New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-21
NORMAL COLLEGE ALUMNAE.
THE MEMBERS HOLD THEIR FIRST AN
NUAL BREAKFAST

PRESIDENT THOMAS HUNTER AND HORACE E.
DRESSER AMONG THE GUEsTs-wIrrY
PosT-PRANDIAL SPEECHES.
Among the functions and entertainments of the
last week the first annual breakfast, given by the
associate alumnm OF the Normal College. which was
held at Hotel Manhattan yesterday. was second :"
Importance to About one hundred ana ni'y
members and guests were present. small taoieS
and long one for the presidents party being pro-
vided for their accommodation
The Ivy leaf the emblem. was prominent In the
table decorations white liacs being also used
MR.. Kasson c. Gibson the president OF the asso-
citation, gave the welcoming address before the IN
PRODUCTION Of the toast speakers. she said IN
part:
I'VE are here to-day at this our first breakfast
determined to forget care to forget whether our
degree reads A. NJ. b. A.. b. s., NJ d.. Pm d. OF
the highest and best of all degrees tnat VI
mother forgetting the work necessltated by an
association and only remembering that all
work and no play makes Jack dull boy say
"a aIl-eWe,come, A hundred thousand welcomes
None so wecome" "
Toasts were offered by the following persons en-
the subjects named: Dr. Thomas Hunter presi-
dent OF the college. spoke on that institution Mrs
Alden on Pedagogy and Pessimism'; Horace T.
Dresser OF the College % the City OF New-fork'
and ylce-presdent Of the Board OF Education, on
"Our Fellow Alumni; Miss Helen Gray Cone, on
1.-THE Alma Mater" and Miss Marie H. PIERCE on
"Our Professionals"
DR. Hunter declared that IT no vain hope he
cherished that Normal College should attain d
standing equal TO that Of any college In the land
and the executive ability shown by the aiumnie
proyed that whatever they undertook would De
carried out.
Mrs Susan X. Bourne, as president OF the Lyuia
F. Wadeigh Association, was called on ana spohe
for the method OF education pursued In the past
tn
one. I'VE did learn to read and write, and nave
had to plead OF late years with public schooi
teachers for my children to have the same prVhese'
I believe II is the right OF every free-oorn AMER
can citizen to be taught TO read and write intelh-
gently. and write legihly
Mr. Dresser spoke of the recent meeting OF teach-
ers in Albany when the subject OF salaries was
settled and congratulated the educational worid
~, tho result He declared himself 70 be in favor
~ women serving on school boards, ana pa'u "
tribute to the first Brooklyn women VINO went ih''
office in opposition to many but served SO ao-
ceptaby. ,,,.
auss Come showed that the influence Of the alma
mater was the soul OF the college. which wou'o
live in the hearts OF her Students eve" Il '' '''"
of the building were left
Miss PIERCE in claiming recognition Tor the p'o-
fessiouals showed that nothing could De suoce9'
fully carried on without the PROFESSIONS ,
The scheduled toasts being finished MIS- uio
on representative women to speak for mothers'
children and husbands. Or. Elizabeth Jarrett on
the subject of mothers. said she could speak iol
Them on the principle that old maids thought tney
made the best mothers. and 1T is signiican' iuc'
that they conduct most of the mothers inee'''e'
Miss tents speaking for husbands sara I'M I'M
spinster was the best possible champloh, do his
90 The was still able believe that the IusaI ne
hand EXISTS and having spared the feelngs u bnr
dear absent husbands. she Simply aSA0u nv
hearers to remember them - -, children said:
Mrs Helburn. the subject OF cn'o a nhtects
Give them their place as subjects no, ss world
Ia Tho last few decades the whole ciViileu 40
has tried to thrust upon children the
&c 1,,,,ro plead to have them left IN tneI p ,vpd
o nv stimulated nor under u.
Mrs. Charles Richmond smith r OF ,ne GREETINGS
from the sister association. ~, roroas p Smith
Among those present were Mrs- u nares Mrs c.
Mrs coodhue Miss blanche Arnold Mss Ger s anS
Dodd Mrs Alfred Meyer MIS- an Af'S Women on except
, m,ss We're members OF the alumn@ assoca''on'