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Western Michigan University Year 1916
The Kalamazoo Normal Record Vol. 6 No. 4 Western State Normal School
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The Kalamazoo Normal Record Published Monthly, Except August and September rThe Faculty and Students of theby Western State Normal School Kalamazoo, Michigan Entered a. second claw matter October 31,1910, at the post office at Kalamazoo, Michigan, under the Act ofMarch 3.1879 The Business Advertisement ofthe Record isatthehead ofthe Editorial Patfe
Vo1- 6 CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1916 No. 4
EDUCATIONAL p"<« The Relation of Modern Languages to Life Elizabeth Zimmerman 129 State Department Survey 151 What Is Manual Training? [[['['] Marion J. Sherwood . 133
LITERARY Tennyson's Social Philosophy 13c
BOOK REVIEW Schools of Tomorrow. 138
EDITORIAL Dissipation -,q Overlooked , ~q Propinquity 140
TRAINING SCHOOL Nellie McConnell, Editor Doll Beds 140 Grades 141
ATHLETICS The South Haven and Grand Rapids Y Games I43 Basketball Schedule 14, A Dis-Continued Story 144 The Tail of a Goat 144
NEWS ITEMS General School News 145 Departmental Notes . 146 The Classical Club .. 146 Music 148 New York Symphony Orchestra 14g Art ...... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.\\['.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 149 High School , £-1 New Instructors .,.. A New Field for Specialization 252
EXCHANGES 152 ALUMNI Kathtrine Newton ... 152 LIBRARY BOOKS RECEIVED 156 122 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD PROFESSIONAL PAGE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RUSSIAN DRAMA.
Baring, Maurice—Landmarks in Russian FOLZ Literature. Bruckner—A literary history of Russia. January Clearance Brusyanin, V. V.—Introductory essay to Black Maskers, etc.—Scribner edition. BROKEN LINES Clark—The continental drama of today. Dukes—Modern dramatists. of Huneker, James—Iconoclasts. Suits and Overcoats that sold Kropotkin, Prince—Ideas and realities in at $13.50, $15 and $18 Russian literature. Moderwell—The theater of today. Ch. xi. NOW Phelps—Essays on Russian novelists.
MAGAZINES. .75 Andreyeff—Plays. Review. Spec. 114:689, $8 May 15, '15. Andre, Leonid—The Drama. Feb., 1914. Literary Russia running amuck. Cur. Lit. 45:178. Ag., '08. Sam Folz New portent in Russian literature. Cur. Lit. 45:282. S., '08. "BIG CORNER" Plays of Andreyeff—Review. Nation 101:- Main at Portage 101-2. July 15, '15. Renaissance of interest in Russian litera Outfitter to the NORMAL Man ture. Cur. Opinion 58:197. Mar., '15. Russian mystery play; Life of man. Liv. Age. XL:786. S. 26, '08. Some Slavonic ideals. Forum 53:37-53. Ja., '15. Sorrows of Belgium: excerpts. Cur. Opin. "Meet Me at the 59:96-9. Ag., '15. Tendency of modern Russian literature. Drug Store" Liv. Age 48:700. S. 10, '10. The greatest contemporary dramatists of Russia are: Tolstoi, Leo—1828-1910. Tchekoff, Anton—1860-1904. FOR Gorky, Maxim—1868-. Andreyeff, Leonid—1871-. DELICIOUS Plays of Andreyeff* Translated in English. *Sometimes spelled Andreieff, Andrew, FOUNTAIN LUNCHES Andreyev. To the stars (Poet Lore, 1907). King Hunger (Poet Lore, 1911). DRINKS AND *Anathema (Macmillan Co., $1.25). v The pretty Sabine women (The Drama, ICE CREAM Feb., 19.14). Love of one's neighbor (in one act) (A. & C. Boni, N. Y., $0.35 net). *The black maskers (Scribner, $1.50). *The life of man (Scribner, $1.50). pDQ^l|J^tot The pretty Sabine women (Scribner, $1.50). The sorrows of Belgium (MacMillan Co., N£WBURDICK BLOCK $1.25 net) excerpts in Cur. Opin., Ag., io. The plays starred are probably the best and most typical. 124 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD Buckeye Ffatching Devices THE STANDARD OF THE COUNTRY SOLD ON 40 DAYS' TRIAL
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"What are you going to run—the tame chough (chuff), kept near a mile or the twio-mile?" plough in a rough trough, hung to a "I don't know. I can tell you bet bough over a lough (loch). A slough (sluf) of the bank into the slough ter at the end of the mile."—Ex. (sloo) injured his thoroughbred's hough (hock). at those four terrible letters.—Youth's Friend: "What are you thankful for this year, Uncle Rastus?" Companion. Uncle Rastus: "Well, suh, on de wealth side Ah am thankful fob de things Ah've got; an' on de health NOT HER FAULT. side Ah am thankful foh de things Ah Mr. Wrixon prides himself on be haven't got."—Life. ing a philosopher. His six-year-old son is evidently a chip of the old "OUGH!" block. An exchange prints the following The other night when his mother list of words ending in "ough" and was putting him to bed she asked: adds the pronunciation of the more ob "Robert, what makes you so cross and scure words, so far as ascertainable discontented? Doesn't mother do from the dictionaries: everything she can think of to make Messrs. Gough (goff), Hough (huff) you happy?" and Clugh (cluff) though tough The youngster cogitated deeply for enough, thought through the day that a moment. they would visit Mr. Brough (broo), "Well," he conceded with an air of who having a hiccough (hiccup) and resignment, "I s'pose it isn't your fault a cough, lived in a clough, (cluff or that you can't think of enough. You're clou), with plenty of dough, and a only what God made you!" THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 125 Art-LiteratureReaders Have You Tried "The World's Best Literature Illustrated Austin's Studio with the World's Best Art' For a Neat, Nice Photo? rPHIS is the first series of School Readers to -*• relate Art and Literature in anorganized and PHOTOS FOR CUTS graded series of books. There have been Liter PHOTOS FOR REFERENCES ary Readers and books on Art, but this series of and the Readers presents a graded course in the world's best literature illustrated with the world's best Art. GENUINE PHOTOGRAPH TO KEEP CThey teach children to read, to love good A Special Discount to Students books, to know and appreciate the most famons paintings, and what is even more important, to G. W. AUSTIN enjoy reading. They represent the highest me 134 S. Burdick St. chanical excellence yet achieved in School read ers. Every picture is a reproduction of a famous painting printed in two colors on the finest book paper. The type is unusually large. The bind ing is both artistic and extremely durable. While DeBolt's Confectionery they are mechanically the best illustrated and the best bound, they are exceedingly low in price. Bright and Clean ft The librarians of the country recently voted these Readers among the "One Hundred Best HIGH GRADE LUNCHES Books." Atkinson, Mentzer &Company ICE CREAMS AND PUBLISHERS CANDY Boston New York Chicago Atlanta Dallas Chicago Office: 2210 South Park Avenue 130 W. Main St.
NO WONDER. "That's what he says, but here's There were two Browjns in the vil the evidence," interrupted the second lage, both fishermen. One lost his Bobby, triumphantly producing a wife and the other his boat at about bulky hotel register from beneath his the same time. The vicar's wife arm, and pointing to an entry. called, as she supposed, on the wid "V. Gates," written in a flowing ower, but really upon the Brown hand, was the record that met the as whose boat had gone down. tonished sergeant's gaze. "I am sorry to hear of your great loss," she said. "Oh, it ain't much matter," was the "No one listens to the words of a philosophical reply; "she Wasn't up song"-—but one should, or lose a gem to much." of poetical interpretation. From a "Indeed!" said the surprised lady. Scotch cradle song, the line "Sleep, _"Yes," continued Brow'n, "she was a bonny bairn," was sung: "Sleep, rickety old thing. I offered her to my bonny brain." Can this be the effect mate, but he wouldn't have her. I've of psychology as applied to kinder had my eye on another for some time." garten ? And then the scandalized lady fled.
