kittell. v Vice-president, 0. E. Balyeat. Secretary, Harry Rice. Vaccination Ordeal, The 120. Victoria, Queen 22 7. w CHURCHES OF YPSILANTI. What is Worth While, 24, 43, 76. Baptist-Corner Cross and Washington Streets. Was our Mexican War Justifiable, 100. Rev. Brown, Pastor. Weather Signals, 120. Ca tholic-Corner Cross and Hamilton Streets. Wanted-a Name, 134. Re'v. Father Kennedy, Pastor. ''W'', 141. Co ngregational-Corner Adams and Emmet Sts. Rev. Aldrich, Pastor. Y. M. C. A., 17, 149, 236. Ep iscopal-Huron Street. Rev. Gardam Rector. Y. W. C. A., 58, 87, 120, 148, 177. Methodist-:-Corner Washington and Ellis Streets. z Rev. Allen, Pastor. Zeta Phi, 55, 147, 176. NOTE.-The contents of this number do not appear in this Presbyterian-Cotner Washington and Emmet index. Streets. Rev. Wharton, Pastor. • HIE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. 2il INDEX FOR 1900-1901. 0 Cood Xight, 133. A ti Alumni Notes. 11, 61, 209. History of Ro111e, 29. Holland Cheese and German Birthday �· o( .!I. Camp, 17. i\ Pleasaut Reception, 22. Cakes, 53. Athletic Mass Meeting, 23. High School J!nglish in Ninth an The following also won the cup for class THE TRAINING SCHOOL. club swinging : The closing exercises of the Training School Murray, Whitcomb, were held Friday morning at 10 o'clock. A Stitt, Travis, Van Allsburg, large audience filled the hall and enjoyed the Melody, Fuller, Whitney. well rendered program : Spinning Song - The school. This makes the third successful year that . -Characters from history and literature - the Normal has won this cup and it therefore Sixth grade children. belongs to us permanently. In the hammer ·Recitation -Ethel Allen. throw Edmonds broke the intercollegiate Song, "The Froggie's Singing School n record as well as his own by throwing it 113 - Second grade. ft. 5 in. · Few other records were broken, but Kitty's Arithmetic - Fanny Brady. altogether the meet may be said to have been Action Play, "A Visit to the Country " - a very successful one. First grade. The closing exercises of the women's gym - Song, '' The Boating Song '' - Fifth grade. nasium were held last Friday evening. As is Recitation, " Do Your Best " - Percy Col - usual at these exercises standing room was at van. a premium, and the girls did excellent work The Kindergarten Band- Selection. along the various lines, reflecting great credit Japanese Song - Fourth grade. on their instructors. The work of the class The Flag Dance - Second grade. in Physical Training 9, or. those who have Recitation, "The School " - Marjorie had three years of the work, deserves especial Travis. mention. The military marching and resthetic Song, "The Woodpecker " -Third grade. gymnastics were very good while the mass Bar bells - Eighth and ninth grades. dumb bell drill given by 126 girls on the floor Imaginative Stories : '' When I Was a at once, showed great mark and precision Pollywog, Florence Thayer : '' How I Became among the first year people. The ever popu a Frog,'' Louise Duel ; '' Story of the Mon - lar basket ball game between the Stars and strous Fish,'' Anna Sinkule. Reserves resulted in a score of 18 to 8 in favor Musical dumb -bells - Fourth grade. of the Star team. Thfs is the team which Song, ' ' Where the Fairies Dwell ' ' -Sev - defeated the Lansing girls, 26 to O last Feb enth grade. ruary. This year's Reserve team gives prom - Recitation, '' Our Heroes ''- Clarence N eir. ise of being a winning team next year against Flag Salute. all comers. The following program was We know of nothing so well calculated to rendered : put the reading public out of humor as to PART 1. begin a very interesting account of some Ring March and Run .. Phys. Tr. 3 scientific discovery, replete with interest, and Balance Exercises Phys. Tr. 9 just as the reader's mind is thoroughly Mass Dumb-bell Drill Phys. Tr. 2 and 3 Fan Drill Phys. Tr. 9 imbued with the subject and a gigantic effort Apparatus Work being made to grasp it in all its bearings, away goes the author in some patent medicine PART 2. or new fangled hair renewer ; for instance, Military Marching Phys. Tr. 9 Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, Indian Club Swinging Miss Cross as now improved and perfected, which, by Irish Lilt Phys. Tr. 6 JEsthetic Gymnastics Phys. Tr. 9 '.lhe way, is an article of genuine merit, and Hoop Drill Phys. Tr. 6 has really done wonders in the hair producing Basket Ball - Stars vs. Reserves way, as hundreds of certificates from well known citizens amply testify. THE NOllMAL COLLEG c NEWS. 269 N. C. A. A. The prospect.<; for a strong team next year are also very good. S1nith, \.\•ho ha� been play� At a recent meeting o! th� Athletic Asso ing left field and alternate l)itchcr, bas shown up finely this y�ar. Will Gannon will proba ciation the following officers were elected for . the coming year : President, Joseph Gill; bly catch, Capt. Dennis will be at his old place at short stop, and Ireland at third _base.' vice-president, Fred. J. Scovill; secretary, Carey H. Ireland; treasurer, Prof. S. R. Res.er\"es Day, �test, Death, and Partch have T,aird ; basket ball u,anager, W. A. Whitney; · sho,vn uµ ,vell as out-fielders tlJis y�ar. base ball manager, J. E. Van Allsburg; On Friday morning June 7, about J SO kit M. I. A. A. director, C. P. Steimle. on a special train for Hillsdale to attend the fot,rteenth annual field day of the M. I. A. A. At a mcetiug of the base ball team, Mr. With a base ball team with a percentage of .1:'hillip H. Dennis, our star first baseman, was 1000� a winning club s,vinging class and a dectcd captain for next year. speedy track tearn, our prospects were very 'l'he bcaittiiul gold' medal offered by S. E. bright for "�inning laurels. 'the "°·eather, Dodge, the jewelers, for the best batter 011 the however, was very cool and the base ball tean1 was ·\von hy )Ir. L. E. Righter, ,vho has diarnond -lvas co1nposed of sand, s,,vamps, been p]aying center-field. It was one of hitching posts, creeks, picket fences, \\•ith the Righter's many hits that saved the ga1ne at· battery on the crest of a little hill. Together Kalaiua>oo. �vittl this fate \Vas against us, especially in Probably the hardest fought game that has the fatal first iuuing \Vhere the ga1.ue ,,·as lost. been played in the intercollegiate for many On Friday, Albion won from Olivet by a score years. ,v as bet,¥een the Nornlals and Kazoo's ol 6 to S, the for1ner u1akiug four scores in at Ka.lan1azoo, on June 1. It took 15 inniugs the ninth h1ning. to decide the \Vh1uer aud tht! Nor111al tea1n On Sah.trtlay the great event ,vas on and fit1ally \it•on out, thereby keeping their per Albion with about ·100 rooters, succeeded in centage 1000. 'l.'he following i5 o! iutert:'st: pulning victory from defeat. After th PETERS, L. F. STEBBINS, MANAGER. TEETZEL, COACH. RIGHTER, c. F. SMITH, R. F. KING, s. s. GANNON, 2d B. GASS, CAPT. c. SHERMAN, P. DENNIS, lST B. IRELAND, 3DB. INTERCOLLEGIATE RECORD. Albion ·Normal Kalamazoo 7 Normal 8 9 14 Hillsdale 6 ,, M. A. C. 11 '' 14 29 Hillsdale 0 M. A. C. 8 '' 10 ,, 9 '' Kalamazoo 7 27 Albion 16 5 , THf NOIIMAI. COLlfGf NEWS. 267 O. s �·(. Gass. uperintendent, i\·fcRrides. Ali ce llunter;- mathematics H. S., Three A. E. Sherman, principal 11. S., Durand. Rivers. Hattie l:'hdps, grades, Marshall. Lyla Clark, Cheboygan. Edna{,. Skjuner, grades, Ypsilanti. :\{innie }>('rkins, Decatur. Sarah M. Wood, Coldwater. Gracia Chesnutt. Latin H. S., Howard City. Edith Thomas. English iu H. S., Coldwater. Raye ?rJcKc-nua, music nntl drawing, Tecun1- Em1ua (}ood1;<;h, grades, .Pontiac. seh. I. lt Chapman, principal ,vard school , Sault Ste. Marie. Fraternities and Sororities. A. J. Stevens, principal ward school, Sault Ste. Marie, PBl l>P.1/l'A. PI. M. Everett Dick, science, Hollaucl. The last party of the year given by the Righter, principal 11. S., Lapeer. L. E. fraternity was hdd in Light Guard Armory, 1'.iarie !{opp� second grade, critic. Normal, ou the cving of March 14. Several of the old Mt . .l:'kasant. 