Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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I9 George Ade's Yarn on the Microbe A lovelorn microbe met by chance At a swagger bacteroidal dance A proud bacillian belle, and she Was first of the animal culae Of organism saccharine. She was the protoplasmic queen The microscopical pride and pet Of the biological smartest set. And so this infinitesimal swain Evoled a pleading low refrain: O lovely metamorphic germ What futile scientific term Can well describe your many charms? Come to these embryonic arms. Then hie away to my cellular home, And be my little diatom! His epithelium burned with love, He swore by molecules above She'd be his own gregarious mate, Or else he would disintegrate. This amorous mite of a parasite - Pursued the germ both day and night And 'neath her window often played This Darwin-Huxley serenade- l'le'd warble to her every day This rhizopolical roundelay. O most primordial type of spore, I never met your like before. And though a microbe has no heart, From you, sweet germ, I'll never part. We'll sit beneath some fungus growth Till dissolution claims us bothL

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I8 mal-tes one feel a trifle uncanny. The pools never erupt but remain very peaceful. exquisite in their coloring due to mineral deposits. The paint pots are another phenomena. These boil and seethe, having the consist- ency of mud, and a grayish color. Some of the rooms of the hotels in the Park have been painted with the liquid, proving that the pots are useful as well as ornamental. I noticed a few pictures of the bears. Everybody goes out to see the bears for they are interesting to watch. They do not appear until about dusk, when they come down to feed on the refuse from the hotels. They are mostly black and brown, except the gray grizzlies, but these do not come out until it is very dark, as a rule. They do not appear to be very wild, although guides and Dangerous signs prevent people from going too near, as old Bruin is not always in a good disposition. And so I could write on of the wonders of The Yellowstone National Park. It has been called the Wonderland of America and it is rightly named, and when you plan your Western trip, do not fail to pay a visit to this charming spot. GLADYS STiMsoN. , not 1 'Siler ' 1 W l l l I ,I Y - . ,j I :Ql!' Q, 5, Z: I Ol, '.YQ? ure

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20 The Kindergarten THE word Kindergarten,' means, literally, a child-garden. What does the word garden suggest to us? A sheltered spot. guarded from rough winds, and open to the sunshine, rich, 'fruitful earth, carefully trained vines, blooming flowers, abundance of air, and dew, and rain, and everywhere freshness, fragrance, and loveliness. And what of the gardener? What are his duties? It is he who lays out the garden, who prepares the earth, who sets out the plants in favorable locations, according to their kind, who uproots the weeds, de- stroys noxious insects, prunes and trains, protects the tender seedlings from the glare of the sun, and provides water when the skies will not. He does all these things wisely and carefully, and he knows that flower, tree, vine, and grass-blade must do their own growing, and that neither dew nor rain, air nor sunshine, are his to give. just as the gardener knows that the miraculous life principles exist in everything he sows, and will develop under proper conditions, so Froebel believed that in every child there exists the possibility of a perfect man, and that it is the task of the educator to provide conditions which will develop that possibility. It is that portion of Froebel's philosophy which relates to the training of children below the school age, and it is his insistence upon the importance of this period, that furnishes one of his distinctive contributions to education- al ideas. The kindergarten was the product of the lifelong thought, study, and experience of a profound observer and child-lover, a man rich in native insight and well versed in the knowledge of the schools. True it is that the kindergarten provides for the young human plant the proper conditions for growth and development, suitable climate, soil, and exposure, careful nurture, happy occupation for activities of soul, mind, and body, and opportunities for the learning of those relationships which bind man to his fellow creatures, to Nature, and to God. The aim in discipline is to help make the child self-governing, and at the same time to teach him his responsibility toward and dependence upon the community of which he is a part. . .It is believed that kindergarten principles when rightly applied in the training of American children, will prove of the greatest efficiency in cor- recting the faults to which they seem peculiarly subject. Whatever is the cause, many American children are markedly ner- vous, undeveloped, and precocious and are somewhat difficult to manage.