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THE NORMAL OFFERING. THE BRIDGE T,EACHERS) AGENCY. c. A. SCOTT & CO., Proprietors, Boston and Chicago. One fee registers in both offices. Agency'Manual free to any address. We have sect,lred a large number of positions for Bridgewater gra~luates, to whom we shall be glad to refer you for their opinion of the efficacy of our work. OlUces: J 10 '.I',·eUloul SIl'e"l, )loslon and 211 "'abash Ave. Chicago.

( -3 I FRANK B. SPAULDING, . ~ . ~ l. 'Manager Teac~ers' Co-opn'ative Association ifNo E. S~ 1 ( 36 BI'omfield St., Boston. PLAGES ro rEAGH. l 26 J 8 years established. Write for manual.

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS, 352 Washington St. Boston. Class Photographers for Class of '92-'93,'94. Also Class Photographers of the Roston UniverSIty Law School, '9 2-'93; Boston Theological Un)versity, '91-'93; Concord High School, '92-93; Boston Latin School, '93-'94; Cambridge Latin School, '94; Boston College, '94; Emerson College of Oratory, '94. , , We invite your attention to our work of the class, and will guarantee our work to be up to the standard of '92. State Normal School, CHOICE STATIONERl BRIDGEWATER. Blank Books, Blocks, Tablets, Indelible Ink, Tooth Brushes, Confectionery, This Institution js one of the six State Normal Pure Drugs and Medicines, Schools under the direction of t,he Massachusetts Homeopathies, Etc. Board of Education, and is open to gentlemen not LARGEST STOCK IN TOWN. less than seventeen years of age, and Htdies not Prices right. Give us aCall. Prices ri[ht. less than sixteen, who desire to prepare for teach­ COLE'S PHARMACY. ing in Common or High Schools. -~--- It has two courses of study, one for two years, \JM. DOND~r~~, and one for four years. Men's Ladies', Misses' and Children's TUITION IS FREE BOOTS, SHOES. RUBBERS, A full line constantly on ha'nd. Repairing neatly done. to all who intend to teach in the schools of Mas- MAIN STREET, BRlDGEWATER. ------~------sachusetts. Entrance examination, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 4 and 5, 1894. Fall term WILLIAM H. REISER, begins Thursday, morning, September 6, 1894. HAIR DRESSER, For circular apply to Cenh'al Squ3I'e,. Bddge",atcI'

ALBERT G. BOYDEN, Principal. Age..' tOl' Cltaclwiclc's Celcl...atecl Sleam ;I.a....ll..y. Vol. XV. State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass., April, 1894. No.3.

PRING has come at last. The song of the S bluebird and the robin, the trees bursting into bud, the appearance of the sweet-smelling Pllbli!'hcd monthly during the School Year, by the Lyceum of the lhidgewater State N orlllal School. arbutus, the campus gaily re-echoing with shouts o[ "Forty-Love" and "Striker out" all indicate EDITORIAL BOARD. that the long and trying winter is over. Now is EIlITOR-iN-CHIEF, JOIlN CARROLL. the time to shake off our dull winter habits and ASSISTANT EDITORS. assume others more in harmony with Nature and General Assistant, GEORGE E. MURPHY. the season. EDNA A. LINCOLN. HEI.EN G. MALLEY. * FRANK II. KIRMAYER. HERE will be published** toward the close of Business Manager, FRANK A. TmnETTs. T the term a book of statistics of the graduat­ Assistant Business Manager, PIERCE D. BROWN. ing class. This book will contain various cuts and such valuable information as can be gained "'r"UIIlI: '1a c('u1", Ile." yf"or, pn)'nblf" in :..1"811('('; Sill~l(" C01Ji~"" to CC.. tflil. from no other source. (Entered at the Post Office as second class mail matter.) * HE Editorial Board"" ""feels very much encour- !Jl-ess of Henry T. Prott, 13ridgevvoter, Mass. T aged by the large number of articles received up to date from members of the school and grad­ CONTENTS. uates. Limitations of space will account for the non-appearance of some of these in our paper. Editorials 21 * Co-Education at Ann Arbor 22 ACH member of the"" ""graduating class has re- In Memoriam 22 E ceived from the publishers two numbers of James Hannington, the Martyr Missionary 23 the A1JIfrica71 leae/ler. This periodical is of great Base Ball 24 value to a teacher, and the fact tnat Mr. A. E. Winship and Mr. W. E. Sheldon are its editors nase Ball Schedule 2S goes to prove that it is well worth the subscrip­ A City Girl's Appreciation of the Country - 2S tion price. Section n Reunion - 26 "" *". Lyceum 26 Eare glad to notice the friendly spirit \V ordswonh 26 W shown toward the Normal boys by most of the townspeople who now attend the base ball A Protest 27 games on Saturday afternoons. Of course, the Departments 27 hoodlum element is on hand endeavoring to make Personals 27 things disagreeable for everybody and the less at­ Scho~ Zephy~ 28 tention the players give to their remarks the Exchanges - 30 sooner they will cease. 22 THE NORMAL OFFERING.

