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THE SLIPPERY ROCKET
Published the second and fourth Fridays
of each school month by the students of the
State Normal] School, Slippery Rock, Pa.
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
SARA ADAMS
Associate Editors
HELEN MALONEY MARY GRIFFITH
GEORGE DEZORYAK LEONA O'SHEA
SPECIAL FEATURES
Helen Maloney
Grace Nichol
Louise Stuchel .
ATHLETICS
George Dvoryak Rosana Dugan
George PunJarck Samuel Roth
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Leona O’Shea Edna Fleming
Helen Sankey Hulda Gibson
CAMPUS NEWS
Mary Griffin Minnie Croxall
Thelma Brown Kenneth Hogg
MISCELLANEOUS
Helen Ha'dman
Ruth Hardman Helen Steubgen
A4lma Wohlgemuth Agnes Fleming
Honorary Faculty Alumni Editor
CLAY C. RUFF
Business Manager
CECIL R. HOCKENBERRY
Norman Zook
Leona Sankey
Subscription Price - - - $1.00 a yea:
Entered as second-class matter, December
27, 1918, at the post office at Slippery Rock,
Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879.
EDITORTAL
An honest-to-goodness education
calls for a four-sided development—
mental, spiritual, physical, and social.
And yet how few people really do
take advantage of this all-round edu-
cation even when opportunity for so
doing presents itself!
To meet the demands of present
day culture and advancement schools
are confronted with the problem of
turning out students who need feel
no lack of knowledge in regard to any
one of these four phases of learning.
Our school is trying to do just that.
Our schedule is well balanced; our
program is arranged so that each
phase has its proper place,
To be more specific: in regard to
our socia] life we have class teas,
class parties, entertainments in the
chapel, our social hours in the gym-
nasium; to take care of our physical
needs we have our-regular health ed-
ucation work, athletics, games, ete.,
we have Vespers and Bible classes to
take care of our spiritual needs; and
THE SLIPPERY ROCKET
it is enough merely to mention the
mental side. These are a few of the
things the school offers, but it does
not say how many of the students ac-
cept what is offered.
Are you enjoying one or two phas-
es to the exclusion of the others?
Are you too narrow to accept the fact
that the best development lies in bal-
ancing properly these four big
things? The balanced routine of the
school has been arranged for your
benefit. Accept what is offered to
you, and so each will “advance in
wisdom and stature, and in favor
with God and man.”
CAMPUS FUN
Mrs. Vincent. (in Children’s Liter-
ature Class.) “The children in the
5th and 6th grades do not believe in
fairies or Santa Claus.”
Oh, I hope I am not telling any of
you that there is no Santa.
Mr. Headland. (in history class.)
“Miss Jones, where did Adam and
Eve live?”
Miss Jones. In the Garden of Ed-
en.
Mr. Headland. “Then where did
they move to.”
L. O. ‘Irene, did you know they
stopped the “Covered Wagon” in Me-
Keesport ?”
I. L. “No. Why ?”
L. O. “To grease the wheels.”
Dr. Hamm in Psychology: What
is the definition of 1. Q.?
Student (in writing): The eye-
cue ig some sort of a disease of the
eye.
Mr. 1. C. Williams, (telling his ex-
perience on the sidewalks in Philadel-
phia with a colored woman) :
Yes, we had the sidewalk all to our-
selves.
One of the students was heard say-
ing in the dining room: I wonder if
Mrs. Houston has anything to do
with Houston, Texas.
Noticing the word “copywrite”
written on the blackboard in Miss
Mary’s room, one of her students
questioned her as to the correctness
of the spelling. Her answer came
quickly: “I think whoever wrote that
didn’t copy right.”
Reporter—seeking material. Do
you know any good jokes?
Janice: Why, you’re the best joke
I know.
In Hygiene test the following
question was asked: Name the three
divisions of the body.
Bright pupil: Head, middle and
end.
Heard in Modern, European His-
tory class: The Mayflower compact
is the boat that the Pilgrims came
over here in.
A geographical advantage of Eur-
ope is the “‘climax”.
The Gulf Stream comes from the
North and warms Liverpool, and
ooes North and cools Washington, D.
C.
The Gulf Stream blows over Eng-
I'nd and warms it.
Society Editor: ‘“Miss Sankey, you
may report on all of the social activi-
ties of the down-town girls.”
Miss Sankey. ‘““You mean all social
gatherings ?”
Society Editor:
Parties.”
“Not Slumber
Mrs. D. (at the dinner table) “Well
I think it is a wife’s duty to cook
“ree meals a day. How else could
vou expect to keep your home?”
Miss H. McCracken: “Oh, my cook-
ing would make any man leave
home.”
Coach Thompson (after explaining
difference between a safety and
touch-back and score of each):
Now, what is the difference be-
tween a safety and a touch-back?
Helen Curry: Ten yards.
Dr. Hamm: (in History of Ed
class) Miss Littell, what was the pen-
tathalon? (an early Grecian athletic
event consisting of running, jumping,
wrestling, casting the javelin and
throwing the discus).