1ne1nbers \vere back and the excellent 111usic, Grace Cle111ent, second grade-, Pontiac. floor. an : 266 THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. I was called a few years ago, and we can say Loa Secor, grades, Bronson. · i truthfully that it would be a relief to Ypsi if H. R. Dumbrille, science, Traverse City. • I they would look elsewhere for teq.chers. Helen A. Albertson, 8th grade criti<', Normal, The Aurora for 1901 is something of an Mt. Pleasant. innovation. It excels all previous numbers Estella C. Schneider, Mt. Pleasant. of the college annual in the number of plates Rena M. ·Townley, . grades, Coldwater. used, the quality of paper and is strictly up A. J. Dann, superintendent, Lake Odessa. to date jn every respect. The editorial work C. A. Graves, superintendent, Dexter. is of the best and in general design is truly W. N. Isbell, superintendent, Fowlervi�le. representative of every phase of college life. P. P. Mason, superintenden.t, Reed City. No student should leave Ypsi without one of G, W. Gannon, Manilla, Philippines. the handsome souvenir volumes, and no loyal A. 0. Goodale, Manilla, Philippines. stude.nt will. You will always regret it unless M. Josephine Osgood, high school, Minneap- you buy one. They are on sale at the corner olis. store. Buy one before you leave ! Sarah J. Brooks, high school, Birmingham. E. C. Kittell, principal, Watrousvil_le. The Normal Year Book for 1900-1901 is J. E. Sumner, superintendent, Washington, now ready for distribution. It will be noticed Mich. that especial stress is laid on the advanced H. Z. Wilber, superintendent, Marlette. courses and urges teachers to better prepare E. J. Van Deventer, principal H. S., Ithaca. for their work. The degree is now given for E. L. Hayes, principal ward school, Reed City. one year's work in residence after the life A. Beryl Miller, first grade, Ypsilanti. certificate and diploma and three years' sue · Grace Hammond, first grade, Pontiac. cessful teaching. There are several interest :l?essie Goodrich, sixth grade, Pontiac. ing items among- the statistics, some of which Jennie Bull, grades, Pontiac. are given below. · The "year" extends from Helene Pretty, grades, Dexter. July 1, 1900- to July 1 190-1. Elizabeth Hamilton, assistant H. S., Cheboy- Enrollment for the year, men. 298 gan. · Enrollment for the year, women, 1200 Erma Arnold, grades, Sault Ste. Marie. Number entering this year, 621 Elsie Maxam, grades, Crystal Falls. Number who have taught, 737 Nellie Carpenter, grades, Owosso. Total. emrollment ( deducting those Leila P. Best, sixth grade, Jackson. counted twice), 1348 E. R. Chapman, principal ward school, Sault Total enrollment in Training School, 321 Ste. Marie. Total attendance in College and Train - Loresta Sprang-, grades, Morrice. ing School, 1670 Josephine Nevins, Latin and German, Nash- ville. WHERE WE GO. Cora A. Reeve, third and fourth grades, Flint. The following is an incomplete list of those Carrie L. Yutz, Latin and German, Dexter. who have secured positions for the following Nellie Pakes, grades, Duluth. year. 'It will doubtless be of interest to many Lula Dukette, grades, Mendon. who will scatter after having taken two years France Conrad, Latin and German, Reed City. or more of work together. Elfreada Betzner, grades, Woodmere, Detroit. Clara E. Carson, Latin and German, Mendon. Ira M. Moore, superintendent, Hart. Estelle V. Withey, seventh grade, Coldwater. F. H. Sooy, superintendent, Milan. Ethel Tice, fifth and sixth grade, Decatur. T. Goodfellow, superintendent, Belleville. A. L. Phillips, superintendent, Bronson. P. G. McWhinney, superintendent, Hesperia. J. H. Kempster, grammar grades, Bronson. E. R. Rice, superintendent, Blissfield. TltE NORMAL COLLF.Ge NEWS. \'\.:' elco1ne to our \•isitiug alunini. Local and Personal. t.ii�� i\.ngie Sherwood 93' ha."' heen ,:isiting· Co1n1nence111er1t \\'CCk. ! Miss Ruell. .Mrs. F. C. R11rto11 will study at Howard Miss Jessie Kohler ente1�ained her father duriu�; the su1n1ner. and mother from Lapeer las( week. t.list. Louise Petit · entertained her �i�Ler Yes, the fever has struck· Ypsi! 'l'hc boys. fro1n Buchanan last week: are enjoying to the 11t1nost the shirt Wl-1.ist,. �tiss Ida Davis of Chicago has heen visit - bttl the girls seem to he a little cooler with ing 1\-fiss Josephine Xevins. thei1· net ,v aists ! )1iss �:fyrA. Parsons ,v�-ts the guest of ):liss A dull student in Latin has rlifficulty with Rishoµ at the Sign1a Nu Phi ho11!--e I\iay 31. the follo,ving- sentence: HRex fugit." Ile J tran:slates, ''The king fleas." 'l'�a<:hcr-'l'he !\Iiss Clara llC'arc.h;ley ,vas rtcently called to 11 verb ' 'fuJ;!it if; in the perfect tense. tnser t her home by the sudd�n d�ath of her lather. . "bas.'·' the sign of the perfect. Stu . THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS Our associate editors have done all that was PUBLISHED MONTHLY. asked of them and not once during the two years has the faculty interfered with anything 57A 7 E NORMAL COLLEGE, that bas been published. We have endeavored Ypsilanti, Mich. to keep THE NEWS independent in all mat ,ters ; no society prejudices, no class feeling Editor-in�Chief. EDWIN S. MURRAY, 'oo. has been admitted intentionally. We have Business Manager, tried to make each department interesting and GEORGE W. GANNON, '01. so far as possible instructive. Our greatest criticism has been that the paper was dry. To ASSOCIATE EDITORS. this we simply say that we hope you may get E. C. KITTELL I a chance to make a similar college paper of C. B. WHITnOYER � Literary Societies M. EVERETT DICK, J forty pages full of things of great interest to· BESSIE B. GOODRICH '01. Local A. E. SHERMAN '01, Athletic everybody. We wish to thank the b.usiness manager for SUBSCRIPTION : the promptness and business-like manner in Co llege Year, $1.fJO which his affairs have been conducted. For Single Copies, .15 the neatness in the appearance and design of the paper we are indebted to our printers, Rates for advertising furnished upon application. Address all orders for subscriptions, articles for publication, etc., to The Scharf Tag, Label & Box Co. The work THE NORMA E E NEWS, Ypsilanti, Mich. L COLL G has shown for itself and in every instance bas. PRESS OF THE SCHARF TAG, LABEL & BOX CO. been a credit to the office. We have found Mr. Coe and the compositors in the office,. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post-office at Ypsi lanti, Michigan. prompt and willing to accommodate, and we· feel grateful to them for the patience and for EDITORIAL. bearance with which they have endured the whims of '' ye editor.'' Volume XX. Number 9, of THE NORMAL Since our last issue the business manager COLLEGE NEWS is now put before the public. for 1901-02 has been appointed. Mr. Clem It is with mingled feelings of pleasure· and ens P. Steimle · of Atlantic Mirie has been regret that we write this, our last editorial. chosen to look after the business affairs of the Though with this we sever our connection paper. Although the editor has not yet been with the paper, our interest in its welfare will chosen, we feel sure that THE NEWS next continue. year will not be a disappointment to anyone. During the past two years which ''ye editor' ' Send your name and address to the business has served on the paper there have been many manager before you leave ·and keep in touch ' experiences which in after years will be looked with your Alma Mater next year. upon with a feeling of satisfaction. We have learned to appreciate its columns and are bet ter able to understand what it means to put a The article in this number on " The Tend magazine or book before the public. Many encies Toward Sectionalizatio.n,'' was written kind r-emarks of commendation have been by a fourteen -year-old student in the eight extended to the paper for its success, for grade of the training school. It was written which we return our sincere thanks. But we in four days as a summing up of the work of accept these commendations only in so far as the period of which it treats and shows the they are· for work honestly and faithfully remarkable results which may be obtained by· done ; nor to ourselves do we take all the reviewing history as related in periods rather credit. than abstract facts. THE NORMAL CO L LEGE NEWS. 263 and snch pa.rty, n1entioning his o,vn, has In the next act oi lhis grin1 clran1a, you are already begun to see the demand and exped elected. The rlisappointccl can,lidates and iency of placing- iu t.heir platforn1 a plank their friends have vied with each other in upon ,vhich you· and _your fello,\• refor1ners passing uucomplin1entary re111arks about you, may stand. Xo,v thii:; statcn1cut ,vill be the school fro1u ,vhieh yo·1 are a graduate1 equally true . o{ any of the leading parties, the co1-1rse tpere pursued, aucl 1nany other i:i ince they aH tr;y to incorporate those useful things, 11t1til jn direct opposition to their ai111 outsid� n1inorities. and intent they have: flattered each other into 1:"ollo,"• u.p '"•ith a resun1e 1nore or less good humor. SHOULD THE SUPERINTENDENT BE A POLITICIAN ? Read Befor� the Class in School Supervision. C. B. WHITMOYER. INCE