Western Michigan University Kalamazoo Normal Record (1910-1918)

Western Michigan University Year 1910

The Kalamazoo Normal Record Vol. 1 No. 5 Western State Normal School

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The Kalamazoo Normal Record Published Monthly, Except July, August and September

by The Faculty and Students of the Western State Normal School Kalamazoo, Michigan

Entered as second-class matter October 31, 1910, at the post office at Kalamazoo, Michi?an, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Vol. 1 CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1910 No. 5

Pa*e ALUMNI NOTES Katherine Newton 147, 149, 151, 181

EDUCATIONAL The Improvement of Rural Education, Professor Richard E. Dodge 153 Physical Training in the Training School, Mildred Davis 155

LITERARY Contributions by the Elementary School— Song of Thanksgiving and Welcome, (Words and Music by Third Grade) 157 The Biography of a Turkey, Pauline Beerstecher (Eighth Grade) 158 Contributions by the Faculty— Christmas Eve in the Good Old Times, Alice Marsh 158 Impressions of Texas, Kate I. Smith 161 Contributions by Students— The Vice-President's Special, Esta Feighner 1 162 Translation of Horace's Ode 14, Jennie S. Lane 165

EDITORIAL 166

NEWS ARTICLES

Athletics 167 Review of Foot Ball Season, W H. Spaulding 168 Christmas in Song, Florence Marsh 169 The Galahad of the Market Place, Frank A. Manny 170 Assembly Notes, B. L. Jones 171 St. Cecelia's Day Program, Florence Marsh 174

NEWS NOTES 175, 176, 178, 180,184 The Book Shelf, Frank A. Manny 176

For the Editorial and Business Advertisement of the Kalamazoo Normal Record see page 166

ILLUSTRATIONS Champion Foot Ball Team of 1910 opposite page 169 Christmas Greeting, (Designed by Helena Rosecrants, Special Art Student) Frontispiece 146 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD The Completeness of Our Facilities—

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Alumni Notes Miss Ethel Underwood is teaching in 1905. the primary grades at Galesburg, her Mrs. Warren Carleton, formerly Miss home, this year. Vivian Simmons of this class, resides in Schenectady, New York where Mr. 1907. Carleton is employed by the General Miss Fern Abrams is teaching at Electric Co. Adams, Oregon. Miss Margaret Adriance was married 1906. last summer to Earl Shock and resides Miss Charlotte Brooks is director of at White Rock, Colorado. one of the kindergartens in Ironwood Miss Ella Grable has recently accept where she had been since graduation. ed a position in the public schools of Lynn L. Deal is teaching this year at Detroit. Stephenson, Michigan. Miss Addie Evans is teaching in the Mrs. W. J. Shay, formerly Miss Lili Cadillac schools this year. an Knapp of the class of 1906, resides Miss Ola Hart has taught at Sault at Willapa, Washington. Ste Marie since graduating in 1907. Mrs. Mabel Thorpe Jones is in her Miss Vera Lynch is now Mrs. Glenn third year at Attica, Indiana. Clark and resides at Wayland. Miss Marie Rasey is assistant prin Miss Mary Lynch is at her home in cipal of the High School at Lenark, Vandalia, keeping house for her father. 111. Miss Bertha Thorns who completed Miss Hazel Sevey is this year in the music course in the Normal is at charge of the music work at Stanton. tending .Drexel Conservatory in Chica Miss Luella Warner is acting as so go and teaching public school music ciety editor of the Battle Creek En near that city. quirer. 14S THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

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Alumni Notes Mrs. Charles Day, formerly Miss Zo- 1907 ra McLarty of the kindergarten class of Miss Mabel Warner is now Mrs. 1908, resides in Detroit. Floyd Vroman and resides at Flint. Miss AVilma Newman is teaclmg in Marion J. Sherwood has just recover Buford, North Dakota. ed from a serious illness of typhoid Miss Grace Norton has charge of the fever. He has been assisting for a few Van Buren County Normal at Hart weeks in the Normal Manual Training ford. department. Miss Edith Patterson has taught in Miss Stella Hayden is studying music Plainwell, her home, since graduating at the Drexel Conservatory of Music from the Normal. in Chicago and in June received the gold medal presented for theory work. Clyde W. Overholt is spending his second year at Caledonia as superin tendent. 1908. Mrs. Frank Smith, formerly Miss El Miss Ruth Putnam is teaching in sie Babcock of the class of 1908, resides Oshtemo. at Three Rivers. Miss Erina Scott has charge of music Miss Verna Kitzmiller is now Mrs. work at Provo, Utah. Frank Campbell and lives in Bishop, California. Earl Sortore is employed by the Miss Anna Marshall is spending the Monon route or the Chicago, Indiana winter in Albuquerque, New Mexico. polis and Louisville Railway Co. in Chicago. Miss Mary McBride is teaching in the "Bell School" near her home at Miss Lela Spaulding is teaching in Niles. Pasadena, California. 150 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

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Alumni Notes Miss Bernice Beers has a position in 1909. the Coldwater schools. Miss Mary Anderson is teaching at M'iss Mae Brown is teaching music Albuquerque, New Mexico and resides at Galesburg. at 216 So. High St. Miss Bertha Barkenbus returned to Miss Mabel Fuller has a teaching po Cheboygan this year. sition in the Girls' Industrial School at Miss Nora Colburn is teaching Latin Middletown, Conn. in the High School at Athens, Alabama. Miss Marguerite LaTourette has a Miss Frances Duncombe has recover kindergarten position at Birmingham, ed from a serious illness and is study Michigan. ing music in Chicago. Miss Edith Lent is teaching sixth and Miss Clara Grant is visiting relatives seventh grades at Howell, Michigan. in Fresno, California this winter. Miss Elizabeth Heath is at Buhl, Ida Miss Marguerite Strough recently ho. took a position in the kindergarten de Miss Fern Messinger is teaching in partment of the Lake Street school, the grades of the South Haven schools. Kalamazoo. Miss Charity Prentice is at her home in Lockport, N. Y. Charles Jickling, who is teaching at Miss Lilian Prentice is teaching in Waukegon, 111., was married Nov. 26 to the sixth grade of the Buffalo public Miss Phoebe Nutten of Comstock, a schools. former student in the Normal.

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EDUCATIONAL The Improvement of Rural Education * turns from the land, though that is of The improvement of rural schools is vital significance, but to fit them for a today one of the largest educational fuller and better life in the country. A problems in the country. It is a person better living is in part financial, but al, everyday problem that every one of only in part. Our boys and girls should us who dwells in small towns must feel be trained so that they will get the is of vital significance to our own com most out of life amid the healthful, in munity and to the welfare of the state vigorating opportunities that living in as a whole. It is a problem that can not the country affords. A liking for good be settled all at once and to which con music and art, an ability to get satisfac tributions must be made by farmers, tion from these fields, a fondness for educators, business men and all inter good oral and written English, an in ested, if the problem is to be solved terest in history and political move satisfactorily and fairly. Furthermore, ments, skill in the use of tools,—all of no cut and dried course of study can these are more valuable as contribu be outlined that will fit all localities, tions to a better living than the knowl for no two localities are exactly alike edge of arithmetic that will make one and the details of procedure in one better able to reckon margins of profit place must of necessity be far different or of the elements of agriculture that from those in another. will produce greater returns from the land. In other words, the cultural and Yet the fundamental essentials of practical elements must go hand in rural education seem to be the same hand, for the best trained man or wherever found and the fundamentals woman is the person who wastes the must first be settled before the detailed least energy in the daily business of superstructure can be built. The three most important essentials are: first, life and gets the fullest mental satis teachers better trained to interpret faction out of living and particularly out of home life. country life and better able to make class work real and personal to country Hence the practical possibilities of children; second, courses of study and modern rural education must not be textbooks better adapted to rural con over-emphasized and yet must be given ditions; and third, consolidation of a strong place, and the training in the small schools into union schools. fundamentals of history, literature, None of these essentials can be secur science and the arts be organized in ed unless there is a developed public such a way that they affect the mental spirit that demands a better schooling growth of the youth in our schools. for country pupils—a schooling that Such improvements can not be will make the pupils better able to live brought about, however, unless our in the country and more cognizant of rural schools are improved in the sever the possibilities of a good living in the al regards mentioned above. We need country. A good living, however, is on teachers who are in sympathy with the ly in part a financial matter. Rural possibilities of rural life, who under schools should not be planned merely stand its problems, who can get away to enable pupils to secure better re- from the set pages of a text and who ""Reprinted from the Connecticut Farmer, after revision by the have been trained to adapt the subjects Author. of the curriculum to the needs of the THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 154 children, in order that they may be The new course of study with this able to develop the children in their practical, personal note as its basal charge to appreciate the subjects as feature will be more cultural than the personal, vital tools necessary as a pres old, more real and hence more thought ent asset and an investment for the provoking and in every way a more future. As yet, few normal schools give valuable form of training for pupils, heed to the needs of rural communities, for it will enable them to live in the and, where any attempts are made to country and to gain profit, health and meet rural conditions, they are often pleasure thereby. These two require made in an academic way because the ments are so closely linked with t'e teachers do not know rural life and are matter of consolidations of schools that not in sympathy with it. it is not too much to say that they will The improvement of our teachers so be impossible in most small rued schools. that they can interpret the facts and The consolidation of rural schools problems of rural life requires, in some into central schools involves the grad subjects, at least, that the courses of ing of pupils and makes possible the study and textbooks be planned for securing of better teachers. Further rural rather than urban communities, more, the teachers will be enabled to as they now are to such a large extent. devote their time to developing a few Perhaps this need is seen in arithmetic subjects, instead of being compelled to as much as in any subject, today, scatter over the whole field from the though there has been much progress alphabet to algebra, as is now so fre in this subject in the last few years. quently the case in small rural schools. The problems that dealt with the time Grading of pupils means more rapid involved in digging impossible ditches progress, more individual rivalry, bet at absurd daily wages, or with buying ter opportunity for the strong pupils hay at exorbitant prices, are yielding to be helpers to the weak and leads to to problems that are based on facts the development of class and school rather than fancy, the solution of spirit. A good, active, energetic spirit which helps the children in facing of work and strife, caused by constant problems at home. Questions of the attention on the part of all to one amount of seed required per acre, the problem at a time, is a great inspiration amount of water required per acre for for better work. How much more in certain crops, the computing of grain spiration for the teacher is the room rations for cows, horses and pigs, the where all are working together, than testing of milk for butter fat, of seeds the small room where the majority of as to vitality and cost,—all these and the class are at ease, restless and list many others are worth doing as prob less, while one or two pupils are per lems and lead to knowledge and power. functorily quoting something they may In a similar way, hygiene should in have memorized but may not have volve questions of ventilation, bathing, learned. drinking water, location of buildings, Again, the consolidated school means more than the names of muscles and a larger, probably a better school bones. Geography in the early grades house, with better hygienic conditions should include a study of the geogra within and without, with better water, phy underlying the local industries; better toilet facilities, more adequate should be related to agriculture, prob heating, proper ventilation and light lems of drainage and water supply and and hence better health on the part of similar topics. It should not be, as it so the pupils. The writer looks back with often is, solely a study of word de horror on the unhygienic condiiotns of scriptions of things beyond the seas. the district school of his youth, with its Manual work should include simple red hot stove and super-heated air near carpentry and blacksmithing for the the stove, with the rooms absolutely boys, and home making for the girls, unventilated and where the carbon di wherever that is possible. oxide gas was enough to make every EDUCATIONAL 155

