New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
NORMAL ALUMNE MEET.
Annual Breakfast a Joyous Celebration
Loyalty to the College.

A goodly gathering marked the occasion of the
Normal College Associate Alumna's fourth annual
breakfast, held at the Hotel Manhattan yesterday
afternoon. Poppies and crimson carnations We'd
with the national coors shown in innumerable
flags, small and large, in making gay scene.
For three hundred and sxty-four days we work
hard, we alumne," said DR.. Elizabeth Jarrett, the
president in her Introductory remarks but on
this play
In DR.. Hunters opening address he spoke OF
Shakespeare's prophetic insight in portraying in
his learned lawyer a young and lovely woman.
such as we see so many of to-day but hoped
that matters would not come to such pass as In
one instance of historical record when the feminine
lecturer of such surprising beauty that when
addressing class of young men she was obliged TO
do so from behind a screen. otherwise no word
Of her instructions needed. He enumerated
also the items of the first Normal Conege cur
riculum among which were navigation and land
survey and the principles of pety and morality
In toasting 1.-The Young Century" Miss Anna H
Branch said she forever felt did the old school
master who treated his small charges with great
respect for there's no telling" he would say,
what great of coming times we have here
with US now" Miss Branch confessed to still
very live liking for paper dolls mud pies and hide
and go seek and told of small Boston boy OF
nine whose mother she had lately visited and
whom she had tried to amuse one morning by sug-
gesting the last named play through the nails anu
closets of his home At this suggestion MISS
Branch said the small boy stared blankly at first
III,
certain compassion for her pitiable unmaturtty re-
piled: "Oh yes; / know what you mean. No doubt
the ARRANGEMENT of the house is advantageous for
such pastime; but, If you will permit let US
defer the matter for a time" Whereupon Miss
Branch said she longed to pack her trunk and HE
to a land where the hope of the young century
loved to romp and play in the mud
Miss Aida Williams mentioned marriage ana
pedagogy as the two professions making large in
roads upon the ranks of normal school graduates.
COZ course" she said there some lilies or the
field among US. but most of earning our
living one Way or the other. Also. CT course, both
serve the purpose of experiments. though not stimuli
taneously alas, according to the late mandates OF
our educational Medes and PerSians- Both pro-
fessions have this in common. hoWeVer-for some
of those concerned they are highly instructive ana
disciplinary - ,,.r.- ,o.,z5
that her toast 'AluInne SchoomarmS sn0uld
he one of unaIloyed congratulation AS no girl OF
76 could be prevailed to toast her sisters OF
the past century the youngest aiumna present
their heritage she said and nothing worth doing:
from the entire reconstruction OF the Board OF
Fducati0n to the dismissal of a 1anitor, can pe
effectively accomplished without their aid so
cinaIly have they proved their love for every SUCK
and stone of the college building-even the curves
forever hunting for the physical basis of moral
traits recently asked to be allowed to take culture
from inner walls, for he was convinced uieS
were incrlIsted with the germs of loyalty -,
Professor George A. WhiCher was assigned tIe
subiect of Mere Man" by an insignificant speci-
toasted s'The Girls of To-day and the breakfast
Troke nm with a rousing Aud Lang Syne.