University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

Text from Pages 1 - 166 of the 1900 volume:

DEDICATION To RUFUS H. HALSEY who has labored so efficiently for fifteen years in the Oshkosh Schools, we respectfully dedicate “ rhe Quiver” for 1900 r - State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1 FACULTY. RUFUS II. HALSEY, President Williams College), School Supervision. ROSE C. SWART ! University of Wisconsin ;. Inspector of Practice Teaching. EMILY F. WEBSTER (Oshkosh Normal), Mathematics. I.YDON W. BRIGGS, Treasurer. Civics, Penmanship. HARRIET E. CLARK Oshkosh Normal. Boston School of Oratory Voice Culture, Elocution. MARY E. APTHORP (Iowa College), Latin. HARRIET CECIL MAGEE (Ml. Holyoke College), Drawing, Social Culture. WALTER C. HEWITT ( Michigan Normal . Conductor of Institutes, School Economy. JOSEPHINE HENDERSON (Allegheny College), Composition, Rhetoric. ADOLPHUS H. SAGE (Cornell University . Physics. HENRY N. GODDARD (University of Michigan . Chemistry. LILLIAN G. KIMBALL. English Language. FREDERICK R. CLOW Harvard University), History, Political Economy, History of Education. ELLEN F. PEAKE (University of New Brunswick), English l.iterature. Library Readings. BENJ. MACK DRESDEN Wooster University, Oshkosh Normal , Herman. Associate in Pedagogy. GRACE HEWAKD (Potsdam Normal and Conservatory of Music), Vocal Music. ¥ V V V ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ FRANCES D. GUION Elmira College, Cornell University , Reading, Associate in Elocution. KATHERINE S. ALVORD University of Michigan ), Associate in History and Latin. MAY B. MOULTON. Associate in Drawing. JAMES E. LOUGH (Miami University, Harvard University), Psychology and Pedagogy. FRANK A. MANNY (University of Michigan), Director of Observation and Met hot!. EDNA CARTER , Vassar College. Oshkosh Normal), Associate in Mathematics and Physics. KATHARINE E. DOPP Oshkosh Normal, University of Michigan , Associate Inspector of Practice Teaching, and Associate m Pedagog y. ELIZABETH R. STONER (Boston Normal School of Gym nastiest. Director of Gymnasium, and Lecturer on Hygiene. WILLIAM K. BLAIR (Kansas Normal), Associate in Mathematics. MODEL DEPARTMENT. JENNIE G. MARVIN (Oshkosh Normal!, Principal and Critic, Grammar Grades. PERSIS K. MILLER (Cortland Normal), Assistant, Grammar Grades. ADELAIDE M. PARSONS (Plattsbnrg Normal). Teacher and Critic, Intermediate Grades. ALFARETTA HASKELL (Oshkosh Normal), Teacher and Critic, Second Primary Grades, JENNIE WILLIAMS. (University of Michigan . Teacher and Critic, Primary Grades. HARRY R. FLING (University of Chicago), Biology. ELLA G. PARMELE (Pratt Institute Library School), Librarian. FRANK E. MITCHELL (University of Indiana). Geography, Geology. CLARA F.. MARVIN (Oshkosh Business College). Stenographer. Secretary. J- 1 4 ‘Nofa is the high-tide of the year, cAnd whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back faith a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay. 5 ' PRESIDENT R. H. HALSEY. 6 PRESIDENT HALSEY. UKUS H. HALSEY was born in Blooming1 Grove, New York. His early education was received in the public schools of Brooklyn. Two decades or more ago the public schools did not prepare for college, and Mr. Halsey fitted himself at Adelphi Academy. In 1873, at the age of seventeen, he entered Williams College, a college permeated with the high ideals of its famous president Mark Hopkins. When we listen to the excellent selections read at morning exercises, it is interesting to recall that English literature was the favorite study of our young collegian. It is also worth recalling that in those days most college men played athletic games ; there were many amateurs, no professionals. It goes without saying that Harry Halsey was an active participant in the various games. In the fall, after his graduation in 1877. he began, near Albany, New York, his first year of school teaching. The following five years he was instructor in the Brooklyn Polytechnic. In 1883 Oshkosh first knew Mr. Halsey. In this year he became principal of theOshkosh High School, and in 18 11 superintendent of the public schools of the city. After thirteen years of hard yet encouraging work here, he was induced to take charge of the schools of Binghamton, New York. But Wisconsin again wanted hisscrviccs, and the Board of Kegents elected him to the presidency of the Oshkosh Normal School in December, 1ST). lie began his work January 31, 1899. That Mr. Halsey should have been asked to succeed the revered President Albee was a fine tribute to the work he had done, especially in the Oshkosh schools where he had established the kindergarten, strengthened his teaching force, and by his liberal methods made the schools a greater power in the community. A year and a half in the Normal School as administrator, has confirmed the impression of his ability to direct a broad system of education. One of the forceful elements that make for his success is his cordial intercourse not only with the faculty but with the students. It is as in the days of Longfellow at Harvard. The ice-bclt separating faculty and students is melting away. A helpful intimacy is being fostered. One of the means by which this is being done is the plan of each member of the faculty acting in the capacity not only of adviser but as friend to a group of twenty or more students. Still further has his policy that the class-room does not bound the teacher’s parish been engrafted, A careful inquiry is made into the environment of students while at the Normal that each may have the best possible conditions for his growth in every direction. Mr. Halsey is an optimist. He is not an optimist because he does not feel the heavy burden of the presidency of a large normal school, nor recognize that the normal school has educational problems waiting to be solved. He is the optimist who sees both the serious and the hopeful. The school shares his optimism. With the new building and increased facilities it is looking forward to long years of successful work with Mr. Halsey as president. 7 REGENT A. E. THOMPSON. 8 MR. ALBERT E. THOMPSON. R. ALBERT E. THOMPSON, our worthy regent, has served in this capacity since February, 1895, at which time he was appointed by Governor Upham for a term of three years. He was reappointed by Governor Schofield in February, 1898. In February, 1896, he was elected vice president of the Board, and in July of the following year, president. Mr. Thompson has ever devoted himself most faithfully to the interests of the Normal Schools, and the state at large, as well as the local school, have much to congratulate themselves in the appointment of such a man to the position. During his term of office there has been a steady growth in the schools, due to the generous appropriations for increased facilities, for the enlargement of the faculty, and for their in- creased salaries. During Mr. Thompson’s administration, the Superior Normal school has been opened, the River Falls school has been rebuilt since its destruction by fire, a $26,500 addition has been made to the Whitewater Normal, all of the schools have been equipped with steam heating plants, and lastly a contract has been let to build additions to this school and the one at Stevens Point this summer. The Faculty of our school has been increased by a head of the department of Psychology and Pedagogy, an assistant of Pedagogy, a special teacher of German, a director of Observation and Method, and an assistant in Drawing. A new department has been added to the model school, a special trained librarian, an assistant librarian, and a clerk to aid the President in office work. Mr. Thompson is a native of Wisconsin, having been born in Pleasant Valley, Green Lake county. He entered Ripon College when fourteen years of age, and remained there until nineteen, when he entered upon the study of law in the office of J. M. Fish of Princeton. He early showed remarkable ability in this field, and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar and became a partner of the firm in which he had been a student. He came to Oshkosh in the spring of 1879, and has since practiced law in this city. In 1889 he was appointed special assistant United States attorney, and for five years had charge of the litigation growing out of the improvements on the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. He has distinguished himself as an attorney in some of the most important cases the state has known, cases in which large interests have been involved. Being a native of Wisconsin, and so widely known as a skillful lawyer and a citizen of most progressive ideas, Mr. Thompson’s influence on Normal school problems has been most potent for the growth of the schools. He knows the resources of the state; he knows the leading citizens and they know him. With his appreciation of the needs of the schools, his devotion to their cause, his legal skill, his polished manners, and his generous heart, he is able to bring about whatever he sees is for their best interest. 9 T SARA l-'ELKEK DAVID K. ALLEN MAE KELLY KATE WILLIAMSON F. R. HAMILTON, eoitor AMANDA HODDEN IIESSIE WELLS LOUIS SIMNICHT ALTA LEWIS � • Editorial Staff EdUor-iu-Chi f - K. K. HAMILTON Assistant Editor— KATK WILLIAMSON Alumni Editor—AMAM A ItODDKN Lit rary Editor -Sara Pki.kk.r tumorousEditor David K. Allkx Or ftniiotiomt—M ak Kelly Athletics Louis Simniciit Pot try B basis Wells Ai.ta Lswis Artists Louis C. Haxqukt Julia Lottbn JuubSrmvatv chas- w. stoops BUSINESS MANAGER Assistants—Nixa IIakrkk Hunt Morgan Koiikkt Vaxdbriioop 11 - CHAS- W- STOOPS BUSINESS MANACCK K. W. VAXDERIIOOK JULIA LOTTES NINA BAKBEK KENT MORGAN JULIA SERVATY LOUIS UANQUET KATHERINE E. DOPP. Katherine E. Dopp is a native of Portage County, Wis.. and a large part of her school life has been spent in this state. Her first schooling after leaving home was at the Oshkosh Normal in the Elementary course. After this she taught in Elkhorn and other towns in the state, and then returned to the Normal to complete the Latin and English courses. After graduating, she spent two years as training teacher in the Academy at East Greenwich, Khode Island, from which place she went to the University of Michigan where she received the degree of bachelor of philosophy. Her next appointment was at the Oshkosh Normal, first as critic teacher of the intermediate department and later as teacher of theory. From here she went first to Moline, 111., to become principal of the city training school, then to Madison, South Dakota, as director of practice in the State Normal, and later to Salt Lake City as a member of the faculty of the University of Utah, having charge of the training department, where she remained until she came back this year to Oshkosh. Siiss Dopp has shown herself to be a strong student in many lines of work, but received her chief impetus in the department of philosophy at the University of Michigan, under the direction of Prof. John Dewey. After the latter bad gone to tiie University of Chicago as head professor of philosophy and pedagogy, she continued work with him. and has been in close sympathy with the various movements in which he is interested. For some time she has also been working in the department of anthropology at the same university. From the above, it will be readily seen that Miss Dopp has had unusual opportunities to see the problem of the training of teachers from both the normal and the university point of view. When to this is added the fact that she has a strong sympathetic nature and a readiness to grant to a student full opportunity to carry out work in such a way as to give free scope to his own personality, it is not strange that the many students who have come under her influence value greatly what they have gained. 13 EDNA CARTER. Miss Edna Carler, the new assistant in the department of physics, comes to us admirably equipped and trained for the work. Her home is Oshkosh, and she obtained her early education in the schools of this city, graduating from the High School in 1890. In September of the same year she entered Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and after a four years course graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1894. Wishing to remain at home a year after so long an absence, she entered the Oshkosh State Normal School, taking up only the professional work, and receiving the diploma with the class of 1895. During the succeeding year she was assistant in the High School, at De Perc, Wisconsin, where she taught sciences and mathematics. At the close of the school year, she resigned her position at I)e Pere, and returned to Vassar College in the fall, where she had been called to teach. She remained there for two years, assisting Dr. Cooley in Physics. The next year she took up advanced work in her favorite science under the instruction of Professor Michelson at Chicago University. Miss Carter is a woman of a quiet and strong personality, and already her iniluence has extended throughout the school and won for her an honorable place in its faculty. 14 t ELIZABETH RHEEM STONER. Allegheny, Penn., is the birthplace of Elizabeth R. Stoner. Her early education was received in the Pittsburg schools. The first work done to prepare herself especially for her vocation was the completion of the Chautauqua Junior and Senior Course in Physical Education. She also had training under the German system in club swinging and fencing. Miss Stoner taught two years in the Almida Preparatory College in Pittsburg; at the same time she conducted the gymnastics in two of the large schools in this city. In 1897 she entered the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics and was graduated in 1899. In the fall of the year she was appointed Physical Director in the Oshkosh Normal. 15 WILLIAM R. BLAIR. The assistant teacher of mathematics during-the first half of this year was Miss Noble, a graduate of the University of Michigan. Her successor, whose portrait appears here, came to us from the University of Chicago. Mr. Blair was born in the Province of Ulster, and received his early education in one of those excellent schools for which the Scotch people are noted. At ten years of age he removed with his parents to this country and settled in Kansas. He graduated from the State Normal School at Emporia, in 1895, with a good record in athletics as well as in scholarship. Then he was for two years principal of the high school in Pittsburg, Kansas. While in this position he played on the baseball and football teams of the school, and held the championship in jumping, though the last year one of the boys made it necessary for him to train in order to keep it. But he is as fond of mathematics as of sports, and talks to Mr. Clow in logarithms when they go walking together. Once, however, soon after he came to Oshkosh, he did not notice where he was going and tin points of his mental compass got turned one hundred and eighty degrees; he saw the moon in the north and looked for the big dipper in the south; now he is very certain that the evening star is not seen in the East nor the Normal building in the neighborhood of East Irving Street. 10 The Faculty. 1 Archie G. Worthing. Oa kfield, Wis. Latin Course. Member of Philakcan Society and Student’s Christian Association. 2 George V. Kelley, Fond du Lac, Wis. German Course' Secretary and Treasurer of Inter-State Oratorical League. Winner of Phoenix Oratorical Contest ’00, and Second place in Final Contest. Manager of “The Quiver of ’‘ 9, and “The Advance of '00. President of Phoenix Society. Member of the Winning Team in Inter-Society Debate ’99. Member of German Circle. Thirty-three months experience teaching. 3 H. C. Verbeck, Neenab, Wis. English Scientific Course. One hundred forty months experience teaching. 4 Charles E. Lovett, Chilton. Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Philakcan Society. Y. M. C. A. and Athletic Association. 5 Arthur L. Row. Scott. Sheboygan County, Wis. German Course. President of Lyceum. Eight months experience teaching. 6 Nora I. Tollefson, Manitowoc, Wis. German Course. Lyceum Inter-Society Debater ’00. Member of German Circle and Student’s Christian Association. 7 Alice M. J. Casey, Oshkosh, Wis. German Course. Member of Athletic Association. Manager of Basket Bal Department. 8 Lucinda M. Baker, Fond du Lac, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Phoenix Society and Glee Club. Ten months experience teaching. •f Edith M. Saxton. Menominee, Mich. English Scientific Course. 10 Fred L. Kneip, Wcyauwega, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Phoenix Society. Fifteen months experience teaching. 11 Zilplia B. Plummer, Ncenah, Wis. English Scientific Course. 12 Tosten Thompson, Mt. Morris, Wis. Latin Course. Valedictorian and Treasurer of Class of '00. Winner of third place in Oratorical Contest of ’00. Member of Phoenix Society. Browning Club and Glee Club. Twenty-five months experience teaching. 13 Fred J. Turner, Waupun, Wis. Latin Course. President of Class of 1900 and Philakcan Society. School Representative in State Oratorical Contest at Milwaukee. Secretary of Student’s Christian Association. 14 Mertie I. Culbertson. Appleton, Wis. English Scientific Course. Vice President Y. W. C. A. Thirty months experience teaching. 15 Blanche J. Jones, Fond du Lac. Wis. Member of Phoenix Society, Glee Club. Oratorical Association and Athletic Association. 16 Mary B. Maxson, Oshkosh, Wis. High School Graduate Latin Course. Treasurer Student's Christian Association. Member of Phoenix Society and Glee Club. Forty-five mouths experience teaching. 17 Josephine King, Omro, Wis. Latin Course. President of Browning Club ’99. Vice President Class of '00. President of Student’s Christian Association. Member of German Circle. IS Isabelle Temple, Ripon, Wis. English Scientific Course. Treasurer of Lyceum Society. 1') Bertha M. Jones, Oshkosh, Wis. Latin Course. Member of Lyceum Society. 20 Byron H. Cooley, Fredonia, Wis. English Scientific Course. President of Lyceum Society and Secretary of Y. M. C. A. Member of Athletic Association. 18 H Seniors 1900. Seniors 1900. I 21 Nettie Langmasz, Sheboygan, Wis. German Course. Member of German Circle. 22 Frederica L. Schinke, De Pere, Wis. German Course. Member f German Circle. 23 Nettie A. Vibbcr, Kewaunee, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Y. M. C. A. and Glee Club. Fifty months experience teaching. 24 Amanda Henschel, Sheboygan, Wis. High School Graduate German Course. Member of Phoenix Society, Athletic Association and German Circle. 25 Blanche Kenny. Oshkosh. Wis. German High School Graduate Course. Member of German Circle. 26 Margaret A. Scanlon, Manawa. Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Phoenix Society and Glee Club. 27 Nellie A. Kelly, Merrill, Wis. English Scientific Course. Eighteen months experience teaching. 28 Edith M. Acker, Algotna, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Lyceum Society and Student's Christian Association. 29 Anna Muth, Manitowoc, Wis. High School Graduate German Course. Member of German Circle, Athletic Association. Glee Club. Phoenix Society, and Y. W. C. A. 30 Kjisten Olson, Manitowoc Wis. German Course. President of Glee Club and Secretary of Phoenix Society. 31 Mabel M. Grandy, Oshkosh, Wis. High School Graduate, Latin Course. Seven months experience teaching. 32 Alice G. Harrington, Waupaca, Wis. English Scientific Course. Eight months experience teaching. 33 Katherine Ryan, Rich wood, Wis. English Scientific Course. 34 Myrtie B. Morrison, Omro, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Phoenix Society and Y. W.C. A. Twenty-five months experience teaching. 35 George T. Arnold, Oshkosh, Wis. Latin Course. President of First Year Class '99. Junior Class ’98. Phoenix Society, Glee Club and Self-Government Council. Winner of Phoenix Oratorical Contest ’98. 36 Edna E. Bacon, Delavan, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Glee Club and Ladies' Chorus. Nine months experience teaching. 37 Lawrence Lloyd, Chilton, Wis. English Scientific Course. Twenty-four months experience teaching. 38 Lewis H. Moulton, Oshkosh Wis. English Scicntic Course. Secretary of Philakcan Society, Editor of ••Associations” in ‘‘The Advance.” Member of Y. M. C. A. and Athletic Association. 39 Royal J. Peterson. Baraboo, Wis. Latin Course. President of Glee Club and Art Loan Club. Member of Phila-kean Society and Y. M. C. A. 40 Henry B. Patch, Richland Center, Wis. High School Graduate Latin Course. President of Browning Club. Member of Phoenix Society, Glee Club and Inter-Society Debating Team. 41 Guy F. Wells, Oak field, Wis. German Course. Secretary of Philakean Society. Ivy Orator Class of 00. Normal Base Ball Manager. 42 George J. Dan forth. Meeme, Wis. German Course. President Elementary Class of ’99and Lyceum Society. Editor-in-Chief of The Advance. Member of Inter-State Debating Team in '99. Winner of Lyceum Oratorical Contest '00. Forty-two months experience teaching. 21 43 Leo G. Schussmann, Oshkosh Wis. German Course. President of Oratorical Association and Phoenix Society. Inter-State Debator. Treasurer Y. M. C. A. Class Day Representative ’97. Member of Glee Club and German Circle. Ten months experience teaching. 44 Chas. Wood, Oshkosh, Wis. Special Course. 45 Louise E. Jones, Oshkosh, Wis. High School Graduate Latin Course. 4b F. Charles Boh Ison. Oshkosh, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Phiiakean Society, Glee Club, German Circle, Y. M C. A. and Athletic Association. 47 Clara E. Kaps, Oshkosh, Wis. German Course. Secretary of German Circle and Phoenix Society. Member of Drowning Club. Twenty-seven months experience teaching. 48 A. H. Cole, Hampden, Wis. English Scientific Course. President of Elementary Class of '% and Junior Class of ’99. President of Self-Government System. Fifty months experience teaching. 49 Richard M. Radsch, Sheboygan. Wis. German Course. Member of Phiiakean Society. 50 Mark Ben Franklin, Oshkosh, Wis. English Scientific Course. Class Poet 00. President of Phoenix Society. Associate Editor of “The Advance.” Humorous Editor of “The Quiver,” ’99. Three months experience teaching. 51 Sophie Feek, Oshkosh, Wis. German Course. Secretary of Oratorical Association. Infield Editor of “The Advance.” Member of Lyceum Society. 52 Anna Elizabeth Leon, Oshkosh, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Lyceum Society and Athletic Association. Three months experience teaching. 53 Violet K. McMurphy, Tomahawk, Wis. English Scientific Course. Ten months experience teaching. 54 Mabel Stone, Oshkosh, Wis. German Course. 55 Nellie M. Holland, South Bend. Wis. Latin Course. Secretary of Phoenix Society, Vice President Glee Club and Y. M. C. A. Twelve months experience teaching. 56 Daisy M. Allen, Allenville, Wis. German Course. Member of Browing Club, Art Loan Club, German Circle and Student’s Christian Association. 57 Minnie Gcillis, Menomonie, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Glee Club. Forty months experience teaching. 58 Frank Young, Oshkosh, Wis. German Course. President of Phiiakean Society. 59 Belle Deakin, Darlington Wis. English Scientific Course. Twenty-four months experience teaching. 60 Charlotte Buchanan, Sheboygan, Wis. German Course. Inter-Normal Debator 00. Member of Phoenix Society. 61 Ruby Dyer, Lancaster, Wis. English Scientific Course. Twelve months experience teaching. b2 Fred J. Curtiss, Chilton, Wis. German Course. President of Lyceum Society. Alumni Editor of “The Advance. Member of the Y. M. C. A., German Circle and Athletic Association. Sixty-five months experience teaching. '63 Jennie E. Darling, Manawa, Wis. English Scientific Course. 23 (.4 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 7.? 