THE GATE POST
Vol. VII	STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FRAMINGHAM, MASS., OCTOBER 7, 1937	No. 1
WELCOME BACK!
Freshmen
The beginning of another college year brings many new girls to Framingham. They have come from many different towns and no doubt feel rather lost and lonesome. Let’s all get acquainted with our freshmen sisters and show them what a friendly place Framingham is. You can start right now by learning their names.
/lousehold /Iris	Department
Virginia Allen	Lynn
Emily Atkins	Middleboro
Dorothy Aubertin	Worcester
Emma Baker	Taunton
Margaret Berry	Wollaston
Constance Brine	West Newton
June Caller	Quincy
Marion Cole	Roslindale
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S. C. A. News
Will it be formal, semi-formal, or informal? Of course all you upperclassmen know what we are driving at I That's right, it's the Student Cooperative dance which is due very soon. For the benefit of the frosh, it is the first get-together of the year. Again we ask—What will it be? Be ready to vote in chapel when requested. Remember I
—Mary Clarke.
IFe meet and lunch at
Travis Drug Store
Salute!
During the week of September 27 to October 1, we had with us at Framingham a group of healthy infants in Kelly green sashes and peasant kerchiefs—lusty, roaring infants, who thru their unfailing good nature and their cheerful tolerance of the indignities heaped upon them by a merciless Senior class, earned the right to call themselves full-fledged Framingham-ites.
The sashes, a symbol of their infantile state, and the kerchiefs, a relic of their previous simple, backswoods existence, were a raw, green, to harmonize with the blatant freshness of their wearers. Other signs of irresponsible childhood were the napkins pinned securely beneath chins at meal times and the gay squares and pillow cases in which books could be conveniently carried by childish hands unaccustomed to a load of four or five heavy volumes having a tendency to slip and fall from between one's aching arms.
The Class of '38, like real doting mamas with the best of interests of their offspring at heart, gently restrained the tendency of playing grownup and imitating their elders by using make-up and nail polish.
We tried, to inculcate in these youngsters the respect, obedience, and humility which they should properly feel for their guardians and leaders, by asking them to escort us to our breakfast, carry our books, care for our rooms, and pay us the honor of a full military salute whenever we passed.
The second day of the initiation found our freshies wearing an ankle sock and sneaker on one leg, and a silk stocking and shoe on the other, to show that they were beginning to grow up, partly, at least I
Then an umbrella was added to their costume, signifying that by then they had, through close association with their wise and all-powerful Senior Sisters, acquired enough good common sense to come in out of the rain.
And on Friday, at last, they were received into the inner shrine of our hearts when they donned the royal turban of the Mystic Society of the Framingham Knights of the Bath.
And received into the inner shrine of our hearts they truly were, these young, innocent, happy things Who so soon will have to bear upon their slim shoulders the weight and responsibility of Framingham traditions, customs, and excellent scholarship.
A welcome and a salute to you Freshmen. You have honestly earned our friendship ami our respect.
THE GATE POST
Published every month during the school year by the State Teachers College, Framingham, Mass.
STAFF FOR 1937-38
Managing Editor—Jane Homer, ’38
Assistant Editor—Linnea Anderson, ’38
Hoard of Reporters
Literary—Myrtle Schneider, ’38
News'—Helene Carroll, '39
Sports— Barbara Carle, '39
Social—Margaret Lovett, '39
Exchange—Harriet Cashner, ’38
Personals—Grace O’Donnell, ’38
Jeanne Arbuckle, '40
/•'acuity—Virginia Kerrigan, '39
Alumnae—Lucy Valentine, '38
Training School—Catherine Ellis, '39
Special Reporters—
Ruth Byrnes, '39 Gladys Clark, '38
Esther Stensby, '38 Beatrice Frankel, '38
Lcvona Lamb, '39 Marjorie Pattison, '40
Dorothy Scully, '40 Anne Newell, '40
Easiness Manager—Marie Russo, ’39
Assistant Manager—Ruth Hemingway, ’39
Circulation—Helen Walker, ’38
Ruth Clampitt, ’40 Paula Ahtio, ’39
Advertising—Carolyn Luce, ’39
Christine Hacket, '40
Finance—Edith Yuill, ’38
Distribution—Elizabeth Foster, ’38
Ruth Wilde, '39 Laura Pellissier, '40
Anne Tower, ’41
Literary Advisors
Miss Gcrritson	Miss Sparrow
EDITORIAL
Instead of the usual welcome to the incoming freshmen, Framingham welcomes each and every one of you—freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors—back to a year full of mutual benefits.
