Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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based on a thorough scientiiic course. i A most impl-essive sight is the chapel gathering, the last exercise each 1 Ab t 1 '00 students and teachers gather for a brief devotional exer- cise One has not heard the plantation melodies until he has heard them sung voices with 1,el.00 more for the refrain. day. V 'ou ,o by the trained choir of 150 il caine away with the query, when will-the boys and girls in the inore favored North have as good an opportunity for an all-round education as is . t afforded by Tuskegee and Hampton to the children of the despised races? 1barvarb .ll A QHERE has been a growing tendency, during tl1e past few years, - for the young inen to take up university study after graduation H . from the Noi-inal School. The following graduates are studying at Harvard: Pellissier, '03, Carroll, '03, Leonard, '023 1 ' 0 ' Packard, '01, Gannnons, '01, Armstrong, '02, Matossian, '03 is at Yale. MacKendrick, Savary, Tilley, and Perry, who have been with us for a yea.r or inore, are studying at Harvard. 'From two to three years' credit has been given by the Lawrence Scientiiie School to our graduates. This generous treatment by Harvard is greatly appreciated and we are very glad to see our young inen responding to it. NVe are also glad to hear, as we d.o from various sources, that the work done by the Bridgewater graduate has been of suehx a character as to justify the credits given. Those who are planning for arvard in the future will no doubt feel themselves under obliga- tions to sustain the good reputation thus far maintained in order that the pre- sent cordial relations existing between Harvard and Bridgewater may be continued, That the work of the boys at Harvard is not over monotonous would seein to be indicated by the spirit of their e01mmmiw,13i011 found else- where in the Offering. Their visits to Bridgewater'will always be most Welcome. . .24

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H Qlimpee of Guskegee. ,D IE' . A A VERYBODY has heard of Tuskegee. WVe have listened to Mr. WVashington, or have read his book 'fUp from Slaveryj' and have wondered if the pictures he has painted were too highly ff colored. The visitor to the school finds himself more than sat- -. 1 .. '1 ,ft . F f' gf... - U -.5 77 Q?E Q2S435i. f . pf 1 - v Nuilii .1 -:lvl ' 1.N 3:11 404 llq ,4- flz .:- fiufltrv- .,:4: 1' isiied. If he can spend an evening there, he will rind every class-room full of earnest, attentive young men and women who have been working all day in the shop or on the farm. These are persons who are too poor to pay the expenses of the regular course, but who are allowed credit for their labor so that after a time they may take up the regular work. Most of the academic Work done by these students is quite elementary. But there is some high grade Work done in the regular course. I Was much impressed by some delicate analytical work in chemistry carried on by a class of girls in training for nurses. An exercise in geometry, too, was quite equal to anything I have seen in northern high schools. The thinking Was clear and accurate, and the spirit of the class-room vvas unusually kindly and cheerful. The industrial work is splendidly done. Every phase of industrial life which the needs of the community call for is exhibited. The heads of the departments and the men and women in charge of the special shops are highly trained specialists, graduates of normal schools or colleges, or technical students. s For the men there are carpentry and house-building, cabinet work, wagon- building, harness-making, upholstery, tin-smithing, tailoring, blacksmithing, forge and lathe work and farm work. For the women there are cooking, dress- making, inillinery, laundry work, poultry-raising and dairy Work. The buildings are large and substantial, all built by the students, and scrupulously clean. All the domestic work, as well as the farm work, is done by the students. The farm contains 2,600 acres, and is rapidly being brought under higher cultivation. The boys learn road-making, tree-planting and care, the care of stock, as well as the ordinary processes of agriculture. All this is on :J

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4 i Y' 0? Q. 3 E is i- Y ,. u. la Jn rl ff: E l lr if gk A' it 6 if 's w. rJ 'f ,l' .. 'K . r l .,, I as ,. ,. . is il if I 5 T l I 4 f Y fy' rabuation 1903 '1 THE class which graduated June 23d, 1903, in the sixty-third year of the Bridgewater Normal School, twelve had taken special courses, ten were from the four years' course, twelve from the three years', and sixty-four from the two 'years' course. The 7 S. I. ,, .assi peg If -'QQDQ ' -5 1 . . choruses by the school, f'Come Fairies, trip it o'er the grass,' and f'Daybreak, were very pleasing and excellently rendered. The address was delivered by Rev. Charles H, Beale, D. D., of Roxbury. His theme, f'Education, was treated broadly, and in its applications to experience, furnished many suggestive and valuable thoughts. We may regard every event of life as having a beneficent educative power, if we will heed the lesson. The wise ma.n is he who learns to extract from every small annoy- ance, every grievous affliction, its compensating discipline. In this temper, disheartened by no failure, challenging each day to give us its deepest mean- ing, ,we may meet the worst ills dauntless and unmoved. . Hlt matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of. my fate, I am the captain of .,myN'soul. The diplomas were presented by the Principal, who in his address to the graduates emphasized the influence of thought upon character. lVe are no better than the imaginings of our hearts. Our silent thoughts are the founda- tion of all we are, all we achieve. Mr. Carroll presented to the school as the gift of the graduating classes, two interesting pictures, HThe Choice of the Casketsjfainl 'fThe Meeting of Dante and Beatricef' Mingled with the bright mood of the hour was a graver thought., the memory of a voice that is still. The loss of Mrs. Palmer was felt as a new and poignant regret, as we remembered the many similar occasions on which her presence had been a. delight and an inspiration. Let us rejoice that the light of inspiration does not fade when the hunian life is withdrawn from our sight. 25