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Hon. William H. Green, Cairo.
PRESIDENT.
Enoch A. Gastman, Decatur. Charles L. Capen, Bioomington.
Hon. E. R. E. Kimbrough, Danviiie. Matthew P. Brady, Chicago.
Mrs. Ella F. Young, Chicago. Peleg R. Walker, Rockford.
M. E. Plain, Aurora Forrest F. Cook, Calesburg.
Jacob A. Bailey, Macomb. Geo. B. Harrington, Princeton.
Wm. R. Sandham, Wyoming. Jas. H. Norton, Ravenswood.
N. W. Shanahon, Chicago. F. D. Marquis. Bioomington.
Treasurer.
Hon. S. M. IngliS, Springfield. Ex-Officio Member and Secretary
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MAIN BUILDING.
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IN THE NORMAL SCHOOL.
It was a remarkable characteristic of thi> institution that for many years there were but few changes in the teaching force. Dr. Edwards was connected with the in- stitution for fifteen wars. \)r. Hewett thirty-two years, Professor Metcalf something more than thirty-two years, Professor Stetson twenty five years, and there were oth- ers who left the faculty after a Long service. Of late, changes have been somewhat more frequent. The de n i a ml for Normal School men has greatly increased, the salaries have become far more attractive, and* many things have united to make it more difficult to hold our teachers. 1 1 is .i frequent remark of the visitors who have not been here for a few years that there arc but few familiar faces in the faculty. Whih' there have been many changes, as I have said, the service of the present faculty is quite long. Professor McCormick began hi> work here as a teacher in i, Professor Colton succeeded Professor Seymour in L888, Miss Hartmann entered tlje faculty in IH82, Miss Ela in '88, Miss Colby in '92, Dr. McMurry in '92, Professor Felmley in '90, Professor Manchester in '90, Miss Wilkins and Miss Lucas in '92, Mrs. McMurry in '91, and the writer in 1866. The last additions to the faculty are Mr. Manfred J. Holmes and Mr. B. C. Edwards. The former succeeded Professor Galbreath, called away
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from u> • - sl ar by a large increase in salary, and the latter is an addi-
tion artmev" - gymnastics. Dr. McMnrry returned to u> again
I s y, • - a leav s - ag Dr. Van Liew in charg the Practice
Dr Van Liew was called to tin Stat N rma School at Los A g es at an in st r cent in his salary.
s ill indicate, in a general way. the leading changes in the organisation of the in the . si - and will also, I think, s - - that the principle
See has een abandoned in this institution. We have been pecu-
: n se< ring st admirable talent at comparatively small -alary, and 5 ... s familiar with the excellence r teachers I g
s t them- - Although we have been so unfortunate -
many admirable men and women, yet t is ggeral say that it -
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radically over what w« ght years ago.
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s 1 nultiplical stral ssons, of 1 ach-
tings, a serval rk. Pupil- take a \ - from
a term in the study of the- practice school an., ts wor .- c1 ... While this requirement s I & all it is
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rs The Index have made menti building. The Gvmnasium. be?an ir. 1 — -tantial ly com; I The thir si
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beautifully lighted from the north, east, and west. The book stacks are along the south side and are of metal of the familiar pattern furnished bythe Library Bureau of Chicago. This leaves a commodious reading room capable of seating comfortably 31 Oor i"n people. Below the library are theclos ?ts, dressing rooms, and the bath room. These are adjacent to the gymnasium which occupies the projection at the left of the main en trance as shown by the cut. The bowling alley is not yet completed and the commodious swimming pool must await a more favorable season for its completion.
By the removal of the science department to the new building, the old science rooms in the third story of the main building are vacated and will probably be utilized for so
. purposes. The plan now is to take out the partition in the old society halls, cut
ibout twenty feet from the south end of the Philadelphian society for a parlor, change the position of the platform to one side, possibly, and then turn it over to one of the SO cieties. The rooms at the east end of the building will be arranged similarly and thus
societies will have ample space at last to accommodate their entire membership.
Still much remains to be done. We must have a good kindergarten: music', which has been sadly neglected, must be taught by a skillful teacher, and manual training along the lines of Sloyd or some other development of the principle must also find a place here.
The state has. indeed, been a noble benefactor to this institution, and its generous help wili be more fully accorded than ever before. Public sentiment, which was hostile or indifferent, is now altogether favorable. Reasonable appropriation bills meet with no opposition, and the demand lor professionally prepared teachers is multiplied manytold within the last tew years. There is every reason for the Normal School men to feel that they are abundantly appreciated, and that the opportunity for their best work' is really opening to them. John W. Cook.
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WRIGHT0NIA OfTIGERS.
FALL TERM.
- dent, . . C. II. Allen. Vice-President, . Alice Watson.
retary, . . Nellie Fincham. Ass't Sec'y, Elizabeth Johnston. Treasurer, . Harmon Waits.
\~~'t Treasurer, Louis H. Klaas. Chorister, . . James Young. 1 — per, . . John P. Stewart.
WINTER TERM.
1 'resident, . . < lara Snell. Vice-President. William Crocker.
Secretary. . . David Beckett. Ass't Secretary, Alice Jackson. Treasurer, . . Louis Klaas. Ass't Treasurer. .1. II. Readhimer. • Ihorister (!), . Noah Young,
News Reviewer i!!». Maude Corson.
SPRING TERM.
President, . Herman Doud. Vice-President, . Helen Taylor. Secretary. . Ke--ic < owU-s.
Assistant Secretary, .1. It. Porden. Treasurer, . Bert Wickersham.
Assistant Treasurer, Oscar Adams.
chorister. . . Maude Corson.
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PmhABELPRIA OrriGERS.
FAL2L term.
President. . . Roy Mize.
Vice-President, Martha Campbell. Secretary, . Jessie Simmons.
Ass't Secretary, Josephine Lesem. Treasurer. . John R, McKinney.
Ass't Treasurer, Horace Hilyard.
Chorister, . . Walter Pike.
WINTER TERM.
President, . James Fairchild. Vice-President, Jessie Simmons. Secretary, . Dorothea Begys, Ass't Secretary, Winifred Elliott. Treasurer, . John Whitten.
Ass't Treasurer, Stanley Cavins.
Chorister, . . Erie Braden
SPRING TERM.
President. . Mary Rickards. Vice-President, C. Henry Smith. Secretary, . Mary Schneider. Ass"t Secretary, Anna Deverell. Treasurer, . J. Carl Stine.
Ass't Treasurer, Elmer Hultgren.
Chorister, . Lucia Voorhees.
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Sappho Ofhcers.
FALL TERM.
cut. . ( (race Monroe. Vice-President, Josephine Leseni. Secretary, . Caroline Clark. Treasurer, . i !ara M
WINTER TERM.
President, . Elizabeth Johnston- Vice- 1 'resident, Caroline Clark. Secretary, . I Lenrietta Todd. Treasurer, . Halcyone Hussy, Chorister, . Ora Augustine.
SPRING TERM.
President. . . Elm a Edmunds. Vice-President, Jessie Heals.
S( i retai y, . . Lois Franklin. Treasurer, . Lucia Voorhees. ( Ihorister, . < >ra Augustine.
Chairman of the Literature Committee, .... Chairman of the Athletic Committee,
Chairman of the Music Committee,
Chairman of the Current History Committee, • hairman of the Travel Committee,
( lara Snell.
Marien Lyons.
Caroline Clark.
Ellen Roberts.
Lizzie Barton.
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Officers too numerous to mention, [f there is anj member of that organization that hasn't held an office he ought to have a medal.
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Vrishtonia
KIGHTONIA opened the fall term of 'i'7 with crowded ball and enthusi- astic audiences. All looked forward to and worked for the contest, from the start, as the event of the term and year. Charles Allen, as presi- dent, and Nellie Fincham, as secretary, welcomed the many new members to our meetings, and our programs were very interesting' and entertaining". Three of our contestants were taken from the entering section, and although our best talent was reserved for the contest, still our programs did not lack in interest and enter- tainment.
Mr. Skinner gave a tine musical program in the fall term. We have been especially benefited by the criticisms given on our programs by the members of the faeultv. and thank them for their interest and help.
Miss Lucas has delighted us often with her classic readings.
While we were defeated in the annual contest, we can bear our defeat with a good grace, as it has shown us wherein we were lacking, giving us a stimulus for next year. So if we will learn from experience, and profit by our lessons, we shall regain our lost laurels, and Wrightonia shall be victorious.
After the excitement was over, we settled down, and with Clara Suell as president and David Becket as secretary, had a busy aud profitable term. Two series of papers, one on scientific subjects, the other on art, headed our original work. Music has been especially good on our programs this year.
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During this — the winter — term, our Dramatic Club gave the play of "Esmeralda-" to a crowded house, and with unbounded satisfaction to all. The last Saturday night of this term occurred our inter-section contest, which was more exciting than usual. A good deal of feeling was aroused between the sections, but everything went off smoothly, and the contest was a success. Our society has reason to be proud of results shown by each section. Surely we need not fear or doubt that victory is ours next fall if the winners from this contest are with us.
The spring election of officers passed off quietly. Herman Doud became president, and Bessie Cowles, secretary. Warm weather did not interrupt our society work as early as usual this year, but we soon noticed the effects of the spring weather. Still, the pro- grams, though short, are interesting, and we feel repaid for our efforts to keep them up to the standard Wrig-htonia has established.
We hope to begin our next year in our larger hall, and thus be able to accommodate all with seats. D. L. B.
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••ESMERALDA."
Carrie Travis. Helen Bosworth John P. Stewart. Harmon Waits.
James R. Forden. Alice Jackson. Anne O. Hill. Chas. Myall.
E. B. Wickersham. Bessie Cowles. Alice Watson. A. H. Melville.
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A BOX OF MONKEYS. Ralph McGuffin. Robert Cowles.
Mary Tolladay. Helen Putnam. Emilie Wright.
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|>HILADELPHIANS are well pleased with the results of the past year's
society work. Once more they feel that they are the formidable equals
of the Wrightonians, in intellectual, as well as in physical contest.
Again, they feel, looking; back over the many evenings spent together
at society, that the great majority of the programs have been pleasing,
interesting, and instructive. The presidents elected for the different terms were as
follows: Mary Rickards, spring; James Fairchild, winter, and Roy Mize, fall.
The spring term went along in its usual smooth and calm order.
During the winter term, one of the most prominent features of our evenings was a debate. Since we are to be teachers, and are to come into closer touch with public life, we ought to be logical in our thinking and to have full possession of ourselves in public. Now, the successful debater is the person who can "think on his feet" and we. as teachers, to do our best work, must take advantage of those influences most conducive to this re- sult; consequently, we hope that this element of our programs so well begun will continue. Owing to bad weather, the Intersectional contest Avas poorly attended. The Lower Sections made a creditable showing, but Section C won easily.
The fall term marked a new era in the struggle for supremacy between the two societies. The spirit of contest, heretofore confined to the intellectual side alone, was now even carried to the field of athletics. In consequence, many games were played during
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tlie year, the results of which are. the Wrightonians — thanks to the young ladies—stand victorious in basket-ball, the Philadelphians in football.
Our reveries are wont to take us back through the dimness of time to the fall of '^-. Through the gray light of these intervening years familiar visions appear and disappear before my si<jht. Five successive times I see the picked champions of the orange and black leave camp and advance to the attack. Five successive times I see them return routed, with banner trailing in the dust. The sixth time they advance, noble warriors they are with determination stamped on every brow: afar off they meet: the fray begins Deep voices of wisdom long til I the air and above all, are softly wafted back sweet strains of music. The rhythmical voices steadily rise and fall and finally subside; the music subtly swells, lon.y" reverberates, and finally diminishes until it is no more, and all is silence. Philadelphia, the champion of the day! The inter-society contest has been won. But look you, the enemy's ranks are forming. Two points are we ahead but two contests behind. Philadelphians, <jaze full at your banner,"/"'//" excellentia est sine labored and then cogitate, l<ti><>rtitr, vivcite- plan, labor, conquer — for Philadelphia in the fall of '98.
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YhIRTY SEVENTH ANNUAL.^^
Inter-Sqgiety Contest.
[IFE is extremely uncertain to say the least. Fortuna is fickle indeed, yet we are all at her mercy. Especially is she capricious when embodied in the form of six judges deciding our fate in the Inter-Society Contest. We work' and fight, swear by our society, hold secret meetings, sit in solemn judgment over half a dozen aspirants for the same honor, deceive our friends on the other side, spy in the enemy's camp, perhaps; cry, a little because the society we love so well fails to appreciate our ability in speaking pieces, run a candidate because he"s running us. goad our contestants on to the verge of nervous prostration, and SO on indefinitely through three desperate feverish months. And then arrives the fateful night. Fortuna turns the wheel, and tin- society drawing the blank concludes the judges to be old fogies unacquainted with their business and goes oil' to wax eloquent over chicken salad and the wonders to be accomplished next year.
The contest of '97 started in with every show of great earnestness. We all remem- ber that little melee in the drawing-room that eventful noon when we accused each other nt being guilty of the crime for which Ananias and Sapphira suffered death, and ugly names and expletives were as thiclc as peanuts at a circus. "Isn't it thrilling!" a fair- haired girl remarked from the top of an art bench where she had taken refuge. "Isn't it thrilling! Makes me think- of those terrible riots you read about!" And she swung her feet in ecstacy.
The fight over, we began to Haunt our "sure things," our "winners" in the face of the enemy. We hurried our contestants off to mysterious and wonderful trainers living in foreign parts (Bloomington), discovered books for our debators containing valueless in-
George Pfingsten. Dalton McDonald.
Marien Lyons.
Nellie Boyle. Emilie Wright.
CONTESTANTS.
Herbert Elliott. B. Wolfe.
Vera Peck
Eva Smith. Walter Pike.
Harmon Waits.
Daisy Benthuysen.
Bertha Jeffries. Anne Hill.
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formation, and put up Little bets on the outcome: only little bets, you know, quite harm- 5, .1 bos of Lowney's or a pair of gloves.
And then all signs failed. The long victorious side was vanquished and the Wright- onians comforted themselves with the crust that at least they had one Hill which the Pbiladelphians couldn't surmount.
The debate of"'97 is memorable in that it proves the efficiency of grasping one or two strong points and hammering on them until they are driven in to stay. The instru- mentalists were both hampered with the mechanism of the Rubenstein "Valse Brilliante." Only when the emotions are untrammeled in expression is playing" what it should be. Tlie Philadelphian singer showed the ease in manner and expression which comes with long training. Her voice, however, hardly revealed the purity and fullness of her op- ponent's. The essays were both excellent. A broader theme and a simpler handling, perhaps, gave the point to the Pbiladelphians. Yet. after all. it is Forfuna. The ora- tions were able efforts. Both were on subjects near to the heart of every American. The recitations were again strangely alike, and both were delivered with power and feeling.
The result of it all was that Philadelphia won everything, with the exception of the recitation. Miss Hill saved Wrightonia from a whitewash. High praise is due all the contestants. They worked hard and faithfully, and each acquitted himself so that none may not say "Well done." C. A. M.
CONTEST RECORD.
Number of contests -'iT
< lontests won by Wrigbtonians 18
Contests won by Philadelphians 16
Number oi ties :!
I 'ni nt-. won bj \Vriu lit nnians 118
Points uiin by Philadelphians • -''
Wrigbtonians "whitewashed" 1
Philadelphians "whitewashed" 3
PRSGRAM 1NTER-seeiETY eeNTEsr
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PART ONE. Violin Selection, Spanish Dance.
EDITH BROWN.
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ilrbate,* Resolved, "That protection to our merchant ma- rine by legislative action, as opposed to the laissez faire doctrine, is a wise and desirable policy for the United States."
Interpretation. — "Protection to our merchant marine by legislative action" is the policy of artificially creating by legislative— that is, Congressional— enactments special con- ditions which are supposed and intended to be favorable to our own marine— i.e., oceanic shipping interests, foreign as well as domestic— and relatively unfavorable to competing shipping of other nations. "Laissez faire doctrine," as ap- plied to shipping, is the doctrine of letting trade interests work out their natural results without Interference or artificial stimulus or favors in any direction by legislative action.
Affirmed, HARMON WAITS. GEORGE PFINGSTEN. Denied, ALBERT B. WOLFE, HERBERT ELLIOTT.
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b The Perfect Life.
H. Benburg Hariwell Jones
NELLIE I. BOYLE.
( a Once in a While, Caroline Lowthian
Hlocal TOustc. - b A Song Descriptive of the Bell "Big
/ Ben" in Westminster. . H. Pontet VERA M. PECK.
*Wrightonians submitted question.
PART TWO. Kliolin Selection, Kuiawiak. . . Wieniawski
EDITH BROWN.
E,ss;u\ .... The Human Chameleon
MARIEN LYONS.
gBSJtg, . Self Realization Through Social Service
EMIL1E B. WRIGHT.
I a Valse Caprice. . Rubinstein ■instrumental TOnsir, - b Polonaise No. 12 of the Vir-
/ tuoso Studies. . McDowell
EVA D. SMITH.
1 a Hark. Hark, the Lark, ■instrumental TOusic. - Schubert- Liszt
I b Valse Caprice, . Rubinstein BERTHA JEFFRIES.
■Heading, The Arena Scene. Prince of India. . Wallace
ANNE OPHELIA HILL.
fading, The Arena Scene. Last Days of Pompeii. Lytton
DAISY BENTHUYSEN.
(Oration Gettysburg
dalton Mcdonald.
(Oration, ..... Grant, the Soldier
WALTER F. PIKE. Wrightonians lead in all exercises.
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SonE InneRTAb Quotations.
"What a momentous scene this is." Waits.
"We shake hands with Adam Smith." H'a/te.
"Filling the air with lines of commer- cial smoke." - units.
■ But look at it!" — Wolfe.
"The farmer plodding in his weary fur- row. ' ' Wolfe.
••And these are the naked facts." — PfingsU a.
■There isour pathway down." — Tungsten.
••It sweeps away with one stroke of his- toric truth the whole argument which constitutes the pet theory and crucial doctrine of the negative." Pftngsten.
•lie has not (pioted a single authority to substantiate his statements." Elliott.
"We see from our opponent's own graphic representation " Elliott.
••This is tlu- question in its quantity." Elliott.
"I stand here and reaffirm that truth — Waits.
"Let us examine his mathematics." Waits.
"Every demonstration has its corolla- ries."— Mu r it a Lyons.
"A human chameleon lies under heav- en's starry expanse- • • • What does he drink- in ?" — Ma rim Lyons.
"Would we gain honor, riches, power?" — Km itii- Wright.
"Our ideal man is he who realizes that his life must he a shared life."— Emilie Wright.
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A FEW RANDQ/n SPvQTS.
Wonder if that was a good lemon that Pike. and McDonald had between them?
It was up-Hill work for Wrightonia, wasn't it?
Mr. Mize always makes his announce- ments to the point.
" 'Taint fair to leave out parts."
••Now we'll get 'em sure."
Who was it that said that Miss W-ts-n wasn't a loyal Wright?
Wonder if Miss Ela's desk has the im- print of Crocker's fist yet?
"Sharp play. Keep cool."
"Just remember that there may be a few fairly good people on the other side."
What's become of those charts':' They ought to be put in the museum of antiq- uities.
It needed two pianos to withstand the strain of the evening.
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Sapphg
To those who have ever been in our Normal School, Sappho needs do introduction; to those who have not, we would speak briefly of the great bene- fit and pleasure derived from such a society. The benefit arises chiefly from the fact that the society is divided into five different committees, each of which carries on its own line of work independent of the work of any other committee.
A great deal of interest was aroused this spring by the organization of walking and bicycle clubs by the athletic committee. This enthusiastic commit- tee, during the fall term, made a special study of tennis and golf, and during the winter, of all kinds of winter sports, including Cana- dian games.
Another committee whose work' is very helpful is the current history committee. The discussion < > t the important topics of the day in such exciting times cannot be other than highly interesting; while with Miss Hartmann to assist in unravelling the intricate meshes of chapters on ^production and exchange in "Walker's Political Economy" the minds of those in the work cannot help but be broadened and deepened.
The travel committee is^especial ly favored by having the assistance of one gifted
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with so rare a power of description as Miss Wilkins. They followed Hansen in his "Far- thest North, "and made imaginary visits to the Isle of Shoals and to the beautiful Danube.