Some of us are entering upon a new adventure in life, while others of us are continuing to advance in this great adventure. Framingham has a great deal to offer in many fields of activity. Besides the courses of study, it offers a variety of clubs, social gatherings, and sports which should interest every student; through them it offers an opportunity to create a wealth of friendships. This year we are particularly fortunate in having a new classroom and administration building, and a splendid new library for our use. In return for all these opportunities, we should reciprocate with our untiring interest and cooperation.
Let us make our resolutions for this college year now—that 1937-1938 may be one of the happiest and richest years of our lives.
—Esther Stensby.
"Three types of men go to college; those who are willing to be educated, those who want to be educated, and those who are determined to be educated,” said Newton I. Baker, in an article written for the Princetonian.
—NSFA.
THE UNKNOWN TEACHER
In these strenuous times of national and international crises and affairs, any progress in education is at the crossroads unless every teacher docs all within his power to raise up a generation that will appreciate the great social significance of public education. It is appropriate to call attention to Henry Van Dyke’s tribute to the unknown teacher:
To The Unknown Teacher
"I sing the praise of the Unknown Teacher. Great generals win campaigns, but it is the Unknown Soldier who wins the war. Famous educators plan new systems of pedagogy, but it is the Unknown Teacher who delivers and guides the young. He lives in obscurity and contends with hardship. For him no trumpets blare, no chariots wait, no golden decorations are decreed. He keeps the watch along the borders of darkness and makes the attack on the trenches of ignorance and folly. Patient in his daily duty, he strives to conquer the evil powers. He quickens the indolent, encourages the eager, and steadies the unstable; he awakens sleeping spirits. He communicates his own joy in learning and shares with boys and girls the best treasures of his mind. He lights many candles which in later years will shine back to cheer him. This is his 'reward'.
"Knowledge may be gained from books; but love of knowledge is transmitted only by personal contact. No one has deserved better of the Republic than the Unknown Teacher. No one is more worthy to be enrolled in a demo-cractic Aristocracy ‘King of himself and servant of mankind'.”
—S’. C. News, Albany.
TODAY'S PROBLEM IN EDUCATION
The question naturally arises as to why the modern youth is different (if he really is). Is it the home or is it the school that exerts this feeling of nonchalance and slip-shod manner?
Schools of today are rapidly progressing in many ways. Studies that were extremely difficult are being made easier by better methods of teaching. With this revival class-room work has become less irksome than it used to be, and less intellectual effort must be put into it. The work at school is taken for granted, since it is assumed all work must be easy.
Yet with the excellent teaching we have, there is still much that cannot be learned without due effort from the pupil. The subjects are presented to the students and they extract the opinions coinciding with their beliefs and forget the rest. The outcome is—adults arc built on weak intellectual foundations.
In the earliest years of the child’s education, he forms a weak background and exerts himself only in later years to acquire knowledge when he sees a specific economic gain in view. It is in the professional institutions that you will find the sincere student . . . beginning work only on his entrance to the last lap toward his goal.
According to the National Education Association it cost the government a hundred dollars a year to keep one student in school. The average student spends twelve years in school before entering a college or a university. Will not the
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Council for a Freshman
Note: for certain ideas in this article the author is indebted to A. C. Wiggam, J. A. Clark, M. H. Buckman, D. S. Jordan.
Now that the newness of your surroundings has begun to wear off and you begin to feel less of an outsider, 1 as a sophomore want you to stop and think about next year. The sophomore year can be very important, for then, as well as now, the real foundations are laid.
The right attitude of learning will be so valuable. It is how you learn what you know that will set the value of your education.
You may find that you don't like some of the courses. Many of the things you will be forced to do during your sophomore year are things you maj’ dislike doing. You must force yourself to give these things your best attention whether you like them or not. You may accept these difficulties as inevitable or welcome them, feeling in your clement, facing them.
You are going to plunge into a chemistry course and either sink or swim. From and around one little carbon atom you will build a course. You’ll find yourself collecting old examinations. Don’t try to hide them from Dr. Foster. He doesn’t mind. It’s a good way to study, but it's no short cut.
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Through the Eyes of a Junior
The back to school movement after a long summer was almost as thrilling as when I was a freshman and viewed Framingham for the first time. My return meant to me the renewal of old acquaintances which had been laid aside during the summer months. Also some of my classmates have left for other fields. Dorothy Tribe is to be married October 12, Betty Bullard to work in her father’s bank, also there are Marie Torrance and Margaret Brigham. All will be missed, for each was a member whose place goes unfilled in the class of '39.
I arrived in a hurry on Friday to go through the old routine of registration in new surroundings ; the decision of a major had to be made, and all took place at ten minutes of four. I saw in Dwight Hal! many familiar faces and some, now unfamiliar, whom I hope to know before the year is very far advanced.
