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APRIL,, 1912

No. 3

Mew Ueacbers
The Faculty for the Spring Term will be reinforced by the
addition of three new teachers.
Miss Mary Slichter, of Scotland, Pa.; Mr. Roy Knouse, of
Amdtsville, Pa.; and Mr. Wm. K . Yocum, of Red Hill, Pa. Miss
Slichter is a graduate of Wilson College, and a teacher of several
years experience, with a most excellent record of good work. We
consider ourselves very fortunate in having her to join our faculty.
A ll who remember Roy Knouse, of our class of 1908, will
congratulate us on having him return as] teacher. He has been
teaching in high schools in Adams county, and no one has made
a better record.
Mr. W . K . Yocum is a graduate of West Chester State
Normal, and has had a year’s training in the University of Penn­
sylvania and three years experience as teacher or principal. He
is to inaugurate the department of Manual T r aining

Mrs . Malaprop : “ No, I never was strong on literature.
To save my life, I couldn’t tell you who wrote Gray’s E legy.”
—

Life.

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flew Classes
The subjects of Manual Training and Domestic Science, which
are required by our new four year scheme of studies, will be intro­
duced this Spring Term.
The Trustees have fitted Jup a large room in the Dormitory
basement for Wood Work, and have equipped it with benches
and tools for a class*of fifteen.
The Domestic Art of Sewing will be taken up'by Miss Irene
Huber, of the Art Department. The Art Room will be used for
this class, about sixteen students will be as many as will be taught
at one time; we shall have probably four or’five sections of the
class in sewing and two or three in wood work.
Cooking will not be introduced this year, except in a few
lectures. One lecture on cooking was given on February 23, by
Mrs. Scott, of Philadelphia. It was practical and interesting.
M S'
“ Madam,” remarked the weary wayfarer with the bandaged
eye, “ I was not always as you see me now.”
“ I know it,” replied the stern-visaged woman at the back
door. ‘ ‘The last time you were here you had on a deaf-and-dumb
sign.” — Puck.
*
Chief Justice White is a Southerner and knows many negro
stories. A writer in Munsey’s Magazine cites the following as
one of his favorites:
Two Louisiana negroes who worked on Mr. W hite’s father’s
plantation got into a quarrel with a third laborer, who carried a
pistol. The man with the revolver began to shoot and the two
others ran to cover. When they were out of range, one of them
said to his companion:
“ Did you hear dat last bullet?”
“ Deed I did. I heard it twice.”
“ What do you mean by dat?” asked the first one.
“ I heard dat bullet once when it passed me and den again
when I passed it,” was the answer.— Youth's Companion.

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The Mission Sunday School

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flDisston TOorft b» ©ut Sunbas School
About ten years ago Miss Susan C. Easton, of the Women’s
Union Missionary Society, visited us and explained to us the work
o f the society and asked our help in the work.
We decided to have our Normal Sunday School take up the
work and our pledge was that a collection should be taken every
Sunday at the regular Sunday School session and the money
used to support a little girls’ day school at Jhansi, India. This
money is sent to the office of the society, 67 Bible House, New
York City, once a month and is used for support of the said
school. The cost of supporting the school is about fifty dollars
a year. Our collections have averaged just about this amount
a year. Some years a little more— some a little less.
We print in this issue a picture of the little school, that we
support, with its native teachers.
During this ten years] we have had a number of missionaries
who were home on furlough visit us, some of them directly from
Jhansi. Among those that have spoken to us are Miss Mary
Fairbank, Miss Clara M. Beach, Miss Susan C. Easton, Miss
Alice Wishart and just recently Miss Emma M. Bertsch, who
gave us a splendid talk on missionary work in India and showed
us ornaments, costumes and jewelry which are so much prized by
the women of India.
Our Sunday School is very grateful to the Society for sending
us these missionaries from time to time, as it serves to keep up our
interest in the work.
The society is non-denominational and the work is entirely
among the women.

“ Boy, take these flowers to Miss Bertie Bohoo, Room 12.”
“ My, sir, you’re the fourth gentleman wot’s sent her flowers
to-day.”
“ What’s that? What the deuce? W-who sent the others?”
“ Oh, they didn’t send any names. They all said, ‘She’ll
know where they come from.’ ”
“ Well, here, take my card, and tell her these are from the
same one who sent the other three boxes.” — Tit-Bits.

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Uennsson’s attitu&e Xtowari» mature
In an early poem, “ Edwin Morris,” Tennyson makes his
hero say:— “ My love for nature is as old as I .” I f we concede that
the poet here expresses his own sentiment we may understand,
in part, how he came both to his earlier attainments in outdoor
descriptions and to his later excellence in portraying nature in
magnificent word pictures.
He loved nature from his youth up, and he came to know
her not only with a peculiar intimacy but with a scientific accur­
acy that is seldom found in a poet. He also loved England with
the devotion of a true son, and it seems to have been a passion
with him to create, in his poetry, a part, as it were, of his beloved
island home. Thus he pictures for us her chalk-cliffs and seacoasts, her downs and moors, her storms and calms, her flowers
and birds,— and he paints them all with the dash and skill of the
landscape artist and with the accuracy and fidelity of the trained
scientist.
Indeed, Tennyson’s method of using nature was an innovation
in English poetry, that is, he gained recognition for a style of
nature poetry which had never been successfully produced in
England before, and which had long been decried by the ablest
critics of the continent. There are now many who feel that his
attitude toward nature is perhaps not the most fortunate one for a
poet to assume. These say he is too scientific in his interpreta­
tions of the external world, and there are others, as we know,
who would not only deny him a place in the first ranks of Eng­
lish nature poets, but who even say that he has little, if any, merit
in this field, having never surmounted the level of the mere wordpainter.
Every reader of Tennyson must feel, however, that this as­
sertion is more distinctly false than it is true. For the poet never
approaches nature in a cold or unsympathetic manner, neither
does he paint her for her own sake, nor for the sake of a poetic
canvas. We always find her linked with the human heart and
reflecting human emotions. We are impelled by the work of her
artist to “ look upon her, to love and rejoice” and, with him, to
reverence what she symbolizes.
It is true that he never raises her to the dignity of a live com-J
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a message for him. She always reflects his moods, without him
— or human-kind in general— she is silent and dead. In short, to
him she is Matter. He sees her as the garment of the Power
which created all things, and he portrays her as a sensitive-souled
scientist might wish to have her portrayed. Consequently, one
called upon to teach science, whether physical or biological, to
the youthful mind, finds in Tennyson a veritable gold mine from
which he may draw some of the fairest gems of English verse
wherewith to illustrate the basic principles of science as well as
many of the otherwise dull and prosaic details. For example, it
may seem to most folks that there can be very little that is thrill­
ing or poetic in a description of the metamorphosis of an insect,
and yet what could be more exquisite in itself and more inducive
to the firing of the imagination of a nature student than Tenny­
son’s description of the emergence of the dragon-fly after its years
of semi-larval life in the water? He says:
“ To-day I saw the dragon-fly
Come from the well* where he did lie,
An inner impulse rent the veil
Of his old husk; from head to tail
Came out clear plates of sapphire maii,
He dried his wings, like gauze they grew;
Thfp’ crofts and pastures wet with dew
A living flash o f light he flew!”

There are hosts of nature subjects which no lengthy treatise
could describe better than Tennyson does in a few lines from
among the many, one recalls with delight his allusions to the dis­
play of the water-hyacinth, to the climbing jasmine, the bud of
the linden, the elm, and the ash, the fruit of the hawthorn and
the larch, the leaf petiole of the aspen, the protective coloration
of the insect, the seasonal color changes in bird and beast, the re­
lationship between flowers and insects, the tides of the ocean, the
salt marsh and its tidal creeks, the chalk quarry, the fern bank,
the resin stores of the pine, the work of the gall-insect, the flight
of the eagle, the song habits of the lark,— even the microscopic
structure of the human bones.— In short, to those who look upon
nature from a scientific point of view Tennyson’s .interpretation
of her is as distinctly attractive and admirable as Wordsworth’s is
to the more idealistic and philosophic mind.
Yet I suppose there is no lover of poetry and of nature, be he
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escape from what is material and realistic— when he would get
away for a little while from humanity itself and lose himself in
communion with nature,— Then it is that Tennyson fails him,
and he turns to Wordsworth or Shelly, or to the prose-poets, Jef­
feries and Thoreau.
It is because of this fidelity to his scientific conception of
nature that Tennyson fails, in the eyes of most critics, to reach
the high pinnacle as a nature poet to which Wordsworth and these
others have attained. To them, to Wordsworth in particular,
nature was alive. She was a thing to be worshipped. She had a
beck to follow, a voice to obey, a heart to sympathize. That this
conception was an impossible one for Tennyson to hold is easily
understood when we remember what were the tendencies of the
age in which he lived, thought and worked. He was contem­
poraneous with Darwin, H uxley and Tyndall. The spirit of
modern scientific research had just then sprung into existence
and was possessing the minds and shaping the activities of the
student-life of England. The poet and his friends did not escape.
They watched science make havoc with old methods and old ideas
of the cosmos. They became possessed of the spirit of the day
which was busying itself particularly with the question of nature,
and Man's place therein. It was not an opportune period, even
had it been possible for the frank, open-minded and truth-seek­
ing poet to pitch idealistic and purely sentimental interpretations
of the external world against the rational and demonstrable in­
terpretations of the disciples of science. What is more, the poet
realized that there are two aspects to the question of man’s place
in nature. He realized that it was for science to say whence man
had come, but that to the philosopher and prophet belonged the
larger aspect of the question, namely, “ Whither is he going?”
And so when, with the death of Hallam, the great question
of the immortality of the soul was inexorably thrust upon him,
the poet, with a grace that is admirable, accepted and honored
science on her own grounds, and respectfully withdrew to his in­
contestable sphere.
To come back to his methods of incorporating nature in his
poetry, we may repeat that Tennyson was, first, a true wordpainter, and then, that his poetic pictures of nature were almost
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poem ‘ ‘ Maud, ” we have som eolthe rarest examples of his masteryin this wonderful art.
To the eyes of the hero all nature about “ the dreadful hollow
behind the little wood,” which had witnessed the suicide of his
father, is red and suggestive of murder.
“ Its lips in the field above
Are dappled with blood-red heath,
The red-ribbed ledges drip with a silent horror o f blood,
And echo there—whatever is asked her—answers, ‘Death’ .”

In contrast we have the portrayal of an entirely different
mood in the happy impressions of the lover as Maud is on the
point of yielding to his suit.
“ Go not happy day
From the shining fields,
Go not happy day,
Till the maiden yields,
Rosy is the West,
Rosy is the South,
Roses are her cheeks,
And a rose her mouth,
When the happy, ‘yes’
Falters from her lips
Pass and blush the news
Over glowing ships,
Over ships at rest,
Pass the happy news
And blush it through the West.”

And again when she is coming at last:
“ There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion flower at the gate,
She is coming, my love, my dear,
She is coming, my life, my fate.
The red rose cries, ‘ she is near’ ; ‘she is near’ ;
And the white rose weeps ‘ she is late’ .
The larkspar listens—‘I hear’ ; ‘I hear’ ;
And the lily whispers ‘I wait’.”

