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APRIL/, 1903

No. 3.

[A paper on tlie Restriction of the Provisional Certificate, read at the
last meeting of Normal School Principals, by Dr. G. M . D. Eckels,
of the Shippensburg State Normal School.]

IRestrictlon of tfce Ueacbers’ provisional Certifícate.
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H isto r y of t h e P r o v isio n a l C e r t if ic a t e ;.

"P R E V IO U S to the enactment of the law establishing the
county superintendency of schools the teachers were
examined by the school directors. The best qualified member
of the school board was detailed for this important function.
If a member of the school board was a member of any of the
learned professions he was almost certain to be selected for this
extraordinary duty. Ofttimes no man of liberal attainments
could be found on the school board and then usually some one
whose chief qualification was his presumption would be chosen
to examine the applicants for schools. With the act of 1854,
establishing the county superintendency, came the Provisional
Certificate. The responsibility for the qualifications of teachers
was by this act lifted from the shoulders of the school directors
and placed upon an official selected by the directors of the
county. The purpose of this provision of the superintendent’s
act was to raise the standard of the qualifications of teachers and
at the same time to make the tests more uniform. This act
made certain the securing of a man to examine the teachers who
would be competent to test their knowledge of the branches
taught in the public schools. The effect of this act was the
establishing of numerous county Normal Schools for the training
of teachers and most of these schools soon gave way to the State
Normal Schools. The county superintendent under this act was
given power to issue provisional certificates good for one year.
Originally, this certificate included orthography, reading,
writing, English grammar, geography and arithmetic. By the

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act of 1867 history of the United States was added; by the act of
1885 physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect
of alchoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human
system, was added. By the act of 1901 civil government and
algebra were added. This certificate has remained unchanged,
so far as the privileges conferred upon the holder are concerned,
for almost half a century. A certificate adopted as an expedient
to fill vacancies for which teachers holding higher grade certifi­
cates could not be obtained, threatens to become a permanent
feature of our state policy of certificating teachers for the public
schools. Other states of less pretensions, educationally, have safe­
guarded this certificate much more effectively than Pennsylvania.
No other state in the union receives as large appropriation for
public school purposes from the state revenues as does Pennsyl­
vania, and there are few other states that permit a teacher holding
a provisional certificate to continue indefinitely in the work.
2.

N e c e ss it y fo r t h e c o n tin u an ce o f t h e P r o visio n al
C e r t if ic a t e .

There will possibly remain for many years to come a necessity
for the issuing of a yearly certificate. It is not likely that for a
number of years to come a sufficient number of permanent cer­
tificates will be held by teachers applying for positions in Penn­
sylvania to fill all the schools. A temporary certificate must
therefore be issued to fill the vacancies after teachers holding
permanent certificates have been supplied with schools. In the
hands of a wise and courageous superintendent the evils of the
Provisional Certificate are not so very great. When no more
Provisional Certificates are issued than are actually necessary
to fill the vacancies which have occurred because there are
not enough teachers holding the higher grade certificates to fill
all the schools, then we need not fear the influence of the Pro­
visional Certificate upon the higher qualifications of teachers.
The continuance of the Provisional Certificate under proper
restrictions will give worthy young persons without means an
opportunity to begin the work of teaching. So long as the
wages of teachers are kept as low as we find them in the
majority of the districts of Pennsylvania, young men and women
will not risk to borrow money to defray the expenses of an
adequate preparation for the work of teaching. They prefer to
earn the money, at least most of it, many of them in advance of

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spending it, even for an education. In order to accommodate
teachers who prepare in this way some form of Provisional Cer­
tificate must be used. The Provisional Certificate will likely be
in use in a restricted form for many years to come.
3. T h e P r o v isio n al C e r t if ic a t e sh ould b e R e s t r ic t e d .

1. Because its unrestricted use stands in the way of the improve­
ment of the qualifications of teachers. Many teachers'are satisfied
with their attainments as long as they can get any sort of certifi­
cate to teach. Teaching with many persons is a makeshift. “ I
am not a model clergyman only a decent makeshift” would ex­
press a very pertinent truth if we substituted “ teacher” for
“ clergyman” and made the statement applicable to a certain
class of school teachers in the Commonwealth. So long as many
of our teachers belong to this makeshift class it will be necessary
for the law to carefully guard the qualifications of those making
application for positions as teachers. That the Provisional Cer­
tificate is responsible for the presence in the school-room of most
of the unqualified teachers will not be seriously questioned by any
one familiar with the facts. To reduce the number of incompe­
tent teachers we must strike at the Provisional Certificate, as ninetenths of all the unqualified teachers belong to this class.
2. Because qualified teachers are often set aside to make room for
inexperienced and unqualified teachers who happen to hold Provisional
Certificates. Teachers holding high grade certificates have been
obliged to yield their places frequently to persons of far inferior
qualifications. Directors are often not discriminating enough in
their selection of teachers when their scholastic attainments are
under consideration. If the Provisional Certificates were properly
restricted many of these unqualified teachers who supplant well
qualified ones would not be eligible, as they would not be in
the possession of a certificate of any kind.
3. The standard of the teacher's profession will always be rated
by the most poorly qualified class of teachers allowed to remain in the
work. The Provisional Certificate fixes the rank of the teacher
both socially and professionally. The qualified teachers owe it to
the profession to use their influence toward the restricting of the
Provisional Certificate, as this certificate is the instrument more
than anything else of preventing the teacher’s calling from rising
to the dignity of a profession. I f the temporary certificate could
be eliminated altogether from the evidences of the teacher’s fit-

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ness for the duties of his profession, and only those who hold per­
manent certificates of some form be eligible as teachers, it would
not be long until the world generally would recognize the teacher’s
work as a profession.
4. I n w h a t m an n er sh ar e t h e P ro visio n ae C e r t if ic a t e
B E R E S T R IC T E D ?

The State Teachers’ Association at its last session passed a
resolution recommending that no teacher be allowed to hold more
than three Provisional Certificates. I heartily approve this reso­
lution. No teacher should be employed to teach a second term
unless he is able to show improvement in his qualifications since
his first engagement. I f this resolution of the State Teachers’
Association were to go into effect immediately, it would probably
mean the dropping the first year from the profession of about three
thousand teachers. I f a few year’s grace could be given the
teachers holding Provisional Certificates before the law would go
into effect, many teachers of this class would seek to improve
themselves in the meantime and not so many teachers would be
driven from the profession by the operation of the law. That
it is time for the law to interfere and protect the schools
from the evils growing out of the unrestricted issue of
Provisional Certificates every wide-awake educator in the
state will admit. The people will in a measure protect
themselves from the evils of poor discipline or from a lack
of energy on the .part of the teacher, but they have little power to
determine the teacher’s intellectual attainments. This power
rests in too many cases with the superintendent. The less the
superintendent has to do with the fixing of the eligibility of
teachers from the scholastic standpoint, and the more he has to do
with determining their efficiency in regard to their teaching ability,
the more effective he will be in his office. The superintendent’s
mark in teaching should determine whether it is wise or not to
re-elect a teacher, and it should also solve the question as to how
much salary he should receive if re-elected.
5. T h e e f f e c t o f . r e s t r ic t in g t h e n u m ber of P r o C e r t if ic a t e s a t e a c h e r Ca n r e g a r e y h o e d .

v isio n a r

This action would stimulate young teachers to enter upon the
work with the intention of improving their qualifications until
they would obtain a certificate which would be permanent. The
institutions established for the preparation of teachers for their

