NORMAL TIMES At VOLUME 2 Central State LOCK HAVEN, PA., SEPTEMBER 18, Great Musical Flesher Furnishes Surprise, Defeating- Moose—Mary Johnston Leads the Girls Helen .Vlyrick and Krnest Schrot carried off the tennis championship cups for the summer session of 1924. That means that Potter County and Clearfiebl County share the honors for the tennis season. Keubeii Moose, champion last sumnier, unexpectedl.v went down to defeat in the semi-linals this year, Andrew Flesher taking three hard-fought sets out of four from him, only to go down before Krnest Schrot's placing in the final match. Helen Myrick found the girls' tournament easy sailing, except when Grace English gave her a scare in the second round, taking the second set, but losing the third and deciding set 6-2. The first round matches were reported in the last issue of Normal Times, with the exception of the Bolin-Weagle,y set to, whieh Weagley managed to liite off with diflicult,y, 6-."!, 6-2, ,1-6, 6-0. In the second round, however, Weagley bit off more tlian lie could chew, Flesher trimming him thoroughly, 6-1, 6-1, G-2. Both Moose and Schrot had eas.y sailing in this round. Moose walloping Sones in three straight love sets, and Schrot losing but one game to Kaiidrack in their three sets. McDowell had the only battle in this fraine, winning from Mclntyre, G-4, 0-1, 9-7. Normal School 1924 Program for 1924-25 There will be uo dropjjing off this year in the level of entertainment afforded to the students who attend I^ock Ilaveu Niuiiiai School, i t was known lust year that no other school in the state, ot wliatever quality, had arrangeil and oft'ered to iis students so great a nuniber of the most famous inusieians in America. The course, it is felt, could not be equalled here again. Ijook at the names below, and judge for yourself ulietlier the students here will have less niemoralde musical experiences. OCT. 10, HANS KINDLER 'Cellist—Soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra NOV. 21, ARTHUR MIDDLETON Bass-Baritone—Metropolitan Opera Company DEC. 12, SASCHA JACOBSEN Violinist FEB. 20, L'OMBRA Light Opera MARCH 21, MARIE SUNDELIUS Soprano—Metropolitan Opera Co. Hans Kindler is without doubt tlie greatest 'cellist in America or elsewhere. His name is world-known. He has pla.yed with the most famous orchestras in Europe—as soloist with orchestras in Berlin, Amsterdam, aud London; and for five years he has been 'cello soloist with the famous Philadelphia Orchestra, which Leopold Stokowski leads. His records with the Victor Company are many; .all of them are in the Red Seal Schrot had no more difiicult}' in the group, reserved for a handful of the semi-finals than in the preceding fraine, greatest musicians. losing but a single game to McDowell .\rtliiir Middleton, who arrives just in three sets of play. Flesher, however, lud'ore the Thanksgiving vacation, is a encountered Moose. As had been anniember of the Metropolitan Opera ticipated, a terrific battle resulted, in Company. He is the headline artist, if wdiich most of the gaines seemed to go Hiat is the term to use, of the Edison to deuce. As had not been anticipated, Plionograiih Company; the man whose Flesher jiossessed the little extra punch records the.v are proudest to claim as needed to convert deuce games to his their own. It wdll be interesting to comadvantage. 6-2, 4-6, 6-.3, 6-4, the setpare his voice with Reinald Werrenscores ran, a partial indication of the rath's, whom we heard last fall; they torrid nature of the match. are notably similar in quality; the two The final match was worth seeing, particularly the second set, one of the Annual Summer Minstrel longest ever played on the Normal Furnishes Laughs School courts. Schrot had carried away Mr. Reams and his troup of actors and the first set in rather easy fashion, 6-1. nctorines pulled off the annual summer That seemed to serve to warm Flesher session minstrel show on Frid.a.y, August up, and in the next set ho played the best tennis he has shown this year. Sov- 15. The .show was a scream from start (Contlnued on page 5) 1 to finish. Bernice Wagner, Evald Erick- NUMBER 16 Term iiieii stand side by side at the |ieak of .\nierica's bin itiuies. Sasclia Jacoliseii need be introdiiceil to no musie lover. He is a luemlier of that famous Mischa-Jascha-Toscha-Sasclia quartet of beautiful violinists who glorify music toda.v in this countr.v, and whose coiitiuueil ijreseuce here, with the crowded, enthusiastic houses the.v draw all over this country, testilies to the strength of the hold of good music on the allegedl.v non-musical Ainerican public. A iiiimber of Lock Havenites who have heard .Tacobseii play in Carnegie liall gasped when told he was coming here, and the gasp was equall.y compounded of wonder that he should be luought to so small a cit.y and of delight at the prospect. Victors Take Championship for Third Time in Four Years. Clearfield Second Kui- the third time in four years, and for the second .vear in succession, the dddgeball chamiiioiiship and the cup which represents it has been carried off b.v Center County. Back in the summer of 1921 Center cleaned up for the Hrst time. In the following sunimer Center fought its way into the finals, only to be beaten by Clearfield in the last round. Last suininer Center cantered ill ahead of the field, reversing the outcome of the flnal match, again with Clearfield; and this year the fighting spirit of the team from the heart The five members of the company of the state brings it through ahead of uliicli will present light opera here in the field. Februaiy are Stella Norelli, coloratura Ten teams entered the contest this soprano; Suzanne France, lyric soprano; year, nine of them representing the Carl Farmer, baritone; Obrad Djurin, counties with large representations here tenor; and Franklin Noble, jiianist. this summer, and the twelfth the rest Marie Sundelius, who will be the concluding artist of the course, is a prima donna sojirano of the Metropolitan Ojiera Company. She is hailed iu New i'ork City by the musical critics as a worthy successor to Jennie Lind and Christine Nilssohn. She has been decorated b.v the King of Sweden in recognition of her artistic success with the l.itteris et Artibus Medal. She owns a glorious voice, of the type that is pleasing to those wdiose ears are not attuned to musical niceties as well as to those who by long association have become musicall.v adejit. That such ;i program is to be offered to students of this school without charge is one of the things t h a t students at other schools cannot understand. It is one of the things that wc are proud of at Lock Haven. The course will cost more than $4,000 to produce, but it is one more evidence of the opinion that we entertain of ourselves: we will have the best or nothing. son, Herbert Neefe, Esther Ayres, Otto