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 Semi Centennial 
 1862 Bumbet 1912 
 
The Mansfield Normal Quarterly 
 
 Volume 17 NOVEMBER f 1912 Number I 
 
 Being Ihe SEMI-CENTENNIAL NUMBER 
 
 of the Normal Quarterly of the 
 
 MANSFIELD STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 
 
 of the Fifth District of Pennsylvania 
 
 ADVEt^TISEH PRINT, MANSFIELD, PENiN . 
 
OURTESY and condescension is an happy 
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 into the good opinion and into the very heart ; and 
 allays the envy Vv^hich always attends a high 
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DR. NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 
H. F, KiNGSlEY, PsesiOEM 
 
 'A, W. ALLEN, Vict'PntSiDEHT 
 
 C. J. BEACH, Secreiare 
 
 W. 0. ROSE, Treasures 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 19i2 
 
The Mansfield Normal Quarterly 
 
 And School Announcement 
 
 OUR GOLDEN JUBILEE 
 
 When Queen' Victoria of England 
 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her 
 reign, some years ago, the occasion was 
 universally called “The Golden Ju- 
 bilee.” When Mansfield, this year, 
 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of 
 her recognition as a State Normal 
 School, the event was termed “The 
 Semi-Centennial,” but it might fitly 
 have been called “A Golden Jubilee” 
 — golden in memories made sacred by 
 the devotion of those who have borne 
 the burdens and vicissitudes of so long 
 and so eventful a period ; golden in 
 the present achievements made possi- 
 ble by those that have preceded them ; 
 golden in the outlook into an even 
 larger future based upon the past and 
 the present. 
 
 Queen Victoria, the ruler of her 
 realm, was, in a peculiar sense, near 
 to them — the bride of the nation, the 
 mother of her people. 
 
 To every loyal alumnus, Mansfield 
 
 bears this latter relation, and the 
 thought of her awakens a sentiment 
 which is appropriately expressed, in 
 one of the school songs : 
 
 “Mansfield shall be our pride, 
 Mansfield, Tioga’s bride,— 
 
 Dearer than all beside — 
 
 Mother of Men.” 
 
 We have a just pride in our build- 
 ings, in our general equipment, in the 
 cultural atmosphere, in the high grade 
 of scholarship officially recognized as 
 characteristic of Mansfield. But the 
 faith of the past, the joy of the pres- 
 ent, and the hope of the future, is 
 based upon Mansfield as “Mother of 
 Men” — the term being used, of course, 
 in its broadest sense. 
 
 It is only as she trains boys and 
 girls into men and women, fitted to 
 understand the larger problems of life, 
 able to bear their own burdens, and 
 eager to help bear those of their less 
 fortunate brothers, that Mansfield 
 truly fulfills her high mission. 
 
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 This she has done, and is doing ; 
 this she will continue to do, if her 
 Alumni, always loyal, continue to feel 
 the duty as well as the joy of support- 
 ing all her efforts, of not only keep- 
 ing hers “a staiiiless name,” as we 
 rejoice to call it in the “Alma Mater 
 Song,” but of making it an advancing 
 and victorious one. 
 
 The alumni spirit which sings : 
 “Normal, our Normal, 
 
 Loyal are we to thee. 
 
 Thy honors, ours shall be, — 
 
 Ours to maintain,” 
 
 is the spirit which will inspire every 
 official in his broadest vision, nerve 
 every worker to his best effort, de- 
 velop in every student his fullest 
 power. 
 
 Any institution which forgets its 
 noble past, is unworthy ; any institu- 
 tion which undervalues its happy 
 present, is no less so. But the institu- 
 tion which is content to rest there, to 
 see no wider horizon, to glimpse no 
 broader field of usefulness, is doomed. 
 Let Mansfield’s splendid body of 
 loyal alumni, now nearly three thous- 
 and in number, her “children” of 
 whom she is so proud, and who, in 
 turn, are so proud of her, join with all 
 her workers, in thoughtful and strenu- 
 ous effort, toward an even more useful 
 and more glorious future. A future 
 whose aim is fitly expressed in the in- 
 spiring words of the school-motto : 
 “Character, Scholarship, Culture, Ser- 
 vice.” 
 
 INCE human affairs are frail and fleeting some 
 persons must ever be sought for whom we 
 may love and by whom we may be loved; for, when 
 affection and kind feeling are done away with, all 
 cheerfulness likewise is banished from existence. — 
 Cicero. 
 
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Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL PROGRAM 
 
 It is claimed on good authority 
 that the history of any man begins at 
 least as far back as his grandfather. 
 It is equally true that the history of 
 any notable event begins its making 
 long before the event actually occurs. 
 
 One might say that the present 
 celebration dates potentially as far 
 back as a generation ago, when the 
 school’s existence as a Normal School 
 began, tho’ its immediate ancestry 
 is in the present generation and its 
 birth within the present year. 
 
 To drop the figure early in the an- 
 niversary year the Board of Trustees 
 appointed a committe of its members 
 to co-operate with the regular Alumni 
 Committee in making arrangements 
 for a suitable recognition of the ap- 
 proaching Semi-Centennial, which, it 
 had been decided, should be cele- 
 brated at Commencement-time rather 
 than upon the exact date in the 
 following December. 
 
 The committee representing the 
 trustees, was composed of the Prin- 
 cipal, Hon. A. B. Hitchcock and Mr. 
 W. W. Allen, and the Alumni Com- 
 mittee of Mr. Edwin S. Coles, (chair- 
 man,) Mr. Jos. S. Hoard, Mrs. Myra 
 Gaige Hall, Mrs. Bessie Ely Long- 
 bothum and Mrs. Blanclae Hanyen 
 
 Palmer, the latter, however, asking to 
 be excused from service, on account cf 
 pressure of other duties. 
 
 This joint-committee was known as 
 the Committee of Arrangements, and, 
 now that the event is over, one of the 
 happiest recollections connected with 
 the preparation for it, is the fact that 
 the committee worked in absolute har- 
 mony. Never, at any time, was there 
 the slightest friction or the least evi- 
 dence of desire to do anything other 
 than according to the best judgment 
 of the whole. The task was an ardu- 
 ous one but it was truly “a labor of 
 love,” and was, we believe, fully justi- 
 fied by the highly satisfactory out- 
 come. 
 
 With the handsomely engraved in- 
 vitations, crovmed v/ith the golden nu- 
 merals “1862 — 1912,” which were 
 sent to each member of the Alumni 
 Association, to all who had ever held 
 official connection with the school, as 
 far as reachable, and to many state 
 officials and prominent educators both 
 state and national, v/as enclosed the 
 condensed program which appears be- 
 low. 
 
 This is but a skeleton of events, each 
 one of which had its own fully elab- 
 orated program, but it will serve to 
 
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 Qu ar te r 1 y 
 
 show at a glance the chief literary and 
 social activities of the week and form 
 an appropriate prelude to its story : 
 
 Sunday, June 16, 8 p. m. — Bacca- 
 laureate Sermon, Rev. R. M. We^, 
 D. D., Park Avenue Bapti^ church, 
 Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 Monday, June 17, 10 a. m. Gym- 
 nastic Exhibition. 2-4 p.m. Art Ex- 
 hibit (Studio). 8 p.m. Model School 
 Operetta, “The Carnival of Spring.” 
 
 Tuesday, June 18, 10 a. m. Class 
 Day Exercises. 2 p. m. Gold Medal 
 Conte^. Cantata (Ladies Chorus), 
 “The Ballad of Lorraine.” 8 p. m. 
 School Opera, “Erminie.” 
 
 Wednesday, June 19, 10 a. m. 
 Alumni Reception (Arcade). 1 1 :30 a, 
 m. Business Meeting. 12:00 m. His- 
 torical Address, Hon. S. B. Elliott, 
 
 1 p. m. Alumni Dinner. 5-6 p. m. 
 Class Reunions. 8 p.m, Anniverseiry 
 Address, Hon. N. C. Schaeffer, D. D., 
 LL. D., State Supt. Public Instruc- 
 tion . Cantata — ‘ ‘ The Que^ . ’ ’ 
 
 Thursday, June 20. 10 a. m. All- 
 
 Alumni Base-ball game. School Songs, 
 
 2 p. m. Commmencement Exercises, 
 Address, Charles Alexander Richmond, 
 D. D., LL. D., Pres. Union College, 
 Schenedlady, N. Y. 8 p. m. School 
 Play, “The Butterflies.” 
 
 THE STORY OF THE WEEK 
 
 Never did finer weather, larger 
 crowds or more appreciative listeners 
 conspire to make a success of Com- 
 mencement Week more notably than 
 during the one whose story we are 
 about to relate. 
 
 The key-note was struck by the 
 elaborate decorations of red and black 
 with which the town had draped itself 
 in honor of the auspicious event, the 
 numerals, “1862—1912,” being espec- 
 ially abundant. Not only on places 
 of business, but on private houses the 
 school-colors waved in welcome to re- 
 
 turning alumni, and visiting friends — 
 a welcome that was duly appreciated 
 and that gave a foretaste of a week of 
 signal pleasure. 
 
 Each event of the program as it 
 proceeded ju^ified the expectations of 
 the waiting audiences which, on nearly 
 every occassion, crowded Alunni 
 Hall’s generous capacity, and over- 
 flowed into the aisles, those who 
 were able to do so standing, others 
 being obliged to turn away. 
 
 While it is measurably true, as is 
 often claimed, that every Commence- 
 
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 ment is like every other except in its 
 personnel, this Commencement, we 
 confidently assert, fell below no other 
 in quality and exceeded every pre- 
 ceding one in the number and variety 
 of events presented. 
 
 In this connection the opinion ex- 
 pressed in a current issue of a county 
 paper reflects, we believe, the general 
 sentiment : 
 
 “For several years past the Normal 
 Commencement-week programs have 
 been elaborate but, as seems fitting, 
 there have been none to approach that 
 which is now marking the school’s fif- 
 tieth anniversary and is making new 
 and glorious history for it and for the 
 community.” 
 
 The Baccalaureate Sermon. 
 
 A notably large audience, the pre- 
 cursor of still larger ones later in the 
 week, gathered in Alumni Hall at 8 
 o’clock, on the evening of June 16, to 
 hear the Baccalaureate Sermon, which 
 was delivered by the Rev. R. M. Weft, 
 D. D., of the Park Avenue Baptist 
 Church, Rochefter, N. Y. 
 
 The class procession was particularly 
 impressive, the one hundred and fifty- 
 one members, in double line, being 
 preceded by a school chorus of thirty 
 voices as they marched to their ap- 
 pointed place. 
 
 The following is the program of ser- 
 vice, the opening services being con- 
 ducted by the pastors of Mansfield. 
 
 8 p. m. Baccalaureate Service. 
 
 Organ Prelude, Pilgrim’s Song of Hope, 
 Batiste, John Hepple Shepherd. Ser- 
 mon, Rev. R. M. Weft, D. D., Park 
 Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester, N. 
 Y. Contralto Solo, The King of Love 
 My Shepherd Is, Gounod, Georgia 
 Drum. Organ Poftlude, Scherzo Sym- 
 phonique, Russell King Miller, John 
 Hepple Shepherd. 
 
 The presence of Prof. Shepherd at 
 the organ was, as always, an earnest 
 of a musical feaft, and Miss Georgia 
 Drum’s beautiful solo was in perfect 
 harmony with the occasion. 
 
 The sermon was a masterly one — 
 scholarly yet thoroughly understand- 
 able ; spiritual, yet intensely prac- 
 tical. The theme was “Life.” (“The 
 Lord’s chief theme”), and, in part, the 
 speaker said : “Life makes all things 
 as they are. Three great truths stand 
 out in Chrift’s interpretation of life. 
 (1) ‘A man’s life consisteth not in the 
 abundance of things which he posess- 
 eth.’ (2) Life does not get its sup- 
 port, from these possessions. (3) 
 Man, by virtue of being man, is nomi- 
 nally subject to two births .Life of the 
 flesh, makes us lose the life of the 
 spirit.” He then portrayed life in 
 terms of faith, love, and sacrifice, 
 making it evident that it is the qual- 
 ity of a life which glorifies any call- 
 ing to which it may be dedicated. 
 
 Gymnastic Exhibition. 
 
 The Gymnasium, on Monday morn- 
 ing, formed an auditorium for a large 
 
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 audience who had gathered to witness 
 the exhibitions of class work and the 
 various special drills which constituted 
 the program. 
 
 A Swedish Drill and an Indian Club 
 Drill by the Normal girls, were espe- 
 cially beautiful in their grace and ex- 
 actness. While trapeze “stunts” and 
 exhibitions of the various “holds” in 
 wre^ling, by the Normal boys, were 
 of much interest. 
 
 Quaintly pretty Scandinavian Folk 
 Dances of a simple nature were pre- 
 sented by a group of Model School 
 girls, and the Model School boys 
 played a “Tag” game and gave ex- 
 hibitions of goal-throwing for basket 
 ball. It was evident that the instruc- 
 tors were in sympathy with the late^ 
 pedagogical tho’t in their line, which 
 strongly advocates the value of the 
 simpler Folk Dance Movements and 
 rhythms and of supervised play for 
 young children. 
 
 The floor- v/ork in both Normal and 
 Model School Departments was of a 
 high order, and the whole exhibition 
 reflects credit upon the Gymnasium in- 
 structors, Miss Grace A lies Putnam 
 and Mr. Joseph A. Gardiner. 
 
 The Art Exhibit. 
 
 The Art Exhibit for 1912 was held 
 in the Art Studio on Monday after- 
 noon, 2-4 o’clock. 
 
 The beautifully decorated rooms 
 and corridors, the cheerful strains of 
 music by the orchestra, and the charm- 
 
 ing welcome offered by the ho^ess of 
 the occasion, put the visitor at once 
 into an appreciative frame of mind. 
 
 The exhibit comprised the regular 
 junior work in free-hand and mechani- 
 cal drawing, color and design; the 
 Model School work in con^ructive 
 paper-cutting and folding, weaving, 
 color and design, in the various grades ; 
 and the work of indents in the special 
 art course. 
 
 In the latter division were examples 
 of drawing from the objedt, w’ater- 
 color, oil and china painting, and vari- 
 ous arts-crafts produdts showing the 
 process from the application of the 
 original unit, through the design and 
 execution to the completed whale. 
 
 The entire exhibit offered proof of 
 the admirable and thorough work cf 
 Miss Elizabeth Ellison, the initrudtor, 
 and of the diligent and arti^ic response 
 of the indents. 
 
 The Model School Operetta. 
 
 On Monday evening, June 17, the 
 Model School presented the Operetta, 
 “The Carnival of Spring,” the words 
 for which were composed by Mrs. An- 
 drew Thomas Smith, the music by 
 Prof. Hamlin E. Cogswell. 
 
 This operetta was written expressly 
 for the Model School, and was fir^ 
 presented nine years ago, the revival 
 this year being upon reque^. 
 
 At the fir^ rendition. Prof. Cogs- 
 well, then Music Diredtor at Mans- 
 field, condudted ; at the second, Prof. 
 
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THE FACULTY OF 1912 
 
THE CLASS OF 1912 
 
ART EXHIBITS 
 

 ATHLETIC TEAMS, 1912 
 
Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 John Hepple Shepherd, the present Di- 
 rector. In both cases the Paging, 
 co^uming and drilling, were done by 
 the Model School teachers — at the ini- 
 tial performance by Miss Eliza J. 
 Boyce and Miss Chri^ine Marr Cam- 
 eron ; at the second, by Mrs. Mary A. 
 Jenks and Miss Eliza J. Boyce— all 
 pa^-mi^resses in the art of juvenile 
 ^age-craft. 
 
 The music is more difficult than is 
 usually attempted by children, but is 
 of a very singable and attradtive qual- 
 ity, the orche^ra affording excellent 
 support for the various numbers. 
 
 The charming ^ory wedded to beau- 
 tiful words, set to lilting melody, and 
 rendered in a ^age-setting, whose 
 color schemes and massings were mar- 
 vels of artistry, made an evening long 
 to be remembered 
 
 The Operetta is divided into two 
 parts. In the fir^, “The Princess 
 Spring.” (impersonated by Miss Ruth- 
 adell Williamson) welcomes to her 
 court, birds, flowers, butterflies, sun- 
 beams, rain-sprites, rainbow-nymphs 
 and moon-maidens, who, in song and 
 chorus, express their delight in being 
 invited to share in “The Carnival of 
 Spring.” In the second part, we wit- 
 ness the “Wedding of the Sun and 
 Spring,” the Sun being imperson- 
 ated by Richard Lowe and the bride 
 by Miss Esther Leonard. 
 
 The earlier characters re-appear in 
 the new relation of brides-maids , ushers, 
 flower girls and guests, while Cupid 
 (Howard Bull) tunefully relates how 
 
 he brought to pass the happy consum- 
 mation, and the bride and groom are 
 pronounced 
 
 “No longer twain, Spring and the Sun, 
 No longer twain, but ever one.” 
 
 After a dual avowal of their love, 
 in song, and the chorus of felicitations, 
 the chariot of the Sun appears, drawn 
 by prancing sunbeams, and takes from 
 view the bridal pair, followed by the 
 entire wedding party singing 
 
 “For now he takes the beauteous 
 Spring 
 
 To share his home in glory. 
 
 And leaves us lonely here, to sing 
 Their love’s unrivalled story.” 
 
 Class Day. 
 
 Reference has been made to the dig- 
 nified procession of the class on the 
 evening of Baccalaureate Sunday. 
 On Class Day a no less impressive but 
 totally different entrance was made. 
 
 Fir^ appeared the “Middle Class” 
 to the inspiring drains of a specially 
 worded, “Marching Song,” set to the 
 air, “Brightly Gleams Our Banner;’* 
 these formed double lines in the two 
 aisles of Alumni Hall Auditorium, at 
 the rear, and, lifting pennants of the 
 school colors, red and black, made 
 arches under which the seniors, carrying 
 their colors of red and gray, marched 
 in single file, the senior approach be- 
 ing greeted by the song, “Here Comes 
 the Class,” set to the familiar bridal 
 air from Lohengrin. 
 
 Passing to their places, followed by 
 the middlers, there ensued a vocal 
 
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 antiphony in which the departing 
 seniors questioned the midders as to 
 their loyalty and the middlers pro- 
 fessed a devotion equal to that of their 
 interlocutors. 
 
 This was succeeded by a chorus of 
 the two classes, enthusia^ically sing- 
 ing as they raised aloft the red and 
 gray of 1912 and the black and gold 
 of 1913 (tiill then concealed) in a 
 glittering field of color, 
 
 “Alma Mater, Here’s to thee. 
 
 We who go and we who stay, — 
 Here’s our love and loyalty, 
 
 For today, and every day.” 
 
 Then came the following program, 
 every part of which was carried out 
 with excellent spirit and fine finish, 
 and the exercises closed with the senior 
 “Farewell Song;” 
 
 Music Middler Greeting 
 
 President’s Address, Foster W.Haverly 
 Class History . . . Florence Sullivan 
 Oration, “The Boy Scout Movement” 
 
 J. Clarence Lusch 
 
 Prophecy Isa Mae Houser 
 
 Class Poem .... Grace C. Briggs 
 Mantle Oration . Charles J. Jaquish 
 Response for Class of 1913 . . . . 
 
 John S. Carter 
 
 Class Will . . . . Mary E. Mackey 
 
 Gold Medal Contest. 
 
 In the gold medal conte^, which 
 took place on Tuesday afternoon, the 
 prizes were awarded to Ray R. Mer- 
 rill for the best declamation, and to 
 Raymond Williams for the best essay. 
 All the conte^ants brought credit to 
 themselves and to the school. The 
 
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 declamations were well chosen and 
 admirably presented, while the essays 
 were rich in original thought and 
 showed evidence of diligent work m 
 research. The wo of the indents 
 was praiseworthy in every way, and 
 those who took part are to be heartily 
 congratulated on the serious effort and 
 the arti^ic result. The judges of the 
 conte^ were: Mrs. J. G. Wilson of 
 Montrose, Pa., the Rev. W. L. Dud- 
 ley of Covington, and Mrs. Edwin S. 
 Coles of Mansfield. The program 
 follows: 
 
 DECLAMATIONS. 
 
 The Guillotine (Victor Hugo) . Har- 
 old Sonn. 
 
 The Keeper of the Light (Henry Van 
 Dyke) . Reed Hitchcock. 
 
 Toussaint L’Ouverture (Wendell Phil- 
 lips) . R. Ray Merrill. 
 
 The Man in the Shadow (Anon) . 
 Laura Pfaff. 
 
 Piano Solo — March Mignon [Pol- 
 dini] . Arlene Keefe. 
 
 Soprano Solo — Enchantment 
 [Scott] . Eleanor Hornbaker. 
 ESSAYS. 
 
 Theory and Practice of Initiative, 
 Referendum and Recall . Raymond 
 Williams. 
 
 An Ounce of Prevention . Bertha H. 
 Whitman. 
 
 Nature’s Influence on English Poetry . 
 Grace Han Ian. 
 
 Cantata— A Ballad of Lorraine. 
 Poem by Frederick K. Crosby. 
 Music by William G. Hammond. 
 Presented by Ladies’ Chorus, Assisted 
 
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 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 by Lucinda Keagle and Rieg’s Orches- 
 tra from Binghamton, N. Y. — “Ad- 
 vertiser.” 
 
 “Erminie.” 
 
 The comic opera, “Erminie,” which 
 was given a few weeks since, was 
 repeated on Tuesday evening in 
 Alumni Hall, as a feature of Semi- 
 Centennial Commencement week. 
 The performance was under direction 
 of Prof. John Hepple Shepherd, and 
 the cast was the same that he piloted 
 so successfully through the former pro- 
 duction of the tuneful opera. All 
 down the line, excellent work was 
 done. * * Messrs. McLain and Mun- 
 nell were excruciatingly funny in the 
 roles of Ravennes and Cadeaux, the 
 two thieves, and seldom has Mr. Mun- 
 nell’s magnificent voice been heard to 
 better advantage. 
 
 Roland Dayton scored high as Mar- 
 quis de Pomvert, both in acting and 
 singing. He gave to the part those 
 refreshing touches which marked his 
 work in the earlier performance, and 
 pleased the audience mightily. 
 
 If we were to individualize with re- 
 spect to the work and merits of the en- 
 tire cast, there would of necessity be 
 much of repetition of prior comment. 
 
