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Western Michigan University Year 1911

The Kalamazoo Normal Record Vol. 2 No. 2 Western State Normal Record

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Genevieve Parker THE HILL BY MOONLIGHT The Kalamazoo Normal Record Published Monthly, Except July, August and September by The Faculty and Students of the Western State Normal School Kalamazoo, Michigan

Entered as second class matter October 31,1910, at the post officeat Kalamazoo, Michigan, under the Act of March 3,1879

Vol. 2 CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER No. 2

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SCHOOL SAYINGS 42

ALUMNI NOTES 43, 45

EDUCATIONAL Ideals in Education E. A. Lyman 49

LITERARY Characteristics of the English Coffee Houses of the Eighteenth Century 55 Poems. Kalamazoo, and A Yellow Pumpkin 57

EDITORIAL 58 Practical Work 59

TRAINING SCHOOL The Jelly Fish Dorothy Westnedge.. 60 Judge Jewell's Address Edith Seeiell 61 Government Reports Miss E. C. Barnun. 62 Government Publications Lucia Harrison and Miss Koch 63

ATHLETICS „ 67

NEWS ARTICLES 69

. NEWS NOTES 71, 80

ILLUSTRATIONS The Hill by Moonlight Frontispiece

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ALUMNI NOTES. Miss Fannie Haas, '09, is again teach Charles Appleton of the class of 1906, ing in the Woodland schools. is superintendent of schools at Nashville, Miss Marie Kimble, '09, is teaching in having been re-elected this year. Kalamazoo. Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. Hayden, both Miss Lillian Prentice, '09, is teaching graduates of the Normal, the latter as in the sixth grade in the public schools Miss Nellie Johnson, are on a farm near of Buffalo, N. Y. Lowell, Michigan. Miss Winifred Trabert, '09, who Henry D. McNaughton, '07, is super taught in Niles last year, is this year intendent at Rockford, Michigan. engaged in the,public schools of Kalama Miss Mary Ruthrauff, '07, has entered zoo, the University of Michigan and will Miss Mabel White, '09, is teaching in work toward a degree. the west this year. Miss Hazel Sevey, '07, is again in Miss Rachel Barker, of the class of Stantion, where she has charge of the 1910, has a position in the Kalamazoo music. schools this year. Superintendent Volney Stuck, of the Lee Barnum, '10, is teaching in Mil- class of 1907, is back at Jonesville. lersburg, Michigan, this year. Miss Edith Klose, of the class of 1908, Miss Virginia Greenhow, '10, has en is teaching this year in Huntington, Ind. tered the University of Michigan this Byron J. Mott, '08, is now superintend fall. ent at Edwardsburg, Michigan. Miss May Longman, '10, has a posi Miss Almeda Bacon, '08, is now prin tion in the Muskegon public schools' this cipal of the ungraded school in Grand year. Rapids. Miss Vera Lutje, '10, is studying at Miss Blanche Eaton, '09, has a posi the University, having entered this fall. tion in the public schools of Kalamazoo Miss Dora Albers, graded school '11, this year. is teaching in Pentwater. 44 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

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ALUMNI NOTES Miss Margaret Lillibridge is private J. Pierre Osborn, manual training, tutor in a family which spends much 1910, is teaching in the school for boys time in travel. at Allendale 111. Miss Inez Lintner, graded 11, is teacn- Miss Min'nettie Smith, '10, was mar- ing in the country near Galien ried in September to Mr. Floyd Weaver, Miss Hattye Carstens, 11, has entered and resides in Kalamazoo. Moody Institute, Chicago Miss Frederika Bell, graded school 11, Miss Aura Cathcart, 11, has a depart- is engaged in the city schools of Battle mental position in the Kalamazoo schools. Creek.Vinton Cooley, graded school '11, is at Miss Kate Chamberlain, '11, is teach- Bradley this year. 1DI>? SPa,rtf- ^ J u 101, Miss Ethel Fowler, graded school '11, Miss Edith Clay, domestic art, 1911 is is teaching in Colon. engaged in dressmaking work with Miss Miss Pearl Hall, graded school '11, is Geary, Kalamazoo, in charge of a rural school near Gull Miss Helen Conarroe, art 11, is doing Lake designing woik for the Henderson- ' Miss Viola Kirkpatrick, of this year's Ames Company, this city graded school class, is teaching in Stur- Miss G. Helen Cook, 11, has a posi ng tion in Watervliet. Miss Eulalia Laird, 1911 graded Miss Myra Cobb, kindergarten'11, has school, Ljs teaching in the schools at returned from a trip abroad and is at her Charlotte. home in Schoolcraft. 46 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD Normal F.A.CowlbeckCo. Pennants 106 W. Main St

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Vol.2 NOVEMBER, 1911 No, 2

IDEALS IN EDUCATION

It is difficult if not impossible to de his influence is to be for that which is fine our ideals, but we can indicate their good, or that which, is bad depends on significance by saying that they are things whether his ideals are lofty or low. that we judge to be good and worthy of Perhaps no one ever actually attained pursuit. Ideals must possess superlative his ideals, certainly no one can ever be characteristics. They must be the con better than his ideals. ception of good things that have reached All successful teachers have some the stage of perfection. No one person definite ideals which must overshadow possesses all that is good and perfect. all other considerations. If the pupils Indeed no one person possesses a single are to be developed into men and women quality that has reached the highest of character and moral back-bone, they degree of perfection, i. e., the ideal state. must feel the influence of teachers who Hence the ideal teacher, the ideal school, have high ideals and high standards. the ideal pupil, in fact, ideals in general We are not pessimistic and we know must be creatures of the imagination. that the world is full of good men and I fear that if the ideal teacher, if the women, but if we look about us we can teacher who possessed all of the good see business men winking at dishonorable qualities of all of the good teachers that methods to gain the almighty dollar; we ever lived, existed and possessed these can see graft in politics and plenty of it; qualities in a superlative degree of per we can see men in important political fection, I fear that if this teacher were positions and even in important school present among us and did not possess any positions who spend more time in work bad qualities he would, as some one has ing for a pull than in attending to the said, put the rest of us out of business, if duties of the positions they hold, who do there were very many of him. not hesitate to use questionable methods But however far ideals may be beyond to further their own personal ambitions the possibility of realization, what a per instead of working for the interests of son is and what he makes of himself the institutions they represent. We have depends largely on the ideals he holds. but to notice such things as these to real These ideals shape his life, and whether ize the influence for good that a teacher

