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Glance at Kipling,.................
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Glance at Kipling—A Reply,
Glance at Kipling—A Rejoin­
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Back Home.................................
The Passing of the Old Bridge, 10
Suggestions for the Study of
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The Christian Associations....... 13

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Editorial,...... ........
Obituary,..............
Marriages,..............
Alumni Personals,
Football,...............
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Clippings,..... .........
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No. 2

H Glance at ikipling.
is the secret of Kipling’s popularity ? Doubtless
many and different answers will be given to this ques­
tion, but there may be numerous admirers of the great
English writer who will be unable to give an answer satisfactory
even to themselves. The carping critics, and they are not a few,
will be ready with explanations that are flattering neither to the
ability of Kipling nor to the literary taste of his readers.
There is an adage oft quoted in these days that ‘ ‘ Nothing suc­
ceeds like success,;'^and this will apply in a literary as well as in
a commercial sense. For thousands of people read Kipling be­
cause he is the vogue. They hear him praised by others, they see
his name in large capitals at the head of tables of contents in the
leading magazines, they learn that he receives more for his writ­
ings than any other author; hence it becomes them to admire
him, to talk about him, to rave over his works.
There is a second class, not so numerous as the first, who read
Kipling because he is unlike other writers. They have become
tired of the ordinary novel, tale of adventure or book of travels.
It is the non-likeness of the new star that attracts them.
But there is a third class who regard Kipling as a truly great
author because he reveals qualities that appeal to them, that make
much for the realization of ideas dimly outlined in their own
minds, but clearly recognized when presented by another.
It is our purpose to try to set forth a few of those qualities.
The first of these is strength and virility of language. No one
who is a student of English even to a moderate degree, can read
those stories of the Indian forest without realizing that there
words are strong and pregnant with meaning. I f the reader would
be convinced, let him read the Jungle books, with special refer­
ence to the power of the Anglo-Saxon words found there.

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Another quality is the vividness of portrayal. This quality is
akin to one just mentioned, but differs from it. Take his pictures
o f Dick Heldar in “ The Light that Failed,” or almost any of
those in his stories of men. How bold are the strokes of the
painter ! There are few subdued colors ; there is no intricate de­
tail. Let anyone compare a Kipling landscape with one of those
portrayed by Scott. In the latter case, we have detail almost to
tediousness ; in the former, a few strokes, and the mind of the
reader must supply the details. But is not the picture of Kipling
the clearer ?
There is a third quality which is hard to define, because it is
a union of contradictory elements. For want of better words we
shall term it imaginative realism. It is this power that enables
the author to make Mowgli’s four-footed companions talk and act
as human beings. The parts of a ship talk, railway engines have
passions as men, and a polo horse maneuvers to win the game
for his own side against odds. Other writers can make brutes
and inanimate objects talk, but it requires a Kipling to keep
them brutes and inanimate objects while they talk.
There yet remains another power to be noted, his ability to
photograph real men and women. His characters are not ideal
in the sense that they are teachers of morals or representa­
tives of superior goodness. They are earthy, sometimes ex­
ceedingly so ; but Tommy Atkins, drunken and profane, is patriotic
to the core and a type of the soldier who has made England a
great nation. Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd are not like the
impossible guardsmen of the great French author, but who would
not prefer to trust the safety of home and fireside to the “ Soldiers
T h re e ” of B Company of the Line Regiment? The drummer
boys of the “ Fore and Aft ” are not models of excellence, but
who can read the story of their heroic death without feeling a thrill
of admiration for them. Dinah Shadd and Badalia Herodsfoot are
not marvels of womanly purity and goodness, but they are the
types with whom the philanthropist and the reformer must reckon
in camp and city.
Students of literature are frequently cautioned to study the life
of an author only through his works. I f this method be applied to
the study of Kipling’s life, our admiration for the author must be
still further heightened. What industry, what breadth of knowl­
edge is revealed ! He knows the fogs of the Newfoundland coast

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and the habits of the beasts of the jungle ; the mysteries of the
ocean liners and the structure of the locomotive are alike at his
command; he understands the way of the slums in the city and
life on the tented field. His creed is healthy ; he teaches the dig­
nity of labor; “ Find your work, do it well, and you deserve the
gratitude of mankind.”
He has faith in his nation. He is not blind to its faults, but he
believes that Great Britain is the nation of nations. She repre­
sents, in his eyes, progress, civilization and general enlighten­
ment ; hence he glories in her victories and sings her triumphs.
Some of the critics have said that Kipling lacks the power of
characterization. I f they mean by this the power to analyze
character and set forth motive, there are few who will deny their
statement, for that is but saying that he is not what he never
claimed to be— a novelist. However, in his chosen sphere, K ip­
ling is easily first among his peers, and no one who would study
the masters of English style can afford to neglect a careful study
of the great Englishman’s work.

a ©lance at frtpling— H IReplp.
1 HAVE read with a great deal of pleasure the foregoing criticism
of Kipling, and am delighted with the clear presentation of
the strong points of the author. Prof. Lehman has stated
clearly and definitely quite a number of the admirable qualities of
Kipling, which to many of us were but dimly imaged before.
While I agree with him in the main, yet there are a few things
about the author which decidedly do not have my approbation.
We all admit that his language is strong and virile— so is the odor
of decayed cabbage and of asafcetida, yet one does not scent his
pocket handkerchief with either. Strength and virility of language
in a production which will have a bad influence on the reader is
no excuse for its existence. His portrayal of any scene he chooses
is vivid in the extreme, claiming at once our admiration for his
complete mastery o f the novelist’s a r t; yet vividness in the por­
trayal of an impure or obscene sight is not at all excusable unless
the author, by his vividness, make vice unattractive. In ” The
Light that Failed,” Kipling, in his usual vivid style, thrusts in
on one’s attention the sight of a half-dozen drunken Swazi girls,