school boards are sometimes .com - expecting it to be the same as his own. Now S posed of men espousing the same polit my young friends, i. e. , young in superin ical creed, and since they prefer to select a tending, if you are furnished with some of ' man affiliated to their party, it would s·eem a that penetration of mind which this pedagog very desirable part of a superintendent's pro - ical department has to give away, this ques fessional equipment to be thoroughly versed tion will be no surprise to you. You will in the science of government. Not indeed previously have ascertained the politics of narrowed down to the views and aspirations each one on the board. of some one party, but, like the wily journal In case you may not yet have the data well ist who adjusts his convictions to suit the memorized, you had better p�ss the time away party press from which he receives the highest - while innocently drawing the said data financial tribute, so also, should the broad from your pocket - in saying that you must minded prospective superintendent acquaint confess you are but little inclined to discuss himself with the traditions and tenets of all politics, (meaning of course just now, and the political parties. Then with this fund of, with him). By this time, having consulted information regarding political movements, he the slip of paper, you know how he stands. would be able, with much secret satisfaction, If you agree with him, tell him so, it will do to congratulate himself on being an educated you both good. He will exclaim in animated man, that is, one who is able to adjust him admiration, '' 1 thought so. '' self to his environment. If you find he is opposed to your ticket, When applying 'for a position, some mem - you might tell him that you advocate the ber of the board -to whom you may appear principals of the Union Labor Party, whose above the ordinary in intelligence, an� whose chief aim is to give work to. the unemployed, impression of you is of the sort to feed your· ( meaning yourself, of course) . If now by vanity - he, feeling sure that no such moral, any psychological process you can get the social, or intellectual excellence exists outside connection with the instruction you received his party, may be emboldened to. e.sk you in the history department you should continue straight out what your politics are, confidently this ambiguous exordium by saying that such Ttfc NORMAL COLLF.Ge \'EWS 261 New Mexico anrlUpper California. The Rio re{ereucc to slavery? Should the claims of Grande ,vas .Gx<:!tl as the ,vestern bounrlar)-' o1 Tex•s to the lands in dispute be granted? Texas .. Ry this trenty 522,568 square miles The most bitter of the people 011 both sides oJ territory were addl'd to the United States, thought secessio11 the only ren1edy, but the most clear-headed 1nen believ<.'d sc>1ne arrange* bnt because of some \!'ear hy ye8r the Den1ocrats gore,,.. morC' gov·ern n1ental. In 1824 Mexico abolished opposed to the tadff. In South Carolina sla,,ery but th ese people still kept their slaves, Calhoun was the great kadcr and d�imed that and when becoming alarmed she forbade the Congress had no. right to pass snch a law and Ame, icaus to settle in 'J'exas they poured in that any sta.l'e to '"'hich it \\'as displeasing fast er than ever hefore. '!'hey then wishing might nullify it. In 18.,2, hoping to pac ify to throw off the yoke of Mexican rule and the South, Congress passed a nev,.r a.nd very hoJ)iug to be ad,u itted into the Union, rebelled low tariff. ag:iinst her. fln ANNA BRADY, EIGHTH GRADE. . FoR many years no serious discussion of At the end of that till}-e a bill was introduced 1 ' slavery by Congress had taken place by J. 8. Thomas of Illinois by which Missouri and many of the leading men of the day was to be admitted as a slave state, but that believed that slavery would gradually kill slavery should be forever forbidden in the itself. But the invention of the cotton-gin, the territory of the United States north of the the immigration westward, and the Louisiana 36° 301 north latitude. Through the efforts purchase made their hopes fall. The first of of Henry Clay this bill was passed and became these made slavery very profitable in the a law in 1820. After this, the famous South, while the second opened a new and Missouri Compromise, the' south permitted wide field for its extention. And, while the Maine to enter the Union, having refused to people of the North were working for · the do so until the Missouri question was settled. abolishment of slavery, in the South it was This compromise put off for a number of growing ever stronger. To the original years civil war and for a time allowed the thirteen, nine new states had been added great subject of slavery to sleep. But when alternatively, first a slave and then a free, or this same question awoke again it had but firsta free and then a slave until at this period gained a new strength from its rest and was the number of free and slave states was more irrepressible than before. equal, giving each section of the country an Owing to the great amount of immigration equal voice in the Senate. westward some means of more rapid com When, therefore, in 1818 the Legislature of munication and improvement in mode of the Missouri territory applied to Congress for traveling became necessary . Th� N ort'h and admission to the Union a great question forced West having many interests in common both itself upon the country ; should or should not united in asking for internal improvements at the territory beyond the Mississippi be slave the national expense. But the South had no soil? If it was not the South would lose all use fpr them and therefore was· very much influence in Congress ; if "it was it meant the opposed to them. Meanwhile the different continuance, increase, and spreading of states had been building railroads and canals slavery. at their own expense. The most important A bitter controversy ensued. The South of these was the Erie canal started by Gov. held that each individual state had the right Clinton of N. Y. This connected the Hudson to decide the question of slavery for itself river with Lake Erie and lessened the time of without any interference from Congress and travel between Albany and Buffalo one half, that any slave-holder had the right to immi also reducing the rates of freight. grate to the new territory and take their slaves In 1828 the internal improvements at the with them. they being as much their property national expense and a tariff for the protection by law as were their horses and cattle. The of home manufactures became national issues. North held that Congress had full control of The Democratic- Republican party which the territories and that any regulation that she existed in Monroe's administration divided ; made for the admission of a new state should those who were led by Clay supported these be binding. Thus the struggle continued for issues and called themselves National R,epub The Republic became ''a house two years. licans, their opponents were called Democrats. divided against itself. '' THI: NORMAL COLleOE NEWS. deeper signilicauc<: of the season. Not until remain to send a(tcr tts those '\\'ho \vill aid in the last 11101nent. do \\'(' realize hotv strong· an: the geucral uplifting. We go to seek the the tics that hind us to our Kormal College. g-1011• of our God, our country, and our col r No\\ it takes on a chann before unknown lcg-<.". If ,,·e succeed. \Ve will h::tvc made the and we re::i.tize ltO\V in1perceptibly as the highest r<:turn in our 1)0\vcr for your personal grO\vth of thought, the lo,·t.' of it� f�rniliar interest in llS; iI ,ve faiJ 1-for our co111fort '\\'e scenes has gro,,•n upon u�. 'l'licy ,,.