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If it is out of order, take it, and all WiiTeH broken jewelry, to Y0UR .WJiTeH TheBRABB Jeweler COOPER THC STUDENTS' WILL BE PLE/\SED TO SEE YOL! C/\LL /\ND INSPECT tt!S PHOTOGR/\PHcR /\RTISTlC WOR"

PRICES /\ND WOR" /\RR/\NGED TO /1'\.EET THE DE/1'\./\NDS OF THE STUDENTS HOLID/\Y /\ND COJV\JV\ENCEJ\\ENT PHOTOS I\ SPECI/\LTY AOVERTISEM ENTS

ru.uuuuuww,1001,uu,,� � Dress I � Suits i Sulliban-@ok @mpany 114 Congress Street Rent I To t: I e � � Clothi rs and inminmmmmmnmmmlli Men's Furnishers

MATT DUFFY RA'l'�, $2.00 Boots and Shoes Repaired McKay Club eor. Washington and P'earl 404Bailard Street

A. C. CLUFF, Steward GOOD WORK DONE

FINE DRY GOODS D. SPALSBURY, D.D.S. WOOLTEX CLOAKS Dentist

Office Cor.Conares.s and Wasb1n,uon St•· 0Tcr H<>t"ncr &ros.• Shoe Store BERT H. COMSTOCK x Local Anaesthetic for Painless E tra.ca 128 Congress St. tion DANCING Mr. and Mrs. Granger \Vould like to have those considering the subject of dancing visit the school 312 MAYNARD STREET, ANN ARBOR, MICH. Yott will find at Granger's Academy pleasant and proper surroundings, good music and expe· ricttced teachers. Tuition-Gentlemen $5, Ladies $3, per tenn of twelve lessons. Single private lesson, $1.50 per three-quarters hour. 'Phone 246. Assemblies \Vednesday and Satttrday evenings, 8:15 to 11:15 o'clock, 50c per couple. ADVERTISEMENTS NORMAL ComRVATORY Of Music G. w. DENSMORE'S. 'Frederic H. Pease, 1Jirector Cor. Washington and Congress Sts.

Is headquarters for everything in the Faculty line of : Plano Gents'

Vlolln MISS ABBA OWEN J () H ()W ortfoy Vloloncello MR. H. W. SAMSON Fire Insurance Voice Culture and Singing Real Estate Bought MISS BIRD MISS CARRIE TOWNER CHAS. B. STEVENS and Sold MR. and MRS. FREDERIC PEASE Homes Rented ltallan Money Loaned PROF. A. LODEMAN t For circulars concerning terms and tuition, apply to the Director. STUDENTS Make this your necessity store. We've so Horoer many articles which are in constant use in the homes and rooms as well as a full table sup.­ ply. Every article is guaranteed and our Brotbers prices are always correct. The Most Reliable DAVIS� 00. Shoe Dealers ON 'J'HE CORNER Cordially invite all students to make their headquarters at their store, No.130 eon• gress Street B. W. Ferguson P. J. Snyder

"SORO SIS JI f ergu500 & Soydu JENNESS MILLER DEALERS IN and ULTRA SPECIALTIES

Groceries and Provisions A nice line of Patent Leather Shoes and Party Slippers. The only Regulation GYMNASIUM SHOES.

123 Congress St. Phone 'JV.o. 70 Rubbers Neatly Fitted. "'Watch our windows for Our aim is to furnish good goods at honest prices. May we serve you in any wav? The ::C..a-tes"'t Normal College News NOVE.MBE.R., 1901

CONTE.NTS PAG'J! FRONTISPIECE, 32 l'tf. N. C., 33 BACONE, 34 UNCLE BEN'S THANKSGIVING STORY, 36 PRESENT RELATIONS OF UNITEO STATES WITH CUDA, 39 THll PILGRIM FATHl'tRS AT SCHOO!,, 46 DllPARTMllNTAL, 47 LIDRARY, 49 EDITORIAL, 50 LOCALS, 51 ATHLETICS, 54 LYCEUM, SS CLUBS, 56 FRATERNITIES, 57 $. C. A., 58 EXCHANGES, 59

DIR.ECTOR.Y LITl!ftAflY aoc1eTIEB Wll85Tlm C�TID President, • R. C. S1nith ATBENBUM SOC.uttV Vice-President, R. A. Smith Secretary, J. H. Waldron Pre!lident, Hoyt C. Partch Vice-President, Ama C. Stevenson Secretary, Mayme D.allarrcsidcnt, - Ellen Pilcher i>Olt'J.'lA cr.oa Secretary, Richnrd Smit'h President, Inez Clark CRltSCUNT socm-rv Vice-President, - - Miss Higgins Secretary, - Miss Richardson President, Jo.me-s Melody Vice·Pre,;idcnt, - • Vinona Beal CUR.MNT 'l'OPIC CLUB Secretary Eli:.:abc..-th:Rawson President, - Louise Petit /LTRI,It,TC ASSOCIATION Secretory, �lollie Comstock President, Joseph Gill re ,rice-President, I.t d Scovill CHURCHS& OF YP$11,.Al'tTI Secretary, Carey lreland '!Tea.surer, l'rof. S. l3. Laird as a Baptist-Cor. Cross nnd \Vo.shington Sts., Rev. B ket Ball ?\'.t nager, - W. A. \Vhitucy row Base Dall n.tnnager, J. A.Van J\Usbur:g B n, pastor, Foot llaU Manager, - l'r<..'

Normal Co-liege Nelvs Vol. 21 NOVEMBER, 1901 No.2

NL N. C.

G.E. H.

.HIL, to tqe colorsT tqe green and tqe Wl'titeT H Long wave our banner, for truttt is our migtttT In wor� or in jest, Our college is best. Hail to ttte colorsT ttte green and tqe Wl'titeT

Watt HooT Hoo WattT let it ring clear and strong 'Till ttte ttms s:qall re-ectto our spirit of song T .Ht l)ome or abroad our college we'll laud. Ttten ttail to your colors, ye Norrrtal tttrongT

In defeat or in victory, sorrow or joy, .H true gentlerrtan still is ttte Norrrtal boy. M.. N. C. our pride and our glee. Failure can never our purpose destroy.

Hail to ttte colorsT ttte Wl'tite and ttte greenT Tttey are ttte fairest tl"lat ever were seenT Up Wittt ttte colorsT out Witl't t:qe cry. Hail to tl"le colorsT ttte wttite and tl"le greenT Bacone

