Jan, Friday 16th.
Another week has almost run its course.
Is it possible that I have been in the normal school
a week and a half. It seems a long while since I
left home, O what a sweet name it expresses vol-
umes of all that is good, pleasant, and happy.
I long to tell my friends about Normalty, its
privileges, its excellent teachers, its joys, and also,
its sorrows too, for we are mortals still, although
in Normalty. Enjoyed silent devotions this morn.
Sentiment. Speak well of your friends; say nothing
about your enemies. Miss Tilden gave us quite
a lecture this morn, about the manner in which
we must treat the x seniors tomorrow hwen they
review us in Arith. [arithmetic]. She was very kind, very dis
interested, but I did not feel as if I needed it
for I am desirous to learn, I care not from
whom. Our first exercise in Punc. [punctuation] today, I need
lessons in it very, very much. "Punctations is the
interpretation of language." Some amusing anecdotes
related in connection with the subject.
Good lesson in reading this afternoon. How
faulty, is the reading of most persons. All of us
juniors exceedingly so, but if we are attentive to
Miss Lincoln we shall learn. O how much our Teachers
do for us. Their reward will ^be great.
EN