Word: normale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Fred Washington Atkinson '90 has been appointed Superintendent of Education in the Philippines on the recommendation of President Eliot. Mr. Atkinson graduated from the State Normal School in Bridgewater in 1886, and was principal of the Upton High School for one year. He then entered Harvard, completing the course in three years. He has been principal of the Springfield High School for six years. Mr. Atkinson will leave for the Philippines in the early summer after visiting Hampton, Tuskegee Institute and Carlisle to study the methods used in teaching negroes and Indians...
...canvassing of the dormitories for clothes for distribution among the poor was reported by the treasurer of the committee, E. C. Stone '01. Last year 34 dormitories were canvassed, yielding a total of 800 pieces of clothing. The larger part of this was sent to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution in Georgia which is now under the direction of Mrs. Booker T. Washington...
...liberal education. Simple and companionable, he was capable of sympathy with all human interests. His note-books show that he was a much deeper man than even his most intimate friends realized. Without any of the eccentricities of genius, Phillips Brooks stood out as the great normal man, beside whom others seemed small. He was always an optimist, because he was a devout Christian, and he was always ready to pour this spirit into men who were lacking in religion. Though successful in influencing many people, it was his great regret that he could not reach the hearts...