The girls of the music committee have been very faithful in their work-, and have accomplished much good. The past year lias been spent in the study of the great com- posers and of the opera, especially "Der Freischutz," by Weber, and "Oberon," by Wagner. They have also read "Music and Morals." an interesting work- by an English minister, Haweis, and have furnished the music for the regular Sapphonian programs.
Every two weeks, on Friday evening, the i^irl.s of the literature committee gather at Mi>> Colby's for their regular work', or rather pleasure, for such it always proves to be. They have read from Euripides during the entire year. These Greek plays are very fas- cinating when one has once gained the spirit of them. During the fall term the Alcestis and Medea were read, during the winter term the Bacchanals and Hippolytus, and this term the Electra and Orestres have been their main study.
Each committee gives a program at least once a term. An effort is always put forth to make this stand for their best work-. For instance, a program was given by the liter- ature committee at which they gave selections from the Bacchanals and Hippolytus in Greek costume. In this Miss Wright as Jason was very good, while Elizabeth Johnston looked like a veritable Greek. The recitatives by Miss Snell and Miss Clark- were very much enjoyed by all.
But with all her work. Sappho does not neglect her social duties. Each term she gives a reception to the j^'irls of the school. The one given at the beginning of the spring- term was a decided success and great credit is due Miss Potter and the music committee for the happy rendering of the Mikado. The audience seemed to enjoy this little comedy
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very much, and the way in which they entered into the spirit of it made it easier for those who took the parts. A most despairing lover was Nanki Poo as he endeavored "to ter- minate an unendurable existence." Ko Ko, with his fluttering helplessness as he sought a victim to behead, was much enjoyed by the audience, but Pooh Bah, with his haughty pride and lofty mien as he sought to withstand the charms of the three little maids from school, was a surprise to all who knew the real character of the actor.
In the fall term the girls gave a reception to the Ciceronians, and this spring the boys gave a reception to the girls. The latter was very much enjoyed by all who were there, for the boys proved to be very delightful hosts. The pathetic skill shown by Mr. Myall in arranging his coiffure touched a very tender cord in the heart of his audience. The farce which followed was a very novel one and made one think she never would be able to look sober ag'ain.
Now, we are sure that when you come to Normal you will be eager to join Sappho's happy working band. L. V.
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,11!-; CICERONIAN SOCIETY, during the past year, has lost none of its old-time reputation for excellence of work- done. In fact, in a great many ways this year ha.- I) 'I'll one of the most successful that the society lias ever known. The attendance has been very good. Most of the work done has been original. It is in this line of effort that the Ciceronian Society has gained its enviable reputation among both faculty and stu- dents. Many were the words of praise from different members of the faculty on the excellence of the debates, papers, and orations given from time to time during the year. While the other societies train men and women to appear before an audience, it is the o iject of this society to train men to think. For this reason no young man can afford to miss the opportunities which it offers. While the membership this year lias been unusu- ally large, we hope that next year even more of the boys will find it profitable to spend their Friday nights within the Ciceronian Society walls.
The Model Senate is -till in existence. Some very excellent work has been done during the year. These are trying times, and much of the excitement afloat in the air ha- found its way even into the senate chamber. Much important business has been transacted during the year, but probably none other has been so far reaching in its influ- ence as the act passed February 28, 1898, by a vote of i!'.' to 18, delaring war against ih< kingdom of Spain. A- a result of this declaration many of the senators have resigned and joined tin- rank- and file.
Thf senate meeting held on the 28th of February was an open meeting. Many of our Sapphonian friends took- advantage of this opportunity to know more about the Model Si nate of which they had heard so much; it was noticed that many of the senators could
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with difficulty b • restrained from talking to the galleries during the session. The Model Senate is one of the very best organizations for parliamentary drill, and we hope to see it ever remain a leading feature of our society work'.
The spirit of party politics lias not run so high this year as it has in years past. We believe this to be a good thing. While it is necessary for the best results to have two parties, and to have some rivalry between the contending factions, yet party spirit has often made enemies. Because you are a Liberal and some one else is a Ciceronian, is no reason that some one else is not just as good a man as you.
As usual the Liberal party succeeded in getting the first election of the year, and held dominion during the entire fall term. But during the winter term the Ciceronians were able to defeat their wily opponents, and have had things pretty well their own way ever since. Much of the success of the year, no doubt, may be attributed to the good fortunes of the Ciceronian party.
A> usual two receptions have been given during the year. One in the fall by the Sapphonians, and one in the spring by the Ciceronians. Both were very enjoyable affairs Even if there was nothing else to consider it would pay any one to be a Ciceronian just to be permitted to attend these receptions.
These are some of the principal features of the past year's work. There are many other things connected with the history of the past year which every true Ciceronian will remember, but we have not space to mention them here.
The following havebeenthe presidents of the year: Fall — Bruce Bright, J. H.Whitten. Karl McMurry; Winter Wm. Cavins, Chas. Wakeland; Spring— George Wilson, C. Henry Smith. C.
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ING DAVID sang, "'The Lord gave the word: the women that publish the tidings are a great host." From that early time until Mary stood weep ing at the tomb of her risen Lord and down to the present day have Chris- tian women gladly published the tidings of the King of Kings.
Rich and varied fields of activity have opened up before the hand- maidens of God who have been eager to serve Him. The Christian young women of the Normal School have gladly availed themselves of the opportunities for service as found in the Young Women's Christian Association.
The year 1897-8 has been a very fruitful one. Over one hundred members have given glad and willing response to the suggestions for work outlined by the president of the organization, Miss Olive L. Dawson. With a heart full of interest for the work, and with a willingness to sacrifice any personal wishes for the good of the association, the Y.W.C.A. has been most fortunate in the one who has stood at its head this year.
The weekly prayer-meetin»s have been very helpful, and many have been greatly strengthened by attending them.
Miss Helen Wells, treasurer of the Association, was sent as a delegate to the Student Volunteer Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, Februar\- ^o-i!7. The spiritual enthusi- asm generated in this unusually large missionary assembly will doubtless never die out from the hearts of those who were present at its sessions, and those who listened to the
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burning reports of the convention will always be more loyal to the spreading of Christ's kingdom.
I5y means of the Bible-study class, the missionary meetings, and the Association number ol TJte Vidette, the young women of the school have received valuable instruc- tion and information.
During the winter term a "Japanese Tea" social provided a most pleasant and profit- able evening.
In conjunction with the Y.M.C. A., evangelistic meetings were held, in charge of Mr. Sayford. The many prayers offered for these meetings were certainly answered, as rarely has one come among the students who has helped and strengthened them more than did this man.
Tie year hook of the Y.W.C.A. has closed. The only regret that comes to the hearts of the members is that its pages do not bear record of much more done in His name. Hut trusting that when the Master shall open the book He shall say, "She hath done what she could." The earnest desire of all hearts is that the new year may see a deeper consecration of the membership, and a greater work accomplished for God than tin' year 1-<'.i7-* has seen. L. B.
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The appearance of The Index editors reminds us that another school year has come and gone. With it have come many opportunities. As an organization, how many of its opportunities lias the Y.M.C. A. embraced during the year?
Life in the Normal School is one of intense activity. In addition to the regular class-room work, numerous student enterprises make de- mands upon the student's time. In the hurry and bustle of this active life, there is the constant danger that the student will neglect the spiritual side in his development. Even the Y.M.C. A. member may become so engrossed in the work of the literary society, the athletic field, the contest, The Vidette, or any or all of a number of enterprises, as to lose sight of the field that the Association opens to him. We are happy to say that during the year now closing, none of these things has moved us. Not that the Association men have given no attention to these other affairs, for quite the reverse is true; but that while patriotically supporting all other enterprises, they have allowed none to impair their usefulness in the Association.
Too much praise can not be given this year's officers for their unflagging zeal. In C. Henry Smith and L. H. Klaas the Association has had a president and vice-president
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who liave been particularly noted for fidelity to duty. These arc the men who went as delegates to the summer conference at Geneva last year, and judging the fruits of the conference by these two men. it is not surprising that the Association is making an effort to send five men to Geneva this year, instead of two, a> formerly. However, the effort for the increased delegation to Geneva is only an illustration of the greater activity of the Association all along the line. In former years our delegations to the state conven- tions have numbered from two to seven men. This year we sent twenty-six men to Decatur. This was the largest delegation sent by a school association in the state, and was only exceeded by one city association, the Chicago Central. The effect upon the Association of having so large a body of men in attendance at the inspiring sessions of the state convention was very marked.
Another great gathering that attracted attention in Association circles this year was the quadrennial convention of Student Volunteers, held at Cleveland, Ohio, in Feb- ruary, and attended by over 2,200 delegates. Miss Helen Wells and Mr. A. E. White represented the Normal associations, and brought back interesting reports of the con- vention. One result of this convention was to stimulate the local interest in missionary worlc. The mission study class is larger than before, and both associations, through their missionary committees, are putting forth efforts for an increased missionary sub- scription t his year.
Another improvement in Association work- is in Bible Study, where regular system- atic courses have been arranged and pursued through the year.
line of the pleasant features of the year was the visit of Mr. Sayford during the early part of the Spring term. Mr. Sayford remained with us nearly a week", giving ad-
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dresses to the students as a whole, to the boys separately, and to small groups by appointment. He taught us a higher standard of living. His work was highly appre- ciated, and when he left it was with the best wishes of the students who heard him while here.
We have nearly reached the limit of our space. There is much to be written. The story of this year's work can never be told, excej^t as it is revealed in the lives of the men who have been affected by it. But boys, to just the extent that we have been faith- ful to the duties that through the Association our hands have found to do, to just thai extent have we set in motion forces, whose beneficent effects cannot now be told, because the}' are not yet complete.
But let us turn from the past to the future. The cabinet for next year was scarcely chosen before it was ruptured by the enlistment in the army of some of the officers. The cabinet now stands: President, White; corresponding secretary, Stine; recording sec- retary, Small; treasurer, Livingston.
The record of this year, though good, must be surpassed next year. The Y.M.C.A. is a progressive organization. Its watchword is forward! Its harvest, victory!
A. E. W.
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The Fortnight Gl^b.
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last. All faculty.
proct
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HE FORTNIGHT DANCING CLUB was organized during the fall term, and during the winter met, a> it^ name implies, every two week's. During tin- latter part of the spring term — the sea- son of outdoor sports — it was discon- tinued, but will doubtless be revived in the fall. It-, regular meetings were held on Friday evening at the Normal Opera House, but special meetings oc- curred on various afternoons. The mem- bership lias been limited to thirty gentlemen of the school, who are at liberty to unite any or all of their lady friends. The organization bei;an with Erie Braden as president: later he re- signed, and Zephine LaRocque took his place: (.'lias. Gott was the third and under the immediate supervision of the
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OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.
A. B. WOLFE. President. NOAH A. YOUNG. Vice-President.
HENRIETTA PITTS, Secretary. JOHN P. STEWART, Treasurer.
Grace Monroe, Clara M. Snell, Lucia L. Voorhees.
Helen Taylor, Claude Simmons, Herbert Elliott,
Charles A. Myall, Ralph D. McGuffin. Walter F. Pike.
James W. Young. A. Roy Mize,
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EVEN numbers constituted the lecture course this year, as follows: Redpath Concert Company, including Clementine DeVere and Arthur Beresford; Robert J. Burdette, in bis lecture, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache;" John I'>. DeMott, here this year for the second time ; Gen. John B.Gordon; Kellogg Concert Company; Welsh Prize Singers, and George Kiddle with the Beethoven Orchestral Club, of six pieces. Barring, perhaps, the Redpath Concert Co., which was the most expensive number of the course. George Riddle, in his exquisite reading of "Midsummer Night's Dream" was our best number. "Bob" Burdette touched a chord of sympathy and endeared him- self once more to a Normal audience. Some of his descriptions were most graphic. .John B. DeMotte is a lecturer seemingly well liked here but in our opinion be has more popu- larity than is entirely due him. His lectures have in them a tinge of the sensational, which detracts from the force of the intensely interesting scientific facts which he brings out. The Welsh Singers and the Kellogg Company were novelties, and as such we'll Let 'em pass. John B. Gordon lectured on the "Last Days of the Confederacy." The old veteran's reminiscences were well received by the audience.
The course cost $1,100 for talent alone, and altogether its cost was about $1,275. It was not entirely a financial success for the reason that our hall is not large enough to support a course of such cost, at the low price of admission that ought to be charged. The students this year have stood by their course better than ever, however, and next year will see another seven-number course of about the same cost.
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tpve Gratorigai2 Board.
Herbert Elliott, Pres. Alice Watson, 1st V.-Pres. Helen Taylor, 2d V.-Pres.
Byron E. Eastwood, Sec'y. J as. W. Young, Treas.
Henrietta Pitts. Florence Pitts. Lucia Voorhees. Marianna Deverell.
Mabel Regenold. Jessie Simmons. A. H. Craigmile. Harold Edmunds.
E. B. Wickersham. Archie Norton.
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TRE 0RAT9RieALG0NTEST.
Among the student enterprises of the school, perhaps no one is now more prosperous than the organization known as the Oratorical Association. But it has not always been so. Prom year to year, until L896, the small audiences and scant door receipts almost smothered the enthusiasm of the faithful few who labored to maintain it. The situation had ^^ reached a critical stage, when two events took place, which have placed it on a firm and lasting basis. Mr. Charles Beach came to the rescue with substantial aid. He offered, annually, a one hundred dollar cash prize, and a gold medal, to the contestant winning the local contest. At about the same time this school joined the luter-State Oratorical League That man wa^the Marquis de La- of Norma] Schools. The movement was thus placed on a
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higher piano. A school pride was created. Inducements were offered which called to the support of the oratorical movement the aid and co-operation of the whole student
bud v.
The contest of 1898 was held the evening of March 26. No pains were spared to make it a success. An appreciative audience tilled the hall comfortably. The stage presented a cheerful appear- ance. Appropriate scenery was placed in thi' background. In tin- foreground were palms and Bowers.
The first speaker. .Mr. Elmer F. Hnlt^'ren, chose lor his theme "Lafay- ette a Champion of Freedom." He spoke with an earnestness which commanded attention. His production, however, lacked in appreciation of the principles and motives for which the life of the great Frenchman stood.
Mr. Walter F Hike followed with xr, but inevitable as the grave." an old topic, "Grant, the Soldier." Hut
before hewas through his audience felt that the silent commander
was dearer to them than ever before. In a deep rhythmic tone of voice and impressive
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manner, he spoke in words of tender praise of the immortal achievements of Grant and vividly portrayed a few of the great battles in which the hero figured. Mr. Pike was
well adapted to his theme, and he handled it in an excellent way. A too forcible delivery of some of the finer points secured for him a lower rank than he otherwise might have had.
The theme "Henry George," was treated in a scholarly way by Mr. A. B. Wolfe. It required some courage to se- lect for a subject the much abused and oft misquoted political and social reformer, whose name in future years will rank with that of John Stuart Mill. Mr. Wolfe's delivery was natural. There was no attempt at oratorical display. He threw his whole soul into what he was saying, apparently oblivious that the audience was eagerly catching the words as they fell from his lips.
Mr. James R. Fordeu was natural^in his presentation of "The Emancipator." His pleasant manner, his ease and grace throughout the ]exercise3are'qualities to be com- their Curtis." mended in a public speaker. "George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform," was the next oratiou, by Mr. J. Carl Stine. He gave a very strong analysis of his subject. Mr. Stine's
••The spoil-men had
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voice was clear and strong, and his gestures natural. He showed the many-sidedness of Curtis' life, and the bearing of the movement he championed upon present political life.
The last speaker, Mr. EL E. Covey, presented the most finished delivery of the evening. The theme, "Evolution of Character." was well written and interesting throughout. No doubt his care- ful training won for him the first place awarded by the judges.
A. H. M.
'The eye sees, the ear bears."
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On Friday evening", May 6, occurred the first Inter- State Oratorical Contest ever held in Normal. Extensive had been the prepa- rations to receive the visiting' delegations, and although they numbered somewhere near seventy we were fully prepared to take charge of them for entertainment. For the first time in the history of the association representatives were here from the faculties of each of the live normal schools repre- sented in the contest. Four of the presi- dents were here, only President Seeley, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, not being present. Kan- sas sent an enthusiastic delegation of about fifty, the majority of whom were members of the Orpheus and Euridyce clubs, of the Emporia Normal. Missouri sent only two delegates besides the orator.
Space will not admit here other than a passing glance at the record of that event- ful first week in May. At 8:30 p. m., Friday, the contest began. Much tine music was in- terspersed throughout the program, but, of course, interest did not center on that. Hyatt E. Covey, the home man, opened the battle of the giants with a wTell written
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oration on Alexander Hamilton. Having to open the program, he was necessarily at a tremendous disadvantage <>n that score, from the start. He held the audience well for awhile, but was suffering from a severe cold and by hesitating therefrom somewhat lost the interest of his hearers. He ranked tilth in the final outcome.
Arthur M. Nichelson, of Iowa, with "'The Common School as a Means to Reform." held the attention of the audience firmly riveted to a well written, worthy theme. His earnestness and power should have made up somewhat for his rather hollow voice. Ac- cording to many he deserved better in the final. He ranked fourth, with fifth in delivery.
Geo. W. Rankin, of Whitewater. Wis., with "The Puritans and Puritanism," showed great potential powers of delivery, but these powers were not sufficiently aroused. His appearance was impressive, his voice deep and rich, but his delivery showed throughout too much sameness, while his climaxes were weak. However, in the minds of a majority of the audience, he seems to have deserved first rank in delivery. He received second, which, with second in thought, gave him second final rank.
I! 1\ Taylor, of Kirksville, Mo., with "Orators and Oratory." delivered with such polish, vigor, and clearness of voice as to win first in delivery. However, his style of delivery was too ministerial, and gave evidences of considerable unnaturalness. He ranked third in the final.
Allen T. St. ('lair, of Emporia, Kas.. was the man destined to carry off first honors. His voice was clear, but seemed forced and unnatural. His general pleasing appear- ance, however, won him third place in delivery, which, with a strong lead in thought, gave him tir>t place. Pres. Harry Borgstadt presented the prizes of $50 and $30, witli medals, to Allen T. St. Clair and Geo. W. Rankin, respectively.
The contest and all that pertained to it went off without a hitch. Next year the contest will be held at Cedar Falls, Iowa. A. M. Thoroman, of Emporia, Kas.. will be president of the league, with A. C. Puller, of Cedar Palls, Iowa, as secretary -treasurer; Missouri i> entitled to the vice-presidency, but as yet has failed to till the place. P.
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^THE AYHAWKERS
HERE ARE SOME OF THE YELLS AND SONGS WITH WHICH THE JAYHAWKERS
WON THE CONTEST.
U Rah! U-Rah! \ slowJ„ Al-a-rah! Al-a-rah!
0, My! ^ deep tone. Al-a-rah! Rah! Rah!
Kansas, J ay hawk! ) U-yah! U-vah!
That's the I! cK<y°f°- Kansas! Kansas/ Rah! Rah! Rah!
Wave the Old Gold.
BY PROF. D. A. ELLSWORTH OF THE EMPORIA NORMAL.
Golden the sun-flower on Kansas hills Golden the corn on the prairies we love.
And golden the sun's first beams; And golden the wealth of the mine:
Golden-rod nodding beside the rills, Golden the beautiful city above,
And golden the sunset gleams; And golden the home-lights shine:
Golden the fields where groweth the grain, Golden the rule that the good book gives.
God's goodly gift unto man: God's goodly guide unto men;
Golden the banner that knoweth no stain Golden the truth forever that lives,
That waves above K. S. N. The watch-word of K. S. N.
CHORUS. Wave! Wave! Wave! Wave!
The banner of gold unfold Over the prairies of Kansas we'll wave. The beautiful banner of gold.
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Going Back to Kansas.
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All the way from Kansas, we have come to Illi- nois, Faculty and delegates and a winning Kansas boy; Every city greeted us with unrefrained joy. While we were coming from Kansas.
Hurrah, hurrah, we've come to Illinois. Hurrah, hurrah, lor Kansas ami the boy: So we' I sing the c lionises ami shout aloud for joy When we are going back to Kansas.
