isa-normaladvance-1915-00113

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE1136>Miss Olive James, 14, who is teaching atMiddletown, was in Terre Haute Saturday,Dec. 19, visiting friends.Miss Mabel Bonsall spent the week-end (Jan.8-11) at her home in Thorntown.During the recent slippery weather morethan one person affiliated with the Normal hashad reason to bless the ice. Miss Anna Coxsarm was incapacitated for work for severaldays as a result of its contact with the sidewalk.Prof. Bruce, who is ever on the lookout forscientific phenomena, gave an impressivedemonstration of the unchanging law of fallingbodies.Mr. Mort Rains of Montpelier entered I .S.N. for the first time this term.Since the new ruling in regard to dancinsome young men who are only indirectlyconnected with our school, have been loudly lamenting the injustice of it all.Mr. Charles Bell seemed greatly perturbedthe other night because he had forgotten hiswatch. We never thought that the time ofnight bothered Charlie.Roy Julian, who is now principal of theOolitic High School, will return to Normal inthe spring to finish a few weeks work here.He then expects to enter Wisconsin University.Eddie Lapping spent the holidays in Hard-insburg, but he said not to tell anybody.Miss Rosalie Mitchell, 13, has resigned herposition in the departmental school at Bedford,and she will be married in the near future.The school was honored recently by a callfrom little Francis Bacon. He is a perfectspecimen of babyhood, and his good-naturedfather does not seem to resent it at all whenpeople say that little Francis resembles Mrs.Bacon.It seems that the new year has not dealt verykindly with all the faculty.- Miss Rhyan wasunable to meet her classes one morning, MissCuppy was ill two days, and Miss Bottsfordwas out the entire first week of the term.Miss Fern Rush, formerly a student here, butmore recently a member of the teaching forceof Bedford, was recently married to Mr. Adam-son. Her place in the Bedford schools wastaken by Miss Mary Mahaffee.Miss Jocebyn, of the Domestic Science Department, wTas at her home near Greencastleduring Christmas vacation. •Mr. Howard Byrn and family were theChristmas guests of Mrs. Byrns (nee DorothyRaridan) mother, near Bedford.Mr. Charles Burton still thinks that theKejstone Comedies are the best movies they£•5 VIS .Miss Edith Morgan, who has been quite ill,was able to return to school Monday, Jan. 11.If wre had seen Santa Claus before Christmas we would have told him to bring HelenMcKeever a new plume as that large green onemakes her look tall enough for a life partnerof Jeff of cartoon fame.Miss Moran, who is always wide awake foranything new in literature, was surprised tolearn from a student in Literature 12 that theclassics were little gray books.Prof. Charmans son, Howard, was marriedrecently to Miss Mary Ruth Murphy, a formerstudent of this school.In spite of the bitter arraignment of patentmedicines, the manufacturer of them is still amore paying business than school teaching, asis evidenced by Prof. Parsons description ofthe Pink Pill Estate, which he has just recently seen in Florida.Miss Rose Driscoll, former pianist at Normal, has charge of music and art in the Ooliticschools.Miss Caroline Crouch of Fortville has obtaineda leave of absence from the schools ofthat city, and will finish the Normal coursethis year.Mrs. J. Smith (nee Mae Brooking, 11), whowas very ill last fall, has almost entirely recovered.Misses Ramah Clark and Lucille Gay wentto Topeka for the holidays. On her returntrip, Miss Gay visited in Bloomington andBedford.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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