The nights were spent in "jaw sessions” where vivid accounts of the summer were narrated while each awaited her turn. Discussions of the coining semester and what it will unfold were questioned and judged, and definite opinions were formed.
School started, something new and different; especially to each junior girl, for Crocker gives her her chance to cooperate, cook, serve, and eat with her classmates. However, the Crocker-ites constitute only half of the junior class; the other half while out teaching are also experiencing a new life which is a part of Framingham.
After all this reflection, night found me back in my room with the feeling that Framingham is a part of me and that we two had never been separated.	—H. Carroll.
Home Economics Club
Fine Arts Club
Sleuthings
The membership meeting of the Louisa A. Nicholass Home Economies Club was held during the first week of college. After introducing the officers to the girls present at this meeting, a question and answer period was held to acquaint better the prospective members with the club. As the girls left the room, they were presented with handbooks which contained tentative program for the coming year, and several write-ups about our annual events. The last page was made into a membership card.
Several members are planning to attend the first meeting of the year of the Massachusetts Home Economics Association Saturday, October 2, at the Hotel Vendome where Miss Dorothy Morley, of Massachusetts student representatives to the National Home Economics convention last year, and Miss Ruth O’Brien, from the Bureau of Home Economics in Washington, will speak.
If you were not present at our first meeting, don’t forget to get your hand-book in Room 71, • Peirce Hall, ami join.
A’Kempis Club
The A’Kempis Club held its first meeting this season in Dwight Hall, Wednesday, September 22.
The Club is privileged to have two new Faculty members, Mr. Gilday and Miss Brosnan.
A list of activities for the year was presented by Gena Corea, President. The first big activity of the year is a Communion Breakfast which is to be held sometime soon in October. There will be guest speakers whom you shouldn’t miss. There are many new plans for this year. So join A’Kempis Club. Also watch for the date of the Communion Breakfast.
—Catherine Whitney.
Y. W. C. A.
Linnea Anderson, President of the Y.W.C.A., opened the first meeting of the year in Archibald Hall on Tuesday afternoon, September 21. Miss Evangeline Wilcox, the newly appointed Executive Secretary, and Mrs. Elizabeth Jack-son, the Associate Secretary, both from Metropolitan Student Headquarters, Boston, welcomed all the freshmen. Mrs. Jackson stated briefly the purpose of the club.
The members of the cabinet are planning to meet on Saturday, October 2, at the Pioneer Club in Boston, for luncheon as guests of Miss French. The afternoon will be spent discussing plans for the year’s activities.
The Y.W.C.A. cordially invites all freshmen and upperclassmen to join the club. Dues drive will start shortly.
—Anne Newell.
THE VALUE OF A FRIEND
"So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
Wednesday, September 22, we had our first get-to-gethcr. At this time the club officers and advisors were introduced. This was followed by a brief outline of the plans for the year given by Miss Kingman and Miss Nietzold.
This year, the Fine Arts Club is including radio, sketching, arts and crafts, puppetry, choral verse, and drama groups. These groups will meet twice a month under the direction of the club advisors and their assistants.
Come, join a group 1
COUNCIL FOR A FRESHMAN
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Don't be afraid of clothing. You’ll have night-mares about unbleached cotton, but you’ll find public gatherings vasting more interesting when you can study the set of the sleeves in the dress in front of you, the type of seam on that skirt, and "just what that color does for her hair anyway”. If 1 were you, I shouldn’t feel too badly over low marks. Your buttonholes may still be amateurish, but you’ll know how to make them, and where to use them. You will be proud of the clothing knowledge you will have gained.
Learn to work with people around you. It is a great advantage to do your work yourself, but do not subject yourself to the slavery of doing it alone. You have ideas, inspiration to give your friends. Enthusiasm about work in a group is a strong drive toward getting work done.
So there you are as a person. There are a few things you can do to help you get the best out of it all, but there is another thing to be considered. It is, “What are you going to do for your college?” First, let me ask, "What are you doing for your class?” I have not much idea of just what a class means in a large university, but I believe that in a college such as ours, the classes influence a person’s standing. "She's a senior" means an entirely dififerent person than "She’s a sophomore.” Somehow, our classes seem to color us with their own personality. You, as one part of that composite whole can help make a class and class spirit that will, in turn, help keep the standards of the college high.
“Be proud of your school. The process of "knocking" is opposed'to the growth of college spirit. If the habit of faultfinding is deep-seated, learn your college song!" For a few minutes after chapel, one day a week, we can all participate in the singing of school songs. There is a great moral lesson in learning to sing in unison.
