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VOL,. X V

JANUARY, 1911

No. 2

B&itoriat.
ttbe Gbatice of a Xtfetime.
The advantages of a liberal education are so many and so
obvious that they are never denied and rarely doubted; but like
many other good things, they are often overlooked until it is too
late to profit by them.
It is difficult for young people to realize how very short the
period is in which the opportunity of education is practically
open to them.
They do not consider that for most of us the question is
really decided once for all when we accept or decline the first
chance we have of going beyond our local public school. Of
course, it is possible to go to school at any age. Chaucer, we are
told, began the study of Greek when he was over seventy, and
some eminent scholars started to college when they were thirty,
but such cases are exceptional.
The vast majority of young men make their decision for all
time when they think they are choosing only for the year.
It is proverbially difficult to put old heads on young shoulders,
but it is none the less a good and wise thing for young shoulders
to be guided by old heads in matters where experience counts for
so much as it does in the choice of a vocation in life.

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Times change and the demands of the times change. The
preparation for life in one generation cannot meet the demands
in another. A good common school education fifty years ago
put a young man in good condition to compete with his fellows
in business or any vocation except the few so-called learned
professions.
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This is not true of the present day, the introduction of
delicate and complicated machinery, the application of scientific
knowledge to all sorts of manufacturing, to transportation and
agriculture, and the wider use of expert knowledge in all the
affairs of life are demanding better trained minds in every vocation
in life.
Whether for good or for evil, whether we like it or not, the
fact is undeniable that the uneducated man is at a great dis­
advantage in every profession and trade and calling.
A young man to-day cannot afford to measure his equipment
for life by the standard of his fathers, for he has very different
conditions to meet, and must be prepared to meet them.
Happily for our young people, the opportunities for education
have increased in equal ratio with the demand, and have been
put within the reach of thousands to whom they were impossible
a generation ago. The High Schools and Normal Schools of
this State, while they are not perfect, are unsurpassed by any in
the world, and afford splendid opportunities for thorough prac­
tical training in the midst of pleasant and healthful surroundings,
at a cost that is within the reach of every boy and girl of fair
ability and reasonable energy. An opportunity that no boy or
girl should miss. The chance of a lifetime. A boon of such
excellent value that it is folly and crime to neglect it.

n SplenOib •toerttage.
Th e State o f Pennsylvania is second to none in the U nion.
There is no better place to live in, no better place to w ork in, no
better place to be born in, anywhere that the sun shines on as he
circles the earth with his blessed light.

Yet our good state is so maligned and villified by spiteful
ignorance, by bitter party spirit and selfish jealousy that many
good people, who ought to know better, really believe that we

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are an oppressed and boss-ridden people, suffering under all man­
ner of corrupt and venal officials.
I f you say we have a most beautiful capitol, they reply with
some sneering taunt about the “ graft” on its furnishings. I f
you boast, as you very well may, of our splendid courts and
noble judiciary, for there is none better in the world, they make
some exaggerated charge against our legislature. I f you call
attention to the heroic work or our Commissioner of Health,
they answer with a sneer, “ Can any good thing come out of
Harrisburg?”
I,ook at the facts. Seek an answer to such questions as
these. Where is there a State in all the world that has better
laws or more efficient machinery of justice? Where is better
work done by men than is done by our civil service at Harrisburg
and throughout the State? Where in the world is life safer,
justice surer, charity more abundant, education freer or better
than in the Keystone State ?
These are the great questions, and the answers to them are
beyond all possibility of doubt a glorious vindication of our boast
that there is no better State in the world.
It may be true that there are dishonest men in politics. It
may be true that thieves have stolen from the public purse. It
may be true that we are not so careful as we should be iu the
choice of men to represent us in legislative bodies. The charges
of this kind are grossly exaggerated, as any one may test for
himself by his knowledge of his own representatives. Are they
not, for the most part, the leading men of your community?
But suppose we admit all that the yellow and partisan press
charges against our legislators, the undeniable facts remain that
we have a splendid heritage in the State we live in, a State to be
loved and honored, cherished and obeyed.
“ Who was Noah’s wife, pa?”
Now run away.” — E x.

“ Joan of Arc, my boy.

Junior to senior whom he had seen running to school— “ I
never knew you could run like that, I thought you were slow.”
Senior— “ That’s easy enough. Slowness runs in our
family .p— E x .

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XTbe iRew /iDobel School Bullying.
A t last our Board of Trustees have reached a solution of the
•difficult problem how to build us a Model School.
They have agreed on a plan and location and the work of
Building will be pushed with all possible energy. In the near
future— next fall we hope— we will have a building that will not
only be an additional element of beauty to our beautiful plant,
but will be adapted in all respects to the needs of this important
branch of our work.
This will not only be a great advantage to the. Department
■ of Pedagogy, but incidentally it will give us much better equip­
ment for teaching science.
Under the zealous ambition of Prof. Newman our scientific
apparatus was greatly increased and our laboratories well equip­
ped, but we have been hampered and inconvenienced by want of
room. The present Model School Rooms will be available for
laboratories when the new building is completed.

