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Excerpt from Normalites, 1914 The class of 1914: will be the one hundredth class to graduate from the Salem Normal School. During the period of its existence, the school has seen many changes. When first established, she was wont to send forth her daughters (no sons), diploma in hand, twice a year, in January and also in June. The last class to graduate in winter was the class of January, 1897. The Salem Normal School was open only to girls in the beginning, but in 1897 she threw' open her doors to the men of New England. A great many young men have accepted the opportunity and she is now proud of both sons and daughters. Among the changes, the most noticeable is the new plan for the training in teaching. According to this plan, each student has charge of a small class in a room by herself. The students are under the supervision of regular teachers who divide their time among these small classes. All the seniors who have worked under the new plan feel that they have gained a great deal. The opportunities afforded the student teachers are excellent. They are given a chance to meet the problems of the profession on a small scale and cope with them. The power to carry along the work of the class alone, gained under the new plan, will be invaluable when the student teachers are no longer students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.