There is but one thing more that I would like to say. For years before we ever thought or knew of Framingham, girls and women were building for us traditions of which we might be proud. Our college was so confident of their intellectual—and judicial—honor that it gave them the right to formulate two very' important councils, the Student Government Council and the Chemistry Council. They stand for our reliability and honor. Do not betray the ideals of those who went before us. Your conduct will determine their worth. You, too, must “Live To The Truth”.
—Marion Mahoney, '35.
Doris Drew '35 was married sometime during the summer.
Engla Anderson '36 has returned from Ann Arbor, Mich., and is at present at the Boston Dispensary in the dietetics department.
Betty Whitney '35 has been working as dietitian in a Hartford, Conn., hospital for the past year.
Dorothy Schuerch '36 has returned from her year’s training in Cleveland, Ohio.
We find that Jane Bowler formerly of ’40 has left us for Pratt Institute and has become engaged.
"Dot Tribe" '39 seems to be missing from our ranks. She is to be married shortly.
Vermont has claimed many of this year’s graduates, among them are: Ella Andersen, Rose Pilibosian, Betty Ryder, Evelyn LcFort, Isabel Daniels, Louise Sonderman, Elsie Randall, Kathleen Ryan, Virginia Mondello.
Hopkinton is fortunate in having Hildred Boston and Muriel Davis come to her schools.
Marie Brady is displaying her charms on the students in Stamford, Conn.
Caroline Auld is teaching in Revere, while Barbara Chadwick is telling scholars in Brockton about the advantages in music.
I'reshman boners—
Have you heard about the freshman in Horace Mann who went down the hill to mail a letter after study hour? Well she was told she could do anything she wanted between 9.30 and 10.00, so why’ not?
It seems another freshman was conscientious and signed out an iron—in the “out” box.
Hrighl Sayings-—
At a house meeting—“We haven't any studying to do, so can we go out?"
Any news item submitted would be greatly appreciated for the forthcoming issue. Won’t you all try hard to make the personal column have more color?
Field Day
Along with its three hour work days, Framingham also has its three hour play days. One of the latter is ’Field Day which is to take place this year.
We know that you Upperclassmen don't have to be urged to come out and play our very original football and baseball, squeeze maximum bulk through minimum space, and observe the snappy costumes worn J>y the faculty. But the Freshmen have yet to learn of the pleasures of Framingham playdays. So COME, Freshmen, let's see just as many red gym suits up there as green, orange, and brown.
—P. W. Delaney.
Flowers are a necessity To fulfill your desires.
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Faculty Notes
Miss Coss spent the last three weeks of the summer vacation in a little village called Hebron, four miles north of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Making the crossing from Boston with a car in the hold of the boat was a novel beginning. Exploring the little harbor all round about the Yarmouth district, visiting the oldest settlement in North America at Annapolis Royal, driving about among the little French settlement which lie both south and north from Yarmouth and in which most of the inhabitants are descendants of the Acadians, watching the placid oxen drawing loads of hay or lumber or fish,—all of this made a very delightful experience.
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Prom our new Musical Instructor
Nostalgia is no respecter of persons, and its potency is little diminished by familiarity. Fortunately, it is vulnerable to such influences as friendly, ivy-colored buildings; kindly, encouraging, and erudite fellow-teachers; earnest, enthusiastic and happy students.
All these things and more, even in so short a time, I have found to be the essence of Framingham. Add to them the traditions of many, many years of successful teaching, and the love and loyalty of hundreds of faithful alumnae, and we have an institution unique, even in a region as educationally rich as New England.
Under such splendid leadership and following closely in the footsteps of so remarkable a predecessor, and with the gracious co-operation of the faculty and student body, I hope to be able to do my small share in preparing our students for what we know to be the noblest of professions—teaching the young.
TODAY’S PROBLEM IN EDUCATION
(Continued from page two) expenditure be useless if his previous training is not a serious preparation ? Is it worth twelve hundred dollars to receive the foundation of the average high school graduate?
The adult of today tends to be less accurate. Ask one the name of an author, a book, or the outcome of an event. He will invariably answer incorrectly. It is the frivolous trends of mind the modern adult follows. Amusement is the foremost gain; education only a second thought.
The world is ever moving forward and problems are becoming more intricate. Intellectual training is needed not only to combat the economic difficulties hut to solve the particular problems of living with a direct goal in view. The decay of intellectual standards must be replaced by a sound plan for progress.
—.S'. C. Mews, Albany.
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Alumnae Notes
1937 Appointments
Ruth Andersen—Teaching East Bridgewater: Foods, Clothing, Lunchroom management.
Marion Barnidc—Junior High, Waltham.
Doris Billings—Topsfield : Home economics and lunchroom.
Edith Blackburn—Pupil, Medical Center, Indianapolis.