·ill be for· \vill have the a.ssnran<:<:: that you sympathize ever dear to us. Here have been developed ,v ith us. 1"o you, then. \Ve hi • 256 THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. Glorious victories to be won : Be prepared for each new moment, New occasions bring new masters ; That it sees thy task well done ; Leaders rise from out the throng Let the next ne'er see thee idle ; Like the Davids of disasters, Let it see a new begun. Created by the breath of song. So through life with steady plodding· Only he who is prepared Let thy peace be on thy brow ; Can become the peoples' king; Let no evil cross thy labor Of him alone who has bestitred But the highest be-thy vow ; Will the future centuries sing : Till at last thy lagging footsteps Gi:asp the scepter ere it pass thee Halt beneath the low thatch roof ; Like the bridegroom in the night ; And the Weaver of Life's Tapestry, Ever watchful stand and fearless Gathering up the warp and woof, Strike for freedom and for right. Thanking thee with praise full measure, We have great men all around us, Lights thee onward with his beams : Though the times are not so pall Then on couch of well-won leisure As to dim the lesser actors, and Lie thee down to peaceful dreams. Cast their shadows on the wall. VALEDICTORY. LULA DUKETTE. TRENUOUS action, either of nature, of left college. No man who has absorbed even S individual man or of nations, generally a tithe of that which is great and noble and follows upon a brief moment of repose. Some true in his college education can say farewell. times it is the relaxation after strong effort, His life is woven with that of his Alma Mater. sometimes the conscious throwing aside of He passes from study to action and the higher inflexible rules and immutable principles to · the ideal he places before him, the more walk undisturbed, seeking in fancy's realm, closely is his life united with that of his the sweet haven of peace and quiet to the college. weary soul. A man is judged by his actions. The So we would pause on this beautiful day in world's scrutiny is an impartial one ; its June as we utter this valediction. judgments are severe. It views a college man Farewell! What a depth of feeling in that and places its price upon his college ; his life one word, yet how few realize its true sig is a mirror which truthfully reflectshis college nificance. Too often our farewells are either training.. Thus, upou leaving our beloved hollow or false. Our lips say "good-bye" Normal we have a double duty to perform : to while our faces and our hearts belie us. How realize the ideals which have been placed before often, too, we say farewell when there is no us ; ideals which aim at the fullest develop parting. ment · of self in every way - physically, The college student on his graduation day morally, and intellectually ; and to bear our thinks on the severing from old friends, old selves in such a way as to reflect credit on scenes oj pleasure and pain, habits that are our Alma Mater. Thus we may be of the dear, and places that are loved, and he mur many who have already said their farewells murs that sad word, farewell. But here he and gone forth from these halls, and by their errs ; he seems to feel a parting where there is strength of character and integrity have raised none. He forgets that though he no longer our college to its present standard. greets the same faces nor walks the old With the commotion and· excitement familiar paths, they have not passed from his attendant upon Commencement, we are too life. He has been graduated but he has not prone to be but passively aroused to the Ttlt NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. 255 ) \Villi fiercer ctangi ngs o( its wilder 1ui�ht Agah1 di:t1pf Like wighty suns refit:ctiug thrice th e glcan1 Daughty dct�d s ntost yet be dont:; Of so,ue wysh:�ious central cleity, F.1npirefl huiJUcll; thoughts expouud. ed; THE GRADUATION ODE. Class Poem. FRED;ERIC ZEIGEN . I But rather, with the love of nature full, Sluggish this pen, and dull this mind, To warm thy chilled heart into new power ; To carve such words of burning, livid fire To brighten every sad and sobbing hour ; As. rouse the over-anxious, eager soul And :fill thy soul with tender music sweet and low, Of ardent youth, from languorous earth's desire, That e'en thy dolour takes a soft etherial, glow And lead this broadening life from high to higher, Which makes thee nobler, purer, and content Until all baser dross is cast behind, To bear the sorrows -which are heaven -sent. Like misspent longings fainly brushed away I cannot but be saddened at the thought For brighter thoughts of Nature's holier day, Of coming age -- the death of hope. The deep In noble God-wrapt striving for the goal. And awful longings that arise Life is doing. The golden hours are crowding past, ,v ithin my breast and bear me to the skies Each with its diamond moment in its train ; Of great desire and high ambition - bought Nor fate, nor prayer, nor man, nor God, By the hard endeavor, toiling while the sleep Can halt the throng, or call them back again. Of lust and sordid fear hangs on the brow A wrong is done, 'tis done for aye ; Of cowering kern - shall all soon end Nor bitter wailings, tears, nor vain regrets In dust. The grovelling clod with grime o'erwrought Can stop the pain that stings full deep and fast Shall drop his hoe and sink again into the clod ; Until the dawning of the everlasting day� The flowers shall scent the woodland air, and die ; No deed is lost. The past is dead, And e'en the mighty oaks spread out their arms Aud mouldering in the grave of long forgotten years ; That stayed the storms of thousands years, But yet, like mural monuments up .. builded high, And moulder low again into the green, Or like the granite needle- pointing towards the sky Soft sward, like fading lights acr0ss a moving screen. For thousand years in grim Thotomes' land, And then transported far to unknown climes Yet shall MAN live ! No cringing brute On living ships, and set with alien kind - Can lift his vision to the vault above Still bids its mission to the modern mind, And know the deity of self. No being So thoughts will live, and lingering in the night, Can tread the trembling earth with mighty foot, Point other struggling thinkers towards the light. And :filled with the knowledge of the love That rules the season's ampler growth, And what if dismal gloom o'ershadow all ? Rise above the baser elements of earth, The home is lost ; a voice is gone ; Unless it be a soul with deity imbued ; - A song is stilled upon a loved one's lip ; A higher life with broader, nobler girth Or heart can joy no more in golden dawn, Than grubbing swine and slimy things that blight. For from the sombre bier you lift the pall E'en though the evil triumph in the night, And pres� an aching cheek against a marble face : The melting sun of faith will drive away A heart is numb ; and oh ! the dreary, desolate void The reeking horde ; and swords of Day, That follows as you grieve from place to place With edges whet by love for truth, Unsoothed, uncomforted, alone ; a sad Will high upraise the bulwark of the throne And melancholy exile from the sound of joy: - That ne'er shall fall - the throne of SOUL, While all around thee, wealth of life expands Of life ennobled by !J.igh sacrifice. And Nature spreads her silver threads abroad Then shall that roaring lion of Albion's lands To ravish e'en the poorest outcast slave Crawl cowering to his distant gloomy den, And make him better, then, to bear his load. While o'er and round his bone-bescattered lair Those joyous trills of liquid music swell The skeletons of murdered hopes shall be Not from yon tiny throats to mock thy loss ; R.e-carneted, and rise full-free eternally. Nor beats the golden sun with fervid ray And e'en yon dastard eagle's vulture flight, Upon thy low thatch roof, to ruthless wave That strong- winged bird of many nations, A brighter glory o'er thy head, and cause the gloom Shall halt before the winds of coming peace, To pall more dark and sombre in thy room ; Forget to drown its low-browed children's moan THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. 