CHAPTER FIVE
SOCIAL LIFE IN PIONEER DAYS
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One of the first dramatic companies in Beaver was managed and sponsored by Robert Stoney and Henry Blackner. Jenny Harris and Sarah Ann Stoney, both talented and lovely young women,...
little whim could not be satisfied, they manifested a joy in living and when they prayed they felt God's watchful care.
From the earliest days of Pioneer life, the people provided amusement for themselves. The dance played the most conspicuous...
he labored the greater part of his life. The walls of this little room were usually adorned with guns of every make and size of the day, and there were rows and rows of brass keys strung on wire.
Mr. Ash was a special friend of the Indians, who...
women who took up such work were Mrs. Ruth Reese, "Aunt Jane" Richards, and "Grandma" Jenkins. It is believed that Mrs. Jenkins was the first to practice in Greenville. When Mrs. Reese would meet one of "her boys," she would say, "I was the first...
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(b) This course consists of instruction in the elementary principles of rhetoric together with much practice in composition. The simpler pieces of literature prescribed for entrance to the Freshman class are also...
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UNITED STATES HISTORY AND CIVICS.-This is a thorough high-school course in the history and government of our country.
Required of all first-year Normal students.
3 hours per week throughout the year.
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(b) Required of second-year Normal students:
2 hours per week throughout the year.
PLANE GEOMETRY.-This course includes the general proprieties of regular polygons. their construction, perimeters and areas;...
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English.-(a) This course consists of a thorough study of the more advanced principles of English Grammar. It also includes elementary instruction in literature with abundant practice in simple composition.
Required...
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CHAPEL EXERCISE.
The necessity of ethical instruction is recognized and regular chapel exercises are conducted each week by the teachers and students. While theological creeds can not be taught in these...
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Typewriting. The work includes instruction in the care and mechanism of the typewriter; exercises in the fingering, practice in writing business letters, legal forms, specifications, tabulated statements, and general work...
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and tools of all kinds for work in wood and metals are provided.
Machines and lathes for the iron work are provided for the High School Engineering course.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
This...
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corporations, business papers, liens, guaranty, insurance, real estate and personal property.
Three hours per week throughout the year.
Commercial Geography. A course in Commercial Geography will be given to those who...
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be taught in these meetings, the necessity of honesty, virtue, temperance and upright attitude in all walks of life is inculcated and emphasized as the fundamentals to success in life. Besides the ethical training received, the students have...
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tures are, no position, writing, no shading, and no detatching of vowels. These advantages enable the student to master the principle in a short time and to begin work from dictation early in the course.
Daily throughout the year.
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her daily life. Housekeeping and garment-making are studied and practiced as occupations worthy of the best efforts of the brightest minds. Open to second year students and others prepared to do the work.
Mechanic...
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a study of common minerals, their physical and chemical characteristics and methods of determination, with special attention given to the common rock-forming minerals and their associations in the more common rocks....
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Commercial Subjects. These are intended to prepare students for office work and for positions as business men. The foundation is laid for a thorough training in orthography, penmanship, typewriting, stenography,...
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trict schools. Through laboratory work, dissecting, microscopic examinations, and drawing, the student is made familiar with the lower forms of animal life, and obtains an insight into their relation to the higher forms...
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PHYSICAL SCIENCE.
Mr. Smith.
Elementary Physics. Recitations and laboratory work. The recitations are accompanied by numerous lecture-table experiments, which fully illustrate the subject matter of the lessons....
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General Chemistry. An elementary course in General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis. The theories and principles of chemistry are treated in detail in connection with the study of the non-metallic elements. The...