New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1928, Page 3

Inspiring Pupils to Goal of Good Teachers, Ames Says “You have probably memorized the term, ‘Knowledge is Power.' But Member of State Education Board Presents Diplo- mas at Normal School for Eighth Time. Tt 1s not the teacher who does the most for her pupils, it is the one who &ets them to do the most for them- #clves who will succeed, was the ftatement of Charles L. Ames, a member of the state board of educa- tion, who gave the address at the graduation of the senior class of the New Britain State Normal school yesterday afternoon, This was the eighth Normal graduation at which Mr. Am 3 spoken and presented diplomas on behalf of the state boar he audi- torium wae crowded to capacity. Shortly after 3 o'clock the grad- uates filud into the auditorium while Miss L. Ethel Prior pianist played the processional march. Dressed in White, the girls presented a dignified #ppearance The Girls Glee club of the Camp kchool gave a eplendid concert of three songs. Despite their youthful- ness the girls sang remarkably well. The songs were “The Song and the Breeze,” “Dear Land of Freedom,” and “The Invitation of the Bells,” Mise Olga Haigis, speaking on the topic “The First Normal School in Awmerica,” received loud applause. The Normal school ee club scor- ed another of its “In the Time of Roses, “A Song of India.” “The Alice Murphy, president of the school, brought many interesting facts to light in her talk on “Text- Books of Former Da Lauds Principal White Principal Marcus White was laud- ed Ly Mr. Ames at the beginning of his talk as a credit to education. Referring to the fact that this was is eighth appearance at graduation that more teach, had received from him. He wae proud than 1,000 diplom | of the honor, he assured the audi- ence School Does Not Make the Man Mr. Ames divided the teaching profession into three groups, the school keeper, the school teacher, and the echool counsclior. They rep- resent three steps in the progress of education, according to Mr. Ames. The first period required the teacher to assign the work, hear re- citation and maintain discipline. The Jast dnty was of prime importance, AMr. Ames declarved Give Me | Minute toprove lcun en HAY FEVER Tortures is one minute! 1 have ly thousands of where all other remedies ailed. arvelous Ercolin prescri instantly meutrafizes the Promotes the growth tissus, builds up nore ance. ' Ercolin is al solutely guarantsed to give IN. fl‘::‘lf RELIEF—or money Gat Ercolin at ance—give It o ene-minute test! All stores, i t SCRUB AND SCRU SNOWY sav/ THE Teach Selves daya was not the Connecticut of to- day. 1 recently found gave the total in- come of the state of Connecticut in this idea is wrong. It will not 1532 as $50.301. The population of the state at that time was 360,000 It may interest you to know that be- | the population of Connecticut is to- remember that Connecticut of those | “'An old financial statement which | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928 M_— come power unless it is put to use. Answering the statement that great |4 men came out of the old-fashioned schools, he declared it was not to the school’s credit, that'the man would 832, day five times as great as it was in But the state income of Con- necticut is greater than the income of the whole United States in 1532 successes in the | NEVER LOOK REALLY WHITE YOU'RE OLD FASHION- €D/ WHY SCRUB ? DON'T YOU KNOW RINSO SOAKS CLOTHES, LOOK NICE AND WHITE abilty. “In the 60's and 70's you find school teacher period which was was the principal thing, and {cinline,” the speaker said. tion and a teacher does wrong if {1€lls a pupil something which !‘mlthl to find out himself." issued by Mr. Ames: he not h sows, what |in conelusion. History of Normal School Miss Irene Haigis read a before this date a movement to fablish a Normal school for had been under way. 1816, Professor ers” In 1 Mr. William Rus gestion on Education,” in which urged the importance of such an | stitution for the | lie school. In 1 as H. Gallaudet, founder and rector of the American Asylum the Education of t Deaf 5 the Rev, | of articles on The plan as pr |both in the Connecticut and in education the idea of a " minds of the people commissioners of common of education have already of many others whose names mentioned and | terested in education the legislature | was prevaile estab- Normal sehool. | Barnard of the state in 1543 upon to pass an lishment of a State A hoard of trustees county into effect and to them the power to locate the new | Wherever for the one from - state i il Appropristion. It was further [sum of a0 should Inually for for the support of the school amount