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Edinboro
Pa.

vears ago.’'-Greenville Advance-Argus.
Football.
The Normal squad met a foeman
worth their steel on October 28 when
they faced Thiel College, and after hard
fighting for four periods of fifteen
niinutes each the final result was a 21
^to 0 score in favor of the college boys.
j
No scoring occurred in the first and
second quarters, but the Normal team
was on the defensive all of the time.
Thiel took liberties with the Normal
flanks and they always gained from five
to ten yards by this means. Thiel re­
sorted to trick plays, and forward
passes.
End rushes by McCready
and Haworth netted gains every time
they carried the ball.
In the third quarter. Thiel, by means
of end runs and forward passes,
managed to secure three touch downs.
In the last quarter they again annexed
SIX points to the score by a forward
pass and McCready kicked the goal.
Many players of each team were injured
in the second and third periods of the
Same, but managed to play the entire
game. In two branches of the game
the Normal was strong—kicking and
tackling.
Without these assets. Thiel
would have played more havoc than
they did. Urban, left end for the
varsity squad, played a great game,
breaking up many plays. Quick also
played a strong game of ball, it being
his first appearance at quarter back.
The line up of the two teams is as
foilows:

»Pened during the basebad season four

Camden M. Cobern.
The next lecture on the Normal
Lecture Course is to be by Dr. Camden
M. Cobern, a professor in Allegheny
College. Dr. Cobern is known every­
where as the man who discovered the
“bricks without straw” which the
Israelites made in Egyptian bondage.
He was with the world’s most famous
excavator. Dr. W. M. Flanders Petrie,
vititing him, while he was digging up
several cities in Egypt and Palestine.
He has written a large work on Egypt
which is used as a reference book in
various universities, and also a Com­
mentary on Ezekiel and Daniel (Whedon
Series) and several other books. Some
of these have been honored with trans­
lation into other languages. He also
contributed several important articles
to Dr. Hastings’ new “Dictionary of
Christ and thfi Gospels” (Edinburgh
1908).
* ’

The Middle Year Masquerade.