♦Address delivered by President E. A. Lyman before the M. £?. T. A. at Detroit meeting. 50 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD with character, moral backbone, scholar suggested that all men had outlived their ship, culture and efficiency can exert in usefulness and ought to be chloroformed. shaping the lives of young people. Such teachers have kept abreast of the We often hear it said that a teacher has times in their professional work. They outlived his usefulness by the time he is have cultivated a love of knowledge for forty-five or fifty years old and that no its own sake. They possess tact and the school board will employ him and that spirit of service. They cannot be consequently the teaching profession is wheedled or coaxed into doing question not a good profession for a young man able things. They repudiate the doctrine to enter except as a makeshift for a few of "Doing what the Romans do when years. among the Romans." They stand for I do not hesitate to say that the teacher what is right and just and during their who is no longer useful at the age of whole lives they have grown in efficiency forty-five or fifty really never was useful and influence. in the true sense of the word, and cer Reputation is often mistaken for char tainly never gave a school board any rea acter but there is a fundamental differ sonable excuse for employing him at all, ence. You have frequently listened to a for this is the time of life when a teacher man and felt that there was something should have attained his highest degree better and finer in him than what he said; of efficiency because he has had time and something about him that made you bet opportunity to try out his theories and ter and stronger for having known him. accumulate and digest a fund of informa That something is what we call charac tion which can but make him useful in ter. On the other hand you have doubt the highest degree. less met a man who was self centered; Of course if a teacher spends his time who would prefer to see a good measure in being a good fellow and in working fail, if he did not receive full credit for for a pull; if he spends his time in devis its accomplishment; who always used his ing means to suppress all subordinates in companions, never served them; who, order that all credit for things accom whenever possible, brought himself prom plished may accrue to himself, or for fear inently before the public by conspicuously that he may be overshadowed by a advertising in newspapers and elsewhere stronger character, he has not much time everything that he has done and every to work to make himself efficient. It thing that he thinks that he can make the really does sometimes take the people a people believe that he has done. This number of years to find out such a sort of a man may and frequently does teacher but they are sure to find him out acquire a reputation of being a great eventually. He may even continue in man, but he does not possess character. school work till he reaches the age of It is difficult to over-estimate the influ forty-five or fifty, but the time is sure to ence and power that lie in the hands of a come when no school board will employ teacher in shaping the lives of young peo him. ple, so it is important that the teacher The same might be said of the subor should possess in a large degree the ele dinate teacher who thinks he is much bet ments that go to make up the ideal man ter qualified to fill the place occupied by or woman. The whole work of the his superior than the person holding the teacher is by no means to be identified superior position, and who spends his with instruction. The personal influence time either in devising schemes to under of the teacher on young people is of vast mine his superior or in sulking because importance. Far more important than his own unexcelled talents are not recog most of us realize. This influence is nized. effective not so much from what a teacher We cannot expect young people sur may say or do, but from what he really rounded by such influences to develop is. It is character and integrity in the character and moral backbone. teacher that help to build character and Fortunately, however, such conditions integrity in the pupil. There can be no are by no means universal. We do find substantial building of character without many teachers actively at work even the foundation of integrity. Many teach beyond the age when a noted physician ers think that talking is teaching and that EDUCATIONAL 51 talking will build character. But talking Plato produced several great works is not teaching and talking will not build which in spite of being somewhat chimer character. It is actual contact with ical have had lasting influence. The Re character built on the strong foundation public is an ideal creation wherein the of integrity that builds character. A individual and the family are to be sac colored minister once told his congrega rificed for the state. The people are tion that he could talk more good in a divided into three classes, laborers, war minute than he could do in a year and riors and magistrates. There was no that as he was going to preach for an education for the laborer in his scheme. hour he could keep the most of them He was simply to learn a trade. The busy being good for the rest of their warrior must be educated in music and lives if they lived up to what he preached. gymnastics while the magistrate must be The fact of the case is that the preacher a philosopher and a scholar. himself would probably be kept as busy Plato's idea was to educate his fellow as the members of his congregation. citizens each according to his own capac Talking has very little effect on pupils ity. With him education was a life-long and the teacher, if he is conscientious, process, beginning in childhood and con will be kept very busy trying to be as tinuing till it culminated in a perfect good as he preaches, knowledge of philosophy. Plato's doc Education has doubtless existed in trine of education may be summed up as some form or other sipce the time the follows: Education is a continuous and human family began its existence as an vital process; it cannot be separated institution. There have also existed from the general life of the community ideals in the training of children from and it must be inspired by a love of the time when such training first began. knowledge for the sake of knowledge. However, practically every great move Aristotle laid, great stress on moral ment in education has been the result of education, emphasizing the formation of the teaching of some inspired man .or correct moral habits in early life. Unlike woman possessed of high ideals for the Plator he taught that education should be enlightenment and advancement of the common and the same for a]l. , Aristotle human race. excluded from his doctrine of education Confucius, so revered among the everything of a utilitarian .character. Chinese that an altar ,to him as the god His sole purpose was the elevation of, the of knowledge is erected in every school mind by studies of a purely intellectual room, taught that learning without type. Indeed this was quite character thought is labor lost; that thought with istic of the Greeks as a nation. They out learning is dangerous; that to see despised the practical and devoted them what is right and not do jt is want of selves to the intellectual. courage; that friendship with ,the In this country where everything tends upright, the sincere, and with the man of towards technical and vocational or what Observation is advantageous,t while might be called practical education, we friendship with the man of bad habits, might do well to study the Greek ideals with the insinuating and the glib-ton- of education. Is it desirable for the chil gued is injurious. He also taught that dren of the slums, of the laboring classes knowledge consisted in holding to a thing or for any child who must finally earn when you know it, and in frankly con his own living by actual labor to have fessing ignorance when you do not know any contact with the higher sides of edu a .thing. Confucius had as ',his ideal cation, with history, literature, science, practical morality. Principles and max philosophy, etc ? This question might be ims to him were worthless unless carried answered by asking another. Can there into effect. be any education that is fruitful and alive Socrates spent his life in teaching and without it is inspired by a love of knowl by a wholly original method which bears edge for the sake of knowledge? Is not his name. He taught entirely by ques the success that comes from the practical tioning either to bring out the truth or to education that makes a man simply a suc convince of error. His one great ideal cessful wage earner dearly purchased, if was the moral elevation of the people. it is gained at the price of an empty 52 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD head ? A trained mind is surely as valu tion and who have done much to elevate able as a skillful hand. The real criti humanity. cism to pass on the Greek education is Thomas Arnold of Rugby, whose high that it developed a pure aristocracy of est ideal in the education of his boys was the intellect. The ancient Greeks were the cultivation of a spirit of honesty and eminent in literature, art, science, math integrity, was a firm believer in the exist ematics and philosophy. But while some ence of mutual confidence between of the Greeks of today are descendants teacher and pupil. Perhaps no English of the ancient Athenians and Spartans, schoolmaster had the confidence of his the Greek standards and ideals of culture boys as had Arnold. Consequently his and conduct died two thousand years ago power to build character was great. By because their educational system failed to his character and personality he gave a perpetuate and unify the national traits new impulse to English education. and characteristics that had made Greece Horace Mann, as a member of the the great nation of antiquity. state legislature, secured the passage of a The ideals of the Romans tended more law establishing the State Board of Edu in the direction of the practical or utili cation of Massachusetts. He left a lucra tarian side of education. Plutarch, the tive law practice and abandoned the pros great moralist, though born in Greece, pects of a brilliant political career to lived and taught in Rome at different accept the secretaryship of this Board at times. He emphasized personal effort a salary of one thousand dollars a year. and taught that precepts and maxims He believed thoroughly in the common were of no consequence unless embodied school. He met not only with indiffer in action. He says, "As it would be with ence on the part of the people, but often a man who going to his neighbors to bor with actual opposition in his attempts to row fire, and finding there a great and improve the condition of the schools of bright fire, should sit down to warm him his state. He persevered till he aroused self and forget to go home, so it is with the whole state to the importance of the the one who comes to another to learn, if common school. He embodied the result he does not think himself obliged to kin of his twelve years' work as secretary of dle his own fire within and influence his the State Board of Education in his re own mind, but continues sitting by his markable annual reports. Horace Mann's master as if he was enchanted, delighted ideal was to make it possible for every by hearing." The great ideal of Plutarch child to secure a free education that was to cultivate personal self-directing would fit him for the primary duties of morality independent of the tutorship of manhood. others. Of all of the educational problems that The meditations of Marcus Aurelius have confronted the American public the are worthy of the study of all teachers. most important is the problem of making This wisest of the Roman Emperors was, education bear more directly on the work next to Socrates, perhaps the greatest of every day life. We hear the criticism moralist of antiquity. He believed thor everywhere that education today does not oughly in self education. prepare for the needs of the average It was the Roman poet Juvenal who citizen. Perhaps the criticism is largely defined the highest ideal of life and edu justified by the results. Perhaps it is the cation by saying that our best possession duty of the public school to train young is a "sound mind in a sound body." people in the various occupations and The fate of Rome might have been far professions by means of which they can different if she had possessed an educa make a living. Certainly we will all tional system common and the same for agree without discussion that manual all. A system that could have impressed training and domestic science should be upon succeeding generations the virtues taught in all schools, that agriculture and standards of the founders of ancient should be taught in at least all rural Rome. schools and that there are other lines of Luther, Comenius, Pestalozzi, Froebel technical and vocational training that are and many others deserve mention among worthy of serious attention. However those who have had lofty ideals in educa the general problem that confronts the THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 53

teacher of the public school is so to train given time, but not in the sense that work the young people that they will acquire is to be done for him. The most helpful efficiency, i. e., power to do things. The thing that a child gets from his educa choice of subjects is not so important as tion is the inspiration to labor faithfully is the training in methods of working and cheerfully to accomplish the tasks and thinking that may be applied to the that fall to his lot whether pleasant or working out of problems and difficulties disagreeable. The next most helpful that confront the student after he leaves thing is so to equip him that he will have school. He may, and will forget, the the power to solve such problems as he most of the things learned in school, but meets. if the purpose of the school has been ful Will these ends be best accomplished filled in any sense he will have gained the by introducing into the school coursa power to do things, to solve the prob utilitarian subjects and the establish lems that daily confront him. If he has ment of vocational schools, or can the not gained this power, there is some subjects that give knowledge without any thing lacking in the training he has re direct bearing on the needs of life be so ceived. taught that the same ends will be accom The most practical thing that a young plished? The problem of vocational person gets out of his education i? a training will never be solved without a wholesome respect for honest hard work careful investigation in all of its bearings. together with a wholesome regard for It can never be solved without being sub law and reasonable discipline. "Nothing mitted to careful experimenting to bring good comes without great labor," said the out the really useful features and exclude Roman poet Horace. Certainly young the fads that result from the enthusiasm people should be made to realize that suc of the promoters. When all of this is cess in their studies can only be gained done the school course will still be rich by hard work. I am not in sympathy in all of the subjects that give knowledge with the feeling that pupils must be without any direct utilitarian bearing, forced to do difficult and disagreeable but which store the mind with useful tasks simply for the sake of doing them, information and train it for greater effi or that they must never be helped because ciency. they ought +o learn to overcome difficul It is not necessary to eliminate the ties for themselves. I do believe in the older subjects to make room for the new. ideal of persistent effort on the part Improved methods in teaching and the of the pupil. Constant defeat and fail elimination of useless material from ure do not develop power but result in some of the time honored subjects will discouragement and lack of confidence give the necessary room for the introduc while success arouses interest and suc tion of the new. The backbone of the cess will follow well directed persistent course of study must always be the sub effort. jects a knowledge of which is essential Nor am I in sympathy with the idea to social and political life. that everything should be made simple Personally I regret exceedingly to see and easy for the child, that all difficult Latin and Greek dropping out of our obstacles must be removed from his path, high school courses, not only on account that he must not do anything that he of their culture value and the training does not want to do, that everything must in consecutive concentrated mental effort be carefully developed for him, that he they afford, but also on account of the must always follow the trail so carefully effect and bearing on the study of the blazed for him by his teacher that no mother tongue, the English language. mental effort is required on his part. You have met pupils, and many of them, This sort of work does not train for effi who have great difficulty in solving math ciency and ignores the fact that human ematical problems and you are inclined progress has been attained only by per to say at once that mathematics is very sistent effort and hard work. difficult for such pupils, or that they have Improved methods in teaching have no mathematical ability. Examine care made things easier for the pupil in the fully into their difficulties and you will sense that he can accomplish more in a find that the fundamental difficulty is the 54 EDUCATIONAL inability on the part of the pupil to read to think his way through a mathematical English, and by reading English I mean proposition from premise to conclusion in the ability to interpret the printed page. an orderly and logical way, but if, in Judging from personal experience with doing this, he must also learn the length high school graduates, the inability to of the Ganges river, the altitude of Popo interpret the printed sentence and to catepetl, the value of the manufactures of state a fact or argument in good clear the United States, the weight of green English far exceeds the inability to solve glass, the time of conjunction of Mercury mathematical problems when once the and Venus, the mining and shipping English is mastered. And I suspect that interests of the country, ornamental the same inaccuracy in the use of English design, architectural forms, etc., etc., he exists in departments of work other than has not much time left for the fundamen mathematics. Of course the dropping of tal purpose for which he studies mathe Latin and Greek from the high school matics. course is not the cause of this evil, but The idea of informational work in ele language study does have an important mentary mathematics is by no means new. bearing on the study of the English lan About 1800 there appeared in London an guage. Nor do I intend to attempt to arithmetic written by William Butler and point out the cause, but the evil exists and entitled "Arithmetical Questions on a to a greater extent than it ought. New Plan, Intended to Answer the Dou It is difficult to tell at what point a ble Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction technical education should begin. At and Miscellaneous Information." On least it should be based on a solid foun page 417 of this book we find the follow dation of general knowledge, however ing problem which is typical of the exer elementary. Nowhere will there be cises given in the book. greater efficiency than in the case of one Needles. A needle is a small instru possessing a trained mind, with the ment made of steel, pointed at one end, power of concentration, combined with a and perforated at the other to receive the complete knowledge of the subject on thread, used in sewing, embroidery, etc. which he is working, be he farmer, black Needles make a very considerable article smith, lawyer or doctor. of commerce, the consumption being One of the recent fads in education is almost incredible. German and Hungar the introduction of what is called infor ian steel is of most repute for needles. mational (problems in mathematics. The first that were made in England Judging from the number of texts that were fabricated in Cheapside* London, in have recently appeared for elementary the time of the sanguinary Mary, by a and secondary schools devoting a large negro from Spain; but, as he would not part of the work to informational prob impart the secret, it was lost at his death, lems that involve a knowledge of the and not recovered again till 1566, in the various industrial pursuits, farming, soci reign of Elizabeth; when, says Stow, ology, history, geography, astronomy, Elias Growse, a German, taught the art physics, navigation, mechanical engineer to the English, who have since brought it ing, political economy, finance, statistics to the highest degree of perfection. The in general, art, architecture, etc., etc., one largest sized needle is No. 1, the smallest might be justified in concluding that at No. 25, They are usually made up in least a part of the educational public had packets of 25 eachi gone crazy on this subject. Suppose as many packets of needles as Informational and vocational problems there are working days in a year, could doubtless have a place in elementary edu be made up in a day, by as many persons cation, but when they are of such a nature as a yard contains inches, how many that more mental energy is required to similar parcels could be packed up in half master the information intended to be the time, by as many persons as a mile given than to master the mathematics, the contains yards? real object is defeated. A child studies It is impossible to define the ideal edu mathematics to learn how to add, sub cation for young people. It is impossi tract, multiply, divide, etc., accurately ble to do more than consider a few of its and with a reasonable degree of rapidity; main aspects, but there are a few ele- LITERARY 55 ments that most of us will admit must education of today if we expect young form a part of our ideal: the foundation people to develop into useful citizens. of integrity, a love of knowledge for its E. A. LYMAN, own sake, efficiency, character, are essen President Michigan State Teachers' As tial elements that have a bearing on the sociation, 1911.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH COFFEE HOUSES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The coffee houses of the eighteenth of parliament who could assemble there century were places of resort for men and privately discuss their party tactics. and resembled somewhat the club houses The Grecian Coffee House (4) was of today. These houses bore various situated in Devereux Court and was so names and were frequented by all classes named because a Greek, Constantine, of men; politicians, writers, critics, phy kept it. Many Greek scholars were sicians, the clergy, poets and the frivo tempted there by the Greek of its keeper. lous young men of the town. The fol Learned professors and fellows of the lowing brief summary relates to the prin Royal society also frequented it. cipal coffee houses mentioned by Addison The Cocoa Tree (5) was a chocolate and Steele in The Spectator and The house and a place of resort for Tories. Tattler. The Tory statesmen used it as a political Child's Coffee House (r) was situated assembly house in the same manner as in St. Paul's church yard—and was the the Whigs used St. James. It finally principal resorting place of the clergy, became a Tory club. physicians and philosophers. Jonathan's Coffee House (6), in Will's Coffee House (2) was fre Change Alley, was frequented by stock quented by Dryden, and because of his jobbers. use of it many of the wits of the town Lloyd's Coffee House, (7) in Lombard assembled there. For a long time it was street, took great pains to get the first known as the Wits Coffee House, and ship news and because of this the house there current politics took the form of was used by underwriters and insurers of satire or entertaining narrative. Its ships' cargoes. It was also found to be credit, however, was declining in the days a convenient place for sales. of The Spectator, because wit was going The Rainbow, (8) the second coffee out and card playing was coming in. house opened in London, held high repute St. James Coffee House (5) was the until turned into a tavern. It remains to gathering place of Whig officers of the the present day. Guards and of fashionable men. It was Taken from Steele's point of view it a house most favored in Queen Anne's was very natural for the men of that age reign by Whig Statesmen and members to delight in the coffee houses, especially