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work are the only safe agents for the fixing of the standard of the
qualifications of those who are to be recognized as real teachers.
The Medical Schools fix the standard of qualifications for the
physician, the Theological Schools fix the standard of qualifica­
tions for the ministry, and the Normal Schools should be allowed
to fix the standard of qualifications for the teacher. The number
of.persons examined for Provisional Certificates should become
less each year in a county where the conditions favor the im­
provement of teachers’ qualifications. That there will always be
some in every county to be examined by the superintendent will
doubtless be the case for many years to come, but that does not
mean that the number should not grow beautifully less each
year. Most of the teachers dropped from the roll of the profes­
sion by this act would be of the incompetent class, and the result
would be a distinct gain to the schools. I f the public schools are
to prepare for citizenship then they must be taught by persons
who meet the requirements of intelligent and virtuous citizenship.
The ability to read simple sentences, to solve easy problems, and
to write a legible hand is not sufficient to prepare a youth for
worthy citizenship. These subjects constitute only the alphabet
of his preparation. A properly educated citizen must be intelli­
gent. He must be informed on current topics ; he must know
the history of his own and of other countries; he must be
acquainted with the national and state constitutions; he must
know the duties and responsibilities of public officers ; he must
be acquainted with the industrial interests of the state and nation ;
he must be familiar with the conditions of all classes of citizens ;
and he must get this information and this intelligence in most
cases in the public schools. It is imperative, therefore, that the
teacher have the intelligence and breadth of culture necessary to
inform properly all persons coming under his tuition as to their
duties and responsibilities as citizens. The superintendent must
be helped in his efforts to get rid of incompetent teachers. Ofttimes the pressure brought to bear upon the superintendent to
grant certificates to incompetents is almost irresistible. The
superintendent must be more thoroughly upheld in all his efforts
to raise the standard of qualifications among his teachers. The
restriction of the Provisional Certificate in the manner suggested
would place us more nearly in accord with other leading states in
this matter. There is no other state of prominence educationally

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that does not restrict the use of the Provisional Certificate. The
restriction of the Provisional Certificate will result indirectly in
increasing teachers’ salaries. It would diminish the number of
applicants and thereby increase the demand for teachers of good
qualifications. The limiting of the supply of teachers would
necessarily increase the demand for competent teachers and no
doubt add to their remuneration.
. 6. O bjections to r e s t r ic t in g use oe t h e P r o v isio n a l
C e r t if ic a t e .

The superintendent now has the right under the present law to
restrict the use of the Provisional Certificate to the actual necessities
of the schools. Granting that he has the power, does he always
exercise it? To give him the power without some incentive to
use it does not seem to be wise. In fact we know that the
directors who are responsible for the election of the superintend­
ent are very frequently opposed to his adopting a high standard
of qualifications for Provisional Certificates. In almost every
county certain boards have agreed with the superintendent not
to employ teachers whose certificates did not reach a certain
average. Usually they stand by their resolution only for a year
or two. Some preferred teacher falls below the average in his
examination and down goes the rule.
Restricting the Provisional Certificate will drive deserving teachers
from the ranks of the profession. This is not likely. A teacher
who cannot in three terms teaching lift himself out of the most
poorly qualified class of teachers into the next higher grade of
teachersis seldom, if ever, worth saving to the profession. The fact
that we have good teachers teaching more than three years on Pro­
visional Certificates does not say that these teachers would have
been ruled out of the profession if the law suggested by the State
Teachers’ Association would have been in force when these per­
sons began teaching. These same teachers who have been
successful while holding Provisional Certificates would, if they
had been compelled to leave the profession or improve their
qualifications, have chosen the latter alternative, and the state as
well as the teacher would have been the gainer.
The directors will not be able to supply the schools with eligible
teachers i f the Provisional Certificate is restricted. . There need
be no fear on this point. There are always plenty of young
men and women wanting an opportunity to begin teaching.

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They stand ready to take the places of any whom the law
might remove from the profession, and I have not much doubt
but that the state would usually be the the gainer by this exchange
of teachers. The true testing of teachers is always by experience,
and any method by which the incompetents are dropped when
their weakness is once certainly manifested by their teaching
must be a safe method to put into practice. A district can safely
risk the experiment of putting an inexperienced teacher in the
place of one who has failed to show substantial improvement in
his qualifications after three terms teaching. Some of the new
teachers may land at the end of three years where their prede­
cessors landed, but some of them will not and these will be a dis­
tinct gain to the teaching force of the state.
It will compel teachers who cannot afford the expense of attending
school to drop out of the work, This hardship will occur in so few
instances that it is not worth considering as an argument against
the law restricting the use of the Provisional Certificate. With
free tuition in the State Normal Schools and a minimum salary of
thirty-five dollars per month for teaching there are not many
young persons who would not be able to escape the effect of a law
preventing teachers from teaching more than three terms on
Provisional Certificates.
It will prevent directors from supplying their schools with teachers
who live in the district in which they are employed. This result in­
stead of being a loss to the state would be a clear gain. The
habit of employing teachers in the townships in which they live
is largely responsible for many of the schools getting into a groove.
Teachers being brought in from outside districts would often re­
sult in the introduction of new and better plans of school work.
I f inexperienced teachers could as a rule get their first experience
in strange districts it would be better for the schools and better
for the beginner himself.
7. W h a t can the : S chool S u p e r in t Ie n d e n t do u n d er t h e
LAW TOWARD RESTRICTING THE USE OF THE PROVISIONAL CER­
TIFICATE.

He can limit the issue ofProvisional Certificates to the actual number
needed to supply all the vacancies occurring after the successful
teachers holding higher grades of certificates have been supplied
with schools. A number of superintendents have been doing this,
and with great advantage to the schools of their counties. The

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plan induces the ambitious teacher to try to secure a certificate
which will relieve him from the necessity of being examined by
the superintendent. In every county where this plan has been
adopted it has resulted in sending an increased number of young
men and women to Normal School to properly prepare themselves
for the profession of teaching.
He should not hold his examinations earlier than July. This
would afford Normal and College graduates an opportunity to
make personal applications for schools. Under the present ar­
rangement of holding the examinations in May and June, students
who are attending Normal Schools and other educational insti­
tutions, with a view to improving their qualifications, are placed
at a disadvantage. While these teachers are expending their
money and applying themselves closely to the work of study,
those teachers who never go away to school and who never spend
any money in preparing themselves to teach, canvass the board
of directors, take the county examination, and walk off in the
evening with a contract to teach school. The teacher attending
school learns in due time that all the schools in his district have
been given out and that none of them have been assigned to him.
Those teachers who spend their time and money in preparation
for their work should at least have an equal chance with those
teachers who spend neither time nor money in getting ready for
their work.
He should hold his examinations at the county seat. This might
make it a little inconvenient for those who live some distance
from the county seat, but the examination itself costs them noth­
ing, and the only expense they would incur would be their travel­
ing expenses, and the charge for boarding where the examina­
tion is being held. Under this plan the examiner could take
sufficient time to look carefully over his papers and issue his
certificate with the assurance that he had made thorough work of
the examination, and that no one had been refused or granted a
certificate without careful and thoughtful consideration of his
papers. When the applicant comes before the superintendent for
his second examination he should show improvement over his
first examination or be denied a certificate. The examination of
a superintendent should be broad enough to enable teachers to
give evidence of such improvement. The improvement need not
necessarily be shown in the common branches. If a teacher is

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able to show by his reading and increased breadth of culture that
he has made efforts to advance his attainments he should be given
credit for such work.
He can make his standard of qualifications high enough to prevent
incompetent persons from entering the profession of teaching. The
fixing of an invariable standard is an absolute necessity with a
superintendent who wishes to improve the qualifications of the
young teacher. The progressive superintendent will always be
known by the standard which he adopts for the qualifications of
his teachers who hold Provisional Certificates. The efficient
superintendent is always a high standard man. It is safe to
assume that at least a fourth of those applying for Provisional
Certificates are incompetent.
He can act in harmony with the efforts of Normal Schools to
furnish the State with well qualified teachers. Many superintend­
ents do not seem to realize that the Normal Schools are entitled
to more credit for the improvement of the qualifications of teach­
ers than any other agency. The superintendent should be eager
to have them as allies in his efforts to advance the standard of
scholarship among his teachers. He should encourage every
young person who expects to teach to take a Normal course.
Working with the Normal Schools he will be co-operating with the
institutions which are of most service to him in advancing the
academic and professional attainments of his teachers. He will
be doing the best for the schools, the best for the teachers, the
best for himself, and the best for the state.

