The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-03-04
NORMAL NOTES.
From the Mankatonian.

From the Mankatonianl
Lyle Soaring, 'S9, returned to Ann
Arbor, Mich, on the 10th inst.
Mrs. E. P. Walton, of Montpelier,
VT, is visiting her niece, Miss Grit
fin.
Mr.. Oscar Fletcher, a former "B"
took in the Normal sights recently.
The club-swingers had their like
nesses taken on the 4th. Miserable
aisu.
Mr.. Geo. Sugden 81, who is teach
ing in Franklin, visited school on the
18th.
Prof. Cox has moved his place of
abode from Jackson to Clark street.
Good neighborhood that.
George Shlumberger is teaching at
New Ulm. He writes: hate no dime
for Metods."
ElemmiDg, Of Good Thunder, spent
Sunday with Mr. George Champlain,
recently.
Miss Luella Crow suffered fall of
eight or ten steps while coming down
stairs back of President Searing's.
At chapel exercise please do not
applaud Unfortunately; let the ap-
plause indicate the merit of the per-
torrance.
Teacher-What was the Boston Tea
Party? Pupil-The time when Bos-
ton women quit drinking the genu-
inc tea, but drank catnip.
Two dignifed seniors deliberately
brought two pounds of cheese and "a
ounces of soda crackers to school and
ate them during one recess, never Of
fering any one bite of either.
When a senior shouts my Stars!"
that isn't profanity. 1t is simply an
astronomical observation.
An interesting time is had in the
meeting of the scientific society every
alternate "Wednesday evening.
Prof. McCleary has entered the po-
litical field and is candidate for con-
gressional honorS. The Normal wish
es him success.
"My Son." said the teacher, putting
his hand on the boys shoulder. Il be,
lieye Satan has got hold on you. !"
II believe so too, replied the boy.
Each senior proudly wears a class
pima gold four-leaf clover with S. n.
S. on three leaves and '92 on the 9TH
er. They were ordered through
Richards Bros, from Dundee and Up
meyer, Milwaukee.
The following are the officers of the
graduating class: President, Miss
Lizzie Mile; Vice-President, Mr.. J..
M. Edwards; Secretary, Mr.. w. E..
,, Freeman; Treasurer, Miss Hannah
Lennstrom; Social, Miss S. Janson,
Miss Bergh, Mr.. Healy, Mr.. Ffaender.
The following participate in class
day exercises: Prophet, Miss Mabel
Pond; Historian, Mr.. Ivan Parry; Or
ator, j. NJ. Edwards; The Boys of '92,
MissEdith Kassing; The Girls of '92,
Mr.. VIM. Hosheid; Poet, Miss Myrtle
Brown; Songstress, Miss Nettie
Brown: Glass EXecutriX, Miss Lura
Gandall assisted by Mr.. Healy and
Miss Title Torston.
For the first time in the history of
the school has class in Zoology been
organized. The members seem to be
enjoying the work, for nothing indeed
is more interesting than to study lives
and habits OF living beings that sur
round us. But the feeling of pity
semed to be aroused in certain mem
bers of the class when the knife and
scissors had to be used. Muster your
courage, ladies. Science is long and
pain is fleeting.
SPEAKING of the platform adopted
by the ST. Louis conference, the Min
neapolis Times says: MANY of the
demands of the St. Louis convention
are impracticable and unreasonable,
and the woeful pictures drawn by the
trainers of its platform of the condi-
tion of the country, is altogether over
drawn and historical" And yet
nothing has tended more to pro-
duce just such results as the St. Louis
conference, than the policy pursued