JUI.U.. A, lt[NG

HAT is Bacone? The railway postal are the most advanced in civilization of any W clerk knO\\IS it as a crane ,v here mail tribes, were not strongly in favor of the treaty pouches are exchanged. In educational par­ which broke up the tribal into severalty hold­ lance it is an Iudian University. Its loca[ ing, while it prevented, for a few years at habitation and nau1e is associated vvith one least, the alienation from the holder, by sale Bacon, who gave the land and built the build­ or otherwise, ol tw enty acres of land. Judging iug. Geographically it is iu Indian 'l'erritory by conditions in the territory the Indian has 011 the table-land just south of tbe Arkansas not yet outgrown his propensity to swap. river, hard by the city of 1fuscogee. It is Neither has he developed much capacity for reached by the M. K. & T. railroad. Leave dogged labor. Indeed, I was told that the the station at Muscogee and drive out three strong incentive towards the school lay in the miles and a half to Bacone. The road runs in hope of findingout how to live without work. a meandering, lazy way across the virgin prai - ?,foscogee, with its six thousand people, is rie. If it wears into ruts or is washed into a mongrel city. Its total lack of m11nicipal gullies there is plenty of roo1u to go a.round, organization is evident in the absence of all which seems in the Territory always to be the public improvements. }:very man is a law line of least resistance. unto himself in all matters of streets, sidewalks Old fashioned flowers, verbenas, larkspms, or grades. Until recently 110 white man could spiderwort, primroses, gailarclfas, and the like, acquire a title to laud in the 'I'erritory. l3uilcl ­ bloom by the way. The meadow lark whistles ing lots were secured in any desirable locality, on the fence post, and the scissor-tail flirtsin for public or private purposes, by lease. As the clumps. But for the grace of abandon a result it is a very irregular city withottt you should hear the mocking bird early in architectural effect or finish. The little hut J.1ay. These orchestral n1atinees are shuply built of cracks aud patches shoulders up inimitable. Doors open at five. Great reaches agaiust the really attractive and desirable home. of Gelds, bunches of feeding cattle, now and One department store could compare ,vell in then an in1mense pecan tree, occasional size and promiscuity of assortment with "The glimpses ol the Arkansas running red, these Fair.'' Chicago. Curios in inlaid \11;,oods, are what you see about Bacone. The attractive canriug in ivory, pottery, basketry, fro111 peo· group of farm buildings of the older cottntry pies both oriental and native, filled the art gives place to the tepee, or a nondescript hut rooui. Heaps of woven stuffs in glowing col­ making shift for a home. It is somethiug ors were piled in thecorocrs. Rugs of Nava­ surely when even these strike root ancl be­ joe ,,·ca�,e were displayed alongside those l contc thepermaneut abode, ho�reverthrift ess, from the far East. The Mexican drawn work ofa single pair and their progeny. It is a rare was exquisite enough to fill the heart of the case to find an Indian with a good house and "one I know be.c;t" '\\1ith longings tohave and barn, implements and domestic anilna.ls, living to hold. '!'he pictures were of the sold-by­ upon and cultivating his severalty. Money the-yard type. Just so everywhere, that which to meet the uecessities or even the luxuries of is finished, cxqusite, beaut iful, jostles the primitive life can be secured ,vith less personal crude and barbaric. efforts by leasing 'l'ribal lands to the ranch Society is no less mongrel than the city it­ men. Even the federation of Creeks, who self, the go\'ernment officials with a coterieof THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 35 preachers, doctors, and teachers make up the the schools of the Territory. Manual training, best while the ''poor whit es' ' hold the other ex - too, is not as yet a recognized means in either treme. All sorts and conditions fill the series. private or public schools. Is the old road by Race lines are not sharply drawn. The grown­ the classics the shortest road by which to reach in -the· ground aristocrat is the full blood In - a living relation in the civil society of to-day? dian. With pride he reckons his pedigre·e to Is it the surest way to help a man into the the smallest fraction. Indian, Spanish, Mex­ possession of the wisdom needed to lead men? ican, and American amalgamate. The larger These students are children of nature, and yet part of the population is this mixed class. nature is not being opened to them. There is much to do before civilization becomes The president of Bacone has now a house with them anything but a thin veneer. for himself and family which he hopes to Among the two or three hundred students make an object lesson of a refined, Christian at Bacone there are but few full bloods. This home. If there could only be enough of them group of young people have little to mark it would surely work wonders with these im­ them as peculiar. Only now and then a strong pressionable people. As yet they have caught Indian type appears. In dress and manner, only the white man's trick of buying an ex­ in quick intelligence and ready response, they travagant thing, and with it they furnish the are quite like our own students. Under the cattle shed in which they live. If our mis ­ civilizing influence of the modern toilet they sionaries and teachers could only carry out the are becoming atrractive. One young man of "settlement" idea in the midst of the people, t he Choctaw tribe interested me much. His it would just at this stage, mean so much. evening dress, correct in all the details, while Later the school on the hill could get in its it conferred grace and even elegance, rather work. Government has tried to meet this emphasized the strong characteristics of his need by sending the little children into the full Indian face, but he was rather the excep­ ''home schools.'' But the instincts which tion. Amalgamation and civilization certainly ally these children with their own homes and are at the sacrifice of personality. I had a tribes are too strong to be overcome by a few Jong talk with my Choctaw friend. He had years of family-school life. entered upon a six years' course in Latin and Greek, preparatory to becoming a preacher and Government is making every effort to sup­ teacher among his own people. plant the tribal law by that of the federal gov­ Bacone and the other school also, at least ernment, the tribal courts by the federal courts, so far as I could learn, seem built on the older tribal lands by severalty. It is also opening lines of education. The ancient languages are all schools for the education of the children, very prominent, while the study of society was and the private schools, like Bacone, are doing conspicuous by its absence. Modern methods noble work. But the work is not more than in science have not yet found their way into well begun. Just Be Glad Were not shine and shower blent As the Gracious Master meant? O heart of mine, we shouldn't Let us temper our content Worry so ! With his own. What we've missed of calm, we couldn't Have, you know ! For we know not every morrow What we've met of stormy pain, Can be sad ; And of sorrows's driving rain, So, forgetting all the sorrow We can better meet again, We have had, If it blow. Let us fold away our fears, And put by our foolish tears, We have erred in that dark hour And through all the coming years We have known. Just be glad. When the tears fell with the shower, All alone- James Whitcomb Riley. Uncle Ben's Thanksgiving Story

),lAV ntrnD, '03

THANKSGIVING dinner was just over lugging old b@xes into corners, sv;teeping, s at Grandma Graham's and everyone cleauiug, duting, and tacking up picture­ s s c s aro e from thetable more than satisfied, for card . Sister Jaoe made those little urtain the turkey, cranberries, pu111pkin pies and that bang at the window yonder, an

"Horrors! could it possibly be me, who pumpkin pies, in fact everything we could stood trembling before these shades? .My eye

Receipt for a Happy Dl\y :rake�a little '1:iah. of ,;vater col

Ancl!theu, ns a prime ingredieut, :\�plenty or work thrown in. Flavor it all ,¥ith esseuce of lo"e, Audia little ..lash of pk1y; l..etla nice_old book and a glance above, Cotnplele tlle \-.;· ell spent d:iy. -.Selected Present R.elations of the United States With Cuba

ADA NORTON

OUR relations to-day with Cuba corres- island where the mail service was not in opera­ pond in many ways to those which would tion, public instruction at a standstill and exist between a trustee and his ward. It may local governments possessing no authority. be admitted that the trusteeship came by force To bring order out of this chaos, to put of circumstances or in whatsoever way you forces in working order, to establish a govern­ choose to put it. But it is clearly in the hands ment capable of caring for itself and then to of the United States government. And as a leave them to take care of themselves, this trusteeship does not compel the incumbent to was the problem to be solved by the United seek the counsel of the one to whom he is States successfully with the world's eye legally responsible ; therefore of necessity the watching to criticise, to condemn and occas­ United States authorities do not seek Cuban sionly to offer a word of praise. advice. The control of the island was in the hands That finally, they must give an account of of the military forces with Governor General that committed to them is indisputable. And Brooke at tJJ_e head. So far as was consistent it is to be hoped that the verdict of time will the United States authorities showed it to be be such as will reflect credit upon this nation. theirpupose to recognize the rights of the native The policy pursued by this government inhabitants by placing them in positions to must have as its ultimate end the fulfillment share in the administration of civil affairs. of the declaration made when the Teller For example there was a civil governor to act resolution became a law, if it would have no in concert with the military governor. The stain of a broken promise upon its character duties of Gen. Brooke's cabinet were much as a nation. the same as those exercised by the autonomist In December 1898, there was signed at Paris cabinet under Spanish rule. the treaty of peace which made the United One of the difficult questions demanding States responsible for the immediate control of early settlement was that respecting the terms affairs in Cuba. By the President this treaty upon which the Insurgent army would dis­ was transmitted to the Senate in the early part band. of January. After a few days it was reported Just prior to his death Gen. Garcia and his favorably from the committee on Foreign associates had concluded an agreement with Relations. On February the sixth the Senate the United States that upon the payment of formally ratifiedit, four days later the President three million dollars the army would disband. signed it, and on March the seventeenth it Garcia's death interrupted the negotiations was signed by the Queen Regent. With the and when they �ere reopened the Cuban simple cermony in Washington of the exchange Assembly through Gen. Maximo Gomez, their of formal ratifications on April the eleventh representative, made a demand for a fifty­ the United States was in full possession of her seven million loan to be paid out of the cus­ trust. tom receipts. President McKinley sent a Of what did this trust consist? A special commission to confer with Gen. Gomez large population on the verge of starva­ and if possible assure the Cubans through tion, a political condition little less than him of the disposition of this country to aid anarchy, a conspicuous element made up of the Cuban soldiers to return to civil life and reconcentrados, beggars and criminals, an to resume the occupations of peace, but to l

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show that compliance with their demand the presence of the Ame,;cans. It was not 1uight 1nake it necessary for our government until eight mouths had gone by that Gen. 1 o to occup)' for an indefiuatc time, the island i11 Brooke was able t reportto the War Depart­ c c order to ollect the duties. The matter was ment the ompletion of this task. c c presented with su h admirable discretion, 'fhe An1eri ans found that administ�ative tact and courtesy by the Envoy, Robt. Porter, machinery had either been destroyed or allow­ o au t1nofficiat representative of the Cubans at ed to rust so thatthere was a great deal of w rk Washingtoo, that the three million dollars was along the line of replacing and oiling to be accepted. clone. In ..\pril it \\•a..5 rurnot<:d from Havana Inthese first days, as probably later on, the that bribery and frauds were perpetrated in United States had to overcome prejudicesthru t Cuban courts as under Spanish domination. were the results of unintentional slights, or Even then, Gen. Brooke was taking st eps to o c br ught about by mismanagement. The abate corrnptiou, to revise the judi al proced­ c c oc asion of Gen. Garcia's funeral ftt rnished ure and particularly to abolishthe pra tice of one of the earlier opportunities for offending keeping incomn1 unicado, persons helcl in pris­ the Ct1bans. At first there was bitt er reseut ­ on for trial. It appearstha t underthe system n1ent, but latter it gave ,vay to sincere regret. a judge cot1lcl imprison for life a person In their at tempts to t1ndo the mischief ofthe ignorant of the accusation upon which he was above act the United States authorities we1tt arrested aud even ofthe uarnesof his accusers. o to the opposite extreme in trying to create a The w rk progressed so slowly that it was o favorable impression at thetime oftbe recep - February, 1900 bef re any encouraging news c tion given in honor of Oen. Go1ne1. io of reforms effe ted, reached this country. Havana. Then there began to be circulated news con· The honor shown to Gen. Gomez by the cernin� the changes and i1nprovements inthe authorities of this conntTy aroused suspicion Central prison at Havana. Ifthe filth aud re­ in the minds ofthe Cubans, so that on March volting conditions \lvercone half as bad as such the eleventh by a vote of twenty-six to four, writers as Jobu Kendrick Bangs reports, the he was deposed of his command as general of workmusthavebeenappallingtothosetowhom the Cuban army. A tactful address delivered it was entrusted. Three important st eps were c o by Gen Gomez soou after, again se ured f r taken in i·enovation of this prison house. him their approval so that before the Cuban '' l�irst there were set at libert}r SC'Veral hun­ Assembly was dissolv ed he was again placed dred prisoners-mostly men imprisoned with­ in command. On Aprilthe fourth the ,\.s sem-· out trial ; 2nd,there "'as appointed a commis� ' y bly voted to give to General Brookethe m11ste:r sion of American and native lawyers to codif roll for the purpose of securing the three r e.,cisting laws, to modify them in so far asthey million dollars �hich the authorities were restricted personal l}bert)r and to devise means ready to apportion. of guaranteeing prompt trial to accused per­ u This 111uster roJI contsiocd the names of sons. ?\fora, the appoint0e o1 Gen. Brooke, c 6,0CO commissioned offi ers and 42,C\OO non­ was removed and Gen. \, roo

