Summer School Diary, part 3F - 1914

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attracted here by the present atmosphere of sophistication. I am not prepared to say.

Nevertheless they came, ghastly things in white that glided mumbling and moaning in and out among the rooms, rattling and clattering up and down the stairs, and finally settling themselves on the east veranda. Here they stayed groaning out their sad experiences until the wee small hours of the morning were close at hand.

Only once were these moanings interrupted and that by an ill fated piece of male humanity, who on his way to his home on the campus, chanced to catch sight of the unearthly congregation. The strangeness of it all so worked upon his imagination as to cause him to call out somewhat loudly "Ghosts! Ghosts!" Whether this was meant as a summons or not I am not certain, but at any rate the white assemblage chose to take it as such.

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Rising up they pursured the unlucky mortal through his various attempts to elude around and about and across the green until finally out of breath with running and fright, he was captured. The pursuers at first considered immersion in the pond as fit punishment, but upon second thought possessed themselves of different articles of the victims wearing apparel as mementos and freed him.

Upon their return to the gathering place the strange stories were resumed for a short time but soon the ghostly forms vanished in various directions. A majority, however, taking the direction of the graveyard, where some disappeared, while other more restless ones drifted down from the hill into the streets of the city, separated and finally vanished.

and Catalina will be forgotten.

I heard several of Miss Hetchel's art students airing their knowledge of tone, color and perspective but even they could not do justice to the wonderous enchantment of earth and sky.

Just before we reached Emerald Bay, Miss Day decided that we were hungry so we all went below and proceeded to unpack and eat our lunches. Great was the shout that went up when it was discovered that Miss Brown had picked up a package of gentlemen's laundry instead of a bag of lunch. After doing ample justice to our delicious lunch we hurried back to deck for one last look at Emerald Bay. Among the interesting places that we stopped was Tallac. Here we spent a delightful half hour seeing sights and having our pictures "took."

At about five oclock we reached the "Tavern" where we again lunched and tired but happy boarded the train for Reno.

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Sheldon Week.

The students of this Summer Session have been most fortunate in that each has had the opportunity of attending a series of ten educational lectures, delivered by Dr Sheldon of the University of Pittsburg.

Dr Sheldon spoke to us out of his vast and sympathetic understanding of the child and of the child mind. He spoke to us out of his knowledge of education and educational systems, both Foreign and American. And lastly he outlined for us the work of the most prominent present-day educators of our country.

In his first three lectures on "Childhood" and Adolescence in Fiction" Dr. Sheldon considered such works as "David Copperfield" and Thackeray's "Pendennis", pointing out how clearly these great writers had caught and portrayed the striking characteristics of each period of child development. The teacher, who reading these books from the standpoint advocated by Dr. Sheldon, is sure to return to

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her schoolroom with a quarter understanding and wiser sympathy for the adolescent.

In the several lectures which dealt with the educational systems of the German and English schools, Dr. Sheldon compared these foreign schools with those of America, as to methods, curriculum, training of teachers, and individual initiative of the pupils themselves.

When all was said we could not help but feel that the best elementary schools of America are perhaps a little better than the best that France and Germany have to offer. At the present time when our public school system is being attacked at every angle, it is a relief to have a man who is so well grounded, educationally, assure us that we are least have not made such a very bad beginning.

Dr. Sheldon's last lecture, entitled "Some Current Conceptions Concerning Schhol Teachers, won for him a place in the regard of every school "marm" present.

Thursday evening, July 23.