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EDITOlxTAL BOARD.

No.4.

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Cl INCE our last issue, we have heard many re­~ marks in regard to the price of the OFFERINGwith the new cover. The opinion has been ex­pressed that there might be an increase in theprice. We had carefully considered this pointand had decided that we would let the pricestand. The paper is not published to makemoney, but to furnish the most and best possible,to its readers, at the lowest price, and we believethat any money made by it should be expended inthis direction.

mHE "Operatic Evening" was a grand success,y1~ and much credit is due to those who had thematter in charge, especially the prudential com­mittee, Misses Whiton and Wormley, and Mr.Speare. The good taste and musical experienceof Mr. Speare were shown in the excellence of theselections, and Miss Whiton's accompanimentswere greatly appreciated. The chorus was drilledby Mr. Hobart. The thanks of the school aredue to all those who took part in the entertain­ment, for an evening of rare enjoyment.

DREPARATIOr S are being made to make the.G June number of especial interest. A twopage supplement will be issued, making abouteight pages of reading matter. Prof. A. C. Boy­den will have an article upon one of the naturalsciences; there will be a prophecy of the graduat­ing class; a humorous poem by Mr. F. P. Speare;and the usual news of the SChool. Everyone in­terested in the school and its wo.rk, should notfail to obtain a copy. Speak of the OFFERING toyour friends, and help enlarge the subscriptionlist of our paper.

1N the concluding chapter of "A DistrictSchool," many a one, we dare say, will recog­

nize the scenes and incidents as corresponding tosimilar ones in his own experience.

Prof. F. H. Kirmayer's article uponwill be read with much interest by all.

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CONTENTS.

EditorialsWhat Language or Languages shall I

Study?Shadows of Coming Events .A District SchoolNonnal Lyceum Operatic EveningCampus EchoesDepartmentsPersonalsLocals.

Vol. III.

WE think that the advantages of subscribingto the Journal oj' Education through the

OFFERI G are not fully understood. We are en­abled by an agreement with the editor, to takea limited number of subscriptions at two dollars ayear, instead of the regular price, two dollars anda half. We hope our readers will take advantageof this opportunity. First come, first served.

Published monthly during the School Year, by the Lyceum of theBridgewater State N orlnal SchooL

Copies sent by mail, posl.paid, on receipt of price by the Business~fanager.

The OFFERING is strictly a school paper, and all members of the schoolare requested to contribute.

Ex·membeTs and graduates of the school are requested to keep us in­formed of [heir whereabouts. and of any other items of interest.

Articles for publication should be sent in before the 5th of the month.Address communications to "THE NORMAL OFFERING" Normal Hall,

Bridgewater, Mass.The Editors reserve the privilege of r~jectjngany articles which are not

deemed 5alisfactory.

Tel'IUS: ~O cellts pCI' yen .. , payable ill advance; SiJlKle(JOpiC8 :i cen's.

(Entered at the Post Office as second class mail matter.)

HENRY T. PRATT, Printer, Bridgevvater, Mass.

~6e (!lormae ~ffering.

'-.-Editor-in-Chief, . . . FRA K E. GUR EY.Assistant Editors, SARAH Y. DIiNoRMANDIE.

GRACE E. ANJ;lREWS. A. MAUD MACKENZIE.Business Manager, EDWARD D. WHITFORD.

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sentially practical, and gives the experience ofmany years' work in that department.

(J OME have 11loltnzed the non-appearance of the~ usual spring poem. The spring came on sotardily that the crop was neither large nor of goodquality, prices were extravagant, and it was there­fore deemed unwise to invest.

WE call especial attention to our departmentcolumn in this number.

WHAT LANGUAGE OR LANGUAGESSHALL I STUDY?

PROF. F. H. KIRMAYER.

AN examination of different paragraphs, takenfrom books in the languages mentioned be­

low, shows the following percents of foreignwords, that is of words which are so nearly likethe words in the language in question, as to sug­gest the corresponding word at once.

GBRMAN: 8S English, 4 Latin, 5 French.LATIN: 58 " 3 German, 41 uDUTCH: So 97 9" II Latin.FRENCH: 4] 6 84 "SPANISH: 30 64 93 II

ITALIAN: 26 93 90"

The question is often asked by the Americanstudent: "What language or languages shall Istudy? "

The answer to this question should be decidedby the end for which the language is studied.

For mental discipline and for increasedl better,and more concise knowledge of the English lan­guage, no language is better adapted than theLatin. Therefore Latin ought to be studied byevery American who wishes to go beyond theGrammar school studies.

