Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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a years the students of the State Normal School received the wholesome stimulus that ever comes from good man. It becomes our further privilege to speak of Miss Eliza C. Morgan,now of Avon, N- Y., who for a long period of time was Preceptress and teacher of Literature and European History. Her usefulness was not limited to those who from year to year knew her at the State Normal, where her good judgment, tact, womanly sympathy, and loyalty won the respect and affection of all. Through those who knew her person- ally, her influence has gone forth to many more. Surely the debt of gratitude which the State Normal owes to Miss Morgan is a large one. ••This lesson learned I from the shadow of a tree, whose branches to and fro did toss across my path—our shadow-selves, our influences, will go where we can never be. The new Mt. Vernon Hall was opened in the fall of 1898, and the standpipe erected, both while Dr. J. A. Beattie was president. During the current school year has been added, through the untiring zeal of the head of the biological department, the greenhouse for the use of the classes in botany. To this many of the citizens of Peru contributed most liberally. 1901 will further be remembered in the annals of the school for the dedication of our splendid athletic field on Thanksgiving Day. This field is an ever-present reminder of what grit and hard labor will accomplish. We have the young men in attendance at the Normal to thank for this, nor are the young women to be forgotten, for were they not standing near, help- ing by their presence, their advice and their sympathy? We cannot draw this to a close without at least mention of our library, than which there are few larger or more carefully selected in the state. We are justly proud of its size—13,000 bound volumes—and of its standing. It has grown rapidly but soundly, and the hundreds of students who have passed hours in its reading room can testify to its value to the school. Institutions, like nations and individuals, have their youth, their prime and their old age. We have