 * * The praise given at that 
 
 time was ample, and it had been well- 
 earned. It applies to the performance 
 now under treatment, and seems all- 
 sufficient. Other than those already 
 mentioned, the cast included: James 
 
 McConnell, Francis Gallup, Harold 
 Sonn, John Bailey, Philip Guiles, Lou 
 Saks, Elizabeth Doran, Mildred Ross, 
 Lucinda Keagle, MusiettaLyke, Edith 
 Landt. Music was by Rieg’s orches- 
 tra, of Binghamton, N. Y., aug- 
 mented ; the production was staged by 
 Mrs. Betsey Lane Shepherd, and the 
 costumes were furnished by Matt 
 Lockwood of Elmira. — Mansfield Ad- 
 vertiser. 
 
 Alumni Day. 
 
 Alumni Day! The Day I Perfect 
 weather, splendid spirit, a large and 
 enthusiastic attendance marked the 
 event. 
 
 After the reception in the arcade at 
 10:30 a. m., the company adjourned 
 to Alumni Hall auditorium for the 
 business meeting, this, in turn, being 
 followed by the historical address de- 
 livered by the Hon. Simon B. Elliott, 
 in which, in a concise and interesting 
 manner, he reviewed the history of the 
 school during its existence of fifty 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Elliott has been connected with 
 the school, either in active or honorary 
 capacity, during all this period, and 
 Mansfield is particularly fortunate ia 
 having been able to secure him for the 
 address, which is printed separately 
 elsewhere in these pages, and is con- 
 sidered by Mr. Elliott as an appendix 
 to a more detailed historical address 
 delivered from the same platform ia 
 1890. 
 
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Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Qua rterl> 
 
 It is gratifying to note that, in his 
 ' opinion, Mansfield has emerged, 
 through all her vicissitudes, into a 
 ‘. usefulness, which justifies the faith of 
 her founders and faces a new cycle of 
 even greater power. 
 
 After singing the Anniversary Song, 
 the large audience filed by classes to 
 ' the spacious dining room in the North 
 . Hall, the procession being led by the 
 principal, the visiting guests and 
 clergymen, the board of trustees and 
 • the faculty. 
 
 The beautifully decorated room was 
 promptly filled and the following 
 tempting rrvnu was served: 
 
 ./Beef Bouillon aux Croton 
 ''Mushrooms, En-Croustable Wafers 
 Pommes Parisienne 
 Radishes Celery Stuffed Olives 
 
 Sliced New Tomatoes Little Midgets 
 
 Fried Chicken Mashed Potatoes 
 Gib let Saute 
 
 ' Creamed Asparagus Currant Jelly 
 
 Compote of Fruit Cold Ham 
 
 Hot French Rolls 
 
 Shrimp Salad, French Cream Dressing 
 Saltines 
 
 Normal IceCream New Strawberries 
 Macaroons 
 
 -Lady Fingers Nutted Cake 
 
 Kissses 
 
 Assorted Bon Bons Salted Almonds 
 Dates 
 
 ' Fruitade with Lemon Mints Figs 
 
 Cafe Au Lait 
 
 It was the universal opinion that 
 
 never had an Alumni dinner been bet- 
 "ter served, or proved more gratifying 
 
 to the appetite, and many were the 
 compliments showered upon Steward 
 and Mrs. Elwin E. Spencer. 
 
 During the meal, Rieg’s Orchestra 
 of Binghamton, stationed in the 
 piazza adjoining, discoursed sweet 
 music, and at intervals between 
 courses the whole company joined in 
 the School Songs, copies of v/hich 
 accompanied the menus. 
 
 At the close of the dinner, the 
 Toast-Master, Prof. Wm. R. Long- 
 street, called for responses to the fol- 
 lov/ing Toasts of Reminiscence : 
 
 The Pioneer Period, Dr. J. N. Frad- 
 enburg. The Formative Period, Mrs. 
 Dora Woodruff Goodrich. The Build- 
 ing Period, Mrs. Hamlin E. Cogsv/ell. 
 The Period of Internal Development, 
 Prof. H. J. Van Norman. The Period 
 of Expansion, Mr. Frederick H. Gaige. 
 
 At the close, the Principal, Dr. 
 Smith, was called upon and responded 
 briefly owing to the lateness of the 
 hour. 
 
 Class Reunions, in rooms set apart 
 for the “Decade Classes,” with a meet- 
 ing of the Alumni Committee on Reso- 
 lutions appointed at the morning busi- 
 ness meeting to report in the evening 
 session, which resolutions appear else- 
 where in this number, marked the 
 closing of the afternoon. 
 
 The Anniversary Address. 
 
 Cn Wednesday evening, the stage 
 was occupied by the singers in the 
 Cantata, “The Quest,” by the Presi- 
 
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 dent of the Alumni Association for 
 1912, Prof. W. R. Longstreet, the 
 Principal, Dr. Andrew Thomas Smith, 
 and the speaker of the evening, Hon. 
 N. C. Schaeffer, State Supt. of Public 
 Instruction. , , . 
 
 Mr. Frederick H. Gaige whose toast, 
 “The Period of Expansion,” was omit- 
 ted in the afternoon for lack of time, 
 responded to a general request to give 
 it in the evening, and, in doing so, paid 
 an eloquent tribute to the achievments 
 of the the last decade under the lead- 
 ship of the present principal. 
 
 The adoption of the Resolutions 
 submitted by the Alumni Committee, 
 and a beautiful song, “God’s Acre,” 
 by Prof. Mark C. Baker, a former 
 member of the faculty, followed, after 
 which Dr. Schaeffer was announced. 
 
 In his characteristically genial man- 
 ner he remarked that he had often 
 publicly said and endorsed compli- 
 mentary remarks relative to Mansfield 
 and her leaders, such as he had been 
 hearing throughout the day, then 
 turned to the matter of his address on 
 “The History of the Normal School 
 System of Pennsylvania.” 
 
 Turning from the contemplation of 
 our own local history with its awaken- 
 ings of just pride, it was a distinct 
 advantage to have held before us this 
 larger object of equally worthy pride 
 — the whole system in which we are a 
 unit — and to learn, in detail, of the 
 work of the men of earlier times who 
 had made our system possible, as we 
 had learned in the morning of the 
 
 work of other men who had made our 
 individual school possible. 
 
 Dr. Schaeffer’s scholarly address re- 
 vealed a thorough knowledge of his 
 subject and sympathy with it, and his 
 simple directness of diction carried ' 
 conviction to his listeners. 
 
 In the course of his remarks he - 
 made a plea for the continuation of 
 the “open door” in the Normal ' 
 schools for the entrance of those who 
 have not had previous High School ad- 
 vantages, being supported by statistics 
 in his claim that all those states- 
 who have closed this door are suffer- 
 ing from a paucity of men teachers. 
 
 Pennsylvania, under the new Edu- - 
 cational Code, admits to advanced ' 
 standing, holders of High School Di- 
 plomas, but provides also for those 
 who, without these, are willing to 
 start at the bottom and take sufficient 
 time to cover the entire four-year 
 course. 
 
 Mansfield was highly honored in 
 the presence of Dr. Schaeffer and thor- - 
 oughly appreciated his able address. 
 
 The program closed with the beau- 
 tiful Cantata, “The Quest,” the - 
 charming rendition of which reflected 
 credit upon all who participated — and 
 thus ended the Semi-Centennial Alum- 
 ni Day. 
 
 Commencement. 
 
 The crowning event of the week, , 
 Commencement, occured at 2 p. m.,. 
 Thursday, in the presence of an in-- 
 
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 spiringly large audience. Upon the 
 platform were seated the Faculty, 
 the Board of Trustees, the clergy- 
 men of Mansfield, Dr. Fraden- 
 burg, a former principal, and the 
 speaker of the day. Dr. Charles Alex- 
 ander Richmond, President of Union 
 College, Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 The address was preceded by a so- 
 prano solo by Miss Lucinda Keagle, 
 rendered with taste and feeling, while 
 Prof. Shepherd’s organ numbers were 
 up to their usual superb standard. 
 
 Dr. Richmond, with a happy play 
 of humor, introduced his theme, 
 “Personality in Teaching.” 
 
 Replete with knowledge of books 
 and of men, yet infused with the 
 kindly spirit borne of a broad vision, 
 he developed his theme in a masterly 
 fashion, asserting that, while know- 
 ledge is essential to the successful 
 teacher, a vital interest, a human 
 touch, a devoted purpose, count for 
 far more. 
 
 In the elaboraticm of his theme, he 
 carried his audience with him to the 
 climax in which he claimed that it 
 matters less to this country who is 
 President than who is teacher. 
 
 After the formal presentation of di- 
 plomas, the gold medal for excellence 
 in oratory, won in the contest of Tues- 
 day, was presented to R. Ray Merrill, 
 and for excellence in essay to Ray- 
 mond Williams, and the, names of 
 those in the Life Certificates list and 
 in the honor and credit lists of 1912 
 'were read, after which the benediction 
 
 was pronounced by Rev. J. N. Fraden- 
 burg, and the largest class in the his- 
 tory of the school was graduated. 
 
 “The Butterflies.” 
 
 A fitting close of the scheduled 
 events of the week was the production 
 on Thursday evening, in Alumni Hall, 
 of the school play, “The Butterflies,” 
 the initial production of which was 
 given a feW weeks prior. * * 
 
 The members of the cast did work 
 that merited the same complimentary 
 things the Advertiser was led to say 
 concerning the first performance. ^ 
 Tracy Clark’s interpretation of the 
 character of Hiram Green was intelli- 
 gent, and his whole work was strong. 
 Miss Helen Dorsett, as Suzanna Elsie 
 Green, gave a refreshing, breezy bit of 
 comedy work, adding much to the 
 good opinion she already had won. 
 Miss Trella M. Briggs, as Mrs. Bev- 
 erly Stuart-Dodge, and Miss Emily S. 
 Gyger, as Miriam, her daughter, were 
 admirable in action and strong in read- 
 ing. The other members of the cast, 
 all of whom did good work, were: 
 Morris Thompson, Leslie Spry, Claire 
 Catlin, Leo J. Bailey, Charles Jaquish, 
 Miss Grace C. Briggs. 
 
 The play was given under direction 
 of Miss Kathryn E. Reagan. The 
 stage settings, accessories, “and all 
 that sort of thing,” were gorgeous. 
 
 The music was by Dickinson’s or- 
 chestra, of Corning, and it was ex- 
 cellent. — Mansfield Advertiser. 
 
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 REPORT OF THE ALUMNI COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS 
 
 In the brief time allowed for our 
 work, the Committee on Resolutions 
 finds it a difficult thing to amply ex- 
 press its delight in the innovations and 
 improvements which are found on every 
 side. 
 
 Everywhere we find evidences of 
 the guiding hand of a master builder, 
 and we congratulate our Alma Mater 
 on the services of so able a leader as 
 the present principal. Dr. Smith. 
 
 The high standard of scholarship 
 found here can be attained only through 
 the work of efficient teachers, and the 
 material prosperity of the institution 
 sounds its note of praise for the careful 
 management of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 We v/ish, in the strongest manner 
 at our command, to express our sin- 
 cere appreciation of the hearty and 
 generous welcome extended to us by 
 the school and the citizens of Mans- 
 field, as we return to celebrate this 
 semi-centennial of the founding of this 
 institution. Our hearts are v/armed, 
 and the tie binding us to our Alma 
 Mater is strengthened because of this 
 kindly reception. 
 
 We congratulate the committees 
 which have labored so faithfully to 
 make this celebration a success. The 
 
 program and arrangments have been 
 most excellent. 
 
 We desire to thank the Hon. Simon 
 B. Elliott for his eloquent historical 
 address, to voice our deep sense of 
 gratitude and love for him because of 
 what he has done for our school, and 
 to express our earnest hope that he 
 may be spared for many years to, en- 
 rich the world with his, works of 
 beneficence. 
 
 A reunion which gives us a feast of 
 reason and a flow of soul alone, might 
 be enjoyable ; but our tender mother 
 knows how her children like to eat, so 
 she spreads us such a feast today that 
 with one accord we rise ancl say, “It 
 is the best Alumni Dinner ever served, 
 dear mother.” We wish therefore to 
 pay a deserved tribute to our Steward, 
 Mr.,E. A. Spencer, not only because 
 of the tempting menu but also the 
 efficient serving. , The niusic and the 
 toasts also fitted the spirit of the day. 
 
 As members of the Alumni Associa- 
 tion we feel especially lionored by the 
 presence of our State Superintendent 
 of Public Instruction, 'Dr. N.C; Schaef- 
 fer, and also by that of a former be- 
 loved principal of cur school. Dr. J. 
 N. Fracienburg. We wish to express 
 
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 to him our appreciation of his kind 
 words of encouragement and approval. 
 
 We learn with regret that our Music 
 Department is to lose Prof. J. H. Shep- 
 herd and Mrs. Shepherd, under whose 
 efficient guidance this department has 
 attained its present high standard of 
 excellence. The work done by them 
 has been the delight of those privileged 
 to hear the concerts and operas con- 
 ducted under their supervision. 
 
 Resolved, That we place upon record 
 our sincere appreciation of the years 
 of faithful service rendered this insti- 
 tution by the retiring members of the 
 faculty, especially Prof. I. M. Gay- 
 man and Miss Eliza J. Boyce, whose 
 splendid work, shown in the lives of 
 hundreds of students whom they have 
 taught, is one of the strongest recom- 
 mendations for our school. 
 
 And now a word in passing relative 
 to the new adornments found on the 
 walls of Alumni Hall. They have not 
 escaped our notice. We like them. 
 We know their artistic value. But 
 we are old-fashioned. Suffer the old 
 members of the alumni, therefore, who 
 in their youthful days, with trouble 
 and expense, sought to decorate these 
 walls with scenes of verdant beauty, 
 this brief memorial of the time of the 
 family portraits — a time that has 
 passed: 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 Oh, the ye-^r- have brought such changes, 
 that v.--^ du.nbly look around, 
 
 For ihe placing of some landmark that in 
 early years we found. 
 
 Normal things have all been booming, go- 
 ing forward one and all, 
 
 But we miss the dear old faces that once 
 hung upon the wall. 
 
 Those class pictures have all vanished from 
 the old accustomed place. 
 
 Nevermore, in gaudy framework, will we 
 see each class-mates’ face. 
 
 To be sure we’re nice and “comfy,” safely 
 laid by on the shelves. 
 
 And the walls are more artistic than when 
 graced by all ourselves ; 
 
 We’re quite suited with our quarters; we 
 don’t grumble at the change, 
 
 But we will confess, in private, that we 
 feel a trifle strange. 
 
 All shut up in Mother s cupboard, v/hile 
 she gently turns the ke> , 
 
 Let’s us gaze at our young greenness that 
 is plainly there to see. 
 
 Oh, those faces of our class-mates, taken 
 then when life was young! 
 
 Oh, those, visions of the future, that we 
 saw, when they v/ere hung. 
 
 On the walls of Alma Mater, — proud to see 
 ourselves up there. 
 
 Hanging high ’twixt floor and rafter, with 
 such proud conceited air! 
 
 We have smiled down on the nev ones vho 
 came, joyous, after us. 
 
 We have watched the line of progress with- 
 out making any fuss; 
 
 Out in life we're gray and wrinkled, worn 
 and v/eary with the strife, 
 
 Cften those old Normal pictures brought 
 youth's freshness back to kfe. 
 
 How we hovered 'round these class-frames, 
 when at times we all came back I 
 How they openec up the vistas of the past 
 adown life’s track! 
 
 Pranks and follies we committed, mischief 
 worked out on the sly : 
 
 Trips we made to park and woodland when 
 we thought no teacher nigh ! 
 
 .-^.11 these years those kindly pictures gazed 
 at all with friendly face. 
 
 Glad to welcome each new student who was 
 standing in our place 
 
 They have been an inspiration to the classes 
 as they grew, 
 
 Clinging fa-st to old tradiiions ; linking old 
 times with ti'.e new. 
 
 Yet the age is onward m.cving. "We would 
 not its pace retard; 
 
 But we pause a ‘moment, silent, with a 
 thought of kind regard. 
 
 ,For those funny old class-pictures, relics 
 cf the by-gone years. 
 
 Though we greet the new adornment with 
 the hea' tiest cf cl eers. 
 
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NORTH HALL 
 
SOUTH HALL 
 
ALUMNI HALL 
 
GYMNASIUM 
 
Quarter ly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 We cannot, even casually, visit the 
 halls of our Alma Mater without 
 discovering that there is a spirit here 
 which is as rare as it is beautiful. 
 We see it in the harmony of color, 
 shown in the furnishings and decora- 
 tions, in the home-life of our honored 
 Principal reflecfted in the lives of the 
 indents, and we wish, this year, to 
 especially memorialize the fadt that 
 we have a silent member on the fac- 
 ulty, whose spirit is con^antly at 
 work like the sweetness of a hidden 
 violet — a member who works without 
 pay, and whose services are far more 
 precious than gold, who embodies all 
 that the splendid school motto ^ands 
 for — “charadter, scholarship, culture, 
 service.” We feel that the Alumni 
 should know that much of this har- 
 
 mony emanates from the soul of the 
 beloved wife of our honored Principal, 
 that the splendid song we sung at our 
 Alumni Meeting was written especially 
 for this Semi-Centennial Anniversary 
 by Mrs Smith, that the design of the 
 tablet containing the school motto 
 was planned by her, that whenever a 
 new pidture is hung it is her fineness 
 of ta^e that is the guide. 
 
 Resolved, That in these resolutions 
 we especially express our appreciation 
 of her great influence for good in this 
 school. Long may we have the re- 
 fining influence of her cultured pres- 
 ence with us! 
 
 Edith Shaw Jones, Chairman 
 Mrs. Andrew B. Hitchcock 
 Mrs. W. W. Allen 
 Will George Butler 
 
 NOT IN THE CDRRIGDLDM 
 
 Our Contemporaries’ Views. 
 
 “The hai'i-century or the onward 
 and upward progress of Mansfield’s 
 chief institution, the Mansfield Nor- 
 mal School, is, this week, being cele- 
 brated i.a connection with the regular 
 yearly Commencement Exercises. 
 
 “Of an Alumni numbering nearly 
 3,000, many are here for the first time 
 in a score or more of years. 
 
 “To them, the great progress of their 
 Alma Mater is more noticeable than 
 to those who have been in more con- 
 stant touch with its magnificent work, 
 and the results thereof. With mem- 
 ories of the institution as they knew it, 
 the present-day conditions loom up in 
 actual grandeur, and they are enter- 
 ing into the festivities with zest and 
 pleasure. 
 
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Mansfield Normal School 
 
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 “But they are no prouder of the 
 school, than are the people of Mans- 
 field, as is shown by the wealth of dec- 
 orations throughout the village. 
 
 “If ever an institution grew from 
 humble beginnings into prominence, 
 that institution is the Mansfield Nor- 
 mal School. Today it stands forth re- 
 splendent as never before, both in an 
 educational and a material sense.” 
 
 “This week there will be graduated 
 one hundred and thirty-two young men 
 women in the regular course, the larg- 
 est class in the school’s history, who 
 passed the Faculty and State Board 
 Examinations v/ith flying colors, and 
 nineteen graduates of the special de- 
 partments, who have done no less dis- 
 tinguished work. 
 
 “The ‘Advertiser’ hopes that at 
 least part of them will attain, in life, 
 the prominence that has come to so 
 many others, of the Alumni of the 
 Mansfield Normal School.” 
 
 “Mansfield has other reason than 
 the educational and material, for 
 pride in, and love for, the Normal. 
 
 “It is by reason of the big school’s 
 existence that this village is without a 
 bar-room or a saloon, and has been 
 without them many years. 
 
 “It was the existence of this school 
 that made it possible for the late For- 
 dyce A. Allen, one of the early prin- 
 cipals, to win his fight to make Mans- 
 
 field a no-license town, and its men 
 largely homeowners.” 
 
 The Historical Cabinet. 
 
 In the last issue of The Quarterly 
 the new arrangement of the class photo- 
 graphs on large svv^inging-leaves en- 
 closed in a duft-proof cabinet in the 
 rear of Alumni Hall was outlined, with 
 the reasons leading the joint commit- 
 tee of Alumni and Trustees in charge 
 of Semi-Centennial plans, to make 
 the change. 
 
 It was then predicted that, by the 
 new scheme, Mansfield would have the 
 most unique and satisfactory arrange- 
 ment of class photographs possible to 
 be secured, and the hope was expressed 
 that returning Alumni might have un- 
 usual pleasure in viewing them 
 
 We can safely assert that both the 
 prediction and the hope have been 
 amply realized. 
 
 It has been possible to add to the 
 hi^orical value of the leaves by insert- 
 ing several containing photographs of 
 every phase of school activity as well 
 as of the exterior and interior of the 
 various buildings in different Aages of 
 development ; added to this display is 
 one leaf containing the photographs 
 (in chronological order) of nine Prin- 
 cipals of the school, another filled, with 
 old advertising circulars some dating 
 back to the days of the Classical Sem- 
 inary, a third decorated with the 
 school colors and the school-songs, and 
 the la^ will be filled, during the sum- 
 
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 mer, with programs and literature rel- 
 ative to the Semi-Centennial Celebra- 
 tion, — thus completing in a very real 
 sense, the pictorial hi^ory of the 
 school for its fir^ cycle of fifty years 
 and forming a, true hi^orical cabinet. 
 
 Alumni Loan Fund. 
 
 A new and powerful impetus was 
 given this year to the work of develop- 
 ing the Alumni Loan Fund, which for 
 several years has been an object of 
 profound interest to our Principal. 
 Without unduly insi^ing upon rapid 
 progress in the matter, he has kept it 
 Readily before the noble body of men 
 and women who con^itute our Alumni, 
 and now they have, in large numbers, 
 risen to the occasion and set a goal in 
 every way worthy of themselves and 
 the cause represented. 
 
 At the recent Alumni Meeting a 
 special committee was appointed to 
 bring this matter formally to the at- 
 tention of all the graduates, and to 
 solicit from them liberal contributions 
 to the fund. The goal set is $2,000 
 within the next school year. 
 
 The committee is composed of Mr. 
 W. W. Allen, Prof. Amos P. Reese, 
 Mrs. Minnie L. Clark, Hon. A. B. 
 Hitchcock, and Mrs. L. B. Shaw. 
 
 A formal communication will be re- 
 ceived in due time from this commit- 
 tee, but, in anticipation of that, the 
 Quarterly expresses the hope, amount- 
 ing to a real convidlion, that the re- 
 sponse may be a generous one which 
 
 will thus make it possible for the in- 
 vitation to render valuable service 
 in one more very important channel. 
 
 Our New Gifts. 
 