Marie Brady—High School, Stamford, Conn.: Clothing.
Madeline Brockhoven—Teaching, Junior High, Brockton.
Catherine Brosnan—State Teachers College, Framingham: Clothing substitute.
Barbara Chadwick—Teaching Brockton : Household Arts and Music.
Frances Danforth—Teaching Dover: Household Arts and Lunchroom.
Isabel Daniels—Barton, Vt.: Household Arts and English.
Eleanor Draper—Home Management House, Long Lane Farm, Middletown, Conn.
Ingeborg Earnsby—Lebanon, Conn.: Household Arts and English.
Anna Friberg—Pupil, Worcester Hospital.
Adele Friedman—Pupil, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston.
Louise Hamel—Teaching Newington, Conn.: Household Arts.
Dorothy Hixon—Teaching Clarke School for the deaf, Northampton: Home economics.
Helen Howe—Teaching Dalton, Mass.: Household Arts and Lunchroom.
Evelyn LeFort—Teaching Hardwick, Vt.: Household Arts, Physical Education, History and English.
Doris Levinson—Pupil, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Marion Mahoney—Assistant, Worcester Gas-Light Co.
Frances Martin—Teaching Essex, Mass.: Home Economics, General Science, Cafeteria.
Elsie Miller—Pupil, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston.
Anna Murphy—School Lunch Department, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rosamond Patten—Teaching Climax, Michigan.
Mabel Price—Wells, N. Y.: Lunchroom and Household Arts.
Beatrice Racicot—Teaching Milford, Conn.: Household Arts, grades 7 and 8.
Harriet Raynes—Home Management House, Long Lane Farm, Middletown, Conn.
M. Elizabeth Ryder—Teaching Richwood, Vt.: Home Economics, English.
Frieda Sherman—Pupil, Cleveland, O., Hospital.
Louise Sondermann—Teaching Craftsbury, Vt.: Home Economics and Music.
Phyllis Sparhawk—Teaching Farmington, Conn.: Household Arts, Phys’l Education.
Jane Sroczynski—Mendon, Mass.
Helen Tomasz—Teaching Concord, Vt.: Home Economics, English, Biology, Elementary Arithmetic.
Ruby Wilson—Pupil course, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Alumnae Appointments
Nancy Renton, 1935, from Dover, Mass., to Woodstock, Vt.
Antoinette Minichiello, 1936, to New Salem, N. H. (Continued on page six, column three)
Crocker
Remember Crocker? Those good old days at Crocker?
That question has been echoed and re-echoed by graduates.
We who are now in Crocker cannot say, "Remember Crocker”, but we do say, “We shall never forget.”
For can you ever forget that first morning when your eyes were scarcely open as you stumbled downstairs at the eerie hour of 7? There we were instructed as to the how’s and why’s and where’s of Crocker with a dash of tradition thrown in to make us appreciate our “lot”.
Traditions? Oh, yes, the word alone brings to my mind that we surely have had a past. Ask Miss Hall, Miss Sullivan, or Miss Fay if they agree with me.
Among the “don’ts” in Crocker was “Please, do not sing in the serving room.” Maybe that request sounds unnecessary, but not so. If you were drying steaming dishes which shone and sparkled at the least touch, would you not also want to cooperate with the dish washing machine and sing, or better still, whistle? Cheerful Cherub said concerning Charms—
“All the world’s a stage, they say,
That Fate’s directing for us, Some have starry parts to play But I am in the chorus.”
That is just how some of us feel while we are washing dishes. However, our vocal chords have to be more or less held in reserve for Archibald Hall.
So although our days at Crocker have scarcely started, experiences are making history for us. We cannot unscramble those first eggs we did at Crocker and how could we forget?
—E. Pike.
FOR FEMININE FOOTBALL FANS (Exchange)
Backfield—not the space between the house and the garage.
Lineman—not the telephone employer nor a collegiate conversationalist.
Time out—not a watch in hock.
Fan—not a Westinghouse product.
Play—nothing to do with a girl’s dropping her handkerchief at an opportune moment.
Punt—not a play on words or a flat bottomed boat.
Touchback—not a loan repaid.
Coach—not a producer of Fisher Body.
Spinner play—not a yo-yo, nor an invention of the Rotary Club.
Penalty—not an altruistic sacrifice.
Referee—not a golf player.
Signals—has nothing to do with Boy Scouts (if she still believes in Boy Scouts, don’t take her out).
Forward pass—not the English translation of “faux pas”.
Quarterback sneak—not caused by hereditary influences.
Run—has nothing to do with hosiery or noses.