•'Kansas' daring jayhawk boy will not be in the race."
So the Suckers all agreed, who hoped to win first
place: Hoping they can take defeat with well-becoming grace. We are going back to Kansas.
How the Suckers wilted when they heard the
warning sound. How the Badgers scrambled when we started on
the round. How the Pukes and Eawkeyes hustled, tore their
hair and frowned. When they saw the orator from Kansas.
The Jayhawkers- Song.
I'm a .lav hawker hoy from a Jayhawker state: I wear .layhawker hats on a .layhawker pate: 1 ride a .layhawker horse in a .layhawker way: In the Jay hawker state I'm bound for to stay.
I'm a layhawker girl with a .layhawker face: I wear Jay hawker flowers with a Jayhawker grace; layhawker Bongs with a .layhawker voice: For the J ay hawker state Ls my own free choice.
Oh. the Jayhawker skies and the Jayhawker days Are the Jayhawker's pride and the Jayhawker's
praise: For the layhawker knows that the Jayhawker's pains
Fill the Jayhawker's barn with the Jayhawker's grains.
So the Jayhawker sows and the Jayhawker naps. And the Jayhawker sinj,r- and the Jayhawker
While the Jayhawker'.- steer- and the Ja\ haw ker's
shoat- Grow into Jayhawker's jjold. into Jayhawker's
notes.
Neither Jayhawker winds nor Jayhawker drouth Stops the Jayhawker's heart nor the Jayhawker's
mouth: For the Jayhawker's faith and the Jayhawker's
song Are the Jayhawker's life in his Jayhawker home.
CHI »RUS.
Don't you see we've come to Illinois
And with us brought our winning Jayhawk buy.
And when the contest's o'er the chorus ail join in
We'll have a hot time in the old town tonight.
Jayhawker!
Badger. Eawkeye, Sucker, and Puke
I f you don't watch out you'll all lie in the SOUp For Allen St. Clair is going to take lir-t place, There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.
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"\/Tdette_^3oard.
C. H. MYALL. President. GRACE MONROE. NANO SMITH. HENRIETTA PITTS. HYATT E. COVEY.
GEORGIA ELLIOTT. MAUDE CORSON. BYRON E. EASTWOOD. HARVEY B. URBAN.
JESSIE SIMMONS. C. HENRY SMITH. ERLE BRADEN. ALICE JACKSON.
GERTRUDE SNODGRASS.
"yTDETTE^^TAFF.
Editor. WALTER F. PIKE. Alumni. J.CARLSTINE.
Business Manager. JOHN P.STEWART. Undergraduates. ALICE P. WATSON.
Societies. A. B. WOLFE. Local. - A. HOMER CRAIGMILE.
Associations. MARIEN LYONS. Exchanges, CHAS. A. MYALL.
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THE VIDETTE-^
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YF IS a matter upon which we may congratulate ourselves, that this insti- tution has within it such a school spirit that it easily maintains so elabo- rate and costly a paper as The Vidette. Among the numerous exchanges received by the managers each month, there are many that are really worthy to be called high-class literary publications. Some are from col- leges and universities in the east, some from the west. The majority, however, are from normal schools; and of the normal school papers, there is not one received with which The Vidette need fear comparison. Many strong normal schools can not support even a poor paper. We pay our editor and business manager each a respectable compensation for their services. There have been issued during the last year two special numbers, aside from the oratorical contest number, for which the management received extra com- pensation from the oratorical league. Besides this, the regular cost of printing upon first-class paper is great; yet with judicious management the paper can be made to in- crease its hold-over fund each year. These conditions render all the more interesting Mr. Cook*s statement that at the time of its establishment, it was his belief that it could not prosper.
Many of the experiences of the editor are funny; far more funny are some of the negative blessings the business manager receives from some of those whom he has so far wronged as to notify them that their subscription has lon^ been due and that their sup- plying the deficit will not be taken amiss. Some of these sins of the business manager result in the discomfort of the inoffensive editor, who is liable at any time to be stopped on the street and reminded of the fact that a dun was entirely uncalled for, or that some of The Videttes did not come last month, and that consequently the slighted subscriber will not pay — and so on ad infinitum. It is a great experience. F.
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^N ACTIVE and varied life has been Ledby the library this year. New books have been bought, the circulation has been large, and the cataloging has made great progress. But this is only by the way. First of all. it is again established in new quarters, and this time they may be considered per- manent ones. The second floor of the handsome new gymnasium building is given up to it, and it now occupies an airy room, forty by ninety feet, with a good north light, and additional windows on the other three side. The hooks are shelved on steel book Stacks of one of the best kinds, and are, as before, accessible to the students. The students of the spring term of '98 have certainly earned the privilege of enjoy- ing these improvements, for they were put to great inconvenience during the month in which the changes were made, and in which the doors were very nearly closed. How could they teach without pictures, or keep up in their studies without reference books, or read without story books and magazines, or debate without original arguments? It was the old story of learning to value things by beiny deprived of them, and at last the library was appreciated.
It takes a long time to become thoroughly Settled in a new home, and the apartment is still in process of improvement. Please imagine it aa it will appear in a very short time after the writing of this article. It will have electric lights, with an ingenious ar- rangement by which each set of shelves can be lighted separately as needed. The sunny
OUR NEW LIBRARY ROOM.
Walter F. Pike.
Herman Doud
Emma Stetzler.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS. Emille B. Wright.
Albert B. Wolfe. Marien Lyons.
Clara M. Snell.
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windows will be curtained, the book shelves will be thoroughly labeled. There will be several new furnishings, including" atlas and dictionary rests, map-shelving", work tables, and a children's table: also a new desk for the librarian, and more tables and chairs for the readers. There will be pictures on the walls, and the new bulletin board will become of greater importance.
Library hours have already lengthened, and include Saturday forenoon .Altogether, the inconvenience of following the example of larger institutions, and having the library in a separate building, will be more than offset by the many improvements that accom- pany the change.
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-ACULTY.
■~a\v them w a'king in an air ol [
JOHN U i OOK.
(foftTl (jj). CoO%, A.M.. LL.D.
PRESIDENT.
Professor oj Psyi hology and Pedagogy Be bad a tare like a benediction. I pray thee cease th\ i ounsel. which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
J£enrij DdlcCormic^, Th.D.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Professor of History >//-,/ Geography.
He bore without abuse the grand old name ol gen- tleman.
Look1 he is winding up the watch of his wit. Bye- and-bye it w ill strike
(f. ^ose Cclbij, Ph.D.
PBEI Ki'i nt ss
Professor of Literature.
'I'm those who know thee not. no words can paint, And those wild know thee, know all words are taint
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2) iief <p. Cotton, A.M.
Professoroj Natural Sciences,
Therefore am I still a lover ol tin- woods and moun- tains
a harmless, necessary cat.
Henry m> < ■ irmh k Bum. p. Colton.
David Fel.mley.
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(£)avid tf-elmlei], A.B.
Professor of Mathematics.
How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the care) or equivocation will undo us. Sits the wind in that corner-
CHarfes J[. DfilcDfllurry, Ph.<V.
Supi rvisor of Practice.
I am a man. and nothing concerning humanity is foreign to me.
Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole vol- umes in folio.
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9. Js, Dtii '.an Chester, cA.M.
Professor of Lul in. German, and Political Economy.
How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure all around him ; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladn ss, making everything in its vicin- ity to freshen into smiles.
He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
What a great boy am I.
OUanfred (J. Jfolmrs, B.L.
Assistant in. Psijchologii ami Pedagogy.
A nature so modest and rare That vou hardly at fir.-t see the strength that is tliere.
DUa
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'artmann, A.M.
Assistant in Mathematics. The soul's calm sunshine and ttie heartfelt joy.
Clarissa S- Si a,
Teacher of Drawing. For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
MANFKED J. HOLMES.
Mary Hartmanx.
Clarissa E. Ela.
Kva WlLKlNS
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A$si slant in History and Geography.
Those about tier Prom her shall read the perfect ways ol honour.
&[iza6etfi Dflluvitij,
/'. aeln r of Grammar.
Shalt show u-- how divine a thing A woman may he made.
Drones live Dot with me.
J^mefia (J. M'icas.
Teacher of Beading and Gymnastics.
In small proportions we iust beauty see; And In short measures life may perfect be. As cold as any stone.
DQIary jg. Potter,
Assistant in Latin and Greek.
An angel : or. if not. An earthly paragon. Did sin- not speak, did she not move, Now Pallas, now the (iueen of Love.
S. C £d Wards.
Assistant in Reading and Gymnastics.
A stoic of the woods— a man without a tear.
Ill I .litt Mil.
(fosepft (£. ZbroZvn,
Assistant in Natural Sciences.
Gently to hear, kindly to ludge.
Straining harsh discords and impleading sharps.
Maiiv K I'i'i i nc
JOSKPB G. BROWN,
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JlndreZv j^. DdJefville,
Principal of Grammar School .
He was a very parflt gentil knight.
I have Immortal longings in me.
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.
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Mida 3. DVZcDdlurry,
Training Teacher, Primary Grades.
I love these little people: and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God. love us.
Ddlaud Valentine,
Training Teacher, Intermedin!, Grades. In the full tide of successful experiment.
j£nne j£. Stanley,
Training Teacher, Onimm a r Grades. For I am nothing if not critical.
&(mer Covins,
Teacher of Writing, Spelling, and Bookkeeping.
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation by himself.
Jfrge V. DUitner,
Librarian.
Anne a. Stanley,
Elmeh Cavins.
Last but not least.
Ange V. Mn. NEK
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"Anna Wilmer.—
"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."
"Georgia Elliott.— "I'll not budge an inch."
a7FANNiE Morse. — "Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?"
'-' s.M arien Lyons.—
"Some women use their tongues — she looked
a lecture: Each eye a sermon and each brow a homily."
29Sada Chicken. — "Is this not truly a rare bird?"
*°MRS. Hamblin.— "For you and I are past our dancing days."
3 'George Wilson. — "Give me a rock, I'll wake him up."
32Carrie Kerns.— "And mistress of herself tho' China fall."
33Emma Stetzler. — "And unextinguished laugh- ter shakes the skies."
3,Lyman Coleman. —
"Hence, vain deluding joys!"
sbGrace Monroe. —
"So I told them in rhyme, For of rhymes I had store." 3GJulia Williams. — "I was not born under a
rhyming planet." 37 Harmon Waits. —
"His face was ruddy, his hair was gold." 38Will Peasley.—
"Content to live, though not to work."
39Hyatt Covey. —
"Why so pale and wan. fond lover, Prithee, why so pale?"
"'Adelaide Grassman. — "May you live all the days of your life."
■"Nellie Fincham.—
'Oh, she was perfect past all parallel
Of any modern female saint's comparison: E'n her minutest motions went as well
As the best time-piece made by Harrison. "'
'-'( LARA SNELL.—
"I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers, too."
43 Josephine Lesem.— "A rhapsody of words."
14ROBERT COWLES.— "I know a hawk from a hand- saw."
4r,WlLHELMiNA Kaiser. — "Motley's the only wear."
4BNano Smith.—
"An unless'd girl, unschool'd, unpracticed, Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn." ♦'Maude Corson.—
"I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here." 4 "Mary Lentz.—
"True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun."
Mary Sullivan. — "I did not care one straw."
Ernest Scrogin.—
"Now, by two-headed Janus. Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
William Martin.— "As merry as the day is long."
A. O. Norton — "One of nature's noblemen."
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Positively our last appearance! We. the class oi '98, glorious seniors of '98, must fold our tents like the Arabs and as silently steal away. And, gentle friends, we beg of you. do not Let your grief over our early departure blind you to the fact that we have not willingly brought this sad blow upon you. Fain would we linger yet another year to guide your youthful feet along the steep and narrow paths of pedagogy, chemistry, and bookkeeping, but "there is a destiny that shapes our ends," and a relentless finger points us on to glories yet to lie achieved.
Ami lest those who follow our illustrious footsteps may feel that in scouring the heights "\ Junior fame, they have reachel the summit of wisdom, permit us to suggest from our own experience thai there are other worlds to conquer. The forty-seventh propo- sition of Euclid and the Nebular hypothesis, we -rant, are not to be sneezed at. but if, when you tackle Dr. Harris, you do not make use of some of the emphatic monosyllables of your unsanctified vocabulary, we shall really feel quite concerned about your coenes- thesia. To all succeeding generations, we would mildly suggest that "between you and US and the grade-book," you might just as well sit forever on the boundary fence of the universe and whittle pine as to go to the class in school law. knowing the facts, minus the why's and wherefore's. And. above all things, don't try to discuss the fundamental principal of causality with a courage born of despair, if you know the tune, but have for- gotten the words.
Another pointer: Perhaps, some day. Mr. Cook' may have to go away to discourse to unwary school-ma'ams and school-masters upon the wonders of that penknife of his. He
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may really expect to be absent from the next recitation— there are hand cars, and he may return sooner than you expect him. Therefore, it would be safer to read the lesson over anyway, in case of an emergency.
As a class, we would not have you ignorant of the marvelous achievements that have been ours; we feel that the best interests of the grand old Normal require that the laurels won by the class of '93 should be displayed. But we are too modest even to mention the fact that we have so far surpassed other classes as to be permitted to study Dr. Harris instead of Rosencranz. that we have won distinction in the ball games, by our vociferous lungs. As for our proficiency in apperceptive notions, we have them galore. Just arouse any member of Section A from a sound slumber, and with a very slight stimulus he will deliver an eloquent oration about ""arrested development," with his eyes but half open.
But Ave are "episoding" — far be it from us to boast of our attainments. Therefore, permit us to make our final bow. and with blushing countenances, we will depart armed with our coveted sheep — skins. As you strain vour eyes to behold the last vestage of our vanishing forms, we hear your unanimous consent: ""Yea. verily, this was a class to be proud of — whence cometh such another*?"
Echo answers. "Nevermore !"
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^ Photographs.
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The folks that in the last of June,
Our graduates would be, Began to say, 'mid April showers,
'•Our pictures! Mercy me!" At last the question was discussed,
And loud the talking grew. Since Will would to his dear friend
And Robert with him, too.
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Now all noon long the talk went on
About the picture men. Three artists fine, their terms sent out
And choose we tried to then. But all the faults that "97
And classes long before Had blamed to the photographers,
Were brought to light once more.
One man his word did never keep.
Class pictures did not hang: Another lacked artistic skill
The accusation rang. The third was far behind the times.
His business had grown small. The work he had he did himself
With one apprentice tall.
Not one of them could tell the truth.
So said one lady fair — She'd in a photo gallery worked
And to that fact could swear. The talk grew loud, for Rob and Will
Still praised that biggest light They told of all the fixtures new,
And for their man would fight.
They said that to this artist fine,
The best of people went, And all who knew the proper thing
Their approbation lent. But all the class would not allow
These boys to run the thing, Allusions to their man's defects
Some folks began to fling.
One maiden said that she had lived
In the adjoining city As long a time as t'other boys.
If not, it were a pity. And she had had her photographs
As often, surely, taken. And both the artists she had tried,
And Will's man had forsaken.
The storm raged on and Section A
Did a most miss their dinner: The seniors grave, with cares weighed down,
Were beginning to grow thinner. And when at last the president
Declared the meeting ended, The family jar was jarred so much,
'Twas hard to get it mended.
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A long, winding road is the highway we travel.
While making our journey, the journey of life,— A road that leads sometimes thro' Nature's glad freedom.
And sometimes thro' wide-swelling tumult and strife.
Where'er the road leads us. we garner and gather Some thoughts and remembrances, happy and Bweet,
Some pictures to cheer us in twilight's Ioiil: gloaming, When life's lights are low. and so weary our feet.
Some part of our road we have traveled together,
And many glad memories hoarded away To brighten our path with their magical beaut} ,
When shadows grow deeper and fades out the day.
Our beautiful campus in light of the evening.
The dark shadows lying across the long grass, The larches' long plumes in the gentle breeze swaying.
The twitter of birds' sleepy songs as we pass,
The rich glowing shades of the trees in the autumn,
The daintj fresh green of their verdure in spring. The evergreens bending with weight of their snow-crowns,—
Are beautiful pictures to which our hearts cling.
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And, standing' alone in its rounded completeness, Fit emblem of one who from us has passed,
The wide-spreading- maple they call Mr. Metcalf's Will dwell in our memories e"en to the last.
This road which has brought us so far on life's pathway, Its mossy retreats, and our favorite nooks,
The hills where we faltered, the heights we surmounted, All tempt us to tarry with lingering looks.
But time is relentless, so, whether reluctant
Or willing to leave our old school and old friends,
The future demands from us labor and service. And stern is the summons the world to us sends:
' Go prove thyself worthy to win in the battle.
And worthy to share the reward of the strong, Or suffer in silence the fate thou deserves!
If weakly thou shrink from thy place in the throng.
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Seni6r Guass Night Program.
The Modernized .Merchant of Venice in Pive Acts.
Act [. Street scene in Venice. Act II. A room in Portia's house. Act III. Shylock's house and yard.
Ait IV. A room in Portia's house. Act V. Scene I — Foot-ball Field. Scene M The < lourt I loom.
Dramatis Personae.
Antonio, .1 Senior 1 aptain of the Normal Foot-ball Team . Byron Eastwood.
Bassanio lli- Friend, and Suitor to Portia
Walter Pike.
Gratiano— Another Friend, - Robert < owles.
The Duke . . . Bruce Bright.
Shylock A wealthy gambler, A.B.Wolfe.
Tubal— His Friend, and Captain oi the Wes- leyan Foot-ball Team . Joseph Bumgarner.
Launi 11.. itGi »bbo - Servanl to Shylock
. BY \TT E. ' IOVEY.
Portia— A Rich Heiress, Margaret Frank. Nerissa Ber Friend, - Henrietta Pitts.
Prof. Schweigenhaug enblum enh eim er-
NEIDERFH \N K ENSTEIN HAU SKI;. I'll. I).. LL.D., A.s.s., P.D.Q.— An X-Ray Photog- rapher, . . Harmon Waits.
Policeman— . . . George Wilson.
Jessica -Shylock's Ward, . Bessie Cow les.
.Miss ABBIE S. THREEDICE— A Teacher.
\DH1K ROZIENE.
Polly — Portia's Maid. . NaNO Smith
Antonio's Mother— . . Eva Porter. Mrs. Gobbo- Launcelot's Mother,
Dorothea Beggs.
Foot-ball Players— . . Senior Boys.
SYNOPSIS This fasi Inating play Is .1 slightl] modernized revision oi .1 popular English play, "The Merchant oi one Wm Shaki speare. Bassanio, .1 Not mal studc nt, Is in lo\ e with Portia, whose father .it his death left .1 de
somewhat to the following eff eel Three caskets must be offered to every suit 01 for fair Portia's band, and oi ibese three must each make solemn 1 hoice. One caskei contained a sei oi examination questions In Caesar, another Cicero, and the third, Vergil. The suitor « bo answered the questions satisfactorily should have Portia a- his reward. Bassanio. fear-
e examination, makes known bis troubles t<> Antonio, « bo rents trom bis enemy Shj lock .1 Caesar ponj . thai being th.- only pony Shylock has on hand. Antonio agrees to forfeit a pound ol bis luxuriant foot-ball hair, taken from nearest the incur, 11 the ponj is not retui ned bj a 1 ertain day. Bassanio, with the aid 01 the pony, passes the examination held under • 1 per vision ol MissTbn !",t t'.iiis t<> return the pony In the pn-M ribed time. Shyloi k Is desirous "i marrying his rich ward, Jessica and when she elopes with Antonio, his wrath moves hi in to claim the forfeited pound ol balr. Ai the foot-ball game o1 the season he has Vntonio arrested and brought before the imk.-. Launi elot Gobbo h.is meanw bile notified Portia, who comes upon the scene of action in disguise Vftei stating the case clearly In Shylock's favor, she an- nounces that thi bond must by law be strictly carried out; an x-ray professor Is accordingly called In, to »h"s,- examination h< id j subjected Proi Schwelgenhaugenblumenheimerneiderfrankenstelnbauser finds that Vntonio has no brain ; hence the b I is void Shylock's property is forfeited because of a law forbidding one to at-
• the destruction ol another's bappiness iu an ai 1 Idenl Portia s Identity is dlsi o\ ered and the play ends in the u'«mI old way
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Where Are We At?