The year 1899 saw the reconstruction of the wealthy, this party favors annexation or a judiciary completed by the appointment of United States protectorate. judges of the supreme court and judicial The suffrage qualification as arranged by officers in the province. Gen. Wood with the seeming consent of the In August of the same year, by the order of Cubans, was either ability to read or write, or President McKinley, the War Department the possession of $2 50 worth of property, or a undertook the supervision of the taking of the record of service in the Cuban army. census. This step was one of the first in the In Havana the Nationalists elected all their accomplishment of the duty incumbent upon candidates. Outside of Havana the munici­ the United States in restoring peaceful condi­ palities were carried by the Republicans. tions and giving its attention to the means by The month follow�ng the elections, the War which the Cubans might form an effective Department consolidated the three military self government. The result showed a popu­ districts into two-that of western Cuba with lation of 1,572, 797. Of the total only 443,426 headquarters at Quemandos, that of eastern could read and write. The larger propor­ Cuba with headquarters at Santiago. It was tion of this educated class consists of foreign further decided to keep a force of 5, 000 men citizenship. In round numbers 20,000 persons in the island for several months longer. The are of Spanish citizenship, 80,000 of other next step in the fulfilment of its obligations alien citizenship. Upon the basis of the was the issuance of an order for the election census, it is estimated that there are at least of delegates to a Constitutional Assembly to 140,000 qualified Cuban voters. The white meet at Havana, November 5. "The order people of Cuban birth constitute 58 per cent recited that by Congressional resolutions of of the total. Negroes and half breeds less April 20, 1898, the United States had dis­ than one third. claimed any intention of exercising sovereign - In December 1899, General Wood succeeded ty , jurisdiction, or control over Cuba except for General Brooke as governor general. The its pacification, and had expressed its deter­ military governor aimed to prepare the way for mination so soon as that was accomplished to civil government under native autonomy. By leave the government and control of the island the June orders the military authorities can­ to its people. Since the people had established not interfere, save in a supervisory sense, in municipal governments, deriving their author­ the conduct of civil affairs except in matters ity from the suffrages of the people given of sanitation. To the military authorities be­ under just and equal laws, they must now long the jurisdiction of Rural Guards. The proceed to establish a general government commanders are required to visit the prison which should exercise full authority over the each month and report then.on. The mili­ island.'' By the order 31 delegates were to tary forces can be employed only when the be chosen from the six provinces. Of the four civil power proves ineffective. parties in the field the Nationalists and Re - The first elections for municipal officersin publicans secured the greater number of Cuba, since American occupation, were held delegates. June the sixteenth, 1900, the Australian system The Cubans quite generally objected to the of votir.g being used. Three political parties order because it did not provide for the rati ­ appeared. The Nationalist, which is sup­ fication of the Cuban Constitution by popular ported by the majority of the leaders in the vote, and because it provided that the Con­ late revolution ; the Republican, to which be­ vention should enter into negotiations with long those who are most strongly opposed to the United States instead of the officerselected American influence ; and the Democratic under the Constitution. There was, however, Unionists, the Conseratives of the old Auton­ a party of property holders who favored the omist party and those who represent the plan adopted. 42 THE NORMAL COLLEGE Nt\VS When General Wood opened the convention ,veekly, and also that one by Albert Robinson Novembcr 5, he announced that a change in in the Fornm, be read before forming au the original order hacl been made and that it opinion as to ,;v hether Ottr gover111nent did was the duty of the convention to frame and commit a diplomatic blunder. to adopt a constitution for the Cu bans and 'l'he resolution pa.ssed by Congress con­ having done that to formulate, what in th.e sisted of eight paragraphs. In the first, opiniou of the convention, should be th.e "Cuba is asked to recognize the validity of relations between the United States and Cuba. the Monroe Doctrine, and to promise that no It should be noted that t!Je original order had foreign power shall obtai11 control over the been that they were to frame and adopt a island. In the second she is asked to agree constitution and "as a part thereof, to provide not to assume or contract any public debt for and agree with the government of the for which she caunot provide out of her United States upon the relations to exist" ordinary revenues. Iu the third she is asked be:l\\'0en the t,vo gover111uents. to permit the United States to intervene for It was this change in the order and the the maintainance of the independence of subsequent action of otu government that the island and of peace and order. The fourth caused n1uch a.dverse criticism in the early requests Cuba to make valid the acts of the months of this year. It appears that the United States during its military occupation. · chauged orclcr did not become very generally Filth, the United States asks her to execute knowu until about the time of the passing of and extend, after consultation with the United the Platt amendment. States, plans for sanitation. '!'he sixth asks that '!'he Cuban Constitution ,.,as signed by the the titl e to the Isle of Pines be settled by ltletnbcrs o1 the convention on Fehruary 21 . agreen1ent. 'l'be seventh asks Cuba to sell or One member refused to sign the copy to !J.e lease to the United States a coaling station. sent to our govern1nent, disclaiming onr The eight asks that these provisions be em - government's right to pass judgement upou it. bodied in a treaty." The next duty of the Cubans in carrying The 3rd, 6th, 7th, and Sth clauses were out the order of the ,var Department was to tbe most objectionable to the Cubans. In the set forth what in their opiuiou should be the early part of Apdl the Convention e,qi ressed relations between the two goventments. its disapproval of the amendment by a vote On February 27, the United States Senate of 18 to 10. After a visit to this country of a passed the Platt amendment, on )larch the comruission o1 five delegates, the 1natter \\'as 1st the House approved the bill as amended, again discussed by the Cuban couvention, and > and on the 2nd it received the President s when put to vote was accepted, 15 favoring signature. the acceptance and 14 being opposed to it. FroJn all accottnts 01.u gover111ne11t conveyeci On the record of the con,,ention the amend- to the Cuban convention ; first, a hint as to 1nent stood \vithottt n1odification, but there what its opinion of the relations should be; followed an interpretation of the clauses to secon d, a suggestion a.� to what they shoulclbe; which tbey objected. third, a law for them to adopt. Upon the receipt by the United States General ,v ood has been bitterly censured officials of the actions of the Cubans, a cabi­ for inviting the Cubau delegates to accom­ net meeting was held at which the decision pauy him some thirty n1ile.s on a hunting trip wa.c, reached that the interpretation was unfair and then just before their return to Havana, and therefore not acceptable to our gover11- in conferring 'iVith them offer them .sonte ment. 1 , 1biuts . frotn the President. \\re ,voulcl sug­ On .Tuue 12th the Cuban Convention by a gest that the mticle written by a member of vote of 16 to 11 accepted the amendment un­ the hunting party, J. K. Bangs, in Harper's conditionally and without change. THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 43 General Wood's next responsibility is to relations between Cuba and the United States, provide for the election of president and other the course pursued by Governor -General officers according to the Constitution and in Wood in establishing good educational facil­ other ways put into working order the ities in Cuba must appear to bind most closely machinery of government. the Cuban to the American. He had no easy The first week in October witnessed the task before him when the time came for him marching of over 20,000 persons through the to give his attention to this question. streets of Havana to present to Governor­ The Spanish school system was not with­ General Wood a petition to President Roose­ out merits, but behind it had stood a dishonest, velt and through him to the United States, to incompetent power. The Americans found reduce the duties upon Cuban sugar and no buildings devoted to school purposes, the tobacco. This matter is of vital interest to residence of the teachers being used to some the Cubans. And many who objected to the extent. School furnishings, where any ex ­ passage of the Platt amendment by the Cuban isted, were of the most meagre kind. With convention would have withdrawn their objec­ under-paid or unpaid teachers, there had tion if they could have been assured that our grown up the custom of accepting fees from government would make favorable reductions. the pupils, and this resulted in eliminating That Cuba's agriculture interests will be from the school all children of the poorer thoroughly canvassed at the next session of classes. Congress is most clear. In July the American Sugar Refining Co. increased their capital for Among the difficulties to be overcome in the purpose of obtaining property in Cuba. establishing a stable educational system were "What Cuba wants," said Havemeyer, the the jealousies of those who had profited by president of this company, ''is the admission the former regime, the prejudices of the of raw sugar free of duty, then the sugar in­ parents, getting the children into the school, dustry will boom. And Congress will grant and then keeping them there. us such a tariff.'' The beet sugar industry of Mr. Alexis E. Frye was the first appointee this country will oppose such a tariff. under the Americans. Among the qualities These opposing forces will exert every effort which he is said to have possessed fittinghim to secure such legislation as is favorable to for the position were his knowledge of school their interests. In Matanzas are the seats of requirements, his indestructible enthusiasm, the sugar production, while Pinar del Rio, patience, and no fear of hard work. In the Havana, Santiago, and Santa Clara are the preliminary work of organization he proved great tobacco growing provinces. All the successful. In six months time he had provinces except Puerto Principe produce accomplished reasonable results, and he had coffee, the greatest number of the plantations inspired his corps of teachers with a good being in Santiago. degree of his enthusiasm. It was due in part The matter of the importation of laborers to Mr. Frye that in July, 1900, a party of into Cuba may be irrelevant to our topic, yet 1450 teachers, two -thirds of whom were we will state that deep dissatisfaction exists in women, the representatives of 120 out of 129 Cuba because Van Horne's Cuba Co. are cities, towns, and villages became the guests importing negro laborers from Florida, and of Harvard. Matthew E. Hanna, his suc ­ Jamaica, also some Chinese are beingimported. cessor, is the author of the present school Laborers are much needed. But the Sugar laws of Cuba, and he is credited with the Planters Association which voices the needs honor of a school organization of which any of the country, holds to white immigration, New England town would be proud. The either American or Spanish. increase in the number of schools from To one who makes a careful study of the December, 1899, to June, 1901, is from 312 to ,