(1). Spectator. Paper 1. March 1, 1711. (5). Spectator. Paper 1. March 1, 1711. (2). Spectator. Paper 1. March 1, 1711. (6). Spectator. Paper 1. March 1, 1711. (3). Spectator. Paper 1. March 1, 1711.. (7). Spectator. Paper 46. April 23, 1711. 14). Spectator. Paper 1. March 1, 1711. (8). Spectator. Paper 16. March 19, 1711. 56 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD those men who did not care for the Another great disturber of the coffee society of women, and the sports of men. house was the musician. He would sing, In these houses one could make himself play and orate supposedly for the amuse agreeable even if he were not a good con ment of the company, but in reality his versationalist ; for in every group of peo efforts most often annoyed the majority ple there were in those days even as now of his auditors. always some who delight in doing all the Still another chief feature was the talking. (9) keeper. {12). Girls and women often In gathering in the coffee houses in the kept these coffee houses and were called early morning each man would read his by Steele Idols, because of the apparent newspaper. When all had finished, each worship paid them by the young men. would join in the discussion of the most These young women were often very interesting topics. This discussion lasted pretty and also of good moral character. until about eight o'clock, when it was They kept the houses from a purely busi interrupted by the entrance of a group of ness standpoint and the advances and students, some of whom were dressed pretty speeches of the coffee-house loafers ready for Westminster, others came "in were distasteful to them. These night gowns and slippers only to pass speeches were not always modest and away their time." Says Steele: in good taste, but were often vulgar and "I do not in poor taste. The young men would know that I meet in any of my walks, linger around the bar basking, as it were, objects which move both my spleen and in the glances of the bar-maid much to laughter so effectually as these young her embarrassment. fellows at the Grecian's, Squire's, and all In other papers of Steele's we find other coffee houses, **** who however, that there were some lady- rise early for no other purpose but to keepers who were not so timid. He publish their laziness." (10) says: The gayer the nightgown the more the "These idols sit and receive all day individual was looked up to (by himself long the adoration of the youth within at least.) such and such districts. I know in par Later in the morning these young fops ticular, goods are not entered as they gave place to business men, who came to ought to be at the Custom house, nor law the coffee house either to transact busi reports perused at the Temple by reason ness or lose themselves in lively conver of one beauty who detains the young sation. These men were generally of the merchants too long near Change, and middle class and made use of the coffee another fair one who keeps the students houses as places to meet their friends and at her house when they should be at business comrades and enjoy an hour or study. It would be worth your while to so in discussing some topic that was of see how the idolaters alternately offer vital interest to themselves. incense to their idols—and what heart It seems, too, that the coffee houses burnings arise in those who wait for had their troubles as well as their pleas their turn to receive kind aspect from ures. In the company there were often those little thrones, which all the com disputers, Steele calls them wagerers, who pany, but these lovers, call the bars." pretended to be well read on all subjects. (13)' They would, when a subject was intro Such actions were distasteful to the duced by some one, take the opportunity older gentlemen, who often became very to parade their own knowledge. More indignant because the young fellows often they would bet so many guineas that would put up with "anything" for tea the person speaking did not know what and coffee which the beauty behind the he was talking about. The person who bar chose to set before them. came out ahead was generally the person These coffee houses with the pleas with the most money and usually was the antries and unpleasantries of their pat wagerer. (h). rons; their companies of business men,

(9). Spectator. Paper 49. April 26, 1711. (12). Spectator. Paper 155. Aug. 28, 1711. (10). Spectator. Paper 49. April 26, 1711. (13). Spectator. Paper 87. June 9, 1711. (11). Spectator. Paper 145. Aug. 16, 1711. LITERARY 57 students, men of letters, philosophers, KALAMAZOO. professors, physicians and idlers; their debates, and their general wrangles give (Adapted from "Marcelle," by Frank an unlimited source of material for the Pixley and Gustav Luders). study of the manners and customs of the people of the eighteenth century. The Indians once laid out a town I. V. B. Called Kalamazoo, Where they managed to dig Up a word like that, OUR CHRISTMAS PLANS FOR No one ever knew. YOU! I still maintain Does a Christmas true to the time of They were much to blame, "Good Queen Bess" appeal to you? When they gave their town such a hor There is a desire this year that students rible name, of both the Training and Normal schools But it's all right now just the same, and faculty unite in the Christmas festiv And Michigan, too. ities and perhaps no better way to bring Those red-skins long since passed away about this happy result could be chosen From Kalamazoo— than the presentation of a medieval Tho' they still have some Indians there Christmas in "Merrie Englande." today, This festival was the outgrowth of the They certainly do, Roman Saturnalia when servant and But strange to say, they are mostly white, master forgot social distinctions or even And the warpath now is policed at night, reversed them and all, attired in a variety While the wigwams have electric light, of gay masquerades, abandoned them In Kalamazoo. In Kalamazoo. selves in enjoyment. In Kalamazoo, Zoo Zoo Zoo Zoo! We want each of you to have a share in this merriment. Perhaps some of Chorus—Oh Kalamazoo, your dignified faculty will appear as the What's the matter with you? dear grandfathers and grandmothers of Without our Normal School, the sixteenth century, others of that What would you do? seemingly stately body will give expres It's a hundred to one bet, sion to their exuberance of mirth in lead You'll be on the map yet. ing motley bands of revelers about the With loud bazoo, I'll root for you, halls. There will be mummerings and Oh Kalamazoo, oh Kalamazoo. masqueradings, drumming and dancing, shouting of songs and high reveling, and, II. best of all, that we may not forget the message of Christmas, there will be chil Perhaps there may be larger towns dren's sweet voices caroling. Already Than Kalamazoo, some students are delving into records But don't you believe there's a better of the past in a study of customs, games, town, dances, mummerings and carols. Get an Whatever you do. idea in regard to this, come to us and let The Wolverines are not country guys, us help you carry it out. We deliver the goods that we advertise, E. F. And our town's great except in size. It's getting there, too. There was a yellow pumpkin, If a bus'ness boom ever lands just right Nice and big and round. In Kalamazoo, We found it in the garden, We will put up a town that is out of Lying on the ground. sight, That's what we will do. The next day when we looked for it Chicago then will be out of the race, The pumpkin wasn't there New York will be pushed into second But we found a jack-o-lantern, place. Sitting on the stair. All we need now is the populace, Gail Morgan, Kg., '12. In Kalamazoo. Chorus. 58 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

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The attention of our readers is again these bibliographies. They alone are directed to the advertisements appearing worth more than the subscription price in the Record. Read them carefully and of the Record- keep them in mind when on shopping trips. Our advertisers are entitled to STATE TEACHERS' MEETING. your patronage. On Nov. 2nd and 3d, the Michigan State Teachers' Association held its 59th Our readers will notice that this year annual meeting in Detroit. This was at the Training School has a special depart once the largest and most successful ment in the Record. In this department meeting in the history of the Associa will be found month by month material tion. There were over 8,000 teachers in of a practical nature, helpful to all pres attendance. In fact, pedagogs were so ent and prospective teachers. Much of thick about headquarters and on the this will be an account of actual work streets that one could scarcely move as it has been put into effect in the without bumping into a wielder of the Training School. It carries with it the birch. The programs offered were most assurance of success. Last month the excellent and reflected great credit upon articles dealt with the subject of field the officers. The following officers were trips and brought out what can be ac elected for the ensuing year: complished by such means. This month President—E. E. Ferguson, Bay City. we present some very valuable bibliog First Vice President—Prof. E. A. raphies of original sources of informa Lyman, Ypsilanti. tion of value to the teacher. Many Second Vice President—Miss Anna teachers are seriously handicapped Barnard, Mount Pleasant. because they do not know where to look Third Vice President—W. R. Wright, for material. Hence their work is text- Benton Harbor. booky and dry. In these lists they will Treasurer—L. A. Butler, Boyne City. find just what they want and where to Executive Committee—Miss Cornelia get it. All persons interested in educa Hulse, Grand Rapids; J. F. Thomas, tion should familiarize themselves with Detroit. EDITORIAL 59