pupil dull, over weary and dispirited. of a generation hence. This is a long The winter months in the usual rural term investment and long term invest school house are full of danger for pu ments are profitable in proportion to pils. It is hard to conceive any better the capital involved and the percentage conditions for developing colds, throat of return. How many of our farmers troubles, tuberculosis and many other of today who talk eloquently of the diseases, than those furnished in many influence of the little Red School House school houses into which little sunlight would be progressive and prosperous and practically no good air are allow if they conducted their farms now as ed to enter for months at a time. their fathers and grandfathers did in Again, the moral tone in a school of the days of the supremacy of the Little large size is far better than in a small Red School House? Times have chang school; where the pupils are numerous ed, better fitting is required to make enough so that a janitor or teacher life more full and satisfactory and an must supervise the hours of play, the improved education is the largest as chances for a pupil to learn much that set for the future that we can give our he ought not to learn from his vicious children. Less than the best we will comrades is reduced to a minimum. not give them, for less than that would This improved moral tone in the large be negligence of our duties to them. consolidated school is really one of the Parents who have seen the progress chief arguments in its favor, as many their children make in the union unprejudiced observers will testify. schools are enthusiastic as to the value Finally, consolidation of schools, of consolidation and do not begrudge where consolidation involves transpor the increased cost. We all want to see tation of pupils, as it usually must, our public affairs conducted econom means an increased school attendance, ically, but we realize that niggard a better return per pupil for the money liness is not necessarily economy. We invested. Better attendance means more feed our cows scientifically and abun rapid and uniform progress. A day dantly, for we know that the maximum when it "rains too hard to go to school returns from the milk pail require the and just hard enough to go fishing" investment; we practice improved till keeps the boy at home from the school age and rotation of crops to keep up where he is the class of one so that he and increase the fertility of our land does not get behind, but it is not so in order to secure greater returns and likely to keep him at home from the to increase the margin of profit. Can school where the classes are large and we expect our children to profit and where a day lost means getting behind grow in wisdom and power unless we his comrades. In my own town of attend to their mental growth and Washington, Conn., where last year we physical condition with care and profit had complete consolidation, the school by the experience of others as we do attendance for the whole town increas in caring for our cows and fields? ed over twelve per cent, as compared Richard E. Dodge. with the previous year when we oper Head of Department of Geography, ated one consolidated school and five Teachers College, small schools. New York City. An improvement in attendance has followed all over the country where Physical Training in the Training schools have been consolidated and School. surely forms one of the largest argu The fundamental aim of Physical ments in favor of consolidation. Some Training may be stated as follows: To will say all this costs money, and so it develop and unify a sound mind and a does, and so does anything worth while sound body. An ideal system of Physi as an investment for the future. But cal Training should develop the child we must remember that we are train mentally, morally, physically, and ing our pupils not merely for the life aesthetically. The practical aims to ac of today, but to be the men and women complish this end are many and varied. 156 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

Rhythm, one of these aims, is of the says, "A child that plays thoroughly, utmost importance, and receives much with self-active determination, will attention in an ideal system of Physical surely be a thorough, determined man, Training. Rhythm lightens and facil capable of self-sacrifice for the promo itates labor, as there is not a continued tion of the welfare of himself and effort of the will. Therefore rhythmic others.'' exercises bring exhilaration of mind, A general outline of the actual work which makes the exercises doubly ben done in the Training School will show eficial. Marches or exercises performed the means to accomplish these ends. in rhythm aid in the training of bodily Exercises given to the child between control. the ages of six and nine should be for The stimulation of growth and or the stimulation of growth and organic ganic function are undeniably of most function particularly. Therefore vigor importance. By exercising all parts of ous exercise of the large groups of the body, the circulation, digestion and muscles, which effect these functions, respiration are improved by means of and establish the large coordinations as the increased blood-supply brought to the only safe basis for the sound de the parts exercised. Because of the in velopment of the accessory ones, should terrelation between the body and mind be given. Children between the ages of being so close, the brain is largely de nine and fourteen should perform ex pendent upon the action of the body ercises stimulating growth and meta for its growth. Exercises requiring dif bolism. During this period the nature ficult coordinations tend directly to de of the exercises begins to be such that velop the brain. a higher power of coordination is re Lastly, but of the greatest import quired. ance is the value of play. G. Stanley Games and plays occupy a large part Hall says, "Play is the great agent of of the time devoted to Physical Train unity and totalization of the soul." An ing. In the primary grades the games old proverb reads "Man is whole only are very simple, and the child plays when he plays." There are several for the mere joy of playing. In the in theories as to play held by different termediate grades the competitive spir educators, but in the fundamentals it is more noticeable, but still it is they all agree. That children do play quite individualistic in its nature. Later instinctively, and that they thoroughly on, in the advanced grades, the spirit enjoy their play, is certain. It has been of team work predominates and each said that in the free play of the child one works for the glory of the team. no part of the body is left undeveloped. The games are graded from the sim Now, if the results that we are aiming plest games to the more highly organ to accomplish can be accomplished ized ones. In the four upper grades an through the medium play, instead of extra period a week is devoted to work, is not this a much better means? games such as basket-ball and volley The results gained by a dull, formal ball. Each grade is to have a team and gymnastic drill do not compare with by means of inter-class games class those gained when the spirit of play is spirit will be brought out. introduced. By taking part in play, the Besides games, a complete lesson in child will not forget to work, because Physical Training should contain play in its true sense is not the op what is known as the floor-work, and posite of work, but the best way of do also either marching or fancy-steps, ing work. The play of the child cor which aid in the development of responds to the life work of the man; rhythm. The floor-work in Grades I and through play the child is prepared and II is in the form of action-plays, for his life work. In plays the child has or sometimes called story-plays. Very problems to solve, and difficulties to often these plays can be correlated overcome, and he must grow corres with other school subjects. The aim of pondingly strong to meet them. Miss these plays is to infuse a thought con Tanner in her book on "The Child" tent and a spirit of play into the regu- EDUCATIONAL 157

lar gymnastic drill. The floor-work the dancing and lighter forms of gym should contain exercises for all parts nastics. of the body, which are given in a de In all grades folk-dances are taught, finite sequence. In Grades III and IV beginning with the simpler ones in the the work becomes slightly more formal, primary grades and advancing to the with more attention devoted to com mand and response, though many im more complex in the advanced grades. aginative suggestions may well be em One of the values of folk-dancing is ployed to make an incentive and in the beneficial exercise obtained from crease the interest. In the advanced it. Another one is the training in grades the work becomes even more rhythm, and the joy derived from en formal, with more attention devoted to response to commands. In these grades, gaging in such exercises must not be besides the free exercises performed by forgotten. the other grades, light apparatus- Each grade meets for physical train work with wands, dumb-bells and in- ing three times a week. In all classes, dian-clubs constitutes the floor-work, with the exception of the boys in thus increasing the incentive by vari grades VII and VIII, one period a ation. week is devoted to heavy apparatus- The marching in the primary grades work, the older boys going out-doors consists in simple figure marches, and for Athletics that third period. Their also imitative motions of the various heavy apparatus-work is included in animals. In the intermediate grades the their two other lessons. The purpose figure marching becomes slightly of the heavy apparatus-work is to af more complicated, and various arm ford exercise to certain groups of motions are combined with the steps. muscles which can be gained in no In grades V, VI, VII and VIII the other way—also to develop courage girls and boys are divided for their and initiative in the child. This work work, thus making it possible to give consists in climbing-ropes, swinging on exercises more adapted to each group. the flying-rings, jumping over ropes For instance the boys should excel in and exercises on the ladder and bal military drilling and heavy apparatus- ance-boards. work, while the girls gain more through Mildred Davis.

LITERARY Contributions by the Elementary School

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The Biography of a Turkey. Mistress Mary's father with an ax. Yes, "I guess I will keep a diary", said here he comes, so I will bid you all Mr. Turkey to his wife. "I am afraid "good by." that I am going to be killed for a Written by Pauline Beerstecher. Thanksgiving dinner that I have Grade VIII. heard Mistress Mary tell about. There fore I am going to keep a diary for The grades above the third wrote in the rest of my life. Not that a diary their language classes carols which would make me live longer, but so that might be sung by the school as the my children may see how I spent the hall was decorated for the Christmas last part of my life." Festival. This, written by the Seventh Grade, was chosen. He certainly did keep a diary for it Carol of Decoration. was found after his death and this is We bring the things to deck the hall, what it said:— And hang them gaily on the wall; "Thurs.' Nov. 17— So first we bring the ropes of green, Mistress Mary gave me a very large And place the wreaths where they'll breakfast and supper. I wonder what be seen. it means! I have been worrying about Chorus: it all day. 0 deck the hall with holly, Fri., Nov. 18— 0 trim the Christmas tree; Had another feast, got into a fight Then let us all be jolly, with Turkey Brown, because he got It's Christmas time you see. some of my corn. The children then their stockings bring, Sat., Nov. 19— And dance around the tree and sing; Still more feast. Heard Mistress So now the candles we will light, Mary and her father mention my name To make the tree and hall look bright. and Thanksgiving, while they were Chorus. feeding me this morning. Grade VII. Sun., Nov. 20— Only one feast today. I was in the Contributions by the Faculty. field with some of my friend Turkeys Christmas Eve Customs. and they are all afraid that they are What can I give Him, poor as I am? going to be killed too. If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb. Mon., Nov. 21— If I were a wise man, I would do my Today I am three fourths of a year part; old. Mistress Mary let me out of my Yet what can I give Him? coop and I found a large basket of Here's my heart! corn, so I had a very happy birthday. —Christine Rossetti. Tues., Nov. 22— Today Mistress Mary shut me up and Christmas Eve in the Good Old Times! it seems as though she feeds me every What pictures those words conjure hour. up ! What memories !A mingling of the Wed., Nov. 23— pungent odors of Christmas greens; I believe she feeds me every five the gleam of wax—lights on beam and minutes today. I heard Mistress Mary floor; the huge log crackling in the say, "Oh isn't he a dandy!" chimney-place; the generous board Thurs., Nov. 24— groaning with its weight of good I am up real early this morning to things; the merry games and non write my diary before I am killed. I sense; the music of the "waits" float had bad dreams last night. I don't feel ing on the frosty air; the country very well this morning. It seems as if dance in the old hall where lord and there is a lump in my throat. Oh! what tenant, master and servant, laid by for is that noise? I believe it is some one the nonce all social distinctions; nay, in the work shop. Oh dear! here comes often, for the time being, changed LITERARY 159 places; when the doings of a Christmas Thor. This, by far the most imposing of Eve made up the sum of the year's hap all the Christmas rites, is fast dying piness to many a simple rustic heart. out, though still observed in some dis How curious the origin of many of tricts of England. The huge log was these old customs, if one searches for drawn away from its former com them! After all, we still are children panions in the forest 'mid merry shouts in that we delight in going back to and songs. The wayfarers who passed the beginnings of things. Many we can it an the road doffed their hats, and fin trace back long before the days when ally it was enthroned in the hospitable Julius Caesar set the foot of the con fireplace, to crackle a welcome to each queror on England's shores; long be Christmas guest. The new block was fore St. Augustine came with his mes kindled by the half-charred remnant of sage of peace and love to the warlike the last year's log, which had been men of Kent; far back to the days of carefully preserved for the purpose. the Druids, with their ancient rites and This keeping of the old log was sup customs. The missionaries, men of wis posed to insure the domicile from loss dom and of learning, did not seek to by fire. enforce their new doctrines by driving And how they did regale the inner out old beliefs. They followed rather man! I wonder how much we should the example of the gardener who grafts enjoy today their hearty fare? The the tender new shoot upon the sturdy polished oak stretched its generous old stock, that the new may grow and length beneath the twinkling candles. flourish on the old. Now these Druids Round it sat both those of high and had certain mystic ceremonies which low degree, "No mark to part the they observed during the winter sols squire and the lord." It groaned be tice; the conquerors brought in their neath the huge sirloins, flanked by train the gaieties of the Roman Satur plum porridge and toothsome Christ nalia; the Saxon mythology contribut mas pie; its chief ornament the great ed its share, and hence our composite boar's head, brought in during the Christmas! feast in triumph, crowned with bay Two customs we can trace directly to and sweet rosemary. And the drink? these pagan ancestors,—the Yule log, Round went the great brown wassail and the hanging of the mistletoe. The bowl, ribbon-decked and smoking hot, mistletoe was regarded by the Druids accompanied by many a quip and jest, with the utmost reverence, because of by songs and toasts,—while to the re its growing on the oak, their sacred velers, from without, came floating the tree. We are familiar with their solemn music of the Christmas waits, and mer ceremonies, going in parties;—the ry maskers burst into their midst to chief priest, clad in robes of spotless make the great hall fairly ring again. white, severing the parasite from the It is noteworthy that the origin of tree with a golden knife. Then followed the waits is so wrapped in obscurity the sacrifice of milk-white bulls, and that no one has been able to decide sometimes even of human lives. The whether it meant the men who took mistletoe thus gathered was divided part, a certain kind of music, or the into small portions, which, hung over instruments on which this music was the entrance to dwellings, were sup played, for the term was applied at posed to propitiate certain deities and different times to all three. The name bring good fortune. So in time it was was given at a very early date to hung in the hall during the season of night-watchmen; later it was applied merry-making, and the rosy-cheeked exclusively to the men who furnished lass passing beneath by accident (?) holiday music prior to Christmas Day. paid the penalty of a sounding smack Usually they played on wind-instru upon her blushing cheek. ments any music which chanced to be The burning of the Yule log came from Scandinavia, where they kindled popular at the time, calling shortly af huge bonfires in honor of their god ter Christmas Eve at the houses fav- 160 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

