isa-normaladvance-1909-00099

Description:	INDIANA STATE NQIMAJiiBRjyaiTHE NORMAL ADVANCE99Miss Mabel BonsallReaders of the Advance, and Alumni of theNormal School will be pleased to know thatMiss Bonsall, who graduated with the class of1896, has been elected to a place in the NormalSchool Faculty. She assumed her new dutiesat the opening of the current term, at presentteaching two classes in Arithmetic, for Mr.Kelso, and giving the rest of her time to theTraining School in which she relieves Mr.Woodrow of the Junior Mathematics.Miss Bonsall brings to her new work a splendid equipment in both scholarship and experience. She is a graduate of the high school inThorntown, her home, and she received an A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1901.Since that date she has taught successfully inthe high schools of Franklin, New Albany andMarion. The years 1902-1904 she spent teaching Mathematics in the Philippine NormalSchool, at Manila, P. I. She has collaboratedwith Mr. G. E. Mercer, of California, in thepreparation of a series of Arithmetics for usein the graded schools of the Philippine Islands.These Arithmetics are now in use in theIslands, the primary series (first four yearswork) having been adopted for exclusive usein the Islands for a period of five years.Next year will add senior work to the threeyears of high school work now being done inthe Training School. This will make it necessary to divide the departments of Science andMathematics, Mr. Woodrow continuing incharge of the former, and Miss Bonsall takingcomplete charge of the latter.Many members of the Faculty rememberMiss Bonsall, and the excellent work she didhere as a student. They have known the character of her work as a student and teacher sinceshe left the school in 96. To the newer members, it gives us pleasure to commend her andinvite the heartiest co-operation of all withwhom she will labor.A Study of Historical NarrativeWM. L. CONNORWhile it is the purpose of this paper to suggest some general truths concerning the greatbody of historical narrative written in English,it is thought best to confine the discussion tothree pieces of literary art, namely: Le MorteDArthur, by Malory The Talisman, byScott History of the English People, byGreen.Man is not content to know merely what hisbrothers and sisters are doing, but he mustknow what his grandparents have been doingever since the flood. This is the same spiritwhich prompts the boy, who arrives too lateto see the dog-fight to eagerly inquire, Howdit start? Which licked? To satisfy him halfthe crowd attempts to tell the story. Likewise,to satisfy mankind, certain individuals havegathered information regarding the earlyracial conflicts and set it down for their ownand future- generations. The author of LeMorte DArthur certainly has no other end inview than to portray the glory of the chivalrous deeds of King Arthurs round table, and,thereby to glorify the first great English heroand his followers. As a consequence Malorytells his story in much the same manner as theboys tell about the dog-fight.Now, these same boys, after the dust of thefight is settled, occupy some convenient shadedcurb-stone, and discuss the fight, relating inaddition the stories of all the fights they havewitnessed, and all that their fathers fathershave witnessed, until it becomes pretty clearwhat kind of a dog usually wins and what kind
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