CUMBERLAND VALLEY
STATE NORMAL
S C H O O L
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HE CUMBERLAND VAEEEY STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL by the high standard of its work and the
success of its graduates has won a place among' the
first Normal Schools in the country. The free tuition
offered by the state to students who are preparing to teach
gives to young men and women an opportunity to obtain a
very good education at a very small expense.

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The Board of Trustees has ordered a number of very im­
portant improvements which will add greatly to the comfort,
convenience and welfare of the students. A new kitchen,
new laundry, new library and study hall, remodeling of the
chapel, refurnishing and repainting of the gentlemen’s
rooms, new pianos, additional books for the Normal School
and Model School libraries, are among the good things in
store for next year’ s students.
The Cumberland Valley State Normal School invites
correspondence with all persons interested in Normal School
education. The three years’ course will be fully established
with the beginning of the coming year’s classes. We request
the friends of the school to send to the Principal the
names and addresses of all persons of their acquaintance
who expect to enter upon a Normal course at the opening of
the coming Fall Term. The Fall Term will open the first
Monday in September.
For catalogue and other information, address,

C. M. D. ECKELS, Principal
SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

N ormal S chool H erald.
P u b l is h e d O c t o b e r , Ja n u a r y , A p r il

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j u l y ’ 1902

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XEbe /Ibission ot tbe public School Ueacber
principar« SObteas to tbc ©tabuating Class
Members of th e C lass of 1902 : I come this morning with
my last message to you as a class. I have chosen for my theme
on this occasion, i The Mission of the Public School Teacher.
As you all, without exception, intend to teach, the theme is cer­
tainly not inappropriate, and I trust it may not be uninteresting.
In my parlor I have a picture familiar, no doubt, to many of
you, called ‘ ‘ Breaking Home Ties. ” This picture represents the
mother standing before her son, who is about to leave the parental
roof to seek a home elsewhere. The mother, with her hands
resting upon the boy’s shoulder, looks tenderly and earnestly into
his face and speaks to him her farewell counsel. I would take
the place of that mother in the picture, and, with my hands rest­
ing upon your shoulders, and looking squarely into your eyes, I
would speak from a heart throbbing with a deep and abiding interest in your welfare and happiness.
Life has been represented in many w ays; by some it has been
likened to a voyage. The figure is not inappropriate. As the
sailor meets with seas that are sometimes smooth and sometimes
rough so the mariner on the sea of life finds the waters sometimes
calm and sometimes troubled. The sailor needs strength, courage
and skill, and so the voyager on life's great ocean needs to be
strong, brave and alert.
Life has been represented by some as a pilgrimage, and the
figure is a very suggestive one. The pilgrim often finds his path­
way rough and steep. So the traveler on the highway of life
meets with many obstacles in his journey. The way is not always
strewn with roses. Deserts, dry and hot, must be crossed, and
mountains, steep and rugged, must be climbed.
Life is represented by some as a battle, and the figure is not
without true significance. The life of the soldier is, in many re-

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spects, a hard one, and he who would make a good soldier must
have great endurance. The soldier who fights in many battles
will sometimes be defeated, and so in the battle of life, victories
are not seldom followed by defeats. The soldier must be heroic
and self-sacrificing, and so the man who would win the battle of
life must not shrink from danger, nor must he refuse to sacrifice
self when duty demands it.
%lle as a Mission.
I like to think of life as a mission. A mission implies that a
man is sent. No man who wins true success in life sends him­
self into the field of his triumph. Many men imagine that they
have directed the way to their own achievements, but, in the
truest sense, this can never be. When the foundation of their
success is discovered it will be found to rest on a deeper and firmer
basis than could possibly be laid by human hands. The wisdom
that leads life to a successful issue is less erring than the wisdom
of man. The man who fulfills the real mission of life is divinely
sent to his work. His commission has been written by the
Creator’s hand. The true teacher has received his authority to
teach from the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. To bear a
commission from such high power demands of us most faithful
and conscientious service. No one can fail if his commission
bears the seal of the Great King.
A mission implies that some opportunities must be ignored in
order that the main duty of life may be accomplished. Paul,
leaving Asia to go into Macedonia, might have argued with the
angel who issued to him this important call, that it would not be
wise for him to leave the work which he had only fairly begun to
enter a new and untried field. Paul, however, knew the true
significance of the call and obeyed its summons. A ll history has
approved the wisdom of his choice. In doing this, however, it
was necessary for him to leave a field which was much more con­
genial to him than the one into which he entered in Europe. In
your work as teachers, you must throw aside everything that
stands in the way of your highest success, and you must enter the
field of work for which you have the greatest capability, and
which offers to you the widest opportunity for the exercise of
your best talent. You must never select a position on the basis
of salary alone. Your success as a teacher should have more
weight with you in making choice of a place than the amount of

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salary paid. Too many teachers are contented with their first
success, and have no ambition to enter wider fields of labor and
usefulness.
A mission implies that a man is prepared for it when he en­
ters upon it. Most failures in teaching come from a lack of
preparation. The failures from this cause are often not noted
by those who are responsible for the employment of teachers, be­
cause of their inability to determine for themselves a good school.
But the failures are none the less real, because they have been
unrecognized by those in authority. The first step toward a suc­
cessful career as a teacher is adequate preparation.
A mission implies that a man must have help in carrying it
out. The man without friends is a failure from the start. No
man ever accomplished a great work in life, without friendly as­
sistance. The personality of the teacher counts for a great deal
in battling for success. And one of the strong elements in the
personality of the teacher is the ability to secure and hold friends.
The man who makes friends is the man who makes sacrifices.
The selfish man can never have true friends. Cultivate, there­
fore, the power to win and hold friends. Y ou will need all of
them before your life work is finished.

Gbe public School tbe /Post Umportant School
Public school education is the foundation of all advanced ed­
ucation. The students who are most successful in higher
institutions of learning, are, as a rule, those who have had the
best public school advantages. In building, a good super-struc­
ture cannot be erected on a poor foundation. And in education,
advanced training is unsatisfactory, where the elementary in­
struction has been weak.
Public school education is the best, because it is free. A
child’s poverty need not deprive him of the benefits of the public
school. It will often deny to him, however, entrance to private
institutions. In the public schools sit side by side the children
of the rich and the poor; the high and the low. No cast, or color,
or condition is allowed to interfere with the child’s right to apublic education. In the public schools, and nowhere else, educa­
tion is universal. These are the fountains which pour their
waters into the great stream of the national life. A free govern­
ment can no more exist without free schools, than an absolute
monarchy without a great standing army.

