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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