Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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11= :2 - MM H I H !!►:!(: Heirication lo SARAH II. GILBERT, our counsellor and Jriend, whose untiring efforts have contributed largely) to our success, ive, the Class of 19 3, gralejully) dedicate this, our record book• ini

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f [. J 11 m-m-mk « . ■■ ■ 8 ■ ■ h . ......II . ■ ■ • ■ » mmiffm SET t r .... arafj ugfjes Gilbert TV TISS G1LBKRT’ is a name I hat rings true. Students early discover this fact through experiences in her class room. on the campus, ami the citadel of her hall. Delinquents hear in it a note of warning and a call to better effort, while it becomes a clarion of victory to those who measure up to her standard. At Buckingham, Pa., in the home of John V. and Lctitia (iilhert, the unassuming woman who has answered to this potent name for many years at Millersvillc. grew to the free and leisurely maturity of the happy country child. Three sisters, all of whom are living, shared this privilege. Kniina, the youngest, taught Latin and French here for two years and is now the wife of the eminent Greek scholar. Professor Paul Shorey. of the I’niversity of Chicago. Her people belonged to the society of Friends, and Miss Gilbert continues in that historic faith whose principles of individual responsibility and equality have produced fine examples of manhood and womanhood. While Dr. Brooks was principal. she came to the Normal School as a student, and secured a permanent place in his heart by her analytical mind and her finely accentuated personality. She took all the degrees offered, and after a brief teaching period in the schools of Strasburg, Pa., and a year at Cornell Fniversity as a special student of Mathematics, in the fall of 1881, she entered upon her life work here. To speak of this work as Miss Gilbert's “professional life” is impossible, as she has only one life—that lived with and for the Normal students. She is the social tenter of the hall in which she keeps with the girls, the quiet study hours that distinguish our school. She has taught, principally. Fnglish Grammar, with some Fnglish Literature. Latin, and Pedagogy. Her teaching, like her thinking, is clear and accurate, and few there he that escape her incisive questions; neither does she require what has not been thoroughly and logically covered in instruction. Marvellous for terseness and precision are her written exercises, (treat truths from the Masterpieces of Fnglish Literature? which she uses as illustrations are added to the rich inheritance of her pupils in trained habits of thought and correct forms of speech. In her stimulating presence higher attainments in knowledge