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 S3 84 85 86 87 Iiarriette Abby Saxton, Oshkosh, N is. High School (Graduate, Latin Course. President of Geographical Round Table and Secretary of Browning Club. Member of Lyceum Society and Glee club. Meta E. Mierswa, Oshkosh, Wis. Latin Course. Secretary of Glee Club. Member of German Circle. Ellis Walker, South Kaukauna, Wis. English Scientific Course. Twenty-seven months experience teaching. John Tracy. Appleton. Wis. English Scientific Course. Lucie E. Thiard, Algoma, Wis. English Scientific Course. Mary E. Sumerton, Ncenab. Wis. English Scientific Course. Three months experience teaching. May A. Sawtcll, Oshkosh, Wis. English Scientific Course. Mary C. Stanton, Fond du Eac, Wis. English Scientic Course. Seventy months experience teaching. Ella E. Rvnders. Hortonville, Wis. English Scientific Course. One hundred months experience teaching. Ruth E. Peirce, Germania, Wis. English Scientific Course. Six months experience teaching. Marie E. Jensen, Waupaca. Wis. English Scientific Course. Twenty-five months experience teaching. Jennie Henry, Wittlin. Wis. English Scientific Course. Three months experience teaching. Cora Halsey, Oshkosh. Wis. English Scientific Course. Twenty-one months experience teaching. Gertrude Follctte, Green Bay. Wis. English Scientific Course. AnnaC. Breit, Waupaca, Wis. English Scientific Course. Agnes A. Black, Green Bay. Wis. German Course. Mrs. Ellen P. Miller. Oshkosh. Wis. Professional Course. Twenty-three months experience teaching. Eibbie Henry, Wittlin. Wis. English Scientific Course. Eighteen months experience teaching. Alice Stickncy. Oshkosh, Wis. High School Graduate German Course. Madge E. Thompson. Oshkosh, Wis. German Course. Member of Lyceum Society and German Circle. Helen C. Foxgrover, West De Pere. Wis. German Course. Member of Glee Club, German Circle and Athletic Association. Nine months experience leaching. Pauline Sorenson. Sturgeon Bay, Wis. English Scientific Course. Member of Browning Club and S. C. A. Forty months experience teaching. Mary Elizabeth Rich. Oshkosh. Wis. German Course. Member of Glee Club, Ladies’ Chorus, German Club, and Student's Christian Association. Cora M. Lampson, Seymour. Wis. English Scicnttfic Course. Ninety months experience teaching. 24 The Class of 1900. Prt U mt FRED J. TURNER Yicr-PtftiJewt JOSEPHINE KINO StfKtmrjr AURA LOWERS Trsumr'fr TOSTEN THOMPSON. Motto-Thouehu arc deed . Count -Cardinal. i'tU— Mickkmack! mlcWamack-mlck a mack! Mick. We are the ceniarjr's very latent tick! Far away in the dim and dusty shadows of the Normal past, almost obliterated by the glorious radiance of the present, a radiance eminating from the hopes and aspirations with which our spirits are infused, we, as in a vision, see our class of 1900 in its infancy. We see the Freshman with his nervous, frightened expression, stealing through the halls and corridors in search of a class room, in which to undergo the tortures of a recitation. Careworn observers are rushing frantically hither and thither in a vain endeavor to keep myriads of appointments. Hut wo were not always Freshmen. Gradually the careworn expression faded, and life moved on in a calm, uneventful course, and we have finally emerged upon the summit, from Whence we can view the fruitful, if not wholly pleasant, fields of promise. It has been said that, “Heaven is not reached at a single bound,” and verily, it is true. Willi what mingled feelings of joy and anguish do we recall our struggles in the Model Department. Clearly before our mind’s eye is represented the day and the hour where we first stood before a class and vainly endeavored to attract their attention. Our imposing presence was valueless upon that occasion. The angelic mortals about whom “heaven lies in their infancy” would not attend. We do not remember how the first hour was passed, but we know it was. Then came the first criticism, and with trembling steps our weary way was wended toward the tabooed precincts of the inspector’s office. We will not discuss what followed, but will turn our attention to the time when we could seek that office with pleasure, sure to find a sympathetic friend. Such is our past. The future is rose-hued, the west ispleasaat. In the distance the tower of the city are glistening in the sunlight and “Fame” is beckoning. Ere we break the bonds of association and interest which have become almost indispensable to us, let us give a final greeting to those whom we have trained to take our places, and whom we are confident will fill them nobly, ably, and successfully. To these we would say: “May you have no clouds in j-our skies, or if there be, may they have the color and odor of roses.” 26 II. H. P. m Senior bebiub the times (Hass of I OG. u Just a step, just a step, Just a step onwatd, Out into the busy world Go the one hundred. Joyous and glad are they At last the farewell word to say, As proudly they inarch away; Happy one hundred. Hard pressed in school were they. But nothing could them dismay, As they worked all day. All the school wondered. Theirs now the praise shall be; Theirs honor and liberty; All shout the victory Of the one hundred. Plans to the right of them, Plans to the left of them. Plans in front of them, By the score numbered. Theirs not to make reply; Theirs not to reason why; Theirs but to do and sigh For schools of their own to try. Patient one hundred. When can their glory fade? Think of the record they made 1 Not a one blundered. Think of the numbers all ! Ever ready at the call, Noble one hundred. A. 27 ,-.r • • J i ft The Junior Clais. 29 Junior Class History. PrtsiJfMt WILLIAM DE KELVER ITVv r,,tUntf— MATILDA HODDEN Strrtlttn ELIZABETH HANSON Trt.i rtr NINA BARBER. Colour: Gold and li ht blue. It : You lead! You lead! What? The century? I ifue-� n not; Dish! Hoorn! Hah! We do! We do! Rah! Rah! Rah! The old saving: that actions speak louder than words applies admirably in writing the history of the renowned Junior Class. No words of mine can do justice to the brilliancy and achievements of this remarkable organization. To appreciate the members of this wonderful class you must know them; you must come in contact with their glowing personalities. You must judge them by their actions, and not by any words which I could say. It goes without saying that we are brighter, better looking and more aiinable than our worthy brethren of preceding years. But what we take the most pride in is our progressive and original dispositions. Witness our departure from the time-honored customs of our predecessors. They were conventional and non-progressive. We bravely took up the question of a new' form of reception; discussed the matter from first to last, through and through. Nothing w’as left unsaid; no argument w'as left untried. Our eloquence would have turned Demosthenes himself green with envy, had he heard us. But'twas of no avail. Our most persuasive orators had failed to gain the consent of the Faculty. Our project was dropped, but dropped reluctantly. Still determined to be original, we planned for a moonlight excursion, and as a result “The Thistle, carrying the Faculty, Seniors and ourselves, crossed the silvery lake on Friday evening. May the twenty-fifth. If we have reason to be proud of one thing more than another, it is the possession of a class president worthy to rule over an empire. His knowledge of Robert's Rules alone entitles him to a seat in parliament. In short, he makes an admirable president. If the juniors are hot-headed and aggressive they are also loyal. Their esprit de corps is always on band when wanted. What basket ball game has ever been played without the hearty and noisy support of the Junior Class ! We have shouted ourselves hoarse for our team even when defeat was imminent, and when it came we took it gracefully. Of course the juniors are athletic, We shine on the tennis court, in foot ball and base ball, defeating the entire school. All the school societies are graced by our presence and efficient work. We take part in everything of importance that goes on in school. An affair without a junior in it w’ould be as bad as an excuse without the president's signature,- not legal. To sum up our virtues and accomplishments would take an eternity, so let it suffice to say we are a remarkable class and without peers among our predecessors. Junior 'Debaters. Mary Marshall. 31 Thomas Konop. R. W. Vandcrhoof. Sophomore Class. ' r 33 Sophomore Class. PrttUtH HOWARD J. DEMPSEY. Vuf.rtru.Out SUSIE FAY. ■Stfrrturr IDA M.HUUCETT. Trtaturtr IIKNRY N. DODDKN. Once upon a time my brother and sister Xormalite, this school of ours turned out, among other great and famous things, an institution from which the world will probably hear, sooner or later, in one way or another. It is the finished product of the century, and it will take a hundred years more to produce another like it. Let us take an imaginary journey, a a Mitchell, and visit this accumulation of material that has since been scattered throughout the state. This collection of rare and valuable articles is known as the Dempsonian institution, or the “Royal Reliquiloriunt.” We find at the door the ticket agent, who bears the title, “Class Treasurer. The Price is not too high, so we pay it and enter. The smiling showman with a fierce mustache, comes forward to exhibit the curios and enumerate their merits. “Here ladies and gentlemen, he says, “is the wonder of the age, the great, original and only musical Crain. This bird on the left is the famous ‘ugly duckling of Grimm, which turned out to be—a Swan. “This, ladies and gentlemen, is a Parrett. which can not only speak Knglisli fluently, but under private instruction has learned a little German. This bird does not belong to the ‘Koyal Reliquilorium,’ but has been loaned for the occasion by a Senior. Here, side by side, are Hruin(s) and a Lamb in peaceful harmony. In the next room, ladies and gentlemen, are the celebrities. Step this way, please. Ah, yes, with what noted names do we meet! Here are Burns and Scott, and Weller, a descendant of the immortal Sam. Also Perry, whose name stands for conquests greater than that of her ancestor of Lake Erie. Here is Corbett, the great pugilist, who once, ‘with a fair field and no favor,’ licked, on the third round,—a postage stamp. At the other side we see among strange and unique things, an Angle that has baffled all the geometricians. Even Miss Webster has not been able to prove another equal to this. “This brings us to the Chamber of Horrors. It is low and dark, its walls hung with practice teachers’ plans fastened up with red tape, with a frieze of criticisms, artistically done in red ink. We are glad to leave this place, haunted, it is said, by the spirits of those rash, presumptious youths who dared attempt to gain admittance to that august body, the Philakeans, and were never heard of again. And now great Alumnus, confess that the equal of this collection was not known in your time; and you, prospective Freshman, though you remain here until you are as great a Post as Rudolph Sauerhering, will never see another Dempsonian Institution. 34 I. M. II. 35 L I � The Class of 1903• I'rtfiJ nl ASTON JAK8TA1). w Vitt-Prt iJtnl HAROLD 11 KM IS. Sterttont GRACE T. RANDALL. Trtuturtr WILL K. LARSEN. Coloks Nary blue and white. Zip! rah! zip! rnh! zip! rah! boom! We’re the Freshmen! (five us room! We’re the eln« of I'XO! Freshmen! Freshmen! don’t you kc? The Freshman class of this year is one of the best in the history of the Oshkosh Normal School, and is larger than any other class of the present school year. We are far in advance of the Savage, have Wills of our own, and an Armstrong, by means of which we are improving a little at a time. As the Weeks flit by we are content with the Stiles of the season, and though it may be Strange, we keep a reserve of strength by satisfying our appetites with Murphies. In fact, we have a particularly good quality of Murphies, for one has kept the Wolf from the door all winter. When the Bell rings, we pay strict attention to our Code and Russell through the corridors with the Hugh of a rainbow upon our faces, glancing lovingly at the Page before us. The Kitties come at the beck of either Peter or Robert, for the boys arc as gentle as a Lamb, and were never known to Hayes any one. We each have our favorite season, and we have every reason to believe that Charlie C’s favorite season is the Yule time. Several of our members have spent much time in seeking for a Pearl of great price, and certainly school is a promising place to look for a Jewel. Our most fortunate freshman always bangs his hat upon a Silver nail. Some have been known to say Grace the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night. One of the boys is going to pick violets when May comes. The president of the class has preserved peace by seeing a Barber, and if Mr. Jones docs not do likewise, we hope he will at least see a Dyer. As we journey up the Hill of knowledge we are “happy as a Miller, and we pluck Daisies from along the different Rhodes, which all lead to the summit of the Hill. Soon the curtain will drop upon us as a Freshman class, and we will form the “Mighty tribe of Sophmores to be the most distinguished class of Second Years in the annals of the Oshkosh Normal School. O. A. ► 37 ! Grammar Room Graduates. 4 m - 39 r The Normal Twenty-five ears Ago. e Dear Quiver: Twenty-five years are a long time looking forward, but they are much abbreviated looking backward. Passing beyond them to the years of my studentship at the Normal, I find myself in a great hall of incident and experience. Some of these incidents and experiences are too personal for public narration, and some cannot be related without unanimous consent. Standing on the old rostrum, a fearful familiar place. I see again the confident faces of old time friends and fellow pedestrians. We were walking up hill then adas ra% and barring those who have fallen by the way, we are walking up hill yet. Sometimes the hill is rocky and precipitous, and the air is cold and congealing, but the bright fires of promise and hope burn cheerfully at the top. In June, 1875, the pioneer graduates of the Oshkosh Normal School were lined up for final exhibition. The exhibition over, they exchanged photographs, shook hands, severed fond attachments and associations, and stepped out into the world of strife and struggle. Their literary efforts on that occasion are now musty and cob-webbed, but some friendly antiquarian may recover them for the enlightenment and inspiration of the new century. We were a band of eight sturdy men and women, and we frequently supplemented the cirriculum by performances not suggested by Virgil or Euclid. Half of us arc still in the work for which we were trained, and death has not yet broken our ranks. Of the faculty in 1875, eight noble souls, only one is now connected with the school. Half have departed this life; and the leading spirit, the great force, the heroic commander of that strong and devoted company, was the last to go. He built his own monument day by day, and, as he built, inscribed it with the greatness of his character. His great personality is enthroned forever within its walls, and his memory is immortally enshrined within its spacious precincts. Twenty-five years ago the Oshkosh Normal School was small in size the original building can scarcely be distinguished among its many enlargements—small in the number of its students, and small in the number of its teaching force. With few exceptions, the students had considerable experience in teaching. Many were descending the hill of life, and silver hairs 40 told of the inevitable march of lime. Among them were acknowledged orators, poets, painters and musicians. Several were married, and some were old enough to enjoy the dignity of grand parent. Others were clandestinely planning alliances of serious intent. None of these was immediately consummated, and most of them ended as do many of the most careful plans of mine and of other men. If the seniors of 1875 contemplated such entanglements, they were indefinitely postponed. To this day only three have preferred partners, the remaining five having elected to play the game of life alone. The discipline of the school twenty-five years ago was severe, and sometimes stern. Our indulgences, therefore, were in restraint, but now and then we found a way to expend our accumulated social energies. A characteristic lecture on the perversity of human nature, and the fallibility of the human mind, was sure to be our reward for such laxity of purpose and conduct. Hut our great chief'was as severe and stern to himself as he was to us; and it was with a thrill of joy that I heard he had, in after years, greatly relaxed the rigor of his rule. The mental discipline was of the highest and most efficient order. Our previous reading, in most cases, had been desultory and disconnected, and our knowledge lacked classification and concentration. All this was changed to system, method and order, and made to contribute to right study and thinking. The Normal Lyceum was our only literary society. It was started in 1872 with about a dozen charter members, but it soon became a strong and influential factor in the progress of the school. We felt lonely, however, and in 1874 ladies were admitted to membership. Their value was at once recognized and appreciated, and, as a partial compensation, the gentlemen were assidious in observing the courtesies of their sex. This assiduity was at first a mere matter of duty, but it soon deteriorated into fervor, intrigue and rivalry. I mention no names, but I cannot forget some things. I must forbear writing about the first “Commencement Exercises.” The picture,—faculty, graduates, audience, decorations, all is unfolded to me now in dramatic interest and effect. President Albee’s address to the class has lost none of its clearness and cogency with the passing of time. In conclusion, let me say that even in 1875, the Oshkosh Normal was a great educational institution. It was great in purpose, great in earnestness, great in character, and great in results; and whatever of fame and honor have come to it since, rest upon the pedestal of its trial years. Fama semper viva . Yours truly, Ed. Loughlin 41 Emily F. Webster. Emily F. Webster, A member of the class of 75, the first to graduate from the Oshkosh Normal school. Miss Webster celebrates at this commencement the twenty-fifth anniversary of her graduation, and completes at the same time twenty-five years of service as a teacher in the institution. Employed first as instructor in Latin, and later as the head of the department of mathematics, she has always occupied a responsible position in the school, and a leading place in the faculty. The many years during which she has belonged to the Oshkosh Normal in the capacity of student and teacher bespeak more forcibly than any words, the estimation in which she has been held by those connected with it, and responsible for it. An institution is the embodiment of an idea. A normal school embodies the idea of better education, and the hope of attaining it through improvement in the teaching art; but one that would hope to secure such improvement by precept only would meet with disappointment. It takes the inspiring example of great teachers to stir the ideals, fix the aims, and arouse the spirit of those who would themselves be great in the teaching profession. Kor this reason no school stands in such need of gifted and powerful teachers as a normal school. Almost above all others, they need instructors of clear and logical mind, accurate scholarship, inspirational power and moral force. The possession of such men and women in their faculties is their richest dower. Of such teachers the Oshkosh Normal has had a share, and among them stands the name of her whose twenty-fifth anniversary we here commemorate. These years, so full of helpful work and helpful influence, so great with the dauntless spirit of resolution, have contributed to the growth and helped to form the character of this institution. The school and faculty are one in their grateful recognition of this fact, and in the hope that the relation established in the past and sustained so ably, may long continue. Alumni and Alumnae. In days of old, when our progenitors were brutes. And had their living chietly off from nuts and roots: When spears and clubs and scalping knives were highly prized. And wars, barbaric might, was apotheosized: When slippery altars sent their mists of blood on high. And women were but slaves, we spelled it with an “i.” Tempus fugebat. and with it went our bloody knives and spears. We learned to live on meats and grains and drink the cup that cheers; We learned the convenience of a house, the mystery of song. Our matted hair—we cut it short, our garments we made long; We learned to trade and print, we learned to sell and buy. We grew more civilized, but still we spelled it with an “i.” Men rose, and women too, and slowly through the years Bach gained in sacred rights against conservation's fears. Heart grew to heart, and hand to hand, and whatever art was tried, Man did it freer, better far with woman at his side. It was not gain to womankind nor to man, but to humanity: Yet still we wrote it with an “i” though sometimes with an “a:.” The years sped on and gates of opportunity long denied To woman, swung on their rusty hinges, opening wide. Now no man shall set the bounds of usefulness of each; The trained hand, the thoughtful brain, the spirits broader reach; Kach with right and purpose manifold is not for man alone. The message speeds with winged feet afar o’er land and sea, To every age and race to write it “i,’’ and also “a . Alumni and alumna , a union equal, thereon doth sit. The battle-won approval of God's shining coronet. We pledge anew our hands and hearts though ways be dark and long, Klatc with lofty purpose -soul reverencing, strong. And of all old-times fruitions, the noblest one shall be The victory over error—won by the i and “a-. W. C. Hkwitt, Class iSgi-iqoo. 44 The Normal of Today. It is said that the Oshkosh Normal School has made a great advance since its early days, but be that as it may, today it is one of the most powerful institutions of learning in the state. When the Normal School was started, it was not much more than an experiment, but the foundation stones were laid by one who knew how to do the work, and was willing to give his life to see that the foundation was perfect, and that pillars were reared which would stand for generations to come. Over five hundred students now attend the Normal. The last week in August, if you happen to be in Oshkosh, you will see numbers of woeful looking students wandering about the streets near the Normal looking for boarding places. A large per cent, of the students are high school graduates who enter the Junior year of the course. For the first week or two most of the new students lookas if they wish they had not come, for the classes are large and everyone is a stranger; but worst of all, everyone seems to know more than you do. This feeling soon wears off, however. The old students have been looking the new students over very carefully and critically. You are besieged with invitations to join the literary societies, the Phoenix or the Lyceum, or if you are so lucky, even the Philakean. Of course, you join the best one. Then the football season opens, and you are given a very pressing invitation to pay your quarter and join the Athletic Association. In addition to these societies are the Glee Club, Browning Club, German Circle, etc., while the quiet, inspiring influence of the young men’s and young women’s Christian associations is felt all through the school. In the winter quarter interest runs high in the oratorical contest. Society feeling is strong at the time of the final contest; the society that wins is overjoyed, while those that loose accept defeat gracefully, and by the time the Inter-Normal contest comes off all the school is ready to cheer its representative on to success. Life at the clubs seems to have become very popular at the Normal. Perhaps a dozen different clubs are formed at the beginning of each year. This is done for the purpose of lessening the expense of living, as well as for the sake of social advantages. The school has grown so rapidly in the last few years that it has become quite impossible to give to each person the amount of individual attention necessary to the best work, and the building is entirely too small for the present requirements. In looking over the past history of the school great things can certainly be prophesied for the future. With the buildingof the new wing still greater things will be expected, and as the alumni anxiously watch its progress they shall see it soar far beyond anything in the past. 46 ► Elizabeth Shepard. A Year With the cMormons. Two years ago when I entered upon a contract to teach in the University of Utah, the thought came to me that I might see something of the Mormons, but it did not occur to me that they would have anything to do with the university. Had I been a little wiser I should have known how to interpret the closing lines of a letter from the principal, in which he spoke of the climate and said. “I think you will like our people.” Little did I suspect to whom “our people” referred. Judge of my surprise a few weeks later to receive a letter from one of the teachers stating that nearly all the people associated with the university were Mormons. She evidently wished to prevent me from making such a mistake, as my predecessor did when she innocently said to the Morman principal on her