appropriated, B, YET MY CLOTHES WHITE BUT THESE SHIRTS GRANULATED SOAP NSO have been great because of his own time when the getting of knowledge would hear much about mental dis- “The | teacher should not impart informa- Here are some of the warnings It is better not to know so much than to know something that is not worth know- ing: stimulation of a pupil instead of teaching him is a better method; who reads and writes and does he knows is werse than who plows and plows and never “I congratulate you because you are 1n the third period. the school counsellor or guide period,” he said paper on “The New Britain Normal school” which had much information of his- ies us back to the vear 1838, Even | training of teachers in Connecticut As early Dennison Olmstead of Yale university had advocated a “seminary for the training of teach- | mal School fund published a pamphlet entitled “Sug- special training of | those intending to teach in the pub- Thom- and Dumb at Hartford, prepared a series A Plan of a Semin- iated and attracted much attention. sented was discussed | legislature | 1 conventions, and eminary for Teach- ers” gradually gained a place in the “But the most powerful advocate 1828 of a Normal school in Connecticut was Henry Barnard who in became secretary of the board schoals, | other | the predecessors of our state hoard “Through the labors of thoge men been ach appointed to carry this was given school they should deem it best, | provided that suitable buildings and | euuipment should be furnished with- provided that the paid an- onr years to the trustees We are tempted to smile at the modest but we must “The question now to he asked is: ‘Why did the State Normal school come to New Rritain? The answer is that in addition to the fact that New Britain is situated very nearly in the center of the state, the offer made by the citizens in respect to building and equipment was m the the one generous than that received frowm |ories &0 back more than a quarter o |any other locality. Farmington, [of a century ®he | Southington, Middletown and other | 3.000 Population in 1850, places made their bids but they were not deemed as gatisfactory as the offer of New Britain. “The leading citizen of New Brit- ain, at that time, was Mayor Seth North and it was due to his efforts and liberality that the sum of $16, 250 was raised for the erection or purchase of a building suitable for the work of the Normal achool. The efforts of Mr. North were so greatly appreciated by his fellow citizens that they contributed $100 for the purchase of a portrait of him which should be hung upon the wall of the {North Hall of the | building. That portrait was r ed in 1582 te the Normal building crected at W mov- School alnut Hill and four-years ago it was brought to the toric interest. Her paper, in full, e pan " I present building. This afternoon it | “The establishment of the first | 138 been placed upon the etage of {\m.,m, school in Massachusetrs | this auditorium so that you all may see the features of the man who was e | really responsible for bringing the the | Normal School to New Britain. Original Subscribers. “We have also among our pos- sessions the scroll of the one hun- dred original subscribers to the Nor- as and though it is impossible for you, at the distance where you are sit- ting, to read the names, if T should read them to vou, you would recog- nize the ancestors of many of {he prominent citizens of New Britain of tod di-| "It is fitting, also. at this time to for | call attention to the portrait of Dr. | Thomas H. Gallaudet and Dr. Henry Barnard. Dr. Gallaudet's was given to the Normal School at the time ell in- lary for the Instruction of Youth." |the school was fonnded. His influ- | These articles were issued in a | ence in creating favorable senfiment vamphlet which was widely eircu- | for the establishment of a Normal School and his distinguished position as founder of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford was worthy of commemoration on the walls of the new state institution. We have also here a portrait of Dr. Henry Rarnard. This is not a portrait of Dr. Rarnard in the pime of his young manhood when he worked so vigorously not only for the establish- nient of this school but for every worthy educational cause, hut it is a portrait of Dr. Barnard at the | close of his long carecr. The name of Dr. Barnard s alwa oupled with that of Horace Mann of Massa- chusetts and they have always been recognized as the two most dis- |tinguished names in the history of | education in the United States. Dr. was the first superinten dent of public &chools in this state: he was the first principal of the New Rritain Normal school; and he was the first