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IMPORTANT DATES

First Semester 1934-35

Registration of Freshmen Monday, September 10

Home-coming Saturday, October 20

First Executive Council Meeting Saturday, October 20

Second Semester 1934-35

Second Executive Council Meeting Saturday, February 2

Alumni Day Saturday, May 25

Issued Quarterly in November, February, May, and August, by the

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Advisory Committee

Charles R. Foster President

M. J. Walsh Dean of Instruction

W. M. Whitmyre Dean of Men

Hope Stewart Dean of Women

William Schuster Business Adviser

Editorial Committee

Vera Simpson Chairman

Mary Esch Angie Marshall

Inez Buchanan Ethel L. Farrell

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ALUMNI LUNCHEON AND COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION

On May 26, Indiana entertained its alumni at a delightful luncheon. For the first time the whole dining room was decorated with flowers from the College greenhouse. Mr. Thomas Sutton as toastmaster spoke of his trusteeship of over fifty years and introduced the speakers.

Miss Sarah Gallaher spoke for the class of 1884. Of the original twenty-four members, seventeen are living and eleven were present at this fiftieth anniversary. They were enthusiastically received by the alumni. Miss Gallaher recounted the achievements of the class as edu- cators, legislators, lawyers, doctors, ministers, nurses, and home-makers. She paid tribute to Miss Jane E. Leonard's love of liberty and inde- pendence and to her ideals for womanhood. It was the class of 1884 which started the fund to provide the portrait of Miss Leonard which was presented to the College in 1900 at the celebration of the twenty- fifth anniversary of its founding.

Miss Carolyn Henderson, speaking for the seniors, pledged the class of 1934 to continue the splendid work of the alumni groups of former years.

Dr. Foster spoke of the program of the College, its high standards, its needs for the future. He asked for the continued hearty support of the alumni and cordially invited them to return for the Home-coming on the third Saturday in October.

The musical program given by members of the class of 1934 con- sisted of two soprano solos by Esther Skog, "The Wind's in the South," by Scott, and "In the Luxembourg Gardens," by Manning; the accom- panist was Jane Stewart. The program closed with the singing of the Alma Mater, led by Eleanor Welsh.

At the Commencement Reception which followed in Recreation Hall, the seniors, their parents, and the alumni were greeted by the trustees and faculty. After the splendid performance by the College orches- tra, under the direction of Mr. Stitt, of the majestic "Pomp and Cir- cumstance," by Elgar, and the delightful "Prelude," by Jarnefelt, the guests were served with tea. This reception was one of the brilliant events of the commencement season. Recreation Hall made a lovely setting for the guests in colorful summer costumes as they mingled with old friends and recalled happy experiences of days at Indiana.

FIFTY YEARS AND LATER

SARAH M. GALLAHER

Address delivered at the Alumni Luncheon

State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1934

Honored President of the Board of Trustees, Trustees, Dr. Foster, Members of the Faculty, Fellow Alumni, Class of '84. Had the time allotted to us on the program been two or three hours a day for two or three weeks, we might have been able to unfold to you some of the

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interesting facts in the early history of the college, and some of the experiences that have developed in our lives since the day when we handed the Key of Knowledge to the Class of '85, received our first diplomas from our beloved Principal, Leonard H. Durling, and went forth to the world to redeem our promises, made on the basis of a re- duction of fifty cents a week on our tuition and fifty dollars upon graduation, that we would teach for two years in the public schools of Pennsylvania. That was the tenth day of July, 1884.

From the western boundary of the state and eastward to Clearfield County, we accepted positions of five, six, and in the cities, ten month terms at salaries ranging from $35.00 to $50.00 per month. Per- sonally, I was the first Clearfield County graduate from Indiana Nor- mal, and became established in the Leonard Graded School of Clear- field as the Second Assistant Principal for a term of six months at $45.00 per month. The next year I received $50.00, and the third year I became First Assistant Principal with a salary of $55.00.

At a psychological moment that year I met my former schoolmate, M. C. Gordon, and I learned that a Scientific Class had been organ- ized in the Normal, and that he and several others comprised that class. Through his persuasive arguments and my own thirst for edu- cation, I became a member of the school again in the Spring of '87, was graduated with five others in the large Scientific Class of six in 1888, and was then retained in our school as a, member of the faculty; hence my contacts with the earlier classes.

