Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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14 NORMAL OFFERING DRAWING Doctor-'s Prescription.-All applicants who become pupils at the State Normal School situated in Bridgewater must take a course in drawing before they receive their diploma. Signed: Dr. PHILOSOPHICAL EDUCATION. It is not long before everyone realizes that in order to draw one has to have talent inside as well as out. Incidentally he should learn that figures should not be bow-legged or knock- kneed. Perspective is a subject for advanced students only, and as such should be appreciated. The instructor hopes that all who have exceptional ability will avail themselves of the remarkable opportunity offered them in the Course in Architecture. LITERATURE The work of this course consists of daily reading of the min- utes of the previous day and of socialized..recitations on Why the Norse Gods Fought with Their Wives, and vice-versa, and also on the subject of Why I Cas a future old maidj am ex- tremely interested in good love stories and appreciate the art of Love? j Discussions and conference on various subjects are brought up very frequently by the students who wish to pass away their valuable time in frivolous conversation. By the time you are able to extricate yourself from this course you should, even if rather dense, have some extremely lucid ideas on many subjects. MAYBELLE I. KEEFE, '20. KAY E. CONWAY, ?20

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NORMAL OFFERING 13 Extrartz frnm the Igrihgvmatvr Glatalnguv az it Ought in IIB hui lsn't! PHYSIOGRAPHY Students are required to read and memorize the descriptions of at least five hundred and thirty-two different kinds of rocks. Extra knowledge is not required but is optional. A student with a truly professional spirit will gladly avail herself of this eX- ceptional opportunity of becoming acquainted with one of nature's greatest phenomena-Rocks. CHEMISTRY Prerequisites.-Gas mask and a course in First Aid to the injured. Ii. Qualitative Analysis.-Students taking this course Will be furnished with apparatus valued at 3.59 and with one hundred and ninety-nine re-agents, and at the end of the semester will be required to analyze the contents of twelve ketchup bottles. Quizzes will be given semi-occasionally to remind students that this is a regular class they should always attend. II..Quantitative Analysis.-Any students who survive Quali- tative Analysis may apply for more knowledge in above-mentioned subject. PHYSICS . This professor in charge of this course guarantees that a student who has successfully finished this course will be entirely and absolutely impervious to shocks of either the mental or elec- trical varieties. Such a trifling incident as a daily quizz never bothers a graduate of this course as he is quite accustomed to seeing little white slips appear almost magically from the teach- er's pocket.

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g tiatirrf. TSI Sv Svrhnnl Z I' NAMES NICK NAMES FAVORITE SAYINGS WHERE FoUND CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS Maybelle Keefe Babs Bolsheviki! Room 16 Red Hair-strength Isabelle Lees Izzy Six months! With Dot Wordell Neatness Alice Fahey y Fay He was always a perfect gentle- With Loretta Brandon I Good nature man to me! 9 Bernice Anderson Bunny I hate men! They irritate me! In congpanyyvith lonely Eyes ens Mary Gould May And can't that boy dance? Nea a jaz band Ready for anything Flora Neves Fluffy You're full of cheap coke ! Playing tennis Always ready to help Emma Moore Dinty Look who is here-now. With Roger Sweetness Vera Chase Ve-ra Oh! He's the image of Francis Getting special permission Vampire Bushman. Agnes Burke Burkey I don't care much for printer The Exchange Special Delivery Packages folk! QPie counterl Rose Dillon Rose-ee What say? Chasing mice Having a feed Alice Butler Buttsey How Paris has changed! Trucking Borrowing Normal sweaters Dorothy Halnan Dot He's a darb ! On the 4.01 Going to Boston Lillian McDonald Mac Is that nice? Out walking Red Hair Helen Corrigan I Helene-Marie Zowie! Writing letters to - Long neck Lois Litchfield A Lo-Lasses Good-night! With Miss Pinnick Short and fat Esther Gibson Bunny Oh deah me ! Most anywhere Cheerfulness Edith Robbins Ede I'll say so. Room 15 Height Gertrude Haley 1 Gert-rude I'll do anything once. Runging from mice at Making the best of everything a. m.