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JANUARY, 1903

No. 2.

©iforfc: Mer %itc an5 Schools
(A n A b s t r a c t )

i. Gbe Social %ite

A S SCHOOLS of learning the universities are unrivalled; as
schools of manners they are equally pre-eminent. The ideal
object of an Oxford career is to imbue the student with the high­
est form of culture, to teach him the best that has been thought
and written by the best minds on the highest subjects, and to en­
able him to play the best part in the great struggle of human life.
A special and professional training should be only a secondary
object of such a career. There is one profession indeed:—and
that of the highest importance, the profession of teaching— for
which the university does prepare its students, but in other re­
spects it aims at producing noble tendencies rather than com­
mercial results, at humanizing the man rather than turning him
out a professional expert.
The enjoyment which an Oxford undergraduate derives from
his university career depends to a great extent upon his choice of
a college. Of the twenty-two colleges at Oxford each boasts some
worthy distinction— royal favor and patronage, intellectual fame,
athletic fame, frugality of living— and each makes its own impress
upon the social life of its students. Having made his choice, the
young man at about eighteen applies for admission. Upon pre­
senting a certificate of good character the candidate is given an
entrance examination which is described as being more qualifying
than competitive. The caution money is deposited, the furniture
bought or rented, and the college has another student. Member­
ship in the university is received by matriculation before the ViceChancellor. A t this ceremony he receives a copy of the statutes
of the university in Latin— a valuable collection of rules for the
conduct of his daily life, with especial caution against wearing
boots, carrying bombarding implements, smoking and playing

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marbles on the steps of the Bodleian. By this process the candi­
date has become a Freshman and the butt of all fun, good-natured
and ill-natured. But he will have his reward, if he will go slow,
bide his time, and keep out of the clutches of the Sophomores.
The laws of the student body require that in returning a call of a
Senior he must call till he finds him in, and on no account leave
a card. Nor must he return the hospitality of the Senior the first
term. As a Freshman he must confine his friendships to those of
his own class and his life will be neither irksome, nor lonely, nor
joyless.
In the apportionment of rooms the Freshman receives the worst
— top floors, attics, and rooms with old furniture. Perhaps the
crowded halls will oblige him to spend the first term, and longer
sometimes, in lodgings outside of the college. Most of the Seniors
live outside the college because a longer residence than three years
in college is not allowed.
The Oxford man is a busy personage. He works; he takes his
exercise; he eats and drinks, and has his amusement. Naturally
the Oxford man begins the day with breakfast, not hurriedly swal­
lowed-, but actually eaten and enjoyed, for a breakfast party is a
species of hospitality peculiar to Oxford life. On these occasions
the Freshmen are sometimes the invited guests of the Seniors. The
breakfast hour is the opportunity for entertaining friends and the
meal is most pleasant. The morning and afternoon hours are ex­
clusively for reading and lectures, which sometimes continue till
about one o’clock.
The afternoons are given up to athletics, and for this reason
luncheon is neither a luxurious nor a plentiful meal, and devoid
of sociability. In rowing and cricket the men are coached to a
high degree of skill. Rowing amounts to almost a necessary ele­
ment in the university education, for it is a splendid exercise and
a valuable means of social intercourse. Such is the passion for
rowing that the man who is indifferent soon becomes enthusiastic.
True, many men are unable because of physical defects to compete
for places in the secondary crews, and only afew ever get a chance
to pull for the ’ Varsity, but rowing is the favorite sport, and the
majority indulge to their full capacity. It is hardly necessary to
observe that these men must apportion their time most carefully
if they would combine intellectual with physical superiority. The
coaching on the river takes up about two hours of the afternoon,

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leaving an hour before dinner. This hour the student oarsman will
give to his books; the indifferent fellow will be found in the shops
or at billiards.
The Union and school clubs are the favorite resorts of many of
the men during this before dinner, as well as after dinner, hour.
Their bodies offer many opportunities for improvement. There
are discussions and debates. A library affords many facilities for
reading along the line of prescribed studies. Daily papers, mag­
azines and periodicals may be had; postage and stationery, coffee
and cigars, are sold. In the Union a Freshman pays an entrance
fee of one pound Knglish money, but he is not entitled to vote till
he is elected to full membership the next term. A due of one
pound five shillings a term is charged.
“ H all” is the name for dinner at Oxford. A list of the dishes
is handed round and the order taken to the kitchen and served in a
huge plateful. This mode of serving the meal does not add to its
appearance though the food is plentiful and of good quality. Wine
is permitted. At Magdalen they sconce men in sherry, i. e. fine
them for talking shop or misbehaving, and after a while the table
has a wine dinner. After dinner there are club, pool, cards, wines,
and a score of other claims for the undergraduate’s time. If he
will have none of them and rigidly adheres to that resolution, he
is called a “ s m u g , a term of extreme opprobrium. It seems
almost imperative that an Oxford man must deny himself some
of these evening amusements for the sake of his intellectual wel­
fare. We have seen that three of the morning hours are devoted
to reading and lectures with a possible additional hour before
dinner, an ample amount of hard brain work, it seems, for the
constitution of an Oxford man. Yet it is but just to state that a
large company of men read from one to two hours every night.
As additional sources of amusement one might mention hunt­
ing, riding, driving and walking, in summer time, beneath the
, elms and birches in the garden or along the shaded river paths.
These quiet places give a charm to the closing weeks of the term
which we can all appreciate.
Since 1877, tutors at Oxford are allowed to marry. The effect
of this change on the social life is far reaching. The under­
graduate is brought under the influence of woman by being
brought into the homes of his tutors, half of whom now live with­
out the college walls. The student may be invited to an after-

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noon tea with his tutor. He meets the wife, the daughter. He
is for the time a member of the family and the free social inter­
course does its work of refinement.
The discipline of the university is in the hands of proctors.
Their sphere is quite autocratic. The punishments consist of
suspension, expulsion, and fines, depending upon the nature of the
offense.
2. Gbe intellectual %itc

The intellectual life at Oxford represents a happy intermixture
of social and mental pursuits. The music and gymnastics of the
Greeks here seem to have been translated into rowing and reading.
The Union, while a social rendezvousgiS the chief of Oxford’s
numerous debating societies; and the amateur dramatic associa­
tions, musical organizations and the chess clubs partake of this
same intellectual character as the societies for reading Shakespeare.
The enemies of Oxford have brought against her the following
distinct charges of (i.) Superficiality, (2,)'‘Pedantry, (3.) Overwork, (4.) Overspecialization. Some have even gone so far as to
maintain that the intellectual life at Oxford is an unknown and
possibly non-existent quantity; that the Oxford man’s life is one
long holiday of amusement instead of study. Such observations
must surely be founded upon the work of the indolent “ sport” and
the over zealous “ poler” — the extremes of every community of
students. It is safe to accept the testimony of the many who look
back with pleasure and gatitude to Oxford for her great gifts of
knowledge and culture as a vindication of Oxford’s claim to a
healthy intellectual life.
To the tutors of Oxford is committed the training of the
picked intellects of the youth of England. The qualifications for
this office are high and its influence is wide because of the close
personal, contact of the tutor and his pupil. Every undergraduate,
besides having to attend a certain number oflectures, has a special
tutor of whom he takes work. Happy are those who are under a '
first rate man! In his earlier years at Oxford a man has often a
shy schoolboy feeling toward his tutor, but in his last years of res­
idence the barrier often melts away, and the relations between
teacher and pupil become quite unrestrained. The benefit then
derived is often incalculable. Many a man when he leaves O x­
ford, has gained in his tutor a true friend, whose advice, guiding
hand, and ready help, will be of use to him all his life.