ored by their serenades to receive (j) "Silent Night, Holy Night" (all Christmas donations. ages) The "mummers" and "maskers" (k) Milton's Nativity Hymn, (all were practically the same thing. This ages.) sport was originally furnished by rust (e) "God rest ye, Merry Gentlemen" ics, who, with blackened faces and (all ages.) white shirts, were dignified with the name of mummers. They went from Stories for Children. house to house, reciting a rude sort of (a) "First Christmas Presents"—• dialogue appropriate to the season. As E. E. Hale. years went on, the maskers assumed (b) "The Cats' Christmas"—Susan more elaborate and fantastic garb; Coolidge in "New Year's Bargain." the lord and all his household joined in (c) "Christ Child Tales"—Andrea the sport, and it became theatrical in Hofer. character. The whole was given in charge of a master of ceremonies, (d) Anderson's "Match Girl"—K. called the "Lord of Misrule", who be D. Wiggin's version. came for the time being "monarch of (e) Christmas Sheaf "Bird's Christ all he surveyed." mas"—Celia Thaxter. And when the watchman called the (f) "Tiny Tim"—from Dickens' mystic hour of midnight, which usher '' Christmas Carol''. ed into life so many years ago the Lord g) Jacob Riis' "Is there a Santa and Savior of us all, these simple coun Claus?" try-folk ended their Christmas Eve. (h) "Picciolo's Christmas Shoe." They retired to their night's repose, weary in body but happy in heart. For Adults. Their childlike faith believed that (a) "Why the chimes rang"—Ben while they slept the cattle in their Hur. stalls knelt and made obeisance in (b) "The Three Wise Men"—Van memory of the first and greatest of all Dyke. Christmas Eves, and mingled with (c) "The Other Wise Man"—Van their happy dreams were the angel Dyke. voices telling of "peace on earth, good (d) "Christmas Carol"—Dickens. will to men." (e) "Christmas Sermon"—Steven son. Here are a few suggestions for (f) "Christmas Customs"—consult Christmas Reading. Chambers' "Book of Days". Poems for Little Children. (g) "Dream Thorp"—Alexander (a) "Hang up the Baby's Stocking." Smith. Pictures. (b) "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas." Send to Perry Pictures Company, (c) "The Toyman's Shop." Maiden & Boston or to Baker & Thorn (d) "Bells are ringing in the air." ton Co., agents for Brown's pictures— e) "Old Santa Claus puts on his 44 So. Pennsylvania Street, Indianapo cap"—Eleanor Smith. lis—for picture catalogs. The Madon (f) "'Twas the night before Christ nas in the five cent sizes are beautiful, mas"—Moore (all ages.) and the pictures in the one cent size very clear. Among the number repro g)— "Santa Claus and the Mouse" —Poulsson, Child World. duced may be mentioned: Fra Filippo Lippi's, Titian's Madonna of the Rab (h) Luther's Cradle Hymn.(all ages) bit, Giorgione's, Raphael's Sistine Ma (i) "How the Christmas tree got its donna and the Madonna of the Chair, stars"—from "Christmas Star", col Murillo's, Bodenhausen's (modern) lection of prose and verse for children Sichel's, and a host of others equally —Katharine Pyle. good. LITERARY 161

In addition to the Christmas material here call them "ink balls". I can im given here, consult the special bulletin agine the fourth grade making dyes m the library before the holidays. for their stencil work from them. The Alice Louise Marsh. elms, too, seem quite different, being stunted. They bear seeds in October. Impressions of Texas. Cedar grows everywhere and is very My first impressions of Austin were pretty with its shaggy bark, rich not very favorable since a great band green foliage and bluish green berries. of migrating crickets—the largest of The roses are lovely now and violets their kind—had chosen that particular are beginning to bloom in the yards. I week for their periodical stay in the saw a pear tree in blossom yesterday. Capitol City. They took possesion of They must all succumb to the frost be the streets, stores, hotels and private fore long, though the coldest days do houses. I did not relish their company not usually come before February. in my bedroom and a large net which The prickly pear grows everywhere, completely covered the bed was all also the yucca. Whenever it rains, the that kept them from taking the bed, delicate little rain lilies spring up like too. magic and in a few hours the ground The weather is very delightful now will be carpeted with them. Many of though it was extremely hot during our cultivated flowers grow wild in October. All variety in weather is at Texas. The University Campus is seed tributed to the "Northers" which blow ed to California poppies and "blue- in at irregular intervals. These cold bonnets", the State flower. People say winds make it decidedly uncomfortable it is a beautiful sight when they are here while they last, for houses are not in bloom. built nor heated properly for cold By the way, the University campus weather. is decidedly smalland the buildings few Austin is located in a hilly region in number and somewhat limited in through which the Colorado River equipment. A new library building is finds its way. Several dry creek beds in being erected. The corner stone was dicate that at some seasons there is laid, with most impressive ceremonies, plenty of moisture here. Just at pres last Thursday. ent we are suffering from a long con There are several Michigan men on tinued drouth which has been broken the faculty and our coach Mr. Was- by three dust laying rains since I came, mund played on the Michigan team last the latter part of September. year. He is doing good work with the High steel towers, bearing six lights team for we have won every game each, give a fine appearance to the played thus far this season and expect city at night but afford little light to to play the game for the championship, guide the footsteps of the wayfarer. at Houston, Nov. 14th. Enthusiasm runs Trees seem to have a hard struggle for high and the football rallies are great existence. The heat, the wind, (which sport. blows almost constantly) the dust, the The Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. have limited amount of rainfall during the very strong organizations in the Uni summer and fall months, and the gray versity. The Y. M. C. A. is erecting a moss and parasitic mistletoe seem com fine $75,000 building opposite Main bined in their warfare against the life Hall, and the Y W. C. A. has purchased of the trees. The live oaks with their a lot for its building, although the low spreading branches hung with building fund is not yet in sight. long festoons of gray moss are a beau Every denomination makes a strong tiful sight. There seem to be numerous effort to get the students of its faith varieties of oaks but I have only seen into church and Sunday School and one, thus far, that resembles our North each has built a chapel near the Uni ern species. Some of these varieties versity. Some of the Bible classes have bear an apple like fruit which yields a seventy-five in attendance each Sun strong sepia colored stain. The boys day. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 162 A Presbyterian Theological Semin rising inflection have an odd, but ary and a Methodist Bible chair furn pleasant sound to the Northerner. ish opportunity for advanced Bible I miss the dear friends in Kalama study and credit for such work is giv zoo and long for a glimpse of the smil en by the University. People here seem ing faces of my boys and girls in the to be imbued with a strong missionary training school. spirit and several of the graduates of Kate I. Smith. this school are in the foreign field or are preparing to go there. Contributed by Students. # The Dean of Women in the Univer The Vice-President's Special. sity, Mrs. Helen Marr Kirby, is a very It was Christmas Eve and darkness interesting character. She must be past had fallen. Hurrying throngs of people, seventy, and while tiny, wrinkled and loaded with packages of the day's old in appearance, and seemingly very shopping, were streaming through the feeble, is nevertheless an energetic gates of the railroad station. The long brisk and sweet-natured woman. She train shed presented a lively appear is the idol of all the girls in the Uni ance. Along the tracks, stood rows of versity. Her duties seem to be chiefly railway trains with here and there an of an advisory nature but she is cer engine whose shining headlight gleam tainly taxed severely at the beginning ed out upon the jostling crowd. It was of the sessions. Mrs. Kirby has been the the one night when all men, sought a Dean of Women since coeducation was common haven—the home. first introduced into the University of As the bell in the tower was tolling seven, the huge engine of the New Texas. I never cease to wonder at the mul York limited express rounded slowly tiplicity of Negroes, Mexicans and into the train shed and came to a stop, Mules. Saturday afternoon is "Niggers panting after its long race. Hardly had night" and the streets are thronged the engine bell ceased to toll when the with colored people dressed in their engineer, his round and ruddy face gayest apparel. A great deal is being smeared with coal dust, swung down done in the way of education for the from his cab and began a careful in colored race. Austin has two large in spection of his engine. He was clad in stitutions devoted to that purpose. greasy overalls and jumper and his The Capitol is set in beautiful and tight fitting cap was pulled down close spacious grounds. The approach to the ly over his ears. handsome building is marred by the A gateman, standing near by, re location of various nondescript statues. marked to the depot policeman, A monument to Gen. Hood was unveil "Johnson's hobby for a whole month ed a few days ago with much ceremony has been to be in on time tonight as he and a great flow of oratory and self- is figuring on spending Christmas laudatory speeches. The speakers justi Eve at home with that new wife of his. fied the position of the South in the Queer how getting married does Civil War and revived much of the old change a man's nature." Confederate partisanship. By this time the engineer having fin Cotton has been picked but the "top ished his inspection of the engine turn cotton" is just ripening. This will call ed and approached the fence which the negroes into the "cotton patch". separated the tracks from the passage It is most interesting to watch the col way, wiping away, as he came, the ored pickers in the field trailing their frost from his wiry red mustache. great sacks of cotton behind and sing "Hello, Harvey, Merry Christmas!" ing their quaint old plantation melo he called to the gateman as he drew his big silver watch from the pocket dies. The people generally are very cor of his greasy overalls. "Within one dial and have very pretty manners. minute of schedule time, with the rails Their "please ma'ams", elided "rs", as slippery as a skating pond. It and the "sure 'miff", spoken with the wouldn't do, you know, for a man to LITERARY 163 pull in late on Christmas Eve, with his gan Southern Railway. The shades of wife at home waiting for him, supper the private car were closely drawn. ready and all arrangements made for Through the doorway over which a an old fashioned Christmas time." black porter stood guardian could be He turned back to his cab, calling seen the polished mahogany and tapes out to his fireman, "Now we'll back tried furnishings. Within sat the man down to the roundhouse and light out who had the power to direct a great for home. Let the oiling go till she's in railroad system. But in place of a look the stall." of happiness there was on his face the He had barely finished speaking shadow of gloom and despair. when a blue coated messenger dashed The official haggard and pale, sat through the gate and hurried over to with his head bowed with grief. A few him. "Orders, sir, from the Division friends stood near him but he seemed Superintendent. He told me to say that to ignore their presence. you should lose no time. The train dis At length he moved uneasily in his patcher has opened up the track all the seat, passed his fingers nervously way.'' through his heavy gray hair, gray from Johnson tore open the yellow envel the worries of business life rather than ope and glanced at the order. His advancing years, and then with a deep face clouded and then his cheerful look sigh inquired, "Isn't it time to start? died away as he read it more carefully How the hour drags!" He crumpled up the message with a "It is 7:25 now, Mr. Carver. We are jerk and thrust it into his pocket. due to leave at 7: 30. No time will be The fireman walked over to where lost. Every train on the road has been the engineer stood. "What's the trou side tracked for you." It was the pri ble?" he said. vate secretary who spoke. "Don't The engineer made no direct reply give up hope," he said encouragingly. to his question. "I'd like to tell that "Perhaps the telegrams make it appear Vice-President what I think of him. I more serious than it really is." wonder if he thinks my Christmas isn't "But think of it! Dying on Christ just as valuable to me as his is to him. mas Eve with her father four hundred That's what a man gets when he works miles away. Poor little Marian!" for a railroad company. We are slaves William Carver, the Vice-President to a big corporation." had been called from his home in "Are we going out again tonight?" Cleveland to Chicago a week before to the fireman finally ventured to ask. attend a meeting of the railroad officials. "Yes, going out. What better can a His only daughter, the image of his man do when it's a case of an officer of dead wife, had recently returned from the road wanting to spend his Christ her studies abroad to take her place mas at home. I don't care so much for as mistress of his household. Life, myself as I do about disappointing which had been a burden to him since Edith. What will she think?" his wife's death, now took on a bright "It's tough luck, Frank, that's sure. er aspect. Then to be called away from Those fellows are the lucky ones." her at the Christmas season was a "He has been considerate enough to blow to him as they had made numer give me fifteen minutes for a sandwich ous plans, for their Christmas shopping and cup of coffee," continued Johnson, and festivities. as he turned and walked over to the It was his last night in Chicago and lunch room. he was just leaving his hotel when the At the other side of the station a telegram came. It told of a street acci special train stood waiting. There were dent in which his daughter had prob only an engine, a baggage car and a ably been fatally injured. The message coach. The engine was the most power read, "Come quick, as your presence is ful in the service of the road. The coach all that can save her." was the rolling palace of the Vice- And so William Carver sat bowed President of the Lake Shore and Michi with grief, waiting for the great clock 164 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