HE enthusiastic students of astronomy who her classes. In her entrance examination she T make frequent expeditions into the night for was given a Greek sentence to translate, which, the purpose of studying the constellations are un­ given a free rendering into English, is as follows: doubtedly becoming well learned in knowledge of .. Seeing then that we are \~Ol1len, let us bear our­ other worlds. While this is an admirable sign of selves humbly, and not attempt to compete with interest in the work, yet too much attention can­ men; for these things must we bear, and things not be paid to things terrestrial and astronomy more bitter, because we are women." At the close should receive only its proper share of time. of the course, the same professor gave her from * the same author this sentence: "It is a shame for N the May number of**the O~'FER[NG, we shall us, being men, to be beaten by women." The I present to our readers a half-tone group pic­ last sentence was particularly applicable for it was ture of the school faculty. We go to this expense admitted that so splendid a Greek thesis as hers for the sake of increasing our circulation among had never been prepared at the University. the members of the school. It is painfully sur­ It is said to the honor of the young men, that prising to see how many of the school are non­ in spite of the disapprO\'al of the faculty toward subscribers. If, in this way, some of these can be her, they always treated her with courtesy; but induced to give their support to the paper we the women of Ann Arbor, led by the families of shall feel that our efforts have not been in vain. the professors, ignored her. At the reception Those who wish extra copies of this number given the graduates, the hostess and her daughter will kindly drop a postal to the Business Manager were the only women who recognized her. It was beforehand so that he may know how many also a question with the regents whether she be copies to have printed. allowed to sit with the graduates, and receive her diploma at the front, but this was finally permit­ CO-EDUCATION AT ANN ARBOR. ted. None of these things were the fault of Miss Stockwell, for aside from her brilliant intellectual HE State of Michigan is in advance of some gifts, she was possessed of an independent for­ of her sister States, for she furnishes a uni­ T tune, and was in every respect a lady. versity education as a part of her free school sys­ It was twenty-three years ago that she so vic­ tem. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor toriously fought the battle for herself and for her is one of the institutions most largely attended in sex. Now women are welcomed to all the leading the country. It furnishes advantages in many departments of Ann Arbor, literary, law, medicine, lines of work to both gentlemen and ladies. and dentistry. E. 111. G. A little more than twenty years ago, ladies had only been admitted to the preparatory schools which were located at different places in the State. IN MEMORIAM. At one of these was Miss Madelon Stockwell who completed the course of study there provided. '!arch 19 Miss Clara A. Swett of orth She then requested admission to the University, O Weymouth passed quietly to her Heavenly but the regents replied unfavorably, they had no Home. For two years she was in school with us, room for women. Her friends found that the where her sincerity, her quiet, ready sympathy, law specifying who might enter used the word her tender consideration for others, shown in "person" instead of "male." So another letter many loving deeds, above all, the nobility and was written repeating the request, and after hav­ purity of soul manifested in her daily life, en­ ing their attention called to the law, the authori­ deared her to all. "None knew her but to love ties decided they could 1Iot keep Iler Ollt, though her, none named her but to praise." only one of the professors was in favor of allow­ We mourn the loss of her companionship, yet ing women to enter. we know that she has passed to a higher life. Miss Stockwell entered the sophomore year, May her life be a constant inspiration to us, lead­ and graduated three years later at the head of all ing us ever upward to our Heavenly Father. THE NORMAL OFFERING. 23