But the final contrast comes with the description of the hollow
and its surrounding landscape as they reflect the emotions of a
heart which loves, and which, through love, has shaken off its
rancor.
“ From the meadows your walks have left so sweet,
That whenever a March wind sighs
He sets the jewel-print of your feet

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In violets blue as your eyes,
To the woody hollows in which we meet,
And the valleys of Paradise.”

In In Memoriam, better than anywhere else, we have nature re­
flecting the poet s own emotions. When his grief first breaks
upon him it is imaged in the ‘desolate dash of the sea§and we
hear the despairing cry:
“ Break, break, break!
On thy cold gray stones, oh sea!
................ The tender grace of a day that is gone
Will never come back to me.”

But as the heart of the poet gradually lays hold upon his
sorrow and begins to work out its own salvation, the sea assumes
a different aspect. The wild, savage element passes out of it.
“ The Danube to the Severn gave
The darkened heart that beat no more;
They laid him by
pleasant shore,
And in the hearing o f the wave.”

The coming and passing of the storm reflects the movement
of his inner life as it progresses,— now, through its tumultuous
heavings, and again, through its despairing calms. He frequently
contrasts his own emotions by presenting two opposed moods of
nature. In Canto X I all the external world is responsive to the
calm despair in his soul.
“ Calm and deep peace on this high world,
And on these dews that drench the furze,
And all the silvery gossamers
That twinkle into green and gold;
Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair.”

In the fifteenth canto all the calm of the morning landscape
is replaced by the raging of the storm which mirrors again the
tumult of the soul within.
.

“ To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirled away,
The rooks are blown about the skies;
The forest cracked, the waters curled,
The cattle huddled on the lea;
And wildly dashed on tower and tree
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So the processional of the seasons is made to typify the shift­
ing tempests of the mind and heart. Particularly is this evident
in the poems which mark the coming of the springtide of hope
and faith in the poet’s soul.
“ Now fades the last long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering squares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.
Now rings the woodland loud and long,
The distance takes a lovelier hue,
And drowned in yonder living blue
The lark becomes a sightless song,
......... and in my breast
Spring wakens too; and my regret
Becomes an April violet
And buds and blossoms like the rest.
Is it, then, regret for buried time
That keenlier in sweet April wakes,
And meets the year, and gives and takes
The colors of the crescent prime?
Not all: the songs, the stirring air,'
The life re-orient out o f dust,
Cry thro’ the sense to hearten trust
In that which made the world so fair.
Not all regret: the face will shine
Upon me, while I muse alone;
And that dear voice I once have known
Still speak to me of me and mine;
Yet less of sorrow lives in me
E ot days of happy commune dead;
Less yearning for the friendship fled,
Than some strong bond which is to be.”

Just as he weaves together the outward scenes in nature and
the inward emotions of his own spirit, so he associates indissolu­
bly the natural landscape with the recollections of his friend.
“ I climb the hill from end to end,
Of all the landscape underneath,
I find no place that does not breathe
Some gracious memory of my friend.”

Tennyson, then, loved external nature and looked upon her
with reverence. He saw reflected in her the best and worst that
proceeds from the human heart. He never exalted her above the
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her. He ferreted her out with the zest and integrity of the scien­
tist, and he painted her with the magic touch and the devotion
and feeling of the artist.
I da S it t l ER.

•(international (Peace
On January 20th President Warfield, of Lafayette College,
gave us an unusually instructive lecture on International Peace.
It was a scholarly discussion of the history and practical ad­
vancement of the scheme of international courts as a preventive
of war. His plea was for the intelligent cooperation of all good
citizens to the end that war may cease and justice be maintained
by rational means.
Dr. Warfield also spoke to the students in Chapel to their
great delight. Seldom, if ever, have we had a more charming or
more helpful address. His theme was the “ Duties and Opportu­
nities of Educated Men and Women.”
Come again, Dr. Warfield.

“ Dear Clara,” wrote the young man, “ pardon me, but I ’m
getting so forgetful. I proposed to you last night, but really for-|
got whether you said yes or no.”
“ Dear W ill,” she replied by note, “ so glad to hear from you.
I know I said ‘no’ to someone last night, but I had forgotten just
who it was.” — London Opinion.
*
“ A good turkey dinner and mince pie,” said a well-known
after-dinner orator, “ always puts us in a lethargic mood— makes
us feel, in fact like the natives of Nola Chucky. In Nola Chucky
one day I said to a man:
“ ‘What is the principal occupation of this town?’
“ ‘Wall, boss,’ the man answered, yawning, ‘in winter they
mostly sets on the east side of the house and follows the sun
around to the west and in summer they sets on the west side and
follows the shade around to the east.’ ” — Washington Star.

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trbc /»osqulto ant> Its allies in tlbeir «elation
to tbe fjealtb of flban
The mosquito, as well as nearly all insects which carry disease,
belongs to the order diptera, which embraces about three hundred
fifty thousand species. The members of this order are probably
the most highly specialized of all insects from the point of evo­
lution, because of the completeness of their metamorphosis and
the high organization of the adults. Y et they do not have the
apparent specialization in the way of intelligence that is seen in
bees, wasps and ants.
The diptera are not popular with entomologists and collectors
because they have none of the beauty and the definiteness of struc­
ture found in the butter-fly, dragon-flies and locusts. Neverthe­
less the bacteriologist and the general biologist consider them to
be perhaps the most interesting of all insects.
While the order produces some of the most famous cropenemies in the world, it is also true that some of the most bene­
ficial insects belong to it, since some of the diptera are parasitic
upon many destructive forms of insects which they kill off by the
millions. Others, again, are agents in the spread of diseases like
gangrene, malignant postule, ophthalmia, pink-eye, typhoid fever,
cholera, sleeping-sickness, yellow fever, malaria, and, as is now
about demonstrated, infantile paralysis. So that in spite of the
benefits to humanity which the parasitic species have conferred
by their destruction of injurious insects and the benefit which
many diptera exercise as scavengers, it is true, nevertheless, that
the wholesale ravages of many more on crops and domestic
animals and the dissemination of death through germ diseases
which others effect, make the order a distinctly and markedly inr
jurious one.
The forms besides the mosquitoes that work most of the havoc
in the way of disease dissemination are the house-fly, bot-fly, tetsefly and nose-fly.
Mosquitoes are found in great numbers in almost all parts of
the world. Mrs. Addams says that there are fifty-seven species
in the Torrid Zone alone, while travelers from Alaska tell us that
the abundance and voracity of the Alaskan mosquito is beyond
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pupal stages in the water, while the adult lives on the wing. They
pass through several generations in the course of a year, and dur­
ing the winter the adults hibernate. Some of these hibernating
mosquitoes may be found in almost any sheltered place during our
winter months. In our southern states and in the tropics they
are active all the year. In regions where there are prolonged
droughts the adults live through the dry spell and lay their eggs
as soon as the rains come.
Three genera of disease-bearing unosquitoes are represented
in this country, namely Anopheles, Culex and Stegomyia. Most of
the species of this region belong to the genus Culex. This com­
mon and wide-spread mosquito lays its eggs, numbering from two
hundred to four hundred, in a raft-like mass on the surface of the
water. The eggs are laid side by side standing on end and stuck
close together in from six to thirteen longitudinal rows, with from
three to forty eggs in a row (see chart). The egg mass appears
greyish-brown from above and silvery-white from below, the lat­
ter color being due to the water-film. The eggs are laid early in
the morning— before dawn— and, in warm weather, will hatch by
two o’clock in the afternoon of the same day. The larvae are
active little creatures known as wrigglers, which are so often to
be seen in rain-water barrels and horse troughs. The larval body
is beautifully adapted for going through its aquatic evolutions. Its
head and thorax are so large (see chart) that it cannotascend and lie
in a horizontal position, but it hangs head downwards and breathes
by means of a spiracle lodged in one of the large tubes into which
the anal end of the body is divided. The air is taken in very
rapidly by this tube and very soon fills the long tracheal tube which
runs through the body. After the tube is filled the wriggler
whirls around, head upwards— its tail being the pivot— and pro­
ceeds to feed. Besides this tube the last segment of the body of
the larva is armed at the tip with four flaps. These are gill-like
in structure (see chart) and act as emergency organs for respir­
ation when the larva is beneath the surface. In addition to these
methods of obtaining air, the skin is capable of absorbing oxygen
and a network of trachea lines the posterior part of the alimen“
tary canal, so that oxygen may be obtained from the water taken
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water for any appreciable length of time, but must come to the
surface to breathe.
The larvae feed upon all sorts of minute organisms floating
in the water, such as the spores of algae and minute aquatic
animals. They undergo three different moults, reach maturity
and transform into pupae in seven days in hot weather, taking,
however, much longer in early spring or when the weather grows
cool in the fall.
In the pupal stage the mosquito is quite a different being.
Its life is regulated by a new code. It scorns food of all sorts
and lives on air alone. The enormous thorax has greatly de­
creased in size and instead of breathing through its tail it bears
two club-shaped respiratory tubes on its back (chart). These are
situated on the future thoracic spiracles of the adult. The pupa
remains at the surface of the water in an upright position, but
when disturbed wriggles actively to the bottom, floating upward
again in a very short time for air. In a few days if the weather
is warm the pupa is transformed into the adult by the splitting
of the skin on the back of the thorax from which it works itself
out, rests upon the old pupal skin until its wings unfold and
then flies away. The Life History of a single generation may be
completed within ten days— say sixteen hours for the eggs, seven
days for the larvae and two days for the pupae.
Mosquitoes as a rule do not fly far. Those of the genus culex
stay near their breeding places unless they are carried by light
and continued winds. In heavy winds they cling to the nearest
point of attachment. They are carried long distances, however, by
railroad trains, so that many localities where mosquitoes were un­
known have become infested by the introduction of railroads or
the improvement of the through-train service.
Malaria has probably killed more human beings than all the
wars that ever devastated the globe. It ever has been, and is yet
the great barrier against the invasion of the tropics by the white
races. It was malaria more than any other five influences com­
bined that thwarted the French in their attempt to dig the Panama
canal. Two particular ingenious investigators have even ad­
vanced the theory that the importation of malaria into the islands
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African and South Asiatic conquests had much to do with ac­
celerating, if not actually promoting, the classic decay of both of
these superb civilizations.
To come nearer home there can-be little doubt that malaria
is perhaps the greatest single factor to be reckoned with in the
agricultural development of our southern states. It is now ac­
countable for much of the physical inefficiency of many of the
southern people. Indeed, it is hardly a generation since the
whole middle west was colored with a malarial tinge, and the
taste of quinine, which was used for curing this disease, was as
familiar as that of sugar. Over three-fourths of the area of the
United States was inhabited by people who were so used to malaria
that when they felt head-achy or run down they summed it all up
by saying they felt “ malarious.” The so-called congested chills
caused by malaria was a well-known and dreaded spectre in these
communities. It was said that one might probably survive the
first one, but if the same person were seized by another attack, it
was a fair warning to move out of the country.
Malaria, which is also known under the various names of
chills and fever, marsh fever, intermittent fever, remittent fever
and pernicious fever, is caused by parasites in the blood which
feed upon the red blood cells. These parasites are microscopic
one-celled animals called Plasmodia. They are introduced into
the blood through the proboscis of certain mosquitoes of the genus
Anopheles. On being introduced in this way each parasite enters
one of the red blood cells, in which it grows. When full grown
it divides and thus produces a number of spores which escape
from the blood cells and enter fresh cells. This method of prop­
agation may continue for years.
Although only a few of the parasites may have been intro­
duced originally through the beak of the mosquito, they rapidly
increase until millions upon millions of them may exist in the blood.
A t first, when the number of parasites is still small an affected per­
son may remain apparently well. When, however, the number be­
comes large enough he begins to suffer from a fever. The parasites
tend to produce their spores all at the same time and it is at the mo­
ment when these spores escape from the blood cells that the chills oc­
cur. The fever follows immediately after the chills. It is prob­
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the spores. After from six to forty hours, this poison is elimi­
nated from the patient’s system and his fever tends to leave him.
In the meantime, however, a new generation of parasites is ap­
proaching maturity in the blood corpuscles. When this stage is
reached, the corpuscles in their turn break up and cause another
chill to be followed by fever like the first and so on indefinitely
for mouths. In this way the attacks of the fever follow the chills
at regular intervals. But it often happens, as the result of re­
peated infections, that a new attack has commenced before the
former one has ceased, so that they overlap and the fever continues
constantly. After a time, even without treatment, the number of
parasites may decrease until not enough of them are left to pro­
duce fever, in which case the patient improves temporarily. It
usually happens, sooner or later, that the number of parasites in­
creases again and so the patient suffers from a series of attacks.
Such relapses are frequently encouraged by fatigue, overheating,
chilling, wetting, dissipation or illness, and they may occur at in­
tervals for a long time after the patient is first infected by the
mosquito, and even after he has moved to localities where there is
no malaria. Besides fever these malarial parasites often produce
anemia and enlargement of the spleen, especially with patients who
have suffered many relapses.
Death is often caused by other diseases in the malarial patient
such as pneumonia or dysentary due to a weakening of the system
by the malarial parasites. Tuberculosis often follows malaria.
I f the patient survives, the parasites tend to die out of themselves,
though only after a long period of illness, leaving him more or less
immune.
The parasites are of at least three kinds, which can be easily
discovered in the blood of a patient if placed under a microscope.
These are: first, a parasite which produces its spores every three
days and causes what is called quartan fever; second, one which
produces its spores every other day and causes tertian fever; and,
third, another which causes the so-called malignant fever or per­
nicious malaria, which is of an irregular type and in which dan­
gerous complications usually occur.
Quinine kills the parasites when administered at the proper
time, but generally it will not destroy all the parasites in the body
unless it is given in sufficient doses and continued for several

