(Front Cover) Echo 1917 (Page i) Northeast Missouri Archives Copy 2 State University (Page ii) (Page iii) (Page 1) (Page 2) (Page 3) ECHO Semi-Centennial Number PUBLISHED BY THE JUNIOR CLASS OF THE FIRST DISTRICT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, KIRKSVILLE, MO. (Page 4) I know a spot that I love full well, 'Tis not in forest, nor yet in dell, Ever it holds me with magic spell, I sing of the Alma Mater. (Page 5) Where the Water Lilies Grow (Page 6) This book is dedicated to Harvey Lee McWilliams whose efforts to make Clean Athletes and Champions have succeeded in winning two State Championships in succession and, incindentally, the hearts of the entire student body (Page 7) H.L. McWilliams (Page 8) Where the Swans Delight to Swim (Page 9) The Bridge Over Which the "Bull Dogs" Trot (Page 10) THE LIBRARY (Page 11) PRESIDENT KIRK'S HOME THE MAIN OFFICE (Page 12) Faculty Homes (Page 13) Faculty (Page 14) JOHN R. KIRK, President (Page 15) The Faculty THE faculty members of the English Department are able to SETTLE all controversies in our language in a WISE manner, while they MANN the students over the difficulties. If by chance, dull students fall into the department, they may be sharpened by the EMERY that makes every one a little brighter. Although Latin is a dead language, here it seems to be GREEN. No ponies are furnished in Spanish, neither can the students slide through, for there is only one trail to follow, and that is guided by a competent WALKER. There is no way to HEYD from a German quiz, so the sooner over, the better. In the History Department, an "E" is almost as rare as a VIOLETTE on Mount McKinley. Every one has an equal chance, however, for the motto of the department is "KINGSBURY. What's FAIR for one is FAIR for all." There seem to be just the WRIGHT ones for the place the Agricultural Department. Students are treated well in the Practice School, unless they DOOLITTLE, then the supervisors seem SAVAGE, which causes the students PAINE. It will not do for students to enter a science class crowing over the fact that they have not studied, for they may feel that they do not belong to the high-brows but to the class that BRAY. The Board of Regents sent miles for a Sweet WILLIAMS to adorn the gymnasium. Can there be greater enjoyment or grander SEITZ, than those presented by the Chorus, Orchestra or band in the Music Department? Shoddy work is not done in the art rooms, for in this department the work is as genuine as all LYLE. The aspiring cooks receive light from the KOLL and soon there is a radiation of brilliancy in the kitchen. There is no State Highway in the Rural Department, and whoever succeeds BURROWS through and gets to the ROOT of the subject. Students who have expected to get along in the various departments without effort have been found at the office in a POOLE of tears, before they decided to SETTLE down to study. Faculty members, you have made us work Many times when we should have liked to shirk; Yet we shall remember as the years go How you helped the "green" develop and grow. (Page 16) A.P. SETTLE, Dean (Page 17) T. JENNIE GREEN Professor of Latin J.S. STOKES Professor of Physics and Physiography J.W. HEYD Professor of German W.J. BRAY Professor of Chemistry (Page 18) C. ROY JACCARD Professor of Agriculture E.M. VIOLETTE Professor of European History Wm. H. ZEIGEL Professor of Mathematics GRACE LYLE Professor of Fine Arts (Page 19) H.A. McKEAN Professor of Manual Arts H.L. McWILLIAMS Professor of Physical Education for Men WINIFRED MAUDE WILLIAMS Professor of Physical Education for Women IRVING ROTCH BUNDY Librarian and Professor of Library Economy (Page 20) P.O. SELBY Professor of Commerce NELL WALKER Professor of Photography and Spanish W.A. CLARK Professor of Education and Psychology MARY E. KOLL Professor of Home Economics (Page 21) R.W. HANS SEITZ Professor of Music WARREN JONES Associate Professor of English C.M. WISE Associate Professor of English H.S. Hollopeter Associate Professor of English (Page 22) IDA A. JEWETT Associate Professor of English BLANCHE F. EMERY Associate Professor of English ALICE D. MANN Associate Professor of English FLORA SNOWDEN Associate Professor of Home Economics (Page 23) EUGENE FAIR Professor of American History and Government JOSEPH L. KINGSBURY Professor of Ancient History ANDREW OTTERSON Professor of Civics and American History FELIX ROTHSCHILD Professor of Sociology (Page 24) E.A. WRIGHT Associate Professor of Agriculture JAMES ELLISON Associate Professor of Agriculture BYRON COSBY Associate Professor of Mathematics G.H. JAMISON Associate Professor of Mathematics (Page 25) CHARLES A. EPPERSON Associate Professor of Mathematics J.L. BIGGERSTAFF Associate Professor of Music JOHANNES GOETZE Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra MARK BURROWS Professor of Rural Education (Page 26) SYLVA G. BROWNE Library Assistant VERA FINEGAN Associate Professor of Commerce LULA CRECELIUS Library Assistant LENA E. PATTERSON Associate Professor of Fine Arts (Page 27) META GILL Library Reference Assistant HELEN G. GRAY Library Cataloger THURBA FIDLER Teacher in Demonstration Rural School OLIVE PAINE Supervisor of Kindergarten (Page 28) LAURA DOOLITTLE Joint Director and Supervisor of History and Geography in Practice School EUDORA HELEN SAVAGE Joint Director and Supervisor of English in Practice School ROSAMOND ROOT Associate Professor of Rural Education ANNIE LOUISE KIRKHAM Supervisor of Primary Grades (Page 29) EDITH E. CHRISTY Student Teacher in Latin ELSA NAGEL Student Teacher in German FRANK DURBIN Student Teacher in Electricity and Physics LLOYD J. GRAHAM Student Teacher in Chemistry (Page 30) LEO H. PETREE Student Teacher in Music W. EVERETT MEALS Student Teacher in History MARY SHOUSE Student Teacher in Music PHRADIE WELLS Student Teacher in Music (Page 31) O.E. GRAHAM Student Teacher in Music OTIS A. SEE Student Teacher in Mathematics ROY INBODY Student Teacher in Practice School M. ELMA POOLE Secretary MRS. Jo WALKER HUMPHREY Adviser of Women (Page 32) (Page 33) Student Council and Senate IN the belief that the Kirksville State Normal School is a great democracy in which every student must be an active factor in promoting the general welfare of the school, in December, 1915, the students of the school organized a Student Council, which is composed of all resident students of the school. A constitution was drawn up by a special committee composed of members of the Council and was submitted to the Council on December 16, 1915. The constitution was adopted. This constitution is a complete set of rules governing the work of the organization, vesting certain powers in the Council, a Senate, a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. The number of students in the Council is too large to enable that body to perform quickly and with the best results the work of the organization. For this reason the constitution provides for a Senate, which is a representative body composed of a student representative from each of such student organizations as the Senate officially recognizes, the presidents of the various classes, the Editor-in-Chief of the Normal School Index, and the captains of the athletic teams representing the entire school. The Senate meets regularly and conducts business according to the regulations laid down by the constitution. When a measure is passed by the Senate it is presented to the Student Council, where it is discussed and voted upon, this vote deciding its final adoption. The President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer are elected by ballot from the Council at large and hold their respective offices in both the Council and the Senate. This year the Senate is composed of twenty-eight of the more advanced students who are vitally interested in the welfare of the school. A few of the big enterprises that have been well planned and successfully carried out will indicate the nature of the work done by the Student Council through the Senate. The greatest event of a social nature for which the Council was responsible was the Athletic Celebration, given on February 2, 1917, in honor of the athletic victories of 1916. The entire program was planned and the celebration managed by the members of the Senate. One of the biggest moves of a business nature was the completion of a plan by which the State Legislature can be reached through the students of the school. The students were organized into county groups, the permanent chairman of each being a member of the Senate and the secretary a student elected from among its own members. Each secretary, working with a temporary committee of three persons belonging to his county organization, writes to the representative and senator of the district in which his county lies when the Student Senate deems it advisable to do so. Steps have also been taken toward the organization of Kirksville Clubs in localities where at least five former students are located. The Legislature will also be reached through these organizations. Another plan was completed by which there is to be a simple graduation exercise given during the half-hour of regular morning assembly on the last day of each quarter for students receiving certificates and diplomas. This does not detract from the final graduation exercises in May, for all students who have received certificates or diplomas during the year are required to take part in these exercises. One of the most enterprising moves made by the Senate this year was the drawing up of resolutions asking that the State provide money for the erection of a new building, the first of a series of new buildings which will one day occupy the site of the present Kirksville State Normal School buildings. These are but a few of the big enterprises that have been successfully carried out by the Student Senate. A wonderful amount of effective work is quickly and easily accomplished through the cooperation of this body with the Administration of the Normal School. (Page 34) A.H. HOLBERT President PHRADIE WELLS Secretary (Page 35) The Student Senate Top row, left to right: WILLIAMS, GRAVES, SEE. Second row: C. DYE, BOLANDER, INBODY, CRAWFORD, LOUGHEAD, DELANEY. Third row: RYLE, WRIGHT, PERLEY, PURDY, VAN PELT, CAPPS, TATUM. Bottom row: VITTETEAU, ZEIGEL, WELLS, MORRIS, LILLEY, NEFF, HARRISON. (Page 36) JOHN C. JACK, Head Janitor JOHN GILL, Chief Engineer Where the "Juice" is Made (Page 37) Seniors 1917 (Page 38) ROY INBODY President (Page 39) CHESTER A. PURDY, B.S., CLARENCE, Mo. "The hope of one of Earth's great master men-- To grace the platform or to wield the pen." LUCILE VAN PELT, B.S., CLIFTON HILL, Mo. "Let thine occupations be few if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life." CLAUDIUS NEWTON DYE, B.S., BEVIER, Mo. "He is truly great that maketh no account of any height of honor." (Page 40) DALE ZELLER, B.S., OREGON, Mo. "She that was ever fair and never proud Mad tongue at will and yet was never loud." HOY INBODY, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "My love, life is one damnation's grind." EDITH E. CHRISTY, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "Hundred arms the Cypress has yet never plunder seeks, With ten well developed tongues the Lily never speaks." (Page 41) JOHN WESLEY NEFF, B.S., ANABEL, Mo. "A firm believer in woman's suffrage, judging from his attitude towards the fairer sex." PHRADIE ALICE WELLS, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linets sing." LEO H. PETREE, B.S., ST. JOSEPH, Mo. "He's tough, Ma'am,--tough is L.P.; Tough and de-vilish sly." (Page 42) MARY DEANE PERLEY, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "Ay, but give me worship and quietness, I like it better than a dangerous honor." J. WALLACE GRAVES, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties." (Married) MARGUERITE KINCAID OVENS, B.S. BOWLING GREEN, Mo. "0, that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew." (Page 43) W. EVERETT MEALS, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks." CLARA YADON, B.S., "Your deeds are known In words that kindle glory from the stone." BERTHA CUMMINS, B.S., KIRKSVILLE, Mo. "Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet." (Page 44) MERLE MYERS, B.S., GOWER, Mo. "For she was jest the quiet kind Whose natures never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary." KATHRYN BARBARA WIRTH, B.S., LANCASTER, Mo. "There are two kinds of people in this world--those who are always getting ready to do something, and those who GO AHEAD AND DO IT." OTIS A. SEE, B.S. HUNNEWELL, Mo. "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." COPHINE ROOK, B.S., SALEM, IOWA "She was frank, Fresh, hardy, of a joyous mind and strong-- Looked all things straight in the face." A.H. HOLBERT, B.S., "He dares the world, and, eager for a name, He thrusts about and jostles into fame." (Page 45) A Short History of the Senior Class IN response to a petition signed by the candidates for the 120-Hour Diploma, President Kirk called a meeting of such students Wednesday morning, October 25, 1916. At this meeting the Senior Class of the Kirksville State Normal School was formally organized. Mr. D.E. Neale was elected President, and Miss Phradie Wells Secretary. At a later meeting the list of regular officers was completed. The work of the class as an organization was only fairly begun when it was interrupted by the resignation of the President, Mr. Neale, who, because of his absence from school, found it impossible to continue the performance of his duties in office. A meeting was therefore called December 14, 1916, and Mr. Roy Inbody was elected to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Neale. The class finds itself in the unique situation of being the first class of its rank to bear the name Senior. Here-to-fore, the 90-Hour Class has been designated as the Senior Class, but under the new ruling this name is to be applied only to the organization of students who are candidates for the 120-Hour Diploma. Hence, the Senior Class of 1917 enjoys the distinction of being the first class in the Kirksville State Normal School to bear the name, "Senior ", as that name is commonly applied to college graduates. There is, in fact, "something new under the sun." At this writing the class has a membership of twenty,--a membership which is representative of the highest and best scholarship in the school. In addition to individual records of high merit the class is proud to recognize in its enrollment six teaching scholars in the various departments of the school, the President and Secretary of the Student Senate, the Editor of the Index, with a number of his associates, and a Supervisor of Music in the Department of Practice. It is safe to say that the class includes a majority of the leaders of the student thought and activity of the school. In brief it may be said that the class as a unit stands for that which is highest and best in student life. Its ideals are high; its purposes are noble; its aims are being slowly but surely realized. And may the same be ever truly said of the members of the Senior Class of 1917! OFFICERS ROY INBODY, President PHRADIE WELLS, Secretary CLAUDIUS DYE, Vice-President OTIS SEE, Marshal LEO PETKEE, Treasurer (Page 46) Our Senior Class Some Years Ago Top Row, left to right: Dean Perley, Edith Christy, Dale Zeller, Claude Dye. Middle Row: Lucile Van Pelt, Marguerite Ovens, Merle Myers, Chester Purdy. Bottom row: Roy Inbody, Everett Meals, Phradie Wells, Leo Petree. (Page 47) CHRISTY, EDITH E., B.S.: Graduate K.S.N.S., 1917; Teaching Scholar in Latin; Member Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority. CUMMINS, BERTHA, B.S.: Member Senior Class, 1917; Graduate Kirksville State Normal School; various and sundry other things too numerous (?) to mention. DYE, CLAUDIUS NEWTON, B.S.: Member Public Speaking Club, 1917; Member Student Senate, 1917; President Mathematics Society, '17; Vice President Senior Class, '17; President Ciceronian Debating Club, '16; Member Student Senate, '16; Member Champion Football Team, '16; Member Debating Squad, '17; Manager School Farm, '16-'17; Member Basketball Team, '16-'17 Champion Class; Member "K" Club. GRAVES, WALLACE, B.S.: President Rural Sociology Club; Left Guard on Football Team, '11; Winner State Record Discus Throw, '13; Winner State Record Discus Throw, '16; Member Student Senate. HOLBERT, A.H., B.S.: In Sociology Club: Curator, Winter Quarter, '16; President spring, winter and fall, '16; Index Reporter, Winter Quarter, '16-'17. In Mathematics Club: Curator, Fall Quarter,'16; President, Winter Quarter, '16; Winner First Place in Speaking Contest; Member Student Senate, '16; President Student Senate, '16-'17. INBODY, ROY, B.S.: President Senior Class, '17; President Claytonian Debating Club; President Historical Society; Member Student Senate; Curator Mathematics Society; Football, Track, Y.M.C.A.; Phi Lambda Epsilon; Business Manager Index; Claytonian Basketball Team. MEALS, W. EVERETT, B.S.: Editor Index, '15-'16; President Historical Society, Fall Quarter, '16; Teaching Scholar in Manual Arts, '16; Teaching Scholar in History, '16-'17; Assistant Editor of the Echo, '16; Member Student Senate; Ex-Editor Index, '16. MYERS, MERLE, B.S.: Graduate K.S.N.S., 1917; Member Browning Club; Curator Browning Club; Member Senior Class, '17. NEFF, JOHN WESLEY, B.S.: Entered K.S.N.S., '08; Member Ciceronian Debating Club, '08; President Philomathean Literary Society, '14; President Historical Society, '15 and '17; "Sitzka", "Onoryshrie" and "Enterich" in "The Beggar Student"; "Gen. Herbanna" in "El Capitan"; "Blood Red Bill" in "Claude Duval"; "Ghost" in "Hamlet"; "Biterolf" in "Tannhauser"; Member Student Senate,'16 and '17; Secretary Euterpe Club. OVENS, MARGUERITE JULIA KINCAID, B.S.: Citizen Pike County; Lay member of Y.W.C.A.; Tewapa Camp Fire; Member Historical Society; Teaching Scholar in American History. PETREE, LEO H., B.S.: Baseball, '11, '12, '15; Football, '10, '15; Captain Football Team, '15-'16; Track, '13-'14; Chorus; Sextette; Member Claytonian and Euterpe Club; Cast in "Tannhauser", "Il Trovatore", "Claude Duval", "Mikado", "Gondoliers", "Stradella"; Treasurer Senior Class, '16-'17; Treasurer Student Senate, '15-'16. PURDY, CHESTER A., B.S.: Editor Index, '16-'17; Inter-Collegiate Debating Team, '16; President, Critic, Curator Marshall in Claytonian Debating Club; Vice-President, Relief Chairman, Bible Study Chairman in Y.M.C.A.; Teaching Scholar Manual Arts, '15-'16; "Dr. Sylvester" in "A Little Child Shall Lead Them"; "Dr. Chesher" in "Mary Goes First"; Football Team, '14. PERLEY, MARY DEANE, B.S.: "Nigger" in the Pageant of 1916; Member Senior Class, '17. ROOK, COPHINE, B.S.: Member Senior Class, 1917; etc., etc., etc., ?? SEE, OTIS A., B.S.: Marshall of Senior Class, '17; Member Y.M.C.A. Cabinet, '15-'16-'17; Secretary Y.M.C.A., '16-'17; Library Assistant, '15-'16; Teaching Scholar in Mathematics, '16-'17; President Mathematics Society, '16; Secretary Websterian Debating Club, '15; Senate, '16-'17. VAN PELT, LUCILE, B.S.: Member Senate,'16-'17; Member Mathematics Society, '15-'16; Browning Club, '15-'16; Y.W.C.A., '15-'17; Onaway Camp Fire, '15-'17; Public Speaking Class, '17; Basketball Team (60-Hr.), '16; Assistant in Model Rural School, '16-'17; Debating Squad, '17. WELLS, PHRADIE ALICE, B.S.: Secretary: 60-Hr. Class, '15; 90-Hr. Class, '16; Senior Class, '17. Secretary Student Council, '16-'17; President Euterpe Club; Member of: Camp Fire, Chorus, Sextet. Teaching Scholar in Music, '15-'17. WIRTH, KATHRYN B., B.S.: Member Senior Class, 1917; etc. Graduated Kirksville State Normal School in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen. YADON, CLARA, B.S.: Student of Kirksville State Normal School. (For record of work see Miss Yadon.) SELLER, DALE, B.S.: Assistant Editor of Index (?); Member Y.W.C.A. Cabinet; Teaching Scholar in Mathematics; President Spanish Club; Camp Fire; Alpha Sigma Alpha; Member of Student Senate. (Page 48) (Page 49) JUNIORS (Page 50) Class Officers J.C. WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT EARL F. MORRIS, VICE-PRESIDENT MARY SHOUSE, SECRETARY TEXIE RYLE, TREASURER ERTLE GULICK, MARSHAL Motto "FIND A WAY OR MAKE IT" Color MAROON AND GOLD Flower CREAM ROSE (Page 51) Junior Class History IN college, as in the great nations, it is the middle class that produces the leaders. We have evidence of this fact in the Junior Class of 1917--the first 90-Hour Junior Class in the history of K.S.N.S. We can not boast of coming up through the three years of our college life together, an unbroken group, but when this class was called together at the beginning of the year for the purpose of organization, we found that for every member we lost, we had gained one who could amply fill his place. We are not boasting when we say that we have in our class some of the most noted students of K.S.N.S. Every member is a lively, ambitious worker, and one result of the united efforts of the Junior class is this year-book of 1917. It needs no comment. The ECHO speaks for itself. It was in the accomplishing of this great task that the true class spirit was shown. Every member had a part, and all pulled together as one. Has our class life been all work and no play? Ask our Social Committee. Has it been all play and no work? Ask the year-book staff. Have we great leaders? We have but to mention the names: Leupkes, Williams, Perley, Johnson, Graham, Ford, Ryle, Morris, Shouse, and Rogers, when there flashes through the minds of all, thoughts of art, dramatics, debates won, cartoons, oratory, speeches in assembly, delicious "eats," "the year-book," music, and LOVE. We have no words by which we can measure the thousand little deeds of the unmentioned ones that will make them live in our hearts forever. They are "great in thought, great in deed, and great in the hearts of their class-mates." (Page 52) J.C. WILLIAMS, President (Page 53) RUBY WELLS, Kirksville, Mo. Alpha Sigma Alpha. Mathematics Society. "Thy modesty is a candle to thy merit." Problems and figures come quite handy For in mathematics she's a dandy. EARL FAYETTE MORRIS, Huntsville, Mo. Vice-President 90-Hour Class. President Y.M.C.A. President Claytonian Debating Club. Editor-in-Chief of Echo. Associate editor of Index. Treasurer Y.M.C.A.,br> Lecture Course Committee. Senate. "There, studious, let me sit." This youth has so much brains, energy and vim, That we wonder what the future holds in store for him. MABEL CRUMP, Glenwood, Mo. Y.W.C.A. Secretary of Index. Historical Society. Public Speaking Club. Rural Sociology Club. "Gentle thoughts,--calm desires." All who know this Mabel Crump Are sure to think she is a trump. (Page 54) MRS. EVERETT MEALS, Moberly, Mo. Euterpe Club. It's nice to be natural when you're naturally nice. A very lovable lady, always full of fun, And she doesn't waste her time, for she gets much done. W.T. REEVES, Harrisburg, Mo. Websterian Debating Club. Y.M.C.A. Ninety-Hour Newly Wed. He leads a staid, sober, studious life, For now he has to mind his wife. MRS. VIRGINIA CONN WHITE, Kirksville, Mo. Y.W.C.A. A very genteel lady. In cooking class she is a boss, And without her we would feel a loss. (Page 55) VERDUN BEALMER, Atlanta, Mo. Ekolela Campfire. Euterpe Club. "Her honest thought is her armor." She has a look judicious and wise, But looks on boys with timid eyes. GEORGE LOUGHEAD, Unionville, Mo. Y.M.C.A. Websterian Debating Club. The more you know him the better you like him. A studious man but that's not all, For several times a week he makes a call. BERNICE BROWN, Kirksville, Mo. Dramatic Club. One who always applauds the Dillinger Band and Basketball Team. A Ninety-Hour Diploma she'll soon possess, But will never use it (?)