Western Oregon University - Yearbook (Monmouth, OR)

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1921 THE NORM labor it requires' MISS MAY LEVIS Assistant to Dean The Spirit of the Oregon Normal-who can say what it is? We can only feel its influence and see what it does. Each outgoing class leaves it as a sacred trust to the one taking its place. It is a composite of effort of many phases and from wide ly different sources. To it we feel that The Norm is no small contributor, and to the staff who worked so faithfully to make it what it is we extend this word of appreciation. --May Levis. MISS ALABAMA BRENTON Department of Art The less heart a man puts into a task, the more Alabama Brenton

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26 THE NORM 1921 MR. L. P. GILMORE Department of Science A note to The Norm-just anythingg those are my orders. It sounds easy, doesn't it. Yet how void one's mind when he searches for anything . No poem I might submit would be worth printingg nor am I in the habit of formulating witty and trite sayings. Hence I desbencl to the commonplace which seems to be my realm and say that if this Norm Staff continues its work in the quiet business- like manner in which it began, its achievement will be worthy of the student body for which it speaks-among the Oregon Normal School's best. So here's to you in your worthy endeavorg may you never be satisfied short of your best. -L. B, Gilmore. Miss LAURA J. TAYLOR ' Department of Health and Physical Education ' For several years past it has been my pleasure to take this opportunity to help perpetuate the memory of the Annual March Junior Class Day. New in this tenth year of the Normal's new era Junior Class Day is to be elaborated into Junior Week-End and the revival of May Day is to be insti- tuted as a part of the festivities. With the going to press of the Norm, plans are well underway for a memorable may also be a happy one for the most fervently hope we may all ing, as day clawns on the fourteenth of May: The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn: Morning's at seveng The hill-side's dew-pearledg The lark's on the wingg The snail's on the thorng God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. 6VGl1t known 8.S occasiong that it Juniors of 1921, I say with Brown-

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28 THE NORM 1921 MISS VIRGINIA HALES Assistant in Physical Education Department What is the best a friend can be To any soul, to you or me? Not only shelter, comfort, rest- Inmost refreshment unexpressedg Not only a beloved guide To tread lifes' labyrinth at our side, Or with love's touch lead on before Tho these be much, there is yet more. The best friend is an atmosphere Warm with all inspiration dear, Wherein we breathe the large free breath Of life that has no taint of death, Our friend is an unconscious part Of every true beat of a heart: A strength, a growth whence we derive God's health, that keeps the world alive. Friends -they mean so much to us and so often are not appreciated. I'll not attempt to write an essay or lecture on the MISS MARIE A. SCHUETTE Department of Music We place friendsliips among the priceless things in life. Long ago Cicero said, It is like taking the sun out of the world to bereave human life of friendship, Mortal gods have given man noth- ing more g1addening. Propinquity is not an element of friendship. Are you Willing to apply the test of time and distance to one you count as friend? Does the thought! that Iyou have a friend keep you sufficiently happy, or does the sun shine for you only when that friend is with you! Surely those bonds of friendship should be considered strongest when they reach and hold for you la friend. who needs must be thousands of miles away and separated by a span of years. Friendship that endures must be of this glorified substance. 1 -Marie A. Schuette NI l Q n subject. Lucy Larcom has expressed my feelings f perfectly. -Virginia Hales