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---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
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Would do well to call on J. N. SELBY CO. Book Sellers and Stationers
1566 HOLLY STREET THEY MAKE A study of students and teachers as well as
what they need in pursuing their particular work. Students will
hardly fail to find here everything best suited to their wants. THEY
HAVE The newest Book Store in the city. The State Supplementary Readers.
The Largest Assortment of Teachers' and Students' Helps. The Best
Assortment of Literature for Students. A General Line of School Supplies.
The Best Selection of Library Books. The Best Assortment of Classic
Literature. The Newest Lines of Pen and Pencil Tablets. They Have a
Complete Line of NEW BOOKS. They Have the LATEST THINGS in GIFT BOOKS
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---------- ADVERTISEMENTS. CENTRAL LIVERY STABLE J. J. LARSON,
Prop. Boarding, Feed And Sale Stables, Wood and Coal. Gurney and Hacks
at all Hours. 1375 Elk St. Express and Draying. Phone 701. ! POROSIS" I
I l I The Best Shoe | in the World for 1 S3.50 Ik V* I I I Us. jfj
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---------- PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 1711 RESIDENCE
TELEPHONE #094 CHAS. L. HOLT, M. D. Speoialtles: Diseases of the Eye,
Ear, ffase and Throat Rooms i and 2 Fischer Block. Office Hours: 9 to 12
a. m., 2 to 6 p. m. New Whatcom, Sunday, 2 to 4 p. m. Washington DR. H.
J. BIRNEY Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Red Front Building Office Telephone 814
Residence Telephone 813 J- /=". CROSS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURQBON Rooms
1, 2 and 3, Miller Building, Holly Street, New Whatcom Office
Hours—9 to 11 a. m., 1:30 to 4:00 p. m., and at Night, TELEPHONE NO.
851. DR. S. N. KELLY RED FRONT BUILDING Office Telephone 471 Residence
Telephone 473 W. D. KIRKPATRICK, M. D. A. F. KIRKPATRICK, M. D. FISCHER
BLOCK, ROOMS IS A 17. PHONE 1713 DR. D. E. BIGGS Fischer Building
Telephone Main 108 DR. L. R. MARKLEY PHYSICIAN SURGEON KNOX BLOCK
WHATCOM DR. J. C. MINTON DENTIST Rooms 9,10 and 12 Office Phone 1283
Fischer Block. Residence Phone 1223
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---------- PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DR. C. A. DARLING DENTIST
Rooms 18 and 19 Fischer Block, Corner Dock and Holly Streets, PHONE 1315.
New Whatcom, Wash. DR. F. J. GEOGHEGAN DENTIST Rooms 4 and 5 Red Front
Block Telephone 2261 NEW WHATCOM, WASH. DR. F. D. ADAMS DENTIST ROOMS
20 AND 21 RED FRONT BLOCK TELEPHONE 785 DR. G. M. R U T T AN DENTIST
Cor. Dock and Holly - New Whatcom, Wash J. B . W A R R EN TEACHER OF
VIOLIN AND MANDOLIN ROOM E RED FRONT BUILDING CHAS. A. ROHRBACHER
TEACHER OF PIANOFORTE. Only a limited number of new pupils can be
accepted. CONSULTATION FREE. Studio 22 and 23 Lighthouse Block DECORATIVE
ART ROOMS Burned and Hand-Carved Leather Novelties and Mexican Drawn Work
for Christmas Gifts. Rooms 21 and 22 Sunset Block. HEGG the Photographer
Views, Picture Frames and Easels At Reasonable Prices 128£LK ST.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- ADVERTISEMENTS LOTHROP BR05. Artists in Photography
Everything new and up-to-date in the Photographic line. EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS
IN MOUNTINGS, Enlarging and Finishing in CRAYON, PASTEL, WATER COLORS
AND SEPIA. We carry a large line of Portrait Frames, also Frames made to
order. You are cordially invited to call at our Studio and inspect this
work. Reveille Building, New Whatcom. Dock Street. Phone 1703. ©je)
For Artistic Designes and Expert Workmaship in Burnt Leather Work Call
and See Our Display^-^^ Fine Assortment of Pillows, Kodaks, Books,
Etc., Etc. A Fine Collection of Indian Baskets C. G. LOBE, Bazaar
PHONE 786 1462 HOLLY ST. lt;§f§ gt;
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---------- AD VERTISBMENTS jB^r^agmrgB3rg»gmtrga' Normal
Students i If you are looking for ! anything in the DRY GOODS line you
can generally find it at MONTAGUE McHUGH'S There you can see the only
complete Stock of Dry Goods on the Bay. They can positively guarantee
you a saving of from ten to twenty per cent, on Dress Goods, Silks,
Hosiery, Gloves, Umbrellas, Corsest, Anything in the underwear
line, Shirt Waists, Wool, Silk and Cotton, and in fact all kinds of Dry
Goods. We are headquarters for Kid Gloves—can sell you a One
Dollar Kid, and its equal you cannot find for less than $1.25. An
immense stock of Kids, Dressed and Undressed. MONTAGUE McHUGH
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- The Normal Messenger CONTENTS Abstract and Concrete.
W. Wilson 3 Editorial 7 Our Needs S From the Office 10 Second Semester
12 Literary Societies 12 Why She Liked Spelling 15 General Items 16
Gossip (Poem) 20 Elementary Certificates 20 F A C U L T Y EDWARD T.