The London police-sergeant raised Public Library (Pleasant housewife his eyes from the blotter as two police to desk assistant)—"Do you speak men propelled the resisting victim be German?" fore him. Assistant (deprecatingly) — "Not "A German spy, sir," gasped the very well; my German sounds queer." Bobby. Pleasant housewife (encouragingly) "I'm an American, and can prove —"Oh, well, no language don't sound it," denied the victim. beautiful if it ain't spoken proper." 126 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD WHEN CONSIDERING TEXTBOOKS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR THERE ARE THREE SETS OF RECENT PUBLICA TION WHICH YOU SHOULD NOT OVERLOOK! THEY ARE
Essentials in English By HENRY CARR PEARSON, Principal, and MARY FREDERIKA KIRCHWEY, Instructor, Horace Mann School, Teacher's College, Columbia University. FIRST BOOK - #££ The same, new Terminology edition ™ v-CIllH SECOND BOOK ^ cents The same, new Terminology edition Kimball's Elementary English By LILLIAN G. KIMBALL, Formerly Head of English Department, State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. BOOK ONE, for fourth, fifth and sixth grades 40 cents BOOK TWO, for seventh and eighth grades 3U cent8 Progressive Course in English BOOKByONE E. J. HOENSHEL, A. M. |26cc- BOOK TWO so ce This space will not admit any description, but if you are to select new text books in English language and grammar, it will please us togive you opportunity to examine these meritorious books. When inquiring, please say what books you are now using. K:rk American Book Company cindnnati 330 East 22nd Street SS5L CHICAGO Length of Time to Learn Anglo- of brakes which will hold the car from & running back. Saxon. "The lady was comforted for a Mabelu , ,Austin A .. (Anglo-Saxon)/a„„i« c„v™\ "DrDr. while,' but{ soon ^ she commencedwhen the brake. to be- Jones can you give any length o appeared she said: stated time in which one should at llia11 & _ V T , 5i least beginuegmto grasp g pAnglo-Saxon?" g bother"'Mr. Brakeman but whatI don'wQuldwanthappento Dr. Jones—"I can only answer your if that first pair of brakes should re- question by telling you a little story fuge tQ work?> that I know. „ " 'Well, madam,' returned the ex reported to have said to her friend asperated brakeman, 'it depends en while discussing the gift to be made tirely upon where you're prepared to to a third. go.' "Give her a book," suggested the Dr. Jones—"Does that answer your other. And the first replied, meda- question? At least it does as far as I tively, "No, she's got a book." can answer it." Miss G. (in Art)—"This painting is An Englishman visiting the United by the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson." States for the first time was riding Student—"There'll soon be an in a street car in New York. Oppo other," (meaning another Mrs. Wil site to him sat a woman upon whose son.) lap was a very ugly baby—an uncom Miss G.—"Oh yes, they are discover promisingly homely child. The baby ing new ones all the time." seemed to fascinate the Englishman; he couldn't keep his eyes off" it; he would look away, drop his eyeglass, John Bek (Hist, of Ed.)—"Z-m-z and endeavor to fix his attention on (snores). some other object. But it was of no Dr. Cameron—"Mr. Leak, I guess use: he had to look back! you will have to wake John up. He At last the mother—obviously an seems to have gone to sleep on me." noyed—leaned over and hoarsely whispered, "Rubber!" A relieved smile spread over the ruddy countenance of the Englishman LIBRARY SLIPS—AND OTHERS. and he replied with great fervor: Books which change their titles be "Madam, thank God! Do you know tween class room and Library: I actually thought it was real." Gayley, Mirth of classical litera ture. Shinn, Autobiography of a baby. Genung, Principal workings of rhet BELLES-LETTRES. oric. The summer visitor in the little vil Drummond, Accent of man. lage stopped in at the Browning Circle Fiske, Cosmetic philosophy. Library. "Please give me the 'Letters Tennyson, Idles of the king. of Charles Lamb," he said. Poe, Murders and rumors. The librarian was all obliging and helpful. "I think you have made a mistake," she said kindly. "The post- "I don't know what to give Lizzie office is the building just across the for a Christmas present," one girl is street." 128 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD To Normal Athletic Students We now carry a full stock of regulation Gymnasium cloth for both young men and young women. Call on us when in need of Gymnasium clothes For Young Women For Young Men MIDDIES—the regulation kind which are We have just placed this line on sale— worn in gym work—made of good heavy GYM SHIRTS 50c materials at each .... 59c GYM RUNNING PANTS -- 50c ATHLETIC SUPPORTERS - 50c Others at $1.00 GYM PANTS, long - - - $1.50 We also carry a good line of Sweaters, etc., GYM BLOOMERS in blue cotton Galetea, and we will also be pleased to take particular in regulation gym style, all sizes at $1.25 pains with any special orders you might care to give. Second Floor Men's Sections, West Aisle NORMAL STUDENT CHECKS—We will cash your checks from home —gladly—Make it a practice to haveyour checks cashed here J. R. JONES' SONS & CO. VOCATIONAL TRAINING. JUST TRY IT. The Chicago schools offer eleven two-year A curiosity in arithmetic has recently high school courses in vocational subjects, as been worked out by a British astronomer in follows: accounting, phonography (short answer to the question: What is, the largest hand), mechanical drawing, designing, car number that can be expressed with three pentry, pattern making, machine shop, elec digits? tricity, household arts, printing and horti 99!>. culture. The figure which this represents is so big English is a required subject in all of the that it is awesome. If it were printed in courses, and mathematics is required in all full it would fill thirty-three volumes of eight except the course in horticulture. The stu hundred pages each of fine type. The first dent completing any of the vocational courses twenty-eight figures are 428,124,773,175,747,- is given a certificate (not a diploma). 048,036,987,115,9, and the last two are 89. In between these are 369,693,070 figures. OPPORTUNITY. If you don't believe it, try it and see. They do me wrong who say I come no more when once I knock and fail to find you in; for every day I stand outside your door, and bid you wake, and rise and fight and win. FIRST CLASS HAIR CUT —Walter Malone. SHAVE AND SHAMPOO PLANTS ARE HEAVY DRINKERS—OF WATER. Electric or Hand Massage* It has been demonstrated by careful sci entific investigation at the Utah Experiment At Station, and verified in other places, that for every pound of dry matter produced by plants the amount of water that passes through the West St. Barber Shop plants varies from 252 pounds to 1,109 Union Shop Rear Dunwell's pounds. An interesting result of the investi gation is found in the fact that cultivation REIFSNYDER and fertilization of soils reduces the actual amount of water consumed by plants by as Children's Hair Cut a Specialty much as one-half in some instances. 3F=1E 3F=1E I1" = -ii I The Kalamazoo Normal Record 3F=ir=tl^ l[==]E J Vol. 6 JANUARY, 1916 No. 4 EBirc/viomL The Relation of Modern Languages to Society HE statement made by Profes most efficient teacher with a so-called sor Grandgent, of Harvard, good method lies in certain national in an address before the joint traits which have been developed session of the Classical and through our geographic isolation, our Modern Language Conferences in abundant resources, which make com Ann Arbor in 1907, that "we traffick petition not so pitiless with us as in ers in living tongues are admirable ex Europe, and our self-sufficiency. These ponents of that attitude of mind which have produced in us as a nation some sociologists call 'the noble dis a self-complacency, I might almost content,' " is borne out by practically say a provincialism, which has made every article written on the subject of our reading public content with the modern language instruction within translations of foreign literatures, our the last two decades. In discussing traveling public content to be piloted the causes for the conditions which through Europe by the ever-willing seem to warrant this discontent, the tourists' guides, our music lovers con emphasis has been placed largely upon tent with the meager translations of the methods employed and latterly the most exquisite lyrics, our statesmen upon the insufficient preparation of the and diplomats content to turn over teacher, but it seems to me that the their most critical interviews and doc improvement in results has been woe uments to interpreters, to say nothing fully inadequate in view of the im of our own professional men, who are provement in these conditions, which practically shut out from the mass shows that there must be other causes. of valuable technical journalistic To me these causes lie much deeper, literature of Europe. The explanation and the eve of a new era in the world's for this lack in our life is not mainly history, in which even we, on our re clue to the lack of good teachers (for mote shores will have a part, would this would be remedied in the space of seem to me a most appropriate time one university course if the demand to try to get at the real root of the from the public were imperative) ; nor matter, if possible. The main obsta to the methods employed. The crux cle which blocks the way of even the of the matter lies, in my opinion, in 130 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD the lack of motive in the students, had almost twenty years for it. If and this is due to the lack of apprecia the young student were made to feel tion of the needs of the present scien that his German, French or Spanish is tific, business and social world on the an organic part of his life-work, it part of those who mold public opin would give him the proper perspec ion and indirectly our school courses. tive in regard to the difficult and often Just what does this mean? And how disagreeable beginnings, which he can it be remedied? And what will would then consider the necessary be the results of such improvement? means to a desired end. It is vision It means this: That not until the which our students lack: as though language course of a student is one accepted nothing in trust for a fu planned with an eye to the needs of his ture not yet revealed to one's limited profession at a time when he must have view, but apparent to the more experi a usable tool or forego the advantage enced advisor who has heard the com of reading the opinions of his contem plaints of unnumbered doctors, scien poraries in other lands, will the stu tists, engineers, architects, and even dent feel that his language work is a students, who are compelled to put off vital part of his course. That is to the taking of their advanced degrees say, if more mature people, who because they have failed to meet the even in this day of youthful inde minimum language requirement. pendence and precocity determine, What should, then, be the minimum however indirectly, the interests of modern language requirement in the young pupils, realized that a mod high school? Should it be the same ern language is of very little value un for all students? less the student can use it easily To every language teacher the one- later, when the stress of life forbids a year requirement now in force in so labored use of it, the pupil in our high many schools is pernicious in its ef schools would have a motive which fects. I do not say that every student would make his work very different needs two years or more of a foreign from that of the boy who takes the language, but I do say most emphat minimum language requirement sim ically that no student needs one year. ply because it is a requirement. And I should much prefer, as the course when you accuse me of making lan now stands, with no special one-year guage requirements too heavy, I can course, that a student had no language only remind you of the very patent at all, than that he had a "try" (and fact that the world of tomorrow, the that under protest) at the first year of post-bellum days for which we are now three different languages in order to preparing our students, is