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months. This remedy for malaria was known to the Indians.
The early Spanish explorers were told by the natives that there
was a certain bark in Peru which would cure this disease. A
lady of rank, the Countess of Chinchon, carried some of the bark
to Europe, but was persecuted by the church for believing in such
pagan remedies. It was afterwards reintroduced and is now widely
used all over the world. It has been tersely said that the success o f
the early explorer depended upon two powders— quinine and gun­
powder. Although for years a cure had been found, it was not
until 1880 that the cause of the disease became known. Then
Laveran, a French army surgeon stationed at Algiers, announced
the discovery in malarial patients of the organism which finds its
home in tthe red corpuscles. Instantly the question arose as to
how the disease was transmitted. As the germ is a microscopic
animal, it was concluded that it must be carried by some other
animal organism. Obviously the only animals that bite our human
species with sufficient frequency to act as transmitters of such a
common disease are those Ishmaelites of the animal world, the
insects. As night seemed to be the time that chills were ac­
quired evidence soon pointed to the night-fliers, namely, the mos­
quitoes, as agents in transmitting the germ of the disease. This
then had to be proved, so two Italians, Bignami and Grassi, called
for volunteers to test this theory. Men were taken and examined
to ascertain that they were healthy and then allowed to be bitten
by infected mosquitoes, and, sure enough, in from eight to ten
days almost all of the men had malaria. '
Fortunately it is only one genus of mosquitoes, the Anophe­
les, that carries the disease or we would not be here to tell the
story. A t first, it looked as if the men who were fighting the
plague might just as well try to sweep back the Atlantic Ocean
with a broom as to fight the army of mosquitoes, but when they
found that the malarial Plasmodium can live only in the body o f
this particular genus of mosquito, and that nowhere, not even in
the most benighted regions of Jersey, does this variety form more
than about four or five per cent, of the total mosquito population,
they were encouraged to press on in their warfare. Another
thing in favor of the malaria fighters is the length of time that it
takes the Anopheles to develop. The Culex can breed, going
through all the stages from the egg to the complete insect in,

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about fourteen days, where it takes the Anopheles about three
months for the completion of its Life History.
The Life History of the parasite in the mosquito’s body
may be of interest. Aside from the forms which produce spores
in the human body, there is a sexual stage in the mosquito’s
body.
When one of the Anopheles mosquitoes happens to feed on a
patient whose blood contains parasites, these are sucked with the
blood into the mosquito’s stomach. I f the sexual forms of the
parasite are present, those of opposite sexes at once unite, form­
ing a fertilized individual which now undergoes certain changes
in the mosquito’s stomach. It passes through the stomach wall
and finally affixes itself to its outer surface. Here it grows very
considerably, and, after a week, under favorable conditions, pro­
duces a large number of spores. These spores enter the general
body cavity of the mosquito, and find their way into the salivary
glands. These glands secrete the irritating fluid injected under
the human skin when the mosquito begins to feed. Thus, when
one of these mosquitoes, which has fed upon a malarial patient,
bites, after a week, another person, it injects these spores together
with its saliva into the blood, causing infection in this second
person. Thus the parasite of malaria must pass from man to the
Anopheles and back again to man" in order to complete its Life
History. Malarial fever is, then, an infectious disease, which is
carried from the sick to the healthy by the bite of Anopheline
mosquitoes, and only in this way can it be transmitted.
In the same way that malaria is carried by Anopheles, that
dreadful disease called yellow fever, so prevalent among the people
in the warm parts!of the earth, is carried by the Stegomyia mos­
quito, and it is now believed that Infantile Paralysis, which be­
comes epidemic at times in Pennsylvania and other states, is car­
ried by the mosquito of our common genus Culex.
We thus see that it behooves us to be up and doing some­
thing in order to preserve the future health and existence of the
human race from these disease carrying insects.
There are now five recognized means of warfare against dis­
eases carried by mosquitoes. First, there is the mechanical pro­
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all habitations of human beings during the mosquito season.
Second, we must work toward the destruction of the insects in
any and all of their different stages of growth. This is not as hard
as it would seem because the mosquitoes breed and thrive in almost
any still or stagnant water, such as collects in cattle tracks, in
marshy ground, small ponds, tin cans, crockery, watering troughs,
and in anything that will hold water. A ll we need to do is to
drain or empty all these things, or place oil upon the water,
which Trills the larvae. Crude petroleum or almost any oil will
anwser the purpose. Third, the introduction of fishes into our
streams and ponds will reduce greatly the number of mosquito
wrigglers. Fourth, the protection of the insect eating birds must
become the living creed of every citizen. Finally, the sys­
tematic treatment of the patients with whatever specific Science
furnishes should always be resorted to promptly.
The material for the above report was obtained from the fol­
lowing sources: Packard’s H alf Hours with Insects, from which
I obtained information on the Order Diptera in general; Howard’s
Insect Book, on which I based my discussion of mosquito meta­
morphosis and from which I copied my chart; the State and Na­
tional Government pamphlets dealing particularly with the eco­
nomic and hygienic sides of the Order Diptera; Dr. Woods Hutchinsons’ book on Preventable diseases, from which I obtained
my information concerning malaria; lectures and class room in­
struction in my Zoology Course at the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School.

C. T ester Clugston , ’ 13.

November 29th, 1911.

n
The aviator’s wife was taking her first trip with her husband
in his airship. “ Wait a minute, George,” she said. “ I ’m
afraid we will have to go down again.”
“ W hat’s wrong?” asked her husband.
“ I believe I have dropped one of the pearl buttons off my
jacket. I think I can see it glistening on the ground.”
“ Keep your seat, my dear,” said the aviator, that s Take
Trie.” — Youngstown Telegram.

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Domestic Science lecture
Friday afternoon, February 23d, the Civic Club of Shippensburg held a popular meeting in the Normal School Chapel,
to which all the students and faculty, especially the ladies, were
invited.
Promptly at 3-°o o clock Mrs. George Henry, of Shippensburg, introduced the lecturer, Mrs. Scott of Philadelphia, made
famous through the columns of the “ North American” for her
good and economical receipts.
For two hours Mrs. Scott entertained her large audience on
the art of cooking. She illustrated her lecture by preparing five
most appetizing looking dishes.
The first was rice soup, showing the kind of rice to use, the
washing, the boiling, etc., cooked as taught her by the Japanese,
the only people who really know how to prepare it properly. She
next made and baked a jelly-roll, spoke of the difficulty of know­
ing how stiff to make it and how to get it rolled evenly. Rice-ala-Japan followed, which consisted of a platter of rice, sliced
boiled eggs and white sauce, garnished with parsley. Apple
dumplings were next in order and guaranteed not to give indiges­
tion— they looked fine— a dish of beef, potatoes and carrots, the
latter vegetable Mrs. Scott thinks “ The King of all Vegetables, ”
and not appreciated by the Cumberland Valley people, as she can
rarely buy them at the stores and now brings them with her from
Philadelphia, was her last dish. She showed inexperienced cooks
the test for hard boiled eggs, boiling twenty minutes and
spinning them on the table, and how to burn caramel for use in
dressings.
The lecture was entertaining and instructive to both old and
young housekeepers— and this was strongly impressed upon all,
that if one would be a successful cook she must love it, make it a
study and consider it no hardship, but a delightful duty to serve
those whom she .loves and has under her care. Many young
ladies made note of the receipts and during Faster vacation will
practice them on their families.
¡M L
Teacher: “ William, can you tell me what steam is?”
Willie— “ Sure, it’s water gone crazy with the heat.” _E x .

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©iris’ ©umnastic Exhibition
A t the opening of the Fall Term Dr. Martin promised the
school a holiday during the autumn, but the weather proved itself
opposed to this plan. On every day that seemed to fit into our
scheme the weather was either too cold or it rained.
To compensate for our failure to have a Field Day in the first
term of the year, Dr. Martin decided to give the students two half­
holidays in the Winter Term; the first one was on the 12th of
February, Lincoln’s birthday. It was celebrated by the girls of
the school, trained by Prof. Ely, who gave us a most delightful
athletic exhibition in the Gymnasium.
©roaram
Grand Mareh.
Step-Hop Dance......... ............................................. Girls of Model School.
Weaving Dance .............................................................................. Juniors.
Dumb Bell Drill.
Games and Contests.
Rustic Dance..................................................................•••—..........Middlers.
Skanska Quadrille...........................................................................Seniors.
Chariot Race.
Schottische.
Rye Waltz.
Reaping the Flax.
Double Quartette—“ Hail to the Flag’’
Misses Cover, Gill, Keeny, Long.
Messrs Ainsworth, Jobe, Stouffer, Trostle.
Address—“ Abraham Lincoln” ...................................Prof. J. K. Stewart.

