isa-normaladvance-1915-00132

Description:	132THE NORMAL ADVANCEthan interesting. It is hopeful. It is true.It strikes a note that I have long desired tohear.This movement should, and I firmly believeit will, receive the hearty co-operation of theentire editorial staff, the board of control, andthe patrons of the paper. I have faith enoughin the progressive spirit of the Old I. S. N. tobelieve that the change can and will be made.And once it is made the only question theeditors will be called on to answer will be:Why didnt you think of it sooner?The reasons you have submitted for thechange are good. The argument is sound. Therequest sane and practical. But there aremany good reasons that you failed to mentionin your brief editorial. Chief among these arethe following:First. A weekly paper could carry a columnof positions-to-be-had, and could advertise lostand found articles. Relieve the overcrowdedBulletin Board.Second. An excellent opportunity would beafforded for worthy students of English to getsome of their work before the public—a wonderful stimulus for effort.Third. The influence that a weekly paperwould have in developing more genuine schoolspirit and a vital interest in the school lifewould be far reaching. This, I am sure, wouldbe true in regard to class meetings, athleticsand the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. work.I am writing this that you may know myviews in regard to the proposed change.Yours very truly,H. F. Carmichael.Indiana Club House, Bloomington,Feb. 1, 1915.Dear Miller: I have just re-read your editorial in the January number of the Advanceand am hearing favorable comment onit from several alumni here. I thinkyou have started something. Your reasons form changing the Advance froma monthly to a weekly are good, and I can seeno damaging evidence or any important arguments on the contrary. I have been watchingthe working of the orderly system by which afour-sheet daily is turned out here at the university by the fine co-operation of studentsand the English department. If I mistakenot, the English department at I. S. N. S. stilloffers a course in which news writing is considered. Such a course, I think, should be popular in this age when the daily newspaper is sopredominating an influence in our daily life.It has been my experience that the Englishdepartment is always willing and ready to cooperate with the Advance staff and I see noreason why English work could not be madeincreasingly more interesting by requiringfeature stories, news stories and the like fromclasses for weekly publication. Without muchthought, I feel sure that great possibilities lielatent along this line, the details of whichwould of course need to be worked out carefully. I hope youll succeed in your plan for abetter Advance.Yours,H. E. Stork.Montgomery, Ind., Feb. 8, 1915.Mr. Carl N. Miller,Editor The Normal Advance, Terre Haute,Ind.Dear Mr. Miller: In the editorial columnsof the current number of The Normal AdvanceI notice that you voiced your sentiments infavor of changing The Normal Advance to aweekly paper.Now, Mr. Miller, permit me to say that Iam heartily in favor of such a move and Ithink that I can speak for a great many otherswho receive the Advance while out teaching.As you mentionect the news will be fresher andmore interesting and at the same time the receipts from advertising and circulation willcertainly be more remunerative. But best ofall it will go a long, long way toward putting
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