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Almost all the lectures at Oxford are open to all of the under­
graduates of the college. This was not the order years ago.
Then there were public lectures but the private lectures were open
only to the undergraduates of the college at which they were de­
livered, and that on payment of a special fee. About 1875, a
combination system of lectures was formed which has now e x­
panded into a vast system of inter-collegiate lectures. This
gives the tutors and the fellows a non-official rank of university
lectures, the test of whose popularity and success is the size of
their audiences. Practically the men attend lectures at the col­
lege at which they have registered because a certain number of
lectures are compulsory and they care to go elsewhere only for
the special subjects or to hear the most prominent and successful
lecturers, among whom are mentioned Ruskin and Prof. Green.
Practically then, there are no private lectures at Oxford. A ll
lectures are open to the student public. The public lectures of
the present day are those of a popular character delivered to
mixed audiences by the professors of poetry and fine art. Many
of them draw large audiences but frequently the awkward hour—
two or three p. m.— at which they are given is responsible for the
small attendance. The students at this time are occupied with
reading or exercise and the lectures do not have sufficient amuse­
ment to draw the idle public.
Professors and lecturers perform, in the main, the same office
that they do in other universities and colleges. These may be
styled official influences. But still more important and interest­
ing are the unofficial influences which work less directly upon the
life and tone of thought of the student. The intellectual air of
Oxford is wholesome and bracing. There is toleration and broad­
ness of view. Opinions are rigidly subjected to the test ofreason.
One cannot shelter himself under the plea of authority or practice
of the world. The result is that the men become thinkers though
they frequently neglect the practical aspect of the questions which
exercise them.
The utmost freedom is given to the men as they read in the
various branches of thought. In philosophy the student is led to
appreciate Plato and Aristotle and then he comes down the stream
of history to modern times. Or, he studies ancient and modern
thought side by side and is left to make his own division and
classification. According to the bent of his mind and the guidance

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of his tutor, he comes to follow the lead of the masters whom he
studies.
Oxford has never given much attention to English Literature.
Indeed, for a long time it almost escaped being a part of the O x­
ford curriculum. Y et Oxford through her libraries has done
much indirectly to develop a taste and form the judgment in
literary matters. A ll sorts of books are talked of and commented
upon until one yields to the desire to read and judge for himself.
In the past this criticism and comment was confined largely to
the ancient masters. Little was said of current books. But in
1887, the authorities were obliged to respond to the educational
demands of the day and a joint school of modern languages and
literature was then about to be established.
The Union has a potent unofficial influence on the intellectual
life of Oxford. It is both a literary club and a debating society.
Among its presidents have been Arch Bishop Tait, Bishop Wilberforce, Cardinal Manning, and the Right Hon. W. E. Glad­
stone.
The subjects of the debates are usually some questions
of English politics and the style and quality of the oratory in the
Union is parent of many a speech in Parliament.
3. {Tbe IReligfous Xife

Oxford is a Christian institution but no religious profession is
demanded of matriculating students, because the university, as a
corporate body, takes no heed of religious controversy. This
was not so in the past as Oxford owes its foundation to religion.
Its history is closely identified with some phase of the great re­
ligious struggles.
The chapel services form the nucleus of the religious life of the
Oxford undergraduate. They usually consist of morning and
evening prayers— a very simple service at most colleges. New
College and Magdalen College have beautiful and elaborate chapel
services. A t some colleges prayers are said at 10 p. m. as a fit­
ting close to the day’s work. Chapel attendance is frequently
voluntary.
Chapel is hardly a satisfactory form of worship because the
academy overshadows the religious element. To supply this
need the heads of the university have provided a series of inde­
pendent religious exercises. They are held on Friday evenings,
are open to all the students, and are conducted by some great

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leader of religion. The churches of the parish also offer large
opportunity for service and worship. W yckliff Hall and St.
Stephen’s House give special biblical and religious instruction to
men who contemplate taking holy orders.

Zbe iRemnant vs. Zbc flDajoritv
influence is the greatest force among men. The
PERSONAL,
world’s greatest movements were not conceived and pro­
pounded by the mass but by the individual. The world
scoffs and derides the new. It clings to the old blindly. The
pale and bleeding figure of a man who laboriously toiled under
the weight of a cross up Calvary’s Hill, amid the taunts and jeers
of a motley throng, was looked upon as the termination of a life of
miserable failure. Yet, how magnificently successful was that
failure!
From the influence of that life has sprung the greatest and the
noblest institution in the history of nations. The morality of men
was turned right side up. The ethical phase of human culture re­
ceived an impetus that has filled libraries with splendid volumes
of truth, and made human hearts replete with love. The influ­
ence of that nobly divine life has widened, lengthened, arisen and
deepened until the whole earth and sky and sea join in one grand
sweet song of “ Glory to God in the Highest.’ ’
Such is the result of a life that knew its influence for good was
true, and feared not to assert it. This is the fruit of a life that
was not cowed by the majority. It was a remnant against the ma­
jority. The majority cruelly ended that life by brute force and
malice— attributes in which it always excels. But the domina­
tion of the majority lasted for its little day; the life which was the
truth itself endures for eternity.
Examples of the truth of this fact may be multiplied: Florence
killed her hero, Savonarola, and now Florence is the first to laud
his memory to the skies. Roll back the curtain of centuries and
look into the Spanish town of Valladolid one May day and see a
poor beggar wretchedly die: called fool, fanatic, and pointed at
with scornful finger— this man who discovered a continent upon
which has developed the mightiest nation among nations. Now

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Spain proudly praises her Columbus. In our own early history
Europe looked at a handful of starving, naked soldiers in a little
valley in Pennsylvania, and did not hesitate to say “ Foolish
wretches fighting for a lost cause.” Demosthenes, the greatest
orator of antiquity, was at first greeted with hisses and groans, and
even suffered ostracism. Lincoln, slavery’s martyr, was hated,
vilified, and suffered assassination because he struck the shackles
from slavery. Now to where does the pinnacle of his fame reach?
Who can measure the force of his influence ? He lives in the
hearts of Americans more truly now than forty years ago.
The price of truth has often been the life of the one who has
maintained and asserted it. Such a price cannot be measured in
the balances of men. It is above counting.
From the history of such events we derive the following
formula: the judgment of the majority cannot always be depended
upon as true.
Now for the application. It is not very likely that any one
who reads this little paper will ever be called upon to perform the
acts or stand before the world in the positions of the great persons
here mentioned. More heroes have died, and more are living than
the world will ever recognize as such. One can be and act the
part of a hero in his own little sphere without the plaudits of the
crowd. When the idea of township high schools began to be dis­
seminated among the teaching fraternity of the state, a young
teacher in York county caught the idea in all its fullness, and sig­
nificance. He went to the school board assembled in regal state,
and to the individual worthies, but all except one scouted the idea
of a high school in their Deestrick. It would cost too much, and
the taxes were already too high; besides, the majority of the
patrons were opposed. They said the country school was all they
had, and their children were not any better than they were. In
their minds had not yet shown the light of a new d a y ; to their
benighted intellects a new idea was as remote as the moons of
Jupiter. No, they didn’t want any such thing. The word
“ progress” was not in their vocabulary. The majority seemed
to be solidly fortified against the remnant. Nevertheless, the in­
spired young teacher was of the stuff that makes heroes. He
worked upon the one director who seemed favorable, and by one
means or another finally started in a small way to build up a
high school. The affair was succeeding when the young man

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was called to another field of labor, and the matter was dropped
because there was not even a remnant left.
A young man who feels and knows that he has a good idea
should never feel defeated because the community says him nay.
The young man who has gone to school, or has been broadened
by study and reading, and sees things in their proper relations—
he especially should be the leader and prime-mover in the intel­
lectual and commercial enterprises of a community. It is a dis­
grace for any young man to be contented with merely satisfying
the wants of his own mind and body. Brains count for every­
thing. Money is their tool. Promoters of great corporations,
mining companies, etc., are men with brains, not means. Great
men never die rich.
Let us remember then that it is not always the right thing to
follow the majority. A man lives best who endeavors to carry
out his noblest thoughts and purposes. Better be right with the
remnant than wrong with the majority.

