University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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This Term ' s Work. This hasn been the best tcrm s work we have ever had. I am sure tliat this is what Mr. Pierce will say some morning about January 30th. That certainly will Ije true, even if some of us in the training school do feel as if we had not done one thing right for six whole months. One day I saw one of the girls come rushing down the hall, wringing her hands and crying, Oh, girls, what shall I do! The term is only half gone, and here I have gone twenty pages farther than I ought in the whole term. Oh, I know I ought to have consulted that horrid old Course of Study. Dr. James told us to, I know, but when could I get time? It took every spare minute to measure those hills for geography. What will Mrs. do? I ' m done for! Then came this philosophic answer, Why, child, you need not let any one know. Just commence to review. I don t think it will hurt the children, and maybe Mrs. will not be able to tell that you have been over it before. (I wonder if she could.) One of the most difficult things we have had to do is making our letters rcund and straight as soldiers. I will admit that others have had the same trial, but . Our letters are always round shouldered unless they are not round at all. One day when observing I saw a student teacher, who was writing on the board, suddenly stop with agony written on her face. I could almost hear her saying to herself, Is that the letter tliat must have a loop to it, or the one that must not? After a short conflict (time must not be wasted), she made a brave attempt. A pupil promptly raised his hand and calmly asked, What letter is that ? In the Senior A term we enjoy the greatest privilege of the whole course — method classes. Sometimes during these periods it bcomes absolutely necessary to fill up time. Occasionally a student, unconscious of her duty, falls into a quiet slumber, which is passed over unnoticed. Sometimes by attention to some vital question, outside of geography, the teacher is given opportunity to charge the student with being inattentive, ill-bred, insolent and bigoted, which, with other appropriate epithets, occupies the remainder of the period. At other times, without any a])parent cause, the whole class is the subject of a long harangue. The import of this can be conveyed in a single sentence, which is iterated and reiterated — You are not looking for real success in the teaching of reading. All you want is to fool your teachers and make them think you are doing what you are not doing.

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Henderson, Ethel of the house Cocke,, Aimee ot the house Daniels, Mabel of the house Crum, were together with another of the wise teachers. And it came to pass that Ethel of the house Cocke put her delight in the mastery of wood- work, and yearned exceedingly to teach her chil- dren sloyd. Aimee of the house Daniels, bright and witty, logical and well read, was decreed by the oracle of tlic Temple to be cross. Yea, verily so; but can it be true? Grace of the house Greene, Emily of the house Monroe, Eva of the house Tullis, Grace of the house Murphey — with an c in her name — Maude of the house Parker, Anna of the house Ford, were with the new leader of the school. And lo ! exceeding well did they, and went to the high oracle of the Temple and spake to him of their troubles. And he spake, and said, Arise and go on with your work, and faint not. Yea, be not wearied in well doing. And they departed and obeyed forthwith. And lastly the tribe was divided into Harriet of the house Sheldon, Louise of the house Sat- terlee, and Amy of the house Noble. And ex- ceeding well loved they their wise teacher. Yea, and all do even unto this day. And it shall come to pass that on the 29th day of January, in the year nineteen hundred and two, that these of this, the small tribe of the Temple, who have done well — yea, beyond expectation, so sayeth the oracle of the Temple — shall assemble in the great room to hear final judgment. They shall hear the words : Ye have done well ; de- part. And then each shall take his roll of parch- ment and depart with sorrow and weeping, leav- ing the Temple they love and the people of their fellowship and tribe. Yea, verily, it shall be so. M. R. G.

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The other day a Httle bird whispered into my ear that somebody told her that a teacher told her class that the Senior A method class knew nothing,, absolutely nothing, in English history. We are learning. But, notwithstanding all our troubles, it is pleasant to step out into the yard and see a score of hands, handkerchiefs, or caps waving at you, or when the lines pass in the morning to feel something slipped into your hand. It may be only a red geranium, or perhaps a yellow autumn leaf, but the smile that comes with it makes it beautiful. It is very pleasant just before vaca- tion, when you are passing through the room where a pupil must not be spoken to by any means, to feel a little hand catch you and a voice shyly whisper, I hope you have a merry Christmas, or I wish you a happy, happy New Year. E. M. O f