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Gbe Mission of tbe public School to flbafte fllicn anb UHomen
The chief mission oi the public school is to make men and
women. There can be no division of labor in this mission. In
a manufacturing establishment, each workman has his own par­
ticular kind of work to do. Each man is required to be skillful
only in doing the kind of work to which he has been assigned.
In making a shoe, for instance, there are as many distinct kinds
of work, as there are distinct parts of the shoe. In education,
however, each teacher is engaged in making whole men and
whole women. The primary teacher, no less than the high
school teacher, is working at the whole man and the whole
woman. There are, therefore, certain leading qualifications
which every teacher must possess, to be truly successful.
The value of this mission to the world cannot be fully esti­
mated. It is truth to say, however, that no other mission is
greater. The “ Imperial edict of education,” as it is promulgated
through the public schools of the land, is the most vital force in
the elevation of the masses to a purer and nobler citizenship. To
be a leader in this mission is to become a benefactor of the race.
The man who fitly commands his little flock under the shelter of
the humble country school house is as much a hero as the man
who leads his battalions to victory on the field of battle, and the
nation is as much indebted to him for his services.
The mission of the public school teacher is grand. To be
allied with the four hundred thousand noble men and women who
have recruited their companies in the school-room and who are
leading their hosts in the battle against ignorance and vice is no
empty honor. There are those who look upon teaching as an
inferior occupation, but such souls are to be pitied, for they are
not able to comprehend the value of the teacher to society and to
the nation. If the nobility of a profession is to be known by its
influence in making the world happier, stronger, and better, then
teaching is in the very van of the professions. When Alexander
the Great said that he owed more to Aristotle, his teacher, than
to Philip, his father, he did not mean to charge his father with
lack of interest in his welfare but rather to show his gratitude to
his great teacher and incidentally to express his admiration for
those who belong to the teaching profession. “ The Christian
teacher combines the office of preacher and parent, and he does
more to shape the minds and morals of the community than
preacher and parent combined.”

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The labor and the responsibility of the genuine teacher are
great. To assume the office of teacher is to undertake a work
that is most laborious and difficult. There is no easy method of
gaining success in the school-room. The teacher who seeks to
make his work easy and light is courting failure and will not have
long to wait before it overtakes him.
As the labor and the responsibility are great, the reward is also
great. When the Lord comes to make up his jewels the real
teacher will not be forgotten. Some may have to wait until the
last Great Day to receive their proper recognition, but that is the
only day of sure reward for the best of mankind, and the teacher
can afford to wait as well as the rest of those who have faithfully
served their Master. It was a beautiful custom of the Greeks
when they came to do honor to a hero, to do sacrifice to his
teacher. By this act they exalted the teacher and his work and
gave to the teacher his right place among the agencies which
were elevating and ennobling the Greek people.

ffout Cardinal points Demanbing tbe Heacber's attention.
As there are four cardinal points of the compass upon which
the mariner must ever keep his eye, so there are four points in
the making of men and women to which the teacher must give
constant attention.
The first point demanding the teacher’s attention is the giving
to the pupils entrusted to his care a proper conception of life.
Many fail in life because they fail to grasp the meaning of life.
When the individual apprehends the real significance of life he
has entered upon the great highway ot the saints on earth. There
are two general conceptions of life which include the whole
human family— the altruistic and the egoistic. Into one or other
of these classes all men can be placed. It is not to be supposed
that those who belong to the altruistic class are wholly altruistic,
or that those who belong to the egoistic class are wholly egoistic,
any more than those who are called good are wholly good or than
those who are called bad are wholly bad. That man’s conception
of life is altruistic if he thinks of his neighbor as much as he
thinks of himself, or if he loves his neighbor as himself, and that
man is egoistic in his conception of life if he thinks less of his
neighbor than he thinks of himself, or if he loves his neighbor
less than he loves himself. A ll men come under one or other of
these descriptions. A man’s usefulness to the world will be de-

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termined by the class to which he belongs. I f he belongs to the
egoistic class the world will be better off without him. On the
other hand, if his conception of life is altruistic and his life goes
with his thought, the world cannot fail to be benefited by his
being part of it. No argument is needed to prove that the teacher
is largely responsible for the view of life which his pupils take.
To be responsible for this most important result in the life of the
individual is no small obligation for the teacher to have resting
upon him. I never see a failure in life without recognizing the
fact that at the foundation of it was a wrong conception of life
itself. It is sad to witness a life devoted energetically to a legiti­
mate pursuit for a selfish purpose fail, as it must, because the
whole trend and purpose of the life have been centered around
self. It must not be inferred from what has been said that a man
must not be concerned for his own welfare. It is possible, I pre­
sume, for a man to be “ too good for his own good.” A man to
bless the world by his life must have something to give to the
world which the world needs. We cannot give that which we do
not possess, and we cannot possess that which we have not first
acquired. It is a man’s first duty to see that he does not become
a burden to his fellow-man. This, however, is not his whole duty.
Every one who meets the demands of life fully contributes somethingto the world’s progress andhappiness. The man who is altru­
istically inclined must be true to himself as well as to his fellowman No one has yetseriously disputed the wisdom of Shakespeare’s
utterance “ To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night
the day, Thou can’st not then be false to any man.” To be truly
altruistic one must be somewhat egoistic, but the egoistic feel­
ing must not be allowed to become dominant in the life. As the
selfish feeling is naturally strong in most persons it is the altruistic
feeling which needs cultivation. As thought precedes feeling, it
is necessary to instil into the minds of the youth the altruistic
conception of life.
The second point requiring the attention of the teacher is the
development of right ideals. A conception of life is general and
applies to every individual, fixing the boundaries of every life with
the same lines. An ideal of life is particular and applies to each
individual. No two ideals are precisely alike any more than any
two lives are precisely the same. While each ideal must har­
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this conception there is room for each ideal to differ from every
other ideal. A teacher will have as many ideals to develop as he
has pupils under his care. The strongest power of the teacher
in the development of ideals is the example of his own life. No
other person excepting the parent has as much influence in creat­
ing ideals as the teacher. This is a critical point in the teacher’s
work. To be responsible for a young person’s ideals of life is a
much more sacred obligation than to be responsible for his knowl­
edge of the branches he is pursuing. To build ideals requires a
master. An amateur may build up subjects in the youthful mind.
History and Literature must always remain important subjects in
the public schools because of their influence upon the ideals of
the young. It will be a sad day for the moral life of the pupil
when the material sciences are substituted for the writings of the
best authors, and the biographies of the best people.
The third point requiring the attention of the teacher is the
formation of correct habits. «Habits are the threads out of
which character is woven.
Dr. Boardman says, “ The law of
the harvest is to reap more than we sow. Sow an act, and you
reap a h ab it; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a
character, and you reap a destiny. ” Habits are usually formed
in early life, and are seldom broken. “ Habit determines what
we are. It determines our perceptions and our thoughts. It
determines our emotions and our desires. It determines our
affections and our actions. It determines our character and our
destiny. ” Habit is very important when considered in relation
to the school. Much of the teacher’s time and energy is spent
in an effort to break up bad habits which the children have
already acquired. Much patience and skill are demanded of a
teacher in building up good habits for the children, and the
teacher who has the ability to do this for them is not likely
to be over-compensated for his services. For the value of this
work cannot be fully measured in dollars and cents.
The fourth point requiring the teacher’s attention is the secur­
ing of a right ruling passion in every young man and woman who
emerges from the public school. In every person some passion
of the soul is dominant. It may be hate ; it may be revenge. It
may be love of mankind; it may be love of gold. It may be
gratitude ; it may be ambition for fame. It may be liberty; it
may be justice. It may be love of country ; it may be love of