For practical utility on this continent Spanishand German are the leading languages, Spanishbeing the more important as it is spoken moreextensively than German.

If the student has a good knowledge of Latin,he may learn Spanish in four months, giving ittwo hours study each day. At the end of thattime he will be able to use Spanish as a mediumof exchange in conversation and correspondence,and will read it with ease. This can be accom­plished with a good knowledge of Latin, because

the Spanish language has about ni1lety-three percent of the Latin Vocabulary. Next to theSpanish come the Italian and French languagesfor the Latin scholar with about ninety and eighty­four per cent of Latin Vocabulary.

If the student has no knowledge of Latin, Ger­man will be easier for him, although it is a highlyinflected language. The German and Englishlanguages belonging both to the Teutonic divisionof the Ayran language, have so much vocabularyin common, especially the vocabulary used inevery day life on familiar subjects, that a Germanmay talk to an American who never studied Ger­man, for half an hour and longer and be perfectlyunderstood, while the American could not under­stand a Spaniard, a Frenchman, or an Italian.

If the acquisition of a language depended solelyupon the knowledge of the vocabulary, their rela­tive ease of acquisition would be in the order in­dicated. But this is not so. German. and Latinare highly inflected languages, French has littleinflection beyond the verb and is for this reasoneasier j but to speak French correctly seems reallymore difficult than German on account of themany idioms and the unfamiliar sounds whichmake a word, spelled exactly alike in French andEnglish, seem to be to the ear something entirelydifferent from what it is to the eye.

From want of time, the table given at the begin­ning of these remarks was not carried out to showthe Italian and Spanish vocabulary in the Dutchnor the Dutch vocabulary in the Italian andSpanish languages, but enough is stated to showwhat advantage the Latin scholar has in the ac­quisition of languages and how' easy it ought toto be for the Englishman, even without the knowl­edge of Latin to acquire other languages.

Whatever language a student wishes to acquire,he will make sure progress and save much time, ifhe reflects carefully on the following points:

The Articles (if any), auxiliary Verbs, Pronouns,limiting Adjectives, Adverbs not derived fromAdjectives, Prepositions, and Conjunctions con­tain in all not over three hundred and fifty wordsin any language. Each one of these little wordshowever is used.on an average two hundred timesbefore the average Noun, Verb or qualifyingAdjective is used once.

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Study these little words when you meet them'thoroughly in sentences, so that you can use themsurely any time when wanted, both in speakingand in writing.

Learn the declensions (if any) of Nouns, Pro­nouns and adjectives and the conjugation of theregular Verb. Study at least forty irregular Verbsin French, eighty in German, thirty in Spanish,thirty in Italian.

The necessary forms of the Verb in the begin­ning are: the Present, Imperfect, Future and his­torical Past Tenses, the Imperative, Infinitive andConditional Moods. Later the Subjunctive mustalso be studied.

Master all these forms so that you know themabsolutely. Read much, retranslate much fromthe English into the language to be studied, listento. much reading and speaking and you may acquireany language in a very short time, so that you canread it with ease, and in the case of a modern lan­guage, understand it when you hear it, and makeyour wants known, when you need to speak toanyone in that language.

Great stress should be laid on hearing and un­derstanding. For this end the lesson is studiedfirst so as to be understood by the eye, that is thepupil must be able to give at once the English forthe task studied when he sees it. With this,teacher and pupil usually are satisfied. Thishowever, ought to be .regarded only as the foun­dation on which to build an enduring structure.At this point a teacher is absolutely needed. Thepupil has studied his lesson so that he knows itwhen he sees it. The teacher now reads the les­so'n aloud in an easy natural way to the pupil,who listens with closed book and takes in thethoughts as they flow from the teacher's lips.The pupil should be dissuaded from translatingeven mentally what the teacher reads. The un­derstanding of what is read thus, will be perfect ifthe lesson was thoroughly studied.

Let the pupil watch the position of the vocalorgans of the teacher, notice carefully his utter­ance, pay close attention to intonation, inflectionand cadence, and his ear, a most faithful servant,will retain the sounds, when heard sufficientlyoften, so well that the tongue can reproduce themjust as they were heard. Perfect attention is

requisite to do this. A good listener will make agood speaker. If the pupil can understand wellwhat he hears, he will soon become proficient inspeaking, by speaking much and by retranslatingaloud to himself, passages he has studied, in casehe has no one to speak to.

