Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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Page 15 NORMAL OFFERING e Voiume xi Knowledge. - GH clover that swayslin the midsummer breeze, Sweetly sufficient beneath your trees 3 Oh thing without yearning, peace supreme Are you never awaked from your fragrant dream ? And yet,-a butteriiy passed your way I saw him pause for his moment's stay, And you lifted your heart of honey-dew And now you know loneliness-even you ! Ethel Hobart, '97, g Distance. ACROSS the bay faint echoes drift to me From the glaring, unmelodious town, Merging in peace and opalescent sea, Now that the sunset, flower-like, folds down. When I inherit, after lite, my star, Will then the world, the clashing world, grow too Transfigured so, remotely still and far, Perfect beyond some widierevening View ? Ethel Hobart, '97, 7 1

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Volume XI NORMAL OFFERING Page 15 Miss:Bertha O. Metcalf. Miss Ethel P, Wheeler, Miss Gretchen Osterhoudt. 7

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voiume Xi NORMAL OFFERING Page 17 Life at Bridgewater Sixty Years Ago. Albert G. Boyden. WHEN I was a pupil in the school in the years 1848-49, I the school had been in its new home,-the first building in this hemisphereerected for a State Normal School,- two years. The erection of this building by the State was an epoch in the life of the school, it gave the school a permanent home and placed it on the roll of State institutions. It was no longer an experiment. The building was an attractive wooden structure of the Tuscan order sixty-four feet by forty-two and two stories in height. On the first floor the right front door opened into the men's ante-room and the left opened into the woman's ante-room, and beyond the cross hall was 'a class room and the model schoolroom. Stairways led from the ante-rooms to the second floor on which was the Assembly Hall with desks for eighty-four students, and a class room in each front corner twenty-one feet by twelve' The Assembly Hall was a light cheerful room with an entablature and tinted walls. Each room was supplied with new furniture. Blackboards extended around each schoolroom. The library was small and there was but little apparatus. The location was on the corner of School and Summer Streets, one and one-half acres in extent, a part of the present School lot. Imagine the School in this bright home pursuing its onward, upward course. The personnel of the School included Nicholas Tillinghast, the principal, Richard Edwards, the first assistant and Dana P. Calburn, the second assistant. It was a strong Faculty, the Principal was a graduate of the West Point Military Academy and each of the Assistants became a normal school principal in a few years. The students numbered fifty-six, twenty-seven men and twenty-nine women. Co-eds you 'will note, with two surplus women for chaperons. It was a body of working students from the middle ranks who knew the value of time and money. The course of studies extended, through three consecutive terms of fourteen weeks each. We had a three hours session each half week day