a Bos’s /iDotber
My mother, she’s so good to me.
E f I was good as I could be,
I couldn’t be as good. No s ir ;
Can’ t any boy be good as her.
She loves me when X am glad or mad.
She loves me when Xam good or bad,
An, what’s the funniest thing, she says
She loves me when she punishes.
I don’ t like her to punish me,
That don’t hurt, but it hurts to see
Her cry. Nen I cry, an nen
We both cry, an be good again.
She loves me when she cuts and sews
My little coat and Sunday clothes.
An when my pa comes home to tea
She loves him most as much as me.
She laughs and tells him all I said
An grabs me up and pats my head,
An I hug her an hug my pa
An love him purt’ nigh much as ma.
—James Whitcomb R ile y

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fllMnimum Salary for public Scbool Ueacbers
B y D . J. W a l l e r , Jr., D . D ., Principal Indiana, Pa., State Normal School

In target practice we surround the bull’s eye with white in or­
der to hit it. Let us define our subject by comparison and con­
trast. In the year 1900, in the North Atlantic Division of the
United States, the average salary of a teacher, if a man, was
$56.70; if a woman, it was $41.32; including the whole United
States, it was $46.53 for a man, and almost $39.00 for a woman.
In Pennsylvania, the second state in the union in wealth and pop­
ulation, the first in the size of its appropriation to schools, the
average salary of teachers, if men, is $44.25. This is two and a
quarter dollars below the average for the whole Union, including
the impoverished South and the developing West. Compared
with the other states of the North Atlantic Division, Pennsylva­
nia pays less than one half of the average salary paid to men by
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and a dollar and
fourteen cents more than half of what is paid in New Jersey.
Pennsylvania stands third from the bottom in salaries for both
men and women. Dr. Search tells me that Modoc, the north­
eastern county of California, a grazing county without a railroad
in it, has forty-one teachers, ten of whom are college graduates;
has a nine months’ term, and an average of $75.00 per month
salary.
Passing from the consideration of average salaries to that par­
ticularly assigned— minimum salary— the situation does not im­
prove, In 1887 the state appropriation for public schools was
$1,000,000. A comparison of the statistics for that year with
those of 1900 for Belfast township, Fulton county, shows that
the rate of taxation was then seventeen mills, while in 1900 it
was two and a half m ills; and the amount raised was $1064, while
in 1900 it was $476. The cost per pupil fifteen years ago was 54
cents per month. In 1900 it was 63 cents. Meanwhile the state
aid rose from $216 to $1146. There were one hundred seventyone children in 1887, and one hundred seventy-seven in 1900. In
this year the salary for men was $19.00 and for women $17.00.
Inevitable inferences from these facts are,
1. That the township is abundantly ably to have better
schools.
2. That the people of Belfast township have as good schools
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3.
That if the schools of that part of Fulton county are to be
improved, outside influence must improve them.
Turningnow to Meshoppen township, Wyoming county, where
the lowest salaries in the state are paid— $16.71 for men and
women— we find that in 1887 that township paid $20.00 to men
though only $16.00 to women. The rate of taxation then was six
mills. In 1900 it was four mills, and the amount raised by taxa­
tion fell from $957.00 to $653.00, while the state aid rose from
$170.00 to $711.00. The inferences drawn must be the same as
in the case of Belfast township, Fulton county.
Taking a wider survey, the nine counties in Pennsylvania pay­
ing the lowest salaries to men in 1900 were Fulton, Snyder, Pike,
Juniata, Adams, Perry, Monroe, Montour and Huntingdon. They
all pay less than $32.00, and are all east of the Alleghenies. The
nine counties paying the lowest salaries to women are also east of
the Alleghanies. Fifteen years ago, when the state appropriation
to schools was one million dollars, the average rate of taxation in
these counties was nine mills. In 1900 it was six mills, and the
amount raised by taxation fell from $25,892 to $25,790 per county,
though the appropriation rose to five millions. Thus, while the
amount raised by taxation fell $102.00, the amount of State aid
received rose from $4,807 to $21,435 per county. The difference
in the aggregate sums raised by these nine counties in 1887 and
in 1900 is less than a thousand dollars, and it is in the wrong di­
rection. The increase in the aggregate State aid in those years
is $150,000, yet the salaries have changed from $25.00 to $27.00—
or $2.00. To put it differently, the rate of taxation has decreased
and the amount raised by taxation has decreased and the State
aid has increased four hundred and forty-eight per cent., and the
salaries eight per cent. The inferences already drawn are con­
firmed by this wider view.
Take quite a different situation. E lk county, with all its for­
ests and mountains, receiving only $28,800 from the state, lays a
tax of 18 mills, raises the sum of $60,400, and pays her men over
$65, and her women over $36. The inferences already drawn are
confirmed by this contrast. E lk county is easily the banner
county of the state.
In the most benighted part of the United States, and the South
Central Division, where colored children predominate, the average
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counties with all their state appropriation, expend less per pupil
than is the average spent on negroes and whites in this Division,
consisting of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis­
iana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The average cost in Ful­
ton county is $6.55. In the nine counties already named the
average cost per pupil is $8.37 or $1.03 more than in the South
Central Division of the Union. The average cost per pupil for
the whole Union is $20.29, and for the North Atlantic Division
it is $31.72.
We have found where the minimum salary is in vogue, and, at
least so far as this state is concerned, what it is. When we re­
cover sufficiently from our mortification, it remains to ask what
can be done ?
Plainly this deplorable state of affairs is not due to the finan­
cial inability of the people. Neither is it due to restrictions of
law binding the hands of progressive communities. Every town­
ship, borough, and city may have as good schools as it wants.
We have applied the Jeffersonian principle of local control almost
to the exclusion of the Hamiltonian counter influence of centrali­
zation. We are double-dyed Democrats. But it is not safe to
assume that every community desires good schools any more that
every community desires good roads. Many simply wish for
them.
The ordinary agencies through which the people are moved
are the press and the pulpit. A faithful presentation of the shame­
ful facts through these with iteration and reiteration, together
with the holding up of proper ideals, may accomplish something,
will accomplish much if a John-the-Baptist can be found, or a
Peter-the-Hermit, and if the press will champion the cause of
children as it did the cause of slaves.
The only two special agencies provided by our laws for reach­
ing the school districts are the County Institute and the State
appropriation. Here we meet the obstacle that the institute is
too often muzzled by the power that is to be overcome. There
is a county— and maybe there are many— where for years the two
hundred dollars provided by law for the institute were not used
because public sentiment opposed this draft upon the county
treasury. Instructors in the institutes have been forbidden to
advocate a longer school term, though the offense of directors in
this respect was rank and smelt to heaven. Nevertheless, insti-