Clark, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. VanArsdale, .Mr. McDougall, and Mr. Reams were among the students and teachers who were the butts of the local gags. Breon, Follmer, McDowell, Madison, Paul Vonada, and Hobba were the end men, and (Contiiiiieil on page .1) of the state. Clearfield County and Center Count.v, by popular opinion, had the cup between them. Clearfield took a most unexpected tumble before Clinton County, a team that heretofore has been a doormat for the rest; but which this year proceeded to wade through everything that eame, and which, until the final match, seemed likely to carry off the clianipiiinship cup. I n the final round, however. Center, which had more or less drifted up to t h a t round, car(Coiitinned on page GI Boys Beat Faculty in Last Summer Ball Game The boys' baseball team took the faculty into camp on August 20. Tho faculty team, considerably reinforced, made things interesting, however, and came close to taking away the laurels. In the third inning the faculty loaded the liases. With but one man down and the heavy end of the faculty batting order uji things looked like a blowoff for the students. Right a t t h a t jioint Mclntire settled down to pitching, fanning VanArsdale, the home-run hitter, and Bohn, the season's best slugger, in succession. From that time on the faculty did not threaten. The school team scored twice in the first inning, before the instructors (Continued on page 4) NORMAL Attractive Exhibits Show Summer Results The closing weeks of the summer session brought out three exhibits of work done during the summer that indicate that unusual characters of the work done here during the summer session. The art department mounted in the lialls of the training school and in several of the classrooms an exhibit that for quality and for number of exhibits had any similar display bettered, here, or so far as the knowledge of the faculty niembers or of several people wdio visit the Normal Schools of the state goes to show nnj'wdiere else in the state. The Campfire Girls displayed a smaller b u t very attractive and informative collection of their work in the Campfire Headquarters on the third floor of the main building. A number of insect cases, luade by about fift.v of the students who took courses in nature study, shown in the front hall of the training school, indicated the results of a part of the work done in those courses. These three exhibits, together with the iienmansliip exhibit described in the last issue of this paper, are all the jiroof that the students of this school neeiled, if they needed any, that the one big reason for coming to Lock Haven Normal is the value of the work that students receive here. Incidentally, none of the displays was siiecially prejiared for; each of tlieiii was made up of selections from, ami as many selections as possible from the work of the students in their regular classes. Each of them, with the exception of the campfire displa.v, was a practical exercise useful in public school work. The Art Exhibit The last two weeks witnessed such a display of public school art as has n o t ]ireviousl.v been seen in all the years of C. S. N. S. history. A greater variety of ideas, carefully worked out designs, original and useful applications of artistic principles, keenly judged for jiedagogic value, lieljis to account for the truly remarkable work exhibited in the halls and classrooms of the training school. "You are specializing in art here, aren't you?" was the question confidently asked by one observer, a memlier of the State Department of Edueation, who happened to be a visitor here during the exhibit. The question siieaks for itself. One of the unique sections in the exhibit was the one devoted to the rise of primar.y, secondary, and conipliuientaiy colors, and the shades and tints of colors. Cut-outs of clowns, balls, Indian clubs, baskets of fruit, horns, and carts were a few of the many devices used to employ these colors, and to imjiress them on children. Surely these would be much more effective devices than the usual lifeless color charts many of us have made. Worth-while uses of lettering occupied another section. No mere printing of alphabets presented itself here. Various styles of lettering were put into immediate use "in catchy signs like the following: "We Are Americans—^Xlse Language, Not Slanguage"; "Serve Your School by Keeping I t Clean"; "Wear Out the Eight Side of the Road F i r s t " ; "Make the Waste Basket Do Its Duty." Of the large schoolroom posters exhibited in two of the rooms of the Training School, the Good Health chart, with its four children, having yarn hair, and carrying tooth brushes and soaii, was the one most couimented on. Below tlieui were spaces for the recording of weekl.v records of pupils who did their daily health chores. Other posters ill these rooms were designed to jiromote the ju'iitection of birds, to encourage the reading of books and the memorization of jioenis, to stimulate good scliool attendance, to remind pujiils to eat jirojier foods, to help the recognition of connnon wild flowers, and a dozen other school activities which such jiosters might aid. Black, white, and gre.y were effectively employed in many attractive wirtercolor scenes. By this group were some fift.y exhibits, including decorative water-color landscape designs and naturalistic water-color bird designs, all using water-colors interestingl.v. The abundance of needlework exhibited called forth many olis and ahs. Felt cusliiou tops, table runners, fancy bags, liedrooni slijipers, and needlecases were a. few of the things made and ilecoratively stitched b.v the art students. Other sections of the disjilay were given to beautiful baskets in enameled reeds, to gift boxes enameled in original designs, to jiajier cut-outs, tree-liand and fornializeil, to jiajier-folding, etc. Much praise is due the art instructors. Miss McKisack and Miss Tressler, and to students in their courses. Such sjilendid initiative and co-ojieratioii should not be permitted to go without the jiraise it so richly deserves. The Nature Study Exhibit The nature study exhibit of mounted insects in small cases, lalieled with projier names, made b.v the jiujiils in Mr. ITlmer's chisses. attracted much attention. It rejiresents only one phase of the work done this summer, b u t it does show Mr. Ulmer's practical apjilication of the idea that the place to study nature is outdoors. In all there were about sixty cases of mounted specimens, moths, butterflies, and brilliantly colored beetles and flies. Many will recall the start they got at a sudden "There goes one," or a "Get that one for me," followed by a mad dash over campus occupants by some swift but heavy-footed member of the nature stud.v course. Some of the moths mounted in some numbers were the Cecropia, the