Connecticut Froebel Normal School - Yearbook (Bridgeport, CT)

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Your Book Now Elsie Clark had talent in art, But about her folk-dancing, there is little to say. Although Miss Coggswell did all on her part To impress upon Elsie, -how gracefully she danced in her younger days Ruth Drew, was out for fun, Even tho her lessons, she had not done. lVe are told she charmed the masculine sex, Now we wonder, who'll be her next? Lillian Drew, in manner was charming, :Xltho her interest in school was never alarming. She, like her sister, a good time did enjoy, Especially, if in the party, there were some darling boys. Kathleen Ryan was a maiden mild, About the quietest in our class. On all her studies she spent much toil, But i11 music was not surpassed. Ruth Young is the last to be mentioned, Last, but not least we can say, For she bothered no one and did her work, ln her own individual way. XVhatever our destiny in life may be, May we with pleasant memories recall, Our days spent at C. F. N. to he The happiest days of all. -Elizabeth M. Couighliin.

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Connecticut Froebcl Nor-mal CLASS POEM The day will soon be close at hand, When we shall say farewell To teachers and classmates at C. F. N. Whom we 'have learned to love so well. To Miss Mary and Miss lnez, Our grateful thanks are dne. For the untiring efforts they put forth Vlfith the class of 1922. Not forgetting Mr. Dakin, , Miss Coggswell and Miss Clark, Their patience was nnshaken. XVhen some knowledge they did impart. Flavian Brennan, our president, lVas a maiden, sweetly grave, And with manners becoming a lady, With dignity always did behave. Marion King, our secretary, At story-telling was noted, And in ,preparing her lessons, A genius by allwas voted. Marion VVeed, our treasurer, Has made for herself a name, ln studying the Education of Man And disclosing her ideas on same. .-X very quiet person was Lillian O'Leary, Who at studying never grew weary, Wlho no dou'lJt, thoroughly ellclcient will be, When in some school room reigns she. Helen Smith, I'm sure you'll agree, Vilas a very talkative maiden. Who, each day, traveled carefree On the train back and forth from New Haven. Olive Paige was a maiden small, A bobbed-haired miss with a smile for all. Her Mot-her-Plays were works of art, Written with true feeling from the depths of her heart Josephine Maher had little to say, But traveled about in her own calm way. Her voice was gentle, soft and low, Her manner, gracious, is this not so?

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Connecfiicut Froebcl Normal 17 2 tn A issgiugu A' fd , E. . r ' 'ls' 1.. 7 f I Isl' F! THE PIG ON HOUSE N N every child, the yearning for knowledge of the life of nature awakens Aj early, and you, Mother, should cherish this longing and give him that for which he craves-an intimacy with nature. Teach him those things that belong to his age and give him to understand the soul of life and nature. He wants to find the plain and abiding truth, to discover the profound unity lying deeply beneath the personal or partieularg to recognize the pure truths that are behind the fleeting and unstable passing details, and you, Mother dear, should be the means through which he learns these true things of life and nature so that he will grow up in a pure and holy state of mind, venerating and respecting the life that God has given us and the forms and usages in and to which that life is put. ' In giving him the lessons of life at the right time, Mother, you foster the strong, clear inclinations of soul and upraise the spiritual sense of God's deep unwavering fitness and the straight continuity of all things through life and death. These things must be given him in the right way though, dear, and at the right timeg for if they are given in a wrong manner, the mind does not take hold and carry them uprightly and true and untarnishedg and if they are given either too early or too late, the child is not ready to fully comprehend and therefore t.hese truths given him are but weak, deformed thoughts, or he has already formed his own ideas, and yours, given him, will become coarsened in their reception, lacking the free expausiveness of the purely spiritual type.