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self. With Napoleon it was ambition ; with Herodias it was re­
venge; with Nero it was hate; with Aristides it was justice;
with Patrick Henry it was liberty ; with Washington it was love
of country ; with Lincoln it was love of humanity $»¡with Moody
it was love of soul. In the voyage of life ‘ ‘ reason is the chart,
but passion is the gale. ” Let me know the ruling passion of a
man, and I will tell you whether his life will bless or curse man­
kind. The ruling passion of life is developed before the boy and
girl reach maturity. The teacher is as much responsible for the
nature of this passion, as for the character of the intellectual
training he gives. No more delicate and difficult task confronts
the teacher than the shaping of the under-current of feeling,
which gives direction and color to the whole stream of life.
While this passion is forming, reason ofttimes seems to be held
in abeyance. It is during this period of the boy’s development,
that he is keenly suspicious of the interest his elders are taking
in his welfare. It is now that the youth, moved by some fancied
wrong, quits the roof which has hitherto sheltered him, turns his
back upon the hearts that beat warmest for his safety and secur­
ity, and launches out into the world for himself. Moved by the
passion which surges and sways in his bosom like the waves of a
boisterous sea, he quits the old home at midnight, fancying the
shock that will come to his parents in the morning, when they
find him gone, and he inwardly rejoices to some extent in the
pain which his flight will give to these fond hearts, falsely be­
lieving that their sorrow has come to them as a retribution for their
failure to understand the current of feeling which moves a boy’s
life. Who will say that the boy is wholly responsible for thus
severing the ties which bind him to the most sacred spot on
earth, and to the purest and deepest love which thrills the human
heart? Is it not possible that some of the responsibility for the
false step may lie with the parents, and possibly some of it may
be honestly laid at the teacher’s door? T o stay the wild passions
of a boy’s life, and to make dominant the sweet and noble pas­
sion of love, is a work that might challenge the skill and patience
of an angel, but it has been left to human wisdom and cunning to
accomplish the almost miraculous task. Thus it appears that the
most important things in the teacher’s work are at the same time
the most difficult. To so fix the current of a boy’s life that it
will certainly carry him into a peaceful and safe harbor when the

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voyage of life is ended, is a very responsible undertaking, but it
belongs to the teacher’s work, and there is no escape from the re­
sponsibility. We should not forget, however, that he who seeks
to make love the ruling passion of life with those whom he
teaches is working with God and cannot fail.

Gbe Mission of tbe public School Ceacber to mafte Givens.
In pre-Christian education they sought to make the man out
of the citizen. In Christian education we seek to make the
citizen out of the man. While it is the first duty of the teacher
to make men and women out of the children placed under his
tuition, his second duty is to make out of them citizens for the
state and nation. The teacher holds his first commission from
God. He holds, however, a second commission from the state.
The first commission demands that out of the material given him
in the public school, he shall make noble men and women. His
second commission demands of him that he shall make out of
this same material intelligent and virtuous citizens. These com­
missions in no way interfere with each other but rightly under­
stood they are in perfect harmony. The state wants men who
are true in all their relations in life.
“ God give us. men. A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Hen whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor—men who will not lie.;;- ;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And scorn his treacherous flattery without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking. ”

While it is true that the higher commission includes the lower
in this case, yet it maybe well for us to consider the duties en­
joined by this second commission. Civil government is a part of
God’s plan for the government of the world. In the march of
time the nations of the earth are evolving in their history the
great purpose and plan of God which He had from the beginning
in making men. (‘The powers that be are ordained of God
and “ Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s ,” are affir­
mations of God’s recognition of human government which are
too plain to be misunderstood. This must not be understood as a
sanctioning of bad government where bad government exists.

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The family exists in accordance with the divine plan for the
ruling of men, but no one would for a moment think of holding
God responsible for the existence of bad families. Government
is of human construction but divinely sanctioned. Those who
make government are responsible for its character and its main­
tenance. The teacher owes a duty to the state from which he
cannot absolve himself on the plea that he is not adequately
compensated for his services. This statement must not be re­
garded as in any sense a palliation of the wrong done the teacher
when he is faithfully serving for a compensation which is far less
than that to which he is justly entitled. We simply mean that
the compensation a teacher receives for his services does not
determine the degree of fidelity he owes to the government by
whose authority he teaches. The teacher occupies an important
post in the defense of the state and his faithfulness to duty may
determine its very life.
Having consented to the proposition that the teacher more
than any other agency is responsible for the character of the citi­
zenship of our nation, it remains to be told how the teacher can
best discharge his duty of educating citizens. The state owes
more to the services of the public school teacher than it owes to
the services of the soldier, and the history of our country shows
that its very life has more than once been saved by the courage
and skill of its soldiers and sailors. Every school-house in the
land is a fortress, and every teacher is a commander of its guard.
To hold such a position brings with it great responsibility, and
demands high character in the teacher.
The teacher who educates citizens must be a student of state
and national affairs, and he must be a close reader of current
events. He must be familiar with the history of the constitution
of his country ; he must have a firm faith in the beneficence of
government, and a high regard for the best and truest interests of
the commonwealth. The insistence on the part of the state that
teachers must hereafter be qualified in the subject of civil gov­
ernment is a recognition of the high place the teacher occupies
in relation to the state’s security and welfare. Every teacher
must teach faithfully the history of his own state, as well as the
history of the nation, and his pupils must be made familiar with
the state constitution, as well as with the constitution of the
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teacher himself must be familiar with the subject. That this
subject has been woefully neglected is clearly shown by the fact
that, until recently, no school text-books were published cover­
ing this field of history. A reasonable amount of state pride
should be aroused in the minds of the pupils. There is no harm
comes from citizens believing that in the administration of gov­
ernment their own state is the best, but, unless this pride is based
upon rational considerations, it will not develop a healthy pa­
triotism. It is not enough for the pupil to become familiar with
the material resources of his state alone. He must come to un­
derstand the higher sources of wealth which enrich a common­
wealth. The great libraries, the great schools, the great hospi­
tals, the great churches, the great newspapers, the great societies,
the great museums, the great art galleries, must be made familiar
to the public school pupil, and lend their glory to his conception
of the greatness of his state.
The pupil must be made acquainted with the local history of
the community in which he lives. In the more than two hun­
dred years of our state history our commonwealth has added many
names to the roll of fame. These names should not be strange
sounds to the pupils in our public schools. The average citizen
gets his views of his country largely from the impressions he has
of his own state. The knowledge of most of the teachers in Penn­
sylvania is very meager concerning the state’s growth and his­
tory. A knowledge of the state constitution is an essential
qualification for every educated citizen of the Commonwealth.
In addition to the history of the state, the teacher must make
himself familiar with the history and interpretation of the state’s
constitution. From the practical standpoint, a knowledge of the
constitution of the state is of more value to the average citizen
than a knowledge of the constitution of the United States, for the
reason that the relation of the citizen to the state is much closer
than the relation of the citizen to the United States.
But above all other accomplishments those virtues which
adorn citizenship, should shine forth in the lives of the teachers.
No knowledge of any kind can be made a substitute for charac­
ter in the teacher. The teacher to be effective, must illustrate in
his own life those higher qualities of manhood, which give to cit­
izenship its charm and power for good. A teacher armed with
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of the state in destroying the power of the corruptionist and time­
server in political life. So long as the leaven which is working
in the public school is patriotic and pure, we may hope for the
permanency and strength of our republic.
And now, I must close this address. Could I know that you
would be with us at the opening of the coming term, my sorrow
at your leaving, would be turned to joy by the thought of your
returning, but for the return of most of you I cannot hope, as
force of circumstances, if not choice, will compel you to teach
during the coming year, and when the doors are opened at the
commencement of the new term, it will be for the admission of
strangers to take your places, and the music of your voices will
gladden other scenes. The voice of the stranger will be heard in
the halls which are now so familiar and endearing to you.
Go
forth to your work, relying upon Him who has given to every
righteous cause its strength, and to every noble eflort its victory.
“ The sweetest lives are those to duty wed,
Whose deeds, both great and small,
Are close knit strands of an unbroken thread,
Where love ennobles all.
The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells,
The Book of Life the shining record tells.
Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes
After its own life-working. A child’s kiss
Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad ;
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich ;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong ;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest. ”
N o t e .— In delivering this address to the class, I delivered it

from outline. In preparing the copy for the Herald, while I
have attempted to follow the outliue closely, I have made no ef­
fort to reproduce the language, and I have not hesitated to make
fuller the elucidation of a thought where I deemed it necessary.
— G. M. d . E c k e l s .
«f*£>
MEMORIES
Let us forget the things that vexed and tried us,
The worrying things that caused our souls to fret;
The hopes that cherished long, were still denied us,
Let us forget.