Polyphemus, and the Prometheus; these were in many of the cases, while some of the collections contained rather rarer moths and butterflies. The Campfire Girls Display The Campfire Girls gave an unusual exhibit of their activities in the Campfire Headquarters. Everyone who attended it was awakened to wdiat the girls really do. The room was lighted with lamps shaded in autumn colors, giving to the room something of the glow of the campfire. In the windows were windowboxes, really beautiful ones, made by Alma Freer and Marian Scott, of boards with sections of bark covering tliem in front. The boxes were filled with ferns. Cream colored drapes hung from the TIMES upper case of the window; on the lower part of each was appliqued a design of crossed logs iu flame. A large rug covered the floor, and the walls were hung with exhibits of work. Am.v Reese, Alma Freer, aud others of the girls took turns acting as hostess, serving all the guests at the exhibit on Saturday afternoon with fruit punch and wafers. (Jertrude Gratton made blue jiriuts continuously, from sniall ferns, etc., which the girls had brought iu. Nellie Moore worked at the beading loom, beading her symbol on the stole which the girls are going to present to Miss Selig. It will contain the symbols of each of the girls in the regular course. Three costumes were on displa,y, one belonging to Mae Ginter, another to Luc.v Ginter, and the third with all its honor beads tind decorations to Miss Selig, the guardian of the Neta-meinenilavviii group. The other ten girls, who had not on disjilay their costumes, had made miniature costumes as patterns. A number of exquisite headbands were shown, some beaded, some of stenciled leather. The individual scrap liooks are surely worthy of mention. They contain jioetry, descrijitious of hikes, drawings, and autographs. Miss Selig explained much of the work to the students and faculty members who were unfamiliar with it, greeting them as the.v came in, and going around with those who seemed interested. Presidential Campaign Possibilities "It is ilillicult to predict the result of the coining election," said Mr. Reams in Ills chapel talk on Wednesday morning, August P!. "People are no longer adhering dejiendably to party lines; they are voting according to their judgments. There are three strong parties in the Held this year, an unusual situation. In addition, all parties are finding it difficult to discover genuine issues on which they differ widely; the personalities of their respective candidates will therefore have to furnish campaign material. "The Republicans, therefore, are likely to push the homely virtues of Calvin Coolidge. The Democrats wdll lean heavily on the admirable character of John W. Davis. The Progressives will advance the strenuous personality of LaFollette, a type which wdll make appeal to many. "A deadlock is not unlikely. LaFollette is likely to carry five states, whose electoral vote will prevent either Davis or Coolidge from having an electoral plurality. The election is not at all unlikely to be thrown into the House of Representatives, where the deadlock is apparently even more likely to be repeated. In that case this generation may get a brushing-up on certain forgotten sections of their Constitution." a lot. Miss Y'ale gave us three good jioints to remember: to remain neutral ou all questions that touch on antagonism between different denominations; to impress the virtue of modesty; and to teach, by cxanijile and precept, respect to parents. Campfire Girls Camp Out The following Campfire Girls and their guardian. Miss Hope Selig, spent the week-end of August 9 and 10 a t Camp Shoemaker, the Clinton County Boy Scout camp: Amy Reese, Virginia Mosier, Nellie Moore, Grace Harpster, Ethel Peterson, Alma Free, May Ginter, and lAicy Ginter. They left the Normal School at 2 o'clock, reached the camp about 2:30, and went immediately on a hike over the hill, Dean Fredericks aud Philip Rodgers blazing a way for them to follow. After setting up camp, Nellie Moore prepared a good supper, earning for herself the title. Fried Potatoes. The council fire and the evening program of stunts followed. Scout Commissioner Hoxworth appeared just in time to rescue Grace Harpster, who had fallen behind a log. As the cry went up for "A story! A story!" he told his favorite ghost story, "The Four Raps." At 11 o'clock everyone turned in for the night, or rather turned out, for they slept under the stars, safely guarded by Jack, the dog who has adopted the Normal School. Camp was broken about 3 o'clock Sunday, the girls reaching the Normal School in time for supper, hot, tired, dusty, and happy. The Picture at Home "When the crowd at home gather around the Normal School picture and comment on my friends, I may be mighty glad that the friends can't hear them. Each niember will ask the names of a dozen different people, and think it queer that I can't remember. Finally, when everyone has looked and looked as he pleases, perhaps I'll get a chance to make a few remarks, a s : 'Ma, see this girl; she sat beside me i n chapel.' 'Hasn't this girl got pretty hair; she was in my health class.' 'This girl and this one were the best writers in my English class.' Many other comments, including those about the faculty, will come to my mind—but by this time I'll be talking to myself." Are We Lip-Lazy? Miss Roberts on August 15, while negating much of the constant halfthought newspaper and magazine criticism of the public schools, accepted t h e criticism that the American people a r e lip-lazy—careless of pronunciation, willingly indistinct—and accepted also t h e responsibility of the schools for a large part of the condition. Good speech, she said, should be taught, should be insisted on, should be part of the teachers own habitual equipment. When we succeed in getting correct pronunciation and pleasant voices, she said, t h e Last Talk of Dean The last girls' meeting of tho sum- schools may then claim really to be promer was a sad one, because it was a ducing educated men and women. farewell to Miss Yale. She will never again address any of us as Dean of Almeda Marshall was not a bit put Women. However, she is to remain on out when Mr. and Mrs. H a r r y Marshall the faculty, teaching the work in the came in from Port Allegany. Could public sehool a r t courses, and t h a t helps they possibly be related? NORMAL NORMAL TIMES Normal TiinoR Is publisljocl at Central State Normal Scliool, Look Haven, I'enna., by the Hoard of Kditors of Xormal Tiinos. The snliseription rale for one year is si'vontylive cents. Address all eonnnilnicntions to T. \V. Trembath, (,'. S. N. S., Loclt Haven, Penna. Managing Kditor Grace Englisti Editor-in-Chief Mary Torlis News Editor Beatrice Thompson Assistant News Kditor Ethel Hanna Associate Editors—Ida Meeker, Paul Vonada, Clara Iliinkle. Fioor Editors—^Wava Kyler, Mary Yorks, Alma Zerby, Olleen Siuiler, Mary Kokoskie, Paiii Vonada. llayrooln Editors—Anno Moore, I.oretfa O'Connor, Kussell Ilowser. Assistant Editors—Estiier Ayres, M,vrtle Beiglitol, Kathryn Brosius, Kollin Domeny, Lucy Ginter, Alice Hall, Elizabetli Hail, Grace Harpster, Hazel Kent, Guy Kryiler. Erma Long, Anna Belle McLean, Glndys Mooney. Bthil NofT, Adda Seese, Edward Sliirkel, Mildred Watson, Mnry Zerby. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage prevideii for in section 110,3, Act of Oetolier 3, 1917. autlioriy.ed .July ,S, 11)2,S. S E P T E M B f ] R 18, 1924 Mildred Williams Dies It deejily moves the editors of this ptijier to have to record the death of .a deservedly beloved fellow student. Mildred Willianis, of Penfield, died in the Clearfield Hospital on Saturday, .luly 2B. Miss AVilliams became ill at the Gallagher home on Susquehanna Avenue, where she had been rooming this summer. Her illness, which did not seem critical at first, did not yield to treatment, and became steadily worse. Mrs. Williams was finall.v summoned, and remained here with Mildred until Thursdii.v morning, when her uncle. Dr. Homer Lewis, of Clearfield, came here and took her with him to the Clearfield Hospital. Pneuinoniix developed, the flnal complication. Her death followed early Saturday morning. Funeral services were held at her home in Penfield the following Monda.y afternoon. Mildred Williams had one of the most likable dispositions we have known. She made friends effortlessly among the stuileiit body and tlie faculty, close friends, to all of wdioiii the news of her deatli came wifli a shock. Southern Girl Was Pianist 111 the writeup of the Rotiiry Club dinner Normal Times failed to answer one question that has been frequently put to its editors since: Who was the girl who came up with the Rotarians, and who could get such wonderful .iazz out of the old piano that no one could sit still? We answer the question herewith, we did not know heretofore. She was Miss Lucille Smith, her home is in Durham, N. C, she was visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Green, of Lock Haven, and she certainly could make a piano stand up and shako itself. She was naturally and highl.y popular with the .younger set of Loek Haven, but nevertheless, we wish that she eould have made it jiossible for us to see more of her and hear more of that plaintive harmonization. New Plan of Certifying Teachers Mr. Drum announced in chapel early in the term some important legislative measures which the Normal School princijials are hoping to see pass the state legislature, all aimed at giving to the children in rural sections of the state soiuetliiiig more like an equal opportunity to gain an education with the cliildrcn living in towns and cities. Sliould tliese measures be enacted, a squtire deal for the country cliild ma.v lie a reality instead of an educator's pijie dreiim. Hrielly, the important clianges which the Noriiiiil Scliool principals will endeavor to bring about are these; State eucoutagement of better equipment of rural schools; a iniuiniuni salary for rural scliool teachers of .lil,200 and a maxiniuni of $2,000, wdth yearly increases of .$100; iind the assumption by the state of ;ill the cost of tliese increased expenditures over and above what the rural districts are alread.y inlying. Eiicli student at this school this summer should know wdiat is intended; should see that the better salaries are offered to draw the better prepared, the more experienced teachers into the country schools, .just as better salaries are now drawing them. away. Don't lose sight of that purpo.se. A sehool with a good teacher is a good school, and no other sehool is good; back up the movement which will get good teachers into the country. Superintendents to Meet Here The annual Round Table Conference of Superintendents and Principals of Central Pennsylvania will be held at Loek Haven Normal on Friday and Saturdiiy, September 26 aud 27. An exceptionally interesting ]irograiii has been arriinged, copies of wdiich will be sent to itll schoolmen about Sejitember 12. All efl'ort will be made to extend this conference into a three-day session for next year. All schoolmen attending will be the guests of the Normal School throughout their sta.v. The president of this .year's conference is George D. Robb, principal of the Altoona High School, and C. M. Sullivan, head of our social studies de]iartiiient, is secretary. Carry On The old war-time slogan, "Carry on," lost niucli of its flavor and power to stimulate because it was worked to death. Exhuming it from tho dust of the discard, one might tliink it had been originally designed as a parting shot at the summer sessionites. Splendid work has been done this session, and t h a t is as it should be. One thing remains, if that one thing is not accomplished, then, successful as has TIMES been the work here a t Nornial, nothing has been accomplished; the time has been wasted. The thing now to do is to iijilil.v in actual teaching wluit has been learned and worked at during the suniiiier nioiiths. Let your teiiching luive the C. S. N. S. brand ou it. Carry on iu the C. S. N. S. way, and then watch Ohl Sol shine. Cafeteria Wanted Tlie Arlior has tt splendid liusiness, supjiorted by gi'iiermis Norniiil students. Titus's have all they can handle. Various good food emporiums in the city feel the beneiit of siiuimer session ajqietitcs. If a cafetcriii were installed on the cam pus, similar to the one operated for the day students and students boarding in town in Clarion, perhaps these same students might en,joy even better food, in greater variety, and consumed In a school atmosphere. 200 Students Go to Danville About two hundred students from the summer session, tliose who have been taking Dr. Pike's lecture course this summer, went in five bus loads for an eiglit.v-mile ride across state to visit the State Hospital for the Insane at Danville, Pa. Nurses and doctors took parties of students about the buildings, and everything was explained: the types of cases, the nature of certain patients' troubles, the big change in treatment from the old da,vs of the straight-jacket to the present trcatnieiit of mental diseases as diseases, with the many resulting cures, etc. Some of the work done by the iiatients was shown, and .a number of souvenirs were iiurchased. The trip was highly interesting to all who made it. Quite a bit of excitement was caused when it was announced in the dormitories early in the morning that the busses had arrived. Some received the news with cheers and delight; others hung about their roommates' necks and wejit great crocodile tears. Somehow or other, it was felt that some would never come back. Songs, cheers, .veils, stops for refreshuiciit in towns iilong the