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THE NORMAL RECORD. thing for any teacher is that which makes more of a man of him. Chemistry may be made a means of culture, culture in the highest sense. Exploding a bubble of hydrogen and oxygen gives an idea of the tremendous force that holds together the elements in a drop of water, and every drop is held together by the same force. Multiply this force by the number of drops on the planet whose surface is three-fourths water, and there begins to dawn upon the mind the fact that it is in the presence of power greater, than it has ever before contemplated. This power works in a certain way; it invariably acts so that eight-ninths of water shall be oxygen and one-ninth hydrogen. Water is only one of the many substances of the planet; and every one reveals just as wonderful play of forces, the same marvellous conformity to order, the same absolute exactness. Every quivering tissue, every breath exhaled, every blade and leaf, every rock beneath your feet, is what it is because of the harmonious working of these affinities. HaO does mean more than xyn; it begins to unfold the world. The earth was not made a long time ago and left finished; it is being made before our eyes, now; and we are finding out some of the ways in which this is being done. The same elements that exist to-day existed '' before the foundations of the earth were laid", possessed the same affinities; and so the never-ending cycles of change have been going on through the ages, building up the rocks, which have been disintegrated into soil, quickening the soil with what "climbs to a soul in grass and flowers"; and these in turn have been taken up by sentient forms that, under the thrill of life, transmute chemical affinity into heart throbs. Has the student imagination? Let him try to sweep back through the aeons and picture the world as it has risen, stage after stage, and witness the part played by chemical affinity in this building. Has he vision? Let him look beneath this vortex of changing forms to find the great laws in accordance with which the world is still moving on, let him see that there is no such thing as dead matter, but that this universe is the manifestation of a Presence that fills it to the farthest limit and thrills it to the last atom. Is there music in his soul? Then let him awake to the profound harmonies that surge round and sweep through him. Does the student suppose that studying chemistry moans putting things into test tubes to get colors and odors and then writing formulas about them? This is to be done and observations are to be made, but he will come to see that these are of no value until interpreted, and are not interpreted unless ho looks through and a great way beyond his experiment, and sees that what is before him represents what occurs everywhere on the globe whenever proper conditions prevail, and occurs on a vastly larger scale. By and by, ho will see that science does not materialize spirit, but spiritualizes the material. These higher attainments of thought will bo attended by spiritual delight; this deeper insight into nature will give a stronger and more enduring devotion. There will come times when the student may well simply look and wonder, times when he may consider and bow the head. Music in the Normal. E. M. WILSON. Second Paper—The Voice. Of all musical instruments, the human voice is the most difficult to study, and to get under control. The physiology of the voice is but imperfectly understood; and yet science and the laryngoscope have given us many facts with reference to the vocal cords in tone-production, and also concerning the action of the larynx, the organ by which the singing voice is produced. The larynx is a cartilaginous box forming the upper extremity of the trachea, which again is the upper portion and beginning of the bronchial tubes. These tubes extending downward, enter the lungs, and here make infinitesimal subdivisions, around which cluster the constituent parts of the lungs, which form the bellows for the supply of air necessary to the performance of vocal functions. Above, the larynx opens into the throat, and the cavities of the pharynx, mouth, nose and its accessory cavities, which constitute the resonator for vocal vibrations made within tho larynx. The vocal cords or bands, two membranous folds composed of innumerable elastic fibres extending in part parallel to each othe*-, and in part interwoven in various directions with each other, are placed within the larynx,
Object Description
Title | The Normal Record. April 1896 |
Original Date | 1896-04 |
Description | The Record. Published by the Associated Students of Chico State College. |
Creator | Chico State College |
Location of Original | Archives |
Call Number | LD723 C57 |
Digital Collection | The Record: Chico State Yearbook Collection |
Digital Repository | Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. |
Description-Abstract | The Record served as both a student magazine and a commencement program for Chico Normal School. In the year 1896, it was published almost monthly. |
Date Digital | 2013 |
Language | eng |
Rights | For information on the use of the images in this collection contact the Special Collections Department at 530.898-6342 or email: specialcollections@csuchico.edu |
Format | image/tiff |
Filename | index.cpd |
Description
Title | 1896_04_NormalRecord.007 |
Original Date | 1896-04 |
OCR- Transcript | THE NORMAL RECORD. thing for any teacher is that which makes more of a man of him. Chemistry may be made a means of culture, culture in the highest sense. Exploding a bubble of hydrogen and oxygen gives an idea of the tremendous force that holds together the elements in a drop of water, and every drop is held together by the same force. Multiply this force by the number of drops on the planet whose surface is three-fourths water, and there begins to dawn upon the mind the fact that it is in the presence of power greater, than it has ever before contemplated. This power works in a certain way; it invariably acts so that eight-ninths of water shall be oxygen and one-ninth hydrogen. Water is only one of the many substances of the planet; and every one reveals just as wonderful play of forces, the same marvellous conformity to order, the same absolute exactness. Every quivering tissue, every breath exhaled, every blade and leaf, every rock beneath your feet, is what it is because of the harmonious working of these affinities. HaO does mean more than xyn; it begins to unfold the world. The earth was not made a long time ago and left finished; it is being made before our eyes, now; and we are finding out some of the ways in which this is being done. The same elements that exist to-day existed '' before the foundations of the earth were laid", possessed the same affinities; and so the never-ending cycles of change have been going on through the ages, building up the rocks, which have been disintegrated into soil, quickening the soil with what "climbs to a soul in grass and flowers"; and these in turn have been taken up by sentient forms that, under the thrill of life, transmute chemical affinity into heart throbs. Has the student imagination? Let him try to sweep back through the aeons and picture the world as it has risen, stage after stage, and witness the part played by chemical affinity in this building. Has he vision? Let him look beneath this vortex of changing forms to find the great laws in accordance with which the world is still moving on, let him see that there is no such thing as dead matter, but that this universe is the manifestation of a Presence that fills it to the farthest limit and thrills it to the last atom. Is there music in his soul? Then let him awake to the profound harmonies that surge round and sweep through him. Does the student suppose that studying chemistry moans putting things into test tubes to get colors and odors and then writing formulas about them? This is to be done and observations are to be made, but he will come to see that these are of no value until interpreted, and are not interpreted unless ho looks through and a great way beyond his experiment, and sees that what is before him represents what occurs everywhere on the globe whenever proper conditions prevail, and occurs on a vastly larger scale. By and by, ho will see that science does not materialize spirit, but spiritualizes the material. These higher attainments of thought will bo attended by spiritual delight; this deeper insight into nature will give a stronger and more enduring devotion. There will come times when the student may well simply look and wonder, times when he may consider and bow the head. Music in the Normal. E. M. WILSON. Second Paper—The Voice. Of all musical instruments, the human voice is the most difficult to study, and to get under control. The physiology of the voice is but imperfectly understood; and yet science and the laryngoscope have given us many facts with reference to the vocal cords in tone-production, and also concerning the action of the larynx, the organ by which the singing voice is produced. The larynx is a cartilaginous box forming the upper extremity of the trachea, which again is the upper portion and beginning of the bronchial tubes. These tubes extending downward, enter the lungs, and here make infinitesimal subdivisions, around which cluster the constituent parts of the lungs, which form the bellows for the supply of air necessary to the performance of vocal functions. Above, the larynx opens into the throat, and the cavities of the pharynx, mouth, nose and its accessory cavities, which constitute the resonator for vocal vibrations made within tho larynx. The vocal cords or bands, two membranous folds composed of innumerable elastic fibres extending in part parallel to each othe*-, and in part interwoven in various directions with each other, are placed within the larynx, |