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

Text from Pages 1 - 172 of the 1903 volume:

� Cbc Quiver� EDITED BY THE QUIVER STAFF UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JUNIOR CLASS OSHKOSH STATE NORMAL SCHOOL JUNE i, 1903 m Castlc l’icrec Printing Company State Xornial School, Oshkosh Miss Josephine Henderson 4 ©ebtcafton to 3oaey0ine f enberson 'XDc bebicofe fH� B Boofi. @o our true eBpcciaf frienb De juniors fo Her foofi. £He Champion of our 04 cfo6S. T b, off uk Rumors foue Her: 'Wc Know of no one in fH tworfb nQ?e ere twoufb pfoce a6oue Her. to off of ub. a numBer forge. JsHe seems o queen moef rogof. $nb we Her name of off fimes Hotf ifH Heorfg cfcers most fogof. ttHifi fifffc Boofi £0e Quioer Bfoff o now proefaim is bone: 3f represents our 6eBf attempt $f frufH anb wif anb fun. @nb fHub ob fHe probucf of 1903 3f uriff info H'Gforg pass nODifH 0 bebicofton fo 0er foir name. §0 Bog fHe junior cfaBB. 6 k The Quiver Staff The Quiver Staff 1003 I£ litor-in-Cliief ................................. Assistant Editor ................................. Literary ......................................... Athletics ........................................ Alumni ........................................... Humorous ......................................... ()rganizations ................................... 1 0018 ........................................... Business Manager ............ Assistant Business Manager . John . Riley • . Elizabeth Morrison .Robert Wendt .C harles Sciiwede .( ikokce Hewitt . Barney Sciiokn wetter . 1 Iakkiette Porterfield . Elizabeth Darkow .Ei.i.a Daio.iikrty .Harriet K. Davis .Mii.ton V. Jones . BeRTIIOI I) B. Sc 11ROEDI-R . Jon N Cn RIST PH ERSON Hoard of A r is s Li'kli.a V. Robinson Tii.uk Nachtwey M. Adelaide Taylor Alta L. Pepper 7 (Bo, fittfe 6oofi. c0ifb of fBc junior Cfass, go out info our sc Boot’ wort“b. QYlag gou carrg untB gou tlx spirit of tlx HTBife anb (Bofb. (Hlag tlx faug0 gou arouse 6ear urif0 if neither mafice nor sfmg. @6 gou ofber grow, mag gou Become bearer to eacB one of us as a gentfe reminber of a 0a ff‘forgotten time anb of 6usg 0appg 0ours. @nb mag gou. a triumphant outcome of fljese months of ta6or. tcatx 6ehinb coerg trace of tl5e toif anb angiefg of gour 6oarb of ebtfors. anb fafic to at? the Best wishes of t£0e juniors. 8 9 President R. . Halsey 10 ■i A iss Hose C. Swart 11 - FACULTY In Order of Seniority of Sendee. Ken'S H. Halsey. President (Williams College) School Supervision. Rosk C. Swart (University of Wisconsin) Supervisor of Practice. Emily F. Webster (Oshkosh Normal) Mathematics. Lydon W. Briggs. Treasurer, Civics. School Laic. Harriet E. Ci.ark (Oshkosh Normal, Boston School of Oratory) Voice Culture. Elocution. Mary K. Apthori (Iowa College. University of Chicago) Latin. Harriet Cecil Magee (Mt. Ilolvoke College) Drawing. Social Culture. Waltkr C‘. IIf.witt (Michigan Normal College) Conductor of Institutes. School Economy. Josephine Henderson (Allegheny College) Composition. Rhetoric. Adolphi's II. Sack (Cornell University) Physics. IIknky N. Goddard (University of Michigan) Chemistry. .Xaturc Study. Lillian G. Kimball. English Language. Frederick R. Clow (Carlton College. Harvard University) History. Political Economy. History of Education. Ellen F. I’. Peake (University of New Brunswick) English Literature. Library Reading. Bknj. Mack Dresden (Wooster University. Oshkosh Normal) German. Grace Heward (Potsdam Normal and Conservatory of Music) • Vocal Music. Harry R. Fling (Bowdoin College. University of Chicago) Biology. Frank E. Mitchell (University of Indiana) Geography. Geology. Frances I). Guion (Elmira College. Cornell University) Reading. .Issociate in Elocution. Katherine S. Alvorii (University of Michigan) . Issociate in History and Latin. 12 FACULTY hi Order of Seniority of Service. I'j.i.A Cl. Pakmble (Pratt Institute Library School) Librarian. Edna Carter (Vassar College, Oshkosh Normal) . Issociate in Mathematics and Physics. Augustus V. Tkettien (Oshkosh Normal, Wisconsin University, Clark University) Observation and Method. Addie C. Pond (Academic Colarossi. Paris) . Issociate in Drawing. Mary I. McFadden (Oshkosh Normal, Wisconsin University) .Issociate Supervisor of Practice. L. I.. Summers (Iowa College. Pratt Institute, Naas, Sweden) Director of Manual ' 'raining Department. Walter F. Coolidge t Knox College) . Issociate in Mathematics. Crack I,. Siiktardson (Boston School of Gymnastics) Director of Gymnasium, and Lecturer on Hygiene. Irving King (Earlham College. Ind.: University of Chicago) Psychology and Pedagogy. TRAINING DEPARTMENT Jennie G. Marvin (Oshkosh Normal) Principal and Critic. Grammar Grades. Kloise A. Bell (Oswego Normal School, N. Y.) . Issistant. Grammar Grades. Adelaide M. Parsons ( Plattshurg Normal. Plattsburg, N. Y.) l eachcr and Critic. Intermediate Grades. 'Ai karktt Haskell (Oshkosh Normal) Leachcr and ( ritic. Second Primary Grades. Elizabeth Stevens (Bridgeport Teachers' Training School, Conn.; Pottsdam Normal School, N. Y.) Teacher and Critic. Primary Grades. Maid B. Curtiss (New Britain. Conn., Normal School; Teachers’ College, N. Y.) Director of Kindergarten. . Clara E. Marvin, Stenographer. Secretary. Lucy A. Potter. .'Issistant Librarian. 13 • Died April lK. 1903. The Faculty, State Xormal School Jn 3Urmnn of John 0). (Quantz uilio dirri 31anuan 24 and Alfaretta Haskell who died April 18 1903 16 John O. Qitantz 10 JOHN OSCAR QUANTZ. John Oscar Quant , came to the Oshkosh Normal School in September, 1901. The thoro-ness of his preparation for the work—five years of post-graduate work in Toronto, Wisconsin, Clark, and Cornell Universities, after he had taken his bachelor’s degree at Toronto—made it evident that no one who has ever filled the chair of psychology and pedagogy in the Oshkosh school has come so well equipp'd for the work from the scholastic standpoint. In fact, the very thoroness of his preparation along this line called our attention so strongly to his scholarly qualities that we were in danger of overlooking his more important qualities as a man. As a teacher he was remarkably clear in statement and was not satisfied until he had succeeded in securing from his students clear and comprehensive statements of the subjects under consideration. Ilis patience with those who were in earnest in their preparation, but slow in comprehension. endeared him not only to such as received this treatment from him. but also to monitors of his classes who loved justice. The fact that in every subject touched upon in class he was evidently keeping back tenfold more than the time of the class allowed him to present, gave to all an unlimited respect for the reserve power of the man. His remarkable command of the Hnglish language that made him pick and choose for just the right words with which to express the exact shade of thought that was in his mind, showed the scholarly instincts of tinman and his keen appreciation of the value of the artistic expression. These were the qualities more evident to all of his students. To the smaller number who wanted to go more deeply into subjects pursued by the class and therefore came into closer intellectual touch with him thru conferences out of school, there was disclosed another side of the man that appealed to them even more strongly than his pre-eminently scholarly attainments. They found him a thoroly companionable man, with broad views of life’s more serious problems, and a kindliness of heart that only a closer acquaintance fully disclosed. W e all saw and realized to some extent the courage with which he faced death during the last month, when the struggle was so sharp that every morning each of us inquired of his neighbor whether the night had put an end to the conflict: but we are liable to forget that for months, probably for a year previous to his death, he had realized that for him the grave was imminent. And yet, during all this time, no impatient word fell from his lips, and, in so far as we know, not even the murmur, “Doth God exact day-lal or, light denied? There was the keenest longing to “present his true account,” as there naturally would he with any whole-souled man who felt so completely prepared to undertake a man’s full task. His cheerfulness thruout the whole of that portion of his life during which we knew him, should to to each and every one of us a noble example. Tho cut off early in his period of usefulness, yet his life has not been without rich fruitage; and assuredly we may say that there was no teacher or student in the Oshkosh Normal School who came to know Mr. Quantz during the year and a half of his connection with the school but will to a totter man or woman, a more helpful citizen, bv reason of the friendship. 17 A iss Alfarctla Haskell 18 MISS ALFARKTTA HASKELL. Miss Haskell has lx en connected with the Oshkosh Normal School, cither as student or teacher, from the first year of its establishment. She graduated from the elementary course in 1875, a member of the first class graduated from that course. She afterwards took a course for the training of kindergartners in the St. Louis training school, at that time under the able supervision of Susan K. Blow. She taught for several years in Menomonie and Sheboygan, and later as critic teacher in the Winona. Minnesota. Normal School. In 1883. she was invited to take charge of the primary department of the Oshkosh Normal School, and from that time until the present, with an interim of but four years, her own school has lx en the fortunate school of her labor and the object of her untiring and devoted service. She was a woman of great energy, high ideals, unusual industry, and varied aptitude. Whatever she did, she did well. It was l oth her disposition and her delight to see every matter for which she was responsible done in the liest manner and finished in every detail. She jjossessed. in a marked degree, the housekeeping instinct, and so her school room was always bright, orderly, and rejxiseful. like a well-ordered, well-kept house. She had great natural jxnver of control and ability to inspire children with a sense of resjxmsibility, and to secure from them dignity of demeanor and real scholarly effort. She had the faculty of establishing pupils in right habits, and of teaching them self-control and self-direction. As a teacher of subject-matter she had few equals. Her instruction was always clear, attractive, stimulating, and of permanent impression. In method she was rapid, deft, and worked with the sure hand and effectiveness of the artist. Her teaching was never slow, never dull, never clumsy. She had the jx wer and the charm to take a group of children to whom she was an entire stranger, and in a few moments fix their attention upon a piece of subject-matter. set them thinking toward some definite end. and reciting with natural ease and evident satisfaction. All this may lx summed up in the statement that she was one of the most skillful of primary teachers. She lived with and for the children and loved so to live. She was a daughter of the most devoted character: besides her school duties, she took the most patient, faithful, and loving care of an aged father and mother for many years. She was a woman of marked executive ability, of courage, and of power to lx ar her part without flinching or complaining. She met the world with'a cheerful face, and found no fault with the demands life had laid upon her. She died with the same quiet courage with which she had lived, and uttered no complaint as to the time or way. She has left behind her not only schoolroom lessons well taught and well learned, but lessons of life, a record of virtues that we all may admire and emulate. These words as a testimony to her worth and a tribute to her memory, from one who knew her long and well. 19 Eloisc Bell Irving King Elizabeth Stevens Livingstone L. Summers Grace L. Shepardson Walter F. Coolidge 20 4 nkw i;Acri;rv mkmrhrs. Livingstone I.. Summers, supervisor of the Manual Training Department of this school, is a graduate of the Marshalltown. Iowa, high school. In 1891 he graduated from Grinnell College, and since then he has devoted himself largely to drawing and manual training, lie was supervisor of drawing in the Milwaukee schools for five years, and two years circuit supervisor of drawing in fifteen W isconsin cities. It was during this work that he saw the jmjs-sibility of correlating manual training with other school work. Mr. Summers has fitted himself for teaching manual training spending two and a half years specializing in that work, one year at I’ratt Institute, Brooklyn, and a year and a half in luirope, studying in London. Paris and Naas. Sweden. Since then he was supervisor of Sloyd work for the Island of Cuba, remaining in the island during the American occupation. W hen the Manual Training Department was opened in the Normal in the fall of 1902, Mr. Summers was given charge of the work, and this department is still under his supervision. Irving King, the head of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of this school, was born in Indiana. At an early age lie began teaching school. He graduated from Karlhan College, Richmond. Indiana, after which he was engaged in high school work for four years, first as principal at Tonganoxie. Kansas, and then at Bloomingdale, Indiana. Mr. King then went to the I niversily of Chicago, and spent three years in further fitting himself for his work, specializing in philosophy, psvcholog). and education. He had a fellowship the last two years. Mr. King has just completed the work necessary for a doctor’s degree in philosophy with the exception of writing his thesis. He has given a good deal of attention to child psychology. W hile in Chicago he carried on some original investigations in a school for feebleminded. Mr. King is an able man for the jiosition he now fills. He taught child psycholog)- at the I 'niversily of Chicago during the summer quarter and the latter part of last year filled a vacancy in the state normal school of Louisiana as teacher of pedagogy and supervisor of practice work. Walter 1 Coolidgf. is a native of Galesburg, Illinois. His early education was received in a country school, after which he entered the ialesburg high school, graduating in 1892. I lis college training was received at Knox College, where he distinguished himself not only as a student, but as a leader in athletics and literary work as well, taking part in two prize debates and two oratorical contests by apijointment. lie was also for some time manager of the students’college paper. I11 the midst of his college course he withdrew from school and enlisted in the Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as second sergeant in Company C—the first company to land in Porto Rico. At the close of the war he returned to school, and. although he had missed a year, succeeded in graduating with his class in 1899 with the degree of B. A. In 1 01 he received the degree of A. M., delivering the master's oration. Mr. Coolidgc was principal of the high school at Lockj ort. Illinois, one year, and professor of mathematics in the Galesburg high school for a year, coaching the athletic teams at lx th places. lie came to Oshkosh in August, 1902, to succeed Mr. Blair as assistant in mathematics. 21 Elizabeth Stevens, teacher in the primary department of the Normal, is a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and received her early education in the public schools of that place. She is a graduate of the Bridgeport high school and Teachers’ Training school. I-ater she taught in the primary department of that place. She was tutor of students in New York College for a period of two years. Miss Stevens is also a graduate of the Potsdam Normal, doing l ost-graduate work. In August. 1902. she accepted a position as teacher in the primary department of the Oshkosh Normal, which position she now holds. Grace I.. Shepardson, director of gymnastics, was born in Pittsfield. Mississippi, receiving her elementary education in the schools of that place, graduating from the Pittsfield high school in 1897. She entered the Boston school of gymnastics, from which she graduated in 1901. The following year she was director of physical training in the public schools of Northampton, Massachusetts. Miss Shepardson came to Oshkosh in Septemlxr. 1902, to succeed Miss I-ook as director of physical training. Eloisk A. Bell, assistant in the graniar grades, is a native of Watertown, New York. She is a graduate of the advanced English scientific course of the Oswego Normal. Prior to her coming to this school she was employed as teacher in the grammar grades of Burlington, Vermont, and also in the grammar department of the schools of Akron. ()hio, for a period of four years. In the fall of 1902 she accepted a position as assistant in the grammar room of the training department and is at the present time serving in that capacity. 22 Elizabeth King William E. Ritter 24 Arthur Burch Margaret 11 os ford TO THE ALIMNI. Philosophers tell us that man’s life is divided into two periods, the first for preparation. the second for useful action. W hen we are young, we prepare, later we use our knowledge for the good of mankind. If we succeed in doing, we reflect credit U|X n the institution which prepared us for our work. This liook is published by undergraduates of the )shkosh Mormal School, and we who are preparing attempt in these few pages to show our appreciation to you who are leading useful lives, who are making the name of your alma mater known and honored tlnuout the land. We are pleased to devote this space to you. to insert vonr pictures, and publish your letters; hut we feel that the truest token of the high esteem in which you are held by us may he letter expressed in the words, “You have done well; we will strive to follow. Arthur Burch was born at Salem, Kenosha county, Wisconsin, September 8. 1854. The next year his parents moved to Brandon, Wisconsin, by means of an ox team and prairie schooner. His Ixiyhood was spent on the farm, where he dcvelojicd a strong, sturdy lxwly which helped him much in his after life. In 1872, Mr. Burch entered Ripon College and remained two years. In the spring of 1875 he entered the Oshkosh Normal. The young man had to help himself along and so taught three winter terms of country school. At last, thru perseverance. he graduated from the Normal in 1880. Then his active teaching work began, and bv exhibiting the same character that marked his early life he has advanced step by step. He taught first in the seventh ward grammar school of Racine for almost three years, and then resigned to accept the principalship of the Two Rivers high school. Here he taught three years. Mr. Burch was then chosen principal of the Sixteenth District School No. 1 in Milwaukee, where he taught four years, when he was transferred to the Sixteenth District No. 2. in which position six years were sjxmt. He then resigned his position to become assistant superintendent of the schools of Milwaukee. June, 1896. Mr. Burch served as assistant superintendent for three years when he was apj ointed principal of the South Division high school. After two years of work here he was transferred to the East Division high school. Since graduating front the Oshkosh Normal, Arthur Burch’s whole life has been spent in furthering the cause of education. W11.1.1 am Emerson Ritter was lx rn in Columbia county, Wisconsin. Novemlter 19. 