"The hlessing of her quiet life In England, as soon as he was well enough, Fell on liS like the dew; Hannington labored constantly for African mis­ And good thoughts where her footsteps pressed sions. At first, he was terribly down-hearted be­ Like fairy hlussoms grew. cause physicians said he could never return to Sweet promptings into kinde,t deeds \Vere in her very look; Africa. To the surprise of all, his old vigor came \Arc read in her facc, as one who rends h:lck. The objection to his return was withdrawn A true and hoi\' book. and, thereupon, he sent this very characteristic Fold her, 0 Father I in thine armS note to his wife: "Hallelujah, Amen; Hallelujah, And let her henceforth be Amen; Ilallelujah, Amen; Hallelujah, Hallelujah A messenger of love bet ween and agaill J say ././alld/ljal/ III" Our human hearts and thee. Hannington's return was not a cowardly defeat, S:ill let her mild rebuking stall" Between us and the wrong, it was a victory. So thought the Church Mission· And her clear memory serve to make ary Society, when they heard the story from other Our f"ith in Goodness strong." lip. than his. Wishing to bring their missionary stalions, in East Africa, under .the direction of JAMES HANNINGTON. The Martyr Missionary. one controlling mind, they consecrated Hanning­ ton First Bishop of East Equatorial Africa. C071dltderl. Again leaving his family in England, Bishop AVING caught a glimpse of the years of Hannington hastened to his appointed field and H preparation, let us now look at the three landed in Frere Town, January, 1885, just nine years of Missionary life. Mo\'ed by the violent month,s before his death. deaths, at Lake Victoria • yanza, of the two Tn his diocese were ten stations with an entire missionaries, Shergold Smith and O'Neil, Han­ force of twenty-seven workers; placed, some along nington offered himself and his property to the the lower route to Victoria yanza, one at Ru­ mission field of East Equatorial Africa. baga, the Capital of Uganda, and the rest in the Thither he went, in 1882, away from friends district west of Frere Town. and family. The Church Missionary Society, Before his arrival, Hannington had mastered learning the history of Hannington and his burn­ the details of his duties and now he came to the ing zeal, sent him as leader of a party of six mis­ weary African missionaries a veritable impulse sionaries to reinforce Mackay in Uganda. Five from Heaven.. Mission vessels, new routes, new months later, Hanning-ton and his party started stations, arranging workers, confirming converts, hy the only open route-from Zanzibar to the urgent letters home for prayers and help and, in south end of Victoria Nyanza, thellce to cross the spare moments, beloved botany, all gave him joy­ lake to Uganda. Along this unhealthful route, ful but unceasing toil. Wherever he went, his hu­ with its scanty and foul water, its deadly fevers mility, gentleness and boundless energy made him and dysentery, the little missionary party struggled welcome as a warm gleam of God's love. Thus four mf>nths cheering and strengthening the mis­ for five months, Hannington wrought in the east­ sion stations by the way. The party reached ern part of his diocese, making almost incredible the lake; but. by a strange providence, Hanning­ journeys on foot over burning deserts between ton, the sturdy leader, the life and soul of his wielely separated stations,-traversing over and party, was not allowed to go farther. Fever and over all the ground from the ocean washed coast dysentery seized him and racked him nearly to to where the hungry African Sun feeds upon the the point of death, till, at the lake, not from fear snow of Mount Kilimanjaro. of death, but from sheer inability to go farther, After five months, Hannington resolved to visit he was compelled to turn back. For this act he Mackay not by the deadly lower route but from ever after called himself a coward. On the re­ Frere Town direct to Uganda by the north end turn journey, he was several times, by his at­ of the lake. He hoped thus to open a more tendants, laid down to die, but, roused by his iron healthful route and to line it with missionary sta­ will, he revived. tions, so that his whole diocese might be sur- 24 THE NORMAL OFFERING. rounded by Christian workers in an unbroken own guard began to strip him. Jt was vain to rc­ chain. He started immediately with a caravan of sist. So, drawing himself up to the fuJI height of porters and, in three months, reached the lake at his noble stature and looking calmly around, his Kavirondo. "\lith wonderful tact, he had led his piercing gray eyes not Rashing with anger nor his company safely through the midst of that dreaded face blanched with fear, he uttered a sentence African tribe, the Massai, a trip never accom­ that his murderers afterwards repeated word for plished but once before without bloodshed. word: "I am about to die for the Baganda, I have Thinking all difficulties now to be over, he left purchased the road to Uganda with my life." his caravan at Kavirondo for the presen t, and Then, quietly, he kneeled down, his eyes lifted to hastened with fifty porters toward Uganda to Heaven. A signal gun sounded. Two savages meet Mackay. thrust their spears into his body. Hannington's Suddenly the people became hostile and threat­ soul went home to God. ening. Hannington, with increasing difficulty, At the beginning of his work, still only thirty­ struggled on, till, one night, near Ukassa, a village eight years of age, H annington was killed, but his on the east bank of the Nile, while apart from his was not a fruitless life. Zeal and enthusiasm had followers, he was set upon by a crowd of warriors been displayed not only in death but in the every and dashed to the ground. He was then dragged day monotony of life. Bishop Hannington was a violently over fields and through bushes, till, al­ martyr, but his heroic life, more than his heroic most naked, strained and bleeding, he was hurled death, deserves the garland of glory. F. ~r. s. into a filthy hut. Here, in dreadful suspense, his men he knew not where, his fate a black mystery BASE BALL. to him, quivering with pain ancl fever, yet singilig, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," Hannington was NORMALS 12. PICKED NINE 3. kept eight long days. BRIDGEWATER, AI'RTL 7. T894. The Normals Hannington and his friends on the coast had had for their opponents today a strong picked not suspected danger excepting from the l\Iassai, team from the town and succeeded in showing but Mackay, weeks before Hannington's arrival that they could play" stiff ball." at Ukassa knew that he was in deadly peril from What we want is to draw attcndance at the the Baganda and had tried in vain to send him games and make them interesting, we sincerely warning. The King of Uganda was, at this time, hope it will continue. alarmed at reports of German aggrandizemcnt on Although some of the picked nine had not the eastern coast and feared that he might Jose played for a long- time, they showed that they had his kingdom. His fear became unreasoning panic. not forgotten how to play. The work of Harlow, Europeans might come from the sOlttlt to Uganda ancl II ayward's catching were very noticeable. in safety, but, when the King heard that a tall For the Normals" our old reliables ,. Reynolds white man was hurrying with a caravan from the and [I utchins did fine work, and are sure to cap­ east to the north end of the lake, he straightway ture thc people in any town. believed this party to be the van of a German The score: army. Mackay tried to allay the King's fears and NORMALS. then to warn the fast approaching H annington, AI: R nil Tn PO A E but all in vain-Mackay was really himself a Carroll, c ...... 5 3 2 2 9 5 3 prisoner. So Hannington had bcen seized by the Reynolds, 3b...... 5 2 3 0 orders of the King of Uganda. Hutchins, ss ...... 4 3 4 3 0 Nickerson. p ...... 2 2 On the eighth day of his captivity, Hanning­ 5 0 9 Parker, [b...... 5 2 I[ 0 2 ton's guards told him he was to be freed and they Morrill. 2b...•...... 5 0 3 3 led him out to meet his men. At first, he hoped Lavender, rf ...... 4 0 2 0 0 0 for liberty, but soon he was terribly undeceived. Daniells, If...... 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 He came upon his men, but they were stripped Uill, cf...... 4 2 2 2 0 and bound, surrounded by an armed guard. His Totals ...... 4[ [2 13 [5 27 24 7 THE NORMAL OFFERING.