We thought that we were Seniors, But we are now in doubt;
We fear that Mr. Felmley Intends to crowd us out.
He gives such monstrous lessons
We study all day long; And also dream at night time,
And dream things all out wrong.
And then in early morning We start to school at seven.
We think we've learned our lesson, And will surely get eleven.
But when we're asked to tell it, We find that we don't know
What's truth and what is fiction, And so we set zero.
On that eventful morning Of our commencement day
If there exist no Seniors, What will the people say? J. W.
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Mind? No matter! Matter? Nevermind!
It's very important once in a while to have an idea
( hie of the best things in the world to put out a fire with is a good stream of water.
You can't plant potatoes in the dirt on a child's face, though yon may plant 'em in his month.
Say what yon mean, girls. Sometime you'll ~-.iv "no" and then wish all your lives von had said "yes."
A hog is an ingenious device lor trans- forming corn into pork.
Of all the milking machines in exist- ence, the calf is the most perfect.
Talk louder, girls. Possibly it is my fault that 1 can't hear yon; but if it i>. I'm willing to be forgiven. ( >h, these sighing swains who hang around till 11 o'clock, and then yawn before they go! They ought to be put under tin- pump.
Some people would just as soon be caught hanging a lantern in the chicken coop for the hen- to -<> to roost by, as to
have a few electric lights on the streets.
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fC]^UPHEMISMS AND ^IMILESk.
From the Shakespeare and Rhetoric Classes.
From an Essay on Richard II: — "The scene of action is principally in England and Whales."
From a paper on the Maine: — "The Maine was our finest vessel; she carried four twelve-inch guns and three white- headed torpedos."
Mr. Young reads his own interpretation into the text. — Reads "Oh dearest dread," "Oh dearest dear."
Mr. Waits, (reading in As Y<>n Like It): -"For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a saucer to sugar.
Mrs. Riggs (reading in the same play):— "Next a lover shining like a furnace."
Miss Colby: — Mr. Wilson, what does "to stalk" mean'? Mr. Wilson: — to take short steps.
Miss Colby (To Mr. Alien, who has talked off the subject 8 minutes by the clock) — Still I think I must insist that you answer my question."
Miss Colby (in Literature class, wears dark glasses on a dark, cloudy day) asks: What does the line — "For light she hated as the deadly bale," — indicate as to her character?
Miss Colby (to Mr. B ):— Did you
ever interfere in a domestic quarrel? Mr. B : Not outside — no.
George Wilson: — They saw that Ham- let wasn't "just right."
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Mr. Waits: The queen did not marry the king's brother until he was dead.
From a Rhetoric paper: -"The mill was a delapidated old flowering mill."
PROM ANOTHER: "A man ate his break- fast put on his hat and overcoat kissed his wife walked a block- and a half hailed a trolly ear got on and sat down paid the conductor a nickle rode a mile and a half gol off and walked two block's to his office building got in an elevator and was taken n]) ten stories by electricity."
(Wonderful age of mechanical skill!)
Mr. Henry Smith {in tlie Criticism class's discussion of Silas Manu r): — Well, Silas and Dolly were so narrow that they couldn't very well get together.
John Reece (.another day): Well, Ham- let thought quite a lot of Ophelia. Miss COLBY: — Thought what! ! Ripple runs over the class. J Reece: —Well, er-ah-he Moved her.
In the Criticism Class: Miss ('. Can yon tell what causes the difference between the feeling given us by the "gray of the morning" and the "gray of the even- ing?" (Several hands go up, conspicu- ously Miss Hatcher's, i
Miss H. It is because we are so much more familiar with the gray of the even- ing.
In I 'sychology Oh!
\- • ep I fain would l'<>: I wish perdition
Would abstract volition
And lay emotion low.
• Lamentations^
In Geometry, Oh, my!
I al wa\ B want to cry: Originals? poor me! Demonstrations leave me. And syllogisms nearly make me fly.
In Literature. I declare. I am loaded down with eare: I n Hamlet. i> it madness, ( >r feifiniii}_r. or pure sadness? This question haunts me every- where.
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Hamlet
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To flunk or not to flunk; that is the question: Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer The pang's and darts of growing drowsiness, Or take arms against a sea of slumbers, And by opposing, end them? To bone: to Hunk: No more: and by our will to say we end The grade books and the thousand marks Student flesh is heir to. 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished: to sleep, to rest: To rest: perchance to flunk; aye there's the rub: For in the class next day such 'quests may come When we have wakened from this blissful rest, As give us naught; there's the grade book That makes calamity of so long sleep; For who would bear the slights and scorn of mates, The teacher's irony, his glance of high disdain, His smile's contempt, the nine's delay, The insolence of classmates and the spurns That sleepy merit of the wakeful take When he himself might double plusses make By wakefulness'? Who would lessons learn And grunt and sweat under a care-worn life But that the fear of something after roll, The ever-dreaded classroom for whose bourn No student ever yearns, rouses the will And makes us rather bear this ill we have Than fly to rest and grades we know not of? Thus grade books do make night-hawks of us all; And thus the native hue of recitation Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of sleep, And exercises of great pitch and moment With wanton recklessness are dreamed away. And lose their aim of animation.
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y(/hcit Hie Seniors will dqj\[^t^year.
(ISS BESSIE COWLES will star the continent as Topsy after she has taken a course in the Paris Academy of the Science and Art of Love-Making. Mr. A. B. Wolfe— the Lord only knows.
Miss Kaiser has been engaged to deliver a course of lectures on the subject "The ^Esthetic and Physical Benefits of Rational Dress Reform;" also on "Bad, Bold Science Teachers."
Miss Pincham and Mr. Doud will start in July for Melville Peninsula, to open a Normal School among the Eskimo. They will promulgate the Herbartian doctrines, and check the spread of the pernicious theory of the logical "general notion."
Mr. Bumgarner has received a very flattering offer to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as crack shooter and horse trainer. Mr. Bumgarner*s attainments especially tit him for the place.
Miss Wright is to institute an original research in literature with a view to ascer- taining whether or not references to wind direction in American and English literature are scientifically accurate. To any one interested she recommends the two books by Professor Felmley, "Orators and Their Wind." and "Scientific Exactness of Whittier's Snow Bound."
Miss Travis absolutely refuses to discuss her plans for the future. It is said she notices no offers which do not come from sub-Urban districts.
Miss Frank has accepted an offer from the King of the Fiji Islands to teach the natives a new war dance.
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Miss Pitts will commit matrimony.
Miss Lesem will make a special .study of Euclid to see if a line falls upon a point or embraces it.
Miss Roziene will be business manager of the theater in her home town. It is to be hoped she will engage the Pike-Jones Company for at Least one evening.
Miss Rickards, — establish a dog infirmary. See if an old dog can be taught new trick's.
Miss Snell will succeed Ruth Mashmore (who has entered into an unexpected matrimonial combination) as editor of "Snide Talk's with Girls" in Ladies' Honu Journal.
Covey, — sell his new book, entitled "The Benefits to an Orator of an Ability to Da nee." copiously annotated and illustrated from the author's own experience.
Mi>s BeggS will write a new book on "The Horrors of Railway Accidents and the Pecuniary Advantages Resulting Therefrom."
Miss Elliott will go as a missionary to the natives (>|" Borrioloolaka, on the left bank of the Niger. Miss Humphrey will accompany her as agent for McMurry's "Special Method in Paleontologv for Primary Grades."
Bruce Bright tour the season as pitcher for the Towanda base hall team.
Miss Ross will write a thesis on the relative merits of walking and street-car riding after evening religious services.
( reorge Wilson wil I make a contribution to science in the shape of a chemical analysis of Normal mud a substance that has hitherto baffled all our professors and students.
Miss Curtis will be principal of the Young Ladies' Seminary at Hudson. 111.
Miss Corson will be basket ball instructor in the same institution.
Mr. Waits will live in a refrigerator this summer, iu preparation for his school work at Dawson City, N. W. Territory, where he is to be principal.
Miss Monroe will spend the summer writing poetry(?)
Misses Chicken and Cooper will take a course in voice strengthening.
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Miss Morse will pursue her laboratory studies, making" special effort to discover traces of prehistoric origin in the orbicularis-oris muscles of the angleworm.
Mr. Eastwood will study Egyptian hieroglyphics, with a view to discovering if the ancieut Egyptians knew the world classic "Jack and the Beanstalk."
Miss Cleveland will take an extended sleep of sixty days, and then enter upon her duties as rail inspector of the bridges over Sugar Creek.
Mr. Crocker has received an offer to help run the earth. Expects something better.
Each of those whose names do not appear in this list refused to respond to our inquiries. Miss Lyons's name, however, is omitted for the consideration of one dollar.
THE PIKE-JONES CONCERT COMPANY.
PRESS NOTICES.
Normal Advocate: Herr Peasley's style of playing is all his own. Even Paderewski never approached him in originality of interpretation.
New York Police Gazette: Mr. Coleman's bird warbling is simply astonishing. It is safe to say none of the audience ever listened to its like before.
Bloomington (111.) Sunday Eye: Mr. Pike's solo worked up the audience wonderfully.
Normal (111.) Vidette: We are glad to hear that the University is coming to the front along musical lines. Our enterprising student, Mr. Walter Pike, with the assistance of Miss Blodwen Jones, late of the Welsh prize singers, has organized a concert company for the coming season. Mr. Pike and Miss Jones will render the vocal numbers. They have secured the services of the celebrated piano artist, Mr. Will Peasley. After much persuasion, Mr. Lyman Coleman has consented to accept the position of bird warbler. The position of advance agent of such a company is an arduous one to fill, but the com-
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pany feel thai they ran rely upon Miss Lent/ to till it acceptably. The tirst program will !>c given in Eendryx, III. It is as follows:
Instrumental Solo - Warner Two-step
W. PEASLEY.
Vocal Soli - - Mama's Little Punkin Colored Coon
Miss .It inks
Imitation ol Duet Between a Crow and an Eaglet
Mr. Coleman.
Vocal Solo - - I Love Her in the Same Old Way
Mr. Pike. Vocal Duet ..-.-.... Down the Long Avenue
.Miss JONES and Mr. PlKE.
This will be accompanied by W. Peasley at the piano and Mr. Coleman
warbling "Just Tell Them That Vou saw Me."'
( piv.it pressure is being brought t<> bear on Mr. Cowles to join the company as clog and skirt dancer. If Bruce Bright can be induced to leave the field of base ball, he may attend the company to write the press items and start the applause.
Later news- The plans of Messrs. Wolfe and Pike may at any time be changed, as they are considering a very cordial offer from the Hon. Mr. Gatepost to act as his ad- vance agents. These gentlemen's undoubted success in the past in securing large audi- ences for Sliakesperian lectures procured them this offer.
[Thi> mesa of slander was inserted by the Assistant Scribblers ami the Office Devil, on the >lv. too for us to rectify. The vile stuff is utterly false, the pns> notices arc spurious, and the perpetrator- will be called to account —'I'm; EDITORS.]
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WRIGHTONIAN BOYS' BASKET-EALL TEAM.
Francis. Green.
Hippie. Larson.
Dewhirst. Wilson.
Earkmeier.
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Song by the Class. History of Class . . . 0. M. Dicker son. Violin Solo ..... Edith Brown. Class Poem .... Charles Myall
Vocal Solo .... Or a Augustine, Class Prophecy . . . Lida B. Mix.
Song by the Class Quartette.
Song by the Class. Refreshments.
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KARL McMURRY, President.
JOHN WH1TTEN. Treasurer.
Myron Martin, Edith Brown. Henry Smith, j Homer Craicmile, , Maud Wright. i Ora Augustine. .... Chairman Decoration Committee.
^\ Alice Watson, .... Chairman Refreshments Committee. IK
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Ggmmentario de Glassigq JaNieRieo.
LL NORMAL is divided into three parts. Of these the new students occupy one, the Seniors another, but by far the most important part consists of those who, in our language, are called Juniors, but in their own are called The People. All these differ greatly among themselves in language, man- ners, and customs. The river of knowledge, very wide and very deep, sepa- rates the Juniors from the Seniors. Of all these the new students are the most self -confident, for this reason, because they are farthest distant from the culture and superior wisdom of the Seniors and are next to the Juniors, who dwell across the river of First Experience, and with whom they carry on war every winter term. For this reason the four year people excel the rest of the Juniors in power, because they contend in almost daily struggle with the classics. One part of these territories which it is said the Juniors hold takes its origin from the river of Self-Esteem. It is restrained by the Faculty, by the spirit of the institution, and by the worthy example of the Seniors; it reaches even from spelling and elements to psychology. It looks toward the constella- tion of the yreat Section A. The new studeuts spring from the outermost limits of all creation: they aspire to a seven per cent. They look toward the constellation of the yreat Section A and a rising reputation. The Seniors reach from the river of Element- ary Knowledge to the heights of Introspection and to that part of Wisdom which is near Perfection. The}' face between an immediate college career and the life of a peda- gogue. S.
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THE UNIORS
Oh. heavens: What stuff Is here!
John P. Stewart.— 'Once I was a food hoy: alas! I've had a fall: Now 1 am a bad hoy, and go to every ball."
Edward Luke.—
•'I was not born for great affair^: I pay my debts and say my prayers."
i .1.' IRGE PFINGSTEN.—
■' ii. when you hear the roll of the big bass
drum. Then you may know that the Dutch have
come."
J. Carl Stine.
"Long, lean, lank, and thin As one of Satan's cherubim."
< n \km;s Allen.—
•'The polliwog died a-laughing To see him \\ ag his jaw."
< ii irles Myall.—
"Me Bhambled awkward on the -ta^e, the while Across the waiting audience swept a Bmile."
Bern \i;i> < apen.—
"Where I am is hell; and where hell i.-. there shall I always be."
Harvey Urban. —
••When a young man's facile fancy.
Lightly turns to thoughts of love." Then it is that he is certain
To be made a monkey of."
Martin Taylor.—
"I'm but a pilgrim here: Heaven i~ my home."
Jessik Simmons.—
••('old people are beyond all price,
When once you've broken t heir con founded ice.''
Myron Martin.
"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity liner than the staple of his argument."
Albert White.—
"Fie, what a spendthrift he is of his tongue."
Wilson Perry.—
"I'll warrant him heart-whole."
1N.\ Hamilton.—
'•I'll speak in a monstrous littie voice."
A lick Watson, i
OKA AUGUSTINE. \
•Two lovely berries moulded on one stem."
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Branch Taylor.—
"My heels eclipsed the honors of my head."
James Young —
"Oh, to Grace, how great a debtor, Daily I'm constrained to be."
Annie Beattie. —
"When did morning ever break And find such beaming eyes awake?*'
Homer Craig.mile.—
"Make * * * Thy knotted and combined locks to part."
Walter Jones. —
"The time has been.
That when the brains were out the man would die."
VlNCEMT Sbi.vkle.—
'•He never for a trice forgets that he is very smart."
Matheny.-
"A little man, bursting with ever increasing conceit."
Ralph McGuffin. -
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage.-'
('. Henry Smith.—
"I want to be an angel, and with the angels
stand, — A chest-note in my bosom, a song-book in my
hand."
JOHN REECE.—
"Lord! how he could holla!" F. B. Dvvire.—
•'What thing is this: what thing of sea or land?"' Charles Wakeland.-
"I must to the barber's: for methinks I am marvellous harry about the face."
Oliver Dickerson.—
"You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home."
Thomas Miner.—
"Whose little body lodged a mighty mind." Jessie Beals.—
"I am as sober as a judge."'
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Tune of Illinois.
O'er our books we have been poring
tion C, Section C, All the time we have been growing,
Section < '. Section * '. Till at last we\ <■ come to be Far ahead of Section ( .. And we greater yet shall be,
Sect ion ( . Section ( '.
When the school hoards look for teachers
Section ( '. Section ( . And don't want the stuck-up creature-.
Sot Lon < '. Section * '. They don't go to Section A. For they know it will not pay. But thc\ find out where we stay,
Section ( '. Section ( '.
When it comes to playing ball,
Section C, Section ( '. We are in it. that i> all,
Se< t ion ( '. Section ( : For on us the teams depend For two-thirds of all the men Who to plaj base-hall pretend.
Section ( '. Section ( '.
o'er a wilderness of spelling,
Section ('. Section ( '. Other classes all excelling,
Section ( . Sec1 Lon < ': And in spite of four?, and three-. We've yone through the sciences, Skinning cat- and climbing trees,
Section ( '. St ct ion ( '.
When the President was calling,
on I . 3e< tion ('. Those who thro' the month were falling, Section i Section C,
( )f our mini tier- \ er\ few. Nearly all of us pulled through, And that's what we're here to do, • . Section < '.
In the years that are to come.
Sect ion < . Section ( '. We'll be noted, every one,
Sect ion I '. Section ( '. Since we don't believe in can't-. I f you'll give u> half a chance. We'll Bbow 3 on Willards, Lincoln-. Grants
From Section ( '.
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Tune of Marching Through Georgia.
Bring the class together, let us sing another song: Sing it with a spirit that will show we're good
and strong, Sing so section A will feel we're right where we belong, While we are Juniors in Normal.
Korus:— Hurrah! Hurrah! The classof SectionC: Hurrah! Hurrah! For Juniors proud are we, And so we sing the praises of our University, While we are Juniors in Normal.
Section A*s above us, but we soon will take their
place. Section A psychology we soon will have to face, Section C will never fear the path the Seniors
trace, For we are Juniors in Normal.
KORUS: — Section A will now go forth to train the
youthful brain, In this year of Ninety-eight when Spain blew up
the Maine, As Juniors we're for anything to fighting wars
with Spain, "While we are Juniors in Normal.
Korus:— Section C is made of folks who never
break their word, Full of pure resolves and true as men have ever
heard, When we take the field of life the country will be
stirred, For we are Juniors in Normal.
-Written by Henry Stout.
Tune of A Hot Time.
When we hear the teachers calling in this good,
good old school, Where they all love us dearly, for we ne'er break
a rule, We ali hasten to the class room, often shaking in
our shoes. And our teachers, Oh! our teachers are very
much amused. But:
refrain: — Section C is the very class for me,
Section A isn't in it, don't you see?
For when a month doth end, we are sorry for our
friend, Who is invited to the Dresident's soiree. Oh! Junior Section D.G. I. J. Only one year more and we will hold sway, For when our work is done, we'll honor you in fun In The Index, The Index, next May.
There are flunks for everybody in this good, good
oldschuel: And we all get them plenty from our science
teacher buel,
Hartman, Felmley, Holmes, Potter, and our good
father Cook, Have us with them so often that they know us
like a book.
But: —Refrain.
What a jubilee there'll be when we graduate in
state. And our Index, blessed Index, will the story all
relate, But we'll warn all you Seniors, Who'll want at least 2, that the price will be $2, All nicely bound in blue.
But: — Iiefr'tin.
But to Section A we sing this,
Who leave this good old town, Who regrets the tearful parting
Of their science teacher, Brown, And we wish you all success
In the securing of a school, Hoping you'll manage some way
This summer to keep cool.
But; — Refrain.
--Written by Daisy White.
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Section G Miscellanies
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Wanted: Information regarding the latest improved methods of walking1 gracefully with from fourtosix young ladies. Please answer immediately, and address communi- cations to myself or to C. A. Myall. Ralph McGuffin.
Lost: Between the campus«and the Durham Club, an idea regarding the philosoph- ical presupposition upon which the nebular hypothesis rests. Intelligibh only to tfn <,/>■„, r. Walter Jones.
Exchanged:— By mistake, during the Interstate contest, my heart for a Kansas sunflower. The heart has been returned with a request for the sunflower. Please give information regarding the young lady seen so frequently with me, and receive reward.
John Whitten.
Wanted: A girl to go to the lecture with me within the next ten minutes. Any one hearing of a girl of that description please notify J. Carl Stink.
For Sale:- -Eleven ladies' handkerchiefs, extra fine; six umbrellas, but little used; locks of hair, in all shades suitable for charms, mementos, etc.: many small trinkets, such as heart stick pins, for-get-me-not rings, etc. Prices very reasonable, as we are closing out for the summer. Braden and Stewart.