School IRotes ant> iRews.
The Factory Inspector got busy this fall and directed our
'Trustees to put up fire escapes at the rear of the chapel. The
Trustees in their zeal for our safety, said, if one is good, two will
be better, and so they have put them on both sides.
They also have had all class room doors hung to open out­
ward and in their zeal for safety have them open either way. If
we catch fire in the class room, we can get out, and if we catch
fire in the hall we can rush into a class room to be extinguished.
Devotional exercises should be fervent. The temperature of
the chapel was sometimes too low for the best results. The
Trustees have erected a lot of additional steam pipes. A cold
heart in chapel now should be ashamed of itself.
The physical training classes are in fine spirits, and promise
us some open drills that will be very interesting to see. Indeed,
they gave us a few specimens at Thanksgiving time that were
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Folk dances are coming in. The clergy of the town are
zealously advocating them as a substitute for the waltz and twostep which have so long held the place of popular favor. The
clergy are right— of course, they are always right. The waltz and
two-step are really poor dances compared to the more elaborate
folk dances. A t all events, the folk dances are more interesting
to spectators and the clergy and the editor are only spectators.
The Literary and Musical entertainment given on Thanks-I
giving evening deserves to be recorded as one of the most excellent
and delightful events ever occurring in the school.
Miss Bertha Herring always a welcome visitor— one of our
own students of whom we are proud— was at her best and read
delightfully. Miss Matthews, Miss Pearson and Miss Wise, of
our Music faculty, “ did us proud,” as they always do, and Mrs.
Clever, whom we are happy to claim as our Member-in-law of the
faculty, brought additional glory and honor to our home grown
talent.
Dr. Gordinier’s labors as lecturer and teacher in institutes
have been greatly in demand and so well received that we are
somewhat uneasy lest so much praise may make it impossible for
him to get a hat large enough, and Dr. Gordinier, you know,
should not go without a hat.
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The new song books, “ Songs that Every One Should Know, ”
are a delightful aid to our music. The substitution of singing
these songs for a part of the devotional service twice a week has
already done much to make them familiar, and the singing has
greatly improved.
The closing days of the fall term were not void of the social
functions which are characteristic of the life here. East Saturday
evening was the night of the general reception and dance.
On Monday evening the members of the faculty gathered at
the Principal’s home to do honor to Dr. and Mrs. Martin on the
tenth anniversary of their marriage.

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It possibly will not be going too far to say that the beautiful
sweet-toned mission finished pianola piano was the guest of
honor. This was the gift of Dr. to Mrs. Martin. Throughout
the evening it figured prominently in the entertainment. The
music faculty, Mrs. Clever, Misses Wise and Pearson, were very
much in evidence with their respective abilities in instrumental
and notes. While these characters were before the people, we
might say there was a shadow thrown on the instrument. But
when in order to show its true position in the scale of quality,
some of the less skilled as well as less clever were called upon to
officiate, the instrument still sent forth its sweet strains of music
with the prominent touches of such masters as Beethoven.
Refreshments were served. After extending their best wishes
to the host and hostess, the faculty repaired to their own apart­
ments, some to correct examination papers and others to do their
more pleasant than these term end necessities.

^Lectures.
Dr. Warfield, president of Lafayette College, will give the
first lecture of the term on January 12. His subject will be A
Century of Constitutional Government in the United States.
Peter McQueen, F. R. G. S .,w ill come February 22. The
subject of his lecture will be Land and Game where Roosevelt
Hunts. If his lecture is as interesting as his book “ In Wildest
Africa” we shall have a great treat.
Prof. Thos. I. Mairs, of State College, will be with us for four
days beginning January 17, to lecture on Agriculture. These
lectures are intended as a popular introduction to the study of
Agriculture, which will be added to the course of study next
year.

Mother, may I go out to fly?
Oh, yes, but dear, beware,
Hang your shoes on the flying machine.
But don’t go in the air.— Ex.

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Specimen Essays from iRbetoric Class.
I . A T hu n d er St o r m .

We had not noticed the low rambling of the distant thunder
until we saw the flash of lightning. Immediately the sun was
covered with a cloud. The thick darkness gathered about us, as
if to make the glare of the lightning seem more startling. For a
moment everything was thrown into confusion. We hurried to
the nearest house. The wind whistled through an old tree that
stood near the house, threatening to break asunder the cords
which bound it to the earth. Quicker and quicker the lightning
glared^flash after flash-r-until the heavens seemed like fire.
Every one was pale with terror. A t this moment the rain began
to fall. First the drops were few and scattered, but soon the
heavens were opened and the rain came down in torrents. Then
the storm ceased. The sound of the thunder became fainter and
fainter as the clouds passed away. The sun burst out again in
his splendor. The rain drops glittered on the grass. The birds
began their songs, and a rainbow appeared on the eastern sky.
N e t t ie B e s e c k e r , ’ 12.
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II. T h e A v e r a g e M o d ern G ir d .

No one can deny that the Modern American Girl is just as
beautiful and just as highly accomplished as was her grandmother,
and yet who can deny that the difference between them is almost
appalling.
The question immediately arises, wherein does this great
difference lie and what has wrought so sad a change, for most
sad it is? Who can look upon the average society or school girl,
with her exaggerated hair dressing, conspicuous clothes, high
pitched voice, and boisterous and aggressive manner without
feeling a deep tinge of sadness? A t the present time when a girl
who possesses some personal charm or beauty walks along the
street she hears such remarks as, “ Isn’t she stunning,” or “ Isn’t
she swell,’ ’¿and the poor dear holds her head still higher and is
happy because she creates such impressions. When one meets
these poor deluded girls, it is hard to realize that their greatest
and most serious defects are for the most part external, and that
at heart they are j ust as sweet and as pure as the dear oldfashioned girl we love to read about.