253 remedy will be, "It is the only bair tonic l Quality Shoe House, and every school child 1 e,,..er used. ' may possess a copy of this fatuous portrait by :Miss Ski nn er, as president of a girls' col� cutting front the 1naR"azines the advertisements 1 lege in the East, will be greatly loved and for \:\Tillian1s Shaving Soap. admired by all who know her. With g;reatd iffic ulty the name was deciphered 'l"o those ,v bo have ,,;itnessecl his unusual -Jay Hole Smith-but because of another grace and unprecedented abilities for invent .. defect in the stone his future could uot be lug ue,v steps it \\•ill not be a surprise to learn discovered. that the l:>arisians hearing of his great success How pro11il I was of the class of 1901 when as danciug master in A111ericn, will suu1tuon l learned that two oJ its members are to hold Mr. Dick to their gay city to teach their chil places on the Nonna! faculty. Miss Anschutz dren holv to walk and dance in the n1ost will becom<" }irs. Burton's successor, and ,vheu g-racelul fashion. Miss :",[u ir resigns to take a position in the Mr. Ewiog will nm a special hack li ne for 'C'niversity, Miss Clement will be called to nl.arried ladies and "Us Frat. Boys." take her place. n Thcrcpartn1ent of " '!'here is a.tide io the affairs of tnen, the l�niversity, hut being the only ladies in \V hic:h taken tlt the Jloo MARGARET GRAVES. H OW many sleepless nights and restless could not be deciphered. Then of course the days have I experi!!nced since I began stone was inscribed many thousand years ago, to realize the length and breadth of the t�sk but as nearly as could be made out from care before me. Had I been foretelling the future ful study this seemed to be the meaning of the of ordinary mortals I would have given the hieroglyphics matter little thought, but as I pondered over Miss Bessie Goodrich will become the sweet, the extraordinarily brilliant past of the mem womanly wife of a United States senator, and bers of the class, of 1901, bearing in mind the because of her winning ways she will soon theory of evolution, I became more and more become a leader of Washington society. overwhelmed by the realization of what futures Mr. Goodale will gain a world wide reputa must come from such a past. I have spent tion through his efforts in behalf of the Phil days and days in watching the flight of birds, ippines. The future statesman of the Philip thinking that omens which determine· the pines will proudly ascribe to Mr. Goodale, in career of such men as Caesar and Pompey whose school they received their instruction, would surely prove efficacious in the case of the honor of having made their civilization my classmates. But in vain. I even cop. what it is destined to be. sulted the oracle at Ann Arbor-Mrs. John As nearly as could be made out from the son. But to no purpose. stone, Mr. Stebbins will within a very short When I had completely dispaired of ever time become manager of a vaudeville in New being able to find anyone or anything to throw York, where thousands will be attracted by any light on the subject, an express package his popular rag time music. came. On opening it I found that it contained Miss Albertson's abiltties as an editor are a stone covered with strange marks. At first so well known to the class that you will not I didn't understand what it could be, but soon be surprised to learn that after many successes I received a letter from a friend who was with smaller magazines she will be invited to spending a year abroad. While poking become editor of the Popular Science Monthly. around among the old ruins at Nineveh she Mr. Gannon's great desire for office will at had come upon this stone which had been last be satisfied, and when a government is left by other excavators as worthless ; but her established in the Philippines he will become woman's curiosity prompted her to send it to alderman of the fifth ward in Manila. me with the hope that some of the great Mr. Sherman getting a position in a school geniuses of the Michigan Normal College where he is given no opportunity to work out might be able to ascertain its meaning. There his own originality, will become disgusted was one genius here who, I felt sure was equal with school teaching and in a few years many to this task ; my estimate of his powers was Normal girls going down Congress street will correct, and what was my joy when I found stop to read this sign : the strange writing to be none other than a ALBERT E. SHERMAN, description of· the future career of my class - Sole Agent for Sutherland Sisters' Hair Tonic. mates ! ! Fragments had been broken off from the On entering the well furnished parlors they stone and the excavator's pick had marred it will meet the affable gentleman, whose in such a way that many of the characters strongest argument in favor of this wonderful CO-l!DS. S.nior ...c1 Day l!s..ty. r,fiNA L, E.N:\PP. HERH seems to havc been no suhject way which th ese geutlcme11 lrncl of saying to T more capable of exciting and holding the ktlO\vledge seeking c' Pegoti es'' of the attention among thoughtful people in America \\'hole country : 'Barcus is will in'.•' than that of co-education. lt a.muses us 1\0\v ,vhen \\' C cousider ho�· Vle are constantly invited to pause and 111any y<:ar!i it took the l,;niversity to screw its consider the progress of the world during the .courage up to tht: point of 1nakin� that ,•ery last one hundred years. \Vitl1 eacb reflec· diplomatic proposal to the ladies; how long in tion \Ve are wore deeply impre.s..o.;ed �,ith the fact it stood shaking an These evils must be corrected else our shores must here find a yet higher develop civilization is insecure. Reason demands that ment. Its evolution must not be delayed. we be not satisfied with the achievements of We remain a true democracy only as educa the past. There must be further progress. tion becomes democratic ; only as its· culture The principle so early proclaimed upon our becomes universal. SALUTATORY. GRACE ELOISE CLBMENT: O ALL the dear friends present, to the we are glad to believe that their motive was T citizens of Ypsilanti, to the faculty of one arising simply from pure affection and the State Normal College, and to the students deep and sincere interest in their more expe attending its halls of instruction, we, the rienced brothers and sisters. the class of 1901, extend a most cordial wel - And indeed we are happy to find ourselves come. again in the presence of our faithful and con - We appreciate the interest manifest by your siderate instructors, who from our first presence here this afternoon ; we appreciate entrance into this institution of learning until your kindly feeling toward us, on this, our the present hour have never failed us, though Commencement Day. This day to which the we have called upon them almost constantly senior class of 1901 has long looked forward for mental, moral, and social support ; and if with the greatest enthusiasm and pleasure. there may be in our future histories, any When we entered this institution it was good degree of success, we shall never fail to with a certain degree of timidity and fear, for attribute it largely to the help we have leaving, as we did, our homes and dear ones, received from this college. we came into the midst of strangers. But ere Indeed it gives the class of 1901 infinite . many weeks had passed we found ourselves pleasure to realize that we are not in the surrounded by many congenial students and presence of strangers who at the most might teachers. And now after months and years look upon us with respectful indifference, but we are, on the contrary, surrounded by our have sped happily by, and after the many friends who will rejoice in whatever of pros processes of intellectual endeavor, this day perity may come to us, as the years go by. thrills us with delight, though we find it Would you know of our wonderful past? difficult to realize that we have reached the Then xou have but to listen to our most com - time when we have been . deemed worthy to petent historian, who will reveal, ere many moments, the details of our remarkable growth receive that which is to indicate the accom - and dev.elopment. plishment of our purpose. Thus on thz's day Would you know, also, of our brilliant is your presence especially strengthening to future? Then I pray thee, give ear to our us, as we are about to start out into life with prophetess, who by her keen insight into the its many duties and privileges. coming years will enable you to ascertain accurately and definitely just what the future We are glad, dear friends, to feel that this has in store for each of us. is not the first manifestitation of your interest And now there only remains to me the very in our class ; as for the Ju niors, throughout pleasing duty to welcome you ; but not until the entire your, they have shown their inter the future ages have rolled away, not until est in us ; sometimes in observations, which each of us has finished our life's history, not until the class of 1901, some time, some where, occasionally partook of a critical nature, joins the Father's class above, will we know sometimes in attempting to assist in our meet why we, this day, extend to you this most ings, and often in anticipating our plans, but heartfelt and abiding welcome. • THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. 