The value of the training of the ear may be in­ferred from what occurs almost daily. Thosewho go to Germany or France and understandwell what they hear, will at once feel at homethere, enjoy themselves, learn in a short time tospeak fluently, and come home good linguists,while those whose ear was neglected though theymay be able to read and translate well will be dis­couraged, and will have to devote much time andmoney to make good this' defect, if they wish tobecome good linguists.

SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.

DECORATION DAY.

mHE morning will be spent in decorating; they1~ tablet and Hall. In the afternoon, publicexercises will be held in the Hall, the veterans ofthe town uniting with the school in carrying outthe programme of the day. There will be appro­priate music, an address by Rev. A. E. Winshiprepresenting the veteran alumni of the school,and one by Rev. T. F. Wright in behalf of thetown veterans. At the close of the exercises, aprocession will be formed headed by the band,with the cadets acting as escort. The line willproceed to the Memorial Library and thence tothe cemetery, where the graves of the soldierswill be decorated. Prof. A. C. Boyden, Prof. F.H. Kirmayer, and Miss Horne form the commit­tee on arrangements.

GRADUATION EXERCISES.

m HE Graduation Exercises at the close of they1~ forty-eighth year of the school, will takeplace on Wednesday, June 27, beginning at 9a. m. and 1.45 p. m.

The graduating class numbers fifty-three, twelve'men and forty-one women. Twelve graduate fromthe four years' course, and thirty-six from the twoyears' course. This is the largest graduatingclass, and one of the best, in the history of theschool.

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BIENNIAL.

ffiHE Biennial Convention of the Bridgewater."1~ onnal Association will be held on Thurs­day, June 28.

The business meeting will be held in the school­room at 10 a. m., after which the portrait of MissEliza B. Woodward will be presented to theschool by Mr. George H. Martin. Principal A.G. Boyden will receive the portrait and deliver thememorial address on Miss Woodward. Otherswill speak representing her classmates, pupils,and associate teachers.

The Biennial Dinner will be served in the TownHall at I p. m., followed by speaking by membersof the Association and others. The social re­union will be held in the Town Hall in the even­ing.

A DISTRICT SCHOOL.'

MISS MARY E. BOSWORTH.

Concluded

And before long she finds a difficulty in herpath.

Some of the big boys of the neighborhood whograduated last year, show that they still keep upan interest in the school by nailing up the gate.District school teachers are not discommoded bysuch trifles as these, however, and she promptlyclimbs over, followed by her obedient flock.

The next Monday morning, after a rainy Sun­day, as the teacher enters the school-room, she isconfronted by a quantity of machinery lying onher desk. There are wheels, springs, wires, andscrews of every kind. Investigation proves thatit is what used to be the clock.

Then, again, the big boy is mischievous. Heoccasionally writes notes to the girls and is verymuch averse to having the teacher intercept them.He brings pet squirrels into school, and makesthem appear from his sleeve or from under hiscoat collar, when the teacher's back is turned.The little fellows, in imitation of their big hero,tie one end of a long thread around a grasshop­per's neck, and let him out or take him in, accord­ing to the direction of the teacher's attention.They alsq capture small turtles and leave them inthe aisle, free to wander.

But these are only passing diversions and arenothing to be compared with excuses and compo­sitions.

One morning the teacher sees a worn and dog­eared missive on her desk. Somewhat surprisedand wondering if anyone has sent in a complaintbecause she doesn't" learn 'em the alphabet" sheopens it to find this request:

"Techer plese let beny and Hary home to goto the stoar as the mollases is all out after theirreding Class."

She has never received an excuse before, andshe reads it several times before the full meaningdawns upon her. In a few weeks they get to bean old story and no longer strike her as beingvery amusing.

But composition day! The novelty of it neverwears away.

She wishes to select an easy subject at first totest their ability, and after giving the matter dueconsideration, decides upon Dogs. It would beimpossible to reproduce all the results; one speci­men will suffice:

" My Father has a Dog. He is a thurer bread.Dogs have foar feet they is the king of beests.Our dog's tail was cut of by the moing mersheen."

Almost in despair, the teacher concludes thesubject was too abstract, and as the history classare studying about the founding of Pennsylvania,gives them for the next subject, The Life ofWilliam Penn. They do better this time, for theyhave been truly interested in the life of this goodman. But they still need to study arrangement,as the following production shows:

"William pen was a good man. He was goodto the indyuns, he berryed a Tomyhork andsmoaked a pipe of peas with them. He died how­ever at a early age and didn't get mutch rewardfor it."