first arrival, “I promised my mother that I would have nothing to do with the Mormons.” What the effect of this information might have been, had it came earlier, I cannot say at this time. It was too late to change my mind, so I concluded that I would test the validity of my belief in the ••Fatherhood of (iod and the Brotherhood of Man.” Having heard so much of the beauty of Salt Lake City, I was a little dtsappointed on my arrival. This was partly due to the season of the year, for the mountains in the grays and browns of September are not so impressive as in winter when the snow-capped peaks are a constant soursc of inspiration, or in the spring time when the tender green of the slopes offers a pleasing contrast to the radiant whiteness above; but it was partly due to the fact, that unlike the tourist. I did not seek out all the attractions the first few days. I had a more immediate problem. My chief interest was in the people. No one could have been kinder than some of the Mormons were to me from the first day I met them. Many, however, seemed to think it the part of wisdom to proceed slowly in getting acquainted with a stranger. When I became better acquainted with them, I did not wonder that people, born in such an isolated community, and accustomed from their earliest years to rehearsals of the persecutions undergone for the sake of establishing what they consider to be the true religion, should guard with jealous care their institutions, and should look with suspicion at one coming from outside the community. Whatever we may believe about the leaders of this movement, we cannot but be convinced that the people who were willing to undergo the hardships incident to leaving their homes, crossing a continent, and making new homes in the desert, were sincere. There is no doubt that many of them believed that they were obeying the direct command of God. That the descendants of such a superstitious people are sending abroad for teachers is 40 a hopeful sign. They are beginning to realize that the welfare of the community demands inter-relations with other communities. The relations between the Mormons and Gentiles of the city have always been more or less strained, and it will, no doubt, take time to adjust them. Probably nothing contributed so much at first to make me wonder if I were in dreamland, as the rude little adobe houses, with from three to six front doors, the quaint turrets on the old wall which surrounds the tithing place just across from the Temple, the Lion House and Bee Hive, once residences of Brigham Young, the Eagle (late, and the queer old cemetery where we may read from the groupingof the graves and from the quaint inscriptions on the rude pine slats, with which many of them are marked, much of the early history of the city. These queer sights together with the stories which the Gentiles are fond of telling to newcomers, produced such an effect upon me that for a time I did not wish to know more of them. I even found myself shrinking from books on Mormonism which I happened to see in the Public Library. I knew that there were some people in the university who were not Mormons, but I did not dare to make any inquiries. I tried to ignore the subject. After a few weeks, when they were convinced that I was there to help them, they all treated me as cordially as if I had been one of their own people. No one can work with the young people without being impressed with their vigor and their earnest desire to make the most of their opportunities. Nowhere have I found a more natural attitude toward learning than among these people. They are remarkably open-minded. This may be because they have had sufficient contact with outside intluences to stimulate, but not enough to interfere with their own natural development. Both teachers and students arc eager for the very best that can l e found in educational methods, and to avail themselves of it, the teachers are as ready to take a trip across a continent as we are to take one across a state. Last June, in an address to the students. President Kingsbury remarked that the University of Utah was destined to be a great institution, for it was a place where people had freedom to think. It seems to me that no influence can tell so powerfully upon the future of Utah as her schools. I believe that the transformation that has been wrought in the lives of the young people who have availed themselves of the opportunities for higher education, together with the progressive spirit in the schools, are facts which indicate what the future of Utah is to be. Katharine E. Dorn . 47 The Oratorical (Association I‘r 'i4tml LEO SCHUSSMAN. I'kr 1‘rstiJtal ARTHUR ROW. SttrHory SOPHIE PEEK. 7Vm w CLARA KAPS. The Oratorical Association is by far the strongest society in the school, being, as it were, the binding tie of all the literary societies of the school. During this year the association has done much for the school as a whole. The contests, both the preliminary and the final, were of the highest standard. Never before has a final oratorical contest been given within our school which showed such an advancement in oratory, and such power in strong delivery. Each oration in the contest was of a high type, and would have been a credit to any normal school or university. The excursion to Milwaukee, one of the brighest spots in the history of the school year, under the capable management of the association, was a complete success from beginning to end. It was one of the factors which led to our splendid success in the management of the Inter-State meet on May 4. It is through the Oratorical Association that we have a bond of union with our sister normals within the state, and it is also through this organization that our interests are continued within the states of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Iowa. The work of the association cannot be appreciated by the average member of the school until he stops to think how much has been done for him through the untiring efforts of the society. The “good time” at Stevens Point in ’ 9, the “better time” at Milwaukee in ’00, and the “best time” at Oshkosh on May 4, are but synonyms for the work of the Oratorical Association. Who will ever forget May 4, 1900? No normal student, surely. The day will always be looked upon as one of the brightest sj ots in our school life. It was the first inter-state oratorical contest held in Wisconsin, and it will be thirty-five years before the honor can be again conferred upon the Oshkosh school. Many of the delegates from Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Kansas, paid their first visit to Wisconsin. Let us hope that our earnest efforts of hospitality were appreciated, and that we put as much pleasure into their lives as their visit gave us. The association is now closing its fifth year. Each year has been more successful than the preceding. Let us hope that its success may continue, for when we consider what an important organization the association is, we see that the advancement of the school along literary lines rests upon the strength of the Oratorical Association. 49 Oar Orators. r Fred J. Turner. 60 To ten Thompson. George V. Kelley. The Inter-State Normal Oratorical Contest. The culminating point of interest, as regards the Oshkosh students of 1900, was reached Friday, May 4, when, for the first time in the history of the Inter-State Oratorical League, the contest was held in Oshkosh. In 1899, after it had been decided that the state of Wisconsin was to have the contest this year, a carefully selected committee was sent from the Oshkosh school to the meeting at Stevens Point. They were given instructions to do everything possible to secure the contest of 1900 for Oshkosh, and it was largely due to the strenuous efforts of Mr. Bridgeman that it was finally secured. He promised that if Oshkosh should have the contest all visitors would be entertained free of charge. Remembering this promise the students of 1900 began their preparations to carry it out. weeks before the contest. Every one seemed anxious to help. Many citizens kindly threw open their homes for the entertainment of visitors. Shares in the “stock company'’ were in great demand by both students and faculty. The enterprise was bound to be a success. Various committees were appointed, who left nothing undone which might add to the comfort and pleasure of the guests. The committee on entertainment met all trains, so the visitors would be in no danger of getting lost. The committee on decorations turned the rooms of Professors Lough and Clow into very pretty reception rooms by substituting for their every day furniture pictures, couches, easy chairs, and rugs. It was in these rooms that groups of students could be seen at all hours of those two interesting days, becoming acquainted with the delegates. Strange faces were in evidence everywhere about the building early Thursday forenoon and a quiet excitement reigned. The first delegation to arrive was that of Illinois. They were easily recognized bv their red and white badges. Later eager watchers at the windows saw a group of people with badges of old gold, who expected with their “Mark Twain of the Sunflower State to rival all others in wit and humor. Further down the street came the twenty Minnesingers from Iowa with their neat little bows, and not far behind were the representatives of Missouri. The reception given to the visiting delegations was an event long to be remembered. The auditorium was scarcely large enough to hold all the students and their guests. The meeting was opened by President Halsey, who extoled the merits of Oshkosh both because of its hospitality and because it was, he said, the center of the universe. After welcoming the visitors he introduced Mr. G. V. Kelley, the chairman of the evening. Mr. Kelley made a few appropriate remarks and then introduced various speakers 51 in order. Their speeches were all brief and interesting, that of Prof. J. Y. Hill, of Kansas, being especially witty and well received. He maintained that not Oshkosh, but Kmporia, Kansas, must of necessity be the center of the universe for at Kmporia the sky descends to the earth at an equal curve all around the horizon. Other speakers of the evening were Miss Florence Pitts of Illinois, Stephen McMahon of Milwaukee. Prof. Donnelly of Missouri. and E. C. Hill of Iowa. The remainder of the program consisted of music and a drill by the grammar department graduates of last quarter, who represented characters from the works of F. Hopkinson Smith. The ladies quartette from Illinois rendered several selections which were much appreciated. After the program the visitors were escorted to the offices of the president, where they were given a formal reception by the reception committee consisting of President Halsey, Miss Josephine Henderson, Mr. Fred Turner, Miss Elizabeth Hansen, Mr. Roy Ozanne and Miss Olive Abbott. The gymnasium, to which the guests were then taken, was scarcely recognizable in its festive appearance. Refreshment booths tastefully arranged with bunting in the different school colors, had been erected in various parts of the room. One of the most attractive was that of Kansas, which was very appropriately made of sunflowers. Resides the booths for the visiting states there were two others. One for Wisconsin was draped in the Oshkosh school colors, white and gold, and also the state color, maroon. The other was the booth for the Inter-State League, made principally of emerald bunting, emerald being the league color. In the music room, which had also been decorated, were served refreshments in the form of ice cream and cake. The Minnesingers from Iowa rendered several selections which added greatly to the enjoyment of the evening. The reception was in every way a success. Through it the guests were given a good impression of the hospitality of Wisconsin in general and Oshkosh in particular. Friday morning the students received an unexpected treat in the form of short talks by many of the visitors. The remarks made were all very interesting and inspiring. They showed the good feeling existing between the various units of the oratorical league. Prof. Donnelly, of Missouri, arranged his talk so as to bring in a story, for he said the previous evening he had been given no chance to tell one. The story of the superstitious negro, who was made to drop his turtle by a fun loving ventriloquist, was very appropriate after his remarks on the advisability of students dropping all but four studies. Prof. Hill of Kansas, then remarked that Missouri resembled his state in several respects, one resemblance being that in both states were to be found negroes. He also stated that the Kansas Normal has as many as two thousand students and that he had come to love them all. President McKinney of the Milwaukee Normal told of the interest he was beginning to take in Wisconsin, his home having been in Michigan until the past few months. He said he was sure since Prof. Hill could love two thousand students, he would be able to take a warm interest in two states. The speeches of Regents F. A. Ross and J. J. Fruit were both interesting. Regent Fruit caused considerable laughter by his remark that although the day was 62 too cold for fruit to thrive, it had not affected him. The remarks made by Superintendent Jordan of Minneapolis, and President McNeill of the Superior Normal were very instructive. Miss Elizabeth Mavity of Normal. Illinois, told how anxious she had been to visit the Oshkosh Normal in order to see whether the statement made by the three Illinois debaters was true, they having made the remark that they never had seen so many pretty girls in one place before as in the Oshkosh Normal. After the speeches and the singing of our school song, recitations were conducted during the forenoon, but the afternoon was given up to the ball game between the Milwaukee and Oshkosh school teams. The Milwaukee delegation, numbering two huddred and forty-one, arrived Friday morning on a special train. They carried the pennants of the Wisconsin color, maroon, and waved them vigorously while marching along the thououghfares to their places of entertainment. On the evening of the contest, as early as seven o’clock the streets around Opera House Square were crowded with excited people. At eight the house was packed to the doors. Rather than miss the contest many sat in the windows, on stairs, and even on every available inch of the stage. Besides the sea of faces there were hundreds of ribbons, canes, and pennants of many designs, making the scene from the stage indeed bewildering. Not only bewildering to the eye but to the car as well. Never before in Oshkosh had there been such crowds assembled atone place to make nse of ear splitting yells as safety valves for their enthusiasm. Milwaukeee delegates had been in the house but a few minutes before they vigorously made known their existence by beginning the yell, “Rickety-rick! Rickety-rick! What’s the matter with orator Chick?” Other Wisconsin schools, not wishing to be outdone by Milwaukee, made the air ring with “T-rali-rah Wisconsin,’’ the Normal orchestra played the lively tune, “They'll Surely Have to Telegraph the Dailies,” and soon a thousand voices were endeavoring to the best of their ability to impress the visitors with their strength. Stevens Point had assembled their goodly numbers in the center of the balcony, and every now and then their enthusiasm would burst forth in one of their numerous yells. Wisconsin was not the only state that revealed its school spirit. Illinois brought two quartets to lead their songs, and as to their yells,—well, whether they brought a leader for them or not. they were certainly vigorous. For an hour or more the din was kept up, then, as the orators came upon the stage, yells were forgotten, and attention was directed toward the contest. The exercises were opened with a prayer by Rev. E. H. Smith. The orations were interspersed with musical selections. Miss Linton, of Stevens Point, sang a solo with violin obligato by Miss Hein, of Stevens Point, and various clubs and quartets contributed to the musical part of the program, but the Minnesingers took the palm. They were recalled again and again, and responded with such clever selections that they elicited three cheers for Iowa. Each orator did well. No evident mistakes were made. When Wisconsin's orator finished, some Milwaukee delegate, too jubilant to be res 53 trained, gave the old veil, “What's the matter with Chick ?” and the crowds shouted in reply, “He’s all right. After the last oration, the judges retired to determine the places of the contestants. While they were gone, several musical selections were given, and the Illinois delegates responded with a song to the red light which illuminated the house, red being their state color. Before other colored lights appeared, the judges returned with the decision, and perfect silence reigned. The anouncement, “The second place has been awarded to Mr. Whitelaw, of Missouri,” was greeted with a short applause. All were anxious to hear the rest. ‘Hie first place again goes to Wisconsin. Scarcely had the words been spoken when they were greeted by such a shout as only a thousand well developed pairs of lungs can utter. Cheer after cheer broke forth from the excited students. Bunches of colored paper were thrown from the gallery and fluttered down upon the heads of the people on the lower floor. “Chick ! Chick 1 Chickcring !” came from the Milwaukee students on every side. Chickcring, the hero of the occasion, was seized and hoisted to the shoulders of several sturdy Wisconsin boys, and carried up and down the stage amid cheers and congratulations. For a time, everybody joined in the cheering, but Milwaukee, well, their vocal organs were completely exhausted before they ceased shouting and returned to the train, which took them home, a tired, but supremely happy delegation. This was the fifth contest that had been held under the Inter-State League, and although it is the third time Wisconsin has secured the first pri .e, it is thought to have been the hottest and most successful contest of the five. The Oshkosh students received more than the pleasure of being on the winning side. They had the pleasure of knowing that they kept up the reputation of Oshkosh as a city of hospitality. They learned, through Mr. Dempsey’s careful management, how much could be done to make such entertainment a financial success. Then, too, they were helped by coming in contact with students and teachers from other schools. They were made to realize what could be done in the line of a musical club, having the Minnesingers as an example. They were informed that there were other schools larger than theOshkosh Normal, but this only helped to strengthen their belief that their school is the best. M. Me. 54 Inter-State Orators Bessie Arnold, Iowa. Charles Whitten, Illinois. Mary B. Martin, Kansas. The Philakcun Society. J M ‘'Philakean. Prtth tmt- FRANK YOUNG. Ykt-PrtMUfmt K. R. HAMILTON. Sefrtiary hhJ Drtasmrtr LEWIS II. MOULTON. That you may understand, � ir, Wc art a loyal t and, sir. That lire throughout the Normal, Wc shout I'hilakran. Yes, shout Philakeau, for yours is the right to shout. The laurels of victory are jours. Child of but two years growth, jou have won the oratorical contest of 1900. Great is the achievement of this infant Hercules, strangling the twin serpents in its cradle. The history of the Philakean is too well known to need rehearsal. Her meteoric rise to her present power and eminence is familiar to all. How in the school days of ’99, men representing the wit, the talent, the power of the institution, conceived this idea of so noble fruitage, how a dozen adventurous spirits started the “loyal band Philakean” on its “bravocaim.” With what success this band pursued the course, are familiar facts. The Philakean stands for good-fellowship and intellectual growth. In colleges we have the fraternities which bring the men of the colleges int close social relations, while at the same time ministering to their intellectual needs. In the normal schools, the social element is apt to be overlooked by those who most need what helpful influence it can afford, or may be sought in too great measure by a class of the opposite tendency of mind. We have known societies where the chief reason for their existence was the safe passage of the young ladies to and from the place of meeting. On the other hand we have known individuals of such ill-balanced natures that they could not understand this demand of human clay for this social element; a class who would turn the meeting place into a class room. Philaken seeks to avoid both of these evils. Occasionally, as a denial of the character of confirmed woman haters, the members entertain the ladies, and great has been the enjoyment therefrom. It has been the custom to give an annual banquet, for they do not altogether condemn the doctrines of the worthy Epicures, and these revels of wit and feasting are looked forward to each year with many pleasant emotions. And then the winter sleighride. One star-lit winter night sleigh bells jingled their glad music. Philakean, Philakean, the tinkling metals seemed to cry. It was a happy party. Oh! nights of mirth, oh! nights of jollity, oh! nights of royal relaxation from worry and care, only the Philakean knows thee, only the Philakean can treasure thee in enduring memory. But is this all ? Are these people content with giving sieighrides, banquets, and once a year winning the oratorical contest? No. The society carries on successful and spirited meetings. Proficiency in debate, readiness of wit and skill in expression, is being gained. The great function of the literary society is being realized. Onward in the cause of culture, onward with zeal and hope for the issue. Onward, oh band Philakean. whose glorious name shall one day live throughout the land. L. H. M. 57 The Phoenix Society. The Phoenix Literary Society. Pr tiJmt II. MARK FRANKLIN. I%v PrttiJtmt—JAMES KELLY. Sftr htrr CLARA KAI’S. Trtamrtr ANTON JARSTKD. This is an age when women’s clubs, labor organizations, religious congresses and teachers' associations j ossess the social energies of mankind. Women in their afternoon clubs do things in a business-like way and according to Robert’s Rules of Order. This is an age when he who would move among men, must be capable of understanding their social organizations through which men now express themselves. To fit men for the duties of the club and association, the Protarean society was formed for men only, in the early history of the school. Soon, however, these Adams realized that there was a void in their ‘Paradise.’ The fair sex was then admitted within the pale of membership. The consequent success of the “Phoenix,” as the society was then called, demonstrated the truth of the sentence, “It is not good for ‘men’ to be alone.” Although the school boasts of the successful existence of a men's society, even this superior organization adjourns in time to allow its members to “line up” at the doors of the “sister societies,” as sweet feminines start homeward after lettingeacli “John” speak for himself. Surely, “God made the sexes to associate!” It is on the platform of the Phoenix that men and women are trained to stand fearlessly before their fellowmen and address them intelligently on the live questions of the day. It is in the Phoenix in the present, as in the Phoenix of the past, that thinkers on social, economic, scientific and philosophic questions are developed, and where, “Culture, not Show,” becomes the secret motto of the success of many an individual. The Phoenix can boast the honor of having furnished most of the debating and oratorical material for the year. With George V. Kelly and Tosten Thompson to represent us in the final oratorical contest, we carried off second and third prizes. The team debating Normal Illinois is made up entirely of Phoenix members, in the personnel of Leo G. Schusman, Edward Dempsey4 and Charlotte Buchanan. For four successive years the bust of Lincoln has graced the Phoenix halls, and with John Murray, H. B. Patch, and Mae F. Kelly on the inter-society debate, the continued possession of the bust is assured. From the ranks of the Phoenix there has risen to “its majestic height. Tosten Thompson, who was chosen valedictorian of the class of 1900. The faculty also chose George T. Arnold to deliver one of the three alumni addresses. The poet who filled last year's Quiver with his rhyme, again courts public favor, as B. Mark Franklin, poet of the class of 1900. The vice president of the Inter-Normal League for the coming year is Mr. James Cow-gill. Mr. George V. Kelly has served as secretary and treasurer of the Inter-State Oratorical League during the present year. 59 I The Lyceum. Lyceum Society. Prt Utml BYRON COOLEY. Vu-f.PrfM.1fHt FRED SCHWARTZ. Sfcrftary M ABEL STON E. Trtamrrr LAWRENCE JOHNSON. The Lyceum may well be proud of the excellent work it has done this year. The results are evident to all who are interested in the training- which is derived from association with a literary society of the highest standard. The debates given have dealt with all the leading questions of the day, social, economic and political, the declamations and orations have been pleasing combinations of the artistic and the instructive, and the mock trials would have done credit to lawyers of far greater fame than ours. Many members of the faculty and prominent outsiders have honored us with their presence and talks. All the members have like opportunities for receiving the training in debating, declaiming, and for practice in parliamentary usage. This is provided for by a law that no person shall appear on the programme the second time until all other members have taken part. The debates are usually thrown open to general discussion, and each member is expected to take an active part in these discussions. Excellent parliamentary practice is received by those who take part in the lively business meetings. It would be difficult to find a society containing fewer persons who simply occupy space. We have a live society, one that is composed of energetic, thinking, young men and women, who are not content to sit by and let some one else do the work and receive the benefits. Each member feels that this is his society, and that he must do his part to maintain the high standard. In our society there is no feeling of rivalry, but the common good is the aim of each member. We are fellow workers, and as such we endeavor to elevate each other. Strife is a stranger in our midst. Our motto is ever kept in mind, and we firmly believe in it, and live up to our belief. What more appropriate motto for such a society than “We shape our own destinies?” To those who are here for the first time, orto those who have not already become a member of one of our school societies, we extend a cordial invitation to join our ranks and become co-workers in the Lyceum society. 01 Phoenix 'Debaters. Henry B. Patch. Mae Kelley. John Murray. Lyceum Debaters. D. K. Allen. Nora Tollefson. William De Kelver. Junior 'Phoenix Society. I’miJful—JA M ES NORRIS. I ROGER JONES. Srcrrturyr MATMII.HK GILLIS. Trtofurtr—CWA R I.ES V EI.TK. The manner in which to judge the workings of a society is by the product of its labors. Never before in its history has the Junior Phoenix been prouder of its productions of oratory and eloquence. During the present school year, great advancement and reform has come out of the labor of this society. Among these great reforms is the changing of the name of the society, which was formerly the Academy Literary Society, but is now the Junior Phoenix. The principal reason for this change was to bring the society into closer relation with her sister societies at the Normal, and to claim from them the respect which is due such a society. The most potent factors in pushing this matter were Rach, Rowell and Bowen, the former and latter being strong members of the Phoenix proper. “Unity! Unity! now and forever” seems to be the motto of our society, and especially while under the guiding hand of Charles Palmer, who was ever and always kept in spirits by the winsome countenance of his secretary. Mr. Palmer is a very strong advocate of protection, and especially bodily protection, so says his secretary. Much credit is due the program committee, and especially to its chairman, Mr. Weeks, as the programs were well enjoyed by both visitors and members of the society, judging from the regular attendance at the meetings. The business meetings form a very interesting part of the evening’s program. When a person could hear (all at the same time), Bowen rising for information, Rach rising to a point of order, and Weeks rising to give information, and last of all. President Palmer ruling them all out of order, and giving the floor to Velte, who talked on order, who could go away and say but that it was an interesting meeting, and he had thoroughly enjoyed it, looking at it from no other than the standpoint of a visitor? 63 The Ale'.hean Soc;ety. The Alethean Society. I’midwt JULIA WITT LIN. VUf Prrfkitmt ALVINA KODENHECH. Sfer lttrr— H A WHITE. Trtamr’fr MINNA MYERS. In a school as large as the Oshkosh Normal it becomes a necessity to have several societies, so that the membership may be so limited that each person can get the training for which she joined. With few societies in a large school, either each must be too large for good work or there must be many persons who are not associated with any society. Realizing this to be true we have organized the Alethean and have stated our purpose in the name we have adopted which means, “Seekers after truth.” The privilege of using the truths which great minds have discovered and given to us. and of making these truths our own, are some of the greatest blessings this age has bestowed upon us. It is not enough that we should get these thoughts in any form. Let us go to some of the great writers; men who have clothed the truth in such beautiful language that it has a double hold on us, and, cultivating a love for their works, come, in time, to be like them. If we till our minds with the good, the beautiful, and the useful, taking the highest as our standard, we can feel assured that our society will be composed of true Aletheans. There has been the usual opposition, but we intend to make each bit of resistance a round in the ladder by which we will reach the top where we know there is always room for all who may succeed in attaining that height. We feel that it is a waste of time to debate dead questions for the sake of debating, or to bring before the society selections from any but the best authors. Why not in all things get the noblest, the most beautiful, and the best that the world has given and use them to build up more perfect character. The programs consist of debates, declamations, readings, and music. The debates are on questions of present interest subjects, from which the disputants and audience get useful knowledge as well as training in delivery, thought and composition. The declamations and readings are selected from our best authors. We will be glad to welcome all ladies of the school having the required qualifications, until the limit of membership is reached. 05 Ibe Junior Vkilakean. PrttUtn! SEYMOUR HKYMAN . Vie Prstidtmt -DOS RICH. Sfrrftmry a J Treasurer HKKT KICKS. The spirit of enterprise and love of debate is not confined to the Normal department. Its influence is felt throughout the school and in the higher grades especially, a desire for improvement in this line has been awakened. With this object in view, the Philakean of the Grammar Department was organized. This society is a branch of the Philakean of the Normal Department and owes much to it for the kind assistance received. The boys do good and earnest work, and while as yet. the society boasts of no Websters. nor Burkes, its prospects for the future are certainly very bright. 60 Students' Christian (Association mkn'shkakcii. OFFICERS: wmit ’ hkascii. FrtsUt at •. CM AS. C. McCUNB...............................ELIZABETH HANSEN Normal I ’tee President: ANTON MINSAKT..................................CRYSTAL BARTLETT Pref.tr,it, ry Viee Presideut: HIRAM SMITH................................... OLIVE ABBOT .1 odd Deft. Viee P ret ideal: V. C. GREEN WALT........ .............. FLORENCE SMITH tie ordiatf .Seere!a n •: CHAS. ABBOT.......... .................. ......NETTIE LA.MMKRS ‘orrerfoadirtg .Seer eta ry: O.J. KAUFFMAN ............................... ..JULIA SERVATY Treasurer: J. J. IIA ASS........................... . NETTIE VI BRER Side by side with the other organizations of the school stands the Students'Christian Association. This organization is now in its second year, and is an outgrowth of the Y. M. and Y. M. C. A., which preceded it in the school. It is strictly undenominational, the sole object being “to promote Christian character, Christian fellowship, and Christian work.” At the beginning of each year, the Christian Association gives its annual reception to the students and faculty; and at Thanksgiving time another reception is tendered those who do not have the good fortune of spending Thanksgiving at home. Both of these receptions are among the permanent social features of the school, and are always looked forward to with great interest. During the past year the Students' Christian Association has conducted ten Bible classes—five being composed of young ladies, and five of young men. These classes have been taught by members of the faculty, and students who are capable of doing such work. • The two branches hold separate devotional meetings Thursday evenings; and a joint students’ meeting is held Sunday mornings. The large attend-encc at these meetings is indicative of the interest which the students have taken in them. That the Students’ Christian Association meets a real demand of the Normal students’ life is being realized more and more each year. It gives an opportunity for the development of the fuller, higher life, which is in Christ, and which is an essential element in the teacher who is to mould the character of Wisconsin’s youth. 07 r Tht German Club. I'rttiJtnl A OKU A WIKTOK. VkcI're U Ht EMMA I . I,EVINGS. Secretary ARTHOR ROW. Trfximrtr AURA POWERS. Critic K. I,. SAUER H EKING. A knowledge of the German language has come to he an all-essential requisite of the cultured college student. The classics are being pushed from their j� osition of lofty eminence, their place being taken by modern lan guages, a knowledge of which links the student closer to the rest of mankind and breeds in him a true, cosmopolitan spirit. The Germans are pre-eminently a race of thinkers, scholars, and investigators; as such they exert a powerful influence on the thoughts and ideas of the day. In order to receive the full intellectual stimulus which can be derived from a perusal of the expressed thoughts of great intellects, we must be able to sip the cream of their productions, and if j ossible in the original, for a translation loses both in clearness of thought and elegance of expression. More and more do the students of this school appreciate this fact, and as a result the member-list of the German Club is constantly increasing. How could it be otherwise? Xo sooner do the members of the club reach the doors of the meeting room, when they sever the cords that bind them to the shallow, material world, and on etherial wings embark, to soar through realms of crystalline transparency, to spheres of nobler thought. With Goethe we drowse off into revery and are infatuated with prophetic visions of perfect life or human happiness, while Schiller bold and fearlessly portrays to us the crushing of the tyrant by the eternal, unrelenting hand of justice. One thing, without which a gathering of Germans would be inconceivable, we cultivate especially. This is music. Xo sooner have the echoes of “Die Wacht am Rhein” died away, when the sweet strains of “Die Lose-lier” fill the room with their melodious tones. The drama, too, we cherish, and each year a play is given bv the club, which is looked forward to with great expectation by the student body, for do we not hold the palm in the art of acting? This year, for the first time, did the German club go outside of the school to render its play. The reasons for this were many; the essential being that we wanted to come in closer touch with the people ot the city. It was successful, and it is hoped that the policy may be kept up in the future. Neither do we neglect the social side. Shortly before the winter holiday, a Christmas party was given, and any one who witnessed the jubilant faces gathered around the tree, or saw Prof. Dresden carry his “jumping Jack around the gymnasium, will agree that the jollification was a success. Xear the end of May the annual banquet took place, preceded by the declamatory contest. These were also pronounced successes. These few statements should be convincing enough to entice you, if desirious, to enter this circle and learn to read, orate, and converse, in the German language. 00 .! i Normal Glee Club. I’rtfiArut MISS OLSON. I i« V. . , � M R. THOM I SON. Secretary— K. McCUN K. Treasurer MR. AHOTT. Musical Director MISS HKWARl). r.i.KK Ci.i’ll Coi-ohs: Light blue. )'c i: Iltill.v! Ilully! Ilully! •« ! We’re the Oshkosh Normal Glee C - L - U - H. GLEE CLUB SONG. Tune,“The Tavern.” Words bv George T Arnold. I There is a Glee Club in the town, in the town. It is of fair and great renown, great renown. And when that club does together meet It sings sweet songs so softly sweet. CHOKCS. Come and hear its joyful chorus. And for more you will implore us, And a song, for you, we’ll sing so very sweet, sweet, sweet. Attend, attend, kind friends attend, attend, attend. A place where harmonies do blend, do blend. And with fortissimo the air we'll rend. But never will your ear offend. II The Club it regularly docs meet, does meet: The Music Room is its retreat, its retreat, On every Friday Afternoon, It meets within the Music Room. CHORUS. III May good singing ever be pur aim. be our aim. Our instructor lead us up to fame, up to fame: And whene’r we do in public sing. Our hearers us will homage bring. CHORUS. 71 While the Glee Club is continuous as a body, still it undergoes great changes from time to time. Every quarter it opens its doors to receive those knocking for admittance. Every June it must say “Farewell' to its oldest and best tried members. And every year when school opens, the dec Club has to go through an experience much resembling a re-organization. Yet the effects of those yearly disturbances, though keenly felt for a time, are always short lived; and never have we been more fortunate in this respect than at the beginning of the present year. Never did we begin with smaller numbers; never did our ranks fill more quickly, or to such a point of bursting; and never did the new members take up the work with greater enthusiasm. As a result the work of the club was quickly brought up to its high standard, and it has been kept there ever since; thanks to the efficient leadership of Miss Heward. On the evening of February 23 a reception and musical entertainment was given the (lice Club by President and Mrs. Halsey, at their home on Mt. Vernon street. A very interesting lecture on the, “Origin and Evolution of Music” was given by Mr. Jenkins. The talk was illustrated throughout by selections rendered by the (llee Club and by the Music Club of the city. After the lecture and the music, lunch was served, and a general good time indulged in by all. The members of the (llee Club will long remember that pleasant evening with Mr. and Mrs. Halsey. The next great event that we are looking forward to at the present writing is the annual Glee Club excursion. 72 A. Students’ Art Loan Gub. The Students cArt Loan Club. I'reuJeut NELLIE BULLARD. Vice PrttiJtHl EDITH MASON. Secretary unit Treasurer MR. TO|)I). The Students Art Loan Club organized last year is still prospering. Some changes, however, have been made in the club. One is that all members of drawing classes are now members of it. Sixteen new pictures have been added to the collection, making fifty-one in all. Ten of these are the popular Indian pictures by E. A. Burbank. That the students are glad to have the pictures for their rooms and appreciate the opportunity is shown by the appearance of their rooms some of which are made really beautiful by the pictures from the club and the pictures studied in their picture study which they have mounted and arranged tastefully on the mantels and walls. Much more has been done this year than ever before in the way of picture study in the school. Last year what work was done along this line was done outside of school hours. This year Miss Magee has made it a part of the regular work ami one class period of each week in second and third quarter of the High School class was devoted to a course in picture study. The class began with the old Italian artists and the whole of the second quarter's work centered around Raphael Michel Angelo, Leonardo de Vinci, Titian, and others. The Perry pictures were used and the study was made more interesting by the descriptions of the pictures, their coloring and other interesting things told by the instructor. In the third quarter the Spanish, German, French, and English masters were studied. The work was thoroughly en joyed by all and is something that will be kept by students as a short sketch of each artists life and description of the picture studied was written out and put into a portfolio which was decorated by thestudents. 76 1 The Browning Club. The browning Club♦ ■ The Browning1 Club has nearly completed its third year, and the members still have a keen interest in learning the message of the great poet. Browning had a message, though one has said: ‘A poet, qua poet, cannot deliver a message such as directly addresses itself to the intellectual or moral sense,’ that the appeal lies not through the substance but through the form or presentment of what he has to say. “The King and the Book has been the latest study of the club. This is his master production. It has been rightly called the greatest political achievement of the century. Through the terrible story told by eleven different persons from ten different points of view, the author presents all phases of motion. Nothing man, women, or child has been, done or suffered, or conceivably can be, do, or suffer, is omitted. While each narrative is loaded down with detail, yet each detail only makes more conspicuous the character of the narrator. Mr. Browning picked up the original parchment bound record of the France-Chini case in a stall of the Brazza San Lorenzo in the last days of his greatest happiness. He did not begin to write the work until four years later. In this time has come his greatest sorrow, the death of his wife. How closely their lives were interwoven, she has told in her own beautiful way, “Nobody exactly understands him but me. who am on the inside of him and hear him breath.” Through these years of pain, Pompilia developed, grew into shape. In reading the emotional passages as suggested by Mrs. Cerr, one hears ► a voice which is not Mr. Browning's own. an echo not of his past, but from it. Her mouth has fallen upon him for this purpose. From Mrs Browning the ideal Pompilia was born. In her pathetic nature we recognize his sainted wife. Her spirit guides his pen. The invocation of the dying Pompilia to Caponsaechi forms a hallo for her ascending spirit. Through such souls alone. God stooping, shows sufficient of his light For us in the dark to rise by, and I rise. In years to come, the evenings spent in this study will rise in mein ry freighted with pleasant thoughts. 77 ► i The Normal Orchestra. The cHprmal Orchestra. Fir Violin IIKNJAMIN LEITB. • Violin GEORGE WILLIAMS. Second Violin E. P. CRAIN. •• violin K. A. LEOW. Bn , P. TERNES. Flnte V. I . YOUNG. •• D. BLISSKTT. Clarion ! W. K. ZAIIST. Fir ti Corn ! THOMAS LARKINS. Second Come! O. OSBORNE. Trombone W. STOKLTING. The founding of new organizations and the higher standards attained by the older ones proves that the Oshkosh Normal School is not being left behind in this century of progress. The Normal Orchestra this year holds no second place in the list of organizations of the school. They were fortunate in getting an excellent teacher and leader at the beginning of the year. I’nder the able trainingof Prof. Zabst. classical overtures and other difficult selections were mastered. Among the pieces played during the year which met with universal favor, was a march dedicated to the class of 1900 by Kdward C. Crook. On January 11, the orchestra gave a very successful concert. The numbers rendered by the orchestra were the chief features of the program. I’nder the guiding hand of the business manager, Mr. Larkins, the orchestra was kept from financial embarrassment, and it is due largely to his efforts that the orchestra holds its position among the organizations of the school. The Oshkosh Normal School has good reason to take pride in her earnest, progressive students. The Normal Orchestra is only one example of the ability and possibilities which she fosters within her walls. 70 Inter-cKprmal Debaters. Charlotte Buchanan. Edward J. Dempsey. Leo G. Schussman. The Normal-Oshkosh ‘Debate. Last year our school met for the first time, a team outside the state in debate. At that time a challenge was sent to Normal University at Normal Illinois, which resulted in the defeat of our team. History repeats itself, and this year the schools met again and after a hard fought battle, Illinois was successful. The question was, “Resolved that our policy in the Phillipines is, and has been, just and wise.” Our team supported the negative. The Illinois debators were, Messrs. Roy F. Barton and Charles Whitten, and Miss Luella Dilley. Oshkosh was represented by Messrs. Leo G. Schussman and Edward J. Dempsey and Miss Charlotte Buchanan. Our delegation reports a pleasant trip and the best of entertainment. Nothing that could be done by the Normal people to make our visitors at home, was left undone. In fact our people were used so well that no two could tell the same story regarding the trip. The ladies of the delegation say that the Normal students are all men, while the gentlemen report that Normal University is fairly overrun with fair ladies. But none could speak too highly of the treatment received. It has been truly said that when two lads ride the same horse that one must ride behind, and it is hoped that, since Oshkosh has consented to ride behind for two years, when the Inter-State Pegasus is saddled and bridled next year, Illinois will have cause to say, “Here, sister, it is your turn to guide the steed, take the front seat, and thus we’ll ride on forever. 81 1 The Advance Staff. i Athletic Association + Officers. I’resident—Prof. Loug h Secretary—Nri.u r B ko w n Treasurer—Kent Morgan V executive Boarfc. Prof. Blair Prof. Mitciibll Lvwson Lurvky (Foot Hall) Prof. Hewitt (Tennis) A I.ICH Casey (Girls' flasket Hall) Albrrt Houghton (Hoys' Basket Hall) Guy Benedict (Track) Guy Wells (Base Hall) 84 9t 'The (Athletic Association, It is necessary for all schools to provide some means for training the student physically as well as mentally. One of the factors concerned in fitting the student physically is a gymnasium, which is provided for most schools. Another is an Athletic Association. This association in the Oshkosh Normal docs much to encourage out door sports and has under its mamageinent the various athletic school teams. The Gymnasium may do much to make the body symmetrical and strong but it can not give that mental discipline and out door exercise which the student gets from the match games which are played under the auspices of this association. All students who belong to the association are free to use all materials which belong to the organization. It is for these reasons and many others that students join, and should join, this association which helps so much to fit each one for present and also future, competition in life. 86 1 Foot Ball Team. Zfoot Ball Team. Manager- -Lawson E. Lvknby. Captain John Tracy. Right End—Dauni. Right Tackle—Konop. Right Guard— Overton and S. Allen. Center—Getsch. Left Guard—Scbwedc. Left Tackle—Rosenthal and Lloyd. Left End— Lawrence. Quarter Back—Scb l iber. Full Back—Halsey. Right Half Rack -Runnoe. Left Half Back—Tracy and Kenney. Substitutes- Simnicbt and T. Allen. 87 ► Football is a game which belongs principally to the schools of America. There are in the United States a few associations that organize football teams, but in no place has it gained so much prominence as in the high schools, normal schools, colleges and universities. During the first week of school, football enthusiasts of the Oshkosh Normal were busily engaged in finding men who would get out and try for the team. John R. Tracy was chosen captain. He lost little time in getting his men out for practice, and the team was soon organized. It was not until several games had already been played that Coach McMasters was secured. This was certainly a great help to the team. Although the list of victories was not as long as might have been desirable, yet the team gained a reputation of good, clean playing. The list of games played was as follows: Twin City Athletics at Menasha; Ripon College at Ripon; Ripon College at Oshkosh; Stevens Point Normals at Stevens Point; Twin City Athletics at Oshkosh; Whitewater Normals at Whitewater; Stevens Point Normals at Oshkosh; Milwaukee Normals at Milwaukee. 