Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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! So potent have heen the influences of the environment at rent, the professional ideals which are constantly emanating r from the instructors, and the broadening effect of its peculiarly fitting and healthful social life, that the ‘Peru spirit’ has become a state-wide by-word. It is to be doubted if anv school in the middle west can boast of a like spirit in so marked a degree. It exists among students, faculty and alumni alike. It is betrayed in the conversation, the correspondence, the attitude upon all occasions, of the Peruvians. It has been an inestimable factor in the growth of the school: it has resulted in the organization of a “Peru Club” at the Slate Cniversity. with a membership of more than forty, and. we believe, indirectly, in raising the educa- tional standards of the entire state. The educational position of Peru is unmistakable. Three thousand alumni have gone out into educational work in the state, coming into actual contact with and proving factors in the development of at least twenty thousand voting minds every vear. The teacher is perhaps the major factor in the progress of civilization, and not only has Peru furnished an army of teach- ers. but she has set the standard by which the teachers of the state are judged, and up to which, if they survive, all must measure. iiti frrn

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PERU W'lion with this ohl stul) pen I'm through. Xu inori' to hit the pace that kills: I'm coming; down to t 1«1 IVru. To get a home among tile hills. Where lilacs scent the hreatli of spring. Where squirrels frisk about the lawn. And I can hear the wild birds sing In chorus free at peep of dawn. Where screech-owl hoots and turtle dove coos. And man pursues his peaceful way: here no one tills his skin with booze And travels hellward night and «lay. Where there is peace and full delight. And little noise and politics: Where one can always rest at night. Ami wtike to bless the morning—PIN. Tin h In 1 . j i 1