Monday even ig, October 30, the
class of 1913 gav a Hallowe’en party
to the student* thd faculty. The State
Normal gyranasiitm was grotesquely
decorated with class colors, corn stalks
and jack-o-laiiterns for the occasion.
At half past seven masked figures of all
descriptions marched into the gymnas­
ium in a continuous stream. By seven
o'clock the balcoiy was filled to its
utmost. On the first floor the middle
class gave the pantomine,
“The
Witches’ Flight.” The boys of tl.e
class, dressed as devils carrying pitch
forks, made an elaborate picture by
mixing in with the girls who wore black
suits and carried brooms to represent
witches. The moit interesting part of
the pantomine was the feast prepared
“The Old Presbyterian Church.
on the witches’ fire. In the grand
In
the
ceremonies
the
march the devils and witches march«i
------ of
—
W.V, last stood, as a rare example of New England
Alumni Day, there was no one thing
in pairs about the gymnasium cutting
church architecture. The picture pre­
He is one of the few men who unite
mentioned more often than “The Old
antics that would shame “Old Nick”
sented above will
bring back rich
technical knowledge with popular gifts.
Presbyterian
Church.”
Well
it
himself.
de­ memories to mafty students of the years
He has been pastor of several of the
After the pantomine refreshments served the prominence given it, fer gone by.
largest churches in the country includ­
without doubt it has ministered much
The Birch Rod hereby expresses its
ing Ann Arbor (which is the largest were served, doughnuts being served to the welfare of many generations of
from the handles of the witches’ brooms,
congratulations to the congregation that
university congregation in the world)
students
at
the
Normal
School,
The
and apples and sandwiches from the
has been so successful in the adornment
and St. James, Chicago, where he was
tines of the devils’ pitchforks. After Birch Rod takes this occasion to make of their church, and predicts that the
preceded by Dr. (now Bishop) McIntyre
refreshments had been served, every one mention of the rededication ceremonies care they have exercised in the recent
and followed by Dr. (now Bishop)
which took place on Sunday, November
took part in the' jolly social hour.
improvements will have great in­
Quayle. He also followed Dr. McIntyre
5. Although recently remodeled the
The costumes of the people, as a whole
fluence in the school for years to
at Trinity Church, Denver.
As a
building
stands
today,
as
it
has
always
come.
lecturer on the Bible he has recently were the best that have been seen in
a gathering of this kind for a long time.
taken first rank.
His audiences at
_Ine part;ii was
^
tejf.
to" m^bered by alll|joiie who attended.
"Siudenr Volunteers of Western
...............GeorgqMont Hanna.
over
3,000.
/Normal
The success of tile pantomine was in
Thiel
Pennsylvania
Assemble.
is^^Urban
.................... Etha Burdick
Here is what some of his friends say
• • ’ ’L* E...................Diemer
no small Way due |o the fact that Miss
The second annual conference of the
............Heredity vs Environment
about
him:
Rickenbrode . .. .L. T.............. H. Miller
Hauser had charge lof it, and that Mr.
Western Pennsylvania Association of
Elmer Frantz.
“He is amazingly well informed
Greenlee............,L. G......................Baker
Snyder had done thl) electrical work in Student Volunteers for Foreign Missions
.......................The Toilers
upon
Biblical
and
archaeological
sub­
Johnson )
making the witches’* fire
Jennie Magnuson.
was held at Allegheny College. Meadjects and has a kind of genius in the
Obert
j ‘ ■ ■ ■'
............Miller
Carrie Walters carried all the scenes
ville. Pa., November 10. 11 and 12.
McQuiston............. R. G......................Lucas popular and attractive presentation of
and parts to the complete satisfaction
About
thirty-five
delegates
from
the
these great themes. “—Bishop Mc­
De Reamer........... R. t. ............ Kischler
Normal Lecture Course
various schools were registered. The of her audience.
Dowell.
of
Chicago.
(Methodist
'White )
Forest L. Knapp blushingly impressed
delegates
were an earnest body of work­
.
1911-1912
Leach J • • ■ • r - R- E.............. Peterson
Episcopal.)
upon us the need of education.
ers
who
gathered
together
to
study
the
‘ ‘These messages are not only timely;
Caulkins......... , ,L. H................... Getter
November 20....... ......... ....Camden M. Cobern
George Mont Hanna handed the listen­
problems confronting missionaries at
they are an epoch in the spiritual life
December s.............. Dudley Buck Concert Co.
....................E.B.. . . . , McCready
ers just what his subject implies.
the
present
day
and
to
get
new
light
on
ebruaiy 7...........Ex-Govemor Joseph W, Folk
of those that hear them.’’—Theodore
......................Q- B......... Gerberding
Ick^b?rd”“"‘^'‘'^
® morning
the work contemplated in the future.
February 28....Redpath Concert Co. with Mr.
S. Henderson, of New York City, Chair­
The
program
included
enthusiastic
Carl Diift
man of Commission on Evangelism.
Elmer Frantz expressed his opinion
workers and nothing but inspiration
............................. Edward Amherst Ott
“He rings true for the Christian
Cambridge Springs Again.
^ ................... Allegheny College Glee Club
on the much disputed psychological
came
from
the
meetings.
Among
the
............................... Dr. S. Parke Cadman
A return game was played with the fundamentals, and his appearance on
speakers were Bishop J. M. Thoburn, of argument. Heredity vs Environment.
Cambridge Springs High School on Satur­ the Christian assemblage platforms of
Jennie Magnuson presented, in a
Meadvi He, a formic student of the
t^he
Pacific
States,
is
one
of
my
fondest
day. November 11. A full account of
magnetic
manner, The Toilers.
college
also
missiqnary
w.irker,
the
Heaven.
the game will be given in the next hopes. His message is clear and con­
Rev. W. L. King, a missionary of India,
vincing,
his
style
bright
and
spark­
The
Birch
Rod
herewith
presents
to
More than 650 Chinese students are
issue of The Birch Rod. Every report
who has had a long and successful ex­
ling.’’—Bishop Bell, of Los Angeles,
Its readers a copy of one of Mr.
enrolled in the American schools and
says the game was a clean, sportsman­
perience
of
over
twenty
years
in
the
(United Brethren in Christ.)
Gi Hi Ian’8 poems.
Due apology is
like affair. The score was seventeen
field, and the Rev, F. P. Turner, secre­ colleges. Of this number Cornell gives
The
lecture
that
Dr.
Cobern
will
give
made
to
the
person
who
holds the copy­
to three in favor of The Northwestern
instruction to fifty. There are also a
tary
of the Student Volunteer Move­
on the evening of November 20 is en­ right.
State Normal School.
ment.
each
taking
for
his
motto
or
CorneH
studying at
titled, ‘‘Personal Adventures Among the
Heaven is a bed ,
topic “The World Wide View.”
Arabs.” This contains personal ex­
With a light at the head.
AH the evening sessions and these
periences of a very exciting character,
With the coming of the first snow
Lack of Sympathy.
And an uncut magazine;
on Sunday were held in the chapel and
as Dr. Cobern visited many places, at
flurry the dining room windows in
Or
a
crust
of
bread
the remainder in the oratory of the
^ he following lack of appreciation the risk of his life, where tourists never
Haven Hall burst into bloom. Lean
To the long unfed
chapel. The delegates
.vere enter­
3 to The Birch Rod unsigned. If go. This is very popular with city
souls who dread winter’s keen tooth
Whose
hunger
pangs
are
keen.
tained
by
the
Young
Women’s
and
le author is caught he will be prose­ lecture courses. It is the only lecture
Young Men s Christian Associations at took heart and fell to breakfasting
cuted.
of the kind on the American platform.
Heaven is a smile
with unwonted gusto.
the
fraternity homses, Ruling’s Hall
One night about two weeks ago,well,
From a soul wrrth while
and in town. The Young Women’s
to be exact, it was October 27, a crowd
“Would you have pleasant yester­
Y. M. C. A. Reception.
And a hand clasp full of trust;
Christian Association of this Normal
of juveniles from the junior class
days
and welcome tomorrows—let today
’Tis a tender word
The Young Men’s Christian As­
wanted to have a “big time,” as they
be busy and confident.—Brinton.
was represented by Alice Townsend
From
a
heart
love
stirred
sociation gave a reception to the Young
and Ruth Brown, and the Young Men’s
called it. Some of the village cut-ups
When your spirits trail in dust.
Christian Association by Howard Tiffany
who are members of that class, carried Women’s'Christian Association Satur­
and Chas. E. Scott.
the contagion to younger members so day evening, November 4, in the Potter
Heaven is to feed
The Northwestern
all agreed to have a parade. It would and Philo halls. The program was
On your chiefest need,
short and interesting; it was a scene.
A Middler*s View,
State Normal School
never do for these young people to be
Be vour naed or work or rest.
“Student Life Among the Boys in the
The Birch Rod prints below a slander­
out without proper chaperones so a few
CALENDAR
And
the
God
who
knows
No practice had been
ous account of the first senior rhetoricals.
of the most dignified merhbers of the Dormitory.”
Why he barbed tbe rose__
1911-1912
The author is unknown.
middle and senior classes played that given to it and everything that was said
School year begins........... Tuesday, Sept. 12
He plans your Heavens best.
or
done
was
impromptu.
Booklets
con­
The first division of the senior
Thanksgiving Day...........Thursday. Nov. 30
role. The cut-ups marched around the
STRICKLAND GILLILAN.
taining conundrums were distributed.
a Term ends................Saturday, Dec. 16
rhetoricals was well attended by
camous yelling like Indians on the war
The one who answered the greatest
students
and
thoroughly
enjoyed
by
all
holiday recess
path, rang the bell in Recitation Hall
For the first time in 275 years of
number was given a box of candy, and
Winter Term begins.........Tuesday, Jan. 2
Mr. Baker spoke of the
and did several other harmless stunts.
Harvard’s existence a blot^d relative of present.
Washington’s Birthday ..Thursday Feb 22
rhetoricals as a school tradition which
After an hour of this strenuous amuse­ the one who answered the least was
the founder of the institution maWinter Term ends............ Saturday, March 23
given an appropriate prize. Refresh­
was
of
unlimited
value
to
both
the
ment, they retired to their rooms thinktriculates-Lionel De Jersey Harvard,
SPRING RECESS
ments consisting of grapes, cake,
school and the senior class.
they had had a gloriously big time.
a
member of the class of 1915. He was
Spring Term begins........Tuesday, March 26
cookies, candy and cocoa were served.
............ The First Settler’s Story
-y must be watched a little closer
Decoration Day...............Thursday, May 30
prepared for college at the slame London
Carrie Walters.
lest they get into trouble by their young Thanks are due to the Young Men’s school at which John
btate Examinations.........Week of June 17-22
Harvard
prepared
Christian Association for the very en­
Oration.. The Necessity of an Education
Baccalaureate Sermon ...Sunday, June 23
pranks.
for Emmanuel college . Camlwidge, 300
joyable evening’s entertainment.
Meeting of Alumni...........Tuesday, June 25
Forest L. Knapp.
years ago.
Commencement Exercises,Wednesday, June 26
Oration Pioneer Influence on Coun-

