Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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Ube 1l nbeg qw 1 hilosophic Sayings from res. ompkins. 9 The most ditiicult thing' tor a man to do is to lose his life in order to iind it. Did Thomas at Chickamauga choose Snod-grass Hill in order to correlate His- tory and Geography? Geography cannot say to History. Keep oi? the grass. The blessing' ofthe mosquito is to keep folks who have nothing' else to do-busy. Heaven is conceived of as having' an abundance ot what we have not. The deed never returns to the doer-the trouble is. it never leaves the doer. Seek ye tirst the Kingdom ot Heaven -and Heading' and Numbers shall be added unto you. A man is lifted by his collar-if it's a Clean one. ' Sufficient unto the day is the Qoocl thereof. How easy it is to be caught on the horns ofa dilemma when there are no horns. The Grand Central Hotel is neither grand nor central. That's just its name. 'ii' Y Cast thy bread upon the waters, and it will return atter many days too. and buttered. We want to leave enough things unset- tled to engage the next generation. An atheist is crazy. that is all. The iool hath said in his heart. 'There is no tiod. ' Man is worth nothing' in this world until he is hitched up to something' other than liimselt. A horse's feet ought to go in the same direction as the horse. Beauty is not only skin-deep. It ex- tends to the bones and digestion as well. Anything' is beautitiilessxvlietliei' it be a cancer. a cyclone. or a corpse. When matches are made for revenue only, they never prove a success. Figures never lie. but liars sometimes tigure. Two half-teachers never make a whole teacher.

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Tlbe llnbcg zo IU IOR CLASS. 9 5' 9 5' N THE I. S. N. U. there has been. during the past year. much of an unusual nature. Take the .lunior class for instance. Here we have no mediocrity of any descrips tion. The traits. both physical and inental. of the one hundred ten members are best described by the use ot superlatives. The greatest orators, the tinest wits. the deepest thinkers. the most skillful artists. the sweetest singers. the best basket ball players. the fastest runners, the hardest hitters. the worst spellers. the wildest guessers. and the thickest skulls that ever belonged to a single body of students are located in this aggregation. Here we have the manliest men. the most woinanly women. the sweet- est girls and the handsomest couples that ever sat under the campus trees on Sunday afternoon. lt we have curly hair it is so curly that it kinks. lf it be straight it is so straight that one of Mr. Felmley's geometrically straight lines isa cow-path in comparis son. To excel is the whole aim of each and every individual. lf we Hunk, we liunk so hard and so often as to aid in contirming Miss Hartmanns habit of making lJ's1 yet. on the contrary. even Miss Mavity is compelled to put lli's after our names. And what an influence we have had and what a work we have done. lVe have en- abled Mr. Holmes to add some exceedingly original items to his stock of psychological data. ln us Mr. Colton has discovered new specimens for nature study. Mr. Manchess ter now thinks he could tell Caesar. it that great Roman were alive. where to get point- ers as to how his commentaries should be revised to make them a correct exposition of the Latin tongue. And undoubtedly President Tompkins will be compelled to rewrite his Philosophy of Education in view of new light on the subject. It may be prognosti-