isa-normaladvance-1914-00219

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE219Johns Echo which comes to us across the broad Pacific, its pages holding all the mys¬ tery of the land of the Rising Sun. This month Ave count a new stranger from a far-off land among our friends. From the frozen North comes the Aurora, published by the students of the high school at Nome, Alaska. It cannot be a very big high school—the Senior class numbers only six—but it surely knoAvs how to put out a paper. To us it per¬ haps carries even more interest than the St. Johns Echo, for the latter is a university product and the realm of interest in Avhich the university student moAres is more general than that Avhich absorbs the high school student. As a result, Ave have in the Aurora a record of actions rather than of thoughts. The pages are alive with accounts of picnics and parties, athletic contests and social affairs. But they are vastly different from ours! Here is a pic¬ ture of the Freshman class on a picnic, wrap¬ ped up securely in heavy fur coats and hoods, and piled upon a sled drawn by thirteen shaggy dogs all around them level fields of ice. Their literary department reflects the life they live, both in the action of the stories and the local color of the background. It is an allround good paper, reflecting every phase of school life. We have enjoyed it hugely.We are not the only people who suffer from practice. Perhaps it will help us to knoAV that there are others. In the LaCrosse Racquet there is a clever story called The Dream of a Critic, in Avhich a student teacher has the pleasure of guiding a critic through the dis¬ mal Land of Practice. Perhaps if the gods could be prevailed upon to send such dreams to all critics there Avould be more sunshine of encouragement and fewer showers of tears in the Land of Practice.In his chapel talk a few days ago, Professor Curry reminded us that that day, April 23, marked the three hundred and fiftieth anni¬ versary of Shakespeares birth. The Indian¬ apolis Medical Journal commemorates that event in a rather unique manner. Is is an ac¬ cepted aphorism that Shakespeares beingcontained all humanity and no avenue was left unentered. An eminent medical man, Dr. WainAvright, Avho is also an eminent Shake¬ spearean scholar, has compiled a book of the medical references in Shakespeare, together with interpretations of those references. From this book the Journal quotes and Ave recom¬ mend the articles to our students of literature and of physiology, both of Avhom, we think, will find it equally interesting.Another neAvcomer is the Elkhart Pennant, the Junior issue of Avhich appeared on our desk a feAv days ago. It is an excellent high school paper, interesting, representative, and well arranged. We commend it highly and hope it Avill continue a member of our ex¬ change.By way of closing, Ave bring to your notice another bit of work relative to Shakespeare. The Interlude, a weekly paper published by the students of the South Bend High School, devotes a column of its first page to a trans¬ position of Hamlet into a narrative poem in heroic couplets, written in a language which beginning students in German Avill all recog¬ nize. Space forbids us publishing it all but Ave give a few lines, assuring you that if you want a good laugh you had better get the paper and read the thing entire. It begins thus :Ich hab a Hunch die Welt geht an die Bum, Sagt Hamlet zu Horatio, sein chum. Da ist Avas Rotten heir in diesem state, Und ists kein use dasz es so Aveiter geht. Well, business Avird schon starteh auf zupickeh, Sagt Raish, S tut anyhow kein gut zukickeh. Von Business, ansAvert Ham, tu ich nichttalkeh. Mich boddert nur der ghost avo hier tutwalkeh. War das mein Pa sein ghost, und an die Level, Or shurst a Fake fur Fun geschickt, vomDeirl? And there begins the tale. Read farther, all ye who love good literature.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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