Marshall College Notes Thirty-five counties are represented

this year.

This has been the banner year for us, and the spring term the banner term in the history of our institution.

We now have 15 teachers in all departments, and the work is accordingly the most satisfactory we have ever had.

The music sentiment and spirit have gone up more than 100 per cent. at Marshall College this year. It promises to be still better next year.

Some of our students have about decided that we may as well catch the W. V. U. next year in enrollment, and have gone to work accordingly.

The organization of a college choir with several good soloists, anthem books, new hymnals, new choir chairs, and new carpet on the stage, has very much improved the music and the chapel exercises accordingly.

The enrollment, net, normal and business combined, stands 525 at this We shall reach writing, May 21. about 530 this year. Considering the fact that we stood 222 in 1896, the friends of the school feel much encouraged.

The boarding for the young men has been the most satisfactory we have ever had it. The clubs have been carefully conducted, and the rates for room and board kept down to the low figures of $9.00 to $9.50, with good board.

Ladies' Hall has grown exceptionally popular with the public. Where but a few years ago we had a mere handful of young ladies-and that is not many-this year the new Hall was not only filled to overflowing, but several small rooms had to accommodate three girls, all the large ones four, the guest room was given up to accommodate the demand, four were put in the assembly room for the faculty, the principal gave up his office to three, and several asked for rooms and had to be turned away.

The school will take its annual out

ing at Cliffside Park, Ky. This beau tiful park with its varied forms of attraction, chief among which are the fine clear water lake for rowing, conveniences for rest, sport, promenades, cooking, restaurant and music, has grown to be not only a favorite resort for Marshall College but for all the Ohio valley for 20 miles each way. It is reached direct to the gate, by the C. & O. Ry., and the Camden Interstate electric railway, and within a few rods by Ohio river steamers. It is but 12 miles from Huntington and the round trip costs but 25c.

Fairmont Normal Notes

Friday morning, 9 o'clock, commencement.

Thursday morning, the 20th, class day exercises.

Thursday night, the 20th, alumni reunion and banquet.

Our spring term enrollment is 276. The enrollment for the year will be

over 400.

Tuesday night, the 18th, annual contest between the Lyceum and Mozart Literary Societies.

Monday night, the 17th, public performance by the department of music under direction of Miss Fordyce.

Wednesday night, the 19th, the department of elocution will present Shakespeare's "A Mid Summer Night's Dream."

Sunday, June 16th, 11 a. m., baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. Peregrine Worth, of the First Episcopal Church, of Baltimore.

This has been a very satisfactory year so far. We have had very few interruptions and a good solid year's work has been done.

We have large classes in Latin this year, and quite a number in Greek, German and French. The course of study doesn't read much like it did four or five years ago.

The Faculty gave a reception to the entire student-body and several invited friends a short time ago. Delicate refreshments were served and a most pleasant evening was spent. Several boys had the opportunity they had never enjoyed before-that of taking a girl to a reception.

We have three Institute instructors in the Normal Faculty: Professors Barnes, Lough and Bowers. They will all be engaged in institute work after they return from Mountain Lake Park and Detroit. The institute work will not drag in charge of people who get a good supply of enthusiasm at these great educational rallies.

Commencement time is near at hand. We have a class of thirteen this year and commencement comes on Friday, yet we are not superstitious and hope for a pleasant and enjoyable time. We bespeak a bright future for "The Harvey W. Harmar Class of 1901." Below we give the program of exercises for commencement week:

We have been very much pleased to have so many distinguished visitors within the past few weeks. First came the representatives of the Parkersburg Presbytery; a few days later some visitors from the State C. E. Convention; then that excellent friend of the Normal schools, Hon. Harvey W. Harmer, and last our most esteemed State Superintendent of Schools, Hon. Thos. C. Miller. We appreciate these visits very much.