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F.L. La BOUNTY
ABBEY, ’12

LILLIAN CRISTENSON, ’13
CHAS. CAULKINS, ’12
- MARIAN R. JUDD, ’13
- MARY A. AGNEW, ’13
CHAS. SCOTT, ’13
T bl\in ". williams, ’13
SILVAN HILLIARD

EDINBORO INDEPENDENT

Abject Apology.
Mr. Strickland
W.
Gillilan has
soothed the feeling of this paper by an
abject apology of the most gratifying
sort. Mr. Gillilan realizes that he was
in error in his remarks about dogs and
in a personal letter to the editor has
this to say ;

“It served me right. I knew all the
time it was your dog. But you weren t
a lady who had committed peroxide,
and as the dog I used as a stage “prop’’
had long white hair I thought I had
saved the day.

“The Birch Rod is a smart little
school journal—very smart. But (and
here comes the mean jab again) I used
to have some teachers who convinced
Hie that most anybody could make a

It was well enough for girls to study
music, but the boy who wished to de­
vote himself to the piano or to the
violin or to the cultivation of the voice
was considered guilty
of abnormal
weakness.
In the last
twenty-five
years, there has been a marked improve­
ment in the attitude of the public
towards music in a scheme of education;
and yet today it is not an uncommon
thing to find university men who boaSt.
with some degree of complacency, of
their inability to tell “Yankee Doodle”
from * ‘God Save the King. ^ ’ and this
inability is somehow or other accepted
as a mark of great intellectual.develop­
ment. There are. to be sure, some
university men who cannot spell ac­
curately, or who are unable to dis­
tinguish the seven table from the eight
table in multiplication, but they do
not boast of it. The truth is that the
man of well rounded education ought
to know something about music just as
he is supposed to know something about
literature and the pictorial and plastic
arts. He may not know how to write
a book, but he ought to be able to dis­
tinguish between Laura Jean Libbey and
Robert Louis Stevenson; he may " not
wish to paint a pichire, but he ought
to know why the Coney Island artist
who does a portrait with colored
chalk and both hands in three minutes
is really not an artist; he need not
play the violin or the piano, and per­
haps wisely Joes not sing, but he ought
to be able to discriminate somewhat
intelligently between Schumann and

birch tod smart.”