A glance at the above names will show PRACTICAL WORK. that Michigan, conservative though she So frequently one is asked, especially is, is beginning to be susceptible to the at times of registration, what course or same influences that have brought courses would be particularly helpful to woman into her own in Washington, Col a grade teacher or practically applicable orado and California. The ladies are to some specific grade. This is in no now represented in the vice-presidency sense a simple inquiry that comes from and the executive committee. Doubtless the naive mind of the uninitiated. It is, this is but the shadow of a coming event. in truth, only a modified form of the one It requires no stretch of the imagination great question that the human race has and no heartburnings on our part, to been asking itself through the countless foresee the day, not far distant, when a ages of history, "What shall I do to be sister pedagog shall grace the executive saved?" The answer depends not so chair itself. much upon the diagnosis of particular In its present form Detroit seems to cases as upon the philosophic wisdom be the only city large enough to house and moral judgment of those to whom it the Association comfortably. Even here is addressed. Every age and every insti there was some crowding. The attend tution has its conventional dogmatism ance at the meetings increases year by that delights in prescribed courses of year and it begins to look as if the time treatment for all behavior and with reli had almost come to take some steps to gious obstinacy believes in the efficacy of relieve the congestion arising from such its treatment. But with all the results of large crowds. One man had the temer empirical psychology and scientific peda ity to propose a resolution calling for a gogy, it is not yet clear to the independ division of the Association into two ent thinker just what the soul is or how parts, but the time did not seem to be it grows. One thing, however, it seems propitious to advocate the divorce and we have learned even if it is not always so he was ruled out of order. practiced, the tolerance, if not liberality, One great problem is to secure halls is a sign of superior wisdom. large enough for the crowds. In Detroit Now, from the position the writer duplicate programs were rendered in two holds as member of the registration com large auditoriums, and these were mittee, it becomes very necessary for crowded to their capacity and beyond. him to answer this question many times Many of those who did finally crowd in, each year. Not laying claim to any were unable to hear a syllable spoken so superior wisdom along the line of the remote were they from the stage. oretic pedagogy, he is forced to answer The writer had impressed upon him it in very much the same manner as the more forcibly than ever before the fact passing years have taught him to answer that many teachers are lacking in the the same question for himself. What courtesy that should be extended to ever will help the teacher grow, give hiin speakers and interested auditors. Teach a wider outlook, a finer appreciation, a ers are supposed to be exemplars to others richer emotional response will be preemi in regard to almost everything. Cer nently practical in any grade in any tainly they should not fail in politeness. school. The creation of a suggestive at Still many of them came far short of mosphere is the first purpose of any this. There was much disorder in the school, an atmosphere rich in its varied halls and incessant walking to and fro. appeal to the growing mind, an atmos So great was the noise, in fact, that out phere in which the hungry soul can find side of a relatively small favorable zone the nourishment it craves. The most near the speaker nothing could be heard. effective teaching is always the impart Part of this was, of course, due to the ing of life, as Carlyle would have it "the extreme Congestion, but by far the most teaching of spirit with spirit." Too of it was the result of the careless much, I fear, even in these later days we ness of restless individuals who would are concerned with adapting subject-mat not keep still. On Friday it was neces ter to method and both to pupil, too often sary to bar the doors during the speak persuading ourselves that the pseudo- ing, thus securing a degree of quiet. scientific gymnastics of the pedagogue 60 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD are truly synonymous with teaching. The that means a richer life for him; he true teacher's first concern is ever his knows the lives and books that touch the own culture and growth. His life should heart of his own life, the spirit with be rich, and the unfolding of its riches which his spirit can commune, the soul creates the atmosphere upon which that can interpret the meaning of life in others thrive. terms that he can understand and appro What, then, shall the teacher do to priate. This immediate consciousness of develop a larger, stronger self? What growth is the only safe guide for the stu and how shall he study? This each one dent; it points the way to the only life must know for himself. At times, it whose free unfolding will create a nour seems, the more timid believe they have ishing atmosphere for others. Perhaps, answered this question when they have after all, absolute character and absolute answered another not necessarily in any life are only figments, and conventional way related to it, What must I do to get dogmatism that would fashion us all alike a certificate? Is it true, or is it only the may fail most in that it seems to succeed. fancy of a dreamer, that the human soul The old adage is more than a half truth is conscious of its own growth, conscious and takes on a pleasing freshness when of increasing power in ever widening set in a strange philosophy, "To thine fields? If there is anything in pragmatic own self be true, and it will follow as the philosophy, this doctrine is doubly recom night the day, thou canst not then be mended, for it is reasonable, and it false to any man." works. Every sincere student knows GEO. SPRAU. and is able to recognize the atmosphere

TRAINING SCHOOL The following faithful reproduction of lived and there in the very tip top of a one of Miss Forncrook's stories, written chestnut tree sat a monkey. "Hello, by a fifth-grade pupil attests the close friend jelly-fish," said the monkey, "and interest and attention of the audience of why are you over here?" "I am here," children: said the jelly-fish, "to tell you of a very THE JELLY-FISH. beautiful land and I will take you to it if A dragon king once lived in the sea. you will get on my back." "Very well," He was a very lonely king and wanted said the monkey, "I will go with you." some one to live with him. So he went So he got on the jelly-fish's back and the off and returned with a very beautiful jelly-fish swam away. But when they dragon princess. They had been married got out into the sea the monkey began to only a short time when the young queen suspect something and he said, "But why grew very ill and the best doctors in the do you want to take me to that land?" kingdom could not cure her. "Oh, I am taking you there to serve my One day she called the king to her and master," said the jelly-fish. "But what said, "I know what will cure me; I want does your master want me for?" asked some medicine made of a live monkey's the monkey. "Oh, he wants to cut your liver." "I don't know where to find a liver out to make medicine for the queen, monkey," said the king. "You don't who is very ill," said the jelly-fish. The love me any more or you would do it and monkey thought awhile because he did I am going back to my mamma and not want to have his liver cut out, and at papa," sighed the queen. So the king last he said, "I would be very glad to went out and called his trusted servant, help your master but as it happens I left the jelly-fish, and said, "I want you to go my liver hanging in that chestnut tree I to the shore where the monkeys live, get was sitting in, and you will have to go a monkey to get on your back and tell him back and get it." The jelly-fish turned that you will take him to a beautiful land around and went back to the land and that he has never seen before." So the when he got there the monkey gave a big jelly-fish went off, and pretty soon he jump and went right up in the top of a came to the shore where the monkeys chestnut tree and said, "Ha, you foolish TRAINING SCHOOL 61

jelly-fish, just as if I could hang my liver ing young people from present inimical in a tree! Now you will have to go back conditions of environment. He hopes to and tell your master you could not get a see eventually, therefore, an entire ab monkey's liver for him." So the jelly sorption of the present function of the fish went back and told the king all about juvenile court by such social workers as it, and the king was so angry that he told truant, police, and probation officers, his servants to beat that jelly-fish till child-welfare workers, and Y. M. C. A., there was not a bone left in his body. As church, and school people. He cited, as for the queen she decided that she could being an exception to the general rule, the get well without a monkey's liver and she action of one church in opening its doors did. for a rest room, in hospitality and protec DOROTHY WESTNEDGE. tion to strange young people in the city. Having explained the diagnostic func tion of the courts, he showed that the JUDGE JEWELL'S ADDRESS TO next step in remedying present practice THE PATRONS OF THE TRAIN is entirely to change the old conception ING SCHOOL. of sentences. They must come to be regarded as remedial—corrective—in The first Parents' Meeting of the year their nature, and no longer as punitive. was held in the Training School Tuesday The state having failed to protect its evening, October twenty-fourth. Judge prospective citizens from the evils of Jewell, of Grand Rapids, gave a very environment, is now bound to place them interesting address on "The State as the in such surroundings as will remedy Ultimate Parent." these mistakes as far as possible. To this In his capacity as Judge of the Juven end sentences should be indefinite in ile Court, Judge Jewell is especially well length. "What judge, or law, is wise qualified to speak with authority upon enough?" he asked, "to fix the length of this subject. He defined the past and a sentence in advance, so as to reach present place of the juvenile courts, their this goal?" A sentence having been relation to the rest of the community, made indefinite by the courts, it then and their rightful position from an ideal remains for its termination to be fixed by viewpoint. His talk was made very vivid a board of expert criminologists and and convincing by reminiscences from his sociologists. It should be their duty to own rich experience. It was easy to read determine, in consultation with the between the lines and see in Judge Jewell judge, the time when a social or moral a very real and human personification of cure had been effected in the offender. the state as an "ultimate parent." Judge Jewell believes that with such He traces the progress of the juvenile fairness of treatment youthful offenders court from the experimental stage when would grow to manhood with increased it was regarded with suspicion, to the es respect for the law instead of contempt tablished place of appreciation and esteem and fear. That this belief was founded which it now holds. upon actual experience and not upon Judge Jewell's conception of the proper theory he showed clearly in the accounts function of the juvenile courts is a broad he gave of actual cases of young people one, and places him in the van of modern who are now self-respecting citizens, students of sociological problems. though they had started early upon He defined this conception clearly. downward paths. They are, besides, First he pointed out that the function of law-respecting citizens in a high degree, the juvenile court is not remedial in its as evidenced by their strong personal nature, but rather diagnostic. The court friendship for the judge, and by the very seeks to determine the exact nature of the able assistance which they -frequently delinquent's offense against the law, and, afford in overseeing other smaller of more important still, to trace the cause, fenders. the flaw in environment, the ignorance, or Judge Jewell left his hearers convinced other wrong influences, which caused the that humanitarianism "works," especially trouble. In this he sees a great need of when practiced by a thoroughly sincere all social forces joining hands in protect personality. G. E. S. 62 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