88 McCuite Umpirt Houghton T w I.ocw Stewart llalscv Stratoc |Rr(eree) Kunmw Benedict (Referee St� o|� « S.ninicht llaiuilton Ozanne BASKET BALL TEAM Basket Bali In the fall when the winds begin to blow from the north and the earth is clothed in her mantle of white, the athlete can no longer take part in outdoor games. It is then, if at no other time, that he feels content within the sheltering walls of a gymnasium. Among the indoor games, basket ball is certainly the most popular. In this game, as well as in base ball or foot ball, the interest of the individual must be subordinate to that of the group. It may not call for the same amount of physical courage as foot ball, yet as great if not greater, self-control is demanded. In our school this game has, in years past, been known chiefly as one in which only the members of the fairer sex could participate. Owing to the need of some indoor game and to our physical director, Miss Stoner, the gymnasium was opened also to the boys. It was not long before a sufficient number of men were out upon the floor for several teams. Mr. Rogers, who attended school and was a member of the Co. “E” team of Fond du Lac, which knew not defeat, coached the team as he found time. There is no one who has seen him out jpon a floor who would doubt his ability both as a coach and as a player. With his aid the members o the team were selected and games were played as follows: Stevens Point Normals, at Stevens Point. Ripon College at Ripon. Waupaca High School at Waupaca. Although the team did not have the pleasure of leaving the floor with victory bearing down upon them, the (Quiver feels safe in saying that victories could have been won if games had been played upon the home floor. Owing to the limited amount of room in our gymnasium this was not possible. The plan of having the gymnasium enlarged, if carried out, will do away with such difficulties and prove very valuable to the basket ball department. 90 A Poem on Basket Ball. WRITTEN BY AN AKHKNT AI MIKKK. If you ask me why this hub-bub, Why this flurry and confusion, I will answer, I will tell you, “Tis the prelude of the ball game,’’ With its cry of “time and ••places,” With its rush of goals and centers With its cry of foul for hugging. With the ball’s swift flight to basket. And the foiling of the guards. For the first team holds the floor. Should you ask me, “Whence these cheers, Thse wild ejaculations. With their frequent repetition ? I should answer. I should tell you, •‘From the balcony and doorways. From the Prep, steps and the rib-stools. Where the crowds that linger round us Watch with interest for the ending.” If still further you should ask me. Saying, “What hath wrought these changes ? What hath stirred us all to action ? I should answer, I should tell you, “Why, athletics is the fashion With fair maidens of our day.” 91 'Basket cBa!l. m 92 I I Tennis Club. Tennis. Long before nature is again clad in her richest garb of splendor, the tennis player has seized an opportunity to play his long looked for game. The courts are situated near the school building, and as the student is seated at his desk in the auditorium, such words as, “court.” “love,” “serve,” “all,” and “game” ring up through the open window. To one whose knowledge of the game is limited, this may seem a serious matter, and it will lead him to see if the player in “courting” “serves” “all” to his “love” in the usual way. On satisfying his curiosity by looking, he may be somewhat surprised to see the two players at a distance from each other and separated by a long net. Each holds quietly in the right hand the whole “racket.” Tennis, unlike football or base ball, is played by members of the both sexes. It is for this reason, if for no other, that the game should be encouraged as much as possible. The Athletic Association has charge of this department, and courts and nets are provided by this organization. To give the player a more immediate interest in the materials u ed, and to lessen the burden of expense to the association, it allows the players the privilege of providing for themselves rackets and tennis balls. To provide further for the encouragement of this game, tournaments may be held in which members of the different classes and societies meet each other to determine who has attained the greatest tennis skill. Owing to the new building which is to be added to the normal, the old courts have necessarily been abandoned. New courts have not yet been erected, and it is not expected that these will be in a serviceable condition before the beginning of the next school year. « 94 V Francis Jonca Messer Stewart TcsWc Hodden Kiieip Morgan Houghton Wells , Simnicht Miller Morisley Stoop Ozanne Benedict Fellenz BASE BALL TEAM Base Ball. Together with the sweet melodies of the birds of spring returns also the sound of the bat. Base ball is the great national game of America. It is- played not only by amateurs in our schools but is also taken up as a profession by a large number of people. It is true that some schools even go so far as to hire professional players. Where this is done, members of the school arc thereby deprived of the privilege of gaining the valuable training which it affords and the entire purpose as a school game is lost. Such a state of affairs can not be, and is not, met with approval in the Oshkosh Normal. A great interest has been shown in the game by the students, and the players were out for practice as soon as the campus was in a fit condition. Houghton was elected captain and all the men were given a trial in various j)ositions on the team. During the season any position is open for competition by any member of the school. It is expected that in this way the strongest men may be secured for the team and yet it must be kept in mind that this is also a detriment to the team work which is necessary in base ball. Although a large number were out to try for the team the material in school was not such from which a good winning team could be selected. The first game of the season here was played between the faculty and the seniors. The game was close from start to finish but the seniors were finally allowed to leave the grounds with colors waving, having won by a score of 8 to 9. Another game was played later between a team chosen from the Junior class and one from the other three classes of the school. The strength of the two teams seemed about equal but the Juniors in their determination finally scored a victory of 9 to 5. Owing to the fiact that a number of surrounding schools have no teams only three outside games have been played. On April 28, Lawrence University won by a score of 14 to 2 from our team. The next game was played against the Milwaukee Normals on home grounds and resulted in a victory of 20 to 7 for our boys. On May 19. another game was played with Lawrence University at Oshkosh. Our boys were unable to raise the old score of two points but the visitors were held down to nine on this occasion. At present there are no more games scheduled and the team may no have a chance to play again. Although the number of games lost exceed the number won. yet a great many benefits have been derived from the healthful exercise. 96 CAUTION ! Heretofore many people have been “hit by Thk Quiver, and “loss of life resulted. To obviate this difficulty the book will be sold upon the campus, the numerous trees there affording ample opportunity for all to dodge. We are not responsible for any accidents. N. B.—All compounds found in this book have been neutralized by an improved process of a modern chemist. Should any taste sour, test with blue litmus; we guarantee it will relieve the blue(s). To remove any mental de-arrangement which they may cause, we suggest that you diet on Pelkers Fresh Puns and apply Allen’s Headache Relief. AN EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENT. It will pay you to read this, because it means much to many minds. For this year The Quiver will not publish any articles by Mr. tieorge V. Kelly, Mr. B. Mark Franklin, Mr. George Arnold and others. This is worth thinking about, but it is not all. By herculean efforts and much time and patience, we have succeeded in getting together the following ABSORBING FEATURES. A superb series of flash lights taken of Prof. A. H. Sage by himself, showing him in his daily life as follows: “Breathing,” “Feeding Himself,” “Playing on His Fiddle; also his tooth brush (actual life size), hat, shoes and other articles of wardrobe actually worn by our beloved professor. “The Life and Times of President R. H. Halsey. Rose Swart and Fred Schultz, written expressly for The Quiver by the latter. The author although hitherto unknown to the public, is peculiarly fitted for his work, having contributed an article to The Advance. New anecdotes, sparkling text matter and portraits till you can’t rest, will be thrown in. “Science as it Does Not Exist” by a member of the faculty who naturally withholds his name. This wonderful series of articles will be illustrated by portraits of some of the most conspicuous members of the faculty showing them as they really are. “Untrodden Fields of Art.” A beautiful collection of reproductions of some of the worst examples of modern art. with explanatory text matter by the janitor, hired especially for this purpose. A superb collection, all under one mammoth cover. 98 The Midnight cRevel. ’Twa.s the night after the contest When all through the school, Not a creature was stirring. Save a man with a tool. Who was passing around In the dead of the night To awaken the sleepers; All ghostly and white. “What's the matter with this current. I’d like to know, he remarked savagely to himself. “I'll try it on Hebe, and see what she’ll do.” He crept up to where the beautiful cup-bearer to the gods stood, wound the electric wire about her arm, turned on one volt of electricity, and—received a dose of nectar down his neck, as Hebe, with a scream of joy, sprang half way down the stairs. “Good morning, merry sunshine, Why did you wake so soon ? ” he remarked, slightly dazed at the abruptness of her movements. “Well, I like that. Rather say, ‘Why didn’t you wake sooner ? ’ Mercy ! I feel as if I had been asleep a week. ” “Humph ! I should think you would. I’ve lived here fifty years and you were here when I came.” “How dare you insinuate that I am fifty years old ! Why I—” “Oh, never mind, never mind. You’re not the only one. I’m going around to wake up a few more of these people about here. Want to come along ? Perhaps you will meet some old friends of yours. Hettor pick up your pitcher or some on the base ball team will get it. They are looking for a new one.” They started down stairs. “Oh, don’t let's go down stairs; let’s go up. I want to see where all that noise comes from that I hear every morning at H:45. Why, there’s Discobolus over there by the door. Hello, Die! Why doesn't he speak to me? Why, where is my man gone—the one that woke me up ? Whatever shall I do alone here in the building in the middle of the night ? I shall certainly have to waken Discobolus; but where is the wire that man had ? Oh, here it is. I wonder what this nasty looking jar is. Guess I’ll let it alone. Now Die, I’m going to wind this wire around your arm. Mercy ! I hope he won’t throw that disc at me. Ha ! ha ! I’ve got a string tied to you. Die. There —he starts—he moves ! Hang on to your disc ! ’’ The shock was not a strong one, so the powerful Disc-thrower slowly straightened up. took a long, deep breath, turned around, and catching sight of Hebe, stepped quickly down to the floor. “Well. I’m glad your over that.” cried Hebe. “Now we’ll see whom else we can find. C me on. I’m leader of this searching party. You’ve got to follow me.” 99 They caught sight at that moment of Humboldt over the library door, and of Washington on a shelf near where Hebe had stood. “Now, how are we going to get at them ? I can't reach them, and neither can you, ” said Hebe. “Die, you will have to fasten the wire to your disc and throw it up at each one. Thow it so it will catch around their necks. You are such an expert you ought to be able to do it.” “Well, I doubt if I can,” replied Discobolus, “I'm all out of practice, but I can try it. Up went the disc into the air. circled around the head of Humboldt in such a manner as to wind the wire around his neck, and bring him to the lloor with a thud. “Goodness ! ” screamed Hebe, “I had no idea you were so swift. I wonder if George Washington will be as easy. Try your sleight of hand performance again, Discobolus. ” Again it was successful, and the party numbering four, moved on toward the Auditorium, where they added Apollo and Webster to the merry crowd. As they were returning from a brief survey of the Auditorium. Apollo glanced into the office and espied Victory on the president's desk. “Well, it will never do to celebrate our victory in the contest without our Victory here at school,” he exclaimed. “Hebe, where’s your wire ? ” “Here it is. I’ll wake her up. It might startle her to wake up and find herself confronted by a man, even though he were the most beautiful man on earth.” “Here ! here ! ” cried Humboldt. “Compliments are tabooed. See the poor man blush. Hebe, bring forth your wire. We’ve got to hustle if we are going to have any fun tonight. Victory was awakened without serious difficulty, and assisted to the lloor by the ever gallant Washington. The question now before the house was, where to go next. “ I move we go into the Ladies’ Study and see whom we can find there, said Washington. So the party proceeded. The moment the door opened Humboldt’s eyes fell on Leucothea. “Oh, another girl ! Let’s get her quick,” he cried. “Here we are, five men and two women. These Normal affairs are usually the other way. “Oh. no, they’re not.” responded Hebe. “I know, because I’ve heard the girls tell ever so many times. There are more than enough men, but they are so painfully shy. Why, actually, when a reception is given here in the Gym., three-fourths of the boys in the room spend the entire evening within five or six feet of the door, so that if anything really lively occurs they can make good their escape with the least possible delay.” “Pleasant state of affairs,” sagely remarked the Father of his Country. “It must be delightful for the girls. “Yes, it is,” replied Hebe. “Those that are foolish enough to go, go alone, and go home alone. Hut to change the subject, who is going to bring down Locotheia ? ” 100 “I will,” cried Discobolus, so the remainder of the party moved on to look for further conquests. “ It seems to me we ought to find an orator in MissClark’s room; she is so fond of oratory. Don’t you think so ? ” asked Washington. All agreed, so the door was opened, and someone peeked in, discovering Demosthenes and Goethe adorning the walls. “Now you folks stay here and wait until Discobolus and Lcucothea come with the wire. Then you awaken these two people and meet Victory and me down stairs. She thinks she has a twin cousin down there, so we are going down to see,” remarked Apollo. The others thought that would be a good plan, so Apollo and Victory passed along the hall, down the back stairs and into the small hall down stairs. There were so many turns to make, and so many places to get lost in, that by the time the pair had reached the Grammar room, Victory had had time to tell Apollo considerable concerning her experience at the oratorical contest. “ I was so in hopes I would get a chance to dispose of this crcwn that night; it is such a nuisance to have to hold it all the time, but life is full of disappointments.” “Why didn't you give it to the winner ?” inquired Apollo. “Because I was instructed before I went down to crown the victor if anyone but Wisconsin won, but, as you know, Wisconsin came out ahead. Wasn’t it glorious, though? Why, when the decision was read, there was such a stampede to grab dear old Chick’s hand that I actually got so excited I nearly got off my pedestal, which would have been an unpardonable offense, you know.” By this time they had reached the Grammar room, and had flung the door open, discovering the Winged Victory in the bay window. “Oh, there she is! cried Victory, “but what are we going to do with her after we get her awake? She hasn't a head, so we can’t make her hear, or talk to us. Oh I wonder if we couldn’t put the head of Socrates on her, then she could talk all right. This remarkable feat was no more easily said than done. Of course the head of Socrates was much too large in proportion to the size of the body, but by dint of much pinching and pushing (he did not say whether he liked having his head punched or not), it was reduced to a convenient size and placed on the shoulders of the Winged Victory. By this time the remainder of the party had arrived on the scene, and the wire attached to the cell, which the Dise-thrower had been carrying around from place to place, was fastened to Victory's wings. Immediately she sprang to life, and gazed in blank wonder at those around he. “What shall we call her?” whispered Hebe, “She has the head of Socrates. Will she commence to give us a learned discourse on how to ask questions?” “Wait and you'll see, replied Apollo. And they did see. The first night, she was so frightened she could hardly speak, but after her cousin Victory had soothed her, and the crowd 101 had moved on toward the door, she calmed down, and talked like an ordinary person. Some one glanced around, before they left the room and happened to espy Lincoln. Of course, he could not be left out of the crowd, so Demosthenes and Leucothca were left behind to resuscitate him, while the rest of the party proceeded toward the stairs. As they were ascending the stairs. Apollo turned and to his great joy, discovered his sister, Diana, with the Faun. The party would not be complete without her, so as soon as Demosthenes came with the wire, efforts were made to revive her. While this was beiug done, Columbus was suddenly discovered above the door to the dressing-room, so when Diana had been assisted to the floor, the wire was attached to Columbus. But all their efforts were in vain. It did not affect him in the least. “What do you suppose is the matter with him? asked Hebe. He must have considerable resistance. “I should say as much,”replied Apollo. “How many ohms resistance do you suppose he has? “Well,” replied Humboldt, “I heard Prof. Sage say the other day, he thought about 14‘)2, and he knows. As that is the case. I think we had better let him alone. Xo one offered any objection, so the motion was carried, and Goethe lead the way up to the library, where he opened the door, and walked in followed by the others. “Lo and behold! he cried, “There are Shakespeare and Milton on the top shelf. How in the world arc we going to get them down? Diccolobus knew he could not throw his disc so that it would be at all satisfactory, and no one else could think of a way out of the difficulty, until Apollo cried out that he had an idea, at which astonishing revelation the others stood in open-mouthed wonder. “Let the Winged Victory fly up there with the wtre, wake them up. and carry them down.” This was quite a novel idea, but the Winged Victory consented, so the deed was done without further delay. “It seems to me we have a large enough party now. There are fifteen of us. Let’s have some fun, cried Hebe. “Do you suppose we would dare dance?” “Humph, I should say we would. We’re running this thing,” replied Victory. “Why, I thought dancing wasn’t allowed here, said Socrates. “Oh, Soc, you’re way behind the times. Perhaps it wasn’t allowed when you were on earth before, but you must remember we’re near the twentieth century now, and the bigoted views of our fore-fathers arc a thing of the past. “But what are we going to do for music?” inquired someone. “I wish we had the Normal orchestra here. “So do I,” replied Shakespeare, “but as we haven’t we’ll each have to take our turn at the piano. We will turn the piano in the ladies’ study 102 around so it can be heard plainly in the Gymnasium, and then we can have all the fun we want.” This seemed a most satisfactory arrangement, so the suggestion was acted upon, and they danced until long after it commenced to get ligh. One One would not think that such as assemblage of philosophers, statesmen, orators, authors, poets, gods, and goddesses would have been very jolly but it was. Not until they heard Mr Vosburg at the furnace the next morning did they realize how late it was, and that they must soon be in their .accustomed places. The next thing was how to get back into their frozen state. The Winged Victory offered a solution of the problem. Each person was to get into his accustomed place and position, and she would go the rounds and freeze each one with a stony stare from the face of Socrates, which she carried around on her shoulders. A better plan could not be found, but how was she going to get the head of Socrates back in its place. The Disc-thrower helped them out of this difficulty. He offered to see the Winged Victory through her part of the program, then decapitate her, putting Socrates' head in its proper place, and then get back to his own place. He knew he could remember enough freezing looks that he had seen bestowed upon the students by some of the lady members of the faculty to put him back into his former state. He did as he agreed, and succeeded remarkably well, for no one has ever been able to tell by the looks of the pieces of statuary around the building that any such affair ever occurred. The only outsider that ever knew anything about it was the statue on the top of the fountain. She saw it all through the window and she told me. K. W. Alone. It was evening. The sun had beautifully passed our western view, and the wind ceased to blow; all was still. It had been a warm day for June, and the hot. sultry air of the city prompted me to lock my dwelling and walk slowly along the street leading out into the green country. I had left the city some distance behind, and darkness was advancing when suddenly I was startled by the sound of a human voice. Looking hastily around, I discovered a slim, bare headed man sitting on a stump, just over the roadside fence. His voice was tilled with sorrow, and I listened carefully as he continued: Can it be, or but a dream? Yea. this is I. the think. I who once honored sat Among the Freshics. Then stirred to greater deeds, Left my verdant fields And joined the Sophs. Here not contented, far away Went I to teach the young; III luck was mine, and ere Another year was passed A Junior I became. 104 Mightier in name than mind. Vanquished not, though oft sore tried, I sought the room of Seniors, And from that foul place to this Came I alone, .vet with others. O tale of woe ! O sorrow ! That to me hath come ! Better had I ploughed Yon rocky soil, sown. And reaped a meager store Than toiled in vain To grow ideas on a barren plain. Strange of the strangest, some sprouted. Only to wither ’ncath A scorching eye. The weather Changed, and others drooped Their heads, frost-bitten; A few out-lived these evils, Grew, and well might ripened. But alas ! They grew to die Cut by the scythe of sarcasm. O kine on distant green ! Contented be; leave not thy home For gain as I didst do. Yet flunked, and die alone. 