Reward:— For any definite information concerning the reason for John McKinney's return, and the probable length of his visit. C. Hi.nky Smith.
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Notice: — I have on hand an abundant supply of attitudes, especially suitable for amateur actors, which I should like to exchange for a garden plot on which spring onions are easily raised. Lands must have satisfactory recommendations.
Chas. A. Myall.
Wanted— Information. Who is this man Stout? John F. Morrell.
Lost: — A hat, between Normal and Mackinaw Dells. Finder will please return to Mary Wells.
PICK-UPS. Mr. Felmley (in the Geometry class) — If, from the center of a log-, the largest pos- sible square prism be cut, what part of the log has been removed? No one knows. So Mr. Felmley says, "Well, it is rVths." Now, the question is, "Where did this ,B, come from?" Mr. Dickerson — "It comes out of the center of the log."
Mr. McDonald goes down to Maroa looking- for students; sees a man driving in with a trunk in his wagon; runs to meet him, and asks if his daughter is going to school. The man says that she is. McDonald helps unload the trunk, and asks her to put up at the Seeley club. She says, "I am going to Lincoln to school."
From Pfingsten*s method of demonstrating propositions in geometry, Professor Felmley infers that he (Pfingsten) would prefer to go north rather than south to reach Bloomington from Normal.
Professor Felmley informs Mar}r Wells that some people swallow their geometry about as an alligator swallows his food — without tasting it.
As conclusive evidence of the logical workings of Walter Jones's mind, we quote the following forcible statement: "Owing to the inclemency of the weather and the short- ness of the program, we will now take a short recess."
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DIRECTORY. CAMPBELL. Sec Norton. Flentje. — Back from Springfield.
FORDEN. Traveling man any place in Illinois - looking for a school. Gott. On steps at Mrs. Boyd's '■'* 7:30 p.m.
Bess. — Giving private Lessons in geometry; room 11. or drawing room. Mi Murry. Working up Ciceronian reception. Norton. James club (Saturday and Sunday.)
Fleming. — Residence, 210 West Mulberry; musical conservatory. Durham club. \lt Murtry. Residence, Normal; place of business. Bopedale. Mize. — Driving on tin- boulevard. Hi 'i GLAND. — Left in Ciceronian election. Readhimer. — Raising army for the Cuban campaign. Wiseman. — Taking special work' in geometry. See Hess. Klaas. James club; doing special work- in algebra. Waterman.— Gone to Cuba. Noah Young. Tennis court — love game.
PH1LADELPH1AN BOYS' BASKET-BALL TEAM.
Cavins. Taylo. Dewhirst. Eustice. Reeder.
Cavins. Trimble. Shinkle. Pottenger.
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l*K raw recruits were mustered into the I. S. N. T. army last fall. We
pitched our tents at ( 'amp Normal, as that was to be our base of supplies.
As a pledge of <>ur Loyalty t<> our new duties, our flag of scarlet and white
was soon floating above the camp.
Our regiment was recruited into three companies, named respectively
F'.F^-indF3. We re- ceived the most vigorous discipline, but obeyed without a murmur even such orders as the following from the chief cook of the commissary depart- ment: "Keep to the right;" "When you go, go as though you expect to get there before winter sets in;" "Single file under all considerations." We were soon called into active service. as our officers were not slow in dis- covering our unusual ability, altho", we regret to say. they wen- loath to give it proper recognition.
Our tirst engagement took place on the Plains of the Assembly Room. Elements was our objective point. Our troops were scattered and we came olT without even the "(dements" of success. We were not
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discouraged, however, and companies F1 and P2 soon reformed. Just at this time the spelling troops, under Captain Cavins, made a dash. They were armed with the most difficult words in the vocabulary, and captured many prisoners. The imprisonment of some continued throughout the entire campaign, and a few have not yet freed themselves from that bondage.
Company F:! had been called away to reinforce the troops that were gallantly fight- ing Major Colton. Armed with botany can and microscopes, and heedless of the pouring" rain, to which they had been hardened while encamped at Mackinaw Dells, they were fiercely lighting for the wild bacteria that they thought grew in the enemy's camp. Our men were in an exceedingly healthy condition, due in a large measure to the excellent training of Captains Lucas and Edwards. As a result, we were victorious, with none killed — only a few wounded. Among the latter were numbered those who were excused from gymnastics.
Elated over our recent victory, we determined to attack Port Grammar. Lieutenant Mavity opened tire with her siege guns. As these were fired by the inductive method, they were aimed at a few individuals first and then swept dovvn our men generally on all sides. Few escaped without bearing" evidence of the accuracy of the gunner.
The peaceful shades of evening put an end to the terrible flunking. The soldiers of Regiment F rested for a fortnight.
The Faculty now declared an armistice and we agreed to discontinue all operations for the time being. Upon receiving this information, we obtained furloughs, and those Who were able went home to visit their friends.
When the fortnight had expired we hastened to our posts, determined to whip the Faculty into submission. We found, however, that the Faculty had not been idle during this time, but had been engaged in repairing and replacing siege machinery. Fort Gram- mar was now replaced by the Pedagogical Barracks. Seeing the strength of their enemy, the faculty had entirely refitted old Fort Mathematics with rapid-fire guns.
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The History breastworks had also been thrown up to our left. Spelling infantry had been drawn up on the opposite side of Misspell River. The enemy also had control of Cheat bridge, which was guarded by Captain Vigilance. All these things had been done after an armistice had been declared. We had been out-generaled and had no other course but to storm the work's.
The fight commenced early in the morning with a charge on the Spelling infantry. Our forces were divided into two divisions. The larger body attacked the enemy in front, crossing Misspell River by ford. The smaller part charged cheat Bridge. Cap- tain Vigilance was seized and quickly dispatched. After his death his men lied in utter confusion. A shout went up from .ill the Lines. Co. P3, which was guarding the rear, now advanced and we marched triumphantly towards the higher forts.
The forts now opened tire on our lines from all sides. Fort Mathematics hurled red hot shots in the shape of cub •>. cones, prisms, and pyramids, which were extremely hard t.> dodge successfully. History redoubt was feebly defended by Major-General Mc- Cormick, because he said: "This is not my day to fight." We soon captured it and turned the guns on Pedagogical Barracks. We had formed our plans very carefully. Our aim was to overpower Major Holmes with the superior strength of regiment P. We now proceeded to the presentation of a shower of individual notions, using the cannon of History Redoubt as concrete illustrations. Major Holmes and his company proved to be very apt pupils, and were soon prepared to draw their own conclusions. The general notion of defeat was accurately expressed by a hasty retreat. Stores of mythical ammu- nition and fairy guns were left behind.
All our forces were now brought to bear upon the remaining stronghold, held by Major-General Felmley with General Hartman second in command. We advanced with colors flying, but soon the guns of Fort Mathematics hurled their deadly flunks among our ranks at an average speed of 6:40.
( )uv comrades fell on every side, yet we pushed on. Some, terrified by the fearful
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carnage, fled from the field, only to be captured and pressed into service in regiments <> and H. The geometric guns still continued, deadly effects being produced upon the Decatur volunteers. Our efforts were finally crowned with success. The major-general was forced to retreat, but not until he had spiked every record.
This glorious victory was succeeded by many others. But once during the entire campaign had we sustained great loss. A few daring scouts were ambuscaded by the savage chief, Latin Turtle. He fought in true savage style. The cowardly attack was a general massacre. He obtained many scalps. Company F3 hastened in pursuit, but the enemy escaped. That night he had a regular war dance, and there was great rejoic- ing among the faculty.
At last our successful campaign in this educational war was closed and we retired to the seclusion of soldiers" homes for the summer, to recuperate for next year's struggle.
The victory, 'twas ours, they say;
And truly 'twas a glorious day.
But. alas, for it we'll have to pay.
For some day we'll be regiment A.
(M+B)— (G+S2)
THE NEW STUDENTS' FAVORITE MOTTO.
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Professor Felmley {to Fz): You haven't had arithmetic have your You were ex- posed to it but you didn't take it.
Which one of the lower sections thinks it's the whole thing? F8
Which section has a turtle's idea of rapidity? F3
Which section is blamed for all the mistakes of the school? F3
Which section ought to be? F8
Which section knows it knows all there is to know, knows precious Little that it knows it knows, and in regard to which every one knows that it knows that it knows all there i> to know, but that it knows precious little that it knows it knows? F3
PROFESSOR MCCORMICK:— F8 are worked too hard. They are tender and can't stand it.
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P^iograpl)ical I^exicon of option _ Ai.
Borah: — Admirer of the "fair sex.*'
JONES: — Teacher's handy cyclopedia.
Ament: — The orator of the age: Prof. Holmes' private secretary.
Noble: — The latest discoverer of the real shape of the Black sea.
Anna Hawkins: — The most real inter- preter of the character of the witches in Macbeth.
Gowey: — He who "braves the lion in his den." or Prof. Felmley in his class, and knows the nature of pigeons in Grundy county.
Adams: — Shakespearean commentator.
Luella Dilley: — The "young woman" who reads "expressions" in the algebra
class.
Anne Hill: — Experienced teacher, elo- quent talker, devoted to argument, com- poser of pedagogical principles, defender of tramps.
Burner: — Philosopher of Section P, whose experience in being called a "green- horn" is so recent, that he has no trouble in recalling it, and he is able to furnish valuable material for the Pedagogy class.
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SectioD ( r, or Company ('•. is one of the best companies in the regiment of students that attend the LS.N.U. This com- pany is a company of volunteers who enlisted at the beginning of the year by the presentation of appointments or by passing a creditable examination here. At the beginning of each of the Winter and Spring terms the company is again recruited m* up to its full strength. Soon alter our Company ('• was mus- tered into the regulararmy, September, '97, we began to drill. We learned to walk quietly and quickly, t<> .stand and make no noise.
After the first day we were put on guard for four hours every day in the class room. We guarded our thoughts and ton-iie-. At first we were lain to dodge the question which came point blank from the teacher. But each hour made us stronger, and after hours and hours of trial and test we b< i aine able to stand before the well put question, which meant, "do or die." The Spell- ing class is recruited mainly from Company G, and as we enter upon our duties there, that fear again overtakes US and we cannot stand before the words, which, hurled from the month of the teacher, so often hit the mark.
When off duty we heard the grave and solemn Seniors speak- about the Phils, the Wrights, Sappho, and Cicero, and we wondered what it all meant. Could it be the en- emy? At last we dared to ask an aspiring youth who was 'lectioneering for an office in Cicero. We learned that they were the four societies of the school. We attended the
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societies in fear and trembling, and wondered at the wisdom that so was there displayed. As the weeks went by we grew to love the societies and soon we lifted our voices in song and debate in the society halls. Many of our young men have held important offices in Cicero. Company G is now. loyal to its societies, and no member would hesitate to bat- tle for his society.
Two more years of test and trial and we go out to battle and to conquer. We will conquer the children's minds and establish provisional governments in our schools. May Section G always remain loyal to our school, our societies and our country. V. G. S.
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OUR FIRST YEAR at a college is in many respects the most interesting', and the most vividly remembered. We have passed through one term in a Normal school, and find ourselves near the close of a second. We have participated in so many scenes and incidents that space will not allow the
historian to go into detail. We came lure friendless, strangers, unac- quainted with Normal customs.
'Sonic of us lanky some of us lean. Most of us cranky— all of us green,"
"i- so the other sections thought us. But, as lias ever been the case, they were destined
to iie surprised. Section H. at first a little "new," abashed, and ill at ease, with a "where-
am-I-at" feeling, set to work with light and hopeful hearts, and soon were aide to "hold
their own." We knew it would take a struggle to compete with the other sections; but
with calm persistent efforts, we were able to say. "If we been not so smart, we get there
schust der same."
As a class, we are second to none. We are proud of being "Us." we rather like the letter "H." It isn't a bit egotistical like "I," nor doesn't suggest a ".lay." As for "F," that reminds one of "Plunk," and "A" and "('." make one think- of a \vrd store. "Hay and Seed." We'd rather be "H's" because that's like "Heaven."
We have reason to be proud of our boys ever gentlemanly, and true, with ready hands and willing hearts, quick to do their best and serve their country. As to the girls, dill you ever hear of such sympathizing, patriotic and loyal ladies, as are those in our section? We are care free and happy, and justly so. And now we know
"Some ol us are lanky — Bome of us lean, A few of us crankj -but none of us green."
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Sections I and J,
nOrmal Illinoi may 18 1898
dear inDext editers i just Got your Kind Invitashun to rite a edertoriall foR youre bOok. i Am very glAd for the ChAnct and i hop yon will sea us agaiN. Sexions i and jay is the besT sexions in this coledg"e Wee thinK, caus most on us is Glad that we are too Be hear 3 hole yeers and mabee more, i guesse sum ov our teechers aint Glad ov that tho say tho wusn'*t ProfesOR Cavvlns a jay wEn He wuz in skool sum budv said thay thoght He must hav bin. oR don't you dAst mEntion enny Names in the mdext enny how im going two an ef you dont want to print themm. just cRos thEmm out. i doNt lik It here veRRy well, i Dont sea whY thay CaNt let us hav sum thing accepT speelinG and gramer wheN wea cum, ive hadd Speeling al my life and im gettin kind uv tireD uv IT and mi Dad — i mene mi papPa uSed to teech it way lonG back whenn i wurz oNly 6 yeers old and I*ve studdied it a hole lot myselff and say don't you Believe i could Bee editer of the videt uex yeer i wish you wuld doo whAt you cann for mee and iLl rite a Nother indext for you sumtime. GooD by
Editor's Note. — We trust our readers will be patient with the writer of the above, but having fears otherwise we withhold his name. We asked a representative of Sections I and J to write an edi- torial for those two sections: he did the best he could, so let us thank him and appreciate his efforts.
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!■"■ IRR] ST BULL! >CK.—
"And eacb particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon tin- fret ful porcupine. M
II UNLINK.
"A well-known and not remarkably thin
'id."
I)i i: \nt.—
••The crow doth - ng as sweetly."
Alice Jackson.—
■ Her bright smile haunts me still."
ALU i Ri >SE.—
"Oh, how full of briars is tliis working-day world."
Robt. Logan.
"Lost each bum an trace, rendering up thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements cla88."
Katherin Buerkin.—
"1 shall ne'er beware of mine own wit till I break mj sliins against it."
< !larence Burner, i Henry Stout. - —
Forrest Bullock. \
"All Caul is divided into three parts.-'
Eli l'. Gale.—
•■lie is of a very melancholy disposition."
Jesse ( Barter.—
"I know him by his walk, 'tis he."
Hi RT WlCKERSHAM.
"llut oil. but oh. the ladies loved him so."
Bert Holeman.—
"I am so fresh, the new green blades of
grass Turn pale with envj as I pass."
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5ORMER EDITIONS of The Index have contained personal sketches of the first president of the Normal School. I am asked to summarize, within as brief a space as possible, some of the leading events in the life of this rare and most interesting" man. He was born in the town of Thetford, Vermont, on the 26th day of April, L827. The son of a farmer, he early became inured to toil. His early education was obtained from the public school and was substantially completed at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1S."L\ sup- porting himself by teaching' through the long vacations. Soon after graduation he be- came principal of the academy and high school at Farmington, Mass., where he remained for two years. In 1854 he removed to Peoria, where he took charge of a private school for boys. But he was too full of the spirit of Horace Mann to be contented with the in- adequate provisions for popular education which the city afforded, so he soon saw to it that there should be public schools, and when they opened he became their principal.
With such men as he and a few others, it is not surprising that the educational fer- ment soon began to arouse the people of the state. The normal school idea was in the air. A school journal was established, of which he became editor, and it was perhaps one of the most valuable of the agencies which hastened the movement forward. The educational scheme rapidly ripened, the bill was passed by the General Assembly in ls.~>7, and the normal school opened in October of the same year, with Charles E. Hovey as principal.
It were long to tell the story of the desperate struggles through which the normal school building was finally completed and the pupils housed out on the prairie two miles
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and a half from the Bloomington court house. The story has been told by General Hovey liimself in a bistory of the Illinois State Normal University, published fifteen years ago. It was a battle royal from start to finish. Over and over again it has been said by those who ought to know, that no one with less than General Hovey"s marvelous persistence, consummate tact and skill, and almost matcbless audacity, could have car- ried the measure through. He built without straw a good share of the time, and some- times almost without clay.
But the war came on. He hurried away to the front with the Normal regiment, won his spurs at the battle of "The Cache," became a brigadier general, and subsequently a major general; was with Sherman at Vicksburg, and in the stirring events which fol- lowed hard upon that memorable campaign, and was twice wounded at Arkansas Post. Not long after this, for reasons wThich were in part personal, General Hovey retired from the army, having won a most enviable reputation as a fighter of the first quality. Had he chosen to remain there is no reason to doubt that he would have beenrecognized every- where as inferior to no officer of his rank in the Western army.
In 1*64 he removed to Washington and engaged in the practice of law. But he did not lose his old enthusiasm for popular education. To him more than to any other one man, is due the credit of reorganizing the system of education of the District of Colum- bia and putting it into its present admirable shape. During all of these years his thought turned with interest to the school which he had established. None of its achievements were indifferent to him. Occasionally he made us a visit. His address at the celebra- tion of the twenty-fifth anniversary was the most notable contribution to that interesting occasion. On the 19th day of last June he returned, broken in health, to join us in cele- brating our fortieth anniversary. He was privileged to attend two or three of the meet- ings, but the great forces of his life were at last broken. Disease contracted in the swamps of Mississippi, had followed him for many years, and was now about to claim its victim. For 100 days he was my guest, and with a very brief exception, was confined
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to his bed by serious illness. His faithful wife joined him two weeks after his arrival and remained with him until his return to Washington. Throughout the heated days ol last summer he endured the pain of a mortal illness without complaint, illustrating anew in the unconquerable courage with which he fought for life, the qualities which had made him ><> conspicuous in establishing institutions an I winning battles. In September he was taken back to Washington, where he lingered until November 17. when he passed away.
At his request he was buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington Heights, where the graves of the Qnion soldiers stretch away in almost countless numbers under the shady trees of the old Lee plantation. He was laid to his final rest with the touching ceremonies of a military funeral. Around him were those whom he had loved, and as the sad notes of the mellow bugle echoed through the forest shades. Charles E. Ilovey. the scholar, the teacher, the soldier, the friend of every movement tending to the ameli- oration of the condition of mankind, passed into history.
John W. Cook.
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5ong of tl)e Cognates.
Of all the sorrows that haunt me, of all the base imps that taunt me, of all the hobgoblins that daunt
me, The greatest of all these that Haunt
me . Are these cognates that constantly
ilunk me.
ciioius:
Last night as I lay on my pillow, Last night as 1 lay on my bed,
This cognaHe contingent came round me — Swarmed in and out of my head.
1 dreamed of those consonants hor- rid,
Transported, it seemed, to realms torrid.
The sweat came in beads on my forehead
As I struggled in vain with those horrid
old cognates, that always do Hunk me.
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CHOOSE WELL YOUR TEXT.
Mr. Edwards {in reading class): Mr. Funk, what text do you use?
Mr. Funk: Well, I guess you couldn't find it in the Bible.
Professor Felmley {in -primary arith- metic for newcomers): Now, if you had forty little imps before you to show this to, how would you do it?
:Well, I'd rather have forty little
imps before me than one big' one.
Miss Taylor: Yes, that's what I meant.
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MissWilkins {to perplexed student)-. Now, do you see it?
Student: No.
Miss W. : Wait till I yet a stick, and I'll make you see it.
Mr. Eustice {reading Pied Piper): At this the mayor and corporation Quacked with a naughty consternation.
Mr. Brown {to Miss Cooper): Define "ex- periment." — Miss Cooper: An exi)eriment is a trial.
Mr. B. : I suppose 'tis a trial to some of you.
Miss A.: Mr. Felmley, I can't explain this problem. I'm all mixed up.
Mr. F. Miss A. is all mixed up. Miss Mix may take the problem, and see if she can unmix her.
Miss Hartmann compares her class to a fiddle: "Now, I work hard and labor long' and diligently to get you keyed up to the right pitch. Then I touch a string, and it s:oes plunk!"
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Mr. Camp (in C psychology draivs the topic "concepts"): People have concepts, they always have had concepts, and [rhetorical pause] they always will.