The concluding event of the program was a most fitting one
in memory of our great Emancipator. Prof. Stewart kindly con­
sented to deliver a part of his lecture on Abraham Lincoln.
While Prof. Stewart felt that he was not able to abridge the
lecture and deliver it as well as he would like, he did himself
credit and delighted the large audience, as was evidenced by the
appreciative applause.
Beatls*
“ George, dear,” said the young wife, “ you are growing
handsomer every day.”
“ Yes, darling,” replied the knowing George. It’s a way I
have just before your birthday.” — Pick-Me-Up.

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Ube ZlDibeMinter iReception
One of the most enjoyable social events of the winter term
was the Mid-Winter Reception held the 22d of February, at 7.30
p. m. Prof, and Mrs. Heiges, Mrs. George H. Stewart, Mr. and
Mrs. George Himes and Miss Horton received the guests in the
drawing-rooms of the school. About 8.30 the guests assembled
in the drawing-rooms, where a short but delightful program was
rendered by members of the faculty. Miss Wheeler sang in her
usual charming manner. Miss Lehman gave a reading and a
piano duo was brilliantly executed by Miss Wise and Miss Mat­
thews. Light refreshments were served later in the evening. The
dining-room was prettily decorated and the guests were seated
at small tables. The Gymnasium was open the entire evening
for dancing; Uptegrove’s orchestra furnished the music. There
were many guests from Shippensburg and other towns.

flbibble JUear IReception
This is the reception given by the Middle Year class for their
friends and the members of the school and is anxiously antici­
pated by every student. Dresses and dances had been the supreme
topic of discussion in the dormitory for weeks in advance. Friday
evening found the members of the Middle Year class working be­
hind closed doors, and no one was vouchsafed even the tiniest
glimpse of what should be revealed the following evening. March
the 2nd at last arrived. A t 7:00, Miss Huber, Prof. F ly, Miss
Eves, Mr. Albert, Miss Johnson, Mr. Weigle received the guests
in the drawing rooms. The first feature of the evening was a
Musical and Literary program rendered by members of the class.
The Chapel was beautifully decorated with streamers of maroon
and gold (the class colors), crepe paper which were caught in the
large chandelier in the center of the room and draped to the four
sides. The folding doors between the Library and Rostrum were
opened and chairs were placed there for the members of the class.
After the audience was seated the members of the class marched
in and took their places on the platform. A very delightful pro­
gram followed:

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1. Address by President............................................. Mr. Chester Albert
2. Instrumental Duo—“ Eeu Roubaut” ........'............................. Duvernoy
Miss Gertrude Wolf, Miss Dorothy W olf
3. Chorus—“ The Flower Chorus of Nations” ..................G. Dounezette
4. Oration........................................... ......... “ The Patriotism of Peace’ ”
Mr. Robert H. Earley
5. Quartette—“ With the Tide” ..............................................O. A . White
Mr. Chas. Weigle, Mr. Herbert McDannald
Mr. Robert Earley, Mr. Jerry Trostle
6. R eading........................................ ...........“ The Baron of St. Castine”
Miss Helen Hawk
7. Instrumental Duet..i..............................“ Roudeau enforme de Valse”
Miss Mary Camp, Miss Olive Shearer, accompanied by Miss Cover
8. Class Song.

The next feature was a Grand March given by the class in
the gymnasium, which was also very festive in appearance.
Streamers of class colors effectively draped the ceiling while at
each end of the room were the class numerals outlined with
maroon and gold electric lights. The platform for the orchestra
was suspended at one side of the room and almost hidden by ropes
of rhododendron. After the Grand March, dancing began and
continued until 10:45 P. M. Flinders orchestra furnished the
music. Everyone left with the feeling that it had been much
better than even their dreams.

School iRotes
A t the twentieth annual meeting of the Cumberland County
School Directors at Mt. Holly, Mr. J. McCord Means, our school
treasurer, delivered an address on “ School Finance according to
the School Code.”
Prof. J. S. Heiges, Dean of Normal, recently attended a
banquet and reunion of the Ursinus Alumni of the Cumberland
Valley, at Chambersburg, Pa.
Prof. J. C. Taylor, Superintendent of Schools of Lackawanna
County, visited his son, Prof. E. M. Taylor, Science Dept., of the
Normal. Supt. Taylor holds one of the best school positions in
the state.
Dr. Martin attended the banquet of the Philadelphia Alumni
of Lafayette College, at the Bellevue" Stratford a few weeks ago.

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Peffer of Boiling Springs, attended
the Mid-Year Reception. Mr. Peffer was a spring term teacher at
C. V. S. N. S. last year and is always welcomed back by his many
friends.
Prof. Channing E. Sweitzer, head of the Dept, of History at
Mercersburg Academy, attended the Mid-Year Reception. Prof.
Sweitzer reports that he likes his work and is enjoying his life at
Mercersburg very much. He recently accompanied the Track
Team to Baltimore and enjoyed a few days’ visit with his friends
at Johns Hopkins.
Prof. Stewart lectured at Local.Institutes”during the Winter
Term as follows: Highspire, Dauphin Co., Pa.; New Franklin,
Franklin Co., Pa.; and at Leesburg, Cumberland Co., Pa. We
quote from a county paper:
ELEM EN TS OF SUCCESS

P rof . J. K. Stbwart Delivers A ddress Before
T eachers ’ I nstitute at L eesburg
Prof. J. K . Stewart, of the Cumberland Valley State Normal
School, Shippensburg, in his address before the teachers’ institute,
held at L eesburg on Friday last, laid down five principles as es­
sential to success as being— discipline, education, reading, in­
dustry and character.
A s to discipline he mentioned that the discipline required
was the discipline of cause and effect, not that of fear; that the
discipline of fear vanished as soon as the teacher’s back is turned.
As to education, the Germans conquered the French by reason
of greater power to think.
Good reading was the next step— not the latest novel, but
the standard literature.
Then industry; the lazy teacher never turned the world up­
side down.
Then character; such talent as Burns and Byron was brought
to an untimely end by reason of the lack of this element, and so
would the teacher be who possessed the other qualities and lacked
these. His professional demise would be swift and sure.
Miss. Helen Lehman, Dept, of Reading and Elocution,
recently visited her brother in Philadelphia.
Prof, and Mrs. Ely spent part of their Spring vacation at A t­
lantic City, N. J.

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Miss Wheeler,. Dept, of Vocal Music, entertained Miss
Kershner and Mr. Raymond Stroh, of Sunbury, Pa., during the
week-end at the time of the Middle-Year Reception. Her guests
favored the school with a vocal duet at the Sunday morning ser­
vice in chapel. Mr. Stroh had sung for us before and we were
very happy to have him favor us again.
On Jan. 27th Prof. George B. Ely delivered an address en­
titled “ The Child, the Center of the Universe.” The occasion
was the Teachers’ Institute at Bloserville, Pa. Prof. E ly also ad­
dressed the Local Institute at Lehmasters on Feb. 3. He spoke
in the morning session of the Institute and again in the afternoon.
His subject for the afternoon was “ Three Vital Commands, Live,
Laugh and Love.”
Mr. MUlar, Registrar, of Mercersburg Academy, was the guest
of his niece, Miss. Moore, ’ 13, at the Middle-Year Reception.
Prof. Stewart spent a part of his vacation in Philadelphia,
visiting relatives and friends.
Miss Helen Wise, Dept, of Instrumental Music, visited her
friend, Miss Jean Pearson, formerly Head of this Dept., in New
York City, during the spring vacation.
The home of our Principal, Dr. Martin, has been visited twice
by death during the past term. On February 17th his son,
William Houston Martin, passed away after a long illness; on
March 14th his aged mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Houston Martin,
passed to her home beyond. Dr. and Mrs. Martin have the sym­
pathy of the school and community in their double bereavement.
On February 22nd, the boys of the Middle-Year, First Year
and Model School gave a Gymnastic Exhibition under the di­
rection of Prof. Ely.
Interest in Athletics has been at high pressure during the
past term. This was caused partly by the unusually strong Basket
Ball Team Prof. Ely has turned out. With a record of 16 games
won and only three lost, we think we are excusable for our en­
thusiasm. Contests between the classes resulted in the MiddleYear s team proving that they are the champions of the school.
Rah! for “ 13®’
The Faculty Club is making a study of Tennyson’s “ In
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faculty, and meets on the first Monday of each month. Under the
capable instruction of Dr. Martin, the study of this masterpiece
of Tennyson has been both delightful and profitable. A t each
meeting two papers on some phase of the subject have been read.
The remainder of the hour is given to the study of the poem, after
which we enjoy light refreshments and social intercourse for a
half hour.
A t the time of going to press, the outlook for a large attend­
ance during the Spring Term seems assured. With the Model
School about completed, three additional teachers for this term,
two new Departments about to begin work, and everybody in fine
shape to do his best, we ought to make things hum.

fnter^Societs debate
With commendable zeal for the betterment of Literary Society
work, Normal and Philo decided to hold an Inter-Society Debate.
The time most suitable for the event was on the second half-holi­
day of the Winter Term, Washington’s birthday.
Normal Society chose as their representatives on the InterProgram Committee Miss Dinterman, ’ 12; Mr. Jobe, ’ 12, and Mr.
Albert, ’ 13. Philo chose for this committee Miss Eves, ’ 13; Mr.
Hawbaker, ’ 12, and Mr. Ainsworth,' ’ 13. This committee, together
with the Faculty Committee, consisting of Miss Lehman; Prof.
Ely and Prof. Wallize, arranged the program and decided on a
question, limits to the question, judges and other necessary points
on which agreement need be made.
program
Resolved that our Secondary School system should tend to­
ward cultural training- rather than vocational training.
Presiding Officer..................... Prof. J. S. Heiges, Dean of C. V. S. N. S.
J Philo Society, Mr. Guy H. Thompson, ’ 12.
Timers......
( Normal Society, Mr. Clarence P. Zepp, ’ 12.
Q u e s t io n :

DEBATERS.
P h il o A

f f ir m a t iv e .

Mr. Samuel M. Stouffer, ’12.
Mr. J. Otis Charles, ’ 12.
Mr. John I. Embick, ’13.

N o r m a l N e g a t iv e .

Mr. Albert C. Garland, ’12.
Mr. Prank R. Markley, ’ 12.
Mr. Robert H. Early, M3.

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( Rev. S. S. Wylie, Rev. A. C. Thompson,
J s .................................... \ Rev. Curtis O. Bosserman.
Debate.
Rebuttal.
Vocal Solo ...................................................................... Mrs. A - B- Wallise
Decision of Judges.
Singing .............................................................. ....................... “ America”

Each debater spoke for ten minutes in original debate, and in
rebuttal the first speaker of each debating team was allowed five
minutes. The question was a timely one, one in which we are
all vitally interested. Each debater did his very best, and that
effort was a good one indeed. So well and equally was it argued
that the judges were not able to reach an unanimous decision, but
reported a two to one decision in favor of the Philo Society.
Each society felt justly proud of their representatives and
both are so well satisfied that such tests of ability are good for the
work, that they are already laying plans for a similar contest next
year. It has been suggested that an Oratorical Contest in the
Fall Term would be a splendid thing, followed by Inter-Society
Debate in the Winter Term, and plans looking toward the accom­
plishment of this idea are being favorably discussed.

ff»bilo literary Society
Throughout the term the members of Philo have shown
great interest both in attendance and in the rendering of the
programs.
One of the most commendable features has been the spirit
manifested by the girls in the debates. More rivalry has been
shown between the two societies than for several years.
The literary and musical ability of Philo has been up to the
standard.
During the term Philo was glad to welcome a number of her
former members, including, Mr. Brubaker, ’89; Mr. Fogelsonger,
’96; Miss Snyder, ’ io; Mr. Niesly, ’ 11, and Mr. Faust, ’10.
May the remainder of the year prove as successful, and even
more so, than the past term.
A nna C. A lexander , ’ 12, Secretary.