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clothed in the garb iriimortalized by the heroes of Lungtungpen,
dancing half through the night for the entertainment of a young
artist of slightly (?) peculiar tastes. Though one tries never so
hard to shut out the disgusting sight his vividness and strength
of diction keep thrusting it in upon you and you cry out, “ How
can an author with such powers so prostitute them ! How can
he be satisfied with the tone which such incidents suggest?”
When you contrast this sight with the picture of the poor blind
artist, sitting in his solitary loneliness, with the letters from his
sweetheart in his hands, unable to learn their contents, turning
them over and over in his dumb misery ; or in ‘ ‘ The Bushwood
Boy,” when you see the little mother creep into the room of the
soldier boy, home on furlough, to tuck him in just as when a boy,
and then to sit in the Summer darkness holding his big brown
hand in both of her thin wasted ones, while they talk in true
heart to heart style ‘ ‘ as mothers and sons must if there is to be a
future for the British empire, ’’’ one’s heart is filled with reverence
for an author of such power, and when Mulvaney and Otheris
come reeling in with their coarse oaths and obscene jests, one
catches his breath and wishes he could catch Kipling and shake
him into his senses. I love Mulvaney with his rich humor, and
can even see him reel into a palanquin, ‘ ‘ a trampin’ on his left
ear wid his right fut” with tolerable equanimity, but I do wish
he’d go around the corner when he wants to swear so blood-curdlingly.
Yes; vivid he is— disgustingly so at times. Take some of
his poetry, 11 The Betrothed,” for example. There has been a
lover’s quarrel; she insists on his giving up his cigar and he re­
tires to his easy chair, before the fire in his bachelor quarters, to
consider it. He compares the joys of love with the joys of his
cigar— Maggie, with Prince Nick-o-Teen, and then as he muses
that Love’s torch may go out, he paints the picture of what the
future would be for him, wedded, without love----“ And the light of the days that have been (his love), the dark of the
days that are,
And Love’s torch, stinking and stale like the butt o f a dead cigar.
The butt o f a dead cig ar you are bound to keep in your pocket,

With never a new one to light tho’ it’s charred and black to the socket.”

What more disgusting picture could he paint ? Yes ; it’s strong,
of course, realistic also: So are many other things, which we

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would prefer out of our sight.
cision—

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Then our man arrives at his de­

“ A million surplus Maggie’ s are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke .
Light me another Cuba ; I hold to my first sworn vows,” etc.

Good doctrine to preach, isn’t it? Those readers, like Prof.
Lehman, who have reached their maturity, and whose characters
have already formed, may slip past these places scarcely thinking
what their influence may be upon a young person whose charac­
ter is yet plastic, and who readily answers to the influences
around him. My one adverse criticism of Kipling is that the
tone of some of his productions does not ring true. He pictures
vice, a perfectly legitimate act for an author, but he throws round
it the same glamour that he gives to the jungle, to Mowgli, to
Bagheera and to. Kaa. In one of his Barrack Room Ballads,
The Radies,” for example, he has an old reprobate stand up
and tell us a string of his disreputable amours, and he does it in
such a happy-go-lucky style, and leaves the old fellow in such a
comfortable state, that it fails to shock one as a tale of a life of
lust should. I can scarcely bring out this thought more clearly
without throwing myself open to the same criticism, but exam­
ples of my thought are everywhere present. Prof. Lehman has
mentioned the Drummer Boys of the Fore and Aft. A thrill of
admiration passes through us, as he has said, when we read of
the death of little Jakin and Lew, but does the fact'that the boys
went to their death drunken and cursing add any to our admira­
tion ? How much better would the impression be were he to
shun the acts and words that make one shudder ? People may
call me a purist, may say, “ Evil to whom evil thinks,” but I
speak not for myself, but for the boys and girls, the young people
who are reading our current literature, and I reaffirm that any
literature that winks at vice or pictures it in any but an unattrac­
tive way, is impure in its influence. It has been said that Kip­
ling does not pose as a moralist, that he writes for our amuse­
ment. He must think we have strange tastes that oaths and
blasphemies make up such a part of his menu. When I walk
the streets of a large city, and see a poor cripple with no
arm s or legs, or a shriveled and disfigured face, I shudder as I
pass by, though my heart is wrung for him, wrung so that his
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to any of the rude pictures Kipling occasionally slips into his
work, and as I would willingly walk ten squares to escape the
sight of the poor cripple, so would I willingly deny myself the
pleasure of observing Kipling’s admirable technique and virile
diction rather than to take with it the incident which offends.
You say Kipling is true to nature. I agree, and add, let him be
as realistic as his genius enables him to be, but let him choose
good healthy subjects, not deformed and misshapen ones. From
the almost perfect Athenian civilization we have received a num­
ber of statues which embody our ideals of true sculpture. Do any
of them depict misshapen and gruesome objects ?
Beyond all the considerations Prof. Lehman has named, the
one which keeps my interest in Kipling alive, and which causes
me to read everything that comes from his pen, is the freshness
and daring inventiveness he is constantly displaying. Not only
is this noticeable in the plot or subject matter of his productions,
but also in his diction. In “ Fuzzy W uzzy,” for example, he
describes the typical Soudan native for whom Tommie Atkins
has the highest regard, for of all the men against whom he has
fought— the Pathans, the Zulus, the Burmese, and the Boers—
Fuzzy W uzzy is the only one who could ‘ ‘ crumple up the square.”
What a vivid portrayal of Soudanese tactics and man in—
“ ’ E rushes at the smoke when we let drive,
A n’ before we know, ’e’s ’ackin’ at our ’ ead.
'E ’s all ’ot sand and ginger when alive,
A n’ ’e’s generally shammin’ when ’e’s dead.
’E ’s a daisy, ’e’ s a duckey, ’e’ s a lamb !
’E ’s a injia-rubber idiot on a spree.
’ E’s the on’y thing that doesn’t give a damn
Fer a regiment o’ British Infantree!”

Notice the expressiveness of calling the fanatical, fighting zealot
of the Kalifha, maddened with drugs, and ready to die in any
way that will cause the greatest harm to the enemy, since ‘ ‘ Para­
dise lies in the shadow of uplifted swords,” an india-rubber idiot
on a spree. In “ Mandahay” he happens to mention—
“ Elephants a-pilin’ teak
In a sludgy, squdgy creek.”

One can just hear the sucking sound caused by the elephants
pulling their feet out of the mud in the adjectives, “ sludgy,
squdgy,” and so I might multiply examples if space permitted.
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dates freshness, vividness and virility of diction, and who desires
to free himself from conventions in his own use of words, can find
no greater aid to his effort than by a careful study of Kipling.
- -M. L. D r u m .

a ©lance at IRipling—a IRejoinfcet.
writing my brief and necessarily imperfect review of
Kipling I submitted the article to Prof. Drum, and re­
quested him to write a criticism for publication. I knew
that Prof. Drum had long been an appreciative reader and critic of
Kipling, and that while we agreed in many respects in our views
of the author, we differed in others.
My readers will agree with me that Prof. Drum has made a
remarkably clear and able statement of his objections to the great
English writer. I f I cannot agree with him, it will be because'
we hold different opinions as to the moral effect of our author’s
writing.
Let me say at the outstart that I do not admire Kipling, be­
cause he introduces slang, profanity, and occasionally obscenity
into his writings, any more than I admire these qualities in real
life.
The single question at issue between my friend and me is
whether Kipling errs in introducing drunken and debauched men
and women into his books. No one will deny that his characters
are true to life. My friend frankly admits this, but he contends
that ‘ ‘ Vividness in the portrayal of the impure or obscene sight
is not at all excusable, unless the author by his vividness makes
the vice unattractive.” I heartily endorse this statement, but I
cannot agree with Prof. Drum that our author throws around
it (vice) the same glamour that he gives to the Jungle, to Mowgli,
to Bagheera and K aa.” On the contrary, I urge that he paints
vice as it is, fair and attractive in the beginning, but reeking and
rotten at last. Let those who doubt read “ Love-o’-Women,”
or even ‘ ‘ The Ladies,” mentioned by my friend with disapproval.
The reader may find some of the descriptions of Kipling disgust­
ing, but that is because the thing described was disgusting; if
vice be the subject, the more disgusting the better.