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When girls realize that girlhood itself is beautiful and sacred,, ;
and that their chief charms lie, not in grotesque dressing and m
loud and exaggerated manners, but in their sweet, maidenly
dignity and simplicity, it may be said of them again, as they walk
along the street, “ When she had passed, it seemed like the
ceasing of exquisite music.”

III. T h e T r a v e l s

S a r a K id w e l l .

op a

Pe n n y .

On a bright morning in January I was sent from the mint to
gladden the heart of a little girl, whose birthday was in April. If
I had known that my mission would be such a difficult one I
would have been less happy.
In company with some other coins, I was taken to a bank
and put in a safe which was fastened securely with a large lock.
For several days I lay there undisturbed, other pennies were taken
out, yet I remained. Time was passing swiftly and I was
anxious to escape from this prison. While different methods of
escape were presenting themselves to my mind, the banker came
to the safe, took me out and gave me to a pleasant-faced gentle­
man who placed me gently in his purse with some other coins.
“ Perhaps this is the little girl’s father,” I thought. But I
was doomed to disappointment. Scarcely had the gentleman
proceeded more than two blocks when he entered a store. In
the hope that I would not be given in payment for the purchases
which he made, I lay quietly under some other coins. A t last,
however, I was discovered and brought out. Still determined to
resist being given away, I fell from the gentleman’s hand and
rolled under the counter. Both the gentleman and the store
keeper looked for me, but could not find me. Then I heard the
gentleman say, “ Never mind, it was only a penny.” “ How
insulting, I thought, to be spoken of so lightly.” Nevertheless
I was glad to escape.
How long I lay there I cannot tell; it seemed a very long
time, but perhaps it was only a few days. Then one day the store
was swept, and with the dirt I was thrown into the street. I
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have been when they so carelessly and thoughtlessly put us into
their mouths. I did not lay there long until a newsboy picked
me up and ran as fast as he could to the store. He bought some
candy with me, and gave me to a lady, whom I am sure did not
care especially for coins of my denomination by the way she
pitched me into the register.
The next day I was taken from the register and carried to
the bank. I was so badly defaced that I gave up all hope of ever
seeing the little girl. Then one day a stern looking gentleman
came into the bank and I was again taken out. I cannot tell all
that I went through after this, but finally I reached the little girl
on her birthday.
E d n a C h r is t ia n . I

Hlumni personals.
’89. Mrs. Carrie E. Quigley (Spangler) writes us from
Allen, Pa., that she and her brother are living together there.
Says spelling bees have been held during the fall and a large
literary society has been organized.
’90. Rev. W. H. Nicholas is pastor of the Grace Lutheran
Church at Springfield, 111. He has a congregation of 600 mem­
bers and likes his work. It has been a long time since we heard
anything of Rev. Nicholas, and we are glad to get track of him
again and to know that he is doing successful work in his chosen
calling.
’90. Miss Gertrude Eppley is living at Mechanicsburg, Pa.
instead of Boiling Springs. As far as we know, she is still
teaching.
’91. Mr. G. S. Rupp writes from West Willow, Lancaster
county: Am the agent of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. Am
married and have two daughters, aged 13 and 5 years. Have a
nice position and like the place well.
Mr. Rupp also asks the price of the H e r a l d . We are glad
to inform him that it is 25 cents a year and hope to receive his
subscription.
’92. Mr. B. M. Shull has been supervising principal of
the schools of Lehighton, Pa., for three years. We only learned

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o f this fact lately or it would have been printed sooner. We are
informed that Mr. Shull is quite successful in his work there.
’oo. Mr. J. E. McCullough sends us a H e r a l d subscription
from 209 Franklin St., Wilkinsburg, Pa. We are glad to know
that Edgar is getting along nicely and mark him “ paid up” in
our mailing list.
>01. We wish to call attention of all members of ’01 to the
following.
Mr. Underwood, the class president, informs us he has
appointed the following committee to arrange for the reunion
next June: Mr. N. N. Atnold, chairman, Mrs. J. S. Heiges,
Miss Florence Owens, Mr. John Coldsmith and Mr. George
Briner. He says they hope to have a successful reunion and
would like as many of ’01 to be present as possible. The H e r a l d
extends best wishes for the success of this reunion, and anything
we can do for its success we will be glad to do.
We are glad to hear from Mr. Underwood and to receive his
H e r a l d subscription.