249 truer conception of ,,vhat life means, realize a u1oral independence, and these othc;:r baser their mutual dependence, the labor problem interests will a1)peal to them no more. will solve itself. n arousing and shaping I If our reputation for progress is to be sus this consciousness the, school may find a field tained; i1 we are to solve the problems of the of useful work. pres(•nt as we l1avie those of the past; ii we The problem of our dependent clas$es ha.s are to attain a higher civilization in the future; been too long regarded from the material side it. is iinperative that the forces of our educa alone. Its solution, ho,vever, is 8pirih1al. tioual syst�n1 .should be organized upon a '!'r ue it is that material "iv ants 111ust b<: sup broad"r basis. If there be no higher stage of plied, hut "life is wore than food, and lh<: . cvolutio·n then ou r systent is inadequate to body thnn raimen t." '!'here s an er that · i d g 111.cct the ucC!ds of our laud. in 111ioist�ring to the 1natcrial we n1ay rob th e One grea t class, the wage earners of today, spiritual. inspire our sluws ,v ith a broader , is recei,ring little aid from our public schools. more conlprehensi,•c vie,\• o( life anrl their The chilc!ren of tliis class are obliged to Jea,·c iguorance and poverty \\'ill disappear. v\Tere school early and take up the work of life. half the ,v ealth tbat is expended in enforcing Ho,v necessary that the best instruction the stern autho,;ty of the law, or in philan should here ht! given! Yet, in general, th e thropic projects for furnishing 1naterial cotn • contrary is t111c. Enuusted to poor teachers, fort, utilized in bringing to these people right the work of the child is fragwentary an d be influences, the results \\•Onld he iar more sat leaves school with no idea of that all -prevad - isfactory. Proper education 'lv ould 111 ake ing unity \\'hich alone inspires to truer [if�. them uo l<>nger a public burden : but that lle mt1st take hi s place in a world of particu · education must needs be two-fold -of the lars, unable to fintl tlteir truer elation�. \\lhy han d to tnake th e1n self·�ustaining, of the ,v o11der if I.le becomes the tool ol the unscr11 • intellect to inspire tbent to higher live�. pulous. We hear much today of the evils th at threaten to ttnder1ni11c our national structure. Our schcn1e o! e is evident. If a large 11uwber of our people trai ned, more highly cultured te achers, ,vii ling, r tlre exclu<,led fro rn t.he spifitual treasures of to assist in ele\ ating ihe so-callt!d laboring htuua-nity anrl con de1nned to narro,Y, sordid classes of ottr land. Our states h ave pre lives, ,ve tuLU:it expect theu1 to be i uiluenced pared abundant means for the training of by lo�· 1notives, to be co ntrolled by ,;.,jcious teachers, !Lnd yet alwost beneath the slrndow interests. If '\'if<' lea,•e them ignorant of the of out nor111al schools and ttuiversitie.s chil higher principles of life we ne"cl not wonder dren are being instructed as '\\'ere their grand� that they arc actuated by baser ones . If they fathers. There still exists, almost every are not taltgbt the \VOrth of suffrage, the where, a large a1nount of incapacity. Tlte value o( dtizenship, why should we wonde r schools are dominated by partisan politics, that they fall a victun to the wily political teachers are licensed without special prepara schemer or econon1ic theorist? Inspire thei;n tion, and entrusted ,v ith a ,vork whose \\• ith the spirit of true Ji,riug, cultivat e in them importance they cannot comprehe11d. 248 THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. training. We boast of our great universities We pride ourselves upon advancement, for with their ample facilities for rounding out the getting that the whole world rests upon a individual and inspiring in him the broadest higher plane than it did a century gone ; but culture. Harvard 1 Columbia, Michigan, may evolution is not sufficient unless it be a con well take rank with the most classic schools scious process. A tenet of our nation an - of Europe. Freedom has done for these what nounces the equality of all mankind, and yet time and authority can never do for those. within · our borders class distinction is not Authority has been the curse of education in unknown. The relations of capital and labor, Europe, freedom has been its inspiration in of rich and poor, of consumer and producer, America. The lessons of the former have not are subjects pertinent to the time. How to been wholly lost ; profiting by the errors of arrest the growth of our dependent classes and the Old World the New has based its systems make them self sustaining ; how to check the upon a higher, freer plane. A broader scope inroads of those vices which are supping our has been given the individual, who untram national strength ; how to arouse a sentiment meled by church creed or· political dogma is that will neutralize the teachings of anarch left to search for truth_ wherever truth exists. ism and malignant socialism : all these are Here do we see in a large measure the cul vital questions and demand our most careful mination of that principle of educational lib consideration. erty of which Luther dreamed ; that principle As long as men have different endowments which inspired the gentle Pestalozzi, aroused and tastes there must necessarily be different a Frcebel, a Herbart, and gave ardor to that grades of education. Close your eyes to the prince of American schoolmen, Horace Mann. truth if you will, _boast of our pure American Thus may we trace the growth of education democracy, but the fact remains that avenues upon our. continent - an onward, upward of culture are today open to the rich man's progress of evolution. From the elevation son that are barred to him of more lowly birth. we occupy today, we gaze upon the past and Our schools may be free to all, 'our colleges note the path by whic;h we have ascended. may open wide tlieir doors and bid the student The clouds through which the old philoso enter, our universities may represent the phers caught but faint glimpses of the heights highest wisdom of the age, but for what does lie all below us. Around and above is the air all this count unless our youth be led to .of political, moral, and intellectual freedom. realize their need ? That one whole world The theories of the educational pioneers here does not extend beyond the farm or workshop seem to blend, to unite into one harmonious sees in these higher things nothing that whole, Here we are prone to pause and seek appeals to him. High education cannot be no routes for further progress. But such an forced upon him who does not desire it, and act would indeed be narrow, egotistic, and until some means are found to give to the unbecoming a thinking people. A careful laborer's son as intelligent a glimpse of life as survey of our present social life reveals a lack is afforded the rich man's son, class culture of harmony, an absence of that unity towards must of necessity exist. It is easy to cry, which all evolution tends. Much has been '' educate the masses,'' but experience has done that deserves the highest commendation--: proven that something more than school but even greater work remains to be accom houses are needed to bring about such results. plished. If our nation is to retain the high Not until the instruction in the schools of our position it now occupies, there must be a rural and manufacturing districts is made of readjustment of social life in conformity with as high a character as that in the so -called the spirit of democracy, and this readjustment cultured sections or exclusive private schools, must be made through the agency of the pub · can we hope to erase the lines of class dis lie school. tinction. When both rich and poor, from a Tl1E NO�MAL COLLEGE NEWS. 247 ,vu::; the i A PHASE OF EVOLUTION •. H. Z. WII,BER. VOLUTION is life. Life is but a process interwoven is the fabric of life that we often E of evolution. The law of evolution, at have difficulty to detect ·the particular warp firstadvocated by extremists alone, is receiv for which we seek. The same event may ing its widest application at the hands of con - mark an epoch in various lines of evolution. servatives. Modern science has caught its It is only by repeated differentiations that the inspiration-and worships at its shrine. Society various lines of progress become apparent, is permeated by its spirit and finds a unity not though their origins may have been identical. sought before. Its acceptance has strength The development of public education in ened the bonds of institutional life, &"iven America has been the unfolding of a great permanency to political systems, and furnished principle. Its progress from untried theory the key to social progress. The world's great to practical application constitutes a distinc - movements but represent the combined influ tive phase of evolution. ence of events insignificant in themselves Early in the seventeeth century the oppres alone. The student of the past