University of Wisconsin Superior - Gitche Gumee Yearbook (Superior, WI)

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GITCHE GUM EE Several times during the past year it has been remarked that the Superior Normal School is the best normal in Wisconsin. Not only my loyalty to the school prompts me to agree with the idea, but my experience also. In years past I have been connected in one way or another with a large number of institutions; but nowhere have I found such loyalty to the school, such pleasant relations between president and faculty, faculty and students, and such a high ideal of study and instruction, as in our school. It is with this spirit that the following suggestions arc made. Would it be wise to have a Young Woman’s Christian Association organized in the school? An organization of this kind could be of great service to the school as well as to the individual members of the society. Besides holding regular devotional services it could publish a booklet with the names and locations of good boarding and rooming places, a map of the city, noting places of special interest and giving other like data. It could appoint a committee to meet new students at the trains and escort them about the city. The society could have an early social party to help the lonesome and homesick ones over the first trying weeks and make it possible for all to become acquainted at the beginning of the year. Or. again, would it not be wise to have class and inter-class declamatory contests? We could begin the contests early in the school year with the freshman class, and charge a small admission fee to each. Select two from each class to represent it in an inter-class contest, and award a gold medal to the winner and a silver medal to those winning second and third places. By this means we would not only furnish strong training to a larger number of individuals than at present, but would train material for the important yearly oratorical contest held with other normal schools. What would you think of a high school field meet held upon our athletic field the last Friday of each May? To this meet we could invite representatives from all neighboring high schools. The number of events should be comparatively limited. For instance, on the track, 100 yard dash, 200 yard run. ' i mile run. I mile run, 120 yard hurdle (3 ft. hurdles), and a relay race. For field events, running broad jumps, shot put (12 lb. shot), high jump, pole vault, discus throw. The contestants should all be high school men in good standing. I hey should be entered the early part of May, so as to give ample time for us to provide entertainment for them. Medals could be provided for the winners and to the school winning most points. Such a meet would bring about a friendly interest between the near by high schools PAGE SEVEN

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PRIZE POEM GIT CHE GUM EE The Pen J Passive agent of my fleeting moods, Ever thy master’s will obeying blind; Whether hope or gloom my soul doth move, Thou preserv’st the outflow of my mind. Thou’rt recorder of my inmost thoughts That sounds a note of warning to me plain, As, turning back my journal’s page, I note But yesterday the thoughts it doth contain Were mine firm held; today are overthrown, And in their place new thoughts I view with grief. Distrust of self this breeds, for well I know Like fate tomorrow meets today’s belief. Continual progress thou dost ever trace, Not in this age alone, but throughout time, From ancient runes of earliest Egypt lore To modern bards of every race and clime. And now, my pen, which in my hand I hold, For thee a wave of reverence I feel; Tile whole world doth thy mighty power own; For thou didst matchless Shakespeare’s mind reveal, And other giant minds that towering rise Above the pigmy intellects of men Of common mold. For dim posterity These masterworks thou writest, noble pen. Thou’rt the bridge that spans the gulf between Some lone great mind and all the world beside; Lowly instrument that oft doth turn To channels loftier this world’s thought tide. . Through thee the world doth feel that mighty hand That ever lifts man higher, till at last The pure, far height’s attained from which man views, As open scroll, the Infinite Purpose vast. Minnie Lois Berch. PAGE SIX

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GITCHE GUMEE and the normal school, and would bring a large number of people, young and old, into contact with growing Superior. There arc other suggestions for growth that might be made, but space limits us to a very short discussion of each of these three. T he important question is, Arc you in favor of any one of these?” If so, what arc you going to do about it? 1 he only way you can bring about any one of them is to become personally interested and do something positive along that line. Now, won't you get busy and push? Asa M. Royce. The Anti-Tuberculosis Movement Tuberculosis is one of the problems of our time. Its spread among all classes of people is alarming, and immediate steps must he taken to stop its ravages. The Anti-Tuberculosis Congress in Washington was a move in the right direction. People must be made to realize the seriousness of the situation, and yet the simplicity of the precautions which every one ought to take. School teachers, especially, should inform themselves and their pupils about this disease and the ways of preventing it. There has been a movement of this nature in the Supcrioi schools during the past year, and President McCaskill has made several excellent addresses upon this subject. As he says, the disease cannot be inherited, but only the tendency to the disease; and fresh air, well-ventilated rooms, proper diet, and a moderate amount of exercise arc the best preventives. These arc precautions which every one can and ought to take. [Ed.] I ACE EIGHT