isa-normaladvance-1903-00136

Description:	136THE NORMAL ADVANCE.The Normal Advance.Devoted to the Interests of the State Normal School.EDITORIAL STAFF.B. L. Vawter, 08 Editor In ChiefJoe H. Stahl, 04 Associate EditorAlma 0. Beste, 03 Literary EditorEverett Sanders Athletic EditorMary V. Peterson, 08 Society EditorE. F. Fishback,05 . . > , . ,,^ ,T . , I Local and AlumniDorothy Venard, 04 . >Guy C. Sipple, 03 ExchangesGenevieve L. Weeks Senior EditorC. E. Green Junior EditorA. T. Farmer Sophomore EditorJessie Murray Freshman EditorBUSINESS STAFF.A. G. Porter Business ManagerRoy Hai.stead Assistant Business ManagerH. C. Rogers Subscription AgentOTTIS MARTIN > Agt gub AgtsOtto Martin >BOARD OF CONTROL.Pres. W. W. Parsons, Ex-officio.Arthur Cunningham, Chairman.Jessie Doane, 05, Secretary.Charles M. Curry. A. T. Mayfield, 03Roy E. Halstead, 04. Jonas GriffithPublished Monthly from October to June, inclusive.Terms—Seventy-five cents per year, in advance. Single copies,10 cents. Commencement number, 25 cents.Address all communications to The Normal Advance, TerreHaute, Ind.All alumni, as well as undergraduates, are solicited to hand incommunications.The Advance is sent to subscribers until arrears are paid upand the paper stopped.Entered at Terre Haute Postoffi.ce as second-class matter.This is the first of the three special numbers.These numbers receive a great deal of attentionfrom the staff and from the classes and we hopethey may be sufficiently attractive to increase oursubscription list larger than ever before. Everystudent should have the three special issues.have a great deal of the material already prepared.The committee expects to make the issue uniqueand attractive and promises to have it out on time.We hope our patrons will pardon the delay in>issuing this number of The Advance.The delay is due to the fact that this issue is aspecial number and the staff was compelled to waituntil the committee of the Freshman and Sophomore classes prepared their material.The Juniors will issue the May number andThe contest given by the Athletic Associationfor the purpose of securing a school song wasclosed oji February 1st. There were several contestants. After the contest closed a committee ofthree judges representing the faculty, alumni andstudent-body was chosen by the executive committee. These judges rendered their decision withoutknowing the names of the contestants and each oneacted independently of the others. However, theywere unanimous in their decision. The poem onwhich they decided was written by Frank Thomas,02, of Rome, Indiana. Many of the students willremember Mr. Thomas as a student above the average in literary work.It remains now for the poem to be set to musicand this contest will be open until June 1, 1903.Anyone wishing to enter this contest may receivefull information from Prof. F. R. Higgins, .520North Center street, Terre Haute, Ind.There is at present considerable concern manifested as to the amount and kind of outside worka student may be allowed to do. This is probablydue to the many organizations to which studentshave an opportunity to belong and which have little, if any, relation to the regular school work.It is true that the prime purpose of the student is to attend strictly to his school work. Thishe owes both to himself and to the institution. Itis. also true that aside from his regular work thereare other things that rightfully claim the attention of the student and, from which he may bebenefited sufficiently to repay him for the time ittakes.Perhaps the principal objection to outside workis, that it is often carried to such an extreme as toweaken the student in his class work. This objection is well taken and the ruling that studentsmust show their ability to maintain a reasonablestandard of proficiency in their class work beforethey will be allowed to do outside work is certainlyproper. But there is another objection which the< --..
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