Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-24
Normal University
Las Vegas

Las Vegas
President Roberts is still in the
east on business connected with the
institution. While on this trip he
VIII visit his alma mater, the Ohio
university at Athens, also Chicago
university. He is expected home
about the first of December.
The reopening of the Normal uni
Versity is still an uncertainty, but the
influenza conditions are improving
ually and work might be possible by
the flrst of the month. To make COM
pietlon of the years work possible
Tor the seniors in all departments,
opportunity to go on with the work
through form of correspondence
Will be given them. This work will
be open to the juniors who are taking
some senior subjects The work will
be given out and returned through
the office of the secretary, beginning
Monday the 25th There will be no
assembling for class work of any kind.
Practice teaching and observation will
De handled either through the sum-
mer school or by student-teaChers
giving additional time to this work
during the remainder of year in such
a way that full credit may be obtain
ed. 1t is hoped in this way to grad
uate the seniors as usual at the COM
mencement.
Something entirely new and which
promises to be of keen interest in
literary studies is a course in French
literature, which Miss Margaret j.
Kennedy, head of the English de-
partment, has worked out for the
advanced college student. French
literature, at the present moment. oc-
cupies an important place with the
student and the reading public. This
course will give the people of the
state an excellent opportunity to be-
come acquainted with this wonderful
people, who have so heroically given
all that was dearest to them that
civilzatio nmight be more than
name. A choice collection of books
covering history, the novel drama,
poetry, will be placed on the shelves
of the library within the next few
weeks. In the course the classic
French will be taken up first, fol-
lowed by the modern French litera-
ture. The latter half of the course
will bring France up to the hour of
her victory.
While on his trip President Rob-
erts has selected number of valua-
BILE books. worth several hundred
dollars. which he was able to secure
at a decidedly nominal price. When
these arrive and are placed on the
shelves, the institution will have not
a large but a most excellent refer
ence library, one of the best in the
state.
The Normal university announces
new member on the faculty. Sum
day morning, November II, a seven
and a half pound boy arrived at the
home of Professor and Mrs. A. II.
Van Horne. The young gentleman
will answer to the name of Robert
Henry. If one is to judge his well
come by the smile his father wears,
then it is certainly an exceedingly
cordial one. Both mother and son
are getting along nicely.
The announcement of the marriage
of Miss Mary Ethel Hays to Mr.. AL
fred Muller, both of Santa Fe. has
reached the Normal university office.
Miss Hays is a former Las Vegas girl
and was graduated from the high
school department of the Normal
university with the class of 1914. She
was a favorite and one of the leaders
In her class. For several years after