isa-normaladvance-1914-00128

Description:	128THE NORMAL ADVANCEClass <0rgant?ationgCOLLEGE COURSE.THE regular College Course social enter¬ tainment was held in the literary and association rooms, Friday evening, January 16. It is wholly unnecessary to say that the affair was an unqualified success—when was a College Course party otherwise? The skillful fingers of the decorating committee quite transformed the association room, and the gold and black of the College Course colors sent a hearty wel¬ come and promise of coming good cheer to the arriving guests. The main feature of the even¬ ing was a mock registration and streamers of gold and black separated the room into offices for the various functionaries who conducted the ordeal. Near the door sat Mr. Bogardus as chairman of the registration committee (it wTas really E. J. Hemmer), and he started the timid applicants on the way to college entrance by despatching them to President Parsons, who sat enthroned in another part of the room. (He really looked a great deal like H. E. Stork  have you ever noticed the resemblance?) Thence they were ushered into a sanctum guarded by black cats and witches, where dwelt Dean, Schweitzer in the person of Miss Anna Cox. Men and women alike were required to pass the rigid examination conducted by her before they were finally released and allowed to return to the chairman who secured their signatures to the following pledge:Pledge.We, the undersigned, College Course Stu¬ dents in meeting assembled this twenty-third day of January, 1914, do hereby mutually agree that we have been imposed upon, have been fooled, and have otherwise been recipients of injustice.We further hereby pledge ourselves, in so far as is conducive, concordant, conformable, con¬ gruous, and consistent with our own courage and corporal welfare, to assist or back up any College Course student never to make an A  never to write an original college paper of more than three (3) paragraphs in length to hop classes occasionally, semi-occasionally, or bi- occasionally to work, either the teachers or the lessons, whichever promises best returns with least expenditure of effort to request the other class organizations of the school to make a pail full of lemonade out of what we propose to hand them in the way of class spirit and class loyalty.To lend our assistance toward the establish¬ ment of an anti-cupid bureau for the purpose of preventing and discouraging matrimonial adventures premeditated and with malice, etc., except in the event the participants are Normal Seniors- or Faculty members in which case we shall lend our heartiest co-operation.In witness whereof, we have hereunto fixed our signature this twenty-third (23) day of January, nineteen hundred fourteen at 8:30 P.M.W. W. Parsons, Tuscola, 111.Howard Sandison, 404 N. Center St,Ethel M. Ray, Taylorville.Marguerite Kisner, Maxville, N. M.Winnifred Ray, Kansas City.Ruth Heyroth, Seelyville.Louise Hager, Brazil.Kate Colvin, Kenilworth, Utah.Leota Leslie, Scotland, Ind.L. J. Scheidler, Keokuk, Iowa. They were then free to pass the entrance examinations conducted by June Manor and read the various rules and regulations hung about the room.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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