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Elbert Garbner Bowen. 'fi HIS YEAR we dedicate our book and heart to ' lf our keen critic and true friend, Albert Gardner lf:-,f Boyden. If this book of ours proves to be, in any true sense, the epitome of the present life of our if Alma Mater, it is peculiarly fitting that we dedia cate it to him who, today,iafter forty years of service, is more than ever the head of the Bridgewater Normal School. We rely upon his interest in our athletic training and con- tests. Has he not always, by precept and by example, advocated the teacher's duty and privilege to possess a fine physique? Has he not extolled the virtue of a healthy and well-disciplined body? r If he has not been able to attend every football, base- ball and basket ball game, he has certainly promoted the mate- rial interest of athletics by his indefatigable and successful efforts to secure our much needed gymnasium. In all that makes for true scholarship we recognize Mr. Boyden's stimulus. We may have been sorely depressed at times by our inability to distinguish truly between a cat and Tom, the cat , or by' our lack of knowledge concerning the ears of birds and the teeth of hens. Yet we are grateful beyond words for general exercises, psychology lessons and pri- vate interviews-indeed, for everything that revealed our lack of accurate observation, logical reasoning and power of making practical applications, and that spurred us to thoroughness, con- sistency and individuality. . y Emerson's - American Scholar has sometimes been called the American people's Declaration of Intellectual Indepen- dence. To how many of us has some convincing general truth or earnest personal word of Mr. Boyden's been the declaration of our intellectual independence! From the day that it was ut- tered we have been ashamed to be content with second hand in- formation, superficial observation and biased conclusion. Crude we may often be in the future, but never again deliberately
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IO THE NORMAL OFFERING superficial. We cannot hope to equal the keen intellectuality, ripe scholarship and controlled originality of this wonderful man, seventy-five years young. But we can hope to emulate his in- tellectual fair-mindedness, industry and perseverance. It is, however, as teacher and friend that our hearts, pay 'most grateful tribute to Mr. Boyden. The record of his work as teacher might well fill a volume. It would be the history of this school, and the biographies of hundreds of men and women up and down the country. Years from now such a record may be written to inspire our children's children. We count our- selves happy, however, to be living in these days when the his- tory is making. W Three characteristics of Mr. Boyden as a teacher seem es- pecially distinctive. First, he is a practical idealist. He com- bines, in a rare degree, an optimistic, far-reaching grasp of edu- cational ideals, with a practical, shrewd conservatism. Hence, he avoids many disappointments and mistakes. Every physical, mental and spiritual effort tells. There are no backward steps and no depressing waits. Ahead of his age, and yet of his age, he moves forward to the goal, without haste, without rest. He knows how to dream, to work, and, when need be, even to wait, for the carrying out of God's great plans. Then, too, Mr. Boyden handles men and things with con- summate skill and tact. He studies every situation with refer- ence to the present and the future. He makes up his mind cau- tiously, impartially, firmly. He listens -thoughtfully to all pro- per advice, modifying his plans if he finds cause. Next he stud- ies people, their special elements of strength and their possibili- ties as helpers. Without loss of dignity or honor, he nearly always wins them to his way of thinking or acting. All who know him in educational comradeship bear testimony to this gift which we students recognize so well. The same loyal def- erence which we feel shows in the honors accorded him by National Educators, andin the unselfish devotion to him and the school shown by the teachers who have so long worked hand to hand andlheart to heart with him here. The third trait of Mr. Boyden's character, and the one which, perhaps, we admire the most, is his sympathy with the ambitions,
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