... .You can guess! (Page 56) VESTA MORRIS, Mound City, Mo. Woman has ever been an inspiration. Quiet, modest, and perfectly true, She is all this and a little more too. LLOYD BROWNE, Kirksville, Mo. Phi Lambda Epsilon. "K" Club. Baseball team. Chews licorice, not tobacco (?). Athletic, with a twinkle in his eye, And of the girls he is not shy. ETHEL ROSEBERRY, Kirksville, Mo. Y.W.C.A. Is never seen without a smile. A drollness in her speech, a twinkle in her eye; She sees the funny side of things and doesn't half try. (Page 57) Esther Harrisdon, Mexico, Mo Alpha Sigma Alpha. Y.W.C.A. Spanish Chili. Senate. Associate Editor of Echo. Tall and with hits of spunk. Bright, good looking, and friends by the score; Could a maiden ask for more? JULIUS QUICLKY, Unionville, Mo Dramatic Club. Alpha Sigma Alpha. Sigma, Sigma, Sigma. "Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Is a Nice Little Girl For Me." A figure very tall and stately, Who carries his sorrel top sedately. INEZ PERLEY, Kirksville, Mo. Keouk Campfire. Senate. Year Book staff. A store house of knowledge. She is a student and a debater too-- There are very few things she can't do. (Page 58) REBECCA MEGOWN, Monroe City, Mo. Keouk Campfire. She is entirely different from every one else. "Beckie," shy, smiling little lassie, Thinks a Des Moines man very classy. C. VICTOR FORD, Frankford, Mo. Y.M.C.A. Dramatic Club. Websterian Debating Club. Business Manager of Echo. "Man was born for two things, thinking and acting." Ready and willing, most capable too; Always on hand his part to do. GEORGIA TATUM, Blue Springs, Mo. Historical Society. Y.W.C.A. Senate. She follows her own sweet will. "Let Fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise." (Page 59) Edna McMurtry, Mexico, Mo. Y.W.C.A. An open hearted maiden. She is neat, she is sweet. From her bonnet to her feet. Emmet Rogers, Kirksville, Mo Dramatic Club. Wounded with Cupid's dart. Busy ever for it's so- Strolling takes up time you know. Mary Shouse, Shelbina, Mo. Euterpe Club. Secretary 90-Hour Class. "Great Scott!" What a stable mind. The girl with a contralto voice Which makes Governor Major's heart rejoice. (Page 60) KATHRYN BURTON, Armstrong, Mo. Ekolela Campfire. Y.W.C.A. "Whose time is it to wash the sink?" "'Tis the songs ye sing and the smile ye wear, That makes the sunshine everywhere." J.C. WILLIAMS, Trenton, Mo. Y.M.C.A. Websterian Debating Club. Dramatic Club. President of 90-Hour Class. To lose one's heart were arrant carelessness. A courteous gentleman, one who, in short, Is distinctly worth while and a likable sort. SARAH GUNNELS, Elmer, Mo. Y.W.C.A. Historical Society. Public Speaking Club. "Virtue kindles strength." "Let every man enjoy his whim. What's he to me or I to him." (Page 61) MADGE DESKIN HOPEWELL, Kirksville, Mo. Present at roll call since hubbie has gone to Macon. A woman with a hearty laugh, Which brings joy to her better half. ERTLE GULICK, Sturgeon, Mo. Y.M.C.A. Websterian Debating Club. Historical Society. Marshal 90 Hour Class. Is very industrious, serves meals at 10c. Thinks "St. Elmo" as good as "The Scarlet Letter." If you count the things he can do, They will surprise and astonish you. MARY BELLE MUKDOCK, Kirksville, Mo. Spanish Club. Star in Spanish and German. "Some may long for mountains wild, But I'm a timid, timid child." (Page 62) EFFIE KRIBS, Jefferson City, Mo. So quiet that few people know she is here. She does her part and does it well, Though what she does, she does not tell. LELIA WILDER, Gorin, Mo. Trwapa Campfire. Mathematics Society. The mail-man knows more than he cares to tell. Here's a maid, that every one knows Carries sunshine wherever she goes. CURTIS TAYLOR, Armstrong, Mo. Alpha Sigma Alpha. Is seen more than she is heard. Disposition faultless, sweet and kind, A more lovable girl we seldom find. (Page 63) MABEL LEUPKES, Hannibal, Mo. Alpha Sigma Alpha. Favorite exclamation, "Oh Heck!". Is a noted artist. She keeps central busy all the day, For over the telephone she has much to say. MARION HILL, Glenwood, Mo. Y.M.C.A. Mathematics Club. In search of his affinity. A faithful student, one who burns, The midnight oil and pleasure spurns. FLOY WOLFENBARGER, Perry, Mo. Alpha Sigma Alpha. Treasurer of Echo staff. "I just don't know what I'm going to do." Pleasant and smiling though small in size, This little maid is exceedingly wise. (Page 64) MIRIAM JOHNSON, Mexico, Mo. Sigma Sigma Sigma. Y.W.C.A. Cabinet. Associate Art Editor of Echo. All great women are dying and I don't feel well myself. A lovable girl, artistic quite, To make folks laugh is her delight. LLOYD J. GRAHAM, Fredericktown, Mo. Websterian Debating Club. Y.M.C.A. Dramatic Club. Debating Squad. Likes panel pictures. "I'll prove it to you." He is sure a chemist to be, For a bright student in this line is he. FLORENCE SHAW, Mt. Sterling, Iowa. Y.W.C.A. Cabinet. Extremely happy or extremely blue. A girl who everything else has spurned That she might be in "Cooking" learned. (Page 65) ERMINE THOMPSON, Kirksville, Mo. Tewapa Campfire. Associate Editor of Echo. "Phi Lambda Epsilon." Athletic in tendency, musically inclined, Delays not a moment to speak out her mind. Hays Quinn, Kirksville, Mo. Phi Lambda Epislon. "Girls, what is the latest gossip?" Your heart is gone-your pin, I'll bet; Ah Mr. Quinn, she'll get you yet. Texie Ryle, Higbee, Mo. Y.W.C.A. Ekolela Campfire. Browning Club. Senate. Public Speaking Club. "No mid-week dates for me." "A little study, a little play, a little whiling of time away A smile or two, a tear or two, make up her busy day." (Page 66) EDNA DAVIS, Willow Crook, Mont. The source of much merriment. 'Oh gee kid, I don't know.' Willing to work, ambitious quite, Has plenty of vim, in brief, is alright. Junior Class Poem WITH deep affection And recollection We'll think of The Kirksville school And the days when pleasure Came without measure And we as Juniors Obeyed every rule. We'll hear bells clamming And think of the jamming And sometimes ramming Through the hall; How at a glib rate Our tongues would vibrate In the class-room We shall recall. Then the library hall With its silence to appall And the readings not small We'll see once more. The time for examination That brought consternation Will come to our minds As of yore. The memory bringing Of the chorus singing And the room ringing The full notes free Will make Kirksville days Seem worthier of praise As we think of The pleasures with thee. The Pageant so fair The banquets so rare And the debaters ne'er We'll forget. The six camp fires With work that inspires In our memory Forever is set. The boys with the "pep" Who made such a "rep" In the championship We'll remember. And the speeches and toasts That were given without boasts As a gold football Was handed each member. On these we'll ponder Where'er we wander And thus grow fonder K.S.N.S., of thee; And of our Junior days We'll always sing praise And of the President With the faculty. (Page 67) Sophomores -67- (Page 68) H.E. BOLANDER, President Class Officers H.E. BOLANDER, PRESIDENT OLIVER C. PERRY, Vice-President MILDRED NULTON, SECRETARY JULIA HANLEY, TREASURER Motto "Not at the top but climbing Colors Purple and Gold Flower Violet (Page 69) MILDRED NULTON "Music is the prophet's art." CECIL PROPST Well packed with cracked "dates" is he. GLADYS HOWEY Firm in her heroic resolve to live forever on unclaimed blessing. ORA V. PALMER "Something of goodness Something true." OLIVER C. PERRY The Muses smile on him. ARTHUR CAMDEN A student who feels the responsibility of a noble calling. (Page 70) LENORE POWELL Always a smile and kind greeting for everybody. MADISON LEWIS "Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his troubles begin." EULA KAUTZ "I intend to be an osteopast." VESTA YAMBERT "I hate the Mexicans." J.E. AESCHLIMAN He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. HILDA HELENA SEYB Black are her eyes as the berries that grow by the wayside. (Page 71) BESSIE HOERRMANN Bess is always in a hurry, Never has she time to tarry. H.E. BOLANDER Prompt, decisive; no breath does this man waste. MAURINE WOODRUFF As charming as sweet, and as sweet as modest. THEODOCIA GRIFFITHS Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. JEWELL RHOADES She who is good is happy. JOE MILLER BARNES Genteel in personage and conduct. (Page 72) OMAH V. HUSTED Always willing to do her part. RUBY WEBBER If in doubt, see her. She knows. HUGH J. GWYN Many a lady fair has he For he is perfect in love-lore. JULIA MATE HANLEY A maiden never bold, a spirit still and quiet. ALICE WOODS Believes firmly in fraternities in general but more firmly in one in particular. PEARLE SNYDER A thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin. (Page 73) RUBY DURHAM A sweet attraction, Kind of grace with eyes That sparkle like the Gem of her name, "Ruby." GLADYS REESE Favorite expression, "Oh Shaw!" ADDA BAILEY She is wise, if we can judge her. MYRTLE A. FOSTER "Far may you search ever you'll see A maid so good, so generous, so kind as she." JEAN HANKS "Sure, I'll go kill the Roebuck." MARY WINSTON PRICE A lovely damsel, modest and fair. (Page 74) GEORGE P. BAILEY "A friendly heart with many friends." INEZ CALLISON They say thine eye's a part of thine affection form. ELSA LOUISE TEUSCHER "Studious is she, but in stature small." DAREL WESLEY WHITAKER He comes, says nothing, then goes. LEOTA BURTON "Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low." DELLA WARDEN "Better late than never." (Page 75) EULA M. HULL Thou hast the fatal gift of beauty. THOMAS W. KERFOOT Yell leader! Yell leader! Rah! Rah! Rah! FRANCES POTTER Her smiles are as broad as the ocean and her sorrows as light as its foam. LOUISE ESTILL Miss Snowden's pal. LEONAH GRASSLE "Oft she rejects but never once offends." ELIZABETH RYLE Pretty and sweet, Saucy and neat, In basketball She's hard to beat. (Page 76) -76- (Page 77) Freshies (Page 78) ROLAND ZEIGEL, President Class Officers ROLAND ZEIGEL, PRESIDENT FRANK FRANCE, VICE-PRESIDENT HELEN WILSON, SECRETARY HERMAN HAYES, HISTORIAN Motto KNOWLEDGE AND TIMBER SHOULDN'T BE MUCH USED UNTIL THEY ARE SEASONED Colors ORANGE AND BLACK Flower YELLOW JONQUIL (Page 79) Freshman Class History FOURSCORE and several days ago there was brought forth into this K.S.N.S. a new class consisting of people and dedicated to the supposition that all "Green Things" will grow. We are sometimes referred to as "Freshies," but the reason for it we cannot tell, for it so often happens that some one of our number is thought to be an upper classman. We soon learned that E was a very much coveted grade so, we set about to capture a few of them and now we are proud to say that more are given in this class than in any other. In fact it is rumored that: Some are so set in securing their E's (ease), That the base wears out and leaves by degrees, 'Till when the end of the quarter rolls 'round They greet with a very unpleasant frown The card which bears their grade (or what is left) Which looks a heap like a measly "F." Though we have not swallowed a thermometer, we are getting on to the ropes by degrees. We elected for our President Mr. Roland Zeigel for whom every one will testify that he is the most thoughtful, broad-minded and gentlemanly man who has ever yet served this class. For our Vice-President we secured an imported man as the name signifies, Mr. Frank France. As Secretary we selected Miss Helen Wilson, the fair and modest daughter of Mr. Wilson. As Class Historian the honor was conferred upon Herman H. Hayes, (no relation to Rutherford B.). In referring to the largeness of our class someone suggested that quality is far better than quantity. Perhaps so, but how fortunate it is to be blessed with both. Within the ranks of this wonderful class, which will never be duplicated, you may find scientists, artists, musicians, mathematicians, pedagogues, merry-makers, manly-men, maids and mutton heads--all the necessary timber with which to make the senior class of 1920 second only to the one which we now vision away younder in the misty future in the form of young boys and girls who are to be trained and inspired to do great things by artists from our own flock. Time and space forbid a more extended narration, but in short, we are just a straight out democratic class who take no stock in boasting but rather maintain that actions speak louder than words, for it is true that a man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. Now if you do not like us it is because you do not know us, for true it is that: If we knew you and you knew "we," Of firm good faith on either side; 'Tis seldom we should disagree. Confidence, to each other give, But scarcely having yet clasped hand, Living ourselves, let others live. Both often fail to understand With pleasant smile and outstretched hand That each intends to do what's right We'll welcome others to our band. And treat each other honor bright. And by this motto we will be How much happier all could be A more perfect Democracy, If we knew you and you knew "we." For it is then my friend you see, Then let no doubting thots abide That we'll know you and you'll know "we." --H.G.H. (Page 80) Top row, left to right: OLIVE MUDRA, JOHN C. FAULHABER, HENRY STUKEY, ROBERT ALEXANDER, VIOLA LOVETT. Middle row: H.C. HAYES, IRVIE LEE YOWELL, CECIL CLARK, MRS. ETTA ANDREWS, G.F. House, ALICE GENTRY. Bottom row: FLORENCE SUBLETTE, RUBY YOWELL, BESSIE FORD, Lois Ross, GEORGIA ROBB, EULA MAY ESTER, BEULAH HUSTED. (Page 81) Top row, left to right: WALKER, V. CRUMP, CRUTCHER, COWAN, W. CRUMP, PATTON. Middle row, left to right: KOENNEMAN, McCAMPBELL, ATKINS, BARNETT, MADSEN, Doss, SMITH. Lower row, left to right: MONTGOMERY, HULEN, JOHNSON, CAPPS, McCuLLOM, DUNCAN, DUNN. (Page 82) Top row, left to right: ETHLYN SIMMONS, GEORGE CALDWELL, JIMMIE DILLINGER, BRYAN DOWELL, HUGH VAIL. Third row, left to right: FLOY DOWNING, THELMA HARRISON, MARCIA TOWNSEND, CRYSTAL PETREE, HELEN N. WILSON, VELMA WELLS. Second row: BERNICE HUGHES, EVA WINSLOW, VELVAH CULL, MRS. WALLACE GRAVES, MINNIE BROTT, ESTHER REDMON, VALLIE LANCASTER. Bottom row: LOYD P. SHARP, DORA RULON, FERN WINETTE, STANLEY HAYDEN, JENNIE WILLIAMS, KAY McCuTCHEN, NINA CLAUDE PEARSON. (Page 83) Top row, left to right: SHEARER, SPROUT, HUTCHISON, INGRAM, CARROLL, WILLS. Middle row, left to right: WOODSON, SUBLETTE, RINEHART, BLAKEMORE, BRIGGS, BOGGESS, COMER. Bottom row, left to right: SALES, BLAKEMORE, SUMMERS, MYERS, RODDY, COCKRUM, SHERWOOD. (Page 84) Top row, left to right: FAUST, JONES, KIRK. Middle row: STRAW, A. DUDLEY, HILT, ROGERS, HOWERTON. Bottom row: QUINTAL, PATTON, RATHERFORD, THOMAS, COCHRAN. (Page 85) RURAL CLASS (Page 86) Rural Class Top row, left to right: SUTTERFIELD, SMITH, ADAMS. Bottom row: LITTRELL, SCHNELLE, CREWS, WRIGHT, HARTER. Colors BLUE AND SILVER Flower WHITE ROSE Motto IMPOSSIBLE is UNAMERICAN Class Officers and Roll DAVID M. WRIGHT, President WILLIAM SMITH, Vice-President GLADYS CREWS, Secretary NELLIE ADAMS LUCILE FOUNTAIN MYRTLE HARTER HELEN JOHNSON CORINNE LITTRELL REVEL E. SCHNELLE LETHA E. SUTTERFIELD (Page 87) ORGANIZATIONS (Page 88) Claytonian Debating Club The term, "Old Reliable," has always been associated with the Claytonian Debating Club, and the "Claytos" have lived up to their reputation during the past year. If Henry Clay were still alive, he would be quick to say, "I'm glad I'm a 'Clayto'." At the beginning of the year it was uphill pulling. We were not so fortunate as our fellow club, the Websterian. Very few of our old members came back to school in the fall. But the few that did come back got busy and "started the ball rolling." It soon picked up some good debating material and the club completed its organization and began work. Then another difficulty beset us. Six or seven of our old stand-bys were out for football and could not be with us during the fall quarter. This, of course, necessitated the "breaking in " of some raw material. To make a long story short, we "broke in" our new members and did some good work while the boys were out for football. Then, when the winter quarter opened up, we were all back "rearing to go." We've been "rearing to go" ever since. One of our fellow clubs still has it over us in numbers, but we have the quality. We believe we can put out the strongest debating team in school and have intimated as much to the other clubs. As we part this year, although we cannot conscientiously say that we have had the year we had in 1915-'16, we can proudly say "We have held the fort," and next year any old "Claytos" coming back to the K.S.N.S. will find a Claytonian Debating Club ready to take them in. Officers for Three Quarters FALL QUARTER Earl F. Morris, President Smith, Marshal John Henderson, Vice-President Inbody and Lewis, Curators H.E. Bolander. Secretary Chester Purdy, Critic Stanley Hayden. Asst Sec'y. Hugh Vail, Music Director WINTER QUARTER Roy Inbody, President Cammack, Marshal Hugh Vail, Vice-President Purdy, Critic H.E. Bolander, Secretary Purdy and Foster, Curators SPRING QUARTER H.E. Bolander, President Madison Lewis, Critic Motter, Vice-President Geo. Bailey, Sec'y and Treasurer Hopper, Marshal Morris and Purdy, Curators Roy Inbody, Index Reporter (Page 89) CLAYTONIAN DEBATING CLUB Top row, left to right: BOLANDER, HOFF, MORRIS. Middle row, left to right: LEWIS, KELLER, PURDY, INBODY, VAIL, BAILEY. Bottom row, left to right: SPROUT, HAYDEN, MOTTER, HOPPER, FOSTER, CRUTCHER (Page 90) Websterian Debating Club DELANEY, P.A., President JUERGENSMEYER, A.H., Vice-President and Senator STANTURF, J.T., Secretary CARR, P., Treasurer HAYES, H.G., Curator FORD, C.V., Curator GRAHAM, L., Critic HAFERCAMP, J., Marshal DE WITT, D., Index Reporter LOUGHEAD, G. CHILDERS, H. HOWARD, WM. GULICK, PERRY, O.C. SINGLEY, C. MIDDLETON, H.J. MALLET, R. WRIGHT, T. BLEDSOE, B. HESS, J.I. HAYES, A.W. BARNES, J. CALLISON, C.P. SEE, O. WAYBRANT, R.H. (Page 91) WEBSTEBIAN DEBATING CLUB Top row, left to right: C.P. CALLISON, ERTLE GULICK, B. BLEDSOE, T.W. KERFOOT, JOB BARNES, H. HAYES, A.W. HAYES. Middle row: C.V. FORD, RUSSEL MALLET, A.H. JUERGENSMEYER, OTIS SEE, H. CHILDERS, L. GRAHAM, G. LOUGHEAD. Bottom row: P.A. DELANEY, C.E. SINGLEY, H.G. MIDDLETON, J.T. STANTURF, D. DEVILBLISS, J.H. HAFERKAMP, Wm. HOWARD. (Page 92) Demosthenian Debating Club Throughout all the centuries of time there has never been a man who possessed greater power to sway the voice of senates, to create public sentiment and to produce and develop great political ideals than that great man of Attica, Demosthenes. Never have we had orators who combined intensity, sincerity and eloquence in such a harmonious and appealing style. The knowledge of these sublime traits of this great personality has led to the organization of a debating club in the K.S.N.S. for the development of the profound Demosthenonian principles of reasoning. The club for this year has done some good work since reorganization in December. It has increased in membership at sweeping strides. The Demosthenonians possess that twentieth century booster spirit coupled with an intense desire to reach out and help the other fellow. These very traits are alone indicative of the future success of the organization. There is a living nucleus within the club which is certain to produce unlimited results as it develops. As yet the club has not taken up, nor undertaken to promote, any specific principle of thought but it is anticipated in the near future. There is no doubt but that some remarkable ideal will be worked out, by that body of thinking men, which will be of interest and value to mankind. All phases of literary work are considered by the Demosthenonians from humor to philosophy, and all questions are discussed from woman suffrage and prospects of a world wide peace to the proper method of exterminating such household pests as the troublesome cat. There is a spirit of fellowship and of manliness developed within the club which never fails to send a thrill of joy and appreciation through us when we grasp the hand of an alumnus and he tells us he was once a Demosthenonian. May the Demosthenonians increase in numbers and in influence and may those great principles propounded by that one of long ago never cease to be encouraged and developed here within our midst. President, Mr. Aeschliman Vice-President, Mr. Wilson Secretary, Mr. Finley Treasurer, Mr. Schwartz Senator, Mr. Capps Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Roberts Curator, Mr. Unfer Index Reporter, Mr. Cornwell It was with some difficulty that a picture of the club could be obtained because of the extreme volubility of some of the members. But after much discussion it was wisely decided to assess the stalwart, dauntless Schwartz a double fee if he were placed on the front row where his feet would be in evidence. (Page 93) DEMOSTHENONIAN DEBATING CLUB Top row, left to right: McKEE, GILLILAND, KING, UNFER. Second row, left to right: NEET, COALEY, FLINCHPAUGH, AESCHLIMAN, KAISER, WEBBER. Bottom row, left to right: CORNWELL, CAPPS, FINLEY, SCHWARTZ, ROBERTS, WILSON. (Page 94) Dramatic Club The following named persons met at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, 1913 and formed an organization known as "The Dramatic Club" of the Kirksville State Normal School: Messrs. Scoggin, Fuller, Patterson, Wise, Hauptmann, Clough, and Phillips; Misses Cornett, Selby, Ball, Ina Finegan, Vera Finegan, Babbitt and Fish. The forming of this club was the outgrowth of several successful productions of classical drama, and the club has continued its high standard by giving the following plays: Dec. 1913, "Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens. Feb. 1914, "As You Like It", William Shakespear. Oct. 1914, "The New Married Couple", Bjornson. Oct. 1914, "Back to the Farm", University of Minnesota. March 1915, "Hamlet", William Shakespear. July 1915, "The Devil's Deciple", Bernard Shaw. Oct. 1915, "A Little Child Shall Lead Them", Stephen Blackhurst. Feb. 1916, "Merry Wives of Winsor", William Shakespear. April 1916, "Mary Goes First", Henry Jones. July 1916, "Romeo and Juliet", William Shakespear. Nov. 1916, "Vision of the Homeland", Oliver Perry. At the present time the club is working on: "You Never Can Tell", by Bernard Shaw, and "Six Cups of Chocolate", By Schmithof. It expects to surpass all it has ever done by giving Shakespear's "King Lear" this summer. Much of the success of the club must be attributed to the untiring efforts of its critics: Professors Phillips, Noyer and Wise. (Page 95) DRAMATIC CLUB Top row, left to right: HALE, ROGERS, DE WITT, FOSTER, L. GRAHAM. Second row, left to right: BARNES, WRIGHT, RYLE, CASPER, WHEATCRAFT, SEYB. Third row, left ro right: MADSEN, RHINEHART, KIRK, FORD, COCHRAN, NEWBURN, CAUBY. Bottom row: DELANEY, PATTON, SETTLE, WISE, ROSS, SCHWARTZ, McMILLAN, BROWN. (Page 96) Janitor Club The history of the janitor club dates back to Dec. 1, 1902, when Mr. John C. Edina, Mo., accepted the position of head janitor of the Kirksville State Normal School. He began his work with only one assistant janitor. During the following ten years three men were added to the regular force. In December, 1912, it was decided to lessen the regular force and add students in their stead, thereby giving some good, honest, hard working boys a chance to make their expenses while they were in school. Seeing that the experiment proved a success, Mr. Jack decided to give more students this opportunity. He now has two regular men besides himself and eleven student janitors doing the work. The club assesses each member ten cents (10c) per month. This money is used to defray the expenses of the annual banquet and any incidental expenses that may occur. The young men who work on the janitor force are rather a remarkable class of students. This is revealed by examining their record. Since the above mentioned idea developed thirty-five different boys have been employed in this capacity. Many of these are now holding responsible positions as high school superintendents and principals. One, a graduate of this school, is now attending Cornell University. At the present time the President and Vice-President of the Y.M.C.A., the President of the Ninety-Hour Class, the Editor of the Index, and three representatives in the Student Senate are janitors. During one quarter of last year the President and Vice-President of the Y.M.C.A., the President of each of the debating clubs, and the President of both the