isa-normaladvance-1909-00198

Description:	198THE NOEMAL ADVANCEMiss Caroline SchochIt is with pleasure that we announce to thereaders of The Advance the addition of onemore teacher to the Training School Faculty.MISS CAROLINE SCHOCHMiss Caroline Schoch, who took charge of theGerman Department on the opening of the current term, comes splendidly equipped for excellent service in this department. Born inElkader, Iowa, she graduated from the HighSchool of that city, then taught two years inthe rural schools of her native county. Shewas a student in the Iowa State Normal Schoolfor three years, and graduated from it in 1903.The two years following she was a high schoolteacher at Charter Oak, and Perry, Iowa,—oneyear,at each place. She then studied two yearsin the University of Chicago, from which shegraduated in June, 1907. This was followedby a year of graduate study abroad, in the University of Marburg, at Marburg a/Lahn, Germany.From October, 1908, to April, 1909, she wasa teacher of German in the University HighSchool, University of Chicago, a position sheresigned to accept her present one.In personality, in scholarship, in professionaltraining, in experience, Miss Schoch seems tobe especially fitted for her new duties, and wefeel that the President and Board were fortunate in their selection of a teacher for the position she now occupies.Goldsmith as An EssayistBy MARY ELINOR MORANThe peculiar mind quality which can produce the fine essay is determined by the natureof the essay itself yet, one might as reasonablyassert that the essay is the product of a peculiartemperament. Grant that the essay has arisenbecause of a new purpose in the world of art—the expression of human nature in manners,customs and ideas, still it required a certaintype of mind to discover and embody this in anartistic form.The essay as a literary form has certain pronounced characteristics. It presents it subject-matter through the rarified medium of feeling,ranging from mere physical humor to purecomedy. It never expresses the serious, moralor philosophic view of life except as the groundwork for the lighter play of the imagination.Since it is so greatly dependent upon feeling,it is necessarily colored by the feeling of theone who is viewing its subject-matter, andhence, is a highly lyrical form of expression.All phenomena is first translated into experience through feeling—the essay art is thegrasping and embodying of all these phenomena of life while they are suspended in feeling,before they become subject-matter for the intellect, which produces philosophy, or the will,which produces ethics. This suspension of its
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