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Commencement Meeft.
Senior IReception.
A T U R D A Y evening, June 21st, the graduating class together
with the faculty and a few invited guests banqueted in the
dining hall. The president and orator of the class
made short speeches on behalf of their class-mates. Both ad­
dresses contained good thought and were worthy of the applause
they received. Each teacher also was called upon and responded
in a few remarks of farewell and advice to the class, those teachers
who are not returning to the school next year speaking with spec­
ial feeling. Rev. Meminger, who later preached the Baccalaureate
Sermon, made a short address in a very happy manner. The cus­
tomary singing of Auld Lang Syne concluded the exercises. A ll
present unite in the opinion that the Senior Banquet of 1902 was
a success and an excellent beginning of a more than usually en­
joyable Commencement Week.

S

Œbe ^Baccalaureate Sermon.
Pleasant weather, which continued, indeed, throughout the
entire week, filled the Chapel to its utmost capacity on the even­
ing of the Baccalaureate Sermon. The services began with a
hymn by the congregation and a scripture lesson by Rev. C. B.
Wingerd. Rev. M. E. Swartz offered prayer. A duet, “ Thé
Lord is my Shepherd,’’ was sung by Miss Holtzinger and Mr.
Fickes of the Senior class. Then followed the Baccalaureatè dis­
course by Rev. J. W . Meminger, D. D., pastor of St. Paul s Re­
formed Church, Lancaster, who announced as his text James 3-13,
“ Who is a wise man endued with knowledge? Let him show
out of a good conversation his works with meekness and wisdom.”
The sermon was well adapted to the occasion and delivered in an
impressive manner. A t its conclusion a chorus, “ O, Lord, Hear
our Prayer,” was rendered and the exercises were brought to a
close by the benediction by Rév. Geo. C. Henry. The following
is an abstract of Dr. Meminger’s sermon :
The term conversation in the text means the whole action of
life, the development of character. With years of training com­
ing to an end in the events of this week, with all the splendid
possibilities of life before you, in which this training shall con­
tinue, and be embodied in your life work, you must say whether

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the knowledge gained shall lie an unproductive mass in sluggish
brains, or be perverted to base, ignoble and selfish ends, or be a
glorious power, devoted to noblest objects of human life and
human hope, and thus consecrated to the highest good of man
and the glory of God.
Your conversation, the action of your life, may suffer from
false objects. It may be a failure through simple indifference
and lack of purpose. Your course of study in this institution
has been a failure, if it has not disciplined your mental powers,
roused your wills, and directed your energies toward living nobly
and well.
So many people are idly busy with living, and careless oflife.
They do not gather up their powers, nor do they see the impor­
tance of putting force into the ordinary things of life. They have
not selected the splendid motto : ‘ ‘ What thy hand findeth to
do, do with thy might. ” Routine soon kills the indifferent.
The daily round, so much alike, deadens enthusiasm. Common­
place effort seems to do', and commonplace people we come to be.
The difference between life’s succcesses and life’s failures is
not a difference in mental ability so much as a difference in en­
thusiasm, in the force of will, in doing the ordinary things of
life better than the ordinary man does them.
The great teacher, the great merchant, the great preacher, is a
great personal force, terribly in earnest, doing great things
grandly now, because years ago he did ordinary things, and put
more soul, more character into them than other men did.
Our Ideals and Reals are not twins— they never were. But
the man of high ideals struggling up the rugged heights to reach
them will have a real life,, breezy and glorious, far above him
who is content to be a sluggish grinder in the mill of repetition.
Do not trust to luck. It never made a fool speak words of
wisdom, nor an ignoramus contribute to science, art or literature.
It never made a loafer become a Roosevelt.
“ The tissues of the life to be
We weave with colors all our own,
And in the field of destiny
We reap what we have sown. ”

Mere intellectual training is not enough. The intellect is but
the gateway to the soul. When we train the intellect, we clip
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to bless mankind, or we unchain a demon to use his perverted
powers to prey upon his fellowmen.
Sometimes, you find a young man graduating with a bright
mind and black morals. His speech is vulgar and profane, his
life is low, he accepts the honors of the institution whose disci­
pline he has defied, and whose good name he will yet trample in
the dust. But no brazen effrontery, nor finely-phrased apologies
will long hide the lack of moral principle, and I am glad that all
our institutions of learning are demanding evidences of higher
character, purer conversation, nobler living, on the part of their,
students.
Manly Christian character is the finest thing in the world. The
desire to live the life God would have us live and do the work
He would have us do, makes life all glorious, and brings us to
realize that the new Jerusalem, with its flashing pinnacles, is no
city in the far-off sky, which a child sees at sunset in the golden
west.
It is a city with foundation in our very life. Its haunt­
ing splendors fall around us in our daily tasks, and with this in
mind, you may go forth to your life work in faith and hope aud
love, and may the blessing of God Almighty attend you. Amen !

principal's BO&ress
Monday morning the Principal delivered his address to the
graduating class. The theme this year was “ The Mission of the
Public School Teacher.’ ’ The address is published in another
part of the Herald.

/IBustcat anb Xiterarp Entertainment—art Exhibit
Monday "evening was occupied, as is customary, with the ex­
hibition of the Art Department and an entertainment given by
the pupils in Music and Elocution. The art exhibit consisted
almost entirely of class-room work. The drawings were more
varied in style than usual and were very creditable. The e x­
hibitions of pyrography work and basket weaving were attractive
features.
The entertainment of the evening was very pleasing and was
attended by a much larger audience than usual.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.

Piano Duo...Waltz and Einale (from Birthday Music, Op. 250)...C. Bohm
Miss Cora Cbbvbr, Miss Lui,u Watson.

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R eading......
Vocal Solo...
Piano Solo...
Déclamation

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........... Nora’s Blunder..................................................
Miss Minnie McCeoskey.
....... Sunset, Op. 76, No, 4.*^,«..............Dudley Buck
Miss E eea Hoetzingbr.
.............Valse Brilliante............................Moszkowski
Miss E l i z a b e t h C u n n i n g h a m .
.... The Black Horse and His Rider................ Lippard
F r a n k C. M y e r s .

Vocal Solo...
Reading.......
Vocal Solo....

.............. A Madrigal............................. Victor H arris
Miss G aie B eee .
....How Old Folks Won the Oaks.%;£.,.............Bakins
Miss N o r a N ic k e e s
•The Two Grenadiers, Op. 49, No 1............Schumann
E are W. C obee
part

II.

Sketch................................. A Slight Mistake.................................. Walkes
He (otherwise George Fielding)
M r . M cC ron e
She (otherwise Clara Manners)
Miss F it c h
Piano Quartette................ March Héroïques, Op. 27.................... Schubert

Miss M a s o n ,

M is s N o r a N i c k e e s , M r . U n d e r w o o d ,
M is s M a r y N i c k e e s .