Thirty and Ninety-Hour Classes were janitors. The last three years the President of the Ninety-Hour Class has been a janitor. Some of the most prominent musicians and athletes have also been members of this organization. We rather doubt if any other educational institution of the country has such an organized club of student janitors who can display such qualities and scholarship and who celebrate the holidays with an annual banquet. (Page 97) JANITOR CLUB Top row, left to right: T.W. KERFOOT, RICHARD DEWITT, GEORGE R. LOUGHEAD, HARROL HOPPER. Middle row, left to right: CHESTER A. PURDY, ORVIILLE SHAW, J.C. WILLIAMS, R. WOOD, G.W. CHAMBERS. Bottom row, left to right: MADISON LEWIS, J.M. SMITH, JOHN C. JACK, O.E. NORRIS, FRANK FRANCE. (Page 98) Historical Society The Historical Society, which was organized in 1906, has the distinction of being oldest departmental society in K.S.N.S. It has had a continuous existence, and is one of the few societies which maintain an organization during the summer term. In order to have only those who are interested in history and make the society a real live one, the membership is limited to twenty-five. The faculty members of the Department of History and the students who are especially interested in history and who have shown a considerable degree of aptitude in history work make up its membership. Regular meetings of the society are held every two weeks. This year has been spent in the systematic study of Mexico, beginning with the early Indian tribes and coming up to the present-day situation. The programs consist of a formal report followed by round-table discussions, and every member is urged to prepare and enter into these discussions. Much enjoyment and benefit is derived from the free and informal work, in which both faculty members and students participate. In addition to the regular programs, the society tries to secure prominent men who are interested in history to address not only its members but the whole school. For instance, it was through this society that Mr. Edgar Banks, the archaeologist, was secured to give his illustrated lecture, "A Thousand Miles Down the Tigris River". The Historical Society stimulates interest in history, and hopes through its work to encourage students of history and prospective teachers of history. Officers Fall Quarter Everett Meals, President Georgia Lee Tatum, Vice-President John Neff, Secretary J.C. Beattie, Student Curator WINTER QUARTER H.E. Bolander, President Roy Inbody, Vice-President Mabel Crump, Secretary Everett Meals, Student Curator SPRING QUARTER Roy Inbody, President John Neff, Vice-President H.J. Gwyn, Secretary Georgia Tatum, Student Curator Members Ex-Officia E.M. Violette J.L. Kingsbury Eugene Fair Andrew Otterson Student I.R. Bundy (Librarian) H.J. Gwyn Mabel Crump J.E. Aeschliman W.E. Meals Rena Hiatt H.E. Bolander John Neff Sarah Gunnels J.I. Hess Georgia Lee Tatum Roy Inbody (Page 99) HISTORICAL SOCIETY Top low, left to right: BUNDY, INBODY, AESCHLIMAN, FAIR. Middle row, left to right: HIATT, KINGSBURY, NEFF, MEALS, BOLANDER. Bottom row, left to right: GUNNELS, OVENS, VIOLETTE, TATUM, OTTERSON, CRUMP. (Page 100) Mathematics Society The Mathematics Society was organized in the Spring Term of 1913. The purpose of the organization is to give those persons interested in mathematics an opportunity to meet and discuss important questions relative to mathematics. The society is one of the strongest organizations of its kind in the school, having sustained a vital interest in its work since it was organized. A brief review of the work of this society during the school year 1916-'17 shows that results of great value are being derived from its work. Many questions concerning Elementary and Secondary Mathematics are discussed. Also, the lives of many of the great mathematicians are studied. The teachers in the Mathematics Department of the Normal School contribute regularly to the programs. This is of great help to the students of the Society who are preparing to teach mathematics. The society is composed of earnest, hard-working students and teachers who are vitally interested in their work. There can be no doubt about the fact that it will live to maintain its reputation. (Page 101) MATHEMATICS SOCIETY Top row, left to right: EPPERSON, FAULHABER, JONES, KERFOOT, GRAVES, GRAVES. Middle row, left to right: WOODSON, HILL, JAMISON, SEE, PERLEY, BARNES, CAMDEN, HOUSE. Bottom row, left to right: INBODY, COSBY, HOLBERT, RATHERFORD, ZEIGEL, C. DYE, E. RYLE. (Page 102) Public Speaking Club IT is an undeniable fact that many of our most talented and energetic students on launching out into the world for themselves fail completely because they have not learned to utilize their intellectual capital. A realization of this truth has become so prevalent that a few of our most enthusiastic students, who believe in a "preventative" rather than a "curing" medicine, got together to devise a plan to aid our present day students in escaping this evil. The result was the organization of the Public Speaking Club, Jan. 10, 1917. The practicability of aiding the members to adjust themselves to any and all circumstances is shown by the method of varying the programs. The club is so designed that at any time the program may be so arranged as to apply to any phase of life, as for example, a farmers' organization, alumni banquet or a United States Senate. To insure that the club will never yield to the common failure of "falling into ruts", it is a set purpose of the club to vary the programs continually and to further guard this, to elect new officers every month. As an example of the work, at one of the meetings an address was given on "After Dinner Speeches" in which the speaker pointed out clearly the principal requisites of an after dinner speech. After a few meetings the remarks made were put into actual practice by the presentation of some real after dinner speeches, assuming that a banquet had just been served. Addresses on current events are very valuable to the busy students in helping to increase their knowledge of present day problems. The club meets every Wednesday at 7 o'clock and closes promptly at 8:30. Officers ORA L. CAPPS, President BARBARA GREGORY, Secretary CLAUDE N. DYE; Senator Club Members Atkins, Herman Barnes, Joe M. Cain, E.V. Callison, C.P. Camden, Arthur Crump, Mable Dudley, Alpha May Dearing, Gladys DeWitt, Dale Foster, Myrtle Gunnels, Sarah Guthrie, C.G. Hayes, H.G. Hayes, A.W. Holbert, A.H. Hollopeter, H.S. Johnson, Helen Jones, R.W. Mallett, Russell Ross, Lois Stanturf, J.T. Sublette, Florence Van Pelt, Lucile Woodruff, Maurine (Page 103) Public Speaking Club Top row, left to right: Johnson, Jones, Capps, Hayes, Callison, Hayes, DeWitt, Woodruff Middle row, left to right: Crump, Holbert, Mallett, Dudley, Camden, Cain, Gunnels, Sublette. Bottom row, left to right: Dearing, Van Pelt, Barnes, Ross, Stanturf, Gregory, Dye. (Page 104) Rural Sociology Club Officers SUMMER QUARTER A.H. Holbert, President Harold Staggs, Marshal David Wright, Vice-President Reba Sturgeon, Index Reporter Helen Stansberry, Sec.-Treas. Mary Sturgeon, Critic Arthur Camden, Curator Pauline Cohagen, Chorister FALL QUARTER A.H. Holbert, President Mr. Wallace Craves, Marshal Arthur Camden, Vice-President Ianthe Collagen, Index Reporter Pauline Collagen, Sec.-Treas Prof. E.A. Wright, Critic Gertrude Thale, Curator C.G. Guthrie, Chorister A.H. Holbert, Senator (one year) WINTER QUARTER Arthur Camden, President Willis F. Bauerrichter, Marshal D.W. Whitaker, Vice-President A.H. Holbert, Index Reporter Gertrude Thale, Sec.-Treas. Mrs. Wallace Graves, Critic Mabel Crump, Curator Pauline Cohagen, Chorister Wallace Graves, Senator Club History The Rural Sociology Club is not the oldest organization in the K.S.N.S., but it is "The Club That Lives The Year Round." It held its first meeting June 19, 1911, in response to a request by President Kirk to which twenty-five stu-dents responded. Prof. H.W. Foght, now with the National Bureau of Education at Washington, D.C., was largely instrumental in its organization, and J.C. Williams was the first president. The year 1916-'17 has been the greatest in its history. The membership reached one hundred twenty-seven during the summer. The members of the club are among those regularly enrolled in the Department of Rural Education and others interested in the problems of country life. They have chosen for their motto, "Hold Fast the Good and Seek the Better Yet." The club colors are orange and black. The club has been organized for a definite purpose. Its fundamental aims are to create a wider interest in country life, to help solve some of the problems of rural communities, and to improve the conditions under which rural teachers work. The club hopes through its work to encourage students and teachers in their work in the rural community. The members of the club look back to the year 1916-17 with a feeling of joy and pride. Some of the various activities participated in were: interesting programs every Friday evening, a trip to Radical Ridge, and social entertainments, including a delightful evening as the guests of the Kirksville Grange. During the winter quarter, the club arranged for the Dramatic Club to give another production of the rural life play, "A Vision of the Homeland", in order that all of the students might see it. In addition to the regular programs, the club has often invited prominent men in to address its members and visitors in open session. Literary societies in the rural districts have accepted invitations to give their programs with the club. (Page 105) RURAL SOCIOLOGY CLUB Back row, left to right: A.H. HOLBERT, MRS. HOLLOWELL, WALLACE GRAVES, MRS. WALLACE GRAVES, DAVID WRIGHT. Second row, left to right: MYRTLE HARTER, ARETHA HART, PAULINE COHAGEN, LLOYD P. SHARP, IANTHE COHAGEN, MACIE HEARN. Third row, left to right: DAISY WALKER, JEWELL BARNES, MARY GRAVES, DAVIDGE T. BURFORD, EVA TOOLEY, ELSIE McCullom, MAUDE HEARN. Front row, left to right: CORDIA DAWKINS, MABEL CRUMP, IDA GRAVES, PROF. MARK BURROWS, ARTHUR CAMDEN, GRACE COON, W.H. CHILDRESS. (Page 106) SPANISH Club A Spanish Club was organized last quarter from the Spanish classes of the school. This was done chiefly through the efforts of "little" Fay McCutcheon and Senoritta Walker. Say, by the way, notice how simple "little" Fay looks in the year book picture of the Spanish Club. She is not really as crazy as she looks, however. Ralph Griffith needed a shave and "Swede" Clark kept reminding him of the fact, so that accounts for their peculiar expressions. The rest of the members were rather cold with the exception of Mr. Wise, who was sitting on a splinter. When the meeting of the Spanish Club was first called only a few came. After Miss Walker had announced that the first meeting of the Club would be at the Palace Bakery where she would act as hostess, several more got interested. There were about twenty-five members at this meeting at the Palace. A delightful time was had. Before coming, Senoritta Walker invited Mr. McKean. She told him plainly (in Spanish) to come at seven o'clock. He misunderstood and came at six, so he had a long time in which to brush up on his Spanish. During the evening little typewritten slips were given to each of the members of the Club. On these little slips were little Spanish quotations and their tianslations. Also a large slip of paper was passed around on which everybody had to write a sentence. This was rather amusing when these were read. After a lot of talking (mostly in English) the Club adjourned with the firm resolution to meet again soon. This was not done, however, because of various other attractions which interfered, but no one doubts the fact that there are more good times in store for the Spanish Club in the near future. (Page 107) Spanish Club Top row, left to right: Perry, Bolander, Griffith, Ingram, McKean, Paine, Capps, Clark. Middle row, left to right: McCutheon, Howell, Murdock, Finegan, Gilbert, Goetze, Nagel, Harrison. Bottom row, left to right: Humphrey, Lilley, Bryson, Zeller, Derby, Quintal, Wise. (Page 108) Euterpe Club ON the afternoon of October third, 1916, a group of music students met and organized a music club, which is now known as "Euterpe Club." The purpose of this club is to develop a higher appreciation for the best in music. In order to realize this purpose our programs have been largely a concentrated study of the great composers, beginning with Palestrina and coming down to the period of opera. While each study has been as complete as seemed practical, we plan a more complete study of the great composers of opera, together with a more personal acquaintance with such operas as Weber's "Der Freischutz", Wagner's "Lohengrin", Verdi's "Aida" and Gounod's "Faust". These works are mentioned merely to denote the character of our work. The members of the club do not, however, spend all their energies in the study of composers and musical forms, in such off hand methods as might be suggested by the above discussion. They have each taken a part either in the cast or chorus work in the Grand Opera "A Good Social Eat", by Youth, under the direction of Herr Appetite. In the production of this splendid work, the company had marked success from the rise of the curtain on the opening scene, "The Combat with the Buns", down through the successive scenes, "Pickles, "Salads", "Fruits", "Candy", to the drowning of Marshmallow in a pool of hot chocolate. The only error, if indeed it might be called an error, that was made during the entire performance was in the first scene, in the duet between Mr. Graham and Miss Wells when they for once took their eyes off the director, and held a long sustained crescendo over a diminuendo passage in the finale to the Bun Song, "More About Buns Would I Know". Every member of the company proved his capacity for the part assigned by meeting the full demands of the director. The characters were as follows: Phradie Wells, President G.W. Chambers, Vice-President Hugh Vail, Treasurer John Neff, Secretary and Student Senator Mary Shouse and Leo Petree, Curators Prof. J.L. Biggerstaff Prof. R.W. Hans Seitz Bertha Goetze Catharine Myers Esther Redmon Ermine Thompson Mrs. Everett Meals Fay McCutcheon Helen N. Wilson Helen Markey Herschel Halladay Holice Agee Howard C. Bowman Iphigeniah Burrows Prof. Johannes Goetze Prof. Andrew Otterson Vera Thomas Maida A. Cole Margaret Otterson Mary Bogus Mildred Nulton O.E. Graham Romula Gilbert Ruth Howerton Velda Cochran (Page 109) EUTERPE CLUB Top row, left to right: Graham, Neff, Vail, Chambers. Middle row, left to right: Howerton, Wilson, Gilbert, Agee, Redmon, McCutcheon. Bottom row, left to right: Shouse, Markey, Nulton, Petree, Wells, Thompson, Colf. (Page 110) German Club The aim of the German Club is to develop facility in the choice and use of German words and idioms by conversation and discussion; to become acquainted with German songs and stories; and to establish a social link between the students of German. The programs are arranged with this end in view. They include games, the reading of short stories and selections of poetry, discussions of various phases of German life and art, current events, and parliamentary law--all in the German Language. Officers for Winter Quarter R.R. CAMMACK, President ELSA NAGEL, Vice-President Louis Unfer, Secretary Club Members Marie Johnson Emmaline Vitteteau Eunice Walker R.R. Cammack Louis Unfer Alvin Juergensmeyer Cora Bruner Elsa Nagel J.W. Heyd H.E. Bolander John Aeschliman C.G. Guthrie (Page 111) GERMAN CLUB Top row, left to right: Unfer, Guthrie, Aeschliman, Bolander. Lower row, left to right: Walker, Johnson, Heyd, Vitterteau, Nagel (Page 112) Browning Club BROWNING CLUB Top row, left to right: BARNES, HOERRMANN, NEWBURN, FOSTER, RYLE, CHOW. Bottom row, left to right: HARTER, MANN, CALDWELL, RODDY, DUNCAN, BURTON. Roll Call Vera Newburn Bessie Hoerrmann Marion Crow Myrtle Foster, Treasurer Leota Burton Alice Mann Myrtle Harter Ruby Caldwell Carmileta Barnes, President Olga Duncan Texie Ryle Mary Roddy Ruby Webber, Senator Loree Smith Pearl Osborn, Secretary Alpha Dudley Ruth Smith Esther Dudley Agnes Rank (Page 113) -113- (Page 114) Y.W.C.A. The Y.W.C.A. belongs to every girl in school. The weekly devotional meetings on Wednesday afternoons bring the girls closer together as they discuss subjects of universal interest. The Y.W.C.A. girls are a jolly bunch and enjoy social good times. A joint social with the Y.M.C.A. was given in the fall, and a very successful "Kid Party" followed in the winter term. The Association carries on several activities besides the weekly meetings. The Mission Study Class under the leadership of Miss Root of the Department of Education is studying "The World Call for Individual Service", from a sociological viewpoint. The class is composed of both girls and boys and has a large membership. In the summer, a Bible Study class studied "The Manhood of the Master". The Social Service Committee, with the aid of many other girls of the school, has beautified the Girls' Rest Room by providing pillows, a piano cover, flowers, and other things that make a room look homelike. The Y.W.C.A. Stand is doing a flourishing business, carrying almost all school necessities except textbooks. The Y.W.C.A. is proud of the fact that it was one of the nine associations in this district on the Honor Roll last year. This year, the Cabinet decided to take the Cabinet Examinations. The Cabinet Council, consisting of delegates from all the normal school and college Y.W.C.A.'s of Missouri, met in Kirksville, March 16, 17, and 18, as guests of our Y.W.C.A. Two state secretaries and two national secretaries attended the meeting. Officers, 1916-17 LUCILE VAN PELT, President RUBY DURHAM, Secretary TEXIE RYLE, Vice-President MYRTLE FOSTER, Treasurer Advisory Board Miss ETHEL HOOK, President Mesdames Violette, Stokes, Jones, Cosby, and Humphrey; and Misses Lyle, Williams, Mann, Jewett and Root. Committees, Winter Quarter MEMBERSHIP-- Texie Ryle Irva Lee Yowell Mabel Crump Lucille Blakemore Lenore Powell Elizabeth Ratherford Ted Kirk Nettie Barnes Marguerite Ovens Julia Briggs Helen Haines Ruby Webber FINANCE-- Myrtle Foster Pearl Osborn Mabel Crump Carmelita Barnes Alice Waller STAND-- Myra Wright Ruth Reynolds Velva Cull Frances Rice Elizabeth Ratherford Alice Waller Julia Briggs SOCIAL SERVICE-- Miriam Johnson Alice Wilson Ruby Yowell Fannie May Blake BIBLE STUDY-- Cynthia Blakemore Georgia Tatum Martha Koenemann Flora Page Olga Duncan Ida Dyer MISSIONARY-- Florence Sublette Barbara Gregory Velva Cull Bernice McCampball Delia Warden SOCIAL-- Florence Shaw Barbara Gregory Helen Heald Ethel Merrick Fay Brookhart Emmaline Vitteteau Music-- Helen Wilson Phradie Wells Bertha Goetze DEVOTIONAL-- Elsa Nagel Edna Green Lola Barnett Pearl Snyder Pearl Osborn Ruth Reynolds Fay McCutcheon Ruth Howerton Emmaline Vittetaeu Vallie Lancaster (Page 115) Miss LUCILE VAN PELT President "A Haven of Rest" (Page 116) Y.W.C.A. CABINET Top row, left to right: SHAW, NAGEL, JOHNSON, FOSTER, RYILE. Bottom row: WILSON, WRIGHT, VAN PELT, SUBLETTE, DURHAM, BLAKEMORE (Page 117) THE CLASS IN PERSONAL SERVICE (Page 118) Y.M.C.A. The Y.M.C.A. stands for the complete development of men, in spirit, mind and body. It is an organization which constantly seeks to exemplify applied Christianity. Through its varied enterprises, the association finds expression for the highest Christian principle, the spirit of altruism. The Sunday afternoon meetings exist as a sort of a symposium for men to compare experiences and get a tighter grip upon problems common to student life. It is a means of sharing with each other the feelings, experiences, and longings of life. Through the lecture course provided each year in conjunction with the Association of the A.S.O., the best talent in music and lectures is brought within the reach of all. Through the Book Exchange the entire student body is given an opportunity to secure textbooks at a reasonable price and to dispose of such books as they do not need. A Bible Study Class is conducted in which problems most vital to young men are subjected to the light of Christian teaching, but not in a traditional or dogmatic way. Mr. McKean leads this work. In connection with the Y.W.C.A., a course in "World Call to Personal Service" is offered under the leadership of Miss Root of the Department of Rural Education. Every summer from six to ten delegates are sent to the Student Conference at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where, under the leadership of some of the world's noblest men life takes on a deeper, fuller, richer significance. Two things stand out in bold relief in every phase of Y.M.C.A. work---they are the big things in life--devotion to the life and teachings of Christ and service to men. (Page 119) George Loughead President, 1916-1917 Earl F. Morris President, 1917 (Page 120) Y.M.C.A. CABINET 1, Juergensmeyer; 2, De Wity; 3, Wright; 4, Loughead; 5, MORRIS; 6, SEE; 7, PURDY; 8, SINGLEY; 9, ALEXANDER; 10, PERRY. (Page 121) The Camp Fire Girls (Page 122) The Campfires CAMPFIRE Girls is an organization of girls to develop the home spirit and to promote happy social life. It helps girls grow into strong, efficient, loving, womanhood by showing that romance, beauty and adventure are to be found in our every-day lives, in wholesome ways. Rank and honors are based on personal attainment. The Campfire Girls are planning to build a home, all their own, where they may hold weekly meetings and parties. They are working hard to accomplish this end, and hope to have in the near future a building that will develop into a truly Campfire home. Chickaminchee Camp Velma Wells Mary Matlick Mildred Nulton Crystal Petree Leonah Grassle Nancy Berry Elizabeth Grigsby Bertha Goetze Reba Shearer Jodie Allen Waller Georgia Robb Garnet Miller OLIVE PAINE, Guardian Keouk Camp Mary E. Koll, Big Sister Jean Hanks Rebecca Megown Zelma Wells Othelia Kirk Inez Perley Edith Cain Gladys Howey Inez Callison Cynthia Blakemore Velda Cochran Helen Markey Iphigenia Burrows Lenna Hall Goldie Tarr BLANCHE F. EMERY, Guardian Wa-o-ki-ya Campfire Julia Briggs Fern Winette Frances Rice Eunice Jones Gladys Crews Pearl Osborn Ruby Caldwell Myra Wright Ida Dyer Ruth Reynolds Anna B. Collett Lena Frances Peterson Clair Rhodes ROSAMOND ROOT, Guardian Onoway Camp Julia Hanley Agnes Sublette Virgil Waddill Eva Winslow Grace Smoot Delia Warden Pearl Snyder Alice McCrary Velvah Cull Florence Sublette Lucile Van Pelt Jeanne Quintal Lola Barnett Mabel Rinehart Esther Redmon LENA E. PATTERSON, Guardian Ekolela Camp Oina....................Jewell Rhoades Tatokekeya..............Velma Patton Owasaka.................Elizabeth Ryle Tanda...................Kathryn Burton Tiamilia................Maurine Woodruff Oececa..................Lois Smith ................Verdun Bealmer Shakual.................Texie Ryle Anpao...................Barbara Gregory Oamewa..................Lulu Williams ...................Senora Carsten Mrs. Bundy, Guardian Tewapa Camp Louise Estill Lucille Nickell Ermine Thompson Jennie Williams Virginia Howell Marguerite Ovens Phradie Wells Helen Wilson Fay McCutchen Vera Thomas Lelia Wilder Dale Zeller Mrs. R.W. Hans Seitz Miss IDA A. JEWETT, Guardian (Page 123) 1. ONOWAY; 2, WA-O-KI-YA (Page 124) 3, Ekolela; 4, KEOUK; 5, TEWAPA; 6, CHICKAMINCHEE (Page 125) DEPARTMENTS. (Page 126) Agriculture "And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind............let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind."