isa-normaladvance-1914-00107

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE107local Jgetos• Mr. Basil Trueblood visited friends in Terre Haute during the first week of the term,. Mr. Trueblood is head of the Manual Training de¬ partment in the public schools at Watertown, Wis¬ consin.Miss Amanda Hemmer, who is a student in Northwestern College, spent Thursday and Fri¬ day, December 18 and 19, in Terre Haute, the guest of her brother, Mr. E. J. Hemmer.Miss May Zinck, of Worthington, Indiana, spent Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and 11, with friends in Terre Haute.The Misses Hazel Shaper, Faun McKamey and Winnifred Ray went as delegates from the Y. W. C. A. to the Volunteer Convention in Kansas City. The convention was held from December 31 until January 5.Messrs. Knaught and Sigler were the delegates to Kansas City from the Y. M. C. A.Mr. A. E. Logan has accepted the position of principal of the Riley high school.Miss Charlotta B. Schweitzer attended the Volunteer Convention in Kansas City December 31 until January 5.Mr. Waldo F. Mitchell, of Greenville, Illinois, spent the Christmas holidays with friends in Terre Haute.Miss Helen Jewett, who is the music and art teacher at Bono, Indiana, came to Terre Haute in order to sing in the cantata Ruth, given by the Normal chorus January 6.Miss Edna Wheeler, of Walcott, Indiana, came to Terre Haute and accompanied the cantata Ruth, which was given by the Normal chorus.Miss Larene Davies, of Edwardsport, visited friends in Terre Haute January 5 and 6. She sang in the cantata Ruth.Miss Gladys Rippetoe visited Mr. and Mrs. Owen Mitchell near Thorntown during the Christ¬ mas holidays.Miss Gladys Botsford spent the Christmas holi¬ days with friends in Iowa.Cxclmnge ColumnIT is a pleasant custom, that of making New Years calls. There is no better way of start¬ ing the New Year than by getting into congenial touch with the rest of mankind. It is one of the blessed circumstances of our earthly life, that we are given so many opportunities to start afresh. Man, erring, weak, used to failure as he is, clings pitifully to this notion of closing old accounts with the end of each year and beginning once more on a fair white page, which he always hopes will be less soiled than the last, when it, too, is discarded. Old failures, old mistakes, old sorrows are put aside and we turn our faces once more to the dawn, ready to take up the struggle anew. And as in our secret hearts we try to square accounts with God, so in our open actions we strive tosquare accounts with man. Hence, our New Years calls. It is not possible for us, as editor of this column, to call personally upon each of those who have honored us with their exchanges this past year, but with the magic flying carpet Qf the imagination let us take you, our fellow students, to see these other comrades of ours, who, near and far, are meeting the problems which face us as students of the Indiana State Normal. We shall find such a trip in some ways like the ever-widen¬ ing circles roused upon still waters by a carelessly- tossed pebble, for our circles of acquaintances widen from that which includes our own city only, to that which passes through the mystic Orient. To begin, like charity, at home, we have much enjoyed the monthly contribution of our
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