Ladies’ Quartette.................Robin Adair..................arr. by Dudley Buck
M is s T a u g h e n b a u g h , M iss E i s e n h a r t , M is s M a b e e W h i t e ,
M is s H o e t z in g b r .

PLASTIQUES.
Niobe and Her Children
Revels o f the Muses
The Toilet of the Bride
Death of Tarpeia
News of the Death of Hector
Lucretia and Her Maids
Diana’s Hunting Party
Ariadne’s Slumber
The Last Day of Herculaneum
School of the Vestal Virgins
A nna

S m it h , H e e e n C o r w in , M a u d e F u e c h e r , M a r io n
G e r t r u d e G e e s s n e r , E d it h M y e r s , V e r a S p e c k ,
L in d a G o o d y e a r , E e iz a b e t h B e a ir .

K ough,

Accompanist, Miss Clara Potter.

Class 2 >ag
Class Day exercises were held Tuesday morning, at ten
o’clock, and were perhaps more sprightly and interesting in their
character than they have been in past years. A ll the numbers
were good. The Class Roll was above the average of such pro*
ductions. Programme :
M usic,— .......................................... , ................................................. O r ch e str a

President’s Address..................................................................F. C. M y e r s
Oration—“ Labor and Its Remembrance” ......................... M. O. B ie e o w
History
............••••...................................................... E e sie K . M ountz
M usic................ ............;..’„..V............................................................. O r c h e str a

Mantle Oration........ ]&&&<./.■....... .,.................... '.................. J. C. M y e r s

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,L. D a l e

C ru n kelto n
F r a n c e s L. R i d g w a y
..J o h n F r i t c h e y K ob
................................ C i, a ss
.................... O r c h e s t r a

Response
J Ladies.......
Class Roll I Gentlemen,
Class SongMusic........

IReuttion of Claes of 1900
The Reunion of the Class of 1900 took place at 2 o ’clock
Tuesday afternoon. These biennial celebrations are a regular
and enjoyable feature of Commencement week. The programme
rendered was an excellent one. In accordance with the custom
of the classes, as they come back to Normal for their Master
Diplomas, this class presented a memorial to the school. This
consisted of fifty volumes pertaining to American history for the
library. The gift is a suitable one, and the class will long be re­
membered by it.
PROGRAMME.
...........O r c h e s t r a
......... J. W . B a is h
Gertru d e H oke
...... C o r a C l e v e r
...J . C. T r e s s l e r
...........O r c h e s t r a
....I d a K l ECk n e r
...........J . A . D a v is
...........O r c h e s t r a

Music........................
President’s Address,
Class Poem ............ .
Instrumental Solo ...
Oration .
i
Music..................
Instrumental Solo...
Presentation...........
Music—America......

alumni IReunion
A t 8 o ’clock Tuesday evening; the Alumni Association fur­
nished a programme for the entertainment of its members, and
other Commencement visitors. As the President, Mr. W . N.
Decker, ’95, was unable to be present, Mr. Miles A . Keasey, ’00,
Vice President, filled his place on the programme. , The pro­
gramme was up to the standard, and was as follows :
Music.............................................. ■•••........
President’ s Address..................................
Instrumental S olo ......................................
Recitation—“ The Mizzable Man ” ..........
Vocal Solo ..................................................
Music...........................................................
Address—“ A Larger Home
Instrumental S olo......................................
Recitation............................................. •••••
Quartette—“ Star of Descending Night, ’
Mrs. Geo. H. E ckels, ’96,
M rs. C. E. Barton, ’00,

......... ... ................... .O r c h e s t r a

.................. M. A. K easey , ’00
.............F rances Geiger , ’97
......... .E lizabeth H ayes , ’00
.....M rs. Geo. H. E ckels, ’96
...................... ...... ....O r c h e s t r a

.................... J. S. Hbiges, ’91
......... Mrs. C. E. Barton, ’00
...............A. A. McCrone, ’95
M. L . D r u m , ’96,
A. A. McCrone, ’95.

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Commencement
Wednesday morning at 9:30 Commencement Exercises were
held. The large graduating class, one hundred twenty-four in
number, entered the Chapel for the last time as an unbroken
body. The exercises were exceedingly interesting. As last year
the class was represented on the programme by three numbers—
an oration, a recitation, and a vocal solo. These were all well
received by the immense audience. Dr. Henry T . Spangler,
President ofUrsinus College, delivered the Commencement ad­
dress on the subject, “ The Value ofthe Educated man to Society.”
He discussed his subject under three heads— the value of the edu­
cated man lies in his, 1, Personal worth; 2, Leavening power; 3,
Uplifting influence. It is a well demonstrated fact that, other
things being equal, an educated man will master new duties more
quickly, will do them better, and will make improvements that
will lessen thé work connected with those duties. The address
was an eminently practical one, and the members of the gradu­
ating class appreciated the splendid advice it contained. The
Commencement programme follows :
P r a y e r ............................................................ .........................R e v . C . B . W i n g e r d

Music
Oration—The Mission of Chivalry................................ W ai/TER L. N on,
Ladies’ Chorus—The Water Nymph.........................................Rubinstein
S o lo ist, Miss B r e n n e r .
Reading—Thrush........................................................ V io e ETTE E. N i s e e y
Vocal Solo—Blossoms........................................................................Hatton
J a n e C. T a u g h e n b a u g h .

Music
Commencement Address..... .............................. Dr-. H e n r y T. S p a n g e e r
Music
Conferring of Degrees
Mixed Chorus—Gloria in ExcelsisPiMass in B flat..................... Farmer
Solo Quartette,
G a i e B e e e , W . S . F i c k e s ,’ E e s ie E i s e n h a r t , H a r r y G r a y .
B e n e d ictio n ..................................................................................R e v . C. I. B r o w n

alumni ^Business dbeeting—alumni Dance
At 2:30 Wednesday afternoon the annual business meeting of
the Alumni Association was held. The attendance was small
and it is likely that the hour of meeting will be changed, so that
this important meeting may be better attended hereafter, and that
greater results may be accomplished. The class of 1902 was
formally admitted to membership. The report of the Obituary
Committee was accepted, and appears in this issue of the Herald.

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The commmittee was continued. The Treasurer’s report-was
also accepted. The following officers were elected for the en­
suing yea r: President, Mr. M. L. Drum, ’96 ; Vice President,
Mr. J. A . Davis, ’00; Secretary, Miss Ada V . Horton, ’88 ;
Treasurer, Dr. J. P. Barton, ’74 ; Executive Committee, Miss
May Donnelly, ’00, and Mr. A . A. McCrone, ’95.
In the evening the Alumni Dance was held in the large
Chapel. This function was more enjoyable than ever, and the
dancers seemed loath to stop. The music was furnished for the
dance, as for all the commencement exercises, by Oyler’s Orchestra
of Harrisburg. This is the same orchestra that has played here
for several years during commencement week, and their music
was, as before, very acceptable.