route (Ask Folliuei- illlll A'oiiiuhi iiliout the pineapple sundae in Milton), and regular picnic spirit iiiiirked the trip. AVhen it came time to return. Miss Yale and Miss Cresswell had to go all over the Danville buildings hauling out those who had found the atmosphere too congeiiiiil. A careful check-up before tho busses started indicated that all our cases of abnormal psychosis had escaped and were returning. Developing Picture Study in Our Schools The value of picture stud.y as part of the work in English in the elementar.y grades was set forth b.y Miss Daugherty in her chapel talk on August 11. Oral discussion can bo developed by pictures, compositions written after discussion enibod.ying ideas suggested by the pictures, and even poetry may be composed. She read some rather remarkable ef- forts composed by pupils iu the Lakewood (Ohio) grades as a result of certain picture study lessons. Incidentally, il liking for good pictures may be instilled, a desiralile b.y-produet of aii.v educational course. She gave in some detail an outlined course in picture stud.v developed by the teachers iu her schools. Annual Summer Minstrel Furnishes Laughs (Continued from page 1) they kept things livel.y with the aid of fhe interhicntor, Mr. Renins. One laugh followed another. Among the solo nuinbers were B,yroii .VlcDowell's "I Wiiiit tu (lo Hack to Hiickeusiick," Grace Startzel's "What'll I Do?" Charlotte Lowe's "I Never Had a Miimniy,'' Miidisoii's ".Stiiigii, Stuiigo," and the old favorite, "In the Old Town Hall," which Mr. Keains dug out of the iiiothballs and gave to us again, though without the local hits which featured it three years ago. The male quartette was a re;il feature: Albert Hobba, bass; Guy A'onadii, baritone; Paul A'onada, second tenor, and M\di's Mreoii, tenor. Tlie.v sang a number of selections, humorous and otherwise, which were vigorousl.v encored. .\u iittractive feature was Miss Angel's eccentric dancing. Dressed as an aged negro, she allowed her rheumatics to bo carried away by the music, swinging gradually into agile and graceful dance steps tind postures. The opening chorus worked iu "Tennessee," "Twilight and You,' 'Tucky Honie," iind other recent nunibers. Seventeen black-face comedians made up the chorus, nine girls, eight boys. Mr. Reams occupied the central seat, as interlocutor. The chorus members were Miss Angel, Charlotte Lowe, Louise Ireland, Louise Beers, Evelyn Cyler, Verna Reams, Anna Moberg, Grace Startzel, Edith Hopkins, Bernard Madison, Byron AIcDowell, Jack Follmer, Myles Breon, Paul A'onada, Guy A^onada, and Albert Hobba. The closing chorus included, "Let the Rest of the World Go By," "One to Two," "Linger Awhile," and "Till We Meet Again.'' The curtains went down oil au animated scene of dancing, e.acli member of the chorus going it iis he pleiised. Miss Tressler came within an ace of lireaking up the chapel exercises. We had ,just finished singing "Holy, Holy,'' when she iiuiiounced that her scripture selection would be "Oh, Sing Unto the Lord a New Song." Jbiry Stark and Peg Kilpatrick rose ever so early the other niorning and hiked down to the post office before breakfast to make sure that their letters went out. The letters undoubtedly were intended for father and mother. Beatrice Thompson intends to give up handshaking; she cannot afford the habit. She shook the hands off her alarm clock the other night, and had to break the crystal to put the hands i n place. .Janet Orr has been ordered to put on her spectacles before she puts on her stockings the next time she is getting ready to go hiking. NORMAL Demonstration School Proves Wonh in Summer Program Possibly the biggest claim that Lock Haven Normal can make to superiority to other Normal Schools of this state ill its method of preparing teachers til teach in summer sessions is its school of demonstration. All of the Normal Schools now give excellent prepiiration in classroom methods; all of theiii to an extent amazing to one acquiiinted with Normal School procedure even five years ago focus their teaching on the actual needs of the teacher when she gets inside ii cliissrooni; all of them attempt to do what we think we do better here at C. S. N. S. than anywhere else: provide absolutely the best qualified instructors for preparation for classroom success, qualified both by triiining and by practical classroom experience. But, so far as we know, only in I^ock Haven Normal is there a full sized School of Demonstration, iu which excellent teachers teach daily excellent lessons, to be observed and copied by summer session students, and in whieh all students taking methods courses iire required to observe caretull.y, so thiit their triiiuing iu good theory may be reinforced b.v watching good theory iu practice. School superintendents have not been slow to apjireciate the value of this practical preptiration, as letters to the oflice have shown. One hundred and thirty-three lioys and girls enrolled in the school this sumniei'. Many of them were those who for one reason or another had failed to pass their work in the training schools or the Lock Haven city schools this past year. Genuine teaching was necessary to develop them; the demonstration teachers, having no ideal school, had to face and meet the same hard problems that the observers had to face and meet. Most of them went out at the end of the session iible to keep up with their grade in school, an evidence of successful teaching by the demonstration teachers; or, in some cases, to advance a sehool grade; in either case a saving in pupil-value to the children and to their school system. The heaviest enrollment was in the kindergarten, 26 children getting their first tastes of school life with Miss Dunn. There were ten first graders, 23 second graders, 25 third graders, 18 fourth graders, 15 fifth graders, and 16 sixtli graders. W i t h no compulsory attendance laws at work whatever, nothing to keep the children in school save their own interest in what they were getting, the .attendance record for the sunimer was 87%. In the fourth grade the record reached the r a t h e r amazing figure of 96%, t h e third grade being a close second, with 93%, and the kindergarten and first grade, as might be expected, holding down t h e average somewhat with 87% and 7 8 % , respectively. The average for the six regular grades for the six weeks was almost exactly 90%. .School people a r e able to measure by such a record, m a d e by a school with a disproportionate number of those to whom school work has been unappealing. .iust iibout how efl'ective the teaching done this sutiiiiier must have lieen. To iiidiciite the wide variet.v of work open to oliservation, the following tiilile is of decided interest. LittU' that might periilex a teacher iu her own school work escaped iittention this summer. Su1i.ieet 1 lleadiuK 4 .Vrltliiuetii4 lleallli K d i u a t i o u . 