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Query—How are the normals going to finish "Trig?"
The third year normals will take astronomy with the regular Junior class this year. Leave one more for the normal department.
'82. We had the pleasure of shaking hands with L.M. Spray one day last week. He is employed for the ensuing year in our Capital city schools.
The college journals will be furnished with reports of the workings of the normal in their society meetings, by Miss Eva Halsted. E.L.Cowdric will perform a similar duty for the city papers.
The first of the series of semi-monthly lectures before the Normal society was delivered by Prof. Bailey, Friday, Oct. 12. The subject being,' "The Chemistry of Common Things."
The professor explained by experiments many of the wonders and workings of common things, to the entire satisfaction of a large and appreciative audience, making many friends among the normalites, who will always be glad to welcome him to our lecture field.
The second lecture will be delivered by Prof. D. H. Robinson, next Friday afternoon.
At present about seventy-five students have entered the Normal department, against forty-two for the same time last year.
The Senior Normals were marshalled in Prof. Marvin's room a few days ago to straighten up their grades in order to go out with'84. The faculty have taken a wise step in establishing this precedent. It not only saves them a great deal of time and annoyance at the end of the school year, but it causes the students to go to work at once and make up their deficiencies, instead of putting them off and off as some of them have done in the past, until it becomes almost impossible to "get through."
The best work a teacher does for a child is to teach him how to learn for himself. The crusade against text books had its inspiration in the prevalent notion that children who learned from books would never learn for themselves; and now we have been taught, at great expense of experience, that one can teach objectively and still not train pupils to study for themselves. We have learned that it is in the teacher and her inspiring and directing power, rather than in any theory, that the secret of such success lies. Study this art and your reputation is secure. The teacher does well to remember that the school life is only from six to twelve years interjected into a life that may be three score and ten, and the school room is not the end of existence, but merely the means to an end, and the teacher should so use it.- American Teacher.
'83, Geo. E. Rose, came up a short time ago and spent the Sabbath with his brother and sisters, who are attending the University. George reports himself well pleased with his position at Armourdale.