Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE STUDENTS (Apologies to Kipling.) NCE upon a time, My Best Beloved, there was a school, and it had students and all. And there was a Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sa- gacity who didn ' t have any Faculty to help him run his school. So the Great-High-President sat in his den with all his infinite resource and sagacity, and he thought, and he thought, and he scratched his head, you know ! I must get the perfectest Faculty- who-are- wise-and-good-and-always-do-what-they-o u g h t e r that ever was, he said. So he looked, and he looked, and he looked — all over the world; but he just couldn ' t find any Faculty-who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do- what-they-oughter. So this President-with-his-in- finite-resource-and-sagacity sat down and cried and cried. And at last one day he was so tired crying that he fell asleep, just so. And then he heard a Little Voice, and it said : Oh, Mr. Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity, what makes you cry so much? And the Great-High -President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity said : Boo-hoo! I ' m cryin ' ' cause I can ' t find a Faculty-who-are-wise-and- good-and-always-do-what-they-oughter! Well, then, Mr. Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-saga- city, said the Little Voice, which belonged to a little-angel-who-always- gives-people-what-they-want, I know just where you can get the per- fectest Faculty-who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do-what-they-oughter that ever was. So he flew away up to Heaven, where all good things are, and he got the most perfectest Faculty-who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do-what- they-oughter that ever was, and he brought it right to the Normal School. 22 i

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' Tis a strange and wondrous people, And I see no painted warriors — See no women and no children With the hue of Ish-the-Rainbow, With the color of the autumn. ' Tis the land of Spring, my children! Listen to my words, who loves you: When the Red Man ' s Spirit calls you To the Hunting Grounds forever, There will be this other nation In the land of Natchi-toches, On the Mishka— Hill of Midday! ' Then the people gazed and wondered- Saw the strange pale nations living In their land of Natchi-toches — In the sweet Magnolia country — Happy, learning, ever learning, Of the things the Spirit teaches, Secrets of the Mighty Master — Saw the glory of Hereafter! 21

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And then the Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity smiled, and then the students smiled, and they all lived happily ever after- wards, Best Peloved. And that ' s how the Normal got its ' s Faculty. This is the Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity sit- tin ' down just cry in ' and cryin ' . He is sittin ' in a chair. Those round white things are tears. That black thing up there, right by his ear, is not a chocolate cake, but the Little Voice — only you can ' t see a Voice ! 23 J