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3567, and the enrollwcnt for th e same has no male members, thus making a large per· increased from 21,435 to 172,273. centage of the number women and children. The old Spanish barracks all ov�r the island Their homes in many cases had been destroyed have been refitted and tun>ed into school­ and the land was, for the time being, uupro· rooms. To the politicians the expenditure of ductive. S4,ooo,ooo yearly was an extravagance quite The government at first supplied food to revolting, neither did it appeal to the ignorant. this class; but as a continuation of that course But three years have made more apparent the would foster pauperism, other schemes bad to \\•ise ad1ninistration, and where there \\•as be devised. Two of the schemes accom­ apathy at first, there js ttO\V intense interest. plisl>ed the desired results in that th ereby Of no less importance than that of educa· many of the destitute became self -supporting tion is the work done along the line of sanita­ in three mouths. 'l'he question of dealing tion. In his papers on the Cuban Sitttation, with th e orpl1aus was met hy the establish­ J. K. Bangs reports that the details and ment of four institutions-a reform school for organizations are so vast that in a full issue of boys at Ouanajay; a reform school for girls the ,V eekly they could not be properly set at Aldecoa; a training and agriculture college forth. OJ Havana, we have heard for boys at Santiago de las Vegas, aud a much as a breeding place for all sorts similar one for girls on Compostella, St., of disease, and of the more favorable Havana. 'l"hroughout the pro\.;nces there healthful conditions accordinir to th e daily bas been put into successful operation all of reports no comments are uccessary. In the the various kinds of charitable institutions, papers on Cuban situation just referred to are which are practically operated by Cuban very vivid pictures of the conditions of 1899 authorities. and of 1901. Those o( the fortt1er are revolt­ Cuba under the Spanish was a Catholic ing in tbe extreme, of the latter full of beauty. country, but the church of '. has a some­ 'l'b e death rate under th e Spanish rule was what hard task in adjusting tbe church to the 33.21 per cent, and it ,vas, according to a late new political conditions. In the Cnban Con· report, 19.2 per cent, not quite so marked a vcntion th e attempt to have the Catholic faith · decrease as might be expected, but could we chosen as the national faith was overwhelm­ enter into details an explanation could be ingly defeated. Spanish armies when start· given. ing out to exterminate the Cubans had D1uing June of the present year not a single received the Church's blessing. Cuban case of :rellO\\' fever appeared iu liav ana, the churches later became forts. Thus there first record of th e kind in 12 years. It is appears to be a just cause for enmity between scarcely necessary to 1nentiot1 in connection the patriotic Cubans and the church of Rome. with the present freedom of Havana frow the The financial problem relating to church fever, the great attention given by medical property destroyed, has to be met. These are antborities to the theory of the propagation of more properly questions which Cuba will the fever by mosquitoes and the c01Tespoud­ settle unaided by the United States. And yet ingly .successful \v ar waged against thetn. the American policy of complete separation of One of the most serious problems that th e church aud state will doubtless "fleet the war department faced at the time of its occu­ final outco111e. pation of Cnba was that of providing for th e Among the miscellaneous subjects th at way large numbers of destitute Cubans. As will be considered by us are the construction of be recalled, th e order of reconceutration roads iu Cuba, both wagon roads and rail­ bronght a very large number of families into mads. Writers on Cuba all agree that it is a the cities. Either because of sickness or of country of proverbiallypoor roads. Aniericaus war, the majority of these families contained and Cubans are equally in1"restedin changing • THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 45 this condition. 400 years of Spanish rule saw nominated by the Nationalists, on August 275 Kilo. built, and in 1900 there were reported 12, he declined the honor and suggested the under construction or surveyed 932 Kilo. names of Senor Palma for president and Senor Our navy is at the present time engaged in Maso for vice-president. It appears from a theoretrical and practical study of the best recent statements that Maso aspires to the locations for the United States coaling stations. presidency. Both Palma and Montoro are The ·positions now favored appear to be regarded as very able men and strongly Guantanamo on the south and Nipe Bay on devoted to their country, but as idealists. the north of the eastern part of the island, Montoro during the revolution always favored Havana on the west, and Cienfuegos on the the use of legal measures and was in every south. case opposed to violence. The chief objec ­ By recent decisions the War Department tion to him is his having held a position of has modified the Cuban tariff to some extent. authority under the Spanish Autonomist gov­ The principal features are a reduction of from ernment. When the Americans came into 10 to 5 per cent ad valorem duty on railway command he impressed them so favorably as equipments, and a 10 to 5 per cent reduction to receive an offer of a professorship in the on sugar making machinery. These reduc - University at Havana. He, however, declined tions were made at the earnest solicitations it, because he knew that the majority of the of companies carrying forward such enter­ Cubans distrusted him, alth.oughmany of their prises. The executive can regulate the Cuban leaders supported him. customs in our favor, but possess no power to When Cuba shall have made her choice of favor the Cuban. a president and other officers, to whom she That the postal frauds discovered should commits her cause, then, if not before, our have effected to some extent the present re - government will in all probability fix upon an lations between Cuba and the United States is early date for the withdrawal of her forces granted, that our government has dealt sharply from the island. The coming February has with those concerned, is gratifying to all who been mentioned as a possible date. If the would see the honor of the United States verdict of other nations shall be that Cuba, maintained. the ward of the United Ststes for three years, In less than two months the Cubans will was educated to take her place as an inde­ have elected their president, and if our pendent country, with the highest political, present relations are not thereby effected, our educational, moral, and religious aims, that future relations may be. Senors Palma, this government assisted her in opening up Gomez, and Montoro are the names most institutions equal in importance to those of far prominently mentioned. Senor Gomez, older countries, and made possible to her the although not a native Cuban could be a can - development of her industrial possibilities, didate, since the constitution was so framed then the sincerity and purpose of our govern - as to m�ke him eli�ible. �u,t havin� be�11- lJ!�nt will assuredly be �stablished, The Pilgrim Fathers at School

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HE sch oolhouse door had closed at l::tst, "'l'here ading-class may oowe this wny." T .-\ chill 'November day had passed. Priscilla started to obey, I sat behind my desk nlone, Rut, oh, that pen should write tbese tl1iugs, Aud on1st co nfesl\ I ::tg ve a groan 'J'o the stat were tie

I marched biru out upou the floor, l dropped my head upon my arms ; And called the reading. class once more; • i\ n101ueut 's rest holds greatest charms Dut ltdwl'lrd "'isewau raised his hand, 'F'o r one ,�hose toil for doily bread The olclest of the Pilgriw banJ.. Combines the use of birch and head. ''Pleas e, Goodwi!e Marsden's wrote her uame But rest was i.hort, though very sweet, On my clean collar. It's a shame ." For soou I beard the sound of fe et. 'then Cood"•ife 1Iarsden I reproved, I l'aised wy head and faiutly sighed 'i'he>ugh Wisewan' s ,vr atb \\'as not reinoved. As sowe?ue ftong the door back ,\•idc. Thus worried on the morning' s work, But weariness "'a s soonforgot. No duty did I try to shirk, No tight like that you've seen, I \\'Ot, Though, brought up to re,;·e.re these men, For p1�sltiug, crowding, through the do or, Full hn r

