The table of contents lists Literature, Editorial, School News, Organizations, and Athletics.
The Literary essays, poems, play, and one minute stories were written by Newark Librarian John Cotton Dana, and student contributors Marguerite M. Miller, Florence D. Nettleship, Alexander Goldberg, Elma Mitscher, E. Dvorken, Blanche E. Berle, Alex Goldberg, and Mary R. Maurer. Miss Mildred Versoy was thanked for her editorial notes.
School News included the following headings: Social Government News, Our Court System in Working Order, Our Principal Attends Noted Educational Gathering, Chapel Notes, Visitor’s Day March 6, The Japanese Festival, Arts and Crafts Club, and Trip to Washington.
Social News headings include: Our Grads, Entertained, Married, Engaged, and Present Class Officers. There’s an In Memoriam for Myra Hornung.
Athletics headings include: Gymnatic Exhibiton, Girls Basketball, Our Boys’ Team.
The Exchanges section lists other newspapers.
There are four pages of local advertisements.
New Jersey State Normal School at NewarkThe first page includes a photomechanical picture of W. Spader Willis, Principal of the Newark State Normal School.
This Christmas Number includes Literature, School News, Athletics, and Practice Notes.
The Literary essays, play, and poems were written by student contributor's Sallie Robinson, Alice W. Holland, Pauline Glassman, and Gertrude A. Kennaly.
School News included the following headings: Teaching of Science, Our New Teachers, The Reciatal, History Repeats Itself, Our Hallow E’en Pary, Chapel Chimes, The Country School, Social Government News, Normal Nuggets, and A Tribute.
Athletics headings include School Spirit, Normal A.A., Basketball, Junior B. vs Junior A., Synopsis of Game, and Athletics in the School Curriculum.
Practice Notes include short examples of student work and dialogue.
There are four pages of local advertisements.
New Jersey State Normal School at NewarkThe table of contents lists Literature, Editorial, School News, Organizations, and Athletics. It states school history after the opening of their first designated building, school government, an abolition of modern dancing in favor of a two-step waltz, a list of visitors to the school, and a description about practical training at different schools.
The Literary essays and poems were written by student contributors Mildred Versoy, Maria Fricina (two pieces), Regina Mulcahy, Florence Nettleship, and Alexander Goldberg.
The following organizations are listed and described: The Camera Club, The Weather Prophets, History of Education Club, Ye Sweet Signers, The Normal Business League, The Spelling Bee, The Board of Health, Ye Story-Tellers and Story –Players, The Arts and Crafts, The Travel Club.
Details about Athletics included headings about the Society of the Athletic Association of the Newark State Normal School, Basketball (boys), Girls Athletics (basketball), and the Walking Club (girls).
There are four pages of local advertisements.
There’s one loose image of the school building.
New Jersey State Normal School at NewarkThe table of contents list Editorials, Literature, School News, Social News, and Athletics.
Editorial contributions were written by Chas. Grant Shaffer, G.M. Belfatto, and Jean Ashmead.
Literary essays, play, and poems were written by student contributors Caroline S. Romer, Mildred H. Gaffy, Alex. Goldberg, Marjorie Scarlett, Jane Abelson, Dorothy Fee, Margaret Coult, and Harold A. Greene.
Page 17 includes a photomechanical image of the Board of Editors of Pedagese.
School News included the following headlines: Teaching Appointments, Resolutions, At Webster, The Camera Club, Plans for Commencement, Sanctuary, and Perserphone, as well as Practice Notes.
Social News includes school happenings, marriages, where the faculty members spent Easter week, extract from a diary, and a Pedagese Dance.
Athletics included the first Gym Meet, which included the high jump, potato race, dash, broad jump, shotput, and pole climb. Basketball (boys) and Baseball (boys) were also mentioned.
There are three pages of local advertisements.
New Jersey State Normal School at NewarkThe Clara Wolverton Papers contain materials from her early education beginning in 1892, through Normal School, and her earliest teaching years ending in 1903. It comprises personal items such as her grades book, greeting cards, and notes of affection from her students, as well as professional items such as her teaching contracts and letters of recommendation, and also printed commencement programs and tickets and clippings. There are only a few items after this time period, and they document her involvement in the Red Cross and Botanical Society of Pennsylvania.
There are no materials related to teaching at Trenton Public Schools or attending University of Pennsylvania.
Her collection also initially contained six books, four of which were cataloged and added to the Historical Textbooks and General Collections of Gitenstein Library, and two were deaccessioned due to duplication.
Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964Clara Wolverton’s “Grades Book” is a handwritten notebook documenting her teachers’ names and the grades she earned in each subject from Centennial Grammar School 1892 - 1894, Trenton High School 1894 - 1898, through New Jersey State Normal School 1898 - February 1901. There are some additional loose pages with calculations and class lists also housed with the book.
Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964Clara Wolverton’s “Grades Book” is a handwritten notebook documenting her teachers’ names and the grades she earned in each subject from Centennial Grammar School 1892 - 1894, Trenton High School 1894 - 1898, through New Jersey State Normal School 1898 - February 1901. There are some additional loose pages with calculations and class lists also housed with the book.
Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964Clara Wolverton’s “Grades Book” is a handwritten notebook documenting her teachers’ names and the grades she earned in each subject from Centennial Grammar School 1892 - 1894, Trenton High School 1894 - 1898, through New Jersey State Normal School 1898 - February 1901. There are some additional loose pages with calculations and class lists also housed with the book.
Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964A combination of personal and professional materials comprise this series which encompasses her childhood through early career, including a letter from Edna James Blain Smith to Clara's mother asking permission for her to spend the night in order to view the inauguration parade in January 1896, and several recommendation letters from school superintendents and teachers contracts from Bound Brook Public School, Manchester Township School, and Passaic County Schools. Also included are several affectionate “Haledon Students’ Love Notes to Teacher” from 1901.
Wolverton, Clara, 1879-1964