Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-17
Peru Normal News.

BY order of the state board five hours
work In the English language are now re-
quired Of all candidates for graduation.
The required course has at Peru been en-
tered In the Junior year and Is called cor
rect speaking and writing Professor II
c. House teaches the class which, for the
first semester, numbers fifty-three.
About one hundred are entered in the
Choral society, meeting Monday and
Wednesday afternoons o Choral numbers
are being prepared for grand concert in
December
MIR. Crook recently made a short and eff
fective talk in chapel on the general sub
iect Of debating in Peru. He concluded by
announcing the reorganization Of the
Ciceronian Debating society.
The Glee club has engagements TO sins
at the State Teachers association in Lin
coin, November Is, and at the Otoe county
corn show in Nebraska city. January r.
Excavation for the large drainage tun-
mel began Monday morning The tunnel
will be made seven feet in diameter and
will divert the Majors creek, thereby
preventing overflows which in the past
years have caused much damage.
The Ciceronian Debating society met
Saturday evening in Everett hall and or
ganized for it's ninth annual session. The
following officers were elected: President
Edison Petit; vice president. Clyde Hutch
inson; secretary, Paul Stoehr; treasurer
L. J. Gilkeson sergeant at arms. Rudolph
Renecker; Normalite reporter, J. d. Nc
Mullen. The society was very fortunate I'm
securing Or. II. c. House. head professor
of the department Of English, as its adj
visor.
The Physical Science club organized and
held its first meeting in the physics lecture
room last Monday night. lecture on
Worlds in the Making was given by Edi-
son Petit Mr.. Petit explained the nebu-
lar hypothesis, using steropucon views "a
illustrate the different stages and per
formed several striking experiments in
proof Of arguments.
The Peru Normal Agricultural depart
ment is installing machinery laboratory
that the teaching of that side OF agricul-
ture may be made concrete.
Mr. Hamilton, expert for the j. l. Case
Pillow company, spent Tuesday at the agri-
cultural department giving lectures to the
agricultural classes and demonstrating the
uses OF their machinery. The demonstra.
lions took place in a nearby field. Fred
HUFFMAN, a graduate OF the horticul-
tural department of the Nebraska Agricul-
turaI college addressed the Normal Agri.
cultural society Tuesday night on apple
judging. His remarks were made concrete
through demonstrations with apples.
Through the efforts OF Prof. Gregg OF
the faculty the regular school paper. the
Normalite, edited by the students OF the
Peru Normal. Is under way again for the
year The editorial staff is as follows
Editor-in-ohief, Miss Mayme Gntner Of
Madison; associate editor, A. l.. Roberts
OF Friend; business manager. Ira Crook Of
Salem; assistant editors. literary, Eliza
beth Baker Of Cook; religious, Louise Her.
rick OF Lincoln; alumni, Miss Mears OF
Peru; class, C, II. Lsmphere of Gresham
clubs, A. NJ Vance Of Peru; locals. Lorena
Branniman OF Concord; exchange, John
Brannigsn OF Falls City. The subscrip-
ton. both local and foreign, is the largest
in the history OF the paper and the out.
look for the successful publication for the
year Is better than ever.
Prof Gregg OF the department OF phys
iological sciences addressed a meeting OF
the Nemaha County Teachers association
at Auburn Saturday on the subject OF
Physics and Health"