The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-10-24
NORMAL ITEMS.

The Student, the bright and interesting
paper published by the Normal stu
dents, has made its appearance again.
starting in on volume III. It is credit
to the editors and to the school, and is
well deserving of the success which il
has heretofore had. 1t has considera-
BILE advertising patronage. The edito-
rial staff is as follows:
Editor-in- Chief. J. Livingston.
| Associate Edltor-Stella Porter.
| Literary-Sarah Halversen, j. K. Nc
Broom.
Local-Hattie Noble, J. Milton Davies.
Rostrum-Jean Latham.
Exchange-Esther M. Grannis, Luel.
| la E. Crow.
Business W. True, Clayton L.
Kennedy, Philip A. Helmer.
In its initial editorial are the follow.
ing passages:
ga good school paper should be high
incentive for increased excellence in
literary work among the students. This
result has been attained IN previous
years, and now. as then, it will be the
purpose of this publication to collect
and reproduce the brightest and best of
the rostrum essays. The value of this
course, both as means of making
known what we are doing and as an ex-
ponent OF the general thought and sem
timent of the school, is recognized by
all.
Besides these, many articles of rare
interest and value may be expected
from different members of the faculty.
We have in view from many of the
Alumni, who have sojourned in foreign
lands or tarried long in the halls of phi
losophy and law, sketches of travel and
history, gems of wisdom and logic"
Among the locals is the following:
John Parry, of 'S9, teaches this year
at Eagle Lake.
Mr.. J. E. Brown, of Mapleton, sent
the school fine sample of pelican.
The young men met last Friday eve
ming and reprganized the Backwoods
Debating Club.
We are all sorry the condition of
Mr.. PERKINS, health has made it neces-
sary for him to leave us. He will spend
the winter in California.
"A new department known as the
Fourth Model, has been added to the
school. 1t fills in certain respects the
place of the old preparatory, but is un-
der the control of the Model depart
ment.
The teacher asked the children if
they had never heard of the teacher
who had eyes in the back of her head.
A little later one child timidly asked,
"Please does your back hair cover the
eyes in the back of your head?
During every summer vacation for
several years past the Normal grounds
have been undergoing revolutionary
change in the matter of neatness and
beauty, until now they excel, in those
points, anything in Mankato, if not in
Southern Minnesota.
The attendance at the Normal at its
opening, September LIST, was much larg-
er than it has been at the beginning of
the term at any previous year of the
schools history. The enrolment of the
Normal department is at present about
two hundred and forty. This large at
tendance speaks well for the reputation
of the school.
Mr.. Frelin, recently from Samoa, will
read paper on his experience in that
island before the Normal Literary So
ciety, Friday night, Oct "a. Mr.. Frelin
was teacher in Samoa at the time of
the war, and was also an eve witness of
the terrible storm, shipwrecks and loss
of life which 80 shocked the world few
years ago.