Emancipation from ftoental Slavery.
A N makes his advent upon this planet as a mere individual.
As such he is a creature of impulse and instinct, a slave of
nature. But for man there is a higher possibility than to remain
an obedient subject to his impulses. He is endowed with a higher
nature which enables him to unify and organize his passions and
free himself from their control.
The institution of human slavery, which has blotted the fair
page of history, has robbed the nations of their superior tone of
education, manners and customs. It has brought down the
wrath of God upon the oppressors and overthrown governments.
In every instance, before freedom was gained, the oppressed have

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verified upon somq battle field their equal humanity with the op­
pressors, and have shown the scorn of oppression that beats im­
mortal in the proud heart of man. But another kind of slavery
which has silently but rapidly enthralled us, and from which we
must be emancipated, is mental slavery.
The amount of latent mental power that lies slumbering in the
minds of the untutored millions of our youth is beyond computa­
tion. Over all this unreclaimed but magnificent intellectual ter­
ritory, over all these minds and souls with their untold possibili­
ties of good, the schools have the controlling influence. It lies
within their domain to give to them the power of applying theory,
of putting their acquisition into practice, and of directing the mind
so that it passes from a narrow point of view to a broad outlook
upon the world— a world established through wisdom, clothed in
beauty, governed by law.
Contrary to this, our popular system of education, the pride of
American civilization, has a tendency to produce a class of men
and women enslaved to second-hand thought. The significance
of this is that the pupils are not given the power to form new
ideas from those already in consciousness. They are not trained
to investigate, analyze and compare; to secure to themselves
habits of correct thinking ; to be independent and original in their
mental processes so as to fit them for the practical duties of life.
That which has contributed largely toward producing this de­
ficiency in education is the endless multiplicity of studies in our
modern course's. For a number of years too much as to number of
subjects has been attempted, but too little as to thoroughness. We
are not satisfied even in primary grades simply to master a subject
and make it a stepping stone to something newer and higher, but
instead we proceed to give to the pupils a little dilute Geography,
Grammar, and science under various names, but so dilute that
there is scarcely any nourishment in it for the growing mind.
This process of diluting the staples of mental life continues by
adding “ ics” , “ isms” and “ ologies” through the entire course.
Now it is self-evident that since children are forced to drive so
many subjects abreast, their efforts are scattered, their strength
divided and their energy paralyzed. They are apt to suffer de­
feat because attention, whose determinant is interest, is forever
diffused through so many channels that it can never gather in
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Another momentous result arising from this multiplicity of
studies is that the average boy stands at the threshold of a pro­
fession a number of years later than his mental capabilities would
indicate. This awful waste of the precious formative years of
youth alone condemns this feature of our educational system.
From these facts we may conclude that a limited number of sub­
jects will tend to produce men of thoughtful purpose and earnest
aspirations; that it will be more likely to make out of the boys
and girls, practical, sensible men and women, able to meet and
decide questions which confront them, than a mere smattering of
the whole complement of arts and sciences.
A second factor in bringing about intellectual freedom is the
teacher. Too often the teacher is some dissatisfied clerk, incapa­
ble of managing the trifling concerns of a small retail shop; a
farmer who obtains in winter a short vacation from the toil of
summer; or some one who resorts to it from motives of personal
convenience. Notwithstanding his unfitness he gains access to
the sanctuary of the mind without difficulty and the tender
interests of both worlds are entrusted to his guidance. In other
professions this is not so. The lawyer and the physician must
pursue a course of thorough preparation and abide the time until
they are entrusted with cases of their respective calling. With
equal preparation should the teacher enter upon his profession.
Besides he should possess a spirit that elevates above everything
else the nature and capabilities of the so u l; that recognizes the
grave responsibility which has been assumed.
Very frequently the desire and ambition of the teacher is at a
single instance to teach complex truths, whole systems, doctrines
and theories which years of analysis are scarcely capable of un­
folding, instead of commencing with the simple element and then
rising by gradations to combined results. Through such teach­
ing and from a desire to produce precocious intellects in order to
astonish the school authorities, the teacher, to a great extent, de­
stroys the intellectual strength of the child.
The emancipation from mental enthrallment will be aided by
the reduction of the number of studies and by raising the intel­
lectual tone of teachers. For the true teacher will discover the
great principles upon which his noble art is based. Knowing
these and directing the mind along fewer lines of study, he can
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virtue, and enable it to exert its influence for good. A higher
scholarship will then be secured and, above all, in each indi­
vidual will be fostered an independence that will exalt both the
aim and the character of education, driving away idleness and
indifference.
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Gbe Gbilb IDersus Ube Class.
O. H . B a k e l e s s , B loom sbtjrg N o r m a l .

'"p H E school is made for the child and not the child for the
*
school. Educational authorities are frequently so much
absorbed in grading, classifying, and arranging courses of study,
as to lose sight of this fundamental principle.
Teachers, too, intent on passing classes, striking averages,
and meeting the various requirements, have neither time nor
energy to come into close touch with each child as an individual,
to learn his needs, and by soul to soul contact stimulate his
interest and enthusiasm. Thus routine and formalism usurp the
place of real teaching and the process of education becomes a
perfunctory one. Instead of augmenting manhood and woman­
hood, its great purpose, the school too frequently stultifies and
deadens it.
The children who survive these processes and maintain a suf­
ficient love for study to continue this means of growth through
life are the exception and not the rule.
This is not as it should be. Many young people disheartened,
break away from school very early to take their place as workers
in the world. Meagerly equipped, we allow, from the school
man’s standpoint, they perform their modest part in the world’s
work. These are not the dreamers of dreams, but practical fol­
lowers ; and the subsequent success of many such in varying
lines of activity prove conclusively that their lack of success in
coping with the educational machine was not entirely the fault
of the individual boy or girl, but was due rather to some mis­
placed cogs or pinions in the great mill at work upon the edu­
cational grist.
Men and women cannot be made in mass, nor attain culture
as furniture is polished, by patent processes, in job lots, at con­
tract prices. Personality must be considered. Each individual
is like no other in all the world. Tastes and inclination must

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be taken into account, must be shaped and guided by a sympa­
thetic master hand, and the soul under training will grow by its
own efforts.
It has been well said, that the chief function of the teacher is
to arouse enthusiasm. This done, eternity is too short to do all
else that the quickened soul aspires to.
In many communities the overcrowded Schools and necessary
accompaniment— mass teaching— still continues. Here and there
a thoughtful superintendent or principal or a more intelligent
board of directors has called a halt, and introduced changes that
have made individualism and life in the educational processes.
The lock step has been broken. The world and the school
have been made to touch. It is dawning upon teachers and com­
munity that school is life— or ought to be. The individual child
is getting more and more the guidance and help that will interest
and hold him under the influence of the teacher until he has ac­
quired sufficient power to insure a continuance of his growth after
he leaves the teacher’s care. The instruction is the kind that
stimulates his interest and arouses his activities and powers.
The child study movement has done much toward -arousing
the teachers and parents to a more careful consideration of the
needs of the individual child. When he begins to fall behind his
classmates the cause is sought for. It is found often in defective
ears, defective eyes, depleted nerves and many other conditions
that can*be ameliorated to some extent, and, with cooperation of
proper authorities, often entirely removed.
A deeper study of the subj ect demonstrates other causes and
conditions at work that result in waste of time and energy on
the part of teacher and pupil. Are there hereditary and consti­
tutional differences in children that give the key to their control
and training from birth ? The thoughtful and observant upon the
subject say yes, and Ipoint to the sensory or motor activities of
the child as the key to his nature and needs.
‘ ‘The child whose mental and physical make up is active, and
motile” says Baldwin, ‘ ‘is very responsive to suggestion, to all in­
fluences from outside,from environment,both physical and personal,
which get a lodgment in consciousness and leads to action.
‘ ‘He tends to act promptly, quickly, unreflectively, assimilat­
ing the newer elements of suggestions of the environments to the
ways of behavior fixed by his earlier habits.