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iRormal Xiterars Society
The Alumni will be pleased to learn of the success of our
society during the term which is now drawing to a close, for not
only has it advanced in numbers, but interest as well.
The attendance at the meetings has increased and there has
been a steady improvement in the programs presented, showing
that the members are trying to help Normal reach the goal of
excellence.
We are making preparation to celebrate our Normal Anni­
versary during the coming term, and every effort is being put forth
to make it a success.
Normal has been greatly encouraged by the words of former
members, who have visited us during this term. Among them
we may mention the following names: Mr. Reynolds, ’ n ; Mr.
McCleaf, ’ n , and Mr. John Hartman, ’ n .
May the remainder of the year prove as successful as the past
term, and let each one do his or her part towards bringing Normal
to the end for which she is striving.

G race M. H offman , ’ 12, Secretary.

I
trbe 32. m . c. a.
The work of the Young Women’s Christian Association dur­
ing the winter term has been, we believe, successful. The meet­
ings have been well attended and a great deal of interest mani­
fested by most of the girls. It has been our aim to bring each
girl nearer her Heavenly Father and make her student life one
of spiritual growth.
On account of the number of social affairs given by the school
it was deemed best for the Association to dispense with this
pleasing feature of the work, and instead to turn our energy to­
wards making our weekly meetings more interesting.
With this in mind, each evening we had some one tell a
“ Bible Story.” In this work the members of the faculty have
taken the initiative, but we hope soon to have the girls also par­
ticipate. The interesting manner in which these stories have
been presented has done much for the advancement of our work.

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W e were much pleased to learn that the Summer Conference
this year will be at Eaglesmere, Pa. Since this is so much nearer
than Granville, O., where the conference has been held for the
last two years, it means that we can send a greater number of del­
egates. Let us work with a vim, girls, and send a delegation of
which our Association may be proud.
W e trust that with the help of Him in whose name we work
the influence of the Association may do much for His honor and
glory.
“ So when Spring' conies,
And sunshine conies again like an old smile,
And the fresh waters and awakened birds
And budding woods await us, I shall be
Prepared, and we will go and think again,
And all old loves shall come to us, but changed
As some sweet thought which harsh words veiled before,
Peeling that God loves us, and all that errs
Is a strange dream which death will dissipate.”
E l l a R. B r a d l e y , ’ 12, President.

iMf>

Ube 1 . fib. G. B.
We are pleased to be able to report a successful term in the
work.
The average attendance at the meetings was very good and
the speakers performed their duties efficiently. A t the joint meet­
ing, Sunday evening, Feb. 18, Dr. Van Ormer, of the Shippensburg Lutheran Church, gave us a very masterful address, “ A
Study on Educational History,” which was attentively and profit­
ably listened to by nearly the entire student body.
Besides the regular association routine of activity, the Brad­
ford State Convention, the forty-fourth of its kind, is the item
most worthy of note. W e were well represented at this helpful
and inspiring assemblage by Messrs. Omar Hawbaker and Josef
Harlacher.
The officers for next year as elected and approved are as
follows:
President— Jerry F. Trostle.
Vice-President— William D. Short.
Secretary— Ray R. Stouffer.
Treasurer— C. Lester Clugston.

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They were duly installed at a joint meeting on March io,
1912, and have assumed their respective offices with the opening
of the Spring term.
In this term and in the coming year we ask the boys to sup­
port the new Cabinet as loyally as we have been supported. If
this is done, as we are sure it will be, we are certain that the as­
sociation will prosper and be a mighty power for good.
Leaving with you our prayers and best wishes.

T he Cabinet ,
James C. T rosteE, P res./ 1912.

Basftet Ball Season 1911*42
Shippensburg Normal closed the most successful Basket Ball
season in the history of the school. Nineteen games were played,
and sixteen games were Won.
The best record of former years was thirteen games won out
of eighteen games played, in the season of 1909 and i 9 10Six games were played away from home this year and three
out of the six were victories.
The only team that beat the Normal decidedly was Mercersburg at Mercersburg, when but two of the regular men were in
the game.
Clarence Zepp (Captain) deserves no little praise for his
work. He always knew what to do for the best of the team at
critical moments. He also shot more field goals than the forwards
he played against: . .
John Wampler, the twin companion of Capt. Zepp, was a
power to the team. He was the most aggressive all-around player
on the team. His voice was always heard at a critical time for a
goal, and there is no doubt that many goals would have been lost
had it not been for his steadying word at the right time.
Frank Markley, by shooting 140 pts. in field goals, needs no
comment along that line. His quick dodging, fast work on the
floor and shooting from any angles completely baffled his guards.
Had Jno. Hetrick guarded the Spanish Fleet, it never would
have gotten out of the harbor. When there was a strong forward
on the opposing team, John was the man who could hold him in
the hollow of his hand.

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Kirk Ainsworth, altho five feet seven, could reach ten feet
eleven easily. As a high jumper and for quick work on the floor
he is hard to equal. His power of endurance is wonderful.
Edward Grove, the sub-player, was left loose one day when
Conway played here, and after the game was over it was discovered
that Grove had made the season’s record of ten field goals.
Following is the schedule and a few of the most important
games:
Nov. 25—P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Reserves......................... ,....... 17
Dec. 2—Felton A. C.................................................................... 38
Dec. 9—Spring Forge Y . M. C. A ............................................. 54
Dec. 16—Harrisburg Tech. H. S chool...................................... 35
45
Jan. 6 —Fredrick College.......................
Jan. 13—Dickinson College...............................................1:2111 20
*Jan. 19—Bloomsburg N ormal.................................................... 19
*Jan. 20—Conway.................................
18
Jan. 27—Kutztown Normal......................................................... 34
*Feb. 2—Steelton H. School......................................................... 15
Feb. 9—Bloomsburg Normal...............
22
33
Feb. 10—Millersville..........................................................
Feb. 14—Mercersburg Academy ............................................... 23
*Feb. 23—Harrisburg Tech. H. School.......................................... 21
*Feb. 24—Kutztown Normal...................................................vi.; 10
*Feb. 28—Mercersburg Academy................................................ 13
Mar. 1—Conway............................................
33
Mar. 9—Steelton H. School......................................................... 33
Shippensburg A. C....................................................... 30

10
3
11
15

18
11
15

11
7
31
11
12

17
13
24
51
13

23
15

On Jau. 13th, the Normal met and defeated Dickinson College
for the first time in the history of the school by the decided score
of 20 to XI.
D ic k in s o n C o l l e g e .

Normal.

Bachman \ ..................... I ... F o r w a r d ................... / Markley
Toblas- i
Hfetr \ Grove
Pearlman.................... ........... Forward..............................Wampler
Dunn...................................... Center..........................:. I f f Ainsworth
Henderson................. ............Guard......................... .........Zepp
Corbin...................................Guard..................................Hetrick
Goals from Field, Normal 9; Dickinson 5. Goals from.Fouls, Normal
2; Dickinson 1. Fouls called on, Normal 6 ; Dickinson 3. Referee,
Hauk.
* Games away.

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Jan. 19th the Normal boys journeyed to Bloomsburg and there
defeated Bloomsburg’s strong team, which lost but two games all
season and both to Shippensburg.
B loom sbu rg.

N orm al.

Davis........................... ............... Forward................ ^ ^ M a r k l e y
Wagonseller...............................Forward..................................Wampler
Dobson....................................... Center...................................... Ainsworth
Throne....................................... Guard.......................... ^ ^ ■ Z e p p Mosteller................................... Guard.......................................Hetrick
Goals from Field, Normal 8 ; Bloomsburg 6 . Goals from Fouls,
Normal 3; Bloomsburg 3. Fouls called on, Normal 12; Bloomsburg 4.
Final score, Normal 19; Bloomsburg IS. Referee, McCloskey.

Jan. 19th, the Normal met the Kutztown team and defeated
them in a decided game by the score of 3 4 to 7 .
K u tztow n .

N ormal.
........Wampler
f Grove
\ Markley
......... Ainsworth
........ Zepp
..............................Guard............................. .........Hetrick

Grill \
Böhler J
Hillm ger..
McClosky
DeMaria ..
Goals from Field, Normal 16; Kutztown 3. Goals from Fouls,
Normal 2; Kutztown 1. Fouls called on, Normal 8 ; Kutztown 3. Ref­
eree, Hauk.

Feb. 16th, Millersville’s colors were lowered when they met
the Normal boys. The game was rather rough throughout, causing many fouls to be called.
MIIJ,IÎRSVII,I3.
Turnery "1
Harter J
Lehman \
Cramer /

N ormal.
................. Markley
..................Wampler

( Ainsworth
| Grove
1,
................. Zepp
..................Hetrick
...................
Guard................
•
•
•
■
Hollenbough.........
Goals from Field, Normal 12; Millersville 3. Goals from Fouls,
Normal 9; Millersville 6 . Fouls called on, Normal 7; Millersville 12.
Final score, 34 to 12. Referee, Hauk.

Feb. 14th, the Normal boys met their old rival Mercersburg
and after a splendid contest was over the score stood 2 3 to 17 in
favor of the Normal.

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M brcbrsburg.

,

Norm al

McNulty................. ....................Forward................................... Markley
R am bo........................................Forward...................................Wampler
Maxfield..................................... Center......................................Ainsworth
Thom as...................................... Guard...................................... Zepp
Sidler......................................... Guard...................................... Hetrick
Goals from Field, Normal 8; Mercersburg 6. Goals from Fouls,
Normal 7; Mercersburg 5. Fouls committed, Normal 12; Mercersburg
12. Referee, Berry.

B a se

Sail

On account of the unfavorable weather very little work has
been done in base ball.
There are a number of promising players in the school, and
with the old players Normal should have a strong team this Spring.
Following is the schedule as far as it is completed:
April 6—Open.
13—Open.
17— Conway at Carlisle.
20—Open.
27—Mercersburg.
May 4—Open.
11—Baltimore City College.
18— Conway.
25—Mercersburg at Mercersburg.
June 1—Millersville at Millersville.
7—Bloomsburg.
15—Millersville.
22—Open.

Fred Lennox, spending the summer in Chicago, took a flat
close to a railroad, which he surrendered after a week’s occupa­
tion.
“ I think I could have become used to the trains going by in
the night,” he said, “ but every morning about 8 o’clock two
engines came under my window and rehearsed until noon.”
— Chicago Evening Post.