in the tower to toll the half hour, utes. I hope the Vice-President will be when the special train would take him satisfied. He stole my evening but his back to his desolate home and its scene orders have been carried out." of suffering. Finally after much anxi The engineer was proud of his en ous waiting, there was a jerk and a hiss gine as he said half audibly, "It was of escaping steam and the train began well done, 'old 240'. You raced well its record-breaking race to Elkhart, the but you carried me farther away from end of the division. Edith, than I expected to be tonight." Sixty miles an hour through the He shouted to the fireman, "Keep an night! Slowly at first, over a maze of eye on the engine while I report for or switch tracks and then faster and fast ders and wire a word back home. It er the engine hurried on. The quiet of wouldn't do to have my wife uneasy to Christmas Eve had settled over the night. You know, she expected me country. Here and there glimpses home long before this." So saying, he could be caught of the scenes of mer advanced toward the telegraph office. riment in the farm houses. Upon reaching the window he called to Frank Johnson, the engineer, sat in the boy in the office, "Report '240' in the window of his cab, closely scan at 9:03 and as soon as you've done ning the track ahead. His gloved hand that rush this message to Chicago. tightly grasped the throttle and he Quick now, you fellows seem to be slow seemed busied with his own thoughts.He tonight.'' was not in good humor. He was think "After that run from Chicago, any ing of the lonely supper table in Chi thing would seem slow to you," an cago which he was leaving behind swered the operator. "You ought to faster than sixty miles an hour. feel proud of that run." "Pretty fast running, this," finally "If it had been any other night than spoke the fireman from the other side tonight, I might have been proud, but of the cab. " 'Old 240' is making bet when a fellow has just been married ter time than she ever did before. Reckon we're shakin' up the old man he likes to spend his first Christmas in his private car." Eve with his wife and not be running "It will do him good. A good shak special trains for Vice Presidents." ing is what he needs for stealing an At the mention of the Vice President other man's time on a night like this." the operator tried to interrupt but John The engineer pushed the lever over an other notch and the engine trembled as son went on angrily, "It makes me if it were a thing of life. Shovelful after mad. This working for a big company shovelful of coal was heaped into the is hard luck. It makes a man feel like glowing firebox. Engine 240 was doing quitting and running a threshing ma a great work over the barren wastes of chine engine." Northern Indiana. Finally the track, which had stretch Johnson turned and found himself ed in a single line of steel, began to face to face with the Vice President branch out again in a perplexing maze and his private secretary. of a switchyard. Elkhart, the end of "You are the engineer of my special the division was at hand. On the plat train? I understand that I spoiled your form could be seen trainmen swinging their lanterns and messengers here and plans for this evening. Well, you sacri there. As the train drew up to the plat ficed your evening on an errand of form and the great drive wheels ceased mercy. When we started from Chicago to revolve, Johnson swung down from I was, as I believed, on my way to the his cab, his hands and feet numb from deathbed of my only daughter. I have the cold and the excitement of the run. He glanced at his watch. "Ninety- no wife. I am not so fortunate as you. three minutes," he said. "One hun But I have just received a message dred and one miles in ninety-three min from Cleveland which informs me that LITERARY 165

she has rallied from a serious injury, road!" she exclaimed. "Maybe Frank and that she will recover." Mr. Carver can explain." turned to his secretary, "Make a note Then carefully folding the letter, she of Mr. Johnson's address. Perhaps he placed it under his plate at the table. will hear from me later.'' Johnson gave "Now, I must hurry and get breakfast the number of his little home. Then as the train from Elkhart is due and with a bow and a stammered apology, Frank will be tired and hungry" she he hastened back to his engine—any said softly to herself. where to escape the embarrassing pres Esta Feighner. ence of the Vice President. He walked slowly down the track to his engine, Translation of Horace's Ode 14. his head in a whirl. "I've been a fool" he said to himself again and again. Oh ship of State, haste to the shore ""What would Edith think if she knew Ere angry waves about thee roar. how I have acted. He was so consider Make haste, I pray! ate and good." Do not delay! As he reversed the lever to back Lest Neptune seal thy fate this day. down to the roundhouse, the special with a new man at the throttle dashed Can'st thou not see thy banks are bare, by. After seeing that all was secure for And that no mighty oars are there? Thy sails are torn, the night Johnson hastened to the lit tle railroad hotel near by. As he closed Thy sailyards shorn, his eyes that night, he murmured, By angry winds from Afric' borne. "May good news await Mr. Carver From stem to stern the ropes they wind when he reaches home tomorrow." And beg the gods to please be kind, Christmas morning, in one of the But gods are gone windows of a little cottage in Chicago Let not the dawn a young woman sat waiting. She saw a Behold thee from thy moorings drawn. man in the uniform of the railroad turn the corner and approach looking Thy beams may boast of Pontic pine, carefully at the numbers of the houses Should sailors then their ears incline? as he came. With a sudden fear she Oh no ! 'Tis vain hastened to the door. With a dread that For mortal men some accident had befallen her hus To trust in painted ships again. band she tore open the envelope hand J ed to her and read, "Permit me to wish Long since my heart within me failed you a very Merry Christmas and may As o 'er the boist'rous waves thou sailed. I ask you to accept the enclosed for That fear grows less yourself and husband to atone in part Tho' none can guess for an interrupted Christmas Eve. The cares which still my heart possess. j Very truly, William Carver." Avoid the shining Cyclades, She picked up the pink check that The place of many treacherous seas! had fallen to the floor and a cry of sur Oh haste to shore! prise escaped her as she read the fig Pray, go no more ures "$500" in the corner. Where unknown waves and breakers "Why, this must be a mistake as it roar! is from the Vice President of the rail Jennie S. Lane. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 166