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“ Generally such a person, child or adult, is said to “ jum p“
at conclusions ; he is anxious to know in order to a ct; he acts in
some way on all events or suggestions, even when no cause of
action is explicitly suggested and even when one attempts to keep
him from acting.”
What observant person does not recognize the type ! How
much help can be given to such children, when the teacher can
get away from the mass long enough to do for the individual.
Then againpHthat other great class, the passive, receptive
children, often of sensitive nature, who shrink from every look
and word, who do not respond, or make very little outward sign
as to what impressions they have gotten, what interpretation
they put upon the data which comes to them. They are not
self-revealing. They are less active than the other class. The
teacher is outside their lives, and cannot help them because
neither their conduct nor expression gives the key to what is go­
ing on in their minds.
That teacher that sees the individual pupil, that forgets tasks
and lessons and builds for the needs of each child under his care
is the artist. He will educate in the highest sense of the term.
A community under his care will grow strong, wise, intelligent.
He will be a benefactor to his age, by helping each pupil who
passes through his hands, to that training which will round out
his nature, make him, by a corrective process, master and not
slave of his own being. Such work is education, anything else
is worse than waste.
The teacher who thinks will find the way or make it. It is
not money nor material equipment the school systems of our
nation need, but men and women who love children well enough
to know them.

a Sbarp iRetmfte.
A l l e t t a B e s s o r , ’04.
[This class essay is a development of original narrative based on Exercise, (d), Page
107, of Maxwell and Smith’s “ W riting in English.” ]

The little village of M— could not boast of a theater, public
library, and similar attractions intended for the amusement of its
citizens, but the lack of such places was not keenly felt, for the
little country post-office furnished ample entertainment to all
those who frequented it.

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Here would assemble: of an evening aged men who reveled
in relating their past history, also young boys whose minds
readily absorbed all conversation, even though it was not of the
most elevating nature.
Business having called me to this little village, fate so ordained
that I must remain until the following morning, and I concluded
to while away the time by mingling with this odd mixture of
country civilization which, as though propelled by a common
desire, wended its way to the post-office at the first approach of
nightfall. I accordingly betook myself there and assumed a posi­
tion where I could observe, and yet remain unobserved. I took
an inventory of those before me, and after a casual survey , selected
two faces which interested me, but in different ways.
One was that of an old man whose bearing indicated the un­
mistakable signs of a soldier’s training. This I presumed from
his general aspect, but my impression was strengthened when I
noticed that he was so unfortunate as to have a wooden leg. The
other face belonged to a young man whose actions proved a lack
of mental stability, the truth of which I leave the story to develop.
As is usual in such gatherings, the older men were relating
some of their marvelous experiences. The old man with the
wooden leg, whose name was Samuel Foote, told some stirring
events connected with his services in the army during the Civil
War, and as was natural referred to the accident which deprived
him of a leg.
The young man, whose' ideas of wit were not of the most
brilliant nature, constantly interrupted the old man’s narrative by
casting slurs at him, and also sought to. provoke laughter by mak­
ing slighting remarks about Mr. Foote’s wooden leg. These in­
terruptions finally- became annoying and the old man becoming
aggravated turned to the unmannerly fellow saying, “ Why do you
attack me on my weakest part? I never said anything about
your head. My anatomy is not complete since I lost a leg,
neither is yours since you lack that which is far from essential,
namely, brains.” The rebuke had the desired effect, for the
young man relapsed into silence, and a hearty outburst of
laughter from all present evinced strong approval of the old man’s
words.

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Meísbeíts=*fet3en.
It is not always right to take the part of the under dog.
“ The boy without a playground is the father of the man
without a jo b .”
When you get mad count ten slowly, and the same ten back­
ward, and then hold your peace.
■ I f you like neither music nor children stay out of the teaching
profession.
The woman who is always looking for bargains never sees
anything in the higher life.
Conscience has few heroes.
He is a moral giant who holds his tongue.
To test the character of a policeman watch him when off duty.
Many a man has bartered contentment for luxury.
A fine estate is not comparable with a healthy stomach.
For a woman, Greek roots cannot be substituted for English
tubers.

JZ?

Basftet Ball.
E N T H U S IA S M ran high during the basket ball season at
“
Normal. The boys exhibited a healthy rivalry for places
on the team. Such spirit was manifested as is only evinced
in institutions of a much larger student body. The girls were by
no means inferior to the boys in their love of the sport.
The first game was played at Normal against the strong
Freshman team of Dickinson College. The college men had a
knowledge and experience in playing the game which far out­
weighed that of the Normal team. Yet our team played good
ball and held the visitors down to the small score of 20— 9.
Later in the season the Dickinson Freshmen journeyed to our
town again, well remembering their former victory, and with the
intention of repeating it. Their team was materially strength­
ened. The Normal boys had profited by their first game, and
played in a manner that brought fear and wrath to the Dickinson
camp. The game resulted in our favor by the score of 18-14.
The Normalites were defeated at Mercersburg by the first team
of the academy by a score of 62-12. The score does not show

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the ball that our boys played, nor the difficulties under which
they labored.
The last game of the season was played at Shippensburg
against the High School team of Steelton. These young gentle­
men had not yet met with defeat this season and were confident
of adding another scalp to their well-filled belts, but they were
most grievously disappointed. Our whole team played with a
vim and snap which thoroughly outmatched the High School
team. The game resulted in a victory for Normal by the score
of 16-9.
The boys who composed the Normal Team are Jackson,
Starry, Kapp, Bressler, Kendig, Gray, Plum and Henry.
The girls also played two very interesting and spirited games
against the Girls’ Varsity of Dickinson College. The first game
was played at Carlisle and resulted in a defeat for Normal by the
small score of 6-4. The game abounded in brilliant plays on
both sides.
A week later the Dickinson girls came to Shippensburg to
play a return game. In the meanwhile the Normal girls prac­
ticed hard and were prepared to play a fast game. The game
was sharp and full of life during the first half which ended in a
score of 6-2 in favor of Normal. During the second half neither
side scored. Report says that only a moderate amount of hair
and pins remained upon the field of conflict, although temper
and enthusiasm lay around in large chunks.

IRormal IRotes.
'93 iReunion.

'T 'H E decennial Reunion of the class of ’93 will be held at the
^ Normal School during Commencement week, 1903. A com­
mittee of arrangements has been appointed as follows : U. G.
Fry, Newville, Pa., Miss Maude Robison, Waterloo, ‘Pa., C.
Edward Slonaker, Glen Rock, Pa. Communications should be
sent to Miss Maude Robison, secretary of the committee. Every
member of the “ Columbian Class’’ is called upon to work for the
success of this Reunion. Further notice will be given by direct
communication from the committeeM-C. L . Omwake, Pres.
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present at chapel last term, and Mr. Jenanyan made an address to
the students concerning the missionary cause in Armenia. -He
described very forcefully his struggle for an education from the
darkness and ignorance of his environment. He was educated in
the United States. He and his wife had with them a varied as­
sortment of trinkets of bone and woodwork, and fancy material in
cotton and silk. Many students bought souvenirs of that distant
land, and at the same time helped a worthy cause.
Washington's Birthday was celebrated in a very unique man­
ner bv the students and teachers. An excellent dinner was
Served in the evening at which, it is quite unnecessary to add,
everybody was present; but the manner in which the students
were attired deserves special mention and commendation. Every
one was either a George or a Martha Washington. I f the spirit
of George or Martha looked in upon the merry gathering, it surely
must have been with a pang of homesickness. Powder and wigs,
frills and flounces, smiles and bows were in evidence on all sides.
The evening’s fun closed with a sociable. The affair will be a
long-remembered bright spot amid books and toil.