 The intention of the classes of 1912 
 and 1913 to decorate the walls of 
 Alumni Hall left bare by the removal 
 of the class photographs, was men- 
 tioned in a previous number, but now 
 that the intention has become a fact, 
 it deserves a second notice. 
 
 As has been said, upon the advice of 
 P. P. Caproni & Bro., of BoVon, ex- 
 perts in school decorations, the ten 
 panels of the Cantoria Frieze, popu- 
 larly known as “The Singing Boys,” 
 by Luca della Robbia, and heroic 
 sized buVs of Diana and Apollo and 
 of Juno and Ajax, have been placed at 
 appropriate places in the room, pro- 
 ducing a beautiful and dignified effedt 
 which is enhanced by the Semi-Cen- 
 tennial tablet, presented by the Vu- 
 dent body of 1912 (as noticed else- 
 where), placed in proper relation to 
 these. 
 
 These class gifts not only appropri- 
 ately decorate our moV public room 
 but furnish a mute teVimony to an 
 unusually generous class-and-school- 
 spirit in that neither class tried to 
 outvie the other but contributed 
 equally to a large decorative scheme 
 and thus made possible the correcT; 
 total effedt. 
 
 The class of 1913 anticipated the 
 usual time of presentation in order that 
 
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 it might do its share toward this end 
 and be represented at the “Golden 
 Jubilee.” 
 
 It should be said that the Ca^ of 
 the Drama of 1912 also contributed, 
 somewhat, to this ^atuary and, in ad- 
 dition, purchasr.d Thorwaldsen’s two 
 circular panels “Night” and “Morn- 
 ing,” which are placed in Arcade cor- 
 ridor, North Hall. 
 
 The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. 
 placed near them two beautiful framed 
 carbon-prints — “Justice,” by Sim- 
 mons and “Memorial” by French, 
 adding much to the effedt of an al- 
 ready attradtive public hall. 
 
 The Flower and Motto. 
 
 Early in the Anniversary year the 
 thought was advanced that in addition 
 to school-colors and school-songs, 
 which we already had, we needed a 
 school-flower and a school-motto. 
 
 Accordingly, after presentation of 
 the matter from the chapel platform, 
 a committee representing each student- 
 organization was appointed to meet 
 with Mrs. Smith as chairman to de- 
 cide upon suitable recommendations. 
 
 As a result, the red carnation was 
 proposed as the school-flower, the 
 choice being based mainly upon its 
 harmony of color with the “red and 
 black” and the possibility of securing 
 it at any time of year. In addition 
 to this, its virility as a plant and its 
 agreeable odor, equally removed from 
 over-delicacy and over-obtrusiveness 
 
 made it a fitting symbol of the vigor- 
 ous, yet not over-assertive type of 
 manhood and womanhood which 
 Mansfield strives to produce. 
 
 Careful consideration of the ques- 
 tion of a m.otto resulted in the at- 
 tempt to express Mansfield’s attitude 
 past, present, and, we believe, future 
 in the four words, “Character, Scholar- 
 ship, Culture, Service,” special em- 
 phasis being placed upon the above 
 order of the words, considering, as the 
 Mantle Orator on Class Day so fitly 
 phased it, “Character as the essential. 
 Scholarship as the means. Culture as 
 the enrichment, and Service as the 
 end of all worthy endeavor.” 
 
 These recommendations were ac- 
 cordingly made and promptly adopted 
 by the student-body, and the Motto 
 characterized by one Alumni speaker 
 as the most inspiring school motto he 
 knew, is now carved in permanent 
 form upon the Semi-Centennial Tablet. 
 
 Regrets and Felicitations. 
 
 Among the pleasing features of the 
 anniversary occasion were the felicita- 
 tions received from many prominent 
 educators, from former members of the 
 faculty, former students, and other 
 friends of the school, though such of 
 these as were not offered in person 
 were, unfortunately, accompanied by 
 regrets at not being able to be present. 
 
 The fact that city schools close 
 somewhat later than ours necessitated 
 the absence of such of our friends as 
 
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 are engaged in educational work in 
 city-systems, while unavoidable busi- 
 ness engagements prevented the at- 
 tendance of some who are usually 
 present, and of others who would 
 gladly have made a special effort to 
 be here at this time. 
 
 Of the four living Principals, two 
 were present. Dr. Smith, ’99 — and Dr. 
 Fradenburg, ’73 — ’75. 
 
 Prof. Doane, (’80), always so reg- 
 ular in attendance, was detained in 
 Philadelphia by duties incident upon 
 the removal of his family from that 
 city to Mansfield, the family-home 
 having been there during the course 
 of his two sons at the Medico-Chirurgi- 
 cal Hospital, which course they have 
 ust completed with signal honors. 
 
 Dr. Albro, (’92 — ’99), who, since 
 his retirement from Mansfield, has 
 lived at his home in Fredonia, N. Y., 
 while serving as member of the staff 
 of Educational Lecturers of the state 
 of New York, was, to our great re- 
 gret, prevented by ill health, from be- 
 ing with us. 
 
 It was hoped that several represen- 
 tatives of the families of Principals 
 not now living would be present. 
 
 Prof. Allen, (’64— ’69 and 77— 
 ’80), was represented by his daughter, 
 Mrs. Stella Allen Ely of Mansfield. 
 His son. Prof. Fred M. Allen, who is 
 usually a Commencement visitor, and 
 always welcome, was detained by 
 duties in connection with the Business 
 College at Hamilton, Ohio, of which 
 he has recently become Principal. 
 
 Mrs. Verrill, widow of Dr. C. H. 
 Verrill, (’69 — ’73 and ’75 — ’77), ex- 
 pressed regret that a previous engage- 
 ment of the same nature at another 
 school with which her husband had 
 been identified, prevented her coming. 
 
 Mrs. Jennie Huckins Thomas, 
 daughter of Dr. D. C. Thomas, (’80 — 
 ’92) was also prevented by a previous 
 engagement — that of representing the 
 Women’s Federated Clubs of Ohio, of 
 which she is President, at the Bi- 
 ennial Convention of the National 
 Federation of Women’s Clubs, meet- 
 ing in Los Angeles, Cal., at about the 
 same date as our Commencement. 
 
 It was a great pleasure to welcome 
 Dr. J. N. Fradenburg, (’73 — 75), as 
 representative of the early days of the 
 school. Time’s finger has touched 
 him gently — and both mind and body 
 are alert. At the Alumni Banquet 
 his witty reminiscences occasioned 
 much enjoyment, and throughout the 
 week his presence was felt to be an ap- 
 preciated dignity and honor. 
 
 It would be a satisfaction to name 
 many other friends whose presence 
 cheered, and still others whose mes- 
 sages inspired, but space forbids fur- 
 ther mention other than that of the 
 Commencement speakers, R. M. West, 
 D. D., of Park Ave., Baptist Church, 
 Rochester, N. Y., who preached the 
 Baccalaureate Sermon; Dr. Chas. Alex- 
 ander Richmond, D. D., LL. D., 
 President of ^Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y., who made the Com- 
 mencement address; Hon. Simon B. 
 
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 Elliott of Reynoldsville, Pa., who de- 
 livered the Historical Address, and 
 Hon. N. C. Schaeffer, State Supt. 
 of Public Instruction, who made the 
 
 Anniversary Address. We were hon- 
 ored in the presence of each of these 
 gentlemen and highly favored in their 
 able addresses. 
 
 THE PRIZE ESSAY 
 
 Theory and Practice of the Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 
 
 RAYMOND WILLIAMS. 
 
 Today we, the American people, 
 pride ourselves upon being citizens of 
 the country which supports the most 
 democratic, and theoretically, the best 
 form of government that has ever ex- 
 isted; yet, as past experience has 
 proven, our government is far from be- 
 ing finished and complete. 
 
 Many of our laws are fundamental 
 and will stand the test of all time, 
 while others are in themselves only 
 temporary. They are the units out of 
 which other and newer fundamental 
 laws will be constructed. 
 
 Many laws are enacted for the pur- 
 pose of checking evils which prevail 
 at the time of their making and they 
 serve their time well, but conditions 
 
 may transpire which make it impossi- 
 ble for these evils to exist longer, and 
 at the same time under this change of 
 conditions new evils arise. Then it 
 becomes necessary to remodel, or 
 drop the old law and frame a new one 
 which will counteract the thriving 
 evils. 
 
 This is what is taking place in our 
 land today. Our laws have been good 
 and have served the purposes for which 
 they were enacted, but they have been 
 such that the trusts and corporations 
 of all kinds have been able to assume 
 an undue proportion of power through 
 them. This condition of affairs is 
 causing much real and serious thought 
 upon the part of not only our great 
 
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 political leaders, but also upon the 
 part of the American people as a 
 whole. 
 
 Real, genuine thought is always the 
 promoter of strong, determined action, 
 and so the people are almost univer- 
 sally aroused with the determination 
 to retain their due rights and power. 
 In line with this unrest in the mental 
 atmosphere our country is, at present, 
 politically upset by a number of pro- 
 gressive questions which tend to base 
 the supreme power in the hands of the 
 people. 
 
 One of the foremost of these ques- 
 tions now under consideration is the 
 Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 
 These are three small words in our 
 vocabulary, but I find that compara- 
 tively few people seem to realize just 
 what their relative significance in this 
 connection is. Therefore, before go- 
 ing into the discussion of the theory 
 and practice of this matter, I shall en- 
 deavor to make clear what is meant 
 by each of these terms. 
 
 Initiative means the right, or power 
 of the people to initiate legislation, 
 that is to enact laws by direct vote 
 independent of the legislature. 
 
 Referendum means the right or 
 power of the people to approve or re- 
 ject by popular vote, any measure 
 passed upon by the legislature. 
 
 Recall means the right or power of 
 the people to withdraw any public 
 official from office by a popular vote. 
 
 Upon a little thought these terms 
 are easily understood, and the ques- 
 
 tion is seen to be a direct outgrowth 
 of that great principle, which our 
 martyred president, Abraham Lincoln, 
 set down when he said, “You may fool 
 some of the people all the time and 
 all of the people part of the time, but 
 you can’t fool all the people all the 
 time.” 
 
 This is no new principle in our gov- 
 ernment, but simply a new method of 
 treating the old one. The ideal of 
 our government has always been “a 
 government by the people, for the 
 people.” This has been worked out, 
 so far, upon the theory of what is 
 known as a delegated government. 
 Now the theory of popular government 
 is proposed as being a step in advance 
 of the old, delegated form, and as ap- 
 proaching more nearly the realization 
 of our ideal. 
 
 Delegated government is one in 
 which the public servant owes his 
 nomination and election to known in- 
 dividuals, as. Political Bosses, cau- 
 cuses, conventions, legislative mana- 
 gers, etc., thus establishing personal 
 obligations and accountabilities, re- 
 sulting in a service for selfish interests. 
 Popular government is one in which 
 the public servant is under obligations 
 to, and solely accountable to the com- 
 posite citizen, the individual unknown. 
 This necessarily results in a public 
 service for the general welfare, and not 
 for any selfish interest, the public ser- 
 vant realizing that otherwise he must 
 be recalled or will certainly fail of re- 
 election. 
 
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 This whole question is based upon 
 a full recognition of the elemental 
 forces controlling human action which 
 I shall analyze as follows: impulse or 
 deduction, follov^ed by conviction, con- 
 trols ail human action. If the individ- 
 ual be confronted with the necessity 
 for immediate action, then impulse 
 arising from some one of the emotions 
 is the determining force. But when 
 the individual has days, weeks and 
 months to consider his course, then 
 deduction followed by conviction is 
 the determining force. Without con- 
 viction there will be no action. 
 
 Individual action should be guided 
 by reason, but is frequently emotional. 
 Community action, as in an election, 
 must be based upon conviction result- 
 ing from analysis and deduction. 
 
 Self-interest is the force controlling 
 every future or postponed action of the 
 individual. Not necessarily always, 
 but generally, however, the individual’s 
 action, when unrestrained, is governed 
 by his own selhsh and personal inter- 
 est. No two people in the v/orld are 
 exactly alike, consequently where in- 
 dividuals act collectively or as a com- 
 munity, as they must under the Initi- 
 ative, Referendum and Recall, an in- 
 finite number of different forces are 
 set in motion each struggling for su- 
 premacy. No one selfish interest be- 
 ing powerful enough to overcome all 
 the others, they must wear each other 
 away until general welfare, according 
 to the views of the majority acting, is 
 submitted for the individual interest. 
 
 Thus it is believed by many of our 
 great political leaders today, that if 
 the individual cannot secure the grati- 
 fication of his own selfish desire, then 
 he will rest satisfied with the improved 
 general welfare in which he, as one of 
 the units of the community, is 
 a proportional participant, and that 
 for this reason under the initiative and 
 referendum the people cannot legislate 
 against the general welfare, nor will 
 they under the recall ever remove a 
 public servant from office who serves 
 the general welfare. 
 
 The underlying principle of the In- 
 itiative and Referendum is that, as 
 a last resort, the will of the people is 
 supreme. But the principle underly- 
 ing the Recall is of a somewhat differ- 
 ent nature. It is based upon a com- 
 mon everyday business practice. If a 
 man hires an employee, and he finds 
 that the employee is incompetent, he 
 may discharge him when he sees fit. 
 Just so it is believed that the public, 
 having elected a man to office, has a 
 right to remove him and fill his place 
 with one who is capable of performing 
 his duties. 
 
 Up to the present time Switzerland 
 is the only country that has adopted 
 the Initiative, Referendum and Recall 
 in its constitution. However, it has 
 been adopted by a number of the 
 States in our Union and is being seri- 
 ously considered in some of the others. 
 In each instance where it has gone 
 into effect the results have been most 
 remarkable. As yet, its practices 
 
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 have been considered merely as experi- 
 ments, but the experiments have 
 turned out so well that it is very likely 
 to become an established condition. 
 
 Perhaps the most striking illustra- 
 tion of these experiments is found in 
 Oregon, where it has been in effect 
 since 1902. In that state the people 
 are permitted to legislate at the polls 
 by an amendment to their constitu- 
 tion which reads thus: “The legisla- 
 tive authority of the state shall be 
 vested in a legislative assembly con- 
 sisting of a Senate and a House of Rep- 
 resentatives, but the people reserve 
 to themselves power to propose laws 
 and amendments to the constitution, 
 and to enact or reject the same at the 
 polls, independent of the legislative 
 assembly, and also reserve power, at 
 their own option, to approve or reject 
 at the polls any act of the legislative 
 assembly.” 
 
 As a result of this law the people of 
 Oregon have found a remedy for a 
 number of evils which their legislature, 
 for years, has been un'^ble to check. 
 One of the most notewortiiy examples 
 is the preservation of the Columbian 
 River fisheries, which were being des- 
 troyed by two rival fishing interests. 
 Because of the power the different in- 
 terests had in the legislature, it was 
 impossible to pass any effective bill 
 through that body. But by a direct 
 vote of the people all fishing was tem- 
 porarily stopped and then the legisla- 
 ture, responding to the popular will, 
 passed a law permitting fishing under 
 
 reasonable regulations. Next to 
 Oregon, the State of Kansas has 
 probably received the greatest 
 amount of benefit from the practice of 
 the Initiative, Referendum and Re- 
 call. That state has been saved mil- 
 lions of dollars by wresting the power 
 from the different moneyed interests 
 within it boundaries. In most of the 
 other states recourse to the power of 
 the people to act directly has never 
 been necessary since this reform was 
 achieved, because no attempt at ques- 
 tionable legislation since that time has 
 been made. 
 
 The adoption of this clause in the 
 constitution of any state has marked 
 the disappearance of the professional 
 politician and the rise of public in- 
 terest in its government, and a people 
 educated in political competency. 
 
 We, the people, cannot turn back. 
 Our aim must be steady, wise progress. 
 Our tasks as Americans is to strive for 
 social and industrial justice, achieved 
 through the genuine rule of the people. 
 It is of little matter whether any one 
 man fails or succeeds, but this cause 
 shall not fail for it is the cause of 
 mankind. 
 
 We, in America, hold in our hands 
 the hope of the world and the fate of 
 the coming years. Shall we, on this 
 new continent, build another country 
 of great but unjustly divided material 
 prosperity or shall we realize our ideal, 
 “a rule of all the people in a spirit of 
 friendliest brotherhood towards each 
 and every one of the people?” 
 
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 THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL TABLET 
 
 During the Spring Term, the matter 
 of placing in Alumni Hall a memorial 
 marking the semi-centennial event was 
 presented to the student-body, who en- 
 thusiastically voted to secure a suit- 
 able tablet and who immediately col- 
 lected from among themselves, the 
 necessary funds. 
 
 It was decided that the material 
 should be wood matching the furnish- 
 ings of the room, and an original de- 
 
 sign in accordance with general sug- 
 gestions received by him was sub- 
 mitted by Mr. Thillman Fabry, Ro- 
 chester, N. Y., and was adopted. 
 
 To Mr. Fabry, who is an expert in 
 such matters, was entrusted the exe- 
 cution of the work, and the result in 
 every way justifies the selection. 
 
 The tablet is of dark wood, hand- 
 carved, richly toned, and, finished in 
 the soft, dull glow that hand-polish 
 
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 alone gives. It measures three by 
 four feet and is placed on the front 
 wall of Alumni Hall, adjoining the 
 stage on the north side. 
 
 The outline of the whole is excep- 
 tionally graceful, the top representing 
 in conventionalized form the wings of 
 the dispersion of knowledge. The en- 
 tablature is divided in the center by 
 the emblematic torch of wisdom, on 
 either side of which are the dates, 
 “1862 — 1912,” and the words of the 
 school-motto, “Character, Scholarship, 
 Culture, Service,” in bold lettering. 
 
 the whole arranged with a beautiful 
 sense of proportion. 
 
 Above the entablature are carved 
 the words “Semi-Centennial Memor- 
 ial,” below it, “State Normal School, 
 Mansfield, Pa.” 
 
 On the wall below the tablet is a- 
 small brass plate containing the simple 
 announcement, “Presented by Stu- 
 dent-Body, 1912.” 
 
 The tablet is a unique and hand- 
 some memorial to the event which it 
 commemorates and to the loyal spirit 
 of the students of 1912. 
 
 THE PIPE ORGAN 
 
 The great Pipe Organ which was 
 installed in the Fall of 1910 and which 
 is, we unhesitatingly pronounce, the 
 finest school pipe organ in the state, 
 is a possession of such inestimable 
 value that it seems proper to perpetu- 
 ate the specifications of its construc- 
 tion in this historical number. 
 
 Its presence has developed a general 
 musical and cultural atmosphere other- 
 wise impossible, and many and beau- 
 tiful have been the organ recitals to 
 
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 which it has been the privilege of the 
 students and citizens of Mansfield to 
 listen. 
 
 Prof. Shepherd, under whose direc- 
 tion the instrument was installed, has 
 thoroughly understood its mechanism, 
 and has manipulated it with a techni- 
 cal skill equally only by his artistic 
 and musicianly interpretation. His 
 has been the hand of a master, and 
 the superb soprano of Mrs. Betsey 
 Lane Shepherd was never heard to 
 
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 better advantage than when supported 
 by the rich tones of this magnificent 
 , instrument. 
 
 As illustrating the grade of music 
 presented in 1912, the program which 
 accompanied the formal opening of 
 the organ is appended : 
 
 ORGAN 
 
 Sonata in D minor .... Guilmant 
 Largo e Maestoso, Allegro, Andante 
 quasi Allegretto, Allegro Assai. 
 Mr. John Hepple Shepherd 
 VOICE 
 
 " “I Will Extol Thee,” from Eli, Costa 
 Mrs. Betsey Lane Shepherd 
 ORGAN 
 
 Album Leaf Schwarwenka 
 
 Chant sans Paroles .... Lemare 
 
 Scherzo Macfarlane 
 
 Mr. Shepherd 
 VIOLIN 
 
 Au Bord Dun Ruisseau, De Boisdeffre 
 
 Humoreske Dvorak 
 
 Mazurka Drake 
 
 Miss Evelyn Bower Beardsley 
 PIANO 
 
 Aufschwung ...... Schumann 
 
 Cantique D’Amour Lizst 
 
 Miss Lucy Bacon 
 VIOLIN, ORGAN, AND PIANO 
 
 Notturno Weiss 
 
 Adagio Fesca 
 
 Chant sans Paroles . . Tschaikowsky 
 Miss Beardsley, Mr. Shepherd, 
 Miss Bacon 
 ORGAN 
 
 Opus 9 No. 2 . . . . ... Chopin 
 
 IToccata in D Becker 
 
 Mr. Shepherd 
 
 The organ was built by the Austin 
 Organ Co., Hartford, Conn. The Uni- 
 versal Air Chest is used, thereby do- 
 ing away with bellows and insuring a 
 steady supply of wind. The wind is 
 fanned into the air chest by a blower, 
 manufactured by the Spencer Orgoblo 
 Co. The instrument is operated en- 
 tirely by electricity. 
 
 Following are the specifications; 
 
 PEDAL ORGAN (Augmented) 
 Resultant Bass . . . 32 ft., 32 notes 
 
 Open Diapason . . . 16 ft., 32 notes 
 
 Bourdon 16 ft., 32 notes 
 
 Contra Gamba . . . 16 ft., 32 notes 
 
 Gross Flute . . . . 8 ft., 32 notes 
 
 Flauto Dolce. . . . 8 ft., 32 notes 
 
 GREAT ORGAN 
 
 Bourdon 
 
 16 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Principal Diapason . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 English Diapason . . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Gross Flute .... 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Concert Flute . . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Dulciana . . . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Octave 
 
 4 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Harmonic Flute . 
 
 4 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 SWELL ORGAN 
 
 (Enclosed) 
 
 Contra Gamba . 
 
 16 ft., 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Diapason Phonon . . 
 
 8 ft.. 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Rohr Flute .... 
 
 8 ft.. 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Viole D’Orchestre . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Viole Celeste .... 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
 Echo Salicional . . . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Flauto Tra verso . 
 
 4 ft.. 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Cornopean . . . 
 
 8 ft., 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Oboe 
 
 8 ft.. 
 
 73 
 
 notes 
 
 Vox Humana .... 
 
 8 ft.. 
 
 61 
 
 notes 
 
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 CHOIR ORGAN 
 
 (Enclosed) 
 
 English Diapason . . 
 
 8 ft., 73 notes 
 
 Concert Flute . . . 
 
 8 ft., 73 notes 
 
 Unda Maris .... 
 
 8 ft., 61 notes 
 
 Dulciana 
 
 8 ft., 73 notes 
 
 Harmonic Flute . . . 
 