When spring comes, the older classes begin thestudy of botany, which involves long walks andexcursions into the woods. Mayflower time bringsa picnic to the hills ten miles distant where theselovely flowers grow. Then follows may-baskettime and occasionally a hay ride when the moonis full, and in short the pleasures of a districtschool are endless.

There, surrounded by woods and brooks and

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DEPARTMENTS.

CAMPUS ECHOES.

BOTANY.

mHE advanced botany are using a new texttil" book-Bessey's Essentials of Botany.

CAUTION. The members of the botany classes

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Parker, p.Norton, c.Bodfish, I h.Hobart, J. f.Sedley, 3 b.Hines, c f.Dyer, r f.Leonard, s. s.Ferguson, 2 b.

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Hathaway, s. s.F. Kingman, p.Smith, c.Eldredge, J. f.Perkins, 1 b.Kmgman, 3 b.Gurney, 2 bBurke, c. f.Wilbur, r. f.

mHE first match game of the season took placetil" on the campus Wednesday afternoon May9, between the Reds and the Blues. The featuresof the game were the remarkable errors and theweak batting. The score:

REDS.ABRBTB

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3 2 (, 0

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Innings, r 2 3 4 5

Reds, 3 r 0 2 I - 7Blues, 3 I 0 I J -' 6

We need practice in batting.

The errors were many, the hits were but few.

A new pair of catcher's gloves has been pur­chased for the teams.

TENNIS.

o WING to the condition of the ground on theCJ campus, the tennis courts were not laid outas early this year as last. Most are now in con­dition to be used. All of the old courts are filled,and there will be three new ones on the southpart of the campus, making in all seventeencourts. The new ones are so near the base balldiamond, that when a ball game is in progressthey cannot be used. At such times the ownersof said courts will be allowed the use of others.

Those who were on the campus with dekas andsticks, were not gathering dandelions, but pullingup old staples from the courts.

Shortest time on record! A' court can be laidout with lime in fifteen minutes. Out of respectto those who did the work, we will not commenton the brilliancy or straightness of the lines.

BASE BALL.

pure air, the teacher is "monarch of all she sur­veys." Hers can be no machine teaching; theinfluence of the place forbids it. Give to thedistrict schools, teachers who have been intelli­gently trained for their work, and the resultsmust be better than can be obtained in any otherschool, however closely graded or however strictlydisciplined.

"Gentlemen need not go out between acts, (after May (st.)"

Overture, Iolanthe, Orchestra; Solo, BohemianGirl, Mr. Hobart; Duet, Evangeline, Miss Fieldand Mr. Speare; Trio, Dorothy, Misses Wash­burn, Wormley, and Padelford; Duet, Erminie,Messrs. Hobart and Speare; Solo, Marco Visconti,Miss Prince; Chorus, Pirates of Penzance.

NORMAL LYCEUM OPERATIC

EVENING.

H Ladies need not expect escorts home as this is a singular performance."

It is difficult to particularize, when all did sowell. Of the ladies, Miss Field sang her solosadmirably, and her voice was heard to fine effectin the chorus; Miss Prince rendered a difficultselection with great skill; and Misses Washburn,Adams, and Wormley did exceedingly well. Ofthe gentlemen, Mr. Hobart sang finely; Mr.Lincoln's solo was well given; and Mr. Palmerlooked every inch a soldier. Mr. Speare, asusual, was at his best.

It was evident that the entertainment gavegreat satisfaction to the audience, and the OFFER­ing congratulates the participants upon theircomplete success.

"Ladies wearing large hats please remove them before sitting"

"Tarantara, tarantara."

This was the strain echoing in the ears of those'-who attended the Operatic entertainment, as they

wended their way homeward. And it was a fit­ting finale to a most enjoyable evening.

was the Normal direction at the head of the pro­gram. Overture, Ruddygore, Orchestra; Songand Chorus, Erminie, Mr. Palmer; Solo, Nanoll,Miss Adams; Duet, E7Jangelille, Misses Wormley

~ and Washburn; Solo, Er17zinie, Mr. Lincoln;Duet, Rudd)'gore, Miss Adams and Mr. Hobart;Solo, Dorothy, Mr. Speare; Quartet, Erminie,Misses Duncan and Blake, Messrs. Whipple andHobart; Solo, BO/lemian Girl, Miss Field.

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ZOOLOGY.

PERSONALS.

Miss Baldwin is teaching in Halifax.

Miss Annie Blackman is teaching III

are hereby warned not to gather flowers in thecemetery, or trespass in the hay fields.

