Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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1926 NORMAL OFFERING for occupancy. We have faith that the return to a normal status will not leave our now eageiqschool spirit smouldering and inactive. YVe want it active, always active. An inactive spirit can do little good. The year is waning, graduation, the both sorrowful and joyful time of year, will be soon upon us. Some of us will return to seek the protection of the school for another year. Many of us are loath to grow up. VVe beg not to be chide:l,- for we are all really young in mind who do not choose to become old. Others of us must go out into the field of life to care for those placed under us. Still others are coming into the school to begin pr-eparation for one of the noblest professions, -that of teaching. That those going out to take up their duties as teachers may' instill into their pupils the same spirit of loyalty to school, country, and God which they themselves have tried so hard to profess here at Normal, is the wish of those whohave trained them for their chosen career in life. That those coming into the school may realize our desire for true school spirit, is the wish of all in the school. HELENA REDDY. Oblivion Defeated The years are passing, passing by, and lives are passing with them, Naughtseems our days to number more, or the tide of life to stem. 'We leave behind us all our treasures to help our sons and TOHOXV-l'Il9ll, That they may use and profit by them and happier be in their life-span. When we have gathered knowledge, things, the greatest treasures of them all, That are to money, wealth and pleasures. like a king before his thrall. 'Tis then we have the thought of future and the help that we may will mankind And how they'll hark back to our living, and say a great and generous mind. But comfort not when you have willed the things of earth to those behind, Great Mother Nature may seize it from them and your name lost to all mankind. Nature levels all our mountains, and ei-ofles the greatest stones, So do not rest and think that safely resting, will lie even your very bones. But leave behind a spirit and a will to carry through, And though your tomb disintegrate, your work will follow you: And though your body lies unmarked, and now unknown at last, Your spirit will like a beacon shine, a light f1'1llll out of the past. XVi1,i.I,xM E. fY'l'LT,lN.-KN, '26 An Expression of Gratitude The editorial board wishes to thank Miss Davis, Mr, Kelly, Miss Pope, and Miss Nye,-members of the faculty,-who so generously gave their time to help us in the preparation of the NORMAL OFFERING. lVe are grateful also to all the students who are contributors to the book and to all who in any way furthered the interest of the students in publishing the book. f17f

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NORMAL OFFERING 1926 Not to be Ministered Unto But to Minister Perhaps this motto of ours is more clearly engraved upon our minds since the destruction of the material inscription over the school door. At any rate, there is a decided change in the attitude of the student body toward being good leaders. Each one seemed to heed the plea. of our principal for co-operation in time of such disaster. We have always stood for the development of leadersg but now more than ever have our students shown their true worth in coming forward and giving whatever assistance lies in their power. It has been especially helpful this year to the faculty to know that they have had groups of girls and boys whose earnest endeavor was to aid in any possible way. VVhat a satisfying 'thing it is to know that everywhere around one is a feeling of co-operation! XVe agree that it is expected, but very seldom do we find a thing like this in its fulness as we have found the good spirit of the students this year. From nine to three-thirty, We have been attending classes in the basement of NVoodward Dormitory, where heat, light, and v-entilation have not been what they should be, all year have we been going to school under these conditions and, mark you, for the better part of last year, too. Some wag has dubbed our source of learning Basement College , therefore be not sceptical but believing when you hear some of the fair ones say that they go to B. C. However, be it said to the well-deserved credit of our principal and friend, Mr. Arthur C. Boyden, that even though we were out of school three weeks because of the tire and its entailing losses, we never missed one lesson. Mr. Boyden told the public that we were to begin our work where We left it perforce. He was doubted as making rather a radical statement, yet when we returned we began again as if no tire had taken place. Nothing was omitted from the curriculum except observation in the training school, and that had to be omitted because there was no more training school building. Time, however, will remedy that. The greatest blessing that the tire brought was a decided increase in school spirit. It has not been an easy matter to be attending a class, separated only by partitions from two others, and at the same time be conscious that some one is stuttering for the right Word to finish his French lesson, across the way: while in still a third corner of the room an ambitious youth is learning that he is not a Daniel Webster, and may never hope to be. Still, we have seen it through. NV-ei have respected each other's hardships, How well it has sounded to us to hear our Dean say that she was so proud of the way in which class-es were carried along, especially in the absence of the room teacher. Initiative has certainly been brought to the immediate foreground. Again. This time it is to speak of something which, ,when we think of it. saddens our outlook on the coming year's work. Longfellow has truthfully sail that into each life some rain must fall. XVe are to lose our Dean and faithful guide, Miss Pope. Lose? N03 not quite so bad. NVe are lending her to Columbia University to study for a year. Here again is the remarkable school spirit shown. Every girl has promised to do her best in helping to direct affairs next year. A year or two ago. and many would have been afraid to undertake such a responsi- bility. But we have learned that we are here, Not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Although we shall miss our guiding hand, we shall all strive to work if she were present to bring out the best in us and in others. ln due course of time. conditions will be altered. Presently, other things being equal, we shall enter upon our life in the new buildings. which are about ready no '

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