 4 ft., 73 notes 
 
 Piccolo 
 
 2 ft., 73 notes 
 
 Clarinet 
 
 8 ft., 73 notes 
 
 MECHANICALS 
 Couplers 
 Great to Pedal unison 
 Great to Pedal super octave 
 Swell to Pedal unison 
 Swell to Pedal super octave 
 Choir to Pedal unison 
 Swell to Great sub octave 
 Swell to Great unison 
 Swell to Great super octave 
 Choir to Great sub octave 
 Choir to Great unison 
 Choir to Great super octave 
 
 Swell to Swell sub octave 
 Swell to Swell super octave 
 Swell to Choir sub octave 
 Swell to Choir unison 
 Swell to Choir super octave 
 Choir to Choir sub octave 
 Choir to Choir super octave 
 Six Combination Buttons on the - 
 Swell Organ. 
 
 Six Combination Buttons on the 
 Great Organ. 
 
 Six Combination Buttons on the 
 Choir Organ. 
 
 Three Combinations on the Pedal 
 Organ. 
 
 Great to Pedal Reversible. 
 
 Sforzando Pedal. 
 
 Crescendo Pedal. 
 
 Swell Pedal. Swell unison on and off. 
 ChoirPedal. Choirunisononandoff.- 
 Swell Tremolo. 
 
 Choir Tremolo. 
 
 REMINISCENCE 
 
 The fifty years of Mansfield’s exist- 
 ence as a Normal School are so replete 
 with interesting history that it is a 
 difficult task to know what to include 
 and what to omit in the limits of our 
 present publication. 
 
 Much that we cannot here incorpor- 
 ate many be found in the file of An- 
 
 nual Catalogues and Quarterlies kept 
 in the school archives and also in the 
 Historical address, previously referred 
 to, by the Hon. S. B. Elliott, delivered 
 in 1890 and later published in mono- 
 graph form by Van Keuren & Coles. 
 
 In April, 1905, in anticipation of 
 the 40th Commencement (but 43d year 
 
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 of the school), the then Editor of the 
 Quarterly, Prof. Wm. Day Crockett, 
 performed an inestimable service in 
 presenting a historical number based 
 upon a careful study of all existing 
 material and consultation with many 
 living sources. 
 
 This contained the original faculty- 
 list, which will be re-printed in this 
 number, and also a symposuim of fac- 
 ulty-service in the form of articles con- 
 tributed by representatives of each 
 period. 
 
 From these, we have selected brief 
 characterizations of each Principal 
 which will also be re-printed. 
 
 In reporting the 40th Commence- 
 ment in a later issue, (July 1905), the 
 same editor included an article called 
 “Memories of the Seventies,” by Prof. 
 J. C. Doane, which is re-printed here, 
 as being of interest to many. 
 
 A resume of part of Prof. Crockett’s 
 introductory article called “A Study 
 of the Catalogues” seems appropriate 
 at this point. 
 
 Briefly, he said: The Mansfield 
 State Normal School was not always a 
 .State Normal. Chartered in 1854, 
 and opened to pupils in 1857, the In- 
 stitution was known as the Mans- 
 fleld Classical Seminary, and, while it 
 continued to be so designated, was 
 under the patronage of the East Gen- 
 esee Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. Four Principals reigned 
 during the short and checkered 
 career of the Seminary: The Rev. J.R. 
 Jacques; the Rev. James Landreth; 
 
 the Rev. William B. Holt, and the 
 Rev. Edwin E. Wildman, who con- 
 tinued as Principal for four months 
 after the Institution was recognized as 
 a State Normal School. 
 
 After eight years of most eventful 
 history through not quite four of which 
 the school was open to the public, and 
 for an account of which we must refer 
 you to the “Historical Address” men- 
 tioned above, the Mansfield Classical 
 Seminary became, on the 12th of De- 
 cember, 1862, the State Normal School 
 of the Fifth District of Pennsylvania. 
 For several months the institution was 
 known as the Mansfield Classical Sem- 
 inary and State Normal School; but 
 before a year had elapsed, the title 
 was shortened to its present form. 
 No catalogue was issued until the 
 spring of 1865, since which date An- 
 nual Catalogues have appeared. 
 
 The Faculty- list has since been 
 brought up to date and is as follows : 
 
 Principals 
 
 Edwin E. Wildman, A. M., 1862, ’63. 
 William D. Taylor, A. M., Acting 
 Principal, ’63; Principal, ’63, ’64. 
 Fordyce A. Allen, ’64-69. 
 
 Charles H. Verrill, A. M,, ’69-’73. 
 Jason N. Fradenburg, A. M., Ph. D., 
 ’73-’75. 
 
 Charles H. Verrill, A. M., ’75-’77. 
 Fordyce A. Allen, ’77-’80. 
 
 John H. French, LL. D., Associate 
 Principal, ’77, ’78. 
 
 Joseph C. Doane, B. S., ’80. 
 
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 Dennison C. Thomas, A, M., Ph. D., 
 ’80-’92. 
 
 SamuelH. Albro, A.M., Ph.D.,’92-’99. 
 Andrew Thomas Smith, A. M., Pd.D., 
 ’99 
 
 Vice-Principals 
 Joseph T. Streit, A. M., 1864-’67. 
 Jacob P. Breidinger, A. M., ’94-’0I . 
 
 G. Clayton Robertson, Ph. B., ’01 , ’02. 
 I. M. Gayman, M. S., ’02-’12. 
 
 Preceptresses 
 
 Mrs. Helen P. R. Wildman, 1862, ’63. 
 Harriet Farnsworth, Acting Precept- 
 ress, ’63. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Hayes Taylor, ’63, ’64. 
 Adelaide Ladley, ’64-’66. 
 
 Mrs.Lucy M.Peterselia.M.D., ’66-’68. 
 Sally P. Darlington, ’68, ’69. 
 
 Frances A. Cochran, ’69-’7l. 
 
 Mrs. Maria J. Swart, ’71-’74. 
 
 Mary J. Tomlinson, A. B., ’74*’76. 
 Frances E. Ross, A. B., ’76, ’77. 
 
 Dora N. Woodruff, ’78-’84. 
 
 A. Grace Wirt, Ph. B., ’85-’87. 
 Harriet A. Hamilton, ’87-89. 
 
 Mary S. Kingsley, ’89, ’90. 
 
 Lizzie May Allis, ’90-’93. 
 
 Principals of the Model School 
 
 Mrs. Mary J. Briggs, 1866, ’67. 
 
 Susan R. Preston. ’67, ’68. 
 
 VineR. Pratt, ’68-’74. 
 
 Mary A. Minor, ’74, ’75. 
 
 Eliza J. Shaw, ’75, ’76. 
 
 Kate W. Baldwin, ’76, ’77. 
 
 Winfield Scott Hulslander, ’77-’83. 
 
 William R. Longstreet, ’83-’99. 
 
 Albert S. Lent, ’99. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Adelaide Jenks, ’99-’03 ; 
 ’09 
 
 Eliza J. Boyce, ’03-’09. 
 
 Faculty 
 
 Edwin E. Wildman, A. M., 
 
 Principal, Rhetoric and Mathemat- 
 ics, 1862, ’63. 
 
 Hiram Cyrus Johns, A. M., 
 
 Associate Principal, ’62, ’63. 
 
 Mrs. Helen P. R. Wildman, (Mrs. Ed- 
 win E.), Preceptress, Languages and 
 Reading, ’62, ’63. 
 
 Mary Wildman, 
 
 Arithmetic and English, ’62, ’63. 
 Anna Eleanor Chase, 
 
 Music, ’62. ’63. 
 
 William D. Taylor, A, M., 
 
 ' Acting Principal, ’63; Principal, 
 ’63, ’64; Mathematics, ’63, ’64. 
 Harriet Farnsworth, 
 
 Acting Preceptress, ’63; English, 
 ’63, ’64. 
 
 Lemuel A. Ridgway. 
 
 Languages, Assistant in Mathemat- 
 ics, ’63, ’64. 
 
 Frances A. Cochran, 
 
 Music, ’63; Preceptress, French, 
 German and Botany, ’69-’71. 
 
 Clara Clark, 
 
 Teacher in Model School, ’63, ’64. 
 Mrs. Harriet Hayes Taylor, (Mrs. Wm. 
 
 D.), Preceptress, Latin, ’63, ’64. 
 Mary Willis, 
 
 Music, ’63, ’64. 
 
 Mary Lichenthaler, 
 
 German and Drawing, ’63, ’64. 
 
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 Fordyce A. Allen, 
 
 Principal, ’64-’69; 77-’80; Natural 
 Science, Theory and Practice of 
 Teaching, ’64-’66; Mental and 
 Moral Philosophy, and Theory and 
 Practice of Teaching, ’66’69; 
 Theory and Practice of Teaching, 
 78-’80. 
 
 Joseph T. Streit, A. M., 
 
 Vice-Principal, Latin and Greek, 
 ’64-’67; Principal-elect, ’69. 
 
 Frank Crosby, 
 
 Literature, ’64. 
 
 Adelaide Ladley, 
 
 Preceptress, Modern Languages, 
 ’64-’66. 
 
 Carrie E Woodruff, 
 
 Teacher in Model School, ’64, 65. 
 
 J. C. White, 
 
 Instrumental and Vocal Music, ’64- 
 
 ’ 66 . 
 
 Charles H. Verrill, A. M., 
 
 Mathematics, ’65-67 ; Mathematics 
 and History, ’67, ’68; Mathematics, 
 ’68, ’69 ; Principal, Science and Art 
 of Teaching, and Mental and Moral 
 Philosophy, ’69.’73; ’75-77. 
 
 Amanda Simpson, 
 
 Instructor in Model School, ’65, ’66. 
 Arietta Granger, 
 
 Instructor in Model School, ’65, ’66. 
 Mrs. Lucy M. Peterselia, M. D., 
 Preceptress, Modern Languages, 
 Physiology and Botany, ’66- ’68; 
 Drawing, ’67, ’68. 
 
 Mrs. Mary J. Briggs, ’66, 
 
 Principal of Model School, ’66, ’67. 
 Isaac G. Hoyt, 
 
 Instrumental and Vocal Music, ’66, 
 
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 ’67 ; Instrumental Music, ’67-’69 ; 
 Instrumental and Vocal Music,’ 69- 
 ’71 ; Instrumental Music and Voice 
 Culture, ’84-’87. 
 
 Alice B. Seely, 
 
 Assistant in Music, ’66, ’67. 
 
 Henry S. Webster A. B., 
 
 Latin, Greek and English, ’68, ’69. 
 
 Mary E. Hughes, ’67, 
 
 Geography and Assistant in Mathe- 
 matics, ’67, ’68; English and Bot- 
 any, ’68, ’69. 
 
 Susan R. Preston, ’67, 
 
 Principal of Model School, ’67, ’68; 
 Associate Principal of Model School, 
 ’68, ’69; Reading and Elocution, 
 ’69-’73. 
 
 Harris B. Taylor, 
 
 Penmanship, ’67-’69. 
 
 Evan Meredith 
 
 Vocal Music, ’67, ’68. 
 
 Henry W. Jones, B. S., ’67, 
 
 Assistant in Mathematics, ’68, ’69; 
 Mathematics and Natural Philoso- 
 phy, ’69, ’71. 
 
 Sally P. Darlington. 
 
 Preceptress, Modern Languages and 
 Reading, ’68, ’69. 
 
 Charles 0. Thompson, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’68-’70. 
 
 Vine R. Pratt ’68, 
 
 Principal of Model School, ’68-’74. 
 
 Lorenzo D. Watson, 
 
 Ancient Languages and English, 
 ’69, 70. 
 
 Mary E. Baldwin, ’67, 
 
 Assistant in English, ’69, ’70. 
 
 Myra Horton, ’69. 
 
 Preceptress of Model School, ’69- ’74. 
 
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ALUMNI HALL AUDITORIUM 
 
THE SEMI-CIRCLE 
 
THE MAY PARTY 
 
Upper “ ERMINE 
 
 Lower “THE BUTTERFLIES” 
 
Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Stella Young, ’67. 
 
 Assistant in Model School, ’69, ’70, 
 ’71 -’74; as Mrs. Harris Tabor, Critic 
 Teacher in Model School, ’77, ’78. 
 Lemuel Amerman, A. B., 
 
 Ancient Languages and English ’70- 
 ’73; Languages and Mathematics, 
 ’74, ’75. 
 
 Canfield S. Dayton, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’70-’72. 
 Lizzie M. Haynes, ’69. 
 
 Assistant in Model School, ’70, ’71. 
 Francis M. Smith, M. S., ’71. 
 
 Mathematics and Natural Philos- 
 ophy, ’71-’73 ; Mathematics, ’73, ’74; 
 ’76. 77. 
 
 Mrs. Maria J. Swart, 
 
 Preceptress, ’71 -’74 ; Modern Lan- 
 guages, Botany and Physiology, ’71 - 
 ’73, Modern Languages, Physiology 
 and Drawing, ’73 , 74. 
 
 David C. Jewett, 
 
 Vocal and Instrumental Music, ’71- 
 ’74. 
 
 Frances M. Wright, M. D., ’67, 
 Assistant in Model School, ’7 1 -’74; 
 Physiology, ’80, ’81 ; Geography and 
 Physiology, ’81 -’84. 
 
 Nellie H.Hunt, 
 
 Assistant in Model School, ’71, ’72. 
 Minnie Reynolds, ’70. 
 
 Asssistant in Model School, ’72, ’73. 
 Jason N. Fradenburg, A. M., Ph. D., 
 Principal, Science and Art of Teach- 
 ing, and Mental and Moral Philoso- 
 phy. ’73-’75. 
 
 Joseph C. Doane, B. S., ’68. 
 
 Natural Science and English, ’73, 
 ’74; Natural Sciences, ’74-’79; Nat- 
 
 ural Sciences and English, ’79, ’80; 
 Principal, Theory and Practice of 
 Teaching, ’80; Natural Sciences 
 and English, ’80, ’81. 
 
 Mary J. Tomlinson, A. B., 
 
 Latin, Reading and Composition; 
 ’73, ’74; Preceptress, Modern Lan- 
 guages and Latin, ’74-’76. 
 
 Mary A. Minor, 
 
 Assistant in Mathematics and Eng- 
 lish, ’73, ’74; Principal of Model 
 School, ’74, ’75. 
 
 Lillian C. Root, 
 
 Assistant in Music, ’73, ’74. 
 
 Flora Brewster, ’75, 
 
 Assistant in Model School, ’73, ’74, 
 Josephine Stewart, 
 
 Assistant in Model School, ’73, ’74; 
 11 - 19 . 
 
 Grace A. Oviatt, 
 
 Music, Penmanship, Bookkeeping 
 and Drawing, ’74, ’75. 
 
 Dora N. Woodruff, ’74, 
 
 Assistant in English, ’74, ’75; Read- 
 ing and Assistant in Mathematics, 
 ’75, ’76; History and Assistant in 
 Mathematics, ’76-’78; Preceptress, 
 ’78-’84 ; History and Civil Govern- 
 ment, ’81 -’84. 
 
 Austin Leonard, ’68, 
 
 Assistant in Mathematics, ’74, ’75. 
 Burt W. Baker, ’73. 
 
 Vocal Music, ’74, ’75. 
 
 William H. Bradford, 
 
 Mathematics, ’75, ’76. 
 
 Eliza J. Shaw, 70, 
 
 Principal Model School ’75, ’76. 
 Mark C. Baker, 
 
 Vocal and Instr. Music, 15 - 11 . 
 
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Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Quarterly 
 
 Frances E. Ross, A. B., 
 
 Preceptress, Latin, English and Lit- 
 erature, 76, 77. 
 
 Kate W. Baldwin, 73, 
 
 Principal of Model School, 76, 77. 
 
 John H. French. LL. D., 
 
 Associate Principal, History and 
 Pedagogy, 77-78, 
 
 William C. Bartol, A. M., 
 Mathematics, 77- ’81 
 
 Kate Reynolds, A. B., 
 
 Languages, ’77, 78. 
 
 Winfield Scott Hulslander, LL. B., ’75, 
 Vocal Music and Principal of Model 
 School, ’77-’83; History, Civics, 
 Didactics, Vocal Music, ’84-’86. 
 
 A. Kaelin, 
 
 Music, ’77-’79. 
 
 Mary Stahr, 
 
 Critic Teacher in Model School, 
 ’77, ’78. 
 
 Clarence S. Woodruff, A. B., 
 Languages, ’78-’80. 
 
 H. Jean Johnston, 
 
 Literature and Reading, ’78-’82 ; 
 Reading, Rhetoric and Literature, 
 ’82, ’83. 
 
 Fred M. Allen, ’75, 
 
 Bookkeeping and Writing, ’78-’80 ; 
 Penmanship and Bookkeeping, ’94- 
 ’96. 
 
 Rachel La Rue, 
 
 Drawing, ’79, ’80. 
 
 Dennison C. Thomas, A. M., Ph. D., 
 Principal, Science and Art of Teach- 
 ing, and Mental and Moral Philoso- 
 phy, ’80-’92. 
 
 William L. Penny, A. M., 
 
 Languages, ’80, ’81. 
 
 M. Emily Davidson, 
 
 Instrumental Music, ’80, ’81. 
 
 William W. Thoburn, A. M., 
 
 Natural Sciences, ’81 -’84. 
 
 Joseph T. Ewing, A. M., 
 Mathematics, ’81 -’89. 
 
 Della J. Broadwell, 
 
 Languages, ’81 -’83. 
 
 Mrs. Winfield Scott Hulslander, ’77, 
 (nee Amanda Coyle), English and 
 Latin, ’81 -’86. 
 
 William Cramer, 
 
 Instrumental Music, ’81 -’84. 
 
 Harriet A. Hamilton, 
 
 Literature and Languages, ’82, ’83; 
 Languages, ’83, ’84 ; Preceptress, 
 Modern Languages, ’87-’89. 
 
 Ida J. Henderson, A. M., 
 
 • Reading, Rhetoric and Literature, 
 ’83-’86. 
 
 William R. Longstreet, ’83. 
 
 Penmanship and Principal of Train- 
 ing School, ’83-’87 ; Military Tac- 
 tics and Principal of Training School, 
 ’87-’93 ; Methods, Military Tactics 
 and Principal of Model School. ’93- 
 ’98; Principal of Model School, ’98, 
 ' ’99. 
 
 George E. Little, 
 
 Industrial Drawing, ’84, ’85. 
 
 Howard Lyon, 
 
 Sciences, ’84-’91. 
 
 Anna L. Benham, 
 
 Ancient Languages, ’84- ’88. 
 
 A. Grace Wirt, Ph. B., 
 
 Preceptress, Mathematics and Mod- 
 ern Languages, ’85- ’87. 
 
 Harvey J. Van Norman, B. S., 
 
 English and Vocal Music, ’86, ’87 ; 
 
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Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 English and Civil Government, '87- 
 ’93 ; English and Arithmetic, ’93- 
 ’01 ; English, Arithmetic and Peda- 
 gogy, ’01 -’04 ; English and Peda- 
 gogy, ’04-’10 ; English, French and 
 Bookkeeping, ’10 
 
 Anna M. Paddock, B. L., 
 
 Rhetoric, Literature and History, 
 ’ 86 -’ 88 . 
 
 Chella Scott, B. S., 
 
 Reading and Latin, ’86- ’88 ; Latin 
 and Mathematics, ’88, ’89. 
 
 Edwin A. Cruttenden, B. S., ’83, 
 Drawing and Bookkeeping, ’87, ’88; 
 Drawing, Bookkeeping and Pen- 
 manship, ’88, ’89. 
 
 Hamlin E. Cogswell, Mus. M., 
 Director of Music Department, ’87- 
 96 ; Director of Conservatory of 
 Music, ’02-’05. 
 
 Minerva J. Nettleton, A. M., 
 
 Rhetoric, Literature and History, 
 ’88-’91. 
 
 John E. Edwards, A. M., 
 
 Ancient Languages, ’88- ’92. 
 
 May E. Louden, 
 
 Instrumental Music, ’88, ’89. 
 
 Katharine B. Peck, 
 
 Gymnastics, ’88, ’89. 
 
 Eliza J. Boyce, ’79, 
 
 Reading, ’88-’93; Reading and Geo- 
 graphy, ’93, ’94 ; Geography and 
 Critic in Model School, ’94-’03 ; 
 Principal of Model School, ’03-’09; 
 Assoc. Prin. in Model School,’09-’12. 
 
 Charles H. Ashton, A. M., 
 Mathematics, ’89-’92. 
 
 Mary S. Kingsley, 
 
 Preceptress, Mathematics, ’89, ’90. 
 
 Gertrude W. Langley, Ph. B., 
 
 Latin and Gymnastics, ’89, ’90 ; 
 Latin, ’90, ’91. 
 
 Lizzie May Allis, A. B., 
 
 Preceptress, Modern Languages, ’90- 
 ’93 ; German and Latin, ’93, ’94. 
 
 Jennie C. R. Smith, 
 
 Gymnastics, ’90-’93 ; Gymnastics, 
 Physiology and Hygiene, ’93, ’94. 
 
 Jennie E. Thomas, M. S., 
 
 Assistant in Mathematics, ’90-’93. 
 
 Henry A. Curran, Ph. D., 
 
 Sciences, ’91, ’92. 
 
 Ada B. Parker, Ph. D., 
 
 Rhetoric, Literature and History, 
 ’91 -’93. 
 
 Samuel H. Albro, A. M., Ph. D.. 
 Principal, Psychology and History 
 of Education, ’92-’99. 
 
 G. Clayton Robertson, Ph. B., 
 
 Ancient Languages, ’92-’96; Ancient 
 Languages and History, ’96- ’98; 
 Ancient Languages and Pedagogy, 
 ’99-’02, Vice-Principal, ’01, ’02. 
 
 Samuel Sprole, A. M., 
 
 Sciences, ’92-’94. 
 
 Kenner ly Robey, A. M., 
 
 Mathematics, ’92, ’93. 
 
 Bertha Sucese Strait, 
 
 Drawing, Painting, Penmanship, 
 Bookkeeping, ’92-’94. 
 
 Martha Lobeck, 
 
 Piano, ’92, ’93. 
 
 Molly Tracy Weston, 
 
 Singing and Elocution, ’92, ’93; Elo- 
 cution and Oratory, ’95- ’00. 
 
 Marie A. Lobeck, 
 
 Violin and Guitar, ’92, ’93. 
 
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Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Quarterly 
 
 Mrs. E. D. T. Cogswell, 
 
 Singing and Piano, ’92, ’93; Sing- 
 ing, ’93-’96; Voice and History of 
 Music, ’02-’05. 
 