In a recent campaign in which I happened to be interested some rude person described me as "an old lady." I took some pains to assert my standing as "A New Woman," — and so are all we women of '84. At this moment may I present the immediate group for whom I am speaking? Annie N. Allison (Mrs. Henry Turk, Parkers Landing) ; Clara E. Bothell, first graduate nurse from the graduates of Indiana Normal, (R. 2, Indiana); M. Jennie Brown, (Sewickley) ; Lida M. Eccles (Mrs. J. W. Grove, Pittsburgh) ; M. Leanna Edie, teacher 1884- 19 (Beaver) ; Sarah M. Gallaher, teacher 1884, (Ebensburg) ; Jennie McElveen (Mrs. F. B. Patton, Pittsburgh) ; W. E. Matthews, physician, Medical Director of Cambria County, (Johnstown) ; Belle D. Reel, ar- rayed in her graduating costume, (Mrs. R. A. McKee, Ben Avon) : M. Josephine Scott (Mrs. D. W. McNaugher, Pittsburgh) ; William Williams, attorney-ajt-law, (Johnstown). Less than a year ago, eleven of us spent a few days together at my home in Ebensburg, three of whom are not with us today — M. Marion Galbraith, New York City; Annie E. Rigby, New Brighton; Mrs. Elizabeth Ritchie, Wilkinsburg. In 1884 we numbered twenty-four; within twelve months, fourteen of us have touched one another's hands and hearts in person.

When the class of '84 was organized in September, 1883, eight classes had been graduated from the State Normal School, Indiana.. Pennsylvania, with an additional Scientific graduate. In all they num- bered 132. We added 24, the class of '85 added 50; the class of '86 in- creased the number by 52.

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So accustomed are we to the extolling of the work of the schools of Pennsylvania for Ithe last fifteen years, that our normal pioneering- is often lost to memory; the contributions of the little public schools forgotten. Three days ago, I spent a few minutes during the noon hour in the poor little schoolhouse in which I received most of my ed- ucation prior to my entrance into Indiana Normal. Built probably more than seventy-five years ago, this little one^room schoolhouse, in which the teacher told me, she was crowded with her thirty-one children be- low high school attainments, accommodated in my day there, and in the day of all the other Gallahers, from seventy to eighty-five pupils, ranging in age from six minus to twenty-one plus, all in full-day ses- sions. There I received the discipline in study that later enabled me to take the Elementary Course in this school and graduate in one year. And thence emerged within my own memory more than fifty teachers; two county superintendents of schools; two prominent newspaper men; probably a dozen lawyers and legislators; one Doctor of Divinity; sev- eral physicians, dentists, and engineers, with college training; business and professional men that are prominent even in large cities.

From this digression we return to this institution and its first eleven classes aggregating 258 graduates. Your class whose commence- ment period this is today numbers 281, and in July and February you graduated enough to make the number for 1934 alone approximately 400. But through the years we have not been idle. What students did we not send back to Alma Mater? How many of us came by families! Two of my sisters followed me and graduated, and my brother pre- pared here for the examinations that entered him at Cornell Univer- sity, the second student from this school to matriculate in that institu- tion. Clarion and Slippery Rock were opened, yet we held our own. Eva Painter, Marion Galbraith, Jennie McElveen, Florence Walker, William Williams, all from our class sent sisters, most of us furnish- ing the "Loan Fund" that financed the younger members of our fam- ilies. Later, from our class, Mr. Williams sent his only daughter, Mrs. Annie Allison Turk, her three daughters, and then acquired a daugh- ter-in-law, a graduate of Indiana. Mary Work was in school with us, graduated in '87, went to Egypt as a Missionary, married and made her home in England, and became the Warden (Dean or Principal) of Ashburn College, the Women's College of the University of Manchester. There followed her to our school, Cree, Calvin, Ella, Anna, James, Rob- ert, Ruth, and I believe Josephine Work, all living until two recent deaths, all leaders in their several communities.

With the end of the century came the twerity-fifth anniversary of the school, when very many of the twenty-four graduated groups gathered to do honor to Alma Mater and to the one that had touched the life of every one of us — Miss Leonard. Miss Scott, now Mrs. D. W. McNaugher, Mrs. Sarah Rowe Christy, Judge John P. Elkin, Mr. T. L. Gibson, and the speaker had gathered the $750.00 necessary for the production of her portrait, and the picture was now to be unveiled.