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Editor-in-Chief The Holiday season is nearly here WILLIAM McCRACKEN, and Old Father Time is about to ring ROBERT M. REINHOLD, - Associate Editor ELIZABETH JONES, -- - Associate Editor down the curtain on 1910. By the time JOHN PHELAN, ---- Managing Editor this issue of the Record is in your NEIL VERBURG, --- Associate Manager hands you will be separating for the Subscription Price—Fifty cents peryear, October vacation time and hastening on your to June inclusive. joyful ways homeward. The things you Change of Address—Notification of change of have done or left undone during the address should contain both old and new ad year now closing are matters of history. dresses. Until such notification is given the publishers will not be responsible for failure to Regrets you doubtless have for many receive the magazine. things left undone, but do not dwell Communications—All communications intended upon them. Christmas should be a hap for publication should be addressed to the py time. editor. Correspondence relative to advertis ing, subscriptions, etc., should be sent to the During the term just closed you have manager. labored hard, perhaps oftentimes, ap Advertising Rates will be made known upon parently, to small purpose. Your hard application. hearted teachers have piled the work upon you, this one demanding a theme, EDITORIAL that one a report, the other one labor For Alumni. atory work, and each insisting that his The editors of the Record are very particular subject was the one subject anxious to have not only the good will in the curriculum for you, until from but also the active cooperation of all burning midnight(?) electricity and the alumni of the Western Normal in constant digging you are somewhat the publication of the magazine. We cast down in spirit and are fain to say desire to make it interesting and valu with Solomon: "Of making many able to all. With your help we know it books there is no end, and much study can be done. To this end, we ask you is a weariness of the flesh." And then from time to time to keep us posted as a climax to your woe, the last straw in regard to your comings and goings to break your patient backs, came the and the various things in which you examinations—and after that the de are interested and playing a part. luge in some cases. Examinations are There may be something in your indeed a trial, but trials, we are told, neighborhood of geological, historic are for the purpose of giving one al, or industrial interest. A tribe of strength and self-reliance and so they indians may live near by—possibly undoubtedly serve a useful end. Pontiac fought in your back yard; But cheer up! Exams are over and there may be a coal or gypsum mine or let us hope you all passed B or better. a salt block at hand; you may live in Christmas is at hand and, be the result the beet sugar region; or perchance the of your work what it may, it is now automobile industry is the greatest in the proper time for one to laugh and your midst; or it may be that the lake play. So go home and have just as marine and fishing interests bulk large good a time as you may and make on your horizon. Whatever it is, no things just as pleasant for the home matter how commonplace to you, re folks as you can. Forget your studies member there are plenty of inquisitive and write no themes or note books. Ab souls who would gladly know what sorb enough good spirits to last you you can tell. Sit down then and oc through any gloomy and homesick day casionally write us a letter which we that may come later. Here's wishing can publish in the Record. By so doing you one and all a Merry Christmas and EDITORIAL 167 a Happy New Year and may your of mud were the teachers allowed to stockings all be crammed full of good carry away the long end of a 6 to 0 things. score. Good football was impossible under Shall we Smile? the conditions. A fall of several inches The criticism has come to the ears of of snow during the forenoon made the the managing editor of the Record, that gridiron a veritable mud hole. Despite in the opinion of some of the readers the unfavorable weather conditions, there is too much of the grave and too however, it was decided to play the little of the gay in its contents, in short game. During the preliminary signal that there is lacking some of the spice practice, Hope appeared the heavier, of life, laughter. but the Normals showed more snap and Now the editor pleads guilty to a dash. fairly robust sense of humor. He would Captain Berger won the toss and rather laugh than cry any time. Up to chose to defend the west goal. On the date, the editing business has brought kick off, Damoth ran the ball back to him much more of despair than de the Normals 20 yard line. Four line light, more of load than of levity, a smashes by Damoth, and Mayer and surplus of woe and an absence of wit. an end run by Berger put the ball on The editor is from Missouri and is Hope's 10 yard line, where the Peda willing to be shown. If then, any of you gogues found themselves ankle deep in who desire these things, will but keep mud and were held for downs. Hope your ears alert to catch the bon mots recovered her own punt, but lost the as they fall, if you will but gather up ball at once on downs. A series of shift the witty expressions and the humorous plays and off tackle bucks brought the experiences that come your way and Normals to Hope's 5 yard line but for pass them on to him, he is willing to do the second time the Hollanders held. the best he can to laugh and grow fat The quarter ended with the ball in the over them with you. possession of the Teachers on Hope's 40 yard line. Hope had scarcely made a An Olive Branch. first down during the whole period, Just as the November Record was while the Normals had rushed the Dike going to press, it was found necessary, men all over the lot but were unable in order to make the subject matter to score because of the soft footing. fit the space at hand, to cut out a para The Normals came back stronger than graph or two from some article. On his ever in the second session and after own responsibility, because there Sooy by good generalship had directed was no time for consultation and revi the attack to a semi-dry spot near the sion, the editor removed the necessary goal, Mayer went over for a touch matter from the excellent article on down. Berger kicked an easy goal. "The Training School Assembly." This Score Normals 6, Hope 0. is written in justice to Miss Barnum, For the remainder of the encounter, so that if any lack of continuity of the Normals played a defensive game thought is apparent at any point in her almost entirely. The ball was invari article, it may be known that the ably kicked on the first down and no blame rests on the editor and not on chances of fumbling the slippery pig the author. skin were taken. Had the field been dry, the Teachers would undoubtedly NEWS ARTICLES have won by 3 or 4 touchdowns. The Hollanders, however, deserve much Athletics. credit for the sturdy resistance they The Hope Game. gave when their goal was in danger. The football team journeyed to Hol Captain Berger proved the best mud land on Nov. 12 for the final game of horse and carried away the honors of the season with Hope College and only the day both on offense and defense. He after a hard seesaw contest on a field gained from 5 to 15 yards on almost ev- 168 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD ery attempt and tackled Dutchmen all switches were made, until Russell and over the field. Mayer, Damoth and Warren were decided upon for guards Sooy also carried the ball for good and Webb, Windoes and VandeWalker gains, while Webb and Warren opened for tackles. These men were practically up big holes for the backs to drive green but were willing to work and be through. It is difficult to name any fore the season closed formed one of special stars as every man played hard. the strongest lines that ever represent For Hope captain Stegeman was the ed the Normal. best ground gainer making some beau While the backfield was mainly res tiful runs around end, while Vruwink, ponsible for the early success of the Halleman and Veenker proved the best team, it was plainly noticeable that the defensive performers. victory over Mt. Pleasant was prob The line up :— ably due to the hard, sure charging of Normals Hope College the line men, who broke up the oppos Martin L. E G. Stegeman ing defense making holes for the backs AVebb L. T Den Herder to go through for consistent gains. Warren L. G. Deters, Schoan The team played with good fighting Bean C Warnshuis spirit all through the season winning Russell R. G.. . Vandenbrook from Hillsdale College on Oct. 8 by VandeWalker .. .R. T Weurding the score of 5 to 3 and playing Albion Conklin R. E Vruwink College practically an even game but Sooy Q Reese losing by a 6 to 0 score. Berger (capt. ..L. H Halleman After these two games there was a Damoth R. H. Stegeman (capt) necessary relaxation and on Oct. 22 Mayer F Veenker Culver M. A. won an easy game from Final score: W. S. N. 6, Hope 0. us. The team suffered a hard trip, find Touchdown, Mayer. Goal from touch ing it necessary to leave at 6 o'clock in down, Berger. Referee Jillson, Albion the morning and traveling all forenoon College; Umpire, Hadden, Holland H. of the day of the game. That game was S.; Field Judge, Hansen, Holland; lost 21 to 5 but was not so one-sided as Headlinesman, Roost, Hope College. the score indicates. Time of quarters 15 minutes. A practice game with Benton Harbor H. S. on Oct. 29 was won 16 to 0 and Review of the Football Season. all players came out of it in good con Football prospects did not look over dition, which was the most pleasing ly bright at the opening of the season, feature, as the hardest game of the sea as there were only three men returned son was to be played the following Fri from the 1909 eleven. The backfield did day with Mt. Pleasant. not suffer so much from loss of regulars The fact that Benton Harbor had as the line. Capt. Berger and Damoth held the Normals to a low score on Oct. were on hand for the half back posi 29, coupled with the fact that Mt. tions, and Glenn Sooy who had played Pleasant defeated the Flint Mutes by a on the second team two years before 40 to 0 score, threw a scare into the and who played only one game with the camp of the locals, while it gave to regulars last year, was available for the Mt. Pleasant, on the other hand, that position of quarterback. Glenn Mayer, spirit of overconfidence that is so fatal capt. and halfback on the Lansing H. to success. During the three weeks pre S. last season showed up so well at the ceding Nov. 4, practically all work was early practices, that he was placed at pointed to the Central Normal game. full back. It was easily seen that the Therefore when the time for the con •line was now the weakness that must test came, the Western Normal players be overcome before a successful team were at their best and in the pink of could be turned out. Bean the only line condition to fight the battle of their man left from last season's team was lives. On the other hand the Mt. Pleas switched from guard to center. Various ant boys showed only flashes of form men were tried as forwards but several and did not possess the necessary fight- WINDOES BEAN WEBB RUSSELL SPAULDING, Coach DAMOTH CON KLIN VANDE WALKER MAYER BERGER, Capt. MARTIN SOOY .IILLSON, Assr. Coach NEWS ARTICLES 169 ing spirit that means victory when two singing and speaking, and at the end teams are practically evenly matched everyone went away thoroughly satis in weight. fied with the team and the time. The The Hope College game was won 6 to lower corridor of the training school 0 after a hard struggle. The Hope was tastefully decorated with posters team played their best game of the year and presented a very attractive appear having brought their team to a climax ance. for this contest which is considered Those present did ample justice to their big game. The Normals had reach the following excellent menu: ed their top form the preceding week Roast Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Squash and only showed flashes of brilliancy Cranberry Jelly and Pickles relying mainly on shift plays to baffle Coffee and Rolls the Hollanders' defense. After a score Ice Cream and Cake. was made they resorted to punting. The After the real business of the meet field was too soft after a storm to at ing was over, attention was devoted to tempt any trick plays. the lighter side of the entertainment, and the following program of toasts The Second Team. was given to the attentive auditors. The most promising feature of the Toastmaster, R. M. Reinhold. football season just past, was the fact 1. We are Here D. B. Waldo that a good second team was developed 2. Music Male Sextette and came out practically every after 3. The Season W. H. Spaulding noon for practice. 4. The Rooters Arthur Cross Mr. Jillson took charge of the men 5. Music B. L. Jones and trained them so well that it is 6. Real Football J. B. Faught doubtful if there is any high school in 7. Response for Team C. A. Bean the vicinity that could hold its own 8. Music. .. .Neil Verburg and Chorus with this team. Although but one game The toastmaster introduced each speak was played, in which Wayland H. S. er in a most felicitous manner by telling was defeated 32 to 5, the team came out some appropriate story or taking off conscientiously and gave the regular the speaker in a humorous fashion. team some valuable scrimmage prac Space forbids us to report in detail all tice. It is this one thing more than any the good things pulled off by the thing else that gave to the school one speakers; suffice it to say each rose to of the most aggressive elevens in its the occasion and excelled all previous history. Various plays were tried efforts in this direction. against the reserves and practised un The supper was in charge of Miss til their efficiency was tested to such an Pray and the senior domestic science extent that it could be readily seen girls and the success of the entertain whether they would work successfully ment is very largely due to their untir in the coming games. ing efforts. The committee in charge of The various men, who with coach the banquet consisted of Messrs. Phe- Jillson deserve much credit for the suc lan, Harvey and Hickey of the faculty cess of the first team, are Orr (capt.), and students selected by them as their McGuire, Gundry, Fisher, Shaw, Healy, aids. The decorating committee was as Tuttle, Carpenter, Chittenden, Giese sisted by the domestic art and science and Rennie. girls.

