Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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Alma Mater As Alma Mater ' s children, we Proclaim our filial loyalty. For Clarion is of regal fame. And proudly do we bear her name; The purple robe of power she wears Above a heart that dreams and dares. While golden Truth her forehead crowns. And far and wide her praise resounds. In dignity enthroned she waits For all who seek her open gates. The Book of Knowledge wide outspread With Wisdom ' s light upon it shed; Her gestures invitation spell. Her eyes a radiant welcome tell. Each stranger may adopted be Into her royal family. To her we render homage due. And daily pledge our vows anew. To her we bend the willing knee In token of fidelity; Her touch uplifts to manhood ' s height, Her counsel girds the soul with might. As forth into the world we fare To plant the gold and purple there. ' Air, The Watch on the Rhine. E. O. S. 18

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The Model School HE Model School is an institution of learning in itself. As a place for preparation for teaching, it is a very potent factor in any Normal School. It is putting theory into practice under competent guidance. Clarion gives special attention to this part of teacher-training and perhaps there is no more marked success than is here developed. The children, themselves, get the benefit of many differently qualified teachers and a variety of methods and theories and learn to discriminate shrewdly as to those who meet their needs and requirements. If one passes successfully through the ordeal of the Model School, he cannot enter other schools without a store of useful and valuable experience in discipline, character-reading and building, and the art of imparting knowledge to others in the most approved and modern methods. With the excellent supervision of Miss Rice, the principal, and Miss Bitner, the primary instructor, the student teachers are especially favored. Miss Bitner is especially qualified as a primary teacher and has charge of the four lower grades. It is now esteemed of supreme importance to start school children right to obtain later satisfactory results. Miss Klahr is director of the Kindergarten department and the student teachers help in this work also; so there is e ery chance to become familiar with the vhole system of child instruction from infancy to eighth grade. This year Domestic Science is being taught in the Model School in con- nection with formerly taught branches and this makes a pretty full program of efficient instruction on all prescribed lines. v - - 20