Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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18 NORMAL OFFERING READ HISTORY! JUDGE HISTORY! MAKE HISTORY! STAND aside from life for a little and see by what ways man- kind has struggled to the land of the present and mark what ways now lie ahead. Scan the land beyond carefully. Decide which is the path which will lead the race to the land of happiness. Then take your place once more among men and make the history of the future. F. A. F. MUSIC. UNE of our greatest needs of music teaching in public schools is in the art side of the subject. The ultimate aim in all our varied musical activities is to create a sensitive and discrimin- ating regard for good music. The departmental plan favored in Junior High Schools oiers an improved solution that specially trained teachers may be chosen to teach music as applied in other subjects. There is the same need for a specialist in music. Chorus singing is encouraged in our school. Our glee clubs offer opportunity to those who are especially talented in singing to attain higher standing. The same opportunity is extended to the instrumentalists and credit given for good solo and ensemble results. I heartily agree with Professor John Dewey, Columbia Univer- sity. He has said: The teacher who succeeds in imparting zest to education, who brings about an association of books and the things of school with joy is a public benefactor. Why should the adventure of mind into the unknown be associated with drudgery? Is it not possible to make of education the great romance of life, to bring it home as a great drama of exploration, discovery and conquest? H. W. F. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. HE war and food conditions have made us take Conserva- tion as our motto this year and our course has had to be adapted to meet the call for sugarless cakes, wheatless breads, and meatless meals. The aim of the course is to give the students practical knowl- edge of the principles of cookery that they may be able to co-oper- ate with special teachers of home economics and also be helped to better understand the business of homemaking.

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NORMAL oFFER1NG 17 used as memory, selections, myths-Norse, Greek and nature, the best reference books on mythology, a small but choice collection of photographs of mythological subjects, readers and classic stories appropriate to the upper grades. A new feature of the Literature Department will be a course for teachers of the Junior High School with books suitable for use in these grades. The department purposes to train teachers in methods of in- teresting children in the literature studied in school that they may form the habit of making companions of good books outside of school. E. M. M. ART DEPARTMENT. HE aim of the Art Department is three fold. First it tries to develop some technical skill by giving all students in the entering classes practice in drawing, designing, lettering and color-theory. At the end of this year all are expected to have attained enough understanding of the technique of drawing to be able to apply their knowledge to the desired methods of teaching it to children. In the second year, therefore, the second aim is em- phasized, that of teaching drawing. Methods, with the analysis of these methods in the written plan, and the practical application of them in the Model school practice form the basis of the work. The technique of drawing is maintained as far as the student, through self-discipline, is able to maintain it. It is felt that now the student hasbecome the student-teacher and should begin to assume the responsibility of sustaining her efforts and keeping up her work to the required standard. The time for drill is passed, she has now entered the world of active self-development. The third aim, that of developing artistic appreciation and the ability to give beauty to art expression, underlies all the work of both years, and the principles of beauty, order, harmony, bal- ance and rhythm are emphasized constantly through the course in Picture Study. All classes are brought in contact given in the second year with the work of the masters of painting, and the three-year students have the advantage of a special course in art appreciation applied to home making. This course includes a study of architectual forms, house planning and interior decora- tion. M. B. S.

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NORMAL OFFERING 19 The practice Work includes the preparation and serving of the ordinary staple foods and economical, balanced meals. S. E. P. THE MGDEL SCHOOL. HE term Model School is not used to signify ideal or per- fect school. There is no such thing! It mans a real school of average pupils taught by teachers of experience. The grades serve as object lessons for modelsl to the student observers. A school of picked pupils under perfect conditions would be a model school in the ordinary sense: but would be of small value to students Who need to come in critical contact With actual public school problems. They must have an opportunity to study all types of pupils as Well as diflicult problems of grading and man- agement handled by teachers of experience, tact, and sympathy. B. H. Normal Igrngram. Qfldaptedb 6:30 Silence that dreadful bell. 7 :OO And then to breakfast with what appetite you have. 9:00 Creeping like snails unwillingly to school. 12:30 That all softening, overpowerful knell. The tocsin of the soul-the dinner-bell. 1:30 To that dry drudgery at the desk's deadwoodf' 3:30 Calm, quiet, innocent recreation. 5 :45 And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. 7:15 Labor and intent study. 8:30-9:30 Not a creature is stirring. 10:15 Lights are fled.