1! Story ,1 I.anKiiaKe 2 EiiKlisli 0 Free r i a y 2 Kliytlinis 1 liistory 1 SiielliiiB 2 lieoKrapiiy 2 Games 1 I'lioiiies 0 .Music 1 I'eiiniaiiship (I Social S t u d i e s 0 llyKielle Il llaii(lwurl< II Civics II l/llirury H o u r Il Xature Study 0 llraina I ization . . . Kree W o r k ( Staiiilard T e s t s . . . II Totals 2.) ;; 11! 11! li .1 7 0 2 2 4 2 2 0 A 2 2 :< 2 II (I l> 0 0 1 1 0 71 Week :i 4 R L'l 17 l.T !> il s 4 2 .'> 7 I! .'l 2 'A 'A 2 2 'A 2 1 'A 2 .S 2 A 1 2 3 'A 2 1 O O 1 1 2 O A 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 81 87 .'» li T o t a l s 17 IH S4 l,-i 8 71 10 7 VA 7 :H :III 4 .1 2r) 'A 7 2.') il 4 111 4 ;f 111 2 ,S 14 O n 14 A 2 13 A A 12 A 1 12 2 2 10 2 O 10 S 0 11 1 2 .T O 2 4 1 0 A O 0 3 1 1 8 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 84 77 42.'i The kinds of lessons and the nuinber of lessons in each sub.iect was determined b.v the culls for demonstrations that came from the instructors in the methods sub.iects this summer. Twentysix observers could get iidmittancc to each denionstriition. The observers'seats were not alwa.vs full, but there were few scheduled demonstrations in which they were not iieiirly full, and occasional l.v b.v special dispensation certain oliservatioiis were overcrowded. Allowing a moderate average of twenty observers to a class, and 4.50 observed lessons (the exact number w-as 444, several of them not being included iu T.able 1 because of difliculty in classification) there were 9,000 individual observations made this summer by stuilents, ail average of fifteen observations for each student. As a by-product of the summer work here, t h a t does not argue badly for improvement in work this winter by summer students. Fifty-nine development lessons were taught, 45 drill lessons, 33 lessons using giimes, 26 appreciation lessons, 17 silent reading lessons, and smaller numbers for a wide variety of types; dramatization, written lessons, story telling, problems, library hours, oral composition, group discussion, oral reading, supervised study, comprehension of reading, listening, beginning reading, free play, picture study, speed tests in reading, formal gymnastics, playing store, projects, rejiroduction, informal- gymnastics, tone matching, written composition, free damatization, group study, sense gaines, standard tests, etc. These types are listed only to give some attempt to indicate the wide variety of procedure; the lessons were not taught as types, the topic to be presented being the point of emphasis. The complete list of activities offered to the children during the summer comprehends devotional exercises, free play, story telling, arithmetic, writing, health education, supervised study, civics, group discussions, playground work, games, language, spelling, nature study, reading, English, music, rhythms, library hour, handwork, hygiene, phonics, history, and geography. TIMES MisH Dunn taught 86 lessons for observation. Hiss Hobbs 82, Miss Ijesher SI, Miss Hanson 74, Miss Stafford 60, Mr. VanArsdale 18, Miss Denniston 16, Miss Angel 11, Miss Gordon 10, Miss Mathews 4, and special instructors 4. Thesis observations served another purpose thiin the practical preparation of teachers, or it might be more accurate to .say another phase of the practical jirepiiratioii of teachers than the direct presentation of ideas; they served as a ver.v valuiiblc ineans of keeping the activities of the methods classroom in constant contact with the teaching done in the training school. It is something more than a theory of teacher-triiiniiig at C. S. N. S. that triiining in basic educational theory should go hand in hand with practical applications of that triiining; it is something more than an unrealized, vaguely hoped-for ideal that that should be done; it is au ideiil t h a t is realized by practical measures such as this this summer. In a dozen ways the work ot the demonstration school is hitched up to and kept up with the work done in the Normal School classrooms, the result being good for the Normal School and good for the training school, and close to ideal for the student-teacher receiving her training here. ALL KINDS OF HATS C L E A N E D Lock Haven Hat Cleaning Co. Shoes Shined Cigars RLEWANS' NCAV Numbers The Chic Tan Calf Model $7.50 Boys Beat Faculty in Last Sumnier Ball Game (Continued from page 1) settled down and stopped chucking the ball around. Another run in the second inning aud a fourth in the fourth inning completed the students' scoring. The faculty pushed over one run in the flrst inning and one more in the sixth, Bohn scoring the first run and Mr. Ritter the second. Reams pitched good ball. AVith consistent support there would have been no scoring. He used little but a straight ball, however, not having pitched for a .year. Sones relieved him in the last inning. The line-ups: Faculty, Bohn, c; Reams, p ; ViuiArsdale, l b ; Sullivan, 2b; All, ss; Sones, 3b; Ritter, If; Keller, cf; Treinbath, rf. C. S. N . S.: Tubo, c; Mclntire, p ; Moose, l b ; Morrison, 2b; Flesher, ss; Sweeny, 3b; Stevenson, If; Gray, cf; Kandrash, rf. Short-Course Hike Miss Selig and the girls who are taking the short course in Campfire Guardianship went on a hike to Peter's Steps on Wednesday evening, August 13. At the top of the cliff they stopped to build a fire and cook their supper of bacon and eggs. Those who went along are Oral Williiuns, Alice Fortner, Hilda Jolly, Edith Weinstine, Eva Dadio, Mary Johnston, Ethel Peterson, Genevieve Pierson, Francis Pierson, Mary Adams, Mary Frantz, Minnie Meyers, Edith Hayes, Leona Hayes, Edua Ruth, and Gertrude Dempsey. Beatrice and Mabel Kelly were fortunate in having their mother and brother visit them over the first weekend in J u n e . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mclntyre spent a recent Sunday with Tom. The Bonton Patent Colt Model $7.50 KLEWAN'S SHOE STORE 21 E. Main St. Prieson's Pharmacy Make our store your headquarters for Beauty Clays Sunburn Cream Face Powders Single Compacts Double Compacts Talcum Powders Cold Creams Shampoos Hair Nets Tooth Paste Tooth Brushes Soaps Films Stationery Bathing Caps Fountain Pens Shaving Creams Razor Blades Razors Shaving Brushes Playing Cards, Ete. We carry the larges stock of drugs in Clinton County. Prieson's Pharmacy PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS S. E. Corner Main and Vesper Streets NORMAL Shoes that have style, quality, and comfort at the right prices. ENDICOTT-JOHNSON SHOE STORE BOTTORF BROTHERS 209 E. Main St. LOCK HAVEN, PA. DAINTY T H I N G S F O R SUMMER W E A R ^l)e ^ c m p Store "The store you'll like to shop i n " 13-15 E. Main St. LOCK HAVEN, PA. THE SANITARY BARBER S H O P CLEANLINESS, COURTEOUS T R E A T M E N T AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Summer Session