bound to work off his one-year language re be a very different world, especially quirement : for what he might gain in for us Americans, from that of knowledge of the structure of his own today, and that unless we begin language he certainly loses in correct our preparation for it betimes, we habits of thought and mental attitude. shall find that the opportunity will And that he finally gets a passing find us unprepared, a contingency mark in his third language has no real which would be by no means new significance. I would defy any boy, in our history. After the Span however stubbornly his mind may re ish-American war there was a great sist the entrance of any linguistic hue and cry about the practicability data, to fail in beginning French, after of a knowledge of Spanish; if at that he had sat through one year each of time strong, practical courses in Span good instruction in Latin and German. ish had been introduced into the cur A one-year language requirement is a ricula of our high schools and col tacit acknowledgment that we believe leges, I feel sure that South American in language study as formal discipline, trade would be ours today- But the or that the student needs a knowledge opportunity to gain a vast amount of of the grammar of a second language trade has been lost, largely because in order to grasp the technical gram we were not prepared, altho we have mar of his own. A discussion of the EDUCATIONAL 131 former I gladly leave to the psychol study. This is another story and ogists ; as to the latter, as well would lead me too far; but let me teach algebra only as an aid to arith point out only one significant phase of metic, or make geography merely the this side of the problem. Our geo handmaid of history. It would be graphic isolation brings with it a quite a different problem if we offered peculiarity in our outlook on life, one a special one-year course. I can imag phase of which is very apparent to the ine a most charming and delightful foreign language instructor. To the course of this kind: the barest essen American student the fact that the tials of grammar, a poem or two, a sentence structure of the new lan story, a drama; the whole giving the guage differs from his own means that student such a sense of completeness this peculiarity is a perversion, a va that he would never consider the pos riation from "the type," which is his sibility of going on on the strength of own language. Before long, however, this foundation. I might plan another he must realize that the English lan course on the same general lines as guage is but one of many languages, a complete two-year course. But the each of which has developed a struc dream of every language teacher is to ture of its own, to which it has quite have a group of students (and it will as good a right as ours has to its need to be a large group to meet the peculiarities; and in his later study of requirements of the future), who are the literature and the life of the peo looking forward to a thorough, com ple who use this language, he will prehensive course in some modern lan gradually develop a sympathetic, be guage—a course so comprehensive cause intelligent, feeling for a civiliza that each student will be able to meet tion different from his own; an atti the language problems of his particu tude of mind which even the man who lar profession with the least expendi never leaves his own country, and ture of time, at a period in his life never meets a bona fide foreigner, and when time is worth infinitely more reads only his daily paper, will find in than during his high school and early dispensable in the strange future which college course. And his linguistic skill lies before us. What the European will have this advantage over his pro boys and girls learn from personal in fessional skill, that it will furnish him tercourse with the products of other tools with which he may help to mold civilizations, our children must ac his leisure hours, which brings us quire largely through the medium of dangerously near the subject of the foreign language study. cultural value of foreign language ELISABETH ZIMMERMAN. State Department Survey N THE school year 1914-1915 ture of 1915, which requires that plans the Michigan Department of for all school buildings and for addi Public Instruction, through tions to school buildings, the cost of the assistance of the County which shall exceed $300, be approved Commissioners of Schools, took a sur by the Superintendent of Public In vey of the schools in the ungraded struction, and authorizes the condem (country) schools of the state. Re nation of school houses under certain turns were secured from 61 counties conditions. No tax exceeding the sum representing 5,545 districts, of which of $300 for building purposes shall be 5,140 were reported as to the school expended by the district board or board plant, and 5,346 as to the teacher. of education of such district until the The information gained about the Superintendent of Public Instruction present conditions of buildings and shall certify that the plans and speci equipment is especially timely in view fications for the same comply with the of Act No. 17 passed by the legisla provisions of this law. 132 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD The most significant facts learned zen who has direct responsibility in about Hhe school equipment in the these matters, and intelligent co-oper 5,140 districts reporting may be ation by the electorate of every dis briefly stated as follows: trict, together with enthusiastic, in formed leadership by teachers, and the Grounds, one acre or more 2,470 most definitely localized publicity by Lighting, one side 100 newspapers and bulletins, will all be Lighting, two sides 2,411 needed to bring these truly progress Lighting, three sides L977 Lighting, four sides 188 ive educational activities to full fru Heating, stoves 2,619 ition. The information gained as to the Heating, jacketed stoves — 712 academic and professional training of Heating, furnace 878 the 5,346 teachers reported was also Heating, basement furnaces 334 Water supplied 1 3,I24 especially timely, in view of Act No. Ventilation, satisfactory 1,750 7 of the last legislature, which pro Seating, satisfactory 1,898 vides that no certificate shall be Scoring 800 or above granted, under the law for the exam (possible 1,000) 1,290 ination and certification of teachers, Scoring 800 or above (with no to any person who shall not have com major item less than 70) 624 pleted a term of at least six weeks' work' in professional training in a state Scoring under 700 l,7l9 normal school or in one of the county These figures, taken at their face normal training classes of the state or value, indicate that at least four splen any normal training school conducted did movements for the improvement by any municipality in the state or in of local school properties are well un any school approved by the State Su der way in Michigan. Definite facts perintendent of Public Instruction; are not available whereby a conclusive but the completion of one-half year of comparison with some fixed data in work in a school maintaining four the past can be made, but to one whose years of work above high school rank work has made necessary close famil shall be accepted in lieu of this re iarity with local school plants in many quirement. This proviso, however, communities in this state, it is obvious shall not apply to persons who have from the results of the Department's taught in the schools of the state at survey that the enlargement of school least five months prior to July 1, 1916. grounds, and the correction of seating, The facts learned by the survey lighting, heating, and ventilation are about the certificates, experience, and all at least well begun. salaries of the teachers reported may Alertness on the part of every citi be seen in the following table: Years Experience Salary Holding first year third grade certificates 858 1.2 $39.96 Holding second year third grade certificates 403 2.1 44.89 Holding third year third grade certificates _ 245 2.8 44-23 Holding second grade certificates 1,821 5-9 49.72 Holding first grade certificates _ 24 13.2 60.90 Holding state certificates 3° 6.8 53-oo Holding state normal life certificates 159 4.4 55-20 Holding state normal limited certificates 416 2.8 47.04 Holding county normal, original certificates 1,029 i-7 43.16 Holding county normal, renewal certificates 361 44 47.84 Number teaching first year I>197 40.81 No. with experience, 2 yrs. and under 5 yrs 1,899 47.44 No. with experience, 5 yrs. and under 10 yrs 860 50-74 No. with experience, 10 yrs. and under 15 yrs 184 56.43 No. with experience, 15 yrs. and under 20 yrs 70 54-03 EDUCATIONAL 133 No. with experience, 20 yrs. and above , 78 54.75 No. with monthly salary under $35 55 No. with monthly salary $35 and under $40 400 No. with monthly salary $40 and under $50 2,303 No. with monthly salary $50 and under $60 1,497 No. with monthly salary $60 and above 498 No. having at least one year of normal training 1,965 or 37percent. The thoughtful reader of the forego- mulation of untutored experience, ing table will find ample evidence that The survey shows that there are school officers appreciate experience many places where trained and ex- and special training in teachers. If it perienced teachers may stay in the seems conclusive, as it does from the service of ungraded schools with as table, that these officers put a higher much economic advantage as they are value on experience training than they likely to find elsewhere, do upon institutional training, this Fifty-six counties now have maxi- need not discourage young people mum salaries in ungraded schools as from getting the institutional or nor- follows: $60 in ten counties; $65 in mal school training, because when offi- ten counties; $70 in thirteen counties; cers become familiar with the value $75 in nine counties; $80 in seven of professional training, as they are counties; $90 in three counties; and bound to do in a few years, they are $100 in four counties, likely to value it above mere accu- .., What Is Manual Training? HE question "What Is Manual Training" has brought forth a variety of responses. The following typical examples are from teachers, students and business men. They disclose the fact that Manual Training is a "phase," an "art," a "science," a "subject" or "thing" not easy to define off-hand. Supposedly very definite in character it seems to be vague and uncertain when expressed in writing. However the ideas ex pressed below give sufficient information so that we hope a more general understanding of the subject may result. "Manual Training is a course which Instills a taste and respect for manual labor. It takes up the study of different industries of the country and through this the study of typical methods of manufacture and the actual changing of rough material into finished work. It develops good taste in home furnish ings and an appreciation of good and honest workmanship." "Manual Training, as understood today is a portion of the subject matter of the school curriculum which has for its object the training of the mind by means of^ motor development of the hand and eye. As a department of a school it is intended to include work in wood of various kinds, metal, etc., and drawing. "In some instances it has comprehended art, but this is not accepted as a part of the departmental work. "The purpose has changed and is still changing. Negatively, the purpose is not to fit an individual for a particular vocation, but rather to train the mind (and all that includes) through the development and co-ordination of the senses and muscles." "Manual Training is an art whose educational function lies essentially in training correlation between hand and eye with the ultimate aim of giving the individual greater power of expression through manual agency." "Manual Training is any kind of handwork that involves skill and is an expression of art. There are many phases and branches of manual training. Domestic art is just as much a part of hand training as wood-work, and 134 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD should come under the same head. Some handiwork becomes purely me chanical and when it does it loses the