GOVERNMENT REPORTS USED Twenty-first Report of Bureau of Eth IN GRADE I. nology. INDIANS. Pictures made by Hopi Indians. (Interesting to show to children). Shelter. Ethnological Report for 1881-1882. Pottery. "Omaha Sociology"—Interesting ar Smithsonian Report 1892. ticle on life of tribe, houses, etc.— "Prehistoric New Mexico Pottery." a few illustrations. (Good illustrations for teachers' National Museum Report, 1901, Part 2. use). Excellent illustrations. National Museum Report 1901—Excel Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of lent Illustrations. Ethnology. Twentieth Ethnological Report. "Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and "Aboriginal Pottery of the East Implements." ern United States." A good article, few illustrations. Excellent illustrations and a good Fourteenth Report of Bureau of Eth article on making of pottery and nology—Part I. the design. "Menominee Indians" — Contains interesting information and good Industries. illustrations. Smithsonian Report 1900, Part 2. "Anthropological Studies in Cali Food. fornia." Report of National Museum, 1902. Illustrations of baskets and grind Excellent Article — "Primitive ing corn—and an interesting arti Food." cle. Fourteenth Report of Bureau of Eth Ethnological Report 1881-1882. nology. Part 1. "Omaha Sociology"—Good article "Menominee Indians." A good for teachers. article. National Museum Report 1901, Part 2. Excellent illustrations. Clothing. Fourteenth Report of Bureau of Ethnol Fourteenth Report of the Bureau of ogy- Ethnology. "Menominee Indians"—a good article. Excellent illustrations of Indian Shirts. Eskimo. Ethnological Report 1887-1888. Games, Dances, Songs, Myths and Pic A good report on life and customs, a ture Writing. few illustrations. Ethnological Report 1881-1882. National Museum Report 1901, Part 2. "Omaha Sociology" (games and Excellent illustrations. dances). Eighteenth Report of Bureau of Eth Tenth Report of Bureau of Ethnology nology. (picture writing). Eskimos about Behring Strait. Excellent illustrations and an in Excellent illustration and an arti teresting article. cle which includes some folklore. Fourteenth Report of Bureau of Eth nology. "Menominee Indians" — (ghost GRADE II. dances). Words and music to song myths HISTORY. and folklore.) Primitive Shelter. Nineteenth Report of Bureau of Ethnol ogy- Smithsonian Report 1896. Myths of Cherokees. "Pueblo Ruins Near Winslow, Thirteenth Report of Bureau of Ethnol Arizona." ogy- Good illustrations and interesting Zum Myths. article. TRAINING SCHOOL 63

Smithsonian Report 1895. Excellent illustrations of Pueblo "Cliff Dwellers of the Red River pottery. Country." Twentieth Report of Bureau of Eth Illustrations and article on life of nology. Cliff Dwellers. "Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern Eighth Report of Bureau of Ethnol United States." ogy, 1887. Excellent illustrations. "Pueblo Architecture" — Informa Fourteenth Report of Bureau of Eth tion for teacher and illustrations. nology. Thirteenth Report of Bureau of Eth Excellent illustrations of Zuni and nology. Pueblo industries. "Aboriginal Remains in Verde Val Report of National Museum 1902. ley." Aboriginal American Basketry. A good article and a few good Excellent article and illustrations. illustrations. Ethnological Report 1882. Fourteenth Report of Bureau of Eth "Navajo Weavers." Good article nology, Part 1. and good illustrations. Excellent illustrations of Zuni Thirteenth Report of Bureau of Eth and Pueblo dwellings. nology. Seventeenth Report of Bureau of Eth "Prehistoric Textile Art." nology. Excellent article, a few illustra Excellent illustrations of brush huts. tions. Nineteenth Report of Bureau of Eth Ethnological Report 1899. nology, Part 2. "Primitive Weaving Frame." Illustrations of mat and bark huts. Smithsonian Report 1892. Primitive Twenty-second Report of Bureau of Industry. (Article for teacher). Ethnology. Primitive Pood. Excellent illustrations of Pueblo ruins. Report of National Museum 1902. Nineteenth Ethnological Report, Part Primitive Implements. 2. National Museum Report 1901, Part 2. •Wild Rice Gatherers." Fifteenth Report of Bureau of Eth nology. Prehistoric Animals. "Flint Implements." National Museum Report 1901, Part 2. "Stone Implements"—good illustra Illustrations. tions. Smithsonian Report 1901-1902. Illus Twenty-fifth Report of Bureau of trations. Ethnology. Excellent illustrations of stone im General Article on Primitive Man. plements and carved stone. Smithsonian Report 1896. Thirteenth Report of Bureau of Eth "Primitive Man a Modern Savage." nology. "Stone Art." An excellent article for teachers. Primitive Industries. The Smithsonian Institution has a Smithsonian Report 1900, Part 2. classified list of publications ranging in "Anthropological Studies in Cali price from five cents upwards. fornia." E. C. BARNUM. Illustrations of baskets and grind ing corn. Smithsonian Report 1895. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS "Cliff Village of Red Rock Coun Students attending the Normal School try." find themselves surrounded by an embar Illustrations of Pottery. rassing wealth of subject matter and ref National Museum Report 1901, Part 2 erence material of which they have Excellent illustrations of pottery. neither time nor energy to avail them Twenty-second Report of Bureau of selves during their Normal course, and, Ethnology, Part 1. as a consequence, often promise them- 64 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD selves the opportunity of examining and for many areas. Exhaustive studies are using it when engaged in actual teaching. made of all the mineral deposits and their Upon assuming a position, however, in formation, mining, and production are the average school community, they are described. Among the problems of the confronted with a dearth of such mate Department of Commerce and Labor is rial and with a lack of funds for supple the investigation of the production and menting these meager resources. consumption of the important agricul While many people are familiar with tural crops and the conditions determin the work of the government along agri ing them. Monthly and daily summaries cultural lines, few are aware of the are prepared of conditions at home and breadth of activity of the national and abroad in all lines of industries. state governments as authors and pub The findings of these and other lishers of educational matter. Those bureaus are published in book, map and seeking material for classes in geography, circular form, frequently illustrated, and nature study and primitive life frequently distributed free of charge or at a price ignore these valuable contributions. which covers merely the cost of paper, There are few topics in these subjects not presswork and binding. Many of those, touched upon by some document and for which prices are listed, may be pro portions of the data therein given can not cured free when application for them is be obtained from any other source. made through a congressman or it is To promote the agricultural interests designated that they are to become the of the country, the Department of Agri property of a school. culture is subdivided into several bureaus The following list indicates the char and specific problems are assigned each acter of the material thus made available for investigation. The Bureau of Soils and the department to which application studies the soils of particular regions, de should be made for them. termines the soils adapted to special MAPS. crops, the means of eliminating objec Map of United States and our insular tionable characteristics and kindred prob possessions showing acquisitions of terri lems. The work of the Entomology tory; and military, naval, Indian and Bureau on the best means of control of forest reservations. Backed with cloth, insects injurious to plant, human and mounted on rollers, five feet by seven animal life results in an annual saving to feet, $1. Supt. of Documents (August the country of millions of dollars. The Donath). Bureau of Plant industry deals with a Map of Philippines—War Dept. Free. wide range of topics such as the eradica Map of Mississippi River—Miss. River tion of weeds, improvement in methods Commission, St. Louis, Mo. of production of each crop, the perfec Principal Transportation Routes of the tion of seeds, and the products which can World, with descriptive pamphlet, 25c. and cannot be successfully grown in each Supt. of Documents. agricultural belt. The numerous Experi Map of National Forests. Free. For ment Stations, scattered over the coun est Service. try, supervised by this department, not Map of Natural Forests of North only discover new principles of agricul America. Free. Forest Service. ture, but furnish models to the farmers Iron Ore Routes of L. Superior Dis of the district of improved ways of culti trict. Free. Dept. of Commerce and vation. Each station is especially con Labor. cerned with the problems peculiar to its Chart of Equivalent Weights and surrounding region. One aim of the Measures. (For teaching of metric sys Weather Bureau in issuing daily weather tem.) Free. Bureau of Standards. maps is to enable the farmer to regulate Statistical Atlas of the Census Reports. the processes of cultivation with respect Free. Bureau of Census. to expected turns of weather. The Geo Daily Weather Map. Free. Weather logical Survey is mapping in detail the Bureau. topographic features of the United Cloud Chart for study of kinds of States and has already completed maps clouds. Free. Weather Bureau. TRAINING SCHOOL 65

