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The Index XVe had carried the Normal School Bill 'by the skin of our teeth,' and who knew but that the opposition might rally and repeal the law, armed with such failure to carp at what was to be tlonCf ' After many ingenious schemes and after much hard work: after many failures, money was at last secured to finish the building, and on .Tune lv, 'oU, the first graduating exercises in the Normal University were held in the assembly room, the windows being filled with pine boughs. through which one might look out upon the stubbles of a corn field. l34r2+l?7tr. The Normal School life was a strenuous life. It was a struggle for existence. Very few of the people of Illinois had been converted to the normal idea. Most of them regarded the institution as a product of mere wild theorizing. The money expended upon it was looked upon as a dead loss to the commonwealth. Now. to live down all this opposition required tremendous energy, unceasing persistence and an inspiring faith. But we had some coinpensations, or rather relaxations from the intensity. Occasionally there was a little fun. Once upon a time. as I sat at my table in the assembly room. I took a survey of the large company of students before me, and was highly pleased to observe the evidences of intense application to work. About three days before this, observing what seemed to me in the same room a little too much of a disposition to carry on a mixed conver- sation during study hours, I had made an appeal for better things, and in as inwardly rejoic- ing at the indications that the appeal had been successful. All at once a demure looking young lady. who had been sitting not far from my table, and whose industry seemed to be unexceptionable. left her seat and approached me. I knew her very well and had a high respect for her. for she had good capacities and a genial, kindly nature. But I also knew that she had no objection to a little stirring amusement. She approached me with a little mischievous smile upon her face, and in response to my inquiry as to what she would like, responded somewhat as follows: Do you remember that about three days ago you were very insistent in inquiring that we should preserve guufl order in this room? tbl' course the
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