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tutes have done great service indirectly and may be counted upon
as a valuable agent when in the hands of courageous Superinten­
dents. The other special agency is the State appropriation. This
has been the powerful lever that raised the people every time that
there has been progress from the lowest plane. It fixed the
minimum qualifications of teachers, it introduced the required
studies, it secured statistics, it lengthened the term step by step.
Naturally we turn to the old and tried instrument. It may be
used in behalf of the cause and will in some degree be effective.
When whole counties raise less taxation than they receive from
the Commonwealth, and less than they raised years ago; such
as Fulton and Snyder, it becomes a pertinent question whether
the tax fund should not double the state aid in every township;
whether the aid shall not be withheld altogether unless the amount
of the school tax shall double what the State paid the preceding
year. To reach this it may be necessary to lay a full valuation,
and the full thirteen mills, and if this is not sufficient, let the re­
striction to the thirteen mills be removed. Let no one say this
will work hardship. Any plan that will secure good schools will
require sacrifice; but there must be respect unto the recompense
of the reward. Neither will it do to hesitate because of the un­
popularity of such a measure in the counties affected by i t ; for
every time the school term has been lengthened the men from such
counties who voted for the longer term were refused re-election.
Yet the longer term justifies the sacrifice.
Another step toward higher minimum salaries may be to make
the minimum requirement of teachers so high that the persons
having made such preparation will be unwilling to teach for the
minimum salaries now paid.
The principle is laid down in the Constitution of Massachu­
setts that''‘"‘knowledge and learning, as well as virtue, generally
diffused throughout the community, are essential to the preserva­
tion of a free government and the rights and liberties of the people. ’ ’
The Supreme Court of the State of Indiana has declared that “ es­
sentially and intrinsically the schools in which we are educated
and trained, the children who are to become the rulers of the Com­
monwealth are matters of State and not of local jurisdiction.”
“ In such matters,” says the Court, “ the State is a unit. The
authority over schools and school affairs is not necessarily a dis­
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the contrary it is a central power residing in the Legislature of the
State. It is for the law-making power to determine whether the
authority shall be exercised by a State Board of Education or dis­
tributed to county, town, or city organizations throughout the
State. Our own Supreme Court says: “ We may assert positive­
ly, and without hesitation, that school districts are but the agents
of the Commonwealth, and are made quasi corporations for the
sole purpose of the administration of the Commonwealth’s system
of public education.”^ The facts recited in the opening of this
paper raised the question whether the interests of the Common­
wealth do not require a greater degree of centralization than has
yet been sanctioned by our school laws.
But it may be asked what should be the minimum salary? It
must be high enough to secure good schools. It should be high
enough to enable the country children to enjoy as good schools as
those of the town. I f it is said that many good teachers who are
young and can be had cheap, it may be replied that experience
has proven the supply to be unreliable. Too many are needed,
and the good ones either command better positions or stop soon.
The salary must be such as is found generally to be necessary in
order to command the services of good teachers and have good
schools. The present minimum salary is wasteful. The crop of
children in every township is potentially its most valuable crop.
Compare the earning power of a well-educated family with that of
a family educated by a teacher having a minimum salary— other
things being equal. Multiply the earning power of the well-edu­
cated family by the number of families in the township, and com­
pare this product with the value of the hogs and horses and hay,
the corn and the wheat. There is no comparison The very
agency of these families increases the yield of every crop. It has
been demonstrated that the wages and the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts surpass those of other populations because Massa­
chusetts gives a better education. But let us rise above this argumentum ad hominem.
State pride and patriotism call for a higher minimum salary.
The Keystone State, second in the Union in population and wealth,
has been held up to the scorn of the country by the great national
periodicals of the dominant political party because of the corrup­
tion pervading our body politic, because the buying and selling
of votes seem to be a well established business. The influence of

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the State in the councils of the nation is less than States east and
west of us having but a fraction of our numbers and wealth. Such
conditions go with a low standard of popular education. They
are inexcusable among us.
But philanthropy requires us to consider the wrong done to the
children. Their powers of usefulness and of enjoyment are cap­
able of immeasurable development, provided they are cultivated
in childhood; yet these priceless possessions are allowed to shrivel
until the great majority of children grow up to be little more than
machines. Oh, for the shot that shall hit the bull’s eye and ring
the signal of a new era of intelligence for thousands of children of
the Commonwealth!

Examples ot Tancorrecteit paragraph Composition in
H)ailp 'Cbeme in tbe flDi&hle Class
N TAIN S. When we view the mountains we are filled
MO Uwith
awe. Their vast solitude calm our heated passions.
We view with wonder their everlasting peaks. How magnificent
they are, reaching their heads against the distant blue, peeping
over the clouds to see the glories hid by them ! How stately do
they appear ! They are like old veterans. The snows of a thous­
and winters have whitened their heads. They have withstood
many an attack. Many foes have they driven back, and now they
stand ready to defend themselves from future enemies. Mountains
are strong forts protecting the occupants from many blasts. To
have them destroyed would be as harmful as to have the forts
demolished in time of war. What is grander in nature than these?
Where can we see a more beautiful sight ?— Anna M . Jones, ’04.
T H E BROOK. Many of us have stood looking into the face
of the merry brook. As we thus stand watching it as it meanders
here and there, how few of us think of the joys and trials it has
in its journey through this world. What a story it would tell us
of how it started from the snow-peaked mountains where it could
breathe in the pure air and see the beauties of nature and then
slowly making its way down amid all sorts of company. “ I have
friends great and small,” says the brook, ‘ ‘from the little violet
which brightens my home in summer, to the complaining willow
which weeps out its sorrow to me and to whom I am trying to teach

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the power of song; I am happy always for I sing and babble all
day long, for what use is complaining that life is too short and
too few are happy.” So it goes along, singing its happy song
until it reaps its reward on the bosom of the ocean, wherewith its
brother rivers and brooks, it spends a peaceful life of helpfulness
and excitement.— Helen A . Corwin, ’04.
FL,OWERS. Flowers are one of the most beautiful and in­
teresting studies in nature. How lovely a sight to see the tiny
green plant peep through the earth, and how every one welcomes
it. Very soon it changes its appearance; the stem increases in
length, the leaves appear, and at last we see the bud and watch
it become larger and larger until it opens and we see the delicately
tinted flower. How sad we feel 'when we remember how great a
number spring up unsown and die ungathered. They resemble
human lives which contain, at first, simply a spark of life, until
they are mature, when suddenly the thread of life is snapped in
two.— Maude Mason, '04..

Supremely loved, supremely blest.— L . O. S.
An Irishman complained of his physician that ‘ ‘he stuffed him
so much with drugs that he was ill a long time after he got well. ’ ’
— Selected.
I f the camera could photograph our thoughts, how would you
like to have your picture taken ? I am asking the question of
you, the man or woman who is reading this paragraph.— Selected.
It is a mistake to think conversation is the chief end of teach­
ing. Setting a person upon the right road is good, but instruction
how to keep it until the other end is reached is better.
Educate a child’s will by giving him an opportunity to decide
or choose for himself.— E x.
Freddie’s Explanation— What did Freddie say when you
caught him coming out of the pantry with his hands stained red ?
He told me the truth by saying that he had jammed his fingers.—
Dickinson Union.
Child study impresses upon the teacher that she must train
herself, and to do this she must have self-control, must have her­
self finely disciplined.— E x.

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JANUARY 1903

E&itorial
With the beginning of the New Year comes the vanguard of
new and startling ideas. Wireless telegraphy is an assured fact.
The traction problem is solved by the storage battery. Within
the next score of years we may confidently expect all sorts of
vehicles to be propelled by electricity. Thomas A . Edison says
that science “ may even discover the germ of old age.”
Thousands of people throughout the country are advocating
the blessed doctrine of simplicity of living. Exercise, pure food,
and fresh air are the natural and only means to bring good health.
Drugs are becoming the things of the past. “ Every new dis­
covery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we
have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken
was all useless.’ ’
A ll nations tend toward a peaceful settlement of their difficul­
ties. Great wars are apparently not to happen in the near future.
Even the Czar of Russia, the head of the most despotic govern­
ment in Europe, is the first to lift his voice for the arbitration of
harassing international questions. Such nobility of action is surely
in the right direction.
A ll these new, diversified movements of the world’s doings
should surely claim some of the time the public school teacher uses
in general reading. A ll these movements are making the history

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of this period; and for this reason alone the growing men and
wofnen in his school should know something of them.
jt
Our Senior class is doing excellent work in the Model School.
Most of the class are teaching two periods a day. This gives
them unusual opportunities for practice teaching under skillful
and sympathetic direction. Many of them will teach three or four
times the minimum time required by law, and can truthfully be
recommended as experienced teachers. The Model School ex­
perience of this year’s graduating class will be worth to them as
teachers many terms of teaching in the public schools. The class
is to be congratulated on its opportunity as well as its work.
j*
Our Middle year class is composed of earnest, enthusiastic, and
hard working students. This class is receiving the close atten­
tion of the faculty and its members are soon to advance to the
honored position of Seniors in our Normal School. In order that
the academic work of the course may receive its proper recogni­
tion we have called on only a very few of the Middle year class thus
far to do any teaching in the Model School. Most of the class
have elected German in preference to Chemistry. The privilege
of electives in the Middle year is, to say the least, a questionable
one.
Our Junior class is doing splendid work in the different subjects
belonging to the Junior year. It contains many very bright stu­
dents and we look for good results at the end of the year. We
are giving this class excellent opportunities in Drawing, Mnsic
and Reading as well as in all the other branches which they are
required to pursue. Most of the class will have a full year’s work
in Drawing, Reading, Music and Junior Latin. We do not ap­
prove of short cuts in any of the subjects of the course. A ll the
subjects of the Junior year are important and should be given full
time for their completion.
A ll indications point to a full school for the Spring Term. The
readers of the Normal School Herald will confer a great favor upon
the Principal of the Cumberland Valley State Normal School if
they send him the names and addresses of any persons contem-

