isa-normaladvance-1914-00054

Description:	54THE NORMAL ADVANCECxcjjange ColumnO, I say—er—my good sir, just a moment please! Such a mad chase as I have had, en¬ deavoring to overtake you! You dodge about the halls and in and out of class-rooms until my head swims, and I am fairly out of breath trying to keep up with you. But now that I have you safely here in this corner, I shall not let you escape until you have supplied me with the answers to some questions which have been troubling me for many days. Just turn around, please, so you cant see the clock. I know you have a committee meeting at 3:20 and are due in the psychology lab. at 3:30, to say nothing of German Club meeting after that, and an errand at the book store. But all those things will wait and just now we are going to talk. You have heard of the Normal Advance, have you not? Ah, yes, I thought so. Well, tell me, did it ever occur to you that that was your paper, and such being the case you were called upon to support it in every way, to see that it truly represented you, Mr. Student-of-the-Indiana-State-Normal-School ? Whats that? You do subscribe? Give me your hand! Im glad to hear it! But, my dear fellow, that is only the beginning of right doing. A paper cannot live on subscribers, important as they are it merely exists. The real question is, are you a contributor. I feared not. Hm! So you thought that was the busi¬ ness of the editorial staff, did you? I sus¬ pected as much. Confess, now, that that has long been your attitude and that you have been only too content to shift the burden of respon¬ sibility to their shoulders. But what has been the result? Can you say that the paper truly represents you, or is it not a reflection merelyof one or two phases of your nature? How about it, Mr. Student ? Let me show you some of our mail. Here is the Mission House Aero- lith from Mission House College, Wis. Ah, your eyes light up! I thought you were in¬ terested in German. Pretty good German, eh? especially that article on Ludwig Uhland. O, you think you could do as well, do you? Then it behooves me to inform you that I hail from Missouri. Now in the good old days, I re¬ member leading an article on Faust by your grandfather. It was worth reading, too. But if you have really inherited his ability, lets see an article on a similar subject in good German, ready for next month. One would never guess from reading your paper that you could say even Wie gehts. Dr. Rettger was telling me, too, that you were quite a scientist. I should never have thought it. He said you gave an excellent report on the Widal Test last week. Here in the Indianapolis Medical Journal is an article on the same subject. Why not work up your report into such an article? It would give an air of sound schoolarship and alert interest in vital topics to this paper of yours. And how about that last Latin college paper you wrote? Dont you think other people should get the benefit of all that reading you did? I see you are growing impatient, and it is beyond my power to stay longer the forward moving finger of time. But, one word more  Josiah of the Anderson High School X-ray says: Some fellers git their lessons while others have pencils an frens. Apply that to what I have just said and think the matter over. Now run! Whack Wright is waiting.Success is a fruit slow to ripen.—Anony¬ mous.
Source:	http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32494
Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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