The Normal Record. June 1900

              THE NORMAL RECORD.
"Let's take that then. Swallow the bitterest pill first."
"All right. Here goes. 'Evolution regards us all as centers of activity.' '
"What's evolution?"
" O, say, don't you know? Why its—its—
getting better."
" Yes, the unfolding of the race. The progress."
"O, yes, from monkey to man! Now I
remember."
'' ' The long period of infancy which is necessary to bring about adjustments—' "
" Why, he won't ask that. He said
he'd ask us on the last part. About short
cuts, and such"
" Did he ? Well, then let's by all means
study ibat. It begins with that about race
psychology.    Here it is. 'Phylogenesis.'"
"What does 'Phylogenesis'mean, for goodness sake ?"
" There's M !    Come on in.    You'll lose
all this valuable information by lingering on
the threshhold for such ceremony as knocking before you'even poke your head in."
" O, girls! Have you begun? Well, never
mind, I can read that over in the morning before breakfast."
"Yes, I imagine you can. But will you?
I'll wager you don't get up in time."
"Well, girls, don't make me go to studying
so soon after getting settled.    Let me talk a
little."
"Yes, you can talk, you dear old chatterbox.    You   would  anyway,   if   we   didn't  let
you."
"Well, say, Miss Wilson was awfully nice
to me to-day at criticism. I have such a
horrid lot of old note books to correct and so
many old things to do."
"Why, she is nearly always nice tome.
Only once in a while she sits down on me with
pretty good force. But  Miss P called me
down the first period in the Assembly. I
wasn't doing a thing but talking about teaching.    Guess I  did get pretty noisy  though."
"Don't mind a little thing like that.
Which of the faculty do you like  best of all?"
Here followed a detailed narration of merits and demerits of the instructors and the
several opinions of the discussers. Which,
however, I think I had better not reveal to
the public eye.
" Well, now you've had your say, I think
we'd better study a little more. What were
we saying?" (Reading) 'Phylogenesis is the
growth of the mind of the race, race psychology. Ontogenesis is individual psychology
—the growth or development of a single
life.' "
"Now, isn't that terrible? I can't ever
remember those names. What made him give
us such hard references. Couldn't he give us
something we could get through our skulls?
Say it over again and say it slower."
They finally get this and the reader proceeds: "'Recapitulation is the reproduction
of race history epochs through individual
epochs. There is an analogy between—' "
"That's just what Butler or somebody
says."
"Yes—'between individual and race development.' "
"There's the telephone bell—its for me I
know. He said he'd 'phone if he couldn't come
down.    I'm glad now he didn't come."
"Yes, I s'pose so. Well, for my part I
wish he had. We wouldn't do a thing to make
him wish he were at home. "
All this time. A is at the  'phone, which
is in the hall. As she enters she dramatically
proclaims that it was not "he," but that "old
electric light man wanted to see Stamper,
and wanted to know where to put the red
arc light. I told him we didn't want any old
red arc light, but Prof. Stamper wasn't here
as this was my house, instead of the big one
on the corner for which he called."
" Good! Wonder how he got on—"
"O, girls, you freaks come on and give me
another spiel on those old notes."
"Say, kid, did you come down alone?
Weren't you afraid?"
"No, I wasn't afraid. My brother walked
down with me, and he's coming back for me
at half-past nine.  What time is it now?"
"Nine."
"O,   dear! And   we  have  lots to do yet."
"When did you say your brother is going to
call for you?"
"O, never mind. You needn't think you can
sneak and go for a stroll and leave us to
studj7. You stay right here."
" Weil, hear me! 'Short cuts are—' "
"O, let me tell it. I know that. 'Short cuts
are omissions of stages in the development of