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plating beginning a Normal course thecoming Spring Term. They
will at the same time be conferring a great favor upon those who
are thus persuaded to become students in the C. V . S. N. S. Do
not be afraid of over-crowding the school. We will take the best
of care of all the students you send. Nothing else makes us so
happy as seeing our halls filled with wide-awake, enthusiastic stu­
dents.
j*
Notwithstanding the very unfavorable weather we have been
having for the past month the contractors for our new building
have been making progress. The new Library Hall, when finished,
will be a very beautiful room. The arrangements for shelving
and indexing the books will be modern and complete. A ll the ar­
rangements of the room will be artistic and attractive, making it a
very handsome addition to the many other attractive rooms in the
group of Normal buildings.
j*
The two most important topics discussed at the last Principals '
Meeting, held in Harrisburg in November, were the “ Provisional
Certificate” and the “ Minimum Salaries for Public School Teach­
ers.” Principal Eckels, of Shippensburg, and Principal Waller, of
Indiana, presented the leading papers on these two subjects. Dr.
W aller’s paper, which is a most excellent one, is presented to the
readers of the “ Herald” in this issue. Dr. Eckels’ paper will
probably be published in our next issue. We invite a close read­
ing of Dr. W aller’s paper. His arguments in favor of a law fix­
ing a minimum salary for public school teachers are unanswerable.
If the county institutes are to hold their own in the estimation
of the leading teachers of the state, then much of the instruction
must be made more practical. The effort to tickle the ears of
those who are looking for entertainment merely from' our insti­
tute instructors is being carried to such an extent that the earnest,
conscientious teacher who is looking to the institute for help
finds but little in the daily instruction calculated to strengthen
him in his work. Two or three sessions of popular entertain­
ment might possibly not be productive of any great harm, but a
whole week of such work is more than even a Pennsylvania insti­
tute can stand and thrive.

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Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, Supt. of Public Instruction, makes the fol­
lowing encouraging statements concerning the new Normal School
Course. ' “ With the last Commencement the two years elemen­
tary course of the State Normal Schools became a thing of the
past. The new course covers three years.
It increases the
amount of science, literature, and history, and provides for the
study of Cicero and Vergil. The best is not too good for the
pupils of our public schools. The new course seeks to prepare
teachers for more scholarly work. ^The standards of all profes­
sional schools have been raised; the applications of science to
agriculture, as well as to other industries, make new demands
on the schools— demands that cannot be fully met unless the
teachers push their scholarship beyond the branches of an elemen­
tary course. The new course will diminish the number of gradu­
ates for several years, but in the end it will increase the attendance
at our Normal Schools and give the public schools a generation of
teachers with better training and broader scholarship.”

Every true friend of the public schools is interested in the con­
tinuance of free tuition to all Normal School students who are pre­
paring to teach. The real progress of the schools will always be
measured by the improvement of the teachers. Dr. Rice says
that a proper test for a system of schools can always be applied
by ascertaining how poor a teacher can be and remain in the
service of such system. The public schools of to-day differ from
the public schools of a generation ago, just to the extent that the
teachers of to-day differ from the teachers of a generation ago. It
has taken Pennsylvania some time to overtake her sister states in
her liberality to Normal School students and we must not allow
her to fall behind them in this respect again. Dr. Schaeffer, in
concluding his most excellent annual report, says “ The efforts to
improve the schools should, above all else, be centered upon the
agencies that help to fit the teachers for their work. The con­
tinuance of the appropriation making tuition free at the State
Normal Schools is therefore of paramount importance. Next to
the appropriation for school maintenance, this appropriation is
the most important of all the appropriations which will claim the
attention of the next Legislature.”

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The needs of the new century will largely determine the
character of its education. The ideal man, after which education
will endeavor to fashion all men, will be the Man of Galilee. This
is not a new ideal.
For almost two thousand years the power
and example of the Christ life have been moulding the chief civili­
zations of the world. It is for this reason that the character­
istics of the life of this Man of Galilee answer for the kind of man
which the new century needs and which it is the duty of education
to furnish More attention will be given to the culture of the
feelings in the education of the new century than was given in
the past century. If life is to be made better and happier for the
coming generation than it is in the present generation, then the
altruistic feeling must be more fully recognized in the develop­
ment of the youthful mind. Kindness, sympathy, helpfulness,
must be developed in the school relations of the boys and girls.
That which the world needs most in its civilization is a greater
degree of helpful sympathy. To the school, the press, the church,
the home, we look for its development.

The necessity for the teacher making plain the truth, making
the precept clear-cut and definite, is manifest. What a child
does not understand is of little value to him.— E x.
The essential principle of education is not teaching, it is love.
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
Senior— Did you hear about the great diamond robbery ?
Junior— No, where did it happen ?
Senior— In yesterday’s game, Crurikleton stole a base—
Adapted.
An old German teacher, with some distinguished visitor, was
one day passing a group of jolly boys. The teacher saluted them
with marked respect. The visitor noticed it and enquired, “ Why
so particular to do that— they are nothing but boys ?’ ’ “ Nothing
but boys,’ ’ retorted the indignant old master. “ Why. sir, in
yonder group are some of the future statesmen, soldiers, ministers,
of the Fatherland.” One of the boys was Martin Luther.— E x .
Boy— (On Thanksgiving) The visitors partook of the “ rost.”
Teacher— Put a little filling in it.

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Baseball ©utlooft
HTHE opening of next term will witness the Normal team pre*
pared to play ball. Though these winter days— with their
varied mixture of snow and rain and freeze and thaw— do not
lend themselves to team work on the field, one does not need to be
a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, to say that the Normal team
will be prepared to play ball when the season opens. The candi­
dates have the spirit of preparation. An occasional mild day
tempts them to the open air for easy tosses or long throws, while
the severer weather drives them to the gymnasium. Three months
of this will tell on the physical condition of the men, and render
more effective the days of open practice in the early Spring.
Our friends can look for a schedule of ten games. A t least six
of these are scheduled already and the whole schedule will soon
be announced. The question of finances has been carefully con­
sidered and the athletic fund for the coming season promises to
exceed that of last season. I f we are not disappointed in this, our
first team may look for new uniforms and such other equipment
and comforts that help to win. To teachers, students, and towns­
people, we say “ Be liberal and help the game along.”
Concerning the personnel of the team, Mellinger who made a
reputation for himself last season, will be in the box. Starry, Bressler and Güyer are possibilities for catcher. Gray can be relied
on for any infield position and Crunkleton will cover acres of re­
mote territory. Spangler, too, will return, and probably Fergu­
son will get in toward the end of the season. Though the team lost
five men by graduation last June the new candidates present not
a little good timber, and from all points the outlook for a success­
ful season is promising.

football
'T 'H E season opened at Normal with very poor prospects for a
*
football team. The idea that material for a team was lack­
ing became so prevalent that many said the time would be
better spent by practicing base ball for the Spring; but, by the or­
ganization of the Athletic Association, and by the desire of some
of the boys to get out just for practice, a team was finally organ­
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a little practice and perseverance ,we surprised ourselves by devel­
oping. a fairly strong team— a team that would have ranked first of
its class had the scrubs been faithful in opposing it.
The first game was played with Chambersburg Academy at
Shippensburg. Before the game had been long in progress it was
evident that the Normal team had the better of the contest. Our
team was somewhat heavier than the Academy, and also played
better ball. The final score was in favor of Normal, 29-6.
Another game was played against the Academy at Chambers­
burg. The Academy played better ball than in the game at Ship­
pensburg, yet the goal of the Normal team was not seriously threat­
ened. Our boys played hard, clean ball, behaved themselves as
gentlemen, and never gave cause for an article which appeared in
a Chambersburg paper to the contrary. Final score— Normal 18;
Academy o.
The Normal team played two games against the Dickinson
Preparatory School at Carlisle, and were defeated both times.
The scores were 10-0, and 21-6. Our team played good, hard
ball in both games, yet the scores do not show it. The season
closed with a spread for the boys through the kindness of Prof,
and Mrs. Rife.

