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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