ALUMNI NUMBER

THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

SLIPPERY ROCKET



VOLUME Vil

WALKS WITH NATURE



It is the purpose of the Nature
Study Department to issue g few
setg of printed directions for student
use, pointing out most interesting
places around Slippery Rock, not only
places where interesting species of
but also geological formations. 1t is
hoped that a greater interest in get-
ting out into the open will be created.,
and that the walk wiil not be taken
alone for the air but to enjoy intel-
ligently what is seen, the materials
that nature uses, how she uses them,
where she has put them, and how she
arranges them.

Directions for “Walk Number 1”
are offered for approval and will be
distributed as a trial, being found
in the book room for free distribu-
tion. If a demand is apparent, others
will be made available.

Objectives
1. Some of Butler County’s best land-
scape views.
II. An earthquake.
I11. A strawberry that is green when
ripe.
{V. Flowering dogwood.
Directions

I. Leaving North Hall, walk noi-
thly, directly toward the athletic
field.. Arriving there, right about
face and enjoy the view of rolling
country, forest areas, open stretch-
es, Slippery Rock Borough, and the
Normal School building right at your
feet, This is one of the highest points
in Butler county, being in the neigh-
horhood of 1500 feet above sea-level.

Still facing south, the row of hills
in the distance ig called the terminal
moraine. This is where many thou-
sand years ago a huge mass of ice
(glacier) came down from the north
and finding it too hot, melted. It

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SLIPPERY ROCK, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 10 1925



A VISITOR FROM HARRISBURG



“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”

The beginning of summer school

"was made pleasant by the visit of Dr.

Kirby, director of art in the Pennsyl-
vania Department ot Public Instruc-
tion. His illuminating talks on the
course of study were very helpful and
practical to the persons who were en-
rolled in his class. The whole student
body enjoyed the illustrated chapel
talks. Dr. Kirby showed the most
concrete and interesting way the pos-
sibility of correlating art with all oth-
er studies of the school curriculum.
We as teachers and prospective teach-
ers felt the responsibility of inviting
children to appreciate and love the
beauties of their surroundings. After
Dr. Kirby’s visit we more fully realize
Keat’s great truth that

“Beauty is truth. truth beauty,—

that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need
to know.”





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§ The Flumni

Cupid has been busy with his ar-
rews and has captured many of the
Slippery Rock alumni. At times he
has been entirely too active and not
waiting till our girls have reached the
stage of being classed as alumni. Hel-
en Hardman, class of ’25 leads off by
heing married December 22, 1924 to
William Cherry of McKeesport.

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Miss Edna Close, of class of 25, of
Mt. Pleasant waited not long after
commencement day, till she and John
Graham, class of '26 hied away to

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NUMBER 17

A PASTORAL ROMANCE



I didn’t go to the funeral. After so
many years I felt that to go and look
upon the lifeless form would only be-
dim my impression of Nellie. Out-
wardly, she was so typically the old-
fashioned school teacher, thin, fiat-
chested, white haired, and ascetic
featured. Her feet were large; her
back was starched; her never chang-
ing eyes, beneath the high, severe
forehead, were of that clear blue that
seems surface deep only; and her lips
were habitually pursed in lines thai
seemed unbreakable even when she
talked, or laughed her perfunctory lit-
tle laugh. .

In the morning she wore straight
blue calico dresses, trimmed in ric-rac
braid, with belts that seemed pieced
in to make the dress longer. In the
afternoon she wore a stiff, white
shirt waist and a long, black shirt.
She always used an abundance ot
starch. Her shoes were heavy and
awkward. Her white hair was pulled
straight back in a tight little knot.
She never fluffed it, even for church
when she put on her best suit and
neatest shoes.

Her little white house stood on a
gentle slope, facing a rutty mud road
that turned off in an obscure little
opening from the state highway. A-
round the house, in solemn parade, ex-
tended a row of pines, the growth
of years. They gave the.effect of per-
mancy and stability, but also of cold,
aloof inaccessibilty, very chilling to
the approaching visitor. By the road
on either side of the walk was a row
of iris, Nellie’s favorite flower.
this bed, she spent most of her late
afternoon hours, tending the plants,
pulling the weeds, watering, plucking,
and cultivating. I never knew her to

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