1856. He worked on the farm until of age. His early education was obtained first in the district school and later in the high school at Columbia, Wisconsin. He taught school in his native state from 1877 to 1880. He then entered the )shkosh Normal and graduated from there June. 1884. He went to California in 1885 for the purpose of studying under Professor Le Comte at the university of that state. He graduated in '88, having given major attention to chemistry and biological studies. Previous to entering the university he studied human anatomy at the Cooper Medical college at San Francisco. After serving for one year as assistant in the department of chemistry at the university, he received a scholarship from the Harvard Club of San Francisco, and went to that university to study zoology and biological sciences. Here he received the degree of master of arts and doctor of philosophy, and was appointed instructor in biology in the University of California in 1891. His work was in the department of Professor Le Comte, and he was given 25 the task of organizing a zoological laboratory. On the death of Professor Le Comte in 1901. he was made head of that department. Mr. Ritter studied in Europe during the years of '94 and ‘95. attending Victoria University at Liverpool, the Zoological Station at Naples, and the University of Berlin. He is a life member of the Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Association of Naturalists of the American Association for the advancement of Science and of the W ashington Academy of Sciences. He has written about fifty papers on zoology, morphology, and on educational topics. At present he is assistant editor of the American Saturalist, and editor of the zoological publications of the University of C alifornia. Margarkt Hosford received her education in the public schools of Hudson, Wisconsin, her childhood home, altho she is a native of St. Stephen. New Brunswick. While a student she was fortunate in coining under the instruction and personal influence of some noble teachers, chief among whom were Prof. Allen H. W eld and Miss C harlotte Mann. At an earlier age than is now common, she began teaching in the district schools of St. Croix county, serving in some of the most primitive localities, and in some of the larger schools, in which the membership was sixty or more pupils, ranging in age from four to twenty years, and in which the course of study included natural philosophy and higher algebra. Later, she was principal of the River Falls graded school, which |x sition she resigned to become a student of the Oshkosh Normal school at the opening of its second term, and graduated therefrom in the summer of 1875. A few months later she was apjx inted teacher of English and I-atin in the State Normal school of River Falls, beginning her work there with the organization of the school. This position she held three years, when failing health required a rest of nearly two years. Her next work was in the Eau Claire high school, and included instruction in Latin, mathematics, United States history and general history. After this, she taught mathematics in the La Crosse high school three years, until called to lx-come principal of the preparatory department in the Whitewater Normal school in the fall of 18X8. After one year in this position, she became teacher of United States history and mathematics in the Normal department, in which work she still continues. Dear Quiver: It seems very strange to be writing to (). N. S. friends from this far-oflf Southland, where, in the days gone by when we were often together, I had no dream of ever living. In the two years I have Ixien here, I have not met one O. N. S. student, though visitors and settlers from Wisconsin are by no means rare. Nevertheless, loyal as I am to the dear old Badger state. I must admit that of all my experience in teaching this in the South has Ik-cu the most pleasant. 'Phis fact is due to two things: the cordiality of the people and the character of the school in which I am working. The people, not only of this section but of all other parts of the state, have been most friendly and cordial, and, in spite of all that may be thought or said of the differences Ix-tween the North and South in regard to “the late unpleasantness. or Fres. Roosevelt’s attempt to solve the negro question (with the uninvited assistance of the Wisconsin legislature), in spite of all this, the Southern | cople are very friendly to the individual from the North. They may lx- jealous lest one should not love Robert E. Lee, but they open their homes most hospitably to strangers. They have all the old-fashioned Southern pride in keeping up their well-known 26 reputation for chivalry and generosity, and the newcomer is not permitted to remain long a stranger . Our school is a state industrial institute, but that docs not mean a reformatory. On tin-contrary, it is practically a free manual training high school, which does a little college work. It is always so overcrowded with students that we are unable to keep any except those who prove by their work that they came here for a purpose and have the ability to do the required work. We arc very proud of the fact, that though the school is but seven years old and the pioneer of this kind of institution in the South, it has the largest enrollment of any school or college in the state, and several neighboring states have established similar schools. All educational work here is seriously hampered by the fact that the common schools are too few and very poorly equipped. There has recently been, however, a campaign for education. and this year both the general and the Southern educational boards have taken up the matter. The present outlook is, therefore, very encouraging, though the real results cannot become apparent for several years to come. And all the time I am writing this I am thinking of the good old days at the O. N. S.. when the educational outlook for Louisiana was a matter of supreme indifference, and the all impor-tant question was one of Cicero, or professional arithmetic, or civics: the interesting plans, rooms C, I), and old number five, with possibly the old '‘Assembly Room,” after four o’clock (except on Wednesdays and Fridays). Every memory of the old place is cherished from the first entrance examination to the last commencement banquet, and ever in our hearts is the one wish, ever on our lips one toast—The O. :. S., may she live long and prosper. Ever yours, Ruston, La., March 28, 1903. Elizabeth M. King. THE FACULTY ALUMNI. We students of the Oshkosh Normal realize what we owe to the alumni of this school for their true, steadfast work and the noble examples they have set before us. We are able to learn of the growth and labors of some of these lives thru the alumni department of the Qi ivkh. but we are also most fortunate in having ever before us, helping 11s onward “ad astra,” lives which are strong and pure and beautiful, lives from which every one of us should learn “how to make our lives sublime.” We refer to the faculty alumni,” those whose powers in their chosen profession were so great that they were called back to teach where they themselves had been taught. There are seven in this noble band: Mary I. McFadden. class of ’97: Bcnj. Mack Dresden, ’96; Edna Carter. ’95; Augustus W. Trcttien. 94: Jennie G. Marvin. ’88: Harriet E. Clark. 75, and Emily F. Webster ‘75. All honor to them, every one! Mats off” to the “Faculty Alumni of the Oshkosh Normal school! 27 Mary . McFaddcn Jennie G. Marvin Harriet E. Clark Augustus W. Tret lien Emily F. Webster Edna Carter Benj. Mack Dresden 28 29 Senior Class Prfii.itml, I 'it - Prtthitml, Stertiary, Treasmrtr% Color, . . . Waltkn J. Cokdy . . Wilms K. Switxkk . . . Bkktiia Hrwitt . . . Gkokgk Prick Purple. The classes that have gone before us. whose brilliant history has apjwared in other Qi'ivkrs, have enumerated their victories won and sung loud and long the greatness of their class. Altho we have had great days and won great victories, it is not of these that we shall write, but of the sterling worth of the class. The saying, “Still waters run deep.” can well be applied to the class of 1903. It is a well-balanced class, one in which it is safe to “let the wise years decide.” one which is always ready to meet any emergency in an able manner. For in our midst we have Lowe, the evolutionist, whose stream of consciousness ever turned to ‘‘biology,” even in the discussion of the most sublime characters of Shakespeare and Milton; Ilcwitt and Hardgrovc. the humorists, are the Rosalind and Jacques of the class of 1903; Steinfeldt, the orator whose eloquence .and dignity have won the strongest “Will in school: Frank Cordy, the index of self-control, whose disciplinary power not only can quell the disorderly students, but is realized by the talkative tutors of our force: Switzer, Thayer, and Crain, the debaters, their names as such will go down in history with Clary, Webster, and Havne; the jxxjts, Swan, whose rhythmic measures are sung with those of Milton, and Schoenwetter, whose tender heart-strings are touched to sentiment by the emotional power of music: and musicians, too, we have a few, Crain. Heckman. Jones. Childs. Blackman, and Spratt. from whose harmony—wonderful power—this mangiticent class began. There are many others equally well renowned, but to name them would mean to call the roll of the whole class. The record of the class has lx en one of efficient preparation for service. With such a record in the past, what will the future Ik ? We will leave this to be told bv the class prophet. 30 Miss Cora Graves Miss Emma Steinfehil .Miss Cora Graves, who was chosen by the faculty to represent her class as salutatorian. is a native of Indiana, hut at present a resident of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Miss Graves graduated from the Kenosha high school with the class of 19PO. and entered the Oshkosh Normal August 1901. and has pursued the English-Scientific course for high school graduates. During the past two years she has manifested a school spirit which is equaled by hut few members of her class, especially in athletics, for which she has shown a remarkable enthusiasm, being one of the “loyal seven who cheered our football team on to victory in one of the most closely contested games of the year. In addition to her thoro qualifications, her kind and generous disposition. have won for her a desirable distinction. Miss Emma Steinfeldt, who was chosen by the faculty to represent her class as valedictorian. is a resident of De Pere. Wisconsin. Miss Steinfeldt is a teacher of broad experience and thoro qualifications. Her elementary training was received in the Dc Pere schools, where she completed the Latin. German, and English courses, graduating from the high school in 1896. After five years of successful teaching in the schools of Brown county, she entered the Oshkosh Normal, and during the past two (years has labored diligently to more thorolv qualify herself for her chosen profession. Her most efficient work, as might be expected, has been that done as a practice teacher. In addition to her regular school work, she has labored earnestly to promote the welfare of the Glee Club, German Circle, and Christian Association. If scholarship and a zealous endeavor to do ones best count for anything. Miss Steinfeldt is certainly worthy of the position which she is to fill. 31 Latin Course Ferne V. Dollar. Oshkosh, Wisconsin. “Your face is honest, frank and true. You carry happiness with you.” Vice-President of Glee Club. Treasurer of Y. . C. A. Clara B. Humphrey, Oshkosh. Wisconsin. “A noble type of good heroic womanhood.” Graduate Lancaster high school. Member of Glee Club. II. Rowland Halsey, Oshkosh, W isconsin. A wise son makcth a glad father.” Kditor of Quiver 1902. Contestant in Pluvnix-Lyceum debate, 1902. Merton J. Lyon, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. “ ‘T'is sweeter for thee despairing, Than aught in the world beside—Jessy! Member of I’hilakcan. Athletic Association. Oratorical Association. Business Manager of Quiver, 1901. Nellie Olmsted, Fond du Lac. Wisconsin. “Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.” High school graduate. Member of Glee Club, S. C. A. Georgia M. Rose, Berlin, Wisconsin. “Flowers of all hue. and without thorns, the ‘Rose’.” High school graduate. Loren a C. Reichert. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. According to her cloth she cut her coat. Graduate Waukesha high school. Oscar B. Thayer. Delafield, Wisconsin. “It is better to wear out than to rust out.” Member of Inter-State Debating team, )ratorical Association. Critic of Philakean. President of Glee Gub. 32 Rose Lyon Dollar Thayer Humphrey Olmstcad Ilalscy 33 German Course Alice M. Brandei., Oshkosh. W isconsin. All things arc easy to the willing mind. And fate to the determined worker kind.” Cornelia Briggs. Oshkosh. W isconsin. Mere she conics sparkling. Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.” Florence Irene Bemis, Oshkosh. Wisconsin. She hath a daily beauty in her life.” Member of Alethean. Annie S. Daxeoktii. Omro, Wisconsin. ()nly a sweet and virtuous soul.” Memlier of German Circle. Board of Directors of Normal Advance. Critic of Lyceum. Contestant in Lyceum-Phoenix debate. Nellie M. Ratox. Oshkosh, Wisconsin. “ Tis grievous parting with goo l company.” Jessie E. Erickson. Marinette. Wisconsin. “A creature not too high or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple evils. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.” High school graduate. Member of Glee Club. Alethean, Quiver Board 1901. John W. Gauerke, I .ark. Wisconsin. My only books Were woman's l H ks. And folly's all they've taught me.” Memlier of Philakean. German Circle, Advance Staff. Quiver Staff, 1902. Manager of Football. Senior Pla . Tiieooore (ioERES, Kiel. Wisconsin. There is no why without a because.” High school graduate. Member of Phoenix. Glee Club. German Circle. Manager of Basket-ball 1902. Jacob J. Haass. Plat. Wisconsin. Muttering bis wayward fancies he would rove: Now drooping, woeful, wan. like one forlorn. Or crazed with care, or crossed with hoj eless love.” Member of German Circle. Browning Club. Treasurer of Phoenix. Hannah Hansen. Florence. Wisconsin. “Doubtless God could have made a lietter berry, but doubtless God never did. High school graduate. Member of German Circle. Quiver Staff 1902. Carrie C. Hkii.ig. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. “She is pretty to walk with. And witty to talk with. And pleasant to think on.” M. William Heckman, School Hill. Wisconsin. “A man that fortune buffets and rewards Has ta'cn with equal thanks. President of Lyceum. German Circle, Council. Vice-President Oratorical Association. Assistant Business Manager of Quiver 1902. Harriet Johnson. Menasha. Wisconsin. “Softlv her fingers wandered o'er The yielding planks of ivory floor. High school graduate. Normal School Pianist. 34 Gaucrkc Danforth Kasten Briggs (KISS Hansen Gocrcs Johnson Heckman 35 Erickson Bonis Albert V. Kasten. Juneau. Wisconsin. “He lives in peace with all mankind, In friendship he is true: His coat has pocket-holes behind, His pantaloons are blue.” President Sophomore Class 1902, German Circle. Vice-President Philakean 1902. Member of Hoard of Directors of Normal Advance. Contestant in Philakean-Phoenix Debate. Bessie M. McDonald, Oshkosh, W isconsin. “Her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece.’ High school graduate. Lester M. Morrill, Kaukauna, Wisconsin. “A man he seems of cheerful yesterday and confident tomorrow.” High school graduate. Member of German Circle. Captain of Basket P all Team. Mary Manion, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. “Deeds, not words.” High school graduate. Secretary of German Circle. Treasurer of Alethean. Bessie B. Parish. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. “How pretty her blushing was, And how she blushed again.” Fripeswide SPRATT. Ripon. Wisconsin. “Hang sorrow! Care would kill a cat, And therefore let’s lx merry.” High school graduate. Member of German Circle. Maud Cynthia Stenvart, Seymour, Wisconsin. “A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles by human kindness bred.” High school graduate. President of Alethean. Member of Council. Hattie Saurert, Two Rivers, Wisconsin. “Her ways are ways of pleasantness and peace. High school graduate. John H. Stoevf.r. Kiel. Wisconsin. “And still they gazed and still their wonder grew. That one small head could carry all he knew. High school graduate. Member of Phoenix, Glee Club, German Circle. Alonzo IT. Tuttle, Richland Center. Wisconsin. “Keeping everlastingly at it brings success.” High school graduate. President of Philakean. Glee Club. Member of Athletic Association. Oratorical Association. Contestant in Philakean-Pliccnix Debate. M. Agnes Wolske, De Pere. Wisconsin. “True to her word, her work and her friends.” High school graduate. M. Elizabeth Wolske, De Pere, Wisconsin. “Her cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and wisdom.” High school graduate. Ida M. Woi.f, Appleton, Wisconsin. “Merry as the day is long.” High school graduate. Member of Glee Club, Art Loan Club. President of Lyceum. Secretary of German Circle. Edward J. Young. Appeton. Wisconsin. “Life's a jest and all things show it: I thought so once, hut now I know it.” High school graduate. 36 1 Morrill Saubert Wolf Tuttle Spratt Young McDonald Quinlan E. Wolske Ma n ion Stocver A. Wolske 37 English-Scientific Course Arthur J. Austin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. ”1 profess not talking, only this—let each man do his best.” Graduate Hazel Green high school. K ati ikk ink lh.. e km ax, Kenosha. Wisconsin. •'Winning is her way and pleasant is her smile. High school graduate. Member of S. C. A., Ilrowning Club. Vice-President Glee Club. 11 akkikt 1 ’►( RHAm . Weyauwega. Wisconsin. “If she will, she will, you may depend on’t. If she won’t, she won’t; so there’s an end on’t. High school graduate. Nettalie Boucher, Oshkosh. Wisconsin. “Never idle a moment, but busy and thoughtful of others. I nsjHJCtor’s Reader. Roy W. Buck, Berlin. Wisconsin. Not much talk—a great sweet silence. High school graduate. A. A. Bi.andin. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. “Let me have audience for a word or two. Graduate New l-ondon high school. Member of Pliomix. Gladys Eugenia Childs. De Pcre, Wisconsin Thy voice is like a prophet’s word. And in its hallowed tones are heard 'Pile thanks of millions yet to Ik . High school graduate. Eijda M. Carman. Neenah. Wisconsin. G kI hath sworn to Ift’t on high, who sinks himself in true humility. High school graduate. Member of Glee Club. Walter J. C’ordy. Oshkosh, Wisconsin. “There is a boy we pretend with a three-decker brain. 'Hiat can harness a team with a logical chain. President of Senior Class. Freshman Class 1900. 1 Miamix. Business Manager of Quiver 1902. Frank R. Cordy. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. “The thinkiest thinker that ever thunk. Critic of Phoenix. President of Self-Government Committee. Maiski. F. Curtis. Berlin. Wisconsin. The sweetest voice on earth, a woman’s tongue! a string that has no discord. High school graduate. Member of Browning Club. Edward P. Crain. Eldorado, Wisconsin. Here is a man of pluck, a man who is not afraid to say his say. though the whole town is against him.’’ Editor of Normal Advance. Phoenix-Lyceum Debate. Junior Debate 1902. President of Pluenix 1902. Council 1902. Julia Conoi.e, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. “My life ti|)on her faith. High school graduate. Member of Phoenix. Browning Club. Margaret M. Edwards. Oconto, Wisconsin. Thou savest an undisputed thing in such a solemn way.” High school graduate. Lillian M. Euiredge, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. “So unaffected, so composed a mind, so firm, so strong, yet so refined.” High school graduate. Secretary of S. C. A. 38 Barham Bland hi Edwards Childs F. Cordy Carman Blackman Back Feat herston Eld ridge Crain Austin V. Cordy Fuller Conolc 39 Elsie M. Fuller, Kenosha, W isconsin. Oil, keep me innocent, make others great.” High school graduate. Mae Featherston, Appleton, Wisconsin. All that’s best of dark and light, meet in her aspect and her eyes. 11 igh school graduate. Frank R. Fkoehlicii. Glenbeulah, Wisconsin A cheerful youth with smiling phiz, who eats his grub and minds his biz. Member of Philakean. President of Self-Government Committee. Athletic Association, Junior Class 1902. Artist of Normal Advance. Treasurer of Inter-Normal Oratorical Association. Artist of Quiver 1902. M. Kathryn Gilkey, Mondovi, Wisconsin. To be merry best becomes you, for out of question you were lx rn on a merry dcy.” Graduate Eau Claire high school. Almira Humphrey, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.” Graduate Lancaster high school. Member of Glee Club. Etta Marion Humphrey, Dancy, Wisconsin. “As frank as rain on cherry blossoms.” Graduate Stevens Point high school. Secretary ()ratorical Association. Member of S. C. A., Browning Club, Glee Club. Athletic Association. Gilbert G. Holzer, Green Bay, Wisconsin Then he will talk, good gods, how he will talk. High school graduate. Vice-President and C ritic of Lyceum. Member of Oratorical Association. Advance Staff, Council. Bertha Hewitt, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I am as free as nature first made man. ere the base laws of servitude began. Secretary Athletic Association, Senior Class. Humorous Editor of Normal Advance. Joseph 11. Harik;rove, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Don’t put t x fine a jx int to your wit for fear it should get blunted. President of Phoenix. Junior Debater 1902. Phoenix-Lyceum Debates 1901 and 1903. Winner of Phoenix Declamatory Contest four times. Harvey William Jones, Oshkosh, Wisconsin I courted fame but as a spur to brave and noble deeds. Manager of Mandolin Club. Member of Phoenix, Athletic Association. Maurice I). Joyce, Chilton, Wisconsin. 1 will go meet the ladies.” High school graduate. Member of German Circle. Annie M. Johnson, Green Bay, Wisconsin. No conquests she. but o'er herself desired; no arts essayed, but not to lx? admired.” High school graduate. Member of Art Loan Club, Lyceum, S. . A. Otto II. Lowe, Plat. Wisconsin. “In arguing, too. the parson owned his skill, for e'en though vanquished, he could argue still.” President of Phoenix, Assistant Business Manager of Quiver 1899. Member of German Circle, Athletic Association. Katherine K. Lawton, Dc Pere, Wisconsin. “A rosebud with little willful thorns, and sweet as English air could make her.” High school graduate. Member of Pluenix. Rachel I. Malone, Juneau, Wisconsin. “I ought to have my way in every thing, and, what is more. I will, too. Graduate St. Mary’s Academy, Prairie du C’hien, Wisconsin. Member of Phoenix. Mamie A. Nachtwey, Marshfield. Wisconsin. “A mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent. High school graduate. Treasurer of Phoenix. Assistant Editor of Normal Advance. Member of Glee Club, Art Loan Club. 40 Ilulzer Jones Lowe A. Humphrey A Humphrey Froehlich 41 Lawton Hardgrove Hewitt Johnson Gil key .Yacht wey Will A. Owens, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Gentle in person, Conduct and equipage; Noble by heritage Generous and free. Member of Glee Club. Grace Palmer, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. A ministering angel shall my sister Ik . High school graduate. Joseimiine Patten, Appleton, Wisconsin. Prosperity to the man that ventures most to please her.” High school graduate. Georc.k G. Price, Oakfield, Wisconsin. I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more, is none.” High school graduate. Member of Lyceum. Glee Club. S. C. A. Ernst Rosenthal. Oshkosh. Wisconsin. Man wants but little here below. But wants that little long” High school graduate. Captain of Football Team. Basket Ball Team. Gertrude Reilley. Winncconnc, Wisconsin. (Irace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye. In every gesture dignity and love. High school graduate. Member of Pluenix. Browning Club. Mary X. Reily, Marshfield. Wisconsin. She has a smile for all our joys, And tears for all our sorrows.” High school graduate. Member of Alethean. Km ma 1). Solsrud, Whitehall, Wisconsin. If to her some female errors fall, I. jok on her face, and you'll forget them all.” Secretary and Treasurer of Browning Club. Critic of Lyceum. Member of Glee Club. Art Ivoan Club, Oratorical Association. Otto C. Schoenwetter, Juneau. Wisconsin. He leaves nothing fitted for the pur|M se untouched or slightly handled in discourse. High school graduate. Poet of Normal Advance. Bessie Sedgwick, Clintonville, Wisconsin. Let's have a spread. Fannie L. Swan. ( shkosh, Wisconsin. Xe in her speech, ne in her 'havior. Was lightness seen or looser vanity. But gracious womanhood and gravity.” President of Browning Club. Literary Fditor of Quiver njo2. Willis K. Switzer, Clintonville. Wisconsin. To relieve the wretched in his pride. And e’en his failings lean to virtue’s side.” President of Oratorical Association. Pluenix. S. C. A. ice-President of Senior Class. Member of Men's Chorus. Inter-State Debating Team. Ethel M. Strange, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest. Some are. and must Ik , greater than the rest. Member of Council. Sadie I). Tanner. Eureka. Wisconsin. Good sense, which only is the gift of heaven. Graduate Omro High School training department. Librarian. Monitor of Art Loan Club. Pluenix. Browning Club. C11 arlotta S. Zastrow, Wcyauwcga, Wisconsin. “A tender heart, a will inflexible.” High school graduate. Member of Pluenix. 42 Swan Reilley Price Strange Solsrud Zastrow Reify Palmer Switzer Owens Sc ioenwcttcr Rosenthal Patten 43 44 A Senior's Farewell 0 Normal, when i am leaving, 1 low glad I shall Ik That my midnight lamp Mas burned out for thee: That I served on your council, nd trod tin straight path, Awakening your love. But never your wrath. ()h. anguish of spirit. Quite often was mine. But that anguish has changed To love that is thine. My dear cherished Normal, I low glad 1 shall be To return with the hope Of a welcome from thee. 44 45 Junior C ass Junior Class t,tr iJfut. ....... Gkokok Hkwitt MSy-Preside ut, ....... Cakkik Nki.SO.v Secretory. ....... (Ikack Ainswoktii Trcorurer. ....... John I . Kokh COIXIKH, lirttH tlld Cold Momentous, indeed, in the annals of our histon was the advent of the class of 1904, the destined rulers of the world. This quotation taken from the oration of that Junior who Wen(d)t. saw and conquered, is one to which every loyal student at the Oshkosh Xornial School will readily subscribe. For so the Juniors have been. are. and will continue to be— rulers—lords of the class room, of the athletic field, and of the halls of oratory. No task has ! een so difficult but the Juniors have risen to the occasion. Professor Mitchell is even now compiling an atlas of their physiographic maps of North America. 'File walls of the art rooms are adorned with gems from their brush and pencil. The Science Of Rhetoric has advanced with rapid strides since the Juniors entered the lists. On the day in which seventy-five stalwarts Juniors presented themselves in the class room, they achieved a victory never won by any other class, and the heart of the regal goddess of the Rhetoric room passed into their keeping. The prowess of the Juniors in athletics has never been disputed since that memorable occasion at Combination Park when the mightiest men from the I'heshman. the Sophomore, and the Senior classes went down before the swift line plunges and the magnificent end runs of the Junior football team, backed by Coach Mitchell. No need to s| eak of the work of the Juniors in oratory, for there is just one Wendt. In debate they have a glorious record, tho there Ik- dark pages even in the whitest volume. So mightily has their fame spread that now when a Junior rises to speak, the silence grows profound and we can hear a chocolate drop at the back of the room. 'file Juniors have l� ecn in the Normal but one short year and yet the results of their efforts are magnificent. They lx re with honor the responsibility of the reception tendered them by tlie Seniors. They made life merry for the Stevens Point delegation at the time of the Junior debate. They planned that pleasant excursion across the lake, and fate sent fair winds and peaceful waves, that ye Seniors might be happy. They supplied men for every emergency at the Normal, and. greatest of all. that magnificent volume which you now hold is the result of their labors and their genius. As a class they have lieen united in good works and in wisdom. The class meetings have been models for the entire student body, and even the faculty meetings have taken some good ]K)ints from them, namely the adjournment test by inward information of approaching supper time. Hut the Juniors are looking forward to greater things to do, They realize that they have much work before them that will tax their every power: they know that their school triumphs and achievements will s x n pass away and l e known only as preparations for a larger work. They will go forth when their time comes, strong in might, and make the name of the Oshkosh Normal honored wherever their chosen work may lead them. 47 cA Toast Here’s to the Oshkosh Normal, I lerc’s to the white and gold, Here’s to the Facility charming With their wisdom and learning untold. Here’s to the Seniors who leave us, 1 lere's to the Freshmen who come, I lere’s to all the students, E’en the scamps, of whom there arc some. And liefore the toast is ended And into literature passed, Here’s to the '03 Quiver! So say the Junior class. 48 49 Sophomore Class Sophomore Class Preriifeut, Viet- President Stertiary Treasnrtr • . . . . !• . J. Stkkfkck . . • . . Ei na Wkst • • . . . Ai.ick J. Havkn • • . . . Hannah Coki v I'oi.oks, Pink amt White 'I'o toll of the wit and wisdom, the brilliancy and l eaiity. the power in debate, the illustrious ancestry, of this notable Ijodv. it is little wonder that the writer exclaims, with Dominic Sampson. “Prodigious! prodigious! prodigious!” The power of argument has been largely developed in Miss Kimball's Third Quarter Composition class. One of our members has been ever on the alert, and few statements have boon allowed to pass unchallenged. W hether our instructor gave rules for the use of “ shall and will” (which, by the way. caused much vexation of spirit, even to the learned Sophomores). or described a trowel lino, it was all the same with Mr. W-------s. Talk and argue ho would, while we seriously considered the advisability of bringing our cots with us if this sort of thing continued. Ho was always ultimately silenced (for the time), by the calm-faced goddess of the Knglish department, but lo. at the next recitation period, he tabbed up serenely and began a rehearsal of the previous day’s program. Because of this illustrious classmate of ours, we have developed wonderful patience, while lie bids fair to follow in the steps of W ebster and 11 ay tie. In practice teaching, we were so invaluable that the children cried for us. We never once forgot to attend practice teachers’ meeting nor folded a criticism. We learned the forms that the general notion takes on after only five conferences with Miss Swart and a few asides with Miss McFadden and Mr. Tretticn. The meekness which characterizes one of our members is so great as to deserve special mention. When asked how he wished his name to appear on the records of the school, he said that he would like it Fred -----------, but Miss Swart said that he must write it Fred- erick. We commend Frederick to any young lady who considers meekness a virtue. Much of our su| erior ability is, of course, the heritage of our famous ancestors. W e have direct descendants of Sir Thomas Moore, Daniel Webster. John Smith, William McKinley. |. (i. Holland. George Rogers Clark, Generals Thomas and Morgan. Bishop Whipple, and Charlotte Cord(a)y. We are so fortunate as to have a Haven in which to anchor, and a Toy to beguile our weary hours. The fact is. that as a class, we are just t x I’tier. We have visions of our brilliant debaters carrying off next year’s honors in the Stevens Point debate, and we even cherish a hope of winning the I liter-Normal contest. For did not so the Juniors before us? W hy should we fear failure? We—we fear nothing in the world but Professional Arithmetic. We are young and happy, and the future is before us. We deny that there is such a thing as failure, and press toward the reward of our labors—a bit of white tied with blue, and the approving smile of our Alma Mater. 61 The Immortal Seven It happened on a certain time, : s I'll relate in simple rhyme, That seven maidens one fair day To Kipon took their happy way. The reason why this trip they took. Was that they might he there to look Upon a football game that day. Which Kipon and Oshkosh there would play. W ith courage and bravery undismayed, The Oshkosh men as usual played, They played with energy and fire. The Seven did them so inspire. And since that happy Kipon day Those seven maidens, so they say. Immortal will Ik- thot forever. Till death doth them from us sever. Forevermore as time doth linger. Football players jx int a finger Toward these renowned “Immortal Seven” Who so reminded the team of heaven. O, happy maids. “Immortal Seven. When the rest of us Xnrmalitcs get to heaven. Will your praises. I wonder, Ik sung as of yore By an angel choir forevermore? If we thot that up yonder we still should hear The refrain of those “Seven resound in our ear. We'd stop for nothing under the sun, But go to another place on a run. 62 53 r Freshman ( lass Freshman Class Pr UtKl% ....... Don P. Stamprh VkfPrttkUml............................ • IIakky Ai.i.kn ......................................................JULIA Hoiian ZWamh-r, ........ FlonbNCK Post The Freshman class is one of the brightest and l est first-year classes that ever entered the school. W hen meetings were called to organize class teams in football. Professor Hewitt was chosen to coach the Freshman team, and he coached it well. We did not succeed in conquering the Junior team, hut nevertheless our team played well and upheld the good reputation of the class.. Our first experience in entertaining was a social given by the class. The class showed themselves to Ik royal entertainers and good business men and women, for we made enough money to buy football suits for the team. In choosing our class color, we chose crimson. Some of the older classmen were of the opinion that we did not need any colors, but after all. we are not as green as we look. Mr. Stamper, our President, surprised the school one morning by a speech praising the Freshman team and comparing it with the other teams. His eloquence had the desired effect for a good crowd was out to see the next game. We are looking forward to our Sophomore year,and if you will watch the class in 1903-4. you will find us still on the upward way. 66 The Graduating Class of the Training Department ■ The Graduating Class of the Training Department The Ninth A class, made up of twenty-two pupils, finished the course of study in the Training Department on March 27. 'Hie class made a g xxl record for itself in the grades, both in scholarship and self-government. and is considered one of the strongest ever promoted. Seven of the number entered upon work in this school in the primary; five in the intermediate. and the remainder joined the class in the grammar grades. Eighteen of the number have entered the Normal Department, and everything |x ints toward their being a valuable addition to the student body. 'Hie class became much interested, while studying English History, in the writings of Sir Walter Scott, and asked that the program for their graduating exercises lx based on his writings. 'Hie following is the program presented by them, and the pictures are scenes from the plays: Graduates Angel. Grace R. Harr. Katharine Brooks, Epha E. Challoner, Agnes Chase. Lewis F. I .aw son. Harry O. Ix wis. Howard T. Middlecamp. Whitney Morgan. Marion J. Nodine, Cora L. Noe, Roman C. Noyes, Sarah G. Owens, Bessie Peterson. Eda Strange, Paul Witte, Herbert C. Edwards, I .aura E. I leymann, Rose I toward. Rubv Fern Jackman. Marjorie A. Kimball. Norman F. Konrad. Frank C. 67 I Scenes from the Graduating Exercises of the Training Department Graduating Exercises March 27, 1903 Sir Walter Scott Program Class Honors -Katharine Harr. Rosk Hkymann Song— My Heart’s in the 1 lighlands. .Robert Burns Cl-ASS Talk ..................A Visit to the Scott Country Illustrated with Stereoptieon Views Katharine Barr Scene from hanhoc— Kkiikcca s Presentation of tiie Casket of Jewels to Lai y Kowena Characters: Lady Rowena .............Agnes Chali.oner Rebecca .................Marion I. Morgan Elgitha................... Bessie Owens Piano Solo...............Selection from Schumann Rose Hf.ymann Scenes from Kenilworth two scenes Sir Walter Raleigh's Cloak Characters: Queen Elizabeth ....Laura S. Edwards Walter Raleigh ..............Paul Strange Hiount ............................ Lewis Chase Lord Hunsdon............... Roman C. Noe Pensioner.......... Herbert A. Witte Courtiers Scenes from Guy Man tiering— Scene I Meg Merrilcs Entertaining Little Harry Bertram. Scene II -Meg Merrilcs and Dominic Sampson. Characters: Meg Mcrriles.......................Bessie Owens Dominie Sampson.Norman F. Kimbali. Harry Bertram... .Lawrence Plummf.r Violin Solo—‘‘Robin Hood”...........Victor Herbert Marjorie A. JackmaNN Scene from Rob Roy—At the Pass of Lochard— “Helen MacOrkgor’s Message to the I-owlanders Characters: 11 den . I acGregor....Rose 11 ey m a n n Bailie Nicol Jarvic.........Lewis F. Chase Francis Obaldistonc. .Frank C. Konrad Capt. Thornton. .Whitney Middlecamp Dougal .........................Herbert C. Witte Hamish. Rob Roy’s Son.Roman C. Nof. Robert, Rob Roy’s Son.Harry Lawson Other Highlanders. Norm an F. Kimball Paul Strange Scenes from The Lady of the Lake— Scene I— ( Hen Venue) James Fitz-Jamcs presents Kllcn Douglas with the ring. Scene I!