Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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ix-1 Sgcial, The Executive Board of Omcers are : President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, and a Club Committee of nine members, Their plans must be approved by the Executive Board. The Club Cnm- mittee shall be divided into three committees according to their duties, Musical, Social or Literary and be appointed by the President. Each Class and the Faculty shall be represented in the lixeeutive Board. Any member ofthe school can become a member of the Club by paying an annual fee of twenty-five cents. The Executive Board appoints for each term an editorial staff for the publication of THE NORMAL OFFERING, which is to be henceforth pub- lished once a year at the end of the school year in the form of an attrag- tive, Hnely illustrated year-book. The Club has thus far successfully attained the object for which it was formed, the entertainments have been fof a high order and of great benefit not only tothe members of the Club, but also to the people of this and neighboring towns. This is shown by the great patronage which the entertainments attract, for the three committees vie with each other to procure for the Club's entertainments the best talent in the literary and musical world. Ad multos annos, FRANZ H. KIRMAYER. If N4 1? N31 lf it Yr il! wi L sl A 4fx?i59-greg'-12f 24 tuba! thai , ,, . 6,1317 41. A 1 1.1-'. . Him- - in ' ,pl x.. T r 01 U' Y K t' cz-S, VH f .A Dfff' A' Q-, M i'. 1

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Clu :xg E mn 'Y Q-. B. -. -4 5. 5 ' v U . M., ,zc 3 ...z .n l ...C . uf, 'f'-3'!t sf 'L ' -31.-L , .1 ' 'A ina., -- - W n.--.,. f- !...,.. ....,,, I':S . ovgg . ...4. .,.., . 1 ...f B! '1 I xv ,ir 1 n 's , .. w,. adjournmentff QFrom alumni record I876 by. Mr. A. G. Boydenj The great variety of questions proposed for debate gave ample scope for dis- play of learning and skill not only to the regular disputants, but also to the other young men, for after the opening arguments the question was open for debate to all. Many a triumph was earned, many a defeat was stoically borne. Quite often those very defeats were the incentives to better efforts until the earlier disasters were turned to victories in later encounters. In 1895 the Normal Lyceum was changed to The Normal Con- gressf' a Constitution and Rules and Orders were adopted fashioned after those of the Congress of the United States. The officers were: A Speaker, Vice-Speaker, Clerk, Assistant Clerk, who shall also perform the duties of Treasurer, two Sergeant-at-Arms, an Executive Committee, an Editorial Board consisting, of an Editor-in-Chief with three or more assis- tants, a Business Manager with one or more assistants, and an Auditor. Rules and Orders: I. An entertainment from 7.30 to 8 p. m. 2. The regular order of procedure of the Congress as follows : I. Reading of the journal. 2. Introduction of Bills, Resolves and Orders of Inquiry. 3. Reports of Committees. 4. Miscellaneous Business. 5 Considera- tion of the Orders of the Day. The Rules of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts shall be the authority on all matters and questions not provided in these Rules. THE NoRMAL OFFERING was henceforth published monthly by the Editorial Board, Declamation and the Reading of Selections were discon- tinued. V . ' This Congress gave the young men a clear idea of how business is transacted by our lawmakers and lasting benefits were derived from the debates. Since the business of the Congress was nearly wholly transacted by the young men and since the young ladies, who form by far the larger part of the members of the school did not take a prominent part in the exer- cises, it was thought best, to devise some plan by which this state of affairs might be remedied and the original idea of mutual improvement could be carried out. Consequently a committee was appointed to pre- pare such a plan. This committee reported and on Nov. 4, 1898 the Nor- mal Congress was changed to The Normal Club. By-Laws which had been prepared by a committee previously appointed, were adopted. Mr. A. C. Boyden was unanimously elected the first President of the Club. The Club meets on alternate Friday evenings. ' The object of the Club shall be threefold, Musical, Literary and 23

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Qu 'ir t 'Ffrs:.fiQ, Y. wp: ' 'y . Ntmcffi iff- Q . . w...Q3 K Q. r'lc . Urn i'av9,. . wma' ......Q5' R 'g I'-11:52 V. wi' 'lm' Well . Hgff for the 3fffl3f:2z pub- 'ff Ib lf? 0 :Y - A ' A 12 Ring. f Snitz iz i ,jg gm .ic of :big 'Heh the .,.e.'t1ry 356 H1 Tili. what the School Miers to its Stuoents. .i1 ' 1 T INVITES them to the free use of one of the best equipped I Normal School plants in this Country costing ,S500,ooO. Its buildings occupy a square of nearly four acres with apleasant - southern exposure. It has a park of six acres including a beautiful pond and fine shade trees, with pleasant walks and tennis and hockey courts, a fine chestnut grove of one-half acre adjoining the park, and a fine athletic Held of two acres. The main school building is a masonic structure, built of brick and marble, in three connected blocks, eighty-seven feet front, three hundred and fourteen feet long, three stories and a basement, with a large assembly hall, thirty-seven class-rooms, besides offices, coat rooms, toilet rooms, lunch rooms, apparatus rooms, playrooms, gymnasium-room, and engine- rooms. It is heated and ventilated by the fan system, and has an electric lighting service and an electric time service, and heat regulating apparatus. It accommodates two hundred and sixty normal stuzlents and four hundred and seventy-Eve model school pupils. It has nine labora- tories, scientitic and industrial, provided with superior collections of speci- mens in natural history and modern apparatus, and a library of nine thousand volumes distributed in the different departments. The school offers five courses of study the product of sixty-Eve years of experience, the regular course of four years, the elementary course of two years, the intermediate course of three years, the kindergarten course of two to three years, and special courses for College graduates, normal school graduates and teachers of experience. Observation and practice in the model school is a part of each course. Having the model school in the same building brings the normal students in touch daily with actual grade work. The school has a faculty of sixteen experienced instructors in the normal department and thirteen instructors in the model school,-the principal and the teachers in each of the ten 'class-rooms and two teachers in the kindergarten. 25