State Normal School - Crystal / Levana Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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CRYSTAL if M N' Crystal Staff WILLIE PATE HUDSON . . . . Editonin-Chief VARINA SMITH . . . .... Business Manager ETTA FITZPATRICK . . . Assistant Business Manager NINA NIXON . . . . . . . Historian MAMIE MILNER . Testator CLAIRE EMERSON . . . Poet ANNOLYN FELDER . . Prophet WALTER DALLAS ANNIE NEELY . GROVER TURNER MYRTLE WALTON RUBY GRUBBS . LEONA WILSON . . . Joke Editor . . Club Editor Advertising Editor . Athletic Editor . . Art Editor . . Secretary

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. 'X A C RYS TA-L- M ' ' S. 51. S. Gio-'Eos In the early years following the war between the states a home for soldiers was established on the crest of a hill outside the city of Athens. Some work was done in rehabilitation. Then the Home was moved to Atlanta, and in the early nineties a training school for teachers was established in Rock College, the only building erected to that date. The students were for the most part men. Then came a period of development extending up to the present time. The plant con- sists no longer of a single building but of a dozen, neither is the campus longer a bare hilltop but consists of lawns, driveways, trees and shrubbery. Too, the school term is not ten weeks as in the beginning, but is nine months. The student body has grown from a mere handful at first to over seven hundred now. Another very significant transformation has been wrought. Vlfhereas the student body at first was almost entirely men, the opposite is now true, being practically entirely women. '4An example of survival of the fittesti' some one will say in an attempt to 'be ufunnyf' This condition arises from very apparent causes, all of which have tended to drive men out of the profession of elementary teaching, and all teaching for that matter. This of course is to be greatly regretted since we need men as experts in elementary education, just as truly as women are needed in higher education. ,lust now, however, we have every right to believe that the profession of teaching is to come into its own, though of course it will never be adequately appreciated and rewarded. But there are still men whose native endowments and individual preference is strong enough to cause them to sacrifice the' possibility of a more remunerative profession for the sake of engaging in another in which they feel that they can render a greater service to humanity. Of these, the larger num- ber prefer to go to a college for men or to a university for their preparation. How- ever there is left a few who believe that to master subject matter, theory, and technique, one should begin at the beginning. Therefore they enter the Normal School with the expectation of graduating, and then going to the University for their degree in education, and then staying for a lVlaster's degree possibly, and at most going for a Doctoris degree in one of the big eastern universities. This should make them invaluable as leaders- and interpreters of modern education, because they can see clearly the whole educative process from foundation to peak, whereas so many only see the superstructure. Therefore theirs is to be a unique service. As the outsider sees him, the Co-ed occupies an incongruous position, and we are bound to admit that his is an experience in a class all by itself. Imagine, if you can, the picture of a dozen dignified youths strutting hurriedly, or strolling, nonchalantly across the campus, or perhaps dodging here and there about the en- trance to Round 'Auditorium or Chapel, or before the dining hall at lunch time, striving valiantly to stem an onrushing tide Of femininity, in a sometimes vain effort to avoid collision, or see them again as they fill an allotted small corner in