MATHES, Principal, History and Philosophy of Education JOHN T. FORREST,
Mathematics FRANCIS W. EPLY, Sciences WASHINGTON WILSON, Psychology and
Pedagogy MISS MITTIE U. MYERS, English and Latin MISS LAUREL HARPER,
Drawing MISS IDA A. BAKER, English Grammar and Vocal Music MISS FRANCES
HAYS, Reading and Physical Culture ROBERT B. VAILE, Mathematics and
Sciences MISS H. J. TROMANHAUSER, Supervisor, Training School MISS CORA
BRATTON, Critic Teacher, Intermediate Grades MISS CATHERINE MONTGOMERY,
Critic Teacher, Primary Grades MISS HATTIE B. THOMPSON, Librarian P. W.
PIERCE, Custodian of Building and Grounds
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---------- AD VERTISEMENTS | YOU CAN DO BETTER AT 3 I TtiE FAIR
| § The Largest Assortment of 3 i Saks, silk i I Waists, Dress i |
Goods, Tailor | | Made Suits, j | Millinery | I and Shoes =1 E In the
City of Whatcom j | ^ We have an enormous g stock of Christmas Goods E
and Christmas Tree Orna= % ments | THE FAIR ! E New Whatcom [ i
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---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- THE NORMAL MESSENGER DECEMBER, 1900 ABSTRACT AND
CONCRETE W. WILSON HE terms concrete and abstract are very often in use
in educational speech and literature, and in common with many other words
may be used with opposite meanings. This may lead to confusion or
downright error. Popularly, concrete is a term whose use refers to
sense,—that is, a thing is concrete if it appeals to sense
perception,— can be touched, seen, or heard. The material
world is the concrete world under such usage. President Hall uses the word
in this sense when speaking of the improvement of modern education over
that of earlier times. Popular usage makes the abstract the opposite of
all this. That which does not appeal to the senses, that which eludes the
immediate grasp, the difficult of apprehension,— the
theoretical, the impractical, as these two latter terms are ordinarily
used, are the abstract. Under such thought and such usage, the concrete
easily gets credit for being the real, while the abstract is regarded as
the empty, the impractical, the unreal. Again, in popular psychology the
concrete is that which can be imagined in terms of some of the senses.
Pictures, illustrations, drawings, graphic representations, models, are
used to satisfy this mode of thinking. On the other hand, the abstract is
t h a t which is inadequately expressed in imagery, or not so expressible
at all, or the merely difficult of apprehension. Such psychology is
convinced too, of the greater reality of the concrete T
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---------- 4- The Normal Messenger because the abstract is that
which is "drawn from" the concrete,—extracted, as it were, from it,
and could not therefore be but less, —certainly nothing more. There
is however, another view of the matter. Certainty, the motive of the
popular mind in seeking the most real and clinging to it, is right, but
that it finds the most real in the concrete as above expressed, may well
be questioned. That sense knowledge has reality in it cannot be
doubted,—nor can it be doubted that the real becomes known to us in
one of its forms, in sense knowledge. The animal mind, clearly, is
possessed of sense knowledge. Its system of such knowledge, in many
cases, is probably very perfect. In some regions of such knowledge, the
eye-region, for example, among some birds,—the olfactory region
among dogs, is of high quality, surpassing our own in accuracy and range.
That such knowledge contains some phases of the real world seems evident,
for b}' means of it the animal succeeds in maintaining an
existence,—of playing out his life within its sphere. Primitive and
savage men who have not risen far out of sense knowledge, live
nearest the stage of animal life,— are in the lower ranges of human
civilization. Such advances as they have made upon sense knowledge, has
given them a mastery over the world not possessed by the animal,—and
the animal himself succumbs to it. Within the sphere of sense knowledge
possessed by animals, those in the lower ranges are constrained to
a narrower range of activities than these in upper ranges, while
microorganisms whose sense knowledge is near, or at the minimum,
are confined to the narrowest ranges. The higher animals seem to
have exhaused the possibilities of such knowledge. They have triumphed
over their fellows less fortunate than themselves in such knowledge only
to be surpassed by man, even though they possess keener sense knowledge
than
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---------- The Normal Messenger 5 man himself. And this is true
among men. Lower races of men give way to higher ones though possessing
more accurate sense knowledge than their more fortunate fellows. The
scientific knowledge of highly civilized man affords such tremendous sweep
of power and control while his power of sensation has remained so nearly
stationary, if it has not in some phases actually receded, that we are
forced to conclude that his power is due to a higher form of activity than
that concerned in sense knowledge, though he continues still to use that
form. Scientific thought is everywhere concerned with relations, for
it is through such knowledge that new mastery is found. For example, the
thinking of quantitative relations between forces enables us to
estimate them and thus to contrive means whereby we set at work one to
overcome another, as in the case of the estimation of the power of engine
necessary to drive a given saw in doing a given kind of work. Through
such thinking, principles and laws are discovered and by means of these
life is all but totally changed in character and kind from that of the
animal,—a new world appears,— the world of civilization
with its politics, art, science, philosoph}', religion. It is difficult
to see how this almost infinitely greater world of man has, by any
process, been "abstracted" from the smaller world of the animal. In truth
it has not and it is a mistaken psychology that regards it so. Neither is
the sense world of the animal the more real world of the two. In truth,
it is quite the reverse. Sense knowledge, whether in the animal or
among men, is prodigiously less real than scientific, reflective
knowledge. The difference of degree in reality of the two kinds of
knowledge is the difference between the mighty civilization of the
western nations, and untutored savages or fierce animals,—a
difference almost too great to be estimated,—the result of centuries
of labor.