Basket Ball
Basket Ball is a new game at Normal. It is played in the Gym­
nasium by both boys and girls. The Gymnasium has been
stripped of unnecessary apparatus and gas fittings, and screens
have been put over the windows. We have as good accommoda­
tions for playing the game as any Normal School in the State.
The game teems with excitement and sport, and great enthu­
siasm has been shown by both boys and girls. I f a strong team
is developed several match games will be scheduled with other
school teams.

The paper called foolscap was so named by Charles II, who,
when restored to power, exclaimed on examining some paper
that had been brought for his use, and on which was a certain
liberty stamp originated by Oliver Cromwell, “ Take it away ! I
have nothing to do with a fool’s cap.” — Selected.

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IPersonals
R Y E.
HA RLaw.

FO X , ’98, is a Middler at Dickinson School of

Esther Angle, ’94, is teaching at Greencastle.
N. W. Ausherman, ’99, teaches the school at Grindstone Hill,
and lives at Chambersburg, Pa.
E. I. Cook, ’00, teaches a school in Washington Twp., Frank­
lin Co., Pa.
Mae Miller, ’98, is teaching at Clay Hill, Franklin Co., Pa.
Herbert E. Creamer, ’00. entered the Freshman class at Dick­
inson College last Fall.
W . A . Cramer, ’96, has charge of the Department of English
at Martinsburg High School.
E. M. Hershey, ’94, is studying law in the office of a promi­
nent attorney at Harrisburg, Pa. He will take the examination
for admission to the bar in the Spring.
Mr. I. L. Bryner, former teacher of Latin at Normal, has gone
to California, where he is interested in oil fields. His family has
accompanied him. They will spend the Winter and Spring in Cal­
ifornia. Robert H. Smith, ’94, has accompanied Mr. Bryner on
his trip to California.
W. S. Cornman, ’94, is traveling clerk for the American T el­
ephone and Telegraph Company.
Oran A . Pressel, ’97, is Principal of the Preparatory High
School at Warren, Pa.
W. H. Klepper, ’94, has charge of the Department of Science
in the Mt. Carmel High School.
W. Homer Hendricks, ’97, is taking a course in mechanical
engineering at Lehigh University.
W . E. Watson, ’97, is employed by the National Tube Co.,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Prof. Geo. Eckels gave a very interesting and instructive dis­
cussion on composition work at the Teachers’ Institute at Cham­
bersburg last Fall. Prof. Eckels talked in a very fluent and earnest
manner and made a good impression upon the institute.

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Mary M. Gilliland, ’97, is teaching the City High School at
Kalispell, Montana. She will vote for the first time at the coming
school election.
Howard F. Slagle has resigned his school at Bunker Hill,
York Co., and will accept the clerkship of the Hanover Saving
Fund Society. Mr. Slagle is an enthusiastic Alumnus of C. V.
N. S. We congratulate him upon his good fortune.
Sol. M. Smyser, ’91, has left the employ of Dodd, Mead &
Co., after several years service, to accept the position of Principal
of the Borough Schools at Coopersburg, Lehigh Co., Pa.
Three out of eight of the Lehigh County Borough Principalships are held by Shippensburg graduates. The Principals are
W. N. Decker, ’95; Geo. C. Bollinger, ’95; and Sol. M. Smyser,
’9i-

Miss Harriet Spangler Shelley, ’93, has written and published
a book of poems entitled “ Life and Loving.” Miss Shelley is
now teacher of Music, Elocution and Physical Culture in the
public schools of Lebanon, Pa.
JZ?

Scholarships at Xehigb Ulniversitg
U N IV E R SIT Y , situated at South Bethlehem, Pa.,
LE HhasIG Hplaced
at the disposal of the Principal of the Shippens­
burg State Normal School, an Honorary Scholarship in the Classi­
cal or Latin-Scientific Course of the university, entitlingthe holder
to free tuition for a college course of four years beginning September,
1903. This scholarship is to be awarded to some student of e x­
traordinary ability and scholastic attainments. Similar scholar­
ships have been offered to the other Normal Schools of the State.

The readers of the Herald will confer a favor on the Principal
by sending him the names and addresses of prospective students
for the Spring Term. The outlook for this term is very promising.
A large accession of New Students is expected.

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Stubents’ page
BIBLE STU D Y CLASS' o f twenty-five members has been
organized under the auspices of the Y . M. C. A . with Prof:
Heiges and Prof. McCrone as leaders. The class will study the
Gospel according to Mark. The object of the study is to get each
member of the class to read the Bible every day. No young
teacher can afford to lose an opportunity of close, consistent, and
continuous examination of the scriptures.
The new Methodist Church was dedicated Jan. 4th. The
Normal Y . M. C. A . and Y . W. C. A . each contributed $25.00
for raising a fund by which the church was dedicated free from
debt. The student body has contributed almost $80.00 including
the above subscriptions.
A

S u b je c t s o f T h e s e s f o r t h e S e n io r C l a s s

A Teacher’s D u ties................................................... Miss Bittinger.
A Well Prepared T ea ch er........................................... Miss Myers.
Punishments ................................................................... Miss Lentz.
E xam inations................................................................ Miss Jones.
How to Study........................................................... Miss Kitzmiller.
The Recitation................................................................Mr. Adams.
Reading as a part of the School Curriculum . . . Miss Marshall.
Composition below the High School...................... Miss Greason.
The Disciplinary Value of Arithm etic....................Miss Fulcher.
Geography and History, their Inter-relation. . . Miss Patterson.
The Educative Value of Toys.............................. Mr. Crunkleton.
The Roman C h ild ........................................... • • . . Mr. Hafer.
The Greek C h ild ............................
Mr. Hemphill.
The Uniform Public School Curriculum.................. Mr. Wherry.
A tten tion..........................................
Mr. Mellinger.

ZlDarriages
C E N C I L — ORRIS.— At New Cumberland, Tuesday, November
25th, Mr. Gyrus Orris to Miss Margaret Fencil, ’99.
G r a y — H a y e s .— A t Carlisle; Pa., Dec. 10, by Rev. A . N .
Hagerty, Mr. L. A . Gray, ’00, to Miss Caroline Rankin Hayes.
W a l t e r — W e r t z .— A t Good Hope, Nov. 26, by Rev. E. EParsons, Mr. Wm. H. Wertz to Miss Adeline Walter, ’94.

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K i n g — B e a v e r .— A t Virginia Mills*. Wednesday, October i,
by Rev. J, F. Mackley, Mr. J. Gross Beaver to Miss Drucie M.
King, ’97.
M c E e h e n e y — B o n n .— A t CHambersburg, in St. Mary’s Cath­
olic Church by Father Noll,.Mr. Martin J., Dunn to Miss Cathe­
rine McElheney; ’98.
L i g h t — B r u m b a u g h . — A t Lancaster, Fa., Oct. 15, Mr. E. G.
Brumbaugh to Miss Ella Light, 95.

©bttuars
D. M CINTYRE, ’90, of Catasauqua, died last fall after a
EL SIE
very brief illness. She was teaching a primary school at
Fullerton.

jfacults 2)oin0s
E C K E LS made an interesting address December 22nd at
DR.Pike
School, Hampden Township, taught by George Hershman.
Prof. W . M. Rife made addresses at the institutes, o f Fulton»
and Perry counties last fall.
Prof. J. S. Heiges addressed the local institute at Dillsburg
last fall.
Dr. Barton attended the institutes at Fulton and Bedford
counties.
Dr. Eckels took part in the programmes of the institutes of
Cumberland, Franklin, Adams, Perry and York counties.
Dr. Barton and Prof. McCrone gave an entertainment at Newville, Jan. 10th, under the auspices of the local institute.