—( Stirling Castle Court Yard) Ellen presents the ring to the King and secures the freedom of her father and Malcolm. Characters: Ellen Douglas...............Cora L. Nodine James Fitz-Jamcs ...Frank C. Konrad Douglas ...........Whitney Middlecamp Malcolm Graeme..........Roman C. Noe LulTuess............... Lewis F. Chase Hoys' Drill Norman F. Kimball Harry O. Lawson Howard T. Lewis Roman C. Noe Paul Strange Herbert A. Witte Garland Dance Grace R. Angeli. Katharine Harr Elpha E. Brooks Rose Hf.ymann Fern Howard Marjorie A. Jackman Sarah G. Noyes Eda Peterson Presentation of Certificates, President R. . Halsey 59 Sloyd Dr. Edward Everett Hale, himself a graduate of Harvard, once said: If you should take twelve prize men from Harvard and put them on a sinking ship, they would all drown through inability to construct a raft. This may not literally Ik true, but it does imply a fair criticism of our “higher education. and to a large extent of the training of the elementary schools. It is true that the process of education has been .and is now largely a matter of learning things from books; of reading a vast number of impressions which are laid away somewhere in the storehouse of the mind to he brought forth and used at some later day when the occasion for them arises. How often that occasion never comes and how much that we have learned and spent precious hours in learning—of arithmetic and grammar, of rhetoric and algebra, becomes a mere chaotic jumble in the mind or becomes entirely obliterated as the years go by. But,” you say. they are for a training of the mind. To be sure, so they are. But if you are training for an athlete, you don’t train one set of muscles, the muscles of the left arm. for instance, you train every muscle in vour body. Just so in training for life. It is not memory alone that is necessary: that is only one of many faculties. If you would successfully battle with life, you need ability to judge, independence, decisiveness, a trained eye quick to see. a steady hand, and c x l nerves. T x� many young men and women spend sixteen or eighteen years in being educated, to find themselves on the threshold of life wholly unprepared for the practical problems of life. The school has l ccn a little world apart—delightful to Ik. sure, with its friendships, its school spirit, its care-free, happy days, but not relating itself at all to the real world of struggle and action. Many a graduate of Vale or Harvard, ready for work in the business or professional world, has to commence at the very bottom of the ladder, side by side, it may Ik , with the young fellow who has never seen the inside of a college, and this because of the knowledge gained in the colleges is a knowledge of lxx ks and is not practically applied. I have in mind now a young man. who. although a graduated, electrical engineer and of high standing in his class, was obliged to start in the shop on starvation wages Ixjcause lie had only a theoretical knowledge of his profession. This is only one of many similar cases. But now. from the colleges and universities, down to the primary schools, a new element is finding its way and is slowly and surely leaving its impress on every branch of education. It is really an embodiment of the same ideas which Pestalozzi and Trochel worked out long ago in the system of the kindergarten, and is based on the well-known psychological maxim, “No impression without its correlative expression. In a word, it is activity, not only of the mind, but of the lxxlv also. One medium of the expression of this new activity is known as manual training. In the lx st sort of manual training the hand is simply the instrument of the brain and is full of the spirit of the kindergarten and connects itself closely with the kindergarten—taking the child on from where the kindergarten leaves him. Sloyd is the Swedish name of a system of manual training which has so far most fully met these requirements and has adapted itself most perfectly to the needs of the elementary schools, t'nlike many other systems of manual training, it has not for its object skillful hand-work alone, hut is a training for hand and eye and brain, and leads the pupils, step by step, to work out a number of problems at the same time they are making things at once useful and attractive. It involves problems in arithmetic and geometry, a knowledge of free-hand and instrumental drawing, a jKTception of beauty of form, ability to plan, ft) execute, and to create; in a word it is educative. 01 Sloyd Models 02 This is the system adopted by the Board of Regents for the new department of the Oshkosh Normal School. This departmen ojjened last fall.is the only Normal School Sloyd Department for training sj ecial teachers in Wisconsin, in fact, in the I’nitcd States. Its purpose is to train Sloyd teachers to till positions in the state. That such a department has l een opened is proof of the need of it. and it is a need that will not lessen as time goes on. for manual training has come into the school curriculum to stay. Just here, let me make a few suggestions to the readers of this little article, who are preparing themselves to go out as teachers. These suggestions are negative in character, things you are not to do. Do not imagine that Sloyd is not manual training, or manual training not Sloyd. They arc one and the same thing, only that Sloyd is a system carefully thought out. and adapted to school needs, while manual training is a more indefinite term and may Ik used in a broad sense or as is often the case, in a very narrow one. Do not take a narrow view of Sloyd. and imagine that it is cariientry” or merely work in wood. All kinds of materials are. and should lie. employed—clay, colored paper, pasteboard, leather, iron, raphia, etc. Though wood work is one of the most important forms of Sloyd. for various principles may lie taught in the wood work which could not he taught in any other, medium, and many articles, lx th useful and lieautiful. may Ik made in wood. If you contemplate taking the course in Sloyd and preparing yourself as a teacher of it. do not think that you need less general information to he a manual training teacher, than to teach other branches. There seems to lie a sort of impression that the manual training teacher d(K s not need to know much else. He needs a good general education, being at least a high school graduate, and he needs especial training in free-hand drawing. And if you have no great interest in manual training, do not expect to teach it: do not Micve that you can ignore it. You cannot afford to. if you wish to lie a successful teacher. You should at least be informed on the subject: know what Sloyd is. and what it is doing, and. if you jMissibly can. take a summer course at some summer school. There is one at the Oshkosh Normal School, and the Chicago Art Institute will hold a summer school of Sloyd and drawing. Nothing will help you more in your teaching and give you a greater hold on your pupils, especially your boys. Do not imagine that you can learn all there is to learn of Sloyd in a two years' course. There are men who are spending their lives in a study of manual training in its educational aspects. And. lastlv. visit the Slyod Department when you can and look at the exhibits, and try to look at them intelligently, not as so many articles in wood which could Ik just as well bought at the “ten-ccnt store,” but as steps in progress, each article teaching a little more than the previous one. I feel sure if you l x)k at the work done in the Sloyd Department of the Oshkosh Normal School since SeptcmlKT. you would not fear tolrnst yourself on Crusoe's desert island with the members of that department. Unlike the Harvard men. of whom Dr. Hale spoke, they would construct a raft. 03 Faculty Crushers In slumber at midnight the Normal girl lies; There's a flush on her cheek and she smiles in her dream, For her gaze meets in jov, the soft glance of the eyes Of one she adores. Ah, how real doth it seem! She sits in the study from 3:10 till 5:00, Gazing hard at the English-room door. While another walks off with the books marked “Reserve,” But the watched-for has left hours before. Past Wickert’s and Oaks’ resolutely she goes; Nor covets the frivolous riblxms and lace. She hoards all her change for the sweet-scented rose. Which next morning the desk of Miss Parsons doth grace. Her languid eyes ever upward are straying, And you sigh as you thing, soon an angel slie’Tl be. Don't worry; she's neither unbalanced nor praying, Only gazing toward room Number 3. After Alcthean Saturday night, In darkness and rain, far out of her way. She walks for the sake of the glimpse of the light In the windows of Katherine S. A. This saucy maid on the foremost seat pores And foolishly over a “cj she doth grieve, For she’s trying to win with her talent and roses The one with the “heart that’s not worn on the sleeve.” P. S.—Now. boys, plume not your feather and say we arc foolish. The fact is, you've been longing all this time for tomorrow’s chorus practice. 04 J r ctnl erilbnj _ s rmj-% eni Iei wdb-er ' WMi if beji d' minifie] tf+ifi 66 Lyceum Lyceum I’rtxidfut, Sttrttirr, Trtamrtr, . • • . . (iKOKr.K Pkick • • • • . Annik M. Johnson • . • . . Sana Mulmnukk • • • • . . Aixm.i-h Hr Kin. Who arc! Who arc! Who arc vc! Wc arc! Wc arc! We are the! L-y-c c-u-ni. Lv-cc-um! Wc make things hum! Dear to the hearts of many students of our school is the far-famed name “Lyceum. Since the early years of this institution, it has been aiming to promote the best interests of its members along literary lines. The Lyceum furnishes an opjxjrtunity for students to further their education. That this advantage is appreciated is evinced by the fact that the society at the present time is full, and there are many applicants waiting for vacant places. The high standard of the Lyceum has been maintained by the earnestness and faithfulness of its members. Many up-to-date social, economic, scientific, and philosophic questions have l een debated during the past year: in fact, a debate has appeared on nearly every program, with the exception of those which have been prepared for special occasions. Declamations, cxtcm|x raneous speaking, reading, and music give variety to the programs. Parliamentary practice is also a prominent feature of the work. We aim to give our meml ers the drill in this line that will be most practical when they enter ujxm the work for which they are preparing. Wc extend a hearty welcome to those coming here for the first time, and invite them to Ix-come one of us. Streaming high in the air. Fairest of all flu fair. Lyceum's banner waves. Proclaiming to the world Our love, our love, for dear Lyceum. Profilers and sisters true. I ift high your banners blue ; Strive to advance, excel, And to the world foretell Our zeal, our zeal, for dear Lyceum. 07 P ia'tiix ■ 1 Phoenix Prtiidtnl, ....... J Ogle 1 11 1!akim;kovk l ire-Pr tidtHl, .... . Frank Corky Strrtlary, ........ S. im: Tannkr Trtasttrtr, ........ I.oris St. I’ktkk Man’s highest duty in life is to make the most of himself. One of the best places in which he may get training so that he may use his talents to the greatest advantage is in a school literary society, for it is here that he learns the value of co-operation in work with his fellow students. loyalty to a worthy cause, and suppression of selfish interest for the good of others, lie learns also two of the great elements in character building.self-reverence and self-control. For more than a quarter of a century there has been in existence in the Oshkosh Normal a society which has ever stood for all these things and that which is. perhaps, as valuable, a practical knowledge of parliamentary usage. Indeed. Phoenix has been so influential in character building that its very name is beloved by its members, revered by the alumni, and resj)ected by all students of the Normal. One of the secrets of success of Phoenix in the moulding of character of lx th young men and young women is the versatility and thoroness of the programs presented at the society meetings. The aim of this organization is development along literary lines rather than confinement to any particular line of work. In order that this broadening influence may reach all Phoenicians and do the greatest good to the greatest number, our program committee strives to have each member apj ear regularly on our programs. Our Saturday evening meetings consist of debates, declamations, essays. lxx k reviews, current events, impromptu talks, and musical numbers. After the close of the literary program and regular business meeting, opportunity is given for practice in parliamentary drill. That our society is strong in declamatory work is shown by our contest held during the winter, in which Mr. Switzer won first and Mr. Stoever second place. That we have able debaters among our numbers is attested by the fact that Mr. Switzer is a memlxrr of the team that will debate with Illinois Normal, and that Miss Kmmett and Mr. Hewitt were in the Junior debate with Stevens Point. We are also planning two inter-society debates,one with Philakean to lx held April 24. and the other with Lyceum during commencement week. Our society was well represented in the oratorical contest this year, five of the six contestants being Plxenieians. Mr. Wendt, one of our five representatives, received first honors both in the local and state contests, and will therefore represent Wisconsin at the meeting of the Inter-State I-eague at He Kalb. Illinois. To the student society meeting comes as a pleasant break in the routine of school life, and in after years he looks back ujx n the time spent in society as some of the happiest hours of his life. There is not a Pluenician but who would gladly respond to the toast, Here’s to Pluenix! Drink-her-down, drink-her-down!’’ 09 I Philakcan Phi lake an PrtsiJtnl, ....... Alx NZO H. Tuttlk Viet-PrttUtHl ...... Ciiarlkh Sciiivkimc StcrthiryTrtofnrrr ...... Wkston Rakkokh Critic ....... Ohcak Tiiaykk That the Philakean society has maintained its high standard during the past year is very evident. Limited to thirty energetic workers they have brought the society to that state of | erfection and attainment that makes it an honor to the ()shkosh Normal School. That Philakean has taken a most prominent part in all school affairs is such a well-recognized fact that true Philakean spirit has come to he synonymous with g«xxl school spirit. She has given her best men to till important school offices; she has contributed more than her share to the debating teams of the school: she has encouraged school spirit by supplying songs and yells for the various contests: by ably .Supporting every undertaking in which the school is engaged and bv fostering the art of debate and oratory in the school and in the society. The work of the Philakean in its regular meetings consists of debates, declamations. l ook reviews, vocal and instrumental music, and talks Ijoth prepared and extemporaneous. The members of the society always keep in touch with the important questions of the day. and arc thus able to talk upon them if asked to do so at any of the meetings. Debates always form an important feature of every program. After the leaders present their arguments the question is open to volunteers, and in this manner every member has an opportunity of giving his views on the question. Besides the regular programs, a mock trial, a preliminary declamatory contest, and a contest in Roberts' Rules of Order were held during the past year. At one of the meetings the society resolved itself into the ‘‘Senate of the I’nited States. Different members of the society represented the leading senators. The discussions on the various bills proposed were very interesting and instructive. In the Alcthean-Philakean declamatory contest Messrs. Gruene-wald. Hevmann, and Sutton won the honors for Philakean. In the debating contest which was ojhmi to all members of the school. Messrs. Riley and Thayer won first and second places, and are therefore members of the inter-state team that will debate with the team from the Normal I'niversity of Normal. Illinois. Messrs. Puttie. Hasten, and Lyon were chosen for the I Miilakean-1 Miamix debate. Much credit is due Messrs. Allen and Tuttle for the admirable and business-like manner in which they conducted the meetings during the past year. May Philakean ever continue to be the mother of school heroes: may the work which she has so ablv begun be carried on with ever-growing success. () Philakean! the gem of the Normal. The home of debaters so true. The shrine of each member’s devotion. We all offer homage to you. May the fame of thy glory ne’er darken. May victories flow in by the score. May our efforts redound to thy credit And glory our Normal e'en more. 71 A lelhean Alethean President, Vice- ‘resident, Sun-fury. Critic, Treasurer, Custodian. Emxahrtii Mokkisox Ha .ki. WkTI.ACl'KK . Alta I'kppkk . K. Anna Gmav Kkancks M. l’.IKKK I.aV’kki.nk Wood Many deem tin- quest for happiness the highest in life, hut the Alethean girls have handed themselves together to search after the truth. As we meet every Saturday evening in the music room, the spirit of the sweet singer seems to abide with us. such a feeling of helpfulness, enthusiasm, and good-fellowship prevails. W e have made a social study of Shakespeare and our modern American writers. Everyone has l een greatly interested in the work and much knowledge of practical value has been acquired. W e feel with Ijockc that “To love the truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” 73 I Students' Christian Association Students’ Christian Association I nug .1 ten's Hr nark. John Ciikihtopiikrkon J. W. Rilkv Vkknkk Scott OI.IVKK OsilOKNK J. Ki vakd Tkklkvkx IIknky F. Sutton Milton V. Jonkk . . ’resident . Xormat Vice-President Preparatory Yiff-PretiJ.nl I ,nie Hepirtment Yiee- President . . Secretary . . . Corresponding Secretary . . Treasurer . . I ItKI.I. KAV Hklknr Kmmktt Itl'.I.I.K Ripi.kv ISi: sii. McKinlky Florknck 1‘ost I4A Vkrgnk Wool ()ne of the permanent organizations of our school is the Students' Christian Association, which endeavors to make the Normal as homelike as possible for all students. With this aim in view, it furnishes a “New Students committee, which meets the trains at the beginning of the school year and offers assistance in conducting new students to the school and to rooms and lioarding places ; it publishes the “Students' Handbook. which contains much valuable information and many useful suggestions concerning the school and city of Oshkosh; it gives a reception at the lx‘ginning of each year, at which new and old students are made acquainted and welcomed to the family circle. During the Thanksgiving recess when those from a distance are obliged to stay in a city from which most Xormalites have gone, this organization comes to the rescue and furnishes amusements to cure any symptoms of homesickness. There is a Bureau of Information in connection with the Association, which is ready to give information in every way possible and to assist in finding work for those who desire it. The visiting committee endeavors to see that no one who is sick lacks care. But most important of all is the religious teaching, without which no house is complete. This is furnished by the Thursday evening meetings, at which Bible study and conferences are conducted bv the members of the women’s and men’s branches of the association separately. The Sunday morning meetings, led by the various members of the faculty and pastors of the city, under the auspices of the association, turn the minds of the students from the laliors of the week to communion with the Great Teacher. It is the aim of the association to deepen the spiritual lives of its own members and others by assisting them to experience more of the real things of life. It endeavors to furnish to each student, regardless of sect or religious opinion, a means of gaining the benefits of religious instruction and the homelike feeling produced by cementing the bonds of friendship and companionship in a common work for the Creator. 76 Browning Club Browning Club PrtsidsHl. ....... Hannik L. Swan Secretary, ....... Nixlik I). 1'i.uoii For several years, fifteen students with a common love for Robert Browning, and with Miss Peake to guide them, have met twice a month to study the life and works of the poet. Me has been studied in all his phases: as a poet, as a lover, as an artist, and most especially this year, as a believer in the growth of man. 'Pile work has opened to us a new and pleasant world where we are being taught to know that. “Progress is the law of life; man is not Man as vet. 77 Students' Art Loan Club Students' Art Loan Club President,.......................................Luk, la v’ Ro ,nson Viet- President............................................ M.nahan See re tar r W7V««w. ..... Mablk E. Conant Librarian.............................................C ' A Rvrr Assistant Librarian............................... Adihk B. Bksjamin During this year some changes have lx en made in the Art Loan Club. Two regular meetings of the club, instead of one, are held each quarter. At the taginning of the year the members desired to take up a definite line of work, and, therefore, at the suggestion of the president. Miss Benjamin, a course in picture study was l cgun and continued thru the year. To add to the interest of this work, each student at the meeting held at the end of the quarter, gave a brief report on the picture he returned. In addition to the original object of providing o means of beautifying the students' rooms, the club now aims to give its members a more complete knowledge of pictures and to cultivate a better appreciation of the productions of the foremost artists. When the club was organized, all meml ers of the drawing classes were eligible to membership. 'Phis year it has been found necessary to limit the membership, owing to the fact that the club has taen entertained each quarter at the home of one of the memtars. Because of this limitation it is now possible to show in the club photograph the whole membership, instead of the officers only, as in previous numbers of The Quiver. 70 The Self-Government System A nation finds great strength or weakness in its government. If it be self-governed and well-governed, its strength is greatest. This is equally true of a school. The Oshkosh Normal School is self-governed and well-governed. A system of self-government has been established by the students for the | urjx se of assisting in the maintenance of order and arousing a spirit of responsibility and dignity in the pride of t|1c school and of better fitting them for their profession. The work is carried on thru a council and committee of fifteen elected from among the students. ( hie of the first things to appeal to new students entering the school is this system of government. To many it may seem strange at first, but as soon as they realize the value of the system to themselves and the school it receives their hearty sup]x rt. They soon come to see that this manner of being governed and the strength they receive in supporting the system are factors that are going to contribute to their success in after life. They gain power in self-control; they learn to have the interest of the many at heart; they learn to co-o|K rate with the facultv and fellow-students, and gain lessons in discipline that will prove valuable in their own schools. The school, on the other hand, gains the sup|x rt of all students, a unity of faculty and student lxuly. quiet order, and earnest work. The council and committee of the past year were well chosen and have been earnest and faithful. They have received the support of the school so that the system has worked successfully thruout the year. 80 81 German Circle German Circle The German Circle was organized in the fall of 1895. and ever since it has been doing energetic and valuable work. Organized for the purpose of practice in speaking the German language, it has fulfilled all expectations. This year's work has in no way detracted from the record of previous years. With a membership of about sixty earnest, hard-working students, some very interesting programs have been rendered. Even Old Santa appreciates and remembers our work, for starting out earlier than usual, he paused to glance in at our merry Christmas party and lighten his pack of pretty gifts and toys as a token of his approval of our sincere efforts. Kor various reasons it was thought best not to give a German play this year, but there is promise of an unusual entertainment in that line next year. I lowever. we have not departed from the custom of having a spelling match and a declamatory contest. These have been undertaken with the enthusiasm quite characteristic of the members of the Circle. During the past year we have had occasion to send greetings to a sister society in the Stevens Point Normal School. We are glad that the good work is being carried out. and we hojie that we may have the pleasure to extend a welcoming hand to a like society in each of the Normal Schools. 83 The Senior Song Teachers! Teachers! We’ve been thinking, how very dull your lives will be. When this class of mighty Seniors Is launched upon the worldly sea. Juniors! Juniors! We’ve been thinking, that school honors will Ik- o’er When “white and gold arc defended l� v the class of 1904. Sophomores! Sophomores! We’ve l ecn thinking, if this class you hope to match. The teachers all will have to hustle To get you to the scratch. F resides! I'resides! We’ve been thinking, that you never would he seen If your complexion were any other Than such a very greenish green. Teachers, Juniors, Sophomores. Fresides! Fare you well, you lonesome four. May your lives Ik happy still. W hen we are seen no more. Alma Mater! Alma Mater! Oh. the sadness of each heart! From your halls of wit and learning We are forced now to depart. Many a class you’ve graduated. Many a class you've launched at sea. But never, never in your annals Such a class as 1903. Tunc: “Reuben, Reuben, I've Been Thinking 84 85 XX Glee Club Glee Club Pr � iJ M. Viet- PrttiJrttl, Stertlurr, . Dir«tor % Plum' , Aforxkal, . . S. W. Morphy . Jk.nnik Vincknt . Anna Kkkss . Crack IIkwakd Maknikt Johnson Fkidkswidk Spratt Foremost among the organizations of the )shkosh Normal School is the Glee Club. It develops in students an appreciation of g x d music and trains them in chorus singing. It does more than this, it gives those with native talent an opportunity to learn how they may organize and direct such a club when they take up the work of teaching, and thus become more helpful in the communities in which they teach. Aside from this, much pleasure comes to the student who is tired and worn out by the end of the week, for when he linds himself in the music room from 4:00 to 5:00 on Friday afternoons. care vanishes under the magic wand of the director. Besides the regular work of the club, a double numlier was rendered at the Inter-Normal tratorical Contest in March, and the annual concert is to l e given in June. Judging from the apparent delight of the audience, we conclude that our Glee Club put their hearts into it. for the heart giveth grace unto every art.” To be sure, even if our hearts were there, and our work was not well-directed, it would avail little. But we have for a leader one whose soul is attuned to such perfect rhythm that we naturally respond to it with all the musical power we have. We are not the only ones who think we have an able leader, for next year an Eastern institution will claim her services. The best wish we have for her in parting is this: May every hour of her life Ik- as happy as the hours we spent in the music room on Friday afternoons. 87 The Normal Mandolin Club The Normal cMandolin Club Pianist ....................Lillian Ryder Piute ......................John Stoever First Mandolins Marry Makzek Lahrine IIkiss Elizabeth Miller Merton Lyon Phillip Phillips Harvey Jones Second Mandolins Clkora Price Nellie Montgomery Kkwin Wktlaufer Manager.....................Harvey Jones 89 Ladies Chorus Club Carrie Nelson Frideswide Spratt Alta Pepper Flora Morrill Katherine Blacktnan Flora West Jennie Vincent Ida Artzberger Miss Heward Gladys Childs Nona O'Conner % 91 The Oratorical (Association President, I ke-President, Secretary, Treasurer, . Etta M. Hu.mi-iikky Kdwakd 1‘. Chain W. E. SWITZKK Wm. Hkckmann The Oratorical Association is the strongest of all the school societies. It is the one organization in the school of which all the students are members. The aim of this association is to set a high standard on the value of oratory; to cultivate in its meml ers a desire to become orators: to place l eforc the school a knowledge of the ability of its students in combining clear logical thought, flexible expression, and artistic arrangement in effective discourse. During the past year the association adopted a system of competitive debating to choose debaters for the annual contest with the University of Normal, Illinois. Under the competitive system, it was decided to have two preliminary debates previous to the selection of the final debaters. In the first of these debates there were eight contestants, from which the six doing the most creditable work were selected. These six were divided into two teams that debated the question for the final debate, and the three doing the best work were selected as the team that will represent this school in the debate with Illinois. At the business convention of the Inter-Normal Oratorical League, the rules governing the judging of the places to Ik awarded the different contestants were changed and the following plain adopted: “Give the value of one to first place: two to second place: three to third: and so on. Declare as first the contestant who has the smallest total of values: as second, next to the smallest; as third, the next: and so on. In case of a tie for any place, re-rank those tied and proceed as before. If there is still a tie. find the total per cent on both thought and composition, and also delivery; the contestant having the highest total shall be given the preference. If there is still a tie. re-rank those.tied, find the total for thought and composition: the contestant receiving the least total shall lx declared as having the better place.” 92 The Inter-Normal Oratorical Contest On hridav evening. March 20. the greatest event of the Normal school year took place. l or days previous to the contest teachers and students were busy preparing for their guests. The gymnasium, decorated with thousands of yellow and white paper poppies, was made a fairy-land of beauty. Rooms where the delegates might meet and rest were made pretty and comfortable. The first arrivals were the small but enthusiastic delegation sent bv W est Superior and the Platteville delegation, over seventy strong, with their brass band. These visitors and the orators, with a small delegation from their respective schools, came on Thursday. River halls was the only one of the seven Normals not represented. Thursday night a reception was given to the visitors by the home school. The gymnasium drew forth exclamations of admiration from all who entered that evening. A very interesting program was given and the rest of the time spent in getting better acquainted. Friday morning was devoted to talks by members of the faculties of the different schools. These and the two selections given by the Platteville band were enthusiastically received. During the day the delegations from Milwaukee. Stevens Point, and W hitewater arrived, and by 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon there were over four hundred visitors in the Normal building. The different departments were visited and enjoyed. 'l'he eventful evening came none too soon to please the anxious, waiting crowd. All gathered early at the opera house. The gay scene there was one long to Ik remembered by every onlooker. The memlxrrs of the different delegations were seated together, and with banners, songs, and cheers vied with one another during the hour preceding the contest. To the right of the stage was Stevens Point, flying her ribbons and banners of purple and gold: to the left was Milwaukee, with banners of green and white: alxive. in the balcony, was Platteville. with her colors of blue: and in the rear, forming a background for all. was the Oshkosh white and gold. In the boxes on either side were the purple and white of Whitewater, and the orange and black of West Superior. At a few minutes past eight Donald C. Lewis of Platteville. president of the Normal Oratorical League, made the opening address, in which he traced oratory from its beginning to the present time, emphasizing especially its importance as an educative factor in our public schools. After the opening address the following program was rendered: {Continued on Page 95) 93 Lewis Limper Walter Murat Gay E. Pitts Nellie Wakeman Clair F. Hedges Robert Wendt 94 Oratorical Contest CONTINUED Music ... Oshkosh Normal Glee Club ()ration . . The Destined Rulers of the World Robert Wendt, Oshkosh Oration .. Gay E. Pitts, Plattcville Vocal Duet..........Ruth Walling, Josephine Molt ()ration . . Walter Murat, Stevens Point Oration . . “Epoch Makers Lewis Li m per, Milwaukee Music . .. Platteville Normal Band ( )ration . . Nellie Wakeman. Whitewater Music .... Stevens Point Normal Glee Club ()ration .. “The Spirit of the Trust” Clair F. Hedges, Superior Music..... ... .Ladies Chorus Club Oshkosh Normal Decision of Judges— Third Place—“The Social Unrest.’' Second Place—“Aaron Burr.” First Place—“The Destined Rulers of the World.” 05 At the close of the program, while waiting for the announcement of the decision of the judges, the different schools again gave vent to their enthusiasm and excitement by a continuous round of veils and songs. At the end of a half hour of intense suspense, the decision was announced. Oshkosh had won. The crowd went wild. The orator was hoisted upon the shoulders of his fellow-students and carried about the stage, while teachers and students crowded around, eager to extend congratulations. Even the defeated schools were hearty in their praise, and all agreed that Oshkosh justly deserved first place. The whole city was surely made aware in the next few hours that it contained the winning school. The Oshkosh School first escorted the Stevens Point delegation to the station, as their train was to leave soon after the contest. On the way to the station Oshkosh told of the victory in songs and school yells and carried their large banner of yellow and white. In the crush on the platform this banner was taken by Stevens Point. All effort to regain it was unsuccessful. When the train pulled out our beautiful banner waved a fond farewell from the last coach, 'flic Stevens Point delegation returned home rich in souvenirs, for many of the smaller banners and colors had also been taken. But what cared Oshkosh, the victory was ours and we were satisfied. The Oshkosh crowd left the Station and went to seranade some of the members of the faculty and the winning orator. When this enthusiastic band had sung themselves hoarse and thorolv tired themselves out with walking, they decided to go home and let Oshkosh rest in quiet the remainder of the night. Monday afternoon was given the school in which to celebrate the victorv. At half after one a happy gathering of students and visitors filled the auditorium. The contest songs were again sung, and many short, stirring speeches were made by lx� tb memliers of the faculty and the students. After the program the students formed ranks on the campus for a march thru the city. The orator, with President Halsey, Miss Clark, and George Holt, who won second place in the Oshkosh contest, occupied a carriage that had been profusely decorated in the school colors. This carriage (drawn by the Normal lx ys). with the Arion band, headed the procession. Banners waved all along the line, and the school songs and yells were again voiced, in the evening an immense Ixmtire was made on the campus, alx� ut which the students gathered. The next day it was all over, but the memory of the victory was an inspiration for the rest of the school year. A Contest Yell Strawberry shortcake! Blueberry pie!! V-i-c t-o-r-y!! Oshkosh!!! 90 Contest Songs Wave your good old colors high and sing another song: Sing it with the spirit that will start the world along: Sing it as wc ought to sing it. all of Oshkosh strong. Making a record for victory. Refrain Hurrah! Hurrah! Our victory is in sight: Hurrah! Hurrah! Our Wendt will win tonight: And so again, as oft before, our Normal leads the fight, Making a record for victory. The white and gold where’er ‘tis seen will ever take the lead : And with our Normal’s blessing it will fill most any need, And so the Oshkosh orator is everywhere agreed As making a record for victory. Tonight in Wendt wc place our hope, last year it was Ray; And there at West Superior wc had a winning day, And so our Wendt will win, no doubt, in just the same old way, Making a record for victory. Air— Marching Through Georgia.'' Words by Milton V. Jones. All hail our champion with a cheer! I'! rah ! rah ! Zip! lx om ! bah ! Who gains the honor of the year? I'! rah ! rah ! rah ! rah ! lie stands for Oshkosh Normal fame, And scores the victory in her name. Refrain U, rah! U, rah! Oshkosh, rah! Normal! Normal! Zip! boom! hah! I rah! I , rah! Zip! boom! bah! Oshkosh! Oshkosh! rah! Wave high your banner, hat and cane! I ’! rah ! rah ! Zip! boom! hah ! As Oshkosh takes the prize again. I'! rah ! rah ! rah ! rah ! All hail our champion with a cheer, As there he sits without a fear. Air, “Up-i-dcc. ITords by Milton V. Jones. 97 Frank Cordy George Hewitt Rowland Halsey Robert Wendt Nellie Plugh George Holt Local Oratorical Contest Wednesday Evening. February Twenty fifth. Nineteen Hundred and Three. .Normal cAuditorium. CProgram Music.....................Normal Mandolin Club Oration—“The Young Life .................George Hewitt Oration—“Henry of Navarre .......Georc.k Holt Vocal Solo..........................Prof. Fung Oration- -“'rite Supremacy of Law .Frank Cordy ()ration—“Chinese Gordon”...............Rowland Halsey Vocal Solo.................Prof. II. X. Goddard Oration—“Madame Roland ..................Nellie Plugh Oration—“The Destined Rulers of the World Robert Wendt Music ..................................... Ladies Chorus Piano Solo...............................Elizabeth Harrow Decision of Judges— Third Place— Chinese Gordon. Second Place—“Henry of Navarre. First Place—“The Destined Rulers of the World. 99 I titer-State Debaters. 100 Inter-State TDebate Tlu annual debate between Normal University of Normal, Illinois, and the Oshkosh Normal School will take place in this city on the evening of May 22. The question to Ik debated is. “Resolved. That the large corporations in the United States, commonly called trusts, are more injurious than beneficial.” l'lie affirmative will Ik supported bv Messrs. J. V. Riley, Oscar P� . Thayer, and V. I7.. Switzer of Oshkosh. The negative will be defended by Messrs. Roy Webster. Carl Waldron, and llarrv A. Perrin of Normal. Illinois. In May. 1901. the victory was won by Oshkosh: in May. 1902, by Normal. Illinois; and in May. 1903. we predict will Ik won by Oshkosh. Why? Because we have three most competent men. who have spent hours, days, and weeks in careful study and investigation: who have left no stone unturned that will aid them in their work: and who have made themselves complete masters of the subject of debate. Then why should not Oshkosh win? IOI GEORGE HEWITT - JOSEPH v MOPvT I ME R. WILLIAM BROWN JAMES E. G-LAS S POO LE Inter- Xormal Debaters 102 Inter-Normal Debate On February 27. according to the custom of previous years, the Juniors of the Oshkosh Normal met the Juniors of the Stevens I’oint Normal in annual debate. Karlv in the year a committee of three members of the Faculty and three Juniors selected Joseph Mortimer. Helene Kmmett. and (ieorge Hewitt to represent the class. The Juniors of Stevens Point were represented by Messrs. (ilasspoolc, Widmer, and P.rown. The debate was held in the Oshkosh Normal auditorium. The question discussed was. “Resolved. That the I’nited States should establish a system of | ostal savings banks. The affirmative was supported by Oshkosh, the negative by Stevens Point. It was a well-fought contest. The arguments presented on both sides evidenced careful study and diligent research; they were clear,to the | oint. well arranged,and forcibly presented. At the close of the debate the decision of the judges in favor of our sister Normal was received with hearty cheers, for it was considered by all as fairly won. 103 PH i LAftEHAN DEBATERS ALBERT WKA5TEN PHOENIX GEORGE HEWITT • E owA“ RELEV Philakean-Phan ix Debaters 104 Philakean-cPhoenix Debaters This year, for the first time in the history of the two societies, they will meet in debate. For this reason both societies have exercised great care in selecting their representatives so as to present the best debate they are capable of producing. Altho the time for preparation is somewhat limited, nevertheless this is more than compensated for by the energy of the contestants. The question to be debated is: Resolved, That mortgages should be taxed as other property.” The Philakean debaters. Messrs. Tuttle, Lyon, and Kasten. will uphold the affirmative. The Phoenix debaters, Messrs. Treleven. Cordy, and Hewitt, will defend the negative. All the debaters are well known, and are acknowledged as able students, and. considering the friendly rivalry existing between the two societies, each side will undoubtedly endeavor to do its best. We cannot predict the result of this contest, as Phoenix has won many contests and Philakean has a clean score of victories. 