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---------- 6 The Normal Messenger Relations, principles, laws,
are of such nature that they cannot be imaged. The individual objects,
between or among which relations or principles obtain are imageable.
These facts mark the boundary between sense knowledge and scientific
knowledge. Sense organs maybe stimulated by forces persisting in material
objects, but relations and principles are not material
objects,—they are incapable of stimulating nerve ends and
cannot give rise to any system of images,—they are the work of
Intelligence. It is true that both images and relations issue from an
Intelligence which is everywhere alike in kind, while the latter
almost infinitely transcends the former. Intelligence in its higher form
of relational thinking returns upon its lower forms, the senses, and
corrects their faults or extends the field of their operation, as in the
making of telescopes and microscopes. Imagine a dog and a scientific
engineer standing beside a locomotive. Upon the plane of sense knowledge
the dog is strikingly near the engineer, his eye image being very
accurate. The principles in the engineer's mind made the locomotive a
possibility while to the sense knowledge of the animal it is forever
impossible. Thus the terms concrete and abstract have changed
places. If the real is concrete, then the term cannot refer to sense
knowledge merely—it should refer to scientific knowledge.
Though such knowledge transcends sense knowledge, it is the greater
reality and in the larger sense of the term, concrete. The older
education made the mistake of neglecting sense knowledge. We should take
care that we do not overestimate it. Tutor—You know, of course, that
in Christian countries such as ours a man is only allowed one
wife. Now, what is that state of things called ? Pupil—I know.
Monotony!
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- THE NORMAL MESSENGER Published Quarterly by the
Students of THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, NEW WHATCOM, WASH. TERMS: FORTY
CENTS A YEAR. Entered as mail matter of the second class at the New
Whatcom Wash., P. O. EDITORIAL STAFF. HATTIE M. DEIXINGER, - -
Editor-in-Chief ASSOCIATE EDITORS Miss MARY BIRD, Kulshan Society Miss
MAUD DRAKE, - - - Aurora Society Miss MAY PILLMAN, - - - Utopian Society
Miss BESSIE GRIGGS, . . . Chilic Society Mrss CLARA TARTE, - - - Alcott
Society Miss MINNIE WALLRIDGE, - - Y. W. C. A. Society MR. HARRY
SHEPHERD, - - Philomathian EDSON IRISH, Business Managers. VOL. II.
DECEMBER, 1900 No. 1 The Normal Messenger begins its second volume under
new management, but no radical changes are contemplated in the
character of the magazine. Each issue will contain an able article upon
some literary or scientific subject, and such other items as illustrate
the growth, character, and every-day life of the institution. One
commendable feature of the Normal School is everywhere manifest. In every
department the standard of work is steadily being raised, and a
thorough mastery of the subject matter as well as knowledge of method, is
demanded of every student. This is true not only in the more advanced
subjects, but an equal thoroughness in the common branches is also
required. Several special classes in these fundamental subjects have been
organized to enable students to strengthen themselves along
necessary lines. The New Whatcom State Normal School has opened its
second year with increased life and vigor. While the past year was full of
surprises in many ways, the present year is in every sense a greater
surprise to the friends of the school. The prophesies that the large
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---------- 8 The Normal Messenger attendance of last year was of
a mushroom character and would soon decrease, have not proven true. On
the contrary the attendance is larger this year than last 3rear, and the
students are much better distributed over the courses of stud}' than was
possible the first year. That a high grade of scholarship has sought the
advantages of the school is evidenced by the fact that the senior
class of the second year contains twenty-nine members. Of these, three
are graduates of a state normal school, eighteen are graduates of
accredited high schools, while all others have attended reputable
Colleges in this or other States. OUR NEEDS. The needs of the New Whatcom
State Normal School are especially urgent along four different
lines. The school needs more room, more equipment, more teachers, and a
ladies' dormitory. The present building has been over-crowded since the
opening day in September, 1899. There is no room in the
building large enough to seat the school when all members are
present. There are not as many large class rooms as there are teachers to
occupy them, and as a result large classes must recite in rooms too
small to accommodate them comfortably with seating capacity, or
blackboard space or proper ventilation. The assembly hall also must
constantly be used for recitation purposes. The building, does not
contain a gymnasium and the museum room is now used for physical culture
work. As a result of this arrangement, thelarge and valuable museum,
donated to the school by the bay cities, is packed away in barrels and
boxes, awaiting the time when it may be classified and arranged for use.