Miss Augustine (in physiology class): Does it make any difference, in feeling tor the pulse, which hand 1 take?
Mr. Colton: No, Miss Augustine, un- less you have two hearts.
Mr. Manchester {in study of colloquial- isms): "How many say. 'It is a fine day?" Several hands go up. "How many say. -lt is a lovely day?'" All girls' hands go up, also Mr. Edmunds's. "Oh," says Mr. Manchester, "he's under the influence of the girls."'
Extract from Prof. Cavins's sample page of bookkeeping: "Paid for bailing hay."
Mr. Edwards (mi reading class; lesson, Pied Piper): Why did the mayor say he would sell his gown?
Mr. Wilson: Because it was full of er- mine.
MissS u ng (in arithmetic): Asnumbers progress, they change their name." Miss H. : Numbers do not change their
name. Miss S .
Student (to Prof. Felmley): What do you regard as the most reliable weather re- port?
Prof. P.: Thunder!
Mr. Colton (with botany class on camjius):
Will Mr Hon- land and his company please join the rest of the class?
Miss Hartmann (in algebra class): 1 don't see but that I might as well go off and have a picnic, or go home and hoe weeds out of my garden, since 1 can't get a man
to do it. I don't seem to be able either to have weeds or plant seeds here. The soil
is too thin.
Young Lady (to Prof. McCormick): I don't see the application of that. Mr. McCor- mick.
Prof. McC: Well, do you see the plas- ter?
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Mr. Manchester (finding out the ages of his Latin class pupils): I ought to have asked not only how old you are, but also how long you have been of that age.
Prof. Holmes: Miss X., please give the psychological basis of this physio- logical phenomenon. (Student hesitates.)
Prof. H. : Well, we'll have this to- morrow.
Rape {presenting oral lesson on "The Lion and the Mouse"): How does the lion get his foody
First Pupil: He preys for it.
R. : Where does he get it?
Second Pupil: I should think if he prays for it, he would get it from heaven.
Miss Hartmann {in advanced algebra class, to Mr. Reecher, who has written, "I will equate, etc.): There's a good deal of deter- mination expressed on that blackboard. Why do you say "I will equate."
Mr. Reecher: Because I'm bound and determined to do it.
Miss H. : Go on.
Miss Hartmann: I don't see that, Mr. Baker.
Mr. Baker: Come a little closer.
A SLANDER.
Prof. Pelmley: (To Miss Stapleton after she lias waited at ///<■ boardforfive minutes) — Miss S., what are you waiting for?
Miss S. : I'm waiting for a stick.
Prof. F. : Well, they say that's what half of your sex spend all their lives in do in"".
The question came up one day in tin- political economy class as to whether or not that science teaches one to push ahead regardless of circumstances, or, as the worthy professor put it, in a figure that caused Miss Colby's pupils to chuckle: "Does political economy teach one to wade right ahead regardless of where the chips are falling?"
Prof. Holmes: What is the chief aim of science study?
A pupil ix PEDAGOGY: To gain a re- sponsive instinct into nature.
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Miss Colby: Why should Rustum have felt sad when Sohrab, his enemy, fell, while we rejoice at the destruction of the Span- iards"?
Mr. T.: Because Sohrab was so much more Lovely than the Spaniards.
ZOOLOGY.
Prof. Colton: What is the first sub- division made under animals. (No re- sponse. i
Prof C. : Compare it to a tree; the divisions of the trunk are brandies. So with animals -the first subdivision is branches. Now. Mr. Sp— s, what are the subdivisions of each branch?
Mr. Sp — s: Twiers!!!
Bright Student {in Mr. Edwards's read- ing class, reading from Macbeth): "Go tell your mistress when the drink is ready to strike upon the bed."
Miss Colby: What did Rustum think- when Sohrab embraced his knees?
Mi:. Wickersham: He thought lie was trying to blutV him.
Mr. Clark < r< ading Julius Ca'sar): There's something here I don't understand 'This ( Mympus. Who's he''
Miss Sm h {in psychology): "Pressure upon an individual causes reaction, and the greater the pressure the greater the reac- tion.
President Cook {in the psychology class) relates one of his dreams: He and a friend, he says, fought a duel, and after a long struggle, slew each other. After an hour of conscious unconsciousness he arose. picked up his body, and started to walk with it to heaven. After a long journey, he met a man who. in answer to the ques- tion how far it was to heaven, said. "Five miles." Mr. Cook- say> it i> the saddest thought of his life that he awoke when within about two miles of the realm, as that may have been the nearest approach he shall ever have made.
Mr, Cook {in psychology class): Let this X (cross) stand for the lion, since most lions are cross.
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Miss L-W-ll-ce says Portia did not write to Brutus about her (Portia's) death.
Miss H. : Mr. Cr-- ch, you may explain. (Mr. C. gives a hazy explanation, which may be excused, considering the warmth of the day.)
Miss H.: You may explain it, Miss D-n- h-m. (Miss Denham explains, while Mr. C. and several other members of the class take a succession of short naps.)
Miss H. : Now, Mr. C, do you see tile difference between your explanation and the one given by Miss D. ?
Mr. C: Yes'm.
Miss H.: I don't; they were both the same. (Mr. C. succumbs to the weather, and wilts.
Miss Mann {reading from an essay): Every man must die in the course of his life.
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Overtures.
Miss Travis:—
Wie sich im Sinnen, Wunschen, WOhnen, Wallen
Mein treues Herz zu dir hinfiber wendet "How my true heart turns over for you."'
Kofoid (in Vergil class): —
Salve sancte parens iterum salvete, recepti nequiquam cineres animaeque umbraeque paternae.
'•Hail, sacred parent! hail again, ye cinders rescued in vain, the soul and shade of my father."
Miss Taylor: —
Er mass den fremden Soldaten welcher ihn zum Weine geladen vom Kopf bis zu dem Fiissen.
'•He looked over the man who had filled him with wine from head to foot."
Miss Travis:—
Ihr kannt mich mit dem Zwirn so fest vor euch hin, ich kann euern Augen nicht auswei- chen.
"You'll hold me so fast in the yarn that I can not look into your eyes."
Miss Taylor: —
Und dich ruhrt deines Vaterland Geschick nicht!
"And does not the face of your father move
you?"
Miss BOhringer:—
Redet Ihr.— "Now you*re talking."
Cowles (in Vergil class):— Si postibus altis Admovit digitos, postes radiare videntur.
"If he stubbed his toe on the door-posts, they seemed to glitter."
Mize: —
Bunte Gesellen in spanischer Tracht. "Bright gaielles in Spanish garb."
This was heard in theirs* year German class:— Das giebt Giinsefettbrot fur ein Viertel-
yahr.
"That will give goose-grease-bread for forty
years."
Miss Pitts:—
Wir zu Oestreich schwiiren! "Shall we swear at Austria'.J"
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Miss 11 vmilton:—
Liebchen, was nimmst du vor? '•Honey, what do you take me for?"
Miss Snell:
[ch bin libel daran. "I am in a bad fix."
Miss Pitts:—
Da schien sie sich zu erweichen. •■Then she appeared to be soft."
Pike:—
Geht nicht. — "It's n<> go."
Miss Tr wis:—
K.in jeder ging nach Hause. '"Each one went after the hoiw
Prof. Manchester:—
Wo soil Lch fliehen? Walderwarts Ziehen? "Where shall I flee? Shall I take to the ids?"
Miss Pitts:—
Kielen die Thranen nieder: ich -ah >ie fallen auf deine Han<l und bin aus Knie gefallen. • Tli.- tears fell; 1 saw them fall upon your
hand and sink upon your knee."
Miss TRAVIS:—
Taucht hervor ein klu£e> Fischlein Wiirmt das Kopfchen an tier Sonne. •Warms his little cheeks in the sun."
( Iovey:
Legiferae Ceres. — "Woolbearing Ceres."
Cowles:—
Ac velut ingentem formicae farris acervum cum populant.
"And just a> the ants when they store up hone\ ."
Miss Smith: —
l't juvenes videre fervidi possent. ••That verdant youths might >ee."
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4>= (jDNUNDRUMS.=== 4-
1. What is Ralph McGuffin's favorite color?
:!. "What ware does Miss B-h-nger pre- fer?
3. What virtue does Miss Br--ks most admire'.'
4. What appartment of a house suits Gale Smith best?
5. What book of the Bible does T- -yl- read most?
6. What is Helen W-ll*s favorite flower?
7. What part of a fowl does McWb-rt-r choose?
8. What is M-nn- Bl-ck's favorite oath?
9. Why is H-l-m-n different from many Normal boys?
10. When is Miss Sh--p not thirsty?
11. Why does Miss P-rk-n's lamp burn
well?
12. Of what wild fruit is Miss Ogl- most fond?
13. (To Miss Br-ggs. ) Why are "n" and "g" your favorite letters?
14. How does Mr. Edwards like girls?
15. Why is the Normal School like a country grocery store?
16. What's the difference between Nebu- lar Hypothesis Jones and Schneider?
17. When is Miss Chicken not a chicken?
18. Why would it not be a sin to fall down and worship Mr. Mize's drawings?
19. Which member of the faculty tied the maiden lady and the girl in a room?
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P)ASE PjALL.
Seniors vs. Faculty.
FACULTY.
Edwards, l.f. p. . .
Cavins, 3b. c
Manchester, lb. p McMurry, 2b. lb.
Colton, c. 3b
Green, 3b
Holmes, ss. p. 2b. Melville, p. ss. l.f.
Felmley, c. f
Brown, r. f
Totals
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H |
P |
A |
E |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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1 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
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3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
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2 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
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0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
8 |
15 |
7 |
17 |
SECTION A.
Peasley, c
Pike, 3b
Eastwood, lb. . .
Bright, p
Wolfe, 2b
Covey, ss
Cowles, c. f
Wilson, 1. f
Crocker, r. f. . . .
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3 |
2 |
6 |
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4 |
3 |
1 |
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4 |
1 |
8 |
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3 |
0 |
2 |
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4 |
4 |
1 |
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4 |
3 |
0 |
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2 |
0 |
0 |
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2 |
0 |
0 |
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1 |
0 |
0 |
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27 |
13 |
18 |
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INNINGS-
Faculty.. .. . Section A. . .
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4 |
5 |
6 |
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6 |
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Earned runs — Section A, 7; Faculty, 3. Two-base hits — Eastwood 1, Covey 2, Wolfe 2. First base on errors — Section A 5, Faculty 5. Hit by pitched ball — Felmley. Struck out— By Bright 6, by Melville 3, by Manchester 2. First base on balls— off Melville 9, off Edwards 2, off Holmes 4. Wild pitches — Melville 7, Holmes 1. Stolen bases — Sec- tion A 4, Faculty 6. — Passed balls — Colton 3, Cavins 5, Peasley 3.
Time — 1 :45. Umpire — Perry.
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(jeneral ^x." Diversions.
February 24. Professor P. discusses cyclones. Small one on the platform. Ask Miss Colby if it did any damage.
Professor Felmley {speaking of Torri- Mr. Cavins, will you please write the word on the board?
Mr. Cavins (look* dubious): Hu-liow do von spell it'.'
Professor Felmley: Last Friday we w«tc diverted from our wind discussion by oratorical matters but then, they're closely allied to wind, so we may not have lost much time.
Professor Manchester [in <> talk on ctjlloqitialisms): Now, in the northern part of the State we don't say "the cat wants in." "the cat wants out:" in fact, we never say the cat want> any preposition.
President Cook {after reading tin monthly invitations t<, his "office reception"):
Now I want you all to come; don't send your cards.
Professor McCormick Knows His Pupils. {Assigning lessons first day <<i spring term): "The class in physical geog- raphy will please take the first fourpages in 'Earth and Man' also one line on top of page 5."
Bullock {ansioers <>ik- <>f Professor /•'.'* /in /i orological Questions) : President Cook: How many
hear him.
[Chorus of hands fly up.]
President Cook: Now. Mr.
just look' at those hands.
Bullock look's and subsides ported that lie has since been taking vocal
lessons. ]
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/' irting. Doud.
Waltzing.- .). Carl Stine,
With nose glasses. — Pfingsten.
Not grinning. — Reuben Kofoid.
On good behavior. Martin Taylor.
With a high silk hat on. — Wickers ham.
Running a foot race. — Prof. Manchester and Mr. ( Javins.
Promenading. — Mr. Haves and Miss Hall.
Reading a Sunday paper. — Albert White.
When not struck <>n themselves.- "Pompa- dour" and "Nebular Hypothesis" Jones, Miss Pitt-. Miss Muthersbaugh.
Studying. — Peasley, Claude Simmons. Miss Durant, Mi<s Ebersol, Miss Maun. Miss Frank. Miss Marshall. Braden, Hole- man, Miss Wise.
a Fisherman's Luck.
Rededicated to Miss Bessik Cowles by a Disciple of Isaac Walton.
One day, when summer was in her teens —
A morn to a poet's wishing. All tinted in delicate pinks and greens-
Miss Bessie and I went fishing.
I in my rough and easy clothes, With my face at sunshine's mercy.
with her hat tipped down on her nose, And her nose tipped— via w rsa.
I with my rod. my reel and my hook-.
And a hamper for luncheon recesses; She with the bait of her saucy looks.
And the -tine of her dark brown tresses.
So we sat down on the sunny dike, Where the white pond lilies teeter:
And I went to Bshing like quaint old Ike: And she, like Simon Peter.
All the noon I lay in the light of her eyes, And dreamily watched and waited.
But the fish were cunning and would not rise And the baiter-alone was baited.
And when the time for departure came.
The bag was fiat as a Hounder: For Bessie had neatly hooked her ^ame —
A hundred and fifty pounder.
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Answers to Conundrums.
1. Evidently it is White,
i!. Crocker-y.
3. Ira.
4. The Hall.
5. Ruth.
6. The Rose.
7. (Eu)-Wing.
8. Mein Gott.
9. Because many go without a girl while he takes a Peck
10. When W-t-rm-n is near.
11. Because she has a fine quality of "Wick" on hand.
12. Per Simmons.
13. Because they make you Young.
14. He prefers a Mix(ed) crowd.
15. Because it has mo'lasses.
16. Jones can't talk German but does, while Schneider can talk it but doesn't.
17. When she's a little pale.
18. Because they are like nothing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
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« New 5®ks. *
The following new books <>n old sub jects have been received too late (thank heaven) for review:
illustrated Bibh Dictionary Miss Wolt-
man.
s, ,, „,, and Art of Scheim -istry Allen and
Mize.
Minify P«»V— Decatur Delegation. Things That Puzzle Me— Homer Craigmile.
//,,,,■ /,, r,//.// <» Fainting Girl Charles A.
Myall.
Orators and 'linn- Wind David Felmley.
Thi Scientific Exactness of Whittier's Snoic- Bound David Felmley.
/.,,,-, s q/ a Lift timt Bruce Bright.
Thoughts and {Gen. Ex.) Talks— John W.
( !ook.
//.,„• /,. <;,-..«■ Z7mi Bainline and Capen.
Merchant of Venice Up to Date (Thor- oughly revised and expurgated by Amelia p Lucas).
Otherwise, a Satire — Miss Wise.
Courtship Made Easy- Ralph McGufl&n.
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CONARD, )
Hayes, > "Perhaps they'll grow.*'
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Miss Watson: Yes, Mr. Allen, that's a good plan; I think these union society meetings are so nice.
Capen,
Stine,
Hainline,
Cavins,
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"You fat and greasy citi- zens."
Miss Monroe {to Miss r., at the (/rind): Who is that girl? She makes me think of pictures in Thackeray.
Miss C. : That's mv sister. (!!!)
Mr. Br-d-n: You had better remember that the guards were preparing to defend themselves from a shower of Spanish bul- lets and not a shower of Mrs. R-dg-rs' potato peelings.
At the Parting "By the Gateway."
S : May I kiss you?
Miss P — tts: Nein.
S : All right, then; let me begin.
Mr. Dovvd: Well, some of these fellows that are in such a hurry to go to war will be the first ones to run.
MlSS Cowles: Well, I guess not; some of the nicest boys in school are going with the company tomorrow.
At the Grind:—
"Oh how cold Miss Hartmann's look, When she grades her little book: But lovely as a poet's dream When she's treated to ice-cream."
A young lady rushes up to the perpetra- tor of the above, and, horror-stricken, asks him if he knew Miss Hartmann"was there."
Miss Hartmann saj'she has to prove the last couplet.
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There was a man came to this town.
Ami he thought he knew it all: He entered David Felmley'a class,
And there Ik- had a fall.
Miss
(to Miss r. i: Mr. E. said that
you would be pretty good looking if it were not for your nose.
Miss C: Von tell Mr. E. that he would be fairly good looking if it wen' not for hi> face.
Miss D bb-n: We should advise yon to acquaint your escort with your name and boarding place previous to the hour of his calling, so that each girl in the house will not be called upon to present herself at the front door in order that the right one may be identified.
MlSSL TZ {to Stella Cor son): Is Maude in the Section A ring?
STELLA: If you mean the ring that think they know it all. she's in it."
To Miss LORA Simons:
A hill, a sled.
A post ahead,
A srirl comes down with laughter:
The post she meets:—
At home three weeks:
Her lessons makes up after.
Little Girl {who has lost a rubber): "I can't find it." (Wind blows up a "dale"'. "Have von lost something, Miss Gr-b-1?" "Rubber," replied the impertinent little thing as she walked off.
Jura n: Photographer gets Miss Mavity's and Dr. McMurry's pictures mounted on 'Class of '98" cards.
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WRIGHTONIAN GIRLS' BASKET BALL TEAM.
Georgia Elliott, Left Guard. Henrietta Pitts. Right Center. Maud Corson, Right Guard. Daisy White, Left Center. Emma Muthersbaugh, Left Goal. Helen Taylor, Center. Minnie Herrington, RightGoal. Match Game Won by Wrightonians. 24 to 6.
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Ten Little Scorchers
Ten athletic Normal girls formed a club so fine: One lost a wee. wee screw, and then there were nine.
Nine active Normal girls started, for 'twas late:
One tarried before her glass and then there were eight.
Bight good Normal girls were on their way to heaven: One fell off the sidewalk, and then there were seven.
Seven impatient Normal girls would not stop to fix An unfortunate sister's saddle, so that left but six.
Six thirsty Normal girls, their spirits to revive. Stiit one for soda water, and then there were five.
Five frightened Normal girls were afraid the rain would pour:
< >ne of them stopped at a neighbor's house, and then there were four.
Four joyous Normal girls were going on a spree:
One war. lost amid the crowd and then there were three.
These three friendly Normal girls were Lizzie, Bess, and Sue: Lizzie left them for a beau, and then there were two.
Two wear) Normal girls returned at set of sun: One reached home before the other, and that left but one.
One little Normal girl thought she'd have some fun:
She went coasting down the hill, and then there were none.
These same ten Normal girls will the next time keep together; Then won't we have a time enjoying this spring weather!
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UESTIONS.
P. S. — This is not modeled after Sappho's question box.
Where'd the earth come from?
Is it right to wear tan shoes on Sunday?
Has O. J. G-nn-11 found any more white- cap letters while jerking' pumpkins?
Who's authority on the universe? Ans. — Nebular Hypothesis Jones.
How far is it from Normal to Nowhere? Ans. — 0 miles.
Who thinks more of Stout than anyone else?
Ans. — Stout.
Who owns this school?
Who thought he owned it?
Who's a whole joke all to himself? Ans. — Jester.
What is the origin of evil?
How far can a bicyclist ride without getting a punctured tired feeling?
Who's the least conceited, and, judging from the number and intensity of his sighs, the most sorrowful man in school?
N. B — It will be noticed that we have not been able to obtain answers for all these questions.
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PHILADELPH1AN GIRLS- BASKET BALL TEAM.
Mary Wells. Cuard. Lucia Voorhees. Rusher iCaptaim Sue Titterington. Coal Thrower.
Josepha Card. Center. Katharyn Buerkin. Guard
Mary Tolladay, Substitute. Mildred McKinney. Rusher. Gertrude Mills. Coal Thrower.
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+= 7VDYERTISEMENTS-
Lost: A method of recitation; finder please return to president's desk.
Several Hapless Individuals.
Lost: A basket ball game. Next year's Seniors will kindly obtain it from the faculty.