Social Hour.
We missed our after supper social
hour in Haven Hall this week. When,
like the Yankee, we wanted to know^
the authorities smiled mysteriously,
we are to be made to cry for it next

John Philip Sousa.
“Every serious attempt, therefore,
which is made to develop and direct
sound and dscriminating musical taste
in this country, and a respect as well
as a love for music, deservas public

We protest
that we
mm.
Tdifi mmmrn

_ ^___the
do appreciate
after supper singing and want it to con­
tinue. If we seemed bored or unap­
preciative it was not because we found
it rather uncomfortable to sit (and
sing) about the board after it had lost
its first, fresh beauty and had taken on
the'appearance of a deserted battle
field. If we sang we must gaze directly
into the eyes (and too often into the
mouth) of the table fellow opposite.
Now we like to sing for our friends, or
to our friends, but we object to singing
at them. If we did not sing we sat
and looked foolish, feeling keenly every
inch of our length that projected above
the table.

....

Then, too, we knew the possibilities
that splendid hall upstairs had to offer
for a pleasant social hour.
Didn t the
authorities remark with what eager­
ness we ran up the stairs that first night
of the change? The cabin below does
very well for meal times but for seasons
of rejoicing give us the upper deck.

School Music.
John Ruskin, in his early years,
had a very poor opinion of music.
With advancing years, however, his
appreciation constantly increased, until
he gave it a high, if not the highest,
place in the subjective arts. He said:
“Every child should be taught from its
youth to govern its voice discreetly and
dexterously, as it does its hands: and
not to be able to sing should be more
disgraceful than not to be able to read

of music makes it especially fitted to
provide emotional exercise, which is a
prominent part of recreative entertain­
ment;” Let us encourage especially
self-made music as a wholesome, satis­
fying substitute for the questionable
means of entertainment now in vogue.
' To encourage self-made music is one
of the pitfposes of music in the public

or write. ”
The Schoolmaster was interested in
an editorial preface to an article on
“Music and the East Side (New York)
Children,” in
the
“Outlook” for
February 22.- 1908. The editorial is as
follows:
“Owing, perhaps, to the infiuence of the rebellion of the Puritans
against what they believed to be the
malign infiuence of asthetic beauty
in a world of sin, we are only just be­
ginning to recognize in this country the
educational and civilizing function of
the aits.
Music is the last of the arts
to feel this new forward impulse. As
recenjfy as thirty years ago in New
Yorkt then as now the metropolis of the
Western World, the boy or man with
a taste for music had a hard struggle.

James Phillips,

is

teaching at

ERIK, PA.

John Preston, ’ll, is teaching in the
East Millcreek High School.
Rupert Peck ’10. post graduate ’ll. is
teaching in Florence, Montana.
Ray Bradshaw, ’ll. is teaching at
the Chandlers Valley High School.

OSBORNENORMAN CO.

Jessie Tillotson, ’09. is teaching in
the primary room at Bear Lake High
School.
The following alumni were at the
Nomal lastSatuday ; Elizabeth Donor,
’ll. Ruth McReary, 10, Lyle Baldwin,
’ll, Fannie Fellows, ’10.

Erie’s Fastest Growing Store

C. K. HENRY
Jeweler and
Optician
is ready to care for all
EYE TROUBLE

The very latest styles are
seen first at this store
Also the prices are the
lowest.

He will fit lenses or fill
anv lens prescription in the
shortest possible time.

enjoy and want good music.
Perhaps, as to
music’s being a
necessity to life and the things of life,
as we consider some other school subjects
necessities, has not been fully shown.
__ AntionH the
heading
The. 0-1
Schoolmaster
noticed
the heading
to an article
in one of our best
magazines, “The .j^prld s Work, for

No matter how bad that
rough house was, heil mend
the glasses.

read.”
t
, ,
Supt. J. W. Itfdand, of Stanford,
Kentucky, has issied this appeal to all
educators of the ftate:
‘‘It should be
the desire of evefy right minded person,
having the inter^ts of the young at
heart, to see mutjic form a more im­