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As I think of Miss Leonard, it seems to me, that Pennsylvania's motto might have embellished her coatof-arms, — "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence." On that June day in 1900, T. L. Gibson, speaking in the crowded chapel, paid her a grand tribute when he said that her loy- alty to her trust, her prudent guardianship, had been such that no breath of scandal had ever touched the name of one of our Normal School girls.

Passing Liberty, I take up Independence. From Miss Leonard came one of the wholesomest lessons that I have ever learned. A tiny tale. She once related to me that in the early years of the school she and the other women teachers always spent their Saturday mornings sweeping and scouring, dusting and tidying their rooms. For the men of the Faculty this service was performed by members of the household domestic staff.

One bright morning as the ladies were laboring, some of the gentle- men passed Miss Mary Butler's room, on their way to recreation or errands in the town, smiling and joking at the expense of the ladies and their domestic tasks. Miss Butler, afterward the wife of Colonel Porter, broom in hand, hastened up to Miss Leonard, and the two of them decided then and there that they had as much right to freedom from Saturday morning toil as had the men. Laying aside their brooms, they went courageously to the Trustees, and so secured the independ- ence in that particular which has ever since been the rule of the in- stitution.

In the after years in a broader field, many of us worked for the enfranchisement of women, — especially for the class of women that understand the home, the child, the school, the needy, the distressed, the meaning of peace and war, as can no other persons. Women o£ Indiana, how are you discharging your responsibility in the matter oi exercising your enfranchisement?

In our late primary campaign a friend said to me, "You ought to line up our Indiana Alumni. There are many in the County." My answer was, "When out of more than thirty legislative candidates, there is only one that really knows our Teachers Colleges, and when the pre- sent is almost a crisis for those colleges, Indiana Alumni must know enough to 'line themselves up' or their case is hopeless."

To you, eight thousand alumni of the Normal and the College, to you, Class of 1934, — in your hands we earlier alumni helped to place the power that will protect the home, the child, the school; the economic, the moral, the spiritual welfare of our people; the integrity of our na- tion;— to you we say, be citizens, assume the full responsibility of citi- zenship, be Christian citizens.

To you, beloved '84's, — let us in our perennial spirit of service look out on future days as Browning saw them, "Grow old with me, the best of life is still to be." I hold in my hand the copy of Longfellow's Poems presented to me as a graduation gift fifty years ago. A favorite poem has always been Morlturi Salutamus, called the noblest poem ever presentd by age to youth, but I do not find that its lines apply to us.

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They were written for persons that must have been much older than

we. Only may we appropriate the close — "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress; And as the avening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

THE ALUMNI MEETING— MAY 26, 1934

The old chapel welcomed a capacity crowd for the annual Alumni Business Meeting. Daylight saving time allowed even those from afar to get here in time for the ten o'clock meeting Saturday morning. Misa Vera Simpson, President of the Alumni Association, read from the In- diana Penn, "A Greeting to the Alumni." Miss Hope Stewart, Dean of Women, extended a welcome to the alumni with a special greeting to the class of 1884 — the fifty-year class. In closing she paid tribute to our beloved Miss Leonard.

Mrs. Jean McElroy Whitmyre and Mrs. Ruth Campney Walker conducted the senior class to the meeting to be received into alumni membership. Miss Simpson welcomed the class into the association, and Mr. Russell Leech, president of the class of 1934, responded.

Miss Mary Esch, who is treasurer of both the Alumni Association and of the Jane E. Leonard Memorial Student Loan Fund, gave grati- fying reports of both these funds. After the workings of the loan fund had been discussed and Miss Esch had explained some of the fine outcomes of this student loan plan, Miss Stewart rose to announce that the first contributor to this fund was in the meeting. Mr. Ira Johnston of the class of 1899 had flown by plane from Oklahoma to be present at this commencement. In answer to Miss Simpson's request, Mr. John- ston told of the inception of the loan fund idea. It was, as you might guess, in a conversation with Miss Leonard that Mr. Johnston, then an alumnus of the Indiana Normal and a rising young lawyer, asked Miss Leonard to tell him the desire nearest her heart. Miss Leonard replied, "I want some way to help the fine young people who want an educa- tion but who cannot afford to come to school."

"Very well," said Mr. Johnston, "let us start a loan fund. Here is the first contribution."