 Jacob P. Breidinger, A. M., 
 Mathematics, ’93*’01 ; Vice-Prin- 
 cipal, ’94-’0] . 
 
 Annie Richardson Cameron, Ph. B., 
 Rhetoric, Literature and History, 
 ’93-’95; Rhetoric, Literature and 
 German, ’95, ’96; as Mrs. G. Clay- 
 ton Robertson, Rhetoric, Literature 
 and German, ’01, ’02. 
 
 Harriet J. Bannister, 
 
 Piano, ’93, ’94; Piano and Theory, 
 ’94, ’95. 
 
 I. M. Gayman, M. S., 
 
 Natural Sciences, ’94-’12; Vice- 
 Principal, ’02-’12. 
 
 Irene Campbell Newhouse, A. B., 
 German and Latin, ’94, ’95; Latin 
 and Greek, ’95-’99. 
 
 Annie Skeele, 
 
 Gymnastics, Physiology and Hy- 
 giene, ’94, ’95; Gymnastics, ’95, ’96. 
 
 Clara Coons, 
 
 Piano, Harmony and History of 
 Music, ’94-’96. 
 
 Clara H. Merrick, 
 
 Violin and Piano, ’94-’99. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Adelaide Jenks, 
 
 Critic in Model School, ’95-’99; 
 Principal of Model School, ’99’-03; 
 ’09 
 
 Flora May Russell, 
 
 Teacher in Model School, ’95- ’99. 
 
 Julia Augusta Sucese, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’95, 96. 
 
 Fannie L. Sheldon, Ph. B., 
 
 Rhetoric, Literature and German, 
 ’96-01. 
 
 Grace E. Barnum, 
 
 Gymnastics, ’96-’98. 
 
 Caroline Sheldon, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’96-’99. 
 
 Myrtle J. Stone, 
 
 Piano, Singing, Harmony, Theory, 
 and History of Music, ’96-’98. 
 
 W. A. Stocking, Jr., Ph. B., 
 
 Agriculture and Nature Study, ’97- 
 ’99. 
 
 Andrew Thomas Smith, A. M., Pd.D., 
 Principal, ’99 ; Methods, Psy- 
 
 chology and History of Education, 
 ’99, ’00; Psychology, Ethics and 
 Pedagogy, ’00- ’03 ; Psychology and 
 Pedagogy, ’03 
 
 Albert S. Lent, ’80, 
 
 Principal of Model School, ’99. 
 
 Clayton F. Palmer, B. S., 
 
 Agriculture and Nature Study, ’99- 
 ’01 ; Biological Sciences, ’01, ’02. 
 
 Eugenia Winston, A. M., 
 
 Latin and Greek, ’99, ’00. 
 
 Mrs. Hannah T. Jenkins, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’99- ’04. 
 
 Richard Welton, 
 
 Piano, Singing andjTheory, ’99, ’00. 
 
 Ruth M. Fiske, Mus. M., A. M., 
 Piano, Pipe Organ, Theory, ’99, ’00. 
 
 Frances E. Chapman, Ph. B., 
 
 History and Latin, ’99, ’00. 
 
 Edith A. Lownsbery, ’91, 
 
 Gymnastics, ’99-’04. 
 
 John H. Long, M. Ac., 
 
 Commercial Branches, ’99-’03. 
 
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Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Mabel F. Evans, 
 
 Singing and Stringed Instruments, 
 ’99, ’00. 
 
 Mrs. Jacob P. Breidinger, 
 
 Algebra and Spelling, ’99, ’00. 
 
 Mae Esther Hulse, B. E., 
 
 Elocution and Oratory, ’00, ’01. 
 
 William T. Schneider, 
 
 Piano, Singing and Theory, ’00, ’01 . 
 
 Mrs. Alice Hobart, 
 
 Piano and Violin, ’00-’02. 
 
 Laura M. Shaw, A. B., 
 
 History and Latin, ’00-’02; Latin 
 and German, ’02, ’03. 
 
 Minnie Madeline Beard, B. E.-, 
 Elocution and^Oratory, ’01 -’03. 
 
 Amos P. Reese, M. S., 93, 
 
 [ Higher Mathematics, ’01 -’1 1 . 
 
 Emily Louise Thomas, 
 
 Piano, Singing and Theory, ’01 , ’02. 
 
 Henry Thomas Co lestock , A . M . , Ph . D . , 
 History, Ethics and Greek, ’02- ’04. 
 
 OrenJ. Barnes, B. S., 
 
 Biological Sciences, ’02- ’06. 
 
 M. Louise Logan McChesney, Mus.B., 
 Piano, Organ and Theory, ’02- ’04. 
 
 William DayJCrockett, A. M., 
 
 Rhetoric, Literature and Latin, ’02- 
 ’06. 
 
 Mrs. Ida Hooker Baumann, M. S.,’75, 
 Teacher in Model School, ’02-04, 
 ’06-’09. 
 
 Anna Elizabeth Suplee, 
 
 Vocal Expression, ’03-’05. 
 
 Clara B. Winans, ’91, 
 
 Mathematics and Geography , *03 , ’04 . 
 
 Christine Man* Cameron, 
 
 Associate Principal of Model School, 
 ’03-’05. 
 
 Zimri H. Lewis, 
 
 Commercial Branches, ’03, ’04. 
 
 Ada G. Croft, 
 
 Voice and Piano, ’03, ’04. 
 
 Luella Dunsmore, A. B., 
 
 Latin and German, ’03-’08. 
 
 Evelyn Beardsley, Mus. B., 
 
 Violin and Piano, ’03-’06, ’08-’ll. 
 
 Lucy M. Manley, 
 
 Drav/ing and Painting, ’04- ’08. 
 
 Annie L. D. Swan, 
 
 Physical Training, ’04-’09. 
 
 Anna Laura Johnson, 
 
 Vocal Culture, ’04- 06. 
 
 Beatrice C. Throop, Mus. B., 
 
 Piano and Organ, ’04-’08. 
 
 Cora Alice Learned, ’96, 
 
 Mathematics andGeography, ’04’-’06 
 
 Clarence Hendrix Turvey, B. Pd., 
 Commercial Branches, ’04. 
 
 Sarah Frances Gates, 
 
 Librarian, ’04-’ll. 
 
 Reese Harvey Flarris, A. M., 
 
 History, Ethics and Greek, ’04-’06. 
 
 John Cameron Marvin, ’97, 
 Commercial Branches, ’05. 
 
 Margaret 0. Whiting, 
 
 Stenography, ’05. 
 
 Martha A. Seiders, 
 
 Associate Principal of Model School, 
 (substitute), ’05. 
 
 Frank E. Chaffee, 
 
 Director of Music, ’05, ’06. 
 
 Orilla Pauline Streator, 
 
 Elocution and Oratory, ’05, ’06. 
 
 Charles A. V/a 3 'nant, 
 
 Commercial Branches, ’05- ’07. 
 
 Clara L. Clark, 
 
 Critic in Model School, ’05, ’06. 
 
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Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Quarterly 
 
 Floyd Horace Spencer, 
 
 Director of Music, ’06, ’07. 
 
 Lena M. Dickinson, 
 
 Elocution and Oratory, ’06-’08. 
 Robert B. Leighou, 
 
 Chemistry and Biology, ’06, ’07. 
 Carrie J. Halfpenny, 
 
 Literature, Rhetoric and Geography, 
 ’06-’10. 
 
 Grace Brown, 
 
 Critic Teacher in Model School, 
 ’06- ’08. 
 
 Bertha E. Jones, 
 
 Violin and Piano, ’06-’08. 
 
 Alice H. Doane, 
 
 Arithmetic and Latin, ’06-’08 ; Latin 
 ’08, -’10. 
 
 William S. Dye, 
 
 History and Greek, ’06, ’07. 
 
 Ida E. Bagg, 
 
 Voice Culture and Singing, ’06, ’07. 
 Charles H. Lewis, 
 
 Director of Music, ’07-’09. 
 
 John W. Kern, 
 
 Chemistry and Biology, ’07-’09. 
 George W. Cass, 
 
 History and Greek, ’07 
 
 Oden C. Gortner, 
 
 Pedagogy, ’07 
 
 John T. Gyger, 
 
 Arithmetic ’07-’l 1 . 
 
 Mrs. Mae Dora Whalen, 
 
 Voice Culture and Singing, ’07, ’08. 
 Mrs. Harriet Teachman Lewis. 
 
 Critic Teacher in Model School, ’08. 
 Mabel E. Northrop, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’08. 
 
 Bessie T. Salmon, 
 
 Voice Culture and Singing, ’08, ’09. 
 
 Norma Aleck, 
 
 Piano, ’08-’10. 
 
 Sarah S. Bauman, 
 
 German, ’08- ’10. 
 
 Kathryn Reagan, 
 
 Elocution and Oratory ’08 
 
 Elizabeth Ellison, 
 
 Drawing and Painting, ’09 
 
 Grace A lies Putnam, 
 
 Physiology and Physical Culture, 
 ’09-’12. 
 
 W. Reed Morris, 
 
 Chemistry and Physical Culture, 
 ’09-’n. 
 
 John Hepple Shepherd, 
 
 Director of Music, ’09-’12. 
 
 Mrs. John Hepple Shepherd, 
 
 Voice Culture and Singing, ’09-’ 12. 
 Lucy Bacon, 
 
 Piano, ’10-’12. 
 
 Elizabeth L. Gardner, 
 
 German, ’10, ’ll. 
 
 Ruth E. Broughton, 
 
 Literature and Rhetoric, ’10-’12. 
 Grace Seaman, 
 
 Latin, ’10-’12. 
 
 Carrie P. Thomas, 
 
 Assistant Latin, ’10. 
 
 Thomas Bull, 
 
 Assistant in Laboratory, ’10, ’ll. 
 Ethelyn Edwards, 
 
 Literature and Rhetoric, ’10. 
 
 Mrs. Amos P. Reese, 
 
 Assistant Mathematics, ’09-’ll. 
 Mrs. L. H. Hall, 
 
 Geography and Latin, ’10 
 
 Ida Hammond, 
 
 Algebra, ’ll 
 
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Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Maud I. Stull, 
 
 Librarian, ’ll 
 
 L. L. Richart, 
 
 Higher Mathematics, ’ll, ’12. 
 
 John T. Wheeler, 
 
 Arithmetic, ’ll, ’12. 
 
 J. A. Gardiner, 
 
 Chemistry and Physical Culture, 
 ’ll, '12. 
 
 Pearl Lauderbach, 
 
 Voice Culture and Piano, ’ll 
 
 F. S. Hamilton, 
 
 Manual Training, ’ll, ’12. 
 
 Emma Sebell, 
 
 Domestic Science, ’1 1 — — 
 
 J. L. Zerbe, 
 
 Pedagogy, ’1 1 
 
 Anna Williams King, 
 
 German, ’1 1 
 
 E. C. Unwin, 
 
 Violin, ’ll, ’12. 
 
 Harry Brink, 
 
 Assistant in Labratory, ’ll, ’12. 
 Georgia Hoag, 
 
 Piano, ’12 
 
 Harold Burleigh, 
 
 Assistant in Laboratory, ’12 
 
 Trustees of the M. S. N. S., 
 1863-1912. 
 
 Of equal interest with the faculty 
 list and of great historical value, is 
 the appended list of Trustees who have 
 been connected with the institution 
 from its beginning. This list has 
 been compiled by Miss Edna Bohman 
 (office stenographer) and is the result 
 of a careful study of the catalogues 
 
 and of the “minutes” of the years be- 
 fore the catalogues were regularly 
 issued. 
 
 The following persons were members 
 of the Board of Trustees of the Mans- 
 field Classical Seminary, at the time 
 of its recognition as a Normal School, 
 December 12, 1862, and served until 
 the election in May, 1863: 
 
 President — Rev. Wesley Cochran. 
 
 1st Vice-Pres. — William Hollands. 
 
 2nd Vice-Pres. — S. B. Elliott. 
 
 Rec. Secretary — W. C. Ripley. 
 
 Cor. Secretary 
 
 Assist. Cor. Sec. — S. B. Elliott. 
 
 Treasurer — A. J. Ross. 
 
 Following is the list of Trustees of 
 the Mansfield State Normal School 
 from 1862 to the present time : 
 
 W. C. Ripley, ’63-’69. 
 
 Dr. J. P. Morris, ’63-’90. 
 
 William Hollands, ’63-’69; ’70, ’71; 
 ’72, ’73. 
 
 Rev. W. Cochran, ’63, ’64; ’68-’72. 
 Hon. S. B. Elliott, ’63-’72. 
 
 Rev. N. L. Reynolds, ’63-’68. 
 
 P. M. Clark, ’63-’69. 
 
 A. M. Spencer, ’63, ’64; ’68-’81; 
 ’83-’98. 
 
 A. J. Ross, ’63, ’64; ’65-’68. 
 
 Dr. C. V. Elliott, ’63-’65; ’72. ’73. 
 J. B. Clark. ’63. ’64; ’76-’82. 
 
 C. W. Bailey. ’63. ’64; ’65-’69. 
 Albert Clark, ’63-’63. 
 
 Horace Davis, ’63, ’64. 
 
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Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Qua rterly 
 
 Henry Allen, ’63-'65. 
 
 P. S. Ripley, ’64, ’65; ’66-72. 
 
 J. C. Howe, ’64.’66; ’77-’88; ’90- 
 ’99. 
 
 L. H. Brewster, ’64- 71. 
 
 Prof. F. A. Allen, ’64-’69; ’71-74. 
 John Voorhees, ’64, ’65; ’66, ’67; 
 ’68-’72; ’73, ’74. 
 
 P. V. Clark, ’64, ’65; ’67- 72. 
 
 T. L. Baldwin, ’65. ’66. 
 
 L. Cummings, ’65-’ 68. 
 
 Rev. T. B. Hudson, ’65-’68. 
 
 Joseph Fish, ’65, ’66. 
 
 W. Beach, ’66. ’67. 
 
 Lyman Reynolds, ’67-’69. 
 
 Nathaniel A. Elliott, ’67, ’68. 
 Lyman Beach, Jr., *68-’ 72. 
 
 F. M. Shaw. ’6871; ’73-’83; ’91- 
 ’95. 
 
 J. A. Holden, ’69, ’70. 
 
 A. Gaylord, 69, ’70. 
 
 E. Blackwell. ’69. ’70. 
 
 E. L. Sperry, ’69-’87; ’88-’95. 
 
 P. Williams. ’69-’ 76. 
 
 S. B. Cochran, ’69, ’70. 
 
 Hon. H. W. Williams. ’70- 74. 
 
 Rev. G. P. Watrous, ’70-’73. 
 
 W. D. Taylor, '70-72. 
 
 J.W. Wilhelm, ’71-’73. 
 
 A. Sherwood, 72-’74; 75- 77; ’90- 
 ’93. 
 
 W. G. Lutz. ’72- 74 
 Capt. A. M. Pitts. ’72-’80. 
 
 Prof. V. R. Pratt. ’73. ’74; ’80-’83. 
 J. S. Murdough, 73, ’74; ’75-’79. 
 Col. M. L. Clark, ’73- 90. 
 
 T. H. Bailey. ’73. ’74; ’75. ’76; 
 ’’82-’91; ’07-’10. 
 
 F. W. Clark. ’74, 75. 
 
 Peter V. Van Ness, 75-81; ’83-’92. 
 John M. Phelps. ’75- 83. 
 
 Dr. Charles W. Brovm, ’75, 76. 
 Daniel FI. Pitts, ’76-’ 06. 
 
 Elmer R. Backer, ’76, ’77. 
 
 Dr. F. G. Elliott. ’79- 82. 
 
 C. S. Ross. ’81- 08. 
 
 J. A. Elliott. ’81-’10. 
 
 0. V. Elliott. ’82-’88. 
 
 Dr. J. M. Barden, ’83- 03. 
 
 Josephs. Hoard. ’87-’08; ’ll 
 
 James E. Mathews, ’88-’91. 
 
 F.E. VanKeuren, ’91-’00; ’01-’04. 
 
 H. F. Kingsley. ’92- 07; ’10 
 
 A. E. Backer, ’93- 96. 
 
 W. D. Vedder, ’95-’98; ’99-’03. 
 Volney Ripley, ’96-’ 1 1. 
 
 E. A. Spencer, ’98- 01. 
 
 D. J. Butts. ’99- 08. 
 
 T. W. Judge, ’00-’06. 
 
 T. F. Rolason, ’O4-’06. 
 
 L. S. Channell. ’03- 08. 
 
 C. J. Beach. ’C4-’07; '10 
 
 H. Reed Hoard. 05. ’06. 
 
 Budd A. Clark, ’06-10. 
 
 W. D. Rose, ’06- 09. 
 
 H. B. Leach, ’06-’09. 
 
 Ray C. Longbothum, ’06-’09. 
 
 M. H. Shepard. ’07. ’08; ’09-’12. 
 Dr.B. Moody. ’08-’lI. 
 
 E. B. Dorsett, ’08-’l 1 . 
 
 Dr. F. G. Wood. ’09-’12. 
 
 C. B. Sherwood, ’09-’12. 
 
 W. H. Hatfield, ’10 
 
 W. W. Allen, ’ll 
 
 W. H. Husted, ’ll 
 
 C.M. Elliott. ’12 
 
 E. H. Ross, ’12 
 
 F. L. Ely. ’12 
 
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North HaU THE SCHOOL, IN EARLY DAYS South Hall 
 
imw E. waoMAN, A. m. 
 1862-63 
 
 WILLIAM 0. TAYLOR, A. M, 
 1863-64 
 
 THE PRINCIPALS OF MANSFIELD 
 NORMAL SCHOOL 
 1862-1912 
 
 CHARLES H. VERRILL, A, M. 
 1869-73 »»[» 1875-77 
 
 rOROYCE A. 4LIEN 
 1864-69 tHO 1 37 7-80 
 
PROFESSOR ALLEN AND THE FIRST CLASS. 1866 
 
Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 State Trustees of theM.S. N. S. 
 
 Hon. S. B. Elliott, 1 872-75; 76-’82; 
 ’83-’86. 
 
 Rev. DewittC. Huntington, 72-74. 
 Fordyce A. Allen, 74-78. 
 
 J. S. Murdough, 74, 75. 
 
 Vine R. Pratt, 74, 75; ’86-’89. 
 Hon. H. W. Williams, 74-’83. 
 
 P. V. VanNess, 74, 75; ’92-’95. 
 Dr. C. V. Elliott, 74-77; 78-’93. 
 Albert Sherwood, 74, 75. 
 
 Hon. John I. Mitchell, 75-’83. 
 
 Mart King. 75-’85. 
 
 Edwin Dyer. 75. 76. 
 
 Dr. Charles W. Brown, 77, 78. 
 Hon. Hugh Young, 78-’87. 
 
 L. H. Shattuck, ’82-’88. 
 
 Hon. J. B. Niles. ’83-’89. 
 
 Capt. A. M. Pitts, ’85-’92. 
 
 Maj. Geo. W. Merrick, ’87-’93 ; 
 
 W-’IO. 
 
 F. M. Shaw ’88-’91. 
 
 Hon. H. B. Packer. •89-’07. 
 
 H. F. Kingsley, ’89-’92. 
 
 Hon. David Cameron, ’91-42. 
 
 J W. Adams, ’92-’94. 
 
 H. C. Jessup, ’93- 96. 
 
 J. T. McCollum, ’93-’96. 
 
 F. M. Allen, ’94-’97. 
 
 Dr. F. G. Elliott. ’95-’04. 
 
 Benton E. James, ’96- ’03. 
 
 Lee Brooks, ’96-’99. 
 
 T. H. Bailey. ’97-’00. 
 
 Dr. B. Moody. ’99-’08. 
 
 Hon. A. C. Fanning, ’00 
 
 Chas. Lose. ’03-’05. 
 
 F. E. Zimmer, ’04-’07. 
 
 Dr. F. G. Wood. ’05-’12. 
 
 C. B. Sherwood, ’07-’12. 
 
 Leon S. Channell, ’08, ’09. 
 
 M. H. Shepard, ’08- ’12. 
 
 Dr. S. P. Hakes. ’08-’ll. 
 
 Edw. B. Farr, ’08-11. 
 
 Austin Leonard, ’09, ’10. 
 
 John H. Hotchkiss, ’09, ’10. 
 
 Hon. F. B. Smith, ’09 
 
 Dr. H. E. Caldwell, ’09-’12. 
 
 Hon. F. H. Rockwell, 10 
 
 Hon. A. B. Hitchcock, ’iO 
 
 Dr. Walter Sheldon, ’10 
 
 H. A. Munro, ’ll 
 
 J. H. Buckbee. ’ll 
 
 Hon. E. E. Jones, ’12 
 
 Hon. R. K. Young. ’12 
 
 Honorary Trustees of the M. S. 
 
 N. S. 
 
 Hon. R. G. White, Wellsboro, 1863. 
 Hon. William Armstrong, Williams- 
 port, ’63; ’69-’71. 
 
 Hon. G. A. Grow, Glenwood, ’63. 
 Hon. U. Mercur, Towanda, ’63. 
 
 Hon. E. T. Bliss, Leroy, ’63. 
 
 Hon. S. F. Wilson, Wellsboro, ’63. 
 Charles Miller, Tioga, ’63. 
 
 J. H. Gulick, Blossburg, ’63. 
 
 A. C. Witter, Mainesburg, ’63. 
 
 John Fox, Mainesburg, ’63. 
 
 S. W. Payne, Troy, ’63. 
 
 Prof. W. D. Taylor, Mansfield, ’63. 
 
 Re V . J acob G . M il ler , Montrose , ’ 69- ’ 74 . 
 Hon. George Jackson, Dushore, ’69- ’71 . 
 Rev. D. Cook, Merryall, ’69. 
 
 Isaac H. Ross, Tunkhannock, ’69-’72. 
 Mark H. Cobb, Wellsboro, ’69. 
 
 James R. DeWitt, Montrose, ’70-’74. 
 Augustus S. Hooker, Troy, ’70-’74. 
 
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 Samuel W. Pomeroy, Troy, 70, ’71; 
 ’74, ’75. 
 
 Rev. A .R. Horne, Williamsport ,’ 70- ’72 . 
 Edwin Dyer, Covington, ’70. 
 
 Horn John 1. Mitchell, Wellsboro, 
 ’70, 71 ; ’72-’75. 
 
 Hon. Henry Sherwood, Wellsboro, 
 ’71-’74. 
 
 Rev. N. L. Reynolds, Wellsboro. ’71. 
 Fred E. Smith, Tioga, ’71-’75. 
 