PICKED NINF.. grandeur that is everywhere. Let us follow the An R BTl Til PO AE city child in her lirst walk on a perfect Autumn Jordan,cr...... 0 0 0 0 3 day. Foster, p ...... 4 9 Carver, 31.>· ...... 4 0 0 0 4 The first thing is a four-leaved clover, one of Marsha11, rf...... 4 0 ·0 0 those large ones, over an inch across. How care­ Harlow, ss...... 3 0 0 3 4 fully it is kept, pressed, and laid away! Next, a Duckworth, Ib...... 4 0 0 0 8 0 cranberry catches the eye. How dainty the Ferguson, 2b...... 0 0 0 2 4 bright red ball looks on its delicate stem, hanging Hayward, c ...... 3 7 0 0 from among the small green leaves! It is taken Wilcox, If...... 3 0 2 home and hung up where the eyes may feast on Totals...... 32 3 4 4 24 17 " its novelty for days. A bird's nest has been Tnnings . 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Normals.. 2 0 6 2 0 0 x-12 blown from its place and is lying in the path. Picked Nine... II 0 0 0 0 0 0- 3 The idea of a thing, so common to the country Earned runs-Normals, I. Two-base hils-Hutchins, girl, is wonderful as revealed to the city eyes. The Lavender. Stolen bases-Normals, 17; Picked Nine, II. fine weavings of the many strands, the soft lining, Double plays-Hutchins, Morrill aud Parker; IJiIl and the whole thing inspires an awe and re7 erel1ce, Hutchins; Fosler and Carver. Hase on balis-TIutchins, ' Jordan (2), Foster, Carver, Harlow, \Nilcox. Hit by pitched which will only come· to the country child, when ball-Hayward. Struck out-Nickerson, Lavender (2), something wonderfully strange is presented. On Hill, Foster, Carver (4), Marshall, Fergnson (2), Wilcox (2). she goes over fields and bridges, and reaches Passed balls-Carroll .1, Hayward 2. Time-2 hours. Um­ home with her trophies, (golden rod and asters). pires-Swan and H. Hayward. Scorer-F. A. Tibbetts. She has read Tennyson's" Song of the Brook," THE following is probably the personnel of the btit its music is nothing as compared to the first base ball team this year: catcher, Carroll; pitcher, song she now hears among the grasses. By its Nickerson; I st base, Parker (capt.); 2d base, side she finds the graceful ferns and gathers them l\Iorrill; 3d base, Reynolds; short stop, Hutchins; with a thrill of delight. left field, Baker j centre field, Hill j right field, She may have seen the snow in its first beauty Lavender. Substitutes, catcher and out-fielder, from her window at home; but when Winter Daniels; out-fielders, Brown, Knight. brings its return, how she feasts on the great white expanse, and sees for the first time the BASE BALL SCHEDULE. pines dressed like Santa Claus. Then the lichens. April 14. Andover. She never even knew that there were such things, April 28. English High. because such dainty creations were never meant May 5. for dusty cities. Whole groves of trees are re­ May 12. Technology'97· vealed under the microscope, and inller newly May 19. awakened imagination, she peoples them with fay 26. Gray's Hall. fairies. June 2. Alumni. As the Spring comes, she finds new and far June 9. Cambridge Manual Training. greater wonders. The early morning walks! She June 16. New Bedford High School. never knew such happiness. Now she proudly June 23. Malden High. bears home a Skunk Cabbage,' feeling sure that she has found a Jack-in-the-Pulpit. All the time A CITY GIRL'S APPRECIATION OF THE she is adding revelations. She has heard descrip­ COUNTRY. tions of Spring in the country, but never has she thought it could be half so beautiful. T is often said that the country is a better place But the sweetest of all the wonderful things she I in which to bring up children than the city. has learned is the delicious odor, which greets The country child grows up with all the beauties her, when she finds a field of newly cut clover. of Nature around her and is so accustomed to The long imagined paradise is there, and she seeing them that she seldom stops to think of the cannot find words to express her delight. 26 THE NORMAL OFFERING.