Although contrary to the laws of health, most of the work of the training
school at present must be carried on in the basement. Both the chemical
and physical laboratories are too
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---------- The Normal Messenger 9 small and should be duplicated
in size and equipment. There is no reception or committee room, and
consequently the office must serve as a place for committee meetings, for
the reception of friends, for the storage of supplies, as well as for the
public and private uses of the Principal. Altho' one hundred and
seventy-five students bring their lunches daily no adequate lunch room is
provided in the building. It may therefore fairly be stated that the
school needs an auditorium, laboratory room, five or six large class
rooms, and an equal unmber of smaller rooms, and lastly one large lunch
and play-room for the children of the Training School. It may also be
stated that these additional accommodations can all be provided for
by the construction of a large wing to the present building. This wing
was included in the original plan of the building, but owing to the
limited appropriation could not be constructed when the main portion
of the building was erected. The equipment which the school possesses is
substantial and serviceable, but is inadequate to accommodate the numbers
in attendance daily. For example, the physical science laboratory
contains equipment and accommodations for twelve students to do
individual work, while the class at present numbers thirty. There are
also twelve desks in the ehemical laboratory for individual work while
the class in chemistry numbers nearly forty. The same conditions exist in
the biological laboratory, and it is sufficient to say that the science
department needs its entire equipment more than duplicated. The less
expensive equipment, such as blackboards, bookcases, chairs, maps,
globes, and charts, also needs to be greatly increased. Much could be
said of the need of additional teaching force. There are at present
ten classes in science with but one science teacher. An assistant is
therefore needed in this department. The department of higher
English and
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---------- 10 The Normal Messenger Latin also has ten regular
classes each semester, and an assistant is needed in this
department. There is also urgent need of an assistant critic
teacher in the training school. The location of the school upon a
hillside, in one corner of the city, renders a ladies' dormitory one of
the necessities of the institution. There are at present about
ninety students boarding in various parts of the two cities, and not less
than sixty of them board more than six blocks from the Normal School
building. Blame attaches to none for this crowded condition. The founders
of the school have provided exceptionally well with the funds at their
command, and the situation is concisely stated when it is said that the
public demand for the institution has far exceeded the expectations
of its most sanguine friends, but as the State of Washington has always
provided well for her educational interests there is little doubt
but that she will make ample provision in the future for the work of
this her youngest educational child. The school asks nothing for show or
ornamentation, it simply desires plain, substantial quarters and a
practical working equipment. FROM THE OFFICE. There are at present sixty
students doing practice work as teachers. In addition to the
practice-teachers, fifty students are doing work in observation. The
records of the librarian show that more than four hundred volumes are
drawn out by the students every month. Among the students there are
thirty young ladies who work for their board. There are also several
young men who pay their way by working evenings and Saturdays. The
records show that fifty students board themselves, while about ninety pay
for their
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---------- The Normal Messenger 11 board. Of the ninety who
board, not to exceed ten pay more than $3.50 per week, while about
twenty get their board for $3.00 per week. In a general census of the
school, taken in September, 52 students expressed a preference for the
Methodist Episcopal Church; 43 for the Presbyterian; 19 for the
Congregational; 16 for the Roman Catholic; 12 for the Christian,
while the remaining 60 who were present represented about a dozen
other denominations. Refering to the question of native state it
was ascertained that 28 were bern in the State of Washington; 19 in
Kansas; 18 in Iowa; 13 in Minnesota and Illinois, each; 12 in Nebraska;
10 in Wisconsin; 9 in Missouri; 6 in California and Michigan, each; 5 in
Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Dakota, each; 4 in Colorado; 3 in
Oregon, while in the list re* maining, almost every state in the Union was
represented. Six were born in England, 4 in Norway, 2 in Sweden, 2 in
Canada, 1 in Germany and 1 in Austria. Refering to the occupations
of the students' parents it was ascertained that 59 are farmers; 11
merchants; 11 machinists; 9 lumbermen; 16 carpenters; 5 ministers;
20 laborers, while the remainder of the list represent almost every
other ordinary vocation. Sixty of the students hold teachers'
certificates, and three are graduates of other State Normal
schools. The enrollment of the Normal School on Nov. 15th was 248,
divided among the classes as follows: seniors 29; juniors 35; third year
42; second year 52; first year 56; review year 32. The enrollment last
year on Nov. 15th was 234. About four hundred volumes have been added to
the general library since the opening of school in September.
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---------- 12 The Normal Messenger SECOND SEMESTER. The second
semester of this school year will open, Monday morning, January 28, 1901.
At this time a new program of about sixty classes will be arranged. Twenty
of these classes will be continued from the first semester through to the
end of the year. While the remaining forty classes will be newly
organized and will include the subjects of arithmetic, grammar, American
history, state and national governments, penmanship, orthography, school
law, school economy, and the theory of teaching, as well as all
subjects announced for the second semester in the various courses
of study. Any person desiring catalogues or other information
concerning the work of the school may secure the same by addressing
the office of the institution. LITERARY SOCIETIES. ALCOTT SOCIETY.
The fable of the "Tortoise and the Hare" is brought to mind when one
reviews the history of the Alcott Society, for this band of active,
earnest workers, is quietly plodding along and is sure of reaching the
goal not far in the future. The society has worked so diligently
that she ranks second in point of membership. Each week the Alcotts
gather in their club-room to enjoy a social meeting of a musical and
literary nature. Many come to visit them, for the latch-string is always
out and a hearty welcome is given to all. The ' 'Society'' as well as
"The Nation" have just had an election and predict good times and full
dinner pails. AURORA SOCIETY. The Aurora is the largest literary
society in the normal school. They have fifty (50) active members, and as
a literary society are in splendid working order.
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---------- The Normal Messenger 13 Four members from the society
constitute a program committee, and they with the aid of the faculty
critic, Prof. Forrest, have outlined the following programs for the
present term: "Whittier" program, November 26; "Thanksgiving," November
23; "The American Indian," December 7; "Travel,"December 14;
"Christmas," December 21; "Woman," January 4; "Humorists," January 11;
"Song of the Ages," January 18; "Mexico," January 25. THE CHILICS.
