San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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14' WHITE and GOLD Why is our new History teacher like one of Dudley Buckls crea- tions? 1 Because she is a popular Ballatrld. Our faculty is the peer of any womanls club in America. What gave it its finishing touch? The arrival of the Battlcheltdler girl. Why is the Normal School the envy of every Englishman? She has won the Derby. Why has it not been necessary for the Psychology students to walk to school this year? There s a big, sytout Shatylfer all Of them With such conundrums and such toasts, no wonder the faculty say they never spent an evening tand a halfl that was so filled with interesting and novel entertainment. 0.0.0 All who failed to attend the anniversary of Dedication Day of our Normal School missed a treat. The introductory remarks by Judge Fuller, outlining the work thus far accomplished by the Board of Trustees and Faculty, were highly commendatory and full of interesting facts. Commenting on the large increase in attendance and the progress being made, he said all gave promise that the institution might become the strongest of its kind in the state, and, being the youngest, might in the line of prophecy, fulfill the scripture, lta little child shall lead thelnfl Miss Waters, to whom the faculty awarded the honor of deliver- ing the senior address, fully met, in uOur Opportunities,H the expec- tations of the entire body of students. She is a close student and has been an indefatigable worker. She has lost none of ltOur Opportu- nitiesfl and will undoubtedly make a charming Tlschool-marm. HHer grace of person. perfect enunciation, and beauty of thought, captured the the entire audience. There were no stale platitudes. It was a feast without pedagogical dressing, and with just enough humor inter- spersed to add zest. The closing address upon HIntellectual InheritanceQy by W. F. Randall, Dean of the University of Southern California, was a mas- . terly effort. His hfanciful application of the laws of heredity was certainly encouraging. If his statements are correct that genius can be acquired by association, that we may be born again intellectually, that one may become what he desires to become,the11llour opportuni- tiesll certainly afford us the means of becoming ttintellectual giantsfl As teachers, he says, we shall live and conquer in the boys and girls we teach. We presume this applies to Normal School teachers as well as the tTcountry school-marinfl If we are being born again intellect- ually, will it not be gratifying in after years to say we are the intel-

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WHITE and GOLD 13 The evenings entertainment was voted a great success by the en- tertained, while the profits of the game were applied to the relief of one hundred dollars worth of Rowing Association bills. 2.0.? From what we have been able to find out, for the faculty are painfully shy when they want to be, the reception given by Miss Me- Leod, at her residence on the evening of April the 4th, to the faculty, for the purpose of lamenting or celebrating ta point we are in the dark uponl, Pres. Blackls departure, was a grand success. Whether Miss McLeod issued the invitations for 2:30 a. m. or 2:30 p. n1., is another dark point. The guests were highly and uniquely entertained until banquet- ing time, which they no doubt enjoyed, but, manlike, all that Mr. B1 5 said, was that they had lilots of good things to eat.H Mr. Bliss was toast master, and introduced his toast by remarks on Mr. Blackls educational work, especially that connected with the Normal School. The sentiment of the toast was: HMay his friends on the other side welcome him as heartily as we shall receive him on his return.H Mr. Black responded appropriately, with remarks about his trip to Europe, but was unusually sober, we understand. Other members of the faculty knew some toasts too. How they found time to study and learn them by heart on so short notice is a mystery to the school, but Miss Pratt gave him some motherly advice ' as to his behavior in the land across the sea, drawing from and en- larging upon her own experiences, pointing out pit-falls, and the val- ue of having Pauline as a chaperone, until Mr. Black almost decided to stay in San Diego, where the faculty could watch over him. Before Miss Derby began, the toast-niaster placed a guard at each door tbut they all confessed this was not the reason they staid till 2230 a. nLl. Her toast was for the purpose of revenge upon the faculty for breaking in on her Chorus time with numerous long and useless announcements, and she started in to read a MS. that rolled the full length of the table, containing the geographical and political statistics of forty-tive states. Miss Rogers was afraid she would for- get her toast, so cut in upon Miss Derby with a talk on llSerapsW not llscrapsfl with the faculty, or student body, nor boarding-house scraps; but scraps of wit, wisdom, and information concerning members ofthe faculty. Mr. Shafer gave a toast 011 uInnocence Abroad,H but we fail to see the application unless he meant Pauline. Mr. West got so sleepy that they had to stop toasting, though we wonder that he had not been given food enough for thought by Miss McLeodls conundrums, some of the best of which were: Why is our Normal School likely to be unpopular with southern people? Because its President is Black.

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WHITE and GOLD l5 lectual offspring of this teacher, or that teacher or of all combined. The music was up to its usual standard. Altogether, May the hrst was a day of pleasure, and afforded us the welcome opportunity of learning much without effort. .0190 One of the most successful events of the year was the historical entertainment in commemoration of VVashingtonls birthday, tendered to the school by the faculty, February zlst, 1002. The object in view was to represent. by music, recitation, dialogue, farce, etc., the course of American history, from the discovery of America to the inauguration of VVashiugton. The stage decorations were most appropriate, the rostrum being transformed into a perfect representation of an old colonial living room, with its big fire-place, its rusty flint-lock and powder-horn, its spinning-wheel, its strings of dried apples, and all the objects of which we are told by our grand-parents. HAmerica,H spiritedly sung by the school chorus, and a recitation, thur Country,H by Miss Elder, constituted the prologue of the pro- gram. What followed was divided into four periods: The period of discovery; the colonial period; the revolutionary period, and the na- tional period, The first section naturally had to do with Columbus and his discovery; the second dealt with the colonies and our fore- fathers, the Pilgrims, whose old love and loyalty to England was ex- pressed by the singing of the British National Hymn by the chorus. In this period the leading characters in the tableaux from HThe Courtship of Miles Standishll were especially well impersonated by Miss Sturges and Mr. Rood. The revolutionary period presented in- cidents of the war and our independence. Here the training school took a prominent part. DSar old llYaukee DoodleH was sung by the Chorus, and Wflle Origin of Yankee Daodle was recited by Miss MeRae with great enthusiasm. The last period' dealt with our coun- try as a nation. A pantomimic presentation ofjudge Tylerls llIn- dependence Dayll was much enjoyed. The evening closed with the song uUncrowned Kings of the Westfl unusually well rendered by the chorus. On the whole, the evening was a most successful affair, and an ex- ample of a high class school entertainment well worth following. 200 We were most highly entertained for an hour on April I7 by Miss Katharine Stockton, who, accompanied by Miss Bristol, sang to us in her usual dzlightful manner. The selections were well chosen and formed a varied program that appealed to us all. Among the num- bers rendered were: uAllah,w Chadwick; uAh! 7Tis a Dream,w Haw ley; llSince First I Met Theef' Rubinstein; klThe Land 0, the Leal,H