She may envy the country girl. But is she not The resolution was not adopted, the vote stand­ many times more fortunate in experiencing the ing twenty-four in the negative to seventeen in pleasures unknown to those who have these affirmative. things all their lives? She delights in exercise HE lyceum met on the evening of Mar. 30 for the sake of the beauties to he found, and T for its regular meeting. The committee ap­ above all she reverences the Maker and Con­ pointed for the revision of the Constitution sub­ troler of all these mysteries. She gains knowl- mitted its report, and after some debate it was edge and pleasure at the same time. S. G. P. voted to accept the Constitution as revised by the committee. SECTION B REUNION. After the business of the meeting the audience listened to the followi I1g program and debate: HE members of Section 13, June '90, met at 'Cello Solo, Mr. Kirmayer T the home of their president, Mr. Gurney, on Reading, Miss Malley Saturday, March 3 I for their third annual reunion. Song, Miss Jackson After a royal repast which did great honor to the Reading, Miss Kelly young hostess a short time was spent in pleasant S~& Mr.Sw~ social intercourse. This was followed by the Piano Duett, Misses Clarke and Turner usual business meeting in which Mrs, Gurney was Debate-Resolved: "That voting in public elec­ unanimously voted a member of the class, and tions should be compulsory." committees for the ensuing year were elected. 1st affirm, Mr. Murphy; 2d affirm, Mr. Bab. The remarkable esprit de ((Irps so persistently cock; 1st neg, Mr. Gaffney; 2d neg, lr. Knight. manifested by this class is due in no small meas­ ure to the enthusiasm of its president and its sec­ WORDSWORTH. retary. In each of the previous reunions the en­ tire class have been present. Only one was miss­ ROFESSOR E. Charlton Black in a recent ing this time. The new and appropriate class P lecture on Wordsworth gave an interesting pin was displayed for the first time. Two have view of the poet's life. It is difficult to think him become benedicts during the past year, and we as a boy of moody, violent temper, who ga\'e his are credibly informed at least two more are to mother more anxiety than any of her other chil­ follow in the same good way before the next dren, or to see in him merely a healthy English meeting. schoolboy whose chief interest in nature arose from skating and fishing; yet a little thought LYCEUM. shows us that both these phases had their place in the poetic temperament. WING to the illness of Mr. Bassett, the Like many of his contemporaries Wordsworth O piano recital which was to occur upon the sympathized heart and soul with the French Rev­ 16th was changed to that of the usual musical olution, and saw in it the dawn of the golden age. and literary program followed by an impromptu His disappointment in its despotic end drove him debate. to the opposite extreme and made him a Conserv­ PROGRAM. ative,-a change which Browning laments in his Piano Duett, Misses Conner and Crawford poem, "The Lost Leader." Reading, Miss Barnes The years which immediately followed this Clarionet Solo, Mr. Hayward change were full of unrest, and we can imagine Reading, 1\1 iss SarFord the unspeakable comfort in the influence of his Debate-Resolved, "That the Indian has suf­ sister, the sister Dorothy" the music of whose life fered more unjust treatment in this country lured the poet into song." Coleridge was another than the Negro." beneficent influence, revealing the man to himself, 1St affirm, Mr. Herrick; 2d affirm, l\fr. F. M. and by appleciation and sympathy stimulating Shaw; 1st neg, Mr. Swan; 2d neg, Mr. Tibbetts. him to new effort. THE NORMAL OFFERING. 27