’02. Mr. H . W . Mountz is teaching his third year as Prin­
cipal at Spring Lake, N. J. Mr. Mountz recently called at the
Normal to enter his brother as a spring term student and also to
advance his H e r a l d subscription. We are always glad to greet
old friends.
’02. Miss Tillie Elliott is attending Dickinson College.
’02. Mr. J. C. Myers is principal of the high school at
Orangeville, 111. We are sorry to see our people leave the State,
'but are glad to learn of their success wherever they are.
3q 2. We were glad to see at the Carlisle Institute this year
M is s E l s i e Mountz, who has been in the west for a few years.
Elsie is looking fine and has promised to write an article for the
H e r a l d soon on her western travels.
’03. Miss Florence Fogelsanger is a senior at Juniata
'College, Huntingdon, this year. She will graduate in June.
’04. Miss Velva Myers is teaching near Carlisle. She
■ sends best wishes to Normal.
’05. Miss Carrie A . Gochnauer resigned her position at
Summerdale, Pa., and has accepted the grammar school at
Washington Heights, Pa., near her home, Camp Hill. W e
congratulate Carrie on her promotion.

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’05. Mr. P. A . Swartz is employed in Baltimore, Md. H is
address is 806 E. Preston St. He remembers his old Normal days
with pleasure. We should be glad to see him any time he can
come.
’05. We are glad to have the following letter from Mr. EE- Bender:
I left the position as principal of the Chester, N. J ., schoolsto take charge of the Enhaut Graded Schools, Enhaut, Pa. I
took charge of the Enhaut schools in September, 1909, and have
been Principal of the same up to this time, but have nowresigned to take charge of the Grace U. B. Church, Allentown.
I have received or rather entered the East Pennsylvania Con­
ference of the U. B. in Christ on the 9th of October, and have
since been appointed as pastor of the above-named charge. After
December 3, we will be at home at No. 817 North 6th St.,
Allentown, Pa. Hoping this may be of interest to the H e r a l d and soliciting an interest in your prayers for 11s in our new field
of labor,
I remain, Yours in Christ,
E . E t h a n Be n d e r ,

Pastor of Grace U. B. Church, Allentown, Pa.
’05. Miss Bessie M. Reese is teaching at her home, Burnt
Cabins, this year. She spent part of last year visiting in Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska.
’05. Mr. A . I. Underwood is taking a course at StateCollege, Pa. His address is 248 S. Allen St., State College, Pa.
’06. Miss Lillian Bentz writes from Mt. Holfy Springs that
she expects to be in the employ of the Bell Telephone Co. during
the year.
’06. Miss Evelyn Quig is teaching her third year in Perth
Amboy, N. J.
’06. Miss Laura Shields sends us two years’ subscription to
the H e r a l d from Womelsdorf, where she is employed in the
Bethany Orphans’ Home School.
’07. Misses Marge and Bess Brown are both teaching in
Perth Amboy, N. J.
’07. We have the following from Mary D. Barr:
Colfax, Wash., October 28, 1910.
Dear Miss Horton: I am sending another year’s subscrip­
tion to you for the school paper. I am always anxious to know
what “ Old Normal’ ’ and her people are doing.

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I am still teaching in Washington State, am doing ninth
grade work this year and like it very much. The teaching pro­
fession is not nearly so crowded here as in the more eastern
states, and for the good teaoher the salaries are much better.
There are always good positions open for the successful teacher.
Wishing C. V . S. N. S. a most successful school year,
I am a sincere friend,
M a r y D . Ba r r .

’07. Miss Alma B. Walter is teaching in her home town,
Lebanon.
’07. Mr. Earl Thrush is spending the winter at his home in
Shippensburg, Pa.
’07. Miss Violet Johns is teaching near Newport, Pa.
’07. Miss Grace I,- Johnson is teaching at Latrobe, Pa.
Her address is 18 n Ugonier St.
’07. Mr. George H. Richwine is principal of the high
school at Aldenville, Pa.
’08.
Carlisle.

Miss Mary Brindle is teaching a mixed school near

’08. Mr. j . R. Jackson is attending Dickinson College.
’08. Miss Helen Stough is spending the winter at home,
Shippensburg.
’08. Miss Jean Robinson is attending an art school in
Philadelphia.
’08. Miss Ethel Wolfort is teaching at Long Branch, N. J.
Her address is 304 Chelsea Ave.
’09. Mr. O. F. Deardorff is in the employ of the Northern
Central Freight Office at York, Pa. He resigned a school to
take this position. He pays up his H e r a l d subscription for
four years.
09. Mr. C. H. Eichelberger is in charge of his father’s
general store, a machinery business at Aspers, Pa. He expects
to teach again in the near future.
’09. Miss Esther Long is assistant principal at Highspire,
Pa,
09. Mr. Evers Miller has charge of the A grammar at
Highspire.
’09. Miss Maud Brady is a sophomore at Dickinson College.

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’09. Miss Marion Seabrook is teaching at Ambler, Pa. Her
address is 718 Forest Avenue. She sends her subsciption to the
H erald for another year.
’09. Miss Beatrice E. Lerew is teaching at Netcong, N. J.
Her work is kindergarten work. She sends her H e r a l d sub­
scription.
’09. We are glad to publish a short letter from Martha
Kendall:

Houston, K y., Oct. 22, 1910.