 Austin A. Keeney, Towanda, ’71. 
 Herbert T . Ames , W ill iamsport , ’ 7 1 - ’ 75 . 
 Joseph C. Doane, Williamsport, ’72-’74. 
 Vine R. Pratt, Mansfield, ’72. 
 
 Hon. ButlerB. Strang, Westfield, ’72-’75. 
 Hon. M. F. Elliott, Wellsboro, ’74. 
 W. A. Stone Wellsboro, ’74. 
 
 Hon. A. K. McClure, Philadelphia, ’74. 
 W. S. Nearing, Morris Run, ’74. 
 
 F. N. Drake, Coming, N. Y., ’74. 
 Hon. S. B. Elliott, Reynoldsville, 
 ’95 
 
 Peter V. VanNess, Mansfield, ’95-’09. 
 Hon. C. V. Elliott, Mansfield, ’95-’05. 
 Hiram Sherwood, Mansfield, ’95. 
 Albert Sherwood, Mansfield, ’96. 
 
 A. M. Spencer, Mansfield, ’98. 
 
 J. C. Howe, Mansfield, ’00-’03. 
 
 D. H. Pitts, Mansfield, ’06-’10 
 Dr. J.M. Barden, Canandaigua, N. Y., 
 ’06 
 
 D. J. Butts, Mansfield, ’08 
 
 Officers of the? Boards of 
 Trustees 1863 to 1912 
 
 President: Rev. W. Cochran, 1863- 
 '64; W. C. Ripley, ’64, ’65; S. B. 
 Elliott, ’65-’72; A. M. Spencer ’72- 
 
 ’75; JohnS. Murdough, ’76-’79; D. 
 H. Pitts, ’79-’81, ’87-’93, ’96-05; 
 V.R. Pratt, ’81-83; M. L. Clark, 
 ’83-’87; J. M. Barden, ’93-’96; C. 
 S. Ross, ’05-’07; Dr. B. Moody, ’07- 
 
 ’1 1 ; H. F. Kingsley,’! 1 
 
 Vice-Presidents: W. C. Ripley, 1863- 
 ’64, ’65-’69; J. P. Morris and P. S. 
 Ripley, ’64, ’65; A. M. Spencer, '68, 
 ’69; L. H. Brewster and J. P. Mor- 
 ris, ’69, 70; J. P. Morris and Ly- 
 man Beach, Jr., 71; J. P. Morris 
 and G. P. Watrous, ’71, 72; A. M. 
 Pitts and P. Williams, 72-75; J. 
 S. Murdough and P. V. Van Ness, 
 75, ’76; P. V. Van Ness and A. 
 Sherwood, ’76, ’77; P. V. Van Ness 
 and M. L. Clark, ’77- 81; M. L. 
 Clark and E. L. Sperry, ’81, ’82; 
 Dr. C. V. Elliott and J. C. Howe, 
 ’82, ’83; C. V. Elliott and A. M. 
 Spencer, ’83-’ 88; L. S. Channell, 
 ’07- 09; M. H. Shepard, ’09, ’10; 
 Dr. F. G. Wood, ’10, ’ll; W. W. 
 Allen, ’11 
 
 Recording Secretary: Wm. Hollands, 
 1863, ’64; Albert Clark, ’64, ’65; 
 F. A. Allen, 65-’69; E. L. Sperry, 
 ’69-’79; F. G. Elliott, ’79-’82; J. A. 
 Elliott, ’82-’ 10; M.H. Shepard, 10, 
 
 ’11; C. J. Beach ’11 
 
 Corresponding Secretary: Dr. J. P. 
 Morris. 1863.’69. ’72, ’73. ’74-’83. 
 ’87. 88; F. M. Shaw, ’69-’71; A. M. 
 Spencer, ’71, ’72; E. L. Sperry, ’83- 
 ’87. 
 
 Assistant Corresponding Secretary: 
 William Hollands, 1864- 68; F. M. 
 Shaw. ’68, 69; P. V. Clark. ’69-’71. 
 
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Quarterly 
 
 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 Treasurer: P. Williams, 1863, ’64, 
 76-’95; Mart King, ’64.’68; C. V. 
 Elliott, ’68, ’69; A. J. Ross, ’69-'76; 
 Edward H. Ross, ’95-’07; E. B. Dor- 
 set, ’07, ’08; Wilmot D. Husted, 
 ’08-’ll; W. D. Rose, ’ll— — 
 
 Characterization of the 
 Principals. 
 
 REV. EDWIN E. WILDMAN, A. M.. 
 
 1862-’63. 
 
 “Prof. Wildman was in charge of 
 the school when it was changed from 
 a Seminary into a Normal School on 
 December 12, 1862, and remained un- 
 til March, 1863. 
 
 “In some respects he was made a 
 scapegoat for others whose schemes 
 were neither commendable nor just, 
 but his heart was always with the 
 school. He was tactful, quiet in 
 manner, a good teacher, and of rare 
 executive and administrative ability.” 
 — Simon B. Elliott in “Quarterly,” 
 April, 1905. 
 
 REV. W. D. TAYLOR. A. M., 1863-’64. 
 
 “Rev. W. D. Taylor, a Methodist 
 minister, was chosen in March, 1863, 
 to succeed Prof. Wildman. Mr. Tay- 
 lor was an earnest, zealous man, whose 
 heart was always right. 
 
 “The financial difficulties the school 
 labored under prevented the Trustees 
 furnishing the building as it should 
 have been, and it was impossible for 
 any one to accomplish much. 
 
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 “Mr. Taylor served the school 
 faithfully, was a good teacher, and I 
 shall always remember him as a true 
 worthy man.”— Simon B. Elliott in 
 “Quarterly,” April, 1905. 
 
 FORDYCE A. ALLEN. 1864.’69; l877-’80. 
 
 “Prof. F. A. Allen came to us from 
 the Chester County Academy, West 
 Chester, Pa., which he was conduct- 
 ing independently, 
 
 “He accepted the principalship here 
 in 1864 and was elected for five years. 
 The deplorable condition of things 
 was no terror to him, and, in fact, 
 rather suited him. He could bring 
 order out of chaos and make success a 
 part and parcel of himself, which he 
 did, literally building himself into the 
 institution. Though not a college 
 graduate, he was an educated man in 
 the true and full sense of the word, a 
 remarkably good teacher and with dis- 
 cernment to select good teachers under 
 him and to see that they did their 
 work well. 
 
 “He inspired teachers and students 
 with the same zeal that he possessed, 
 and lifted the school up to the plane 
 and horizon it has since maintained.” 
 — Simon B. Elliott in “Quarterly,” 
 April, 1905. 
 
 CHARLES H. VERRILL. A. M.. 1869-73; 
 
 1875-77. 
 
 “At the end of Prof. Allen’s first 
 term, he stepped aside to attend to 
 outside work, and Prof. J. T. Streit 
 
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 Qu arte r ly 
 
 of the Facuky, was chosen to succeed 
 him. Illness prevented him from ever 
 taking charge of the school after his 
 election. His was one of the sweetest, 
 gentlest natures that ever lived, a 
 noble man and an excellent teacher. 
 
 “Prof. C. H. Verrill, also of the Fac- 
 ulty, succeeded him. He was a 
 thorough, ardent, zealous teacher. 
 Few ever surpassed him in the class- 
 room. Somewhat impulsive, but with 
 a generous heart, an earnest purpose, 
 unflinching integrity, a warm friend 
 of the school, I came to forget his 
 impetuous nature and look on him 
 only v/ith a warm and lasting regard.” 
 — Simon B. Elliott in “Quarterly,” 
 April. 1905. 
 
 REV. JASON N. FRADENBURG, A. M.. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1873-75. 
 
 “My recollections of Prof. Fraden- 
 burg are very p leas ant . He was kind and 
 considerate to all, overlooking faults, 
 and, in his dealings with refactory 
 students, so tempering justice with 
 mercy that offenders became his most 
 devoted friends. 
 
 “He was an extensive reader and 
 his wide range of knowledge included 
 fields unexplored by many scholars. 
 He was a man of sterling character, 
 fine scholarship, and great enthusiasm 
 in educational work.”— J. C. Doane 
 in “Quarterly,” April, 1905. 
 
 JOSEPH C. DOANE. B. S., 1880. 
 
 “After the death of Prof. Allen in 
 February, 1880, Prof. Doane was 
 
 elected to fill the principalship for the 
 remainder of the year. He was an 
 alumnus of Mansfield, and a member 
 of the Faculty for eight years, 1873- 
 
 ’81. 
 
 “Faithful he was, we learn, in 
 every duty, painstaking and conscien- 
 tious.” — Wm. Day Crockett, Ed. 
 “Quarterly,” April, 1905. 
 
 DENNISON C. THOMAS. A. M.. Ph. D.. 
 
 I880.’92. 
 
 “The then principal of the Normal 
 was Dr. D. C. Thomas, a man of 
 much executive ability, a good finan- 
 cier and a thorough scholar. 
 
 Dr. Thomas excelled as a builder, 
 and it was largely due to his watchful 
 eye that the Gymnasium and Alumni 
 Hall were built upon honor and have 
 stood the test of time. 
 
 During his reign, South Hall was 
 also thoroughly remodeled, and North 
 Hall partially rebuilt.’ — Harvey J. 
 Van Norman in “Quarterlv,” April, 
 1905. 
 
 SAMUEL H. ALBRO, A. M., Ph. D.. 
 
 1892-'99. 
 
 “With the advent of Dr, S. H. 
 Albro as principal, there was inaug- 
 urated that era of high ideals and 
 strenuous living which his successor 
 has so ably maintained. Loved and 
 respected alike by teachers and stu- 
 dents, he impressed everyone with the 
 fact that he was a past- master in the 
 art of instruction and discipline. 
 
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 He was a fascinating speaker; his 
 lectures never contained a dull state- 
 ment, packed as they were with 
 thought, expressed in clear simple 
 diction, and enlivened by quiet 
 humor.” — Harvey J. Van Norman in 
 “Quarterly,” April, 1905. 
 
 ANDREW THOMAS SMITH. A. M.. Pd., 
 D., 1899 
 
 Dr. Smith, who has now served one 
 year longer than any former principal, 
 permits his photograph to complete 
 the historical list, to date, but prefers 
 to offer no pen-characterization of 
 himself during his incumbency of the 
 office, but to let his work speak now, 
 and his friends later. 
 
 Memories, 
 
 By Professor J. C. Doane. 
 
 Previous to 1874, the Mansfield 
 Normal School presented an appear- 
 ance quite different from that with 
 which we are familiar. The entire 
 School was domiciled in one building, 
 now known as South Hall, tho’ it has 
 been enlarged and improved to such an 
 extent that an observer of that time 
 would hardly recognize it. The ever- 
 green trees standing on the edge of the 
 terrace were not more then ten or twelve 
 feet high, and the space now occupied 
 by Alumni Hall, North Hall, and the 
 campus in front, was bare of trees and 
 buildings. 
 
 Some reference to the arrangement of 
 rooms may be of interest. The dining 
 room and kitchen were upon the first 
 floor, in the space now occupied by the 
 library and reading room. There were 
 also three or four class-rooms on this 
 floor; and in the north end of the build- 
 ing, two or three small rooms in which 
 were a rudimentary library, a cabinet 
 of geological specimens, and some ap- 
 paratus. On the second floor were 
 class-rooms, the chapel, the principal’s 
 room and a few students’ rooms. The 
 third and fourth floors were occupied 
 by students. The building was divided 
 transversely — the ladies occupying the 
 south part, the gentlemen the north 
 part. Under the skylights were the 
 dormitories; and, as the rooms had no 
 doors, all opened into a large central 
 hall. It may easily be believed that 
 on the gentlemen’s side of the house, 
 at least, scenes of pernicious activity 
 were not of infrequent occurrence. 
 
 A rude wooden building, partially 
 equipped, occupied the site of the pres- 
 ent gymnasium. The huge weights, and 
 the strenuous character of the various 
 devices for testing muscular power, 
 seemed to suggest fitness for the devel- 
 opment of a race of born Titans, rather 
 than the systematic physical training 
 of ordinary mortals. 
 
 The halls were heated by means of 
 large coal stoves; the students’ rooms 
 were supplied with small wood stoves; 
 and all were lighted by kerosene lamps. 
 The furniture and general equipment 
 of the building were scanty and rude as 
 
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 compared with those of the present day. 
 Water for cooking, etc., was pumped 
 from a deep well situated just back of 
 the building, — at first, by a hot air 
 engine, and later, by means of a wind- 
 mill. 
 
 Much attention was given by stu- 
 dents and teachers to beautifying the 
 school grounds by planting trees; and 
 it was a custom, observed by all the 
 early classes, to plant a class tree with 
 elaborate ceremonies consisting of ora- 
 tions, songs and prophesies. 
 
 Many of the early teachers planted 
 individual trees which they wished to 
 be a memorial of their connection with 
 the School; and in the spring of 1875 
 several members of the Faculty joined 
 in placing twenty-five trees in front of 
 what was then known as the “New 
 Building,” now as North Hall. A 
 few of these survive, the rest having 
 been sacrificed to the exigencies of 
 buildings, terraces, and walks. 
 
 In view of the increasing importance 
 of forestry as a department of both 
 State and National Government, would 
 it not be well not only to revive the 
 Class Tree Planting, but also to pro- 
 vide some special practical instruction 
 in the principles of forestry? This 
 would certainly have a great value, 
 both educational and practical. 
 
 It was for many years a custom to 
 hold chapel exerches both morning and 
 evening, at which times interesting 
 topics of the day were discussed by 
 some member of the Faculty, or by 
 students appointed for that duty. At 
 
 one time the “morning lectures” by 
 the members of the Senior class were 
 a very attractive feature, even to per- 
 sons not members of the School. 
 
 For several years, a course of free 
 lectures was maintained for the bene- 
 fit of students, the list of lecturers 
 containing such names as Rev. Thomas 
 K. Beecher. Hon. H. W. Williams, 
 Dr. A. W. Cowles, President of El- 
 mira College; Dr. T. S. Up DeGraff, 
 Prof. D. R. Ford, of Elmira College; 
 Dr. S. 0. Gleason, Dr. John H. 
 French, Dr. E. P. Allen, and many 
 others, representing an exceptionally 
 talented class. 
 
 The students of the Normal before 
 and during the seventies were, as a 
 class, older than those of the present 
 time. Many were experienced teach- 
 ers who came to the Normal to im- 
 prove their professional equipment. 
 They were earnest, energetic, faithful, 
 and many of them fill positions of 
 which they may justly be proud. 
 
 The elementary course of the period 
 was, in scope, much like that which 
 preceded the present three years’ 
 course. It was stronger in mathema- 
 tics, and perhaps in some other re- 
 spects; but did not include Latin. 
 The State Board Examinations were 
 all oral; and candidates for graduation 
 required to pass an examination on the 
 entire course at one time. This may 
 seem unnecessarily laborious and se- 
 vere to students of the present day ; 
 but it at least had the merit of devel- 
 oping thorough, self-reliant scholars. 
 
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 The old-time Commencement was a 
 very different affair from the present 
 one. It was originally held in the 
 School Chapel, later in the Methodist 
 Church, and twice at least in Smythe 
 Park. Each member of the Class was 
 required to write and deliver an orig- 
 inal oration or essay. When the 
 classes became too large for this, the 
 speakers were elected either by the 
 Class or by the Faculty. I am informed 
 that the custom is still observed in at 
 least one of the oldest and largest 
 Normal Schools of the State. 
 
 I trust that in these random recol- 
 lections I have not, in any objection- 
 able sense, seemed to be “laudator 
 temporis acti.” The giant oak is 
 made possible only by the acorn, and 
 the wonderful achievements of to-day 
 are the result of the humble labors 
 and modest successes of the past. 
 
 Mrs. Jane Allen. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Jane Allen, wife 
 of a former Principal of this school, 
 occurred on Feb. 21 , 1912, and, though 
 it has been noted before in the “Quar- 
 terly,” deserves special mention in the 
 Anniversary number because of her 
 part in the earlier development of the 
 school when she faithfully shared her 
 husband’s labors and interests. 
 
 Prof. F. A. Allen came, with his 
 wife, from the Chester County Acad- 
 emy at West Chester, Pa., in the 
 
 summer of 1864 to assume the duties 
 of the Principalship of this school. 
 
 In two separate terms, ’64-’69 and 
 77-’80, this service was rendered. 
 The first term may be classed in “The 
 Pioneer Period” so scarce were funds 
 and so great was the need. The sec- 
 ond may be included in “The Forma- 
 tive Period,” when great difficulties 
 having been overcome and foundations 
 having been well laid, a more thorough 
 organization and more ideal spirit be- 
 came possible — and were nobly real- 
 ized. 
 
 Mrs. Allen’s steadfast spirit and 
 quaint humor, escaping in unexpected 
 and witty expressions, made her an 
 ideal companion for a worker in those 
 strenuous days, and the news of her 
 death brought a sense of loss to many 
 outside of her family. 
 
 Two children, Fred M. Allen, now 
 Principal of the Allen Business Col- 
 lege, Hamilton, Ohio, and Mrs. Stella 
 Allen Ely, wife of Mr. Fred Ely of 
 Mansfield, survive, also a brother to 
 Prof. Allen — Mr. L. Fenton Allen — a 
 former steward of this school. 
 
 At the chapel service on the day of 
 Mrs. Allen’s funeral, the Principal 
 paid a fitting tribute to the memory of 
 Prof, and Mrs. Allen (Prof. Allen died 
 in ’80) and reminded the students of 
 the debt of gratitude they owe to the 
 men and women who wrought so ably 
 in the early days to secure the benefits 
 that they now enjoy. 
 
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 SCHOOL SONGS 
 
 ANNIVERSARY SONG. 
 
 Air— “FAIR HARVARD.” 
 
 Fair Mansfield, we now to thy Jubilee throng-, 
 And, with blessings, surrender thee o’er. 
 
 By the-se festival rites, from the age that is past. 
 To the age that is waiting before. 
 
 Oh, relic and type of thy founders’ desire 
 That has long kept their memory warm. 
 
 Oh, fruit of their toiling and star of their hope. 
 Bright rising through calm and through storm! 
 
 To thy halls we were led in the bloom of our 
 youth. 
 
 From the home of our earlier years. 
 
 When our fathers had warned and our mothers 
 had prayed. 
 
 And had blessed us through fast falling tears; 
 Thou then wert our parent, the nurse of our soul. 
 We were nurtured and moulded by thee. 
 
 Till, freighted with treasure of knowledge and 
 hope. 
 
 We were launched upon Destiny’s sea. 
 
 Now, as pilgrims, we come to re-visit thy shrine. 
 On the morn of thy glad Jubilee, 
 
 And, with kindlings of spirit at memory’s flame. 
 Pledge anew our allegiance to thee.t j 
 Here the good and the great in the years that 
 are gone. 
 
 Consecrated to labor and care. 
 
 Poured the oil of their love on the fire of their 
 zeal. 
 
 That thy name might be honored and fair. 
 
 Farewell ! Be thy destinies honored and bright. 
 While thy children thy motto defend. 
 
 And, through “Character, Scholarship, Cul- 
 ture,” prepare 
 
 For “ Service,” man’s worthiest end ; 
 
 Nor let Wisdom out- worn, moor thy bark to its 
 side 
 
 As the curr-ut of Progress glides by,— 
 
 Be the Bearer of Bight and the Herald of Lore 
 While the red and the black wave on high. 
 
 Adapted from “Pair Harvard” for Mansfield 
 Senai-CenteMaial, 1912. 
 
 ALMA MATER. 
 
 Air— “ANNIE EISEE.” 
 
 Far above Tioga’s waters 
 With their silver sheen. 
 
 Stands our noble Alma Mater, 
 
 On her shaded green. 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 Eift the chorus, sing her praises, 
 
 Over hill and dale. 
 
 Hail to thee, our Alma Mater, 
 
 Normal, hail ! all hail ! 
 
 By the purple hills encompassed, — 
 Guardians of her fame, — 
 
 Mansfield standeth crowned with honor — 
 Hail her stainless name! 
 
 Blest by love of all her children. 
 
 Nothing can she lack ; 
 
 See her colors proudly waving. 
 
 Hail — the Red and Black ! 
 
 Adapted from Cornell Song. 
 
 MARCHING SONG. 
 
 Air-“BRIGHTEY GEEAMS OUR BANNER” 
 
 Brightly gleams our banner. 
 
 Floating toward the sky. 
 
 Gladly will we follow 
 Where our colors fly; 
 
 Red and black are waving. 
 
 Music fills the air. 
 
 Onward we are marching 
 ’Neath our colors fair. 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 Brightly gleams the banner, 
 
 Floating toward the sky, 
 
 Gladly will we follow 
 Where our colors fly. 
 
 Heart to heart united 
 In a mutual love, 
 
 Ain a Mnter’s children 
 Their devotion prove; 
 
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 Keeping step together, 
 Facing toward the light, 
 Onward we are marching 
 ’Neath our colors bright. 
 
 Alma Mater’s praises 
 Sound on every tongue 
 Like a mighty chorus 
 On the breezes flung. 
 
 We her loyal children 
 Pledge our love anew, — 
 Everywhere and always 
 She shall find us true. 
 
 SERVICE SONG. 
 
 Air-“GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH.” 
 
 Across the night of ignorance, 
 
 Across the cloud of shame. 
 
 The crimson hue of sacrifice 
 Doth glow with living flame; 
 
 Our brothers perish in the dark. 
 
 Our loving help they claim, — 
 
 They claim the light of life. 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 “Give, oh give”! the world is crying, 
 
 Hear the student-band replying, 
 
 “ In a sacrifice undying. 
 
 We give the light of ;ife.” 
 
 From out the gloom of discontent. 
 
 From out the shade of vice. 
 
 From sorrow’s pall vve hear the call,— 
 
 The call to sacrifice ; 
 
 Our noblest deed, our fullest self 
 7/e give, nor count the price, — 
 
 We give the light of life. 
 
 The time of youth is holy time. 
 
 The preparation hour, — 
 
 The work befitting every soul 
 That seeks the world to dower ; 
 
 There must be something great to spend 
 E’er sacrifice have power 
 To give the light of life. 
 
 The “ message of red-and-black.” 
 
 PLEDGE SONG. 
 
 Air— “DEAREST MAE.” 
 
 We love the stately halls that rear 
 Their towers high in air. 
 
 No name as Mansfield half so dear 
 No Normal half so fair ; 
 
 Her sons in chorus chant her praise, 
 Her daughters make rej^ly. 
 
 The red and black aloft they raise 
 To float against the sk.v. 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 Our love, our love to thee ! 
 
 Our loyal love to thee ! 
 