The annual football banquet, which Christmas in Song. marks the formal closing of the season, If at any time during the school year was held in the training school build an abundance of song should be pres ing on the evening of Wednesday, ented to the child, surely it is during Dec. 7 at 6:30 o'clock. The gathering the Christmas season. The glad Christ was a most joyous and enthusiastic one mas-tide—primarily the child's festi and the 120 men present enjoyed them val—should extend, to be enjoyed to its selves to the limit. There was eating, fullest, from Thanksgiving Day to 170 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

Christmas. Just think of the many de that is intensely practical. "Christmas lightful phases to be touched upon in Carols and Hymns" contains not only song and story! The zest of anticipa the modern but the traditional settings tion that the very mention of Santa as well. Claus, and chimneys, and reindeer, and Our own library contains so much stockings bring to mind! All this to be material, that it would seem only to thoroughly assimilated takes time and be a question of fore-sight to gather can not be crowded into two or three poems, stories, and songs against the long rehearsals. It would seem perfect time of future need. Below is a short ly legitimate to subordinate the tech suggestive list: nical side of the music period to the Christmas Carols and Songs—Dann, song all through the month of Decem Am. Book Co. ber. The cycle of Christmas songs Christmas Carols—Tomlins, Am. should run the gamut of emotions from Book Co. the material phase of the coming of 0 Clap, Clap Your Hands—Poulsson "old Saint Nick", the hanging of Finger Plays. stockings, the green of fir tree, and the Santa Claus—Gaynor, Book I. sound of bells across the snow, to the Christmas Joys—Gaynor, Book II. climax of the festal season—the com Christmas AValtz Song—Kindergar ing of the Christ Child and His beau ten Chimes. tiful message of "Peace and good will Christmas Songs—Flanagan's Songs to men!" in Season. Every Christmas song one finds may Christmas Night—Hill's Song Stories not be used. Time alone mellows and Old Christmas Carols—Gibson, Schir- proves the value of this particular mer. phase of song. The song that you loved Christmas Tree Dance—p. 60, New as a child, still calls to the child of to Ed. First Reader. day, and it is refreshing to find that Old English Songs—Myles B. Foster. "Once in Royal David's City", "The Florence Marsh. First Noel", and "Silent Night" are just as compelling as they were many, "The Galahad of the Market Place." many years ago. Fortunately the large This is the name that Dr. Adler gives publishing houses are stemming the to one of the great men of our day, tide of cheap and trashy leaflets that William Henry Baldwin Jr., whose life is brought out annually for Sunday by J. G. Brooks has recently been pub School use, by compiling not only the lished by Houghton Mifflin & Co. un modern standard songs and hymns, but der the title "An American Citizen." also the traditional Christmas songs or No book of recent days has more of Noels of England, France, and Nor value or interest in it for our young mandy. Every child should know and people. I hope that thousands of cop love the "Cradle Hymn" written bj ies will be given as Christmas or Martin Luther in the early part of the birthday gifts to young men and sixteenth century for his own little women. In it they will find the record children, also the old English "God of a man who was not content to take Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen", We things as they are but who spent his Three Kings of Orient Are", and "It energy in attacking old problems in Came Upon a Midnight Clear". new ways so that we can meet our prob The best compilation that has been lems better because of what he did. presented for the teacher's use thus far, Neither did he find it necessary to made its appearance this year. It has leave the tasks usually considered dirty been edited by Hollis Dann, who occu for others to do. Railroad extension, pies the chair of music at Cornell, and freight and passenger competition, ne who formerly supervised the music in gro education, even prostitution were the schools of Ithaca, N. Y. He brings simply conditions to which man must to his work a knowledge of the child bring his best intelligence and energy and his tastes and needs musically, and organize for progress. NEWS ARTICLES 171 He began his railroad service just a itself for all of these except this trib few months before I did and later in ute which a man could well give much New York I had some indirect contacts to be worthy of: with him during the last few years of Dr. Adler wrote, "His nature bloom his life. For a short time he had charge ed like a fragrant flower on the very of the Pere Marquette Railroad and I nettle of modern commercialism. He have often wondered what he would was a wonderful friend, he had the have done for the State of Michigan wizard touch; he could unseal the had he remained in it. fount of love in men long past middle But everywhere he went he woke up age, who had supposed that the springs others to real needs. This is a natural in them of new affectional relations had outcome of the fact that, as Mr. long since run dry. He was endowed Brooks states, "On the very threshold with an eternal cheerfulness. His ap of duties in Omaha, even upon the prehension of the best values of life train which took him into the West, he was neither slow nor second-hand, is dreaming of other things besides his neither a matter of mere hearsay nor own advancement. He will not first the weak echo of his own earlier ideal make a lot of money and then hunt up isms, but the immediate and complete worthy philanthropies on which to surrender of his nature to every shape spend it. * * * He will begin earning and mode of excellence. He made one money and take up some useful service feel in his presence that the fine things at the same time." of life were near at hand and easy, and One often hears that youth and inex the vulgar things difficult and remote. perience believe in the possibility of Taking him all in all, he may be call improvement but maturity knows bet ed a modern knight of the Holy Grail, ter. seeking it not in the seclusion of the Real moral progress however is a cloister or in any segregation from the development from the material which world, but rather in the very sin and nature furnishes us. Our instincts are dust of the market place." neither good nor bad but we are better F. A. M. or worse according to the use we make of them. Mr. Baldwin's growth is Assembly Notes. shown in the following quotation: November 4.—Reverend J. P. Mc "In a case of proposed railroad ex Carthy Ph. D., of the People's Church tension, he was asked, as an official, to addressed the school briefly on the sig take advantage of plans then secret and nificance of the life of Julia Ward buy certain properties. He considered Howe. That she was a woman who had it, but refused. 'I could have made a lived through three generations, a con pot of money out of that', he said, 'but temporary of twenty five of our twenty- I should have sold too much of myself. nine presidents; that she was a poet, • * The moral discrimination in his de dramatist, and contributor to the best cisions gained year by year in strength. American magazines; that she was in I doubt if he would have made that re terested as a reformer in Hungarian fusal in the first years in the West, be and Italian freedom, and the abolition cause he did not then see what larger of American slavery, and later reform experience made clear to him. His con movements such as woman's suffrage; science and the delicacy of his scrup and finally that she was a woman of les were more sensitive in his later than wealth and culture "born of the pur in his earlier years. There is more firm ple ''—all this is true. But it is not what ness in his business idealism in New makes her memory beloved by the peo York than in Omaha fifteen years be ple of this country and Europe. The fore." secret of her effective life was, in the There is a temptation to go on quot mind of the speaker, her willingness to ing instances in which this man suc forego the pleasures of society for the ceeded where so many of us have failed. sake of living daily a practical, help But the reader must go to the book ful life. 172 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD The assembly fittingly closed by November 18—Mr. Hickey gave some singing Mrs. Howe's "Battle Hymn of very interesting reminiscences of his the Republic." experiences in Europe during a summer It may not be out of place to refer vacation. His description of Milan here to a coincidence noted in the last cathedral, of Monte Carlo, and of the number of "The Dial",—the death, on hospice on the summit of Simplon Pass the same day as that of Julia Ward were particularly entertaining because Howe, of the American poet and dram of his happy manner of introducing his atist, William Vaughn Moody. America personal experiences. It takes Yankee lost in truth her eldest and her young ingenuity to make a dicky do for a est poets in the death of these two full-dress shirt at the edge of the fas representatives of the past and present. cinating roulette table of fashionable Monte Carlo, and Yankee grit to climb November 8.—Miss Gage had for her five miles of Alpine ascent in spite of subject, "Conservation in Education". cold and fatigue. Such reminiscence is She introduced her talk by recalling worth a volume of Baedeker or a bound the conservation work of such men as volume of magazine description. Dr. Wiley in connection with the Bu reau of Chemistry. Gifford Pinchot in November 11.—Dr. Faught gave in the department of Forestry and Theo his own inimitable and pleasing man dore Roosevelt in the Water-way and ner a talk reminiscent of his journey Harbor Commissions. This she supple south last winter. He spoke especially mented with reference to the report of of Nashville, with its interesting politi the Committee of One Hundred on the cal situation and its equally interest causes of disease, an effort to clear the ing Peabody Normal College; and of way for greater conservation of hu New Orleans, with its elevated ceme man life. Great as is the need of all tery, its great cathedral, and its French such work, Miss Gage believes conser opera—all seen by the traveler who vation in education is equally needed, must catch but a flying glimpse if he and that it must largely come through sees anything and still retains lasting the life of man as launched in the kin dergarten. Man must ultimately come impressions. back to his childhood, at least in this November 15.—Dr. A. H. Rockwell, respect, before he can become the great health officer of Kalamazoo, gave a er man he is destined to be. most practical talk for prospective November 10.—Dr. Woods Hutchin teachers on those diseases common to' son addressed the students and faculty school children, and about which it is on the subject /'Fresh Air". He is one the business of the teacher to at least of too few professional men who can know typical symptoms and chiefcauses. or are willing to write and speak down He used, as a basis for his talk the re to the average man. This he did most port of the Committee of One Hundred. effectively in applying medical and hy This he followed up with the advice to gienic principles to the relation be request printed information relating to tween pure air and the disease com such matters of disease and hygiene as monly called a cold. Infection as a the Michigan law makes a compulsory cause of a high percentage of colds part of common school instruction. rather than exposure to drafts, getting Teachers, themselves free from infecti into the open rather than getting air ous or contagious affections, medical in into buildings as the sanest method of spection of schools, and sane instruc ventilation; the application of these tion in the fundamentals of practical principles to life in general and especi hygiene should together give us more ally to our great public school system— efficient public education as well as such topics as these, well-spiced with public health. fresh stories and followed by a brief questionnaire, made valuable addition The Thanksgiving program in the to the weeks usual exercises. Training School Assembly was one in NEWS ARTICLES 173