E d it o r N o r m a l S ch ool H e r a l d , Shippensburg, Pa.
Dear Friends:— Enclosed please find twenty-five cents in
stamps for subscription to H e r a l d for this year.
The H e r a l d is always welcomed and read soon after its

arrival. Being so far separated from my former friends, it is
almost my only source of knowing what is transpiring at Normal.
I am enjoying my work among the mountaineers very much.
Our school opens January 2. Our new dormitory is almost com­
pleted. Expect to have about twenty-five children in our home
this winter.
Sincerely,
M a r t h a G. K e n d a l l i g i o . Miss Annabel Snyder is teaching near Duncannon.
She renews her H e r a l d subscription.
B i o . Mr. John Brenneman is principal of Third Ward
Schools in Lehighton, Pa. He sends best wishes and 25 cents
to Normal for H e r a l d .
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n g l is h

T e a c h e r — “ W hy are you not writingthe dictation,

Mary?’;'
jj;ary— “ i am spell bound.” — E x.
P rofession in L a t in — “ Why is the verb subjunctive in this
sentence, O that I had a million dollars!
S t u d e n t — “ Contrary to facts.” — E x .

An East Tennessee girl is credited with the following reply
to a question as to whether she had been to the fair.
I didn’t went, I didn’t want to went, and if I had wanted to
went, I couldn’t have gotten to gwine.— E x.

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Basket Ball.
As the time approached for the opening of the basket ball sea­
son, all became aware that an entirely new team must be developed.
Through the good work of the new coach and the interest shown
by the fellows, the results thus far have been very satisfactory.
Faithful practice with a determination to make a strong team
and the loyal support of all the students will give Normal its
usual strong team.
The schedule is given below:
Normal

°Nov. i i -C o. I., Harrrisburg....................
°Nov. 19-P. R. R. Y . M. C. A ., Harrisburg
°Nov. 26-Felton A . C ..................................
°Dec. 3-Dickinson Law School . . . .
°Dec. 10-Harrisburg Technical School . .
“Dec. 17-Steelton Y . M. C. A ....................
°Jan. 7-Carlisle Indians...........................
Jan. 14“
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Jan. 20-Steelton H. S c h o o l....................
Jan. 21-Kutztown N orm al........................
°Jan. 24-Bloomsburg N orm al....................
°Jan. 27-Juniata College . , v
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Feb. 4-Mercersburg Academ y................
°Feb. 11-Steelton High S ch o o l................
°Feb. 18-Kutztown N o r m a l....................
Feb. 24—Bucknell A c a d e m y ....................
Feb. 25-Lock Haven N o r m a l................
°Mar. i-Mercersburg Academy . . . .
“ Mar. 4-Bucknell A c a d e m y ....................
“Mar. 1 i-L o ck Haven N o r m a l................
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(Cupi&’s (Column.
S m it h — a l d s t a d t . A t Huntingdon, Pa., September 8,
Mr. C. I. Smith, ’08, to Miss Anna Aldstadt, of Riddlesburg.
They reside in Morganza, Pa.
K e t l — B e n n e t t . A t Hummeltown, Pa., Nov. 5, Mr.
James Kell, ’ 10, to Miss Fdwinna L. Bennett.

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M c L a u g h l in — F in k . A t Westfield, N. J., Nov. 22, Mr.
John H. McLaughlin, 1900, to Miss Bertha May Fink. Mr. Curtis
McLaughlin, brother of the groom, was best man, and Mr. Ralph
Starry was an usher. The wedding was a church affair and
over 500 guests were present.
S h o a p — A g l E. A t Hagerstown, October 25, Mr. Carl
Shoap, a former student of Normal, to Miss Loubertia R. Agle,
’ 10. They reside in York.
P a r k e r — Sm i t h . Near Reedsville, Pa., December, by Rev.
W . C. Thompson, Mr. Frank M. Parker, of Reedsville, to Miss
Mabel T . Smith, ’99. They will reside in Reedsville.
M y e r s — H a u s e r . A t Lena, 111., Mr. J. C. Myers, ’ 02, to
Miss Grace Hauser. Mr. Myers is principal of the Orangeville,
111., Schools.
N ip l e —W il l ia m so n . A t Torbotville, Pa., October 26,
Dr. Dio Main Niple, ’00, to Miss Katherine M. Williamson. They
reside at Turbotville, where Dr. Niple is a practicing physician.
H e v e l -—W il s o n . A t Carlisle, Pa., October 10, Mr. Forest
Hevel to Miss Goldie E. Wilson. Miss Wilson was a former
student of Normal.
W ole — F ic k e s . A t Newport, Pa., December 28, ’ 10, by
Rev. Ney, Mr. Lawrence W olf to Miss M. Gertrude Fickes, ’ 07.
They will reside at Newport, Pa.
B ow ers — M y e r s . November 1, 1910, Mr. Samuel Bowers,
of Shippensburg, to Miss Sadie A . Myers, ’83. They reside at
Newville, Pa.

announcement.
Mrs. Elizabeth George, of Wilkinsburg, announces the
engagement of her daughter, Miss Margaret Hilda to Mr. Hugh
McCulloch, ’06. No date has been set as yet for the wedding.
The H e r a l d extends congratulations.
M S'

Storft Column.
A t Delta, Pa., to Mr. and Mrs. Phineas Morris, a
Mr. Morris was a member of the class of ’99.

M o r r is .

daughter.

