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ASSOCIATE ALUMNI EDITORS: JEROME A. CRANE, '82, 50 Washington St, Boston, Mass. EDITH BARNUM O'BRIEN, '90, 1013 Green St., San Francisco, Cal. HOWARD I. TRYON, '88, New Rochelle, N. Y. FRANK W. BALLOU, '02, Univ. of Cin., Cincinnati, O. A. E. MACDONALD, '75, 4035 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Ill. EDITH BRILL, '93, Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. WILBUR SCRUTON, 'oI, care Educ. Dept., Manila, P. I. Published monthly during the school year by the Alumni of the Potsdam Normal School. Terms: Fifty Cents per year; single copies ten cents. All subscriptions should be sent to Miss ADELAIDE NORRIS, Elm St., Potsdam, N.Y. Communications for publication should be sent to F. L. CUBLEY, Potsdam, N. Y F New England Number Editorial We. or the first time in my life I am WE. We take up our new work with the utmost sang froid. used to know what that meant and we think we have used the expression correctly, but if we have not, please remember that I knew it once but we have forgotten it now. At all events we are not afraid of our task and we tackle it with confidence and pride. It is only for one issue-I know that we can stand it and we hope that you can. It is serious work, this editing business. It requires time, brains, will power, in growing nerve, patience, bluff, good nature, and ever ready shears. Most of us are born with all but the shears, and these can be readily acquired. In editing the March number of the Normal Magazine we labor under many difficulties, but we can make you tired in other ways than by reciting our troubles. We are glad that we accepted the task-are you? The writing up of many of the following pages has served to brush away the cobwebs from our memory and in our mind we are a boy again, swinging on the old whirligigs, where the stone gate posts now stand. We sit again on the steps of the Baptist church and watch the men with ropes pulling the old Presbyterian church steeple over into the common. We stand around the Common and watch the 4th of July exercises, climbing the greased pole and chasing the greased pig. We see the Normal School being built with the good old Potsdam Sandstone. We watch it with interest and when it is finished we enter the portals of the Primary Department under the tutelage of Eleanor E. Jones and Eunice J. Merriam. We play with the boys at recess, throw leaves at each other and get hit in the head with a stone concealed in the leaves. We struggle along into the Intermediate Department under Amelia Morey and after many trials and great tribulations and after teaching a year or two we emerge in the winter of '81-2 in a class numbering six and step out to battle with the world, and here we are-WE-Editorial We. Twenty-four years have brought their attendant conditions-sorrow and joy and sadness and pleasuretemporary discouragement and permanent hope, all summed up into a valuable experience. Boyhood and youth may revel in fleeting pleasures but the calm contentment of experience can come only with years. We do not feel old, our thoughts, our hopes, our work, keep us young and we rejoice today that we have passed a goodly number of years with reverence for all things which should be revered, with love for the beautiful, with enjoyment of legitimate pleasures, with malice toward none, with charity for all and with a tender spot always for the old Normal, her students and instructors. All hail to the Normal from Editorial Us. JEROME A. CRANE. |