--Genesis 1:11-25. MR. JACCARD is a very religious man. On being asked one day last, spring what the purpose of the Agriculture Department was, he began scratching his head. We knew he was trying to recall the above verses of scripture so we print them. This is a noble purpose; it even includes the raising of skimmed milk calves and snakes. We notice, however, that the "propagation" of greenhouse owls is not mentioned. Perhaps that duty rests with another department of the school. Our Agriculture Department, whatever be its purpose, has been strengthened during the past year. There are now three men who devote all of their time to the work. Besides the increase in the teaching force, new equipment in the laboratories and improvements at the State Farm indicate progress. The Farmers' Short Course held in conjunction with the Rural Life Conference was especially good this year. The Department has been the means of bringing several strong men to Kirksville during the past year. The benefit to farmers and students resulting from talks by such men as F.W. Merrill and A. Ross Hill cannot be measured in dollars and cents. We love our trio of "Ag. Profs". Of course Mr. Jaccard's disposition has become somewhat bilious as a result of having "to care for his own" at home. But we can overlook that. He's a good sport and we're for him. Mr. Ellison has been somewhat of a problem. In the first place we can't tell just how old he is. Various guesses ranging from twenty years up to fifty-two have been made, but no decision has been reached. He's married, though, and that is the most important thing. Mr. Wright is too well known here to get away with any of the bluffs so characteristic of college professors. Anything he accomplishes comes by the sweat of his brow. Any one can easily pick him out in a crowd (one of his duties is testing milk) by the cream on his coat. Mr. Wright proved beyond a doubt that he is a diplomat when he "worked" the Sharpies Separator Company into furnishing him a milk clarifier to play with. He now has quite a collection of toys. There are all kinds of students taking Agriculture. They range all the way from "prep" school students to osteopaths looking for patients and "lady friends" in the Normal School. We wonder why agriculture is the excuse the latter make use of for being here. It can't be because this particular course is a snap. Making garden, testing milk and going on ten-mile hikes to judge cattle doesn't sound very "snappy", unless the ten-mile hike comes on a day when the mercury reads 24° below. But whatever their reason may be, we are glad to have them with us--they often prove useful in directing the professor's attention to anatomy when the class haven't studied the lesson. That doesn't mean that we do not study at all. We do study, and we intend to make Missouri better from our having taken agriculture in the K.S.N.S. --AN AGRICULTURE STUDENT. (Page 127) Unfer Paying Jarmond His Election Bet Activities of the Aggies Jaccard (to left) Our landscape gardner (Page 128) Foreign Languages German In the German Class What is the difference between "weil" and "denn"? "Weil" is a subordinate, and "denn" an insubordinate conjunction. Was ist ein Kind? A child or a kid. We wonder what picture presented itself to the mind of the student who sang with a great deal of expression, "Wenn die Schweine sueclwaerts ziehn!"? Quotations from German literature as interpreted or reproduced by promising students of "Deutsch": Der Mann hatte einen sehr schwarzen (schwachen) Magen. Sie hoerten die Doefuhr sechs stricken. Die Fuesse-(suesse) suppe schmeckte sehr gut. Wenn es Mittag ist, geht der Bauer heim und stopft. Der Knabe machte einen Pfaff' (Pfad) fuer das Maedchen. Wie einsain ist mir's jetzt, In dieser grossen Stadt. Wo alles mich entsetzt, Mich muede macht und satt. Wen kenn' ich traulich hier? Sie alle sind mir fremd. Was stillt mil mein' Begier, Das meinen Geist nicht klemmt? Ach lass mich Freiheit haben!; Natur im Herzen fuehlen; In suesser Wonne laben; Das heisse Sehnen Kuehlen! Ach. uesse freie Luft Dich atmen lass doch mich; Erquick' mit deinem Duft Die Seele ewiglich! Mr. Heyd (after talking at some length about Germany to one of his German classes) : "Shall I open the window?" Weary Student: "Yes, we have had enough hot air." Lain To The Fountain of Bandusia O Fountain of Bandusia! O thou, fair Fount, art far more bright Than shining glass, a beauteous sight With wine and garlands 'round thee laid! Tomorrow will thy sacrifice Be giv'n: a kid whose brow with horns Just now is budding, at the morn's Return, when annual gifts are made. Both love and battles does this kid Foretoken. Ah! Alas, in vain! For thy cool waters does it stain, This sportive kid, with its red blood. The Dog-star's fixed season can Not thee, sweet Spring, with burning heat Transform; cannot thy life so sweet Exhaust: for thou eternal art. The oxen wearied with the plow Delightful rest 'neath thy cool shades Shall seek; the herd thy tender blades Shall nip, while roaming near thy brink. With noblest founts shalt thou be named; Since I the oak, and rocks so near, Whence leap your laughing waters clear, In song and verse shall celebrate. (Page 129) Latin Parody on Psalm of Life Tell me not in mournful numbers Latin is worn out with age, And the ancients now all slumber, Having left no heritage. They are dead, Latin remains To torment us all our days, To Julius with high arms, Our voices rise in loving praise. Great enjoyment and no sorrow Is its destined end or way, For we know that each tomorrow, Finds it drier than today. Verbs are hard and ideas fleeting Into our minds so strong and brave, Conjugations we are beating, They will drive us to the grave. Ere Latin's broad course is run All bold nouns find their place, Loose-jointed supines are such fun, Their memory we will ne'er erase. Lives of those Romans remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And yet die and leave behind us, No such stuff to cram the mind. Let us then give up our hating, With the thought always in mind, To keep working and translating, For those dear ones who come behind. A Sonnet on the Latin Faculty In former years we in our midst had two Who each gave life and soul to one great plea: One, who had gone to his reward ere thee From Cicero's Orations without cue Could quote by score the lines and stanzas too From Horace much beloved by him. And she Who labors with us still, as well as he, Knows these: is skilled in choosing words in lieu Of Latin words, which English smooth will make: Can trace the origin of words which take Their derivation from some Latin root. O Student! Think of what a benefit May come to you when in your room you sit In pensive thought o'er some good word for "ut." Spanish When asked to write something of interest concerning the Spanish Department, so many of the students frowned that we concluded studying Spanish made one feel like this: (Page 130) Education Credo Educational Creed of the Class in the History of Modern Education DK. W.A. CLARK, Teacher CONCERNING EDUCATION: I believe that education is the cultivation of human life. CONCERNING THE CHILD: I believe that the child is self-active and is stimulated to higher development by the teacher. CONCERNING THE TEACHER: I believe that the teacher is one who sympathetically cultivates the life of his pupil. CONCERNING THE CURRICULUM: I believe that the materials of education are selected experiences of the race, used in the cultivation of human life. CONCERNING THE PROCESS: I believe that the process of education is the discovering of the interests of the child and aiding him in satisfying those interests. CONCERNING THE SCHOOL: I believe that the school is a community center in which the common life is promoted. (Page 131) EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CLASS Top row, left to right: ZEIGEL, QUINN, COWAN, LOUGHEAD, HOLBERT. Middle row, left to right: SUBLETTE, FLOWERS, HILBERT, LUEPKES, TAYLOR, BARNETT. Bottom row, left to right: WIRTH, Ross, CLARK, ROOK, GREEN, WHEATCRAFT. (Page 132) Rural Education RURAL EDUCATION is coming to the front. Since Mr. Burrows got his new secretary there have been more young men frequent the office than ever before in its history. This speaks well for the Department, but a new secretary is not all that has been added to the Rural Education Department within the last year. Miss Root, who took Mr. Sipple's place last spring, is winning a permanent place in the hearts of the students by her enthusiasm for everything that points towards progress. We are proud of her at home and we are proud of her when she represents us away from home. Those who heard her at Lincoln this spring were proud to say, "She is from the K.S.N.S". Mr. Burrows really needs no comment. He is the "busy man of the faculty". His office hours run into the night, and the latch to his office door hangs on the outside. One has but to visit the Model Rural School shown on the opposite page to become acquainted with Miss Fidler. She has done some things that are really worth while over there this year, and she is willing to tell visitors about her work. Now that the roses (sincere ones) have been passed around, we will proceed with the "roasts". The first thing that must be mentioned is the fact that Mr. Burrows will be bald headed before many moons. There are a number of possible reasons for this. He may be hen-pecked at home, he may be over-working, or he may use too much of his hair to test his razor. Passing to the ladies in this Department, we regret to make the rather painful prophecy that, more than likely, Miss Root and Miss Fidler will die old maids. Mr. Epperson has gone to the rescue of an old maid or two in the English Department, but no one seems to have yet discovered the opportunities in the Department of Rural Education. About the only advice that can be given is live, in hopes. Several things that have characterized the work of the Department during the past year might be mentioned, among them the work in Rural Sociology, the record breaking Rural Life Conference and the new class in School Administration; but there can be no more fitting close to the comments on Rural Education than the statement, "There is no 'Fidling' around; every student 'Burrows' to the 'Root' of things". (Page 133) MODEL RURAL SCHOOL (Page 134) Practice School My Three Quarters in The Pratice School DID you ever have the good fortune to teach in the Practice School? If you have, you will appreciate what is to follow much more than you will if you have never had that pleasure. There is no subject that will arouse reminiscences so quickly and easily as one's experiences in the Practice School. The students learn to love (?) the little tots that grace the lower part of the Library Addition, and the children win a permanent place in the hearts of their teachers. Having been asked to write something that would bring back Practice School experiences to "Echo" readers, I will recount my own experiences there. I believe they are typical of what one goes through with during three quarters of Practice School work. The scene of my initiation was in the sixth grade rooms. The subject I taught was Composition. Before entering upon my work I had resolved to substitute kindness for the rod. I lay awake nights before the eventful first day planning the way in which I would "win the hearts of my children". The first day came, and as I entered the sixth grade room on the north side of the hall, the first thing to catch my eye was the bushy head of Homer Phillips. I felt nervous right away, but I decided right there that what Homer needed was "love", and proceeded to dish it out to him in full measure. It was hard work keeping the minds of those youngsters on the lesson that first day. Homer liked "love" for a while, but soon returned to the primitive. I didn't sleep much that night, nor the next. Time went on; Miss Jewett, my supervisor, was very kind, but my temper was getting nasty. I smiled and "looked sweet" as long as I could, and then one day I broke loose: "Homer Phillips, if you don't act civilized, I'll........." Perhaps I'd better skip to my second quarter's work. This time I decided to try the primary grades. I believed I surely could "cow" those little tots. I signed up for a second grade reading and phonics class. There were about as many girls as boys in the class and we were all getting acquainted on the first day when my joy was banished by an order to report to the Primary Office. I was the only young man who was doing work in the primary grades and one of the young ladies had a "tuff proposition". This "proposition" was a class of six laggard boys who couldn't keep up with the second grade and needed goading. Miss Kirkbride asked me to take the hard job and let the "lady" pilot my beloved second graders. It was then and there that I wished to meet the man who invented the word, "chivalry". I acquiesced and began work with a heavy heart. I am not going to give any details concerning my relations with the "noted six", but will only say that Miss Kirkbride was merciful enough to reward my services with an "E". My last quarter was with the "gym. boys". I enjoyed the quarter's work, but on the first day of the next quarter, when I heard Gwyn and Unfer marching the boys down the hall to the tune of "Hep! Hep! Hep!", in spite of myself, my lips moved in a silent prayer of thanksgiving. My three quarters were over. (Page 135) (Page 136) Mathematics MATHEMATICS--itself "The Queen of the Sciences" as Gauss phrased it--is the necessary method of all exact investigation. Kepler exclaimed: "The laws of nature are but mathematical thoughts of God." It may be that not all of the mathematical thought in and around our institution is divinely inspired, but we do feel safe in saying that it is very largely the foundation of exact investigation. How could it be otherwise when guided, directed, and inspired by (2)2 of the most brilliant mathematicians since Leonardo of Pissa. We are even now taking due cognizance of the fact that, as has been said, there are at present very few mathematicians, and that to one rightfully termed such,_________is as evident as 2 + 2 = 4. To the inexperienced it may seem that we are given to dealing in extremes, but only let us give in slight detail something of the personnel of this quartet and all doubts will vanish. First, let us consider the one who is by some called The Little Man of the Department, but remember that when they dubbed him such, they were only noticing his physique and did not take into consideration his capacity for grey matter. This remarkable capacity we will now endeavor to show by calculating the volume of his cranial region. This region may be accurately described as a solid, a plane cross section of which, is a semi-circle and whose bounding curve may be denoted by the equation x2 + 2y2 = C. The volume, then, of any cross-section of infinitely small thickness may be denoted by_________ . Since under the bounding curve r=y, and y2=________ , we may write_______________. Or, the entire volume will then be V=_____________________. Hence the desired volume is_________________. This is conclusive evidence of his mathematical ability. Another member of this august group is noted for that peculiar shinyness of dome, so characteristic of pedagogs. It was formerly supposed that this might be caused by his pining for the fairer sex rather than his close application to study, but since his entrance, last summer, into matrimonial affiliations has in no way allayed the expansion of that bald spot, we feel certain that such cannot be the case. In fact, his remarkable concentration is evidenced by the fact that the surface of this spot has already reached the following proportions, which, since it is a zone of a sphere may be stated as______________. We might give additional proof of our early statements by solving in detail, for the difference in velocity acquired by the Junior member of the Department when headed toward Brookfield and when headed toward Kirksville. The accelerating force might also be determined. Even the painstaking patience, accuracy, and stability of the Senior member might be expressed mathematically in terms of his center of gravity. But suffice to say. our beginning statements are already verified. So think all of the students who have completed the Mathematics Courses. (Page 137) Physics and Chemistry Science Department of the Kirksville State Normal School has done nothing M C\ out of the ordinary during the years 1916-17. However, a brief review of the J nature of the Department and the work that it accomplishes will be of interest to every one. Mr. J. S. Stokes is Chairman of the Division of Science and Professor of Physics and Physiography. All of the courses taught by him are enriched by a series of lectures on the " Philosophy of Living ". These lectures are not the dry, " canned " material that is usually delivered in college classes. They are based on Mr. Stokes' own life experiences, and he is unusually apt in interweaving the story of his life with the bare facts of science. On first thought there is, of course, a seeming inconsistency in this combination of Physical Science and Philosophy, but Mr. Stokes readily discovers a connection between subjects which no one else would ever see: For instance, magnetism suggests to him his early courtship and marriage. As a result, he invariably becomes side-tracked at this point. No thorough student of Physics in the Kirksville State Normal School finishes his course without hearing, at least once each quarter, this tender story of how he met her in High School, etc. Another story which the student never escapes, is- the story .of Mr. Stokes* graduation at Harvard. These are only examples of the many'stories employed by Mr. Stokes to give the student an opportunity for rest and often for sleep. By means of the students' laboratory fee the Physics Laboratory has been handsomely equipped. However, the eager student in his struggle for knowledge must satisfy himself with only looking on while Mr. Stokes plays with the material. During most of the day this precious material is guarded by Professor Durbin, who teaches a course in electricity. All students who enter this class have their youthfulness strongly' impressed upon them by the condescension of Professor Durbin. The course in Chemistry is taught by Mr. Bray. The chief part of the work is the experimental work done in the laboratory. In contrast to the regulations in the Physics Laboratory, the student of Chemistry is allowed free use of all materials in the Chemistry Laboratory. He is allowed to take his Manual and go unguarded into the laboratory where for two periods he can search diligently for material. He usually finds none. However, if he does he is allowed to use it freely, the case being that he usually does not use it at all for there is scarcely enough material in the laboratory to perform one experiment well. The one valuable result to the student is that he learns to develop patience. Especially is this true in the use of the one pair of scales which the laboratory contains. Silently and uncomplainingly each student awaits his opportunity.. The careful student never forgets to deduct one-half of the weight recorded, for the thick coat of dirt on the scales would render the result inaccurate otherwise. There is little wonder under these conditions that a student manages to perform only one experiment in a day. We regret that we have not sufficient space to dilate further on the excellent qualities of the Science Department. However, we can say in brief that, as fully equipped for work as this department is, we have good reason for expecting still greater things in the future than it has ever accomplished in the past. --A Student. 137 (Page 138) Where Young Edisons are Being Made (Page 139) History and Goverment Owing to the fact that every one knows our History and Government Department to be especially strong I have let this pass my censorship. It is the truth that hurts. This will hurt no one. -- ED. A Roast Like the Rest. OWING to the fact that we have been asked to contribute to the "Echo" an account of the work done in the History and Government Department of the Kirksville State Normal School in 1916-17 we have written this article. First we want it to be clearly understood that we always make every effort within our power to comply with the requests of our students and we are glad to see that almost all the other departments of the school followed our example in promptly submitting their contributions to the "Echo". At times it might appear that we have not shown a proper amount of modesty. However, we have allowed candor to overstep the bounds of modesty in our determination to reveal clearly the advantages of our Department. We offer some of the best high school courses given in the school. We believe that students of the tender age of high school students should have a sufficient amount of rest and sleep. Our high school courses are especially adapted to this need. Tired, overworked students can enter the sanctuary of Mr. Otterson's classes, where, lulled by the soothing drone and whistling "siss" of his undisturbing voice, they can sleep contentedly for an entire hour. This relieves the student of the unnecessary preparation that is so often exacted by less considerate teachers. The college history course most patronized is the course in "Medieval and Modern History ", taught by Mr. Violette, Head of the History and Government Department. The first two quarters of the work consist mainly of observation work in the handling of wall maps. By far the most interesting part of the course is the study of the present European situation which is given in the third quarter of the work. You will judge from the following brief outline that the course is as thorough as any given in the History Department. At first, in order to completely upset the student and thoroughly impress him with his own ignorance, a short examination is given on the war. This is followed by a three months raid on the daily newspapers from which every item on the war must be carefully cut and placed in an envelope. The wise student enlists any number of friends in this work. At the close of the quarter Mr. Violette collects the envelopes and the student goes on his way rejoicing, still thinking that the Kaiser is Commander-in-Chief of the French army. The most dreaded history course is "American Constitutional History", taught by Mr. Fair. Mr. Fair, with due consideration for the health of his students, never assigns more than one volume to be read each night. The chief advantage to be gained from the course is the collection of a complete library of American Constitutional History books. The only students entering Mr. Kingsbury's classes are those who can tolerate his idiosyncrasies and are very much in need of practice in using the library card-case. Toward the last of the year his classes grow smaller because many students find that they have not the physical strength necessary to "tote" the large reference books. A new course, Sociology, was introduced into the History Department this year. The class is taught by Mr. Rothschild. The course is one of the best offered in the school. It embraces a very interesting study of social problems. In the Fall Quarter a social survey of the conditions of poverty in Kirksville was made, and the results published in pamphlet form with the hopes that some real good might result in Kirksville as a result of the study. (Page 140) Home Economics "I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more: my cooks and I'll provide". The Banquet Squad was organized as a mere class in food preparation last September, but as time passed our vision enlarged. Having learned a few of the principles underlying the theory of cookery, we were permitted to make our first public appearance in a demonstration of our ability in preparing and serving a very elaborate seven course banquet to one hundred and fifty women of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. While performing this pleasurable task, while carting the food from one end of the building to the other, we were allowed to pass in review before the whole student body assembled in the auditorium for a mass meeting. The remainder of the Fall Quarter was very beneficial as we learned not only the principle of the cooking of carbohydrates and fats, but the process of digestion also, eg: The second quarter, our fame having spread throughout the school, many girls