thought side and ceases to be an ex pression of the individual." "Manual Training is a process of education. Its aim is the expression of thought through the agency of material things. In the method of presenta tion it should be a science and obey the laws of mind as revealed in psy chology; in its final expression by the pupil it becomes an art." "Manual Training marries motor to mental impulses. The issue of this eugenic union are symmetrically developed, self-sustaining individuals whose hands are the useful instruments of their brains." "Manual Training is a scheme of education for uniting head and hand. As a result of it the brain becomes keen to plan and the fingers quick and skillful to achieve. It fills the long-felt want of making education practical. It dignifies labor and puts one in the way of becoming a self-sustaining, producing member of society." "Educating the hands to work with materials." "Manual training is that phase of education which deals with the knowl edge of industrial processes, their execution and appreciation, and by which an opportunity is given for cultural development and practical training through contact with the fundamentals of the common trades and industries." "Manual training is for the purpose of correlating mental and muscular responses. Successfully pursued, manual training develops skill in motor activity and begets executive confidence as a mental attitude." "My understanding of manual training as now taught in our schools is that it is the science of teaching to do with one's hands the practical and necessary things in life which each of us may at times be called upon to do, and while it does not attempt to teach trades, it has, or should have, a ten dency to assist those who have enjoyed the privilege of instruction in this line, to select the special line which they are best equipped, both physically and mentally, to perform as their life work. In other words, the graduate of a manual training school should be so equipped that when he enters life's practical school he has passed the kindergarten stage and is ready to be assigned to one of its grade classes. This reply is from one who, when he entered life's practical .school, be cause of the lack and kind of training it has been your privilege to have, was obliged to enter its kindergarten classes." "Manual training should be so organized and presented that it would appeal to the best and the keenest interests of the pupil; the material results should each have an individual utility value if possible; and the processes should involve the proper use and care of tools and materials." "That part of a boy's elementary training which couples school with the common activities of life." "I have been so busy of late that I have had no time to give your request any thought." (Signed) Several Faculty Members. "Manual training, as a school subject, is an organized set of motor activ ities (hand) that finds its educational justification and significance in the organic unity of mental and motor life. "I am not prepared to say that any particular set of motor activities, con stituting any particular brand of manual training, does or does not have the educational justification and significance that theoretically are implied in this organic unity of mental and moral life." "Manual training is that phase of education which correlatively instructs and develops the motor and intellectual faculties." "Manual training is a course in technical arts by which a boy becomes for the period a man. He takes up a man's vocation, is taught those things which contribute most to a manly character, and is, in fact, taught to act and be the man in a practical way." EDUCATIONAL 135 "A training of the hands to do work " "That which teaches the head and the hand to work together with speed and accuracy." _"Manual training is a phase of education wherein the conclusions are mainly expressed in the form of material creations requiring the exercise of manual dexterity." ^"Manual training should teach the natural, practical way to do things." "The present-day substitute for the all-around knowledge of processes and ability to do things which were the common possession of our grand fathers." "Manual training is that phase of education which, through the construc tive use of the hand, mind and material, enables an individual to become industry and business wise." "Manual training is that phase of education which aims to compel a close union between the three great powers of man—observation, reflection and action." "Manual training is the science of mechanical designing and construction, and the art of using tools and materials." "Manual training is the kindergarten of the trade school." _"As I see it, the function of manual training is not that of vocational training. In other words, manual training schools should not be looked upon as mere trade schools. I do not wish to be understood as saying one is either inferior or superior to the other. Each has its proper and worthy place." I believe every boy and girl of average ability should have, and is benefited by having, a fair amount of 'hand-training' where that training is so provided for and presented as to associate itself with some intellectual or artistic inter est of the student. As men, we all of us would make better teachers, lawyers, preachers or doctors (to say nothing of trained mechanics or engineers) as well as better husbands, fathers and citizens, if we could be skillful, to a rela tive degree, with hand as well as keen of thought. In other words, I conceive of manual training as the hand-maiden of the other arts and sciences; or, if you please, the more, as sister to these same arts and sciences, not as a mere means to physical existence." The writer suggests that the reader may be able to determine the identity of some of these authors bv reflection and speculation. MARION J. SHERWOOD. LITERARY Tennyson's Social Philosophy The chief question of interest con osophy. We are interested in discov cerning men and events of past his ering whether he had such a philos tory is not "what" or "how" they were, ophy, but vastly more so in knowing but "why" were they thus and so. what forces helped to determine it. It So it is with Tennyson's Social Phil would be especially interesting to trace 136 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD if time and space would permit, how dogmatically into his work and leave far his ideas of life pertaining to the his reader to accept them, or find individual and the group were evolved others. He very clearly and accur from his own experiences and mental ately reflects the opinions of all processes, and how they were affected parties, and only suggests his own in by his environment and training. the same polite way in which he would Such a detailed analysis is impos call your attention to a window, dif sible in the course of a brief paper, ferent from those you had already but even the most casual reading of seen, if he were showing you through his life and works reveals many in an old cathedral. teresting facts concerning the growth He seems to glimpse a time when and shaping of his view of life. "each man finds his own in all Tennyson's idea of man as an in men's good, dividual was that man is an immortal And all men work in noble broth spirit clothed with mortal flesh. He erhood," has expressed it in a dozen ways, but ' and even when nowhere more clearly than the line in "England, France, all men to be, "Beckett:." will make one people ere man's race "this beast body be run," That God has plunged my soul in." but that far-off dream could not have Nor does he deny that the poorest, included for him political and social meanest wretch that lives is made in equality. Tennyson was esentially an the image of God, and can experience aristocrat, a conservative of the con the same depths of sorrow or heights servatives. He emphasized at every of rapture as himself. In so far as in turn the principle of noblesse oblige; dividual capacities or possibilities are he would concerned he limits man only by the "fuse his myriads into union under universe; but collectively he regards one the race as occupying various levels. To hunt the tiger of oppression out Here we see the evidence of two From office," variant forces at work. He seems to but throughout his long life of pur have worked out his notion of man poseful thinking he never conceived and his relations to the Creator largely of any social or political state in which alone, as who of us does not? could be found greater happiness than We may be taught and trained and "the one true seed of freedom sown influenced in our beliefs, but after all Betwixt a people and their ancient is said and done, if one does any think throne, ing for oneself whatever along this That sober freedom out of which line, one must form some distinct, in there springs dividual concept of God and man's re Our loyal passion for our temperate lations to him, and it would not seem kings." strange to find that there are as many Hereditary rule was the only safe different concepts as there are human rule, according to Tennyson's way of souls. thinking. On the other hand, Tennyson's view He could see and deplore the short of society, whether considered from a comings of nobility; he would "Rine social or political standpoint, is un out false pride in place and blood," mistakably a class view—the view of but that he considered rank as irre the class in which he was born and vocable as death itself is seen in the reared. He was by birth and training line wherein he compares his longing a conservative, so we shall not expect for Arthur Hallam to that of to find him jumping at conclusions, or "Some poor girl whose heart is set allowing himself to be surprised into On one whose rank exceeds her making unwarranted statements, from own. which he would have to retreat. Nor He could understand how does he obtrude his personal opinions "The thrall in person may be in soul," LITERARY 137 but he could not see in this free soul love," and all his friends are eloquent any ray of hope looking toward a time in their tribute to Emily Sellwood "when crowds are sane." Tennyson and her part in the shaping Closely allied to this view of the of her husband's career. Jowett says masses is the poet's notion of heredity. of her "The greatest influence of his On this, as on every other point, he life would have to be passed over in is characteristically conservative. He silence if I were to omit her name." regards heredity as a force in human The poet laureate's own son said of life and human progress to be reck him : "One secret of his power over oned with, to be conquered if need be; mankind was his true joy in family but not as a cause for despair. That relations and affections." The Earl he takes account of it in all human sit of Selborne described the home life uations is evidenced by his many ref of the Tennysons thus : "His domestic erences to it. Pie makes Balin to say, affections were very strong, and he soliloquizing on Lancelot's favor with had a happy home in which the in the king: fluence of others told upon him hardly "These be gifts less than his own did on them." Born with the blood, not learnable, So we must conclude that the lofty divine, strain in which he writes of love, and Beyond my reach." its world conquering power was in And again we hear from the lips of spired by the deep and constraining Harold: loves of his own experience. "O this mortal hou e Some of his most exquisite lines Which we are born into is haunted by were written to define woman's The ghosts of the dead passions of sphere and share in this momentous dead men, task of home building. It is doubtful And these take flesh again with our if he or any of his contemporaries re own flesh alized the far-reaching significance of And bring us to confusion." some of them ; but in the light of sub This theory doubtless fortified him sequent history they become the say in the position he assumed toward ings of a true prophet. popular reforms, the laissez faire atti "The woman's cause is man's; tude he held toward the sorrows and They rise or sink together," oppression of the common people, and might have been written for a clarion helped him to condone what he called call of twentieth century