Lost: By the grammar school teach- ers— a base-ball game, also a quantity of cuticle and a little conceit.
Found: On the hustling editor's coat- sleeve in the psychology class, a golden
tress waving in the gentle zephyrs. Does the owner miss it?
Lost: By the Wrightonian ball team — the ball in the grass. Great fun. Home run.
Found: A member of Section A with a good school. If you want to see the curi- osity call at the office.
Wanted: Somebody to put my arm in place. Got it out of place in the physics class. • Dwire.
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HOLLIS HAYES
IDENTIFIGATI0N TABLiE,
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AT FIRST SIGHT. |
BUSINESS |
FAVORITE AMUSE- MENT. |
PET PHRASE. |
SNAP SHUTS |
IN THE PUBLIC EYE. |
WEDDING BELLS. |
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Charles Allen. |
Pretty Young. |
Flush. |
Talking. |
"Well now, see here!" |
On the stair-steps during the fight overcont'st rules |
Big man. |
Cracked. |
Bie i Best day is past |
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J. P. Stewart. |
Flirt. |
Slack. |
Refrain ••Hot Time." |
■'Judas Priest." |
On the bridge at midnight. |
Not so many. |
Clapper < tone |
Ask Braden. Growing old |
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Walter Hougland. |
Sporty. |
Has none. |
Strolling. |
■Well 1 should say so." |
Seeking shelter in the time of storm. |
Girl wanted |
Dinner Gong. |
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E. B. Wickersham. |
Cute. |
Actor. |
Returning from supper the long- est way round. |
Sweet Marie." |
Esmeralda. |
A bluffer. |
Doubtful. |
Vet a boy. Premature. |
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Archie Norton. |
Impres sive. |
Listening to the < lamp- bells coming |
Parlor Politics. |
"O Maggie. ".Moonlight Walks |
Sleepy. |
Ready to King. |
Passable. | Fine fellow. |
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Charles Gott. |
Dignified. |
Unsettled. |
Sleeping. |
"Horrors on top of Horrors." |
On the Porch. |
Fast young m.i ii |
Chiming. |
Just right. |
Not is. but is becoming. |
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Margaret Frank. |
Smasher. |
Indefinite. |
Swinging in the Hammock. |
"You In- dian." |
Did not Develop. |
Jolly |
Listen. |
Fair. |
Frank. |
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D. P. Hollis. |
Tall if not Taller. |
Growing. |
School Law. |
"How am I tor High?" |
Promenading with Haves |
Sky Scraper. |
No Prospects. |
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1 rood time coming. |
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i ,.-.irge Ptingsten. |
Dutchy. |
Dull. |
Ball Playing. |
■Tmpb." |
Broke the Camera. |
Toad. |
Rejected. |
Round. |
Frisky. |
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I!' ~>ie Cowles. |
Charming |
Bankrupt. |
Too Numerous to Mention. |
"O. go off." |
Same as Wickersham. |
She'll do. |
Rope broke. |
O.K. |
Young. but promising. |
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Walter R. Jones. |
President of the i.'niv rsitv |
Critic. |
Fiddling. |
•It's this way." |
Entertains Presi- dent Draper at Champaign. |
Discount ii.V . |
Pot metal. |
Can't be meas- ure! in feet and inches. |
Precocious. |
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Helen Taylor. |
Good Natured. |
Political Economy. |
Committee Work |
"Goodness me." |
Get it of Allen. |
Pleasing. |
Uncertain. |
Large for her age. |
Brilliant Future. |
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Charles Myall. |
Cholly Boy. |
President of Boards. |
Cake Walk. |
■ O. Dear:" |
With Miss H-t-n at Basket-ball Game. |
Easy. |
Can't say. |
Portly. |
Handle with care. |
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Henrietta Pitts. |
Meek. |
Retired. |
Oratorical Board |
"You don't Say!" |
Same as Helen Taylor. |
Coy. |
Most any Time. |
Not too large. |
A Belle. |
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Alfred Eustice. |
Whole Alphabet. |
Public Speaking |
No time for |
■Why. why." |
Under the Elec- tric Light |
Suspicious. |
Sames as Jones. |
Large for a boy. |
A jay. |
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Alice Watson. |
Nice. |
Thinking. |
Fishing. |
"Did you ever?" |
Failed to get it. |
All right. |
In the dis- tant Future |
So. so Irresistible |
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Which proof did John Stewart prefer, and why?
"Might as well lead her o\ er by the car." i Mr. Edwards toWickershara, while train- ing the company.)
Tell this youth what 'tis to love.
Melville rushes into Elliotfs room in despair.— "For heaven's sake, Elliott, show me how to hold a girl !"
Professor Manchester says he heard on good authc rity that that Wrightonian play u as spoony.
Some of Mr. Edwards' directions in drilling for certain effective scenes in Es- meralda showed great experience along certain line-..
Mr. Wickersham is heard to declare that this is positively his last appearance be- fore the American public.
Some hills that wen- ordered paid after the play was over:
Wrightonian Society to Charles A. Myall, Dr.
Flowers $ .65.
Kouge 25.
Street car tickets 25.
Whiskers !!.">.
Total $1.40.
Wrightonian Society to John P. Stewart, Dr.
To flowers. J doz S .50.
To mustache 1">.
To car tickets -•">.
To powder -'>.
To car tickets for Mies Watson '±~>.
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Pf x (to Miss Lyons): Say. I wan* to see you in the office a moment about two very important things.
Miss Lyons: Well, what are they?
Mr. Pf N: Don'tyou think Wrightonia ought to have a girl for president next term? Etc., etc.
Mi-- Lyons: Well, what's the other?
Mr. Pf— n: 0 -ah— there's a dance at the hall tonight— etc. !
We have received information from re- Liable sources that Mi>- Lyons, for some reason, Lacked one vote of becoming presi- dent.]
Nebular Bypothesis Jones (to Wake- land, the benedict) "Lend me your mug to >ha\ e."
Wakeland, the B. -"Shave your own muer."
At the Grind — (Mr. Graigmile introdxw.es Mr. Braden to Jive girls I:
First Girl : So there arc two Mr. Bra- dens in school?
Mr. 15.: My name is Pahnestock.
At the Wright Election — (Ballots hav- ing been cast for two candidates): Anxious Inquirer: Which one will be
elected — the one who gets the majority or the one who gets the most?
YOUNG Lady (To Mr. Edxcards at dance): Are you enjoying the evening? Mr. E. : Alter a fashion. Young Lady: And the fashion?
MR. K. : Well, I've been a wallflower 'most too much to suit me.
Miss VOORHEES — ( Quotes H<>i> Burdette as she thinks): Of making many books there is no end.
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sSoME POSTOFFICE sStATISTICS.
Number of letters received per day for students 96
Number of student calls on P. M. Brown, per day 27,397
Average No of letters for each student:
Including Stewart's letters from Elgin 1 in (5 days
Not including Stewart's letters from Elgin L in 10 days
Average weight of letters:
Including those received by Stewart 1 oz
Not including those received by Stewart | oz
Number of times Illinois Central morning mail was late in one year 365
Number of holidays — office closed .All possible
Number of valentines sent — to Miss Branton 1
Number of applications for positions sent out by students 1687
Number successful • • ;!,V,
(The } is Doud.)
Number of Vidette duns sent out 441
Number effective — ask Stewart.
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HOUGH the secret has been guarded with great care and painstak- ing', it has been discovered that some of the boys of the school have formed what is known to them as The Tight Wad Society. The meeting to organize was held in the bowling alley of the gym- nasium, on the 7th day of January. This place was chosen on account of its unused character, and because no artificial light was necessary, as the orb of night lent her pale beams free of charge. The members disposed themselves in a free and easy manner on the bowling pins, and were soon ready for the work of organiza- tion. As the originator and promoter of the scheme, Mr. Mize acted as temporary chairman. He stated the object of the meeting as follows: "Breth- ren CellerFlitazens, I have viewed with consternation the ruthless expenditure of money upon lecture and concert tickets by some of the senior members of this school, and be- lieve some means should be taken to check the spread of this pernicious influence. It is deemed advisable by some of the wiser and cooler heads to prevent the unmitigated, un- sophisticated members of this institution from indulging in a similar extravagance. We will proceed to the active work of organization by electing a president. Nominations are now in order." Mr. George Pfingsten rose with becoming dignity and gravity from the ten pins upon which he had been gracefully poised, and spoke as follows: "Mr. Chair- man and Fellow Tight Wads, (hem, hem,) I — ah rise to present for your consideration — ah, the name of a gentleman whom all will allow, has — ah the necessary qualifications —
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ali of a ruling officer for this body (hem, hem.) It will ah be unnecessary for me ah to alt men t ion more than two instances of the gentleman's economy t<» convince all of his fitness for the place (hem.) Ah during the football season he was arranging to visit a lady friend in Galesburg, when, by a happy chance, he heard that the Norma] team were to play a game with Knox 'hem. hem.) It dashed upon him like an inspiration ah that here was a chance to combine the tender passion and economy, if he wen- but a member of the team. Through the influence of friends he secured the position of substitute with the team and he visited his friend without expending ah one cent of the legal tender of the realm ah. Not Long since he borrowed Ralph Guerber's hand-sled and took two of his lady friends sleigh-riding up and down Ash street." (A murmur of intense enthusiasm rose at this juncture, i Solemnly advancing to the center of the room and raising both hands in supplication to the moon. Mr. Pfingsten proceeded: "Gentlemen, I have the ah honor of presenting for your admiration the name of Mr. James Young." (Loud applause from the bowling pins i Mr. ( Iraigmile controlled his emotions long enough to move that the nomi- nations be closed. 'The mot ion was seconded, carried, and Mr. Young elected by acclama- tion. With modest blushes mantling his brow, Mr. Youhg emerged from an obscure corner of the loom and carefully seated himself upon the bowling pins vacated by Mr. Mize Mr. Martin and Mr. Webster were unanimously elected to the respective positions of vice- president and secretary.
A committee consisting of Mr. Pairchild, Mr. Burner, Mr. Dillon, and Mr. Rape had been appointed to draft a constitution, but had disagreed except upon one provision, which is given below :
No member of this society shall buy (lowers or candy for a girl. If any member is proved guilty of this offense, he shall pay a fine of not more than five dollars."
Mr. McDonald objected to this strongly, saying: "This measure seems to me almost Spanish in its tyranny and oppression. I have been keeping up a correspondence with a young lady by means of candy hearts; they are much sweeter missives than anything I
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can write. Then the sentiments on them are always so apt and fitting. I must withdraw from the order if this measure carries."
Mr. Sullivan seconded these remarks and the motion carried to consider candy-hearts as hilh t-doux.
Mr. Doud moved that all letters to girls be sent to girls C.O.D. If this was impos- sible in a case where several boys wrote to one girl, all the letters should go in one envelope, and thus save postage. Mr. Bullock enthusiastically cried, '"Them's my senti- ments, too."
Mr. Braden rose, and with tears in his voice, implored the president to appoint a guard to protect him for fear some of these Norma I girls "would rope him in." The pres- ident appointed as evening and night guard, Messrs. Flentje, J. Q. Adams. George Wil- son. Waterman, Prank Hayes, and Luke. The following are to serve only during day functions, as it is contrary to their custom to be absent from their rooms after 7 P. M. : J. P. Stewart. Harmon Waits, Noah Young. Archie Norton, and Branch Taylor.
Names of new members were now submitted. The application of Mr. Edwards was considered at some length. He was finally refused admittance on the testimony of one of the charter members, who stated that Prof. Edwards had already gone with forty- seven ,^'irls, by actual count, and such an example was to he deplored. Mr. Stine, reduced to tears by this ruling, rose to a point of order. At this instant the moon went down and meeting had to adjourn, and the point of order could not receive a hearing.
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1. Mrs. Riggs and Miss Wilmer make a dicker on geometry work. The page of originals was worth more, however.
2. As usual. Dickerson remarks to Crocker, at 6:30 ]>. m.: '"I neglected to get a girl
to go to the Lecture with me tonight; but I'll now have room for my coat and hat.
3. Professor McCormick makes an appeal at the end of morning exercises: "How many loyal Wrightonian gentlemen are there here? Please rise.*" Of course half the boys rise. "Now follow me and clear off the stage in Normal Hall, please.*'
1. Faculty -Senior basket-ball game. Score. 11 to 8 in favor of tin- 11. Base-ball game will even things up.
5. Miss Rickards sends a telegram and yets it back. bf ^^ ■ \ \~*v\ 6. Crocker makes his fifteenth evening trip to Blooraington
to church, with Miss \\ hr-ng r. A friendly old gentleman be- comes interested in the couple, and after asking C. all his family history, business, etc., says, '"And this lady -this is Mrs. Crocker'.-" It is said ('. was so rude that he never an- svt ered.
7. Mrs. Riggs informs Mr. Felmley that geometry isn't the whole thing that it isn't customary to cut sunbonnets by geo- metrical methods.
8. (a) Stewart receive- a letter from Elgin. (&) Miss Travis and Mr. Urban are seen communicating in the hall.
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9. Mr. Wynd, in phosiology dissection, discovers why a gentleman walks on the right side of a lady— because the right half of the heart is thinner. Miss Morse assists in the discovery.
10. (a) Young lady tells Branch Taylor how she would have liked to be Dora in the scene from David Copperfield. (&) Mr. Dawson and Miss H -rr-ngt-n go skating through the mud.
11. Misses Muthersbaugh, Spalding, and Drobisch go to the cake-walk on children's tickets.
12. Wickersham and Miss H-tch-r feast at 10 p. m. on pie at Hotel de Hobb. Wick finds he has only five cents to settle with.
14. President Cook reads notice at general exercises: "All young ladies belonging to any one — [long pause, and embarrassment, amidst prolonged applause] Oh, yes, — to any one of the committees," etc.
15. Stewart receives another letter.
16. St-n- rakes St-w-rt over the coals for "trying to cut him out."
17. For the third time in the last three days, Barth spends an evening with Miss H-g-n.
18. (a) Professor Felmley predicts clear weather; is seen half an hour later going down town with an umbrella. (&) Miss T. and Mr. U. in the hall, (c) Melville gets his dance program too full.
19. (a) Barth spends an evening out. {b) At the entertainment Fred Baker gets his long arm around two chairs instead merely of the one in which his seat mate, Mr. Bright, is sitting.
21. (a) The inimitable Barth again. (&) Stout makes the remarkable discovery that the sun at noon is 3Q lower than on the preceding day.
22. Basket-ball game. Larocque performs the remarkable feat of making one goal out of twenty-three throws.
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23. («) Stewart's Letter one -lay late. (0 Seniors raid the library for pedagogical
Lt24.aGott takes his girl to the opera and the people all turn their opera glasses on her for her beauty. So says Mr. Gott.
•>-, Miss Florence l» Us forgets that a certain young man ls to call. She reports to her parents at 9:30, however, a pleasant evening, but that the young professor is "somewhat unsophisticated,
26 Overheard at the opera: "Whose fault was it that you and Miss W. came lata to-nio-htr Mr. P-k-: "The blamed old car's;-we ran as hard as we could.
27. MissVoorhees who received 69 per cent in Cicero): "I don't care; [ carried it the highest of those who flunked, anyhow."
28. Miss Bertram has a flashlight picture taken and misses her tram. i".i Stewart's letter a day ahead.
30. Miss Monroe writes from home to Mr. E.: "Hunt up the Index men and get me one " Mr. E. didn't do it. however.
31. Professor McCormick gets one of Henry's letters; knows it isnt intended for him,
bv the salutation.
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1. Prof. McC. has an experience.
2. Found a bell under our chair— made things
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3. Mr. Dwire gets lost while strolling in the north part of town. Miss W. shows him the road home.
5. (a) Elgin budget heavy to-day. (b) Messrs. Eastwood and Bumgarner treat the Misses Wells, Dawson, and Fairchild to "all-da}' suckers" for making their chemistry aprons, (c) Crocker reads the riot act to the election clerk and judges.
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7. Barth. Stiue returns — has been elected assessor of "Possum Glory."
8. Barth ought to be put under the pump.
11. Miss Hartman sees three couples spoon- ing in the lower hall, and leaning against the doorpost of Room 11, moans plaintively, "won't some one talk to me?"
12. Miss T. and Mr. U. in the hall.
13. Ditto.
14. Prof. Manchester hides his book of oral exercises in German to keep the class from inspecting it, and forgets where he put it.
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15. I 'rot. Cavins decides not to go to war. since it is his duty to roll and not t<> march.
16. Miss Wright beats her way to Bloomingtori.
17. Hollis decides Dot to march shoulder to shoulder with Haves.
L8. Miss S. recites in chemistry "a burning match was then held at the mouth of the test tube and the match flamed up and burned aloud.-'
19. Prof. Manchester has a "better word." but can't think of it.
I'm. d/i Prof. McCormick cautions the oratorical soliciting committee to make it known that they wish free entertainment lor visiting delegations. (6) 1'res. Cook's birth- day. Serenade.
21. (a) Prof. Manchester wants to know if any one has a copy of an old legend — his "fish problem." (6) Readhimer tells the boys how they digest yellow-fever germs in Lou isiana, and gives the war excitement in Normal quite a boom.
22. (a) Graybill settles the spelling question at genera] exercises. (6) Arbor Day. Misses Elliott and Beattie and .Mr. Carpenter spend 30 minutes in the postoffice, waiting for it to open.
23. Miss Helen Wells begins to wear white. What's the significance?
24. Miss Hamilton assures Mr. Young that she has never found the right one yet.
25. Barth joins in singing "How Can I Leave Thee?" with great fervor.
L'i'i. Whole town goes to see the soldier boys at Springfield. Craigmile, Jim Young, and Sparks are held up and told how to salute the flag.
27. Miss Mavity threatens to throw her baton at the oratorical chorus.
28. <"> Esmeralda scrap. (6) Prof. McCormick- finishes the creation, beating the tra- ditional record by three days.
i".'. Esmeralda rehearsal. Dave Hardy hasn't shaved. Hard on Esmeralda. 30. Mr. Porden i> looking for some one to accompany him to Pocatello, Idaho A lady preferred. Mr. Forden says this is no joke.
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1. Crocker and D. agree at 6 p.m. to ask two certain iiirls to go to church with them. D. starts first to secure his prize. Twenty minutes later C. comes up and finds D. march- ing up and down before the house longingly eyeing the windows, afraid to go in. I), has
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"concluded not to go to church," but two hours Later is seen on a street car alone, com ing from church at 1 1.
2. Misses Snell, Lyons and Wright go on a ribbon-hunting expedition.
:;. Ditto get transfers for half a block.
1. Miss O. discovers an "M" after her name on the record hook- Nearly faints, but finds out afterwards that it means "Music carried."
:.. Several Normalites witness the basket-ball game.
6 i '< mtest. Sunflowers.
7. M,-. 11 pp] and Miss L w s visit the Lincoln monument.
8. A "sighing swain" heard from. "Well, Miss R . I'm sorry to leave you in tears." Miss R. -"It's better to be left in tears than never to be left at all."
9. Prof. Manchester explains at great length the vowel difference in "Unit 'and -knot." Misses Snell. Putnam and Watson write in their note-books, "nit" and "not."
10. President Cook- is gone. Faculty Club have a cake-walk" and hoe down.
18. Sudden -lump of silver bullion in the psychology class. Ask Miss Wright about it.
1 117. Colleague editor -one. Wish he'd come back- and do the work.
18. Class screechers selected.
19. Miss Ch ken walks down the hall with Miss Edwards. Miss C. stops to talk. Miss E. proceeds. Miss C. finishes her conversation, grasps a neighbbring hand, and walk- on. Ask Urban if it wasn't embarrassing.
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20. Bruce Bright speaks in Model Senate -"President Dole, at the head of a band of in- surgents, got up a resurrection in Hawaii."
21. Trip to Mackinaw Dells. Mize catches the first rish, but it falls into an anthole and is lost. Misses Mills, Fristoe, et ah see a cow somewhere on the dim horizon and flee in wild stampede to yet through the wire fence, where they tear their mackintoshes to shreds.
23. Find something suspicious on Pike's coat-sleeve.
L'7. Derivation class discovers that the louse is a Teutonic institution.