105 Lyceum- Pheenix Debaters Chris.a rupp ANNIE 5. ;ANFORTH JOSEPH H •|A C ROVE EDWARD H. RAl N 100 Lyceum-Phoenix Debate Another fight for the Lincoln bust! This will take the form of a debate and has its place among the anticipated events of Commencement week. The Pluenix, by hard, earnest work, has succeeded during the past two years in claiming the bust as its own. This year the ever courageous and ambitious Lyceum will strive hard to regain the lost honors. Both sides arc determined to win and an exceedingly interesting debate is promised. The question to Ik discussed is: “Resolved. That Wisconsin should adopt an ad valorem system of railway taxation, to lx under the control and regulation of a state board appointed by the governor. The affirmative is upheld by Miss Anna Danforth, Mr. (lilbcrt Holzer, and Mr. C. Rupp of the Lyceum. The negative is supported by Mr. R. 1 ( rain. Mr. J. II. Ilardgrove. and Miss Catherine Kox of the Pluenix. These chosen debaters have done high-grade work in the school and they have gained reputation as lieing faithful and successful workers in their societies. We cannot prophesy the result, but let us cheer for the winning side and hope that the defeat will but inspire the losers with the determination to put forth even greater efforts next year. The Lion Tamer Within our halls of learning There roamed a “I.von” bold. Whose awful, roaring voice Filled us with fear untold. But a maiden like Diana, With her swiftly dying dart. Has pierced the noble '‘Lyon's Wild, fiercely-throbbing heart. As Daniel, son of Judah, famed the lion in his den. This maid of the son of Erick Tamed the Lyon feared by men. 108 109 Xormal Advance Staff The Normal Advance Editorial Staff Bdwakd I . Chain . . 1', itor-in-Chi? Mamik A. Naciitwkv . A' i't ml Editor Gilrkkt J. IIiiukk . . . Association WlLMX K. SwiTZHK . . . On , , Frank K.Cokdv .... fu cM Many X. Kkily .... Exchange John W. Gaorkkb . . . Athletic Mf.rtiia HKWlTr .... Humorous: business Managers Waltkk I . Haoman . Insiness Manager Gkokok W. Hkwitt Assistant lutiues Mamoger Board of cArtists Prank R. FroMII.ICH, Chairman GkokgrG. Prick Mary Manion Our school paper, The Normal Advance, is today one of (lie ln st school pa]K rs in the Northwest. Although The Advance does not pretend to Ik an educational magazine, yet it has contained excellent pedagogical contributions from mcml ers of the Oshkosh faculty. Like many other great papers, it had its humble origin and its struggle for life. In the early days of its existence ‘‘Ye Editors” received subscriptions in the current money of the realm, viz : buttermilk, kerosene, gum. onions, shingles, and dressed poultry. Evolution, however. has not only been at work in the animal kingdom, but in the newspajH r as well, and today subscriptions are received in gold and copper from subscriliers and the collection agency. The circulation has been steadily increasing year by year, with a large increase this year, and at present The Normal Advance is read from Maine to Texas, from Porto Rico to the Philippines. It has a large exchange list. The excellence of the pa|K?r is due to the untiring efforts of the staff, the members of which have always worked in harmony, and given not only attention to their several departments, hut who give a helping hand to the others. The staff have not had unlimited time to place on this work, because, besides carrying full school work, many of them have taken up other lines, as debate and oratory. All have been active in society work. In the tranquil evening of our lives, yonder in the distant future, we will reverently take down a well-worn volume containig the bound numbers of The Normal Advance of 1902-3, and. while jioring over the leaves of the school paper of our dear old alma mater, joyous memories will return to us. memories of the gladsome days we s|M nt at the Normal, days which will never return except in fancy. And we will again read the great problems which were troubling the minds of the editors, of the athletic victories and defeats, of the visitations and peregrinations of our now brother alumni, of our achievements in oratory and debate, of the excellent entertainments, exercises and social functions, of the wit and humor contained within the old walls. Then will we conclude that The Normal Advance holds an important place in the activities of school life. 111 The Students’ Handbook I’erhaps the most useful of our school publications is the Students’ Handbook. Thru the. efforts of the Students’ Christian Association this little guide-book is published annually for the benefit of new students who are unacquainted with our school and the city. The book is free to all. and it is hoped that by its distribution and thru Christian endeavor the association may render its best services to the Oshkosh Normal School. 112 113 Athletic Association Officers President ................Frank R. Froeiilich Secretary.....................Jennie M. Hailey Treasurer George W. Hewitt Football Manager— 1902 ...................John W. Gauerke 1903 .................John Ciiristopiierson Basketball Manager ... .... Ed. W. Allen Baseball Manager.........................Theo. Goeres Track Team Manager..................... Ed. J. Young Faculty Committee on Athletics • Mr. Coomdge Miss Shepardson Mr. Hewitt Mr. Mitchell Athletics has taken a healthy turn in the Normal this year. Yc can safely say that more have taken active part in athletics this year than at any previous time. During the foothill season as many as sixty men were out in uniform learning the intracacies of football. The winter months were devoted to basketball, and it is here where all were more � r less represented, from the faculty to the grades, from the Senior to the I 'res man. men and women, boys and girls, large and small. The limits of the gymnasium are such that not even a goodly number of those wishing to take part in basketball had the opportunity, but then, there is no sense in wailing. The good Creator has arranged for just such conditions not continuing too long, and so. now that the weather conditions j ermit. the campus may be seen literally covered with track and field athletes and baseball enthusiasts. Athletics is a necessary adjunct to the regular curriculum of any well-regulated college. The standing of a school in the estimation of other institutions, the enthusiasm and esprit de corps of the student lxxly in general demand athletics, as much as any other one phase of school activity. Tt is at a football game that the art of arousing enthusiasm in a large number of students may lx studied advantageously, to be applied upon other occasions, such as oratorical contests. Resides the gridiron the students learn to stand as a unit in cheering and encouraging their eleven, thus aiding the team to win. From the football game to other contests, tho they may not lx quite so physically exciting, there is but a short step in gaining the active support of a student body for its representative, whether it lx one man or a team. 114 The health of the indivual in college demands that attention be paid to athletics. Every student should make it a point to take part in some form of athletics. The deep inhalation of the pure outdoor air while engaged in some athletic exercise is what revitalizes the body after a period of study more than any medicine ever can. When a professor will veil and whoop like the most enthusiastically warlike Apache ever thought of whooping, when he becomes so enthused that he will throw off his heavy fur coat that was deemed prudent to wear in going to the field of action, when he will slap a one hundred and ninety pound man on the back and then try to play football with him, there must be some awakening of energy going on at an athletic contest that is more convincing than the testimonials of all the patent medicines in existence. The great majority of the student body in this school, however, have not especially distinguished themselves for the sup{x rt of our athletics the past season, but rather for its non-support. It may not seem evident to some students that supporting athletics is for the best of their interests. They forget that the school is doing its very best for them and that it is no more than a fair exchange of favors for them to sup|X rt loyally what the school as an institution has to keep up in order to be in the front rank. Athletics is one of those phases of school life by which a school is judged by outsiders, and it taxes the ingenuity of the management to the utmost to make both ends meet unless the financial as well as the moral support of the entire student Ixxly is hack of it. Be it said to the credit of the management, however, that we closed the season “right side up financially. If the representatives of the field, track, and diamond will establish as good a record this spring as the football team did last fall, this school certainly has the right to Ik- ranked with the first in the state as far as athletics is concerned. This active part in athletics taken by the students is due in greater part to the efforts of Mr. . F. Coolidge I hat his judgment and foresight can Ik- relied on was shown when he turned out a winning footlwll team with seemingly not any too encouraging a lot of material from which to select ; but conscientious work-on the part of the coach had its effect and the result was a record-breaking team. We have great ho| cs in his luring out a winning field and track team. 115 Foot-Ball Team ( Regulars) football Team Left Eml.....................................L. Fei.lenz Left Tackle..................................K. Rosenthal, Captain Left Guard...................................C. Sciiwkdk. Center ......................................L. Wknt .ei.. Right Guard .................................J. Fitzc.ekald. X. Schkaa. Eight Tackle ................................J. Jackson. Eight End ...................................F. Yoitng. Quarter .....................................(). Tiiavhk. Eight Half ..................................I.. Morrill, A. Tuttle. Left Half....................................A. Schwalm. Tailback ....................................L. Simnictit Substitutes .................................M. Joyce, H. Jones. !•'. Fkhacii. R. Hai.sey. Manager .....................................John VV. Gackrke. Coaeli ......................................Prof. V. F. Cooliikje. Record OPPONENTS FLACK TIM K OPPON- ENTS OSHKOSH Fond lu 1 -ac Highs 20. 0 50 1 awrence I 'niversitv 4- 17 6 Stevens Point Normal October 11. 0 23 Rij on College 18. 0 5 lieloit College 25. 17 0 Whitewater Normal 1. 0 27 Ripon College 15. 5 IxTwrcnce I’niversitv . .. Oshkosh Xovemlxr 22. 11 5 . 1 ilwaukee NIedics 27- 0 27 Total.... 148 117 cfootball The record of the football eleven speaks for itself regarding the team’s success the past season. For clean football the team continued the record of former years. Xo sensational scores are recorded, tho the score of 50 to o may ap] car so. That game was but a “try-out for the team. The reason for no high scores are, first, our team did not see any sense in making a game appear so ridiculouly one-sided, even tho it lay in its power to do so. and second, none of the opj onents were able to run up too high a score. The hardest game was played with Lawrence at Oshkosh, and the most interesting one was played at Kipon. Here the game was practically won by “the loyal girls who accompanied the team and made their presence on the gridiron known by their enthusiastic cheering for Oshkosh. The result was that ()shkosh won by scoring a touchdown within the last three minutes of play. For the first time in the history of the school a game was played with Ileloit College, and the collegians were given one of the greatest scares they ever exj ericnced. The score shows that. This game shows that the defense perfected by our team was one which the collegians could not even solve so readily as expected, that our team needed more conscientious table training, and that the directions of the coach must l e strictly adhered to, if a championship team is to Ik developed. The team itself was one quite well balanced. Captain Rosenthal could always Ik deluded uj� on. and (Juarterliack Thayer knew his business. “Little Jim Jackson seemed to jx� ssess enough inertia to make from five to thirty yards at a time. For brilliant playing. Morrill carried off the honors when he secured the ball on one of RijKm’s trick plays and scored a touchdown. thus tying the score. The ends were so well taken care of that it was seldom that a play around the end was executed successfully for appreciable gains by the opjxments. and “Sim was there to stop tliose that evaded the ends. Sehwahn, the young, showed that he has the making of a very strong player. For steady, all-round playing our center, Wentzel, must Ik given the palm. As a center lie is undoubtedly the best in the state for his weight, as those who played against him will readily admit. The guards and “subs were there when occasion demanded. Altho Rosenthal. Jackson. Fellcnz. Fitzgerald, Simnicht. and Thayer will not Ik here next year, there is still a gixxl nucleus remaining around which to build up a strong team, tho the gaps left at tackle may Ik hard to fill. Prof.Coolidge,however.can Ik depended upon to build up a strong team next year by drawing on new material, and .the championship of the minor colleges will again Ik won by Oshkosh. 118 The Class Football Games The Juniors are the undisputed class champions in footl all this year, and Prof. Mitchell is the winning coach. You should have seen his proteges teach the Seniors how to win under discouraging conditions. Time and time again they were within scoring distance of the Juniors' goal, but it took Jones of the Juniors to show how a game can Ik won when a team is within thirty yards of an opponent's goal. He made the only successful drop kick that was attempted last season, and that at the one time the Juniors were within fifty yards of the Seniors’ goal. Then, by defeating the Sophomores, the winners of the Sopltomorc-Freshman contest, bv a score of 11 to o, the Juniors became the class champions for 1902-03. The idea of having class football games is an excellent one. and should Ik encouraged as much as |x ssihlc. It is here that new material is dcvclojx-d and discovered. Many a player enters a game of football thinking that his ability to do anything along that line is practically nothing, but, to his and everyone else's surprise, finds that lie can do something after all. The class contests give all jktsoiis that arc any way inclined toward football an excellent opportunity to enjoy themselves at the game. Right here it is that the young ment are enabled to get at the rudiments of football by taking an active partin the games and thus prepare themselves for the future, livery high school of any importance has a football eleven, and they may Ik called u|K n to coach just such a team. That the students are taking advantage of this opjx r-tunity of learning the game is very noticeable wlien one looks over the campus on practice days during the season. Indeed, last season more were out in football suits here at one time than at the university. ()ne a f ter noon nearly seventy were out in suits. It has lx en proved that men need not become brutes even tho they do play football, for have we not as jxdite and orderly a set of young men as can Ik found anywhere? W e hope the g xxl work will continue and become more systematic each year. Class Games Sophomores.......... 11 Freshmen.. J uniors.............. 5 Seniors.... Juniors.............. 11 Sophomores o o o 110 Junior Foot-Ball Team The Class Teams Juniors—Class Champions J 902-03 l.cft End................................ V. Buckley Left Tackle .............................A. R. Dickenson Left Guard ..............................B. B. Schroeder •Center .................................J. Christophf.rson Right Guard..............................V. Scott Right Tackle ............................J. Mortimer Right End ...............................L. Mathews Quarterback .............................M. V. Jones Pullback ................................(I. W. Hewitt, Captain Left Half................................B. Schoen wetter Right Half...............................J. Ford Seniors Sophomores Left End..........J. Gauerke. L a plain Left Tackle ..........W. Switzer Left Guard ...........M. W. Heck Manx Center ...............F. Fkoehlich Right Guard........... . Kasten Right Tackle ........O. IxnvE Right End ...........O. Schoen wetter Q uar ter back ....M. Lyon hull back ...........L. King Left Half............T. Goeres Right Half............H. Jones Right Half .... G. Wolf Left Half J. Devov Fullback F. Steffeck Quarterback . . . Ruehi. Right End .. . C. Rupp Right Tackle . R. Thackery Right Guard . . W . HAC.MAN Center R. Halsey Left Guard ... J- Klug Left Tackle ...........C. Palmer Left End...............R. Reinhardt, Captain Freshmen Left End ... Left Tackle . Left Guard . Center ...... Right Guard Right Tackle Right End . Quarterback Fullback ... Left Half .. Right Half . G. Williams I). St A M PER F. Keefe. Captain F. Sorenson I. Wolf F. Lehman W. Spali.i.nger J. Fi.mer lFitzgerald II. Leister G. Goggins 121 Basket Ball Team Basket-Ball Team Left Forward ..............................E. Rosenthal Right Forward..............................I '. Kekkk Center ....................................L. Morrill. Captain, Right Guard................................J. Stokver Left Guard ................................T. Gokkes Substitutes ............................... V. Buckley. A. Sciiwalm, G. Wolf Manager ...................................I Cl . W. Allen Referree ..................................John M. Gauerke Umpire ....................................Merton Lyon Record OPPON opponents PLACE TIME ENTS OSHKOSH Wavland Academy . Heaver Dam . January 23.. 21 25 Omro (Jshkosh . Tanuarv 30.. 4 75 Shelioygan .. February 6.., 17 18 Stevens Point Normal ()shkosh February 13.., 36 21 Company I Neenah . February 20.. 16 14 Wcyauwega High School Wcyauwega February 27.., 26 10 Stevens Point Normal Stevens Point 21 15 Company I ()shkosh March 13... 4 29 Fond du Lac High School Fond du l-ic . March 14... 10 17 Company B, (V. M. C. A.) Oshkosh (Armory B) .. March 18.. , 21 25 Wevamvega High School ()shkosh March 27... 