The effect of change is noticeable in YVords­ cate into the minds of their scholars the meanings worth's work. His genius was peculiarly depend­ of ultimo and proximo and the difference between ent upon the inspiration of a new experience. He the two terms, which are nevertheless constantly seldom wrote much or well from a dead level of confused. But when one has studied the com­ quiet days. For the utterance of impressions parison in Latin the trouble ceases. gained during passive moods, the stimulus of Latin and Greek are helpful in spelling as dis­ chang-e was necessary; a journey, a change of ciple, reminiscences, metempsychosis, and many scene, of companions or of interests, aroused him other words bear witness; and if one has studied to activity. derivation, he does not need to consult the dic­ It has been said that the creative imagination tionary so often, for the composition shows the of the poet comes nearer to absolute power than signification plainly in many cases. SIGMATE. anything else, and in this domain Wordsworth is a master. His addresses to Milton, DEPARTMENTS. "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart:"­ "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour"­ ZOOLOGY. have a peculiar significance as they show us one NEW supplcmentary course is being used by master mind calling to another; for since Milton's A the four years' section, with laboratory exer­ time no poet so like him had broken the silence. cises adapted to high school classes. After use Wordsworth is not to be read as we read a this term it will be printed. The course includes novel to while away idle hours. Often we must the range of animal life from the simplest to the wait at his gates and go away unrewarded, before vertebrate, and emphasis is laid on the geographi­ he lets us into the inner presence; but his mes­ cal adaptation and practical uses of the different sage is of the highest import. We live in a world animals. of hard realities, and the long day is full of tasks. PHYSICAL LABORATORY. Wordsworth more than any other author has UCH more work on experiments in exact transfigured humble things with the light of im­ M measurements will be done this term than agination, showing us that in our daily walks we ever before; such experiments were begun early too may breathe celestial air, and share in the term and a portion of the time has been "The light that never was on sea or land, given to them each week; the amount of time The consecration and the poet's dream." will be increased next half. The course has been F. A. CO~ISTOCK. rewritten and extended so as to cover the ground A PROTEST. recommended in the Report of the Committee of Ten, while it is not restricted to the work there GREAT deal has been said and written re­ outlined. A cently about dropping the study of Greek INDUSTRIAL LABORATORY. and Latin in our schools and substituting for HE work in this department is now fully co­ them some of the modern languages; and not T related with the course in drawing. Each long since it was statcrl in an article that Greek pupil makes his own working-drawings for the and Latin would soon cease to be taught. first four models. This prepares him for the in­ Literature is claimed as one of the urgent tclligent use of the blue prints which are now fur­ reasons for the suggested change. But has litera­ nished for all of the remaining models. ture no connection with the Classics? In E. Bul­ wer Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii" occur PERSONALS. many technical terms which are very familiar to a Latin student, but utterly devoid of meaning to -'92. Miss Mary Bean teaches in Taunton. one who has not studied that language. -'90' Miss Catherine Cary is in a primary A Latin scholar once said that one almost grade in Wellesley Hills. ought to study Latin before English. In the -'91. Miss Edna F. Grant is assistant in the Grammar schools the teachers endeavor to in cul- Medway High School. 28 THE NORMAL OFFERING.