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©bituan?
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Jones (Martin), ’98.
The following account was sent us by a classmate of Eliza­
beth’s from a Wiconisco paper, which we publish in full:
Mrs. S. G. Martin (nee Elizabeth F. Jones), was born July
27, 1879, and departed her earthly life Dec. 26,1911, after an illness
of nine weeks. The cause of her death was septic poisoning.
The funeral services were held in Wiconisco, Friday, Dec.
29, at 2 o’clock, and consisted of a brief service at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Evan Jones. The further services were held in the
Wiconisco Episcopal church in charge of her pastor, the Rev. J.
H. Royer. Rev. H. E. Hildt read the scriptures and Rev. J. C.
Wood led the sorrow-stricken friends and congregation to the
throne of grace in a touching, comforting and beautiful prayer.
The choir of the church sang two beautiful selections and Mrs.
L. K . Diefenderfer sang a solo, entitled “ Face to Face.’ ’ Rev. J.
H. Royer preached the sermon from the text: “ Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit,
that they may rest from their labors for their works follow with
them.” —-Rev. 14:13.
Mrs. Martin had been an earnest and consistent Christian for
eleven years and during these years was superintendent of the
primary department of the Sunday School, where her sweet and
generous disposition won the hearts of the little ones. They were
present at the funeral service, and as a last loving tribute they
passed around to take their last look at the sweet face of their be­
loved teacher and strewed carnations on her remains as a token
of their affection and their loving esteem.
Mrs. Martin was not only well known in Wiconisco, where
she spent the greater part of her short life, but made many friends
in Lykens during the two years that she lived at this place. She
finished her public school course at Wiconisco in 1896 and was
graduated at the Cumberland Valley State Normal School of
Shippensburg in 1898. She taught in the public schools of W i­
conisco for eleven years.
Mrs. Martin’s character was so beautiful, her disposition so
sweet and generous that she will not only be missed by the many
children in whom she took a devoted interest, but also by the
community at large.
Mrs. Anna L,. Railing (Adams), ’93.
Mrs. Adams died very suddenly at her father’s home, near
Shippensburg, February 20. She had been living in Atlantic
City, N. J., for some years, but recently came back to Shippens­
burg.

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Professor James W . Hughes, a former Normal teacher.
The following account, taken from a Bedford paper, was sent
to us by Prof. Hughes’ daughter, Mrs. John Hughes, of Everett,
Pa.:

I
Prof. James W . Hughes died at his home on Spring street,
Sunday morning, of diseases incident to old age, aged 76 years, 2
months and 18 days. He was a son of Hugh G. and Margaret
McDonald Hughes and was born on a farm in Juniata County.
After the death of his mother he lived with his grandfather Hughes
in Fulton County. He attended Cassville Seminary, and m 1863
came to Rainsburg, where he taught until 1871, when he came to
Everett, where he taught for five years, after which he was elected
County Superintendent. In 1882 he was elected a member ot
the legislature from Bedford County and served in the sessions ot
l883In4February, 1890, he went to Shippensburg Normal School,
where he taught ancient languages, German, Frenchand General
History. After leaving Shippensburg, he and Mrs. Hughes lived
with their daughter at Mannington and Fairmont, West Virginia,
until last November, when they came to Everett.
In i860, Prof. Hughes married Miss Sarah Cresswell, ot
Cassville, who survives. He is also survived by one daughter,

Mrs. John Hughes, of this place.
The deceased was a member of Everett Dodge, No. 524, r . &
A M • Bedford Chapter Royal Arch Masons, and of Carlisle Commandery, No. 8, Knight Templars, and also Mystic Shrine, of
Harrisburg, No. 669.
The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, couducted by Dr. W . T . Eveland, assisted by Rev. W . J. Shaffer,
with interment in Everett cemetery. Everett Dodge, No. 524, F.
& A M., attended the funeral in a body.
Among those who attended the funeral from a distance were
John Hughes, a brother, of Robertsdale; Mr. and Mrs. Elwood
Hedding, of Altoona; Wm. Hughes, of Altoona; Miss E . M.
Cresswell, of North Carolina.
Miss Delia T . Smith, a former Normal teacher, died recently.
W e are indebted to Mr. Robert Bridges, a former Shippens­
burg boy and Normal student, now one of the editors of Scribner s
Magazine, for the following:

A P upil ’s Memory

of

Miss Delia T. Smith .

It is nearly forty years since Miss Delia T. Smith, whose
death was recently announced, appeared at the Cumberland V al­
ley State Normal School as a teacher of Rhetoric and Diterature

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The school was new and she was a new type, I am sure, to most
of us Pennsylvanians. The Cumberland Valley was a long way
from Massachusetts in those days. We were near enough the
border to be called Yankees only by our Confederate brethern.
To us of the Valley the real Yankees were New Englanders— and
some of their ideas we considered all wrong, although they hap­
pened to be right on Union and Slavery. The orthodoxy was of
course always under our suspicion, and we resented their ignor­
ance of the part played in the development of the country by the
Scotch-Irish— an ignorance which years have not wholly obliter­
ated.
It was with a great deal of curiosity therefore that we young­
sters had our experience of the several Yankee teachers whom
Principal Beard, a Vermonter, brought with him to the school.
There was a certain alert intelligence about them all which I think
puzzled us at first. W e were never quite sure that they were not
laughing at us in their sleeves. It was not long, however, before
we all realized that the Yankees knew how to teach.
The first impression that Miss Delia, as we called her, cre­
ated was of severity and precision. She had standards of her
own and she meant that we should at least have a consciousness
of them. A t that time she could have been only a little more than
thirty years of age— but to us in our early teens she seemed of
great maturity in years and intelligence. Then it began to dawn
upon us that with her severity she combined a wise sense of jus­
tice. That goes a long way in securing the loyalty of pupils.
They are perhaps more sensitive to it than to any other quality in
a teacher. But we never really got to know her until we laughed
together. We had seen the twinkle, often, behind her glasses,
and we did not quite know what it meant, but when she finally
laughed with us— a low, gentle, good-natured murmur of amuse­
ment— we began to get at the real Miss Delia. We then knew
that she was not only intensely interested in books, but also in
us, her pupils, as human beings.
I have forgotten her specific instructions in literature— no
sentence remains in my memory— but I have never forgotten her
attitude toward it. She had a vivid affection for the great books
and their authors, and she tried to pass it on to us. To her a book
that was literature was a living thing, a part of the best thought

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or imagination of the world that we could not afford to do with­
out. Under her teaching, literature ceased to be a thing of names
and dates and periods— of syntax and prosody— and became a
veritable tree of life. It was so alive that the best of it should be
a part of each man’s own life.
When she illustrated a point with a quotation, it was like
music. Y ou felt the beauty of it in the tone of her voice, in its
modulation and the beautiful enunciation of the words. Her
reading and her teaching were lessons in a cultivated pronuncia­
tion and in the good manners of literature.
In the long, long years since those days she must have been
present often in the thoughts of her pupils; and from time to time
some of them knew that she had kept them in remembrance. I f
she saw something written by them that passed her severe stand­
ards, a little note would come with kind words to cheer them on
their way.
And so she will be remembered by many as a pervasive in­
fluence that did not end when she went away.

R obert Bridges .

Blumnt personals
’74. W e are indebted to Miss Bide J. Reilly, of Tarentum,
Pa., for a postal card containing a picture of the Fort Pitt Hotel,
Pittsburg, where the C. V . S. N. S. Banquets are held. We learn
that there has been one there very recently and the account of it
appears in this issue of the H erald .
’74. Prof. S. C. Beitzel is Principal at Mechanicsburg, Pa.,
where he has been for several years.
’74. Mrs Margaret Konhaus writes from Mechanicsburg,
Pa., where she is living. Sends us some personals and says she
is keeping house and between times is reading books from the
Oriental Esoteric Library, Washington, D. C.
’74. Mr. W . F. Hughes writes us from 212 N. 8th St.,
Phila., Pa.: “ I was graduated from C. V . S. N. S. in ’74. Then
took up the work of teaching in Pottstown, Pa., in the celebrated
Hill School, a private institution, and later in the public schools of
that place. This was the year when the Spelling Bee craze swept

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37

the country, and being a good speller received many first prizes.
I won at Philadelphia, Pottstown, Norristown, Reading and was
refused permission to compete at Lancaster, Phoenixville and
Media, on the ground that I was a professional speller. I taught
in both private and public schools in Delaware Co. and also in
Swarthmore College. But the never ending headaches which I had
from my early youth ‘followed fast and followed faster’ until I was
forced to give up teaching. Then I roamed the fields and woods
and took up physical exercise under Dr. Sargent at Harvard Uni­
versity. My health improved and I began to teach physical culture
and have been doing so in special forms for 25 years. I devised a
new system of boxing, and that is part of my work. Have paid
considerable attention to Botany lately, and lead excursions in
quest of wild flowers in the vicinity of Philadelphia. I trust that
others of my class will do as I have done— let us know their
whereabouts and doings.”
Sincerely|S

W m. F indlay H ughes .
We surely wish others would follow the example of Mr.
Hughes and send us personals for the H erald .
’74. In answer to the invitation to attend the banquet of the
Pittsburg Alumni Association in Pittsburg, March 9, the following
letter was received from Dr. J. F. Barton, and we think it will be
of interest to our H erald readers:
North Yakima, Wash., Feb. 28, 1912.
My dear Mr. McCullough: I received your card announcing
the Third Annual Banquet and Reunion of the Pittsburg Alumni
of the C. V . S. N. S. I regret very much that I am too faraway
to be present and enjoy with you all the pleasures of this delight­
ful gathering.
It is hard to deny myself the pleasure of joining in a reunion
and banquet of those for whom I have such a high regard. I can
only send my sincere greetings and express the hope that you may
have a most enjoyable occasion.
It may be of interest to my friends to know that I have recently
been elected Secretary of the Commercial Club of this city at a
salary of $1500.00 a year. A young man as an assistant to do all
the clerical work and to attend to the collection of dues, and a
lady stenographer will be furnished me. The position is a respon-

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sible one, but the work is of a character that I know I will like.
The Club numbers about 600, made up largely of the business
men of the city and occupies fine quarters, just recently having
moved into handsomely furnished rooms. The position will prac­
tically take all my time, but I will still be able to keep in close
touch with my business, which continues prosperous.
You are at liberty to read this letter to the noble girls and
boys of this Alumni Association. With the sincerest of greetings
and the hope that each and all may have happy and prosperous
lives, I am
Very truly yours,
Jos. F . Barton .
’77. Mrs. Lillie Moore (Wilson) in answer to our inquiry
writes that she is glad that she is not forgotten by her Alma
Mater. She says: “ I would like to attend a commencement and
renew old friehdships, but am too far removed. My older son is
in college, the younger in high school. Have seen only my
brother, E. ]■ Moore and Rev. McClelland, whom I knew at Shippensburg, in all these years.”
With kindest regards,

Mrs . L illie Moore W ilson.
’78. Mrs. Sue B. K . Ely writes from Chambersburg, Pa.,
that she has nothing important to tell except that she is grand­
mother to a dear little blue-eyed girl of three years.
We feel sure old classmates are always glad to learn any facts
of interest, to any of their number.
’78. Mrs. Annie P. Heagey (Smith) writes from Columbus,
Ohio: ‘‘I taught three years after graduation. Was then mar­
ried and came to Columbus, my husband teaching and I keeping
house. Have been in the same house, same number, 1014 Frank­
lin A ve., for 28 years, so you see I am no suffragette.”
’78. Mr. W . B. Goodhart is living in Newville, Pa. He
has taught ever since graduation all but three years.
’79. Elmira Goodhart (Dalton) is living at Chester, Pa.
’79. Rev. J. H. Hackenberg is pastor of Memorial M. E.
Church at W . 5th St., Reading Pa.
’80. Miss H. Berd Goodhart, after teaching for a number of
years is living retired at Bowmansdale, Pa.