joined our ranks in hopes that they, too, might share the rare opportunities given the girls of this Department. In due time, they having been faithful in little things, were made rulers over many and were allowed to assist the more experienced girls in serving a banquet to the "K" club and their guests February 2, and a week later the Adair County Historical Society. During the coming Spring Quarter, we are anticipating the better finished products and further perfection of our service, for we have heard that we will be given experience in even more elaborate service, in addition to planning and serving a 10c luncheon every week and handing in every two weeks, "in usable form, neatly written on cards", all possible data concerning food stuffs. Though there has been much labor involved in serving banquets and though we have sat up until one or two o'clock every night for a week preceding the time our cards were to be handed in, and though we had to prepare and give demonstrations, and though on general cleaning day we worked in the laboratory until five o'clock and on other days until four, and though our teachers in other departments gave us looks and words better not repeated, because on account of this work, we were for a time incapacitated in Latin, English and other unimportant subjects, we know that the course has been so practical that we have gained enough to compensate for all these evils. We feel that we have indeed been fortunate in having such an efficient teacher and one with such personality that no girl of the Department could shirk even through the clean ups or lose her temper, or say naughty words when the chicken was turned over or when she spilled her chop suey in the middle of the floor or when the water poured down from above to be mopped up. It was the personality of our teacher that enabled us to "KEEP SMILING" through it all. A few of the things which helped us to bear the burden were such expressions as follows: Miss Koll (asking Miss Dudley a question): Miss Bailey-Downing-Durham-a-Dudley, what is lechethin? Miss Dudlev: Personified fat. Miss Koll: What is tissue of beef? Jean Hanks: Cellulose. Miss Koll: Not unless it's a paper cow. Miss Koll: Pat biscuits lightly with the butt of the hand. Rebecca Megown (a few minutes later): Miss Koll, I'm patting MY biscuits with buttered hands. Miss Koll speaking to Mrs. Crawford: Mrs. Toes, will you please walk on Crawford? Miss Payne (discussing proteins): Of all the proteins the necks and legs are toughest but juiciest because they are used most (beans, peas, milk and eggs). PRECAUTIONS FOR CANNING Keep hot and get into the jar immediately. To test set on tops for twelve hours. Place fruit into jar before sealing. Do not use intermittent method of canning as the spores have time to lay eggs. (Page 141) BANQUET SQUAD Top row, left to right: DORA RULON, LULU WILLIAMS, MYRTLE FOSTER, MRS. WALLACE GRAVES, KATHRYN BURTON, ELSA NAGEL, REBECCA MEGOWN. Second row, left to right: RUTH LILLEY, JEAN HANKS, FERN WINNETTE, GRACE SMOOT, GLADYS MORGAN, MRS. EVERETT MEALS, MRS. VIRGINIA WHITE, FLOY DOWNING. Third row, left to right: RUBY WELLS, AGNES SUBLETTE, WINNIE WRIGHT, VERA FINEGAN, Miss KOLL, OLIVE PAINE, ADDA BAILEY, RUBY DURHAM. Bottom row, left to right: MABEL CRUMP, RUTH CRAWFORD, ALPHA DUDLEY, ESTHER HARRISON, ETHEL ROSEBERRY, BLANCHE HEININGER, MARGUERITE OVENS, EULA HULL. (Page 142) Manual Arts Diary of a Freshman in Manual Training for the Fall Quarter Sept. 13--I "entered up" in Manual Training today. Of course it wasn't all Manual Training but that was one subject. I never got so "balled up" in my life. I ran from the "gym" to the office, from the office to the Credentials Committee, from there to the Committee on Excess Credits, and goodness knows where else. I am sure ready to "hit the tick". Sept. 14--Of all the tools and traps and trinkets I ever saw, McKean has them over in that squatty building by the greenhouse. We spent the period getting "lined up" and "straightened out". Sept. 21-A whole week has passed and I haven't kept my diary up to date. Well, I began making a broomholder today. Mercy me! I didn't know there was so much "science" to the making of a common little old thing like that. First I had to "draw it"; then I was sent to the lumber room for material to make it with. By the time I got ready to start, the period was up and I "beat it". Sept. 22--Got a lecture from MeKean on "Taking Care of My Tools". I think he chose "Ye have been faithful in a few (little) things, I will make thee ruler over many". Anyway, he brought out the point of tending to little tilings and I thought he was going to do something with "thee ruler" in his hand before he got through. I was so broke up over it all and my mind was so muddled that I spoiled a nice board, the one I was using in making my broom holder. Then I began to get "sore". McKean came back my way (he knew I had "mussed up" a board) but I gave my head a significant toss and he took the hint and "passed over to the other side". Sept. 30--Nursing a "mashed" finger today. I whaled away and nearly flattened my forefinger out-- said my Sunday School lesson backwards when I did it. The thing aches! aches! aches!!! Oct. 2.--No Manual Training today- laid up with a "mashed finger". Oct. 9--Back at it again. Saw a fellow using a thing to hold a bit with today and I'll swear, I thought it was a stomach pump. I got "balled up" on the bits today. Mr. McKean sent me for an auger bit and I brought back a gimlet. I can't remember the names of them all. Got my broomholder finished anyway. Oct. 16--Cut a slice out of my thumb with a draw shave. Hang it all, I'm too tender! I wish I was made of whang leather. Mr. McKean sent me for a brace and I supposed of course he meant something to drink, and I came wagging a bottle of linseed oil back to him, thinking it was beer or something. I never shall forget the look on his face. The real brace was a thing I never would have guessed. Nov. 3--Still sawing and scraping and shaving and pounding and screwing away. Nov. 29--It is all over. No more Manual Training for me--that is my last quarter. I had the awfullest dream last night. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning, I should judge, when I thought I heard an awful buzzing like the buzzing of scores of saws. Every now and then a huge hammer came down on something with a crash. As the dream advanced I seemed to be standing in the Manual Training room by myself and it was dark all around. I peered around and I could plainly see the statue from the east room walk in, point a finger at me and then say, "You kept that little knife". My hair rose. Just then I heard some one behind me draw a plane across a board with a loud rasping sound and a hammer hit an anvil with a deafening roar. I tried to jump out the window, but I cut myself miserably and was thrown back into the room where I lay on my back in a semi-conscious state. While lying there on my back I became delirious and saw a strange vision: The gimlet stabbed the auger bit, The bevel hit the square; The brace stepped into stop such "vice" And duly got his share. The draw shave grabbed the spoke shave, About to make a spoke; The plane tried hard to level things And all went up in smoke--(the breakfast bell rang). (Page 143) MANUAL TRAINING CLASS "Manual training is cultural because genuine culture is founded upon and vitally involved in utilitary activities". (Page 144) Commerce WHEN A.B.C.D.E.F.G. Hilgert left us and it was made known that Mr. Selby would take his place in the Bookkeeping Department, there were some sighs of relief and some of unpleasant anticipation. Of course Hilgert couldn't help his nervous disposition. What if he did roll his eyes and look skyward when perplexed? And what if he did break a clater or two once in a while when he forgot and crashed them down on our ink-besmeared samples of bookkeeping? With all his shortcomings he wore a pompadour and had light hair. Both of these characteristics indicate a "tame" disposition. But as we let the news soak in that a red headed "prof. " was coming--one who parted his hair--we turned white around the gills and our knees smote together. To make a long story short, he came and we like him immensely. He has proven to us that red hair and control of temper can go together. The work in bookkeeping has been enriched. A new textbook was introduced in the fall and the course is more modern than it was. Three cheers for Selby! But just one door farther to the east we had another change at the beginning of the 1916 summer quarter. We had become used to little Miss Hayes and thought no one could fill her place. Miss Finegan had only been away for a year and the new commerce students were informed by those who knew Miss Finegan that she was "a sweet little girl" but the fellow who could get away with an erasure in her typewriting class had yet to be born. She came with the June days and has held the fort in shorthand and typewriting ever since. It really has been quite a treat to watch the progress some of the typewriting students have made in argumentation. When one saw Miss Finegan come up to Jarmon's machine with a bunch of papers minus the " O.K." mark he knew there was a rich lesson in debating in store. But we learned to type write and, after all, that was what we were after. Incidentally we learned a few bye-words. Here is a succession of sounds often heard when our teacher was away: pink--pink-pink--pink-- pink--punk--punk--pank--parik--Oh --! ssssizzzz! In the shorthand room all went well. Of course Johnson tried to get an E out of an every-other-day attendance, but failed to "pull" that coveted letter. When C.V. Ford had a bad lesson he could always blame his roommate (wonder who he was) for coming in late and keeping him awake. Of course no one can do good work when they need sleep. Then, too, Ford was business manager of the year book. He and Morris could always lay everything to the dear old "Echo". Outside of an outburst of temper from Miss Newburn now and then, nothing else of importance has happened in shorthand. Now, at the end of the year, we can truthfully say that we have enjoyed the work and have attained considerable efficiency in writing Gregg Shorthand. May those who follow us be inspired by the fact that our footprints left on the sands of the commerce room floors go forward and not backward. --A COMMERCE STUDENT. (Page 145) TYPEWRITING ROOM Where an Eraser is Never Seen (Page 146) English A Steel-gray Day OH, what a muggy day,"sighs the disappointed picnicers. "A nasty mist, a damp, clammy atmosphere,--it's a beastly day!" We do not cultivate the possibilities of a foggy day. We do not notice how gentle and subdued the light falls, how softly the trees, houses and hills are outlined. The most commonplace object is mystic in the purple spray. It is holy water in which the world is baptized; it is the stuff rainbows are made of; it is the soul of the brook, the lake, the willow-fringed river; it is the ghost of a departed sea, haunting our valleys where once its body dwelt. It bathes the atmosphere, washes clean the blue dome of heaven, adorns the grass blades with diamonds and pearls for the appearance of their lover Sun. Birds and beasts revel in the mist. They have not learned the mean art of complaining. The horse lifts his head from fragrant clover blossoms, sniffs the moist fragrance into his wide nostrils and paws the earth for joy. The gentle cow tosses her horns and digs them into the earth, her mute way of saying "I am glad for this juicy breath of misty air. " The dog shakes his dripping coat and wags his tail. He finds no fault with this gray day. Sparrows chirp in contentment. Blackbirds sing Hallelujah Choruses. Crows caw. Jays scream their hilarious expression of approval. Only man grumbles--man, who should be first to rejoice, first to praise, first to receive with joyous approval Nature's offering of purple-gray mist. --AN ENGLISH STUDENT. "A Vision of the Homeland" Some Changing Visions of the Cast A Vision of "Ye Jollie Companie" Aboard One of the "Twin Fords", in Which They Visited Many First District Communities Top Row, left to right: RICHARD DeWiTT (Emmett); SYLVA BROWNE (Mary); ROY SLOCUM (Hiram); VERA FINEGAN (Nance); JULIUS QUIGLEY (Fritz); ZERVA CAUBY (Sally). Second Row: OLIVER C. PERRY, author (Erie); VELDA COCHRAN (Mrs. Clayton); C.M. WISE, director (Jim); J.C. WILLIAMS (Webster). (Page 147) A Vision of Transportation Facilities in Pattonsburg, Mo. A Vision--Nearly Every one Behaving with Great Dignity--on the Terrace by the High School at Lincoln, Neb. A RETROSPECTIVE VISION- Rural Life Conference--Nov. 2 K.S.N.S. Auditorium--Nov. 9 Novelty, Mo.--Nov. 10 Gifford, Mo.--Nov. 24 Brashear, Mo.--Nov. 28 Wyaconda, Mo.--Dec. 1 Rutledge, Mo.--Dec. 2 Avalon, Mo.--Dec. 22 Gorin, Mo.--Jan. 19 Rural Sociology Club--Jan. 27 Elmer, Mo.--Feb. 3 Lincoln, Neb.--Feb. 24 Connelsville, Mo.-- A Vision of a Prophet Not Without Honor, Even in His Own Country-- OLIVER C. PERRY (to left), "Ye Modest Author" (Page 148) Debating and Public Speaking Inter-Normal School Debates The man of big ideas and sound judgment is a source of great power in the world today, but the man of far greater influence is the one who, having big ideas, is able to give these ideas to the world by means of efficient speech. The influential man of today must master the art of speech. This means that he must organize his thought through systematic reading and study, and through patient practice acquire complete control of his body as an instrument to be used in conveying his thought. The most efficient means of acquiring ability in extemporaneous speaking is debating. Each year the State Normal Schools at Kirksville, Springfield, and Cape Girardeau enter into debating contests. These debates are known as the Inter-Normal School Triangular Debates. This year the debates will be held on the evening of May 11, the question for debate being, "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Canadian Plan for dealing with industrial disputes." By means of two preliminary contests, held near the close of the Winter Quarter, a debating squad of eleven students was chosen. This squad composes the class in debating which is given in the Spring Quarter. Later the final teams will be chosen from this squad. The Kirksville State Normal School fully realizes the value of debating, and the teams chosen for the final debate always receive the full support of the school. This year the debaters will be given a trophy in the form of a skeleton pin bearing the letters "D" and "K". This is the first time that any special honor has been conferred upon the Kirksville debaters, and it shows that each year the school is becoming more awakened to the fact that debating is of great value and must be encouraged among the students by means of proper recognition of the work of the debaters by the school. DEBATING CLASS, Top row, left to right: JUERGENSMEYER, GRAHAM, MALLETT; Middle row: PURDY, STANTURF, WILLIAMS, Ross; Bottom row: CAPPS, PERLEY, HOLLOPETER, VAN PELT, C. DYE. (Page 149) The Springfield-Kirksville Debate MAY 15, 1916 Chester Purdy Glen James Question Resolved, That immigration to the United States should be further restricted by a literacy test. Affirmative, Kirksville Chester Purdy Glenn James Negative, Springfield PAUL BOYD JOHN LAUNSBERRY Decision in favor of Springfield The Cape Girardeau-Kirksville Debate MAY 15, 1916 INES PERLEY RUSSEL MALLETT QUESTION: Resolved, That immigration to the United States should be further restricted by a literncy test. Affirmative, Cape Girardeau Negative, Kirksville Decision in favor of Kirksville. (Page 150) Winners in Rural Life Speaking Contest H.G. Hayes Second Prize Subject, "The Need of the Hour" A.H. Holbert First Prize Subject, "Possibilities of Rural Life." A.H. Juergensmeyer Third Prize Subject "Farmers' Protective Associations." (Page 151) Kirksville Mormal School Index Chester Purdy Editor-in-chief Index Staff FALL QUARTER CHESTER A. PURDY, Editor-in-Chief LUCILE VAN PELT, Local Editor Louis UNFER, Athletic Editor WARREN JONES, Associate Editor W. EVERETT MEALS, Exch. Ed. ROY INBODY, Business Manager ELSA NAGEL, Associate Editor C.M. WISE, Alumni Editor ARTHUR CAMPBELL, Adv. Asst. EARL F. MORRIS, Associate Editor O.E. GRAHAM, Music Editor LLOYD BROWNE, Bus. Asst. WILLIE HOWARD, Business Asst. WINTER QUARTER CHESTER A. PURDY, Editor-in-Chief EARL F. MORRIS, Associate Ed. C.M. WISE, Alumni Editor WARREN JONES, Associate Editor LUCILE VAN PELT, Local Ed. Louis UNFER, Athletic Editor ELSA NAGEL, Associate Editor W.E. MEALS, Exchange Editor A.H. HOLBERT, Bus. Manager WILLIE HOWARD, Bus. Asst. WILLIS F. BAUERRICHTER, Bus. Asst. SPRING QUARTER CHESTER A. PURDY, Editor-in-Chief ARTHUR CAMDEN, Associate Ed. LUCILE VAN PELT, Local Editor WARREN JONES, Associate Editor C.M. WISE, Alumni Editor A.H. HOLBERT, Bus. Manager LELIA WILDER, Associate Editor Louis UNFER, Athletic & Exch. P.O. SELBY, Auditor (Page 152) Kirksville Normal School Index As the annual "Echo" reverberates, the reminiscences of the school year, and as you open its pages you catch with prolonged intensity, sometimes fainter, sometimes stronger, the rebounding memories; so the "Index" endeavors to catalogue each week, the happenings and activities of the school, and to point with a guiding hand, to those enterprises which have functioned strongest in moulding the destiny of students and the institution. An endeavor has been made to fill the columns of the "Index" with news from every department of the school, voicing the opinions of students and faculty, and with news items of interest to present students, former students and the general public. Under such policy the subscription list has this year reached its maximum, and the circulation has extended into thirty-six states and territories. (Page 153) Music (Page 154) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA (Page 155) MIXED QUARTET Left to Right: PETREE, WELLS, SHOUSE, CHAMBERS MALE QUARTET Left to right: PETREE, O. GRAHAM, CHAMBERS, NEFF. (Page 156) SEXTET Top row,left to right: O. GRAHAM, PETREE, CHAMBERS, NEFF. Bottom rom: WELLS. SHOUSE (Page 157) Our Band Top row, left to right: SINGLEY, SPITZER, LAWSON, INGRAM, DILLINGER, G. DILLINGER, R. GOODRICH, C. DILLINGER Middle row: HALE, KASER, GOODRICH, NOVINGER, ROBERTS, G. NOVINGER Bottom row: WILSON, DUSSAGA, CHILDREN, R. DILLINGER, J. DILLINGER (director), E. DILLINGER, TUGGLE, CORNWELL. (Page 158) Tannhaeuser Miss PRRADIE WELLS in Tannhaeuser (Page 159) TANNHAEUSUR ORCHESTRA (Page 160) Fine Arts The year 1916-17 has been a profitable one for the Fine Arts Department. To begin with, the summer term reached its largest enrollment, something over two hundred. Besides the regular work, Miss Patterson gave a course in scenery paintings, which was well and diligently attended by a few of the most talented of our number. It was well that the term ended before they had run out of material and turned their genius toward the transformation of our peaceful village into a Viking stronghold or a modern Venice. During the fall term our dignified studio became a paradise for "Bulldogs", and at any time of the day might be heard hoarse crys from lair 1C, but we never feared, for the bark of the faculty member is worse than her bite. The winter term was dedicated to the Year Book. We will leave it to our readers to judge as to the success of our work. Those few of us who survived the arduous labors of the class in Design, who live now only to tell the tale, accept your appreciation with sincerest gratitude. Give us designs or give us death. Our zeal was so great that in February Miss Lyle went forth in search of new labor. Even as we write the preparations of our Spring Pageant are commencing and the class in History and Design of Costume is here and hold full sway until May when our campus will welcome the noble Athena, Wise Solomon, Robin Hood and many others, including Father Time bringing us a New Year which we hope will be as happy as the past was busy, for both students and faculty of the Art Department. A Few Echoes GLADYS HOWEY--Question box, Curiosity. LEE QUINTAL--The Goat of the Art Department. HAYES QUINN--Sarcasm personified (vinegar). JENS MADSEN--"Teacher's Pet". The little boy in the red Sweater." JEANNE QUINTAL--"Miss Lyle, I can't find my box, paints, ink, brush, pin, eraser, design, etc." FLOY WOLFENBARGER--(Slim), Chatterbox. LOUISE ESTILL--"Oh, I just have so much work I don't know what to do." MABEL LEUPKES--"Have you your page ready for the year book?" INEZ CALLISON--"I haven't that ready for today. I will hand it in tomorrow." GLADYS REESE--"Hark, Did you speak". (Page 161) CHAMPIONS (Page 162) H.L. McWILLIAMS (Page 163) Our Great Celebration IT is rather unusual to begin with the end, but that is the way we chose to do. On Friday, February 2, we celebrated our victorious year in baseball, football, track and debating. The Student Senate was the originator of the idea of having some sort of celebration in honor of the great year. After a great deal of discussion in that august body, it was decided to have an afternoon program, consisting of speeches by prominent Kirksville men and old alumni, and the presentation of athletic honors with "music in between". It was a cold day and the morning classes were hurried along so that all might get an early dinner and a nap (?) before 2:30 o'clock, the time set for the afternoon program to begin. The auditorium had been kept closed for several hours and was nice and "cozy" when several hundred students assembled at 2:30 o'clock. Our old friends, the Kirksville High School Tigers, were there too. We had reserved the centre of the balcony for them. They were all "dolled" out in their white sweaters (they, too, had won a championship). On the stage were seven footballs and fourteen baseballs, spoils of war, arranged in a very showy manner. President Holbert presided, but his modesty forced him to be introduced (!) to the audience by Mr. Kirk. When the boys, the baseball boys, the football boys, the track man and our debaters, with the speakers of the afternoon, marched onto the stage there was an outburst of sheer "bulldogism" from the crowd. Well, to make a long story short, the band played, Professor Zeigel welcomed the visitors, the male quartet sang, being forced to respond with two encores, W.C. McNeely in a well-worded speech gave a brief review of the football season and presented the sweaters, Honorable J.C. Mills, prosecuting attorney of Adair County, presented "Curly" with a loving cup, "Curly" responded with one of his sensible and heartfelt speeches in which he reviewed the baseball year and praised the baseball "Bulldogs", Hon. E.L. Marshall of Chillicothe, an alumnus of the school, made a speech in which, having been given authority by the Board of Regents and the Student Senate, he officially christened our athletic field, "Kirk Field", President Kirk responded with one of his forceful speeches, and the band played again. But that was not all. That night there was held an athletic banquet in the art rooms prepared by the Home Economics girls. Here is what they did there: PROGRAM E.O. JONES. Toast-master ATHLETICS AND MORALS REV. ANTHONY F. ZEIGEL TOAST PRESIDENT JOHN R. KIRK MIXED QUARTET MISSES WELLS, SHOUSE MESSRS. PETREE, CHAMBERS TOAST D.E. NEALE MALE QUARTET MESSRS. PETREE, GRAHAM, CHAMBERS, NEFF TOAST E.L. MARSHALL PRESENTATION OF GOLD FOOTBALLS TO THE TEAM W.C. MCNEELY (Page 164) K.S.N.S. Yell "Old Missou", "Old Missou", "Old Missouri's Son", Kirksville Normal School Number One. Locomotive Yell Hoo-ray--Hoo-rah K-S-- N-S. Rah-- Rah Hoo-ray -- Hoo-rah K-S-- N-S. Rah-- Rah-- Rah-- Rah K-S-- N-S. Rah-- Rah-- Rah-- Rah K-S-- N-S. Bulldogs! The Big Growl Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Eat ...... 'em up Bulldogs Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Eat ...... 