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Freshmen—You Will Be Interested to Know That
Last spring we on the Hill were confronted with a very significant problem. This problem arose as a result of the razing of the class and club cottage, a memorable landmark on our campus for twenty-five years.
This house, originally called the X.P.K. (Ex Perimental Kitchen) was built under the direction of Dr. Howe, then head of the Chemistry Department, and Mr. Ried, long interested in affairs that promote the best interests of the students, with the assistance of a group of H. A. students. As the name implies, the house was used by girls who wished to try out the recipes that were taught in their foods courses.
Since the house gradually outgrew its original purpose, it came to be known as the Class and Club Cottage. With certain rules and regulations, the Cottage was open to the school. In recent years, with the increase in enrollment at the College, the students have felt that the Cottage could no longer comfortably accommodate the larger groups that wished to use it.
No sooner had the question of enlargement been spoken of than it was learned that the Cottage would have to be torn down in order (Continued on page six, cofimm one)
The Patchwork Quilt
Here we are back at work again sorting out pieces from our grab-bag to pass on to you. Considering the tremendous effect that environment supposedly has upon one’s work and personality, know that, as we write, we are deriving inspiration from the swingiest of swing music, and bear with us if all is not as lucid as it might be.
Question and answer columns often contain informative bits. The following borrowed from Nella of the Bulletin may be just the salve for you.
Question : Is it true that a very determined man can do anything he decides to do?
Answer: No. I might give the old and trite example of lighting a match by scratching it on a bar of soap, but I won't. Have you ever seen anyone, no matter how determined, slam a revolving door?
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Nearly everyone likes to play the game of listing the ten superlatives, good or bad, in one subject or another. The interest of Wilfred J. Funk, dictionary maker, poet, and* publisher, naturally turns to words, groups of which he lists in an article via Associated Press and The Flor-Ala. You may agree or not; all are subject to a difference of opinion.
Several years ago Mr. Funk picked the "10 most beautiful”—dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, and melody. His list a few months ago of the most overworked words included: okay, terrific, lousy, contact, definitely, gal, racket, swell, impact, and honey.
“We need not be ashamed that only a fifth of our vocabulary is from the original Anglo-Saxon,” said Funk. “It shows youth, vitality. Only dead languages are honest.”
FRESHMEN
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Virginia Cook	Norwood
Virginia Dolan	• Roxbury
Madeleine Ferris	Chicopee
Grace Flavin	Attleboro
Eva Fresia	Pittsfield
Audrey Hearn	Worcester
Vivian Hogan	Sheldonville
Ann Jouannett	Dorchester
Lois Krocpel	Holyoke
Jean Mandigo	Foxboro
Pauline Milne	Dorchester
Elizabeth Mooney	Cambridge
Edna McCarthy	Roslindale
Gladys McGaw	Weymouth
Ruth McKechnie	Natick
Marie Nugent	Worcester
Dorothy Olson	Dorchester
Charlotte Page	West Roxbury
Charlotte Patten	Sterling
Blanche Pomfrey	Westfield
Lillian Profita	Boston
Miriam Regan	Boston
Claire Robinson	Worcester
Evelyn Sauritz	Maynard
Beverly Shafran	Roxbury
Helen Sheen	Lynn
Betty Story	Pigeon Cave
Mary Sullivan	Worcester
Elizabeth Totilas	Worcester
Anpe Tower	Beverly
Muriel Wallace	Merrimac
Miriam Walsh	Brookline
Barbara White	Chicopee Falls
Barbara Worden	Shrewsbury
Ruth Ludlow	Milton
Dorothy Lyford	Spencer
Hazel Fay	Athol
Sarah Hall	Newton
Cala Laboritz	Sprjngfield
Ursula O'Connor	Framingham
Eleanor Lamborghini	Bryantvillc
Mary Mitchell	Gardner
Kathcryn Nagle	Jamaica Plain
Ruth Fahey	Waltham
Cora Webb	Wellesley
Rosalie Solin	Chicopee
Barbara Cowan	Haverhill
Mildred Gray	Sherborn
Margaret Fitzpatrick	Rockdale
Cecelia Kowalewski	Hyde Park
Barbara Lyman	Auburn
Stella Smith	Quincy
Betty Calkins	Rutland
Margaret Leamy	’ Quincy
Florie Gray	Worcester
Dorothy Laboutcley	Holliston
Marie L'Esperance	Cambridge
Doris Riggs	Grafton
Marjorie Babson	Stoneham
Irene Zuvawinski	Worcester
Mary Sweeney	Fall River
Anita Wilcox	Boston
Mary Curran	Arlington
Marion McLaughlin	Woburn
Charlotte Mothes	Hudson
Catherine Romard	Waltham
Agnes Carvian	Cambridge