 Thy honored name we proudly claim. 
 And pledge our love to thee. 
 
 We love the quiet shaded streets 
 By mild Tioga’s flow’. 
 
 The hillside curve which gently meets 
 The sunset’s golden glow’, — 
 
 But better far we love the life 
 To which our Normal calls. 
 
 The brotherhood of friendly strife 
 Within her shelt’ring walls. 
 
 We’ll win for her a fair renown 
 Like children of the past. 
 
 Like them, our Alma Mater crown 
 With pride while life shall last ; 
 
 And while w’e seek the laurel wreath 
 In corridors of fame. 
 
 Our lips in love shall fondly breathe 
 Her dear and honored name. 
 
 NORMAL SONG. 
 
 Air— “MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND.’^ 
 
 Long ago she rose and stood 
 In a quiet valley. 
 
 Girt about by hill and wood 
 Where the sunbeams rallj’. 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 Normal, Normal, tried atid true. 
 
 We will love thee ever, 
 
 Alma Mater, fair to view. 
 
 We’ll forget thee never! 
 
 Here are shaded w’alks of green. 
 
 Streams where lie I'eflccted 
 
 Waving boughs '\:id skies serene. 
 
 By the stars protected. 
 
 This is where the student band 
 
 Drinks from Learning’s fountain,. 
 
 By the pleasant breezes fanned. 
 
 Blown from Wisdom’s mountain. 
 
 Adapted from Holyoke Song. 
 
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 FAREWELL SONG. 
 
 Air— “TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP.” 
 
 Ill our heart of hearts we dream, 
 
 Alma Mater, now, of thee. 
 
 Of the bright and happy halls so long our home ; 
 Swift the passing seasons seem 
 Of our youthful liberty. 
 
 Undisturbed by sterner duties soon to come. 
 CHORUS 
 
 Alma Mater! Alma Mater ! 
 
 How the words our spirits thrill. 
 
 As, beneath the black and red, 
 
 Lo, we stand with bow-ed head, 
 
 Doing homage to the school upon the hill. 
 
 Thou hast been a mother fond, 
 
 Thou hast been a guardian true. 
 
 Thou hast set our feet upon the upward way ; 
 Glad we own the gracious bond, 
 
 Glad our filial vows renew, — 
 
 Pledging loyalty for every coming day. 
 
 Now the time has come to part 
 From these comrades true and tried. 
 
 Other scenes to enter, other friendships form ; 
 Treasured deep within the heart 
 Shall these happy hours abide. 
 
 In affection folded ’gainst a world of storm. 
 
 PRAISE SONG. 
 
 Air— “DARTMOUTH, OUR DARTMOUTH;’’ 
 
 Normal', our Normal ! 
 
 Thy name is ever dear, 
 
 Thy memory to us near, 
 
 Where’er we be; 
 
 Thou — mother fair to view, 
 
 Thou— guardian wise and true. 
 
 Thy name doth e’er renew 
 Our love to thee. 
 
 Normal, our Normal ! 
 
 Thine is a noble site. 
 
 Hill, wood and stream unite 
 To grace the scene ; 
 
 There thro’ the autumn’s glow, 
 
 There thro’ the winter’s snow, 
 
 There thro’ spring’s green we know 
 Thou stand’st serene. 
 
 Normal, our Normal ! 
 
 Uoyal are we to thee ; 
 
 Thy honors ours shall be, 
 
 Ours to maintain. 
 
 Mansfield shall be our pride, 
 
 Mansfield, Tioga’s bride, 
 
 Dearer than all beside, — 
 
 “Mother of Men.” 
 
 Adapted from Dartmouth Song. 
 
 I SC I PL I NE is the first step in efficiency, 
 and discipline comes from a wise selection 
 of men whose welfare is made as important as the 
 enterprise itself. — McQuilkin. 
 
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 SCHOOL NEWS 
 
 State Board Echoes. 
 
 It is always gratifying to announce 
 results when they are eminently satis- 
 factory ones. The Quarterly has this 
 pleasure once more in speaking of the 
 outcome of the recent State Board Ex- 
 aminations. 
 
 As has been true in previous years, 
 the members of the Board were, to a 
 man, profoundly impressed with the 
 splendid spirit of the student-body. 
 Their uniform courtesy, promptness, 
 neatness, and fairness, did not escape 
 notice, and flattering indeed were the 
 oft-expressed remarks as to the high 
 moral plane upon which everything 
 connected with the school was done. 
 
 That this is not merely a sentimental 
 condition, but an educative one in 
 the best sense, is seen in the fact that 
 all candidates presented to the Board 
 were passed without hesitation, and 
 that the number of conditions imposed 
 was so small as to be quite negligible. 
 
 In further corroboration of the 
 claim that the scholarship at Mans- 
 field is kept high, we may add that 
 the year brought forth thirty-one 
 honor students, and eighty credit stu- 
 dents - and all this from a faculty 
 which gives a mark of ninety per cent, 
 only when a pupil has fully earned it. 
 
 (Honor students are those who have 
 earned, in the entire year’s work, an 
 average of at least ninety per cent ; 
 credit students, between eighty-five 
 and ninety per cent.) 
 
 That we believe fully in the old 
 adage that “all work and no play 
 makes Jack a dull boy,” is seen in the 
 “Calendar of Pleasant Events” pub- 
 lished elsewhere in this issue ; and, we 
 might add, these honor and credit stu- 
 dents were among those who enjoyed 
 them to the utmost. 
 
 Eliza J. Boyce. 
 
 It is certain that, among our Alumni, 
 no name is better known than that of 
 Miss Eliza J. Boyce who, this year, 
 severs her connection with this school 
 after twenty-four consecutive years of 
 service,— the longed term of faculty- 
 work in the school’s history. Not 
 only is Miss Boyce well-known, but 
 she is affectionately known by hun- 
 dreds whom she has helped and en- 
 couraged during their school-course, 
 and there are very many who feel they 
 owe some of the be^ things in their 
 lives to the ideals she inculcated and 
 the courage she inspired. 
 
 Hers has, indeed, been a guiding- 
 
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 hand during all the years, not only in 
 the class-room where her pedagogical 
 skill trained so many young teachers 
 for their life-work, but in every avenue 
 of school-acftivity, — social, cultural 
 and religious. 
 
 During the pad! year she has done 
 the work of Preceptress in connection 
 with full class-room duties, and has 
 also carried the hoCtess-ship of the 
 school dining-room, doing both in a 
 highly admirable and effective manner. 
 It is the universal verdict of those 
 within the school that, never, in either 
 relation, have things gone more 
 smoothly, in spite of the faCt that the 
 school was never before so large. 
 
 There is something about her which 
 inspires young people to live up to 
 their be^, and if, as is but human, 
 they sometimes fall below it, her 
 method of treating the situation 
 quickly brings realization and re- 
 newed effort. 
 
 Miss Boyce has, at various times, 
 taught English branches in the Nor- 
 mal School and also Applied Pedagogy 
 to the Seniors, both with notable 
 success, but the bulk of her teaching 
 has been in the Model School where, 
 as critic-teacher for many years, as 
 Principal in the interim of Mrs. Mary 
 A. Jenks’ absence (’03-’09) and as 
 Associate Principal since her return, 
 she has done moCt able supervising 
 work for the Seniors and the classes 
 under them. 
 
 Miss Boyce is an alumnus of the 
 school as well as a faculty-member. 
 
 and Mansfield may well congratulate 
 herself upon such a product. 
 
 Miss Boyce has accepted a position 
 as Preceptress and teacher of English 
 in the Hamilton School for Girls, 
 Washington, D. C., — a position for 
 which she is admirably fitted, and to 
 which the mo^ ardent good wishes of 
 her colleagues at Mansfield and of the 
 ^udent-body accompany her. 
 
 Among the many gifts with which 
 her friends sought to express their 
 regret at losing her, is a handsome 
 silver loving-cup, suitably engraved, 
 presented by the pupils of the Model 
 School. 
 
 This article cannot more fitly close 
 than with the following extract from 
 Dr. S. H. Albro’s paper in the 
 “Quarterly” for April, 1905, on “The 
 Faculty of the Nineties,” in which he 
 says: “Eliza J. Boyce was with 
 me during my whole residence in 
 Mansfield, and was my greatest sup- 
 port. She was a fine teacher and 
 excellent manager of school-affairs. 
 But, more than that, her personal 
 dignity and refined manners, and her 
 excellent judgment made her life and 
 services to the school invaluable. She 
 was my adviser when in doubt and 
 perplexity, and her advice was in- 
 variably sound.” 
 
 L M. Gayman. 
 Mansfield suffers another loss in 
 her Anniversary year in the going of 
 Prof. I. M. Gayman, for the la^ 
 
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 seventeen years in charge of the 
 Science Department, and, for the la^ 
 ten years, Vice-Principal. 
 
 Prof. Gayman is an Alumnus of 
 Lafayette College and came to Mans- 
 field after several years of successful 
 teaching experience — a success which 
 he has notably maintained throughout 
 all his ^ay with us. 
 
 No ^udent who has been in his 
 classes has gone away with a vague or 
 glimmering conception of the work 
 presented. The ideals have always 
 been high and the department has 
 held to a high grade of efficiency — so 
 recognized not only in the school but 
 also by the State Department of 
 Education. 
 
 To Prof. Cayman’s quiet force and 
 conservative good judgment many of 
 the mo^t excellent things that char- 
 acterize Mansfield are due. If any 
 single word out of the many which 
 might be chosen, mo^l fitly character- 
 izes his true spirit, as seen and recog- 
 nized by those who have known him 
 longest and be^‘, it is the word 
 “ju^ice.” 
 
 Many indents who have occasion- 
 ally felt his class-room regime over- 
 strict , are, unknown to themselves, 
 indebted to him for exceptionally fair 
 and balanced judgments, as expressed 
 in Faculty-meetings, and no man has 
 been more willing than he to give 
 individual help, vdien needed, both 
 pedagogical and social. 
 
 In his work as Vice-Principal, his 
 decisions have been well-considered 
 
 and sound, and there has never had 
 to be a reversal of an unfair or a 
 ha^y judgment. 
 
 In the “Quarterly” for April, 1905, 
 in an article entitled “The Faculty 
 of the Nineties,” Dr. S. H. Albro 
 says: “I.M. Gayman was a jewel 
 of tru^ worthiness ; kind, faithful, 
 conscientious. He did great things 
 for the Scientific Department.” 
 
 The regrets and be^ wishes of the 
 Faculty and Ctudent-body, which have 
 already been expressed in various 
 ways, one form being the gift of a 
 beautiful silver loving-cup by the 
 Delphic Fraternity, accompany Prof, 
 Gayman to his new field of labor in 
 the Verm.ont Academy, Saxton’s River, 
 Vt., — a College Preparatory School 
 for Boys, in which he will have charge 
 of the Department of Science. 
 
 The Track Meet. 
 
 Never did the school “line up” 
 more enthusiastically than on the 
 evening of May 1 , v/hen they marched 
 in a body, to the depot, to greet the 
 Mansfield Relay Team returning vic- 
 torious from tlie Interscholastic Meet 
 at Franklin Field, U. P., Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 The event was the one-mile relay 
 race between schools of the Normal 
 class, the time being 3 minutes 45 3-5 
 seconds. 
 
 The members of the team — Stephen 
 Moran, Harry Carter, Orson and 
 Francis Gallup, and Leon Rockwell 
 
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 (substitute) with Coach Gardiner, 
 were escorted to the Gymnasium, 
 where, amid much enthusiasm, the 
 trophies were displayed, impromptu 
 speeches made, school-songs sung, and 
 a general “good time” enjoyed by all. 
 
 Mansfield made her entry at the 
 last possible date and after the pen- 
 nant was prepared, which accounts for 
 the absence of the name, in the cut, 
 an error since corrected. The pen- 
 nant remains with the school; the sil- 
 ver loving-cups are the property of 
 the individual runners. 
 
 The Visits of Cupid. 
 
 Cupid, who has a fashion of thin- 
 ning our ranks, each year, aimed his 
 arrow, this time, at Miss Ruth E. 
 Broughton, for the la^ three years in 
 charge of the English Department of 
 the school. 
 
 In anticipation of Miss Broughton’s 
 expelled marriage, the ladies of the 
 faculty, to all of whom she had en- 
 deared herself, gave her a “Variety 
 Shower ” on the Saturday afternoon 
 preceding Commencement. 
 
 Misses Putnam and Seaman were 
 the lionesses of the occasion, which 
 was held in the rooms of the former 
 on third floor. North Hall. 
 
 A profusion of daisies made beau- 
 tiful decoration and a charmingly 
 informal program gave the gue^s an 
 afternoon long to be remembered. 
 
 Dainty refreshments were served 
 and the good wishes of all present 
 
 were expressed in the form of gifts 
 suitable for the home of the prospec- 
 tive bride. 
 
 It is rumored that the year Miss 
 Seaman expedts to spend at her home 
 in St. Johnsville, N. Y., and which 
 deprives us of her valuable services, 
 is in preparation for a similar happy 
 event. 
 
 But, this year, Cupid evidently 
 made an effort to “even” matters for 
 us by giving as well as taking. 
 
 Only a few were in the secret of 
 Prof. Zerbe’s absence during “State 
 Board Week,” and so there was very 
 general surprise when he returned, at 
 its close, accompanied by a beautiful 
 young bride. 
 
 Such news travels swiftly — and, in 
 the short time elapsing between the 
 arrival of the “noon-train” and the 
 dinner hour, a spontaneous reception 
 had arranged itself in North Hall 
 corridor, where the indents gathered 
 in a body and sang “Here Comes the 
 Bride” as Prof, and Mrs. Zerbe 
 appeared. 
 
 In response to the call for “Speech,” 
 Prof. Zerbe thanked the indents for 
 their cordial greeting and introduced 
 Mrs; Zerbe ; then they accompanied 
 Miss Boyce to the dining-room, fol- 
 lowed by the ^udent-body. A 
 charadteri^ic South Hall reception 
 was the event of a later evening. 
 
 Mrs. Zerbe was Miss Kathleen 
 Mullen, of Tyrone, Pa. 
 
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 Altho’ Prof. Zerbe has been with 
 tis only a year, he has won golden 
 opinions for himself and his work, 
 and his young bride is warmly 
 welcomed. 
 
 School Organizations. 
 
 Space forbids more than a mention 
 of the school-organizations in this 
 special issue, yet, without such a 
 mention, a vital portion of our school- 
 life would go un-noted. 
 
 Suffice it to say — that the two 
 Fraternities — Philalethean and Del- 
 phic, — and the two Sororities, Agon- 
 ian and Clionian, and the Athenaean 
 Society, have, during the year, pre- 
 sented both private and public pro- 
 grams of intrinsic value and have 
 entertained at various social events 
 of much charm, displaying throughout, 
 a sane and wholesome school-spirit. 
 
 The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. 
 have had a large membership, and 
 have been valuable fadtors in school- 
 life upon its moft inspiring side. 
 
 The usual Fraternity Banquets were 
 held during Commencement Week, 
 the Delphics making special emphasis 
 upon completing the second cycle of 
 the number 7, which is the signal for 
 the return of Charter Members, a 
 large number of whom were present. 
 
 As usual, also, the Y. M. and Y. 
 W. C. A. dispensed ice-cream in the 
 library after the evening entertain- 
 ments, thus securing a sum devoted 
 to the promotion of their work. 
 
 A Calendar of Pleasant Events. 
 
 1911-1912 
 
 Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. Lawn 
 Reception. 
 
 Phil-Agonian Reception. 
 Delphic-Ciionian “Welcome.” 
 Athenaean “At Home.” 
 
 Thanksgiving Dinner — Guests of 
 Honor: The Board of Trustees. 
 Hallowe’en Masquerade. 
 
 Athenaean Christmas Program, pre- 
 senting “Holly Tree Inn.” 
 Christmas Cantata and Carols (Music 
 Department) . 
 
 Christmas Tree. 
 
 Model School Christmas Program — 
 “Is There A Santa Claus?” 
 Entertainment Course: 
 
 1. The Fellows Concert Co. 
 
 2. Dr. J. W. Goodsell— “With Peary 
 on the Dash for the Pole.” 
 
 3. Dr. Byron Piatt — “The Mass Against 
 the Man.” 
 
 4. Wm. Sterling Battis —Monologue — 
 “Nicholas Nickleby. ” 
 
 5. The Orphean Musical Club 
 
 Evangelistic Addresses —Rev. Ward 
 Mosher. 
 
 Dramatized presentation of “Miles 
 Standish” — Elocution Department 
 Addresses by delegates to Layman’s 
 Missionary Convention, M. E. 
 Church, Mansfield. 
 
 Washington’s Birthday Program — 
 Philalethean Fraternity. 
 
 Addresses by Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. 
 
 Visiting Secretaries. 
 
 Agonian Public Program 
 Address by Miss Nellie Yaba, India. 
 Delphic-Ciionian Public Program, 
 presenting “Every woman.” 
 
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 Report on “Christian Conservation 
 Congress’ ’ by the Principal. 
 
 Senior Rhetoricals. 
 
 Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. Prayer Meet- 
 ings, each Thursday, 6:15-7 p. m. 
 
 Organ Recitals — Director of Music. 
 
 Recitals by pupils of Conservatory of 
 Music. 
 
 Recitals by pupils of Department of 
 Expression. 
 
 Vesper Talks by Principal and others, 
 each Sabbath evening, 6-7 p. m. 
 
 Y. W. and Y. W. C. A. Bible Classes, 
 Sabbath mornings 8:15-9:00. 
 
 Football Season. 
 
 Basket-ball Season. 
 
 Base-ball Season. 
 
 Indoor Athletic Meet — February. 
 
 Inter-scholastic Track-Meet, Franklin 
 Field, University of Pennsylvania. 
 (Pennant and cups won by Mans- 
 field Team.) 
 
 Annual School Opera, — “Erminie.” 
 
 “Gym Socials,” Monday and Friday 
 evenings, 6:30-7 o’clock. 
 
 Annual School Play,— “The Butter- 
 flies.” 
 
 Presentation of Gifts from Classes and 
 Cast of Play. 
 
 Ago-Clio Porch Party. 
 
 Memorial Day Sermon — G. A. R., 
 Alumni Hail. 
 
 Arklin Symposium (illustrated Master- 
 pieces of art) 
 
 Address on the Blind. 
 
 State Board Addresses. 
 
 Commencement Events. 
 
 All these events have been open to 
 
 all students (tho’ not all free.) Many 
 
 other literary and social group-events 
 have been enjoyed. 
 
 Notes 
 
 In response to an invitation from 
 the Peace Committee of Philadelphia 
 Yearly Meeting of Friends, a number 
 of our seniors v.^rote essays on some 
 phase of the mordern peace movement. 
 
 Dr. Jesse H. Holmes of Swarthmore 
 College, Pa., offered a prize of ten 
 dollars for the best essay, and this was 
 awarded, by a committee of three, to 
 Mr. Leon H, Rockwell. The subject 
 of his essay was, “International Peace 
 and Arbitration.” It will be pub- 
 lished in a later issue, as will also the 
 class oration on “The Boy Scout 
 Movement,” by Clarence Lusch. 
 
 The cover of the Semi-Centennial 
 number of the Quarterly was chosen in 
 compliment to the school-colors, red- 
 and-black and to the colors of 1912, 
 red-and-gray. 
 
 Officers of Alumni Association, 
 1912-1913 
 
 President — W. R. Longstreet 
 
 Vice-President —W. V/. Allen. 
 
 Recording Secretary— Mrs. L. B. 
 Shaw. 
 
 Record Keeper and Treasurer —Mrs. 
 R. C. Longbothum. 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Edwin Coles, Edith S. Jones, Chas. 
 M. Elliott, Mrs. Amos Reese, Nettie 
 Shepard. 
 
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DR. SIMON B, ELLIOTT 
 
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 Mansfield Normal School 
 
 THE HISTORICAL ADDRESS 
 
 Complying with a request to give a 
 historic survey of this Institution from 
 its inception to the present time, it 
 will be my endeavor to set forth how 
 it originated, what were the aims of 
 its founders, how the struggle to erect 
 and furnish the buildings was carried 
 on, something of the sacrifices that 
 were made, how well its educational 
 progress has met the aims and desires 
 of those who so arduously labored for 
 its up-building, to whom credit be- 
 longs for its marvelous success, and a 
 few suggestions concerning its future. 
 
 I take it for granted that I have been 
 chosen to present this survey for the 
 reason that of all those who began the 
 work and continued therein through 
 the most discouraging and critical 
 period of its history, I only am alive. 
 
 We are here to celebrate the fiftieth 
 anniversary of its recognition as a 
 State Normal School. Fifty years 
 represents a long period inhuman life, 
 but I began almost fifty-eight years 
 ago — it will be that next month — to 
 labor for what has resulted in the 
 establishment of this important and 
 magnificent Institution. Of all v/ho 
 began as officials or even, as I believe, 
 as original stockholders, I “ am the 
 last leaf on the tree.” It was my 
 fortune to be among the officers, that 
 of Secretary, chosen at the creation of 
 
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 its official life. This was on Decem- 
 ber 31st, 1854. At the next annual 
 meeting I was chosen as a trustee, and 
 from that time on until I removed 
 from the county in 1883, I was — with 
 the exception of one year — a trustee, 
 either on the part of the stockholders, 
 or on the part of the State, or presi- 
 dent of the board— the' latter service 
 extending over twelve years. I give 
 these facts only for the purpose of 
 showing my opportunities through 
 personal experience for a full knowl- 
 edge of its history up to the date 
 named of my departure from your 
 midst; and I will add that since that 
 time I have endeavored to keep in 
 touch with its career of usefulness, 
 which fact your Principals, the Trus- 
 tees and the State Superintendents of 
 Public Instruction will verify. 
 
 In saying all this I do not m.ean to 
 be understood that I alone played an 
 important part in its history, for that 
 was not the fact. Many others were, 
 in their way, as useful as I, some of 
 whom took a part which I could not 
 have filled. We all worked in our 
 allotted spheres, and my position hap- 
 pened to be one that came most prom- 
 inently before the public, and my 
 longer length of life has given me, at 
 this time, this prominence. With the 
 foregoing by way of introduction, I 
 will now take up the task assigned me. 
 