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In a day when three widely read French authors, and at least
two who write in our own tongue, are engaged upon works where­
in the glamour of romance is thrown around a crowd of repro­
bates, we need a Kipling to paint a true picture.
Many of us, like Prof. Drum, would prefer to take a circuit of
several squares rather than see the crippled beggar, we may pre­
fer also to shut our eyes to the faults of the British soldier and
speak with pride of him as “ the heroic defender of old England.”
But he has faults and vices, which all the eulogy of his nation
will not mend. Let his nation rather know his faults and their
causes, treat him as a man and a brother, and probably he may
be helped.
I feel that the hand that wrote the “ Recessional,” “ On
Greenhow H ill” and “ The Brushwood Boy” may be trusted to
write nothing vile or corrupting.
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Bacfo Home.
Whoever yeh be an’ whatever yeh do an’
Wherever yeh live—it’s all one
When ye’re oft by yerself in the world for a time
Ye’re glad when yeh git back hum,
Yeh see all the sights of the cities an’ go
To all the dern things as they come,
But yer heart turns over, an’ curls up, an’ rests,
When at las’ yeh find yerself hum.
Yeh open the gate with the clickety latch
An’ walk up the ol’ path to the door,
Yeh hitch up ye’re char to the same ol’ stove
An’ tramp on the same ol’ floor.
A n’ yeh gaze at the pickshures thet’s hung on them walls
Sense the years when you was a kid,
A n’ yeh pet the ol’ dog an’ ye fondle the cat
Curled up on the wood-box lid.
The white-haired mother comes in an’ smiles
A n’ ’lows, “ How—you—hev—growed ! ”
A n’ the youngsters stan’ round
Half afraid of yeh till
Yeh grab one up an’ take ye’re fill
Of a good ol’ rompin’ time.
How the leetle ones giggle an’ laugh an’ shout
As they slide down ye’re back to the floor,

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With thar hans, an’ thar arms, an’ thar leg's round ye’re neck.
Oh ! it warms yeh up to the core,
E'er—ye’ve got back hum, ye’ve got back hum !
Y e’ve ben out in the col’ world some
But it almos’ pays to go out fer a bit,
To hev people jostle an’ give yeh a' hit.
Jes’ to feel yer heart swell an’ yer vest git tight,
To see mother’s eyes with the love-sparks light,
To feel the tight grasp of Dad’s hard hand^^f
That’s lammed yeh before, but you understand
How his heart’s a-jumpin’ at sight of his son,
A-thumpin’ an’ bumpin’ to think yeh hev come
Back to the dear ol’ place once more,
Back to the dear ol’ home.
Keepin’ time, as it ware, to the thump an’ the bump
Ye’re a feelin’ yerself, along with the lump,
Ye’ve ben swallerin’ an’ swallerin’ as yeh looked roun’ the place.
Oh ! no wonder the smiles be’s a crackin’ yer face
E'er ye’ve got back hum ,ye've got back hum !
Don’t you wisht yeh could stay ?
Don’t yeh wisht yeh could turn back the years to the day
When, a barefoot kid, yeh did nothin’ but play
From daylight till dark ? Do you mind of the time
When yeh sneaked off from school with ye’re fish-hook an’ line
Out to the big mill-dam,
A n’ set thar’ for hours in the warm May rain
An’ went home soaked ? Do you mind of the pain
Dad’s big, hard hand sent a-travelin’ through
Y e’re rain-soaked britches? An’ then after that,
Can’t yeh bring back the smell of that old felt hat
Yeh carried yere fish home in ?
Do you mind how you painted the chickens’ tails,
A n’ chased the ol’ cow ? Oh ! it never fails,
When I see in the streets of the place whar I work
A rich duck a drivin’ , as proud as a Turk|v :
One of them new-fangled two-hoss consarns,
Tandems they call ’em ; with the extra hoss hitched
In front fer show. Makes me think how I kitched
Ol’ Reddie, an’ tandemed it roun’ the back lot
A-holt of her tail.
Oh, gee ! them was the days.
Yep, I tell you it pays
To be a real kid with a real kid’s ways.

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Well, that’s all over now an’ I ’ve left the ol’ home,
A n’ when I want back I can’ t always come,
But my heart’s still thar’ . Yes, an’ when I git back

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I mighty near wish boss hed give me the sack
Jes’ so’ s I could stay.
A n’ the whole livelong day
I walk roun’ an’ see the old place,
With my heart a whisperin, “ H om e! back home !
“ A in 't yeh glad ye've come back? A in 't ye glad, ye've come? ”
Per— V we got back home, I’ ve got back home .
—M. L. D.

Ube passing of tbe ©lb Bribge.

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spirit o f improvement has again taken possession of our
town.

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Our Village Improvement Society after building a fence
around the school-house and cutting down a few willow trees that
had served as landmarks for the past twenty-five or thirty years,
looked around for something more to improve.
They couldn’t find anything, and were about to enjoy a wellearned rest, when a kind-hearted and public-spirited agent for iron
bridges happened along. He at once sought the V . I. S. and
persuaded them that so enlightened a village as ours ought not to
be content with the wooden bridge that spans the stream.
It is strange that even our best people had never thought of
the dangers with which we were threatened because of the old
wooden bridge. They did not realize that the village would be
liable for damages in case the bridge should break down while a
procession of elephants belonging to the circus was passing over
it. So it has been practically decided to tear down the old wooden
bridge and put in its place an iron one purchased of the generous
agent.
We shall not be unpatriotic enough to lament the change, but
there are a few associations clustering around the old bridge that
crowd upon us now that it is about to go.
In the first placeitisnear the old school-house (but that’s gone
too), and is connected with the memories of school days. Have
you ever played along a stream of water, made boats and rafts,
waded into the wafer, or broken through the ice in the winter?
If you are a boy and haven’t done any, or, indeed, all of
these things, you may become a good man, but the chances' are
against you.

