Muncie Normal Institute - Arbor Vitae Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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F s - been sounded and named. as a clue. ll is a science ot' intervals. This is an essential part ot' Public School Music and is a vital part ot' any school cur- riculum. This study is called "solt'eggio." Vocal instruction in the Public School Music is not necessary, but the solleggio part is valuable to every student. XVe nmst read music as we read our grammar. or any other study: without hearing the sounds. Solteggio is the first stcp towards this desideratum. Singing is ot great help to the pianist. Any method that takes up the two clet's in the early stages and does not cling too closely to the key ol' tl, is good. liut no method is good without a good teacher. Only hc. who can demonstrate every possibility. is a good teacher. The sympathetic bond between pupil and teacher must never be lost sight ol: it is a most impor- tant factor. Another thing- the juvenile recitals are injurious to thc pupil. They dwarl' the growth. l'iubenstein's mother was wise in relusing to allow the boy to give concerts, in spite ol' their need ol' the money. .losel llolmann was the greatest child prodigy ever heard in music. but tailed to become the wonder he was expected to become, in later years. Richard Strauss is still the foremost living composer, though not what we expected ot' llotmann. This is the age ol' scientilic pedagogy. "Education" is derived from the l.atin "educo" meaning "to bring out." and it is the aim of every teacher to elicit all they can from thc pupil that he naturally has instead ol' trying to hammer in. ttf course it was not always so. Hayden. Beethoven and Paganinni sullered many severe punishments for the slightcst mistakes. liut music is being composed for children today. by liizct, liheinberger, Schumann and others that will enable thc youngest student to play and comprehend. The time is al hand when music has its rightful place in the education ot' our children and only those who are well qualitied in the reading and execution ot' it may be able to procure positions in our schools and colleges. "'Thc nian that hath no music in hinirclf. Nor is not moxcd by the concord ol' swccl round - ls tit for trcasons. ftrzilagenis and spoils, The innliolls uf his spirit arc dull as night. .ind his allcctions darla as lirclnisg I.ct no such man bc truKtcd.' Said Lorenzo." Shailicspcarc. "Nh-i'chant ui' Venice." .Xcl Y. Scene l. 'wr e 1 w if YQ, X AM, . .1- 104

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Vos Salutamus, tum Valete S we send this Arhor Vitae to the press we lind il necessary to stop and pen a few lilies to carry our greetings to fellow students and our heartfelt gratitude to our helpers every- where. XVe found at the very heginning that we had a united support such as we never thought of hefore from the stu- dents. As our work has progressed we have found that every appeal has met with a response, such as we could hardly have hoped for. Especially do we wish to express our thanks to the Stall' whose untiring elforts have la1'gcty lnade this hook what it is, and lo the Art Department, who under Bliss Sinclair and Ntiss liutcher, have given us such splendid illustrations. XVe hope that as this hook goes forth it may tl'llty he a 'l'ree of Life and that il may inspire higher and hetler achievements from those who read its pages. XVhatever may he its intrinsic value, il must stand as a continued triumph over difficulties. From the tirst move we have mel with things seemingly impossihte to overcome. hut we have found that lhe true spirit of College life is that of pushing ditficulties aside, so that we think in this respect we have so much the more made our hook represent the spirit of the school. XVe have no douht that the critic can lind many tlaws hut we are not sending this hook out for that class ot' people. YVe are intending to please our fellow students, who in years to come will wish to look hack to the old days in our Alma Nlatcr. in the year of nineteen tifleen. And now farewell. 'l'he year that is gone has heen titled with much of hoth failure and triumph. No douht to all of us at times have come suggestions of failure, of defeat. Uftentimes the reward seemed hardly worth the price. yet we have struggled on and now as we near the end of our school work and stop to take a hackward view at the path over which we have come. we cannot hut feet that we have gotten a little farther on our way, that we have risen, at least, to some height. Like the traveler on the mountain side. the way seems rough and often he is going down rather than upg yet tinally he emerges on a mountain peak and tinds that he in his toilsome path, has risen perhaps even mites ahove the plain helow. And now may we, fellow students, in our work in life make use ot the trials and triumphs of this year to good advantage, for in the words of the poet: "I aln a part of all that l have met Yet. all experience is hut an arch, Where thru' gleams that nntraveled world XVhose margin fades forever and forever XVhen l move." Lyman I.. Hann, Editor. 5

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