 When the establishment of an edu- 
 cational institution here was first con- 
 templated there had been no practical 
 
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 development of a Normal School sys- 
 tem in our State, a system which has 
 proved itself of incalculable benefit in 
 preparing teachers for the common 
 schools. At that time teachers for 
 the common schools were mainly 
 drawn from the ranks of the students 
 attending them, as only a few had 
 opportunity of attending higher ones, 
 for there were but few such in the 
 country, and educational streams, like 
 more material ones, are not given to 
 flow higher than their source. There 
 were but two academies in this county, 
 and they were not up to the standard 
 of our present graded schools. One 
 who could read aloud fairly well, spell 
 well— yet I believe there were better 
 spellers among the teachers of the 
 common schools of that time than 
 there are. to-day, for it was then 
 looked upon as a disgrace for a teacher 
 to be a poor speller— bound his or 
 her own state, name a few of the 
 largest cities of the world, solve a 
 problem in simple proportion, name 
 the different parts of speech set forth 
 in the grammars, write a plain hand, 
 and make or mend a goose-quill pen, 
 was deemed competent to teach a 
 public school. I know this from per- 
 sonal experience, having been a teacher 
 for four years in this vicinity, and 
 my examination did not call for all I 
 have set forth. You can thus see — 
 and the founders of this school did 
 sec at the time— how low the standard 
 for teachers was and how inadequate 
 were the opportunities to elevate it. 
 
 Realizing this low state of educa- 
 tional opportunities, the founders of 
 the school from which this present 
 organization sprung, set forth to es- 
 tablish an institution in our midst 
 where better opportunities would be 
 afforded not only for teachers but for 
 others who desired more knowledge 
 
 than could be obtained through the 
 common schools. All this was fully 
 discussed and well understood by the 
 originators of the enterprise, but when 
 we came to prepare articles of incor- 
 poration the attorney employed, being 
 himself a college graduate — but none 
 of the others were — insisted that it be 
 given a title showing that there could 
 be here obtained a “classical” edu- 
 cation. This was protested against 
 by some of us, for we claimed that 
 such was not the primary or most 
 important purpose sought, but the old 
 theory that the “classics” were the 
 basis of all important knowledge pre- 
 vailed, and the name given it was 
 “ The Mansfield Classical Seminary,” 
 and those who objected v/ere consoled 
 with the truth that such a name could 
 not prevent a more practical scheme 
 being carried out, and it fortunately 
 has been carried out to the great ad- 
 vantage of all. Thus can be seen 
 what was the real purpose of the 
 founders. There was not a classical 
 scholar among them all. They had 
 no more use for the “classics ” than 
 they had for a last year’s almanac or 
 for a two-year-old robin’s nest. They 
 were content to read their Virgil or 
 Homer, if they read them at all, in 
 some of the excellent English trans- 
 lations. Nor had they discovered, 
 and I doubt if any one can now dis- 
 cover, that strictly classical scholars 
 are any more useful than other well- 
 informed persons. They had no faith 
 in an aristocracy of education which 
 then prevailed to a certain extent, 
 but which has since been relegated, 
 and properly so, to its legitimate 
 sphere, and which now finds itself 
 subordinate to other branches which 
 experience has shown to be more use- 
 ful in these practical times. 
 
 You will now understand what was 
 
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 the educational environment, and we 
 will now take into consideration what 
 the other surroundings were, for we 
 cannot correctly judge of the efforts 
 and achievements unless we know 
 what the conditions were under which 
 the labor was performed. 
 
 The dearth of wealth was as great 
 as that of educational facilities. The 
 village was small and the surrounding 
 country was not thickly populated, 
 nor were there any wealthy people re- 
 siding here or in the vicinity, and it 
 was within a radius of not to exceed 
 five miles that fully nine-tenths of the 
 funds raised by subscription for the 
 erection of the building that burned 
 and the one subsequently erected in its 
 place, now known as the South Hall 
 were secured. The assessed valuation 
 of all the property in the Borough of 
 Mansfield in 1858 was only $26,000, 
 and yet the people in the territory 
 named, off and on, gave substantially 
 that amount for construction and some 
 little furnishing. 
 
 About $12,000 was raised for the 
 first building and it was completed 
 and school opened on the 7th of Janu- 
 ary, 1857. On the 22nd of April fol- 
 lowing that building was destroyed by 
 fire, and that very evening the people 
 assembled and pledged a trifle over 
 $4,000 additional for the erection of 
 another and larger one. The work on 
 the new building was soon begun and 
 carried on under many difficulties, 
 many of which I related in an address 
 delivered from this platform some 
 twelve years ago. As that address 
 was published it will not be advisable 
 to repeat the history of those trials 
 now, but the memory of those who 
 bore them should not perish from the 
 earth. In time, and after many de- 
 lays and disappointments, the South 
 Hall was partly completed and school 
 
 opened only to drag along in a very 
 unsatisfactory manner until the entire 
 building was finished. 
 
 By this time, however, the Normal 
 School system of the State— a system 
 so ably planned by Dr. Burroughs, 
 then State Superintendent of Common 
 Schools, that I have always wondered 
 at the far-reaching thought of its 
 author— had become operative and 
 two schools, one at Millersville and 
 the other at Edinboro, had been rec- 
 ognized under it. Here at last was 
 the opportunity of the founders of the 
 school to realize their fondest hopes 
 and make it a school not only for gen- 
 eral education but especially so for the 
 preparation of teachers for the com- 
 mon schools of the State. I will add, 
 however, that before any action was 
 taken in this line 1 had fully canvassed 
 the personnel of the stockholders and 
 found them willing to give the whole 
 property to the State, and so reported 
 to Gov. Curtin, who could not be 
 brought to recommend its acceptance. 
 Failing in this, proper measures were 
 taken and on the 1 2th day of Decem- 
 ber, 1862, it became the State Normal 
 School of the Fifth District, and its 
 name was changed accordingly; and 
 then began a career of usefulness that 
 has not diminished but constantly in- 
 creased, and I trust will continue to 
 grow as time rolls on. A reference to 
 its annual catalogues shows the gradual 
 and steady increase in attendance, and 
 a summary discloses the fact that 
 about 10,000 young men and women 
 have attended, and its graduates — in- 
 cluding the class of 1912, which num- 
 bers 130 — will number 2,980, and at 
 least 98 per cent, of that number have, 
 at one time or another, been engaged 
 in teaching, or are of class of 1912 and 
 expect to be. And here, at last has 
 come the gratification of the most ar- 
 
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 dent wishes of its founders and the 
 full fruition of their fondest hopes. 
 And has it not been something worth 
 laboring for? It has been, but a sad- 
 dening realization of it comes to me 
 that 1 alone of these founders am left 
 to witness it. Where are those who 
 worked with me, some of whom once 
 sat on this platform with me? They 
 are gone but their work lives and will 
 continue to live after them. Many of 
 them lived to see it largely successful, 
 yet none but I have seen the fiftieth 
 anniversary of its new birth. Do you 
 marvel that I speak feelingly of them? 
 If my companions in this enterprise 
 had not labored as they did we would 
 not be here to-day. If they had not 
 been willing to sacrifice, if need be, all 
 their worldly goods; if they had not 
 toiled, and, in addition, become per- 
 sonally responsible for sums that, if 
 pressed for collection, would have 
 swept away all they had and left them 
 still involved for large amounts, there 
 would be no State Normal School here 
 now. But you may ask what has this 
 audience, composed as it is mainly of 
 persons who never knew those who so 
 toiled and sacrificed, and may never 
 even heard their names, to do with such 
 things? It has this to do with them. 
 Outside of its material results the v/ork 
 that these people did should be an ob- 
 ject lesson to every young man and 
 woman in the land, and especially so to 
 those who have already received and 
 to those who, in the future, will re- 
 ceive its benefits. The builders of 
 this school toiled unselfishly and with- 
 out hope or expectation of any reward 
 save that which comes from a v/orthy 
 act well done. They were not only 
 zealous but were strictly honest and 
 because of that honesty of purpose and 
 nobility of character they were able to 
 ...accom^plish what could not otherwise 
 
 have been brought about. Only once 
 was there anything done in the man- 
 agement of the enterprise, —and that 
 was not done by people of this com- 
 munity — that was not strictly honest 
 and upright. That exception was when 
 some non-residents who never gave a 
 dollar toward the erection of the build- 
 ings, or for any other proper purpose 
 connected with it, sought to obtain 
 control and ownership for themselves 
 by taking advantage of our inability to 
 meet claims that had long been mature 
 but which the owners themselves never 
 pushed for collection. These outsid- 
 ers secured options on the claims at a 
 ridicuously low rate by representing 
 that it was in the interest of the school 
 that they were seeking them and se- 
 cretly secured proxies from unsuspect- 
 ing stockholders, and at the annual 
 election ousted the whole board of of- 
 ficials who had v/orked faithfully from 
 the beginning. Carrying out their 
 scheme, they actually had the concern 
 sold by the sheriff and bid it in, but 
 fortunately the sale was set aside and 
 at the end of their first year they in 
 turn, were all ousted by the indignant 
 and betrayed stockholders and the in- 
 stitution was again in the control of 
 its friends. These interlopers never 
 owned a dollar’s worth of stock other 
 than such as they purchased of some 
 unsuspecting holder in order to become 
 trustees and other ofTicers. They were 
 mainly a lot of schemers. They failed 
 because they were dishonest, and I 
 trust that the young men before me 
 will see the truth of Cardinal Wool- 
 sey’s declaration to Cromw'ell that 
 “corruption wins not more than hon- 
 esty.” 
 
 As you must have observed I have 
 thus far omitted to speak of a class of 
 workers who at times bore many bur- 
 dens and whose labors were arduous 
 
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 and incessant. These were the prin- 
 cipals and the faculties under them; 
 and although their work was separated 
 in a measure from that of the trustees 
 and other friends yet there was so close 
 a connection and such a mingling of 
 duty that it may truthfully be said 
 that their efforts and endeavors were 
 coequal with that of the others, al- 
 though along different lines, and it is 
 pleasant and gratifying to note that 
 there was harmony and mutual desire 
 for success. It has been my great 
 pleasure to personally know all of the 
 principals, and it is with unfeigned 
 satisfaction that I speak praisingly of 
 all of them. It would be gratifying 
 to dwell on each one’s labor but time 
 v/ill not permit. Many of them have 
 passed away. Jacques, Landreth. 
 Wildman, Taylor, Allen, French — as- 
 sociated with Prof. Allen — Streit, Ver- 
 rill, and Thomas are gone. Only 
 Fradenburg, Doane, Albro and the 
 present incumbent. Dr. Smith, are 
 left ; and justice demands that we should 
 revere the memory of those who are 
 gone and pay honor to those who are 
 living. The school’s success will 
 stand as a monument for each and 
 every one of them. All the earlier 
 ones were hampered by incompleted 
 buildings and lack of furniture and 
 proper equipments, coupled with the 
 further fact that the school had not 
 yet burst into its new life, and they 
 were unable to accomplish what they 
 desired and otherwise would have done 
 if their surroundings had been more 
 favorable. Not until it became a 
 State Normal School did it have a new 
 life and take up the v/ork that the 
 times demanded. The new life really 
 began with Prof. Allen, who started the 
 school cn the way to its final achieve- 
 ments. As the State gave aid the 
 school rose higher and higher until we 
 
 now witness its splendid triumph, and 
 to the principals and faculties under 
 them must be awarded a generous and 
 grateful meed of praise. The stand- 
 ing of the school to-day attests the 
 arduous but successful endeavors of its* 
 efficient corps of instructors and the 
 firm hand of its faithful board of trus- 
 tees. 
 
 Thus far I have dwelt mainly upon 
 conditions and events which are past 
 and which are the most vivid in my 
 memory, and as I leave them to take 
 up present conditions I can but say of 
 that of which I have spoken: 
 
 "O’er these scenes my memory wakes, 
 
 And fondly broods vith miser care; 
 
 Time but the impression stronger makes 
 
 As streams their channels deeper wear.”' 
 
 Because success has been achieved 
 the duty of the present and future 
 hour is by no means discharged, for 
 there is as great a responsibility rest- 
 ing upon those living, who have been 
 connected with it as students, and 
 those now here or who may come here- 
 after as teachers, trustees or students, 
 as rested upon those who have brought 
 it from the day of its first inception 
 to the present time; and it is devoutly 
 to be hoped that that duty will be as 
 faithfully discharged as was that of 
 past times. That duty will not be 
 properly discharged by merely sustain- 
 ing the eminence and usefulness of the 
 present day. Its eminence and use- 
 fulness should go higher. There are 
 few things in this world of which it 
 can be said the best has been reached. 
 It certainly cannot be said of schools 
 or education. Nearly all of those who 
 conceived and, until recent times, car- 
 ried on the work have been discharged 
 from further responsibility by death 
 or physical infirmities incident to ad- 
 vanced age, but there are some still in 
 the harness as teachers and trustees. 
 
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 and from these we have a right to ex- 
 pect a continuance of their good work, 
 for their experience will give them a 
 better knowledge of what to do in the 
 future; and I confidently believe they 
 can be trusted to do it. 
 
 But these are not the only ones who 
 have a duty to perform and a respon- 
 sibility to bear. There is before me 
 a large number of students of to-day 
 and a still larger number are here or 
 abroad who have enjoyed the benefits 
 of the labors of others, who, in some 
 way have had to do with the school. 
 Each of these should feel as though 
 the v/hole responsibility rested upon 
 himself or herself alone. The students 
 owe it to the school as well as to them- 
 selves to make the best of the oppor- 
 tunities offered. They all should en- 
 deavor to make and maintain its repu- 
 tation in rank and learning as a school, 
 and when they pass out should join 
 the others who have gone before them 
 in upholding that reputation by show- 
 ing that their opportunities were not 
 only fully enjoyed but were being put 
 to good account. And not only along 
 educational lines should all who have 
 received instruction here “makegood,” 
 but they should see to it that the 
 moral standing of the institution shall, 
 at all times, be of the highest charac- 
 ter. There have been no restrictions 
 placed on any one here but such as 
 have contributed to the ultimate good 
 of both student and school. No repu- 
 table person has ever been deprived of 
 ' enjoying all that any other one en- 
 joyed or now enjoys. Rights and priv- 
 ileges are equal. It was my great 
 -pleasure as then State Trustee to pro- 
 nounce, more than thirty years ago, 
 the dedication of the North Hall, and 
 these are the words that I then ut- 
 -.tered : 
 
 “To the end that intelligence and 
 
 education shall be universal; that the 
 rich and the poor; the child of him 
 who has power and place, and of him 
 who treads the lowly paths of life, 
 shall receive alike the blessings of edu- 
 cation, the Commonwealth of Penn- 
 sylvania and the people of this com- 
 munity have built and now dedicate 
 this building to the uses of education 
 and to moral and religious instruction, 
 and invite equally and alike, without 
 distinction of sex, or color, or race, or 
 creed, or party, the children of all 
 who may desire to participate of the 
 opportunities which shall be here of- 
 fered,” and now, after the lapse of 
 nearly a third of a century, I do not 
 see how I can add to its comprehen- 
 siveness, and I certainly do not de- 
 sire to drop a single thought from it. 
 I believe it expresses the purposes of 
 its founders and the policy of the 
 State. 
 
 Before closing I must say to you 
 that you should all give thanks to the 
 generous State of Pennsylvania and to 
 those officials who by their position, 
 have had to do with the school. There 
 should be nothing done to thwart or 
 hinder those officials in their efforts to 
 aid you. I can say, with truth un- 
 qualified, that all of them, the Gover- 
 nors, the State Superintendents and 
 their Deputies, have been, and still 
 are your warmest friends, and they 
 will continue to be your friends just so 
 long as you meet them with the same 
 spirit that they manifest towards you. 
 
 But I must close. Much more 
 could be said but I will not burden 
 you with it. The school now stands 
 high but my prayer is, that when the 
 next fifty years shall have come and 
 gone, and its centennial shall be cele- 
 brated, that still higher praise can be 
 accorded to the State Normal School 
 of the Fifth District. 
 
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 GRADUATES, HONOR AND CREDIT STUDENTS, 1912 
 
 R7^GULAR NORMAL — Laura Adamy, Stuart Bailey, Isabel Barnes, 
 Maxwell Baxter, Louise Berry. Edna Black, Helen Blackwell, Lula Bowen, 
 Grace C. Briggs, Trella Briggs, Leone Browne, K. Ruth Burschel, Gertrude 
 Bush, Allen Carlson, Dessie Carter, Royce Carter, Ernest Chamberlain, Ar- 
 vine N. Clarke, Daniel M. Clarke, Maude Clark, Stella Clark, Edna Cleve- 
 land, Bertha L. Close, Belle Cooley, Vertie Cooper, Myrtle Daggett, Anna 
 M. Danks, R. C. Dayton, Natalie Decker, Mary E. Donald, F. K. Donlon, 
 Helen Dorsett, Nina Dougherty, Lenna Ehlers, Mabel Elliott, Esther Feeney, 
 Alwilda Fellows, Bertha Frederick, Ruth M. Gaige, Mildred Gardner, Ethel 
 Garrison, Mabel George, Rebecca Gillen, Ella M. Goldy, Ursel Gorton, Jes- 
 sie Gray, Florence Gridley, Emily S. Gyger, Burr Hall, Hazel Hallstead, 
 Grace Hanlan, George Harer, Martha Harris, Carrie Hasker, Foster W. Hav- 
 er ley, Reed W. Hitchcock, Paul Hobbs, Isa Houser, Lee W. Hughes, Henry 
 M. Husted, Dorothy Hutchinson, Charles Jaquish, Josephine Kinney, Edward 
 Kingsley, Ina Kratzer, Clara Layman, Nellie Learn, Belle Lefler, Howard 
 Lewis, Jenny S. Lind, Edward Loftus, Leslie Lunt, Luella Lunt, J. Clarence 
 Lusch, Musietta Lyke, Ruth Lysle, Marie McCabe, Mae McClure, James Mc- 
 Connell, MildredMcConnell, Hallie McCoy, Edna M. McEntee,Leland McLain, 
 Mary Mackey, Ernest Marsland, N. J. Mason, R. R. Merrill, Eva B. Mit- 
 chell, Isadore Montgomery, Muriel Montgomery, J. Stephen Moran, George 
 Norman, William Payne, Laura Pfafif, Grace Price, Anna Reed, Pauline Reed, 
 Lida Retan, Grant Roblyer, Abbie Rockwell, Leon Rockwell, Pearl Rumsey, E. 
 C. Russell, Maude Sailer, Rae Satterlee, Lavenia Shailer, Bessie Shannon, Ma- 
 bel M. Shaw, Frank F. Sheffel, Iona Silvara, Winifred Smales, Emma Smith, 
 Harold Sonn, Madge Stephens, Anna Stevens, Christine Stevens, Mary Stoll, 
 Clara Strailey, Florence Sullivan, Frances Sullivan, Gladys Taylor, C. H. 
 Tewksbury, Margaret Tingley,*Doris Tremain, Florence Ullman, Dora Van- 
 Alstyne, Elizabeth VanLuvanee, Jean Waltman, Vivien Warters, Bertha 
 Whitman, Raymond Williams, Frederick Wintermute. 
 
 SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC — Louise Adamy, Mrs. Helen H. Gambell, 
 Lucinda Keagle, Rae Mathews, Joseph R. Oakden, Jr., Helena Peckham, 
 Helen Robertson, Mildred Ross, Dora Wilcox. 
 
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 VOICE — Georgia Drum, Mrs. E. M. Field, Lucinda Keagle, Mrs. M. 
 F. Rose, Dora Wilcox. 
 
 PIANO — Edith Colegrove, Leon Keagle, Arlene Keefe. 
 
 ART — Aurelia Bresee, Rae Mathews, Helena Peckham, Orilla Ripley, 
 Pearl Wade. 
 
 ELOCUTION — Eugenia Roberts. 
 
 Honor Students — Above Ninety Per Gent. 
 
 SENIORS — Emily S. Gyger, Carrie Hasker, Jenny S. Lind, Anna Ste- 
 vens, Gladys Taylor, Royce Carter, C. H. Tewksbury. 
 
 MIDDLERS— Julia M. Ace, Clara Bull, Hazel Clayton, Esther Cooper, 
 Mabel Cool, Jennie Dunlap, Mary Dwyer, Hilda Fleitz, Jessie Kilbourn, 
 Louise Longstreet, Agnes Rogers, Ethel Sanford, Amberl Sharp, Blanche 
 Strait, Augusta Williams, John Chmileski, Leslie Spry, 
 
 THIRD YEAR — Florence Jenkins, Angelique Prevost, Mamie Rogers, 
 Maude Rumsey, Thyra Swanson. 
 
 JUNIOR-MIDDLE— Ellen Morley, (Middle). 
 
 Credit Students — Above Eighty-five Per Gent. 
 
 SENIORS — Isabel Barnes, Flelen Blackwell, Lula Bowen, K. Ruth Bur- 
 schel, Edna Cleveland, Belle Cooley, Myrtle Daggett, Natalie Decker, Nina 
 Dougherty, Lenna Ehlers, Mabel Elliott, Mabel George. Grace Hanlan, Isa 
 Houser, Dorothy Hutchinson, !na Kratzer, Mu.sietta W. Lybe, Ruth L\ le, Isa- 
 dore Montgomery, Muriel Montgomery, Grace Price, Pauline Reed, Lida Re- 
 tan, Iona Silvara, Frances Sullivan, Pdorence Ullman, Jean Waltman, Vivien 
 Warters, Bertha Whitman, C. Allen Carlson. Henry M. Husled, Edward Kings- 
 ley, James McConnell, Leon H. Rockwell, Frank Sheffel, Raymond Williams, 
 Frederick Wintermute. 
 
 MIDDLERS — Gertrude Allen, Mildred Carpenter, Gertrude Davis, 
 Marie Dobbins, Margaret Edv/ards, Helen Gardner, Maude Gillette. Jessica 
 Hoyt, Elner Hughes, Bessie Inscho, Mary Keough, Nellie Lenox, Helen Mc- 
 Acy, Mary O’Leary, Ethel Race, Alta Reeser, Nellie Schulze, Lila Strait, 
 Inon Webster, Nellie Whalen, Emily Williams, Franklin Ashley, Harry Ever- 
 ett, Eugene Frutiger, Walter Lynch, Raymond Robinson, IVayburne Smith, 
 
 THIRD YEAR — Mildred Bennett, Anna Buckley, Annie Clark, Mary 1. 
 Hunt, Gertrude Murrman, Flarriet E. Paine, Myra Peckham, Alma Price, 
 Laura Weimer. 
 
 JUNIOR — MIDDLE — Bessie Evans, (Middle), Ruth Hall, ( junior and 
 Middle) , Mildred Hartsock, (Middle), Ellen Morley, (Junior), Golda Yentzer, 
 (Junior and Middle), Burr Dewey, (Middle), William Dixon, (Junior and 
 Middle). 
 
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