Thus, years ago, a great teacher and a grateful alumnus, both of whom loved our school and young people and both of whom had faith in their future, began the student loan fund which has grown into a splen- did memorial.

Mr. Johnston's remarks to the students were drawn from his own experience and were most convincing. "When I finished law school," said he, "I was told that there was no chance for me in that field; the law profession was overcrowded." "If," he continued, "you go out from this school believing that you have no chance, — that the field is over-crowded and there is no place for you; you will be right, — there will be no place for you. But, if you go forth determined that you will succeed; that nothing can prevent you from doing something

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worthwhile in the world, — again, you will be right; the world needs you; you will succeed." Mr. Johnston congratulated the school on the organization of the alumni groups, and added a new one, — the Oklahoma Alumni unit.

Miss Nelle Maxwell presented an amendment to the constitution. This amendment added to the present regular and honorary member ship of alumni units, associate members. Those who have attended In- diana State Teachers College or Indiana Normal School for one semes- ter or summer session are eligible for associate membership. The rights and privileges of these associate members are to be determined by the individual units. This ruling will allow those who have at- tended, but not graduated from the school, to join their local units and participate in their activities.

Miss Simpson expressed gratification in the splendid response to the new plan of alumni organization. She urged all graduates to co- operate with the school in securing correct names and addresses, so that the school bulletins and literature may be sent to them.

Dr. Foster expressed his appreciation of the large crowd of alum- ni present. In his cordial welcome he "turned over the keys of the in- stitution to them."

The officers elected for the new year are:

President, Miss Vera Simpson of Indiana State Teachers College, whose splendid work of organization and administration of the alumni units made it most desirable that she be continued in office.

Vice President, Mrs. Rhea Kleinman Steinberg of Pittsburgh, whose work in that territory makes her a very valuable assistant.

Secretary, Miss Clarice Grumbling of Johnstown, whose ability in that strategic position will make her invaluable.

Treasurer, Miss Mary Esch, who, as the chairman of the nominat- ing committee remarked, always took all their money when they were students, so that it seemed fitting that she should continue to look after their funds.

This alumni meeting was a real greeting place; a time for locat- ing friends and renewing acquaintances; an opportunity for clarifying ideas of the workings of the alumni units and the student loan fund; a renewing of loyalty to our Alma Mater under the inspiration of those who addressed us; — withall a most worthwhile business meeting.

THE COMMENCEMENT PLAY

Fernc Molnar's romantic comedy "The Swan" was presented May 26, as the Commencement play of 1934. The audience of alumni and the friends of the seniors thoroughly enjoyed the unfolding of the plot.

Princess Beatrice (Princess of a mythical European kingdom) was very eager to have her daughter Alexandra marry Prince Albert. The Prince had been visiting in Alexandra's home for some days and was about to depart without having declared himself. In desperation Princess Beatrice persuaded Alexandra to invite the personable tutor

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of her two mischievous young brothers to a ball and to flirt with hiir sufficiently to arouse the jealousy of Prince Albert. The scheme suc- ceeded all too well. At the banquet the tutor, Dr. Nicholas Agi, gulped his wine and succeeded in stating his ideas and emotions in such a manner as to cause Princess Beatrice to feign a fainting spell. Dr. Agi and Alexandra remained in the banquet hall to be noble, quarrel- some, and loving by turns and finally to be discovered by Prince Albert

In the final act Alexandra's uncle, Father Hyacinth, explainec most satisfactorily to the professor, to Prince Albert's hastily sum moned mother, and to Prince Albert himself that Alexandra's emotioi of the evening before was really only pity. Princess Dominica in turn explained to Alexandra that a lovely swan must navigate the quiet waters of the lake and never approach the common shore where sht might too much resemble a goose. Nothing remained for the tutor except departure while the prince and princess lived happily ever after!!

The plot was skillfully developed by the able cast of characters:

Dr. Nicholas Agi James McKee Nix

George Agnes A. Hoare

Arsene Florence M. Thompson

Princess Beatrice — - Jane E. Stewart

Alexandra Katherine J. Whitmyre

Father Hyacinth William J. Reilly

Symphorosa Jean K. Harbourt

Prince Albert Don C. McGrew

Colonel Wunderlich Robert M. Skelton

Count Lutzen John M. Books

Caesar Robert Kline

Alfred — - Lawrence McKnight

Maid Dorothy Birch

Princess Maria Dominica Alice Neudorfer

Countess Erdely Meryl Fox

Ladies in Waiting Jane Wallace, Mary Jane Altenburg

Lackeys Robert Cronauer, James Tobin

Hussars John Powrozniak, James Kohut

Understudy -— Carlyle Buckley

BACCALAUREATE SERVICES

The Baccalaureate service was held at the College on Sunday, May 27. Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, President of Gettysburg College, de- livered the sermon.

