Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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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

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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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HOW THE NORMAL GOT ITS BOYS. Now, this is the next tale, and it tells how the Normal got its Boys- who-used-to-be-bad-but-who-are-going-to-be-good. Well, you know, Best Beloved, a long time ago there were just lots of Normal Girls who were lonesome ' cause they didn ' t have any little boys to play with, and so they just cried and cried, and said: 0 Mr. Great High President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity, please get us some Little Boys who used-to-be-bad-but-who-are-going-to-be-good to play with us, ' cause we ' re just so lonesome! And the Great-High-President of infinite-resource-and-sagacity looked at the girls, and he frowned and he frowned, ' cause he didn ' t want any Lit- tle-Boys-who-used-to-be-bad-but-are-going-to-be-good. But, Best Beloved, we know that all Little Boys used to be bad and are going to be good. So then the Faculty-who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do-what-they- oughter said : 0 Mr. Great-High-President-of infinite resource-and-sagacity, please get us some Little Boys-who-used-to-be-bad, so we can teach them to be good, ' cause you know all the little girls are so good, and so we haven ' t got anybody to teach to be good, and we won ' t have any way to do what we oughter. Then the Great-High-f-resident looked all sniffly, and he looked at them so hard that the Faculty got scared, and all the little girls got scared, and they ran away. And then the Great-High-President-with-all-his-in- finite-resource-and-sagacity thought and thought, and while he was think- ing Little Imp, who lived where people are bad, but want to be better, came to him and said : O Mr. Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity, I know where you can get some Little-Boys-who-used-to-be-bad-but-are-go- ing-to-be-better. They don ' t live in Heaven, ' cause St. Peter won ' t let them in, but they want to move from where-they-are, and so I told them that the next place to Heaven was the Normal School, where they have a Great-High-President-of-infmite-resource-and-sagacity and a Faculty- who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do-what-they-oughter, and a lot of Girls-who-are-lonesome- ' cause-they-haven ' t-got-any-little-b o y s-t o-p 1 a y- with. And then the Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity told the Little Imp that he could bring those Little Boys. 24