The Chilic Tribe met this fall with but twelve members out of their large
membership of last year. But they were not discouraged even tho' they
were few in number and their critic, whom they had loved and trusted, did
not return to them. Another critic was provided, Miss Myers, who is
fast winning the affections of the Tribe. At the beginning of the school
year each member considered herself a committee on getting new members,
and at the second meeting of the society their number had greatly
increased. They now number thirty, including much talent in the way
of musicians, orators, wits, and poets. The interest and zeal of
the members are increasing and the Tribe promises fair to do some good
work this year. In the way of public entertainments they are preparing to
give Dickens', "Christmas Carol," some time in December. KULSHAN SOCIETY.
The Kulshan Literary Society has begun this year with an enrollment of
thirteen last year's students and thirty new members. The outline of the
year's work shows a tendency towards making debating a specialty,
though studies of modern writers and their works will also appear on the
programs. The society critic, Mr. Eply has recently ascended and
descended Mt. Baker, and he
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---------- X4 gt; The Normal Messenger promises some interesting
talks to the members and their friends in the future. At present
the efforts of the society are bent toward preparing a play which
they intend to give before the public next month. It is interesting
to know that this play was translated from German by one of the members.
THE PHILOMATHIAN SOCIETY. The Philomathian Debating Club has a membership
of forty; twenty-two of these being new members. We feel honored in
having three seniors. In addition to the regular literary work, the club
is pursuing the study of parliamentary law which is of great value to the
members. Professor Robt. B. Vaile, the faculty critic of the club has
done much for the good of the members and seems deeply interested in all
their undertakings. The regular programs of the club include orations,
essays, declamations, original stories, music and debates, besides
the frequent exercises in parliamentary law. THE UTOPIAN LITERARY CLUB.
The Utopian Literary Club was organized last year with forty-three charter
members. Many of the old members have left, but there are now enrolled
thirty active members. No definite line of work for the year has as yet
been mapped out, but a committee is now at work on a program for the year.
The society has given one open meeting in the assembly hall and a very
interesting program was presented. The Utopians have the great
satisfaction and honor of having given the first social function of
this school year at the normal. The rooms were beautifully
decorated, especially the a r t room and with the addition of an
excellent program a very enjoyable evening was spent. Under the
efficient supervision of its critic. Miss Harper, the society
expects to accomplish much good work this year.
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---------- The Normal Messenger 15 THE Y. W. C. A. SOCIETY. The
Young Woman's Christian Association commenced its good work this year with
a membership of seventy. Weekly meetings are held in the chapel where
prayer and song service is conducted. Monthly services are also
conducted in the various churches of the Bay. A prominent feature of this
society is its foreign mission work. They adopted a child in India, and
are raising money to support it. Later they hope to provide for its
education. There has recently been organized a Bible class which will be
under the leadership of Prof. Wilson, our teacher of psychology. Under
the leadership of Miss Maud Woodin a line of work has been mapped out,
which will be followed throughout the year. The week beginning November
11th was opened as a "week of prayer." WHY SHE LIKED SPELLING.
Orthography is commonly reckoned a pretty dry subject, but there is no
branch of knowledge but may be brightened by a skillful teacher. A
visitor was chatting with the little daughter of the family, "What do you
study a t school?" he asked. "Readin' an' writin', 'rithmetic an'
spell-in'." "Well, well! What a bright little girl you are! And which
study do you like best?" "Spellin'." "Indeed! Most children do not. Why
do you like spelling?" "Cause every time I spell a word the teacher
laughs." Governess—Why, you naughty boy, I never heard such
language since the day I was born. Small Boy—Yes, mum; I s'pose dere
was a good deal of cussin' de day you wuz born.
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---------- 16 The Normal Messenger GENERAL ITEMS. The
student-body felt greatly repaid for listening to Rev. C. A. Owen's
lecture on Siberia. Many interesting incidents were told, all of which
proved to be most instructive as well as entertaining. A McKinley
club consisting of fifteen young ladies of the normal have held
enthusiastic meetings throughout the campaign. A lively ratification
meeting was held Friday evening, Nov. 26, at the home of Miss
Gertrude Bell. Rev. F. A. Agar gave us one of his excellent
lectures on his life and experiences in Africa, before leaving this city
for his pastoral duties in Oregon. The teacher's examination was held in
the Normal building on Nov. 8th and 9th. About 30 students wrote for
grades. At the opening of the school year the faculty and trustees of the
normal school were entertained at the home of the President, Dr. Mathes.
On the evening of Sept. 21st the faculty and students of the normal school
were delightfully entertained by the Epworth League of the Trinity
Methodist Church in the church parlors; also on the evening of Oct. 5th a
most pleasant "at home" was tendered them by the Bn-deavor Society of the
Presbyterian Church. The young ladies of the senior class are laboring
diligently to attain perfection in the art of graceful word drills.
They will soon make their appearance before the public, and will be
accompanied by their finely trained orchestra. The state legislators of
this county, Representatives Fairchild, Earles and Merrill, and Senator
Moultray, accompanied by the trustees and Land Commissioner
Call-vert and members of the city press, visited the normal school, Nov.
15th, to investigate its needs for additional equipment as well as
maintenance for the coming two years. The many needs of the institution
were everywhere apparent, and these gentleman pledged their united
support to the institution. We wonder if the youngman's star which went
down some time ago has yet risen? Prof. J. T. Forrest is a good hunter as
well as a good mathematical teacher. On a recent Saturday he shot a fine
large deer on Chuckanut mountain south of the city. Special classes have
recently been organized in algebra, arithmetic, grammar and school
law. On November 16th the entire school took an examination in
spelling. Based upon the results of that examination a division of
the school into eight spelling classes was made. Twenty minutes daily are
devoted to the work of spelling and many students have expressed their
deep appreciation of the opportunity to pursue this work.