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>81. Mr. J. L. Potteiger is manager of the Massachusetts
Mutual lif e Insurance Co., of Springfield, Mass. His office is
at 22-24 Welles Building, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
’82. Mrs. Abbie Allen (Eamond) is teaching in the New
Hamilton Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Address, 335 Walnut St.,
Harrisburg
’82. Mr. Edward McGeehin is a physician at Hazleton, Pa.
’83. Mr. T . M. Herbert is an attorney with offices in Welles
Building, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
’83. Mr. De Keller Stamy is a teacher in the N. Y . City
schools. His address is 2627 Creston Ave., N. Y . City.
’84. Mr. D, T . Humbert writes from Dickey’s Mountain,
Pa;, that he is happy even though he is a bachelor. Says he is
still a student and remembers with pleasure his school days.
’88. Mrs. Minnie Sipes (Keller) taught for three terms after
graduating and has not taught in public school work since. She
recently applied for teaching work in the Philadelphia schools,
and we have not been informed whether or not she was successful.
Minnie has two sons that she is educating in the Philadelphia
schools. Her address is Hartzville, Pa.
’91. Miss Stella S. Early is teaching in Harrisburg, Pa.
Her address is 1437 N. 2nd St.
’92. Mr. George W . Baker is a clerk in the County Commis­
sioners office at Gettysburg, Pa. His address is Abbottstown, Pa.
’93. Mrs. Nannie Allen (Hippensteel) is doing substitute
work in the schools of Philadelphia.
’93. Mr. J. B. Eby sends his H erald subscription and says
he and Mrs. Eby are busy teaching in the Reform School at
Morganza, Pa.
’93. Mr. Aaron B. Crook is a Ward Principal in Williams-!
town, Pa.
’94. Mr. W . S. Hafer is Business Manager of The Susque­
hanna, a paper published monthly by the students of Susque­
hanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa. Mr. Hafer is a member of
the class of 1912 of that institution and after graduation expects
to again teach.

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’94. Mrs. Nellie Allen (Burke) sends us a number of per­
sonals and about herself says: “ After my graduation I taught for
seven years, after which I was married and have one little daughter
six years of age. Am living a short distance from Shippensburg.
Best wishes for the success of the school.’ ’
.’94. Mr. W . G. McCoy is at i n Fifth Ave., N. Y . City.
We have not learned in what he is engaged, but would be glad to
have any information for the H erald .
’95. Miss Ellen S. Booth has been re-elected to the Grammar
school of Selinsgrove, Pa., at an increased salary.
’95. Mr. Chas. Albright writes from Hanover, Pa.: “ Am
teaching my sixth term in Hanover schools. During the past
three years have been teaching Mathematics and Science in the
high school. We have 160 students and my smallest class num­
bers 6, largest 41. We have four courses, Classical, Scientific,
Commercial and English, each four years.” The H erald e x ­
tends thanks to Mr. Albright for a number of personals for this
issue.
’95. Mr. Oscar Cunningham is a clerk in the Baltimore post
office. He was married in 1910 to Miss Elizabeth Cairnes, of
Jarrettsville, Md. He lives at present at 1216 W. Fayette S t., Balti­
more, Md.
’95. Mr. George Coover is a clerk in the Harrisburg post
office. He lives at Lemoyne, Pa.
’95. Mr. George Hartman is teaching a secondary school in
Silver Spring, Lancaster county. During the Summer he lives
at 217 Pleasant St., Hanover, Pa.
’9 5 - Mr. George C. Bollinger is a traveling salesman for a
wholesale grocery firm of Allentown, Pa. They live at 73 2^
N. 6th St., Allentown.
’95. Miss Ella Tait is teaching the grammar school in her
home town, Catasauqua.
’96. Mr. A . A . Arnold writes from Mechanicsburg: " I am
still in the teaching profession trying to uphold the standard and
honor of C. V . S. N. S. and the class of 1896. I have charge of
the Grammar school in Mechanicsburg where I have been teach­
ing for the past ten years.
“ Wish all Normal great success.”

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’96 Miss Hannah Nevins is engaged in the millinery busi­
ness in Summit Hill, Pa.
’96 Mrs. Nina Barr (Kohler) writes from Mahanoy City:
“ I moved from Lansford to Mahanoy City last June. It is a city
of sixteen thousand people. My good wishes are for Normal and
its progress.”
’96. Mrs. Mary Meredith (Brinkerhoff) is one of the popu­
lar young matrons of Leesburg, Pa.
’96. Mrs. Frances Cromer (Patterson) is living at Pitcairn,
Pa., Box 427. She sends her H erald subscription.
’98. Mrs. Leota Benner (Pittman) is living at Lemont Fur­
nace, Pa. She sends her subscription to the Normal H erald .
W e are glad to get in touch with Leota again, as we had lost
track of her for quite a while.
98.

Mr. R. P. Dick is teaching at Thomasville, Pa.

98. Mrs. Elizabeth W olff (Fowler) writes from Port Nor­
ris, N. J. She has a little boy seven years old and a little girl of
eighteen months. Sends best wishes to Normal.
99. Mr. J. E. French sends his subscription from 403 Pitt
St., Wilkinsburg, Pa.
99. Mr. A . D. Hoke is chief clerk in the office of the North­
western Improvement Co., Tacoma, Washington, where he has
been employed for seven years at a salary of $1500. The North­
western Improvement Co. is the mining department of the North­
ern Pacific Railroad. He lives at 3717 S. Yakima Avenue,
Tacoma, Wash.
99-

Mr. C. E. Detwiler is teaching in Middletown, Pa.

99. Mrs. Jess Spangler (Gill) is living at 435 10th St.,
N. E ., Washington, D. C.
00. Mrs. Myrtle Burke (Creamer) has entered the teaching
profession again and is teaching in Hopewell township, Cumber­
land county.
00. Mr. Herbert L- Creamer is principal of the Greensburg
H igh School.
00.

Miss Minnie A . Jones is teaching in St. Louis, Mo.

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’oo. Mr. T . C . Senseman writes from 6022 Market S t., Phila.,
for a copy of the H e r a ld , which we are glad to send him. We
should be glad to know more of his whereabouts to publish in
the H erald .
’00. Mrs. Katie Boyer (Shellahamer) is living about five
miles east of Linglestown. Her address is Union Deposit, R. F.
D. 1. She sends best wishes to Normal.
’o i. Mr. George Shank is a fruit grower in Adams county
near Biglerville, Pa.
’01. Mrs. May Miller (Shoop) who lives in Felton, Cuba,
where her husband is in the employ of the government, spent
some time at her home in Hummelstown during last summer.
’02. Mr. W . G. Rice is Principal of the Camp H ill schools
and resides in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
’02. Mr. Frank Konhaus is farming near Mechanicsburg, Pa.
’02. Mr. E. E. Peiffer is a clerk in the post office at W ay­
nesboro. W e see by a recent Waynesboro paper that his little
daughter, four years old, had a “ penny shower” in honor of her
fourth birthday.
’02. Miss Matilda S. Elliott is a student at Dickinson Col­
lege.
f?S’o2. Mrs. Mabel McFarland (Richards) attended the Normal
Banquet given in Pittsburg on the 9th. She sends us her
H erald subscription.
’02. Mr. Samuel E. Hershey is a bookkeeper, living at 534
Oakwood St., Greensburg, Pa.
’02. Mrs. Edith Kapp (Williams) writes from Hershey, Pa.:
“ Please renew my subscription for the N ormal H erald for two
years. We enjoy its coming almost as much as a letter from
home. Am always glad to know what Normal is doing and hear
about my classmates.”
’02. Mr. H. W . Bollinger is principal of the schools of New
Hamilton, where he has been for three years.
’04. Miss Florence Martin is not teaching this year. Is
spending the winter at home.
’04. Mr. Robert McPherson is principal of the Hummels­
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’04. Miss Bess Berry has recently accepted a position in the
German American Academy at Newark, N. J. This is a private
school for wealthy German children. Her work is 7th and
8th grade work. Her address is 70 Court St., Newark, N. J.
Miss Berry had not been teaching for several years.
’05. Miss Leila McCullough has resigned her position at
Elkwood, Pa., to accept a position in the Grammar school at Penbroke, North Carolina. We are informed that this school is a
school for Indians. We are sorry to loose Leila from our own
state as a teacher and wish her success in her new field of work.
’05. Mr. G. C. Lyte, rafter being principal of the Port Royal
schools for three years, has quit teaching and is now a merchant
at Pfoutz Valley, Pa.
’05. Miss Harriette Rhodes, who has been attending the Car­
lisle Commercial School during the fall has been elected to fill the
place of Miss McCulloch at Elkwood.
’05. Mr. C. I. Barner is Assistant Principal of the Oberlin
High School.
’05. Misses Helen and Annie Eyster, ’99, are teaching in
Cumberland county this year and their address is 608 West S t.,
Carlisle, Pa.
’05. Mrs. Katie Coover (Railing) is living three miles east
of Shippensburg.
’05. Miss Florence M. Beard is teaching in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
’06. Miss Ethel Barratt is teaching in Millerstown, Pa.
’ 06. Miss Hattie Myers is teaching second and third grades
in the schools of Garfield, N. J.
’07. Miss Winifred Kauffman is teaching at Dallastown, Pa.
’07. Miss Edna Senft is teaching at Spring Grove, Pa. Miss
Senft recently visited Normal and renewed old acquaintances.
’07. Miss Effa Young is not teaching this year. She sends
her H erald subscription and says she always enjoys reading it.
’08. Miss Ethel R. Wolfort is teaching her second term in
Long Branch, N. J.
’08. Mr. C. F. Helt writes from 45 Grove St., Johnstown,
Pa.: “ Am principal of Stony Creek township, Cambria county.

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Salary, $100 a month. There are 13 teachers and 550 pupils. I
teach evenings in Johnstown Business College, Language, Eng­
lish, German, Latin and Mathematics. Best wishes to Normal.”
’08. Miss Mary E. Brindle is a Freshman at Dickinson Col­
lege, Carlisle, Pa.
’08. Miss Lenna Squires is supervisor of the girls depart­
ment of Manual Training in the schools of Garfield, N. J.
’09. Mr. John H. Cutshall is Vice-principal in the schools
at Nazareth, Pa.
’09. Miss Anna Brandt is teaching her third term in the
schools of Myerstown, Lebanon Co.
’09. Miss Marion E. Seabrook is teaching at Ambler.
sends her H erald subscription.
’09.
county.

She

Miss Grace Burke is teaching at Shady Grove, Franklin

“ Please send my H er ­
Have been
here since December. Have 23 pupils— 4th and 5th grades.
This is a new school, so we have not so many pupils this year—
about 100. Our school building is very modern, the most com­
pletely equipped building in northern N. J. Best wishes to Nor­
m al.”
’09. Miss Bertha A . Elicker is teaching in the Dillsburg
Grammar School.
’09,

Miss Ethel C. Etter writes us:

ald to 105 Little Rock Ave., Atlantic City, N. J.

’ 10. . Miss Ruth Neff is teaching Sharp’s school, Franklin
county.
’ 10.

