isa-normaladvance-1914-00067

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE67changes we read the authors account of the lamentable fact that good discipline was not maintained during chapel exercises. His em¬ phasis rested upon the disturbances which ac¬ companied the students as they moved to and from the assembly hall. We have no fault to find with the general indulgence in conversa¬ tion and cheerful laughter that is common to our students as they move from their respective class rooms to assemble for chapel exercises. No better opportunity presents itself for social culture than to utilize a few minutes each day to come in contact with some stranger, make friends, and thereby add to your school-life ex¬ periences. Besides an occasional applause or an enthusiastic yell, commemorating some vic¬ tory won by the school, whether in athletics or otherwise, is always welcome. But when the signal is given to begin exercises it is the duty and becoming behavior of every student to stop visiting, cease all conversation, and give his un¬ divided attention to the speaker on the plat¬ form.Have you ever considered the economic value connected with the chapel exercises? Fifteen minutes subtractd from the time of each of six hundred student and fifty faculty members would total a continuous period of time of nine thousand seven hundred fifty minutes, or about twenty days of eight hours each. Time is our most valuable asset and no speaker has a right to command for his individual disposal such quantities of students capital except he is willing to give something in exchange for it. We believe speakers in general realize the economic importance of the privilege granted them.On the other hand every speaker has the right to command of every student under the sound of his voice strict attention. No student has a moral right to deprive a speaker of that which rightfully belongs to him by undue visiting or conversation with those nearest to him. It may be possible that you are not interested in what is being presented but remember that your friend by your side or in front of you is, and that by your inattention you are not only un¬just to the speaker but are at the same time robbing your neighbor of his privilege—a just dividend on his time invested.With this issue we end a term of school and at the same time a calendar year is drawing to a close. We have little faith in the traditionr, of making New Year resolutions, of turning over a new leaf but a few resolutions made then and lived accordingly are better than none made at all. Be a disciple of the doctrine of the Golden Rule. Be fair to yourself, to the one speaking, and to your neighbor, and all will join in one accord saying, It was well that I was at chapel.On Wednesday, November the twenty-sixth, there was rendered a chapel exercise that made every student and faculty member present glad that he or she held intimate relations with old I. S. N. We were all glad that we were Normalites, werent we? A genuine extract of intensified school spirit was running loose in such quantities that it permeated everyone present. Some were even saturated with it.A chapel exercise like that one wTas, does more for a school than anything else, in that it arouses school spirit. Any school, wherever it may be, can advertise in school journals, papers and magazines until all of its income is gone, but if students who have attended return home and advise others not to go, because there is no school spirit or good times to be had, all of that paid advertising will not amount to a drop in the bucket. It is the actual experiences of the student who attends that advertises the school more than anything els.eFar be it from us to object to any of the other chapel exercises, but we most certainly do want to boost this type, and boost it most abundantly. Give us some more of them.We are glad to note that this foregoing no¬ table event was the beginning of congrega¬ tional singing in Chapel again. We are very glad to see congregational singing come back into use and sincerely hope that the department of music may see fit to keep it up.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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