'em up Bulldogs Bulldogs, Bulldogs, Bulldogs! OTTO GRAHAM The Rah, Rah, Boy The Purple and the White KIRKSVILLE NORMAL SCHOOL SONG "Old Missou" and "Old Missouri", Hark the sounds of yells exalting Our hearts our school has won. From out the "Bulldogs'" den- Fondly cling we to the mem'ry Did you hear the shouts of triumph Of "Old Missouri's Son". 'Twas the William Jewell brave men. Gladly thee our hearts we tender Far above them hark the tumult, By the dim and flick'ring light, Like the triumph of the right, Every lad a proud defender As we give the Kirksville--hurrah!-- Of the Purple and the White. Of the Purple and the White. (Page 165) Records of Baseball Men R H SB SH E AV Cole.......... 13 11 14 2 8 220 Browne........ 10 8 12 8 4 173 G. Dillinger.. 12 15 4 0 2 312 Petree........ 10 24 3 4 3 408 Neff.......... 7 12 0 2 0 343 R H SB SH E AV E. Dillinger... 14 16 2 2 0 296 Chambers....... 8 5 1 4 6 147 Bartlett ...... 5 13 6 4 0 265 J Dillinger.... 10 17 5 1 2 285 Green.......... 1 2 2 0 4 95 (Page 166) FOOTBALL SQUAD Right to left: McWilliams, Collins, C. DYE, AESCHLIMAN, FINLEY, ZEIGEL, INBODY, PAINE, MOTTER, HOPPER, CAMMACK, S. DYE, PETREE, NEALE, CASSIDY, HOFF. (Page 167) Baseball The Bulldogs" began the baseball season of 1915 with four "K" men of the previous year: Chambers, captain of the team; Neff, the best pitcher this school has ever had; Cole, the fighting second baseman and Browne, a man of much promise. Leo Petree a catcher, and Earl Dillinger, a fielder, two "K" men of former years, added to the list of old men. The first game of the season was played away from home against the strong Missouri Valley College team of Marshall and resulted in the first, last and only defeat of the "Bulldogs" during the 1915 season. The next day these same two teams engaged in combat, and, by displaying the true "Bulldog" spirit, the tide of battle turned and our boys were the victors, the score being 10 to 3. The week beginning April 24th was the most critical of the entire season. Four games in as many days were to be played away from home and against some of the strongest teams in the Conference. Only one tried and experienced pitcher was to be found among the players who departed to uphold the name and fame of the "Bulldogs". Every evening during those four critical days students ami supporters of the team eagerly awaited the brief telegraphic reports that were to tell of victory or defeat. In due time the following reports were posted on the window of the "Owl Drug Store": April 24th, Missouri Wesleyan College 5, K.S.N.S. 7. April 25th, William Jewell College 0, K.S.N.S. 5. April 26th, Tarkio College 12, K.S.N.S. 20. April 27th, Maryville State Normal School 1, K.S.N.S. 4. On the morning of April 28th the victorious team returned to Kirksville, their invasion of foreign fields at an end and all remaining games of the season were to be played on the home field. The entire student body, practice school, faculty and band met the team at the train, a parade formed and a grand march through the business streets of our city followed. After the parade the team was given a great ovation in the auditorium and school was dismissed until one o'clock. On May 5th the people of Kirksville were given the first opportunity of the season to see the "Bull-dogs" in action. That afternoon they lined up against the Osteopath team and when the smoke of battle had cleared away their much-praised pitcher, McCrary, who started the game, was found warming the bench and the score board showed the following result : Osteopaths 2, K.S.N.S. 4. Central College invaded "Kirk" Field on the 8th and 9th of May and were defeated in both Duties by the scores of 11 to 2 and 0 to 4. These games afforded an opportunity for a try-out of two new pitchers, namely Hughes, who pitched the first game, and Graham, who pitched the second. During the last game Chambers, the captain and short stop, was hit by a pitched ball and as a result suffered a very severe injury which retired him from several games. On May 10th the Osteopaths, realizing the loss of our shortstop and captain, sought revenge for their earlier defeat, but again their Southern League pitcher lasted just two innings and was relieved by Alexander. But relief came too late. The "Bulldogs" were again the victors by the score of 4 to 3. Green, who earlier in the season had been handicapped by sickness, came into his own in this game and won himself a place in the hearts of the fans and his team mates. May 15th and 16th the strong team from Westminster College, who earlier in the season forced Missouri University into an extra inning game to defeat them by a 2 to 1 score, came to check our winning streak and secure the championship for themselves. The first game Neff let them down with one hit and no scores. During the 9 innings the "Bulldogs" secured 2 runs. The next day the score of two to one was duplicated. Neff also pitched this game, allowing but two hits and striking out 13 men. The third and last game with the Osteopaths was played May 15 and resulted in a score of 5 to 1. It looked until the last inning as if our opponents would be shut out, but a scratch hit and an error gave them their lone score. The three Dillinger brothers in the fields played brilliantly and their timely hitting was a big factor in the " Bulldogs'" scoring ability. May 22nd and 23rd brought the season to a close. The Missouri Wesleyan College team came to our field and lost the first game 9 to 0. Griffith, a new man on the mound for the "Bulldogs", held the visitors in excellent slyle. The last game was the deciding game of the championship race, In the he early innings the (Page 168) team played poorly and displayed the poorest spirit shown throughout the season. Missouri Wesleyan secured a big lead, nut the substitution of Neff and memories of the fighting spirit of the "Bulldogs" brought about the desired change in the spirit. The team became as a unit, the batters began to connect with the ball for hits, and what seemed a certain defeat was turned into a 5 to 4 victory and the sun that day set on "Kirk Field", the home of the 1916 State Champions. A Record of Two Championships BASEBALL April 13-Missouri Valley College 16, K.S.N.S. 4 April 14-Missouri Valley College 3, K.S.N.S. 10 April 24-Missouri Wesleyan College 5, K.S.N.S. 7 April 25-William Jewell College 0, K.S.N.S. 5 April 26-Tarkio College 12, K.S.N.S. 20 April 27-Maryville Normal School 1, K.S.N.S. 4 May 5-American School of Osteopathy 2, K.S.N.S. 4 May 8-Central College 2, K.S.N.S. 11 May 9-Central College 4, K.S.N.S. 6 May 10--American School of Osteopathy 3, K.S.N.S. 4 May 15-Westminster College 0, K.S.N.S. 2 May 16-Westminster College 0, K.S.N.S. 2 May 18-American School of Osteopathy 1, K.S.N.S. 5 May 22-Missouri Wesleyan College 0, K.S.N.S. 9 May 23-Missouri Wesleyan College 1, K.S.N.S. 5 FOOTBALL K.S.N.S. 14, Missouri Valley College 0 K.S.N.S. 19, Central College 7 K.S.N.S. 20, Missouri Wesleyan College 0 K.S.N.S. 25, Westminster College 0 K.S.N.S. 14, William Jewell College 12 K.S.N.S. 12, Christian University 6 K.S.N.S. 6, Springfield Normal School 6 K.S.N.S. 92, Maryville Normal School 0 (Page 169) P.J. COLE, "PALEY" Edina, Mo. If size was a prime requisite in baseball, "Paley" probably wouldn't amount to much. As it is, though, he amounts to considerable. For two years he has performed around second base in a manner to please both the fans and the coach. He is captain of this year's team and is expected to play his old position. "Paley" is a first class fielder and a good batter. His size is a source of great trouble to the pitcher, mainly because the pitcher has such a small mark to shoot at. As a result of this "Paley" gets lots of walks. LEO H. PETREE, "Big PETE" St. Joseph, Mo. "Pete" was the champion slugger of the 1916 Champion "Bulldogs". His great stick work brought in many a run last spring. Baseball fans will long remember a certain memorable occasion when "Pete" sent the pill over the high south fence and into the lake. The next day against the same team, Missouri Wesleyan, with the championship hanging in the balance, "Pete" drove in the winning runs. It was in the eighth inning, the score stood four to three against us with two out, two on, and "Big Pete" at the bat. The big boy clouted the ball for two bases and the championship was won. "Pete" has stood behind the bat for three years, 1911, 1912, and 1915. He will be with us again this year. (Page 170) ROY T. NEFF, "Roy" Hagarsgrove, Mo. Neff will long live in the hearts of his schoolmates as one of the best pitchers K.S.N.S. has ever had. In the pinches Neff was always ready to go in and save the day. Last year he won from Westminster two days in succession. He humbled the proud and boastful Osteopaths three times, and pitched the team to victory over the mighty William Jewellites by a five to nothing score and against Mary-ville by a four to one score. He was undoubtedly the best pitcher in the Conference. Roy graduated last spring and also played his fourth year on the team. He is teaching in the high school at Hannibal, Mo., this year. W.T. GREEN, "TOMMY" Goldsberry, Mo. This young chap is eighteen years old and weighs 145 pounds. Last spring he was an unknown quantity to the Kirksville fans, but after a few weeks of practice he seemed to be headed for a place on the team. At this particular time he took the measles and had to go home for several days. When he came back he thought his chances for winning a "K" were about gone, but he went to work harder than ever. When Bill got hurt "Tommy" took shortstop's position and made good. He was a mightily tickled boy when he got to play enough to win his letter. "Tommy" will be out for the team this spring and will make it or make some one else work for it. (Page 171) JIMMIE DILLINGER, "JIMMIE" Reger, Mo. In point of age "Jimmie" is the middle portion of the "Dillinger" outfield combination, but in point of height he ranks first. "Jimmie" spent his time catching high ones out in right field or in doing the seemingly impossible stunt of doubling his long frame up enough to reach down to the ground for a low one. Last spring was "Jimmie's" first year on the team. He will be out this year for a berth on the 1917 team. LLOYD E. BROWNE, "BROWNIE" Kirksville, Mo. "Brownie" is an extremely versatile young fellow to have around on a ball team. He can play almost any position except perhaps pitcher or catcher. In 1915 he started out playing left field but was soon shifted to third base. Last year he started out to cinch third base but when it became evident that a first sacker must be had, "Brownie" went to first. "Brownie" is a good, clean fielder. He is in school this year which of course means that he will be out for baseball. (Page 172) G.W. CHAMBERS, "BILL" Purdin, Mo. "Bill's" particular hobby is picking up hot grounders between second and third base and then shooting the ball to first with a fast, sure throw. "Bill" has played the shortstop position with us for the last three consecutive years. Last year he had the misfortune to get hit by a pitched ball in a game with Central College which caused him to miss several games. "Bill" only has one more year to play with the "Bulldogs". We will be sorry when his four years on the team are gone, because a short stop like him isn't picked up in school every day. THOMAS EARLE DILLINGER, "EARLE" Reger, Mo. Earle is the Senior member of the famous "Dillinger" outfield. He has played two years on the team. His first year was spent around second base, while last year he made himself extremely useful by catching high flies out in center field. Earle is a good hitter, a good base-runner and an excellent fielder. He is in school this year and of course will be out for baseball. (Page 173) Glenn Dillinger, "Glenn" Reger, Mo. "Glenn" is the junior member of the "Dillinger", outfield but he didn't let his brothers take all the honors just because they were the oldest. If you don't think so, just look at his batting average. Glenn played a steady game in left field and ranked well up in front when it came to batting. He captured one of the "Shower-sticks" offered by Mr. Kirk for home runs. "Glenn" is in school this year, will there he another Dillinger outfield? KAY BARTLETT, "BART" Kirksville, Mo. "Bart," otherwise known as "Laboratory", because on one of the trips last year he innocently referred to a dormitory as a laboratory, was our third baseman last year. Bart is a first rate batter and a good fielder. In one game against the Osteopaths he got two hits which indeed were bitter pills for them. He will not be in school this year, so another third sacker will have to be provided. (Page 174) OTTO GRAHAM, "WHISKEY" "Whiskey" didn't make his "K" last year, but his noble services in yell leading during the fall entitles him to a place "with the great". He was a substitute at "hurling the orb" and will be out for the job again this year in all probability. WALLACE GRAVES, "COLONEL" Kirksville, Mo. "Colonel" is our famous discus man. He now holds the Conference record with a throw of 111 feet made in the state meet at Tarkio last spring. In 1913 he won first place in the same event at the state meet with a throw of 109 feet. The "Colonel's" discus throwing has won him two "K" sweaters and two beautiful gold medals. He hopes to set up a record in the discus this spring which will stand for some time. Wallace also played left guard on the football team of 1911. He graduates this year. He is twenty-six years of age and weighs 185 pounds. (Page 175) Football The 1916 season opened October 7th at Marshall, "Bulldogs" vs M.V.C. At that time the "Bulldogs" were an unknown quantity, and judging from the fight they put up, they were no more than inexperienced pups. It was fortunate for Kirksville that Missouri Valley had a weak team, for if they had been strong, all our hopes would have been blighted then and there. But, as it was, Kirksville realized her weakness and went to work in earnest. The next week saw great improvement in tackling, running interference and carrying the ball. No one conceded us a chance to beat the Central "Eagles". The "Bulldogs" had on their fighting clothes that day. The "Eagles" were also groomed for victory. When the final whistle blew the score stood 19-7 in the "Bulldogs'" favor. "Jim" Pixley's aggregation of preachers from Cameron were the next to call the "Bulldogs" from their kennel. The latter met the preachers with fear and determination for the preachers had taught us the year before that they were real fighters. The final count stood 20 to 0 in favor of the howling canine bunch. It was in this game that the "Bulldogs" showed their strength. A "Blue Jay" scout observed the game and, judging from the odds the gamblers wished in Fulton the next week when the "Bulldogs" visited the saucy birds, the said soft shoe man must have given an unfavorable report. The week preceding the Westminster game was a discouraging one. Things didn't go well. The "Bulldogs" didn't seem to have the pep. The coach plead, threatened and almost swore to arouse their anger. It had some effect. They showed signs of fight in Mexico during the workout at Missouri Military Academy Thursday afternoon, but not enough to give the coach an appetite. On Friday afternoon the delicate appetite of the coach was restored. The Blue Jays were game birds, but couldn't stop the ferocious plunges of Dye and Petree. The result was: "Bulldogs" 25, "Blue Jays" 0. The skirmish at Westminster sharpened the ever ravenous appetite of the whole squad. The big red delegation from William Jewell came to the "Bulldogs'" kennel November 10th. It was a struggle from beginning to end. The result was inevitable--Liberty 12, K.S.N.S. 14. One might put in the if's and and's of the game, but 12-14 tells the story. The "Bulldogs" next went over to sup with the preachers at Canton, Mo. The results of victory had begun to tell on the "Bulldogs". They came near meeting their Waterloo at Canton. The K.S.N.S. boys acquired a habit of fumbling in that game, which almost caused their downfall. The preachers scored early in the game but never threatened afterwards. The final count stood 12-6 in the "Bulldogs'" favor. The pedagogs at Springfield next acted as hostess to the gentle "Buldogs". The pups still were playing in their worst form. Had either of these last two games come a week sooner or a week later, the results would have been different. The best that the "Bulldogs" could do was a 6-6 draw at Springfield. Turkey day found the Maryville "Bear Cats" playing the "Bulldogs". The Maryville boys were game, a clean bunch of sports, and did their best to stop the heartless dogs, but being new at the game, they lost by the score 93-0. Thus ended the 1916 season, successful from the standpoint that nobody expected anything from the "Bulldogs"; successful from the standpoint that they won a state championship, had three men on the All Missouri first team, one on the second and one on the third; successful from the standpoint that the "Bulldogs" played clean football, worked hard, had a good coach and were loyally supported by a loyal faculty and student body. (Page 176) -176- (Page 177) D.E. NEALE--"DAVE" Kirksville, Mo. "Dave" is a great football man and a great booster for the Purple and the White. In his position at left tackle last year he played a great game. In fact, he was chosen for the All-State team. "Dave" always gave his best. There were no off days for him. "Dave" can't play any more football for us as last year was his fourth year on the team. LEO H. PETREE--"Big PETE" St. Joseph, Mo. This husky gentleman has been our fullback for the past two seasons. Last season he made fullback on the All-State team. "Pete's" 188 pounds of bone and muscle will make a dent in almost any line. His specialty last fall was blocking punts. In the game with William Jewell he blocked two punts which virtually won the game for us as touchdowns were made by our boys from each one of them. "Pete" is a good punter and goal kicker and hits the line hard. We lose him this year by graduation. We might wonder who our kicker will be next fall. In addition to his football and baseball, "Pete" is also a track man. He won his letter putting the shot in 1913 and again in 1914. Here's hoping he can win with the shot again this spring. (Page 178) SEDRIC DYE--"Sed" Bevier, Mo. "Sed" has won his letter twice in football. In 1915 he played in the line, but last fall he was shifted to left half. His 180 pounds of bone, muscle, and grit was a great factor in the race for the championship last fall. Against William Jewell's powerful team he was a steady gainer. "Sed" is captain-elect for next year's team. We can predict a great team for next year with "Sed" in the back field. In addition to his football, "Sed" is a shot putter and discus thrower of no mean ability. Last year he won first place with the shot and second place with the discus, in the state meet at Tarkio. CLYDE CASSIDY--"CASSIDY" Brookfield, Mo. "Cassidy" came to us last fall after having had four years of football in Brookfield High School. While his weight isn't extraordinary, his speed makes him a valuable man in the backfield. He played right half last fall. He is a clever kicker as well as a good runner. Last fall in the game against Maryville he kicked the ball into the lake twice when kicking goal, after a touchdown had been made. A slow, expressive smile spread over the face of the coach after each kick. (Page 179) ROBERT HOFF--"SNAPPER" Bob played center on the teams of 1915 and 1916. He weighs 172 pounds and is twenty-one years old. "Snapper" did his share in making the airtight line that did so much to win the championship last fall. He has two more years to play with the "Bulldogs". He intends to be back next fall ready to defend his place at center against all comers. STEPHEN PAINE--"Steve" Kirksville, Mo. "Steve" is our dependable little quarterback. He was the youngest man on last fall's team, but he played the game anyway. He is seventeen years old and weighs 142 pounds. "Steve" played football one year for Kirksville High School. He intends to be back next fall to help pull down another championship. (Page 180) ALVA MOTTER--"CHEROKEE" Novinger, Mo. "Cherokee", commonly called "Cherry", is twenty years old and weighs 160 pounds. This fleet youngster made All-State end last season. He has played right end for K.S.N.S. for the past two years. "Cherry's" hobby is smearing up end runs and tearing down the field after a punt and nailing the receiver in his tracks. "Cherry" can give us two more years of football yet before becoming ineligible to play on a conference team. With him on the squad, the coach won't have to worry any about the position of right end. "Look out boys! It's a fake!" EMMETT S. FINLEY--"SLIM" Madison, Mo. Here is the heaviest man on our last year's football team. He only weighs 210 pounds and is nineteen years old. The second game of football he ever saw was the first game he played in and he says he didn't get to see much of it because the fellow in front of him took so much watching. Finley played right guard last year and intends to come back next fall to help turn out another championship team. (Page 181) CLAUDE N. DYE--"LITTLE DYE" Bevier, Mo. "Little Dye" is so named to distinguish him from his big, younger brother, Sedric. He isn't a bit afraid of his big brother, though. Just get them in a basketball game on opposite sides and see. Last year Claude played a dependable game as right halfback. This last season he played left end. He made some pretty runs when it came his turn to carry the ball on an end around play. Claude graduates this year. The "Dye works" part of the 1916 team won't be possible in 1917. He is twenty-three years of age and weighs 145 pounds. ROLAND ZE1GEL--"ZEKE" Kirksville, Mo. Last fall was "Zeke's" first year with the "Bulldogs". In his position at right tackle he played the game every minute. Along with his weight, which is 175 pounds, "Zeke's" looks constitute a great football asset. He has a facial expression to suit every phase of the game. Some of these expressions are fierce enough to get the goat of any opponent. Last fall was "Zeke's" fifth year of football. He played four years for Kirksville High School. He is nineteen years old. (Page 182) J.E. AESCHLIMAN-"JOHNNY" Lancaster, Mo. "Johnny" is a blue-eyed German. The great desire of his school career has been to win a "K". Last fall he played the game and won out. At substitute guard and center he got into the fray several times, and while there he upheld the fighting traditions of his race. "Johnny" is twenty-eight years old and weighs 165 pounds. He will he back next fall to help punch holes in the championship aspirations of the other teams of the conference. Roy Inbody-"Roy" Kirksville, Mo. Roy was the midget of last year's team. He is twenty-three years old and weighs 135 pounds. He is as hard as a nail and can stand lots of punishment. Roy played one year of football on the Kirksville High School team. On the "Bulldog" team of last year he played a steady game at quarterback. Roy graduates this year, so he will never call signals for K.S.N.S. again (Page 183) R.R. CAMMACK--"RALPH" Williamstown, Mo. This hefty chap has the strength and courage of a young Hercules. For two years he has played the position of left guard. Ralph is a powerfully built young fellow. His opponents do not gain much ground through his part of the line. Next fall he will again appear in football harness to defend the athletic honors of K.S.N.S. Ralph is twenty-two years old and weighs 182 pounds. FRANK COLLINS--"BLACKIE" Atlanta, Mo. "Blackie" acquired his nickname from his jet-black hair. He isn't very big but he plays the game just the same. In 1915 he was substitute halfback and quarter, but did not get his letter. In 1916 he was utility halfback and got to make his letter. He will be back next fall for a bigger year of football than ever. (Page 184) Maryville doesn't know what she is tackling. (Page 184a) (Page 184b) Top row, left to right: BARTLET, BROWNE, E. DILLINGER, GRAVES, J. DILLINGER, CHAMBERS, COLE. Middle row: G. DILILINGER, (Page 184c) MOTTER, HOFF, AESCHLIMAN, PAINE, GREEN. Bottom