Special XCeacbers for tbe IRormal School.
/"~\WING to the large increase of new students expected for the
^
spring term, the following new teachers have been elected :
Prof. W . F. Zumbro, of Chambersburg; Prof. Phineas Morris, of
D elta; Prof. H. S. Rhoads, of Gettysburg, and Miss Ida B.
Quigley, of Shippensburg.
Prof. Zumbro was Superintendent of the schools of Franklin
County for nine years and was one of the most popular and
efficient school officials that that county has ever had. Prof.
Zumbro Was a member of the Normal School faculty in the
spring term of 1890. He was very successful in his teaching
then, and we have reason to believe will be even more successful
the coming term, as his larger experience will certainly add
greatly to his equipment as a teacher.
Prof. Phineas Morris is a graduate of the Cumberland Valley
State Normal School, class of ’98. He has completed the
Freshman and Sophomore years at Dickinson College but was
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second year. He expects to-enter Dickinson again the coming
year. Prof. Morris has taught-a number of terms in the public
schools and for the past two years has been Principal of the Delta
¡High School. He is a man of fine spirit and a very successful
•teacher.
Prof. H. S. Rhoads is a native of Somerset County, but for
the past six years has made Gettysburg-his home, excepting dur­
ing the summer vacations. He spent four years in Pennsylvania
College, graduating with high honors. He is preparing for the
ministry and is in the middle year of the Seminary course. Mr,.
Rhoads has had wide experience in public school work and the preparation Of teachers in local Normal Schools in Somerset*
Cotinty.
Miss Ida B. Quigley has been a member of the faculty of the
Cumberland Valley State Normal School during the spring terms
since 1896. She is a graduate of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School and has had wide and successful experience in
public school work. She will have charge -of the new library
room during the coming spring term.

iRormal fmprovemettts.
T V T H E N the students enter the chapel at the opening of the
”
coming term their eyes will behold a complete transforma­
tion of the old chapel. The frescoing is a genuine work of
art. The design and coloring of the ceiling are beautiful and in
excellent taste. The windows have been made to harmonize with
the other decorative work of the chapel and they lend a charm to
the hall that is most pleasing. The new opera chairs combine
the three essentials of a good chair— beauty, comfort, and dura­
bility. The sloping floor will add much to the comfort and de­
light of the chapel audiences .
The new library room is a veay cheerful and attractive place.
It is light and inviting and will add greatly to the pleasure of the
students who are required to spend considerable time in the
library as a preparation for their class work. The library has
become a great factor in education and the Shippensburg Normal
School is alive to this great necessity in connection with a proper
scheme of education.

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The kitchen and laundry have come in for a full share in the
recent improvements. To the rear of the dining hall a very large
room has been devoted to the kitchen. The room has been
fitted up with modern kitchen furnishings. The steward will
now\be enabled to cater to the appetites of the students with more
ease and comfort to his help.
The laundry room occupies the rear part of the first floor of
the new building. It contains the wash room and ironing
rooms. These rooms will be equipped with convenient and
necessary machinery so that the laundry work may be done satis­
factorily and with as much dispatch as possible.
The new rooms in which the societies hold their meetings
have been fitted up with handsome new assembly seats. New
pianos were placed in these rooms at the opening of the fall
term and the platforms were carpeted. These rooms are very
cheerful and well adapted to their purpose.
The outlook for new students for the coming term is very
encouraging. Over one hundred students have engaged rooms
for this term and quite a number of new day students will be in
attendance.
The boys are getting ready for a brisk base ball season and
they expect to have a fast team by the time the, season is in its
glory. In addition to the material now on hand several good
players are expected among the new students.

TKUbett Spring Came.
No sound there was of a trumpet blast
By a riotous tempest pealed ;
No shadow of omen darkly cast
O’er shuddering fen and field.
No challenge shrieked by the hosts of air
The creatures of earth to thrill—
But all was waiting in concord there
When Spring came over the hill.
A robin twittered a canzonet—
How was it he knew, he knew ?
And out in the woods a violet
Lifted its face of blue.
The sun(grew bright, and a tender breeze
Breathed to the wakening rill.
A rain drop fell ’ mid the list’ning trees—
And Spring came over the hill.

—Edwin L. Sabin.

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APRIIy 1903

jEMtorial.
W / H A T is your ideal? Is it an ephemeral, phantastical sornething surrounded with a halo of glory? Is it so far up in
the clouds, or so distant in the future as to never be approxi­
mated ? On the other hand is it so low and of the earth earthy
that it may be reached with little effort ? Is it so easy of attain­
ment that it may be reached each day and another ideal formed
anew for the morrow ?
If you are a student in the school sense, have an ideal. Let
it be above you— beyond you. Make it the goal toward which
you strive. Make it high and holy. Let it' be as beautiful as a
lily and radiant as the sun. Let its beauty and brilliancy ever
be beckoning hands to greater and nobler things. Make it
Christian.
It is a deplorable fact that many a student at school or col­
lege is more concerned about the result of a prize-fight or a foot­
ball game than he is about the political, industrial, or educational
progress in which he expects to become a part. He often seems
to be most concerned in making as many credit marks as possible
in order that he may spend the most possible time in dissipation,
instead of absorbing real good in the getting of credit marks.
We do not decry legitimate sport and pleasure. Are these facts
partly true of you ? Be a servant to a great ideal and these
empty pleasures will be revealed in their true light.

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©fficial Baseball $cbet>ule.
ot tbe Cumberland Dalles State flormal School, Season ot 1903.
W . M . R if ®;, Manager.

April 18. Mercersburg Academy 2d, at Mercersburg.
April 25. Dickinson Preparatory School, at Carlisle.
May 2.
Chambersburg Academy, at Shippensburg.
May 9.
Dickinson Preparatory School, at Shippensburg.
May 16.
Chamberburg Academy, at Chambersburg.
May 23. Mercersburg Academy 2d, at Shippensburg.
May-30-. Open.
June 6.
Carlisle High School, at Shippensburg
June 13. Waynesboro, at Waynesboro.
June 20. Newville, at Shippensburg.

personals.
OM M ILLER, ’95, general agent for Underwood & Underwood, of New York, paid a brief visit to Normal l'ast
term.
Misses Hess, Hershey and Young, teachers in the schools of
Steelton, were the guests of Miss McBride.
Oscar Cunningham, ’95, Dickinson, ’06, was a member of a
victorious debating team at the college.
Miles A . Keasey, ’00, a student at Ursinus College, received
honorable mention in a debating contest in the Zwingian
Literary Society.
J. F. Kob, ’02, has received a promotion in the Middletown
schools. W e congratulate Mr. Kob on his success.
M. O. Billow, ’02, has been elected as a ward principal in
the Middletown schools.
Walter L. Noll, ’02, is at present teaching in the public
schools at Wiconisco, Pa.
Raymond Gettel, ’98, a student at Ursinus College, has ac­
cepted a position as one of the instructors in the Academy at
Ursinus. He also has the honor of a part in the rendition of
“ TheCreation,’? at Philadelphia, on Easter Sunday.
J. H. McLaughlin, ’00, who taught the high school at Highspite during the past year, has accepted a position with the
Pennsylvania Steel Company.

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flbarriases.
O TROHM — H EFFEEBO W ER.— A t the residence of the bride’s
^
father in Oakville, Pa., Wednesday evening, March 25, by
Rev. S. S. Wylie, Mr. Harvey B. Strohm to Miss Celia Hefflebower, ’93.
A l l e n — K e a n . — A t Carlisle, Pa., Wednesday, April x, by
Rev. G. M. Diffenderfer, Mr. U. P. Allen, ’99, to Miss Anna
Alberta Kean, of Bedford.

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©bituarp.
IV^ISS P IZZIE STONER, of Orrtanna, Pa., died April 1, near
Hellam, York county, Pa., after a short illness. She
graduated at C. V . S. N. S. in the class of 1901. She was a very
successful teacher.
jt
Again the ranks of the class of 1902 are broken.
God in
His all wise Providence has removed from their number their
beloved class-mate, Maude Davis.
Miss Davis, while at school, was suffering from throat trouble
which, after leaving, developed into throat-consumption. Every
effort was made that Miss Davis might regain her health. Upon
the advice of her physician, she spent the winter in New Mexico.
In March, Miss Davis, realizing that the climate was not
benefiting her, returned to her home, at Martinsburg.
From this time on she grew rapidly worse and on April the
first, she passed away.
While at school, Miss Davis’ sweet disposition and bright,
attractive ways won for her the love and friendship of all who
knew her. Her loss is felt as the loss of a sister by her many
friends and the sympathy of their sorrowing hearts goes out to
those nearer and dearer to her. The loss of such a life is
keenly felt.