'l'he Pilgriw l-' athers, I declnre 1 'Twas some like sh'1ki1Jg Pilgrim Ro ck. By all the Greeks, it's true, I swear. A racking n1cm'rytothis day, Ou the Jloor they s1awwed their di nner-pails, It came about in this sad way. Aud tossed the r brood-brimmed hats on nails. i ''l'was Go,1'uor Winslow thrc,v a stone, And th en refused the fault to own. Good Gov'nor \Vinstow led them all, It broke a window-light, you sec, \V itli. close behind, I\Iiles Standish tall. ..Dut I ne'er flung thnt stone," sai

*Platform balance, sensitive to 1 g. , *Set of weights, 500 g. to 1 g., *Set of weights, 50 g. to .001 g. , *Set of weights, 20 g. to .001 g., *Set of weights, 1 kilo. to 1 g., *Spring balances,reading to 64 oz. or 2000 g. , *Spring balance, reading to 8 oz. , *Jolly's balance, *Meter sticks, reading to 1 mm. and .1 in., *Steel rules, reading to 1 mm. and .05 in. , *Micrometer screw gauge, *Vernier calipers, Eng. and metric, Diagonal scale, *Protractor, *Lever, mounted with accompanying weights, *Car of inclined plane, *Pulleys, single and double, Screw model, Wheel and axle, Wedge model, Rotator and accessories for centrifugal and centripetal forces, Departmental Reflection of bodies, Projectile apparatus, PHYSICAL SCIENCE *Clamps, large and small, In the October number of the NORMAL Cohesion plates, NEWS some general precautions were given Elastic wooden balls, regarding the selection of apparatus for use Well-squared blocks of wood, in teaching elementary physics. In this and Metal cylinders weighing from 10 to 40 g., succeeding issues will be found a list of such Metal balls for pendulums, material. It will be found that only those ar ­ *Seconds pendulum, with mercury contact, ticles that have to be purchased are listed and *Liquid pressure apparatus, not the quantity of useful material that may Communicating tubes, be collected by the teacher and pupils at their *Universal hydrometer, homes or in the vicinity of the school. No *Nicholson's hydrometer, effort has been made to estimate the prices Fahrenheit' s hydrometer, at which the apparatus can be procured or *16 in. hydrometer jar, the size, quality, etc., of the pieces. These *12 in. hydrometer jar, must be left to the dealer and the judgment of *Graduated cylinder, 100 cc., the teacher. Apparatus that is usually con­ *Burette, 50 cc., sidered of first importance is marked with a *Specific gravity bottle, (*). Additional information in special cases Capillary tubes, will be given by the Department whenever re­ Porous cup , small, quested. *Lamp chimney, MECHANICS *Rubber stoppers, assorted sizes, with 2 or *Balance, sensitive to 1 mg. , 3 holes, *Hydrostatic balance, sensitive to 1 cg. , *Rubber tubing, assorted sizes, •

48 THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS *Rubber tisstte, stars was unusually slight on that evening, Pascal's law apparatus, and the belts of Jupiter were plainly seen by Hydrnulic press, glass model, the astronomy class, with the lowest power Prince Rupert drops, of the telescope (30 diameters), although *Cylinder and bucket, Jupiter is no,v un(avorabl)' situated for ob­ *Tumblers, servation. On the evening of the 24th the *Air pump, air was still clearer, but was more agitated. *Receivers for air pu1up1 The erlges of the lunar craters were on this *Hand glass, e,,ening of incredible sharpness, and the whole *Magdeburg hemispheres, visible disc of the moon was like molten *Condensing pt1mp, silver. *Hollow brass globe with cock, During the month the class traced the very *I..,ead shot, slow progress of Saturn and Jupiter across *}iiercury, Sagittarius and had a number of observations *Barometer, of both of these planets, which were very *Barometer tubes, good, considering how low down and near *Shallow dish for mercury, the sun they are. For months they have *Tube for Boyle's law, beeu the most· brilliant objeets in the south­ Small rubber bag, ern heavens, but will soon disappear in the Common and force pump, models, southwest. Venus, which has been for some *Glass funnels, large and small, weeks a brilliant early evening object, still *Glass tubing, assorted sizes. further south and west, will approach and finally pass them both in her direct motion, TB!\ OCl'ODl\R BJ!AVl\NS and, before midwinter become the chief at­ The month just closing has been an inter­ traction of this part of the heavens. esting one astronomically. The sun seemed These planetary boclies,-Veuus, Jupiter, reluctant to leave for his southern winter re· Saturn, the moon,-have sel'Ved, -together sort and withdrew himself from us so genfly '1.ith the sun,- to make real that most im­ that we hardly felt that his power waswaning. portant concept of astronomy, the zodiac. And the Harvest llfoon, how glorious that For instance, on the night of the Zlstthe sun, has been! '!'henttmber of clear, still nights just below the hori,on; the planets Venus, has been remarkable. At least four of these Jupiter and Saturn; and finally the moon ; nights have "broken the record" for a. trans­ were almost in a line marking ot1t well the parent and steady atmosphere. It has been ecliptic and the sot1theru signs of the zodiac, nearly ten years since the upper a.ir has been and showing how all bodies moving in these 1 as free from irregular refraction as it was on coostelJations must ' run low ''-or be near the night of the Zlst. The twinkling of the the southern horizon. E. A. Strong. iHE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 49 Library will index the accounts of the New York The new books are coming in, and here­ elections ( contained in weekly papers) and after we hope to have a long list in each num­ all of the November magazines. Each quar­ ber of the NEWS. Among the last received ter the three monthly parts are cumulated are three of note. Bulletin 2 of the into one alphabet, which further adds to its library is a large octavo use for quick reference. volume of 435 pages, of books on education The following are among the recent book in the University libraries. Herbart's Out­ accessions : lines of educational doctrine, translated by Dictionary of National biography ; supple- Lange, and Paul Monroe's Sourcebook of ment ; v. 3. the history of education, Greek and Roman Reed, T. B. , Modern eloquence ; 10 v. periods, have both been awaited with much Michigan, Public acts 1901. interest. Adams, 0. F., Dictionary of American au - A clearer discrimination between the two thors ; Ed. 4. indexes to periodicals would save much time Arber, Edward, ed., Anthologies ; 10 v. and much unnecessary searching for the unat­ Beowulf, (Early English Text So. ) tainable. Poole's index publishes its annual Morley, H. ed., English plays. supplement in the Annual Literary Index, Columbia University, Bibliography of books which usually appears in April or May. It on education in University libraries. is therefore over a year before the articles in - Herbart, J. F., Outlines of educational eluded in the periodicals for the early part of doctrine ; tr. by Lange. any year appear indexed in the Annual of Monroe, Paul., Sourcebook of history of the following year. For example, articles re­ education , Greek and Roman period. lating to the death of Queen Victoria, which Morgan, C. L. , Psychology for teachers. occurred in January, 1901, will appear in the Stout, G. F., Manual of psychology. Annual for 1902, together with those on the Calkins, M. w. , Introduction to psychol- assassination of Mr. McKinley. The Cumu­ ogy. lative Index to periodicals is published in Hastings, C. S., Light. Cleveland, Ohio, on the 15th day of each Robert, Isaac., Celestial photography. month. It covers a smaller list of period­ Redway, J. W., Basis of new geography, icals, but indexes them much more com - Smithsonian Institution, Annals of Astro - pletely. The November number therefore physical observatory 1900.

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HAT matter though my room be small, And you may hear young Orpheus there W Though red this lamplight looks Come singing through the wood, On nothing but a plastered wall Or catch the gleam of golden hair And some few rows of books? In Dian's solitude. For in my hand I hold a key So when the world is all awry, That opens golden doors ; When life is out of chime, At whose resistless sesame I take this key of gold, and fly A tide of sunlight pours. To that serener clime : There all the landscape softer is ; To those fair sunlit lawns that lie There greener tendrils twine, Beyond the boundary wall, The bowers are roofed with clematis, Where summer broods eternally With bryony and vine. And youth is over all. so THE NORM AL COLLEGE NEWS .. .. THE .. .. N1t:,vs has a v.· ide circulatiott, its literary NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS standard should be high . Help us to make PUBLISH&D MONTI-ILY it so. Its contents are diversified and along so 01any line.s that no one can fail to 6ud so1ne STAT� NORMAL COLLEGE portion of the work suited to him and in which he may excel. If it be research work, story Ypsilanti, Mich. writing, biography or poetry, consult the £ditC>r•ln•Chlet literary editor ; if it be a good exchange, hand AMA C. STEVENSON, •oz it to the exchange editor; if something terse Susine�s Manager CLEMENS P. STEIMLE., '02 ancl $picy upon tbc can1pus, inform the local editors. Take a part in our paper. Ma.kc it As..sociate Editor.s )'Ottr paper. HELEN DOTY J. E..VAN ALLSBUR.G} Litera.ry Societle$ Stt1dcnts are aske.