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---------- The Normal Messenger 17 There has recently been
organized two glee clubs under the supervision of Miss Ida Baker,
musical instructor. The club expects to accompany Dr. Mathes on
some of his trips throughout the state. The private dormitory built during
the summer months by Mrs. R. B. Morrison, on High street is crowded to
its utmost capacity, and is greatly appreciated by the students.
Call on the editor to view snap-shots of bloomer girls in the gymnasium.
These pictures can be obtained only at exhorbitaut prices. The Kulshans
have recently contributed an amount of money toward the piano fund, it
being the proceeds of their candy sale, in October. The arrangement of the
room for the sale was very dainty and attractive. Misses Edna and Helen
Whitney are at present both teaching in Skagit Co., but will return to the
normal shool for the second semester. A committee of the faculty has
arranged for a series of contests among the several literary societies.
These contests will be along the lines of orations, debates and
declamations. The two receiving the highest marks in a preliminary contest
will participate in a final contest, each in his class, for highest
honors. These contests will be held during the spring months. Miss Calla
Monlux and Messrs. Thomas and Martin Korstad, all graduates of the Idaho
State Normal school, have entered our senior class, Prior to entering the
Idaho State Normal school, Miss Monlux was a student for several years in
the Washington Agricultural College, and the Messrs. Korstad were formerly
students at the Cheney State Normal school. The people of Bellingham Bay
believe in education. The public schools of New Whatcom have an enrollment
of 1800 pupils of whom 1S0 are in the high school. Since September, ten
school rooms have been added to the four ward buildings. The Fairhaven
schools have an enrollment of nearly 1000, with about So in the high
school. Sixty teachers are employed in the two cities. The Northwest
Business College of New Whatcom is also enjoying a prosperous year with an
attendance of about fifty students. Seven young ladies expect to complete
the elementary course in February, next, and receive five-year
certificates. Two of them will return to enter the senior class
next year. Miss Jessie Havens is teaching a primary grade in the Florence
schools. Miss Kate White has returned from Paris, and is now working in
Denver, Colorado. More than thirty of the students who were here last
year are now teaching in various parts of the state. The whereabouts of
most of them can be found in the September Messenger.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- 18 The Normal Messenger Seven of our last year's
students are teaching at present in the city schools of Everett. Good
reports are given of their work. Misses Nina Silsby and Lottie Smith, and
Messrs. John Kerchen, Ben F. Hovies and Theodore Myer are teaching in
Lewis county. They will return to the normal school later. Miss Estella
Garl is teaching this year near Burlington. The normal school has
something novel in the way of a colored quartet, composed of Misses
Shockey, Pill-man, Klockstead and Galliher. These charming young ladies
have entertained their friends very acceptably upon several occasions with
their classical selections. At the noon hour appetizing odors issue from
the lunch room in the basement of the normal building. Great pots of
soups and chocolate are prepared daily and dispensed at slight expense,
and they form a very acceptable complement to the usual cold lunch.
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, with his inimitable grace and eloquence,
addressed the students of the normal school recently upon the subject of
education and character building. Just as we expected, Miss Sarah
J. Rogers is meeting with much success in her new position as
superintendent of grade work in the city schools of Helena,
Montana. Mrs. Jane Connell Hellier is now residing in Camp Hill, Ala.,
where her husband, Dr. F. O. Hellier, has a good position in an industrial
school. We are glad to welcome back to our city, if not to our
institution, our former beloved teacher, "Miss Millet" who returns
as Mrs. Norman Tucker, and who we feel is still interested in us, if not
directing us in our work. The pleasurable excitement of watching the
flirtations of our elder members last year has been denied us so
far this year as there has been nothing but hard prosaic work. Miss Anna
Iverson who has been teaching in Island county, Wash., has returned to
join the senior class and complete the year's work. The name of "The
Nock-will-wit Society," which interpreted means "the guardian angel of the
Indian," was at one time the name given one of the members of the
society. She is the little daughter of the former Indian Agent on the
Lummi reservation. The society is composed of the primary pupils and is
doing splendid work in the literary line. Councilman F. M. Muldoon of
Seattle visited his daughter recently, and spent considerable time
becoming acquainted with the work of the normal school. The excellent
character of our students is shown in many ways. Never has a student been
called before the faculty for misconduct and never has it been necessary
to suspend a student from classes on account of insubor-
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---------- The Normal Messenger 19 donation. The usual activity
and seeming commotion are the result of a spirit of earnestness rather
than a reckless and willful disregard for order and system. The students
are not bound down by arbitrary and abstract regulations but each student
is urged to exercise such personal control over his daily conduct that it
may be worthy of emulation rather than censure and rebuke. There are
three hundred and fifty people in the building daily, yet_ unnecessary
noise or useless traveling through the halls is seldom seen, and visitors
invariably comment favorably upon the business spirit and earnestness of
the student-body. The pupils of the training school very pleasantly
entertained the normal school at general assembly on Wednesday morning,
Nov. 28th. Principal E. T. Mathes and Prof. Washington Wilson of our
faculty are upon the program of the state teachers' association which
meets in Ellensburg, December 26 t o 28, 1900. It is a source of much
regret to our students that the crowded condition of the normal building
renders it impossible to arrange for a proper display of the large
museum which has been donated to the school. Our principal, Dr. E. T.