28. Champaign excursion; Gott et a/., ex- pect to dance, but don't.
30. Miss Hartmanu lectures her algebra class.
31. Miss Cowles takes a ride —sends her regrets to the serenading party.
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1. Mis> P. goes out for a ride. The next day Miss C s says, "Who was that armed gentleman yon were buggy-riding with last evening, if it's any of my busin Mi-.^ P. -"He wasn't one-armed. The other arm was around somewhere."
2. Miss T. and Mr. U. not in the hall today!! Oh, yes, Miss T. is gone after a scl
3. Branch Taylor carries 135 pounds of humanity across the muddy street. The periness of the walk-, however, brings Miss R — d — to grief anyway.
I. Emilie desires to captivate a duke.
."•. Found tins written in tin- back of a .senior boy's Harris:
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And much I fear 1 shall unluck-\ be."
Then murmured she.
"A Bhore I'll be:
('nine. rest, thy journey o'er."
Then darkness fell.
And all was well.
for the ship had hugged the shore.
6. Mr. I'il Icn asleep again in the algebra class. So >ays Miss EL
7. 1> n's umbrella has an adventure. ■
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8. Mr. Cook decides be doesn't want Mr. Gavins any longer — he's long' enough now.
9. Faculty-Senior baseball game. Faculty pitcher under the influence of a hypnotic glance from a Wright eye in the crowd.
LO. The office devil's girl arrived today. We can't get any more work out of him. 11. Reception to Section A. How sad to think that although there were only one- third as many boys as girls to go, still several, as a matter of fact, "got it in the neck."
12. (a) Mr. A. gives Miss C. an in-
troduction to Mr. Martin. "Oh, yes." says Miss O. "I've heard often of the formidable Mr. Martin."
(&) Criticism essays written today- must go in tomorrow.
13. Melville draws a map of South America. One of Mrs. McMurry's lit- tle tots thinks it is a picture of a cat's tail.
14. Philbrook comes iuto promi- nence.
16. Mr. B — d — n, who is trying to wrest his knife from a young lady in as- sembly room, is accosted by Miss Colby: "Mr.B — d-n,do you always hold a young lady's hand when you are talking to her?"
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18. The Index editors leave town, for the publication appears today.
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INDEX PERPETRATORS.
Walter F. Pike. A. B. Wolfe
Clara M. Snell. Hvatt E. Covey.
Joseph Bumgarner. Emilie B. Wright
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Morse, Belen s Shawneetown
Ruhl, Ad.i Myrtle Clinton
Washburn, Emma , . . Bloomlngton
Coley. Charles I) Oakland
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Johnston, Elizabeth Jane Uliopolls Johnston, Gertrude. Ft. Smith, Ark.
Kerr, Fannie Ro>>\ llle
King. Anna T Olney
Love, Mary Jean Elida
Lovering, Harriet M .Assumption McKlnney, Bern Ice. ..Assumption McWherter, Mary E "-orpnto
N'eu. Elizabeth Augusta.... Pana
. Isidore Alice Ciinton
Peck, Lora Bell Sterling
Regenold, Mabel Zoe Floi id
Sea nlan. Lena G . . . . Bioomington Schempp, Bertha. .Troy Grove Schneider, Mary Lizzie. . .Elburn Simmons, Jessie Josephine . Joetta Sitherwood, Grace. . . Bioomington Stapleton, A I borta F . . Assumption
Stoutenburg, Nellie It Rankin
Taylor, Helen Mary. .Bioomington Trimble, Mary Lillian . Treraont
Voorhees, Lucia I Wyoming
Walton. Aliee l'erle. . .Griggsville
Wells, Helen Parson HI win
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Wise, Anna Joliet
Wiseman. EvaC Camargo
Young, Orace Harriet. . . Hillsboro
Ackert, Earl Wilder Harmon
Allen, Charles Henry Oconee
Barger, Thomas Morse. . .Normal
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Greenough, Charles W .. . Yuton Gunhell, Orvllle James .. Normal Hayes. Frank Crawford. Camden
Hess. Ardie Durward Pearl
Hi no's. Rohert Pollock. , . .Normal Hummel, \daru Albert .Roberts
Johnston. Mil ford L Bioomington
Jones. Wallace F Wyoming
Jones, Walter Royal . . Kankakee McCormlck, Henry G. Normal
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MacGufBn, Ra'ph D. . . Llbertyvllle McKlnney, John H . . . Assumption McMurry, Karl Franklin, Normal Marquis, Chi ster I) Bioomington Martin. Myron S. , , .Green Valley
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Morgan, John Williams.. Dawson
Morgan, Ora s Hampshire
Morrel), John Finley Perry
Mya I, Charles A Oak Park
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Perry, Wilson James Melvin
Pfingsten, George F Mlllstadt
Readhimer, Jerome E Saline
Reece, Jolm s Cruger
Reecber, Samuel E Coleta
Smith, Charles H Metamora
Stewart. Frank oblong
Stewart, John Pogue. . . Biggsville
Stine, John Carl Assumption
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Athons, Sadie C Decatur
Augustine, Ora May Normal
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Baldwin. Delia I. , Crystal Lake Baldwin, Letta May . . Bloomington
Harr. Mabel Frankfort, Ind.
Barton, Lizzie Gardner
Beardsley, Emma E.,Prophetstown
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Bosworth, Lucy Adella. .Evanston
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Hoy n ton, Elmyra [da.. Prairie City Bracey, Elizabeth M Low Point Branton, Mary Alice. .Council Hill
Briggs, Fleta Agatha Minier
Bright, Bernlce Alena. .. .Normal
Brooks, Cornelia Aurora
Brown, Edith Bloomington
Bruce, Alice Beason
Buerkin, K'atharyn .1 Qulncy
Bullock, Agnes I rene Eureka
Bullock, Florence W Eureka
Buss, Berth a Lueila Lena
I imery, Nellie Paris Henry
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Champion, Marie Normal
Chapman Delia Virginia ..El Paso
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O'Fallon
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Cook, Lorena Pair view
C'ronln. Anna Assumption
Crouch, Virginia F Rozetta
Damert, Harriet Cora Lena
Dennis. Myrtle Minier
Dewhirst, Mrs. Alta.... Passport
Dletz, Clara La Salle
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Dillon, Mertie May Normal
Dobbin. Anna Mercy Aurora
Dole, Kthel Mary Manteno
Donohue.Anastacia, Spring Valley
Drobisch, Alice W Decatur
Ebersol, Marlon M Aurora
Elliott. Winifred Grace. .. Decatur Emerson. Mary Wood, Bloomington
Entler. Tillle .May Decatur
Ewen, Ada E-ther Lockport
Ewing, Jennie B....New Windsor
Fairchild. Myrtle F Danville
Findley, Rosana May . . . Oquawka Fisher, Orpha Salome . . . .Roanoke
Fisk, Edith May Lyndon
Fristoe, Sidney Belle Melvin
Fritter, Clara Theresa. . Monticello
Fritter, Edna E Monticello
Fuller. Prances Gracla. . Evanston
Gard, Josepha New Canton
( iarwood, Anna Sabina I pa va
Gibbs, Anna Maud Lyndon
Cilia n, Anna Marion . .Wellington
Gilmer, Lucy Walker Qulncy
Godwin, Alice Pleasant Hill
Graham, Ella Rock Island
Grantvedt, Jennie Mary ... Austin Griffith, Mabel Frances. . .Rankin Gr Is wold, Florence. . .Springfield Grubel, Mollie Ellene . . . Decatur
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llackett. Georgia Harper
Bagan, Emma Mary Tampico
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Hamilton, Mary Orace Malta
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llarpole, Emma Carml
Hatcher, Ida May Qulncy
Hawkins. Anna TamarOB
Haynes, Elizabeth C, Bloomington
Hays. Mayine Maude Bement
Harrington, Minnie Brim Meld
Hess, Etutha Blanche Milton
Hill, Anne Ophelia Qulncy
Hol I later, Grace Loda
II or ton, Mary L niisa II or ton
Hummel, Sarah Matilda Roberts
Hunter. Mrs. Ed a Normal
Hussey, Halcvone Belle
Willlamsville
, lack son. Alice E Aurora
.1 ackson, Olive Ruth . . . Champaign Jacob, Mrs. E. L,, Pioneer. Wash.
Johnson. Beulah V Chicago
Johonnott, Nellie Richmond
.lone-. Jennie May Pawpaw
Kiick, Esther Katharine. Lai ham
King, Mabel Hall Elgin
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McCrea, Edith B Creston
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Ma or, Birdie Walnut
Mai. n. Prances Bonnel. ..Danville
Mark-. ' eloa Edith Peru
Marshall, Jessie W., McLeansboro
Martin. Blanche 11 Winslow
Merle, Prances Rock Island
Myers, Alice C. . .Florence station M yers, Wilhelmlna Adrienne
Florence station Miller, Adelaide J. . . .Crystal Lake Miller, Margaret C... . Manteno Miller. Thena Ellen Tuscola
Mill-, Edna Gertrude, Clear Creek Mills. May Catherine . . . Kenney
Mix, Lida Belle Oregon
Moore, Mary olive. Pleasant Hill
Morgan, Mattie Oconee
Morris, Daisy Alice Leroy
Morse, Zoa Bertha Gilmer
Mossman, Edith Lena ....Normal Moyer, Verna Alberta. . .Saybrook Muller, Marie. .Arlington Heights Mnthersbaugh, EmmaM. Decatur
-. Blanche Mc< Drmick
Rockford
O'Brien, Julia Josephine Elva
< Ichelt ree, Mabel Homer
Fay I. "la Keithsburg
Oxley, Mary Del I ma . Centralla
r - ■ » 1 1 . Maude Elma . . Pearl Pease, Edith Augusta Latham
Peeler, Lizzie B Normal
Pfeil, Mary Esther Arenzville
Florence I-;. i; o imlngton Poff, Mary Louise Chestnut
Porter, Eliza Wolfe, Bloomlngton
Porter, Nellie Bloomlngton
Potter, Effie Xtmena Rockford
l'o.vell, Ellen Gertrude Bowen
Putnam, Helen C, Pleasant Plains
< jii i izu. Etta Grace Minler
Rdtekln, Lola Delle. . .Swan Creek Record, Carrie Ambler. . . Decatur
IJeeder. 1 1 race Normal
Rengel, Elizabeth E Danvers
Renshaw, Jennie Table Grove
Richards, Prances R . . Evanston liohert-. Ellen Lois. ... Vates City
Ross, Elizabeth E Savbrook
Rundle. Phyllis Delle Loda
Ryan, Elizabeth. . ..Bloomlngton
Schlek, Cbrlstena Mokena
Schneider, Louise I). . Bloomlngton Schroeder, Frieda A.. Blonmiiiizton
Seeley, Helen E Littleton
Selleck, Mary Camilla. . . Buckley
shearer, Lelah Woodstock
Sktllln, Florence B.... Oak Park
Skinner. Blanche A Normal
Smith. Kate Belle Lilly
Sprecher, Elizabeth E Lanark
Stansbury, Etta I) Brfrafield
Steep. Maude Winifred ... Morris
Stephens, Lellah Dixon
Stoner, Effie May Henrj
Stuart. Alia Grant Oreana
Swingley, Lida Louise. .Rockford
Thorpe, Luella May Normal
Tilsy. Carrie Alpine
Tit te ring ton. Susan. .Rock Island
Tjardes, [da May Saybrook
Tobey, Lltta Decatur
Todd, Henrietta Mason.. Sterling
Tregellas, Effie Ada L. . . . Astoria
Turner, Gladys • < Iconee
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Wall I. Nettie May Sterling
Warner, Marguerite A Rockford Warrick. Emma Sablna. La Salle
Waterman. I lara M Verona
Wat kins, Genorah Newman
Watson, Edith May Ranevllle
Webber, Helen Holder
Webster, Nellie Grace, Woodland
Wells, < Jertrude Winnebago
Wheeler. 11 at lie Mae Normal
Wheeler. Mary Freeport
White, Daisy I\ . . Stillman Valley White, Maria Elizabeth. .Roseville Whlttaker, Sadie olive. .Earlville
Williams, Mary B Yorkville
Wilson. Estella May Set or
Wilson, Lucy Naomi De Land
Witt. Maria Irene Vlrden
Woltman. Helena 0. Neeper, Mo. Woods. Ida Blanche Waterman
WyckotT. Irene Bessie Harrlstown
Young. Adelaide II Hillshoro
Young, Anna Lou. . .Sidney, N.Y.
Adams. Oscar Scott Land
Anient. Wilbur Frank Kings
Arnett, .lames H. .New Vienna, 0. Ash worth, Ralph W Mattoon
Baker, Frederick A. .. West Union
Rassler, Herman Forsyth
Bunnell, Clarence Tavlorvllle
Kraden. Behring E Beard sdale
Bullock. Forrest Minor.. .Eureka Burner, Clarence Alva . Normal Capen, Bernard c. . .Bloomlngton
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Cavlns, Stanley Thomas. . Mat toon Conard. James Stiles. Montlcello ( Iralgmlle, Alexander II l rifford Baton, Charles David ... Normal Edmunds. Ernest Edwin Normal
Fahnestock, Fred Wanda
Falrchlld, James A. L.. Warren ton
Gale, KM Pike Aurora
i .mi ey, Elbert < Gardner
Green, Joseph Wilson Braidwood llilyard, Borace Mann. .Waterloo Hippie. Elmer James Waterman Hougland, Walter Cook's Mills
Bultgren, Elmer F Woodhull
Jackson, John W. . Buffalo 1 1 art Jacob, William J . . Pioneer, Wash.
Kennell, John J .u'cil) Morton
Klaas, Lewis Henry Hinckley
Kofold, Reuben Normal
Livingston, Samuel William. Poag
Luke. Edward Danville
Miner, Thomas Daniel. .. .Quigley Nail, William Franklin. ..Butler
Otto, Frederick W. A Melvin
Prlngle, Maurice Franklin. Kappa Schneider, Christian E Peoria
Sparks. Claude G Mackinaw
Spear, Barry George. .. . Bismark
Stout, Henry Field Fairview
Taylo, Myron DeWltt. . .Saybrook Taylor. Samuel M. . .Bloomlngton
Virtue, Ira Sankey Elizabeth
Waterman, Wl bur Ernest Verona Webster, I leorge Omar. . . Nokomls Wlckersham, Ellis Bert..Rosevllle Wight, Ambrose B . . . Way nesville
Wilson, Rufus Edgar Bingham
Students
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Albert -on, Dorothy A una ... IVk in
Anderson, Lola Belle Mama
Arundale, Mary Ellen. .Bradford
Ashworth, Berta Mattoon
Babcock, I, aura E Aurora
Barth, Mary Elizabeth. .Wyoming Barth, Nevada Oella. . .Chrlstman
Bartlett, olive Etushville
Beats, Jessie Eliza. Chicago
Bean, Mary Adeline Fairfield
Bear, Jennie Rees roetta
Beatly, Sadie Bstelle. . Howard Be k, Mabelle Grace. ... De Land Benthuysen, Daisy Dell .. Nunda
lert'h, Lillie May Wyanet
Berkler, Ada Louelda. . . . Argenta
Bernsl . Mary C Bloomlngton
Be\ an, Luella McLean
Biebl, ' lertrude A Camargo
Black, Jessie Mary (Ween Valley
Black, Minnie Oreen Valley
Block i lara Adelheid Pekfn
I'.orneman, Anna II Mt. Palatine
Who Have Completed Less
Bos worth, Helen F Evanston
Boyd. Myrtle May Panola
Boyle. Nellie Irene Rochelle
Branson, Edna Lucretia.Vermont
Brennan, Lizzie Dal ton City
Brehneman, Ella J Hopedale
Bricker, Pearl Eddeth Normal
Brooks, Genevra . .New Windsor Brown. Elizabeth Anne. .Woodson Brown, Minnie R . . .Bloomlngton
Bruce. Francis Pearl Beason
Buffett, Harriet .lane Dixon
Bunney, Lizzie May. . .Belleflower Burnett, Marian W .... Tamarack Burns, Nellie Francis San Jose
Bnrtis. Pearl Edna 11 udson
Byers, Lena Ross Altona
Cameron. Rachel C \-hley
Carlisle, Edna Dean... Chauncey
Carlson, Anna Cecilia Altona
Case, Clara May loliet
i lass, Mattle Bloomlngton
Church. Ida Estelle McLean
Clancy, Nellie 9 Bloomlngton
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Clark, (.race Darling Piano
Claypool, Oral Belle GIbsoa
Cllthero, Addle Viola Ma/.on
Conger, Ethel Margaret. .Fletcher
Copp. Sarah Felicia Waterloo
Coriel), Ada L Normal
Corman, Florence M. Bloomlngton
Corson, Bstelle Pearl Normal
Cory. Edna Butler
Cowden, Mary B. , , Worth. Penn,
Cryer, Minnie Turner Covell
Daniel. Laura A Belleville
Davis. Mary Priscilla De Land
Dawson, Lois Lacona ..Scott Land
Dearth. Ilattie Mae El I'aso
De Groot, Bertha Alice. .Augusta
Den ham. Pearl Blooming ton
Desper. Ida Mae La Salle
Deverell. Marianna Decatur
Dickey. Ida Catharine. . .Fairfield
Dow us. Chloe Downs
Duffv, Kate Havana
Duncan. Caroline E Altona
Durant, Edith Katherine. Chicago
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Eaton. Hattle May Normal
Blckhoff, Emma Si.... Rldgefield Eld red, Battle Bolton. .Gardner Ellis, Frances Grattan , . Gl fiord
Estes, M yrtle lay Beason
Etling, Ella Kate Floravllle
; nk. Maude Farmer City
Fahrney, Flon ace K . G ineva
Farmer, Josephine May Patoka
Ferguson, Edith P .Blooinlngton
gerald, Mary K East St. Louis
• raid, Sadie .1 [vesdale
Ford. Nellie Ellen Hopedale
Fort, Bstelle May Keriney
Fulton, Maude Muller Ashland Gaffoey, Sarah Adelaide. Ilartland Gallant, Minnie Lillian Lewi-ton Ganter, Emma Frieda. .Ploravllle
i . ird. Lydla Kmderhook
Geuther, Bertha E Mokena
i - i M. . UloomingtoD Gideon. Flora Belle Clinton
n, Alice Rebecca Normal
i I , eta M le Low Point
Goodwin, Lottie Pleasant Hill
M Innie B . . Remington, Ind.
Graeflf, Henrietta E Paw Paw
< .ray. Eleanor Coa tsburg
i. ray. Evelynn Mae .. Sireator
' rray, Lillian C istsburg
Gray, Mattie Agnes Forrest
Greer, Sarah Evanston
■ rv. Emma Normal
Griffith, Nellie Rankin
Griswold, Emma Cerro Gordo
i Irubb, Anna Mac Payson
Hall. Eva Robinson , Easl Lynn
Harrington, Bessie Normal
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Hansen, Minnie A Franklin Grove
Hayden, Mary K Blootnington
Heath, Ora Mae White Heath Heller, Gertrude Viola, , , Benson
Hemdon, Frances ('. I . . Tazewell Herrlngton, Cora E. . Bloom inn ton
Heslin, Alice A«nes Elgin
Hester, June Say brook
Hlckey, Kate Hudson
Hiltabrand, Lulu Jessie. . . . Henry Ilinners, Gertrude Emily. . . Pekiu
Hinshaw, Hattte Sue Danvers
Hlnsbaw, Lettie May.. ..Woodruff
Hlnson, Olive Estella Cisco
Holder, Ella Normal
lloman. Lmy Fanchion. .Cramers
Hook, Mrs. ( >ra K Lewlstown
Hopkins. Bessie L Dec at ur
llussev. Pearl C Wllllamsvllle
Hutch ins. Minnie M. ..West Salem
Jack, Edith Farmington
Jackson, Marguerite 10... Minonk
James, Blanche Normal
Jefferles, Beatrice M . . .. La Moille
Jeffries, Bertha Pleasant Hill
John, Sarah Maud Woodland
Johnston, Nina May Hudson
Jones, Alta May Kankakee
rones, Neva Clara Tarupico
Kauble, Nora P. . . Last St. Louis Kellev, K'athryn Frances. . Aurora
Kelly. Anna Myrtle Fisher
Kelly, Milchrlat DeEtte. . . .Galva