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Locals Miss Paton visited her father at Detroit. Mr. Lawrence of Detroit visited Mr. Scovill Oct. 25. Mr. Bedell, President of the So. Dakota Normal, visited the Normal November 6. Miss Adams visited Miss Sharp, Sunday,. Oct. 20. Miss Edith Blanchard went to Grand Rap ­ · Miss Mary Nelson visited relatives in De­ ids to attend the wedding of her cousin. troit, Oct. 20. Mrs. Miller of Detroit was the guest of her daughter, Miss Miller, at the Sigma Nu Phi Miss Edith Garrison spent Sunday, Oct. House. 20, in Detroit. Messrs. Bowman, Waltzer and John Schmitt Miss Bertha Baker spent Sunday, Oct. 27 r are new pledged members of the Tau Kappa at Battle Creek. Theta fraternity. Mr. Vaughn of Hillsdale visited his daugh­ The Misses Stevenson, Petit and Hime­ ter, Miss Vaughn, Sunday, Oct. 27. baugh, heard Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Miss Louise Petit of 417 Ellis St. enter­ Winkle, at Detroit, Monday evening, Oct. 21. tained her sister from Port Huron, Sunday, C. W. Chapman has been appointed assist­ Oct. 12. ant in the Natural Science Department. He The marriage of Miss Bethlea Ellis and takes the place of Mr. Verne Davis, who will Walter H. Woods was solemnized at the enter the University. Methodist church Wednesday evening, Oct. Miss DeGreen of Ann Arbor is filling the 30th. place of Miss Robson, who was recently called Mrs. Parker and Miss Maud Parker of Cal­ away by the death of her father, and will- be ifornia were guests of Miss Abbie Roe, Sun­ obliged to remain for some time. day, Oct. 20. Miss Parker is attending the A few of Miss King's friends surprised her U. of M. medical school. with a handkerchief shower Tuesday, N ovem­ Miss Cora Bowen has returned from Cali - ber 5. But the Faculty and students may rest fornia by way of Mt. Pleasant, whither she assured that there is no cause for alarm. accompanied Miss Mary Sterling, who had Wednesday, , Rev. R. K. spent several years in the West. Wharton officiated at chapel. At the close of The Junior Class is a little green at the the religious service, the usual college an - business of organizing and electing class offi­ nouncements were made by Principal Lyman. cers. This was proved Thursday evening President Guerney of Hillsdale College gave when a Senior girl, who was looking after a brief address. Prof. Pease announced the some of her Junior friends and happened special musical number, a violin solo by Miss to be in the meeting, was nominated Vice Silletto, Second Mazurka-Wienawski. To President. She might have won out if her a hearty encore, Miss Silletto responded with conscience had not troubled her so that she Thorne' s charming "Song Without Words. " resigned in favor of her Junior opponent.

51 51 THE NORMAL COLLEGE Nl:IVS 52 Prof. and Mrs. Barbour have returned from Miss Pauline Maier of Ann Arbor was the their eastern trip. guest of the Zeta Phi's last week. 11iss Bessie Goodrich of Pontiac visit�d tl1e Miss Oliff of Clio spent a few clays last week Pi Kappa girl,;, Nov. 2. ,v ith her sister, l\,fts. Don I.. a� trence. i Miss Rowe and )[iss Norton spent Satur­ State N omial College offers the best lecture i day, Kov. 9, in Detroit. course this year in the history of the school. Dr, Daniel Putnam attended the Baptist i,tiss Rena \TanBuren of this city, bas re­ state convention at Grand Rapids. signed her position as teacher at Dearborn to 'l'hc Junior Class held their first meeting accept a better one at Ironwood. Nov. 7. They adopted a constitution and Dr. Albert Leonard lectured at Hillsdale elected R. C. Smith as president. College Friday evening, Nov. 1, and was Prof. E. A. Lyman has returned from a tendered a reception by faculty aud studeuts. visit to the Pan-American and to Prof. Dr. D'Ooge and )Ir. Gorton will give a

Mel•arlane at :Urockport, N. Y. steroptican lecture at Three Rivers, FridayI Nov. 14. 1'hey also intend to be in A large number of people from Ypsilanti attended the Thomas Orchestra concert Mon­ at the meeting of the Northern Michigan day evening, Nov. 4, which was the first Teacher's ....\.ssocia tion. number of the Choral Union series. 'l'hc various grade libraries in the training Dr. Il. L. D'Ooge of the Normal has pre­ department at the Normal College will be in­ pared a series of six stereopticon lectures on creased in a short time by the addition of two hundred volumes of standard liter­ Athens, Rome, Sicily, Pompeii, Greece and about Italy. 'l'he first of the series was given last ature and fiction adapted to the chHdret1 of the Monday night at the Congregational church. respective grades. Before leaving the Normal Dr. Foste r pre­ 'the county clubs are becoming an in�po1·· tant feature in the social life of the Normal sented to the Department of Ancient Lan­ students and they are s�adily increasing in gt,ages, a copy of the Head of Apollo, taken numbers and membership. St11deuts from from the gable of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. This is an excellent copy of this Ionia and Eaton counties have already orga11- ized. most famous work. of art. Miss Anna Pratt of Galesburg, a member The first regular number on Students' Lec­ of last year's graduatiug class, has been ture Course '\\•as given 'l'hursday, Nov. 81 in called to the city to become the teacher of the Normal Hall, by )Iiss Egglestou, reader, the fifth grade iu the central building, and and Mr. :Flowers, impersonator. Mr. Flow­ 1 Miss Mina llordi.ne has been transferred to ers 1 Dickens' ''Christmas Carol'' ,vas ve1J• the thir d grade and )liss Alma Stnmpen­ well executed, and Miss Hgglcston's humor­ husen to the fifth ward. ous and pathetic selections were well received Miss ,V allon, as secretary of the Michigan by the audience. Library Association. attended the annual 'l'he extra 1111,nber of the Students' l,ecture meeting at Adrian, November 8 and 9. The Course, the Leonora Jackson Concert, was meeting had a good representation from Ypsi­ given Oct. 17, in the Normal Hall. The ex­ lanti, :\Ir. F. T,. D. Goodrich, of the College pectations of the audience ,vere 1nore than library was on tl1e program for a paper "Pub­ realized in regard to )Iiss Jackson's ability as lic docun1ents in a small libra..r}','' aucl J\.{iss a violinist. \\'e are sure \\'e express the feel­ .Mildred Swith, librarian of the High School ings of the College when we thank the com­ Library, for one on "High School Libraries." mittee for securing us such a rare treat. THE NORMAL COLLEG E NEWS 53

Mr. Gillespie has left school to accept a Mrs. Nelson of Hudson was the guest of position as teacher at Gaines, Mich. her daughter, Miss Nelson, Thursday, Octo­ ber i7. Mr. Freeman, of Cheboygan, was the guest of Miss Paquette, Wednesday, Nov. 6. THE CLASS OF 1891 The room in the basement of the Training School which was being fitted for Manual The class of 1891 celebrated its decennial £raining, is finished and work has begun. celebration at commencement time in June. The children already show great interest in The reunion was held at the residence of Miss this new phase of their work. Eunice Lambie, Tuesday afternoon, June 25. Ten members were present, as follows : A very pleasant social evening was spent Ida M. Covert, Lake Geneva, Wis. with the Arm of Honor fraternity at the gym ­ W. B. Hatch: Detroit. nasium Friday evening, Oct. 25. This was H. 0. Severance, Ann Arbor. theit first social function and was a success in Mrs. Anna Lane Severance, Ann Arbor. every way. The music for the dancing was Mrs. Nettie Sanford Muir, Imlay City. furnished by Whitmire's Orchestra. About Harry Doane, Ann Arbor. eighty couples were present. Lida Sloan, Sault Ste. Marie. The Senior Class held its first meeting Harriet Plunkett, Normal College Training Thursday evening, Nov. 7, and decided to School. choose their class officers this year at a regu - Laura Pullen, Richland Center, Wis. lar election, after the Australian system, to be Eunice Lambie, Ypsilanti. held in one of the class rooms, Saturday, A very interesting hour was spent over the Nov. 9. Booths and printed tickets will be old class picture, where the 135 members furnished by the college and there will be the were named, and someone present was able to usual election officers who are to be chosen give the location and occupation of all but by the acting president, Miss Arna Steven­ three. H. 0. Severence (the class historian) son, with the advice of the Faculty. read a supplementary chapter to his original The nominating convention selected the document, bringing it down to date. following as the candidates : A permanent organization was effected, with President-John Craig, John VanAllsberg Miss Lambie as President ; Mr. Will Hatch, and C. W. Chapman. Detroit, Vice President; Miss Plunkett, Nor­ Vice - President-May Udy, Harriet Smith mal College, Secretary, and Mr. H. 0. Sev­ and Emma Parmater. erence, Ann Arbor, Historian. A meeting Secretary-Anna Auls, and Anna Thomas. was appointed 1906. Treasurer-John Reinke, Lulu Jefferson A delightful afternoon of good cheer and and C. C. Miller. remniscence was enjoyed by the ''boys and Chairman of Executive Committee-Clar- girls,'' Miss Lambie dispensing her gracious ence Vliet, Phillip Dennis and C. H. Ireland. hospitality and making the pleasures of the Class Reporter-C. B. Whitmoyer. day, in every detail, complete. Class Kicker-Joseph Gill and John Druyc:r. Several prominent members of the class Sergeant-at-Arms-C. C. McClelland and were unable to reach Ypsilanti for the day of Earl Fuller. reunion, but visited the Normal later in the Y ellmaster-J. C. Bellinger and James summer. Among them were Miss Mabel Melody. Hale, for the ten years principal of one of the Only those will be allo�ed to vote who are schools at San Diago, California, and Fred full-fledged seniors and who have paid or Jeffers and Mrs. Jeffers (nee Doolittle), At­ who promise to pay their class dues. lantic Mine, Michigan. THE NORMA� COLLEGE NEWS

