Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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22 THE NORMAL OFFERING Seniors certainly can mention basket-ball with pride. Gur Cadets with Miss Lowry at the head refused graciously to yield to anybody. When as Juniors, we came so near and yet so far to winning the championship, a firm resolution was made that as Seniors, our name must be engraved on that cup. y If some morning, before breakfast, you should chance to meet a solitary maiden following with an opera glass the movements of a small bird, do no think her a lunatic escaped from the State Farm-she is only a Normal trying to know a bird. Perhaps there are some who would like to have us explain what it means when, upon being asked to take a walk or attend a basket ball game, we shake our heads and tragically exclaim: Booking or maps ! To such persons we will say: If you live you will learn. The alternating principle of the Model School practice work, experimented with this year, has made us the objects of its existence. It has given us as workers in the Model School some benefits and provided a respite from continued pressure of grade teaching practice. When in the spring days with the outdoor pleasures at hand, the division of time, so each part of the class might get some time for leisure, proved highly satisfactory all around. We are not inclined to overboastfulness but would like to state that a feel- ing of satisfaction comes over us at the contemplation of our notebooks. VVhile at times, there is much question as to what is meant by our drawings and dia- grams, yetthe fact that we have attempted is some consolation. For all that, we have spent many happy hours under the care of our Alma Mater. In days to come we shall look. back to them with regret, and feel that we should be glad to respond to the call for a class meeting. i

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THE NORMAL OFFERING 21 Jenzbrs. WILLIAM G. Howiis, , Pyfgsggimg MAIUON R- NGYES, Vz'ce-Preszdwzf SIDNEY T. NoRTHcoTT, 5gC,,em,,J, ETHEL C. LOWRY, Tygagzyygy LOUISE V. BOWKER, ..... Hz's!0rz'rm Class Colors-Dark' Bfzze afar! Gofd. 552 AS we look back upon our last year at Normal, we are bewil- T 'T' dered by the great number of pictures that hang upon ' memory's walls. Cf all these there are some which we never can forget. p Among them are the pleasant hours spent in No. I7lH,VEll1'1 endeavor to think definitely, or in 24 struggling g with high lights. ' Why, on I-Iallowe'en, did the Seniors, who should have known 'ff ef, wh ii' '? 0 9 'nf s . SZ e wg, A-ff' A 2,4 I better, allow the sights and sounds of the external world so strongly to solicit the mind? Alas for our poor human nature! We must confess that under the pressure of these distracting circumstances, we did those things we ought not to have done. A There are some things, however, to which we can look back with pride. It was in Zoology that one member of our class was heard to say that the air sac in a bird's egg was on the left side. Another informed us that the Fly-catchers caught their food on the fly, of course. Still another asked in all seriousness if a bob-white was not a sparrow. It was one of our instructors who made the startling announcement that every teacher should be a story teller, and advised us to cultivate the art. What should we do in English Lit. if it were not for her who has swallowed grammar and ate arithmetic? In spite of Mr. S.'s injunction to let the absent one speak for herself, we must tell you that one of our classmates has been persuaded to leave us, and to seek her sphere of usefulness in a different direction. We trust that we shall not have many more deserters. Some of our number are resolved to be athletic at all costs, and have been .seen kneeling with white faces and bated breath on top four sections of the vaulting-box, or hanging from the top-most stall-bar in momentary expectation of being dashed to a dreadful death below. For all that, we have made for our- selves a record in basket ball that is not to be despised. Yes indeed! The

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THE NORMAL OFFERING 23 a cyecizbn 2. SUMNER W. CUSHING, u 'pm-5,',fg,,g ETHEL BOYDEN, - . Vzke-P1'esz'r!e1zZ ELSIE E- TURNER, Sec1'ez'a1gf-Tffeaszww' CHARLES P. SAVARY, ....... Hzkfprzkm Cfass Colors-Gola' and Black. V, p Y friend Dooley visited Section B, the other day. He 5 stayed only one afternoon, but he saw enough and learned enough to make his eyes stick out. He got here just j after dinner,-I had invited him to come then for economic if reasons,-and I took him into the Dutch recitation. Now Henessey, or someone, must have coached Dooley up pretty well, for he seemed to know all about the people. The minute he got inside the door, he said Shoa me the bootcher will yez. The which? said I, whom the deuce do you mean ? Sure, he replied, it's Smith I mane, ain't they afther caallin' him the' champeen cutter av the class? Or is ut becuz he saws wood ? just .as I was about to give Dooley a violent call down, Bill came in, Philistine in hand. Dooley shouted, Dere he is, begob, Oi' knew he was a bootcher, will yez look at de brown papie. Well about then Kirmey shut the door with a slam, which jarred Dooley so, that it was hard to keep him from Hsmashin' d' mug aff di dufferf' I After Dutch I asked Dooley if he wouldn't look around a little, while I plugged up on Chem, and he started down the corridor. In three minutes he was back, white as a ghost and as breathless. Begob, he gasped, taake me me out av ut, taake me out av ut. What's the matter now? I inquired. Will, said he, Iwuz jist agoin' tru d' chamber av horrors. The what ? said I. Oh, said he, thot room jist forninst, wit aall d' did min 'n 'tingsf' Of course I immediately understood that he mean tthe Physiological and Zoologi- cal Lab., and said so. Will I wuz agoin' tru ut, annyhow, whin Oi heard some- Wan taalkin'-a goil ut wuz,-taalkin' till 'ersilf. 'Noa not this waltz,' siz she. 'Th' nixt wan is yures,' siz she. Oh, I replied, that was no doubt Miss I-I-ch-n who had fallen asleep. I understand she sometimes talks that way. Dooley began to look round the room. Say, heasked, Hwhos' d' tin guy, indicating Sinnott, who was bending in anxious study over his Astronomy. 4'Oh, that's Sinnottf' I answered, he's not to be disturbed. I-Ie's trying to get through this year and he has to make up for the time he lost in taking the census. 4' Oi heard he had a pull wit d' faculty, said Dooley, and bc d' look, Oi' shud saay ut 'ud be a hard pull fer 'im.