105 Miss Webster s Spring. “Tis very strange that our pulses thrill At the sight of a voiceless thing. And our hearts yearn so with tenderness In the beautiful time of spring.” I intend, when the day of my emancipation arrives, when my fortune is made, and the days of teaching’ are ended, I intend to have a spring. I havn’t had one since I had sufficient discrimination to know their value. Indeed about the last one I can remember to have had was in the blessed days of long ago, when, as a youngster, I went forth for adventures in the early spring, and after wading and wandering, climbing and enjoying myself to the full. I went home with my arms full of pussy willows and my throat so full of hoarseness that I could not speak aloud. But most of you have reason to know that I did not remain dumb for any great length of time. Well, I am going to have another spring in the beautiful by-and-by, and this is the way I shall have it, for it must do duty for ever so many springs which have been as though they were not for me. I shall go away down to the southern limit of our continental i ossessions and then come north with the spring, linger when she lingers, advance when she advances, till the blossoms “dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June,” have wakened all the way from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay. But this day of promise is still far in the future, and in the meantime what shall I do to minister to the longing within me? I will tell you what I hope to do. Nothing less than to bring about a radical change in the course of study for the spring quarter. The old English plan was all winter with the books and all summer in the fields. But we have made books our religion and have gone on studying them till we have grown so short-sighted that we do not know whether God’s heaven is any longer blue or not. Now I have in my mind a complete change and to show you that I am in earnest in this matter I will begin with the course in mathematics. There will be no struggle in the gentle spring-time with roots and surds, with the binomial theorem and the square on the hypotheneuse, but in places just a mild course in mental arithmetic, intended to keep one up-in the fundamental operations, so that you may know how much change you ought to receive for a quarter after paying for two dishes of ice cream, for this is a case where one should not trust his fellow-man. We shall try to advance far enough in this subject so that the Athletic Association can decide with some degree of certainty what shall be the price of tickets for the annual excursion so that after paving for the boat and nine pieces from the Arion band with due allowance for the usual shrinkage caused 106 by a cloudy morning:, there shall be no deficit to be made up by a general tax. I think that with a little skilful management, the course could be fitted to the needs of the (ilee Club, who have under the old course found some difficulty in adjusting their expenses, the length of the silken penant, etc., so as to exactly empty their treasury. The only thing to which this course does not seem equal, is the discharge of the debt on the piano by equal annual payments, but we will leave this to the winter term and give it to the class in supposition-probabilities. I mean to have a little work in nature study because that which I prescribe in my course is so in harmony with the season that the students will cry for it. as children do for castoria. I find there is great need for certain facts. I wish to have the instructor in this course emphasize the fact that blue-bottle flies do not produce moths, that the shallow holes bored in the maple trees in the early spring are made by sap-suckers not by sap-heads, and that-the new moon isneverseen soearly as six o'clock in the morning. As mistakes of this description have been made by people who are in good and rewular standing in the Normal School. I feel that the curriculum should be changed at once so as to include instruction on these vital points. I should have a course in geography, but it will be based upon Squeer's Method .which, you remember was the objective, and when the boys had learned to spell window, they straightway went to clean a window. Hut right here I shall introduce the kindergarten method, and shall endeavor to have everything taught through play, and when the class has learned that a river is a stream of water flowing through the land, I shall have it arranged to send the class out to row upon the river. At present we do not own a regatta but I shall hope to get an appropriation from the legislature when I have laid my scheme before it. At this point in the course the instructor will probably be changed as Mr. Clow is the oarsman of the faculty, and Mr. Mitchell is needed on the golf links. I shall defer civics to the winter term, as the school can find ample scope for the exercise of its ability in the self government problem, and Mr. Sage wishes to teach Mr. Briggs to ride the tandem, hoping that in this way he may in six easy lessons learn to ride a wheel. If, after these lessons Mr. Briggs finds himself able to give instruction in penmanship, there will be a brief courss in it, simply to prepare pupils for epistolary correspondence which will be indulged in bv both sexes during the long vacation. The work in composition will be confined to instruction in letter writing with the same end in view. I shall advise the literary societies to elect officers and close out all business as early, certainly, as the middle of May, no more meetings to be held till the following school year. This plan will relieve the faithful few of much anxiety, and make it possible for all to attend moonlight excursions, and no one would feel that duty compels him to return at an early hour on the train to see that the society is duly opened. 107 Athletic sports are to be the feature of the quarter’s work. All classes are to be suspended whenever the various teams feel the need of practice. At all public games the entire school must be present, or present a written excuse signed by the president of the association, such excuse not to be signed unless it is accompanied with the price of admission to the grounds. This rule applies to the young women also, as they must be present to furnish the requisite inspiration. By this plan it is hoped that two ends will be served. Through the heavenly inspiration furnished by the divinities in new spring suits, the various teams will appear in a new role, that of the victor. Secondly, it is very possible that by this plan the gate receipts will be sufti-cient to meet the running expenses of the association. I have not yet admitted golf to the course; and for good reasons. It is said to develop an abnormal tendency to use profane language, to foster a giddy and eccentric style of dress, and to bring upon one a depraved taste for out-of-doors. Unless efficient good can be discovered to more than counterbalance these evil tendencies, the game will not be admitted. Such geology and botany as can be taught in the open air, in the field, or in the quarry will be given a place. Each portion as can be gained through excursions, such excursions to take place any day but Saturday, will be especially favored. Reading will be admitted to the cirriculum, but Miss Clark will be particularly requested to confine the work to poems of nature and spring. Tennyson’s “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns,” will probably be a good selection for putting one in the proper attitude toward the branch. William Watson is recommended for April and May. Decide whether his description of the “uncertain glory of an April day” is not quite up to the work, as his English brethren would say: “April, April. Laugh thy girlish laughter. Then the moment after. Weeep thj girlish tears! April that tneni ears. Like a lover greetest. If I tell thee sweetest. All my hopes and fears, April. April. Laugh thy golden laughter. Ilut the moment after Weep thy golden tears. I think the song for May will meet your approval. I shall give you only the first stanza, which may incline you to read the rest for yourself. What is so sweet and dear Asa prosperous morn in May, The confident prime of the day And the dauntless youth of the year, When nothing that asks for bliss, 109 Asking aright is denied. And half of the world a bridegroom is, And half of the world a bride. The mathematical nicety of division in the last two lines is worthy of especial notice. When half of the world Sec. This is a fine instance of correlation and should be carefully pointed out. Certain bird songs will be thoughtfully studied. As a special reward of merit Miss Clark will recite the Bobolink, and will never refuse to do it again. Watson will again be the text book. This time the “Song to the Bluebird.” O, blue-bird, up in the maple tree. Shaking your throat with such bursts of glee, How did you happen to be so blue? Did you steal a bit of the lake for your crest. And fasten blue violets into your vest? Tell me, I pray you, tell me true!’’ Although it will not be mentioned publicly, as the new education frowns upon “Ilarc fabula docet,” still the intention is thatsuch literature shall have a distinctly moral effect, in fact shall play directly into the hands of the Adu. bon society. And that the coming generation of sportsmen will no longer kill any living thing simply for the sake of killing, but will only take life when the demands of hunger which can in no other way be appeased shall require it. At about the same time it is thought women will cease to wear dead birds upon their hats. There will be a course in music, for I think it was Coleridge who said that, Green leaves and blossoms. And warm summer weather. All singing and loving. All come back together. I shall ask MissHeward to pay special attention to serenade music for at this season of the year it should take precedence over all other forms of the song. For who would not rather be waked by such melody. Than drag out wearily night's leaden slumber.” Right here and before proceeding further with the course as planned, I will ask you to take your music books, turn to page twenty-eight and sing: Fourth to the meadows, ye fair, merry maidens. Haste to the dance that awaits you today; Yield to the witching delights of the spring-time. Gladness and love makes it yet to be May. This selection, and others of like import will be among the musical numbers of the course. E. F. Wkbster. j'ioYinaV Geese. Josephine. Oh, Chosiephine ! oh. Chosiephine ! jist on 1 quiet, say: Now ain't y kind o’ stuck on me? I won't give youse away. So don’t beskeert t’ tell me. fer I’sedyin’ fer t’ know Say, on d level ain't y’ now, me Chosiephine, me Cho? cAt the Helm. I know a dominie of searching mind. Whose insight is to deep suspicion mated: I would not be surprised were he to rind The Golden Rule is only single plated. (Who docs this strike? Look sharp, and you can ’all-see.) In the Latin cHpom. Mary, Mary, quite contrary Why do you mark so low In Ca-sar, Horace and Virgil, Composition and Cicero? S. F. 110 When I was a bachelor I lived by myself, I spent my money all on golf, and had no thought of self. But the Normal girls and teachers they led me such a life I was forced to go to Boston to get myself a wife. Those maids and women teachers have ideals up so high That only angels reach them, alas ! I cannot fly; They’d be a sister to me; they'd let me act as beau, But to wed must get high station, they refused to take a Lough. S. F. 1 1 1 Normal Geese. There arc two profs in this here school Who live upon the links; As each tells of his wondrous plays The other slyly winks. These blooming jays have funny ways. They hold “the record” now; As“in their heads” they keep their scores, ’Tis easy to see how. See! there they go all out of breath, The caddie scorned is he; Soon one will turn and holler back I made this hole in three.” They finish up in forty strokes, Forgetting more or less. Then drop their clubs upon the green And run to ’phone the press. S. F. 1X2 The 'Black Cat's Tale, It was midnight. The wind was howling through the hare branches as if angry with itself for having ventured out. The skeleton in the biology room smote his knees, one upon the other, as he thought of hanging through six more longhours of cold and darkness. The engineer growled in his dreams and occasionally shouted “hello” in answer to fancied calls from the faculty for more heat. The last student had taken to his bed only to lie there restlessly while goose eggs played the latest of Miss Stoner's games among the convolutions of his cerebrum. A slow, solemn tread broke the silence, and a stately figure clad in judicial robes was seen to approach the room of justice, lie entered, and ascending the steps leading to the bar of justice, seated himself. He was followed by eight lesser judges, similarly clad, who arranged themselves about their chief, and again all was still. Soon there came floating along the corridors songs from the innocent, groans from the guilty, and sighs from the overworked, and a body of students, some Short and some Long, some Young and some Strong, were marched in by deputies and guards. The culprits, for such these were, stood with bowed heads before the august judges, the chief of whom arose and spoke, saying, “Students in disgrace, you have been summoned here in accordance with the requirements of your self government constitution. You have been accused by your peers of having broken many of our most sacred laws. You have paid no attention to Cole’s repeated warnings, and you must now suffer the penalties imposed by your system of government. Have you aught to say in defense of your conduct before your trial begins?” “Your honor, the Philakean is the only society east of the Rockies,” sang out a voice at the end of the line. “Silence, Richard Radsch; I fine you for contempt of the court. You shall teach the elocution class the third step in articulation twice each week for the remaining of the year. If noneof you have anything to say in your defense, sit.” I had hitherto been sitting under a desk, but now was spied by a deputy who unceremoniously threw a book at me and frightened me so badly that I left. Nevertheless, I am able to give you the proceedings of the meeting as they are recorded in the official books. 113 DEFENDANT. OFFENSE. COMPLAINANT. I. Fred J. Turner Practicing oration before daylight, thereby disturbing the l cacc of that portion of the city west of Main street and south of New York avenue. Lawrence Johnson. II. Annie Leon Freezing Mark Franklin. Phoenix Society.- III. A. H. Cole Grand I.arceny. Elizabeth Hausen. Josephine King. IV. Harriot Saxton Kidnapping Cat . Scott Street Residents. V. George T. Arnold Robbing students of 150 hours valuable time on morning of Feb. 28. and claiming to be a member of faculty. Faculty. VI. Tosten Thompson Jamming air pipes on lower corridor. Engineer. VII. G. V. Kelley Putting two or three original The other contestants, phrase in his oration. VIII. Aura Power Fishing. Didn't appear. IX. M. B. Franklin Writing Poetry. Eng. Department. X. Daisy M. Allen Living in Allenviilc. All of u� . XI. Kent Morgan Conspiring to blow up chemical Chemical class, laboratory. XII. Jess Miller Carried a shawl sleigh riding. Miss Bullard. XIII. G. J. Danforth Destroying dower beds on Scott street and disturbing Messer at same time. Messer. XIV. L. E. Lurvy Managed foot ball team. The Ladies. PLEA. PUNISHMENT. Guilty. Shall attend church alone each Sunday evening for three month . Guilty. Fine 5 cents. Not guilty. In the name of the Prophet it is commanded that he be sat upon by two she Bruins. Guilty. Shall explain what was in the bottle she brought home from Milwaukee. None made. Record lost. 1 ’nintcntionally guilty. Shall attend Junior reception with shortest lady of second year class. Accidental variation. Shall keep smile covered for three days. Not guilty. Had example. Withheld till later date. No punishment provided for fossils. Guilty. Youthfulness. Shall move to Oshkosh. Shall assist Prof. Goddard in class experiments without hav-• ing his life insured. Cold night. Shall read forty lines of I)e Reiver’s chapter on emotions. Didn't mean to. Shall teach Stoops to run Advance typewriter. Hard drinking. Shall wear the scores of last seasons games pinned on his back for 40 days and 40 nights. The Librarian s Cemetery. In the land of, “What’s your page please ?” In the vale of the “10c tine. Near the stream of, “This book has marked leaves. “And this one’s not in our time, There lies a lonely graveyard Where many a student rests. Who has passed and has his diploma, And is through with cramming and tests. Alone are the homes f these sleepers. And no man has breathed that air. The librarian’s cart in the dead of night. Ilascarriod the victims there. Sleep on abused martyrs. Your pages you need no more. While we with rattling molars, Must hand our nickels o’er. i 115 The Trip to Milwaukee, What a relief it was when that delegation started for the depot, and jet, how sad we felt as with a band on an empty pocketbook, and our thoughts on the palm gardens, we gazed from the study windows and saw yards of white and yellow ribbon disappearing down Kim street. That delegation was a thing to be proud of. It was the result of untiring labor on the part of the committee in charge. Morning after morning, Arnold had talked about Susie and Peter, and Peter’s wife’s mother, Dempsey had ceased to dream at live o’clock a. m., in order that he might tell us how good looking we would be if we once got to Milwaukee. Hamilton said they gave away bread at the free lunch counters there. Mr. Hewitt read poetry that made Miss Henderson blush and look for her blue pencil, and Dr. Lough gave us a quarter apiece with which to get into the church. And so, after all the talk about pie and palm gardens, is to be wondered at that we, who never knew the former, except in geometry, and couldn’t tell the latter from a potato patch, turned out strong. Some of temperate members of the faculty staid at home. Mr. Sage kept his mind off the treat lie was missing by rushing madly about the building photographing statuary, basket ball teams, or anything that got in his way. The delegation carried itself creditably while on the train. The shoe boxes were emptied in due season, after which there was yelling and singing. It will be remembered that Danforth and Kelly had been sent ahead to size up the Milwaukee girls and report at the depot. It is said there was such a difference of opinion between these gentlemen that all the Oshkosh boys were content with Oshkosh ladies; at any rate, no strangers were seen among the Oshkosh delegation when it was located in the audience room. We yelled famously. When Arnold led in the sky rocket act, a thousand jaws dropped, and twice as many eyes turned heavenward, so perfectly was it done. We didn’t win. It would have been unkind to defeat Milwaukee on her own ground, so we stepped back and let her feed her “Chick” on the laurels. So far as is known, no one got too much of the Cream City. It is said that two members of the faculty tried to walk through a mirror at one of the hotels, but that doesn’t indicate anything, because they don’t have mirrors larger than a silver dollar in Kansas anyway. The cyclones would break them if they did. It is said that one of the boys strayed into a restaurant Haunting his yellow ribbon without noticing the name “Dennis Moriarity” over the door. The proprietor sailed into him for wearing yellow on St. Patrick’s day, and proceeded to lead him about by the ear. Will made haste to explain that he was a member of the student body of the greatest 116 institution of learning in the northwest, and that yellow and white were the school colors, after which his feet were allowed to touch the floor, and his ear resumed its usual size. There are other things that might be told about the visit to the Cream City. We all know how Miss Abbott enjoyed waiting in the depot for the three o'clock train that was due at five, how Cbickering bought pie fora favorite few. how Bohlson lost his appetite, how Halsey (Charley) shot billiard balls clear across the river, but to start back. Konop kept his black-eyed smile in spite of the fact that the sign “Just Married” was part of his wearing apparel. Several of the faculty slumbered peacefully, probably because certain kind members of the Senior class with arms outstretched implored the gods of rest to be present. It was hoped that everything of Milwaukee had been left behind, but the warden while looking for ice water in Miss Saxton's lunch basket, innocently pulled out a bottle of Sehlitz’s best. What became of it is not known. Mr. Cole, of course, does not indulge. After a few days we all got home, very tired, certainly, and wiser perhaps, but not sorry that we took the trip. D. II. A. Voung and Arnold lead the yells. 117 cA cfreshman Speaks. As I was walking down the street, A tall young man, I chanced to meet; His eye was stern, his mien was grave, His face was marked with furrows, save On his lip where a shy little growth, Gave a prominent look to both Man and schollar. Said I. “Who is he ? What great man is this I see, Whose learned brow doeth surely mark A second Solomon ?“ But hark ! Strange sounds fell on my listening ear. I quickly stop and list to hear What this wise person has to say But no meaning do they convey To me, for the language that he uses Is strange, it my mind confuses. Talking thus, he passed me by. Nor deigned so much to turn his eye To glance at me. gazing up with awe. Astonished at what I heard and saw. Resolved to solve the mystery, I hastened on quite briskly: Arrived at school, I looked, and lo ! There he sat in the Senior row. B. W. There is no interval between Ra and Mi. Zip Er Zimple. “Did I know him ? Well, slightly; he and I used ter he in the same class, yes we would have graduated together but Zip never liked the ’summations nohow. Them's what made him quit the institution. He remarked ter me one day. sezs he, “If it hadn't er been fer them saminations I'd er graderated long ago, but there’s no sbowin’ now. specially in Perfessional Arith-mertic. It's a sad ending I am afeared came ter Zip; the last time I saw him was on the second of June in ’75, he was chasin' the cow-path out towards the lakccarryin’ a fishing-rod and a spear. Whether he crossed the lake and joined the Winnebagos or throwed himself into the water, nobody knows.” This is a partial history of Zip Er Zimple as told by one of his Normal class-mates, now working in a large factory. Zip way a jolly, generous hearted boy but inclined to work only in a few directions. He entered the Normal, but owing to his peculiar disposition, found the work very distasteful. The examinations were more than he could bear, and whenever the word was spoken, he would shrug his shoulders, drop his large brown eyes, and shaking his head, utter a mournful groan. His strange and sudden departure caused much anxiety among his many friends, and the return of those lovely June days brought clearly to their minds, the sadness of his life. Thus it was in the year of 190 ), when the Alumni of the school had gathered to shake once more the hands that for two decades had clasped the pen of duty, and treaded again the halls of hope and learning, that the memory of Zip Er Zimple grew more vivid than ever. Groups of long parted friends could be seen about the building and campus, talking and laughing heartily, then growing more serious as one mentioned the name of Zip, told the well known story, surmising what had been his fate. Enthusiasm ran high in the Normal circles: class songs and yells, mingled with kisses and with smiles, were the order of the day. It was a great gathering. The old building seemed to tremble under the mighty burden of its numerous children, and yet how welcome would be the prodigal! “Will he return ?” The echo, only was heard; the fountain spray danced in the sunlight as it had years ago, and Zip was thought to be at rest. Yet as the moon rose above the hills that night—as moons do rise in June—it fell upon a boat crossing the silverly lake. Slowly it neared the shore until the skillful hand of its lonely occupant, till at last it touched the pebbles from which it had glided, years before. Slowly fastening the boat to a bending bough, lie started up the cow-path. Could this be the path which only the day before he had trodden ? How changed ! Houses were close on both sides and a short distance in front were two green lights attached to some object moving with a rumble and a roar down the street. “Horrors! Horrors!” cried the stranger, “I am lost,” and fainted. Some time later he regained consciousness and after gazing bewilderingly aronnd, 119 picked up his spear, brushed back his long brown hair from his face, and started up the street. How strange things had grown since the day before, yet surely this was the town which he had left. Walking about for some time, on turning a corner he was suddenly confronted by a massive structure. The moon was rapidly sinking behind it laying bear to the cautious eye of this lonely observer, the entire building. “Is that the Normal ?” thought he. “No, it cannot be,” and was about to turn away, when on raising his eyes they rested on a familiar identification- the old tower. It was the Normal indeed. Zip rapidly hastened forward and was about to enter, when he saw nearing him a square built man by the name of Vincent— a man usually of determined purpose, but seeing the spear in the hands of the stranger, he approached somewhat timidly, much to the delight of Zip. Nothing was said, but a key thrust into the key-hole, the door thrown open, and both entered. As they did so a poor, slim animal walked slowly past them. “Poor thing,” sighed Zip, “the janitor's black cat which yesterday was so fat, now scarcely casts a shadow.” The only reply was a wailing tn-e-o-w. They passed on up the stairs, and Zip placing bis hand on the knob of the first door at the left said, “May I take a peek ?” “No,” said his companion, “Peake is not there.” They moved on. “This room at the right,” said Vincent, “is where they study history and economics.” “Let us goon,” said Zip. As they did so the air became warmer until opposite the last door at the left it was almost suffocating; they paused at the bottom of the stairway at the other end of the hall to wipe the perspiration from their faces. Turning toward the corner. Zip whispered in the ear of his companion, “Are those rooms haunted? I believe I see ghosts.” “Oh! no,” was the reply, “there is where the observers congregate half hourly, and where their minds are there also will be their spirits.” They ascended the stairs, paused only a moment to rest and ascended to the next floor. Walking through the upper hall opposite a green colored door, glass seemed to be abundant, they were about to enter when a sharp report and cracking glass were heard which so frightened Zip that he retreated to an adjoining room, and from there to Prof, Fling's quarters. “Well,” said Zip, after he had recovered from his fright, “this must be the kitchen.” “Oh. no.” replied his companion, “this is the room of biology, and that meat yonder.” pointing to a table at which Zip had been looking, “is a disected cat.” “Let us go on,” said Zip. At his word they descended the stairs passed through the auditorium and were about to descend to the lower floor when Zip'seye caught sight of a placard on the study door. It was getting light not, and he approached and read: I CLOSED : : FOR EXAMINATION. : He gazed as if thunder-struck, uttered one long, shriek, and fell to the floor unconscious. After laboring for some time, his companion was able to restore the man from his insensible condition. Faintly opening his eyes he said, “My friend, do you hear?