Hip-Zoo! Rah-Zoo! QuisQni! Quis Quo! after a few 1ninutes see-sa,v play, Deunis M. S. N. C. I Tri-nm p! Fe-o! went through the line aucl by the aid of fine Peuiusular l )lichigtlo ! \Volverine! interference by 1kClelland made the second Alla-ga.rol garowl gacah! gnreen! touchdown. Steimle again kicked goal. Normal College! The \Vhitc ! �l'hc Grc:en ! Peuiosnlac! )lichigan ! \Vol\·criuc! Score 12 to 0. During the rest of the half the Normals '!'he football team has demonstrated ve1-y were not so fortuuate, for they hunbled the clearly that it cau play ball, and its play is kick-off and the ball was downed on their both fast and furious. 20-yd. liue. Dennis punted, but a \Vyandotte After being defeated by tlie All Freshmen wau bro�e th rough the line nnd blocked the team of the U. of 1!., the men settled down ball and carried it ewer the line. to business aud, as a result of the bard and WyandoHc failed in an attempt to kick persistent practice, defeated the strong team goal: Score 12 to 5. of the Michigan Alkali Works at Wyandotte, Tn the second half the Normal line was on Oct. 19. '!'he following Saturday they ago.in weakened by the injury of one of tbe men, met the All Freshmen team from th e U. of :M. and the ball was gradually forced back, and 'l'he latter team had in a previous game defeat­ by means of au end run the Wyandotte team ed the Norma.ls by a score of 28 to O, aod ex­ secured its second touchdown. They organ· pected to do still better this tin1e. But when ized to kick goal, making the final score 12 the play started they fottnd they had a hard to 10. proposition, and in a bard fought game were The Normal line-up was : held to a score of 12 to 6. The Normal men Right cnd-Rogner. showed both speed and skill, aud excellent Right tackle-Green. team work. :l,fauy fioe individual plays Right guard- Kruse. were made, and when Dennis caught the ball Center-Crandall. on a fumble on Michigan's 35-yd. line and l,eft-guard- Bellinger. made a wild dash for the goal and a toucl1 · Left tackle-Chapman. clown, the crowd fairly went wild. Left cud- McClelland. In the last game with Wyandotte, Nov. 2, Quarter- Steimle. the latter kicked off, and after a few lo,ig Right half- Dennis (Capt.). gains, by the Normal, Belland was sent Left half-Salsbury. through the center for a touchdo\vn, Dennis Full back-Belland. punted out and Steimle kickccl goat. Score Di rector Teetzel bas reorganized six basket 6 to 0. Wyandotte again kicked off and, ball teams among the members of his Gym. THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 55 classes, and they will play off a champion - the site of the new science building, as there ship series that promises to be very interest­ is serious talk of putting it on the athletic ing. The following men have been elected field. Although the field now used is too captains : Katz, Gannon, Simmons, Salis­ small, still it would be hard to get another as ·bury, Belland, and Novak. The teams are favorably located, and as well suited for the now playing under Normal rules, and many purpose. It would take some time to get a of the men are doing exceptionally good new field in good condition, and this would work. be a serious drawback to next season's sports. Mrs Burton reports that most of the players The football team has only three games on last year's star team are back, and that which count on the intercollegiate percentage, ·practice will be commenced in a week or two. -one with Kalamazoo and two with Albion. Her own illness and the resulting delay in It is to be hoped they will make a record of -the physical examinations have caused them which both themselves and the college they to be a little slow in getting to work. The represent may be justly proud. A rush, then a scramble, Normal girls have always had a winning A tackle, a fall; -team, aud we hope the present year will not Six wounded, three senseless, -prove an exception. Four dead-that's foot-ball. Just at present every one is interested in -Ex.

Lyceum CRESCENT SOCIETY encouraging manner presented plans for the What a reunion at the opening reception of future work of the society. Mr. Lathers was 1:he Crescents ! Hearty handshaking- and present and also gave a very earnest talk on words of wit and wisdom characterized the the value of literary societies. After a short .entire evening, program had been rendered the society ad - The Crescent Society feel very much in - journed for games and an informal reception. debted to Prof. J e:fferson for the clear and Oct. 18, a miscellaneous program was ren­ ..forceful manner in which he explained the dered by members of the society, after which structure of the earth as it is viewed from the several committes were appointed. A literary geographer's standpoint. But it only sufficed game answerable by authors' names was a for an introduction, and we are anticipating very enjoyable feature of the recreation chapter 1 next term, which will describe ''A period. -Trip Through ·\he Andes Mountains ." OLYMPIC SOCIETY In the spelling contest between the gentle · Under the direction of our new president, men and the ladies, the prize was won by C. P. Steimle, the Olympic Society has begun .our energetic president, J. B. Melody. its work with renewed vigor this year. The The program of Nov. 8, given by the ladies, programs rendered thus far were of an excel­ -was simply superb. The essay by Miss lent character and show a decided improve­ Doty on The Normal Boy, the original songs, ment over those of last year. The member­ the pantomime, and the tableaux, were espe- ship is composed of students who realize the cially meritorious. value of this part of education and are willing ATHENEUM ·SOCIETY to work to attain it. The Atheneum Society held its first meet­ The officers for the present term are as -ing of the year on the evening of Oct. 11. folows : President, C. P. Steimle ; Vice­ President Partch called the meeting to order, President, Helen Pilcher ; Secretary, R. A. -and after devotional exercises gave a message Smith ; Chaplain, R. C. Smith ; Chairman of .of greeting, and in a yery enthusiastic and Ex-Com., C. C. Rogner. THE NOR�1AL COLLEGE NEWS 56

Clubs push and will make it their business to see .A NE\V ORC-:.ANlZA'I'ION- THE CCRRE�T that the work is carried to a successfu 1 issue EVENT CT.. l;ll the coming year. The club has secured the services of Mr At the suggestion of Prof. King, the st u­ . 1-Atthers, ,vho is to act as their critic the com­ dents of the Department of History and Civics ing year aud �vc arc sttre that, under his di­ ha,re organized a elub to st u