suffragists. the "blind hysterics of the Celt." When But Alfred Tennyson would never Gladstone championed home rule for have been identified with the suffrage Ireland Tennyson said: "I love Mr. movement of today. Here, again, we Gladstone, but I hate his present pol- should find a clashing of his individ icy." ual and group sympathies. He ad In all things of vital consequence to mired and even reverenced a true wom the immediate betterment of the com anly woman in her woman's sphere, mon people Tennyson sounds an but he would never have risked their equivocal note or keeps silence, but on judgment en masse on questions of one question he is never in doubt. civic concern. That is the position of the home and On the whole we may say of the the significance of home life in the poet's social philosophy it was a very scheme of human affairs. He firmly comfortable philosophy to live with believed and never missed an oppor and to live by, providing one could tunity to teach that the home was the always keep aloof, as did he, from nucleus of the state, that the welfare the seamy side of life, providing of the nation depended largely on the one could live apart on a secluded integrity of the home. island surrounded by admiring friends Here, again, we see the influence of and a loving family, where only the roar his environment. His mother was a of a soulless sea would ever intrude veritable saint who "ruled by right of upon one's thoughts, but if one lived 138 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD where men toil and strive and yearn phy would be like a wornout, rusty for higher, better things, till yearning machine: its use would entail such hearts break and pour out their life loss and delay as w'ould hazard its blood for other's gain, such a philoso owner's ruin. Book Review Schools of Tomorrow, John Dewey, but it does mean a complete reorgan Evelyn Dewey. ization of it. The chapter on "Play" E. P. Dutton Co., Publishers. gives us the relative values of the con $1.50 net. tributions of Rousseau, Pestalozzi and Froebel, and in no uncertain way Practice follows so slowly the path shows the sharp contrast between the blazed by educational reformers that orthodox and modern kindergarten. it is particularly gratifying to have set There arises the question "What is of out so clearly in this volume such real worth in these early experiences types of schools as have attained a of the child that carry life values?" deep enough consciousness, both of In the discussion of "Freedom and the needs of childhood and the needs Individuality" the confusion of phys of society, to justifiably break with tra ical liberty with intellectual liberty is ditions and work out a new order of emphasized and a plea made for more practice. child and less teacher, illustrated by a Dr. Dewey and his daughter, Evelyn review and criticism of Montessori. Dewey, have together taken us to The whole book is shot through these interesting experimental stations and through with the spirit of democ and shown us intimately the "work racy—an equal chance for every child, ers" in their "work-shops." Under which must ever remain the goal of widely differing conditions and widely our American public school system. differing forms of realization, one "Schools of Tomorrow" has not at finds a common aim of educational con tempted to set up any new educational viction in all of these new types of theories nor to offer a solution to cur schools. This common aim may be rent problems, but it is rich in its sug- summed up in the pragmatic slogan testiveness of well-defined aims of "Learning by doing." This does not teachers who form the "advance mean, necessarily, a complete over guard" of a new era that shall usher throw of the time-honored curriculum, in a school linked with life. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD WESTERN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, KALAMAZOO, MICH. JOHN P. EVERETT Editor-in-Chief Changes of Address. Notification of change of NELLIE McCONNELL Training School Editor address should contain both old and new KATHERINE NEWTON Alumni Editor addresses. Until such notification is given the publishers will not be responsible for fail ARTHUR BOWEN Managing Editor ure to receive the magazine. Subscription Price—Fifty centsper year, October Communications. All communications intended to July inclusive. for publication should be addressed to the editor. Correspondence relative to adver Advertising Rates will be made known upon ap tising, subscriptions, etc., should be sent to plication. the manager. Dissipation. We have examined the In some instances liberal elective priv courses of study of the ileges are extended which permit the normal schools of six states, and find student by judicious selection to that to a greater or less degree they maintain a sustained effort throughout all contain one striking characteristic: his course; but it would appear from viz., a considerable number of unrelat the catalogs that such an arrangement ed courses, many of which are re of work is dependent upon the stu quired for a certificate. In some dent's own initiative and foresight schools no effort is made to arrange rather than being due to institutional the courses with reference to a se influences. We believe that the nor quence, in others the course is pre mal school of the near future must scribed with great rigidity; but the give to its courses a progressive char general effect is the same—the stu acter that will necessitate considerable dent may be graduated with a con sustained effort. federation of devices rather than a hierarchy of ideas. Some schools re quire a year's work in one department; Overlooked. The latest report of the but in five of the six states investi Superintendent of Pub gated the term plan of three months lic Instruction shows that in the obtains and the courses of a large pro graded schools of Michigan the women portion of the departments are loosely outnumber the men more than six to graded. one. There is slight probability that It is not unusual to find that three- this condition will change materially fourths of a student's time has been for some time, and as long as it con spent on subjects which do not rep tinues the average tenure of service resent any kind of a logical sequence. of public school teachers is bound to 140 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD be comparatively short, because when so far as intellectual activities and lim women get married they usually stop itations are concerned; but in our teaching. This situation prompts us friendships this is not so—we are to inquire whether normal schools are practically confined to the circle of really doing the best work that might those with whom we come in contact. be expected of them when they con Nearly all of the friends that we have fine their efforts almost exclusively are from among those persons with to the preparation of teachers. If whom we are, at some time, closely the normal schools may rightly be ex associated. In the opportunities which pected to minister to society as well we have for making life-long friend as to a profession, should not their ships lies one of the peculiar charms courses be arranged to take account of school life. No value that attaches of the fact that most normal school to school activities is greater than that students will teach for a comparative of the friendships there formed, and ly short time and then graduate into happy, indeed, is the young_ person the role of home-makers? whose diploma is reminiscent in equal degree of academic achievements and Propinquity. The arts of printing, of pleasant friendships. Take time to telegraphy and tele make friends, and a safe motto to fol phony have done much to render us low is, "Do you want friends? then independent of place and surroundings be one." TmiMiriB 5v"H00L DOLL BEDS. supervision of Miss Blair, of the Do A Christmas project which enlisted mestic Art Department. the hearty sympathy and co-operation Each bed was supplied with two of the entire Training School was the nicely-made sheets, one pillow and making of doll beds for poor children case, one mattress, one comforter, pret whom Santa failed to remember. The tily tufted with colored yarns, and a young men in the manual training white spread. Next, the Y. W. C. A. classes and the upper grade boys of the girls donated pretty dolls and the stu Training School, under the direction dents of the domestic art classes or Mr. Sherwood, made twenty-three dressed them in the latest New York of these beds, each eighteen inches fashions. long and very strong and durable. Everybody had an interest in the When the beds were made they were project, from the tots in the Training placed on exhibition on the stage of School to the dignified manual train the rotunda, and it was then that the ing seniors, and big and little shared girls came forward and offered their in the joy of giving to the little sisters help to the boys to make the gifts a of the poor, who, in most instances, real success. Young ladies in the do would have had a very barren Christ mestic art classes, girls of the upper mas otherwise. Ten of the beds glad grades, mothers of the smaller chil dened the hearts of the little girls of dren, teachers and students volun the anti-tuberculosis school and thir teered to make the bedding under the teen were sent to needy children whom TRAINING SCHOOL 141 Dr. Epler had learned about. One make bed clothes and comfortable beds went to a little girl who was nearly for their own homes. blind and was trying to get a little ed ucation by going to school and listen GRADE TWO. ing. She had so little for Christmas The children in grade two worked that the gift of the doll and bed was out their own assembly program, and the bright particular joy of her holi it was very interesting to watch them day season. Two were sent to two lit express their ideas in different ways. tle girls who lived out on the marsh Their object was to tell the rest of and whom Santa had entirely forgot the children in the Training School ten. One made a little lame girl very, just as much as they could of the life very happy. Four were given to chil- of the Tree-Dwellers and Cave-Men. DOLL BEDS dren whose parents had never remem They worked this out mostly under bered them at Christmas because they big heads, such as homes, dress, food, had barely enough money for the real etc. To show the development of the necessities of life. Two went on a home, the children made big posters long journey, away down to the moun representing the homes in trees, on tain settlements of Kentucky, and the the ground around the fire, and finally teachers sent back word that these in caves. These pictures were made doll beds were the first real beds their in the art period, under the supervi mountain children had ever seen, and sion of Miss Netzorg. they intended to use them as models During the term the children had to teach their young charges how to gathered sticks and stones on the cam- 142 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD pus, which they had fashioned into The article was 'discovered" and rude primitive weapons of various brought to class by one of the sorts. These were explained by dif pupils. Lemnos, Samothrace, and familiar names; ferent children. Hephestia were Stories of the Tree-dwellers and the little winged god, Eros, an Cave-men were told and a dramatiza old friend. The vivacious account tion of "How Ab and Oak Caught the of the French soldier with little Baby Rhinoceros" was given. The explanation became a personal mes children had a great deal of fun in sage. An additional bit of interesting working this out and put in many in information was the fact that proof teresting touches. One boy brought had also been discovered that the de- Toys donated by pupils of all grades of the Training School the Christmas of 1914. which were repaired by the boys of the seventh and eighth grades in their manual training work and distributed to the poor children of Kalamazoo struction of the city was not due to four wooden spears which his father sacking by the Turks, as has been fre had made and donated to the "play." quently supposed. That catastrophe was caused by an earthquake. The GRADE FIVE. children were especially grateful for The keen interest manifested by the this bit of knowledge, since it an children of grade five in the recent dis swered so definitely the oft-repeated covery of the statue of Eros, sleeping questions concerning the causes of in the ground for twenty centuries, ruined statues and buried cities. gives evidence of the practical results Cooking is being taught during the of their study of Greek history. An winter term in grades one, two, three, article in the Literary Digest of De four, six and eight. We find that a cember 25 quotes a letter from a large number of the problems taught French officer who was a witness of in the cooking laboratory are carried the unexpected "find." The discovery over into the home. The children are was made by French soldiers engaged always anxious to tell about the things in practice-digging of trenches at Pal- they have done at home. Duringvaca aeopolis, a town in the northern part tion some of the children prepared of Lemnos, on the site of what was lunch or breakfast at home; others probably the Hephestia of the an made beds, dusted, helped with the dishes, and various other duties. cients. ATHLETICS 143 / fVMinciIVX GRANT 34—28. 