-'94. Miss Grace N. Bramhall has a mixed -Mr. Chas. E. Glover is principal of a Gram­ school in Pembroke, Mass. mar school in Pawtucket, R. 1. -The engagement of Mr. H. P. Shaw and Miss -Miss H. M. Hanson has left us to accept a Nannette M. Young '94 has been announced. position in tIle Cambridge Training School. -Mr. G. M. Fisher has charge of a Grammar -We have enjoyed this month short addresses school in Millbury. by Irs. Kate Gannett Wells, Mr. Henry T. -Miss Josephine \-"hite, who left us in '9 I to Bailey, and Han. Elijah A. Morse. accept a position in the Lancaster schools, is now -'88. Miss Eunice R. Pierce and Miss Louise teaching in the Minot Grammar, Boston. Sears have positions in Grammar grades in Taun­ -'93. Miss Annie F. Leary is teaching in a ton. Grammar grade in Fall River. -'94. Miss Minna A. Morse has accepted a -Of the eight regular teachers in the Wollas­ school in Natick. ton School, Quincy, five are Normal graduates: -'92. Miss Emma G. Hall has a Primary Mr. H. G. Kingman, Principal, Miss E. C. Fos­ school in East Dennis. ter, Miss Maud Thompson, Miss Grace Parker, -'88. Miss Mary J. Mayo has first grade and Miss Bertha M. Kingman. ;\fiss Susie H. work in the new schoolbuilding at her home in McKenna has recently left there to accept a posi­ Orleans, Mass.; Miss Lila 1\1. Taylor has fifth tion in the Dillaway School, Boston. and sixth grades in the same school. -'93. Miss Sadie E. Childs has recently be­ -Miss Mary L. Daniels, a former student of gun teaching in Center Pembroke, Mass. this school, now a teacher in the Girls' Doarding -Mr. Frank Keith is in a Boston school. School at Harpoot, Turkey, spent several days -'90. Miss Maude M. Mixer is teaching 111 with us recently. Her personal intercourse dur­ North Adams. ing her stay, as well as her brief address on Tur­ -Miss Eva G. Tuttle has a position in Malden. kish manners and customs, served to awaken an -Miss Elizabeth MacKenzie, Miss Cora Reed, interest in her work. Miss Daniels resumes her 'go, and Miss Sheba E. Berry, '90, are in the duties in October. Shurtleff School, Chelsea; l\Iiss Jennie Kirby, in -An unusually large number of visitors have the Carter School, Chelsea. been with us this month. Among them were -'90. Miss Inez Libbey has a school in Mel­ noted Mr. Henry T. Bailey, Mrs. Kate Gannett rose. Wells, Mr. Wallace Boyden, Mr. C. F. Carroll, -Miss Priscilla Whiton is teaching in the Supt. of Schools in Worcester, formerly principal Dwight School, Boston. of the New Britain Normal School, Mr. Robbins -'93. Miss Helen Humphrey is in the Athol of the Conn. Board of Education, Mr. L. F. High, and not prevented from teaching by poor Elliot, Williston Seminary, Northampton, Mass., health as incorrectly reported in the last OFfER­ Mr. Cook, Supt. of Middleboro schools, Mr. Fear­ ING. ing, Supt. of Provincetown schools, Mrs. John D. -'93. Miss Ella S. Curtis has charge of a Long, Mr. Phinney, Mr. H. W. Kirmayer, Mr. school in Rockland. S. B. B. Paul, Mr. A. B. Palmer. -'93. Miss Josie Chamberlain has a Grammar school in Hanson, Mass. SCHOOL ZEPHYRS. -'93. Mr. R. P. Ireland has gone to Glouces­ ter to take charge of a Grammar school. -The following sentence contains all the letters -'92. Mr. Frank E. Oakman is teaching 1I1 of the alphabet, and is set by writing' teachers as Hamilton, R. I. a copy, "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy -'94. Mr. Allen P. Keith has a school 111 dog." Pascoag, R. I. -A host in himself-the cannibal that de­ -Mr. Merle A. Drake has left Easton and ac­ voured his entertainer. cepted a position as principal of a Grammar -Imagine yourself listening to Mr. Clapp's school in Revere. lecture on Hamlet, April 27. What a treat! THE NORMAL OFFERING. 29