18 16 Totals 194 265 123 Girls' Basket-Ball Team -Allanlas Girls' Basketball Team—cAtlantas Baskets......................Frances I3crke Florence Yocxc. ( enter......................Hazel Wbtlauker (iuants......................Kath kki n e 15arher S. Hirdice Qi im.an Substitutes..................Lacra McAllister Lydia Ostertag 4 1Record Regulars 6 Regulars Regulars 5 126 basketball Basketball seems to have lost some of the flavor of novelty that appeared to go with it in former years, if judging from the size of audiences at games is any basis. Of course, our boys did not close the season quite so successfully as was hoped for at the beginning, but then that is no explanation for the general lack of interest on the part of the public, for did we not start the season with a championship team? The excellent teams of Wavland Academy and She-lx ygan went down in defeat before our boys to begin with. The hardest contested game of the season was the one played with Sheboygan. Strong team work defeated Omro by an overwhelming score. “La Grippe then stepped in calling on the boys, and the game with Stevens Point was lost because we had hut three of the regular team in the game. This broke up the team work, altho the substitutes played an excellent individual game. After this game, the record shows a great drop from championship form from which the players did not seem to Ik able to recover. Too much individual self-confidence, at the expense of team work, is sure to lose in the end. as has been proved over and over again. The team individually was an excellent one. As a forward. Keefe has few su|� eriors anywhere. and Rosenthal is a close second, the more of an all-round good man. Morrill always kept his man busy, and the two guards, Teddy and John, played as a unit. The substitutes were all good individual players. Besides the regulars, there were other teams that created an interest among the students. There were the two Grammar room teams, the “Hippolytes and the Invincibles. a Normal girl's team, a Senior class team, the “Shorties, and the Faculty team. The Shorties and Invincibles played a series of games for the championship of the small teams, and the “Shorties won. Both teams played interesting games with Omro. The girls have a clean record. Of all the games the one ln-tween the Faculty and the Seniors was most interesting. The game was an exciting one from start to finish, and it was not until the timekeeper's whistle blew that a spectator could concede the victory to either side. The Faculty won. however, by a score of 2i to 18, and the Seniors — ask Lyon or Young. The Faculty proved that they are not so sedate after all. Following is the line-up: Fonvards Center... ( ' itards.. FACULTY Goddard Trettien Halsey Sum mers Coolidce SENIORS Yo uxr, Lyon Halsey, Jr. Jones Joyce 120 127 Woodland Whispers There is a place I love to wander when the- summer days are fair, Or the hreath of beauteous springtime floats ujxw the balmy air: Hiere the songbird softly warbles to his mate his sweetest lav. And the woods are filled with music all the gladsome summer day. In its music and its sunshine life’s dull cares so s x n depart. And all noble thots find entrance to the temple of the heart. On the sunny sloping hillside here and there the shadows fall, As they fall across the sunshine in the hearts of one and all: And from out the shade the songbird fills with music every part As the angels softly whisper thru the shadows of the heart. C). what messages of beauty Nature to our hearts doth give. Teaching us thru shine and shadow of the nobler way to live. There the flowers are looking upward to the deep blue skv alx ve, Where the stars shine down forever, emblems of eternal love. And the heart, enraptured, strengthened, feels the breath of love divine Breathing from the star-eyed blossoms and the flower-like stars that shine: Till the soul is lifted upward, far almve the common sod. To a place of sweet communion with its Maker and its God. 128 School Spirit The strength of a school dej ends u|K � the spirit which animates its members as much as the strength of a nation depends upon the loyalty and patriotism of its people. Every student is an important factor in determining the success or failure of the school. His only duty is not that of gaining an education and of striving for his own advancement, but he must accept his part of the responsibility and work for the g xxl of the institution and those connected with it if the school is to realize the purjx se for which it was organized. School spirit is the feeling that hinds the members of a school together in an earnest endeavor to strengthen its jxjwer of doing good. That student has the true school spirit who feels that he is a part of a large Ixxly working toward a common end: who does not stand aside while others work : who is hearty in his co-operation with teachers and students in any work for which he is needed: who sees the higher, nobler pur]x se of education, and does not seek it only to obtain a profitable position; who seeks to develop in himself those qualities that he desires to implant in his pupils. In an institution like ours, this school spirit pays, for the student who has the welfare of all at heart is the one who will Ik liest fitted for a successful teacher and who will receive the most cordial endorsement for future work, for he has.shown himself capable of being a law-abiding, patriotic citizen: he has resj ccted the rules of the school and bv his influence prevented others from bringing reproach upon it: his good will toward his fellow-students has been a source of encouragement to them day by day. Then here’s to a kindly school feeling! And who shall measure the good that may be done in an institution whose members are inspired by this noble spirit ? 129 A Juniors Rhetorical Nightmare Ever since niv first recollections of dwelling in the wondrous realm of boyhood, there had floated before my mind visions of standing before a vast sea of human faces, and moving the hearts and minds of multitudes by the magical power of eloouence: and so, when our President announced one morning that all Juniors and Seniors would. u| on calling at the postofficc. receive a document of |x culiar interest, upon wending my way thither. I was overjoyed when I was handed a slip of cardboard at the head of which, in large, black letters, were the two words —“Rostrum Card.” On it were four requirements, two declamations and two essays. After much trial and tribulation—for the imagined glory faded as soon as my knees began to shake for the first time—I at last got rid of the declamations and one essay, reducing the numlter to just one lone essay. I thot it would.be easy enough to write if I could only find a subject: and I searched long and earnestly. I looked thru all the periodicals I could lay my hands on. from the Saturday Blade and Police Gazette to the New York Christian Advocate and Missionary Review: but my quest was unsuccessful. 1 thot of subjects bv day and dreamed of them by night, until essay subjects were all I could think of. Life began to have the aspect of one long, disconnected essay; and this condition became so uncomfortable that I seriously thot of doing something violent to relieve the strain. In my despair. I seized a book containing a thousand subjects: and surely, I thot. here among a thousand, I may find one. In an attitude of jjerfect contentment. I sat down in my father’s easy chair before the fireplace, and with perfect assurance of success at last, watched the glowing emlnrrs l eneath the hanging crane, and the thin wreath of smoke winding slowly upward. I watched it ascend higher and higher, and. feeling a delightfully queer sensation creeping over me. suddcnlv saw the wreath of smoke changed into a huge scroll at the head of which were the words. “Very Best and Latest Essay Subjects. As the scroll slowly stretched out. the first subject came in view—“When I Was a Little Girl. I realized at once the possibilities of such subject, but as I fell to contemplating it. difficulties began to present themselves. First and foremost, brethren, to tell the exact and peculiar truth. I never was a little girl. Secondly. I never want to Ik : for. of all the fussy notions conceivable, look to a little girl and you’ll find them every time. But the serious and heartrending nature of the question lies not in that, but the fact that the big girls are only an enlarged edition of the fussy little ones. If the man who wrote that lxx k had only put in “When I Was a Little Boy.” I would have been all right. The chart rose higher and higher, until it seemed suspended from the sky, and across its center I saw another subject written—“Macbeth’s Witches. It unfolded farther, displaying a huge red hand pointing downward to the crane swinging upon the andirons. It had suddenly swelled to the proportions of an immense caldron, around which the witches were dancing and uttering horrible incantations. With short, crooked sticks they were stirring the seething, steaming, awful-smelling contents of the caldron. And then I saw the different ingredients as Shakesf eare enumerates them, with directions for cooking: “Fillet of a fenny snake, in the caldron lx il and bake: Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog; § Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting, lizard's leg and owlet’s wing— For a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth l oil and bubble.” 130 Also, the “root of hemlock dipped i the dark.” gall of goat and Tartar’s lips.” and a pint of best imported baboon’s blood with which toc x I it. and l ottle of Worcester sauce to make it scratch all the way down. Strange and wierd it seemed; but what gave me a most violent start, was to see the witches’ mummy begin to wriggle and squirm and twist about —then rise up, and I saw that is was only the iKTsonification of practice teaching. Twould have done an untold amount of good to any practice teacher to seethe thing paddle around in that hot soup, and then finally sink to the lx ttom—into utter oblivion. The blind worm’s sting suddenly shot up into a strange shape, labeled on one side Professional Arithmetic, and on the other I’nited States Senate. I couldn’t just just see the connection at first, but I soon saw a note down in one corner which attracted my attention. It read: “It’s all the same: only one-third permitted to leave when we break ranks; the remainder will please come back and go thru the mill ever with faith Ixdicving.” I next saw the transformation of the goat’s gall: It gradually grew larger and larger and unfolded, until I saw a large hanner bearing the number 1903. Around it gathered all those who were Seniors in the Oshkosh Normal School in 1903. Their starch was all wilted to non-enity; their dignified demeanor was all gone, and I guess they would have admitted almost any truth, for I heard one of them muttering. If we had only candidly admitted that the class of 1904 was the whole thing, the only class tint ever struck the Normal School—for it really did knock the spots all off of us:” and in reply another said. If we had only not have bragged so about the Senior-Faculty basket ball game before it came off—oh. but how the Faculty rublx'd it into us, and oh. what an awful medicine this is for swelled heads.” Put the scroll kept on unwinding—I don’t know how many subjects I missed while watching the witches—and I saw another subject, “The Ideal Woman.” T thot to myself, that’s interesting: why won’t that do now? Then there apjH-ared a picture of a spinning wheel, seated at which was a fair dream in hoops and old-fashioned laces, long cprls and powdered face, and underneath was the date 1803, followed by the lines. To spin and knit was all a girl’s employment.” Then came another picture, this time of a tall, slender femininity in frills and riblxms and feathery hat. a simpering face and practiced pose, with a thing at her side holding a cigarette in one hand, and hat and cane in the other. The date underneath was 1903: the lines corres| onding to those of the other picture. “To dress and have a lx au is all a girl’s employment.” Following this was a short blank space, and then I saw this additional characterization: She can satisfy your wishes. As to names of rocks and fishes: Put she cannot wash the dishes. Worth a cent.” The Ideal Woman seemed to be such a changeable ideal, as her prototyjx? of a century ago was so different from the woman of today. And there are as many ideal women as there arc men—usually more: for with most men the ideal woman is the one seen last. Not knowing just how to determine what the ideal woman really is. I saw that that subject was beyond my grasp. I guess that the stuff in tilt caldron must have nearly boiled down; for something happened that made the old-fashioned girl try to faint, the other one turned around on her heel and said, “flosh darn it.” and I found myself gaping into space, tempted to say the same thing, for my lx ok had dropped into the fire and had one corner all burned off. and I had no subject for an essay. 131 Faculty-Senior Basket 'Ball Game Friends. Seniors, Faculty, put on your ear-trumpets: We come to laud the victors, not the Seniors. The conceit which their teams have lives after them. While heir scores arc oft interred with their fame; The noble Juniors Have told you. Seniors were ambitious: It was so. and was a grievous fault.— And grievously have Seniors answered it. Here under leave of Eddie and the rest— For Eddie has no swelled head: So have they all. all have no swelled heads— C onic we to speak of a Senior downfall. Prex was our friend, faithful and just to us.— I Jut Eddie said he would be easy And Eddie has no swelled head— I le hath made many baskets swell the score. Which total did much pleasure bring: Did this for Prexy seem so easy? Once when his son did cry. Pa. are you hurt? He merely laughed tho blood did flow from his left eye. Yet Eddie said he would be easy. And Eddie has no swelled head— You all did see that bv the record 1xX)k Once, twice, the faculty fought a winning game In base and basket ball. Were they so easy? Yet Eddie said they would be easy ; And sure, he has no swelled head. We speak not to disprove what Eddie spoke. But here we are to speak what now you know. You all did see them once, once was enough: Let us then unite to mourn for them: () Seniors, you have gone from bad to worse. And we must mourn with reason. Bear with them: Their fame is in the past now resting. And we must pause till it catch up with them. 132 A Senior's Soliloquy (7W Vtar Afttr Graduating) To propose or not to projjosc. that is the question! Whether 'tis l est to suffer I he slings and arrows of uncertainty, )r to take a final stand against this sea of trouble. And in a moment end them. A word—and bliss. Contentment ( ?) And by that word we end I he heartaches and the thousand jealous fears That love is heir to( ?) Tis a consummation Devoutly to Ik- wished! Hut to pop the question And he turned aside! Ay,there's the rub: l-'or with that momentous word, what pain may follow, If the reality of unrequited love Ik- thrust upon 11s. Must give us pause: there's the resj ect That gives irresolution so long life: l-’or who would liear the sting of jealous bears, A rival's scorn, or a fancied rival’s wrong. The pangs of cooling love, the least delay. The tugging of his heart strings and the smiles Which another one may gain. When he himself might his future know For the mere asking? Who would inis'ry bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something worse than death. The undiscovered problem which if wrong (lives pitiful returns, puzzles the will. And makes ns rather lK-ar those ills we have Than fly to those we know not of? This question does make cowards of us all: And thus the native hue of resolution Is sickbed o'er with the pale cast of thoughts. And the enterprise of great pith and moment. With this regard is sometimes turned away To lose the name of action. 133 The Day is Done I. The day is done, and a Senior. Who hails the approach of night. Sails to the Ladies’ Study As an eagle in homeward flight. II. He stops awhile at the doorway, Recollects a task undone; His conscience slightly troubles. But then he thinks of one. III. He sees the “lights of the study, But she is not at hand : And a feeling of sadness comes o’er him That his soul cannot withstand. IV. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. V. Go read to him some poem, From Ruck or Judge, we ll say. That shall soothe his restless feeling And drive his cares away. 134 VI. 1 lave it read by that grand old master. Who soars in Puck sublime. Who stops his classes for a lire. And cracks his jokes on time. VII. ()r. read from that humble poet. Whose songs gush from his heart To a page in our Normal's monthly. And makes its readers start. VIII. Who thru long days of labor And nights devoid of ease. Sought for a trace of music In his wonderful melodies. IX. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, For they bring the peace that follows A case of bad nightmare. X. Then read from some dusty volume The philosophy of style, And meet his looks of mute appeal With a sympathetic smile. XI. And his soul shall Ik- filled with slumber, And the cares he felt that day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. 136 Senior-Junior Reception About two weeks before the Thanksgiving recess, little white envelopes, containing invitations to the annual Senior-Junior reception, found their way to the hands of the Juniors. At last we were to know the meaning of all those prophetic class meetings, significant committee meetings, and mysterious smiles. We were aware that each member of the faculty had received a call, long and portentious, and knew that the reception was to Ik something unusual. And so it proved. A trip thru Hades has already come to Ik a common thing, but the reception the Seniors gave to the Juniors. Friday evening. December twelfth, nineteen hundred two. will Ik recorded in the annals of our Normal as one of the most enjoyable affairs of the year. It was a success in every particular—from reception to garbage committee. 1 he Normal orchestra furnished the music, but instead of dancing the numliers on the program, a series of impromptu talks was instituted on the charms of the faculty ladies, the success of the football team (Junior, of course), and why so many girls have to go home alone, (messing the sil lionettes. however, was the most novel and fascinating part of the entertainment. I here were the Faculty, pinned on the walls — mere shadows, but still retaining individuality enough to be identified. Then came refreshments, and. although they were somewhat cooling, they did not cool our enthusiasm in the least, for the last subject under consideration, and one that will linger with us and help make the memory of our school life a pleasant one, was the good time we all had at the reception. 136 The Spelling Review Tlio I speak with the tongue of a Goeresor a Stoever and cannot sjxdl, I am an eye-sore to the faculty and a disgrace to the institution. Tho I get a “stand-in with Miss Webster and run a bluff on Miss Henderson, and tho I fawn like a Murphy aijd jolly like a St. Peter and cannot spell, it availeth me nothing. And tho I carry a j ony to class and cram for examination, and though I burn a barrel of midnight oil and rise at the cock-crowing, if I cannot s|k 11 it profiteth me nothing. SjH-lling lastcth long and is a bore: spelling improveth not. commeiuleth not itself, is not in the curriculum, behaveth itself unseemly, seeketh all and findeth each, causeth much sorrow. provoketh great wrath. W hether they he Jack Trotters or Freshies.they shall fail: whether they Ik- Sophomores or Juniors, they shall fail: yea. even tho they Ik Seniors, they shall fail; but the quarterly spelling review” never faileth. Tho we have a knowledge of the pendant glolx and a concept of the earth as a whole; tho we have an image of a hipjxqjotamus” and could recognize a mountaintho we can draw a cross-section of the transporting power of water. and have develo| ed an artistic eye for the sublime and l cautiful: and tho we can w rite borrowed plans like a hectograph, and gather cornstalks for practice work in nature-study like a Haass. when the s|x lling-test is come, then that which we thot we knew has passed away. And now abideth Professional Gymnastics, Practice 'reaching, and Spelling, these three; hut the greatest of these is Spelling. 