isa-normaladvance-1909-00092

Description:	92THE NORMAL ADVANCEciation at Indianapolis during the Christmasholidays. However, several members of ourFaculty will have very important parts in the,meetings. Professors Kemp, Lardner, Baxter,Higgins, Laubach, Charman, Engleman,Schlicher and Bogardus will act in various capacities on the program.Examination days at the close of the termare of the past at I. S. N. Since the assemblyroom has been made into class rooms there isno convenient place to hold the usual two-hourexaminations in each subject at the close of theterm, and consequently any examinations givenwill be given during the regular recitationperiod. As a result school will not be out untilnoon, Friday, Dec. 18, that is, no student can,as formerly, go home a day or two early on account of having finished his examinations early,but each student must attend class until theclosing hour.GRINSA SOFT ANSWER.One Sunday evening the old colored pastorof a church in the South stepped before theflock, and, as was his habit, began, Well,breddern and sistern, what am de text to bedis ebening?There was a pause, and then a voice in arear pew was heard saying: Speak on pills.Whats dat? asked the pastor.Speak on pills! was repeated.For a moment the old servant of the Lordseemed disconcerted. Recovering himself hebegan: Pills! Pills! Well, breddern andsistern, dere am pills an pills. Dere am quininepills an headache pills an physic pills, an deream de kind of pills our brudder in da rear pewtakes when he has ben out all night but dekind of pill dat I am goin to speak about disebening am de Gospil.—Ladies Home JournalIN BOSTON.Did Santa Claus bring you everything youwanted, Johnnie?I assure you, madame, replied John Bea-consfield Hill, aged eight, of Black Bay, Boston, that I expressed no wish as to what themythical personage, Santa Claus, should deposit in my hosiery, because of the fact that Iam quite well aware without any equivocationthat Santa Claus exists only in the imaginations of the mentally deformed, and the ideaof suspending any article of my wearing apparel for the purpose of having it used as areceptacle for tokens of affection is repugnantto one who is deeply interested in the study ofdisease forms and microbes, to say nothingof But the inquirer had fainted away.—HomeMagazine.A man addicted to walking in his sleep wentto bed all right one night, but when he awokehe found himself on the street in the grasp ofa policeman., Hold on, he cried, youmusnt arrest me. Im a somnambulist. Towhich the policeman replied: I dont carewhat your religion is—yer cant walk thestreets in yer nightshirt.—Ex.THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.As father was leaving the house Christmasmorning he looked in vain for his umbrella.I spec sisters beau took it last night, ventured six-year-old Willie.Oh, you naughty boy, said Sister Mabel:how can you say that ?Well, its the truth, Willie insisted. Whenhe was saying good-night I heard him say, Iam going to steal just one!
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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