Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

Page 22 text:

The Influence of the Teacher Humanity lives and g ows by the developing power of a great tradition. Knowledge and skill and character and faith are passed from generation to generation of living men. With the single exception of the pai ent, it is the teacher who bears the heaviest responsibility for the safe transfer of this great inheritance. The teacher, often inexperienced and timid, must through his efforts pass on the rich treasures of the past, not only unimpaiied but, if possible, augmented and clarified. Teaching is therefore not a job nor a position; at its best it has not even been a profession or an art, but to the true teacher it has appealed as a vocation, a prophetic and sacred calling, worthy of the deepest devotion of the human heart. Looking backward we find ourselves profoundly grateful to these teachers who made possible for us those experiences with men and books and art and nature which we now enjoy. Though here they must be nameless we trust their deeds may truly live again in lives made nobler by their faithful service. Adequately to emulate them would be for all who know them a woithy ambition: to pass to others the torch once passed to us is our most earnest desire. A. T. BELKNAP. MARY E. BELKNAP.

Page 21 text:

EDITORIAL In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. We go back many hundreds of years to the time when these words were spoken, back to the days of Solcmon. We have all had our days of prosperity and have rejoiced in them. But what about our days of adversity? We are mutually agreed that in our two years spent at Normal we have encountered vicissitudes of life which proved to be our days of adversity. Did we not encounter them in our days in the Training School and in our daily round of classes ? What did we do and what have we gained from them ? We would answer that each one was to us a day of cpportunity. We CONSIDERED; we found out what we could do when compelled to meet new and unknown conditions. From these adversities we found that we were able to contend in a winning fight over the opposing force or factor. We are stronger men and women for having CONSIDERED when passing through these days, and we know that they will be big factors in our future life when we draw upon our store for assistance in time of adversity. We have now completed the second step in our education. Many of us will enter the teaching profession during the next year; others will go on into higher institutions of learning to drink still further of the fountain of knowledge. We, the members of the Class cf 1922, can consider ourselves extremely fortunate in having been students at Mansfield during the period of evolution of the school system of Pennsylvania. We realize that we are the first class to finish under the new program, and that the ones who ccme after us will have the advantages of the changes that will arise due to the results of the experiments made upon these first classes graduating under the new regime. We are equally thankful that the State of Pennsylvania has awakened from her deep educational slumber and is fast stretching herself to reach the top-most round of the educational ladder. Due to this awakened interest in educational matters we have been able to enjoy many advantages hitherto unknown to the Normal Schools on account of the lack of appropriations sufficient to warrant such advantages. What advantages have we had? We have been under the instruction of as fine corps of instructors as can be found in any school of this class, and to these teachers we pay our highest regards for the many efforts that they have made in our behalf. Little do we realize how much they have really done for us. For the past two years it has been their mission, in conjunction with our parents, to. lift us from the helplessness of life into which we were born, and to place us in the fellowship of the race to which we belong. We are proud of our teachers, and we are equally proud of our school. Mansfield Noimal School has had a career that is noteworthy. She has always stood for the best in all the activities of the school world and the community. She has turned out men and women, strong in mind and body, who have taken leading places in the communities into which they have gone. Such training as is received here will be one of the beacon lights along our pathway in the world; the training has always proved to be such. With her many years of achievement behind her, coupled with the mammoth strides being taken in the lines of education in Pennsylvania, we see in the future a bigger and better Mansfield. The best of success to you, Alma Mater .

Page 23 text:

j£5 j