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A t Waynesboro, Pa., October 5 , to Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Arthur was Miss Ethel Hoover, ’01.
K o n h a u s . A t Mechanicsburg, Pa., September 26, to Mr.
and Mrs. F. B. Konhaus, a son. Mrs. Konhaus was Miss Ruth
Blessley, ’ 05, and Mr. Konhaus was a member of ’ 02.
Joh n son .
At Owosso, Michigan, 514 E- Exchange St., to
Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Johnson, a son. Mrs. Johnson was Miss
Emily Newton, ’03.
C o r b in .
A t Lewistown, Pa., November 21, to Mrs. W. M.
Corbin, a daughter. Mrs. Corbin was Miss Helen Johnston, ’09.
Bosserm an .
A t East Berlin, Pa., October 13, to Mr. and
Mrs. Collon A . Bosserman, a son. Mrs. Bosserman was Miss
Laura J. Spangler, ’00.
A rthur.

Arthur, a son.

©bituarg.
Sara Elizabeth Meyer (Myers), ’99.
We are indebted to a Shippensburg paper for the following:
The body of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Myers, wife of Dr. Thomas
A . Myers, who died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Decem­
ber 26, 1910, arrived in Shippensburg, accompanied by the hus­
band, and were conveyed to the home of her parents on Normal
Hill. The cause of death was peritonitis, having been ill but
one short week. The deceased was a daughter of our well-known
citizens, Samuel W . and Elizabeth Meyer, residing on Normal
Hill. She was born October 1, 1879, at death being aged 31
years, 2 months and 25 days. The first 20 years of her life were
spent in Shippensburg, where she graduated from the Shippens-|
burg Normal School, in class of 1899. After spending two years
in Washington, D. C., the past eight years of her life were spent
in Oklahoma City. She was a member of the River Brethren
denomination, and vice president of the Helen Gould Auxiliary,
Oklahoma, N. S. W . V . On September 19, 1899, she was
united in marriage with Dr. Thomas A . Myers, by whom she is
survived, as also by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Meyer,
and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Mary Byers, Greencastle; Mrs.
Amanda Wenger, Peabody, Kansas. The funeral was held from
the home of her parents, Saturday, December 31, with services

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by Rev. Martin Oberholser. Interment in Air H ill Cemetery,
Scotland, Franklin county, Pa.

The H erald acknowledges with thanks the following E x ­
changes:
“ The Crucible,” Greeley, Col.
“ Normal Oracle,” Valley City, N. D.
“ The Amulet,” West Chester, Pa.
“ The Quarterly,” Bloomsburg, Pa.
“ Normal Vidette,” Kutztown, Pa.
“ The Normal Bulleton” Lock Haven, Pa.
“ The Perkiomenite,” Pennsburg, Pa.
“ The Dickinsonian,” “ The Mercersburg Academy Literary
Magazine,” “ High School A rgus,” Harrisburg, Pa.
“ College News,” Annville, Pa.
“ The College Student,” Lancaster, Pa.
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passing f t ©n.
T h e C o ll e g e P r e s id e n t .

Such rawness in a student is a shame,
But lack of preparation is to blame.
H ig h S ch ool P r in c ip a l .

Good heavens, what crudity ! The boy’s a fool;
The fault of course is with the grammar school.
G r a m m a r S ch ool P r in c ip a l .

O that from such a dunce, I might be spared !
They send them to me so unprepared.
P r i m a r y P r in c ip a l .

Poor kindergarten blockhead;
And they call that preparation ! Worse than none at all.
K in d e r g a r t e n T e a c h e r .

Never such lack of training did I see.
What sort of person can the mother be ?
Moth er.

You stupid child ! But then you’re not to blame;
Your father’s family are all the same.— E x.

