San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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iRP-rrpatinn Q? A footprint where the sedges lean Above the mirrored pool; A Virgin trail through aches green When mom is calm and C001; A song that thrills the sylvan deeps Where hides the hermit thrush; A. plunge Where crystal Current leaps With joyous, fervid rush. A breath on breeze-blown battlement; A leap from crag t0 erag; A crimson harvest, neetar-blent, Where paused the startled stag. A drop down caverned canyon-steepes Where shouts the foamy'fall, And silver swallow swings and sweeps With eerie note and call. A sense of peace, a reverence meet, When Eveningts censor throws Its diamonds at the daisyAs feet, Its pearls upon the rose, And angelus the zephyr swings With chalice silken, pale, And lily, pure as angel-Wings, Lifts up its holy grail. A couch the weary sinewsv trust When opes the flower Of night And starry stamens s'ift their dust About the Queen of Light ; A sense of all-protecting Right Thatspans from sod to star Adreamless sleep! Dawn! Life! Delight! Fresh fields that call afar! 4B. F. D.

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Eliarm Ahnut the 2175111 311152 g?tatv Nnrmal gulynnl Olnllei'lph 11g Er. Eailey Q? TATE SUPERINTENDENT A. J. MOULDER recommended to the California Legislature of 1862 an appropriation of $5,000 for the establishment of a State Normal School. The Legislature, by act of May 2, 1862, established a State Normal School and appropriated $3,000 for the support of such a school for five months. The act shows that the school was to be held in the iidaytimefi and that tifemales of 15 years or overi, should be entitled to admis- SlOIl. Following are some extracts from the act: ttThe Board of Education of the State of California, together with the superintendent of common schools in the city of San Francisco, Sacramento and Marysville are hereby constituted tex officioy a board of trustees of the Normal School of the State of California as hereinafter provided? iiSessions of such Normal experiment school shall be held in the daytime at least once each day for five days of each week, during five months of each year? nFemales of fifteen or over or any male of the age of eighteen or over shall be entitled to admission upon declaring in writing to the superintendent of public schools his or her intention to engage permanently in teaching 1n the common schools of this state iiThe State Superintendent shall Visit the school at least once each month. ,, itAt the close of the session the Board of Trustees shall exam- ine pupils as to their fitness and grant certificates to teach two years. The first meeting of the Board of Trustees under this act was held in Sacramento 011 May 23, 1862. There were present at that meetmg: Governor Stanford Surveyor General J. F. Houghton State Superintendent of Schools A. J. Moulder City Superintendent George Tait of San Francisco City Superintendent G.Tay10r of Sacramento. Governor Stanford was chosen chairman and Superintendent Tait secretary. Thus it will be seen that a man whose name is so widely known in the state, with whose development he was so long and :SBO closely identified, was the first chairman of the Normal School oard.