The Fairmont Normal never falls behind in attending educational gath erings. It will be well represented at Mountain Lake Park. Nearly all the members of the Faculty are planning to go. Professors Barnes, Lough and Humphrey are on the program. Several of our teachers are expecting to go to Detroit to the National Educational Association. Prof. and Mrs. Barnes, Prof. and Mrs. Lough, Professors Miller, Bowers, Waddell and perhaps Prof. Humphrey will attend the N. E. A. Prof. Barnes is Manager for West Virginia.

West Liberty Normal Notes

Prof. Shaw was called home the 6th of May by the death of his father.

Rev. J. A. Donahey, of Ohio, will preach the annual sermon, June 16th. The entire building has has been plumbed for lights. This is a needed improvement.

A new typewriter has been put in the office for the principal's use. It is a valuable addition.

The enrollment for the Spring Term is very good, but not so great as for the same term last year.

Dr. Cartwright will lecture Monday evening, the 17th. This will be the last lecture of the course.

Miss Glenn, of Washington, Pa., is giving instruction in painting, and meeting with good results.

Prof. Fortney has been awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the Amer ican University, Harriman, Tenn.

The commencement exercises will begin June 13th with a literary program, and close with commencement, June 19th.

Miss Grace Murray, who finishes the course at the head of the class, has been elected to a position in the Moundsville schools.

So far as is known, the members of the faculty have not yet decided where they will spend the summer. Perhaps that is contingent upon something

else.

The thirtieth annual commencement will take place Wednesday morning The at 10 o'clock, in Chapel Hall. class numbers five-four young ladies and one young gentleman.

The year has been a very prosperous one for the school. Most of the students have done good work, and have been in all year. Unbroken attendance brings its results.

Tuesday morning, the senior class will reign supreme in class day exercises. In the evening, the annual contest between the societies will be given. This promises to be unusually interesting.

Several portraits of eminent literary men have been purchased for the rooms, and add much to the general appearance of the building. Crayon portraits of all the principals except one have been obtained for Chapel Hall.

Preparetory to next year's work, several pieces of apparatus have been added to the laboratory equipment, a bountiful supply of chemicals provided, about one thousand volumes ordered for the library, and a card catalogue and fine cabinet added to the library equipment.

Glenville Normal

A. J. Wilkinson not long since made our school a pleasant visit.

Bird and Botanical charts, also a high grade skeleton, have been purchased for the school recently.

DeWit Miller will lecture May 10th on "The Uses of Ugliness." A good time is anticipated by all the school.

The enrollment for the year has reached 153, the largest in the history of the school, 14 counties represented.

Porter Summers, a graduate of the Normal and who was principal in the town school the present year, has accepted a position as teacher in the Philippine Islands.

The radical change in the Academic course of study made at a recent meeting of the Principals has not disturbed the student body in the least, since the work here is entirely normal.

Senator R. F. Kidd, Hon. F. N. Hays, and the other members of the late Legislature have the sincere thanks of pupils and teachers for liberal appropriations for this and the other Normals of the State.

Mrs. Leni McWhorter Jenkins has accepted a place as elocution teacher in the Normal and has been very suc cessful in organizing large classes both in elocution and physical training. The school is much pleased to have such an excellent teacher in this line of work.

Spelling

"Alas!" they cried.

"No wonder, then, that such celestial charms,

For nine long years, have set the world in arms:

Such winning graces, such mien She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen." 10

5. Read the followng selection:

"He knew no motive but interest, acknowledges no criterion but success, he worshipped no God but ambition; and with an Eastern devotion, he knelt at the shrine of his idolatry. Subsidiary to this, there was no creed that he did not profess, there was no opinion that he did not promulgate; in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the crescent; for the sake of a divorce he bowed before the cross; the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted child of the Republic; and with a parricidal ingratitude, on the ruin both of the throne and the tribune, he reared the throne of his des

Potism. A professed Catholic he imprisoned the Pope: a pretended patriot, he impoverished the country; and in the name of Brutus, he grasped without remorse and wore without shame, the diadem of the Caesars." 30 "The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo;

No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Time's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead."

Writing

1. Analyze the letters in the word 10 Do you believe in beginning

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