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It was near this bridge that the second battle between the
Monitor and the Merrimac took place. There may not have been
all the; “ pomp and circumstance of glorious war,” but there cer­
tainly was the real spirit in two boys, Johnnie and—^nother. The
only unpleasant feature at the beginning was the question which
boy was to be ‘ ‘ R e b e l . J o h n n i e said he’d be Union, and so it
was— for Johnnie was the bigger boy. To make that fight as
realistic as possible the Monitor was literally a ‘ ‘ cheese bo x’ ’
nailed on a board. The two captains fought the battle from the
old bridge, each attacking the other’s ship. Alas for the teachings
of history ! the battle ended ingloriously for the Monitor, as a
chance stone struck her, toppled her over, causing the cheese box
to fill with water and the craft to sink to the bottom. Then
Johnnie proceeded to have a personal combat with the other cap­
tain for being so unpatriotic as to sink a Union ship. Johnnie,
you are now a lieutenant in far-off waters, upholding the dignity
of the Stars and Stripes ; do you know that the scene of your first
naval engagement is to be removed, while the “ R ebel” com­
mander smiles as he writes about that fight.
That old bridge was the best fishing place to be found. What
suckers used to lie just under those planks. Never were such
fish found in other places. There were four boys who used to fish
there. What did they care for reels and patent flies! They knew
that the best way to catch fish was with a loop of fine wire on the
end of a stick. One of the boys remembers the time they took
one loose plank out of the bridge so as to fish to better advantage.
Then when all were intent on catching that great big sucker, one
of the paper mill teams with its six mules came down the hill to
the bridge, unnoticed by the boys. Who can forget that old lead
mule and the way he stepped into the opening in the bridge ? If
anyone believes that six mules, and one of them with his front
feet down the place where the board ought to be, cannot make
things lively, let him undeceive himself. They can. I f those
mules had made any anti-kicking resolutions, they broke them
that day. The language of the driver was emphatic, but it was
not polite.
That bridge has personal memories for the writer. After he
had wrestled with his first cigar, he retired to that bridge to medi­
tate upon the undesirability of all things earthly, and while in
that spirit he gave up to the waters all he had.

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Why is it that there comes a time in the life of a girl and a boy
when they prefer to look at a stream in each other’s company ?
Perhaps it is because there is a suggestiveness of passing time in
the ever-flowing water. Who knows ? How many have stood
upon that bridge to whisper together words that meant so much ?
Old bridge, you will not give up your secrets ! W ill the new
iron bridge spoil the romance of life in our village ? I f it does,
may it soon be a thing of the past but if the girls and the boys
continue to come to view the stream, we’ll forgive it for displac­
ing the old bridge.

Suggestions tor tbe Stubs of tlDacbetb.
1. From what sources did Shakespeare obtain the material for
“ Macbeth?”
2. Had Macbeth entertained treasonable thoughts before the
appearance of the Weird Sisters ? Prove.
3. Contrast Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
4. Is the object of Macbeth in slaying the grooms accom­
plished?
5. Wherein does Lady Macbeth show the woman ?
6. What is Shakespeare’s object in introducing the Porter
Scene, Act I l| | Scene III ?
7. Is the ghost of Banquo subjective or objective? Give
reasons.
8. Give description of the caldron scene.
9. In what respect does the sleep walking scene throw light
upon the character of Lady Macbeth ?
10.
What does Macbeth mean when he says (Act V ., Scene V .)
‘ ‘She should have died hereafter?”
©enetal Questions.
1. Contrast Macbeth and Hamlet.
2. What anachronism is found in Act I ?
3. Give examples of the use of antithetical sentences in this
play.
4. Mention six obsolete words found in ‘ ‘ Macbeth.”
5. In what three ways may the words “ We fail” (Act I.y
Scene 7., 159) be read? State your preference.

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6. What crime of Macbeth’s is the most cruel ?
7. Does Shakespeare make any use of nature in the play ?
8. Is Macduff’s language (Act V ., Scene V III., 169) too
strong?
9. W hy does Shakespeare introduce the “ royal touch” ?
10.
Are there any internal proofs as to the time when “ Mac­
beth” was written ?
— E zra L eh m an .

(Reprinted from October number, 1897.)

TLhc Christian associations.
[Reported by O r a B e e g l e , ’00, and J. O. J o h n s o n , ’00.]

the Fall Term, Mrs. Dowry, State Secretary of the
Y . W. C. A ., spent several days at the school. Saturday
morning of her stay she gave a talk to the girls in the
Reception Room. Her theme was “ Nehemiah Rebuilding the
Walls of Jerusalem.” She gave an able discussion of the topic
and applied it beautifully to our everyday life. We were very
much impressed by her talk, which was an incentive to our Y . W.
C. A . to work more earnestly.
Saturday evening a Tea Party was given in her honor. One
interesting diversion of the evening was a contest entitled “ A T
Party.” Mrs. Dowry won the first prize. After this tea was
served on the third floor and the remainder of the evening was
spent in playing merry games.
The Seventh District Y . M. C. A . Convention was held at
Debanon, Pa., Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 3-5.
Our delegates to this convention, Mr. Miles Keasey and Mr.
Walter Singmaster, speak very highly of the exercises. Among
the principal participants in the discussions were Clarence E.
Eberman, State President Y . P. S. C. E.; Rev. J. W. Hill, Harris­
burg, Pa.; Prof. G. W . Hull, Millersville; Prof. F. H. Green,
West Chester, and Edmund D. Soper, College Secretary.
Miss Clark of the faculty with the President of the Y . W. C.
A ., Miss Hoke, and the Secretary, Miss Nipple, attended the
State Convention which met at Williamsport, Pa., November 6th
and 7th. They returned with glowing accounts of the good work
which the Association is carrying on throughout the state.
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The Y . W . C. A . observed the week of prayer by holding
special prayer services each evening. These meetings were well
attended, indicating an active interest on the part of the students.
The Y . M. C. A . observed the week of prayer with services
each evening. So much interest was manifested in these meet­
ings that the Association decided to continue the services one
week longer.
During the early part of the Fall Term the Y . W. C. A . was
favored with a very interesting talk from Dr. Rishell, of Boston
University, which was very much appreciated and enjoyed by the
members of the society. Dr. Rishell told us of his school days
and pointed out to us how much good we could do during our
school life by kind words and acts toward our fellow students and
those around us.
Mr. E. D. Soper, the College Secretary of the Y . M. C. A .,
visited our Association, Tuesday, December 5th, at which time
a special meeting was called. He spoke very encouragingly to us
and gave us many helpful suggestions.
The regular meetings of the Y . M. C. A . are well attended and
the music and talks are spirited. A number of new members
have united with the association since the opening of the Winter
Term.
e^ j