Edna Sweet	Milford
Ethel Darling	Hyde Park
Jeannette Farr	Gramby
Doris Call	Newburyport
Vocational Household Arts
Carolyn Bradish	Leicester
Ruth Geddes	Watertown
Lillian Gendron	Lowell
Doris Luthringer	Worcester
Helen Melanson	Quincy
Eleanor Parker	New Bedford
Alice Silcox	Lowell
Phylis Stearns	Dedham
Ruth Troncrud	Topsfield
Elizabeth Crowley	Auburn
Ethel Briggs	Attleboro Falls
Lena Tela	Lawrence
Elemi	'ntary
Carolyn Anton	Dorchester
Mildred Bere	Belmont
Marion Blood	Wellesley Farms
Sarah Borghctte	Wellesley
Joan Bridey	Newton
Marion Brigham	Marlboro
Alice Britt	Amherst
Irene Carboneau	Framingham
Hazel Cobbett	Upton
Audrey Coburn	Waltham
Edith Cotton	Newton
Lois Currie	Auburndale
Dorothy Dacy	Hudson
Mary Foley	Brookline
Doris Glanccy	Watertown
Mary Good	Cambridge
Barbara Hall	Raynham
Joanna Hazlett	Walpole
Mary Hickson	Framingham
Estelle Kapstein	Brookline
Mary Keating	Natick
Helen Kennedy	Natick
Hazel Maxwell	Marlboro
Anne McNiff	Hudson
Helen Paul	Waltham
Maude Payne	Waltham
Betty Perkins	Framingham
Patricia Pitbladdo	Waban
Anna Shaughncssey	Milford
Gertrude Spiers	Newton
Pauline Tokaruck	Framingham
Hazel Williamson	Medfield
Mary Fitzpatrick	Boston
Dorothy Long	Holliston
Eileen Quinn	Springfield
Alice Havner	Framingham
Helen Rush	Barre
Barbara Sheridan	Medford
Esther Sullivan	Fall River
Eleanor Hanlon	Medway
Mary Capeless	Pittsfield
Mary O’Neil	Brookline
Helen Condon	Milford
Katherine Hart	Worcester
Lucille Costello	Franklin
Shirley Fishman	Roxbury
Elizabeth Wilson	Wellesley
Barbara Stinson	Newton
Jane McFarland	Belmont
An excellent and tactful method for refusing perennial borrowers is illustrated in the following from Flor-Ala:
"I say, old fellow, can you lend me a dollar for a day or so?”
"I'm very sorry, but the dollar I keep for lending purposes is out at present. However, I can put your name on my waiting list.”
FRESHMEN—YOU WILL BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THAT (Continued from page five)
to carry out the plans for regrading land in front of Dwight Hall.
After due discussion the Student Council elected a building committee to develop a number of possibilities for replacing the little house. These suggestions were presented to the entire Student Cooperative Association to be voted upon. The majority of students voted (1) to build a house to replace the C.C.C. Cottage, (2) to raise at least $3000 for a student house on campus, (3) to confer with the Alumnae Association with regard to a possible combined student-alumnae house.
At Biennial, the plan was just briefly sketched before the Alumnae Association, leaving the more detailed discussion for the Board meeting this fall.
Whatever the outcome of the conference with the Alumnae, the students will still aim to raise at least $3000 by 1939. As you know, 1939 is the year of our one-hundredth anniversary, and it seems most fitting to work towards the laying of the cornerstone of our new house in this year. You see, construction of the house cannot begin until all the money is raised.
Our building fund is already boasting its first contributions; last year’s senior class gave $50 as their Class Gift; $50 was given from the S. C. A. of last year; the Class of 1939 donated money made at the showing of their May Day pictures, and this year, each student has paid a Building Fee of fifty cents included in the Budget which means that over $200 will be deposited from this source.
Have you seen around the College those yellow strips of cloth with the inscription "Great Feats From Little Foots Grow” attached? Each strip is a foot long with eight compartments. A coin or a bill is sewed into each compartment and the total donated to the fund. Last June each girl received a strip, and shortly, all the freshmen will be given an opportunity to enter the competition.
Before College opened this Fall your Building Committee was making plans for swelling the Fund. Several novel suggestions have been made. The very near future will divulge these to you.
The upperclassmen have heard all of this before, and if past enthusiasm counts for anything we may expect further loyal support from them. But to you freshmen we make an urgent appeal. You especially should be interested because you, yourselves, will be able to enjoy the house during your own college years.
We all realize that this is a tremendous undertaking. It necessitates the giving of continual and unstinting assistance and cooperation. But, with nearly five hundred enthusiasts and eager girls behind the plan, how can it fail?