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-Section 13 held its annual reunion at Mr. -For the past few weeks Section K has been Gurney's home, March 31. reading Macbeth. Next half we hope to take up -" I am afraid your article is too long; you Hamlet. Never have we had a pleasanter or had better omit some of the adjectives. We have more profitable half-term in Reading, and we room for not more than three hundred words." wish all could enjoy the same privilege. The "Oh, I am sure it will go in. I write such a fine two years' course unfortunately does not admit hand I can get a good dcal in very little space." of the study of Shakespeare.-Yet even the two -" I thought you told me the water wasn't years' scholars have had opportunities to study running from thc faucet." some of his plays, judging from the scenes they "I did. That water isn't running it is only give from 6,30 to 7 P. M. walking." -A crafty milkman, whose cans of milk were -By the sense of touch we know there is some­ but two-thirds full, daily increased his supply body else in the world beside ourselves." from a babbling brook which crossed his route to -After much talk about the Declaration of In­ market. In the usual routine, he one day added dependence in the lower grades one of the pupils to his fluid two lively frogs. Astonished at the reportcd at home that the Adulteration of Inde­ transformation of water into some unknown sub­ pendence was fine. stance, one of the frogs inquired, "Where are -Don't pronounce olfactory so that the hearcr we? " His comrade in distress replied, "I am will think of a factory where awls are made. unable to state; but keep up your courage and -What will bc thc next attraction for the com­ struggle for the surface." Soon the first one ex­ ing base ball games? Why! the new score cards. claimed, "My strength is failing; I cannot en­ Look out for them! d ure this ordeal longer." His companion replied, 30 THE NORMAL OFFERING.

"Struggle! kick! do not cease. Upon your vig­ orous kicking and struggling depends your exist­ ence." Unable to withstand the combination of two fluids so diverse in character, the weaker frog soon sank and perished. The other, being more courageoLis and detennined, kicked so violently as to keep the entire contents of the can in brisk agitation. Arriving at his destination, the milk­ man opened the cans; but his astonishment was great when he discovered one (rog dead in his can, and another sitting on a lump of buller in serene contentment. Moral :-Courage, determination and erTort lead to success. It is brisk agitation that makes the butter come. WR.IGHT &. DJITSON, Headquarters For EXCHANGES. Tile Qneolllrl17 for March presents us with a cut 1[~~1~, BA~[ of the Oneonta Normal School ruins. 1\ bill ap­ BAll, BICYClL propriating $roo,ooo for the rebuilding of the A"~ SU~~lieS. school has been passed, and it is hoped that there Generol AWlelic will be a new building at the opening of the Sep­ Send for catalo[ue, Mail orders carefully attended to, tember term. We wish to acknowledge the receipt of the fol­ WRIGHT & DITSON, lowing school publications: Arlclphian, L)"7Ul'J 344 Washington Street, Boston. School EltfeljJrise, Acadia AthC71(C1f17l, Thc Rllg­ bian, Thc Jabberwock, Academ)1 .AfonthlJ', Cmtl-a! College Gem, Tilc PllO:Jlix, Tilc Slate Normal 11J\jTING5 Quarter!)l, Tilc Q1leonlan, High SellOol A rlZI01JC(', Toe The Normal Ne7iJS, Tile Normalia, Tllc Academy Siftings, The Academy, Tilc Aigis. PHOTOGRAPHER, f V8tf WANT 121® Wremont ®t. @'

rt is a pleasant duty to convey to my patrons of the Normal School, sincer~ thanks for their extended and illcreasi1lg" patronage.

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Reasons why this BlIr~al1 liaR gnincc1 (lno (10RcrveR the Conrid0n('(' ;111(1 Pi1tl'Ollagl' of RO lorge a ConRtitucney of 'rene'hcrs i111<1 School Oflieel'K all OVl'j' till' Nati\lI1.

(1) Because it is the oldest Teachers' Agency l<1rge and cmbr:lces man)' of tl1l' ahlest leach"rs, in New England, having been est<1blished in ,875, m:lle and fem:lil', in the profession. (2) Because its Manager for the last twell'e (4) Because all applicat iOlls fN !e;whers rereive years is a professional educator, and has becom prompt and Careful <1tlentiol1. familiar with the condition and wants of every grade (5) Bec:luse (lUI' pledges for mil' de:lling ;111(1 of schools, and the necessary qualifications of teach­ devotion to the interl'~!S of .)111' patron" have !leell ers. redeemed. (3) Because the numl'er of our candid<1tes is No charge to School officers. Forms and circulars sent Free. Register now for. the Autumn vacancies for Winter and Spring as well. as the demand is constant.

Apply to HIRAM ORCUTT, Manager, 3 Somerset St., Boston, Mass.