Albion State Normal School - Sage Yearbook (Albion, ID)

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1Lit21farp IEQBSIJ BREED TEIJ2 Baum anti Q9ut Qliluh By Rose Turner Should you ask us whence these storie Whence these jokes and memories, With the odor of the fudges With the gay and girlish laughter, With the running thru the long halls With the echo of quick foot-steps, 'With the frequent repetition And their Wild glad jubilee, We should answer, We should tell you From the North Wing, from the North wing, From tl1e great and famous North Wing, From the land of 'Down and Outs! From the land that now We live in, From the rooms and halls and Windows Where we live and mourn together Over many broken hearts. We repeat them as we heard them, From our daily life among them, From the lips of happy girlies, From the songs of merry singers, Ye who love the 'upper North Wing, Love tl1e mirth of that great hall, Love the sunshine of the gay ones And the smiling 'Down and Outs,' Love the days you spent at Normal And your friends of Normal, days, Love to hear of fun and struggle: Listen ye to these old stories Of the life of 'Down and Outsl' Ye who love our dear old Normal Love the legends of her students: Which like laughter from afar Speaks in tones so gay and merry That the years roll back as one, Listen to this mixed up story, To the history of our tribe! Ye whose hearts are large and yearning With a steady now in viewg You have made a splendid catching: Greater than our expectations. Listen to our awful wailing! We have lost a mighty member. O, ye maidens of our Prep school, O. ye ones Who've yet to come, Hearken now unto our story+- To the memories of our club! Ye who think that you 're not in ity And ye strugglers with your paint. Take a lesson from our efforts, For your time is soon to come. Ye Whose hearts are fresh and simple, Wl'1o have lately come to Normal, Read this true, but heartless story Of your beauless predecessors.

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Eehating 'Of all the student activities, considered from either intellectual or athletic standpoint, this de- partment stands first, and it should stand first. Tell me, said Goeth, What your young men of twenty are thinking about, and I will tell you the future of the state. Men in public life have attested again and again to the value of debating Societies as one of the most effective means to train young citizens in civil and national affairs. It is not enough to have an idea, but you must be able to express that idea in good, forcible English III order to give that idea motive power. Debating SIVGS the students training in self-control, formas tion of correct habits of speech, power to organize thought and ability to recognize sound reasoning. The schools in the inter-Schoolastic League in Southeastern Idaho are the high schools at Twin Falls, Pocatello, Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, the Acad- emies of Rexburg and Pocatello and the Albion Normal School. The Subject for debate was: Resolved, that Idaho should by a constitutional amendment adopt a system of initiative and re- ferendum similar to that of Article IV of the Con- stitution of Oregon. Each school prepared an ftfiirmative team and a negative team, the rule be- lllg that the former team remain at home and the latter team go meet the outside school. The above question was Hrst debated in the Emersonian and Philomathean Societies. Later thirteen students entered the final try-out and of this number the following teams were chosen: Affirmative: John Hillman, Triphosa Pratt and Charles M-abbutt, with Ellen Larsen as alternate Negative: F. B. Dotson, James Mahoney and J. Lyman Smith with Frank Johnson as alternate. The final contest to determine the championship of southeastern Idaho was held March 19, 1909 at Rexburg. The negative team as given abovewon, and gave Alibon the much coveted championship. The debating work has been entirely in tue hands of Prof. Louis A. Bauman, who has had considerable 'experience in college debating. Prot. Bauman has worked faithfully with students and is deserving of a great of credit for the high standard attained in debate. We pride ourselves on the work done by the Normal school, but We are not content to rest on our laurels of the past. If hard work and rugged determination can do it, we won't be satisiied with anything less than the state championship next year.

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isupular Superstitiuns What a queer and foolish thing it seems when We see our co-workers and friends refrain and Sven deny themselves many things because they believe in the insupportable belief of others. On the other hand we again see ourselves smiling, pro- bably behind our sleeves, at some people who have been fortunate, Cas they thinkl thru some good work of superstitious. I Superstition is said to be the excessive rever- ence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mys- terious. Superstitions have begun far back in past history. The ancient Greeks and Romans feared their gods whenever they misbehaved. Certainly, this is a good example of superstitious. But do these people live in the same fear now? No, they have outgrown. . The ancient Celts believed and had faith in the Unknown, in this case God. Their ordeals, the System of punishment, required a pure faith and trust in God to pronounce the criminal guilty or Ullguilty. After the rise of Christianity and thro, the medium of the Reformation and Renaissance these ancient and peculiar beliefs were abandoned. There are many popular superstitious of today. many of which are not common to all. Almost QYGTY community has several which are totally different from the neighboring one. However, there are some which are common to almost every 0I1e,.as for instance, If you put anything on wrong Slde out and leaving it on, good luck will result. Breaking a looking glass will bring bad' luck, for Seven years, killing a frog will bring ram. ' . Probably those not quite so common will be more Interesting. ,Since we- are indulging in supersti- tlons just for amusement none of these need to be taken in earnest. , When I was a little girl I found that supersti- ii0ns could not be too foolish for the Catholics to believe. A queer, old lady used to tell me that if ,l would fast all day on the 24th of December J would that night see small, golden pigs crawling on the ceiling. NVhat a pity superstitious ever exist! After I. told my neighbors about it we used to waste our energy trying to study out how all this could happen. I-flow often then we would wish we could only leave the food alone for that day and be rewarded at night by that wonderful vision. l. might also cite an instance where superstitious were of some value. Once a girl had short, thin hair. No amount of cutting would do it any good. Finally another old lady suggested that this girl should trim her hair off every month at the time of the new moon. Rhoda formed a habit and for almost a year she waited patiently for the new moon. By that time her hair had become beauti- ful. flt was thick a11d long and where she had once worn small, attenuated pig-tails, she now wore her hair braided and encircling her head sev- eral times. Undoubtedly she thought the new moon was the cause oi the rapid growth. How- ever, we came to the conclusion that it was not the moon but the regular cuttings. Of course the new moon was and is as regular as anything else but many other 1'egular occurences could have been substituted for it. Thus it is seen that superstitious may or may not bring about that which is said that they would. Time is only needed to prove that foolishness of them. Once upon a time we were firm believers in witchcraft, but that has now been completely wiped out. And. so, today, the various scientific proofs and teachings are bringing to light the absurdity of other beliefs. Soon we will be able to find that all. we believe will be pure and sound truth and nothing but the truth.