row: INBODY, S. DYE, PETREE, McWILLIAMS, FINLEY, ZEIGEL, C. DYE. (Page 184d) (Page 185) SEVENTH HOUR BASKETBALL TEAM--Left to right: C. DYE, GWYN, G. DILLINGER, DOWELL, CALDWELL. DILLINGER BASKETBALL TEAM (Page 186) FOURTH HOUR BASKETBALL TEAM Top row, left to right: NOVINGER, JUERGENSMEYER, JONES, HALE, CAIN, THOMAS. Bottom row, left to right: Hayden, Proust, McGee, HOWARD, NOVINGER. (Page 187) Girls' Athletics Extracts from the Diary of a Youthful Gymnaste Sept. 12--When I enrolled today, Mr. P-- said that I ought to take a drill, and put down Physical Education 1 on my card. I suppose the women should get ready to do their part in case of war, and if I take drill here, I won't have to go to a summer camp to learn how to be a soldierette. Sept. 14--Had to write an essay the first day (as if we wouldn't have enough composition work in English) on why we are taking this course in Physical Education. I said I took it expecting to become more graceful, and to be able to teach swimming. (For it seems, from what the girls say, that this isn't exactly the same as military drill, though something like it.) Sept. 17--Physical examination. Say, I didn't know there were so many bones and things to measure. My strength tests didn't show very much muscular development, but the teacher said it was evident- that my lung capacity was good. She wants us to be outdoors at least two hours a day, so after school I went for a long walk with Howard T--. Sept. 19--I don't see myself taking any outdoor exercise today. I can scarcely walk and nearly scream every time I go up or down stairs. I told Miss W--, for I thought it might be serious, but she just LAUGHED, and told me to go on exercising the lazy muscles and they would soon stop complaining. I have fallen off half a pound since school began. Oct. 3--We learned a cute folk dance today. I would have got it just swell only I had such a stupid partner. And she had the nerve to tell me that we would get along better if I would pay attention to the directions instead of making up steps of my own..........I wonder if I really have Terpisshorean talent. It wouldn't be bad to be a second Madame Pavlowa, with the world at your feet. I have gained a pound. Oct. 20--Well, I can't swing Indian Clubs. There is no use. Coordination may be important, but I've always heard it was better to put your mind on one thing and do it well, than to try to carry on several varied activities at the same time. (Page 188) Nov. 1--Basketball is lots of fun. I wished on the new moon last night that I would make my class team and that we would win the school championship. Then, when I go home Bob can't brag all the time about his old football. I am going to play in the spring tennis tournament, too. Miss W--said maybe some public spirited citizen or member of the alumni would donate a cup, by that time, for the girls to play for. Perhaps, if I went in for it seriously, I might win a whole cupboard full of cups, like Mary Brown or that Molla Somebody. Jan. 13--Aesthetic dancing is really my forte, I believe. I could dance the American Beauty waltz forever! But it certainly is tiresome, and foolish, it seems to me, to waste so much time on those preliminary exercises. SHE says they are just as necessary as the practice of scales by the pianist, but I never did see the use of them, either. And why don't we have dancing every day? Some of it is hard, but not so hard as that prone falling posture, or doing stunts on the ladder. Pearl likes those things best of all, and Ruth would rather swing Indian Clubs than eat. But, of course, they shine in those exercises. I am surprised to find that with all this hard work, I have gained two pounds. I believe the scales are wrong. Feb'y. 20--Practicing in all my odd moments on the Sailor's Hornpipe, which we have to give for examination, as a solo dance. It isn't so easy as it seems, to get out there alone before the class and remember the figures and do them in good form. But there is one consolation, everybody is in the same boat. March 10--Well our team won one game, anyway, though not the one I played in. I bet I'll get on thai All-Star team next year. I didn't know about it beforehand, or I would have made it this time. April 4--Everyone is talking about the spring Pageant. There are to be a lot of Egyptian and other pre-historic dances in it. Wouldn't it be great if I could be Cleopatria doing a solo dance, surrounded by my maidens!......I don't know whether I'd rather do that or win the tennis tournament. C--D-- says that since I've never played, I'll find some trouble defeating that big girl who has won all the cups, so far. Sometimes it seems as if all this struggle for the serious things of life is hardly worth while, after all. I've a notion to give it all up and content myself with being a mere society bud.......Ho hum.... ...I have fallen off three-quarters of a pound. Tennis We have been taught that there is a time during school life when we work for the offered prize, and that as we grow wiser we work for the joy of working. This is true not only when we work to develop our brains, but also when working to develop our muscles. Although the girls of K.S.N.S. are not offered prizes, such as the much coveted sweaters of the boys for their work in athletics, they, nevertheless, exhibit their athletic spirit in various ways. This spirit was shown in the enthusiasm aroused during the practice tennis tournament played last autumn. Owing to the everchanging Missouri weather this tournament probably lasted longer than was well for the nerves of some of the participants, and all matches had not been played until late November. The longest and perhaps the most closely contested match was played by Alice Gentry and Jeanne Quintal. Miss Gentry won the first set, 15-13, and was within one point of winning the second when Miss Quintal's everlasting smile faded into a look of determination and she won the second set and also the match. Since the finals were between the same players this fall as in 1915, the interest in the match was increased two-fold. But, as before, the invincible "Er-min-y " won the match and tournament, defeating Phyllis Bryson (6-2) (6-4). The girls are expecting to have another tournament in the spring, not a practice tournament, but one deciding the championship among the girls of the school. Those playing in the autumn were Louise Derby, Minnie Brott, Ted Kirk, Mabel Crump, Lulu Williams, Kathryn Burton, Alice Gentry, Lena Bowen, Olive Davis, Jeanne Quintal, Ethel Barton, Alpha Dudley, Julia Briggs, Jewell Rhoades, Ruth Music, Phyllis Bryson, Viola Lovett, Esther Dudley, Ruth Howerton, Evangeline Webber, Mabel Rinehart, Irvie Lee Yowell, Olive Mudra, Ruby Yowell, Lenore Powell, Elizabeth Ryle and Ermine Thompson. (Page 189) Basketball for Girls Before the basketball season of 1916-1917 the girls of our school had never shown much interest in basketball. It was probably not the girls' fault, but was caused by not having some one to start the movement. Last year there was a series of class games played, but outside of the girls who played, only a few were interested enough to come to the games. This year, however, girls' basketball took a decided leap towards popularity. Some of the old "pep" of the K.S.N.S. students, which is always brought forth by the appearance of the "Bulldogs", was shown in the closely contested class games in this season's series. Three class teams were organized, a High School team, a Freshman team, and a Sophomore team. Edith Cain was elected captain of the High School team, Grace Smoot of the Freshman and Elizabeth Ryle of the Sophomore teams. A series of three games was played, the first between the High School and Sophomore teams, the second between the Freshman and High School teams and the third game between the Freshman and Sophomore teams. All three games were closely contested, the second game being a tie which was played off in extra time. Probably the most "pep" was shown in the last game. The game was played in the evening in the girls' gymnasium. The ever present school spirit was out in full force. Both teams had good backing, especially the Sophomore girls. Their class had organized a rooting squad and had elected a yell leader. The game ended in a victory for the Sophomore team. Although the basketball season was apparently over for the girls, in reality the game did not finish their good times. As soon as they could change their conventional middy blouses and bloomers for their very best clothes they were shown to the Domestic Science rooms, where their coach and director, Miss Williams, had had a lunch prepared for them. After eating, several speeches were made by different members of the teams, and finally, one by Miss Williams. The girls feel that they owe a great deal to Miss Williams. She has been the one who has started the enthusiasm among the girls for basketball and who has led the girls through their practices and games and helped them to cultivate a good, wholesome, true athletic spirit towards each other. SOPHOMORE Basketball Team Top rom, left to right: Matlick, Foster, Hoerrmann, Hanks, THOMPSON. Bottom row: Woodruff, E. Ryle, Cochran. (Page 190) GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM Top row, left to right: I. COHAGEN, BOWEN, P. COHAGEN, FULLINGTON. Bottom row: E. DUDLEY, CAIN, ROBERTSON. FRESHMEN GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM Top row, left to right: Duncan, harrison, RINEHART, KIRK, SALES. Bottom row: BBIGGS, MUSICK. SMOOT, WALKER, PAXTON. (Page 191) GIRLS WHO WERE IN THE FALL TENNIS TOURNAMENT Top row, left to right: YOWELL, BOWEN, THOMPSON, BURTON, POWELL, YOWELL, WEBBER. Middle row: DUDLEY, MUDRA, DAVIS, RHOADES, BRIGGS, LOVETT, QUINTAL. Bottom row: CRUMP, HOWERTON, MUSICK, E. RYLE, GENTRY, KIRK, RINEHART. (Page 192) Ermine Thompseon Who won the championship in the tournament (Page 193) FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES (Page 194) ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA SORORITY Top row, left to right: G. HOWEY, I. FIELDS, D. DAVIS, E. HARRISON. Second row: C. TAYLOR, G. MORGAN, E. GRIGSBY, L. NICKELL, J. HOWELL, M. SIMMONS. Third row: D. ZELLER, F. WOLFENDARGER, I. JEWETT, M. SPARKS, L. ESTILL. fourth row: L. HALL, E. HULL, C. THOMPSON, M. LUEPKES, R. WELLS, R. Bnvsox. Bottom row: W. WRIGHT, H. WHITELOCK, E. CHRISTY. (Page 195) Alpha Sigma Alpha Alpha Beta Chapter Founded as Alpha Chapter of Kappa Theta Psi, December 24, 1899. Installed as Alpha Beta of Alpha Sigma Alpha, December 12, 1914. Flowers Aster Narcissus Colors Pearl, White and Crimson Palm Green and Gold Chapter Roll Ann Brewington, Bevier Ruth Bryan, Shelbina Edith Christy, Kirksville Caltyfe Davis, Kirksville Louise Estill, Moberly Ione Fields, Frankford Elizabeth Grigsby, Paris Lenna Hall, Kirksville Esther Harrison, Mexico Janet Howell, Kirksville Gladys Howey, Kirksville Eula Hull, Kirksville Rita Husted, Kirksville Mabel Luepkes, Hannibal Frankie Westfall Moore, Perry Gladys Morgan, Shelbina Lucille Nickell, Bowling Green Maurine Sparks, Shelbina Marie Simmons, Hallsville Curtis Taylor, Armstrong Cecile Thompson, Frankford Floy Wolfenbarger, Perry Ruby Wells, Kirksville Hazel Whitelock, Kirksville Winnie Wright, Clarence Dale Zeller, Oregon Miss Ida A. Jewett, Faculty Member Patronesses Mrs. W. P. Bondurant Mrs. M. D. Campbell Mrs. S. H. Ellison Mrs. Mae De Witt Hamilton Mrs. George Laughlin Mrs. B. H. Stephenson Mrs. C. C. Gardner Mrs. H. C. McCahan Mrs. E. M. Violette ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA is a national normal school sorority whose aim is the intellectual, physical, social and moral development of its members. The national organization is directed by a college woman with thirty years of experience in work with and for girls, and each chapter has a faculty member who works with the girls and gives them the benefit of her greater experience and more mature mind. Each chapter has also a group of patronesses, representative women of the town, who advise with the faculty member on local problems and who represent types of character, culture and charm, which the undergraduates are urged to attain. Through the sorority the members become interested in the whole movement for the higher education of women and in many problems that confrpnt college girls, problems which faculties cannot solve. Working together in congenial groups gives the girls parliamentary training, some business experience, the benefit of each other's help in solving social and moral problems, furnishes social good times to the members while in school and forms close ties of friendship which bind alumnae to each other and to the school. The intellectual aim of the sorority is the only one whose attainment is capable of measurement, but the Kirksville chapter can show that since its establishment it has made a record of nearly fifty percent of all grades of E quality. 195 (Page 196) Alpha Sigma Alpha Alpha Beta Chapter Founded as Alpha Chapter of Kappa Theta Psi, December 24,1899. Installed as Alpha Beta of Alpha Sigma Alpha, December 12, 1914. Flowers Aster NArcissus Colors Pearl White and Crimson Palm Greed and Gold Chapter Roll Ann Brewington, Bevier Mabel Luepkes, Hannibal Ruth Bryan, Shelbina Frankie Westfall Moore, Perry Edith Christy, Kirksville Gladys Morgan, Shelbina Callve Davis, Kirksville Lucille Nickell, Bowling Green Louise Estill, Moberly Maurine Sparks, Shelbina Ione Fields, Frankford Marie Simmons, Hallsville Elizabeth Grigsby, Paris Curtis Taylor, Armstrong Lenna Hall, Kirksville Cecile Thompson, Frankford Esther Harrison, Mexico Floy Wolfenbarger, Perry Janet Howell, Kirksville Ruby Wells, Kirksville Gladys Howey, Kirksville Hazel Whitelock, Kirksville Eula Hull, Kirksville Winnie Wright, Clarence Rita Husted, Kirksville Dale Zeller, Oregon Miss Ida A. Jewett, Faculty Member Patronesses Mrs. W.P. Bondurant Mrs. Mae De Witt Hamilton Mrs. C.C. Gardner Mrs. M.D. Campbell Mrs. George Laughlin Mrs. H. C. McCahan Mrs. S.H. Ellison Mrs. B. H. Stephenson Mrs. E.M. Violet ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA is a national normal school sorority whose aim is the intellectual, physical, social and moral development of its members. The national organization is directed by a college woman with thirty years of experience in work with and for girls, and each chapter has a faculty member who works with the girls and gives them the benefit of her greater experience and more mature mind. Each chapter has also a group of patronesses, representative women of the town, who advise with the faculty member on local problems and who represent types of character, culture and charm, which the undergraduates are urged to attain. Through the sorority the members become interested in the whole movement for the higher education of women and in many problems that confront college girls, problems which faculties cannot solve. Working together in congenial groups gives the girls parliamentary training, sonic business experience, the benefit of each other's help in solving social and moral problems, furnishes social good times to the members while in school and forms close ties of friendship which bind alumnae to each other and to the school. The intellectual aim of the sorority is the only one whose attainment is capable of measurement, but the Kirksville chapter can show that since its establishment it has made a record of nearly fifty percent of all grades of E quality. (Page 197) Sigma Sigma Sigma Honorary Members Mrs. John C. Mills Mrs. James A. Cooley Mrs. James Ellison Mrs. Geo. Still Mrs. Chas. E. Still Mrs. R.W.H. Seitz Miss Estelle Dockery Active Chapter Phyllis Bryson Louise Derby Margaret Kirkland Inez Callison Leonah Grassle Ruth Lilley Velda Cochran Miriam Johnson Helen Markey Mary Matlick Mary Winston Price Gladys Still Alice McCrory Gussie Sales Jodie Allen Waller Fay McCutchen Hilda Seyb Eva Waddill Velma Wells Alumnae in the City Willard Cater McWilliams Jess Nicholas Shirley Ina Holloway Mills Veronica Burns Burt Coral Adams Kube Beulah Coltey Clark Jennie Gardner Laughlin Ada Millay Loilon Roberta Minter Clara Fields Loree Sprecher Helen Grassle Mary Waddill Lucille White Madeline Ward Byrdie Shively Carmelila Quinn Ottie Greiner (Page 198) History of the Educational Fraternity of Phi Lambda Epsilon The Phi Lambda Epsilon Fraternity was founded at Clinton Academy, Clinton, Mo., February 12, 1892. C.F. Lamkin, R.H. McKee, F.T. Nichols, and F.B. Owen organized themselves in December, 1891. By February 12, arrangements had been completed and the first formal meeting of the new society was held on that date. The first person initiated was E.M. Violette. Shortly afterwards V.W. Lamkin was taken in and the first year closed with six members. In the summer of 1893 a chapter was installed at the Warrensburg State Normal School. In February, 1894, a chapter was organized in the Normal School at Kirksville. Samuel H. Ellison was the first man initiated. Missouri Gamma Chapter at Kirksville has had the longest continuous existence of any chapter in the Fraternity. Phi Lambda Epsilon now has chapters in schools from Illinois to California. Missouri Gamma Chapter has always been able to give a good account of itself in all forms of school activities, and, as a part of the school, never fails to boost for K.S.N.S. whenever it is possible. Roll Call, 1916-17 Cecil Clark Norbert Burns Cecil Propst Maurice Clark Stephen Paine Roy Inbody Rene Goodrich Hord Middleton John Kaser Thomas Crawford Stanley Hayden Gail Webber Robert Hoff Foster Dill Grover Stukey Henry Stukey Hugh Gwyn Hayes Quinn (Page 199) -199- (Page 200) -200- (Page 201) Earl F. Morris Editor-In-Chief "Never again!" -201- (Page 202) Editorial Staff of 1927 Echo EARL F. MORRIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF "Never again!" (Page 203) ESTHER HARRISON Associate Editor MABEL LUEPKES Art Editor ERMINE THOMPSON Associate Editor MIRIAM JOHNSON Assistant Art Editor INEZ PERLEY Literary Editor GEORGE LOUGHEAD Athletic Editor (Page 204) C.V. FORD BUSINESS MANAGER "Excuse me." (Page 205) FLOY WOLFENBARGER Treasurer J.C. WILLIAMS Assistant Business Manager JULIUS QUIGLEY Assistant Business Manager LLOYD GRAHAM Assistant Business Manager (Page 206) Editorial AFTER considering the matter carefully, we have decided to devote one page to explanations of this book, and advice to the 1918 year book staff. First, there are several things in the 1917 Echo that need explaining. It is a product of the K.S.N.S. student body. We have endeavored to entertain as well as inform our readers. If there is any division of the book whose purpose is not clear, it is probably the division entitled "Departments". In this part of the book we have attempted to represent something of what has been done in each department during the last year, and at the same time furnish enough fun to hold the interest of the typical year book reader. Year book readers will not read the heavy bulletin-style material. They are looking, first of all, for entertainment, and secondly, for their own pictures. The "Department" write-ups are for the most part "roasts", each department being written by a student who has taken considerable work in that department. There is no cause for offense. A year book is not a bulletin, and we must have our fun. We don't mean half of what we say in our "roasts". The motto adopted in our "Jokes Department", which is combined with the advertising at the request of our advertisers, is, "A lukewarm joke is about as interesting as a glass of dish water." We hereby request those who have been overlooked in the "Jokes" not to be offended. We didn't have room for all. And, if there is any one who hasn't yet learned how to take a joke, 1917 is a good year to begin learning. Of course there will be a year book published in 1918 and we wish to give the staff members the benefit of some of the things "experience" has taught us. Please note the following points: 1. Organize your class in the early fall and elect your year book staff at once. No staff elected in January can do a book justice and put it in the hands of readers by May. The fall is the richest time of the whole year in which to be silently collecting year book material. 2. Right on the start, set the price of your book high enough so you will not have to charge the organizations for space. That was one of our mistakes. 3. Artists and photographers seem agreed on the fact that a plain oval on a plain white page is decidedly the worst way of putting a picture in a year book. Panels or plates are much better. 4. In choosing your photographer and engraver, consider three points, (a) quality, (b) service, (c) price, named in the order of their importance. 5. Push your pictures and engraving work; they are the things that hold up a year book. Make definite appointments at the photographer's, yourself, for every individual and group in school, otherwise, you will never get their pictures taken. 