Picture Taken The annual summer session picture was taken on the east campus on Monday morning, August 11. The bleachers had been put in place on Saturda,y, so everyone had an idea of what was coming; Mr. Drum's aunouneement in chapel .just cleared up the time. At the close of chapel the student body rushed out on the east camiius to get into good positions for the picture. Few of the girls eould resist the temptation of powdering their noses and arranging their hair so as to look their best, which made it possible for Ericson to get onto the bleachers first, with first choice of position. Neefe arrived later, but secured his publicit.v by getting into the picture twice. Belvie arrived in time to be snapped, invited b.y about half the total enrollment. He placed himself in the center of the circle made by the long bleachers, and well out in front, only to be sent back by Mr. Breon as near as possible to the center seats occupied b.y the other members of the faculty. He took a particularly good picture. His contented look was unmistakable. Wonder whether being squeezed into Jilace b.y such a fair one had anything to do with it? Belvie never could resist "em. Two pictures were taken, and prints from the better one were on sale in the main oflfice on Wednesday morning, and for the rest of the week. MYRICK AND SCHROT TENNIS CHAMPIONS A F T E R the S H O W Stop at the Texas Hot Weiner Shop for Weiners, Soft Drinks, and Pies Chiropody Hair Bobbing Water and Marcel Waving Mrs. Jane Crowley Carson's BEAUTY PARLOR 226 East Main Street Near the Garden Theater Among Mary Nevel's many friends, who took time off to come here were Margaret Craft, Justina Lorrah, Ruth Watson, and Paul McKee, from Williamsport. I m • Make your morning meal your oatmeal. For a clear skin: apply fruit juice down the inside of your neck. Keep your vanity case on t h e dining table, not the dressing table. The one best facial cream for that schoolgirl complexion: cow's vanishing cream. (Continued from page 1) eral times he was within a single point of winning the set, but each time Schrot would bring the score back to deuce. All afternoon t h e set went on, and not until the dinner bell rang did Schrot tire out his opponent sufSciently to win, 13 games to 11. Twenty-four games in a single set is about all the tennis that most of us would care to play in an afternoon. The match was resumed the following afternoon, and Schrot took the set and the match 6-4. Not since the challenge cup was first offered, in 1921, has it been won other than by a Clearfield County boy. Three of the four semi-finalists, both of the finalists were from Clearfleld County this year, and the wind-up of the competition last year was the same. Helen Myrick had her second championship in hand easily, except when Grace English forced her, in the second round, to extend herself somewhat to win, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. I n the following frame she had things easier, winning from Louise Beers, 6-2, 6-4; and the match p u t her into such form that the final match with Mary Johnston she took with ease, 6-2, 6-2, little supertennis being necessary. Mary Johnston had worked her way up to the frame by winning easily from Grace Peters in the second round, 6-2, 6-2; and by downing Dorothy Yeager in a three-set match in the next round, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0. The other second round matches had seen Dorothy Yeager pushed to win from Christina Doebler, 6-3, 6-4; and Louise Beers winning the first set easily from Mercedes Beter, 6-1, losing the next by the same one-sided score, but coming TIMES through to a narrow margin of victory iu the deciding set, 6-4. The big silver cups, twenty inches high, which have been in Bruce Burns, the jeweler's safe, since last year, will be awarded in chapel some time this week. Good Literature—and Interesting MISS Fuller took occasion in her ehapel talk to rap those people wdio yield to an urge now and then to read something because it is literature and therefore supposed to be good for them. Somehow they have the idea that literature is like medicine: t h e worse it tastes, the better it must be for you. Miss Fuller denied that good literature need not be dry as dust; she asserted that if one but chooses wisely and in accordance with the sort of things in which he is naturally interested, he can find good books, many of them, good literature, and as interesting as he could hope to find. That is the sort of literature which one should choose if he hopes to improve himself. She implied that one improved his literary taste by enjoying the best sort of things lie liked to read. To illustrate that there is rich reward in literaure, she read to us Stephen Leaeock's humorous essays, "Adventures With a Black Bass," and "Chairmen I Have Met." Both Mr. Reams and Miss Daugherty were moved to tears when reminded how one can pull up a perfect black bass one has hooked, to find that a yellow perch has substituted himself on the line. Electrically Equipped Gramley's Barber Shop Four Expert Barbers PLAN T O LUNCH A T F. J. TITUS' Just Off the Campus ICE CREAM H O M E COOKING GROCERIES For J E W E L R Y PLOOF'S Eye Specialist Last Dance Is Best The last dance of the sumnier session, wdiich was held on Saturday, Aug. 16, proved a real success. Mr. Drum announced at the luncheon hour on Saturday that the dancing would last an hour longer than usual, and that the orchestra would be flve pieces instead of the usual three pieces. Everything was just as he said, the music was fine, and there was a big crowd there to enjoy it. Judging from the remarks in the hall afterward, everyone had a rattling good time. Mr. and Mrs. M. J . Woodring spent Sunday with Hazel. Prof. C. V. Erdley, superintendent of schools, also from Philipsburg, spent a number of days seeing the improvements that have brought this school right up-to-date. Bertha Stiney, Beulah Wilkinson, and George Wilkinson, of Coalport, were among Ruth Wilkinson's visitors during the summer. May Edgar and Mary Millard entertained Helge Quist and Clarence Oakerlund from Mt. Jewett. Eobert Rishel, Helen, Kathryn and Jean Rishel, and Mabel Hagen, all of Spring Mills, were here on July 26. Mrs. H. D. Shoff, of Olean, N. Y., a sister of Madge Jopling, found time to visit her over a week-end. George Johnston and Gerald Little were here visiting Catherine Chandler. Stretch Your Money By Buying your Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Articles and Prescriptions from Hilton & Heffner Lock Haven's Drug Quality Store Lowest prices in Clinton County on Patent Medicines and Toilet Articles, Victor and Columbia Machines and Records Fine Candies, \Vriting Paper, Playing Cards, Tallies a n d Place Cards Greeting Every Cards for Occasion NORMAL minute period CENTRE WINS CUP IN throwing; when