Zhe Societies.
PHILO.
[Reported by J. C. T ressler , ’00,J

INCB the opening of the present school year, great interest
has been manifested in the general society work. This is
demonstrated not only by the increased attendance at the
regular meetings, but also by the careful preparation made by the
participants in the exercises. The debates regularly constitute
one of the principal features of the programs, and the general de­
bates usually excite no small degree of interest. The disputants
endeavor to make their arguments as logical and instructive, and,
at the same time, as interesting as possible.
A t the present time Mr. Niple is President of the society, and
Miss Kremer is Secretary.
Quite a number of members of the Alumni, former members

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of Philo, visited society during the school year, and spoke words
of encouragement and profit. Among them were Miss Gleim,
Miss McCullough, Miss Miller, Miss McElheney, Mr. Lehman, a
student in Hahnemann Medical College ; Mr. Reddig, a student
in Eastman Business College ; Mr. Means, a student and tutor at
Mercersburg Academy ; Mr. Gettel, and many others.
The Philo Glee Club is in a flourishing condition. Under the
efficient leadership of Mr. Gray many excellent productions are
rendered. Miss Kleckner fills her position as pianist with credit
to herself and the society.
NORMAL.
[Reported by J. W. B aish , ’00.]

The first meeting of the society for the present term was held
Friday evening, January 5th, in the model school. Almost all
the old members of the society were present, together with a
number of new students, and a great deal of interest was mani­
fested as usual. The debate was well prepared, and rendered quite
interesting by the disputants.
Since our last report the society has continued to improve,
and every effort is made to render the programs interesting and
profitable. The debates as usual constitute the principal feature
of the programs, and each discussion shows itself to be the result
of a careful preparation. Quite a number of the Alumni, former
members of Normal, have visited us since our last report, and
given us interesting and instructive addresses. Among them
were Mr. G. W . Hershman, Mr. Lenus Carl, Mr. William W el­
ker, Mr. Guy Zimmerman, Mr. J. A . Heisey, Mr. Phineas Mor­
ris, Miss Susie Shorb, Miss Nellie Welker.
The Normal Glee Club is in a flourishing condition, and never
fails to occupy a place on the program. Mr. C. B. Yohe is now
President of the society, and Miss Nora Crilly, Secretary.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and
no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a twolegged animal a man without it.
Goethe.

...THE)...

N ormal S chool H erald.
P u b l is h e d O c t o b e r , J a n u a r y , A p r il
S h ip p e n s b u r g , P a .

and

Ju l y .

EDITORS.
E z r a L e h m a n , ’89; G e o r g e H. E c k e l s , *91; M . E . D r u m , *96.
A d a V. H o r t o n , ’88, Personal Editor.
C h a s . E. B a r t o n , ’91, Business Manager.

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JANUARY, 1900.

JEMtorial.
the majority of our readers have grown accustomed
to writing 1900 by this time, and are well advanced upon
the work of the new year. To such we may seem some­
what behind time when we say “ Happy New Year to a ll,” but
we are taking advantage of the first opportunity to express our
greetings.
We trust that the past year has been one of both pleasure and
profit to you. January seems to be a month of mental inventories.
We hope that all our readers have taken an account of stock
and that the account has shown satisfactory results.
Moral lectures are not sought after these days, and we do not
intend to deliver one, but we cannot refrain from expressing the
wish that our readers, especially those who have finished their
course with us, may be able to answer a few questions satisfactorily
at least to themselves: Am I still a student ? Do I keep myself
up to date in the best literature, both professional and general?
Do I gauge my efforts by the amount of good that I can do or by
the amount of my salary ? Are my opinion and influence sought
by the best people of my community ? These questions will sug­
gest others, but all mean ‘ ‘Are we growing?”
Trusting that the present year may be the most profitable our
subscribers have ever enjoyed, we again wish all “ A Happy New
robably

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This issue of the H e r a l d is sent to nearly one hundred new
subscribers. The majority of these were secured through the
efforts of a number of our friends at the County Institutes.
The thanks of the editors are hereby tendered to those who have
so kindly helped us. As has been said a number of times,
the subscription price of the H e r a l d is nominal, hence we cannot go even to the expense of an appeal by letter for subscribers,
but we will appreciate the efforts of any one to secure new sub­
scribers for us.
The editors were agreeably surprised to receive four or five
personals for this issue from our subscribers.
We say “ were surprised” for in spite of our appeals for news,
it was only rarely that we received any personal information.
Through the kindness of the writers above mentioned, we are
enabled to give some interesting facts about former students of
the school. No part of our paper is more eagerly read than the
personal columns. We would like to give twice the space to this
department that we are now giving to it, but we must get the in­
formation from our subscribers before we can supply the personals.
W ill not more of our subscribers give us information about
themselves and their work ? Write us about your success, send
us marked copies of local newspapers that make mention of you.
Your schoolmates wish to know what you are doing. W ill you
not tell them through our columns ? We shall also appreciate in­
formation about former students and teachers of our school. Will
you not help us ?
A ll indications point to a large attendance during the spring
but we wish to break all our previous records in the matter of
attendance. We have room for two hundred more students now,
since the Ladies’ Dormitory is open. I f we are to get this number,
we must depend upon the efforts of our former students and
alumni. The authorities of the school wish to express their
gratitude to the friends of the school for their work in inducing
students to come to this school. May we not trust to your further
co-operation? I f you know of any persons who might be in­
duced to attend a Normal School, will you not send their names
to Dr. Eckels? Your work will not be forgotten for we realize

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that the advancement of our graduates and students is the advance­
ment of the Normal School. School and alumni have no separate
interests.

©bituars.
Clara

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©Bfteman (IReUes), '90, ©ieb ©ecember 5, 1899.

K e l l e y ’ s death occurred under most distressing cir­
cumstances. She had been ill at her home in Wilming­
ton, Del., only a few days, and fatal results were not
anticipated. The disease was diphtheria, which was almost epi­
demic in Wilmington at the time. Her father, Mr. George R.
Dykeman, of the Board of Trustees, went to Wilmington, but was
not allowed to see her, because of the danger of contagion. For
the same reason the body could not be brought to Shippensburg
for burial.
Mrs. Kelley was twenty-six years old at the time of her death.
After her graduation she went to Illinois to teach. There she was
married to Mr. Kelley, who is a jeweler. They had lived in W il­
mington for several years. Mrs. Kelley was a talented' young
woman, and her death is very much regretted by all who knew her.
She leaves no children, but is survived by her husband, father,
three brothers and two sisters. To all of these T h e H e r a l d e x­
tends its sympathy.
rs.