The Little White Store on
the corner is conducted bp

Miss Proud

portant part of the curriculum of our
public schools in Kentucky.
Are we
to make reformed progress or drift into
deformed desuetdde? Are we to awaken
to the necessity of progress along the
line of music in Kentucky? Do we
need a
refining crucible?
Music
furnishes it. Do we need greater cul­
tural facilities? Music supplies them.
Do we need more heart and soul awaken
ing as well; as mental aptitude?
Music is ever '^e ready handmaid to
arouse the lethargy. It is stated on
best authority that music education will
lift into effici^oy a greater proportion
of the community than can be brought
into a high degree of efficiency through
any other subject.
Why, then, should
we not be deeply interested?
THE SCHOOLMASTER.

exercise.
“There is evident need,’” to quote
further,
‘ ‘for entertainment.
The
present methods of entertaining the
American public are far from ideal.
Inasmuch as, first: “Music is uni­
versally a source of pleasure. ” Second:
“The musical capacity of the average
person has been underestimated, be­
cause of the exaggerated importance of
the virtuoso.” Third:
“The nature

is attending

Floyd Bathurst, ’10, is teaching in
the Hydetown High School,

other branches of learning.
It is proper, therefore, to place the
teaching of this subject in the public
schools with other subjects. In this
way the rich and poor are alike richer.
It is certainly not the purpose of pub­
lic school music to make musicians of
all
the children, a criticism that is
frequently advanced; neither is it the
purpose to make mathematicians of all
the children because they are all taught
arithmetic. It is the purpose and the
hope, however, that they will become
musical enough to appreciate and

of a magazine article a year or more
ago, in which the author asked such
questions as;
“Is music a luxury or
a necessity?”
“Is it merely an art.
a genteel plaything for an aristocracy
of sensitive souled specialists, or a
democratic utility, with a direct in­
fluence on the
health, morals^ and
efficiency of the common mass?” “Can
it be used by a practical people for a
material purpose?” Let me ask with
this author;
“Is
entertainment a
necessity?” It certainly is necessary
that we have emotional exercise as
well as mental activity and physical

’10,

Ethel Buckley, ’ll,

favored few.
If music is to become a social force,
we cannot depend upon private teachers
and private institutions to make it so,
any more than we can depend upon
such means to educate the masses in

ban^s

teaching

Hammonton, N. J.

history, business, householding, etc.,
but not every one may be a master in
each of these lines. The musical
faculty is not an exclusive gift of the

and orchestras composed of children
from the public schools and private
institutions.
Again quoting from the
“Outlook ’ of March 4. relative to
this event:
“The question may be
asked:
‘What is the use of all this
teaching of music?’
And one practical
answer is that those children who have
special musical ability are given a
start from which they can, if they choose,
develop themselves as
professional
musicians, and so earn a better living
than they might otherwise earu. If,
however, this were the only answer, it
probably wuuld be said that the number
who are likely to develop musical
ability
is
comparatively small,
certainly not enough to justify all the
musical trainhig.
The real answer
lies in the fact that it is quite as im­
portant to provide
amusements for
people of every age and condition as it
is to provide food, clothing and shelter.
I should, therefore, be a part of all
educational and
charitable work to
teach children of the city how to pro­
vide for themselves sane and uplifting
forms of pleasure. The development
of the mental, spiritual and imaginative
side of life is of the first importance.”
The Schoolmaster recalls the reading

is

Oberlin College.

schools. The Schoolmaster is reminded
to say in this connection that much
harm has been dene by parents iq mak­
ing such remarks to their children as
“0. you can’t sing: there is no music
in our family,” etc.
Every normal
person has a capacity for learning
music, just as every normal person has
a capacity for leaning arithmetic,

recognition.”
About six weeks ago there was held
in New York City the “Child Welfare
Exhibit. ’ ’ The music for the occasion

’WafflftniTt'gtitid

Eleanore Dunlap, ’ll,
at Jeanette Pa.

It is a good place for Edinboro Students.

Specialties in

Edinboro
Savings Bank
Cor. Waterford and Meadville Sts.

does a general Banking
Business. Interest paid
on Time Deposits. ->

READY-TO-WEAR
COATS, SUITS
EURS,
SWEATERS, WAISTS,
GLOVES

Dt. i. E. CONDRON
Harry Ob|rt, ’ll. is teaching in Mon­
tana.
f
Madge K«r. ’09, is attending Oberlin
College.
Berniece Brant, ’ll, is teaching near
Tionesta. t
Rena D^ Vore, ’ll.

is teaching in

Meadville.
Ethel Pliillips. ’ll, is teaching
Warren, Pa,
Lillian Frame is teaching
’ll.

OSBORNENORMAN CO.

at

1024-26-28 State Street
at New

Brighton, .Pa.

Gladys White,

Painless
Dentist

is teaching at

1023 State Street
ERIE, PA.

Cor. 11th and State

Barnes, Ph,

James jsmith, ’07, is in Tacoma,
Washingt|m.
Lucy (Benedict, ’ll, is teaching in
Goodwill] Hill.

Clara jSenedict, ’ll. is teaching near
Petrolemn Center.
Geral/l Decker, ’ll,
Cochranipn, Pa.

is

Edinboro Hotel

ERIE, PA.

