Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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PERU COLLEGE SONG Y« u ma cln•• iron» all the oilor That in» v stand lor college faim . There’s ilie orange. Mack, the scarlet. They’re sure to kindle llnme: Hut tile only combination Thai make our young hearts light. we in}’ with adoration. I tile pale blue and the white Through the lour long years oi college. ’Mid the scenes we love so well. While the mystic charm to knowledge W e vainly seek to spell: ()r we win onr mental victories As we strive with all our might. We will ne’er forget the pleasures ( f the pale blue and the while W lien the cares oi life oYrtake U . Mingling fast our locks with gray. Should our dearest hope betray u . And false fortune fade away: Still we’ll banish care and sadness As we think oi hours so bright. And recall those day of gladness ’Neath the pale blue and the white. Tin i h t n

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THE NORMAL AND PERU I Ik I 'em Normal School has always had the advantage of an enchanting natural environment. 11 up on the hill-top. overlooking the village, and. far below, the majestic breadth of the Missouri, lies the beautiful campus, where are located all the buildings of the institution. There are sixty acres in all. extend- ing in part over a beautiful wooded territory where Nature revels unmolested. Dr. A. K. Winship. editor of the New Kngland Journal of Kducation. has paid a tribute to this ideal situation in the following words: “Peru. Nebraska, has the best natural setting of am state normal school in the I’nited States. I he grounds are an ever-changing dip and lip of hill and vale. I only know of sixty-four of the state normal schools, and many of these have beautiful grounds: but no one of them has sixty such acres as these. If one of the schools I do not know has superior grounds, it would be interesting to know of it.” The Normal at Peru and the State of Nebraska had their birth in the same year. 1870. The lirsi legislature ot the state purchased the Peru Seminary, as it was then known, from the Methodist Kpiseopal denomination, and established the Normal School, electing as the first president. J. M. McKenzie, the prin- cipal of the seminary, who is still living, and to whom I he Peruvian” of was dedicated. In those «lays only the ex- treme eastern part of the state was settled at all. and even here communities with any considerable population were few and tar between. With Nebraska’s rapidly increasing population, Peru has not grown as many of the surrounding vicinities. I pon two I'ifln 11