studied the sive measures enacted by the governments of individual movements ; the student of the Europe, led to the colonizing of America. present must study as well the events from The monarchs of the old world, clinging to which the movements grow. the ideals of medieval times, had sought to To study our present civilization merely stiffie the growing spirit of· free thought among from its outward visible form is to gain but a their subjects. As a result many of the op superficial knowledge. To know it fully, pressed found a home in the new world where deeply, one must study carefully the agencies tyrannical monarchs were unknown. On such which have produced this civilization. Such a soil, unfettered by traditions of the past, the a study can but impress one with the con undeveloped principle of freedom found new sciousness of a unity- pervading all. Beneath root and began a greater ·growth. Having our culture's polished surface lies a hidden caught a glimpse of individual liberty these principle whose development marks that C'Ul early colonists fostered · those institutions ture' s · progress. The gradual unfolding of which were most conducive to liberty. In this principle constitutes the history of our the most desirable part of the settlement stood race. Our whole institutional life, educational, the church, but soon beneath its shadow grew religious, political, and social, is the result of up the public school. The theory of popular a process of evolution dating from the birth of education was not· wholly unknown in Europe man. ' It matters not if we are unable to trace but it was far · from being universal. In every phase of this evolution. So.. intricately America; on the contrary, ·popular education THf NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. 245 that l1arm comes frou, money itself. lt is not money. He said to the clerk, "lwill take a money, bnt the undue love of lt, which is the ,vifc ancl rn,o children." This in1possiblc great evil. It is this passion for money in story but states in the concrete a truth so it.self, money at all hazards anrl money simple and yet so hard for man to learn, that quickly, that brutalizes the human. For it tl1e brightest drea,u of the soul of man caunot men trade in the life blood of their fellowmen. be had in life for money, silver, gold or green Jt is the niost brutal war that the earth ever backs. Wealth is not a question of mithme· sa,v. Let us now consider briefly the \.\'Cak - tic merely: it is a question of capacity, of ucss of n1oney. Let no wan believe th8t power in the possessor. Suppose Mr. Rock moucy in itself is the power that rules the efellow had deposited his $100,000,000 in the ,vorld. 'fhere was never a greater blnncler, a. bank. How much now is he worth? He is sadder mistake. As.a matter of fact, money worth the face valnc of the count, $100,000,- · in itself is the \Veakest thing on this earth. 000. \Vhy ? Because tile communit)' gh•es It cannot even 1nakc a gentle1na11. \\re sec to this metal the supposed value. Wealth is stn1tting dO\\."'U the streets of a great western .])O\\'l.:!r o·ver 1nen. Money i� wealth in pro city a man ,;vho suddenly hecarnc tJOssessed portion as it represents power: over men. The of a fortune of one mil.ion dollars. He pur true value of tnoney is a co1nn1unal ,·alttc. It chased bis paper from the news boy on the is one th.at is bound np with the heart blood corner) and in his granrliloq nent vvay, '\\•hen of a ,,·hole co1n1nunity. It is one that co111es the little fellow handed hirn hack his change, in and through the con1111unity. No n1an retnroe!tl it to the boy. saying) u'Keep your therefore- has the right to do what.he pleases n1oney sonny, keep the s:,hauge, take it and· with ,vbat be 111a:y possess. 1\ 1uan's n1011e)' bny a cake of soap to wash your lac�. " The is not sitillply his own. Tt belongs in a sense little fellow drew himself up and handing back and a higher st:nse to the couunuuity. Xo the money indignantly replied, "Take your . man has a right to do what he pleases with penniC's nnd go buy· a book on etiqqette anrl what he may possess. learn to be a gentle111an. n The possession of A mau only has the right to do not what he money does not even imply that a tnan is a. pleases, but what he ought to do. Mouey is gentleman. It cannot rnake a home. i\. 111an t)O\\•er. All power is trust. ..:\ \Vord froiu the may own houses by the posses�ion of mon�y, lips of 1nau, backed by 111anhood: can do ,vhat but money in itself caunot build a holl)e. T all the gold on earth cannot accomplish. kno"' ntcn "vho 0\\'11 scores o( houses but do l\,(ouey is a mighty pol\�er, but manhood is a uot have a ho111e. To po::;sess a house is one niightier one. Rome yon will remember at a thing and a home is nother thing. one tiu1c kept the developtneut o1 man as her The poor man who believes he cau buy it direct object, as tbe goal, as an 11lti1nate encl ,,·ith money n1a.kes as grave- a mistake as the to be achieved: but when the riches of the 1nitliouaire ,vho tries to constn1ct his i could find nobody who would marry him in great trltth, '' '!' hat the custon1ary 18\\'S and the old country, came to A111erica, to try his even the fundamental instihttions of any fortune. As be walked down the street he com,try :1re moulded aud moclillcd by the , saw a sign \\'hich read, " Fa111ilies supplied. r every day life and thought of its people." He went in at the side door and a.5 ked the Money is so weak that it cauuot even give a clerk if families were supplied there. The man wealth., We are apt to confuse wealth geutleman behind the counter replied that they with 1noney. ...\ man may have 1noney and were. He ran his, hand into bis pocket, drew yet not be rich. Real riches are one thing - out his greasy wallet an,l began to unroll his money another. T heard oJ a grocer who was 244 THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS. mortar, stone and cement and iron and steel rise toward the sky, and as you walk the have back of the material which attracts the length of Wall street you have traversed the eye a deeper spiritual meaning. The material main corridor of this nations capital. Wall is but the incarnation of great hopes and noble street is the center of the government of faiths. Vast buildings and extensive railroads America. It has been so for a generation, may represent crude efforts. They are great, and never was it more truly the center of gov not for what they are, but for what they prom ernment than today. You . may say that we ise, for the ideal of which they are the dim elected Mr. McKinley president of the United outline. As a nation we should study the States by a majority commonly termed a polit money problem, and we should be among the ical cyclone. True enough. All that hap first, if not the first, to solve it. pened, and Mr. McKinley is in the president God has given us wealth as to . no other ial chair, with his cabinet about him and the nation on earth. By the last census America government is running along its usual course. had more money than Great Britain, on whose If Mr. McKinley had dared to stand up before empire the sun never sets, whose flagfloats in the world before [ the election and say in so every sea and whose ships ride proudly at many words that he was opposed to the money their anchors in. every harbor of the world. policy of the governing kings of Wall street, We have now wealth enough to buy one half he would now be practicing law in the city of the known world, lands, houses, kingdoms, Canton, 0., as a private citizen, and the oner scepters, empires, and then have money ous burdens of the executive office would be enough left to carve a new nation out of the on other shoulders. No president has been undeveloped west. One of the first things elected in this nation within a generation who that strikes me in the study of this question is has not been in perfect accord with the kings the fact that money is the mightest power of Wall street on the money question. Also moving in modern civilization today. Allow money is the greatest power that gives direc - me to make this statement, that Washington tion to the social world today. There was a is not the nation's capital, in the power mani time when ancestry counted, when pride of fested in the making and unmaking of the · ancestry was the basis of organization of so - history of governments. The center of the called high society. Today that power is government of this century is not where money. It does not matter where a man made congress sits to make and unmake laws, but his money