MINERALOGY.

mHERE has been received a lot of fine miner­"1" als from the Hoosac Mountains, collected byMr. E. W. Sampson of the 61st class. Also manyspecimens of Massachusetts rocks were broughtby the students on their return from vacation.Every specimen of mineral, rock, plant, or animalwill be gladly received and put to immediate useih the department.

ASTRONOMY.

mHE long used much abused (verbally) wire"1" sphere has entered upon a new sphere ofusefulness. A detachable cloth covering has beenmade, and on the inside of it are depicted theconstellations, the stars of the 1St, 2d, 3rd, andsome of the 4th magnitude, and the various cir­cles. It proves a successful means of supple­menting out-of-door observations of the positionsand movements of the heavenly bodies.

HISTORY.

mHE Civil Government class are using the"1" "Old South Leaflets" in their study of thedocuments of history. These leaflets containmany of the documents not usually found in thetext books, such as the Magna Charta, The Arti­cles of Confederation, Washington's FarewellAddress, Federalist, etc. D: C. Heath & Co. ofBoston have done a good thing for teachers inpublishing these leaflets at so reasonable a price.

GEOLOGY.

mHE Seniors have begun their geological trips,"1" two having been made, one to the brokenledge on Hale St. to study erosion, and another tostudy boulders, going a mile south on BedfordSt. thence across the ridge of land to the sand­stone quarry near school No. 13. Questions aregiven the students before the trip, and carefulnotes are taken by each one to be discussed inthe next recitation. Further trips will be takento study gravel beds, ledges, the course of theriver, kames, dumlins, etc., besides some trips outof town to study historical geology. This fieldwork is very helpful in understanding geologicalagencies and their results, as well as training (?)in estimating distances.

mHE Zoology class has begun its out-door work"I" in searching for the haunts of animals andin collecting insects. A section of the Insectcase is being arranged to illustrate the insectscommon each month of the year, with their earlystages of development, homes, etc.

Constant work is going on in the Zoologicalcases, in mounting specimens, arranging, and la­beling. The object is to make the room a Synop­tic collection of the animals of Massachusetts,with labels, drawings, and descriptions sufficientto make it valuable to studious observers. In thedrawers will be kept sufficient specimens for classuse.

-'87·

-'87·Sharon.

-'88. Miss Gertrude Robbins is teaching III

Somerville.

-'88. Miss Emily Arnold is teaching in Sara­toga, N. Y.

-'87, Miss Ada Piper is teaching in Wake­field, N. H.

-'88. Miss Hattie Quimby is teaching in theWestford Primary School.

-Mr. R. W. White of Section G has been com­pelled to leave school on account of ill health.

-The perspective apparatus which has beenso helpful to the classes in drawing this term, isthe invention of Mr. Shaw.

-Mr. A. A. Lincoln of orth Raynham is thevaledictorian of the four years' course, and MissA. Maud Mackenzie of Taunton of the two years'course.

-During the month we have had with us asvisitors, Mr. Dickinson j Miss Shute, teacher ofBotany, Penmanship, and Language in the Bos­ton ormal School, and Miss Moses, teacher ofGeography in the same school; Mr. ewton, forsometime Principal of the High School inProvincetown j Miss Fannie B. Whitten and Mr.Moran of '86.

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LARKIN DUNTON, LL. D., Headmaster of the BostonNormal Sch.ool, has the best, practical articles on psychol­ogy for the teacher that have ever appeared in book orperiodical, and these articles alternate with Mr. Boyden's.

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-Zoology exercise, Professor," What is thecommon name for rodents?"

Lady Student, "Rats!"

-Student of Latin reads: "redolentque thymofragralltia mella." Falteringly translates-" Thefragrant honey smells like thyme."

-A member of the botany class has discovereda leaf without a margin. It has not yet been putinto the cabinet; some slight additions may bemade.

-A seasonable warning,-Don't get mad whenyour neighbor in tennis whose net saw its bestdays a few seasons ago, declares that there arefewer holes in it than in your new one. ,. He's allright."

-A certain person not far from Normal, is try­ing to see the advantage of the special deliverysystem. Not long since, he paid ten cents for aspecial delivery stamp and put it inside his letter,but strange to say it reached its destination nosooner.

-Cloudy nights are no longer an excuse forignorance on the part of the Astronomy student.All that he now has to do is to find the best wayof getting inside that wire sphere, then,

Silently, all at one time, in the milky limits around him,Blossom the ebony stars, the forget-me-llots of the teacher.

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