Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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-us 5, so gg gl' Panhellenic Council presented Mrs. Rankin a charm commemorating the centennial, A1 ,f 2,1 .irq Grins, smiles, tearsg that ecstatic moment when one became a pledge. le fx-, 5 -:rr-:g:g1jjE'l-EEE- 55' e' rE4mglrE se , A wt, The committee for the co-ed Valentine Dance met and discussed decorations. ,ff i. i it .2 , JN' 1: .1 Z Prospective sorority members attended rush parties in order to meet the active members and to learn the requirements for pleclgeship. Twenty-Nine

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Dear Mama and Papa. Sunday, April 27. l902 . . . On Wfednesday President Parsons was out of town and I could not talk over my work with him. On Thursday I signed up in Psychology, Latin and German. After coming from a small high school I find it hard to get used to so many students. Over a thousand young men and women are attending the State Normalg only the professors can tell how many students are in the number. The Normal building is very largeg one nearly gets lost in it. And the library is immense, I have never seen such a lot of books. We have a reading room and a study room, which I expect to use often. Chapel meets for fifteen minutes every forenoon and attendance is required. I hear that some misguided students cut these inspirational services. Since the auditorium will not hold the entire student body. these students make a sacrifice for the others. Now and then I go to the gymnasiumg I am not enrolled, but I like to take exercises with dumbbells. lThe situation calls for a pun. but I will refrain.l On Friday I watched an ex- citing basketball game. This sport is new to meg it was invented about ten years ago. P.S. The other day another fellow and I stopped at a photographers studio and got souvenir buttons with the picture of the Normal on them. Now the townspeople will take me for a studentg I hope I can convince the profs! May ii. l902 I have enough school work to consume my time and this is congenial employment. I try to keep regular hoursg my day begins at 6:00 a.m. and closes at 9:00 p.m. I like my routineg there isn't much to do but eat. sleep. wear my 'good clothes' lil, study and recite. I am enjoying college life in its mild State Normal form. I am trying to hold down expenses as much as I can. but of course it costs to get an education. For board I pay two dollars a week and for my room five dollars a month. The Normal charges no tuition, but we pay a library fee of two dollars each term. My text- books will cost about five dollars in this spring term. I have been intending to tell you about our board- ing club, where I eat at the second table. I get rather hungryg when Mrs. Cox. our landlady. calls us with her friendly Dinner. please the call is only the echo of what my stomach has long been saying. The food is Thirty The Opera House was frequently used by the Normal students for dramatic productions. good and offers some variety. Recently we have had steak and gravy. ham, cranberry sauce. fried and boiled potatoes, oranges and bananas. Mrs. Cox ad- mits that it takes planning to serve twenty-one meals for two dollars, but she supports herself and sends two sons through the Rose Polytechnic Institute, our rival school in Terre Haute. She is a motherly old lady and the student boarders like her. When I mentioned my studies to her, to my surprise she knew her Latin bet- ter than I. She lacked only a few credits of graduating when she quit the Normal. june 27, 1905 This morning I received my five year licenseg it authorizes me to teach until April, 1908, in the common schools and in five high school subjects. On the strength of this license I expect to receive twenty-five credits at the Normal. I shall try to get four credits for my high school Latin and hold all the credits earned here so far. I talked to Professor Sandison regarding the creditsg he objected to allowing the extra Latin credits. I-le is a psychologist who believes in mental discipline, if my Latin developed my mind for other subjects, credit in Latin would mean duplication of credit. I have had too little psychology to see that.