“ Do not ask if a man has been through college: ask if a
college has been through him ; if he is a walking university.”
C h a p in

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Seein’ Ubings
X ain’t afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,
An’ things ’at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
I’m pretty brave, I guess; an’ yet I hate to go to bed,
For, when I’m tucked up warm an’ snug, an’ when iny prayers are said,
Mother tells me “ Happy dreams!” and takes away the light,
An’ leaves me lyin’ all alone an’ seein’ things at night!
Sometimes they’re in the corner, sometimes they’re by the door,
Sometimes they’re all a-standin’ in the middle uv the floor;
Sometimes they are a-sittin’ down, sometimes they’re walkin’ ’round
So softly an’ so creepy like they never make a sound!
Sometimes they are as black as ink, an’ other times they’re white—
But the color ain’ t no difference when you see things at night!
Once, when I licked a feller ’ at had just moved on our street,
An’ father sent me up to bed without a bite to eat,
I woke up in the dark an’ saw things standin’ in a row
A-lookin’ at me cross-eyed an’ p’intin’ at me—so!
Oh, my! I was so skeered that time I never slep’ a mite—
It’s almost alluz when I’ m bad I see things at night!
Lucky thing I ain’t a girl, or I’d be skeered to death!
Bein’ I’ m a boy, I duck my head an’ hold my breath;
An’ I am, oh! so sorry I’m a naughty boy, an’ then
I promise to be better, an’ I say my prayers again 1
Gran’ ma tells me that’s the only way to make it right
When a feller has been wicked an’ sees things at night!
An’ so, when other naughty boys would coax me into sin,
I try to skwush the Tempter’s voice ’at urges me within;
’An when they’s pie for supper, or cakes ’at’s big an’ nice,
I want to—but I do not pass my plate f ’r them things twice!
No; ruther let Starvation wipe me slowly out o’ sight
Than I should keep a-livin’ on an’ seein’ things at night!
— Eugene Field.

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A B o o k o fA r t— A Thing o f Beauty is
D I X O N ’S S C H O O L C A T A L O G .
You can have a copy fo r the asking.

W H E R E YOU

F IN D T H E

BEST E D U C A T IO N A L M E TH O D S
T H E R E A LSO YOU W IL L F IN D

D ixon’ s School Pencils
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company
Philadelphia, Pa.

1020 Arch Street
W e are Up-to-date
in Suits made to Order

John E . Blair
SHlPPENSBURQ, PA.
Call and learn prices.

JOHN E. BOHER,

W M. B A U G H M A N
Dealer in all kinds
of Farm Implements and
WHITE SEWING MACHINES
Oils, Twine, Etc.

N. Railroad St.

D R . E. S. B E R R Y ,

Manufacturer
of...
Furniture,
Shippensburg, Pa.

Shippensburg, Pa.

Physician and
Surgeon...
Shippensburg, Pa.

G. A. BARNES,

SHAVING SALOON
Only First-Class Work.
Special Attention to Normal Students.

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New Fall Goods,

DESCRIPTION

lin and'Flannelette Night Robes. Under­
wear from 25 c and upwards.
Hosiery la Black and Fancy Colors
from___ ‘"m/SfSin.Ws>.vd.iVvS.’.~... 10 to **c

Ladies’ Fleeced and WoortJnderwear, Mus­
lin and Cambric Underwear, Corset Covers,
Skirts and Night Gowns. Taffeta Ribbons,
and 4 inches wide, only 19c.
Belts, Collars, Ties, Handkerchiefs, Kid,
Cashmere and Golf Gloves. A full line of
Men’s Furnishing Goods consisting of ¡Ties,
Collars, Cuffs, Suspenders and Gloves.’ Mus-

Please favor us with your
patronage.

J. A. KELL,
SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

David W. Cotterel,
BOOKSELLER and STATIONER,
Office Supplies, Letter Copying Books, Whiting Fine
Stationery. Blank Books, largest stock in Central
Pennsylvania.

Agents for the Wernicke Elastic Book Cases
Send for illustrated catalogue.

15 South Market Square,

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We have the L A R G E S T
S T O C K in T o w n .

J. J. ST ROH M,
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Fine Groceries, Fresh Lunch Goods, and
Country Produce, all kinds of Fruit
and Confections. Goods
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lead to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

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with special emphasis upon the Latin and Greek languages. 1
It is especially adapted to fit students for the theological
schools and for general work in the teaching profession.

II THE MATHEMATICAL-PHYSICAL GROUP.—This group affords
’ the opportunities o f a general culture course supplemented
with advanced courses in mathematics and the sciences. It,1S
designed for students who wish to teach these subjects, or who
wish to pursue courses in the high-grade technical schools,

m. THE CHEMICAL-BIOLOGICAL GROUP.—This group is designed

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primarily for students who expect to enter the medical pro­
fession Graduates are admitted without examination to the
second year of medical schools. It is well adapted also for
teachers who wish to become specialists in chemistry and in
the biological sciences.
IV. THE HISTORICAL POLITICAL GROUP.—This group offers, be­
sides the fundamental subjects, advanced courses in history
and political science. It furnishes thorough preparation for
the study of law, and enables students who expect to teach to
become specialists in history, economics, political philosophy
and public finance.
THE MODERN LANGUAGE GROUP.—This group emphasizes
the work in English, German, French and Spanish. It affords i
special advantages to students who expect to enter the
of literature or who desire to become specialists in teaching
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Full information is contained in the general catalogue
of the College which may be obtained on application.

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The Pennsylvania State College
Offers exceptional advantages to students who wish to pursue a
thorough course in the various branches of

MATHEMATICAL, NATURAL and PHYSICAL
SCIENCE, or a General COLLEGE EDUCATION
Its courses in

CIVIL, ELECTRICAL, JTECHANICAL and
MINING ENGINEERING and in CHEMISTRY
are among the very best in the United States.
Its technical equipment is ample and of the best modern type.
Graduates have no difficulty in securing and holding positions.
Nearly 100 more positions were offered within the past three months of the College
year just closed than could be filled.
A well equipped gymnasium and spacious athletic field afford facilities for careful
physical training under a competent director.

TUITION IS FREE IN A L L COURSES
ALL EXPENSES ARE REDUCED TO A MINIMUM

For specimen examination papers or for catalogue giving full information respect­
ing courses of study, etc., and snowing positions held by graduates, address

THE REGISTRAR, State College, Centre County, Pa.

DICKINSON k
COLLEGE ■
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One Hundred and Nineteenth Year

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Four Full Four-Year Courses:

Classical,
Scientific,
Latin-Scientific and
Modern Language

Also Medical Preparatory Course. Medical and Eaw Electives allowed in Junior and
Senior years. Particular attention to Oratory under the President. Completely equipped
Gymnasium, with Athletic Field. Many Prizes. All Buildings heated by Steam. Eadies
admitted on equal terms. Elegant new Hall for Eadies, provided with all conveniences,
and thoroughly furnished. Expenses reasonable.

n i r k i nI l so Vo /nl I C o i i c o i o t c

Handsome new Buildings. Steam Heat and
Electric Lig.ht. A thoroughly home-like Boarding School. Expenses moderate. Open to both
Sexes. Special oversight provided. Facilities
f ')r quick and thorough preparation. Prepares
for any College. A Corps of experienced'Teachers. College Eibraries, Reading Rooms,
Gymnasium, Athletic Field accessible to all students. For catalogue of College and Prepar­
atory School, address
O i-A r n a r is fo r v
r l C | /Q I O lA J I j

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GEORGE EDWARD REED, President

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J^ucknell
l ì niversity
JOHN HOWARD HARRIS,
President.

M. G. HALE

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College for men and women with over one
hundred courses of study. Academy
prepares thoroughly for college and the
best scientific schools. Ladies’ Institute
with graduating courses and school of
music. For catalogue write
WM. C. GRETZINGER, Registrar,
Lewisburg, Pa.

J. L. Hockersmith & Sons

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Oil, Meal, Phosphate
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Fire Insurance, Etc.

B Y E R BROS.
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Fresh Bread, Rolls, Rusk, Etc., Always on
Band. Wagon Delivers Fresh
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We invite you to call and inspect
the largest and most complete line
o f good, serviceable and stylish foot­
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Fine Footwear

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Nose and Throat
Shippensburg, Pa.
A COMPLETE LINE OF

..FINE DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS.
LADIES’ JACKETS, WRAPS and FURS are a
Special D epartm ent o f our Store.

