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number on the faculty, the number of students, the number of departments, nor would we belittle one department to add to the reputation of another. The success of our school has and will always depend on the work as a whole, and so we rejoice with success in every part of it. Are you a Normalite? Do you remember the night Maxy tied a string to the old bell, and while it clanged the students gathered and stood huddled together fearing, they knew not what? Do you remember the Bible on the Chapel stand and the time Mr. Pattee gave it back to the school? Were you here in 1903 and did you climb to the top of the new smoke stack and look out over the fields of the five counties? Do you remember when the boys had their gun drills and then when the order came to shield their swords? Were you a member of the Ladies' Band and do you still have the white suit and red tie? Yes, and don't you regret the passing of the good old days when each student actually passed examinations and earned his State Certificate, when he wrote a thesis on some wonderful subject to be bound and stored in the library, when he mounted the chapel platform to voice the convictions of his soul and to confound his audience? Those old days were good days, but so are the present ones. If you are an Alumnps, come home in June. No Normalite need feel strange at the Iowa State Teachers' College, for is not “Old Dan still in his accustomed place? Of course, you want to see our new buildings, the library and the presi- dent's home. You want to meet again the old friends. You want to renew the old memories and to join with is in showing our love and loyalty to this, the greatest school of its kind, the Iowa State Teachers' College.
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New Library had been with the school Iro n its beginning and who on this day in the spring of 1905 was completing the fiftieth year of service as a teacher. On July 1, 1909, a new period of history began. The old board of trustees held their last meeting and closed the records for the thirty-three years in which they had man- aged the affairs of the Iowa State Normal School. Many were loth to bid “Old Normal good-bye. Many did not object to the “ite if it were “Normalite. And yet it was with hope for a larger future that they greeted the new State Board of Education and bade welcome the Iowa State Teachers' College. Her graduates may now wear the “cap and gown with all its significance and hold their places on equal rank with graduates of other colleges of the state and country. We are proud of our school. We do not boast of the
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