Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1915-05-27
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
STATE NORMALS

columns and l shall try to tel
you something about our school
The fourth annual commence.
ment exercises of the Middle
Tennessee Normal to be helG
the first week in June marks
the close of it's most successful
year. More than five hundred
students have been enrolled in
the Academic and Normal de-
Ipartments.
A graduating class of forty
will receive their diplomas.
The personel of this class is un-
usually fine, and more capable
alumnal will be added to M. T.
Ms long list.
In looking back over the year
a normal student feels just
pride over it's achievements.
We put out a football team that
received not one. defeat. wh',e
the season in base ball was a
good one, and strong teams
were contested against. NJ. r..
N. now boasts of a creditable
band and orchestra that have
added much to the pleasure of
the students.
A hotly fought contest for
membership is marking the
close of the year in the Y. NJ.
and Y. w. G. A. The average
attendance and interest in
these has been greatly stilnu-
lated.
Never before have the liter
ary societies been SO we'll at
tended. The ideals of these
societies are high, and they
are developing strong young
men and women, not afraid
to talk in public, who will be
prepared for leadership in their
year in the triangular debate
with Johnson City and Mem
phis, the Murfreesboro Normal
won in both contests.
This year the Grady Liter
ary Society sent two strong
men, Messrs. Warden and Ell
rod to Johnson City, and they
came back with the victory. The
warm welcome and praise they
received on their return from
the student body and faculty
repaid them for their labor.
OF the four debates with the
other Normals M. T. N. has
scored three victories, while
each of the other normals has
won two.
Commencement with it's an
nual contests in debate, oratory
and essays, is looked forward
to with eagerness.
There has been an un-
usally fine lyceum course this
winter in the school auditorium
Thus the Normal has offered
the best in several fields to it's
students thro' the lyceum
course, and at a nominal cost.
There is every prospect for a
great and prosperous Summer
School. There will be a Cha
tauqua course, and addresses
of an inspirational nature. from
well known men and women.
M. T. N. endeavers at all times
to give the best that can be Sc
cured to her students. There
doubtless no school in the
country SO young as ours with,
such a fine school spirit. It is
the aim of Middle Tennessee
Normal to train men and wo-
men for leadership and social
service.
Here is hoping that the next
year will in every way surpass
this. M. T. N. has much to Off
er the students who come to
her. And when they will let
her, she transforms them into
attractive, able conscientious
men and women.
see letters occasionally from
some of my old friends, and
comrades who in days gone by
lived in dear old Putnam, but
now taken up their abode in
distant spheres.
I shall not call the names Of
any of these old heads, but |
here's your success in life
wherever you are, and If per-
chance we are so unfortunate
as not to strike hands in this
fair land again, I hope we shall
in q still fafror ono