E. J. Swanson, Prop.
Rates $1.50 per dap. Restaurant in connection.
Centrallp located. All students welcome.

teaching at
EDINBORO. PA.

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Y. M. C. A. Notes.

Senior Rhetoricals.

The Young Men’s Christian Associa­
tion well attended on October 29.
Mr. Wallace J. Snyder had charge, the
topic was, “The Profits of a Christiaii.”
The subject was taken up with
enthusiasm and interest.
The dis­
cussions were treated from the stand­
point of national and spiritual gain.
This gave a wide field for thought.
Many illustrations were brought to bear
upon the subject, showing that if the
hereafter is disregarded the profits on
earth are great enough to make the
Christian life far superior to any other.
The meeting of November 5 was a
very successful and interesting meeting.
Marion Negus, the leader, treated on
facts relating to the subject “Temp­
tation. ” Interesting talks were given
by those present, and all left feeling
they were greatly profited by the meet­
ing. Regular meetings are held at two
o’clock in the afternoon of each Sab­
bath at the State Normal gymnasium.
The leaders and topics are as follows:
November 12—Leader, Charles Marsh;
topic, “The Fight for Character. ”
November 19—Leader, V. A. Snapp;
topic, “True Living.”
A cordial invitation is extended to
all young men.

Second Division.

Students’ Prayer Meeting.
Topic November 12—Society versus
the Saloon. Isiah .5:11-25. Leader,
Charles Scott.

Y. W. C. A.
The usual meeting of the Y. W. C.
A. will be held November 9. Topic,
Ideal Women; leader, Mrs. Bonner..

The Potter Society.
The following program was given
in Potter Hall, November 13:
Roll call answered by Irish stories.
Irish Song—Forest Knapp.
Irish Song—Arthur Johnson.
Essay, “Ireland”—Ada Abbey.
Recitation—John Krasin&ki.__ .— Vocal Solo—Ora Kopf.
Irish Reading—Francis Hanna.
Irish Medley—Louise Hess, Andrew
Frame, Ellen Morgn.
Piano Duet—Alice Woods, Alice
Walker.
Debate—Resolved that Ireland should
be freed from England. Affirmative,
Charles Scott, Hazel McCIaughry;
negative, Knight Smith, Carrie Walter.

The Philo-Everett Society.
The society so far has held its meet­
ings on Mo,nday evenings, but it has
been decided for the present to hold
them on Saturday evenings. The pro­
gram for November 11 was as follows:
Quotations from Burns.
/ Reading—Irene Crouch.
Current Events—Vincent Hays.
Dialogue—Mont Hannah,
Ethal
Seddon.
Debate—Resolved, that the United
States should permanently retain the
Philippine Islands. Affirmative. Cyrus
Quick; negative, Claude Whittenberger.
Select Reading—Minnie Pierson.
Impromptu
A cordial welcome is extended to all.

jpiionian Literary Society.
The program for October 30 was
both interesting and successful. The
debate. Resolved that Canada has lost
a national opportunity in defeating her
measure of reciprocity, was decided in
favor of the affirmative, Edith Cook and
Victor Snapp.
The following program was given
November 13:
Devotionals—Glenn Greenman.
Roll call answered by quotations
from John Milton.
Declamation—Roy Mosier.
Essay, “Uprising in China”—Susie
Baker.
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Song —Society.
Reading—Florence Hutchison.
Debate—Resolved that country life
is the greatest life of the twentieth
century. Affirmative, Alice Townsend,
Carol Blakslee; negative, Amy Wilder,
Blanche Howard.

The second division of senior
rhetoricals appeared on the afternoon of
November 3. The program was as
follows:
Oratioj............................... Carl L. Holder
What is Fate?
Oration.............................William Frantz
The Mission of Culture
Oration................................. Clyde Joslin
The Modern Farmer
Dialogue. Ned Dearborn,Charles Caulkins
Quarrel Between Brutus and Cassius

Third Division.
The third division
of senior
rhetoricals was given on Friday,
November 10. Miss Hauser presided.
The program appears below :
Essay...................................... Cora Durfee
Friendship
Reading............................... Lillian Wiard
From a Far Country
Oration........................
.Sarah Harvey
Polish the Heel of the ShoeEssay..............................Beulah Crawford
The Happiness of Duty
Reading........................... Ruth Richardson
Rollo Learning to Dress
Oration................................. Clarence Bell
Robert E. Lee

Fourth Division.

