Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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lbistorv T is not always the best policy to blow one's own horn but ours is such a tremendously large one - why it is even larger than the one the class IQOO presented to us a year ago - that we of necessity must blow it ourselves. Its mighty blasts reverberate throughout the length and breadth of Illinois. In the lirst place we are noted for remarkable brilliancy as a class. From 1 Em that great first day, the day of the opening of the N. I. S. N. S., we have shown an unusual tendency to make eights and nines in the class record books. Of course it has made life monoto- nous for the faculty, but there has been such a perfect understanding existing between teacher and student that we have overlooked the times when the nines were inverted merely for variety's sake. Note us! Gaze upon us! We, the class of Nineteen-one, are the lirst to complete the course as planned by the N. I. S. N. S. This fact is in truth a thing to be justly proud of. In after years when we return to visit our alma mater we will proudly say, I graduated with the first class of the great school. O! those Hrst weeks of our Junior year were days of discovery and peculiar sensations. Everything was so new, so new. The building was new and in many respects not completed. There were new faces and new names to learn, there were new 'ways of doing Arithmetic, new things to learn about gullysg new ideas to be ingrained in the Psychology class and worse than all, new things to eat at the club houses. But we were daunted by none of these things. We screwed our courage to the sticking point and stuck, and we are glad we did, for We have become not only the pride and joy of the school, but a blessing unto ourselves and to the community at large. We didn't lizzle out at the end of the year, either. Ask some of the class of IQOO about our junior night program given during commencement week. If we were brilliant as Juniors we have been no less brilliant as Seniors. James and Rosenkranz are no longer lions in our path and, moreover, we are experienced teachers. Early in the fall of this last school year we came to take charge of the various rooms in the DeKalb schools. Those first few weeks, without suiiicient help, were, indeed days of experience for us in the arts of teachingg but as the weeks went by the work grew 23

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easier and many of us found the useful, noble and bright side of the teacher's life. We will look back upon those days as red-letter days in our lives. In athletics, literary contests and other social affairs of the school we have taken prominent parts. In basket ball, football and baseball we have been well represented. Five of the presidents of the literary societies and two of the Christian associations have been Seniors. We all know what our Seniors did in the contest this year. Two members of our class have even been teaching in the Normal department. If you would know more about us, you will find our pictures and a short statement of our merits in the following pages. These two years have been happy as welleas instructive. We have made friends whoin we will never forget. We have come in contact with good influences which will have lasting effects on our lives. Our ideas of life have broadened and brightened under the leadership of our honored president and faculty. Though it is hard to disband, as a class, let us keep with us these high and noble ideas of life which we hold so dear, and let us indeed be veritable persons of influencef' OLIVE A. SPENCE. 4 XS-11 KK Amt. fe-N. ,RN f-se ff'-x ff'-LX rg is Ai-fan fb ' if' ' . fS KW fi EGL 14