Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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January Cla2 0, ' 07

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iRemembrancee; AMONG our earlier remembrances of our school days here are those of our tr3ing experiences in adjusting ourselves to our new surroundings, — to the school customs, particularly the little points of etiquette as to njaking engagements, getting up cases, going walking with a friend, and when it is time to treat. A few girls are still a little hazy on this last point, and often rise to the occasion with the inspir- ing suggestion of having a Dutch treat. Most of the other things, however, were learned more successfully during the first year, a few of them particularly well. I think Lois Leonard should have some new and original ideas to add to the science of making friends, (shall we call it. ' ) judging by her success in this line. We were proud at the end of the year at the amount of knowledge we had gained, not only in the class- room, but also from everything with which we had come in contact and from every experience during the time. The second and third years are remembered as the time during which we discovered how little we had really learned about anything, and how much there was yet to be learned. It even began to dawn on us that there were a few things, possibly, ■which we should never know. Otherwise, we seem merely to have followed the regular routine of recitations, tests, and tickets, though a few did consider the Senior A Arithmetic examination their Waterloo. But of all our experiences, those which mean most to us now, and will in after years, are those of our last and Senior term from September 5, 1906, to January 29, 1907. This fall we came back almost a week earlier than usual in order to get our work assigned and schedules made for teaching. Few of us have forgotten how weighty a matter it was at the time, and how nothing less important than the training school could have taken that last week of our vacation. The first few days of our return we haunted the training school halls, and gazed with many misgivings at the bulletin board to see what work was assigned to us, — what subjects and in what grade, — for most of us knew what subjects we should prefer to teach, and also, those which we should prefer tiot to teach. When the work was assigned, however, most of the girls were pleased, only one or two let the supervisors know what they so earnestly desired not to have. About these, of course, it was decided, Why, that ' s the very thing she needs. How we dreaded that first lesson in the training school ! We tried to plan every little detail so that there could not possibly be any hitch. A few of us had observers that day, however, which is never likely to give better control of the wits ; others finished all of the lesson planned many minutes before the end of the period, and, as there was nothing to review, they were slightly at a loss for a way to keep the children 19