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comeliness, and for instruction in methods of physical training. 

 The gymnasium is large and well equipped, and was until recently 

 under the charge of Dr. Mary V. Lee, a physician who was a spe- 

 cialist in physical training and made much use of the Delsarte 

 system. Her recent, untimely death has left the department in 

 charge of one of her pupils. 



From the observatory, which crowns the central front of the 

 building, the students see, as a whole, the views which all day 

 long they catch from the windows below — views which have no 

 small part in their student life. Northward stretches Ontario 

 with boundless limit, its shores extending right and left in wind- 

 ing curves, bold bluffs, lowland, field, and forest. Below and 

 around is the city : to the east, sloping down to the river and rising 

 beyond it ; to the west, soon shading off into farm lands ; to the 

 south, rising in a steep slope on which stands the City Orphan 

 Asylum, a sister institution, tracing its origin to the same source. 

 Whether the water and land sleep under a June sky or are vexed 

 by January storms, the eye need ask for no finer scene. 



As the mother of normal schools and methods, the Oswego 

 school presents its most interesting aspect. Normal schools have 

 been organized on the Oswego plan and called Oswego graduates 

 to introduce her methods — as city schools in Portland, Boston, New 

 Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit, 

 Washington, D. C, and other cities of less note ; and as State 

 schools in all the New England States, in New York, New Jer- 

 sey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and California.* This 

 influence was felt first in New England and the Mississippi 

 Valley and later in the South. 



The graduates of the Oswego school number 1,703. Oswego 

 graduates have taught in every State and Territory except Idaho 

 and Nevada, in the District of Columbia, and in five foreign 

 countries. Of the graduates who were born and reared in New 

 York State over four hundred have been called away to teach in 

 thirty-nine States, two Territories, the District of Columbia, 

 Canada, Mexico, South America, Sandwich Islands, and Japan. 

 New York State has complained that through Oswego she has 

 educated teachers for the schools of other States ; but could any 

 but an unnatural mother fail to be proud to have her children 

 worthy to be thus called away, and glad to have within her bor- 

 ders an institution whose graduates are sought for from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Argentine Republic, 

 and the borders of Asia ? 



* See Circular of Information No. 8, 1891, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C, 

 and Historical Sketches of the State Normal and Training School at Oswego, N. Y. 