Dr. Hanson divided his address into three parts: the tyranny of the present; intangible measures; and the value of ideals. He said that today physical frontiers have been conquered, but that the fron- tiers of tomorrow are to be found under one's hat, under one's vest, above and around one. He spoke of the intangible measures of char- acter— what one is, not what one has, saying that if a man lost every-

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thing he owned, he had had nothing of worth. In urging the value of ideals he spoke of the idealists, Moses, Daniel, and Telemachus, famous for leading people out of bondage, for demonstrating the pow- er of faith, for stopping beastly gladiatorial combats, while the rulers of those times were forgotten. He contrasted the lives of Paul and Nero and illustrated their comparative rank in history by saying that people name their dogs Nero, but their sons they name Paul. He urged upon the graduates the need of ideals to meet the chal- lenges of the future.

His ideals were exquisitely exemplified in the music of the A Capella Choir in their three numbers : "To Thee We Sing," by Schvedov, "Only Begotten Son," by Gretchaninoff, and "Beautiful Savior," by Christianson.

COMMENCEMENT

Viewed amid the inspiring setting of the Oak Grove on a perfect day, the Commencement Processional was fascinating to the many onlookers. Down the north steps of John Sutton Hall came the aca- demic group, — the president, speakers, deans, and the faculty in the order of their years of service at Indiana. The somberness of the black-robed group was lightened by the brilliant colored hoods from many different colleges, showing the diversity and extent of the train- ing of the faculty members. Among them were the crimson of Har- vard, the blue of Columbia, the purple of the University of New York, the maroon of Chicago, and the deep blue and gold of the University of Pittsburgh. The gold tassels of the doctors' caps were easily dis- tinguishable.

Next came the degree candidates, wearing the plain caps and gowns that are the age-old symbol of higher education. Last came the grad- uates of the two-year curriculums. Slowly the procession moved around the grove to music furnished by the college band. The march contin- ued into the gymnasium, well-filled for the most eventful occasion of the year.

The invocation was given by the Rev. R. L. Clark of the First Presbyterian Church, Indiana, Pennsylvania. After music played by the Double String Quartet, the Commencement Address was delivered by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of Education and Presi- dent of the University of the State of New York. Dr. Graves, a former Pennsylvania teacher and educator who has been called to the highest educational position in New York State, paid gracious tribute to the fame and service of Indiana in training teachers for our commonwealth. His scholarly message, "The Aristocracy of Ser- vice," was especially addressed to the graduates — those who are about to assume the responsibility for leadership in our land. He showed that theirs must be a leadership of intelligent service.

Dr. Foster presided with dignity in the solemn presentation of diplomas, reciting to each group of candidates for the bachelor's de-

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gree the welcome words: "Upon the recommendation of the faculty, by and with the authority of the board of trustees, representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I confer upon each of you the de- gree of Bachelor of Science, with all the rights and privileges per- taining thereto." In his remarks to the graduates and parents, Dr. Foster called attention to the lengthened period of training necessary for the profession of teaching and announced that this was the last time there would be a graduating class in the two-year curriculums. After the pronouncement of the benediction, the graduates marched out to receive congratulations and "God-speed" from their friends as they left the college to begin their work in the world. This commence- ment was throughout an inspiring occasion which will live long in our memories.

AN ARISTOCRACY OF SERVICE

(Abstract of the Commencement Address, State Teachers College at Indiana, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1934, by Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves, President of The University of the State of New York and State Commissioner of Education) ,

This year we are engaged in celebrating the centenary of our public schools. As far as Pennsylvania is concerned, it was in 1834 that the statesmanship of George Wolf and the eloquence of Thaddeus Stevens brought the state system of public education into existence. While there was no specific apportionment made for the training of teachers, education of this sort must speedily have accompanied the general appropriation to the schools. In New York the first direct grant of quotas for teacher education was likewise made in this year, and but four years later Massachusetts created the first three normal schools known to American educational history. While the seed for this widely famed teachers college at Indiana was not sown until a generation later, its effective work for the public schools of Pennsyl- vania has been under way for more than three score years and it owes its inception to the movement in behalf of public education whose centennial anniversary we hail today.