Commissioner of Education in the Unit=d States. “Originally the parishes of Wor- thington (now Berlin), New Britain, and Kensington were a part of the town of Farmington. But in 1780 they separated from the town of Farmington and formed the new town of Berlin. New Britain, there. fore, was a part of Berlin for many vears. It had been the custom to hold town meetings in the different of in- were NEXT WASHDAY LOOK! HOW WHITE A YET | DIDN'T SCRUB i = wer-look, 3o for It goes 4o £,y that jr MRS, gy 136 Gnrn‘nv ~and w] o hat ch ness,” the, ers tel us u':mial it is becayge “ieg Saves 89¢8 10 far, oy Suds are 4o "wa;hold;:f‘“"g’" s0aps, Normal School | It is here, framed | ARD . "o0d s 80apy suds _Women are “ vrie w <N forieed: W w Ringo ¢, led now, o safety ap for. .,"’u':d:’iioy‘l'::‘ Makers o[f{‘"& "N-i--"-UX-u....,__c. mal scheol. This fown hall was lo- cated on the site of the present Central Junior High school and its severe Egyptian architecture is still {remembered by those whose mem- “In 1850 New Britain was nothing more than a country village with a population of a little more than 3,- | 900, 1t had as yet no railroad run- { ning throush it although the New Haven railroad had been extended as far as Hartford and a little sta- | tion near what is now Elm Hill ac- commodated the people of New Brit- ain. Four miles west of the New Haven and Northampton railroad | had been put through to Plainville and the old Farmington canal had been doing business since 1828, “Shortly after, in 1850, the Hart- { ford, Providence & Fiskill railroad ran its tracks through the town it- self, but it was not until 1565 that the present Berlin branch made possible for New Britain to have di- rect_connection with New Yor he first term of the new Nor- mal school hegan May 15, 1850 and closed October 1. There were pres- ent during the term 67 pupils, 30 men and wonien or 50 males land 37 females as they were desig- {nated then. During the first year 154 pupils were admitted. Many of them stayed but one term and some only a few weeks, The first class then was formally graduated, known |as the class of 1851 numbered only | five, two ladies and three gentlemen, When they were admitted they were called males and females, but when This ivon turns isself off before it gets too hot and on again be- fore it gets too cool. See an Electrification ND SWEET, asit/ FRSENGER, “ New Britagn o g Ve Saw such o hands, .lnd thick and lu: o‘,'-.“’x’ chips or —e—— e ————eee parishes by rotations but as this|they were graduated they became | found in one of the first Teports of |The graduates of this vear, 1925 Scores of the king's counsel at-the custom finally met with many ob-|ladics and gentlemen. |the board of trustees. In comment- | number the largest class ever | English bar—there are 250 or go— IR A g R 3 el s o lha mmduateR ling anthe Gharactir 'ar ithe unils |Eradnated foom ths s wWith | Scldom get a brief. Only a few ure | sl This Yown hall was located Ellen §, Cornwell, New Brit- | aguitted, they say: ‘The chatarter | 5 : {In a position to demand high tees. in New Britain and was completed Jane Olmsted, East Hartford: |of pupils gencrally M s this beantiful building which the in 1850, Citizens ot Kensington and | Fryukiin £, Bromnell, Bast Had. | o] sl State has gioen usi with the pey | S —————— Worthington, however, I“..‘.»,, di;l';~ dam; Leverett L. Camp, West Meri- | covared a {alent of e dormitory which will soon be a real- | 'm""n RABAL" clined to pay for their share and in | den:’ and Andrew J. Welles, Glas. sl e esiialin el syl s .) granted and New Britain hr»r:,qme‘ 211852 show a total A0 AT S19 manfal Lo hainie tiiees ol ve e e Bibdbldial i\ $EN b dioall in LERC. It S0 @V ] oy 1k G e 156 tenes Thes e e graduates of 1531 numbered |er of good character and good healtls | Cole, & Artbgr o ‘,_,"m.&:‘z . & do the aatiafaction ot the cillasoaiy, o) o represented five, of 1855 numbered 2, of 1852 [the future of this school must |y ried Rabaim. Raliel was immedists wad asatuos that the new town hall which had “A rather amusing paragraph is |numbered 19: of 1354 numbered made worthy of the past” "d“m’“"""’"'m"‘“fl—‘ never been used should be purchas- | pa RABALM tonight. 60¢ sad $1.00, 4 Gragesany ed by the group of private citizens . already referred to for the new Nor- 4 “OLD GOLD’S smoothness,’ says Tommy Armour.... “is what won me in the bllfldfOld test!]” ‘I know, after the first few holes, whether or not I'm going to be good ... and when I was blindfolded and given four cigarettes to smoke, I chose OLp GoLp because the first few puffs told me that this cigarette was right! I knew that it was going to be good. 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