6. Good copy cannot be secured on short notice. Be working on it all year. 7. Don't start a tenderfoot out after ads. He will lose you money right along. Where a $10 ad might have been secured he will get $3 and fix it so you can't get any more. 8. Don't be in a hurry about signing an engraving contract; look them all over. 9. Aim about a month ahead of time on everything and you will about hit the mark. 10. To the above add plenty of discretion and diplomacy. THE EDITOR. (Page 207) What Fools these Mortals be! (Page 208) Come Ye People Try our Wares (Page 209) When the Fulldogs Shed Tears as Large as Hen Eggs -209- (Page 210) The Princess Theatre Quality Motion Pidures Recognized Vaudeville Matinee--3 to 5 p.m. Daily Saturday, 2:00 to 5:00 Evening Show 7:00 to 11:00 Vaudeville Every Day Music by Princess Six-Piece Orchestra Admission 10 and 15 cents (Page 211) A STERN CLIMAX To my sonmalenl ears there was borne from the mystic Arcadia of fair dreams, such a reverie, it seemed, as only the gods could hear and yet live. Softer were tin-strains than the flutter of fairy wings,-- gentler than the incense laden zephyrs of Paradise. I dared not breathe lest the enchantment of that Sybilline chorus should be broken, lest the slightest sound or disturbance of the atmosphere should make a discordant note in its divine harmony. Slowly the volume increased until a grand crescendo awakened reverberating echoes from the remotest crevices of the universe. Slowly, by insensible gradations, the measure died into reverent silence-- a musical silence it was, in which the distillation of a pearly dewdrop would have created an intolerable din. While my soul trembled on the brink of that heavenly calm the quietude was pierced by a clanging, buzzing, shrieking clamor. All the demons of the nether world reinforced with the syncopations of the latest popular musical hits and the wails of all the fallen angels and men since the days of Lucifer could hardly be conceded the power of raising such an agony of awesome sound. With a scream of terror I sprang into the frigid atmosphere of my room. "When you wore a tu-lip, A sweet yellow tu-lip, And I wore a red, red, ro-o-o-se" were the words floating in at my open window accompanied by the clang of an out-of-tune piano which vied with a high-pitched, strident voice in producing unpleasant tones. I held my breath and counted ten. The girl across the street was indulging her love for "music". --P. Mr. Seitz sometimes enjoys ragtime music. A.H. Holbert really isn't very well informed on parliamentary practice. It is all bluff. A True STORY It was evening. Professor Bray noticed that the light was out on Mr. Seitz's auto. "Sir", said the scientist, "your beacon has ceased its function." "I didn't understand", said Mr. Seitz, stopping his Ford. "Your illuminator", said Mr. Bray, "is shrouded in unmitigated oblivion." "But really", stammered Hans, "I--" "The effulgence of your irridiator has evanced. The transversal ether oscillations have been eliminated." Just then Crump happened to be passing and shouted, "He means your glim's on the blink." And Hans lit his light and went on. In order to prove their superiority over the Farm Boys in every way, the Janitors challenge said Farm Boys to any sort of contest that has ever been known to the history of the world. RAY C. WADDILL AGENCY FOR Richelieu and BBBB Canned Goods Gold Cup Coffee Phone 46 714 S. Florence (Page 212) GRIM HOSPITAL DR. E.A. GRIM Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat DR. E.C. GRIM Surgery KINGSBURYISMS "Shrugged his shoulders clear down to his ankles." "Voracious chewers of nothing but facts." "When Phillip got through reading what Demosthenes said about him he must have been so cross-eyed that he could have wept down his back." "What breeds of stones were there in Macedonia?" "Was he a whale or a sardine?" "Most extraordinary giant." "Must have looked like a cross-eyed nutmeg." "The answer to that question showed a painful state of mind that was only avoided by a great deal of adroitness." "If you don't read your textbooks you are going to wish you had died before you took this course." "Search me; I didn't get to read the lesson. I was out on a toot last night." "Pardon me; am I boring you?" "I haven't laid on so much fat since I got through laughing over the last bunch of examination papers." "You know what I wish? I wish that fly buzzing around my head would slip and sprain its ankle." "He put him on his ear and then made him spin circles." Mr. Williams, President of Junior Class: "Is that date satisfactory for the class party? If so, let's put it to a vote." A member: "Yes, unless something develops later." Mr. Williams (not meaning to tell on himself or any one else): "Class, we'll just have to watch our dates and let nothing interfere with them. There are plenty of people ready to cheat us out of them. I know." R.D. Smoot, No. 702 North Elson St. Dealer in up-to-date hugs and kisses. (Page 213) NOTICES SENT UP IN "CHAPEL" Mr. Zeigel wishes to see Miss Lutie Blake at the platform. Miss Mann wishes to see Mr. Canidon for one minute. Will the person who took my coat from the lower hall please return the same or come and get the skirt. Do not forget the ice cream cones in the East Hall. (When it is 24° below zero.) CAMPFIRE GIRLS. Mr. Kirk (trying to read one of Mr. Violette's notices): "A, a, ah-um, will-Mr. Williams please-- Miss, ah, a--Mr. Violette is that your notice?" Mistletoe for sale in the East Hall by the Onaway Campfire girls. The Rural Sociology Club meets tonight at 7:00 o'clock. Visitors invited. Mr. Holbert (thinking he was elected): "I thank you for the honor." Mr. Bray: "Be sure and 'paralyze' your drinking water. The city water isn't fit to bathe in." CHEMICAL AFFINITIES It has been found by experiment that when Potassium Iodide (K.I.) unites with two molecules of Sulphur (S) under pressure, K. I. unites with 2S to form KISS As a rule, no violent explosion takes place. The experiment is best performed in a dim light. THE LATEST ON MR. VIOLETTE'S HANDWRITING Not long ago Professor Violette wrote a short letter to one of his cousins, a lady some forty or fifty years old. It happened that when she received the letter a friend who knew nothing of our "Prof." was visiting her. On seeing the handwrite and hearing her hostess speak of "Gene's letter" the friend remarked, "Mighty fine for a boy; how old is he?" If a teacher teach a teacher, does the teacher teaching the teacher always get to teach the teacher in the way the teacher teaching the teacher, or sometimes in the way the teacher being taught by the teacher teaching the teacher, wants the teacher teaching the teacher to teach the teacher? Miss dill (in Library Economy class): Don't boys like "Little Women?" Boys, in chorus: "Sure!" Big Pete (directing music in morning assembly): "My book has two I-K notes there." Experienced singer in crowd (in an undertone): "Your book and your baton disagree Thompson-Hunsaker Dry Goods Co. for Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Fine Silks, Dress Goods Silk Hosiery, Gloves and all kinds of Fancy Dry Goods Thompson- Hunsaker Dry Goods Co. The Store of Exceptional Values (Page 214) THAT AWFUL TEMPER! (Page 215) THINGS WE ARE PAID TO TELL Big "Pete" has had to cut the band on his hat. The Y.M.C.A. is not a private institution. Chapel is often held at the morning assembly. Mr. Bundy will smile if approached in the proper manner. The girls do not really like Julius; they only take pity on him. "Jimmie" Dillinger and Miss Bernice Brown are not married. Mr. Ellison is not hen-peeked; he only appears so. A PRAYER From the Prof with the "academic grunt", From the poor simp that can't walk straight under an honor. From the man behind us at the movies who reads aloud. From the room next door with musical inclinations, From the fellow that won't subscribe for publications and insists on reading ours, From the gink that persists in telling of a girl back home. From the poor idiot who is afraid you'll get conceited if he speaks to you, From the filibusterer in the Student Senate, From the "loving kine" who chew gum at the morning assembly, From the club or class president who assumes honors for things when he "had no finger in the pie", May the good Lord deliver us. I lead a fast life, I make what I spend, I pay back what I borrow, I lose what I lend. I had a girl once, That's come to an end. Get a good dog boys, He'll be your best friend. Otis See Lee's 5, 10 and 25c Store Sells Everything and Sells it Cheap (Page 216) The American School of Osteopathy KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI The First Osteopathic Institution The Largest College and Hospital Buildings The Best Equipped Laboratories A Faculty of Specialists DR. A.T. STILL PRESIDENT C.E. STILL, D.O., Vice-President G.A. STILL, M.S., M.D., D.O., Surgeon-in-Chief GEO. M. LAUGHLIN, M.S.D., D.O., Dean E.C. BROTT, Secretary-Treasurer. FOUR YEAR COURSE CLASSES OPEN IN SEPTEMBER AND JANUARY EACH YEAR For Catalog and Information, address the Secretary (Page 217) Normal Book Store South Side Square "Rogers Looking into the future" (Page 218) THE NORMAL SCHOOL KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI This, the oldest of the Missouri Normal Schools, will seek to continue its leadership in the preparation of high-class teachers for public schools of all kinds and grades. It therefore invites all the ambitious young intending teachers to enter its classes and compete in the effort to secure the best intelligence, the greatest attainable skill, and the highest moral character. It has a unique history hardly equaled by that of any other Normal School or College. Its graduates held the state superintendency of schools in Missouri for 20 years; the state superintendency of schools in California, 8 years; the governorship of Iowa, 4 years; professorships in many institutions; the presidencies of three of the largest state normal schools in 1917; the superintendencies of many city and county school systems; positions in many high schools and in rural and other elementary schools, and in colleges and kindergartens and supervisorships. It is a very large institution, as the following table shows: Enrollment of resident students, 1916........................2150 Average daily attendance, 44 weeks, 1916........................807 Number enrolled in residence, biennial period, 1915-1916........3200 Number non-resident reading circle students, 1915-1916..........1150 Total number resident and non-resident students, 1915-1916......4350 Average age of all students, in years...........................22 (NOTE: Practice School children are not counted in these lists.) The Normal School at Kirksville offers the best sort of high school courses needed for intending teachers who have not yet completed their high school studies; but more than 70 per cent of its students are of college grade. Therefore, this Normal School parallels the best academic and pedagogic courses of College Union colleges, four-year teachers colleges, and the schools of education. It confers an elementary state certificate, based on 30 semester hours covered in one year above high school; also, diplomas for two years, three years, and four years above high school--all culminating in the degree, Bachelor of Science in Education, and leading to graduate courses in universities. JOHN R. KIRK, President (Page 219) MARY'S LOAF Mary had a loaf of bread, And it was dry and stale; Then to a boarding house she sped And there she made a sale. The bread was handed out one day When it was four weeks old, With beans as an auxilliary And water clear and cold. And then the boys rejected it, But still it lingered near, Till it was worn out bit by bit In six months or a year. Then in tomato juice 'twas dipped And brought back in a bowl, The eager lads the good soup sipped Then ate it, one and all. "What makes you boys like light-bread so?" The eager landlord cried. "Because it's all we have you know", The hungry boys replied. --Ex. WE specialize in College, Fraternity and Athletics Jewelry, Cups, Trophies and Medals, all designed and much of it made in our own Art Shop. Patronize a Jeweler Who Has Been Established Thirty Years Every student should commemorate his college days by the possession of one of these fine hand-wrought emblematic spoons. It is an ideal gift and can only be had from the designers. Alarm Clocks Fountain Pens Kodaks HARRINGTON JEWELRY STORE SOUTH SIDE (Page 220) WHEN THE MERCURY Went to 24 BELOW (Page 221) VANSKIKE & HOWELL Fancy Dry Goods and Ladies' Ready-to-Wear EVERYTHING NEW! We Invite You to Inspect Our Many Lines of Ladies' Apparel NORTH SIDE THE DRY GOODS CENTER OF KIRKSVILLE (Page 222) THE MOORE STUDIO Photographs That Please ECHO PHOTOGRAPHER 1915 -:- 1917 Northeast Corner Square Phone 31 (Page 223) LIMERICKS There was a young man named Grover, Who was sometimes known as a rover, He went to Saint Lou And he came back too When he had given that burg the once over. An awkward young fellow, J.C., Who came from far over the lea, Cannot catch a girl When his head's in a whirl On the stage, this young fellow, J.C. There is an old fellow named Kirk Who pulls off his specks with a jerk When a "silly thing" talks Or the "young country gawks" Get noisy in "chappel"--this Kirk. A toe-headed shaver named Hoff Who had a big pull with his prof. He turned out his toes, He stuck up his nose And to the ladies he took his hat off. There's a certain young stripling named Browne Who smokes all the Durham in town. When his papa finds out What the laddie's about There'll be wailing and jumping aroun'. A dear old professor named Clark, A well known psychology shark, Can look very wise And talk about I's, If his class will but sit still and "hark". A jolly professor called Stokes Surprised all the Normal School "folks" When he got up one night And yelled about right For our dearly loved "Bulldogs"--ah, Stokes! The Kirksville TruSt Co. Capital and Surplus $55,000 Accounts of Students and Others Solicited L.F. GIBBS Secretary B.F. HEINY President Carl Burchett Jeweler and Optometrist East Side Sq., Kirksville, Mo. (Page 224) THE ONE PRICE CASH HOUSE We are members of THE GENERAL MERCHANDISE EXCHANGE, INC., NEW YORK CITY, an association composed of 1500 leading merchants throughout the United States, controlling more than 200 factories and are the largest buyers of merchandise in the world. This means that no other firm in the United States can buy cheaper or sell for less than the Grand Leader. The Seven Wonders of the World FURNISHED BY MR. PETREE LEO PETREE L.H. PETREE LEO H. PETREE "Big PETE" L. PETREE FULLBACK PETREE "LION" PETREE ADDITIONAL WONDER OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY LEO H. PETREE, '17 (Page 225) Really! A Real Clothes Shop for Young Men FACTS VALUES SERVICE HARRY BAMBURG WE TREAT YOU RIGHT AND ALL ALIKE BERRY'S GROCERY Kirksville's Exclusive Quality Store Phone 27 South Side Square The Princess Lunch Room Home Cooked Eats The Kind you like Fresh Candies, Home Made Pies, Ice Cream in Season First door North of Princess Theatre A.L. STRAW, Prop. TAILORS, CLEANERS, PRESSING AND REPAIRING PENNANTS, PILLOWS, LEATHER AND FELT NOVELTIES MADE TO ORDER We Call and Deliver East Side Square, Upstairs Phone 873 (Page 226) A.J. SOUSA Modern Shoe Repair Shop First in All Kinds of Shoe Work 206 S. Franklin St., Opposite Post Office Phone 125 Students Book Store Fancy Box Candies BeSt Quality School Supplies Stationery DR. J.E. WRIGHT Dentist Telephones: Office 664, Res. 749 Office Hours, 8:30-5:30. Grim Building The Citizens National Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $125,000.00 We want your business and will appreciate same H.M. STILL President CHAS. R. MILBANK Vice-President E. CONNER, Cashier C.E. BLEAKLEY Staple and Fancy Groceries We Treat You Right Phone 812 110 S. Franklin St. Rinehart's News Agency Any Newspaper, Magazine or Book Published Phone 565 S. Franklin St. Kirksville, Mo. (Page 227) Horse Shoe Club (Page 228) This advertisement is one of our ways of showing our appreciation of your business. Among many others are the excellent values you will receive here. "Get to Know Us" Try Jones Candy Kitchen for Ice Cream and Cold Drinks Northeast Corner of the Square The DAILY NEWS Kirksville's Leading Newspaper FIRST IN EVERYTHING SANTEN'S Sanitary Meat Market and Grocery The Best and Cleanest Meat Market and Grocery in Northeast Missouri. For good meats, give us a trial. Your inspection invited at all times. TELEPHONE 32 4 DELIVERIES DAILY We are on the Square--West Side Telephone 730 DR. ROSS C. ALLEN DENTIST Suite 205-6 Odd Fellows Bldg. Hours: 8 to 12 a.m., 1 to 5:30 p.m. KIRKSVILLE, MO. (Page 229) Department of Campustry PROFESSOR CHARLIE EPPERSON. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR P.O. SELBY. COURSE 1. General Fussing. Preparatory--This course is designed for beginners and is given in the spring and summer terms. This course or its equivalent must precede the more advanced courses. Text--Lillian Russel's "Advice to the Lovelorn". COURSE 2. Freshmen--This course, which is a continuation of Course 1, includes field trips by moonlight. The students are to make at least two trips per week to Ward's Infirmary or to Ownbey's Lake. This work is done by groups of two. The course leads to engagement at the end of the year. Text--Mrs. Browning's "Love Sonnets". COURSE 3. Senior--This work is open to all who expect to make a life study of Campustry. It is continued throughout the year and must be preceded by course 1 and 2. This course leads to Matrimony. No text will be used as the course is mainly research. A graduate course will be given whenever there is sufficient demand for it. This course will be devoted to keeping peace in the family. Students Registered this Year COURSE 1. Roy Inbody--Betty Grigsby. Bob Hoff--Mable Nulton. Dale Geoghegan--Pearl Snyder. Fat Stukey--Nacline Brooks. Henry Stukey--Marguerite Ovens Dr. P.A. Delaney--Theodocia Griffith. Louis Unfer--Elsa Nagel. J.O. Kerfoot--Catherine Brown. COURSE 2. Cecil Propst--Ermine Thompson. Hugh J. Gwyn--Winnie Wright. Norbert Burns--Margaret Kirkland. Hays Quinn--Louise Estill. Dick DeWitt--Ted Kirk. Dave Neal--Jen Fray. Willie Green--Alice McCrory. Chester Purdy--Ruby Durham. COURSE 3. Jimmie Dillinger--Bernice Brown. Emmett Rogers--June Wheatcraft. Leo Petree--Vera Thomas. J.C. Williams--Vera Finegan. Dick DeWitt--Lenna Hall. Otis See--Martha Koenemann. Vergil Bufford--Eula Hull. Dr. Busch--Esther Harrison GRADUATE STUDENTS Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Reeves. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Meals. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Graham Mr. and Mrs. Jamison. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Bolander Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Graham (Page 230) MYERS BROS. High Grade Footwear J&K Fits the Arch Southeast Corner of the Square E.E. BOHRER Dentist Office over Normal Book Store Office Phone, 91 Residence, 22 Kirksville Packing Co. Pork and Beef PACKERS KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI For High Grade Candies and Ice Cream, go to the Olympia Candy Company Kirksville Exclusive Ice Cream Parlor, East Side Square MILLER & GOODSON DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy Groceries Four deliveries daily to all parts of city PHONE 130 See Rogers Brothers FOR A Full Line of Hardware Cole's Hot Blast Heaters and Ranges, Retort and German Heater Stoves a Specialty Also a Complete Line of Up-to-date Wall Paper T.W. ROGERS, Proprietor Phone 94 116 S. Franklin (Page 231) The Kirksville Savings Bank Will appreciate your business and pay you 4% Semi-Annual Compound Interest on your Savings Accounts. Get to know us Capital and Surplus $90,000 Oldest Bank in Adair County V.J. Howell, Cashier H. Selby, Pres. LOOK! LISTEN! HEAR! BLOOD! MURDER! The Claytonlans will discuss the war tonight. Come and hear! Miss Finegan (in Shorthand Class): "Mr. Ford, why are you so late?" Mr. Ford: "My roommate came in late last night and I lost so much sleep I had to make it up this morning. (His roommate is J.C. Williams.) JULIUS QUIGLEY'S SENTIMENTS The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In women's eyes, Has been my grade's undoing. Though wisdom oft has sought me, I've scorned the love she's brought me. My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taguht me. ROYAL SHAVING PARLOR P.A. STOFEL, Proprietor LARGEST SHOP IN CITY (Page 232) The Springtime of Life--termed YOUTH--is the producing season. The majority of men realize too late the correct relation of this period to later years. Don't follow the majority. Start a Bank Account as young as you are today. NATIONAL BANK OF KIRKSVILLE Northwest Corner Public Square DR. S.B. BOHON Dentist Phones: Office 315; Residence 184 Office Hours 8:30 to 5:30 Rooms 11-13 Miller Bldg. We Have Everything You Can Reasonably Expect to Find in a First-class Grocery Our Goods Are of Excellent Quality and Our Prices as Low as the Lowest MINOR & HEABERLIN S.E. Corner Square--Phone 700 One Good Turn Deserves Another BIGSBY'S CLOTHING STORE (Page 233) SHEET MUSIC All Musical Supplies Stout & Wells Music Store 114 S. Franklin We'll Make Your Watch Keep Time Myron Miller Jewelry Co. "THE GUARANTEE STORE" 114 South Franklin Street (Page 234) FORTIFYING FARMS WITH SILOS One-Piece Clear Oregon 2x6 Stave TELEPHONE 427 MILLS & ARNOLD LUMBER CO. A Value Giving Store Our constant effort is to give value with every purchase made at this store, and to always sell the best for the price, no matter what that price. See us for Everything in Ladies' Furnishings, Suits, Coats Skirts, Waists, and all kinds of Dry Goods DeWITT-SIMONDS DRY GOODS CO. See GREGORY for New Styles in Shoes The White Palace Barber Shop 108 South Franklin St. C.B. Rich, Proprietor LATIMER BROS. 5, 10, 25c and up 5000 Articles to Choose From SOUTH SIDE SQUARE THE GEM THEATRE MATINEE EVERY DAY High Class Motion Pictures and Vaudeville, featuring Kleine, Edison, Selig, Essanay, Triangle and Bluebird Photoplays. F.H. WARDEN, Manager (Page 235) Established 1869 ROBERT CLARK HARDWARE CO. KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI Hammocks and Fishing Tackle Bicycles and Supplies THANKS! to the Normal School for your many favors. I will endeavor to serve you better. When in need of fresh roasted and salted peanuts, fresh hot buttered popcorn, peanut brittle, Hershey's prize candy, Chums and all staple chewing gums, call on the Peanut and Pop Corn Wagon GEO. A. SILVERS, Prop. (Page 236) La Vogue Shop of Quality Correct styles at all times for Ladies who care SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, BLOUSES, SKIRTS, HATS PALACE BAKERY WANTS THE STUDENT TRADE IN THE LINE OF Bread, Pastry, Pasteurized Milk and Ice Cream Our Ice Cream Parlor is cool and you are served to suit your own taste. A cordial invitation to you here. EAST SIDE OF THE SQUARE JOHNS GROCERY CO. High Grade Goods Prompt Service 815 S. Florence Ave. Phone 321 Ready to Wear Clothing FOR MEN AND WOMEN STUDENT PATRONAGE APPRECIATED C.A. Robinson Merc. Co. West Side Square PATTERSON STUDIO Pictures Taken Any Time Any Place Circuit Pictures, 10 in. x 20 ft. Phone 761 Samuels & Rose G.V. Lehr Furniture Co. Furniture Pianos, Grafonolas and Records Northeast Corner Sq. Phone 35 (Page 237) Compliments of Spears Laundry Phone 23 210-212 W. McPherson The REXALL Store The Old Reliable B.F. Henry Drug Co. South Side Square Kirksville Plumbing, Heating & Supply Co. Prompt and Reliable Service 210 North Franklin Street Phone 276 ARTHUR D. BAUM, Domestic Engineer (Page 238) WALL PAPER Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Glass. See Us for All Interior Decoration G.H. FELLERS 118 E. Washington Phone 731 New and Second-Hand Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged T.H. VANLANINGHAM 214 N. FRANKLIN ST. OPPOSITE JAIL The Hope Chest club MOTTO "ANY DUDE'LL 'Do" FLOWER ORANGE BLOSSOMS CHAPTER ROLL VERA FINEGAN JUNE WHEATCRAFT BLANCHE EMERY ALICE MANN LUCILE VAN PELT EDNA DAVIS PLEDGES NOBODY LEFT TO PLEDGE Sneed Eledtrical Co. FOR Electrical Supplies and Repairing Typewriters for Rent. New Typewriter for Sale on Small Payments Typewriter Supplies 123 E. Harrison, Kirksville, Mo. School Books and Supplies Fine Perfumes and Toilet Articles, Candies and Cigars E.G. Starr Drug Co. Northeast Corner Square Phone 458 (Page 239) If You Want "Quality Goods at Honest Prices" Look for This Trade Mark Athletic Goods Schneitter's Trade Mark St. Joseph, Mo. Kirksville Normal as well as other large schools and colleges use our goods. Our prices to school teachers are lower than other firms. Schneitter Athletic Goods Co. 420 Felix St. St. Joseph, Mo. Have You Seen The New MISSOURI SCHOOL JOURNAL The new management of the Journal is now giving Missouri a state teachers' magazine second to none Its news department gives all the stale educational news; its editorial department deals with subjects which vitally interest you, here in Missouri; its methods departments, edited by the NORMAL SCHOOLS, are intended especially to help YOU. One of these departments is edited each month by faculty members of the KIRKSVILLE NORMAL. The Journal is cooperating to the fullest extent with the normal schools, and every normal student and graduate should benefit in this cooperation by reading it. Send For a Sample Copy, or Send Subscription Price of $1.00 (after June 1, $1.25) to MISSOURI SCHOOL JOURNAL JEFFERSON CITY, MO. Or talk to our Kirksville Representative BAXTER LUMBER COMPANY DEALERS IN OAK, CYPRESS, SPRUCE AND YELLOW PINE LUMBER ECHO We wish to call the attention of our friends to the fact that the advertisers in this volume have helped make The Echo possible, and bespeak for them most hearty support. The Staff. (Page 240) The Journal Printing Co. Book and Job Printers The Echo is a Product of Our Plant Telephone No. 5 Kirksville, Missouri (Page 241) Engraving Electrotyping We produced the printing plates for this Annual, but that is not all we do, we have a large Art Department. In it we create ideas and designs for advertising purposes; draw letter heads for business houses; mechanical drawings for patent offices; Illustrate folders and catalogues; do many things in this Department that we haven't space to tell you about here. We have a great plant for producing pringing plates. We make everything from the plainest zinc etching to the very finest color halftones and do it with the greatest possible speed and accuracy. We have just taken over another line of plate making that will interest our customers- Electrotyping: this is a process of making duplicates of printing plates or type forms. We can make one or a hundred or even more duplicates from one original plate and make them much cheaper than additional original plates. This means a big saving to our customers who use considerable printed matter. We want you to write when you are in need of drawings or plates and tell your friends about us when they need us. Artcrafts Engraving Co. St. Joseph, Mo. (Page 242) FINIS (Page 243) (Page 244) (Page 245) (Page 246) (Page 247) (Back Cover)