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A True Test
of Value

In every line carried by Erie’s
Big Store, the policy of the best
always for less is found to be a
fact that comparison with other
merchandise
proves
beyond
a
shadow of a doubt.
Of special interest to the Edinboro Students and their friends are
our line of Pennants. The Book
Store gives you the latest Copyright
fiction as well as stationery and all
writing requirements.
Offers you boundless opportunities
to choose the latest styles at reasuiiable prices.
All other departments contribute
their share of quality merchandise
for your approval.
Merchandise suitable for Christmas
gifts are being shown in the various
departments for those who want to
buy early and get first choice. Let
us repeat for the best always for
less go to

The following program for senior
rhetoricals will be given on Friday
afternoon, November 17:
Essay................................ Bernice Gregory
Influence of Music on Human Action
Reading............................................. .AgnesSwaney
Oration...............................Gladys Brown
Joan of Arc
Vocal Solo...... .J. Blaine Williams
Essay.....................................Luci le Marsh
Invinicible Allies
Oration............................... Charles Kough
Success Through Self Reliance

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At the Northwestern State Normal School The institution
has the approval of The Birch Rod.
FRANK E. BAKER, Principal
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EDINBORO, PA.

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Young Men Want
Snappp Shoes

Howard & Foster
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A New Store
And a new and up-to-date
stock of

Men’s
Clothing

forpoung men embodp everpthing new thats good.

$3.50 to $5

Trask, Prescott
& Richardson Co.

The following

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selection of mistakes

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any one that there are some peaks of
ignorance which he has yet to climb:
“Mute, inglorious Milton.” These
epitaphs are used by a writer who was
envious of Milton’s being Poet Orient
Magna Charta said that the King had
no right to bring soldiers into a lady’s
house and tell her to mind them.
Shakespeare made a mistake in
mentioning Galen, who did not live
till a hundred years after his time.
Panama is a town of Colombo, where
they are trying to make an isthmus.
The three highest mountains in Scot­
land are Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond and
Beii Jonson.
Wolsey saved his life by dying on
the way from York to London.
“Those melodious bursts that fill the
spacious days of great Elizabeth” refers
to the songs that Queen Elizabeth used
to write in her spare time.
Tennyson wrote a poem called Grave’s
Energy.
The Rump Parliament consisted
entirely of Cromwell’s stalactites.
The plural of spouse is spice.
Queen Elizabeth rode a white horse
from Kenilworth through Coventry with
nothing on, and Raleigh offered her his
cloak.
When England was placed under an
Interdict the Pope stopped all births,
marriages and deaths for a year.
“The Deserted Traveller” is the most
famous of Goldsmith’s works.
The Pyramids are a range of
mountains between France and Spain.
The gods of the Indians are chiefly
Mahommed and Buddha, and in their
spare time they do lots of carving.
Every one needs a holiday from one
year’s end to another.
-^University Correspondent.

All stockholders of the North­
western State Normal School are
requested to meet a committee
of the State Board of Education
in the auditorium Monday, Nov.
20, at 10:30 a. m.

ERIE, PA

924 State
Open Evenings

The Birch Rod

ERIE, PA.

F. F. WALKER

And Furnishing Goods

SELLS

Come in and let us show you
what is new.

Seal-shipt

PFISTER
Ogsters
Gently suggests that you,
Mr. Reader, stop to exam­
ine yourself at this point.
Have you remembered to
remit that

And the Choicest of Meats

815 State St.
ERIE. PA.
Next to People’s Bank

The Sanitarg
Barber Shop

HARRY THOMPSON

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Just a Whisper
Around the Corner

Fifty Cents

GOOD CLOTHIERS

HARVEY ALLEN

714 State Street
ERIE, PA.

The Spaulding Man

FOR

Carriages and Harness
GO TO

A. H. HANSON

John V. Laver

FLORIST

M. D. REYNOLDS Greenhouses E. 6th St.
If the fify cents is not in
sight ang negotiable pa­
per will do.
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PNEUMATIC WATER OUTFITS

EDINBORO,

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Store 704 State St.

ERIE, PENN'A.

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Condon’s Boat Livery

HENRY J. SEVIN

Landing near Keystone Mills

Choice Pictures and Picture
Frames. Artists Materials.

Best Boats on Lake

15 W. 7th St.

ERIE, PA,

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The largest and finest equipped
clothing store between New
York and Chicago.

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Haven Hall Notes.
Miss Viola Moore spent Sunday with
friends in Slabtown.
Hester Rowell has left for her home.
She will not be in school until after
the holidays.
Anna Billington and Mildred MacMullen, of Albion,
attended the
Hallowe’en party.
Jane Collins and Letna Stowell were
the guests of Eleanor and Hattie
Morrison Saturday night.
Much to the displeasure of many, the
dining room seating of the general pub­
lic was clianged last week.
Ethel Case, Frances Hannah, Louise
Hess, Ruth Kidder, Lulu Glenn, Ruth
Smith, Arline Smith. Florence Joles,
Bertha Wallace, Margaret Robinson and
Martha Irwin spent Sunday last at their
respective homeSi
Haven Hall has had & number of
visitors of late among whom are Ruth
McCreary, ’10; Elizabeth Donor, ’ll;
Okla Kline, ’ll, of the alumni. Those
visiting friends were the Misses JackSon, Webster, Benninger, Fleischman;
also Mr. and Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Swenarton,
Mr. and Miss Dawley, Mr. Seavy and
Mr. Swenarton.
Wednesday evening a little change
in the order of singing was made by
Mr. Gleason. Orders were given for
“the boys not to hike out of the door
and the girls not to scoot to their
rooms” for all were invited to Haven
Hall parlors for a general good' time.
Through the strategy of Mr. Gleason and
Miss Powell, the lads were finally
seated in the parlor. After the usual
songs Miss Hauser gave a few readings.
With some effort Mr. Gleason got the
boys started home, all of whom ex­
pressed a wish to come again.