which the dominant note was the giv The Harvest Queen then entered pre ing of thanks for the harvests of the ceded by four trumpeters and followed fields of Kalamazoo. It was made so ob by two pages, and took her seat upon jective, however, that even the young the throne, the pages standing on either est child could grasp its meaning and side and the trumpeters kneeling before enter heartily into the spirit of her. Rising from the throne, she told praise. The dramatization was worked of the abundance of the harvests, and out by the committee and modified by called upon each trumpeter in turn to the participants. send the cry throughout his territory A golden throne, cleverly construct that her subjects bring in gifts to her ed by eighth grade boys, and banked throne, from the fruits of their fields. with corn and pumpkins, formed the In response to the call of each trum chief stage setting. Cornstalks, piles of peter, then entered from the North the nuts and vegetables completed the bearers of sheaves of wheat, ears of decoration. corn, the dusty millers with sacks of At the conclusion of the opening flour; from the East the gift of veget song, "Come, Thou Almighty King", ables; from the West the fruits of the the school joined in the following res orchard and sacks of nuts borne by the ponsive reading: little nut gatherers; from the South, bouquets of celery. Each trumpeter "Oh that men would praise the Lord preceded his people to the throne when for His loving kindness, they kneeled and presented their gifts And for His wonderful works to the to the Queen. At her bidding they took children of men. places beside her throne. Then was Response— proclaimed throughout the land in the 0 give thanks unto the Lord, for He words of our President, a day of is good, thanksgiving. The Doxology concluded For His loving kindness endureth for the program. ever. As the children stood upon the stage, each group arrayed in costumes appro Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; priate to the gifts it bore, the scene was Sing praises upon the harp unto our most effective. God, Who covereth the heavens with clouds; Owing to the prevalence of small Who prepareth rain for the earth, pox in the state, the state board of Who maketh grass to grow upon the health through its secretary Dr. Shum- mountains. way requested the various educational He giveth to the beast his food, institutions to forego the usual Friday And to the young ravens which cry. vacation following Thanksgiving. In Response— accordance with this request regular Oh give thanks unto the Lord, for He sessions were held on this Friday. The is good, 600 and more students and instructors For His loving kindness endureth for united with splendid spirit in counter ever. acting the disappointment of not spend ing the holiday in their homes as they Let the peoples praise Thee, oh God; had planned. Let all the peoples praise Thee. Two entertainments not included on The earth hath yielded its increase; the winter's social schedule, were ar God, even our own God, will bless us. ranged by the social committee, one for Response— Thanksgiving afternoon, the second for Oh give thanks unto the Lord, for He Friday evening. On Thursday afternoon is good, a program of athletic games, the cen For His loving kindness endureth for tral feature of which was an indoor ever." baseball game between the junior and senior boys, was enjoyed by a large Song. "The Lord is my Shepherd." number of the students and several 174 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD members of the faculty. With Mr. Wal hands was one of the most beautiful do as umpire and enthusiastic support pictures given. Miss Florence Fran- for both sides from the student body, coise was the St. Cecilia. much fun was created. The juniors won The Domenichino picture shows the by a comfortable score. Volley patroness of music seated, playing on a ball and other games completed the af viol da gamba. Her eyes are turned ternoon's program. A candy sale was to heaven as she receives a divine in conducted by the young women, the spiration. This was given by Miss Ruth proceeds to go into the athletic fund. Foote. For Friday evening the Rural Sociol Miss Vivian Cruse in the Carlo Dolci ogy Seminar had charge of a most en and Miss Eleanor Gardner in the Nau- joyable party. Fully 400 students at jok were beautiful representations of tended and there were several alumni the originals. present. Decorations of a harvest char The reproduction of the Tiffany acter were used in the gymnasium Window in the St. Cecilia Building in where various contests followed by Grand Rapids was of unusual interest dancing were enjoyed. Music was furn Miss Helene Rosecrants admirably ful ished by Miss Pearl Sidenius and Har filled the part of St. Cecilia. ry Taylor of Lawrence. In the library The numbers presented were as fol reading room an opportunity for those lows: who wished to play games was provided PROGRAM and many enjoyed this means of enter 1. The Bells Vincent tainment. The former students who at (Legend—Peasants in Scotland be tended the party included Miss Virgi lieve that spirits ring the bells of nia Greenhow of St. Joseph, Miss Edith ruined priories on stormy nights.) Lent of Howell, Miss Grace Newton of The Choral Union. Three Oaks, R. M. Sooy of Chicago 2. A Visit to the Tomb of St. Cecilia Heights, Melvin Myers of Port Huron, Miss Mary Master. J. Pierre Osborn of Bloomington, Ind., 3. Tableau Van Eyck and Vernon Culp of Oshtemo. 4. Aria, "Farewell Ye Woods" Tchaikovski (1840-1893) St. Cecilia's Day. (From "Jeanne d'Arc") One of the most delightful programs Miss Gertrude I. Smith given at the Normal this year, was that 5. Tableau ....Raphael (1483-1520) presented by the music and art students 6. Valse Brillante Moszkowski in honor of St. Cecilia, the patron saint Miss Marguerite Schau of music, on November the twenty- 7. Tableau Domenichino second, at eight o'clock in the assem 8. Madrigal, "Matona, Lovely Maid bly hall. The tableaux were costumed en" ..Orlando Lassus (1520-94) and arranged entirely by the art stu Ladies' Sextette dents, and much ingenuity was exer 9. Tableau....Carlo Dolci (1616-85) cised to obtain fitting results with a 10. Napoli, Ethelbert Nevin (1862-91) limited expenditure of money. The Miss Alice Holmes poses were natural and the models are 11. (a) Lullaby Cherubini(1760-1832) to be congratulated on their ability to (b) "Who Is Sylvia?" hold them. Miss Goldsworthy preceded Schubert (1797-1828) each tableau with a short talk on the The Chaminade Club artist and the picture represented. 12. Tiffany Window, St. Cecilia Build The Van Eyck masterpiece, an altar ing Grand Rapids piece was the first tableau shown, Miss 13. Prelude to First Modern Suite Myrtle White taking the part of St. from McDowell Cecilia. Miss Florence Mclntyre The Raphael picture, showing the 14. Recitation and Aria (from "Der Saint listening to the song of cherubs, Freischuetz") Von Weber not aware that the reeds are falling (1786-1826) from her organ as she holds it in her Miss Smith NEWS NOTES 175 15. Tableau. .Naujok (contemporary) 16. St. Cecilia's Day Von Bree Before the guests came in the shades The Choral Union were drawn and candles lighted, this with the shining apples and baskets of nuts presented a most festive appear NEWS NOTES. ance. Training School News Notes. The second grade's study of the Tree Before the children were seated a Dwellers as a type of primitive people little song of grace and welcome com has furnished an interesting motive for posed by the third grade children was the art work during the past month. quietly sung. At each table presided a This has resulted in the making of a host and hostess, who were assisted in book and a basket. the serving by two of the children. The Sharptooth is a little Tree Dweller menu consisted of apple sauce and girl and the book, which the children sandwiches, made in third grade cook named for her, represents some of the ing classes, nuts, and apples. The ap things, which intimately concerns her preciation of both grades was shown life. They have pictured her enemies, by the great pleasure this event gave the lion, elephant, hyena, and bear; al them. so her friend, the squirrel. Excellent op The fifth grade have made a plasticine portunities for original work with model of the Parthenon as social work. crayon, scissors and water color are They also made tiles using as motifs found in the pages illustrating the figures from the frieze of the Parthe problems of food getting, as the find non. ing of honey and the gathering of wild The fifth grade have been much in fruits. One page shows Sharptooth feed terested in collecting galls of all kinds ing her fire. This is drawn with colored and finding the hidden grubs within. and white crayons on black paper. They will try to rear the adult insects The book is twelve by fifteen inches. in simple vivaria. The cover decoration, beside the print The 6th grade enjoyed a Thanks ed title which the children colored, con giving party on the Friday afternoon, sists of a tree which was cut free hand. following Thanksgiving in the train The books are to be used as Christmas ing school library. The entertainment gifts. consisted of tableaux from the court The baskets may also be used for ship of Miles Standish. Light refresh Christmas. The first baskets were made ments were served. The 6th grade chil of rushes which the children had gath dren are to be congratulated upon their ered as the Tree Dwellers must have excellent management of the affair. done when they needed a basket for The girls of the eighth grade enter berries. The second was made of raffia tained the boys and practice teach woven on a loom with very simple deco ers on the twenty-third of November, ration. When taken from the loom the in the library of the training school! basket was finished by weaving a bot Thanksgiving stories which they had tom and braiding the handle. composed in their language classes were read before the blazing fire. For re The third grade entertained the freshments grapes and sandwiches children of the first grade on the Wed were served. nesday preceding Thanksgiving. For several weeks before the event the chil The wonderful progress of aero dren were engaged in preparation. planes has found a place in the ambi Candle shades, designs for paper plates tion of the boys of the training school, and place cards were made for the dec mostly of the seventh and eighth oration of the table and served as the grades. Many accurate models have motive for several art lessons. been made of the following air ma Wednesday morning was a very chines, Wright, Bleriot, Curtiss, and busy one. The movable desks were Voison. Several aero clubs have also taken out and the long tables set. been formed among the boys. 176 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD On November seventeenth, the sixth monthly or weekly periodical has the grade had charge of the assembly pro advantage of combining little cost gram. Some of the results _of their with regular and frequent reminder of work in geography were given. The the one who sent it. topic was "The Work Done by the Ice An Outline of Individual Study, by Sheet About Kalamazoo." Seven of the G. E. Partridge (Sturgis and Walton, children were chosen to give five min New York). The school must take ute talks in which they explained pic more account of the individual. Voca tures thrown upon the canvas. tional, moral, physical problems are re The program of December 8th, was quiring a new attack for which our in charge of Miss Balch of the best teachers are preparing themselves. art department, who gave the Christ Dr. Partridge has organized the mat mas story as it has been told _in erial in such a way that any teacher pictures, showing how the Italian can make a beginning and be able to Dutch, Japanese and American artists judge the results gained by studies al ready made. have treated it. Prose Literature for Secondary On Thursday, November 17th., the Schools by Margaret Ashmun (Hough men of the faculty spent a very pleas ton Mifflin Co.) combines the ad ant evening as guests of Mr. Jones and vantages of the modern well edited Mr. Sprau of the English department, text with those of the old reader. Liter at the home of the former on Grand ature and composition are seen here as Ave. Each guest had been instructed two phases of one subject and the selec to give a reminiscent talk, not to ex tions from Warner, Aldrich, Thoreau, ceed three minutes. It is needless to Alice Brown, Parkman, Stevenson, say that the time schedule received Jewett and others give the high school some pretty severe jolts. By the time student and teacher excellent opportu the last autobiography was finished all nities for social, cooperative work. were ready to do full justice to the re Physics by Mann and Twiss (Scott, freshments. The pleasure of the even Foresman and Co., Chicago). Second ing was enhanced by several vocal num edition. Any teacher will be able to get bers rendered in most effective style by a clearer view of what is meant by the Mr. Eugene Woodhams of Grand more modern educational use of any Rapids. subject matter through reading the in troduction to this work. The method of The Book Shelf. experience is stated here with unusual Books for friends for Christmas pres force. The new edition affords much ents are often bought in a hurry with better machinery for carrying out this little adaptation to the real needs of method than did the first edition. those receiving them. On another page From Trail to Railway by Albert P. is a reference to "An American Citi Brigham; Geographic Influences in zen" by J. G. Brooks. Any teacher will American History by Albert P. Brigh be glad to have Hyde's The Teacher's am; Industrial Studies—United States, Philosophy or other numbers in Hough by Nellie B. Allen (65 cents) ; Lessons ton Mifflin Company's Riverside Educa for Junior Citizens by Mabel Hill tional Monographs (35 cents each). An (Ginn and Co. Chicago). other little book is Robert Herrick's These are all valuable attempts to The Master of the Inn (Scribners, 50 put school work upon a better work cents). This story gives the Christmas ing basis. The last has a series of in spirit, or better the spirit of service for teresting stories about the police, all the year, in most interesting form. street, health, school, park and other One is seldom able to find a book which departments as well as chapters on ju holds him so strongly. venile courts, the caucus and election, The Kalamazoo Normal Record will town meeting, village improvement, im be a welcome Christmas visitor in migration and naturalization, peace many Michigan homes. The gift of a movement etc. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD —177 J. R. JONES' SONS & CO.