The Teachers College at Indiana embodies an harmonious develop- ment of the past and present. The old original building, John; Sut- ton Hall, still stands in the midst of the structures now conglomerated as a tower of strength and a symbol of the enduring character of the institution. Around it, however, are clustered some twenty-five new academic edifices, seven of which represent the most substantial and attractive buildings of which modern architecture is capable. The twenty-three acres of the first site have been greatly expanded but remain as a nucleus and typify the primeval forest of oaks out of which the campus was originally carved. The minute student body with meager preparation that first congregated at Indiana has long

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since grown beyond the thousand mark and has presented a prepara- tion that would favorably compare with that required by the best col- leges in the land. The faculty, while retaining the good sense and devotion of the handful of instructors assembled sixty years ago, has mow increased to more than one hundred and is composed of men and women who have been in the leading universities at home and abroad.

x But with all these striking changes, developments, and improve- ments of two generations, the purpose of the old institution remains much the same and it is still animated by the ideals of its founders. The State Teachers College at Indiana is, if anything, more devoted than ever to its time-honored objective of training leaders for the school system and for society at large. Than this there can be no nobler goal. The importance of leaders to civilized society can scarce- ly be over-estimated. Average individuals can for a while conserve the achievements of the race and keep the activities of everyday life in operation, but they must look to their intellectual superiors for all new steps in progress. Such leaders have throughout history initiated our inventions and discoveries, bridged our rivers and tunneled our mountains, organized our industries, instituted social reforms, mitigat- ed human suffering, sin, and ignorance, produced our inspiring litera- ture and works of art, and written our greatest constitutions. And we must realize that, if at any time our genius should altogether fail to get into action, society would quickly slip back into barbarism.

If leaders, then, are destined to play so important a part in social progress, it is essential that society should secure the maximum of benefit from as great a number and variety of these guides as possible. But should we complacently assume that the greatest number of lead- ers can be produced through education? Are not all leaders, like the poets, "born and not made?" Would we better hold that they are cre- ated by circumstances and training, rather than that they are purely a gift of nature? Or, to state the problem in its usual form, is capacity for leadership to be accounted the product of heredity or of environ- ment, or of both these forces?

Most of us would certainly incline toward the importance of en- vironment and would bold that if we wish to increase the number and efficiency of our leaders, we must extend to all classes the oppor- tunity for training in every line. Clearly it is only by the proper education for all that our purpose of creating leaders can be accom- plished. In connection with a discussion of the importance of univer- sal opportunities for education, we should note that our educational view is far different from that which is current in Europe. It is, for example, but logical for any Englishman to hold that leadership is practically altogether a matter of heredity. From his boyhood up he has absorbed the impression that there exists a natural intellectual aristocracy, which is in possession of most of the racial genius and hands it on to its offspring. These beloved of the gods, he holds, should properly receive the benefit of the best education, but, even when de-

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prived of it, their talent can not be altogether hidden under a bushel. Genius, like murder, will out. Of course, the selective theory in English education has been greatly modified since the Great War, but it is quite consistent with English traditions to hold it a self-evident truth that genius is confined to a small group and that all higher education should be similarly limited.

On the other hand, we Americans have come to incline toward a very different attitude. It has gradually become almost an educational axiom with us that every one should be permitted without let or hin- drance to obtain just as much education as he is capable of consuming, without regard to social position, and almost without consideration of the cost. While our theory has at many points broken down, we have continued to maintain that the doors of all educational institutions should swing wide to every student of brains and industry. For the sake of developing as much genius and leadership as possible, no youth of ability, we hold, should be prevented from entering secondary school or college through lack of financial support or the inability to find there the subjects that his or her type of genius requires.

However, if educational institutions are seeking to formulate a shibboleth to mark the goal of their activities, they should find it in an aristocracy of service rather than the aristocracy of brains, which has been sought by many colleges. Even the most gifted youth has no natural right to the advantages of a college education, since he is not him- self in the least responsible for his ability, and the only justification for his receiving opportunities of which others have been deprived is that of a larger return to society. Indeed the more highly endowed he is, the more sensitive should he be made to social service. If a higher education is to be added to his natural gifts, it will proportion- ately increase his already great capacity for good or ill, and if the possessor of both intelligence and training is to become strictly sel- fish, predatory, or criminal, there could be no more profound disservice to society than a college education. Pushed to its logical extreme, such a policy, leads to social suicide.