XCbe Soutb /iDountain on ifoot.
For many years I had wished to take a journey on foot
through the South Mountain region of Pennsylvania.
The whole district is rich in historic interest, and of great
natural beauty.
The iron works that flourished there a hundred years ago
have long since disappeared, but little villages survive, and with
the moss grown ruins of the furnace stacks mark the spots where
our great grandfathers made iron pigs a century and a half ago.
Again and again I had made this journey in my mind, with
great ease and comfort, over my winter fire. Year after year I
had marked on my calendar the day of my departure. But when
the time came I was unavoidably detained, each year by the same
cause, namely, my invincible aversion to walking. Only last
year I was able to solve the problem how to accomplish my pur­
pose.
My lawyer, attempting to explain how I was responsible for
the blunder of my agent, quoted the maxim “ quid facet per alium
facet per se.” He assured me that this was good Latin and good
law, and a principle of wide application. This made it clear to
me that if I walked my horses I would be walking. I f I threw
my shoe over the South Mountain, it could make no difference
what else I threw* with it. So our walking party was organized
and equipped with such bare necessities of life as pilgrims are
wont to carry; such as changes of raiment suitable for rainy days,
or for an evening at the Blue Mountain House, a few thermos
bottles and baskets for lunch and various gaudy spreads and
blankets and sunshades and such things as would make evident
to the country side that we were indeed pilgrims and strangers
upon the earth,— or nearly on the earth, and I should perhaps
mention that we took four horses and a vehicle called a brake—
an ominous name, but undeserved. So equipped we girded up
our team and set forth.
Our first objective point was the Antietam Battlefield,
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near the little town of Sharpsburg on the North side of the Poto.
mac, some twelve miles above Harpers Ferry.
The battlefield proper is a rather level stretch of country,
triangular in shape, lying between the Potomac River and Antietam Creek. The Confederate army under General Tee had
crossed the river by the Sharpsburg bridge. The Union Army
under Gen. McClellan came from the northeast and on the after­
noon of September 16 opened the battle by sending Gen. Hooker
across the Antietam Creek. Only a skirmish took place that
evening.
On,the next day, Sept. 17, 1862, there was the bloodiest
single day’s fighting in the whole war.
The battlefield is well marked, and a few good monuments
have been erected. The actual conduct of the battle was too
complicated for us to understand, but a few facts were learned.
McClellan had 87,000 men and Tee 55,000. Only 60,000
of McClellan’s men, however, were actually engaged in the battle.
The Union loss was over 12,000 and the Confederate 11,000.
It is still a disputed question whether Antietam was a victory for
Union or Confederate Army. Perhaps the chief historic interest
of the battle is the fact that it furnished President Tincoln the
victory he was waiting for to issue his emancipation proclama­
tion. The national cemetery at Sharpsburg is the resting place of
thousands of the bodies destroyed by the dreadful rain of bullets
on that sad day. The long long rows of little granite markers on
their graves, each one showing where a useful happy life was
sacrificed, some home made desolate, perhaps some loving wife
made widow and little children orphans,— This sad story multi­
plied by thousands makes a fearful account against the spirit of
war; and pleads with sad but silent eloquence for some device or
remedy by which the shameful savagery of war may be suppressed
and justice secured by reason, and right maintained by law.
From Antietam we followed the winding course of the river
to the town of Harpers Ferry. Climbing the bluff that lies be­
tween the Potomac and the Shenandoah, we there found a com­
fortable hotel owned and managed by negroes.
There is a poetic fitness in this fact that here, where John
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the negro slaves, children of those slaves are prospering in free­
dom and are enjoying every liberty that white men could have
in their circumstances.
Harpers Ferry is one of the most picturesque places in the
world. The two great rivers join their forces here and have cut
their way inch by inch through the mountain; and now they ripple
gently through the wide and rocky channel, while the moun­
tains which they conquered frown down upon them in dark shad­
ows cast by Bolivar Height on the one side and Maryland Heights
from the other.
From the bluff between the rivers you can see far up and
down the broad Potomac.
Below the town the great freight train rumbles noisily across
the bridges and disappears into a tunnel at the foot of Maryland
Heights. A canal boat crawls lazily along, and a lone fisherman
sits in his boat in mid-stream silently casting his line for black
bass. It is a scene of surpassing beauty, and the pleasant con­
trast between these peaceful scenes and the associations of the
place in history adds interest and satisfaction to it all.
The
bitterness of the controversy over slavery is happily a thing of the
past. So long past that we can hardly form a proper notion of
its fierce and dreadful strength.
Some estimate of its intensity can be made from the hysteric­
al excitement caused by John Brown’s insane attack upon the U.
S. arsenal at this place. Brown had not more than twenty men
in his band,— a mere squad which a village police force might
subdue. With this handful of men he sprang from the moun­
tains on the night of October 16, 1859, overpowered the guards
and seized the government arsenal. The news of the assault
threw the country into a panic. The rumor grew as it spread
and half the world believed that the slaves had risen and were
killing and burning and cotnmitting untold outrage, and that
worse was yet to come. In fact, not a slave responded to Brown’s
call, no citizen was injured, no property destroyed save some
small outbuildings of the arsenal.
Brown was captured, taken to Charlestown, ten miles dis■ tant, there tried for treason, convicted and hanged, December 2.
But petty and absurd as were the actual events of the inci­
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men already excited to the point of madness, and had great in­
fluence in bringing on the conflict that was already inevitable.
As we sat on the hill top while the shadows of the moun­
tains grew to darkness in the peaceful valley, and the only sound
was the musical flow of the great river in its rocky channel, the
words of the familiar marching song came to our mind with a
new interest and meaning;
“ John Brown’s body lies a mouldering in the grave,
But his soul goes marching on.”
His soul was of that fervent strenuous type that never could
rest or bide its time. What he may be marching to by this time
we know not, but we venture the opinion that if the saints are
ministering spirits, as we trust they are, then no doubt old John
Brown is somewhere in God’s universe, somewhere that needs
his vigor and unselfish courage he is “ up and at it” with his old
time devotion to the right as God gives him to see the right.
John Brown was a fanatic no doubt, but he had the courage
of his convictions. He was a reformer who spared not his own
life, but gave it freely for the cause of human freedom.
Such fanatics move the world.
But we have walked far enough for one day. Our walking
delegates are in their stalls, we have solved the problem, we have
walked and not been weary.
(To be continued.)