ARTICLES. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE For weather observations in grades. REPORTS. Circular F. Reading of Barometers. (Splendidly illustrated. Procured by Circular 250. Instructions for Volun application through a congressman). tary Observers. Economic Conquest of Africa by Rail Circular 104. Notes on Frost. Weath roads, 1904, pp. 721-735. er Bureau. Human Beasts of Burden, 1887, pp. For Biological Nature Study Classes. 237-295. Farmers' bulletins—new series. "The Nile Valley, 1908. No. 11—Gypsy Moth in America, 5c. 275—Gypsy Moth and How to Con NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SUR trol it, 5c. VEY. 78. Economic Loss to People of the Mineral Resources of the United United States through Insects that carry States. Published annually. Diseases, 10c. 223. Gypsum Deposits in the United 88. Preventive and Remedial Work States. against Mosquitoes, 5c. 258. Origin of Certain Place Names 59. Beekeeping, 5c. in the United States. 334 pp., 20c. 54. Common Birds in Relation to Folio 62. Maps and Description of Agriculture, 5c. Menominee District, 25c. 28. Weeds and How to Kill Them, 5c 155. Maps and Description of Ann 165. Silkworm Culture, 5c. Arbor District, 25c. 255. Home Vegetable Garden, 5c. NATIONAL CONSERVATION 218. School Garden, 5c. COMMISSION REPORTS. 358. Primer of Forestry, Parts I and II, 5c. These deal with water resources, for ests, mineral resources and their conser FOR GEOGRAPHY CLASSES. vation. Procured through a congress Cost and Methods of Transporting man. Meat Animals. By application to August Donath, the Superintendent of Documents, price lists, Agricultural Year Book, 1908, pp. 227- including details of subjects treated, may 244, Handling of Fruit for transporta be procured free of charge and from tion. them selection of pamphlets be made. Agricultural Year Book, 1905, pp. 349- Some of the price lists already available 362, Development of Transportation in are: the United States. No. 21. Fishes. Agricultural Year Book, 1899, pp. 643- No. 22. Bird Life. 663, (The year books are published regu No. 25. Transportation. larly and may be procured through a No. 27. Ethnology. congressman. Individual articles ap No. 30. Natural Wonders and Anti pear also as separate leaflets at prices quities. ranging from 5c to 40c. No. 35. Geography. Packing Goods for Export—Manu No. 38. Animal Industry Bureau. facturers' Bureau. No. 41. Entomology Bureau. Great Canals of the World. Monthly No. 43. Forest Service. Summary of Commerce and Finance. No. 44. Plant Industry Bureau. Jan., 1905, pp. 2373-2456. No. 46. Soils Bureau. No. 48. Weather Bureau. Peanuts—Farmers' Bulletin No. 356. A monthly catalogue of newly pub Dept. of Agriculture. lished Public Documents is issued by the Methods and Benefits of Growing Superintendent of Documents and will Sugar Beets. Farmers' Circular No. 11. be sent regularly to those requesting it. Dept. of Agriculture. The State Agricultural Department sends Practical Information for Beginners in out monthly crop reports. The Railroad Irrigation. Farmers' Bulletin No. 263. Commission distributes an excellent Dept. of Agriculture. Michigan map free to schools. Soil, sur- 66 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD face and mineral maps are issued by the and two children from each grade. The State Geological Survey and may be had children are elected to serve on this com for the asking. mittee by the other children in their LUCIA HARRISON. grades. The children meet each week with the chairman of the committee and suggest what their grades can contribute Miss Koch of the Rural Department, and also make many other suggestions contributes additional guides especially for the weekly programs. suited to teachers of agriculture. Among other things the committee has There is issued a Farmers' Bulletin planned for this term is a school paper subject. Indexed by Jos. A. Arnold, to be read at a later date at one of the Division of Publications. The subjects assemblies. Each grade is to select a are listed in alphabetical order so that it reporter to gather news, and material is an easy matter to find information on from his grade. His contributions are a particular topic; to illustrate: to go to the editors, selected from the Home, farm—a 317. children of the upper grades. The paper Honey bee keeping—59. will then be made up and the best readers Hop culture—115, etc. in the school selected to read it. Publications adapted to the teaching The programs for this month have of Agriculture are classified as follows: been heartily enjoyed by the children. I. Educational. Miss Densmore brought to them some of 1. School Courses. Edward Lear's nonsense rhymes and pic 2. School Extension Work. tures. This was the first time that such II. Plant Production. a program had been given in the Train 1. Agronomy (including soils, fer ing School, and it was a great success. tilizers, field-crops and crop- It is hoped that this type of program may pests). find a permanent place in the assemblies. 2. Horticulture. An honest tribute was paid to Miss Forn- 3. Forestry. ; crook's ability as a story-teller in the III. Animal Production. children's breathless interest in each of 1. Farm Animals. jj her stories. The usual keen enjoyment 2. Poultry. V; was displayed in the children's attitude IV. Agricultural Technology. in listening to the kindergarten children's 1. Dairying. program, and there was no doubt of their 2. Miscellaneous. appreciation of Miss Seekell's story. V. Agricultural Enginet ring. > The following programs were given 1. Farm Buildings. r during the month: 2. Farm Mechanics. 3. Road Improvement. $''* Oct. 12—Edward Lear—Miss Dens 4. Drainage. more. 5. Irrigation. Oct. 19—Song—The House That Jack VI. Agricultural Economics. Built—School. 1. Marketing of Farm Produce. Reading—The Owl and the Pussy Cat- F. B. 62. Second grade. 2. Forest Planting and Farm Man Story of Our Aquarium—Fourth grade. agement. 228. Stories—Miss Forncrook. 3. Production of Seed Corn. 229. Dramatization—The Ant and the Grass There is also an alphabetical list of hopper—First grade. "Publications for sale" which is circular Oct. 26—Game of Greeting—How We No. 3, by the Division of Publications in Made Grape Jelly. charge of Jos. A. Arnold. Lullaby. Skipping. Story—The. Dog with the Green Tail TRAINING SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES How the Horses Go—(a rhythm game). The assembly programs are now in Program in chargeof the kindergarten. charge of a committee made up of three Nov. 2—Story—Miss Seekell. members of the Training School faculty Planning for the School paper. ATHLETICS 67

LETIC

The football season is now fairly on played with Hillsdale College, Albion and as yet we have not had a chance to College and Culver Military Academy. get up on our rear pedals and exercise The loss of these games should after all our voices to any great extent. Coach not be taken too seriously, for the teams Spaulding has had a most difficult piece really should be outside our class. They of work cut out for him this fall. To all have the advantage of having their begin with, he has had to build up an en players together for four consecutive tirely new back field, including quarter years," while we have ours for but two. back. In addition to this herculean task It is a poor coach who can't whip four he has had to stop numerous big gaps in year material into shape so as to have a the line, due to the absence of some of winning combination. the stalwarts of last year. There can be THE GAMES. no blinking the fact that the absence of Hillsdale, 14; Western Normal, 6. Damoth, Sooy and Berger back of the This game was played at Hillsdale, and line has made an awful hole in our is the first victory ever won by the Bap offense and defense. Then, too, the de tists from us in football. We had them velopment of the team has had as usual 6—0 at the end of the first half, but they to go on on anybody's old lot and without came back strong in the second lap and the assistance of an efficient second team. won out by a comfortable lead. The To cap the climax, old Nemesis has teams lined up as follows: been camping on our trail to such good Hillsdale.' Western Normal purpose that sprained ankles, sprung Beals 1. e. Vande Walker knees, battered ribs and shoulders Legland 1. t. Tuttle sprung awry have been so frequent as to 1. g- Warren be commonplace. It is no wonder that Williams c Carpenter "Bill's" hair is turning gray; that his r- g- Monteith cheerful smile is somewhat cracked and Stuart r. t. Bramwell that his spitter is in more active ebulli Huffaker r. e. Kanley tion than usual. He has a tough job Gillette q- Martin these days, but here is hoping that there Myers r. h. Dewey is light ahead.We will have an athletic Harwood l.h. McKay field of our own one of these bright Beck f. Mayer (capt.) mornings and then what we will do to our enemies will be something to boast Albion. 12; Western Normal, 5. of. The Albion game was played at home Four games have been played to date, and to the writer it seems that we should the first three being on the debit side of have at least had a tie. The score was the ledger, while the last one was a vic 12—5 against us. During the first quar tory, giving us our first credit slip of the ter, when Albion did all her scoring, our season. The three games lost were tackling was very poor. They managed 68 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

to pull off two long runs during which Patterson r. h. Dewey we had plenty of chances to tackle and Lee 1. h. McKay this put them right down on our 5 yard Reed f. Mayer (capt.) line. It took three downs to get the ball over, but they made it. Immediately Western Normal, 34; Hope College, 0. after an Albion player got a forward The result of the Culver game seemed pass right in his hands and romped to do the football team a great deal of across for a second- touchdown. This good, for when they hit the Hope team all happened in the first seven minutes of they continued to play the same article play. After that Albion never even of ball that they showed during the sec threatened our goal. We had several ond half of the Culver game when they good chances to score, but our football scored 3 points to the Soliders' 0. Billiken must have been away playing Capt. Mayer won the toss and chose ping pong and so we failed to count. In to defend the west goal. McGuire was the last second of play a blocked punt downed after running the kickoff back and a 40-yard run gave us our lone score. 20 yards. A series of bucks off tackle The line up was as follows: put the ball on the Lowlanders' 5 yard Albion. Western Normal line, where they held for three downs. Hudnutt 1. e. Vande Walker After two futile attempts to advance the Beach 1. t. Tuttle ball by rushing, Verhook kicked from Reed 1. g. Warren behind his goal line. McGuire caught Henderson c Carpenter the ball on the bound and was tackled on Dyer r. g. Monteith the local's 40 yard line. Shattuck r. t. Bramwell On the very first play Vande Walker Marlatt r. e. Roper received a well-executed forward pass on Dickey q Martin, McGuire a fake end run, and raced 25 yards for a Bertrand r. h. Dewey touchdown, when Roper blocked the de Funk 1. h. McKay fensive fullback, the only opponent not Jelesch f. Mayer (capt.) fooled by the play. McGuire heeled the punt out but McKay missed the goal. Culver, 27; Western Normal, 3. During the remainder of the first two The Culver game was a hard one. This periods the Normals threatened to score team is of real college grade. The play several times, but the Dike men fought ers are athletes and are drilled to the as of old and held. second. It is a hard trip, too, from here The opening of the third period saw a and our team went on the field with that great change in the play of the Peda handicap. The score was 27—3 and gogues, when they displayed some real Culver annexed all her tallies save three football. The Hollanders' defense was in the second quarter. No one seems to completely baffled by the rapid succes have any clear idea of how it all hap sion of shift plays and forward passes pened, but in some occult way the sol pulled off by the Normalites. diers chased four touchdowns over the McKay featured in some beautiful end chalk line in that fateful session. Our runs behind splendid interference. Capt. team suffered the loss of Monteith in Mayer's line bucking was the best seen this game. His shoulder received a on the local grounds for some time, and wrench severe enough to keep him out of his fake cross bucks off the weak side the game the balance of the season. resulted in three touchdowns. The line up was as follows: Roper followed the ball with unerring Culver. Western Normal. accuracy and once recovered an outside Huston 1. e. Vande Walker kick for a touchdown. Hubble, S. 1. t. Tuttle The line charged hard and blocked Hubble, G. 1. g. Warren their men in well on end runs and made Hiller c. Carpenter wide holes for line smashes. Moore r. g. Rowe The defense was almost perfect as Kane r. t. Bramwell only two first downs were made by the Dooley r. e. Roper Dike men. Verhook, Hope's great line Boardman q McGuire bucker, was unable to make more than a NEWS ARTICLES 69 yard on each attempt, and was often Pyl c Carpenter thrown back. Stegeman r- g- Rowe Houlouse did some great open field Straight r. t. Bramwell tackling and Van Streen was a tower on r. e. Roper defense for Hope. Vander Meer McGuire Hope Western Normal. Houlouse q Van Strien 1. e. Vande Walker Steketee r. h. Dewey Yutema 1. t. Tuttle Ver Hoek 1. h. McKay Dietero I- g- Warren Holleman f. Mayer (capt.) NEWS ARTICLES THE ALUMNI BANQUET. Hattie Knowlton J. B. Mott The students and alumni of Western Ralph McVea Wm. H. Jellema State Normal rallied in large numbers at W. B. Sheehan Clarence De Vries the State Teachers' Association meeting C. L. Goodrich Charles Appleton in Detroit, so that the banquet held Edna M. Link Volney Stuck Thursday, November 2, in the parlors of Florence Marsh J. A. Wiggers the Simpson M. E. Church was a very Alice L. Marsh F. W. Emerson pleasant reunion of new and old friends, Gertrude Hellenthal Floyd Hazel students and alumni of the Normal and Mae Fields Hazel Brown some invited guests. Blanche Batey Irma M. Richards The menu was especially appetizing, B. W. Storer Helen Cook and all present did justice to the good Ralph Windoes Lulu M. Johnson fare provided by the ladies on the com Arthur Mason Maude Tyler mittee. Dwight Paxton Lela Culver President Waldo proved an able Karl Knauss Ida Fuller'ton toastmaster, fully equal to the occasion, Gilman Lane Margie Russell and introduced the different speakers Dale Maltby C. F. Otto with many witty allusions. The follow Fred Johnson Bessie Arnold ing responded to toasts: George S. Waite Jette F. Pierce 1. "Loyalty in the Student Body"... Mrs. Lou Sigler Veda M. York Prof. T. Paul Hickey James Swain Margia Haugh 2. "How Its Alumni Regard the Nor Blanche Pepple May Longman mal" Norman Luneke Aura Cathcart . Miss Almeda Bacon, Grand Rapids Emma Roberts Sarah Hare 3. "On Shirtwaists" Ora Dowd Rev. H. A. Field Supt. Joseph Frost, Muskegon Velma Brown Margaret Vail Field 4. "Our Normal Record" Ada Seabury Isabelle Lane Dr. Wm. McCracken Robt. M. Reinhold Mrs. Mabel Vroman 5. "The True Meaning of Loyalty".. Addie M. Clark Nina Bobb Dr. Henry Suzzallo Myrtle M. Cherry Lilian Grable Columbia University. May Cornell Ella Grable Among the visitors present were noted: Mary Kline Alta Shimmel Dr. Henry Suzzallo, Teachers' College, E. E. Herrington Gail Koster Columbia University; Superintendent J. Rowena Monfort Ruth Sprague M. Frost, Muskegon; Superintendent W. Mrs. H. F. Kobler Minnie Harmon B. Sheehan, Fennville; Commissioner C. Hazel Hutchins Melvin Myers L. Goodrich, Allegan; F. D. Miller, Cal Zoe C. Shaw Ida Shaffer houn; Mr. H. D. Nutt, American Book Mary Hatton Hazel Thayer Company; Superintendent W. G. Co- Bessie B. Goodrich Fern Messinger burn, Battle Creek, and former Commis Elva M. Forncrook Harry D. Nutt sioner James Swain, Coldwater. In the Katherine Newton Maude Parsons following list will be found the names of Edith L. Shotwell Florence Barnard the alumni present: Mary F. Richards Mary F. Powers Frederika Bell C. F. Reebs Viva Osborn Virginia Forrest Esther McVea G. I. Leavengood Jane Wakehan Meda Bacon 70 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