DODGEBALL "MEET" (Continued from page 1) ried the necessary punch, or heave, or chuck, or whatever it is in dodgeball. In the preliminary round Lycoming County went up against Cambria and Clinton against Blair, the rest of the teams drawing byes. On Monday evening, August 4, the opening contest resulted in an easy win for Cambria over Lycoming, the fln.al score being 7-2. Both teams played hard, but Cambria had the idea of hanging on to t h e ball better, and lost less time in pursuing it about the field. Lycoming, too, had the services of b u t one male student, and that handicap was a little too much. L. Kyler, Esther and Euth Ayres, Anna and Mabel Moburg, Ruth Kline, A. Johnson, and C. Lowe held up Lycoming's reputation, wdiile B. Madison, C. McNulty, J. Choby. M. Topper, A. Topper, A. Mackey, M. Muldoon, E. Burke, D. Yeager, and E. Rhoads played for Cambria. Iinmediately after Blair bowed to Clinton, snappy playing b y both teams making the game more interesting than the final score indicates. Blair was right there wdth the push, but a trifle weak with the dodge; while Clinton, for the first time in many contests, tasted the fruits of victory, and proceeded to mop up the rest of the contests—all but Center. The flnal score was 8-2. Eor Blair, Lenore Hess, Hettie Holman, Marian Scott, E d n a Ruth, Esther Garber, Mabel Stiffler, Byron McDowell, Pearl Spangler, Mabel Kelly, and Beatrice Kelly hurled the ball around; w hile for victorious Clinton, Foster Augustine, Christina Doebler, Ray Hirlinger, Pearl Mason, Dean Hoy, Margaret Piper, A'aughn Eussell, Loretta O'Connor, Lulu Batsdorf, and Grace English dodged all that came their way. The following night Cambria fought its way into the semi-finals. McKean was t h e victim in a one-sided match, at the end of the respective periods three of McKean's were left. The final score was 9-2. Elk County defaulted to Center, and the Mixed Counties likewise failed to put a full team on the field against Potter. Clinton caught a tarter in Clearfield, however, the best match of the tournament resulting. At the end of the first regular periods of six minutes each, both teams had put out six of the opposition. A tie score, 6-6. Clinton had been rather expecting defeat, had more or less conceded it, Clearfleld in every year previous having reached the final round. The unexpected tie was shouted all over the picnic ground—those two contests were part of the attraction a t the Woolrich picnic—and a huge crowd collected to see the playoff. I n the second three- there was no gentle the ball hit the bump could be heard. Clearfield put on a little too much elbow grease, however; several times the ball got away, with the result that eight of Clinton's players were still hopping about at tho end of the time, while in Clinton's half the ball was so well handled t h a t only five Clearfield Countians were in the ring at the last wdiistle. Clinton carried off the contest, 11-8, and loud and long were tho cheers. Cambria gave Center soiuetliiug to think about in their semi-final match. The Cambrians (or is it the Cymbri) were very much in the battle. First in the center of the ring, the end of six minutes' playing found three of them still active and ready to go on indefinitely. A lively bit of dodging was necessary to save the day for Center, but it was developed, eight of the team being in the ring when the match was over. Cambria contributed to its own defeat by allowing the ball to get away too frequently. Cambria presented the same lineup as against Lycoming. For Center, Russell Bohn, Elwood Sones, Reeder Patton, Charles Hackenberg, Paul Durner, Tona Hosterman, Louise Cunningham, Tacy Smith, Nona Wagner, and Anna Winkleblech were the victors. Meanwhile, in the other semi-final match, Clinton walloped Potter to a standstill, doing them in to the tune of 6-0. Clinton had its full team of ten on the field, while Potter was forced to play wdth but eight players, but were good enough sports to go througii with it. Neefe directed the match, but was able to perform better outside the ring than in the center; it Avas too difiicult to miss him there. The final round brought together the two undefeated teams, Clinton and Center. Clinton ran into the center with a rousing shout that showed plenty of pep. For some minutes the ball flew wildly about, twdce escaping; then Bohn began the mowing down. I n the next half minute three players went out; but the remaining seven took new lease of vigor, and dodged and skipped and slid so well that two minutes went by without another loss. Then one by one three others went out, but four—not so bad a number, after that hectic period— remaining in the center a t the final whistle. Center fared little better in the center of the ring. So evenly matched were the teams that a t the final whistle Center had b u t five left, one more than Clinton, and enough to carry off the game. The second game 'was even hotter than the first. The strain on the players told, aud the process of elimination went ou more rapidly. Again Center won, carrying off the TIMES match in straight gaines, and again the score was exceedingly close, three Centerians waving goodby to the referee at the last wdiistle to one of Clinton's. Clinton lost, b u t the lo.sing was well done; close, hard-fought, in good spirit. And Center won just as well, with hearty cheers for the vanquished as well as for tlieniselves. So ends the 192-1 tournament. Hail to the victors. Year after year they have such winning ways. Maybe someone can stop them in 1925; but tho team that does will have a battle to do it, for Center County sticks together and ('enter Count.v fights. That they will have to fight is certain, for two years iu a row is too long for them to hang on to that cup; it strikes the rest of the counties as rubbing it in. Beat Center in ]92o—if you can! There isn't one person from Center County who thinks it can be done—which is just the spirit that will make it mighty hard to do. Midsummer' Clearances AT HECHT'S Womans' Shop Exceptional Bargains The Value of Art as a Subject Miss Tressler gave an interesting discussion of the value of a r t as a .school subject for every child. She stated that through this subject, properly taught, people were alile more fully to appreciate the beauty in color, form, and arrangement of things whose appeal inight be overlooked. Children, therefore, should never be allowed to see ugly things, so that the impressions made on their iiiinds might be such that they will react to true beauty. She called to mind some of the practical results of art. If it had not been for the art of architecture, we would still be barely up to the log cabin idea. Sculptural art has given us fine monuments, structural art the furniture aud modern equipment of a home, inventive art the labor-saving machines an