or how he made it, so be has it. it is to be found rather at the commercial, the '' Possession is the standard. of measurement money center. Washington is a beautiful for the social world today.'' Nothing sue - city. It is handsomely laid out. It has some ceeds like success is one of their brutally grand boulevards, some beautiful homes. It crude but 'vital mottoes. The whisky manu 1is pleasing to tlie eye. We have located there facturer, the brewer, the ward politician who some elegant buildings, including a very has stolen his money, the Napoleon of finance handsome capitol building, which has a hand who has recked a thousand homes by his some dome, with a figure of liberty on its gambling schemes, the man who kills pigs in summit. And other beauties too numerous to Chicago and the man who owns real estate in mention. But, is a common error.and a popu New York, all take their seat in the same lar superstition to suppose that there is the real banquet ball. There is no aristocracy of seat of government. If you wish to find the brains and of moral worth today in the reg center of government of America, go to New nant circles of modern society. York City, walk down Broadway until you Money is the magic power that dominates reach Trinity church and turn into the narrow the social sets of the present century. Don't lane to the left. Walk down this narrow lane, misunderstand me, in citing you to some of between those mountainous buildings that the evils of money by thinking that I meati Vol. 20. JUNE, 1901. No. 9. POWER AND WEAKNESS OF MONBY. Senior Cl.\$$ Day Oration. PAUL r. �ASON. O TU RN the search light ol a htll dis problem as never before, au fore, give only a general outline to show how 9f silver as a standard opens finally the broader the po,"•er and ,veakness of 111oney contribute questiou of the right of n1011ey to e�ist. to briug about certain conditions that now We are brottght face to face with the surround us in tlJ.is <.:Ountt1• and other coun theories promulgated by the great French and tries of the globe. The children of Israel, if German socialists of the past cenh1ry. Tbey they were the first to make aud worship a will no\ be settlecl in one clay. They will not golden call, certainly, have not been the last be settled in one ad1ni11istration or hvo. In people guilty of this cliscrtion of the true god the world oJ politics it is the problem of the for the image n1arle ,, 1ith human hands. 'l'he future for the profoundest statcs1JJan. Per problem of the possession of money is the sonally I do not decrie wealtl• or its acctuuu problem of later days of the ni:ieteenth cen · lation. I do believe that it is a cri1ne for any tury. The problem of money is in fact the man to bring a family of chiklren into the problem of modem life. It is the one qnes 1A•Orltl and not provide for the1n. T believe tion · �vith 'U'hich ,vc axe all i11tin1ately con .that there is a sin ,v hich a man may he guilty cerned from the very beginning of life to its oJ that is worse than the atteinpt to get money. close. Tt cost� mon0y to be born into the (Tt is the vice of the spencltluift.) \Vealth, world, and under the present tariff schedules in fact, has its deep spiritual sig-nificance, it costs more to die. Fro111 the hehrinning to ,vhen accu1nulated by proper ,vays and sought the end it is this everlasting money question in the proper spirit. '!'he fact of accumijl�ted ,vith ,vhich mortal 111an is confronted. 'l'hc wealth does not necessarily signify a 1nateria.l iuone)' issue is the one magnf!t around which aim or a brutal tendency. As a nation \ve are all other problems at last do center. Man's the ricltest people in the world. But for all iutcrest in n1011ey see1us to he the power by that as a nation vve held our breath ,vhen Bar· which he can be tcstecl both physically and ing Bro�her:; in London, a finn of pr:ivate n1orally. Our own natiou has been and is bankers were about to fail. !Jut we are not most vitally interested just 110,v with this tre· for that reason to be regarded as the crudest mendo us proble1n and its possible develop· people. We have vast piles of buil Sµite Rooms with hot or cold baths, HEAT AND LIGHT, or mePLE LJWJ essEmBLY lady room mate wanted. . Students will find first class board, $2.00. Corner of Adams and Ellis Streets. 'Phone 355. 608 ELLIS STREET. MRS. K. L. STeNB. I\ DV ERTISEM ENTS. We carry a large, new, we11 assorted .\lock 01 JOBfflDlCOKSEllYDTORY OFmusm. Frederic H. Pease, Director. Gentlernen's Clothing .. and ]�urnishings . Faculty. A word to the ,vi se is suffi�ient. Rt>member the 1•tA)IO. name and place. MlSS ALICf: LO\YDl·:X, MISS MYRA L. BIRO> MfSS RUTH PUTNAM:, )-IRS, JBSSII-; l'. SCRJ?\fGfs;R, .WR. F. L, YORK, G. W. DENSMORE, l\fR. :\fl.i.'XOR WHl'££., OltC..:\�. Cor. Washinglon and Congress Sts.. MR, ICO�VARD 81{0\1iN, .?fl R. YOl-tK, MX, J,'R�Dl':RJC PEASI�. VlOLJN, M[SS .1\l!.8A O\\' £N. J. f1.WORTLl:T. VIOLONCELLO MR. H. W. SA:0,lSON. Fire Insurance. V01Ct: CUlll'TJRF. AKO STN(:f�CL Real Estate Bought anrl Sold. bllSS lilRD, l',fISS CABRJF. TO�F.R CR,\$. B, STEVENS� Homes Rented . 1'.fR. and }IRS, Y'REV.t:fflC l'EASE. TTAL[AN, Mooey Loaned. l'ROF'. ,\, T,ODEMA�. For clrc oan;. coucei·uing t<'\rm.: :;ind tuit on, pr,ly tu the J , i ;, J) rcc.to,·. NO. J 09 PEARL ST. B. W. FERGUSON. H. C. SNYDER. WATCH Ferguson... YOUR & Snyder WATCH Oeuh:rs In ' H it is out of order, take it, and all GROCERIES and broken jewelry, to.•.• PROVfSIONS. 123 Congress Street • Brabb, .. .. ,. Students' Trade Solicited. The Jeweler ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Attention· Given to the Wants of College Students. SULLIVAN-COOK CO, We always hold out STUDEN"TS ! Here Is Something Nice for Your Rooms: A Welcome A Chinese Lily To students, and do everything Bulb and a we can to merit their good will Lily Dish for and patronage. We sell Dry Goods, Cloaks, and Gym. Suits. Buy One and Bert H. Comstock, See It firow. 128 Congress Street. DAVIS & CO., on the Corner. 1840 1900 Chas. King &. Co. G�OeE.R.S. D.Spalsbury, D. D." S. Dealers in Portland and Loui!".ville Cement, Calcined Plaster and Plastering Hair.. 101 Congr·ess Street. DENTIST. Chas. E. King. John.G. Lamb. STUDENTS Office corner of Congress and Washington Streets, Don:'t forget the familiar old store, over Horner Bros'. Shoe Store. ''THE BAZARETTE ; '' we carry · in stock or will order whatever you Local anaesthetic for painless extraction. wish. THE BAZARETTE. Mr. and Mrs. Granger anno nce a program u of dancing at eir Academy, Ann Arbor th ..c...:::::.125?:&===��i=-�-TUESD/\Y EVENI_NGS 8:30 ro 10:30 O'CLOCK Card admitting lady and gentleman ten evening� 3. $ Single evening 0c. All classes in dancing now open 5 for e reception of p pils. Priva e lessons by ap- th u t poin men ree ar ers o r 0 _ t t T u t h u $ 5 ; c&j���HZl1� . h q , 1. . · �· · · · � � � � ���� � � � 31���� � � 7�� � ������ ������� ADVERTISEMENTS. For the Early Spring ·Trade . In Spalding's Official League Ball Ores 's·, ls the Official Ball of the Nationnl Leag'lle, the le:irli ng nll11or leagues aud ull the col . s:,JJ Goo·d s , . ..:..."} lege aucl f1lhl!:tic associations. !laud \Ve are already showiug lllf\ny new fabrics -t:' � s owe Cutalo;.ruc of Hnsc Hall an d all . c r a r an a ,t i'' .4. thleti Spo tl'I m iled f c<": to y d- for Spring. Teachers or �tudcnh; wisliiug � 1�)-l;,,:.. dre.ss. Spatding!. N1,. fl South W•shlng'ton .Street . GreenhouseLOWELL STREET. �cooPER IS THE ) ...._.,,,..�.. �..�-� ...�., .. ��- i STUDENTS AND FACULTY Students' i ., are requested to call an Michigan State Normal eollege.. TRAINING SCHOOL, GYMNASIUM, MAIN BUILDING, STARKWEATHER HALL, CONSERVATORY. Five eourses are �ffered. Three Hundred, Oraduates and Undergraduates, go Into the schools of the State annually, as teachers, from the Kindergarten through the High School, (1). A Preparatory ( Second Grade Certificate) Course -one year. For the Year Book or further information send to (2). A Five Year Certificate Course-three years. {3). A Life Certificate Course-four years. Elmer A. Lyman, Principal, (4) . A Life Certificate Course(f or H. S. Graduates) Ypsilanti, Mich, two years. Or to the Clerk of the Normal College, A Degree Course {for H. S. Graduates)-four (5). years. 1901.-Summer Quarter.-1901. Expenses are Moderate. The summer quarter will begin July 2 and will The registration fee is $3.00 per term ; $9 .00 per year. be entirely in charge of members of the College Board may be had for $1. 75 to $3.00 per week. faculty. The work done will be credited towards a Rooms rent for SOc. to $1.00 each. degree.