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Sara Dirginia JSlacIt, '94, ©ieb ©ctober 20, 1899.
Miss Black was one of the teachers of Steelton, Pa., at the time
when her death occurred. She had been ill for several months
with pulmonary trouble. The burial took place at Fayetteville,
her former home.
Miss Black was a very successful teacher, and had the highest
respect of her pupils and fellow-teachers, as was evidenced by the
tributes sent by both at the time of the funeral. A ll who had the
privilege to know her speak of her in terms of highest praise, and
the teachers of the Shippensburg Normal and her school-mates
can endorse every word of what has been said. She was a mem­
ber of the First Presbyterian Church of Steelton, and her pastor
said of her that she was “ Christian to the core.” Her death will
indeed prove a great loss in many fields of work.

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Miss Black is survived by her mother, three sisters and two
brothers. T he H e r a l d sympathizes sincerely with them in their
affliction.
Samuel J£. Udarren, ’96, 2>ied IWovember 9, \899>

Mr. Warren died at his home in Shippensburg after a struggle
of some weeks with typhoid fever. It was thought that the
danger-point was passed, but he was unfortunately seized with a
hemorrhage and died on the above-mentioned day. His death
caused general regret.
Mr. Warren taught in the schools of Cumberland county for a
year, but gave up teaching on account of ill-health. He had been
for some time closely connected with the athletic interests of the
school, and was widely known and liked among the Alumni, to
many of whom the news of his death will be a great surprise.
Unusually sad conditions surround the death of our friend.
But a few weeks before his father had passed away, and only a
short time after the grief-stricken mother gave up the struggle of
life. This leaves but a brother and a sister in the family. To
these we give the hand of sympathy.

flDarriages.
ERSHEY— N is s l e y . — On Thursday,

November 9th, at
Derry Church, Pa., Mr. I. Moyer Hershey, ’96, pastor of
the U. B. Church at Halifax and Miss Eva Grace Nissley.
C h esn u t — Ua id ig .— A t the home of the bride in Taylor
township, Fulton county, October 25th. Mr. Clem Chestnut,
’86, Superintendent of the schools of that county, to Miss Etta
Laidig, '96.
F e id t — S m it h .— January 4th, at Shippensburg, Dr. W. W.
Feidt, ’94, of Oakville, Pa., to Miss Virginia Smith, '94..
P h il l ip s — M a r t in ;— A t Taos, New Mexico, where the bride
was visiting her brother, Dr. Paul Martin, on October n th , Mr.
A . G. Phillips, of Hudson, N. Y ., to Miss Rose H . Martin, '90,
of Shippensburg.
S m ith — T r o st e l .— A t York Springs, Pa., December 26th,
Mr. H. P\ Smith, ’96, to Miss Lavinia E . Trostle.

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E v a n s — M ye r s — November 30, Mr. J. Elmer Evans, ’92, of
Shippensburg, to Miss Laura Myers.
C hubb — W o l f g a n g .— A t Harrisburg, October 24th, Mr. J.
H. Chubb, ’99, and Miss Sallie A . Wolfgang, both of Pow l’s V al­
ley, Pa.
U nderw ood — M il l e is e n — November 22d, at Mechanicsburg,
Pa.; Mr. J. Arthur Underwood, ’89, to Miss Frances B. Milleisen.
S h u l l — P e r l e t t e .— December 20th, at Shippensburg, Mr.
Frank Shull, of Roanoke, Va., to Miss Florence M . Perlette, ’97.
B e n n e r — K a r n s .— At the bride’s home at Eoysburg, No­
vember 30th, Mr. W . F. Benner, ’97, of Hopewell, to Miss Stella
Karns, a former student.
S l a g l e — R e b e r t .— December 26th, at the home of the bride
near Hanover, Mr. Howard Slagle, ’96, of New Oxford, to Miss
Annie I. Rebert.
R a f e e n sp e r g e r — L o n g .— A t the home of the bride’s uncle,
in Harrisburg, October. 24th, Mr. H. B. Raffensperger, ’00, of
Mannsville, Perry county, to Miss Bessie M. Long, of Markleville,
the same county.
M c M il l a n — E b e r h a r t .— A t Shrewsbury, Pa., on Wednes­
day, June 7th, Mr. William Muirhead McMillan, of Chicago, to
Miss Winona Eberhart, ’91.

aiumnt personals.
r . J.

E. K l e p p e r , ’ 99 , is teaching in South Middleton town­
ship, Cumberland county ; Mr. Dill Stevens, ’99, at Minersville, Huntingdon county ; Mr. Guy E. Zimmerman,
’99, at Sylvan, Franklin county ; Miss Anna C. Brechbill, ’99, in
Antrim township, Franklin county ; Mr. W. N. Lehman, ’99, at
Loganville, York county.