92—7. In one of the best basketball games In the first basketball game of the ever seen on the local floor the Nor season Western Normal easily defeat mals trounced the strong Grand Rap ed the South Haven All-Stars by a ids Y by a 34 to 28 count. The Fur 92 to 7 score. The lake shore boys niture City boys were always in the were never in the running and the running, and especially in the last half Normals scored almost at will. Wel did some fine passing and good basket den and Jacks did most of the scoring shooting. with eleven baskets each. Noble was The score stood 20 to 9 in favor of in the game every minute and did the home team at the intermission, but some fine passing in addition to seven the Y team staged a great come-back field goals. Thomas and Bippes in the second period and came within played the floor with all sorts of speed, a few points of the Normals. How each shooting five baskets. Leonard ever, the "Highlanders" rallied in time played the last half and did good work. to hold the lead. Simmons also played well during his Jacks and Bek played a great defen stav in the game. sive game, while Welden, Thomas and Bek starred at breaking up plays Noble did some rapid-fire work around and made the only basket he tried for. the baskets. The lineup: Cook, Bartz and Drummond were the_ best point-getters for the visitors, Normal. South Haven. while the whole team featured in good Welden, If Bridges passing. The lineup: Simmons Noble rf . Mason Normal. Grand Rapids. Bippes Welden If L. Cook Thomas c Clark Leonard Noble rf Van Boven Bek lg Lockwood Bippes Drummond Welden Bartz Jacks rg Rapp Thomas c Wilmarth Summary: Field goals—Welden, ri ; Jacks, 11; Noble, 7: Thomas, 5; Bek lg Adams Bippes, 5; Leonard, 2; Bek: Bridges. Jacks rg Cress Free throws—Welden 4; Mason, 5. Fowle Referee—Burhans, Kalamazoo Y. M. Summary: Field goals—Welden, 6; C. A. Score first half—61 to 4. Thomas, 3; Jacks, 3; Noble; L. Cook,' 3; Bartz, 3; Drummond, 2; Wilmarth ; Adams. Free Throws—Welden, 4; BASKETBALL SCHEDULE. Jacks, 6; Van Boven, 3; Fowle, 5! Jan. 6—South Haven All Stars at Referee—Burhans, Kalamazoo Y. M. Kalamazoo. C. A.. Timer—Cameron. Score, first Jan. 8—Grand Rapids Y. M. C. A. half—Western Normal, 20; Grand at Kalamazoo. Rapids Y, 9. Jan. 12—M. A. C. at East Lansing. 144 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD jan# i4_Mt. Pleasant Normal at and comely, and apparently provided with all the goatly appanages which Kalamazoo. would insure a development capable of Jan. 18—Adrian College at Kalama bringing joy to the hearts of his but zoo. Jan. 22—Hillsdale College at Kala ting ancestors. Nourished by the peculiar brand of tomato cans indig mazoo. Jan. 26—Notre Dame at Notre enous to the banks of the Huron and Dame. by the undraped advertisements of the jan. 28—Flint Vehics at Flint. local bill boards he waxed fat and, Feb. 2—Open. like Jeshurun, began to kick. His par Feb. 4—Open. ents watched his growth to goathood Feb. 9—Open. with interest and hailed withJoy the Feb. 12—Wabash College at Kala appearance of his incipient whisker. He was indeed a model goatee. At mazoo. Feb. 18—Hillsdale College at Hills first he confined his perigrinations to the beautiful banks of his native dale. Feb. 19—Albion College at Albion. stream. Later, however, wanderlust Feb. 24—Grand Rapids at Grand seized him and he began to range far Rapids. ther and farther afield. He journeyed Feb. 26—Toledo University at Kal as far as Adrian, indeed, for a succu lent bit of pigskin, and even as far amazoo. March 4—Northwestern College at away as Mt. Pleasant and Alma, where he cropped a juicy mouthful of gusta Kalamazoo. tory horse-hide. From these excur sions he not infrequently returned A DIS-CONTINUED STORY. with prancing step and aggressive chin Western whisker to the huge delight of his dot Normal Ypsilanti ing progenitors. Came a day when he learned of a Season of 1912— town far to the west, way beyond the Baseball 2 o bounds of his habitat, where report Football o 7 said there grew most luscious stalks Season of 1913— of tender Western Normal celery. At Baseball - 2 3 once the taste of discarded peach cans Football 12 6 and outworn dishpans became as ashes Season of 1914— in his mouth, and he longed with a Baseball 3 2 most exceeding great longing for the Football .:-.. 10 o toothsome celery. And so, on a day, Season of 1915— in the full maturity of his strength, he Baseball 6 I came, and sinking his teeth deep in the Football 19 ° crisp and brittle stalks, he bleated in Games won 6 great joy, for the taste was like nectar Games lost 2 6 in his mouth. "Henceforth," said he, Grand Summary. "I must always have celery on my Season of 1916.— bill of fare." And at length his visit The athletic council of the Michigan being up, he returned home wiggling State Normal College announces his tail with great vivacity and was through the director of athletics that joyfully and vociferously received in "for the benefit of both schools" Ypsi the bosom of his family and friends, lanti will not play the Western Nor who playfully tweaked his lambnkms mal for a time. and toasted him as "It." Now this goat had never heard of THE TAIL OF A GOAT. the pitcher and the well—though he Some sixty-four years ago there was did know about a pitcher and his Bell born in the eastern part of this com —and he did not know that celery was monwealth a kid. He was of poor but sometimes tough and hard. From his honest parentage, but withal Sturdy next western foray he came back be- NEWS ITEMS 145 wildered and with a broken tooth, stroked his shunken flanks, softly pat wondering over what had happened to ted his drooping brow and delicately the celery crop. smoothed his tattered lace curtains. Being somewhat game, however, he Ah! sad indeed, for such a noble goat kept on coming. Now and then by to come to such an evil state. Quoth great good luck and much foraging he they, "We must act and act at once." did find a tender tidbit, but for the And as a result of their lucubrations mostpart he bit off more than he could they came to this decision: They set masticate, to the sad detriment of his for their beloved goat metes and few remaining teeth and his disorgan bounds. Henceforeh he must stay in ized alimentary system. Naturally he his own habitat and play with the grew peevish and tried changing his fauna belonging there. Until such doctor and such like caprine stunts. time as he was fully recuperated, he And so at length tempus fidgited along must by no means expose himself to to the fall of 1915. Again the ancient, the wild cats that are out looking for oriental paseng's mouth began to stray goats along the Kalamazoo. drool as he thought of the tasty apium Thus and thus only could their darl graveoleus that grew so bountifully ing be rejuvenated. along the beautiful Kalamazoo. He This is the veracious tail of an east gathered his wrinkled thews together, ern goat—his rise, his development, his had his whiskers well Mitchelled and fearful fall. came over to do or die. Did he? He A young man once thinking to please did, especially the latter. It was in his_ lady-love, sent her a fine goat, deed a sorry-looking goat that re which she in anger returned pronto turned from this excursion. Once too and with warm language. Bewildered, often had he butted in where the but he wrote the society editor of the ting was not good. "Woman's Weakly Whim" and asked And now nature began to take her advice. Said this arbiter of social toll. The mass of undigested securi amenities, "Next time go-at her with ties locked up in the interior of this a box of chocolates or a bunch of vio poor goat began to ferment until with lets." And so for the immediate fu a roar that reverberated throughout ture, the wild cat prowling the banks the environs of the classic Huron the of the Kalamazoo looking for a goat poor fellow exploded and set free such will return, again and again unsatis a mass of hot air as had never before fied, bringing perchance a heart-shape infested that locality. It was quick lozenge bearing the inscription, "You work for the doctors and a hurry-up rough-necked kid," or carrying possi call was sent out for the Council. The bly a sweet but shrinking violet. Good Book says, "In a multitude of CONTRIBUTED. counsellors there is wisdom." The members gathered sadly about the nearly defunct ibex. They gazed in Sacred to the Memory of a Dead Ab sorrow upon his flaccid sides, his normal Goat. drooping tail and his pendulous, dis Under the sod and leaves a-flutter, heveled whiskers, which now had the Here lies a goat who was some but bedraggled appearance of the chin ter. adornment of an octogenarian masti Sturdy and strong, a la-la-loo, cator of tobacco. They tenderly Till he butted into Kal-a-ma-zoo. NEWS ITEMS! NEWS NOTES. Freelan, and Eva Smith discussed and The Course I section of the Rural demonstrated telling stories to chil Sociology Seminar held its first meet dren. Misses Eva Robinson, Gladys ing for the term Jan. 6. Papers were McDowell and Clara Palmiter, of last presented by Pearl Hazard and Gladys year's class, were guests, and each 146 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD related interesting items about her ed by Helen Campbell and Mr. Put- school. W. E. Martin, who was presi man. dent last term and re-elected, resigned, and Lucile Cramer was elected presi The Misses Blair, Moore and Hutty dent. Lucile Stevens is secretary this of the Household Arts Department, attended a meeting of the teachers of term. home economics in the state normal ** schools of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, The tenth Annual Rural Progress Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, in Chi Day of the W. S. N. School will cago, December 10th and nth. This occur on March 10, 1916. Dr. Thomas meeting was the fifth of a series of M. Carver, of the Department of Agri sectional conferences called by the U. culture and Harvard University, will S. Commissioner of Education in or lecture in the afternoon on Organiza der that teachers of home economics tion in Rural Progress." Mr. A. C. of the normal schools might come to Monahan, of Washington, D. C, will gether to talk over the problems speak on progress in rural educa peculiar to their work. tion. There will be a general confer ence in the forenoon on the progress At the annual joint meeting of the made by various rural organizations in American Philological Association and Michigan in the past ten years. Im the Archaeological Institute of Amer mediately following the dinner at noon ica, held this year at Princeton Uni there will be a Grange Lecturers' Con versity, December 28-30, Dr. Ballou, ference. At the conclusion of the lec of the Latin Department, presented a ture in the afternoon the Rural Course paper on "The Clausula and the students will give a reception in honor Higher Criticism." of the guests. At the convocation meeting of the Botanical Society of America, held There are several new students in during the holidays, Dr. L. H. Harvey Rural course I this term. received the distinguished honor of being elected to membership. The