Miss Littell: The pentathalon was
a course of study that included run-
ning, jumping, wrestling, casting the
javelin, and throwing the-er—dice,
THE SLIPPERY ROCKET
Published the second and fourth Fridays
of each school month by the students of the
State Normal] School, Slippery Rock, Pa.
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
SARA ADAMS
Associate Editors
HELEN MALONEY MARY GRIFFITH
GEORGE DEZORYAK LEONA O'SHEA
SPECIAL FEATURES
Helen Maloney
Grace Nichol
Louise Stuchel .
ATHLETICS
George Dvoryak Rosana Dugan
George PunJarck Samuel Roth
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Leona O’Shea Edna Fleming
Helen Sankey Hulda Gibson
CAMPUS NEWS
Mary Griffin Minnie Croxall
Thelma Brown Kenneth Hogg
MISCELLANEOUS
Helen Ha'dman
Ruth Hardman Helen Steubgen
A4lma Wohlgemuth Agnes Fleming
Honorary Faculty Alumni Editor
CLAY C. RUFF
Business Manager
CECIL R. HOCKENBERRY
Norman Zook
Leona Sankey
Subscription Price - - - $1.00 a yea:
Entered as second-class matter, December
27, 1918, at the post office at Slippery Rock,
Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879.
EDITORTAL
An honest-to-goodness education
calls for a four-sided development—
mental, spiritual, physical, and social.
And yet how few people really do
take advantage of this all-round edu-
cation even when opportunity for so
doing presents itself!
To meet the demands of present
day culture and advancement schools
are confronted with the problem of
turning out students who need feel
no lack of knowledge in regard to any
one of these four phases of learning.
Our school is trying to do just that.
Our schedule is well balanced; our
program is arranged so that each
phase has its proper place,
To be more specific: in regard to
our socia] life we have class teas,
class parties, entertainments in the
chapel, our social hours in the gym-
nasium; to take care of our physical
needs we have our-regular health ed-
ucation work, athletics, games, ete.,
we have Vespers and Bible classes to
take care of our spiritual needs; and
THE SLIPPERY ROCKET
it is enough merely to mention the
mental side. These are a few of the
things the school offers, but it does
not say how many of the students ac-
cept what is offered.
Are you enjoying one or two phas-
es to the exclusion of the others?
Are you too narrow to accept the fact
that the best development lies in bal-
ancing properly these four big
things? The balanced routine of the
school has been arranged for your
benefit. Accept what is offered to
you, and so each will “advance in
wisdom and stature, and in favor
with God and man.”
CAMPUS FUN
Mrs. Vincent. (in Children’s Liter-
ature Class.) “The children in the
5th and 6th grades do not believe in
fairies or Santa Claus.”
Oh, I hope I am not telling any of
you that there is no Santa.
Mr. Headland. (in history class.)
“Miss Jones, where did Adam and
Eve live?”
Miss Jones. In the Garden of Ed-
en.
Mr. Headland. “Then where did
they move to.”
L. O. ‘Irene, did you know they
stopped the “Covered Wagon” in Me-
Keesport ?”
I. L. “No. Why ?”
L. O. “To grease the wheels.”
Dr. Hamm in Psychology: What
is the definition of 1. Q.?
Student (in writing): The eye-
cue ig some sort of a disease of the
eye.
Mr. 1. C. Williams, (telling his ex-
perience on the sidewalks in Philadel-
phia with a colored woman) :
Yes, we had the sidewalk all to our-
selves.
One of the students was heard say-
ing in the dining room: I wonder if
Mrs. Houston has anything to do
with Houston, Texas.
Noticing the word “copywrite”
written on the blackboard in Miss
Mary’s room, one of her students
questioned her as to the correctness
of the spelling. Her answer came
quickly: “I think whoever wrote that
didn’t copy right.”
Reporter—seeking material. Do
you know any good jokes?
Janice: Why, you’re the best joke
I know.
In Hygiene test the following
question was asked: Name the three
divisions of the body.
Bright pupil: Head, middle and
end.
Heard in Modern, European His-
tory class: The Mayflower compact
is the boat that the Pilgrims came
over here in.
A geographical advantage of Eur-
ope is the “‘climax”.
The Gulf Stream comes from the
North and warms Liverpool, and
ooes North and cools Washington, D.
C.
The Gulf Stream blows over Eng-
I'nd and warms it.
Society Editor: ‘“Miss Sankey, you
may report on all of the social activi-
ties of the down-town girls.”
Miss Sankey. ‘““You mean all social
gatherings ?”
Society Editor:
Parties.”
“Not Slumber
Mrs. D. (at the dinner table) “Well
I think it is a wife’s duty to cook
“ree meals a day. How else could
vou expect to keep your home?”
Miss H. McCracken: “Oh, my cook-
ing would make any man leave
home.”
Coach Thompson (after explaining
difference between a safety and
touch-back and score of each):
Now, what is the difference be-
tween a safety and a touch-back?
Helen Curry: Ten yards.
Dr. Hamm: (in History of Ed
class) Miss Littell, what was the pen-
tathalon? (an early Grecian athletic
event consisting of running, jumping,
wrestling, casting the javelin and
throwing the discus).
Miss Littell: The pentathalon was
a course of study that included run-
ning, jumping, wrestling, casting the
javelin, and throwing the-er—dice,
Media of