literary societies of the Stat e Normal College, Sn1ith; ·vice-pres!ident, R ....-\. Swith; secre­ and in this, the second year of its being, it tary, Joho S. \\ nldron i 111e111ber of orator .. st arts out with better plans and brighter pros­ ical association, Jobu Craig; editor. F P. pects than ever. Smith. 'l'he club now occupies au equal place with On N ovembcr 22, the club holds a joint the ot her societies of the College in the ora­ debate with the T,incoln Club, at their club torical association sotha t its members will rooms from 9to 11 A. M.,the que.,tion for de­ Resolved, have opportunity to do their preliminary bate being: That our troops should ,v ork iu oratory and clebat-iug in their o,,h1 be recalled from the J:>hilippines mid that the society. Filipinos be allowed to �et up an independent The officers of the society are all men of government. -'I\he Lincoln Club. will n1aiu- THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 57 tain the affirmative while the Webster Club Sororities and Fraternities with other friends will discuss the negative. The debate will at the gymnasium. be open to any interested. Tea was served from daintily appointed tables, while the hostesses greeted old friends Fraternities and welcomed the new ones to our college SIGMA NU PHI life. Carolyn Bass and Winifred Skelton are The Sorority enjoyed the first spread of the wearing the ''Yellow and the White.'' year, Saturday evening, October 26, with Miss Mrs. Sherzer entertained the Sorority. Sat­ Clara Southworth, at which Miss Mabel Sken­ urday, Oct. 12. telbury was pledged. A dainty chafing dish A costume party, with the usual Hallow­ supper was served. Miss Edna Skinner, ac ­ e'en gaieties, was given at the House, Thurs­ ting as toastmistress, asked for responses to day evening, Oct. 31. the following toasts : Miss Himebaugh, So­ KAPPI PSI rority Life ; Miss Bird, Athletics, and Miss The new active members of the Kappi Psi Pierce, Our Western Sisters. Sorority are the Misses Ethelyn Ballard, Hallowe'en was enjoyed in the old-fash ­ Mabel De Foe and Zoa Spencer. ioned way, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. One of our patronesses, Miss Foster, gave Woodman. The house was decorated with us a very pleasant evening at her home the em blems of harvest time and our Pilgrim Nov. 1. ancestors. Colonial friends, and others from TAU KAPPA THETA many stations in life, mingled once more, Since the organization of the Tau Kappa feasted and revelled. Theta fraternity, in March of 1901, steady HARMONIOUS MYSTICS progress has marked its steps and prospects bid fair to a still greater progress this year. The Harmonious Mystics entertained the We have added four new members to our Kappi Psi Sorority and other ladies of the number this quarter : Conservatory at a reception. All were glad C. W. Chapman, Frank W. Ackerman, Roy of the opportunity to meet and welcome the Shigley, Roy Gilmore. new students. The Sorotity are pleased to We have also three other members wearing have Mrs. Jessie Pease Scrimger with them the orange and white to signify their pledge from her trip abroad, and regret the absence to Tau Kappa Theta : of Miss Putnam, who has accepted a position Stuart Walsher, A. G. Gillespie, I. Bow­ in Kentucky. Greetings are extended to man. other sororities and the fraternities with the Eleven of last year's members are again in hope that the year may be an exceedingly school this year, of whom Howard Brown and enjoyable and progressive one for all. Minor White are teaching in the Conserva­ ARM OF HONOR tory. The others are finishing their college On the evening of October 25, the frater­ . course nity gave their annual reception at the gym - Our home is still at the Tau Kappa Theta nasmm. Good music, a smooth floor and house, 404 Ballard street. congenial company caused the evening to Our patron, Prof. S. B. Laird, is having pass very rapidly and pleasantly. his vacation this quarter, which he is im­ The Arm of Honor gave their first house proving by taking work at the U. of M. party on the evening of October 31. The PI KAPP A SIGMA evening was spent in appropriate amusements On the afternoon of October twelfth, the after which the guests were served with pump­ Sorority entertained the College Faculty, kin pie, apples and cider. THE NORMAL COLLEGE NEWS 56

e n e e r ne n re are M mbers of the Arm of lio o who w ar gratifying. N a ly o hu d d girls at e r e en n e r a susp nders': );'. G. Tompkins, C. H. I eland, pr s t enrolled i th various ci cles nd the n r n G. II. Belli ge . F. J. Scovill (?), S. H. Joh · number is constantly increasing. 1iiss Kiug n a an e e r c e son. J. P. Faucher (Su d ys), C. H. G - leads th s nio lass in th study ofthe Har­ on e n s e er 11on, G. H. Crandall, C. L. Da,•is, D. \V. m y of the Gos1) ls, a , Owing to th retu n of but very few of the n n r m e Chiua, whither she was se t by the Baptist officers a d fo mer me b rs of the Y. M. C. on a e Missi Boardto act as ssistant in .t h Chi­ A., and also to the serious illness of our pres­ e e r r n c e er r en n n c e e o s Gi ls' Boa di g S hool. A ltt f om id t at the ope i g of s hool, w hav hacl a e av her, mailed from Yokahama, J pan, reache

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An investment in knowledge always pays sailing along with a fair wind when those the best interest.-Franklin. confounded steel strikers struck a stroke that streaked the stock straddlers with strire, "If you'll split a little wood I'll give you the stress of the strain striking strangely a good meal,'' said the housekeeper. strong upon my strength. I am among the "I am sorry, lady," replied the hobo, sad­ stricken deer. Let us go weep. ' ' ly, "but I never begin breakfast with a chop." Primary teachers will find something of in - New York State has found out already what terest in the series of articles, ' 'What We a good institute worker Prof. McFarlane is. Wear,'' begun in the September number of A locaUrom the Brockport No ,malia says he the Primary edition. Read the editor's note. has five days of institute work for October. Miss K. (In teacher's history )-Why is it Hazing has been made a criminal offense in I cannot appreciate music? Illinois. Mr. G.-Because your brain cells are not One of the small New England colleges developed. has for a janitor a colored man, who has filled Some people have a m-ild way of telling the position for twenty-five years. Like many · persons to stay out. For instance, Prof. of his race, he is possessed of much wit, and L-th-rs says, "A-vaunt and quit my sight." it is not often that the students get the laugh on "Sam", as they familiarly and affection­ Many friends (?) wish you success but ately call him. One autumn day, just after never buy anything. Business managers the college year had begun, when he was always have a place planned out for such friends. overseeing the burning over of a part of the LITERARY CONUNDRUMS campus, a freshman coming along, cried : "Well, Sam, that's most as black as you What gives John Howard Payne? When ,, , , . are. ''y es, sa h , prompt1 y replied Sam, Robert Burns Augustus Hare. '' and next year it will be most as green as When did Mary Mapes Dodge? When you is. ''-Ex . George W. Cutter. Where did Henry Cabot Lodge? In Mun­ For good selections look through the ''Fri ­ go Park, on Thomas Hill. day Afternoons" of the No rmal In stitute. Why did Lewis Carroll? To put a stop to Servant to Milkman-Phat makes you come Frances Quarles. so airly of late? You used to come behind, Why is George Canning? To teach Julia before.-Ex . Ward Howe. Both were small speculators comparing What ailed Harriet Beecher Stowe? Bun - notes. "Why so blue?" said one. "'Tain't yan. goin' my way,' ' the other replied. ' 'I was -H. M. Greenleaf, in Th e Bookman. ADY ERTISEM ENTS FILBEAM'S You See FHOTO IfYou wish to make a STUDIO �cdding or Birthday (,1ft to your fri end, we Sells Photo Supplies and can supply your wants, Does Finishing as our stock is now For Amateurs complete for our Holiday 125 Congress Street Trade. Everything is THE Our New Shoe FR.ESH AND NEW TAILOR 'Department i-\sk to see our MADE Has many attrac:;11ive bargains in up .. " \Y'cltod Sc>le. to ..datc �-� Ex-te1�fon mdgc. Ladies'and Gents'Foot Ladies' New Kibo wear. Our Une of POCKET BOOKS Patent Kid. Queen Quality Sh:oes Jor Ladies will plea�c SEE you; we .also hav·,e a "J:l. S W,.. C. 1'i ns" We hnve just added this THAT THIS good assortment o f @. f)Gym, Footwear. "Jf. S. N. C. Spoon," Uue to our regular stock:. �I,),=�� We are headquarters :;.---� for Lamps, Chin:i .\nd 7RAOE M.\RK Bazaar Good s' FRANK SHOWERMAN I� GR:.?-.OED Jeweler 9 Huron St. o� ����v C. 'I>, O'Connor I!, Co. s t J£.z:u: R¢"i)J cxi� W0n. oft?th sr,1e Sli oc. JC and JOC SU>re Dr. James McKee "'· 0., University of Mich., Post·Graduate Eo Ro BEAL Courses. Chicago Eye, far, Nose DRUGG[§T and Throo1 College. New and Second-Hand RBFR1U2TING 6'2ULJST Normal Books 11'ostoffice Building, Ypsilanti, Michigan Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 5 p. m. Resi· 224 Congress Street dence, 613 Chicago Ave. Opera House Block 1The Boys' Store' H,lp Ooe Aootb,r Is a Dry Goods Store a.t 102 eonarua Mr. A. Harnack, one of your and JI Duron Sts •• Vps-ifonti. People call it the Boys' Store and they will teU you fellow students, is agent for that It is a reliable place to buy : : : : : the White Laundry. Patron­ ize him and help one of your J?RY Geeos number along. He collects We should like to have J.U students prove the and delivers. fact for thews.elves, The White Laundry B. L. Hayden. P'rop. Davis & Kishlar ADVERTISEMENTS Occidental Hotel Students

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as e YEs J. P. WESTLAKE, Ta ilor y euR E Over Densmore's Clothing Store Suits Made to Order up-to-date, and prices are right. Satisfaction guaranteed. are giving yo'u good service, ask N. B.-In connection, Miss Lizzie Maegle HEG LUND will make Tailor Suits, make over Coats, The Graduate Optician and Refractionist Furs, etc. H. FAIRCHILD HING .LEE PROPRIETOR OF City Meat Market Chinese DEALER IN Salt, Pre.sh and Smoked neats Laundry Poultry, Game and Fish Special 91ttention Given to Students' 'Trade Opposite the Box Factory NO. 14 HURON ST.

STYLISH UP=T0=DAT£ eome in, Fellows We are located opposite the Hawkins House, at the old stand. You are always welcome. Our place has long FOOTWEA� been the 9.111 7\l.ormal Students who ask for it at time of purchase will receive 10 per cent for discount. Headquarters Students The Finest Three-Chair Shop in the City. Shampooing and Hair Dressing King's Chicago Shoe Store a Specialty. 107-109 Con2ress St. YPSILANTI KEUSCH & SHEPHARD

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