JZ?
I do not think all boys, or most boys, or any considerable
number of school boys are notoriously bad, but in any school one
boy can set a number of other boys on the wrong track.— E x.

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Clippings.
1ft Is Bass Zo 3Be a "mobo&s.”
IS the easiest thing in the world to be a ‘ ‘nobody.” A ll
IT that
is necessary is to do nothing or to be like the boy, who
when questioned by his father as to why he had resigned his
position as clerk in a store, replied: ‘ ‘The work was too hard;
I am looking for something easy.”
Look for a ‘ ‘soft snap.” Do not get up in the morning until
you feel like it. Do not go to work until you are obliged to.
Never mind if you miss a train, or-if you are half an hour late to
your work. If you are at school do not trouble about preparing
your lessons. ' ‘ ‘Crib” whenever you can, cheat as often as pos­
sible, and get the best of your teacher whenever you see a chance,
and your progress in the desired direction will be assured.
If you are in college never mind about scholarship ; the main
thing is to slide through. You can employ a tutor at the close of
each term and ‘ ‘cram” for the examination. Have ‘ ‘a good
time,- ’ and never bother about results— they will take care of
themselves.
Do not try to do things as well as you can ; any way will do.
I f you are sawing do not exert yourself and saw it straight. If
you start to make a sled or bookcase, never mind about complet­
ing it;, or if you do, put it together any way. H alf done
botched-mp work is just the thing for ‘ ‘nobodies.” — Success.

"mo iPets ana IRot TPettg.”
BR O O K LYN school girl was asked what kind of a teacher
she liked best, and she promptly replied, ‘ ‘one who has no
pets and is not petty.” It would not be easy for one of the pro­
fessional pedagogues to do better. It is worthy of President G.
Stanley Hall at his best, though his words would of necessity be
longer. This needs no elaboration. A chapter on these words
would not make more emphatic two highly important suggestions.

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Normal school graduates are in much greater demand for
primary and other elementary grades than college graduates.
They can get higher salary than college graduates in the
grades.— E x.

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Gbe (Trees of tbe Gbeerful dfcan.

H E day returns and brings us tbe petty round of irritating
concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to
perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness
abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business
all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and
undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. Amen.
— Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Those mixers of mysterious potions are not such bad
fellows after all. Hear what one had to say of laughter at a
recent banquet of the Wholesale Druggists’ Association:
“ Man is the only animal that was made to laugh, and as
science teaches that laughter is a sure boon to health, it is a sin
for us to substitute excessive drug-taking for laughter.
“ Daughter increases the blood circulation. It expands the
lungs. It jiggers the diaphragm. It promotes the dioculation
of the spleen.
“ I once knew a man who laughed so much that when he died
they had to cut his liver out and kill it with a club.
“ Don’t take your troubles to bed with you; hang them on a
chair with your trousers, or drop them in a glass with your
teeth. ’ ’— Physical Culture.
Great and wise men have ever loved laughter.. The vain, the
ignorant, the dishonest, the pretentious alone have dreaded or
despised it.— Fra Elbertus.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting,
and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the
jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant. Washington
Irving.
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No school in the country has a moral right to allow a day to
pass without a good, wide-awake song. The influence is worth
ten times the loss of time for other study.— E x.
The primary school can do no more important service to the
children than to see to it that thay are absolutely accurate in the
spelling of the vocabulary they use.— E x.

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Three hundred young women in Chicago who are all to
become public school teachers, were recently pronounced
physically perfect, including nerves and eyesight. The New
York Normal School enquiries recently elicited the fact that
nineteen-twentieths of the girl pupils were taller than their
mothers. While the heroines of the English novels of a century
ago were as weak mentally as physically, the modern heroine is
strong in body and mind. Eet the good work go on, but let her
never forget she is a woman.

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A Book o f A r t—A Thing o f Beauty is
D IX O N ’S SCHOOL C A T A L O G .
You can have a copy f o r the asking.■

W HERE 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 L S O Y O U W IL L F IN D

D ixon’s School Pencils
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company
1020 Arch Street

Philadelphia, Pa.

W e are Up-to-date
in Suits made to Order

E.

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SHIPPENSBURQ, PA.
Call and learn prices.

JOHN E. BOHER,

WM. BAU GH M AN
D e a l e r in a ll k in d s

o f F a r m I m p le m e n t s a n d
WHITE SEWING MACHINES
Oils, Twine, Etc.

N. Railroad St.

Shippensburg, Pa.

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S h ip p e n s b u r g , P a .

G. A. BARNES,

SH A V IN G S A L O O N
Only First-Class Work.
Special Attention to Normal Students.

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n o r m a l sch ool h e r a ld

New Fait Goods, DESCRIPTION
la d ie s ’ Fleeced and W ool Underwear, Mus­
lin and Cambric Underwear, Corset Covers,
Skirts and N ight Gowns. Taffeta Ribbons,
3% and 4 inches wide, only 19 c.

lin and Flannelette Night Robes.
wear from 25c and upwards.

Under­

Hosiery in Black and Fancy Colors
from .......................¿..........................10 to 25c

Belts, Collars, T ies, 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,
SHIPPEINSBURG, PA.

David W. Cotterel,
B O O K S E L L E R and S T A T IO N E R ,
Office Supplies, Letter Copying- Books, Whiting Fine
Stationery. Blank Books, largest stock in Central
Pennsylvania.
A g e n t s fo r t h e W e r n ic k e E la s t ic B o o k C a s e s
Send for illustrated catalogue.
15 S o u th M a r k e t S q u are,

H A R R IS B U R G , P A .

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

J. J. STROHM,
W E S T M AIN ST.
DEALER IN

Fine Groceries, Fresh Lunch Goods, and
Country Produce, all kinds of Fruit
and Confections. Goods
delivered free.

P R IC E S : The Store has
a Reputation f o r LO WE S T P R IC E S known.

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C O L L E G E V IL L E ,

PA .

v,i?i(24 miles from Philadelphia);

When Garfield said that “ a log with
Mark Hopkins on one end and him­
self on the other was a sufficient
university for him,” it was not the
logthat was uppermost in his thought.
He was thinking of: Hopkins and
himself. Hopkins was a good teacher and he was a
good learner. Good teaching and good learning are of
primary importance in an educational institution. Equip­
ment, though important, is secondary.
Ursinus has an excellent equipment, but ever places
the emphasis on the teaching and learning. The college
authorities have brought together a faculty of strong
teachers— university-trained men, scholars who are
specialists in their departments. These professors are
doing good teaching every day. In proportion as the
students are good learners will the College send out
strong graduates.
The Cumberland Valley State Normal School can
produce good learners. Has it made a good learner of
you? If so, come to Ursinus for your college course,
and there can be no doubt about the results. If you are
not a good learner, perhaps the College can make one of
you. Good teachers, strong courses, and fine equip­
ment are very inspiring. Write to the President for a
catalogue and get the facts.

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T H E N O R M A L SCHOOL H ER AL D

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 ALL COURSES
ALL EXPENSES ARE REDUCED TO A MINIMUM

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

THE REGISTRAR, State College, Centre County, Pa.

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Three Four-Year Courses: Classical, Scientific, Latin-Scientific.

