Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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I8 OFFERING The Classes. J U N1oRS. QUESTION.10h, why did you juniors decide to come here P Firsz' Voice.- I'd abandoned my hopes of a college career. Secwzr! Voice.- My father and mother were teachers you see So that is the bent of the family tree. Thim' Voice.- With a five hour day and an eight month year That a teacher's profession is easy, 'twas clear. Fozzrfk lbzke.- A catalogue told me the charms of the place Which created a longing no time can erase. CHoRUs.-Since coming our purpose is clearly defined, An ethical value in teaching we find To lead to right thinking and willing, the mind, And raise to a plane that is higher, mankind. SENIORS. QUEsT1oN.-Oh, why are you Seniors so sorry to go? Fizfsz' Voice.- The world is so large, and little we know. Seaofza' AV0z'ce.- The hours of study, the quiet of ten, T Now go from our life in the worship of men. Thim' Voice.- Those talks in the morning, we'll have them no more But the precepts and lines are for others in store. Fomffh Voice.- We'd like to stay and win hack our ball But the juniors will lose it themselves next fall. CHoRUs.-We part from a place and friends that are dear, Whose kindness and help will no longer he near, But still through the days of the oncoming year We've memory always to comfort and cheer.

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OFFERING I 7 and equipments stand here in Bridgewater, the beneficent work of the thousands of graduates who are to be found in all the States of this Union, in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Chili, France, England, South Africa, India, japan, in the Philip- pines, can not be estimated. One only knows, Who knoweth all things and rewardeth him that doeth His will. With the last addition, that of the Kindergarten to the Model School, it seems as if the Normal School has reached the ideal of what a Normal School should be. And yet there is one thing more that is wanting to put the finish- ing touch to the magnihcent structure, one thing, foreshadowed as it were, by the Kindergarten. just as with the Kindergarten the lowest point was reached at which education can begin at the lower end, so it ought to be possible at the upper end to reach the highest point to which the education of the teacher of the common schools can be carried. It should not be too much to expect, and it would only keep Massachusetts on par -with some other states which she out- ranks in other respects, to see the Bridgewater Normal School, which is the only one that has a full four years' course, raised to the dignity of a college, with authority to confer degrees of Pedagogy. The Bridgewater Normal Col- lege would be the well earned crowning of Mr. Boyden's fifty years' great work as teacher, and of his forty years' work as Principal of the Bridgewater State Normal School. A F. H. K. The following sonnet was written to commemorate the completion of twenty-five years of Mr. Boyden's principalship. in the Bridgewater Normal School. Its republication seems not inappropriate to this memorial year. SCRIPTUM EST. BY M. H. LEONARD. Angel,of Record, what inspires thy pen ? A quarter-century with work full-fraught, ' And manifold results this work hath wroughtg Thoughts daily sown to bloom in thoughts again And lives of women true and earnest men, And hosts of children these have reared and taught. A thousand schools that inspiration caught With issues intricate beyond our ken. And when, O Angel, will this record close? When matter, mind and force shall cease to be, When fire burns not, when water no more Hows, Nor makes its circuit through air, earth and sea, When truth shall perish and Creation's light Be blotted out, iizen will I 4' FINISH write.

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