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Miss Lyda Standing, ’95, has entered the Pennsylvania Hos­
pital, Philadelphia, as a nurse.
Miss B. Blayne Herring, ’91, having resigned her position at
Irving College, Mechanicsburg, is now giving public readings.
She has her headquarters at Philadelphia. The Everett (Pa.)
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Miss Herring, says, “ It would be hard to find her superior as an
elocutionist. ’ ’
On the occasion of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the
death of George Washington the public schools of Narberth, Pa.,
in charge of Principal William M. Rife, ’91, held interesting ex­
ercises. The day was devoted to a review of the history of Mont­
gomery county, especially in its relation to the deeds of Washing­
ton and the birth of our Republic.
A number of the Alumni of the school were present at the foot­
ball game at Harrisburg on November 1 ith. Among them were
noticed J. M. Brinton, ’92 ; C. M. Earisman, '97, and C. E. Yost,
’98. Their attendance was very encouraging to the team.
Prof. J. S. Heiges, ’91, has taken charge of the Grammar
School at New Cumberland, Pa.
Four graduates of Shippensburg are teaching in the schools of
Gettysburg. They are Sadie A . Schriver, ’90 ; Annie M. Hake,
’91 ; Amber E. Diehl, ’92, and Euella McAllister, ’92.
Miss Lizzie Basehore, ’97, is teaching at Mozart, Bucks county.
Mr. H. B. Reed, ’99, is a salesman for Dives, Pomeroy & Stew­
art, Harrisburg.
Miss Nellie Nickles, ’99, is a student at Irving College, Mechanicsburg.
Members of the class of ’99 are teaching as follow s: Miss
Mary Beattie, at Middle Spring, Cumberland county ; Miss Annie
Highlands, the Primary School at Leesburg, Cumberland county ;
Miss Jane McCullough, in Southampton township, Cumberland
county ; Miss Ella Smyser, at Steelton, Dauphin county, and Miss
Carrie Thoman, in Berwick township, Adams county.
Mr. Phineas Morris, ’98, played full-back on the Dickinson
College Second football team in the game against our boys on
November 25th. He played a splendid game, and his chances for
making the ’Varsity team at Dickinson next year are certainly
bright. Mr. John Parret, ’98, also played against us in our games
with the Chambersburg Athletic Association.
Mr. H . H. Crum, ’98, is now in the employ of the Govern­
ment as a sampler at the port of New York, at a salary of $i,ooo,
per annum. His work consists of preparing samples of sugar for
analysis in the Government Chemical Laboratory, in order to de­
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Mr. George Ruth, ’98, has a school this year in Hopewell
township, Cumberland county.
Mr. James S. Means, ’98, has gone to Lehigh University for
an engineering course.
Mr. H. H. Shenk, ’94, has been elected a teacher in Lebanon
Valley College, Annville, Pa.
Mr. John Parret, ’98, is first substitute mail-carrier at Chambersburg. He hopes soon to have a regular position at a very
desirable salary.
Mr. W . H. Burd, ’92, is a member of the Junior class at Leb­
anon Valley College.
Mr. James H. Mackey, ’91, who had been in Denver, Col., is
now employed as stenographer and typewriter in a railroad office
at Scranton, Pa.
Miss Mabel Eva, ’99, is chief clerk in the postoffice at Conewago, Lancaster county.
Mr. J. Shearer Wolff, ’96, recently paid the school a visit. He
is enjoying life at Harvard University. He has the honor to be
a member of the Harvard Glee Club.
Mr. T . H . Faust, ’99, is teaching in Lurgan Township, Cum­
berland Co.
Mr. W . H. Klepper, ’94, is studying at the University of
West Virginia, Morgantown. He is specializing in the English
Department.
Mr. J. E. Walter, ’9.1, has been elected Attorney to the Com­
missioners of Cumberland County.
A novel feature of the wedding of Miss Rose Martin, ’90, was
the wedding trip of three hundred miles along the Rio Grande
and Sante Fe rivers made on horseback.

An old farmer was in a store, and some one asked him to
listen to a phonograph that was on exhibition there. The op­
erator handed him the ear tubes, placed them in proper position,
and immediately started the machine. The farmer dropped the
tube, saying : V Gosh ! there comes a brass band, and I left them
mules untied.” — E x.

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football.
NORMAL VS. DICKINSON PREP.

score of the Dickinson Prep .-Normal game was given in
the October H e r a l d , but further details may be interest­
ing to some of our readers. The game was played on the
home grounds October 21st, and proved the turning point in the
career of the football team of ’99, as no game was lost after this
date.
With the first two games of the season recorded against them
as defeats, the members of the Normal team were by no means
sure of a victory over their opponents from Carlisle, but, as the
game progressed, that confidence which was lacking in the first
games was gradually acquired. Shippensburg secured the ball
from the kick-off, and scored by steady plays within four minutes.
Hoffheins made the touchdown. The goal was kicked, and Nor­
mal had six points to her credit. N ext it was Dickinson’s’turn.
Securing the ball near our goal-line, they scored but failed at goal.
Soon after time was called for the first half, with the score 6 to 5
in favor of Normal.
In the second half two more touchdowns were scored by Nor­
mal, but the tries for goals were failures. The final score was 16
to 5. A long run by Stambaugh was the feature of the second
half.
The line-up :

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S h ip p e n s b u r g .

...... .Centre........
Yohe........................
....Right Guard__
Myers......................
.... Left Guard.....
Sheetz.....................
Hoffheins (Keasey)
....Right Tackle...
Stambaugh...........
... Left Tackle__
.....Right End.....
Smith......................
Singmaster...........
...... Left End......
....Quarter Back...
Eckels.....................
McLaughlin...........
Right Half-Back,
..Left Half-Back.
W atson..................
......Full Back.....
Noll.........................
Touchdowns—Hoffheins, Watson (2) and Carroll.
Referee—Lehman, Shippensburg. Umpire—Heckman,

D i c k in s o n .

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...... Frederick.
.......... Tobin.
........Hertzler.
.......... Bishop.
.......... Heller.
............... Gill.
.......... Carroll.
...Huntzinger.
............Sweet.
.............. Paul.
. Heckendorh.
Goal—Eckels.
Dickinson.

NORMAL VS. CHAMBERSBURG ACADEMY.

Saturday, October 28th, our team played the Chambersburg
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was evenly contested. The Chambersburg interference was well
together, and gave our boys considerable trouble. After the first
part of the first half the playing was all in Normal’s favor. One
touchdown was made in the first half and two in the second.
Two goals were kicked, and the score at the end of the game was
17 to o.
This is the worst defeat we have ever given the Academy on
their grounds, and we feel that it was not on account of their
weakness, as they had two teachers on the team— one a second
team man at Washington and Jefferson College last year, the other
a member of Lafayette’s scrub— and the rest of the team seemed
up to the average. Our boys were not quite as well together as
in the Dickinson game, but played a strong game. The line-up
was the same as in the former games, except that Keasey took the
place of Hoffheins, who was unable to play on account of an in­
jury received in the Dickinson game. The touchdowns were
scored by Keasey, Noll and Watson.
NORMAL VS. HARRISBURG HIGH SCHOOL.

The next game was played at Harrisburg November n th ,
against a team composed of High School and ex-High School
players. This team has been playing together for several years,
and has acquired considerable skill in the game. They had won
every game on their own grounds up to that time, and were very
sure of winning another victory when they lined up against Shippensburg. A t the beginning of the game Normal got the ball,
and took it rapidly down the field. It looked like a touchdown,
but, with the ball on the twenty-yard line, Hoffheins was com­
pelled to leave the game. Keasey, who was substituted, played
a good game, but the rest taken seemed to benefit Harrisburg by
taking the energy out of Normal’s attack. A t all events, the ball
was here lost on downs, and Harrisburg scored on several long
end runs, the result, however, mainly of using their hands in the
interference. The first half ended with a score of 6 to o against us.
In the second half our men got together, and ploughed through
Harrisburg’s line for a touchdown, from which a goal was kicked,
and the score was a tie— 6 to 6. When the game ended, Normal
was again making her way toward Harrisburg’s goal, and a touch­
down would surely have resulted had a few minutes’ time been
added to the half.
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severely for fouls. Normal excelled at line-bucking and kicking.
Smith at right end played a wonderful game on the defensive,
tackling frequently on the opposite end. Watson scored our touch­
down.
NORMAL VS. DICKINSON COLLEGE SECOND.