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Tell them,” he continued, “that I am Zip Er Zimple, and with a look of happiness he passed away. To be continued. 120 Girls Rebind the Bars r Happy little jackpotter. You can thank your stars. That you're not a victim Of the girl behind the bars. All the Senior fellows. Juniors too and Sophs, Bandylegged Freshmen, Specials and the Profs. (father in the hallway, Forget their earthly cares, Smiling at the lady. Who presides behind the bars. Franklin. Young and Arnold. Kelley, Stoops and Cole, Are nearly always present When she calls the roll. Profit little jackpotter, By some good advice, Do not join this regiment Of the sacrificed. 121 - The Class of Naughty-Naught Of all the classes in the school. That's worthy of our thought. 'Twill bear inspection with the best, This class of Naughty-Naught. The reason why you ask of me. Well perhaps, in the main. Is because they always treated us Upon an equal plane. They never looked down on the rest. Nor tried so proud to be. But went about like all of us, With great humility. But sometimes their humility, Was changed to boldness rare. For at the Junior functions all. They’d manage to be there. K’cn then we hailed them with delight, To think they loved us so That everywhere the Juniors went. The Seniors had to go. Were I a poet of renown, Which plainly I am not, I’d spread their fame from sea to sea. And do it from this spot. So teachers. Juniors. Freshmen, all. Just give this class your thought. Fill high and drink tiiis toast I give The class of Naughty Naught. A. L. LrtSV ©’UfcfcYBR. 122 Hints for Our Senior Voets. First get an idea. It's a good thing to have about you. Don't call on the muses to help you. They are too busy attending to others whose requests arc in ahead of you. It is advisable to procure a good rhyming dictionary. This may blast your aspirations, but it will be merciful to your readers. Hear in mind that people like what they cannot understand. Don't stand around looking at the moon; it’s foolish. Try to get some other occupation. If some of you still have the courage and the nerve to follow the occupation of poet, after nints one and two. or if any of you are unable to find any other occupation in life I would advise you to read carefully the following. It will help you in thought composition and style, especially thought. I'm weary, so weary, O weary of fears, Weary of ncadaches, and weary of tears. Weary of setting up late every night. Weary of not getting lessons all right; Weary of everything, weary of school. Weary, so weary of minding the rule. Weary of seeing a big pile of books. Weary of getting. O gracious, such looks. Weary of walking so slow through the hall. Indeed I get weary doing nothing at all. Wkaky Wii.uk. 123 Extracts from the ne w book entitled: The Normal; A Divine Comedy. In the finish of this, our Normal life, I found me in a pleasant world, astray. Gone from the Normal path direct: and e’en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That Normal, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. How first I entered it I scarce can say. Such dreadful fear in that instant weighed My senses down, when the true path I left. But when the structure’s base I reached, where ope'd The labyrinth that filled my heart with dread I looked aloft and saw the motto bold. “Through me you pass into a four year’s pain; “Through me you pass into the place of woe: Through me among the people once so gay. Marching, eternally, here endures All hope of dancing abandon, ye who enter here.” Here sighs, with forced laughter and shrill notes, Resounded through the halls pierced by no star. That e’en I wept at entering. And weeping thus I backward fell, and saw the form of Blair, Who like a mechanism seemed. When him in that great Normal I espied. “Oh. guide me through ” aloud I cried, “Spirit ! or living man ! whate’er thou be.” He answered: “Now not man, man once I was. Now every thought to unyielding rule conforms, Originality for policy I long crushed out. I. for thy profit pondering, now devise That thou mayst follow me; and I. thy guide, Will lead thee hence through the four years course. INFKKNO. Passing on. with error yet encompassed, cried I aloud: “O master! what is this I have? What crime Did these commit, who seem so overcome with woe?” He thus to me: “This miserable fate Suffer the wretched youths who lived Without praise or blame, with that ill band Of students mixed, who nor rebellious proved, Nor yet were true to man, but for themselves Were only. These wretches who n’er lived. Went on in apathy, and here are sore tormented By professional arithmetic which bedews their cheeks with tears. Within this temple are the youths Consumed with fires of fear. Master, I asked, •‘Who trembles there with burning fear? Thus he replied: ‘‘Here youths you sec who Cicero and Virgil knew not. Now they repent the zeros they endure. Woe to the ones who in the grades Did not the favor of the tutress win. You who the depth of school management will approach Beware, a noise as of a sen and tempest torn By warring winds is heard. A restless fury drives the spirits on. Whirled round and dashed amain with sore annoy. Then my guide: Look how thou enter here; beware in whom Thou place thy trust: let not the entrance broad Deceive thee to thy harm. Hinder not his way By destiny appointed, so ’tis willed. Where will and power are one. Ask those no more. From room to room thus passed I on. Down to the floor, which a greater space embracing, So much more of grief contains. There the inspector stands. She, of all whoenter. strict examining the needs, Gives sentence, and scatters them abroad. For when before her comes the soul ill fitted It all confesses, and that judge sincere Of power, considering what practice work Suits the victim; so oft with red tape Encircles him as classes he is doomed to teach. Before her stand quarterly a numerous throng and in his turn Each one to judgment passing, speaks, and hears His fate, then onward to his work he goes. Thereupon I turned and saw before me A palace reared of ice, whose frozen surface liker seemed To glass than water. Not so thick a veil In winter, ere hath Yukon far remote. Spread o’er the still course, nor Greenland's icy mountains Under the chilling sky. Within this palace cold The all too conscious high school graduates o’er their rhetoric toil. On critic’s shrine the queen’s enthroned And after ten weeks work the rhetorician wails ‘‘I've flunked. PURGATORY. Then lead us quickly, where thou sayst That while we stay we may enjoy refinement. A little space we were removed from hence, When I perceived the mountain hollowed out. E’en as a large valley hollowed out on earth. ‘‘That way,” the escorting party cried, we go. Where in its bosom we may to social culture listen. Kc-cchoings of eloquence are heard, Rock not in company, nor cross your feet, Nor draw your mouth into a smile. '0, say, my guide ! What race is this, whose heads are shorn. On our left hand, all separate to the church? He straight replied: “In their tirst life these all To economics no attention gave. According to due measure of their wealth No use they made.” Now we had left the harpy, who had turn'd To the sixth circle our ascending step: One look upon my face she cast: and then In accents sharp shouted forth: “What is the number of your page. Show me your program.” Thus she, the innocent victim bit. My leader cheerily drew me. “Ask,” he said. “With humble heart that your excuse be signed.” Piously at his holy feet devolved, I cast me, praying him for pity's sake That he his signature would not deny, but first fell Thrice on my bosom prostrate. “How long,” he said, “Linger we now? ” Then smiled he as he did Before this Normal he had entered. For laughter he had learned in elocution Since passing social culture. By his looks 1 ne’er had recognized him; but the voice Brought to my knowledg what hischeer concealed He is the worthy treasurer, for no sin Deprived of heaven, except for shaking laughter. PAKAD1SK. The student, whence he is driven Goes down to German; and from martyrdom An exile comes he here. “Nor rest then, student! At the bench and muse Anticipation of the feast to come ! For chemistry makes thee not to feel thy toil.” Had I a tongue in eloqence as rich. As is the coloring in fancy's loom, ’Twer all too poor to utter the least part Of pleasure I felt in physics (or photography). Astounded, to Beatrice, the guardian of my steps I turned, like the student who always runs To literature, where he trusteth most. And she was like the mother, who her son Beholding pale and overworked, with her voice Soothes him and he is cheered; for when she speaks Knowest thou not, thou art in heaven ? And knowest not thou, whate’r in literature is done Is well and zealously done ? 120 Dedicated to the Elocution Class♦ t Have you seen the Norma! campus in the Spring, in the Spring The green old Normal campus in the Spring ? Where you want to play lawn tennis. But you know your name is Dennis, If you don’t tend right to business In the Spring. Have you found a shady corner in the Spring, in the Spring? A quiet shady corner in the Spring? Far from blackboard dark and dusty, Council cranky, teachers crusty, Rules and regulations rusty In the Spring. (The next verse will be on the board tomorrow.) ft The ‘Botany Boom. Oh come with me to the botany room And we’ll sit in the bald-headed row, Where work is “wurk and birds are buds” And worms are wunis and herbs are”hubs,” As they are tip in Maine you know. A queer, queer place is the botany room. Way up on the topmost “floah, With its “pasley.” balev,” peas and cawn,” And the Sophmo's at work in the aly tnawn,” Ovah flowahs and twigs galoah. Anda sad, sad, place is the botany room. For back-yard serenade classes; For ’tis here old Tommy loses his pelp. And his skull is placed in a jar on the shelf. While hhis soul to the hunting grounds passes. O, lets hie away from the botany room. To some live spot in creation, Away from the wuk, and the wums, and buds. Where skeletons wear at least n few duds. As they should in civilization. D. K. A. Faculty-Senior Base Ball Game. It was a star event. Everyone expected it would be a star event. How could it have been otherwise with nearly all the orbs of the faculty constellation present, either on the diamond or in the grand stand. Yet somehow we felt that old Sol and the seniors had in some way united forces to outshine those celestial bodies that had ventured to appear at so great a distance from their natural haunts, and shine under such unusual circumstances. And our thoughts were substantiated. That the faculty were loyal to themselves there can be no doubt. Miss Parmale and Miss Stoner worked long and diligently to make those little yellow banners with the lonesome “FV’ that stood at first for faculty but later for “failure' and “flunk,” tacked on one side. It is said that in her willingness to help a deserving cause, Miss Parmale actually ventured into the corner of the library which is known to be frequented by mice, and forgot to scream when one of those innocent little things peered out from beneath a bookcase. At two o'clock, the banners that were destined to be trailed in the dust, were seen approaching from various directions, and a few minutes later what proved to be the most attractive feature of either team, a pail of lemonade, appeared, accompanied by the smile of Mr. Briggs. After a little preliminary gambling, the faculty concluded to do the first batting, and as a result of this first effort. Lloyd took a stroll through a frog pond which was conveniently located, so as to stop the ball. Everything went smoothly; Mr. Hewitt got out on second base, and by his movements we thought he imagined he was leading a grand march at a school management party. Whether he thought the base around which he was maneuvering was his partner or not we do not know, but at any rate he took it in his arms and started around the diamond. The Seniors came to bat, and Mr. Fling without any ado, started for the field, hung his coat on a post, and then got behind both post and coat; he had 128 apparently been reading a magazine article on guerilla warfare in the Phi lipines. Like a true soldier, however, he soon forgot the danger and was seen executing an Indian war dance around his retreat. Mr. Mitchell persisted in going to bat with his cap on back side fore, thus causing some of his supporters in the grand stand great anxiety for fear he would run back wards and spill the lemonade. But the Seniors came to bat again. Mr. Mitchell distinguished himself by sitting on Cole till the “S” on the poor fellow’s banner became almost straight. Mr. Mitchell evidently wanted the Senior gentleman to get his peck of dirt, while there was some of Mr. Brigg’s beverage left to wash it down with. In the meantime. Mr. Clow had been perambulating between the outfield and the lemonade pail, with his cap drawn over his ears, and that inaudible but visible whistle of his still in evidence. Business was suspended for two minutes to allow Mr. Sage to pick up a ball that had, unasked for. fallen near him. A Home Run. Radsch now came in for his phenomenal run, 100 yards in 4' 2 seconds, they say, but Richard forgot the bases and ran in vain, as Mr. Mitchell was camping on his trail and watching for fouls. A sweet voice in the grand stand said: “Why Dick is so small, I wouldn’t think they would ask him to touch the bases.” But the umpire was hard-hearted, and Richard’s hair floated in air for naught. Mr. Blair showed himself in inverse order, put Kneip out, and gave Mr. Fling a chance to try his metal at the bat. The Dr. apparently did not get hold of the “wuk and went to the lemonade pail instead of first base. Mr. Clow tried batting for both pitcher and catcher; one of them struck his bat and saved his reputation. Mr. Lough tried his luck, but his “general notion”of the speed of regulation baseballs 30 feet from the arms of a Senior, was not good. Mr. Manny apparently got a better image from his elevated j osition in the grand stand. Mr. Halsey came to bat, but his tie came loose and interfered so seriously that the Seniors wielded the club once more. Danforth tried hard, but Mitchel’s curves were as variable as a Sophmore’s affections, and Cole made first base only to fall Running Bases. victim to some sleight-of-hand performance of the Faculty. The next inning was distinguished by Mr. Mitchel's batting. The professor pointed to Asia, Australia, the.North Pole, the Tropic of Cancer and the North Star, but Kneip couldn’t hit the pointer. In the next inning only the presence of several overcoats prevented the players from catching cold while Mr. Fling and Mr. Clow rolled over the ball out in the field. Arnold found that a striped hat wouldn’t play ball and disappeared. He however came around in time to make several fouls in another inning. Mr. Blair made an excellent run, but something in the grandstand took his attention, and one more block was laid in the streets of that city which issaid to be paved with good intentions. The remainder of our yarn would have been an account of a funeral, had not Radsch concluded that the extermination should be immediate, and with the least suffering possible. His reasoning was not good, however. He promptly struck Mr. Clow with the ball, and that gentleman staggered and laid down with his feet and arms in the air, and a smile on his face like the Freshmen wore when they were little fellows and the angels told them fairy tales in their dreams. Hut Radsch couldn’t hit hard enough. He struck everybody and everything except the bat, and the Faculty filed around the diamond Indian style with Mr. Clow in the van, and four tallies were made. Wells tried his luck, but precedent is a hard thing to overcome, and the Faculty continued to walk. Well, the outcome of it all was the Faculty flunked; class standing 74 ; final, 74 6; average, 74 5-U . The Seniors averaged 87. Mr. Hrigg’s lemonade pail received honorable mention. Mr. Dresden’s faculty vest which disappeared beneath his coat every time the Seniors were ahead, will please report at the office tomorrow morning. The Seniors, it is said, will be recommended to President Krueger next June because of their staying qualities, and it is rumored that Profs. Mitchel, Goddard and Hewitt will also fight the British. The strong features of the game as reported to The Normal Advance were the strong language Mr. Dresden used when Mr. Blair lost a tally, Mr. Ewing’s inclination to talk to the ladies, Mr. Clow’s ability to hold down a base while his head, hands and feet were in the air, the desire of the Seniors to trade water pails with Mr. Briggs, Mr. Lough’s fear of the ball, Radsch’s unfaithfulness to his classmen, and the look of sad resignation on Mr. Sage’s face. Holding His Ba«. 130 Illustrations of Favorite “He is so smooth and slick and slim, It’s quite a treat to look at him. C. E. Lovett. “She is very self poscssed. Edith ackkk. Shorter of stature than nerve. Mahi.k Gkandy. “If naelKKlycare for me. I’ll care for naebody. Ruby Dyhk. “Nose, nose, nose, nose. And who gave thee that jolly red nose ? Frank Young. “A terrible man with a terrible name.” R. C. Sauerhhrrixg. “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall never see his like again. L. G. SCHUSSMAN. “Is she not passing fair?” FkKDKKICA SCHINKR “I am a man more sinned against than sinning. H. B. Patch. “I am myself indifferent honest. Arthur Row. Love me, love my dog. F. E. MitchRi.i.. “Too little for great praise. Elizabeth Rowland. Her eyes, her manner,all who saw admires. Isahki.i.a Temple. What’s in a name? Jennie Darling. “As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Anna Leon. Too civil by half. Royal Peterson. He is the very pineapple of politeness.” Lewis Moulton. “Just for a handful of silver he left us. Fred J. Curtis. When found, make note of. Guy I). Howlktt. “Small bodies with velocity have greater momentum than large masses without it. Nellie Holland. He hath a face like a benediction. Fred Turner. “A man that smilcth with but half bis face. Geo. Kelley. “A little lower than the angels. Mertie Culbertson. 132 “I spread my books my pencil try, The lingering- noon to cheer.” Guy Wki.W. His beard is perfectly fashioned like the husk of a chestnut.” Bailey. •Hang sorrow, care will kill a cat.” Bertha Jonhs. His waist is larger than his life, Korlife is but a span.” ShKPardson. I “What a spendthrift he is of his tongue.” G ho.'Arnold. The very hairs of his head are numbered.” Tostkn Thompson. The fashion docth wear out more apparel than the man.” Ai.bkkt Houghton. One of the few immortal names. That were not born to die.” M. B. Franklin. For even tho’ vanquished he could argue still.” R. Radsch. The world is good, and the people are good, And we’re all good fellows together.” Philakkans. All we ask is to be let alone.” Thk single gkntlkmkn of Faculty. There’s a good time coming, boys, A good time coming.” Miss Webster’s Spring. My life is one denied horid grind.” Practice Teacher. Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low. An excellent thing in woman.” Anna Muth. “She is pretty to walk with And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.” A dose of Pnctict- Helen Foxgrovek. A big round tear stands trembling in her i eye.” Margaret Scanlon. Though this may be play to you, ’Tis death to us.” Wednesday Morning Talks. They arc perfect; how else? They shall never change.” Seniors. We are faulty; why not ? We have time in store.” Juniors. Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.” Glee Club. How green we are and how fresh in this old world.” Freshmen. And French she spake full favre and fetisly.” Josephine Henderson. He was a man of an unbounded stomach.” Fred Knf.ip. A parlous boy.” Archie Worthing. 138 t The TrofesstonaL Knowledge thou great one. new yet old, For whom we each and all have vied. Our heads have not quite all they'll hold Of thee for whom we’ve nearly died; In our exams, be with us yet. Lest we fotget. lest we forget. The laughing and the talking dies, Three hours of torture then depart, Still sits thy quarterly sacrifice. His hand upon his Muttering heart. Oh, facts and dates, be with him yet. Lest he forget, lest he forget. On times the practice teachers meet, To be pulled from out the muck and mire. And issue forth with straggling feet, To make their wills and mount their pyres. Oh, Wednesday night be with them yet. Lest they forget, lest they forget. If drunk with feelings good, we lose. Wild tongues which we cannot control. And any righteous law abuse, Or come a snide on Warden Cole, The council is among us yet, And won't forget, and won’t forget. Then when the sheepskin’s fairly won. And labor hears its well earned fruit. And Oshkosh's daughters and her sons Arcteaching youthful minds to shoot. Sweet memories be with them yet. That their old friends they’ll not forget. D. K. A. 135 i cA Terrible cAccident Revealed. A curious person while sauntering through the chemical laboratory a few days ago was surprised to find a pair of shoes, soles up, protruding from beneath the pile of aprons and old suits that has so long occupied a corner of the room. Not being accustomed to seeing pedal coverings lying about loose in the building, the observers gave them a gentle kick of investigation, and, horrors! did they move? Yes, and soon there appeared beneath an old jacket, a pair of eyes about the size of a ten cent globe, next a bald pate, and last there emerged none other than the form of Robert Butler, shaking with fear, covered with particles of broken glass, and thoroughly wet. Robert stammered so for the time being that no one could learn his misfortune, but it was found from other sources that on the advice of Kelly and Benedict he had placed a piece of sodium as large as an egg into a dish of water, with the result that the water, dish and various bottles were blown toward all points of the compass, and Robert was assisted into the corner where he hid, after the fashion of a certain African biped. It is said that his respect for sodium became so great that rather than finish his experiment he actually translated and copied Hamilton’s hieroglyphical version of the same. D. K. A. 3:05 p. m. Prof, (loddard (giving out topics for work in Chemistry.) “Mr. Kelly, you may take hydrochloric acid. 3:15 i . m.