CarrieO 1ft ©ne Step jfartber
/T ^ O M M Y was given a new diary, and encouraged to set down
J_' each day’s doings. He was very proud of it, says the
Detroit Free Press, and determined to keep it faithfully.
The first day he wrote : “ Got up at seven, ” and then con­
tinued to record incidents of the day. At his father’s suggestion,
he took it to his teacher for approval.
She did not like the phrase “ got up. ” “ Don’t say ‘got up, ’
Tommy, ’ ’ shesaid. “ The sun doesn’t get up ; it rises. ”
When he retired that night Tommy remembered his lesson,
and wrote carefully in his diary, “ Set at eight.”
jt
A ©raget
Grant us, O Lord, the grace to bear
The little pricking thorn ;
The hasty word that seems unfair ;
The twang of truths well worn ;
The jest that makes our weakness plain ; ;
The darling plan o’ erturned;
The careless touch upon our pain ;
The slight we have not earned ;
The rasp of care. Dear Lord, to-day,
Lest all these fretting things
Make needless grief, oh, give, we pray,
The heart that trusts and sings.
f c — E l i z a b e t h L in c o l n G o u l d .

...THE...

N ormal S chool H erald.
P u b l is h e d O c t o b e r , Ja n u a r y , A p r il
S h ip p e n s b u r g , P a .

and

Ju l y .

G e o r g e H . E c k e l s , ’91, Editor.
A d a V. H o r t o n , ’88, Personal Editor.
C h a s . E. B a r t o n , ’91, Business Manager.

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JUL/Y, 1902

E d it o r ia l
Z j y T H this, the closing number of Volume V I, two members
V l / of the present Herald staff retire. The Editor and the
Business Manager are both called away from Shippens­
burg by the duties of new positions. Both have been connected
with the paper for a number of years, and they give up their
positions on the staff with regret. The new staff has not yet
been selected. Whoever may be at the helm, may the Herald
prosper !
j*
The Commencement exercises of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School were never more successful than this year. A ll
the exercises from the beginning to the end passed off in a satis­
factory manner. There was not a single number on any of the
programmes that was not rendered creditably. Even the weather
was almost perfect.
<!*
The Trustees of the school have under consideration a num­
ber of important improvements, which, when made, will add
greatly to the comfort of the students. A new kitchen and laundry
will be constructed, the chapel is to be remodeled, a new study
hall is to be built, and the rooms of the boys' dormitory will be
repainted and refurnished.

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Many of the members of this year’s class secured positions as
teachers before leaving Normal. The class this year was the
largest in the history of the school, and it contained an unusually
large percentage of very strong teachers. We expect the class of
1902 to give a splendid account of itself in the near future. We
believe the one hundred and twenty-four young men and women
of this class will make themselves felt in the educational world,
when once they have fairly entered it.
The State Board of Examiners spoke very highly of thé neat­
ness and accuracy of the work done by the several classes in their
final examinations. Shippensburg Normal School aims to do
only thorough and systematic work. Shoddy work finds no
favor with the members of the faculty. Our competitors are hav­
ing great trouble in finding weak spots in the record of the school,
so carefully and conscientiously is all the teaching being done.
The free tuition offered by the state to Normal School students
was a very meritorious act on the part of the legislature and the
Governor of the Commonwealth. Many young men and women
of promise will now see their way clear to take a Normal Course,
who previous to this liberal action on the part of the state, saw
no way of gratifying their desire to fitly qualify themselves for
the profession of teaching.
j*
The increasing number of leading positions which the gradu­
ates of the Shippensburg Normal School are annually securing
is a high compliment to their worth as men and women, and to
the superior training they received in the Normal School from
which they graduated. No other Normal School diploma has a
higher value set upon it by superintendents and directors than
the diploma of the Shippensburg Normal School.
The government of the Shippensburg Normal School com­
mends itself to every person who is familiar with it. Visitors
never fail to speak of the excellent behavior of the students in the
building and elsewhere. Their wonder is that such excellent
discipline is maintained with so little apparent effort on the part
of the teachers who are responsible for it.

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To be associated with the Shippensburg Normal School as a
student, is a privilege of great value. The opportunities in every
line of work are unsurpassed, and insure to the student first-class
instruction and training. A school which does so much for its
students is sure to have a loyal and faithful alumni.
The Principal of the school is delighted with the prompt re­
sponses from the readers of the Herald, to his requests for the
names and addresses of prospective students. Many of the new
students, coming to the school each term, are those whose names
and addresses have thus been mailed to the Principal. The
readers of the Herald understand how to make themselves useful
to the old Normal, and their efforts in helping to build up the
patronage of the school are highly commendable.
Mr. J. F. Evans, a graduate of the second class in the history
of the school, is the father of a number of bright boys and girls
whom he is desirous of educating. He thinks seriously of mov­
ing from his home in Huntingdon county to Shippensburg, in
order that his children may have the privilege of getting an edu­
cation in the same institution from which he graduated more
than a quarter of a century ago.
J*
The regular Normal Course offers to students a fine education
at a minimum of expense. The students who graduate in this
course will be prepared for teaching in any grade of public
school work. The new course will greatly strengthen the pro­
fession of teaching, and it will also increase the prestige of Penn­
sylvania Normal Schools. livery young person, looking toward
teaching as a profession, should be satisfied with nothing less
than this new course as apreparation for his chosen field of work.
j*
We hear that some persons who expect to teach object to the
new course of study, because it takes more time to complete it
than was necessary to complete the old course. Certainly it will
take more time. It takes longer to run three miles than to run
two. The reason that it takes longer is because there is more to do.
One year’s additional work is required, and it would be strange
indeed if additional time were not needed in which to do this ad­
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A young man was heard to say that if it took him three years
to graduate at a Normal School he would go to college. This
young man was fresh from the public school without any lan­
guage but his mother tongue, no knowledge of science, and his
knowledge of mathematics was confined to arithmetic and a few
pages of algebra. He expects to teach. We wonder what col­
lege would take him with this preparation. He could- spend three
years in a Normal School, and then he would be none too far ad­
vanced to enter the Freshman class at a good college.
The Normal Schools are not preparatory schools for college.
Nevertheless there is no better foundation for a thorough college
course than a Normal School education. The Normal School
graduates who take college courses are almost certain to take
high rank in their classes. This has been the almost universal
report of the work of Normal School students in college.
Who should take a Normal School course ? A ll who expect
to teach should do so. The person who wishes to make teach­
ing his life work should take both a Normal School and a Col­
lege course, but, at all events he should take the Normal School
course. The Normal Schools have no business soliciting stu­
dents who are preparing for college, unless such students
expect to teach. These students belong legitimately to the pre­
paratory schools. On the other hand, colleges have no right to
cut down their entrance requirements, so as to enable students
who expect to teach to take a college course almost as quickly
as they could take a Normal School' course. A college course
taken under such conditions is not nearly so good a preparation
for teaching, as a Normal School course.