When, then, our social problems and needs have become so great as we have seen that they are in these days of depression, we must strive to select our future leaders wisely and then train them definite- ly for the service of society. There is still a great range of super- stitions and abuses to overcome. It should be both the function and the privilege of trained leaders to struggle to their utmost to further the control of society over nature and to contribute toward the aboli- tion of ignorance, poverty, disease, and crime. Such an objective should challenge the best efforts of those who have known the privilege of a college education, and it is because the abolition of these abuses, rather than the gratification of their own selfish ends, has by and large appealed to those who have gone forth from the doors of this insti- tution, that the world in general has come to realize that the develop- ment of the State Teachers College at Indiana is both ethically and economically well worth while.

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LARGE CROWD RETURNS FOR THE FIRST HOME-COMING DAY

Home-coming Day, Saturday, November 4, was one of the most delightful occasions of the year. Invitations were sent to classes graduating since 192G — some 3,000 in all. More than a thousand alumni returned to the campus for the gala occasion.

THE MORNING PROGRAM

The morning program began with visiting classes, greeting teach- ers and friends, and touring with Student Council guides to view the new campus features. The greenhouse, new this year? is just off the east campus. In it the college is growing the plants and shrubs for beautifying the campus together with flowers and ferns for in- ferior decoration. The Activities House on Grant Street, also new, is a cottage with the partitions removed and the walls and ceiling fresco- ed. It has been equipped with beautiful, comfortable furniture and a dainty kitchenette. This house is used as a social gathering place for the smaller college groups, and is a most welcome addition to the college plant. The boys cottages on College Avenue were visited. The students who had not been here for several years were interested in the Power Plant and the lovely new Arts Building. In John Sutton Hall the boys' lounge, the Y. M. C. A. rooms, and the girls' shampoo rooms were much admired.

THE FOOTBALL GAME

A big feature of the day was the football game with the Carnegie Tech Freshmen. Mr. Sullivan's Kiltie Band added much to the pleas- ure of the crowd by their graceful tribute to Indiana in letter forma- tions with gay balloons as well as by their stirring music. The day was perfect. The colorful crowd filling the bleachers and the side linps; the striking costumes and unique formations of the Kiltie Band led dramatically by their picturesque Drum Major; the cheering of the crowd, with the "Crimson and Slate" balloons floating above them, made a picture not soon to be forgotten.

THE DINNER

Both luncheon and dinner were gala occasions, with good music, good food, and good friends combining to make good fellowship. Dr. Foster was introduced by Miss Vera Simpson, President of the Alumni Association, and in a brief address, explained the purpose of alumni organizations and the need for them. He expressed his keen appreci- ation of the co-operation he is receiving from the various alumni units.

THE DANCE

The alumni dance filled recreation hall and the gymnasium. This gay, informal party dancing to the rhythm of Phil Runzo's orchestra was a fitting culmination of the day's festivities. At the "late hour of eleven o'clock" the dance closed. Indiana's first Home-coming Day was a reality and a success. If the alumni's expressions of pleasure are any criterion, then the success of next year's Home-coming is al-

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ready assured. The alumni were very appreciative of the work of the committee composed of Mr. Whitmyre, Mr. Webb, Mr. Sanders, Misses Grassmuck, McLean, and Simpson who had charge of the ar- rangements for their entertainment.

THE SECOND HOME-COMING DAY Home-coming Day this year is October twentieth. Plan now to be in Indiana on that day. We play Edinboro, and a pageant will be given in the evening before the dance.

LECTURES AND ENTERTAINMENTS

Indiana is maintaining a high standard of quality in the lectures and other entertainments provided from the activity fees paid by the students. Of musical events on the entertainment program this year, the outstanding numbers were the Boston Sinfonietta (an orchestral ensemble) and the celebrated Vienna Choir of boys voices. The most important lectures were those of Sherwood Eddy on Dictators in Rus- sia and Germany, Upton Close on Japan and the East, Rabbi Wise on Hitlerism, Lew Sarett on poetry, Frederick Snyder on the newspaper, Howard Cleaves on his trip to the South Seas with Governor Pinchot, and George Gerwig on Pennsylvania education.