M S'
Ube mall of jfame for (Breat Hmertcans.
Interest in the Hall of Fame has been revived by the recent
addition of a list of names to the roll of our honored dead. The
Hall of Fame cannot be classed among our time-honored institu­
tions and its origin appears to have been almost accidental.
When about fifteen years since it was decided by the trustees
and faculty of the University of New York to make many changes
and improvements in its buildings, it was found that the beauty
of the handsome new structure would be largely lost to the out­
side world, as the campus was from forty to sixty feet above the
level of the street. To remedy this, the architect proposed a
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onnade five hundred feet in length. Some objected to the colon­
nade as a useless expenditure of money, but the Chancellor of the
University suggested that it be used as a Hall of Fame for Great
Americans, claiming that it would be a constant means of educa­
tion to those who passed under it and an enduring memorial to
our distinguished dead. A generous friend providing the means,
the work was begun and completed in 1900 at a cost of $250,000.
Under the colonnade are rooms devoted to a museum, where
portraits, statues, and other mementoes of those chosen for the
Hall of Fame could be preserved. One hundred electors were
chosen who were to decide by ballot whose names should be in­
scribed on this hall of remembrance. These electors were chosen
from among college presidents and teachers, authors, editors,
judges and publicists.
No one could be voted for who had not
been dead ten years, and no foreign born person was eligible under
any circumstances. There were one hundred and fifty panels in
the colonnade and fifty of these were to be filled in 1900 and five
additional names were to be added every fifth year thereafter.
No name was to be inscribed unless a majority of the one hundred
members of the board of control voted in its favor. Lest the
board should show a preference for a single class of great Ameri­
cans, one of the rules governing the election required the members
to select from a majority of the following classes: Authors, edu­
cators, preachers, theologians, reformers, missionaries, philan­
thropists, engineers, inventors, scientists, explorers, soldiers,
sailors, architects, physicians, surgeons, lawyers, judges, painters,
sculptors and great men outside these classes.
A t the first election in 1900, only twenty-nine names received
the required number of votes. Washington’s name naturally led
the list, followed by those of Lincoln, Webster, Franklin, Grant,
Marshall, Jefferson, Emerson, Fulton, Longfellow, Irving, Ed­
wards, Morse, Farragut, Clay, Peabody, Hawthorne, Cooper,
Whitney, Lee, Mann, Audubon, Kent, Beecher, Story, Adams,
Channing, Stuart and Gray. The names were inscribed on bronze
tablets in the colonnade.
A t this election no woman received the required number ot
votes, but Mary Lyons, Martha Washington, Charlotte Cushman
and Dorothy Dix each had more than a dozen votes. In 1905,
an extension of the Hall of Fame having been added, a place for

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the names of women and foreign-born Americans was provided.
Mary Lyons, Emma Williard and Maria Mitchell were the first
women whose names were enshrined in the hall, and John Paul
Jones, Louis Agassiz and Alexander Hamilton the first foreignborn citizens. The names of J. Q. Adams, Madison, Sherman,
Lowell and Whittier were also selected at that time.
In the year 19x0 eleven names were received by the board of
control. These were: Edgar Allan Poe, the poet; Oliver Wen­
dell Holmes, the philosopher; Roger Williams, the pioneer;
James Fennimore Cooper, the novelist; Phillips Brooks, the
humanitarian; William Cullen Bryant, the poet; Frances E.
Willard, the temperance worker; Andrew Jackson, statesman;
Geo. Bancroft and John Lothrop Motley, historians.
Much interest was shown in the names of the women first
chosen to fill niches in this the nearest approach to an American
Westminster Abbey. Some thought when the name of Emma
Willard was announced that a mistake had been made and that it
should have been Frances E. Willard, forgetting that the great
advocate of temperance had not then been dead ten years, and by
a rule governing the board of control was not then eligible. But
Mrs. Emma Willard, though unknown to many readers to-day,
well deserved the distinction, as she was a pioneer in the cause of
the higher education of women, the author of a History of the
United States, and other books, and the founder of Troy Female
Seminary, a school which still flourishes. But while Mrs. W il­
lard did much for her fellow-women, she did not exert the influ­
ence or accomplish so grand a work as Mary Lyons, who came
after. She determined to establish a school for the higher edu­
cation of women and never ceased striving for that end until she
had founded Mt. Holyoke Seminary, still one of our best schools.
T o do this she overcame so many seemingly insurmountable
difficulties, that men after a time grew afraid to oppose her, as it
seemed to them God was on her side.
Of Maria Mitchell, the third of the women honored with a
place on this roll, little is now heard, perhaps, because in this busy
age not many are interested in the work of the great astronomer.
Miss Mitchell, like Mrs. Willard and Mary Lyons, was a teacher,
professor of Astronomy in Vassar College. She was the most
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women whose names were inscribed on the roll last year little
need be said, as the reading world is so familiar with both. Mrs.
Stowe’s great story is still read and loses little of its power, though
the end for which it was written was accomplished years ago.
The name of Miss Willard, the white-ribboner, is a household
word in many of our homes, and people vie with each other to do
her memory honor,-—Presbyterian Banner.

■
You can lead a horse to water,
But you cannot make it drink;
You can ride a Latin pony,
But you cannot make it think.

Percy studied chemistry,
Studied long and late;
Percy smelt some H2S—
H e’ll not graduate.
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An Irishman upon the witness stand was asked by the law­
yer, “ Was the defendant, when alone, in the habit of talking to
himself?”
. . .
“ W ell,” said Pat dryly, “ I never happened to be with him
when he was alone.” — Ex.

“ There is something preying on my mind.”
S e n i o r — “ Never mind.
It will starve.”

J u n io r —

A mosquito lit on a sleeping man,
And looked for a place to drill;
“ This world owes me a living,” said he,
And at once sent in his bill.