Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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9 that we happen to be studying at the time. If you can't find a. connection, make one. Let us take them for theme subjects, for platform exercises, let us write about them and discuss them with each other. We are wasting golden opportunities. MANUAL training is to be the coming necessity. We already have our sewing and sloyd. The time is surely coming when cooking and school gardening must be added. We must get in the van or be left behind. It looks as though one of two things must come and come speedily, a lengthening of the course, or special grade training. THE phrase Busy as a Senior has become proverbial. Anyone who dares to suggest any addition to the work is looked upon as an enemy to the class. Nevertheless there are many things that we need. For one thing, we ought to have a period a week which should be a combination of impromptu platform exercises and current events. There should be more opportunity for open discussion of matters of public interest and our school life. WHAT kind of books are taken out of the library most fre- quently? Works of elementary science and novels. YVe need more of both. Many of us depend wholly upon the library for our science books. They are too few and antiquated. VVhy not have dupli- cate copies of some of the new ones? In spite of the fact that modern fiction is taken out so gener- ally the books are very few. This, however, is partly due to the fact that few acceptable books are written. VVhy not have a suggestion box and have some of the books suggested discussed in the English class? SOON we will be alumnae. Let us prove our vaunted ,08 spirit by keeping in touch with our class. Our strength must be in our union. The alumnae association is not as active as it should be. Let ours prove the most faithful of any class. To accomplish this we must do at least three things: Keep our secretary informed of our whereabouts, attend alumnae meetingsg and respond to and proffer suggestions in regard to the school. A Round Robin is one of the most effectual methods of making class loyalty personal. CULTIVATE school spirit and class spirit. There is always room for improvement. Show your spirit by being loyal. It can be done in more ways than one.

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Editorials HE class of 1908 has this year taken the initiative and created a class book, The Senior Quill? In consideration of the fact that this is a new venture, we have been very anxious that it should be a successful one. We hope that the idea will so commend itself to the coming Senior classes that they will follow it up and improve on it, year by year. THE members of the Senior class have been doing research work in special lines of interest, chiefly in the manufacturing line. They studied the subjects at first hand and wrote the results, a few of which are published in this book. Read them-they are worth while. ' WE are as a school unusually fortunate in possessing many pictures and pieces of statuary. Strange to say, we complain that we are so busy that we do not have time to look at them. This ought not to be so. Why would it not be a good plan for a group of next year's Seniors to form themselves into a volunteer com- mittee to take groups of newly arrived Juniors over the building and introduce them to our pictures. This ought to be planned before the close of school so as to be done within the first week. Our principal hopes some day to have a printed catalog of these things. FOR her platform exercise, one Junior spoke upon the power plant connected with the school. That is right. Don't ignore the things nearby. A description and history of some of our pictures and statues would make a good subject for a group of girls to take. XNZE have our current events, our platform exercises, our dra- matics and our glee club. Why is it that there are no debates, no mock trials, no model town meetings? WE almost completely ignore the school art pictures that come to us. It is hard to find time for everything, but we should not allow this condition of things. The chief reason for it is, probably, that the subjects are in no way connected with anything

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10 SOME people are of the opinion that education is merely going to school and learning lessons. This is the limited sense of the Word. It has a more enlarged meaning. It means the develop- ment of all our faculties, the broadening of our minds, the forma- tion of character. VVe should learn not for school but for life. Education is something We must acquire by ourselves and it can only be gained by Work. These are some of the truths we may carry away with us from the Framingham Normal School. Chronology of the Framingham Normal School Dec. 28, 1838. Voted by Board of Education to establish a Normal School at Lexington. Sept., 1839. First Normal School in America opened by Mr. Peirce. Three pupils. Oct., 1839. Model school opened. 1842. Resignation of Mr. Peirce. Succeeded by Rev. Samuel J. May. Legislature appropriates to Normal Schools 86,000 a year for three years. 1844. Mr. Peirce returns. School removed to Fuller Academy, West Newton. 1849 adopted. 1852 1855 1866 enlarged. 1875 1886 1887 1888 1889 1898. Rev. Eben S. Stearns succeeds Mr. Peirce. Three years' course School removed to Framingham Center. Practice school discontinued. Mr. Geo. M. Bigelow succeeds Mr. Stearns. Mr. Stearns succeeded by Miss Annie E. Johnson. School building Normal Hall dormitory built. Practice school re-established. Miss Johnson succeeded by Miss Ellen Hyde. Crocker Hall built. Crocker Hall partially destroyed by fire. May Hall built. Semi-centennial of school celebrated. Mr. Henry Whittemore succeeds Miss Hyde. Household Arts course established.