S. R. MARTIN,
Agent SINGER SEWING
MACHINE and Parts...
SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

A Special Invitation
T o Normal Students
to call on

G. E. BRINKERHOFF
H O K E 4. S N Y D E R ,
Ch a m b b r s b u k g , P a .

For SHOES, H A T S , and
G E N T S ' FU RN ISH IN GS

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(£. £>. 5 . H. S. School Pins
at Ddfyfs, tfye 3<m>eler
When in need of a TAILORMADE SUIT don’t fail to go to

BROSS& SHEARER

Q. T. M IC K E Y ,
... Attorney-at-Law,
Shippensburg, Pa.

TH E Y A R E LE A D E R S

You will also find the nobbiest
line in the town of
READY-HADE CLOTHING f o r
Hen, Youths,. Boys and
Children.
They carry a full line of
FURNISHINGS, also SHOES and
R U B B ER GOODS.

B R O S S * SHEARER

In Shapley Block
Near the Diamond
C. V. Telephone 53

Hargleroad & Hollar’s
Can constantly be found •
anything in the...

FRESH
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They have telephone connection and
deliver meat to any part of the town.
17 W. M a in S t .,
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For Fine Millinery Goods call on

H. R. HAWK

Miss M. S. Whistler

..«Dealer in...

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9

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SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

INew York Clothing House

S. A. WALTERS
New Home Sewing Machine
Repairing of Boots, Shoes, and
Sewing Machines on short notice

7 N. Railroad Street, Shippensburg.

Clothing, Shoes, Hats and
Gents’ Furnishing Goods..
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13 E.Main St.

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Com m ercial P rin tin g a S p ecia lty.

Prop rietors,

Shippensburg, Pa.

SH IPPEN SBURG, P A .

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NOFTSKER & GISH
Translations
Literal,

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Interlinear, $1.50.

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PHAETONS, ETC,

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translation, litera l translation, and
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Our Stock is the Largest and Prices
the Lowest.

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Schoolbooks o f a l l pu b lish ers a t one store.

Call and exam ine the famous

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Fine Clothing and Furnishings. See
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A. C. Squires....
Dealer In

DIAMONDS, WATCHES
Jewelry, Silverware, Clocks, Spectacles, Etc. Eyes examined free.
Special attention to Repairing and Engraving.
Special prices to Normal students.
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SHIPPENSBURG. PA.

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And at New York prices, singly /
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teacher or official anywhere, and
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W. A. LAVERTY, General Manager

Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Printing and
Engraving, Artists’ Material
HARRISBURG, PA.

329 Market Street

United States
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Order all Express by the “ States.”
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Shippensburg

Your Patronage Solicited.

T h e N e w and E n larged Edition is

T e a c h e r ’s C h o ic e

A Dictionary of E nglish, Biography, Geography, Fiction, etc.
N e w P la te s T h r o u g h o u t

Now Added 2 5 ,0 0 0 N E W W O R D S , Phrases, Etc< "
Edited by W. T. HARRIS, Ph.D., LL.B.,
United States Commissioner of Education.

R ic h B in d in g s 2 3 6 4 P a g e s

5 0 0 0 I llu s t r a tio n s

H on. C has. R. S kinner, New York State Supt. of Schools, calls it

TH E, K IN G AM ONG B O O K S
AlsoW ebster’ s Collegiate D ictionary with Scottish Glossary, etc.
rich Pages. 1400 Illustrations. ^ Size 7 x io’x 2% inches.
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...Text-Books in Mathematics...
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Mathematical Master in the Iyawrenceville School, and
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Mathematical Master in the William Penn Charter School

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in N umbers (Pareil & Robbins)..,................. $0.25
The development of numbers to 100 attractively illustrated.

E lementary P ractical A rithmetic (Durell & Robbins)........ 40
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Cumb. Valley R. R. Time Table
In effect May 26, 1902.
DOWN
1ÄAVE
Winch’ st’ r
M’tinsb’g..
Hagerst’n.
, Gr’ncastle.
Merc rsb’g
Chtnb’sb’g
Way’sboro
Shipp’sb’g
Newville...
Carlisle.....
Dillsburg..
M’ch’csb’g
Arr. Hbg...

12

+am
4 20

4 40
5

00

5 20

5 38
6 00

6*20

6 40
i m
Arr.Phila. 9 37
Arr. N. Y.. 11 53
Arr. Balto.j 10 M

4

6

8

10

110

tam tam *pm fpm *pm
7.30
2 15 6 35
8 15
3 02 719
9 00 12 20 3 5C 8 05 10 is
9 22 12 42 4 14 8 37 10 35
8 00 10 10 3 30
9 45 1 05 4 45 8 50 10 58
12 00 3 35
10 05 1 25 5 07 9 11 11 19
10 23 1 42 5 26 9 29 11 39
10 44 2 03 553 9 51 12 02
P 40 5 10
11 05 2 23 6 15 10 13 12 21
11 25 2 40 6 35 10 33 12 40
3 mp mp mp ma m
3 17 5 47 10 20 4 25 4 25
5 58 8 08 3 53 7 13 7 13
3 11 6 00 9 45 2 30 7 15
p m p m p mp ma m

Additional east-bound local trains will run
“.“ i'y; except Sunday as follows: Leave Car­
lisle 5.45 a. ra„ 7.05 a / ni., 12.40 p. m.; 3.15 p. n i,
Mechan icsburg- at 6.08 a. m., 7.29 ¿ m 8.12 a.
“ »
m., 2.30 p. m.,3.36p. m., 5.30¿ m.
Tram Nos. 8 and 110 run dally, between Hag­
erstown and JSarrisbur^, and No. 2 fifteen minutes late on Sundays.
•Daily.
t Daily except Sunday.

1 ,:3, 5 7 17
109
p ma ma m pm
p mp m
Baltimore. 11 55 4 4A 8 5C 12 0C
4 35 8 30
New York. 7 55 12 1C
8 55
2 55 5 55
Phila....
11 2t 4 25 8 4C 11 40
t5 30 825
*a m *am ta m tpm tp'm Vm *pm
Harrisb’g.. 5 oo 7 55 11 45 3 25 5 15 8 25 11 05
M’ch’csb’g 519 8 16 12 05 3 43 5 37 8 46 11 23
Dillsburg-..
12 40 4 05
Carlisle..... b 40 8 39 12 27 4 04 6 03 9 11 42
Newville... 6 02 9 00 12 51 4 23 6 38 9 29 12 02
Shipp’s b’g 6 20 9 18 1 10 4 39 6 50 9 47 Í2 18
W ay’ sboro
10 37 2 05 5 35
Chmb’ sb’g 6 40 9 36 1 32 4 58 7.10 10 07 12 38
Merc’rsb’g 8 15 10 47
5 55
Gr’ ncastle. 7 05 10 00 1 55 5 21 7 35 10 30 12 55
Hagerst’n.. 7 27 10 22 2 17 5 44
10 54 1 15
M’ tinsb’g.. 8 24 11 10
6 29
Ar. Winc’r. 9 10 11 55
7 15
a ma m p m p mpm pm a m
Up Trains |

DEAVE

Additional local trains will leave Harrisbur^ as follows: For. Carlisle and intermediate
stations, at 9;37 a. m., 2.00 p. m., and 6.25 p. m..
also for Meehan icsburg-, Dillsburg and inter­
mediate stations 7.00 a. m. and 3.15 p. m
Nos. 1,3 and 109run daily between Harrisburg
and Hagerstown.
Pullmau Palace Sleeping Cars between New
York and Knoxville, Tenn., on Trains 1 west
and ll 0 east and between Philadelphia and Welsh
on N. & W. railway on trains 109 west and 12
east except that on Sunday the Philadelphia
Sleeper will run east on No. 2.
'
Through coaches to and from Philadelphia
on Trains 2 and 4 east and 7 and 9 west.
Daily, t Daily except Sunday.

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J. F . B o y d ,

Supt.

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