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

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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-

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30 'Ebe llnbeg cated here that only our natural modesty of which each of us possess a large amount will prevent the next decade from being deluged with all the necessary enlightenment for achieving the millennium. And Where so many are so strong, how is it possible to attempt to give pre-eminence to a few by naming them. To do justice to the Junior class would require a book in ten large volumes bound in sheep, in which would be set forth the thrilling biography of each of us. So if you would know intimately the life history of great people, watch us. But to speak seriously. this Junior class is composed of those whose large hearts and pure ideals have caused them to seek that profession which enables them to attempt to impress those ideals upon that part of the life of the nation with which they may come in contact. To gain the faculty of making themselves felt and win a higher in- spiration they have come to an institution whose foundation principle is sympathy with and duty toward others. Meeting here in goo l comradeship, upon common ground, they have learned to know themselves better. to better appreciate others. and extend to them that charity which Usuffereth long and is kind. and to hope that when, as the newest class of the newest year of the newest century, they go forth into the world they may be able to demonstrate that of great institutions of modern times the greatest is a Nor- mal School, and that of great heads the Normal student has the greatest. sem, fi g w ' - ,f on ' , ,. f y V 'i X - l 1 X 1. I, e ' x. '