Mathes, is spending the month of December in the east visiting some of the
best state normal schools in the country. It is the united purpose of our
trustees, principal and faculty that this institution shall stand for that
which is best in the academic and professional training for teachers. The
students who reside in the east end of Fairhaven are rejoicing because the
authorities of that city have constructed a a good substantial sidewalk
from the north end of Twenty-first street through "Happy Valley" to the
normal school. This brings a large number of the homes of Fairhaven within
a twenty-minute walk of the normal building, and materially increases the
boarding and rooming facilities within walking distance of the school.
It is seldom that any institution enjovs a more faithful business
management than is given our school by the Board of Trustees. Their
administration has not only been economical and fair, but it has extended
to a solicitude for the comfort and success of every individual
teacher and student. Much time has also been given during the past few
months to a careful consideration of the needs of the school in the
future. These have been reviewed on another page of this issue of the
MESSENGER. Miss Malene Nelson who attended the normal school last year is
now Mrs. Richard Downey, and resides in Ballard, Washington. We are proud
of the literary societies of our training school. The "Acorn" and
Four-leaf Clover" socities are under the leadership of Misses Tromanhauser
and Brat-ton. Weekly programs are given which are always edifying
and commendable. Martin Korstad was elected sergeant-at-arms of the
normal senate at a recent election. That large pile of observation
note-books, seen in the south hall every other Friday, means much work for
someone. The work is well repaid however by the discipline received
in their preparation. The constructive work as carried on in the primary
grades of the training school is proving not only interesting but
instructive as well, and the excellent work done by the smallest pupils is
remarkable evidence of the adaptability of the course to the childs
capabilities. Great volumes of eloquence are heard rolling through the
halls every Friday afternoon. There certainly is a Young Men's
Debating Club around somewhere near.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- 20 The Normal Messenger GOSSIP. "Said Gossip One to
Gossip Two, While stoppin in the town,— 'One Mrs. Pry to me
remarked, Smith bought his goods of Brown/ "Said Gossip Two to Gossip
Three, Who cast her eyelids down,— 'I've heard it said today, my
friend, Smith got his goods from Brown.' "Said Gossip Three to Gossip
Four, With something of a frown,— 'I've heard it said—what do
you think? Smith took his goods from Brown.' "Said Gossip Four to Gossip
Five, Who blazed it around the town,— 'I've heard today such
shocking news, Smith stole his goods from Brown.' " —The Pilgrim.
Elementary Certificates. From everywhere comes most urgent demands for
higher scholarship among teachers just as from everywhere comes a
similar demand for better trained workers along all lines. More than ever
is it becoming certainly true that only the best shall survive. The poorer
workers are eliminated or find it necessary to take stations much
lower in the ranks. Accordingly, the wise ones will take zealous care that
their preparation shall be thorough, and these will welcome such raising
of standards as shall, when fully met, put them beyond
question, in the matter of trained efficiency. The State of
Washington, in common with other coast states, feels the strong impulse
for better things in education, and will accordingly raise her standards
among her teachers. Already, in a neighboring state, owing to the
exceeding demand for nothing less than university graduates in high
schools, examinations for high school certificates are all but thoroughly
obsolete, and will be hereafter discontinued at the request of the
teachers themselves. Not only has this condition, which is a remarkable
one, obtained, but another more remarkable still is in the process
of obtaining. It is that the public are demanding University graduates for
grammar schools and are securing them for all better positions in grammar
schools. It will soon be true that no certificates will be granted
upon examination at all,—only upon credentials representing the most
thorough training. Realizing the oncoming conditions the Whatcom
Normal School seeks to raise her standards. It feels that anything less
than a well won diploma is inadequate,— that the student who
stops short of this is but temporizing, is really taking the first step
out of the ranks. It is with these feelings that the taking of
Elementary Certificates is strongly discouraged.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
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of fine tools, cutlery and general hardware is unsurpassed. The mechanic,
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---------- ADVERTISEMENTS IT'S SO And You Ought to know it Our
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Toilet Sets, Teplitz Ware, Shaving Sets and Brushes o! Ail Descriptions
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stock of cereals. For winter there is nothing more appetizing or healthful
than our H. O. Oatmeal, Vitos and Semola and our many dainty foods in
cereals and farinaceous foods of all kinds. Our stock of groceries
includes everything that is of superior quality that comes under this
head IRELAND S PAN OOAST 13th and E. Telephone 601.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- ADVERTISEMENTS Yout Fancy Your Shape Your Pocket
Boot We meef you e^f every fum of fKe sifue^fiorv. We sKow e*r gt;
e^ssorf rc\er»f of Men's Business and Dress Suits and Overcoats at
From $7.50 TO $25.00 Wtyeb roatjes disappoirtf- Tryer)t QT)
impossibility to the My^r ^ _^ Fine Furnishings, Hats and Shoes. Leather
Satchels and Bags, also Trunks. Complete Outfits for Young Men a
specialty. "One Price to All; Yotff Moneys' Worth Or Yo«r Money
Back"
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- ADVERTISEMENTS |-jIGH=GRADE_ PRINTING ENGRAVED CARDS
We are receiving many orders for Engraved Plates, Gallina Cards and
Invitations And are supplying goods in this line that are strictly
UP-TO-DATE (XT MAY BE OF INTEREST to re-publish I the following, which is
one of many flat-tering press notices given a recent typographical
production from this establishment: "Messrs. Edson Irish, of New
Whatcom, Washington, have recently published Carrie Blake Morgan's first
book, a volume of poems, which takes its name from the opening poem, "The
Path of Gold." * * * The little book is MOST ATTRACTIVELY PRINTED, and is
bound in heavy, red Whatman's paper, with gold lettering, and is published
at 50 cents per copy. It contains thirty-three poems, all short, the most
successful of all being some of from two to four lines each, which are
charming, both in subject and manner. Some of Mrs. Morgan's poems have a
familiar ring, one two-line verse having been used on a book-plate
belonging to a New York collector, but whose authorship we had never been
able to discover. The book is well worth a place in our poet's corner, and
it is to be hoped it Will meet with the appreciative reception its high
quality warrants."—NEW YORK TIMES. EDSON lt; IRISH 1333 RAILROAD
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Whatcom Furniture Co. Keep a full line of House Furnishings and Fancy
Goods Holly and R. R. Ave.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- BUSINESS DIRECTORY D. H. EVANS C A M E R A S A N D
SUPPLIES PYROGRAPHICAL OUTFITS 14 15 HOLLY S T . NJBO) WHATOOD) D. J.
