Chm: Qgpniztmdtim. ODAY there seems to be a feeling abroad in many places which is inclined to regard the normal school as a place where very little is to be gained in the way of culture. The advocates of this notion hold that the normal school is a peculiarly con- structed machine whose crank is turned to grind out ready- made school-teachers; that the students serve a term of drudgery, are deprived of social privileges, have all their originality stiiied, and are then sent forth to apply the same method to the children of the state. If this be true, we are soon to be graduated-lifeless, narrow-minded, unlovely old maids. 'Very fortunately. however, our entrance into this establishment four years ago was clouded by no such apprehensions. We came, many of us, fresh from the mountain regions, innocent of adverse criti- cism, light-hearted and light-spirited, our attitude marked by a single- ness of purpose, to the accomplishment of which our every energy was devoted. The glorious opportunities before us formed the topic of our dreams; to our minds, to be able to graduate from the normal school meant the consummation of our highest ambitions. With such strong preposessions we embraced the opportunity of entrance and set out to attain our ideal. At times the feeling came that the goal was too far away to be reached. Moving toward it was like moving through the trackless air. Bryant asks 0f the water-fowl. whither lies its way through the depths of the evening sky. The bird could not answer, if it heard. It can- not see the distant lake toward which it is moving steadily and swift- ly. Yet it is being guided by a higher powereand so, we trusted in
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