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News Notes Christmas Festival Program. Carol. ''God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Allen's Boys in Balcony Festival March School Civics and Health Carol of Decoration School (written by 6th grade children) THIS is one of the books adopted by the Decorating Rotunda and Tree.. School State Teachers' Reading Circle of Bringing in Yule Log— Michigan 1910-1911. Yule Log Chant School Carol "King Wencelas" Boy Choir Scenes from Dickens' Christmas Carol A MODERN book, alive and interesting (in charge of 7th grade) that has been found valuable by parents Carol "This Tree Was Grown".School teachers and social workers. It has already Special Dances Around Tree— been adopted by the Teachers' Reading 2nd, 4th, 7th and 8th grades. Circles of twenty-three states. Especially General dancing around tree. helpful are the topics relative to school During the past few weeks the mem hygiene and the suggestions for removing bers of physics course 101 have been the defects in school, street and home en making some interesting visits to local vironment that tend to create inefficient citizenship. " industrial concerns. One trip was to the Superior Ice Company's plant where the boys were shown in detail the use of ammonia in the manufacture Ginn and Company of artificial ice. 2301-2311 Prairie Avenue The second trip was to the Vine St. CHICAGO building where Mr. Waite and Mr. Ide gave us a very clear exposition of how a modern heating and ventilating sys tem is run. A third visit took the class to the Drugs, factory of the Kalamazoo Stove Com pany. Mr. Curtenius kindly gave up the afternoon to showing us through Surgical the whole plant, so that we all came away with a very complete idea of the Instruments, construction of a "Kalamazoo Direct to You" from cast iron to crate. The last visit was to the Gas Works. Physicians' Mr. Barthold, the superintendent of the Works, acted as guide and mentor and Supplies, under his instruction the boys followed the process from the time the coal en Sick Room tered the furnace until the gas was in the storage tanks and saw how each by product and impurity was removed. Appliances. These trips have been both interest ing and instructive and we are under great obligations to those who so free ly gave us of their time in explaining and showing us through. The Colman Drug Co. Marion J. Sherwood of Plainwell, a Successors to H. G. Colman & Co. graduate of the Western Normal in DRUGGISTS 1907, will assist in the manual training department for a few weeks. 123 West Main Street Kalamazoo, Michigan THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 179

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News Notes Mr. Waite is superintending the in WALK-OVER stalling of manual training equipment in the South Haven schools. On December 17th Mr. Manny will give an address before the Association SHOES of Collegiate Alumnae of Chicago, on Get that pair of Walk-Over Shoes "The Vocational Education of the Col lege Woman". now. Mr. Waite entertained informally We have 44 styles to select from, Tuesday evening, Nov. 8, the students Broad, medium, narrow, high toes. of the manual training department. In teresting curios and beautiful views of Plain and Fancy tips, Gun metal, English and Irish scenery collected by Vici, Tan, and Patent leather. Mr. Waite on his recent trip abroad, The selection is best now. You contributed pleasure to the evening. Several members of the 1910 class in must buy shoes soon anyway. manual training spent Thanksgiving in Buy them now. Kalamazoo and visited the Normal. These included Rush M. Sooy of Chi cago Heights, 111., Glenn Hammond of PRICES Stevens Point, Wis., J. Pierre Osborn $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 & $5.00 of Bloomington, Ind., and Melvin My ers of Port Huron; On December 2nd, the manual train- ning teachers of western Michigan or Bell Shoe House ganized a Round Table association in L. Isenberg, Mgr. 124 E. Main St. Kalamazoo, as guests of Mr. Waite. Supervisors and instructors of manual training from Muskegon, Grand F. W. Russell Rapids, Jackson, Battle Creek and Ka lamazoo, were in attendance at the ini 208-210 N. BURDICK ST. tial meeting and will comprise the membership of the organization. Wholesale and Retail The senior domestic art girls intro Dealer in duced themselves to Normal students this year by means of an exhibit of fall Wall Paper, Paints, Window millinery. The results were very grati Shades, Window Glass. fying to beginners in the profession for Special Furniture the hats showed good workmanship and individuality of style. Interest was Drapery and Upholstery Fabrics aroused by the itemized list of cost at tached to each hat showing the possi bilities of economy in this department of woman's dress. GEARY ART SHOP The training school teachers and 118 South Burdick Kalamazoo students had a very enjoyable gather ing in the library and rotunda of that building the afternoon of November tenth. After the grand march various A large collection of pictures for games were played and the after noon was closed with a dancing pro school and home. gram. Hot chocolate and cookies were served in one corner of the library. The Artist materials and art supplies details of arrangements were in the hands of a committee of students. for schools. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 181

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Alumni Notes Miss Esther "Waber has a school near Rural. Kendall. Miss Elsie Shank, rural 1910, is teaching in a country school near her Miss Verla Dokey is teaching at Gobleville. home, Paw Paw. Miss Stella Thayer has a school near Miss Pearl Schoolcraft has a school Gobleville. near Kendall, her home. Miss Gail Hunt is teaching near Mat- Miss Pearl Meeks, advanced rural, tawan, her home. 1910, is teaching near Athens. Miss Zone Camp has charge of a Cleon Krum, rural 1909, has a school school near Bangor. near Battle Creek, R. D. No. 10. Miss Theresa Randall, rural 1909, is Miss Mary Betz, rural 1910, is teach teaching in the country near Covert. ing in the country near Battle Creek. Miss Gertrude* Sheffer, rural 1910, has a school near her home at South Miss Jessie Engle is teaching near Haven. Burlington, Calhoun County. Miss Myrtle Bean is teaching in a Alton Granger who has had summer rural school near Breedsville. work in the Normal is teaching near Miss Saloma Havens is teaching at his home at Tekonsha. Kendall. MissHetty Soule, rural 1910, is teach Miss Hazel Decker taught at Oshte- ing near Homer this year. mo after completing the rural course Miss Bertha Collis, rural 1910, is and is now near her home at School teaching in the primary department of craft. the Bedford school. 182 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD

The Rural Seminars. The Rural seminars were first organ ««* The Book Store ized by Mr. Burnham three years ago Beecher, Kymer & Patterson, Klf for the purpose of serving the general culture needs of the students of this department. There are two organiza We are complete outfitters for tions: the Advanced and the Elemen tary. Each organization chooses its BOOKS and own officers, but it was decided by the members to hold joint meetings this year and give a general program. The SUPPLIES meetings are alternately in charge of the students enrolled in the advanced used at and the elementary courses. The con trol of the Seminars is in the hands of The Western State Normal and all other the student body. schools and institutions in the city and On the Monday following each meet ing the officers of both Seminars meet county. Students are invited to con as an executive committee to arrange sider this store at all times their the program and to decide on plans for Downtown Headquarters the future to be submitted to the mem bers. Lowest Prices The work in rural sociology will not be done in class but will be taken up Large and Complete Stock in the Seminars. Prompt and Efficient Service A general course of reading for all the members will be arranged, and special topics will be assigned to indi vidual members to be presented and C E. BURLEIGH discussed. The work for the first half of the year will lay emphasis on the KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN social factors of rural life; the second half of the year will be given up to a study of agricultural economics. De EH finite outlines covering each course will be furnished as a guide for the reading and discussions. It was decided that there be elected Manual Training and a chairman of a news committee to serve for the year. Mr. Vanderhoof Domestic Science Equipment was chosen for this duty. It will be his task to keep well informed as to the news of the day and to assign to four WRITE for prices on Cooking, Dress or five members topics for study in or making, Kindergarten Tables, der that they may report. Whittling Trays and Cabinets, Whittling Thus far the custom has been to speak without notes. Inasmuch as one Wood. purpose of the Seminars is to give prac tice in public speaking it is hoped that HH this will become a precedent for all who have reports to make on current topics or in the presentation of ques tions for discussion. ' References: Western State Normal School, Kala Through the courtesy of Miss Dens- mazoo Public Schools, also Jackson, Flint, Owosso, more the meetings are held in the lib- Albion, Benton Harbor, Gwinn schools. THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD 183 Western StateNormal School KALAMAZOO. ORGANIZED IN 1904

A High Grade School for the Training of Teachers. The faculty consists of 44 efficient instructors who have been trained in the institutions named below: Armour Institute, Albion College, University of Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago School of Physical Education and Expression, Columbia University, Eureka College, Harvard University, University of Illinois, University of Indiana, Michigan Agricultural College, University of Maine, University of Michigan, Michigan State Normal College, New York Institute of Musical Art, Northwestern University, University of Ohio, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, Sargent Normal School of Physical Training, Terre Haute Normal School, Wabash College, Western State Normal School, Yale University. The buildings are new, large, well planned and attractive, and the equipment is excellent. The library numbers 8000 carefully selected volumes, all new, and is growing rapidly. The gymnasium is the larg est structure of its kind among the normal schools of the MiddleWest. The training school building is a model of convenience, practicability and architectural beauty. The school offers a two years' Life Certificate course for high school graduates, an advanced Rural School course, and review courses. There are also special two years' courses in Public School Art, Kinder garten, Domestic Science, Domestic Art, Manual Training and Public School Music, leading to the Life Certificate. Students may enter attheopening ofany term. The WinterTerm opens Jan. 3, 1911. The year book will be mailed on application. Dwight B. Waldo, President. Kalamazoo, Michigan 184 THE KALAMAZOO NORMAL RECORD ary of the Training School. On October 7, the following program was given: Piano Solo—Miss Dilley. Talk—Mr. Phelan. Song—The Seminar. The second meting was held Oct. 21; Wm. O.HARLOW the program was as follows: Current Events—Minta Gardner, Ruth Sherman, Florence Bournier. Reading from Mark Twain—Hazel EVERYTHING Stevens. Reading—Miss Riddering. Song—The Seminar. IN At the business session following the program a fee of twenty five cents a SPORTING term was voted by the members to de fray expenses. It is planned to hold an GOODS informal reception in the near future.

News Notes Peter Pell, 1911, is teaching at Gales- burg this year. 111 S. ROSE STREET On Nov. 10, Miss Marsh gave the the first of a series of lecture-recitals on different operas. The subject was Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde." The interesting story was illustrated with leit motifs, the prelude and the "Song of Death". The lecture was enjoyed by THE YATES-FISHER members of Miss Master's, Miss Zim EATERS' AGENCY merman's and Miss Marsh's classes, be Paul Yates, Manager 246 Michigan Avenue, Chicago sides a number of guests from the city. The second in the series, "Parsifal" We have placed a great many graduates was given on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at of the Michigan State Normal Schools in 2.25 P. M. in the Music Room. both high school and grade positions. As Among the recent visitors of note to we operate all over the United States you the Normal school were President will have a wide range of choice if you be come a member of our agency. Give us Noah Showalter of the Cheney, Wash a trial and see what we can do for you. ington Normal School, and Mrs. Show- altar who spent Friday, December sec ond, visiting various departments of STUDENTS this school. Their .interest centered especially in the new training school Patronize our advertisers. When building as the Washington Normal is makingpurchases mention the Record. soon to erect a home for their train ing work. A visit was made to the ru ral observation school and a luncheon was served in the training school build News notes unavoidably crowded out of ing for the visitors Friday noon, sever this issue willappear in the January number. al members of the faculty being pres ent.