News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-01
The Johnson Normal School.
THE CLOSING WEEK.

a very pleasant and successful term
of the Normal School closed Tuesday
the 22d. There has been a larger mum
! Der of students inattendance this tern
than IL Some yeASS before and the work
has been thoroughly and faithfully per
formed both bEsshe teachers and schol
f. The results as manifested by daily
recitSSon and by the examinations have
been sSpeciaHy satisfactory to the State
| Superintendent and to the patrons OF
the school. Visitors are at all times
welcomed at the school to examine
methods of doing work and to note the
progress made by the students. 1t gives
encouragement to teachers and pupils
alike to feel that their friends take q
kindly interest in their work.
The exercises of the closing week be.
gan Thursday the 18th, the first two
days being devoted to the written exam
nations. On Sunday an eminently
practical and interesting sermon was
delivered by Rev. j. l.. SeWall of Milton
VT, before the students and assembled
citizens of the place who filled the
church to OVERLOOKING
On Monday the oral examinations con-
tinued through the day before the Board
of Examiners and indicated the famil-
iarity of the students both with the sub
ject matter taught in our public schools
and the principles upon which are based
the best methods of presenting these
subjects to the pupils. The work in
each and every class reflected much
credit upon the teachers and students.
A large audience gathered on Monday
evening to listen to the Public speaking
by the B. Glass. All acquitted them
selves creditably, showing careful drill
and a good understanding of their Selec-
tiOnS.
The village of Johnson presented on
Tuesday gala-day appearance. The
citizens turning out generally to attend
the exercises of the day and freely OPEN
ing their houses to the former students,
the Alumni and the many friends of the
school who rejoice in the renewal Of old
friendships and the formation of new
ones.
Normal Hall of which it NAV be said
" The old things have passed away, be-
hold all things have become new" hav-
ing been entirely revised during the
past year and new chandeliers, curtains
and carpet for the stage added, pre-
sented an unusually fine appearance
with its abundant decorations of ferns.
MOSES and flowers,
1t was filed at an early hour in the
morning for the graduating exercises
and again in the afternoon for the
Glass Day exercises all parts of which
were successfully and pleasantly car
rled out. Below we give the pro-
grammes, also the names and residences
of the graduating class -
GRADUATING EXERCISES. -Prayer: Music. Es
say, Books, Alice NJ. Beecher; Lesson in Sound
ing Carrie c. Fuller; Recitation, The Old Man
Goes to Town, Della DeSany; Song, Come Away
Essay, Temperance Instruction, Carrie NJ Free
man; Lesson in number, Della Desany; Essay,
Hamlet, Addie b. Nichols; Music; Essay, No One
Lives to Himself Alone, Gertie i. Langdell; Re-
citation, Whlstling in Heaven, Carrie c. Fuller
Essay, ShylOck, Alberta L. Beeman; Music; Con-
ferring the Certificates; Song, by class; Bene-
diction.
CLAss,DAY EXERCISES. - Music; Address of
Welcome, The Ornamental and Useful in Educa-
ton, Emma l.. Ward; Philosophy, Carrie NJ
Greene; Glass Chronicles, Nettie A. Croker;
Grafton, Success, Nathan A, Buck; Poem,
"Eims," Lizzie Ii. PEARL The influence of the
Ideal; Farewell Address, Marcia A. Shedd; Glass
Song, Il. A. Pearl; Music,
GRADUATEs.-NathanA A. Buck, johnson; Alice
NJ; Beecher Johnson Alberta l.. Beeman, St
Adams; Nettie \. Croker, North Hyde Park
Della Desany, Underhill; Carrie NJ. Freeman
Carrie NJ. Greene, Waitsfeld; GertIe l.. Lang,
dell, Johnson; Addie ID. Nichols, North Under,
hill Lizzie II; Pearl, johnson; Marcia Shedd
West Glover Emma l.. Ward, johnson.
Following the Glass Day exercises was
the meeting of the Alumni who were
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Campbell after which was an interest
ing address on Loyalty to our alma
Mater by Hon. G. 7. Hogan Of Shell
don, Vt, who was formerly student in
! the Johnson Academy before it was
changed to the Normal School and who
is now one Of the Trustees of the latter
institution.
The roll Of the Alumni was then
called TO which a large number re-
sponded present the silence follow
ing other names told of absent ones
some OF whom have joined the great
majority.
Miss Helen Winslow contributed {
pleasing poem on Reunion, but the
reading, of large number of letters
IRON absent members was necessarily
postponed from lack of time. Arrange
mentS were made for the publication OF
the Normal School Register, which viii
give the history of the school from tn,
llrst, an account of the Principals anC
teachers, and the Alumni since it be
came Normal School. A supper a
the congregational vestry to which The
visiting alumni, graduating class anC
teachers were especially invited was al
ENJOYABLE occasion to all.
The Band Concert in the evening
formed fitting close to a day full O
interest and endowment