The season closed in a blaze of glory on the 25th of Novem­
ber. Our opponents on this occasion were the Dickinson Re­
serves, the regular second team that battled daily during the season
with the Dickinson ’Varsity. Several of their men had been at
one time or another on the ’Varsity. The game was played on
the home grounds.
The visitors scored on the first play after the kick-off. The
runner found a big hole between right end and tackle, and ran
about twenty yards with the ball before he was tackled by Singmaster. Noticing a Dickinson man behind him, the runner very
prettily passed the ball to him and a touchdown resulted. The
try at goal failed. This was rather a bad beginning, but the; Nor­
mal boys stuck to their task, and, getting the ball, rushed it down
the field by means of mass-on-tackle and short-end plays, until
Noll was pushed over for a touchdown. The goal was kicked,
and Normal was ahead— 6 to 5. Near the end of the first half
Dickinson scored again after a hard struggle. Again the goal
was missed. Score— 10 to 6 in favor of Dickinson.
Our men entered the second half feeling that they had it in
them to win, and win they did. Dickinson was completely out­
played this half, and kept almost entirely on the defensive. Shippensburg scored after about ten minutes of play, Watson making
the touchdown. The greatest excitement attended this play, as
it put Normal in the lead— 11 to 10. The punt-out for try at goal
was missed. The rest of the half was nip and tuck, but neither
side could score again. Our boys felt elated over a victory which
they had scarcely hoped for, for two years ago our team was de­
feated by the Dickinson Second by a score of 16 to o.
The record for the season is as follows :
Oct. 7....Shippensburg vs. Chambersburg A. A ............................. 0-12
Oct. 14....Shippensburg vs. Chambersburg A. A ............................ 0- 5
Oct. 21....Shippensburg vs. Dickinson Preparatory........................16- 5
Oct. 28....Shippensburg vs. Chambersburg Academy..................... 17- 0
Nov. 11....Shippensburg vs. Harrisburg High School..................... 6- 6
Nov. 25....Shippensburg vs. Dickinson Reserves..............................11-10

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THE NORMAL, SCHOOL, HERALD.

Total points scored :
By Shippensburg....................................................................................... SO
By Opponents........................................................................... ................. 38

^Locals.

W

E have news of a former student of Normal that will in­

terest our readers. Mr. Arthur H. Lupfer attended our
school in ’73. Without finishing his course he went to
Kansas to teach. He became County Superintendent of Pawnee
county, and served for three terms ; was a member of the lower
house of the Kansas legislature two terms, and is now senator from
the Thirty-eighth district. He is the father of the free text-book
law in his State, and is at present one of the committee of eight
appointed by the Governor to select the text-books for the schools
of the State.
Mr. Lupfer was in New York this Fall on business concerning
the purchase of books, and stopped off in Pennsylvania to visit
Mr. O. H. Tittle, ’93, who is his brother-in-law. When he is not
serving in the legislature, Mr. Lupfer still makes teaching his
profession.
The Winter Term began January 2nd. A number of new
students entered the school, and the prospects for the Spring Term
are reported as very encouraging. The classes will take up in
the main the same branches of study this Term as they had the
last. The Seniors have completed their study of Rhetoric, and
will now begin the study of English Literature and General His­
tory ; the Junior classes will probably take up Poltitical and
Physical Geography in place of American History and Physiology.
Miss Eudora Mather, Assistant Principal of the Model School,
resigned her position in November to take charge of the training
school connected with the public schools of Newark, N. J. Miss
Mather is an excellent teacher, and the necessity for her departure
was very much deplored. Miss Mary Burns, of Geneseo, N. Y .,
has entered upon her duties as Miss Mather’s successor. Miss
Burns is a graduate of the Geneseo Normal School, in the four
years’ course. She resigned her position in the schools of Gloversville, N. Y ., to come to Shippensburg. She will, without
doubt, fill the position in a very acceptable manner.

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Sociables are being held at the usual intervals, and they prove
a very welcome relaxation from the school duties. On Saturday,
October 28th, the Hallowe’en sociable was enjoyed by a large
number of the students. The amusements consisted of the regu­
lar taffy-pull, apple-bobbing, fortune-telling and other features
that go with such an occasion. The evening was rendered all the
more enjoyable by the fact that the football team had just re­
turned from Chambersburg, where they had won a decisive vic­
tory. Saturday night, December 16th, the general sociable was
held, and the day and boarding students had a very pleasant time
together.
The stone-crusher, which has been doing service on thecampus
for some years, has been removed, and the grading of the lower
part of the campus will now be completed. The crusher was an
eye-sore, and its removal causes general satisfaction.
Members of the faculty served as instructors at various insti­
tutes throughout the state as follows: Dr. Eckels at those of
Dauphin, Franklin, Cumberland, Adams, York, Fulton, Snyder
and Blair counties; Dr. Barton at those of Perry, Cumberland and
Fulton counties; Prof. C. E. Barton, at the Fulton County
Institute ; and Prof. Drum at Cumberland County. Prof. Lehman
made an address with the subject, “ Thaddeus Stevens,” at a
district Institute held in Eykens, Pa. Miss Barnum, of the
music department, sang at the Institutes of Cumberland and
Adams counties.
The wedding of Mr. Raffensperger, of the Senior class is noted
in another column. Mr. Raffensperger was a member of Co. D.
14th Minnesota Volunteers and, in recognition of this fact, the
ceremony took place under the stars and stripes, a large flag being
draped from the ceiling in one corner of the room in which the
wedding took place.

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Mother, what does ‘ trans-Atlantic ’ mean ?”
Across the Atlantic. Don’t bother me.”
Does ‘ trans ’ always mean across ?”
Yes. I f you disturb me again I will send you to bed.”
Well, then, doesn’t ‘ transparent ’ mean a cross parent ?” —

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CUppiriQB
/t Vhe janitor in one of the Portland public schools, coming into
X.
the class-room one day recently, saw on the blackboard
this sentence: “ Find the greatest common divisor.’ ’
“ Hello,” he says, “ is that blamed thing lost again ?” — E x.
Politics has two sides : the outside and the inside.— E x.
A man’s size usually commands more respect than his age.
— E x.
“ How did you get along at school to-day, Tom ?” asked the
father at the supper table ?
“ Papa, our physiology says that conversation at meals should
be of a pleasant character.” — E x .
The Gentleman from Chicago— “ Stranger, can you tell me
where is a good place to stop at ?”
Citizen of Boston— “ Just before the ‘ at.’ ” — E x.
Teacher (in grammar class)— Give the positive, comparative
and superlative degree of the adjective ill.
Pupil— 1 1 1 , dead, buried.— E x.

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