To us, this is a challenge I Here is our opportunity to show whether Framingham has some significance to us or not. We cannot lose. Not only shall we have something material as a result of our endeavors, but perhaps the greater achievement lies in the fact that the house will be a symbol of the cooperation, unselfishness, determination, and mutual comradeship That characterize the Framingham girl.
—M. Sullivan.
Training School Tid-Bits
Summer's over, autumn's here, which means we’re ready to start off the year with some "Summer Slants” on the teachers.
Miss Hazel B. Davis motored to Quebec and around the Gaspe peninsular. Interesting scenery, but indigestible food was her impression of the country thereabouts.
Miss Mary Caunt visited Acadia National Park on Mt. Desert and climbed Mt. Cadillac.
A tour of the Province of Ottowa and the Catskills took up some of Miss Maria Hawes’ vacation period.
Automobile, boat, and airplane served to carry Miss Bertha Hall to and from Cleveland. Her one regret was—is—that the other airplane passengers (including the hostess) didn’t realize that her trip was her first in the air, so well did she appear during the ride.
The others report pleasant and happy times although Miss Mary Long did exert herself to breathe deeply of the healthy and rare summer air and Florence Cook has not as yet been able to make any "history”.
Now let us see what the pupils are doing.
In Miss Cook’s Grade 1, a nature museum, no less, is attracting the attention of these beginners. Come and see it! Most interesting it is with its parsley broad-tail and “big brown bear” caterpillars, its feathers from various fowl AND Indian head-dress, its shells, and its leave’; and berries 1
In Miss Hawes’ Grade 3 we find the Indians again. The project is started and the tepee is up and two members of the tribe are busy getting the rest of their “dark and gloomy forest” inhabitable.
Would you like to visit the dolls from all over the world? See Miss Long’s room. There you'll see a warrior from Zanzibar, a Nubian prince—or is it a princess?, a food-carrier from Panama, a slave from Africa, a girl from Holland, and oh! ever so many others!
—C. Ellis.
Sporting Section
It's Hockey Time Again 1
Are you there? Where? On the spot for hockey of course! As usual hockey is proving a mighty popular sport and the turn out promises some exciting competition for class games. For the upperclassmen to get their second wind and for the novices to develop a little technique, the first two weeks of October will be devoted to general practice. Here’s a chance for everyone, so don’t miss it! Class teams will be chosen and inter-class competition will start about October 17. If you can't get out for class competition, why not show up for Harvard-Yale hockey or basketball practice which will begin the first week of November? Here are opportunities for work and play all in one, so we'll be looking for you 1
A college magazine is a great invention, The college gets all the fame, The printer gets all the money, The staff gets all the blame.
—From The Notre Dame Juggler.
KEEP A BOOK OF GLEANINGS
Few Teachers' College students are fortunate enough to be able to keep their favorite textbooks, being forced to sell them in order to buy next semester's books. Still few students have libraries of their own choosing.
At some time everyone will have at least a small library of his own. When that day comes, he should be familiar with his books. If he marks favorite passages and pencils notes in the margins, in fifty years' time he will read these notes with pleasure and understanding. Such notes arc the footprints of the reader.
In a student's library reading arc often found passages he wishes to keep or remember. Unless these “literary gems” are copied they arc soon forgotten; so the habit of keeping a section of a notebook just for these findings is a splendid one—as a matter of fact, inspirations and ideas for themes and other school papers arc found in abundance in such a collection kept by several students. So, next best to owning and marking his own books is the composite book of gleanings from all the authors.
—B. E., The Bulletin.
ALUMNAE NOTES (Continued from page four)
Dorothy Valentine, 1935, to Carver, Mass.
Anne Jenkins, 1935, from Hanover, Mass., to
High School, Quincy, Mass.
Barbara Hewitson, 1931, to Ashfield, Mass. Flora Tait, 1933, to Northfield, Mass.
Marjorie Whittier, 1936, from Plainville, Conn., to Old Lynne, Conn.
Viola Ruggles, 1936, from Ingeside School, Revere, to Wilmington, Vt.
Alice Erickson, 1931, from High School, Needham, to High Schoo], East Hartford, Conn.
Betsy Hall, 1935, to Derby, Vt.
Ingrid Vincent, 1935, to Oak Bluffs, Edgartown and Vineyard Haven.
Louise Cotter, 1922, 1926, Central Park School, Schenectady, N. Y.
Marriages
Faith Goddard, 1927, to Paul Allman, July 3.
Doris Drew, 1935, to Sylvester Loring, August
14, 93 Franklin St., Watertown.
Clare Curley, 1932, to Robert Richards, June 26. Marion Slayton, 1934, to Herbert Rowell, July 5.
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