isa-normaladvance-1914-00041

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE41UtterarpALETIIENAI.u I VHE talent of success is nothing more * than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.—Longfellow.The Alethenai meetings have been marked especially for their interest. It is very gratify¬ ing to see the zeal with which the new mem¬ bers go into work.The society has taken for its work a study of English authors and their important works. At the past meetings a study of the life of Chaucer, Sidney, Shakespeare, Johnson and Coleridge has been made. Later in the year de¬ bating will be taken up.Miss Gladys McClung of this city and Miss Helen Jones of Princeton have become mem¬ bers. Both promise efficiency, and the society feels fortunate in having obtained them.Two of the old members visited the meetings recently. Miss Thirza Parker was with us Oc¬ tober 25. She is teaching at Mooresville this year. Miss Elizabeth Standi ford, of Clinton, was present at the meeting November 1.CICERONIAN.Ciceronians have been busy for a month find¬ ing their bearings in some of the big questions proposed by the Triangular League of the Nor¬ mal schools at Normal, 111., Oshkosh, Wis., and Terre Haute. True to old Ciceronian ideals they have dug the harder the darker the ques¬ tions seemed, and the greater grew the clash of opinion in their own and each others minds, until the will of the society, while yet forma¬ tive, can be crystalized when definite action is necessary with the uniform support of every Ciceronian.Having won in the inter-society debate of last year, the Ciceronians have been challenged by their old rivals, the Daedalians to defend their honors. This the men are determined to do in their characteristic fashion. They have answered the challenge and have appointed a committee to arrange the details of the debate.The preliminaries for the contest are being arranged with perfect good humor, for never before have the societies had more respect for each others strength and more confidence in their fairness.DAEDALIAN.During the past month the Daedalians have spent much time in debating. Many questions which have been before the society have hinged on the question chosen by the Oratorical League as the question for the Interstate debate.The change of the meeting time from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning has proved highly satisfactory. Not only is the time for meeting longer but coming as it does, in the early part of the day, every one is fresh, and is better prepared for thinking.During the past month two new members have been received into Daedalian Literary Society. They are Mr. Pickett and Mr. Fitz¬ gerald. Both men have been given abundant tryouts and have proved themselves efficient men.The time for issuing a challenge for an in¬ ter-society debate has come around and the Daedalians have duly challenged the Ciceron¬ ians for a debate to take place some time dur¬ ing the winter term. With the friendly spirit of rivalry which exists between the two socie¬ ties, the Daedalians are gratified that the chal¬ lenge has been accepted.
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