The Leonard Literary Society, from its membership fees, brought three attractions to the College: Ruth St. Denis, lecturing on rhythm and dancing, Dorothy Sands, presenting styles in acting, and William Beebe in an illustrated lecture on under sea life. The Literary Society also produced the play, Journey's End.

Other outstanding speakers of the year were Dr. Robert Burnett Hall of the University of Michigan and Dr. Dudley Stamp of England, brought by the Travelers Club, and H. O. Crisler, Princeton Athletic Coach, who spoke at the Annual Athletic Dinner.

THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

The purpose of the Y. W. C. A. is to help its members develop in a fourfold manner: religiously, socially, mentally, and physically.

The meetings on Wednesday evenings, the teas on Friday after- noons, the Short Morning Watch services on Monday mornings, four Vesper services a year, the early morning Thanksgiving and Easter programs, — all these help to meet the needs of students on the campus.

This year a change has been effected in the scholarship policy. A student loan fund has been created to which fifty dollars will be added each year. Seniors who have been active in "Y" work may apply for assistance.

The Thanksgiving Vesper service was one of the notable pro- grams of the year. With the cooperation of several departments in the college and of the foreign students attending Indiana, "The Burn- ing Altar," a religious pantomime by Ethel Rockwell, was presented. This pageant portrayed the Call of Life to each age and the answer given by men from primitive times to those of today.

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The Y. W. C. A. is the largest women's organization on the camp- us, its membership averaging more than 600. This is in interesting con- trast to the group of 65 girls who on May 22, 1897, under the direc- tion of Jane E. Leonard, initiated the Y. W. C. A. at Indiana. For nearly forty years the association has carried on its work, and it has grown in its achievements, its members, and its influence each suc- cessive year.

THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

The Y. M. C. A. at Indiana has presented a varied program this year. Talks have been given on topics of world interest. The men have profited by the "Faculty Firesides," friendly visits to the homes of men on the faculty. Other activities were the friendly help of the "Y" men to newcomers during Freshmen Week and leadership in Ves- per services. Social events of the year's program were a steak fry, the Triangle Dance, the production of "The Private Secretary," and the annual "Y" banquet. Murals painted under the direction of Mr. Ivy of the Art Department have added greatly to the atmosphere of the Y. M. C. A. room on the ground floor of John Sutton Hall.

WORD FROM MRS. COGSWELL

The many alumni who knew the Cogswell family will be interested in a letter received in Indiana from Mrs. Cogswell in response to greet- ings sent to her by her friends here upon the occasion of her birthday. Mrs. Cogswell is very dear to Indiana alumni not only because of her personal qualities, but because to her we owe much for her composi- tion of both the words and music of our Alma Mater. The letter follows : Dear Friends:

Your greetings were like a song to me and I appreciate them more than I can tell you. The avalanche of cards and letters which came to me during the holidays has quite overpowered me. I fear I shall never get them all acknowledged. They were from "Jerusalem" and "round about Jerusalem," from highways and byways, by which I mean towns in Indiana County, Johnstown, Pittsburgh. I feel quite puffed up.

I am going to rely upon the enclosed lines, with apologies to all readers of Pegasus, to serve as thanks.

My Birthday

I muse today upon past years,

And in my heart are memories dear

Of life, with days of sun and gloom Life's Weather-vane doth ever veer.

The Master-Singer's name is Love,

And Life is ere the singer's song. ?Tis keyed in bright or minor mode,

And oftentimes the rhythm's wrong!

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Each Birthday brings to me a song

From radiant friends to greet the day,

Cheering and gladdening heart and mind In lilting measures, brave and gay.

Dear Friend! I tune my silent pen

To sing thy praises, long and loud;

Thy goodness . . and thy graces . . . themes

To 'broider measures of my song.

■ — Dorothy Hamlin Cogswell

(Mrs. H. E. Cogswell)

December 25, 1933.

GIFTS FROM THE ALUMNI

We quote from the Normal Herald, October, 1917: "One of the fine things now being done by each of the graduating classes leav- ing Indiana is making a class gift to the school. In each case the gift has been something greatly prized by the institution. The fine entrance on the east side of the campus, given by the Class of 1902, is one of them; the handsome chapel clock presented by the