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One H u n d red and T w entieth Y ea r. Also Medical Prepara­
tory Course. Medical and Law Electives allowed in Junior and
Senior years. Particular attention to Oratory under the
President. Completely equipped Gymnasium, with Athletic
Field. Many Prizes. A ll Buildings heated by Steam. Ladies
admitted on equal terms. Elegant new Hall for Ladies, pro­
vided with all conveniences, and thoroughly furnished. E x­
penses reasonable. For catalogue of College and Preparatory

W

School, address

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: C O L L E G E o f I*IB E R .A I* A R T S :
Departments of In----------1-----------------------------. „ „ „ B
struction
Philosophy
JOHN H OW AR D H AR R IS, P r e s i d e n t
and Pedagogy, Juris­
prudence, Anthropology and Social Science, Economic and Political
Science, History, Greek, Latin, English Literature, Oratory, Modern Lan­
guages, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, Organic Science and Medicine
Library contains 22,000 volumes. Fixed and working capital, $1,000,000.00.
For catalogue and further information address,
W illiam C. G re Tzin g b r , Registrar, Lewisburg, Pa.

i. L. Hockersmith & Sons

M. G. HALE
...Dealer in...

DEALERS IN

A g r i c u l t u r a l Im p le m e n ts
Oil, M eal, Phosphate
Lawn Seeds...
SHIPPENSBURG, PA

Fine Groceries, Glassware,
Queensware, Country Produce, Etc.
S H IP P E N S B U R G , P A .

Fire Insurance, Etc.

BYER BROS.
...Florists...

h. C. fry & Bro.,
BAKERS

CHAnBERSBURG, PA.

Fresh Bread, R olls, Rusk, Etc., Alw ays on
Hand. W agon Delivers Fresh
Bread Daily.

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SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

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W e invite you to call and inspect
the largest and most complete line
of good, serviceable and stylish f ootwear to be found in Cumberland

Valley. Anything to be found in a “ city store” can be had of us. Agents for W A L K ­
O V E R $3.50 and $4 SHOE FO R M E N , and Q U EEN Q U A L IT Y $3.00 SHOE F O R W O M E N .

J. F, PFIILLIPPY,
ÇF1AMBERSBURG, PA.

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LADIES’ JACKETS, WRAPS and FURS are a
Special Department of our Store.

S. R. MARTIN,
A gent S IN G E R

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M A C H I N E a n d P a r t s ...

SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

A Special Invitation
T o Normal Students
to call on

G. E, BRINKERHOFF
H O K E &. S N Y D E R ,
Chambersbukg, P a .

F or S H O E S , H A T S , and
G E N T S ' F U R N IS H IN G S

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When in need of a TAIIyORMADE} SU IT don’t fail to g o to

Q . T . M IC K E Y ,

BROSS&SHEARER

... A tto rn e y -a t-L a w ,
S h ip p e n s b u r g , P a .

THEY ARE LEADERS

You will also find the nobbiest
line in the town of

READY-HADE CLOTHING f o r
Hen, Youths, Boys and
Children.
T hey carry a full line of
FURNISHINGS, also SHOES and
RUBBER GOODS.

BROSS & SHEARER
In Shapley Block
Near the Diamond
C. V. Telephone 53

...AT...

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

FRESH and«5*^*
SMOKED MEAT LINE
They have telephone connection and
deliver meat to any part of the town.
17 W . M a i n S t .,

S h ip p e n s b u r g , P a .

SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

For Fine7 Millinery Goods call on

H. R. HAWK

M is s M . S . W h i s t l e r

...Dealer in...

...Lumber

9 W. Main St,-^
SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

New York C lo th in g House

S. A. WALTERS
N e w H o m e S e w in g M a c h in e
Repairing- of Boots, Shoes, and
Sewing Machines on short notice

7 N. Railroad Street, Shippensburg.

A ltic k ...
D r u g S to r e
FLEMMING & FLEMMING,
Proprietors,

Clothing-, Shoes, Hats and
Gents’ Furnishing Goods..

B. LEICHENSTElN
13 E.Main St.

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J. C. FLEMING, Editor and Prop.
Commercial Printing a Specialty.
SHIPPENSBURO, PA .

Shippensburg, Pa.

B e l l and C. V . Telephones.

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PROS a n d «

NOFTSKER & GISH
...Manufacturers of...

COMPLETE DEBATES

CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
PHAETONS, ETC,

Our foreign policy, the
currency, the tariff, im­
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woman suffrage, penny
postage, transportation,
trusts,department stores,
municipal ownership of
franchises, government
c o n tr o l of telegraph.
B o th s id e s of the above
and m a n y o th e r q u es­
tio n s completelydebated.
Directions for organizing
and conducting a debat­
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and parliamentary rules.
Price, $ 1.5 0 Postpaid.
Clotn— 469 Pages.

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Our Stock is the Largest and Prices
the Lowest.

N. Y. City

C all an d e x a m in e the fam ous

S ch o o lb o o k s o f a l l p u b lis h e r s a t o n e s to r e .

C in d e r e lla H e a t in g S t o v e .
None better, few as good.

Thrush & Stough

G. F. W alters & Son.

...The Leading...

A Great Combine

C A R R IA G E
B U ILD E R S

O u r Splendid Stock
O u r L o w Prices

of Southern Pennsylvania.

Located at Shippensburg, Pa
and Hagerstown, Md.

Fine Clothing and Furnishings. See
our New Oxford Overcoats. W e are
selling the best $3.50 advertised
Shoe for $3.00.
Have your next
suit made by us. W e’ll please you
sure.

J. W. Rearick & Co.
CHAMBERSBURG, PA.

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.

S East Main Street

ShlPPENSBURG, PA.

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GILLOTT’S

F o r F in e and
M e d iu m W r it i nj5 ■ 3''S» 404, 603,
604 E. i \ , 601 E. F.

GILLOTT’S PENS,
THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS,

FOB SEMI-SLANT— 1089 TEE SEMYSLANT FEN.

PENS

S t u b Polnts-1008, 1071, 1083.
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(Verticular), 1046 (Vertigraph),
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C o u r t -H o u s e Series-1064, 1065, 1066 and others.

HAVE GAINED THE

GRAND

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Paris Exposition, 1900.

This Is the Highest Prize ever Awarded to Pens.

J a c o b P . H o s fe ld ,
BOOT AND
SHOE MAKER.
Repairing Done at Short Notice.

Shippensburg, Pa.
Opera House Block.

DR. J. D. BASHORE,

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WE MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF

KINDERGARTEN SUPPLIES, Many Aids for
Primary Teachers, Water Colors, Etc., Etc.
W e have just put out a box of
W e publish many Books for Teachers and
also K i n d e r g a r t e n R e v i e w , which is now
but $1.00 a year. .*. .*. S e n d f o r C a ta lo g u e .

Our Philadelphia Branch Store is at
1333 AR CH S T R E E T ,
L* L .

Naramore, Manager

BUSY WORK Called SEAT WORK
for HAND and EYE TRAINING.
One box, (Price $1.00) is sufficient for a
school of twenty-five children. Send for
special circular.

M I L T O N B R A D L E Y C O .,
Springfield, Mass.

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The Finish, the Styles, and the Artistic Excellence of our work are
equal to any. We give you the Latest Styles and Finish. Crayon
and Pastel Portraits at away-down prices. Picture Frames of every
style. Special attention given to students.

C. A . L A U G H LIN ,

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Shippensburg, Pa.

U. G . Hargleroad
Shippensburg’s
Popular

Florist
E. C. KEEFER

Druggist
Toilet Articles and Perfume

MRS. W. J. ANGLE
Up-to-date Milliner

Main below Penn Street.

SH IPPENSBURG, PA.

French Hats a Specialty.

TH E NORMAL, SCHOOL, H ER ALD

The Chas» H, Elliott Co»,
W o r k s , 1 7 t h a n d L e h ig h . A v e n u e
S a le s r o o m , 1 5 2 7 C h e s t n u t S tr e e t

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Com m encem ent In vitation s and
Class Day Programs
CLASS A N D

F R A T E R N IT Y S T A T IO N E R Y

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V IS IT IN G C A R D S
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DANCE PROGRAM S

BOOK

PLATES

C L A S S P IN S A N D

M EDALS

Class Annuals and A rtistic Printing

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The Central Printing and Publishing House
W. A. LAVERTY, General Manager
Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Printing and
Engraving, Artists’ Material

329 Market Street

HARRISBURG, PA.

