Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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23 The Joys of Saturday Awake! awake ye Normalites, For Saturday is here, And brings along its own delights, Of dusting and good cheer. Get ready now to sweep the room, With a smile of great content. Take the furniture outside, We are in our element. Open all the windows wide, . Take broom, with courage gayg We'll make the room all clean inside, For it is sweeping day. The kitties that once decked the floor, 'Neath bed and bureau lay, Alas! poor things they are no more, For this is Saturday. Now to the laundry we shall go, .To make our linen white, For starching shirt waists, we all know: Is our extreme delight. But, ah, these joys of work-a-day, That do our muscles strain, Shall end, for Monday comes our way, With lesson-books again. M. I. and C. B. The Personality of the Teacher COLERIDGE. says that personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a background. Behind each teacher's individuality there must be a background of human nature, a great store of sympathy .for children and of understanding of their needs. This she must have in order that she with them, may explore all the wonderful highways and byways that lead to knowledge, and to right liv-

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22 INTRODUCTION Away into a grove young Alva strayed, I-lis task to learn beneath the cooling shade: Before him lay an atlas open wide, Where towns and mountains stood on every side: Long on its page his studious mind was placed, But dark Forgetfulness each name defaced: At length discouraged sorrow o'er him pressed, And a deep sigh came from his laboring breast, When lo! a seraph stood before his face, And beamed with radiance of celestial grace: In his right hand a golden lyre he held, And 'mid ambrosial clouds poised o'er the field: The astonished boy could scarce his presence brook While the fair Spirit thus his errand spoke: I am a traveller, on my aerial way: Across the gulf of vast immensity I speed my course, and in a moment pass, From star to star, from world to universe. Creation's furthest skirts I have beheld, And marshalled o'er her wide unbounded field: And when I winged the vast profound of space, This world remote reared up her clayey faceg With rapid flight upon extended oars I came and circled round her terrene shores All I beheld, but ere I passed away To other worlds, I cast mine eyes on thee. I saw a tear roll from thy sparkling eye, And why it rolled, I need not ask thee why: I've come, my boy, to wipe the falling tears, And give an opiate for thy grief and fearsg The towns and mountains which beneath me stood, And rivers rolling to the dark blue flood, And isles and lakes as they were spread to me I'l1 sing and bind upon thy memory: I-larsh sounds in smooth, unbroken lines shall glide, As free and easy as the sparkling tide. When first I launched me down the ethereal sky, Columbia's shores were spread before mine eye In dusky features, for the orb of day Blazed on the antipodes, the other way, And the pale moon, fair empress of the night, Sat veiled in glory, on her chariot bright. And now of that which lay beneath my wing, Harp, raise thine airs, and aid me as I sing. Thus having said, he struck his heavenly lyre And sang in accents of celestial fire. I-I.

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24 ing, and to good citizenship. It is the teacher who, by her daily contact with the child, is to lead him to better things-with her personality rests a great responsibility. There is little doubt that in untold cases the love and sympathy and thought that a teacher has shown for a child has influenced his whole life, making it brighter, better, and happier, and perhaps keeping him from wrong-doing and disgrace. Whoso shall cause one of these little ones which believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. , Personality has also been defined as a conscious endeavor by the teacher to make socially serviceable all the material and spiritual stores which she possesses. As the most direct expression of her personality, too much emphasis cannot be placed on the teacher's personal appearance. Her dress should be made becomingly, regardless of the latest fashiong the colors should harmonize with each other and with the hair and eyes of the person wearing them. Children notice every detail, and we must remember that their whole vocation is endless imitation. Unconsciously they will learn to love harmony of color and know good taste in dress. In this way we can help them much. TEAcHER's coWN When teacher wears her old gray grown, I just hate education, I-ler pretty face puts on a frown, Her voice is all vexation, And oh dear me, I feel so glad 'Cause next week is vacation. When teacher wears her new blue gown, I just love education,. Her smiles go dimpling up and down, I learn my mult'plication- And oh dear me, I feel so bad 'Cause next week is vacation. Absolute cleanliness of person is of the greatest importance-we must teach the children to be careful of face and hands, hair and nails-and who is to be the example ?-the teacher. If the teacher is loved and re- spected, the child's greatest ambition is to be like teacher, and do as teacher does. The ornaments and decorations of the school room should be in keeping with the place, well chosen and well arranged: the room itself as neat and clean as the hands of the teacher and children can make it. The books should be carefully kept and a love and respect for them should be bred in our children. These and other things are an important part of the