The Normal Record. February 1897

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THE NORMAL RECORD.
THE NORMAL RECORD.
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Published In the Interests of the Teachers ana  Students
of California.
BY  THE   STUDENTS  OF  THE
STATE   NORMAL  SCHOOL   AT  CHICO.
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editors
CLARENCE W. LEINING-ER,
EDITH MARTIN.)
MABEL MERY,    j
WILLIAM RECKERS,       - BUSINESS MANAGER
JONH GUILL,       -        Assistant Business Manager
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CHICO, CALIFORNIA, FEBRUARY, 1897
The present managemant hopes to carry
on the work undertaken by the formar staff,
and to infuse gradually some new phases into
it. To do this we rely on tha co-operation of
the students," Alumni and Faculty. One year
of success has proven beyond the chance of a
doubt that the students are capable of maintaining a first-class school paper. The advantage of a year's experience enables us to
make our paper still more valuable.
An exchange says that a school may be
divided into two parts—those who can write
and won't, and those who try their best to
write but can't. We think that our school
is something of an exception in this—that it
nearly lacks the latter class. Will not some
of our bright writers try and show our exchange that we have another class that reverses it's order of things ?
At a meeting of the school, held February
5th. in the interest of the school paper, the
following resolution was passed:
Whereas, A number of our advertisers
have   complained   that   advertising   in   the
Normal Record does not pay, and since it is
only just that these who do advertise with us
should receive our support as a school, be it
Resolved, That we, the students of the
State Normal School at Chico, will, as far as
possible, confine our trading to the regular
advertisers in the Normal Record.
This resolution was introduced by the management as a business proposition. The
Record is carried on in the interest of the
students and education generally. There is
plenty of talent in the school to furnish subject matter, but we are dependent on our advertisers for- our financial support. It would
be unjust to ask them to contribute to that
from which they receive no benefit. In view
of this fact, the students thought it their duty
to support, by thair patronage, the merchants who support the paper by advertising
through  it.
Professor Wilson has inaugurated a new
movement among the Normal students. His
idea is to have as many of them as possible
devote a portion of their time to independent
research along the line of child life. The
class for the present meats every Saturday
morning at half-past ten o'clock. At these
meetngs notes are compared and discussed.
Tha object of the work is to collect material
for future use in psychology. Its value and
importance to us as teachers cannot be emphasized too strongly. We urge as many of
you as possible to join the class. „It is to be
hoped that not only the students of the Normal, but parents and teachers as well, may
be enlisted in the movement which is destined in the next few years to correct many
of the mistakes of educators who, because of
ignorance of the child's nature, are making
serious errors to-day.
A man is like a coral polyp in this: both
live, die and are forgotten ; both are part of
an immense structure in which each has a
place that only he can fill. At last the coral
reef is built into the brilliant light of day. Is
not the culture of our time more precious
than many coral reefs ?
Seventeen bright girls and boys entered
the school this term. We trust that they are
all cognizant of the high calling for which
they   are   beginning  to fit themselves,   and