United S tates
J. BEATTIE BARBOUR,
Express Company

Funeral Director
and Embalmer.

Order all Express by the “ States.”
F ull particulars at Office.

SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

M. L. WOLF, Agt.,

Telephone Connection

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

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...B A R B E R ...

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Tailoring...
17 W. Main St.

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Y ou r P atron age S olicited.

T h e N e w a n d E n la rg e d E d itio n is
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A Dictionary of E nglish, Biography, Geography, Fiction, etc.

N e w P la t e 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.D .,
United States Commissioner of Education.

R i c 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 t io n s

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Ladies’
and Gents’ Fine
Shoes
a Specialty

FASH ION A B L E
TAILORING...
S p e c ia l a tt e n tio n
g iv e n to
G r a d u a t io n S u it s

Weaver & Gates.
J. C. Rummel, Pres. Geo. W . Himes, Treas.
Chas. D. Rummel, Sec.

S H IP P E N S B U R G

T h is S p a c e R e s e rv e d fo r

M A N U F A C T U R IN G

E T T E R. ,

COM PANY,

MANUFACTURERS OF
PERFECTION CLOTHING.

"Uhe C o n f e c t i o n e r ^

Grier Hersh, Prest. Henry Nés, Vice-Prest.
J. J. Frick, Cashier

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Hamilton & Robertson Co.,
MERCHANT TAILORS.
READY-1TADE CLOTHING.
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
LADIES’ FINE SHOES

Shippensburg, Pa.

J. A. SHARP,
Livery and Feed Stables

York National Bank,
YO R K , PA.
The Oldest and Largest
Bank in York County.
ORGANIZED 1810.
Capital and Surplus
$750,000

SHERM AN HOUSE,
SHIPPENSBURG, PA.
Good R igs and Careful Drivers. Order*
by mail or wire w ill receive immediate at­
tention.

Depositors of small sums
courteously treated.

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Lebanon Valley College
Annville, Pa., 21 miles east o f Harrisburg, on the P. & R . Road
T H E C O LLEG E offers five Groups of Studies, each leading to
the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the judgment of the
college and university council the courses are the equal of any
in the state.
T H E A C A D E M Y covers fully the work of the Normal Schools,
first-class High Schools and Academies.
T H E C O N SER V AT O R Y OP MUSIC offers complete courses in
Pianoforte, Voice, Pipe Organ, Violin, Harmony, etc., after
methods of the foremost European Conservatories. Art in its
, various branches is also skillfully taught.
A SUMMER SESSION for teachers and others offers academy
and college work with credit for degree.
The college offers B o t j r t e e n o n e h u n d r e d d o e l a r free
tuition scholarships to honor graduates in State Normal Schools,
.reeqgnized High Schools and Academies. Pall term begins Sep­
tember IS, 1903. Por further information address,
P r ES. H. U. R oop , P h .D .

LAFAYETTE C O LLEG E
E A S T O N , P E N N S Y L V A N IA

well-known college is beautifully situated at Easton Pa,, on the
T HISbanks
of the-Delaware, about S miles from New York and Philadel­
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phia. It now offers seven regular courses. The Classical, Latin, and
General Scientific are designed to afford a broad general education and
special preparation for the learned professions. The technical courses of
the Pardee Scientific Department supply professional training in the var­
ious branches of Engineering and Chemistry. The equipment of the
college embraces more than twenty buildings, consisting of recitation halls,
laboratories, observatory, gymnasium, dormitories, and professors’ houses.
The library and laboratories are well furnished with books and apparatus.
The location is remarkably healthful. The provision for physicalitraining
and athletics is very complete. The atmosphere of the college life is dis­
tinctly Christian. Por catalogues or other information address,
THE REGISTRAR, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.

Cumh-Valley R. R. Time
In effect H ay 26, 1902.
DO W N
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Gr’ncastle.
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Shipp’sb’g
Newville...
Carlisle.....
M ’ch’cst>’g
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Arr. Phila.
Arr. N . Y ..
Arr. Balto.

12; 2

4

6

8

10 110

+a m *a m t a m ta m *p m tp m *p m
2 15 6 35
7 30
3 02 7 19
8 15
4 20 6 50 9 00 12 20 3 50 805 10 15
4 40 7 11 9 22 12 42 4 14 8 27 10 35
800 1010 3 30
5 00 7 34 9 45 1 05 4 45 8 50 10 58
7 05
1200 3 35
5 20 7 53 10 05 1 25 5 07 9 11 11 19
5 38 810 10 23 1 42 5 26 9 29 11 39
6 00 830 10 44 2 03 5 53 9 51 12 02
1 40 5 10
7 52
6 20 8 50 11 05 2 23 6 15 i'6 13 12 21
6 40 9 07 11 25 2 40 6 35 10 33 1240
a in p m p m P m P m p m a m
- 9 37 11 48 3 17 5 47 1020 4, 25 4 25
11 53 2 13 5 58 8 oa '3 53 7 13 7 13
10 11 12 10 3 11 600 9 45 2 30 7 15
a .m p m p m P m P m p m a m

Additional east-bound local trains w ill run
daily, except Sunday as follows: Ueave Car-'
^isle,5.45 a,-in., 7.05 a. tn., 12.40 p. m ., 3.15 p. m .t
Meehan icsburg at .6.08 a. m ., 7.29 a. m ., 8.12 a.
m-., 1.04 p. m>, 2.30 p. m ., 3.36 p. m ., 5.30 p. m. .
Train Nos. 8 and 110 run daily, between Hag­
erstown and Harrisburg, and No. 2 fifteen min­
utes late on Sundays.
* Daily.
t.Dailv except Sunday.
Up'Trains

1

3

._5:

7

17

9

109

p mp m
EEAVE p m a m a m P m
4 35 8 30
Baltimore. 11 55 4 44 8 50 1200
8 55
2 55 5 55
New York. 7 55 12 10
+5 30 8 25
P h ila ......... 11 20 4 25 8 40 11 40
*a m *am ta m tp m tp m *p m *p m
Harrisb’g.. 5 00 7 55 11 45 3 25 5 15 8 25 11 05
M ’ch’csb’g 5 19 8 16 12 05 3 43 "5 37 846 11 23
12 40 4 05
Carlisle..... 5 40 8 39 12 27 4 04 6 03 9 08 11 42
Newville... 6 02 9 00 12 51 4 23 6 28 9 29 12 02
Shipp’s b’g 6 20 9 18 1 10 4 39 6 50 9 47 12 18
10 .37 2 0.5 5 35
Chmb’ sb’g 6 40 9 36 1 32 4 58 7.10 10 07 13 38
e; 55
Gr’ ncastle. 7 05 10 00 1 55 5 21 7 35 m 30 12 55
10 54 1 15
Hagerst’n.. 7 27 1022 2 17 .5 44
6 29
M ’ tinsb’g.. 824 11 10
7 15
11 .5.5
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Additional local trains w ill leave H a n isburg 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. ni.ancL3.15 p. m
Nos. 1, 3 and 109 run daily between Harrisburg
and Hagerstowri,
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between New
York and Knoxville, T enn., on Trains 1 west
and 110 east and between-Philadelphia and W elsh
on N . & W . railway on trains 109 west arid 12
east except that ori Sunday the Philadelphia
sleeper w ill ruri 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 Suriday.
H . A . R id d l e ,
J. F . B o y d ,
Gen1. Pass. A gt.
Supt.

The W olf Store
Is the proper place for you to
get wearables for Men and
Women. O ur line is very
complete and our prices are
reasonable. : : sc : : :
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J a c k e t S u it s , G lo v e s , U n d e r w e a r ,
and F u rs.
We are HATTERS and FURNISHERS to Men— The best Stock in this part of the State.

Trunks, Suit Cases, Satchels and Telescopes; Clothing:— Ready-to-Wear and
Tailor-Made. A ll orders by telephone or mail will have our best attention.

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FU R R I EH S

CHAM BERS BU R G, PEN N A.

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