Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Carter Practice School EIGHT years ago our Normal Faculty discovered an ideal school. This is where our Normal students ought to learn to teach, for here the ideals which we have been setting up in theory have been attained in reality, said our Faculty. This ideal school was the Carter, then located at 61st Street and Wabash Avenue. Every one who knew the Carter School at that time realized that it was the unique Carter spirit which had captivated our Faculty. However, this spirit was then but budding; it has grown and grown until now it is in the blossoming stage of a hardy perennial. Those of us who were fortunate enough to spend ten weeks here, were impressed by the oneness of this feeling which radiates from the principal to the teacher, fi ' om the children, and from the work of the entire school. All of us felt it our first day at the Carter School, but it took most of us the greater part of ten weeks to begin to analyze this feeling or Carter spirit. The Carter spirit is a harmonious and delightful balance in all of the work achieved by the unceasing cooperation on the part of the principal and teachers. Cooperation was the key-note to the success of the enter- tainment given this spring by the children of the Carter School. It meant co-operation between the various grades and departments ; every art department was called upon to contribute to the program, music, danc- ing, language, color, design and dramatization. In short, this spring fes- tival was a concrete example of the efficiency and reality of the work conducted by the most efficient of teachers and principals in our city, Miss Lane. EJiui Tenuis. 7

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Parker Practice School WHAT Colonel Parker meant by complete living can be seen by a visit to the Parker School. Because of its proximity we have come to feel that the Normal College and Parker School are one, and so they are, — at least in their early history. Because this school has come to be such an integral part of our Normal School life, we are prone to accept all without noticing its exceptional qualities. A mere glance at the school itself, the customs that prevail, and the spirit manifested by the children, makes one feel that the Parker is not a school of ordinary kind. Anyone who has witnessed the parade and has seen room after room march by and salute the flag, realizes that the spirit of the Parker School is unique and indescribable. But it is in its departmental work that this school is realizing the ideals of the founder of this institution. The Deaf-Oral Department, with Miss McCowen at its head, is doing splendid work to alleviate the misfortunate. The Silent Voice, or lip reading has widened the horizon of those who have been deprived of speech. Bookbinding and woodwork, although taught only as occupa- tional studies are really intended as an introduction to industrial edu- cation. The domestic science department offers an opportunity for pleasant as well as useful experiences. First of all, though last men- tioned, is the kindergarten ; so well organized, and with such sunny rooms, that we are inclined to consider this the crowning point of our depart- mental work. But it is only after visiting classes in all departments that we are led to the conclusion that the same spirit prevails throughout — pleasantness mutually combined with work. Florciicc Bcnistcni.

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Second f - ' - ysj Cr t e, fss ey ss £r 777essy, ?7 jj et o r, 77 ' s l47 7e , ?7 SJ O Z arr, TA f rby :- ?7 sj 7 c ra s , PP ss Ay? 7, P7 sJ JT r?y, Jj 4o f, 77 jj foe M. 77 jj f oa -f r vs . y j Z a rrfoi7. ?P s. S J ra , Z? j acA-eZf, ? ss Jh , ss l on. ss J?amr f Haines Practice School IN 1906, the Harrison School, as it was then called, was selected to fill the need of another practice school. In addition to the very impor- tant fact that it then became a part of our college life, it has been the scene of many interesting educational changes. The years 1913 and 1914 are red letter years in its history. In 1913 Miss Elizabeth Daley became principal of the Haines, and under her guidance several great enterprises have grown up in it. In this year the school was organized as an industrial center, when manual training, sewing, and cooking were given an important enough place in the cur- riculum to fit those who could go no farther than the elementary school, for a place in the industrial world. In this same year the open window room was started, a little counti ' y school, really, where tubercular and anaemic children of all ages hold their classes. Breakfast and luncheon are served each day, and every child is supplied with a cot on which to take his nap. The open window room is supported by Cyrus McCormick. The Haines School is also a pioneer in the penny lunch room move- ment. In January, 1914, Miss Daley, with no outside help began this enterprise. A success from the beginning, the lunch room now serves over six thousand lunches every month. The Haines District offers very little in the way of amusement to the small Italians living there, and the little recreation they do have, comes from the big school house on Twenty-third Place. We who have worked there realize that they greatly need to be made happy, for they are little pilgrims, lonesome for their warm, sunny Italy. s Florence Rciiistciii.