Mr. Russel Nelson is teaching at Wilkinsburg, Pa.

’ 10. Miss Grace E. Shimer is teaching a mixed school at
Breezewood, Bedford county.
’ 10.

Miss Vashti Gibboney is teaching in Bedford, Pa.

’ 10. Miss Elsie Hoffer writes from Elizabethville, Pa., that
for two years she has received the highest mark given by the
superintendent in teaching. She likes the work and says she
owes her success to the thorough training she received at Normal.
’ 10. Miss Laura Daugherty is teaching at Arendtsville, Pa.

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T h e H e r a l d thanks Mr. H . E. Nycum, ’97, for the follow­
ing account of the banquet at Pittsburg:

Pittsburg Hlumni association
On Saturday evening. March 9, 1912, a large gathering took
place at the Seventh Avenue Hotel, Pittsburg, Pa., when the Third
Annual Reunion and Banquet of the Pittsburg Alumni Associa­
tion was held in the private parlors and banquet hall of the above
hotel.
The event proved to be highly appreciated and enjoyable be­
yond the expectations of any present. After many hearty hand
shakes, the exchange of greetings and a recital of some old time
incidents, the assemblage was attracted into the banquet hall by
the strains of the familiar melody of “ Old Black Joe.’’
The banquet served by the hotel did justice for the well known
hostelry and was sufficient to satisfy any hungry being.
Prof. G. P. Eckels, ’90, was the principal speaker and deliv­
ered a well prepared and earnest discourse on Personality. Prof.
Eckels is connected with the Pittsburg High School and, while a
very busy man, finds time to enjoy an evening with the Alumni
of the Normal.
Mrs. Dill (nee Hays), who was a student in 1875, later a
member of the faculty, as well-as the daughter of the late Rev. I.
N. Hays, a former principal of Normal, recited some early pranks
and incidents of the old school.
Mr. R. J. Watson, ’00, being provided with a lantern, dis­
played on the screen a number of pictures consisting of views in
and around the school. Those quiet skirmishes in the rooms and
those of “ Ruben” seemed to arouse the memories of former school
days. Mr. Watson displayed a number of views taken while on
his European trip. The coloring of these views were works of art
and beauty beyond expression. Pictures and slides which were
so kindly loaned by Dr. Martin for the occassion were displayed
and enjoyed by all.
Greetings were read from Dr. Jos.F. Barton, of North Yakima,
Wash. Dr. Barton’s presence in Pittsburg three years ago was
instrumental in the formation of this association and thereby he
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Very fitting remarks were made concerning the life of the late
Prof. J. W . Hughes by Messrs. Gray, Poole, Nycum and Fluke.
After spending an hour or so with social chats getting better
acquainted and renewing old friendships, the Third Annual Ban­
quet closed. The event was the best held and we hope that next
year will bring all back in addition to others who should make an
effort to be present also.
Those attending were: Miss E. J. R eilly,’74; MaryE. Hull,
’89; G. P. Eckels, ’90; Miss Eckels; W. E . F o h l,’91; Mrs. Fohl;
Miss Fohl; Mrs. Dill; J. O. Gray, ’91; J. W . Elliott, ’93; Miss
Minnie E. Mock. ’93; Mrs. H. E. Clare (nee Sarah Roth), ’94;
J .H . McCulloch, ’96; Mrs. McCulloch; E. M. Gress, ’96; D. L.
Scott, ’96; Mrs. Scott; J. J. Patterson; Mrs. Patterson (nee
Franis Cromer), ’96; H. H. Poole, ’97; J. M. Nycum, ’97; Mrs.
Nycum (nee Eleanor Miller), ’97; J. E. French, ’99; U. L. A l­
len, ’99; Mrs. Allen; J. A . Davis, ’00; J. E. McCullough, ’00;
Mrs. McCullough; R. J. Watson, ’00; S. E. Hershey, ’02; Mrs.
Hershey; J. I. Richards; Mrs. Rhichards (nee Mabel McFarland),
’02; W . Stuart Watson, ’05; Mrs. Helen Gray Robertson, ’05;
H. H. McCulloch, ’06; Mrs. McCulloch; Mr. Floyd Weinman;
Miss Fredyth Weinman, ’07; Miss Imogene Kidwell, ’07; Russell
Nelson, ’ 10, and Wm. G. Fluke, ’ 10.

Cupiö’s (Column
David — F orsyth . A t Boston, Mass., February 4, 1912,
Mr. Charles Franklin David to Miss Sara Eouise Forsyth. Miss
Forsyth was teacher of reading in the Normal Faculty last year.
They live at 56 West Elm St., Brockton, Mass.

Bradford— W agner . A t Eastville, Va., February 20, by
Rev. W . G. Pendleton, Mr. Charles W . Bradford to Miss Isabel
Wagner, ’07. They will reside at Eastville, Va.
Brumbaugh— Stumbaugh . A t Harrisburg, Pa. , ' October
28, Rev. P. H. Balsbaugh, Mr. James B. Brumbaugh to Miss
Sadie Stumbaugh, ’08.
I vins— Be ck . A t Englishtown, N. J., June 12, 1911, Mr.
Wm. A . Ivins to Miss Alice M. Beck, ’02. They will reside in
Englishtown, N. J.

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Burd— Morris. A t Harrisburg, Pa., December 24, 1911,
Mr. E. H. Burd, ’02, to Miss Grace Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Burd
will reside at Elizabethtown, Pa., where Mr. Burd has charge of
the Grammar School.
F reeman — Dohner . A t Oklahoma, Okla., Dec. 17, 1911,
Mr. Walter Freeman to Miss Benorah Dohner, ’07. They will
reside in Oklahoma City, Okla.
A uker — McCormick . A t Harrisburg, Pa., December 9,
1911, Mr. E. H. Auker, ’08, to Miss Sarah McCormick.

S eville — E nyeart . A t Saxton, Pa., December 25, 1911,
Mr. H. E. Seville, ’06, to Miss Alice Florence Enyeart.
Dine — McClellan . A t Altoona, Pa., December 25, 1911,
Mr. Edgar Lincoln Line to Miss Mary W . McClellan, ’06. They
reside at 804 6th Ave., Altoona, Pa.
W orlEy S-Masemer . A t Harrisburg, Pa., December 28,
by Rev. J. Ritchie Smith, Mr. Chester B. Worley to Miss Herma J.
Maserner. Miss Maserner was a student with us several years
ago. They reside near York Springs, Pa.
Mummbrt— G roft . A t Abbottstown, December, 1911, Mr.
Ira C. Mummert, ’ 11, to Miss Clara Groft.
Bollinger — Mille r . A t Greensburg, Pa., July 5, 1911,
by Rev. Charles Schall, Mr. Howard W . Bollinger, ’02, to Miss
Lavina F . Miller of Newton Hamilton. They reside at Newton
Hamilton, Pa., where Mr. Bollinger is principal of the schools.
M S'

Ubc Stop’s IRegister
A dams. A t Carlisle, Pa., May 24, 1911, to Mr. and Mrs.
T . A . Adams, a daughter. Mrs. Adams was Miss Ella Lay, ’07.
H il l . A t Bainbridge, P a., January 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Hill,
a son.

Mrs. Hill was Miss Elizabeth Shellenberger, ’95.

W olfe . At Newport, Pa., February 1, to Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Wolfe, a son. Mrs. Wolfe was Miss Gertrude Fickes,’o7 .

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Exchanges
W e gratefully acknowledge the following: High School
Life, The Herald (Indiana Normal), High School Journal, Vidette, Our College Times, The Susquehanna, Dickinsonian, Conwayan, College News, Louisiana State University Quarterly, The
College Student, Normal Review, Perkiomenite.
High School Journal— Your last copy is most attractively ar­
ranged. The pictures and articles concerning the dedication are
most interesting.
The Perkiomenite is a well arranged paper, containing poetry,
stories, as well as facts concerning the school.

Paradise— Bachelor.
Paradise Lost— Married.
Paradise Regained— Widower.— E x .
jt
flow
I f you have kind words to say,
Say them now,
To-morrow may not come your way,
Do a kindness while you may,
Loved ones will not always stay;
Say it now.
I f you have a smile to show,
Show it now,
Make hearts happy, roses grow,
Let the friends around you know
How you love them, ere they go;
Show it now.
— Selected E x.
jt
“ The Susquehanna” has a very fine article on ‘ ‘What Women
are Doing Today.” It speaks in glowing terms of the work
women are doing today along civic lines— the preservation of

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land-marks, pictures— but the highest praise is bestowed upon the
effort to help humanity, by taking care that sanitary conditions
are properly looked after and children protected and educated.
Let me quote the last paragraph. “ Let nothing hinder us in the
glorious fulfillment of woman’s essential mission, that of home­
maker, teacher, cherisher. So that when asked whether woman,
with her enlarged opportunities, has made good, the answer may
be she has.” The article shows much thought.

“ Our College Times” is as interesting as usual.
tains several very commendable articles.

It con­

jt
“ The Vidette” is one of the most entertaining exchanges re­
ceived. It contains some splendid articles and stories and has
quite a variety of material. We look forward to its arrival and
are sorry that all cannot enjoy it.

ttbe Secret of Success
“ What is the secret of success?” asked the Sphinx.
“ Push,” said the Button.
“ Never be lead,” said the Pencil.
“ Take pains,” said the Window.
“ Always keep cool,” said the Ice.
“ Be up-to-date,” said the Calendar.
“ Never lose your head,” said the Barrel.
“ Make light of everything,” said the Fire.
“ Do a driving business,” said the Hammer.
“ Aspire to greater things,” said the Nutmeg.
“ Be sharp in all your dealings,” said the Knife.
“ Find a good thing and stick to it,” said the Glue.
“ Do the work you are suited for,” said the Chimney.
— Exchange.
“ The College Student” contains a very good article on
“ Social Hygiene.” The article is very true and discusses a very
important question.

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W e always laugh at teacher’s jokes,
No matter what they be;
Not because the’re funny jokes,
But because it’s po-li-cy.— E x.
jt
Cape of Good Hope— Sweet Sixteen.
Cape Flattery— Twenty.
Cape Lookout— Twenty-five.
Cape Fear— Thirty.
Cape Farewell— Forty.— E x.

2 0
Harold, aged 9, came home one day so bruised and dirty that
his mother was thrown into a state of marked perturbation.
"M ercy!” she exclaimed, in horror. “ How on earth, my
child, did you get your clothes and face into such a state?”
" I was trying to keep a little boy from getting licked,” was
Harold’s virtuous, if hesitating, reply.
"W ell, that was fine!” said his mollified parent. " I am
proud of you, sonny. Who was the little boy ?”
"M e .” — Chicago Record-Heraid.
dftama’s /BMatafte

“ How cold your nose is ?”
These words came from the daughter of the house, who was
sitting in the parlor with her beau.
" I s Towser in the parlor again ?” demanded her mother from
the next room.
There was a long pause.
"N o, mother; Towser isn’t in the parlor.”
And then silence resumed its reign.— Louisville Courier
Journal.
“ Now, W illie,” said the superintendent’s little boy, address­
ing the blacksmith’s little boy, who had come over for a frolic,
“ we’ll play ‘Sabbath School.’ You give me a nickel every Sun­
day for six months, and then at Christmas I ’ll give you a ten-cent
bag of candy.” — Woman's Home Companion.