Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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as if we should need to have only one entering class a year. This is a delightful prospect. The winter has been long and severe, but good health has been the rule. This out-door life seems indeed to be quite the thing for many of the girls, for they have steadily increased in health as the season has advanced. Commencement day will soon be here again and almost fifty will receive their official endorsement at the hands of President Goodrich. This is quite phenomenal for an Illinois Normal school. The school at Normal, which opened its doors in 1857, never touched the forty mark until 1896, and then as if it had quite exhausted itself it fell below it the succeed- ing year. The largest class that our friends at Carbondale have so far sent out falls a little short of the thirty mark, so that we feel that we have done pretty fairly, by comparison, at any rate. All success in the world is relative and if we do as well as our neighbors- especially when they are such good neighbors-we ought to feel some little sense of satisfaction. But what of the future? That is always the insistent question. It is the land of hope and promise. Respect- ing it we can only say that the auguries are favorable. The summer school will open on the 24th of June and the indications now are that we shall have a respectable attendance -respectable in quality, of course, but also in numbers. It is getting noised about northern Illinois at last that there is a Normal school at DeKalb and that we have abundant room in our building for ive hundred students, and admirable accommodations in our club houses and private families for nearly the same number, and that the faculty, after its two years of experience, has come to know itself pretty thoroughly, and that we are ready for whatever the future may have in store for us. At this writing the general assembly has show11 itself to be satisfactorily gracious. The strong box will be quite well supplied with the sinews of war. We shall have the needed teacher of literature, and the director of physical training and the long desired music teacher, and a thing or two more that need not inow be mentioned. We trust that we have shown ourselves worthy of patronage and that the young people from northern Illinois who want to be teachers and who are well equipped with academic disciplines will come to us for the professional training which we believe will be of great help to them in their gracious ministry of caring for the young. Thus far we have been sailing on comparatively unruflied seas. There have been no annoying conflicts of any character. The people of the town have accepted us at our own estimate, and that ought to be high enough, surely. And so with high hopes and buoyant spirits, and abundant enthusiasm we are looking out toward the new years that are hurrying this way. May we be worthy of our great calling. 18

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Glass of 1901 Color Sky Blue IIDOIIO Non Nobis Solurn IQCII Who are better? None, none, none, Than Northern NOfH131,S IQOI! k9fflC6I'5 EVA G. LEE ..... President RICHARD G. DEYOUNG ........ Vice-President BERTHA E. CARPENTER .... Secretary JULIA E. MEYER . . Treasurer ' 20