■ffnilDemoriam
■Resolutions on the Deaths of alumni
H EREA S, The hand of Providence has taken from our
midst the following members of the Alumni of the Cum­
berland Valley State Normal School: Mr. Wm. H.
Hamilton, ’91 ; Mr. Jos. T . Baker, ’97 ; Miss Mary Bomberger,
S98 ; Mr. Isaac Hershey, ’98,- and Miss Am y Smith, ’00, and

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W h er eas , It is the desire of the Alumni Association to pay
proper respect to their memories, therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death of these members of the Alumni
Association, we have lost members of upright character who
were devoted to the interests of their Alma Mater, and who
ranked high in their chosen callings.
Resolved, That the Association greatly deplores the heavy loss
that it has sustained in the death of such worthy members.
Resolved, That the Association extends its sincere sympathy
to the relatives and friends of these departed ones.
Resolved, That these resolutions be placed upon the minutes
of the Association, and published in the Normal School Herald,
and that a copy of the paper be sent to each of the bereaved
families.
G eo . H. E c k e l s ,
I da B. Qu ig l e y ,
F lo E. W a l t e r s ,
Committee.
IResolutions on tbe ©eatbs of Œruatees
W h er eas , The Alumni Association of the Cumberland V al­
ley State Normal School desires to show its regret at the deaths
of Hon. S. M. Wherry, President of the Board of Trustees, and
E. J. McCune, Esq., Secretary of the Board, and its appreciation
of the characters of the same ; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of these prominent and influen­
tial Trustees, the Alumni recognizes a distinct loss to the school.
Resolved, That the Association sincerely laments the loss of
these valuable friends of the school.
Resolved, That the sympathy of the Association is hereby e x­
tended to the bereaved families.
Resolved, That these resolutions be placed upon the minutes
of the Association, published in the Normal School Herald, and
copies of that paper sent to the families ot the deceased.
G eo . H. E c k els ,
I da B. Q u ig l e y ,
F lo E. W a l t e r s ,
Committee.

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&lumnt personals
R. H. H. BA ISH , ’95, who is principal of one of the ward
schools in Altoona, is enrolled as a student at the sum­
mer session of Harvard University.
Mr. W . H . Burd, ’92, who has been teaching at Patton, Pa.,
has been elected a ward principal in Altoona.
Mr. Walter E. Reddig, ’98, has accepted a position with the
J. L. Rumbarger Lumber Co., at Horton, W . Va. He is man­
ager of one of the five stores owned by the Company.
Shippensburg graduates secured several prizes at Pennsyl­
vania Colleges this year at the recent commencements. At
Bueknell Mr. M. L- Drum, ’96, secured one of the Tustin psy­
chology prizes. A t Ursinus Mr. E- M. Sando, ’97, divided the
Sophomore English prize. A t Lehigh Mr. W. H. Hendricks,
’97, won a prize in free-hand drawing.
Mr. D. Harper Sibbett,’94, writing from Manilla in the Philip­
pines, informs us that after two years of active service in the
armv, he has accepted a position in the Department of Posts in
the Manilla Post Office.
Hon. R. L- Myers, ’85, has for the third time been honored
with a nomination for the Legislature by the Democrats of Cum­
berland county.
Mr Myers has already served two useful terms
at Harrisburg, and his re-election is confidently expected,
Mr. Raymond Gettel, ’98, has resigned his position as Assist­
ant Principal at Duncannon to enter the Junior class at Ursinus
College. He is at present in attendance at the summer session of
that institution. Mr. J. W. Shive, ’98, has been elected Mr.
Gettel’s successor at Duncannon.
Mr. Oscar H. Little, ’93, is the Democratic candidate for
Prothonotary, in Franklin county.
Mr. Owen. L. Underwood, ’01, has been elected Principal of
the New Hope, Bucks County, Schools.
Prof. H. Milton Roth, ’89, was recently re-elected Superin­
tendent of the Adams County Schools. Prof. Roth received a
large majority of the votes on the first ballot. Prof. J. Everett
Myers, ’86, was re-elected Superintendent in McKean county.
Prof. Chas. E. Barton, ’91, of the faculty, was elected Superin­
tendent of Fulton county, to succeed Prof. Clem Chesnut, ’86.

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Mr. U. Grant Fry, ’93, is the Republican nominee for County
Treasurer in Cumberland county.
Dr. W . W . Feidt, ’94, and his wife (formerly Miss Virginia
Smith, ’94) were among the visitors at the Commencement exer­
cises. Dr. Feidt, who formerly practiced medicine at Oakville,
is now located at Williamstown.
Mr. N. Ort Eckels, ’97, has accepted a position as manager of
a drug store at Osceola Mills, Clearfield county.
Prof. S. B. Shearer, ’74, has been re-elected Superintendent
of the schools of Carlisle. Prof. Shearer has already served two
terms.
Prof. J. H. Alleman, State Certificate ’95, has been elected
Superintendent at Du Bois.
Prof. H. J. Wickey, ’93, has been re-elected Superintendent
at Middletown, Pa.
Mr. J. F. Evans, ’75, of Eagle Foundry, Pa., attended the
Commencement exercises. This is the first time that Mr, Evans
has had the opportunity to visit the school since his graduation.
Mr. J. I. Martin, ’96, has been elected Principal of the
schools at Newville.
Rev. James McAllister, ’93, who is also a graduate of Gettys­
burg College and of the Princeton Theological Seminary, has
gone to Aguadilla, Porto Rico, where his future work will lie.
Mr. McAllister’s recent marriage is mentioned in another column.
A number of Shippensburg Alumni were graduated this year
from’ different colleges. Some of these were mentioned in the
April Herald. Others that have come under our notice are Mr.
Frank Eehman, ’98, who has just finished a course at Hahneman
Medical College, where he was President of his class; Miss
Frances Geiger, ’97, who was graduated at Wilson both in the
academic and the musical courses, and was the composer of the
Class Song ; Mr. Thomas W. Gray, ’97, who was graduated at
Eebanon Valley College ; Mr. R. H. Cunningham at Eafayette
College ; Mr. M. L,. Drum, ’96, at Bucknell University ; and Mr.
Wilbur Creamer, ’96; Mr. A .-A . McCrone, ’95, and Mr. Roy
Harris, ’98, at Dickinson College.

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fliiarriages

P

RICE— R H O N E — A t Moore, Pa., May 28th, Miss F. Vir­
ginia Rhone, '96, to Mr. Clarence Price, of Moore.

Omwakb — L an dis .— A t Hummelstown, June 18th,
Prof. G. Leslie Omwake, ’93, of the Ursinus College faculty, to
Miss Bessie M. Landis, ’93.
Mc A llister — A nderson .— A t Buffalo, June 3rd, Rev.
James McAllister, ’93, of Gettysburg, to Miss Margaret Ander­
son.
D onnelly — L oh .-¿-At Washington, D. C., June n th , Mr.
Allison C. Donnelly, ’93, of Kokomo, Indiana, to Miss Ana E.
Loh, ’95.
Myers — P a t t e n .— A t San Francisco, Cal., June 10th, Mr.
O. G. Myers, ’96, to Miss Maude Elizabeth Patten.
B ishop— R eiciiard .— A t Shippensburg, Pa., July 14th, Miss
Nellie B. Reichard, ’95, to Mr. Jerome B. Bishop, Jr., of Hazlewood, Pa.