Irving G. Benton D. B. Waldo thirst assuaged by draughts of delicious Bernice Jordan Mrs. W. McCracken sweet cider. During the intermission, Bertha Colles Dr. Henry Suzzallo the guests did full justice to ice cream J. B. Faught Dr. Wm. McCracken and cake served in the rotunda. Mary Ensfield J. M. Frost The success of the party was due to Evah Brown Mrs. C. W. Case the following members of the class who Beryl VanAntwerp Ernest Burnham were in direct charge of the arrange Margaret Parker Matie Lee Jones ment: Hazel Croskery T. P. Hickey Executive Committee—Miss Amelia Edith Shepherd Cornelia Brinkerhoff Upjohn and Mr. Walter Dewey. Lydia Dennis Nita L. Butler Invitations—Herbert Waldo, Ruth Ida M. Densmore Nellie Neuman Furnell, Ruth Campbell and Bert Ford. Florence Pray C. A. Lefevre Refreshments—Fanny Young, Lucile Ruby Cronk Bertha Bean Watts and Ralph Windoes. Edith M. Edwards Mrytle Bean Decorations—Ruby Shepherd, Marie L. W. Fast W. G. Coburn Wilkins, Florence Smith and Messrs. F. D. Miller L. H. Harvey Hill, Coburn, McCall and Grant. Dorathea Brinkerhoff These parties are distinctly worth while and contribute much to the pleas ure of school life. The one of Oct. 26 THE SENIOR-JUNIOR PARTY. was thoroughly enjoyed by all present On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 26, and reflected much credit on the class the Seniors were hosts to the Juniors in of 1912. a most delightful party. This annual event is always eagerly anticipated by the newcomers and it serves in a most en ASSEMBLIES joyable manner to introduce the Juniors Dr. Blanch Epler made an admirable to each other and their fellow upper class address to the students on Tuesday, Oc men. This year the committees in charge tober 10, choosing as her subject, "Clean under the able leadership of Miss Amelia Milk,' and gave in a very graphic fash Upjohn and Mr. Walter Dewey, lived ion the results not only of her own per fully up to the traditions of the function. sonal investigation of the subject, but The decorations which were unique, also what is being done elsewhere in the were of an autumnal character with a United States. Dr. Epler places the distinct leaning toward a Hallow'een blame for impure and unclean milk upon effect. Hundreds of imitation tissue the farmer, the dairyman, the transporter paper leaves, hung from strings, gave a and the housewife, with the emphasis restful forest effect. On a medial line, upon the farmer. President Waldo sup but back from each end some thirty feet, plemented the address with some fitting stood two huge shocks of corn around deductions and expressed the hope that which the merry couples danced in honor some time in the near future the rural of the Harvest time. In commemora department of the Normal would be tion of Hallow'een, the lights all about equipped to give illustrated lectures on the side walls were covered with imita such points of hygiene and right living tion pumpkins, thus giving the mild and as are becoming vital to the community. mellow light of true Indian summer. The guests were received by Walter Friday, October 13, brought as a Dewey, Miss Amelia Upjohn, President guest to the institution Mr. E. A. Ander Waldo, Miss Ruth Foote, Ralph Win- son, who has succeeded Mr. Riddle as does, Dr. and Mrs. McCracken and Mr. head of the Lake Farm Home for Boys. and Mrs. B. L. Jones. Mr. Anderson gave a most interesting Fischer's orchestra furnished the account of the history and working plan music ,and it therefore is needless to say of the George Junior Republic at Free- that from grand march to good night ville, New York. His remarks were in every number was thoroughly enjoyed. terspersed with many amusing incidents, During the dancing the throats of the told in a droll fashion, which shows inti thirsty participants were cooled and their mate knowledge of boy nature. NEWS ARTICLES 71

Music for the occasion was rendered Dr. Henry L. Gelston captured his by Miss Ruby Shepard, who played ad audience, as he always does, and held mirably "Marz-Wind" — MacDowell, them from start to finish on Friday, Oc (American Composer), giving as an tober 27, with an eloquent address on encore: "Humoreske," Dvorak, (the "Growth," which he defined as some Hungarian composer). thing which is, in large measure, a mat ter of self-determination, being made up of assimilation from without and devel opment from within. The address at the succeeding assem Mr. George L. Borough added greatly bly on Tuesday, October 17, was on a to the pleasure of the morning with two kindred theme to that chosen by Mr. An vocal solos, "Auf Wiedersehen' and the derson. Mr. Clarence Perry, of New encore, "My Little Love," by Hawley. York City, who lectured in Kalamazoo the evening before, gave in detail the Tuesday, October 31, brought as a vis necessity 'for organized movement in itor to the instittuion Mr. George Phoe creating public playgrounds throughout nix, vice principal of Hampton Institute, the country, choosing his illustrations who is en tour through the Middle West. mainly from what is being done in New Mr. Phoenix gave an admirable exposi York City. tion of the scope of the work at Hamp ton, both for young men and women. Dr. Boys gave the address of the Dean Stetson of Kalamazoo College, morning on "Some Remedies for School- was a welcome guest on Friday, Oct. 19, Room Emergencies," a talk filled with during the assembly period. His ad sensible suggestions which cannot fail to dress was filled with sound, sensible ad bear fruit with the embryo teachers com vice, his theme being, "Education as a posing the audience. Factor in Character Building." The latter part of the hour was given up to Mr. Carl G. Kleinstuck, one of the best a rousing mass meeting to prepare for authorities in the country on peat, its the football game with Albion. Speeches development and manufacture, spoke on by members of the faculty, songs, and this theme on Tuesday, November 7, giv "yells" made up the program of the ing a witty, interesting talk on what meeting, which was ably presided over would, in the hands of most speakers, by Mr. Hickey. have proven a very dry subject.

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PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. bands of color carrying out the scheme, On Friday, November 10, from three and games and dancing amused the to five, the young women of the sopho guests until all said, "Goodnight," at the more, junior and senior years met with closing hour, eleven o'clock. Miss Alice Marsh for a "Christmas Bee" to prepare for the Christmas party on All students interested should examine Saturday, Dec. 9. Afternoon tea was the fine exhibit of the process of color served and a thoroughly good time en printing, on the bulletin in the library. joyed by all. It is the gift to the school of Roy Healy, who spoke recently on the development One of the most enjoyable assemblies of color-printing before the Erosophian ever held at the Normal was that ten Society. dered the Preparatory Department by the Rural Seniors and Juniors, who A large and enthusiastic meeting of proved admirable hosts on the evening the Erosophian Society was held on of Thursday, November 9. The Assem Thursday, October 26, at 9:50, in the bly room was very tastefully decorated music room. The program included: in "Brown and Gold," oak branches and (a) Address by the President. 72 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

(b) Piano Solo Edna Matthews One person was heard to remark that (c) "The Art of Color Printing the Senior-Junior party was perfectly Roy Healy shocking.

Activities in the Y. W. C. A. of the The Preparatory Department has be Normal have centered during the past gun the term with a larger enrollment month in a membership contest which than usual, and the prospects of a pros closed with a "spread" in the assembly perous year. The membership shows room Thursday evening, Nov. 23. Lead fifty-five young men and thirty-nine ers in the contest were the Misses Har young women on its rolls, a total of riet Riksen and Lucille Simmonds and ninety-four. the result was a substantial increase in the association membership. The following is the program of the Erosophian Society for the fall term: Plans for the annual football supper L Thursday, Oct. 12 are in charge of the social committee, of Election of Officers which Miss Spindler, of the Training II. Thursday, Oct. 26 School Faculty, is chairman. The date (a) Piano Solo.Edna Matthews of this fall event which marks the close (b) "Development of Color Print of the football season each year, has been ing Roy Healy set for Friday, Nov. 24. It will include III. Thursday, Nov. 2 all of the young men in the school who (Postponed—State Teachers' As wish to attend. sociation). IV. Thursday, Nov. 16 The Choral Union will present for its (a) Piano Solo..Howard Fuller annual concert on April 8 Mendelssohn's (b) "The Art of Paper-mak glorious oratorio, "Elijah." Work has ing and its Relation to already begun on this masterpiece which Kalamazoo" will be sung by a chorus of about 80 Bailey Ayers Wright voices, with special soloists. V. Wednesday, November 29 With an increased membership over (a) Vocal Solo last year, the Choral Union of the Nor Esther Goodenow mal has organized for the year. There (b) Address, "What is worth are about 80 members and rehearsals are While?" held each Monday evening under the Pres. D. B. Waldo direction of Miss Marsh of the music VI. Thursday, Dec. 14 faculty. Officers have been elected as (a) Piano Solo.Bertha Bauerle follows: (b) Address: "Two Years President—Neil Verberg. in Uncle Sam's Navy".. Vice President—Bert Ford. Wm. Stafford Secy-Treas.—Miss Ruby Shepard. Directors—Lee Boroughs, Seth Baker, Bert Ford, Ruth Foote, Rose Netzorg. AMPHICTYON SOCIETY. The Amphictyon Society is beginning Afternoon tea was served in the music the year with a large body of new mem room Friday afternoon, Nov. 10, by the bers and has arranged a program in the students of the music and art depart form of a series of discussions, criti ments. Miss Mabel Patterson presided cisms, and readings from Mark Twain. at the tea table, and the Misses Josephine The program of the last meeting in Cook and Marjorie Pritchard assisted in cluded discussions and readings from serving. The afternoon was spent in "Innocents Abroad," and "Tom Saw sewing and crocheting. Miss Pritchard yer," and proved to be very entertaining. favored the company with a cornet solo, An interesting biography of Clemens' Miss Patterson with a reading and Miss life containing much of his fine humor Joseph with a voice number, "Seligkeit," was also read and enjoyed. by Mayer. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 73