'i Mitchell's Philosophy The greatest power of the mind is attention; the next greatest power is inattention. There are more people saved thru the lack of attention than you and 1 know about. The fellow that falls asleep in my class is all right. Whenever you see a boy pasting paper wads on the ceiling you can make up your mind that there is something in him. and that he is worth taking care of. Xow there are lots of things that you don’t have to teach a lx y. He generally knows that you get coffee at a grocery store and dry goods at a dry goods store. You needn't teach him where to go to get shaved ; he knows that. If you think it is necessary for good citizenship to teach a lx v about the equator and axis of the earth, why teach it to him ; but don’t say anything about it until the last day of sch x� I. and then take him out in the backyard and whisper it in his ear and advise him not to tell anybody. These things don’t sjx il if you keep them awhile. Go slow; don't lx in a hurry to teach him everthing at once. You've got lots of time. If you don’t know what else to do, go and get the grip awhile. I’m sure 1 tried to give you as long a vacation as I could. 137 The Faculty and La Grippe Five members of the Normal Faculty who had worked long and diligently in assisting certain Seniors to procure a sheepskin from the Oshkosh Normal, in order that these Seniors might go forth into the world and pass themselves off as genuine mutton-heads, at last became weary of their labor, steered shy of their customary haunts and called upon death to deliver them from their miserable existence. Death, however, was very busy just then watching a scrapping match between the Faculty and the Senior basket ball teams, so he dispatched a nimble-footed messenger called I-a Grippe to attend to the preliminaries. Faithful unto Death and pleased at the prospect of being serviceable to five such venerable | edagogucs, La Grippe set forth, amid the winter's snow, to minister to their wants. Arriving in the city he immediately began action. Presenting himself to the head of the Department of Geology, La Grippe fairly took hold and began to get in some of his line work down the professor's back. “Oh! Ouch! Whew! Who are you and what in thunder are you doing here?’’ “I am I .a Grippe ' replied the visitor; “You sent for Death, but he is very busy at this season of the year—. “I didn't send for anyone, anyhow. 1 have an imperative engagement to go fishing as soon as the trout season ojxms. I have got a cow and a horse and am to coach the Senior football team next year, so I shall have to ask you to excuse me. Not being anxious to bring matters to a crisis and endanger the ultimate success of the Seniors on the gridiron. I .a Grippe bowed himself out of the Professor’s temple of clay and proceeded on his journey. Entering the residence of the portlv instructor of German, he at once introduced himself. “Dundcr! Who are you and what do you want ? asked the j edagogue. “I am La Grippe. answered the messenger. “Death is very rushed just now. so he has sent me. “Oh Himmel! Somebodyrubmyback-please. I did not expect an answer for a year or two. 1 shall have to ask for a postponement, as 1 have gathered some very striking statistics regarding the influx of ‘Deutsche Emigranten in den Vereinigten Staatcn' and would feel that I had not finished my life work if 1 neglected to give the students of the Oshkosh Normal this valuable information. Then also I am about to organize a summer school for district school ma'ams on the limited-ability plan, and by advertising the scheme well in the religious newspaj)ers, I confidently expect, with a small outlay for New England Primers and Swinton’s Spelling Hooks, to increase the yearly output over preceding years.” So saying, he grabbed a bottle of “Hoffman’s Tropfen and began to rub himself briskly, at which performance La Grippe became alarmed and beat a hasty retreat down the alley. Approaching the genial president of the mundane institution, he at once offered to transport him to the Elvsian fields at a lower rate than that offeder by the (’. X. W. Ry. Co. on the De Kalb expedition, emphasizing his scheme with now and then an acute stitch in the region of the President's vertebrae by way of persuasion. “Well m-m-ah-m-m—from the latest returns of the Faculty-Senior basket ball game it appears to me that there is still something left to live for. As leader of a noble 500. 1 am planning future greatness on the baseball diamond in the spring. Anyhow, I guess I prefer walking around for awhile, as I would not like to make my first appearance with a black eye.” Being a good all-round athlete in disguise, he accompanied his remarks with an expansion of his right biceps, of which La Grippe received the details and particulars in full, and suddenly found himself miscellaneously scattered over the 138 country as colds, coughs, croup, chilblains, and frost-bites. Indeed, so scattered was he that he joggled his front teeth loose trying to remember who he was. Rallying himself, he next offered his services to the head of the Department of Physics, saying: “I am I-a Grippe, and have come in answer to your call; are you ready? “Well, I have thrown those stars, but I am greatly concerned at present in bringing about the civilization of the Chinese Kmpire my introducing a new and improved system of musical notation into that land of heathen Mongolians. I wish to ascertain beyond the shadow of a doubt what makes the grass grow, what makes the Jarley wax works run, and what makes the clock tick. I have also hit upon a happy scheme to get the drop on eternity, for if one can stop a minute why is it not a human possibilty to intercept the flight of time ?” Recognizing that this remarkable scientist has a remarkable future Ik fore him. which were it not lx fore him would otherwise seem out of place and unhappy, I-a Grippe left him to work out his own salvation in the Normal laboratories, while he made an informal call upon the instructor of art. I am here. said La Grippe: to take you to the regions of the artistic and the beautiful, where there are no pencil sharpenings, waste-paper scraps, or cross-lights. Are you ready to go? The artist smiled a smile in the ancient Egyptian style with a hazy background, and lxgan to make excuses, while a shiver, a sneeze, and a shudder were all clamoring for expression. Well, really. I am sorry to refuse and should like to go, but I have recently found out that whatever you have to do, if you do not do it at once, or at some future time, unless somebody else does it. it will in all human probability remain undone, and just at present I am performing a very interesting experiment with a high school drawing class and fear that their sense of the beautiful and artistic would not lx sufficiently developed. I am vainly striving to raise the class to higher ideals-------------------. But 1 ja (iripjx did not stay to hear the rest. He had read of the excuse made in the Scriptures: he had heard of the excuses presented to Miss Webster: he had lx cn told of the small boy’s “bcc-causc:” but such measly, pewter, tinsel, pinch-beck apologies as were offered by the pedagogues completely unnerved him, and he got on a terrible razzle-dazzle and landed in a C hicago police station. Carrying in the Wood W. C. Hewitt. I paint in simple memory, dim with haze, That time spredas over thots of boyhoods days: Of kindly words in simple justice said; Of all the dear home faces long since dead: Of homely deeds that for plain duty stood : And humblest one of all, the getting in the wood. I low bright the polished ax did gleam, How sweet the fresh-cut oak did seem, How Ixnmdcd pulse, how quick the blows, As stick on stick the pile arose! ()h. youth! what king can match the joy ()f common air and common things. Of simple pleasure without stings. The health and vigor of a boy ? Then, filling arms above the cars. Till hardly crest of cap appears. To stagger in with stamping foot. To fill the great wood box completely up, l 'p till the scented pyramid of wood Close to the kitchen ceiling stood. And then the shining eyes of her who said, “Well done, thotigh not in words, instead Sweet graciousness for me, apart From all the rest, divine nutrition for a hungry heart. Oh. strength of trust, that strength to weakness lent. ( h. love of her who loved him. Life glows when love and faith l egin. And pales and dies when they are spent. Sometimes, ljefore we dropi ed the wood In order in the box. we stood Scarce standing, laying one by one. The sticks in place, till all was done. Hearing well the lightning task, since well we knew The burden longer lx rne the lighter grew. So we that stagger with our load of pride. The dross of gold, collected thru the years. The vanity of hopes, the vanity of fears. We stronger grow as they are laid aside. Hut hearts are hard and we but dimly see That every fondly-cherished selfishness must go. And that till then we cannot know The glory of the complete victory. And. when of doubtful evil or of doubtful good. We stand at last clean-stripped and free. And find in self-renunciation highest destiny. We then are little children who carry in the wood. 140 141 T is for Tuttle who uses his grit. H is for Hcckmann with hair on iiis lip. E is for Krbaeh who hasn't a bit. o is for Otto so bright and so fair. S is for Stoever with wavy brown hair. H is for Holt who spoke with a vim. R is for Kastcn who listened to him. O is for ()sborne who works in the shop. S is for Schroeder whose talk doesn’t stop. H is for Halsey (Jr.) who ranks near the top.. N is for Nellie who talked very great, o is for Olive so very sedate. R is for Riley whose wit helps him out. M s for Milton who caused a great shout. is for Adams who had a hard fall. L is for Lyon, the least of them all. S is for Strange, so slender and tall. C is for Childs, who isn't so small. H is for Haass, young Jacob, you know. O is for Owens who is always just so. O is for Oscar who is always on time. L is for Langmass, the last in the rhyme. Our Favorite Songs She Is Lost to Me. but Not Forgotten.........Mortimer She Is All the World to Me....................Beverly I Don’t Know Why 1 Love You. but I Do..........Lucile Take Me as I Am..................................Bari Oh to “Grace” how Great a Debtor............Schroeder My Hannah Lady....................................Ned When the Harvest Days Are Over. Jessie Dear. .Merton Tell Me. Pretty Maiden..........................Owens I've Got My Kyes on You........................Walter You Tell Me Your Dream and I'll Tell You Mine. .Price My Little Wife and I ..........................Willis The Hat Me Father Wore..........................Burnt The Green above the Red..........................Bord Anchored..................A. J. A., A. A. B., J. II. H. There's a Good Time Coming, Help it on. 143 Proceedings of the Normal Municipal Court Defendant J. F. Trcleven G. Hewitt.... II. Porterfield j I. . Mums ... R. Wendt .. -J Misses Stuart and Manion II. Kimnett . [ G. Price ..... Offence Plaintiff Plea Fell asleep in German class.. Prof. Dresden ...... Guilty .......| Incessant talking ....... School at large- Inherited ......... Damages to the Normal J President Halsey... An accident . stairway ................ ’ Jollying .................... Faculty ............ Not guilty... Intrusion on the rights of l'oys of the Special My reason of others ................... Reading class ......... circumstances Kidnapping at the Aklhean { AK.,|u.an Society .. Not guiltv ... Plulakean sleigh-ride .... � Caused the downfall of Committee on Beguiled hy ) Adant(s) ..................... Student Life ......a fond hope Trespass .................... N. W. Ry. Co.. Cold night ... TWo eleventh HovJt' Just Before (he Final. Mother Verdict Must attend church regularly for six weeks with the shortest girl in the Junior class. Must sit near the librarian. Must wear rubber-sole shoes. Acquitted. Must take an extra quarter of Fx-Roading. Dismissed for want of proof. Pardoned. Must take the pledge. 144 Questions and Answers Q. What guarantee has Minnie Thomson of a home in heaven? A. She is on good terms with St. Peter. (J. In what part of the L’nited States do they use the system of “16 to i”? A. At 130 Lincoln Avenue. Q. What is the most characteristic feature of Schroeder's religion? A. He says “Grace” three times a day. Q. Why is Rowland Halsey always smooth-shaven? A. Because of his frequent visits to the Barber's.” O. Why can I .aura Hatch afford to do shopping? A. Because she has the “Price.” O. Who is Miss King's favorite poet? A. Burns, of course. (,). Why is the Senior class never broken? A. Because it always has a “Dollar.” O. When is Christopherson a good substitute? A. When he takes charge of the “Parish. Q. Who is the noisest girl in school? A. Go “West” and find out. “No Loss Without Some SmAlt Gain, c Jnother Quarter 146 Normal Shiners Who They Akk When They Shine A. W. Kasten.................When navigation is open. Don Stamper..................When he speaks from the rostrum. Ned Allen ...................When running for “Stewart.” Earl Curtis..................When he goes to the “Beach.” Prof. Mitchell...............When he finds some one who thinks his jokes are new. Walter Hagman...............Wlu-n discussing “some wild animals of many kinds.” Ethel Strange................When she gives her “animal intelligence.” Prof. Coolidge...............When his wife comes to hear his morning talk. Sara Mullinder...............When conjugating the verb “to go.” Junior Class ................When they play football. A number of Seniors.......When the spelling test is given. Joe Mortimer..................When “We will continue this next week. Luke Burns..................When he is in the presence of the “King.” Frank Cordy..................When discussing military “tictacs. Robert Wendt ................When he uses his little hatchet. Faculty .....................When they play basketball. Will Owens...................When he stands before a mirror. Miss Solsrud ................When getting a descrvcd(?) credit from Miss Swart. A Junior's Conception of the True Simple Simon 146 Just Imagine Mr. Briggs in a school for boys. Erbacli losing his power of speech. A voluntary attendance at rhetoricals. I Iclcnc without Beverly. A conscientious student walking around the tennis court. George Price without a girl. Prof. Fling using a comb. Treleven outside of the ladies’ study. Will Owens before the invention of the mirror. Miss Potter with a frown. I leckmann without his hirsute adornment. Our school without Miss Howard. A spelling test without a flunk. President Halsey as a man of leisure. The Second Primary Department without a “Milton.” 3� e� 5 3mS«SC-C Don't Procrastinate “Thou’rt gone, the abyss of heaven I lath swallowed up thy form, But on my heart deeply hath sunk The lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart.” 147 I Inquire of A. H. T. or F. eR. H. 148 An Easter Tale 'Twas Sunday eve on Easter (lav. When George came home to stij). And lo! a wonder! there he found An egg Ixside his cup. By George the Price the egg was placed, Twas awful, yet ‘twas true. And when a smile around was seen, What could poor Georgie do? But that’s not all that Georgie found;, For there beside the egg. A little Ilatch At could be seen And a blush his face overspread. lie took the Hatch -'n pleased him well; 1 wonder why, don’t you? But we must not express our thots, Yet you may think a few. 149 The cModem HiaJbatha Illustrated And lie dropped his line of cedar Thru the clear transparent water, Waited vainly for an answer, Long sat waiting for an answer. Most beloved by Hiawatha Was the gentle C'hibrabos, He the best of all musicians, There he lay in all his armor, On each side a shield to guard him, Plates of bone upon his forehead, Down his sides and back and shoulders Plates of bone with spines projected. 150 Rules and Regulations for “Second Story Front I. This room belongs to the occupants and is used strictly for recreation. II. Anybody working in here will Ik locked out. III. Visitors always welcome: don’t knock—we like to lx sur- prised: if the door is locked, bring it in with you. IV. People going to wedding parties will confer a favor by dress- ing here. Lace curtains and lied spreads furnished gratis for aforesaid functions: V. Don’t forget to come in and talk to us while we are studying —it makes us forget the coal famine. VI. Any person wishing to turn this room into a shoe-string-belt factory will Ik furnished with pins. Boards furnished gratis, but care must Ik taken not to puncture as the holes don't burn. VII. Never mind sweeping up the crumbs after spreads—we need the exercise. VIII. Put all your nut shells lxtween the sheets. IX. If you need rocking chairs, collar buttons, or “bookshuna-ries,” call on us. If ours don’t suit you. bring them back. X. Avoid all unnecessary quietness in the room or lower hall. Xoise is good for light sleepers. XI. Don’t fly for the closet or crawl under the bed when you hear a light tap on the door—it’s only “Bob.” : XII. People plotting mischief, please walk in—suggestions along this line always welcome. XIII. Anyone obeying these rules will lx Agsalpsalcahelsmerg-fcshlplvebmrcdldchabmsmfed! Getting a RAking 161 The Spelling Test It might have been worse and it might have been better, I’d have got seventy-five but I left out a letter; So I for ten weeks in a special class go To learn spelling right an art but few people know. I went to the class-room with feelings galore And found it so filled many sat on the floor. In came President Halsey so stately and tall, to make room for us all. Altho we had failed and felt quite ashamed. In such a hard test we could not lie blamed; For of all the hard words that ever you tlnmk The hardest were those that caused us to flunk. lk-side the Xormal building There is a lonely grave, Where sleeps a fallen hero Who practice tried to brave. I lere rest his bones in mother earth. His soul’s in heaven so fair, His troubles now have surely ceased, For there's no practice there. 162 Finis Give ear, O readers, listen all. We bid you now adieu, ()h, read with patience every line. Tis our farewell to you. Freslunan, Senior, Sophomore, Breathe freely, we are done; Take kindly all the jokes we've sprung, They're only said in fun. Read with an understanding mind The contents of each page; 'Fake to thyself the truths here found. Remember them in age. We have inspired by Wisdom been. We have lived in her mystic spell ; The masterpiece of the year is done. Best wishes to all—farewell. CONTINENTAL. “If you toot vour little tooter. And then lay up your horn, COHBICHT I00 Ht � C BOTH This picture shows the style of our $9.75 Men's Summer Suits. Why not buy one before going on your vacation? There's not a soul in ten short days W ill know that vou were born.” PLUMMER CO. 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