Western Oregon University - Yearbook (Monmouth, OR)

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THE NORM When the trees in all their beauty Tinted with their colors bright, Oier the hills and rownel the farm-yard Bring to as a gorgeous sight,- When the green fades'frorn the pastures V Early on an autumn clay, ' Then we welcome the'fair autumn, With her forests bright and gay; When the flowers cease their blooming In each cool and shady nook, Over meadows fair anal sunny, 0n the hills and by the brook; When the air has lost its: fragrance, .As the long clays wenel away, . Then wesing sweet songs of summer;- , L When the skies are chill anagray. , , When the birds with all their .wrbliang To their southern home have flown, 14nd they leave the lofty moaniains T0 thewincls that blow alone, ' J , When the snow wraps hills and valleys ' , I ma shroud Oflolowny white, Then we dreamsweetfd'reams of summer In the deep anal silent night. i ' When the harveth hath been gathered .And the grain'hf'ath all been stowa; l V 'When' the reapers, tired but cheery, Gather in the golden hoard; i As we hear the brown nuts falling 7 Break the sileneeof' each day, Then the aatamn days seem brighter .418T they quickly pass away. By and by when winteris over, Gone with all the snow and cold, Then another wealth of beauty Will this great wiole world unfold, iTwill bring? back with sun and showers Roses breathing their perfume; ' t Then weill welcome the bright summer, When the sweetest fiowere bloom. 1 Matter; .N'eely.

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'hl TI-I-E NORM about Psychology she grinned, and I learned that all them classes in Psychology was jest full, and they ,peared to be so interested in Psy- chology, and I couldnt find out why. I wishit you could. tell me, Mrs. Slater, but then I know you cant. And when they have visit- ors over at that school, istead 0f showini iem around the building, and. showini tern how bright the students are in Readint, Writiniand iRith- metic, what do you spose they do? They jest sing, and sing and sing, or else they go and show em what pretty pictures they can draw. Aintt it orful. Butrthen I see they haventt quite thrown arithmetic out yet. Of course a schoolis a school as long as they have ,rithmetic- You know they have what they cail a. trainini. school there; itis where the folks goes to shi' w how well they can teach. Well, and the man thatis sposed to show em he has some kind' of classes too, and from what Letty said I should jedge it wasjest like readint the Sun- day funny paper to be in one of his classes. Now whatis this country comini to when we pay for our young folks to laugh? Well, P11 tell you,itts the men that voted for this school, and When we womenfolks, Mrs. Slater, gets to votilf we won,t have no such schools as this. And they have the queerest faculty there. 'Th-at,s-what they call em now, Mrs. Slater. Course we always'said jest ttteachers. - Wiell; this facul- tyis the queerest you ever heard of. They had a Halloween party the other night, and from' what Letty said even the faculty went, and too, some of iem even allowed them students to pull their hair. Yes, We terrible. . . . Well, I feel that there7s a great load off. my mind, and I must go now, Mrs. Slater, thot I could talkell day, but last night after Letty went home I got down the old dictionary and I looked up that .word ItNormal and I couldnit see as it meant much aceordint to what Letty told about the school, but I did find another word that jest fits it, and thatis ttAb-normul. ' i L Q. Lynn. AUTUMN When the summer days amending .4hd the autumn draweth nigh; When, to all the birds and flowers. For awhile we say good-bye; When the frost ereepsoier the mountain, On a calm, clear autumn day, Then we give a sigh for summer, For sweet summer gone away.

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THE NORM Ix Vol. 1 , Thanksgiving N umber . No.. 1 r . . . Editorial Department. - r, v - . Ed1t01-1n-Ch1ef, Lexie Strachan. M Assomate Editor, E. R. Peterson. , Literature, 1 - Iza Constable. N Whatis Doing Lela C. Ericksen, Beulah Hesse. M , Oratory and Debate, N .. . Margaret McCulloch. Athletics, ' ' ' ' T. L. 0stien. M. Jokes, ' a V 5559 B. Mable Ellis. a Exchanges . : Rhea Benson. 3 3, . Re orter-S. m Ruby E. Shearer, Alumni p Alice Morrison, ll2. 7 Mary Kelley, ,13, N Elva Boone, 14. ' M Carrie Eilerton, l15, ' Louise McAlpin, Vespertine, M R Loraine Johnson, Delphian, ' Frank M. Sturgill, Normal; Business Department : w M ' Business Manager, 1 , Joseph F; Bogynska. h. h Subscrigtion Agent, i Lenore Sizemore. The Norm 1s publlshed five times a year, by the students of the m 1 Oregon NormalSchool, Monmouth, Oregon. It. Subscription price,se1enty-iive cents a year; single copies, fifteen '11. dM - . cents; commencement numbers, twenty E1 e cents. ' Address all communications to ttThe Norm, Monmouth, Oregon. Contributions from the friends and students of the school are a1- a w EM ways welcome. u$ , It is especially fitting that the first number of the ltNOIm sheulldi . p be a Thanksgiving one, for the students of the Oreg: .n Normal School w are truly thankful for the great opportunity offered them to fit them- w selves to take their places in the noblest 0f the professions. '1 w m The Student Body takes this 0pp01tu11ity to express to the Altim- MII, ni a'nd fxiends of the Normal, its appreeiation of the loyal ahd faith- 0-0. w ful services rendered 1n restoring this institution to the state. It. u W e trust that the friends and Alumni will welcome ttThe Norm 1 wlw 1 as anlyold friend although it comes under a new name, and we! hope that as the successor of itThe Courier it will keep up the high standard N set by that publication and prove as beneficial and e11te1tain1ng tQ 1t8 1 y readers. . E g This number will be sent to every member of the Alumni whose ' d address we were able to secure. If you do not receive a copy and 1 i, would like a word from the hold schoolfi send us your name and ad 1 . d, dress and we shall be delighted to forward you a copy as we hope to a d. include every member of the Alumni among our patrons. 1n the , MW x neggt issue, whiehiwill be published about December the twenty-second, 4? M f weaelxpect t0..1nalie our readers acquainted with the personnel of our splendid fabulty.