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The Chaminade Club, an organization made up of special music students, held its annual election recently and the fol Horton - Beimer Press lowing officers were chosen: Miss Hilda The Quality Shop Joseph, leader; Miss Mabel Patterson, secretary and treasurer; Miss Marie Wil- kins, manager, and Miss Florence Marsh, Invitations director. The club will make its first appearance with a program for the chil Announcements dren of the training school. Visiting Cards The largest class in the history

Miss Elva Forncrook, head of the De Supplies, partment of Expression, will contribute to the enjoyment of the little people of Sick Room the Children's Home from time to time on Sunday afternoons with a story-tell ing hour. Other institutions in Kalama Appliances. zoo will also be favored with Miss Forn- crook's services during the year. i'Rexall Remedies' Officers for the Erosophian Society, the organization of the high school de The Colman Drug Co. partment in the Normal, are as follows Successors to H. G. Colman & Co. for the term: President, Louis McGuire; DRUGGISTS Vice President, Ross Tuttle; Secretary- Treasurer, Harriet Bush. 123 West Main St:eet Kalamazoo, Michigan. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 75

A series of faculty parties will be held this year under the direction of the gen eral social committee of which Miss Lavina Spindler, of the training school faculty, is chairman. These occasions in the past have been most enjoyable ones, bringing together socially the 50 members of the faculty one evening each month.

A meeting of the executive committee cf the Michigan Corn Improvement As sociation, which will hold its annual meeting in the Normal in January, was held in Room 13 Friday morning, Nov. 10. The purpose of the committee meet ing was to make the premium list for tiie annual meeting. L. L. Lawrence, of De catur, and L. J. Bradley, of Augusta, were present.

A hospitable feature of the Western Normal gathering at the State Teachers' Association in Detroit early in November was the opening of Normal headquartei s. A room in the Hotel Cadillac was en gaged for the purpose of receiving for Men s and Women's High mer students and friends of Western Normal, and nearly 100 took the oppor tunity of renewing acquaintances. Mem Grade Shoes at bers of the faculty were in charge of the headquarters, where generous boxes of candy added to the sociability.

The Rev. James Chapman, principal of the Southlands Training College, Lon $2.48 don, England, and member of the consul tative committee of the Board of Educa These splendid high cut tion of England, was a visitor at the Shoes in Normal Thursday, November 9. This school was the only one of its character visited by Dr. Chapman, who is in the Gun metal, United States on an inspection tour of educational institutions. Michigan was Patents especially favored on this occasion, the and Tans University having been selected as repre 10 Styles.—New Broad Toes sentative of American universities and the Western Normal as representative of You can save 50c a pair Normal schools in the country. Dr. Chapman was guest at luncheon of mem 20 handsome new styles jnst inat$3.00 $3.50 &$4.00 bers of the faculty. Superintendent Co- burn, of Battle Creek, was also a guest at the school on the occasion of Dr. Chap Appeldoorn's man's visit and was a guest at the infor mal luncheon. 117 N. Burdick St. 76 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

BOOK SHELF The home of Hart, Schaifner and Marx Clothes New Eclectic English Classics. Cloth, 16mo. Stetson Hats Manhattan Shirts Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Edited by Edwin L. Miller, A. M., Head of Eng lish Department, Central High School, Detroit. 128 pages. Price, $0.20. American Book Company. We know of no series of English clas "GOOD SERVICE'9 sics so well edited and so well bound for the same price. Low cost and durability is our motto here; it means make a combination that is welcome to giving youhighquality—Hart the high school teacher of English, whose work calls for many texts especially if he Schaffner & Marx clothes; succeeds in geting his classes interested giving itpromptly, cheerfully; in a generous amount of reading. The at low cost to you; and satis introduction of this particular volume is brief and to the point. All notes on the faction guaranteed text are sensibly put at the foot of the page concerned.

It arouses interest immediately to see in the advanced notices of a text in Civil Government that the author "has laid HERSHFIELD'S stress—especial stress—upon the activi ties and methods of political parties, 121-125 EAST MAIN ST. party conventions, primaries, the conduct of political campaigns, the regulation of campaign methods, and the like." This means of necessity that the girls in our Kodaks Cameras schools must needs become more famil iar with a set of facts that they are woe fully uninformed on. Garver's Govern ment in the United States (American Book Co.) supplements a clear text with intelligent and leading questions at the ends of the chapters, many of which ask, "What is your opinion ?" All this is sig nificant of progress in text book making. T. P. H.

ELEMENTARY ENGLISH. Geo. McDonald By Lillian G. Kimball. American Book Company, N. Y. This new arrival on our book shelves is Drug Company in two volumes, covering work from grades four to eight, inclusive. It is well in line with the present strong tendency in English texts to place the emphasis on what is practical and allied to everyday problems that the student has to meet. It should lead the child to a development of initiative and self-reliance and prove a valuable aid to the teacher of English in the grades. A. S. M. Candies Box Papers THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 77

An innovation in the school's social calendar was the girl's tea held in the rotunda of the training school Saturday afternoon, Nov. 18. All of the young women in the school were invited and most of them were present for this de lightfully informal event. Attractive decorations were in charge of the follow ing committee: Harriet Bush, Bertha Bauerle, Isabelle McLaughlin, Blanche Betts, Una Barnes, Miss Wakeman and Miss Harrison. Other committees were as follows: Refreshment—Alice Mack, Louise Fullerton, Nellie Mason, Beulah Van Vranken, Edith Beckley, Pearl Hoag, Miss Adele Jones and Miss Alice Marsh. Entertainment—Rose Netzorg, Marie Wilkins, Fannie Young and Miss Hootman. General Arrangement—Ame American Beauty Corsets lia Upjohn, Ruth Foote, Nina Winn and Stylish, wear economically and reason Miss Spindler. able in price. A properly fitted corset means a stylish figure. AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSETS have this char "Lighting of the School Room" was acteristic. the subject of a most interesting address Exclusively made by by the Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane for Kalamazoo Corset Company Normal assembly Tuesday morning, Sold by All First Class Dealers Nov. 14.

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In the list of distinguished visitors to recently visit the Normal school was a Beecher, member of the Bureau of Education of Washington, D. C.—Dr. Harlan Upde- graff. Dr. Updegraff spent several hours Kymer & in consultation with President Waldo and other members of the faculty on Thurs day, Nov. 9. Patterson

One session of the Michigan State Grange Convention will be held at the Normal December 12, and extensive preparations are being made by Prof. Our shelves are now filled to Ernest Burnham and other members of the faculty for an interesting meeting. the utmost with the really good The evening session will be held in the gymnasium at 7:30, with President D. B. things for Christmas gifts—books. Waldo as chairman. The following pro gram has been arranged: Come early Music. Invocation. Address of Welcome to Normal and Introduction of Mayor C. H. Far- rell President D. B. Waldo Address of Welcome to the City .... Mayor C. H. Farrell "The Book Store" Response for the Grange 122 So. Burdick State Master N. P. Hull Music. Address—"The Relation of State Nor THE CHRISTMAS STORE mal Schools to Rural Education. . Hon. L. L. Wright State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Our new and beautiful line of Holiday goods Announcements. full of choicest selections for the Christmas Physical Training Class Exercise.... trade is now ready for the inspection and . .. .Directed by Miss Matie Lee Jones approval of all who know a good thing when Inspection of Buildings, exhibits of they see it. work, music. Reception in rotunda of Training School. Fischer's Orchestra. Chairmen of the committees are as fol - SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS » lows : Publicity—Miss Newton. Deco rations—Miss Balch. Music—Miss In our CHINA HALL Marsh. Refreshments—Miss Pray. Re ception—Miss Spindler. Exhibits—Miss Do not fail to see them Adele M. Jones. Transportation—Mr. Phelan. Buildings and Grounds—Mr. Spaulding. You Can Purchase China, Cut Glass, Lamps, We?iern Normal was selected by and Framed Pictures Cheaper Here George P. Phenix, vice principal of than in Larger Cities. Hampton Institute, West Virginia, as a representative institution for certain work, and on Tuesday, Oct. 31, Mr. STAR BARGAIN HOUSE Phenix visited this school, spending the entire day in investigations of various de- 145-147 S. BURDICK ST. Kalamazoo THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 79 HOLIDAY GIFTS Will Soon be in Demand

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The lunch room which was established in the basement of the training school building about a year ago has proved a Everything success far beyond the expectations of those who planned the project. Each day at the noon hour from 100 to 400 stu in dents and faculty members are served to a dainty and wholesome luncheon. Miss Grace E. Moore remains in charge of the lunch room, and is assisted by young Sporting women in the school. At most moderate cost a good luncheon is provided here and its success is proof of its merits. Goods

The Western Normal was represented at the State Teachers' Association which met in Detroit, Nov. 2, 3, 4, by Pres. Dwight B. Waldo, Miss Lucy Gage, Miss Ida Densmore, Miss Alice Marsh, Miss 122 W. Main Street Florence Marsh, Mr. Paul Hickey, Dr. and Mrs. McCracken, Dr. Faught, Dr. Harvey, Miss Bessie Goodrich, Miss GO TO Maude Parsons, Miss Matie Lee Jones, Mr. Ernest Burnham, Miss Adele Jones, The Harvey Candy Co. Miss Katherine Newton, Miss Forn- When you want the best crook. in Ice Cream and Ices Chocolates and Bon Bons The most delicious Hot Chocolate in the city Our goods are strictly pure and always fresh. Orders filled promptly on short notice. When selecting that Christmas Gift why not decide upon a Victrola or Grafonola Prices from $15 to $200 sold on very easy terms All our Violins and musical instruments are thoroughly tested by members of Fischers Orchestra. Largest stock Sheet Music Fischer Music Dept. of Gilmore's II Third floor front. C. L. FISCHER, Prop.