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Dealers in Poultry, Poultry Supplies, Fresh and Cured Fish —
Breeders of Buff Plymouth Rocks, Buff Leghorns, and Eggs in
Season—Agents for Prairie State Incubators and Brooders,
Pacific Poultryman and Reliable Poultry Journal. 1757 Holly Street PHONE
1166 New Whatcom. HELLO! CENTRAL! GIVE ME COX BROS.' LIVERY PHONE 1401
GOOD HEALTH DOES THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? STODDARD, the Sanitary
Plumber 1381 ELK STREET. BELLINGHAM BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY AND FREE READING
ROOM Corner Dock and Magnolia streets. 2 1 Saturday evenings from 7 to
10 o'cl MRS. HUGH ELDRIDGE, Secy. X,. H. HADLEY, Pres't. Open daily,
except Sunday, from 2 to 6 p. m., also Wednesday and Saturday evenings
from 7 to 10 o'clock. Business, Stenography, Special Branches None
cheaper, none better. Day and evening school. Send for Journal. AUG.
WILSON, New Whatcom, Wash.
---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- BUSINESS DIRECTORY GRAVES, BACKUS PURDY Transact a
General BANKING BUSINESS Largest Bank in Northwestern Washington. New
Whatcom, Wash. C. K. McMILLIN, Cashier. CENTRAL MARKET P E L L S MARZ. P
R O P S. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton and
Lamb, SHIPPING SUPPLIED. Salt Meats, Game in Season. Elk St., near R. I.
Morse . . . . New Whatcom, Wash. A. V. MILLER THE SHOEMAKER Boots and
Shoes Made to Order—Repairing Neatly Done. The Work of the Normal
Students Respectfully Solicited. 1035 ELK ST. Next to Morse Hardware Co.
The best place in town to buy Clothing and Gents' Furnishings CHAS.
GREENBERG MORGEN Holly St. and Railroad Ave. W.O.NICHOLSON, BUTCHER
And Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats. . . . Elk St., near Cor. Holly PHONE
591 New Whatcom MRS. D. ALVERSON 1696 HOLLY ST. Closing out all Winter
Millinery at a very low figure. Call at once and get a bargain. The
Normal Students will £nd the PRINCIPAL BARBER SHOP AND BATHS The
most Convenient and Attractive in the City. Holly Street, O p p o s U e ^
^ ^ ^ F a m U I l g BrOS. ELK STREET COAL AND WOOD YARD ° - 5 £
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---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- ADVERTISEMENTS 1 TO THE NORMAL STUDENTS J '4 We
extend to the Normal Students i §| a special invitation to call and
ex- j | §j amine our beautiful Holiday stock of P 1 JEWELRY, CUT
GLASS AND NOYELTIES. I « It will assist vou in choosing your m |
g^ts. " | 0 NELSON lt;£ ROBINSON | i JEWELERS OPTICIONS. |f P
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SELL STANDARD GOODS • Hartschaffner Marx Fine Clothing, Monarch
Shirts, Perrin's Dent's Gloves and High Grades of Men's Furnishings, I
Fischer Bldg., • Cor. Dock and Holly Sts. | MUNRO, BLflKE HASKELL
. PHONE 121 NEW WHATCOM, WASH. 1199 ELK STREET HARDWARE, TINNING jm AND
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Stoves, Myer's Pumps, and all kinds of Sheet Metal work.
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WHITE CO. TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING AND EXCHANGE BUSINESS YOUR
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---------- ADVERTISEMENTS Byron Shumway GROCERS f 5 f 6 HOLLY
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---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- ADVERTISEMENTS THINGS APPROPRIATE FOR THE HOLIDAYS IN
STERLING SILVER_^g£ gt; Book Marks 25c to $1.00 Paper Cutters 25c
to 1.50 Mucilage Bottles 75c to 1.50 Ink Wells 75c to 1.50 Pen Wipers
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---------- Normal Messenger - 1900 December
---------- To Furnish A Home There is Everything in This Store
Furniture, Carpets, Shades, Draperies, Upholstery Goods, Bedding, Stoves
and Ranges, Heaters, Crockery, Glassware, Wood and Willow Ware,
Tinware, Notions, Etc. All these lines are shown in complete variety for
your choosing |MW—- L,ow prices are uniformly maintained and
quality of goods always as represented. WE WANT YOUR TRADE B. B.
Furniture Co.
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