W. A. WHIPPLE
Makes, and Sells

HA RNESS
If gou own a horse
come and see me.

Pennsylvania

Edinboro,

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Every Young Man
And Young Woman
Can be fitted here with
shoes to meet every re­
quirement.

Peoples’ Barber Shop
J. H. BENNETT, Prop.

The place you get your work
done as you want it done—
RIGHT. Also NEWSTAND,
where Cleveland, Buffalo, Erie
and Pittsburg papers are al­
ways on sale. Call and see
him.
DANNY SULLIVAN
Ladies* and Gents* Clothes
Sold and Cared For.
EDINBORO,

OUR PRICES

will continue to be as low
as the high standard of our
.shoes will allow.
OUR STORE SERVICE

as to perfect fit and special
attention is yours.

PENN’A.

Shoes from $3 to $6
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s

Head Treatment
A Specialty
SHREVE THE BARBER
ALL KINDS OF

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and State Streets
ERIE, PA.

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The Rayen Record, of Youngstown,
The current
Ohio, is very interesting.
number contains a particularly- clever
story, “The Queen of Hearts.” The
paper needs more cuts.
The Argus of Findlay College, shows
what a few people can do if they work.
The paper is well edited and we hope
to see it on our exchange table each
month.
The middlers who wrote a composition
on “Dr. Meryck’s Chickens” will enjoy
reading “A Night Raid” in the Col­
legian.
Get to work and make an artistic
cover for your Collegian. Your stories
are short and clever and you have a
lot of club and class spirit.
St. Peter—“Did
you take your
college paper?”
Student—‘ ‘Yes, sir. ’ ’
St. Peter—“Did you pay for it?”
Student—“No.”
St. Peter—“First elevator down.”
-—Ex.
“He did his share” is a better
epitaph than ‘ ‘he got his share. ’ ’
—Ex.

Home of Good Shoes

Thomas' Cash Groceri^

A

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Holidays Portraits

Christmas shopping is oftentimes
put off until the last moment and
we are, as a consequence, taking
this means of reminding our pat­
rons that a first class portrait re­
quires lots of attention and just a
little time. We hope you are con­
templating photographs, and an
early sitting will insure satisfac­
tion.

828 State

Ram it in, top it in.
What are teachers paid for?
Bang it in, slam it in.
What are children made for?
Ancient archaeology,
Aryan philology.
Prosody, geology,
Physics, clinictology.
Calculus and mathematics.
Rhetoric and hydrostatics—
Hoax it in, coax it in.
Children’s heads are hollow.
—Puck

ERIE, PA.

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Umbrellas l
AND

Rubbers

L. J. ROSS
Photographer
Over Doing’s
Grocerg

Edinboro, Pa.

The “Hull” Umbrella
with detachable handle

A School Idyl.
Ram it in, cram it in.
Children’s heads are hollow;
Slam it in, jam it in.
Still there’s more to follow—
Hygiene and history.
Astronomic mystery.
Algebra, histology,
Latin, etymology.
Botany, geometry,
Greek and trignometry—
Ram it in, cram it in.
Children’s heads are hollow.

Greater Erie’s Greater Store ^Boston Store

rpHE BOSTON STORE
has been a factor in this
locality for more than a
quarter of a century, and it
has, through strict and con­
scientious business princi­
ples, grown to be the largest
department store in North­
western Pennsylvania.

We are indeed glad to
merit the patronage of cus­
tomers in towns adjacent to
Erie, and hope our out of
town friends will always
look upon this as their home
store.
For the convenience of
out of town shoppers we
have provided many innovatiors such as Bureau of In­
formation, Rest Rooms in
Basement and in Gallery,
-and^-o-IUmna-Room. which
was primarily instituted for
the benefit of our out of
town customers, and which
has come to be the best res­
taurant in or around Erie.
We claim supremacy in
the merchandise line, as we
are always on the alert that
no one undersells us or of­
fers better selections than
we do.
We trust that your pur­
chases in this store are al­
ways entirely satisfactory.
If otherwise we would thank
you to report the same so
that we may rectify any er­
rors which might creep into
a business the size of this.

$1.00 to $5.00

Rubbers for any shoe.

Ladies' 75c

Let the Mirror
Be your judge, and if in need
of a suit, shirts, collars, ties,
hose hat or shoes, come in
and see us.

s $1

State St., Erie> Pa.

Always New Patterns, Latest
Styles, Best of Quality

The Cole Store

H. G. GILLASPIE
EDINBORO, PA.

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Erie Dry Goods Go.

W. B. COLE, ’99

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