School Ifoappenings
H E anniversary of the Normal Literary Society was held
Friday evening,?- April 25th. The excellent programme
published in the April Herald was given before a large
and interested audience.
The Philo Reunion took place on May 9th. Excellent ad­
dresses were delivered by Prof. M. L- Drum, who presided, and
by Rev. Jay W. Yohe. The recitations by Miss Linda Goodyear,
Miss Ethel Smiley and Mr. A. A . McCrone were special features
of the programme. Mr. McCrone gave two scenes from “ The
Rivals ” in splendid style.
The Model School entertainment was held this year on the 6th of
June. Under the skillful direction of the principals, Miss McBride
and Miss Burns, these entertainments have won a reputation
which secures for them a large attendance of Shippensburg people
and attracts many visitors from-a distance. The program this
year was up to the standard in point of merit, and in the way of
entertainment probably excelled all that have gone before.
The most attractive features of the program were, of course,
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Mother Goose. The address of welcome, the recitations, and the
vocal duet, however, were well received.
The flag drill, in which the participants wore the uniforms
and carried the flags of different nations, was very interesting.
As each nation was given the place of prominence in the drill the
national song of that country was sung.
“ The Courting of Mother Goose” by th e “ Man in the
Moon ” and “ 'Santa Claus, ” is a clever skit which introduces,
much to the amusement of the audience, a great number of our
old friends of nursery days. This was well given and a square
dance that was introduced was very attractive and wonderfully
well done by the diminutive dancers.
“ The March of the Chinese Lanterns ” was beautiful. As
the room was darkened, the effect produced by the evolutions of
the marchers and the varied movements of the bright lanterns
was bewildering and fascinating. The song that accompanied
this march was rendered in good style, and added greatly to the
attractiveness of the closing number.
The entertainment was a success in another way also, as the
splendid sum of $102 was received from the sale of tickets. The
expenses were light. The profits will, as last year, be devoted to
the Model School Library.
The State Board of Examiners this year consisted of the fol-|
low ing: Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, Supt. Public Instruction, Dr. D. J.
Waller, Prin. Indiana Normal School, Supt. R .K . Buehrle, Lan­
caster, Supt. J. Horace Landis, Conshohocken, Supt. J.H . Alleman, Du Bois, Supt. J. I. Robb, Lower Merion township, Supt. H.
F. Benchofif, Franklin county, and Supt. J. G. Becht, Lycoming
county. Dr. Schaeffer was not able to attend the examinations
and Prof. Cass, Clerk in the Department of Public Instruction,
took his place. The result of the examinations was very satis­
factory, as all of the Seniors and Middlers were passed.
A number of changes will be made in the faculty of the school
the coming year. Miss Cora B. Clark, Director of Physical Cul­
ture, goes to Brooklyn, N. Y ., to accept a similar position in the
Girls’ High School of that city.' Miss Cora St. John Fitch, of
the Department of Elocution, has also resigned. Prof. Geo. H.
Eckels, teacher of Latin, will next year be Associate Principal of
the Chambersburg Academy, and Prof. Chas. E. Barton, manager
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Fulton county to take up the duties of the superintendency to
which he was elected in May. The latter will reside in McConnellsburg. A ll of these teachers have been connected with the
school for a number of years and the Normal halls will undoubtedly
seem strange without their presence. They are regarded as strong
teachers and are sure to meet with success in the positions to
which they are going.
Prof. A . A . McCrone, ’.95, who was a member of this year’s
graduating class at Dickinson College and taught at the Normal
during the Spring Term, has been chosen as teacher of Latin for
the coming year. Prof, McCrone has had good experience and
will fill the position well. A man of as much versatility o f
accomplishments as Prof. McCrone will certainly be of great
value as a member of the Normal faculty.
Dr. W . L. Smith, who was a student at Normal when the in­
stitution was first established, is now a prominent physician at
Streator, 111. Dr. Smith h^s followed along the line of the gen­
eral practitioner, but makes a specialty of surgery and has a
splendid reputation in this field of work.
Dr. Eckels delivered the address to the graduating class of the
High School at Dillsburg.
Commencement Week found two of Shippensburg’s formerinstructors visitors in the town. Mrs. W. L- Chandler, ofOgdensburg, N. Y ., better known to us as Miss Lockwood, form ;rly
teacher of music, was one, and the other was Mrs. Martin
Schwerin, of Anaconda, Montana, formerly Miss Lenher, teacher
of drawing. The latter was accompanied by her infant Sou,
George Lenher Schwerin, aged seVen months. These ladies were
popular teachers while at Normal and received warm greetings
from many old friends.
The 1902 Baseball Team was one of the best that Shippensburg Normal ever had. A cut of the baseball squad appears in
this issue. The first and second teams can be distinguished in the
picture by the difference in the uniforms. Of the ten games
played, our team won five and lost three|gone resulted in a tie ;
one was unfinished. The first game with Mercersburg and the
tie game with Dickinson required ten innings. The second game
with the Carlisle High School was lost by a close score through
an incompetent umpire and a “ ringer ” battery, and in the game
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because of partial umpiring. The season’s record was as fol­
lows :
Normal 12, Dickinson P r e p n ; Normal 7,. Mercersburg
Second 8; Normal 12, Carlisle H. S. 1 ; Normal 10, Dickinson
Prep. 10; Normal 18, Shippensburg 6; Normal 9, Waynesboro 5;
Normal 9, Mercersburg Second 13 ; Normal 4, Carlisle H. S. 5 !
Normal x, Newville 2 (unfinished); Normal 14, Shippensburg 10.

Clippings.
Won Bis Mit.
HE University of Pennsylvania has not as large funds at its
command as the authorities think to be necessary in
which respect it is not greatly different from other institutions of
the same kind. It finds the means to put up new buildings and
pay expenses through the untiring energy of its provost, Mr.
Harrison, whose little black subscription book is well known in
many a Philadelphia office.
Mr. Harrison was pleading persistently with a broker for a
subscription not so very long ago, but without success. Finally
the broker said:
“ See here, Mr. Harrison, I will give you something on one
condition— that you promise not to come into my office again
until I a$k you to do so. ’ ’
“ Certainly, Mr. T ., I agree to that,” said the provost promptly,
and walked out smiling with a check for one thousand dollars.
A month or so later the broker heard a knock at his door.
“ Come in !” he called, and in walked Mr. Harrison. He had
the black book under his arm.
“ Good morning, Mr. T . !” he said. “ I want you to help
me with a little university matter I am— ”
“ Tookhere, Mr. Harrison !”; the broker interrupted. “ When
I gave that last thousand dollars wasn’t it on the express con­
dition that you wouldn’t come into my office again until I invited
you ?”
“ Why, yes,” returned the provost, “ I believe that was the
understanding. But didn’t you say ‘ Come in !’ just now when I
knocked ?”
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They say the check this time was for five thousand. Youth s
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©ut of Mis province.
SOAP-M AKER and a banker were at a Wagner concert,
says the Christian Register. The program did not please
them, and they began to talk.
“ Every man,” said the banker, “ wants to do something out­
side of his own work.”
“ Y e s,” answered the soap-maker. “ I manufacture good soap,
and yet I ’ve always wanted to be a banker.”
“ You wouldn’t be a good one. I am a successful banker,
but I always wanted to write a book. And now here’s this man
Wagner tries his hand at music. Just listen to the stu ff! And
yet we all know he builds good parlor-cars.”

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At A H E negro barber on a Western express-train recognized in
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the man he was shaving a well-known merchant. He
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worked, says the New York Times, with especial skill,
and was rewarded with a substantial fee.
Hastening to tell the other employes on the train of his good
luck, he announced pompously :
“ Dat Mist’ Jones is a mighty fine gentleman ; jes’ as nice a
man as you’d want to meet. I ’ve often been in his store in
Chicago, you know, but, of co’se, I nevah met him socially befo.
BINDS Magazines, Music, Bibles, Hymn Books, Newspapers, Scrap
, Books, in fact everything in the Bookbinding line.

SCHEFFER’S
(Estate of Theo. F. Scheffer)

STATIONER, BOOKBINDER AND JOB PRINTER
No. £1 South Second St.

HARRISBURG, PA.

PRINTING of Wedding Invitations, Cards, Billheads,
Envelopes, Tags, Etc.

Yes, W e are still doing Business at
...the O ld Stand...
And we are always glad to wait on Normal people because we always have
just what they want.
Goods delivered free.,

J. J. STROHM, West Main Street, Shippensburg