—After Kelly had taken hydrochloric acid. 136 V Biology Progressing. After the Junior-Senior basketball game, these slippers were found on a shelf in a prominent place in the ladies’ cloak room. The contained note read as follows: •‘Hello! Say old girl I am stuck on these slippers and their owner. Yours truly, Jacob Ha ask.” Shattered Hopes. Junior meeting! Exclamation Junior party! Expectations. Plana completed, Exultation! Once a year Recreation! Teacher's meeting. Indignation! Looks of Junior’s Consternation. A Wish. I want to be a Senior And with the Seniors stand A grin upon my weary face, The parchment in my hand. Contented, One calm afternoon as the sun was fading1 in the west, Mr. Silvernail and Miss Jenkins were seen performing the “two hearts that beat as one” act in the Ladies’ Study. Miss Parmale came along, stopped and gazed inquiringly in their direction. Some one volunteered the information that those people were taking the non-professional five weeks course. “Why, dear me,” sighed the lady from the library, “I thought that was a twenty weeks professional course, and this was the week before examination.” The First Frost. W were crowded in the library. Not a soul had room to spare. We were pushed into the bookshelves. We were perched upon a chair. 'Tin a fearful thing on entering To be maltreated so, When the thoughts of home and mother Make the briny tear drops flow. As thus we stood and pondered, On the hardshipsof our lot, “Do not talk,” a sweet voice shouted. And we fainted on the spot. When at last our books we gathered, Then we spoke in better cheer; And we landed in the Study To begin our Freshman year. Ai.ta Lewis. Oh! Stick to your bush. Chewing the rag. DRY cobas Blowing him up. k The Explosion. On a day not long past, the chemistry class Were toiling away in the Lab. Each working- hisbest to outdo the rest. In getting some hydrogen that they might test For the properties which that gas had. At the side of a desk, with one hand on a tlask, And the other guiding the blaze. Stood gallant Ed. J. gently humming the lay Of the Indian braves he had helped to slay, In Dodge county's earlier days. Near by stood Verne with a match lit to burn The gas which out seemed to pass: But she lit it to quick; the acid flew thick, And some of the people went nearer old Nick Than was wise of a chemistry class. They were sadly in need of the help of Doc. Weed; They said lie sewed forty-one stitches: But, Oh! it was sad; yes. yes, ’twas too bad To see the effect the acid had, On the humorous .editor’s breeches. D. K. A. Down on the Farm. Mr. B. has had first quarter chemistry. lie spent the Easter vacation at home and while there, because of the absence of his father, had occasion to run the farm and the hired man. It is said that his first order to the last named individual was something like this: “John you may lead the horses out to H-O and then Na Cl the cows. Then go down to the store and get a quart C2 H.O II, 4 pound of Mg S O, a pound of K X (hand a gallon of C2H40 2. Tell the storekeeper to charge it as I am short on Sn. Then tell Bridget to mix some of the C2HsO H and H2O with sugar and bring the filtrate to me in the library. A pan of dish water thrown by Bridget at this moment prevented the order being finished. 141 A freshman was piloting a group of Stevens Point girls through the Normal building on the afternoon preceding the oratorical contest. One of them, seeing the Holt , machine on the table in the physical laboratory asked the guide “if that thing was a sausage mill or a grindstone.” The freshman thought a moment and then said: “I'm not sure, but I think that’s what the people in the Ladies’ Study call a sparking machine.” Those Troublesome Senior Girls. Ladies fair of the Senior class It worries the janitor's cat. To know why you are afraid of mice. Yet persist in wearing a rat. And then it troubles the Senior men. And they’re justified perhaps, In wanting to know where you get thosc“trades” That you swap with the Junior chaps. Hut most of all. it frets Mr. Hriggs With all his accomodation. To hunt up wee little backwoods towns Where you can secure positions. 142 I). A. K. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY! i The Death of Absolam Repeated;.' Life of (ireat Usefulness Suddenly and Cruelly Ended Leaves a Host of Friends to Mourn His Untimely Taking Off. (associated press.) Last evening at five o’clock, the city was horrified by a rejiort that Poor Richard, our esteemed fellow citizen, poet laureate and editor of the Critic Observer had met his death by strangulation. The particulars of his sad demise arc as follows: It seems that early in the afternoon Richard called upon a farmer living in the town of Algoma at a distanceof three miles from the plant of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, in the interest of the Scroll people of Chicago. The farmer would not purchase, became enraged at the persistence of the agent, and as a last resort to rid himself of the intruder, pursued him with a dog and a pitch fork. Richard in his attempts to escape, rode his wheel beneath an overhanging limb which became entangled in his locks and held him suspended in the air. The wheel went on at full speed and was found this morning eating grass on a hillside four miles from where the accident occurred. Before an axe could be obtained with which to fell the tree, Richard was roaming the land whese the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle inourneth. The funeral arrangements so far as completed are given below. Father Logan of Appleton, will preach the sermon. The male Octelle will take charge of the music. Ladies I eon, Tollefson, Nolan and Strong will act as pall bearers. The saw horse of the deceased will be led behind the hearse, and the stationers’ department, also the pew which the deceased rented in the study, will be draped in black. It has been thought best to ask the ladies to step out on the roof of the Normal building while giving vent to their feelings as the eave trough may there be utilized for carrying away the tears which might interfere with the work on the new addition if other refuges are sought during this time of bereavement. From The Examiner. EXCHANGE. Miss Webster yesterday received a consignment of invalids from the institution for the aged and infirm at Oshkosh. The day was pleasantly spent in playing “pul 1-away,”hide-and-go-seek and blind-man’s-buff. WiNNECONNK Locai., May, Id. 143 The Irish 44Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Norah had a little pi . All over noice and whoite; Wheniver Norah wint to church, Thot pig wuz sure in soight. Won Sunday morn she fastened piggie Up in his little pin. Put on her noice granc pettycoat, And started frae front sin. Pure the church not quoite a ttioile away. She hurried on quoite fast. And warm and toired, but roighteous sure. She rachcd the church at last. She tuk her seat; with head bowed low. She said her little prayer. Whin squake, squake, squale. Good Saints abuve! Wuz thot little piggie there ? She hiked around furc piggie then. Her brother saw hint foirst. And made a grab at piggic's tail, But made him squale still worse. They chased thot piggie down the oisle. And in and out and round The church, the yard, and every wan. He had upon the ground. At last poor piggie got away, And he was sane no mure. And Norah wept furc him three days, Oi don’t know, maybe fure. Now Sunday Norah goes to church. And sits there still and noice. Nor niver fears fure piggie dear. She knows he won't cum twice. Anon. 144 cA Valuable Specimen 'Discovered. � — 3 mm GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION, O. N. S. Name — Streptorh vnlous deltordcm elcon. Class Crustaceans. Location Work Kooui. Lor mat ion—A t h eri an Roc k. Collection and Donor—Miss Mierswa. Remarks- Rare Fossil. Extracts From Ewing's Early History of Wisconsin, “Yearsagoone Peter Oshkosh laid out Oshkosh, but later Oshkosh laid out Peter. “There were but a few Indians in town during those early days, but now Main street is full of them. “Oshkosh is bounded on the north by the Insane Asylum, on the east by Lake Winnebago, on the south by Waupun and the Electric Park, and on the west by Grange hall and Ripon. “Oconomowoc gets its name from the fact that O’Connors were strapped while riding on the train, a friend interceded with the conductor in his behalf, but the conductor was an honest man, and said, “O'Connors can walk.’’ Hence the name. “Meeme gets its name from a proud father who came home one day with an orange in his hand. Upon asking his family whoshould have the orange, the youngest of the Hock shouted ‘me me!’ which so pleased the father that the town was named Meeme.” 145 Light hair, blue eyes. Eats fudges, never lies. Likes Patch, makes him scratch. Never thought to light a match. That's (it). Independent, head in air, Blue bonnet, skyward stare: Shows old Dan, the editor. How to comb his pompadour. That's (nit). Fellows they live up on Scott. List to me and call there not. Or you'll join the happy band. Who have failed to understand. Whether they are “it or nit. cA ffelto 'Don'ts for Social 'Torture. Don't flirt with the members of the Faculty. Don’t work more than nineteen hours per day and seven days per week. Don’t ride your pony too hard during- warm weather. Don’t expect to g-etout of professional arithmetic the first quarter. Don’t flirt over the school ’phone. The stationer has bought that priv-elege. Don’t ask for a recommend as a teacher of history if you wear small shoes. Don’t use your toothpick on the street. It was intended to be used in your mouth, and besides, you’ll meet Miss Swart if you do. Don’t talk about red tape. Don’tdnnk the water in your finger bowl for lemonade. Don’t sell your right to a pew in the Ladies Study to the boys of the Senior class. Don’t abuse Mitchel’s dog. Don’t get mad at anything you find in Tin; Oi ivkk. It won’t do you any good; the staff have all won watermelons in the foot races. Don’t bet on the football tcamsor with the Lyceum girls. Don’t mind Mr. IJrigg’s laugh. Don’t whistle during morning naps. Don’t forget to take a nickel with you every time you go into the library. A Lough-Down Trick. A Medley, On a morning bright and clear. To my old desk I drew near. Just a seat up in the Ladies’ Study I was racing like a train To get quickly back again To my lessons which were waiting there for me. Way down upon the sunny campus, far, far below. There’s where my heart is turning ever. There’s where I long to go. After the exam, is over, After the pens arc wiped. After a siege of waiting. After the grades arc known, Many the hearts that are aching Could you but read them all. Many the flunks alas! After the fall. I've a secret in my heart, oh Tommy A tale I would impart, Tom, to thee. Every pupil in the class Knows my shame, I didn’t pass. Professional 'rithmetic. oh Tommy. H. W. Songs Sung by Normalites. I’ll Whistle and Wait for Katy......Chas. Stoops. There is “Jess One Girl..........Win. De Kelver Oh! May, Dearest May................Chas. Wood Come to my arms Nora Darling....George Danforth Charlie Boy One day................Edith Acker Sweet Bunch of Daises.....................Charles McCune Christmas Carrols...........................Byron Cooley Spring Carrols..............................Frank Young Alice, Where Art Thou?.............G. V. Kelley I’ll Study With a Will......................Jess. Miller Marguerite.........................Martin Short Nellie Gray........................Fred Turner Where Has Little Ida Gone ?...........Ed. Kelley I was Seeing Nellie Home.....................Will Bcardmorc When the Flowers Bloom Again Gentle Annie... ...............................M. B. Franklin Why Don’t the Men Propose....................Nora Murphy Olivette...................................Archie Maxwell Oh Where has my Little Dog Gone....Prof. Mitchell Whistling Rufus............................Normal Students We’d Better Bid a Wee.........................Dr. Lough “Maymc Oueen of My Heart.......Edward Dempsey I am My Mamma’s Baby Boy.............Kent Morgan Extracts From Laboratory Books in Chemistry. 1. Ammonia gas-f- curiosity 2 = 9 job for the undertaker. 2. Nitric acid 4- carelessness = a letter home for clothes. 3. Desire to be all, sec all. and hear all 4 a little encouragement = Whitby,s gait. 4. Hairs 4- shade = Cooley's mustache. 5. Hard experiment + Leith inclinations = no action. 6. Faculty morning talk -f- warm day = 437 naps. The Fourth Grader s Advice. Ycr can make all kinds of faces, Yer can throw yer paper balls, Yercan poke the other fellers, Ycr can cake walk down the halls. But yer wanter mind yer business. And don't yer raise a grin. When yer good department teacher So quietly comes in. Yercan bob around the setters Bike a chipmunk on a stump. While yer dear kind practice teacher Tells yer how yer goin’ to flunk. But yer want to quit yet fooling And elevate ycr chin When yer nice department teacher. So modestly steps in. There was a kid in our grade. His name was Jimmie Flynn, No mischief ever happened That Jimmie wasn't in; One day he drew a pitcher. That fairly made us roar. An' our department teacher. Came sailing in the door An' gobbled Mr. Jimmie, With her lingers in his hair. An' he turkeyed 'long the hallway An’ down the basement stair; We heard all kinds of music, That larruped boys can sing. When our good department teacher Head the law to Jimmie Flynn. I . K. A. Advertisements. WANTED—Four Score Wednesday morning talks for next year. The Faculty. WANTED— Some one to hold note books open during quiz. Great chance for some one to make a reputation and a fortune. Chemistry Class. WANTED- To know if the ladies like my gait? R. L. Sauerheking. WANTED A less suggestive name. Jennie Dari.in ;. WANTED—A recipe for sending a younger brother to bed Sunday evening. Sophib Peek. WANTED People generally to beware of my growl. B. Mark Franklin. FOR SALE—Three miles of bluff, developed in Fond du Lac county politics; won second placcc in oratorical contest. (J. V. Kki.LKV. $500 REWARD S500- Fora device for moving mustaches. I need mine on the top of my head. H. R. Fling. Everyday Joshes Dr. Lough in the Theory class: Mr. J , what do the letters A, B and C make you think of ? Mr. J—: Of the American Book Co. Mr. Thompson in Psychology Class: Dr. Lough, suppose 1 were to put a two-inch cube of sugar in my mouth . Laughter prevented Mr. Thompson finishing his question. Mr. (ioddard, after a lecture on flame: Mr. Frances, what do you light to study by in the evening ? Mr. Francis: A match. Miss Heward to Mr. Vandcrhoof, who is struggling over a note: I like to see the wicked punished.” Mr. Vanderhoof, triumphantly: “Mi?” (me) Miss Webster: “See here. Vandehroof and you people on the back row, don’t you think you can run your side shows when the main circus is going on up here in front.” Mr. Briggs sticking his head in physical recitation room: “Mr. Sage, telephone down to the infernal regions and tell that man to shutoff the heat.” Mr. Sage: “We are not in communication with that place today, Mr. Briggs. Senior in upper hall rehearsing oration, extinguishes the light. Sister is saying good night in the hall below. Masculine voice calls, “What’s the matter with your light?” Senior (continuing oration): “For love is blind.” Seen atthe contest—A red opera cloak with a Patch. Sitnnicht was seen working hard over a problem in the algebra class one day. A class-mate says the problem was something like this: Snow falls at the rate of an inch in two hours. This morning at 6:30 there were two inches of snow over Arnold’s tracks on Union street, and therefore, the tracks must have been four hours old. 6:30-4:00 equals 2:30. Arnold staid until 2:30 last night. Oh, heavenly day! Prof. Cross to his writing class: Be careful to make the compound curve of the letter “f” correctly. An hour later Mr. Cross found one of his young ladies scowling over her desk, and asked the trouble. “Well I can’t make that confound curve you spoke of.” 149 You can tell a man’s occupation by his language. For instance: Thompson said to one of his boys in his music class, “John, hand me the pitch fork (pipe).” In Elocution Class. Miss Muth: It seems to me this figure, ‘‘As a lover kisses the glove of his mistress.” weakens the paragraph. Miss Clark: Perhaps you are not in sympathy with the sentiment expressed. In Theory class. Miss Dopp: Now, Mr. Hanquet. will you just stop me as soon as I say anything you don’t understand ? Mr. II.: Yes ma’am; I'll try. Prof, Goddard: How many have brought their Williams to class today? Miss Bullard’s hand went up immediately. Miss Dopp in Theory class: A person proposed to me last summer. Mr. Hamilton leads a stampede of laughter. Miss Dopp (after laughter subsides): Now. Mr. Hamiiton, you were to blame for all that. “Yes,” remarked Prof. Dresden coming home from the sleighride to the Grange hall, “I’ll be stiff for a week tomorrow.” Dr. Dough in looking over Mr. Cooley's outline of emotions: Mr. Cooley, where did you put your head for cultivation?” Miss Pew in getting her standing from Dr. Dough found herself surrounded by many others there for the same purpose, and that these others might not hear the dreadful mark, she said in an anxious voice. “Sav it. Dough.” and thereupon got out of the room with great rapidity, (considering her size) without obtaining what she sought. Miss Heward: “What goes after a swell ?’’ Miss Strong: “Girls.” Prof. Goddard: by accident. “Wilt Thou?” She Wilted. There was a man named Sauerhering, Who was always doing and never caring, He talked in the halls he talked in the study. He talked at all hours and disturbed everybody Hut he talked once too much, and oh 'twns a pity. He was taken in tow by the lookout committee. He pled not guilty, but the council severe, Said.“Vacate the study room for the rest of the year. The sentence he’s framed in lovey red tape, And he now goes to class by the fire escape. 1). K. A. Grammar Graduates Exercises. 151 The ‘Valedictorian’s Address. Teachers, I congratulate you upon having such a class. Classmates, 1 congratulate you upon having such teachers. Mr. President. I congratulate you upon having such teachers and scholars. Teachers and classmates, 1 congratulate you upon having such a president. Board of Kegents, I congratulate you upon having such a president, such teachers and such scbollars, I congratulate you upon having such a valedictorian. 1 congratulate myself on having such a Board of Regents, president, teachers and classmates. In short I congratulate myself for being alive and upon departing from this school with a sane mind. I will conclude with a selection from my own original “Verses to a Greek God.” “Standing with reluctant feet. Where the brook and river meet, I raise my skirts and wade right in. To marry a fellow who has some tin.” Bows to the Board of Kegents.) “ President.) “ Teachers) “ Classmates.) “ Audience.) 162 THE CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE. SERGE IS KING Our $9.85 Serge And ours is “the Noblest Roman of them all.” Are the $13.50 Suits in every other clothing store in Oshkosh— And every other clothing merchant knows . i that is so. Why oUltS shouldn't you know it too, when the knowledge is worth $3.5o to you. (Single and double breasted styles.) Our . Are the $16.50 leaders in all other stores where our advantages as “quantity buyers” are not enjoyed. This 12.45 Serge Suits fact is also well known and regretfully conceded by every reputable clothing seller in this city. (Single and double breasted styles.) We Guarantee Every Suit. Guarantee them to hold color, shape and smoothness. We represent them to be absolutely flawless. If they prove otherwise come and get another suit. No other house dare make such a guarantee, but we know whereof we speak. We carry a complete assortment of summer Furnishings Our stock of Straw Hats is now at its best--every size is here and every shape. cNelson Scott HEIDEN BROS., ms MEN’S FURNISHINGS for Hats, Caps, Mils, Ties, Collars, Hosiery, Underwear. (Broccrs CORNER MAIN AND LINCOLN. ¥¥¥ The Church Co. We have a full line of Groceries and sell at QROCERS An entirely New Stock of Fancy and Staple flnworlch. Always FfMh. Full line of (lum� . Candies, etc. Corner of Jackson and Irving Streets. LOWEST PRICES We solicit the patronage of the Normal Clubs and feel confident of our ab lit to please them. BLISSETT, J. F. W. Schmidt HALLOCK CO. Lading zb Druggist F.VERY DAY IS IIARf.AIN 171 £Mdin Street DAY ATOUK STORK Students always 'hxlcome We have a full line of Groceries, Flour, Fruits, which we sell as low as the lowest, quality considered. Our store a neat an.d clean. Call and see us. 209 BUTTMAN BROS. FRESH and SALT MEATS alway on hand at lowest prices. MAIN STREET 372 Main Street Dr. Fred W. A. Brown Kleeber Norris, Corner Main and Algoma. DENTISTS. Beckwith Block. Perfect Satisfaction Guaranteed. Office Hours: OTtTUTO ■) to 11 A. M. Re«ii c. CK. 1:30 to 4 r. m. STS Jackson St. 7 to si . M. Oshkosh. Win. 123 Main Street Telephone 782 OsItKosh, Wis Cbe normal Advance 1 he Leading Normal School Paper of Wis. Official Organ for the Inter-State Oratorical League of Normal Schools The Advance Contains accounts of all the happenings in the Oshkosh Normal. In addition to the local news each issue of the paper contains a valuable article on some pedagogic subject which Is of interest ty all students. Every effort is made bv the editor to keep in touch with the alumni. The Advance offers about the only means that graduates have of learning where their class-mates are located. Students and alumni will 'find it to their interest to have their name on the subscription list of The Advance. Send your order to George V. Kelley. Business Manager. ...THE... DO YOU LIKE good laundry work? If you do send us a postal or telephone to 392 and we will call and get yours Good work is the only kind we do NORMAL BARBER SHOP IS THE PLACE TO GET A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. LADIES’ SHAMPOOING A SPECIALTY. L. C. MCKELLEP Cor. Lincoln and Wisconsin Ave. TDOV STEAM 1 INW I LAUNDRY 335 MAIN STREET Normal School Airem : • J. J. Murray ami llrnj. Leith. Dr. Bertha V. Tlioipoi] OSHKOSH, WIS. rxuOT Office: 165 Main Street Residence: 326 Jackson TOOT OFFICE HOURS: to in a. m. 1 to 4 p. ni. 7 to H p. mi. Houte Phone 347. Office Phone 52� . McAlpine Engraving Co. ENGRAVERS BY ALL PIXKESSCS. Montgomery ftldg., Milwaukee, WLs. THREE COLOR WORK........ A SPECIALTY. DESIGNERS, ENGRAVERS. ILLUSTRATORS. Write for Specimen Sheer in liiack and White. r Dentist s -■ Dr. I. Kezertee located in Oshkosh in 1853 Ih still with the aid of competent assistance doing all kinds of work in the Dental line. Teeth extracted without pain, titlings, crowns, bridges, regulating, treating and all in the most successful manner. Call at the old stand. Beckwith Block...Cor. Main Algoma Crunks that will not break. MINERAL FIBRE TELESCOPES and COAT CASES that are light, and very strong-DRESSER TRUNKS. These are some of the things that 1 manufacture and have for sale in the line of travelers’ goods. C W. BEEBE 174 MAIN STREET WE MAKE A REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF OUR PHOTOS TO NORMAL STUDENTS, BUT WE DO NOT REDUCE THE QUALITY OF THE PICTURES IN ANY MANNER THESE ARE •' v ICHOLSON v ■ ' ' Photographer Ground Jfloor StuMo 202 fl atn Street DR. H.M. WEED OFFICE 159 MAIN STREET RESIDENCE 131 ELM Office Hour : •� to 10 A. M. ito 2 r. m. Ouhkosh, Wis. 7 to K r. M. � Books, Stationery, News. HURN'S 159 Main St. Headquarters for Students' Supplies. BRENNAN ...DRUGGIST.... WEBSTER BLOCK Church and Main St . J. Bauman Co., Druggists, We have a full line of 'Drugs. Normal Students Welcomed. Watch our Great Reduction Sale on stvl- J ish Summer Suits. Many of these sold at $12 to $14; now cut to $9.50, including fine worsted Cassi meres $ Serges. GENT’S FURNISHINGS. Always in the lead with stylish up-to-date wearing apparel for young men. Hats in fine and rough straws. Shirts in the newest creation at prices that are always the lowest. j OSHKOSH, WIS. Printers of the Normal Quiver Business Mens’ Printing School Teachers’ Printing Engraved Plate Printing Book Printing All kinds of Printing Except the Poor kind. 30 High Street. MUELLER NEW FIRM HAFEMANN QtSooft (gtnbm CORNER MAIN AND GOLD STAMPERS STREETS AND EMBOSSERS Blank Book, Oshkosh. Magazine Work, Pamphlet Work. “Save Your Teeth” Gold and Alloy Fillings. Gold. Aluminum and Rubber Plates. Teeth Extracted without pain. jt All Work Guaranteed. IN. li. TEAL 9 High street. Dentist TELEPHONE 715. GEORGE H. ABLARD A good, neat and well-furnished market for Normal Clubs and Boarding Houses to get all kinds of Fresh, Salt, Smoked Meats, Sausages, Boiled Ham, Poultry. etc., at-- West Irving Street. P. S. A good discount to Normal Clubs. J. M. Conley, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office 165 Main Street, Over Rudd Co’s Store J Telephone 283 Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 7 to 8 p. m. “So Long!”