Elementary School Journal for December contained Dr. Burnham's paper on "A Decade of Progress in THE CLASSICAL CLUB. Training Rural Teachers." At the January meeting of the Clas sical Club, held in the Library of the Miss Mary Ensfield, teacher of the Training School on Wednesday even Rural Observation School at OakWood ing, the 12th, the Greek and Roman from 1908 to 1911, and who is now at theatre was the subject discussed. the head of the Rural School Depart Miss Hazel Brim read a paper on ment in the State Normal at Winona, "The Roman Theatre," which showed Minn., was a visitor at Oakwood and careful preparation and a considerable the Normal on January 3. range of reading. Plans of typical Greek and Roman theatre buildings were studied, and photographs of some Claire McGowan and Misses Lyla of the best known examples which still Patterson and Olive Blanz of the Ru exist were thrown on the screen, with ral class of 1915 were visitors at the the assistance of Mr. Gerald Fox at Normal the first week of this term. the lantern. A brief sketch of the de velopment of greek and Roman drama The Course 11 section of the Rural was added by Dr. Ballou. Sociology Seminar held its first winter term session Jan. 13. The new officers One of Barrie's most delightful plays were in charge. Lucile Sanders is has been selected by the Dramatic president, George Klingenberg is vice- Clubs of the Normal for mid-winter president, and Marion Putman is sec production. "The Admirable Crich- retary. The chief topics were present ton," a comedy of charming spirit, will NEWS ITEMS 147 be presented March 16th at the Acad Rapids January 21st by the Grand emy of Music by a cast selected after Rapids Teachers' Club. several tryouts. The characters and names of students who have been as signed parts follow: Members of the State Board of Ed ucation met at Western Normal Mon Earl of Laom—John Bek. day, December 27th, for the regular Lord Brocklehurst—Cornelius Mul December business meeting. Every der. member was present, including Presi Hon. Ernest Wooley—Howard Che- dent T. W. Nadal, of Olivet; Hon. nery. Fred L. Keeler, of Lansing; Hon. Rev. John Treherne—Merritt Bar Frank Cody, of Detroit, and Hon. F. ton. A. Jeffers, of Painesdale. Mr. Crichton—Neal Nyland. ^Countess of Brocklehurst — Miss President Waldo spoke at the Florence Johnson. Teachers' Institute held at St. Johns Lady Mary Losenby—Miss Gene January 17-18. vieve Sherman. Lady Catherine Losenby — Miss Professor R. M. Reinhold spoke at Ruth Desenberg. Hartford on January 18th and at Lake- Lady Agatha Losenby—Miss Flor view January 28th. ence Brown. Tweeny—Miss Ruth Hayes. Dr. Ernest Burnham, of the Rural Fisher—Miss Angeline Case. Department, addresses the Eaton The Dramatic Association will soon County Institute at Charlotte on Jan present a number of short plays in as uary 27th. sembly, "Pluca," "Columbine," "Her Tongue," and "The Constant Lover" The Misses Helen Frost, Germaine having been selected for this purpose. Guiot and Frances Haskell, of the physical training faculty of the Nor For the winter term the following mal, spent the holiday vacation in New officers have been elected by the Nor York city, studying aesthetic dancing mal Literary Society: under Louis Chalif. President, E. H. Chapelle; vice-pres ident, L. J. F. Edmunds; secretary, Secretary O. B. Towne, of the Kal Clifford Gillette; treasurer, Andrew amazoo Chamber of Commerce, ad Beam. dressed the students of the Normal in assembly January nth, tracing, most Dr. Ernest Burnham will deliver an interestingly, the development of the address before the Department of Su chamber of commerce idea from its perintendence of the N. E. A. at De origin in 1588. He was received with troit, Thursday, February 24th. enthusiasm by the large number pres ent to hear him. An interesting event is planned for Mrs. Bertha S. Davis was chairman Western Normal alumni and friends of the committee in charge of the fac for some date in the not distant future. ulty supper, which was held in the Graduates teaching in Grand Rapids Training School Friday evening, Jan and in the vicinity of Grand Rapids uary 21st. will be given an opportunity to meet together at a banquet held in Grand The Rural School Department was Rapids, at the Hotel Pantlind. Presi in charge of the general student party dent Waldo and several members of held Saturday evening, January 15th. the Normal faculty will be present on Palms were used in the effective dec this occasion and a fine reunion is orations and the lights were shaded promised. with yellow. Fischer's orchestra furn ished a delightful musical program and President D. B. Waldo was a guest several hundred students enjoyed the of honor at a banquet held in Grand occasion. 148 THE?KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD Dr. L. H. Harvey attended the con On Friday, March 21, the New York vocation meeting of the American As Symphony Orchestra of 75 pieces, and sociation for the Advancement of Sci Josef Hofmann, pianist, will appear in ence at Columbus during the holidays. the Kalamazoo Armory under the joint auspices of the Kalamazoo Musi MUSIC NOTES. cal Society and the Western State Normal. This will be one of the most The Normal Music Club held its January meeting at the home of Miss important musical events in the his Dorothy Bowen on Crane Avenue. The tory of Kalamazoo. following program on opera was given by members of the club: The Junior Girls' Glee Club made Current Events, June White. their first appearance this year at the Explanatory Notes on "Faust" and final assembly program of the fall "Cavaleria Rusticana," given by John term. They sang "Birds Are Sing ing," by Thomas. Payton. "Intermezzo" (Cavaleria Rusticana) Mr. Maybee went to Holland Janu —Normal Orchestra. ary 20th, where he was soloist in the "Calf of Gold" (Faust)—Mr. May- production of "Joan of Arc" (Gaul), bee. "Waltz" (Faust)—Genevieve Hea- under the direction of Miss Lucile Wright. ton. "Flower Song" (Faust)—Gertrude At the first rehearsal of the Normal I. Smith. "The Hour is Late" (Faust)—Mrs. Chorus this term, work was begun on the oratorio, "Elijah," which will be Davis, T. Stanley Perry. given under Mr. Maybee's direction at "Romance"—Edna Van Brook. "Soldier's Chorus" (Faust)—The the Festival in May. Men's Glee Club. "Cavatina"—Mr. Maybee. NEW YORK SYMPHONY OR Prison Scene—Victor Record (Mel- CHESTRA. ba, Caruso, Journet). America boasts many fine symphony The Men's Glee club, under the di orchestras supported by its leading rection of Mr. Maybee, has the follow cities, and each season they undertake ing members this year: First tenors, tours of varying lengths. In most Andrew Leak, Earl Keim, John Paton, cases, a tour of two or three weeks is John Giese, Fred Moffett; second ten looked upon as a long trip, and in ors, James Shackleton, Elzie French, view of this condition, the coming Raymond Elliott, Clifford Kime, Chas. tour by New York city's fine Sym Newman; first bass, Neil Nyland, phony Orchestra, under Mr. Walter Maurice Lyons, Donald Sooy, Glen Damrosch's direction, is of unusual in Crosby, Wilbur Castleman; second terest. Nothing equal to it has been bass, Harold Vogel, Robt. Smith, Cor done by any orchestra in many years. nelius Mulder, Don Rice, Lloyd Not only is the journey from the At Smith. Accompanist, H. Glenn Hen lantic to the Pacific coast a notable derson. During the month of Janu piece of transportation work, but the ary concerts will be given in Buchan big featured attraction, none other an, Niles, Dowagiac, Allegan, Hopkins than Josef Hofmann, the distin and Grand Rapids. guished pianist, calls for special men tion. Most noted of the present day Mrs. H. C. Maybee went to Lansing pianists, Mr. Hofmann has been en December 16, where she sang the so gaged to appear as soloist with the or prano solo parts in "The Messiah," chestra in nearly one hundred cities. given in the Congregational church He is thoroughly known and appre there under the direction of Mr. J. W. ciated in most of the places to be vis Stephens, Supervisor of Music in ited. It is safe to say that few artists Public Schools of Lansing. in the world, either instrumental or NEWS ITEMS 149 vocal, have a larger following in munity has reason to look forward to America. Since his earliest appear the event with no small amount of ances in this country Josef Hofmann glad anticipation. has continued to arouse the very great A concert by the New York Sym est enthusiasm. phony Orchestra and Josef Hofmann JOSEF HOFMANN It is rumored that Mr. Hofmann will be given in the Armory March 21, will receive one hundred thousand dol under the joint auspices of the West lars for his services with Mr. Dam- ern Normal and the Kalamazoo Mu rosch during the extended tour of sical Society. the country. To have an opportunity of hearing ART NOTES. the New York Symphony Orchestra The Kalamazoo Gazette featured with such a famous soloist is, of the "Christmas Greetings" designed course, something that does not come by Raymond Elliott for the December very often in a lifetime, and our corn- Record for its Christmas number, and 150 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD gave a complimentary writeup for the design and the designer. The art students enjoyed tinting this design in water colors and used it effectively for a wall calendar. Miss Jennie Rising completed the special art course in December. She has contributed many successful art studies during her course. The attractive December calendar in Moderator Topics was her work. Her design using the Normal School in a decorative landscape was chosen as "Holiday Greetings" and printed for art students to tint. This design was featured in the Telegraph-Press in its Christmas number complimen tary to Miss Rising. The January calendar in the Mod erator Topics was the work of Miss Edith Northington, who is now a member of the special art class. A contest is now on for the Febru ary calender, to be printed in Moder ator Topics. Have you seen that very attractive display of hand-made pottery in the show-case in second-floor corridor? It is the work of Miss Spencer's class in construction, and a very cemmend- able exhibit. The exhibition of students' work in art and manual training in the Assem bly Room December 14-16, was greatly enjoyed by the large groups of visit ors who inspected it. Yes, we know the posters are often very attractive made by art students and exhibited in the corridors, but they are not for general distribution! Please allow them to remain until called for by the owner. The Normal students may look for ward to a genuine art treat when Mr. A. M. Todd opens his art galleries on South Rose Street to the public. He has added a number of fine examples of American paintings, purchased at the Exposition in San Francisco, be sides a fine collection of Japanese and I :' ,4^ NEWS ITEMS 151 Chinese porcelains and rare old em was defeated in the competition for broidered kimonos. Watch for an first and third places, gaining second nouncement on bulletin boards. place and making the final score 29 to 27 in favor of the Y. M. C. A. A re HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. turn meet has been scheduled and should be of interest to everyone. Newspaper and Magazine Study in English Class. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL. A phase of English work, heretofore Practice by the High School basket only incidentally touched in the Eng ball team has started with vigor, and lish department of the High School, the best of results are looked for. Al is being tried out this term in the sen though the schedule is not yet com ior literature class, under the direc pleted, a very interesting one is in tion of Mrs. Biscomb. The innova the making. Games have been booked tion, that of a systematic study of with Allegan, Dowagiac, Blooming- newspapers and magazines, including dale and Hastings, besides others with their organization, manufacture, con some of the strong local teams. This tent, and values, is proving most in will be a very live schedule, and the teresting as well as worth while. team is getting in some strenuous practice in preparation for it. A Girls' Glee Club has been organ ized in the High School under the di A Boys' Glee Club has been organ rection of Mrs. Davis. Rehearsals ized under the direction of Mr. Blair, are held Monday afternoon of each and rehearsals were commenced Wed week, at four o'clock, in room seven. nesday. The High School Chorus has start NEW INSTRUCTORS. ed rehearsals on Mozart's "Gloria," Mr. Frank Ellsworth, who is now from the "Twelfth Mass." taking work in Education and Psy chology at Teachers' College, Colum Gymnasium work was commenced bia University, will come to Kalama by the boys of the High School De zoo immediately after the close of the partment Monday, Jan. 12, under the first semester to begin his new duties direction of J. H. Hyames. The class as director of the Training School. Mr. has been organized into four divisions, Ellsworth was superintendent of captains selected, and activities have schools for a number of years at Alma, been started in earnest. The first and for one year at Hastings before meeting ended with the following re going to Teachers' College. He has sults: Section D, captained by Roy made a splendid record as a practical, Yeakey, defeated Section A, captained progressive school superintendent and by Milton Naylor, in basketball. is held in the highest esteem among a While the game was being played large circle of acquaintances in both section B, under Bruce Shepherd, and peninsulas of Michigan. Mr. Ells section C, under Donald Sooy, com worth will find a splendidly organized peted in the standing broad jump. Training School and a most efficient corps of critic teachers awaiting his co-operation and direction. SWIMMING MEET. The teaching staff of the Depart A very thrilling spectacle took ment of Biology has been strengthened place New Year's Day at the Y. M. C. this term by the addition of Mr. E. D. A., when the first annual swimming Huntington, whose work will lie meet between the Normal High largely in physiology and anatomy. School and the Y. M. C. A. took place. Mr. Huntington will soon take an ad The meet was most exciting through vanced degree from the University of out, and up to the last event the score Chicago. His previous teaching ex was a tie with twenty-four points. In perience in a Wisconsin Normal School the last event the High School team and the School of Education of the 152 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD University of Chicago fits him pecul ful optimism and genuine worth that iarly for his new work. is good to see. We are especially pleased with the summary of the sea son's football games. Evidently Port Increase in the enrollment in the De Fluron played a hard schedule and ex partment of Education, due to the gen perienced a goodly proportion of de eral increase in the attendance, has feats, but there is no silly boasting necessitated additional teaching force over victory, nor mud-slinging at for the balance of the year. Miss Jo winning adversaries. Hats off to the sephine MacLatchey, who has been en school that can win modestly and lose gaged to assist Dr. Cameron and Mr. gracefully. Reinhold, comes from the University Shortridge High School publishes a of Chicago, where she has just com daily paper every school day of the pleted four quarters in graduate work year that compares favorably in every under Doctors Judd, Parker, Angell respect with any college or university and others in the departments of Psy paper in the country. chology and Education. Before enter "Said and Done," the magazine of ing the University of Chicago, Miss the Muskegon High and Hackley Man MacLachtey was engaged for two ual Training School, publishes a finan years in graduate work at Yale in the cial statement showing assets of departments of Psychology and Edu $520.35, with no liabilities. cation. At Yale her work was under Doctors Moore, Gesell, Cameron, ALUMNI NOTES. Frost and Hocking. Her under-grad- Orley Hill, manual training, 1914, uate work was taken in Acadia Uni is instructor in Pittsburgh, Pa., again versity in Nova Scotia. this year and resides at 327 Millvale Avenue. The latest University Bulletin pre sents "The Subject-Matter and Ad E. Duane Smith, high school life, ministration of the Six-Three-Three 1913, is teaching at Gillette, Wiscon Plan of Secondary Schools," by Pro sin, this year. fessor Calvin O. Davis. The tendency to adopt that plan represents the most Charles Nichols, manual training, revolutionary change in administra 1913, was a holiday visitor at the Nor tive methods that has affected schools mal. He is teaching in Burlington, in two generations. The organization Iowa. Mrs. Nichols was formerly Miss of the so-called junior high school Hazel Weed, also a graduate of the practically doubles the number of teachers doing strictly departmental Normal. work, and is of especial significance to Lyle Storer, a popular student of normal schools, offiering a field in the Normal a few years ago, is study which many of their graduates have ing in Davenport, Iowa, to be a chi already found excellent positions. ropractor. A NEW FIELD FOR SPECIALIZA Miss Myra Cobb, a graduate of the TION. Kindergarten Department, recently Investigations of the U. S. Commis visited "the Normal. She is at the Uni sioner of Education show that of the versity and resides at 115 Park Ter total number of high school students race, Ann Arbor. the number studying English repre sents the highest percentage. Mathe Miss Ruth Waldo, who completed matics and foreign languages come the Life Certificate Course at Christ next in order. mas time, is engaged in the Jackson EXCHANGES. public schools. The Christmas number of the "Stu dent," published by the Port Huron Lester Mack, 1913, is teaching at his Pligh School, breathes a spirit of cheer home in Marcellus. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 153 BROTHERS Thirty - Fourth Annual January Sale Has Developed Into An event of surpassing importance, greater in every way than ever before and is presenting more notable opportunities for economy. This sale is offering to the public good, worthy merchandise from every stock in the store at the most sub stantial reductions. The Gilmore standard of quality is maintained in everything, as always. The Kalamazoo \Broken Lines I Laundry Co. ; of Banister Shoes Try our Swiss $7.00 Bench-Made Shoes HAND LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING DEPARTMENTS AT Up to date The BellShoe House SHOE REPAIRING Dept. 124 E. Main St. Just added $ LOUIS ISENBERG, Proprietor 221 North Rote St. Phone 146 J 54 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD Mr. and Mrs. Avery Maloney, the latter formerly Miss Roberta Scheid, HARVEY a graduate of the Normal, are residing in Lansing, where Mr. Maloney is at CANDY tending M. A. C. CO. Howard Hoyt is attending the Uni versity this year. All Kinds of Mrs. Burl H. Atkinson, formerly Miss Mable White, of the class of ioio, is residing at Kimberley, Idaho. Ice Cream and Ices Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kelser, the latter formerly Miss Jean Herrick, a grad uate of the Normal, recently an Salted Nuts nounced the birth of a daughter, Betty. Fresh Every Day They reside in Kalamazoo. Miss Pearl Payette, of the class of Fine Chocolates and 1910, is teaching in the public schools Bon Bons of Spokane, Washington, this year. We furnish the refreshments at the Otto Rowen, manual training, is Normal parties teaching in Winona, Minnesota, and resides at 262 Walnut Street.. B. L. KITCHEN Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Ball of De troit, spent the holidays in Kalamazoo. Mr. Ball graduated from the Manual Call and See Our Training Department of the Normal. Miss Ruth Welch is teaching in Enlarged Music Shop Holland and living at 182 West 13th Street. Hear your favorite record in our New Demonstrating Rooms Miss Gladys Ryan, 1912, is teaching where you can enjoy it to its at Sand Lake. fullest extent. Lady in attend j. D. Clark, 1912, is studying law at ance. the University of Michigan. Mrs. R. O. Zerbe, formerly Miss VICTROLAS AND GRAFONOLAS Mary Keller, of the Normal, resides in from $15.00 to $300.00 Niles, R. F. D. No. 3. Miss Flora Rice, 1913, is teaching in Get a little $15.00 Victrola for your Cassopolis high school. room Gale Llambleton, one of the Nor mal's early graduates, is practicing Fischer's Music Shop dentistry at 29 East Madison Street, Chicago. Chas. L. Fischer Harry A. Beach "The Music Masters" Lee Barnum, 1912, is in charge of 3rd Floor, Gilmore's "Breezy Point" farm, Charlevoix. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 155 George Parsons, manual training, 1915, is teaching in Logansport, In diana. For that Cold or Grippe Ellsworth Monteith, 1913, is in De NYAL'S troit and resides at 69 Pitcher Street. Miss Beth Newcome, kindergarten, Laxative Cold Tablets I9.i5> is at West Palm Beach, Florida, 25c this winter. Miss Pearl Pratt, 1915, is teaching in Chelsea. For that Cough Many friends of Miss Marie Hoff man, one of the most popular students ever attending the Normal, and presi DRUNA dent of her class, 1913, will be inter White Pine and Red Spruce ested to learn that she recently re ceived the habit of the Sisters of the 25c and 50c Holy Cross, St. Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana. Charles F. Reebs, is at Plymouth Geo. McDonald Drug Co. this year. He has completed the A. B. work at the University and is work Main and Burdick ing toward his Master's degree. Charles Snell, 1914 manual train WATCH REPAIR ing, returned to his work in Waseon and Bryan, Ohio, this year. INSURANCE The care and skill required to Miss Addie Robbins is teaching at repair your watch should be Jerome. given consideration. You get expert repair service Miss Lillian Cameron is at her home at the same price you usually in Hartford. pay for ordinary "fixing" at Tail's. Miss Charlotte Coney, '07, is teach ing in the Arthur Hill High school, That's the kind of watch repair Saginaw. insurance we want to render you on the next repairing Miss Ruby Shepard, 13, is teaching occasion. at West Baden, Indiana. N.C.TALLCO. Miss Lulu Broceus, 1908, is now Mrs. H. P. Dutton of Evanston, 111. JEWELERS 118 W. Main Street Patronize Our Advertisers. Kalamazoo 156 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD High Grade Printing for High Grade Schools THE PROSPECTIVE STUDENT receives his first impression of the school by the quality of the printed matter it sends out. If you desire to makea good impression, keepthe quality up. Horton-Beimer Press KaUmtzooTMfchigan Sociology and Economics. BOOKS RECEIVED IN THE LIBRARY Beard, Economic interpretation of the Con From Sept. 30, 1915, to Jan. 4, 1916. stitution of the U. S. t Beard, Economic origins of Jeffersonian de mocracy. Conway and Patterson, Operation of the new Philosophy and Psychology. bank act. Brunei-, Hearing of primitive peoples. Hamilton, Current economic problems. Forbush, Guide book to childhood. King, Wealth and income of the people ot Jastrow, Character and temperament. the U. S. Lurago, Modern problems in psychiatry. Kirkpatrick, Use of money. , Meyer, The child, physically and mentally. McConnell Negroes and their treatment m Morgan, Introduction to comparative psy Virginia from 1865-1867. Ross, Old world in the New. chology. Munsterberg, On the witness stand. Education. Plato, Euthyphro. Berle, The school in the home. Sidis, Psychology of suggestion. Cubberley, Portland survey. Sidis, Symptomatology, psychognosis and di Cubberley, California system of high school agnosis of psychopathic diseases. support. Strong, Why the mind has a body. Cubberley and Elliott, State and county Thorndike, Animal intelligence. school administration; Source book. _ Woods, Mental and moral heredity in royalty. Draper, Our children, our schools and our in Yerkes, Bridges and Hardwick, A point dustries. scale for measuring mental ability. Forbush, Manual of play. Gauss, Through college on nothing a year. Religion. Kandel, Training of elementary school teach Bible for young people. ers in Germany. Hanly, Speeches of the Flying Squadron. Kelynack, Medical examination of schools Hodges, When the King came. and scholars. Sandars, Washington manuscript of Deuter Knight, Influence of reconstruction on edu onomy and Joshua. cation in the South. Tappan, An old, old story Book. Kotelmann, School hygiene. Weedon, Bible stories. Lang, Basedow. 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