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| Article | Article Summary | |
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| Music | The pleasures of music. | |
| Literary societies | Analysis of purpose, problems, and necessity of literary societies. |
| Article | Article Summary | |
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| Unsociability among women | Comments on occasional quiet habits of women. |
| Article | Article Summary | |
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| Extract from the Principal's report | Numbers of students enrolled in various courses of study; breakdowns by class, terms taught, and home county.. | |
| The new arrangements | Decription of improvements in the building include painting, blackboards, library, cistern, carpeting, laboratory, and staff rooms. | |
| Thanksgiving day came | Students assemble for religious service and then enjoy a good dinner. | |
| The Students' Offering | Roster of the staff. |
| Article | Article Summary | |
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| On the evening | Faculty will attend ISTA meeting in Des Moines. |
| Article | Article Summary | |
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| The following persons | Expect to teach winter schools. | |
| D. K. Bond | Has given up teaching at Cedar Falls High School on account of eye problems; will rest at home. | |
| Funny-Graf | First experiences of Normal faculty and students with a phonograph recorder. | |
| Normal School directory | Board, faculty, and staff of the school; calendar for 1878-1879 terms. | |
| Fred Watkins | Will not return to the Normal on account of poor health. | |
| Henry C. Kasemier | Left teaching to become Recorder of Bremer County. | |
| Nellie Getchell | Teaching in Independence. | |
| M. P. Lichty and E. T. Moyer | Visit one November Sunday. | |
| Idella Chapman | Health improved; will be assistant principal in Parkersburg. | |
| Clel Gilchrist | Will teach near Shell Rock. | |
| Charlie Flint | Will attend commercial college in Davenport. | |
| W. I. Benham | Will be principal in Cascade. | |
| Lizzie Waterbury | Returns to school; Electa is married. | |
| Ernest Everest | Has married and is teaching near Nashua. | |
| Sue Lombard | Is home and in poor health. | |
| Myra Pike | Spent summer in Wisconsin and is now home. | |
| Miss Matz and Miss Hawkins | Have left school on account of poor health. | |
| Tillie Palmer and Lizzie Davis | Teaching in Grinnell. | |
| Rome Benton | Will teach near Shell Rock. | |
| Maude Gilchrist | Will teach in Model School at the Normal. | |
| Joey Byers | Teaching in New Hampton. | |
| James Miller | Student at Beloit College. | |
| Rose Whited | Teaching in Belmond. | |
| George B. Phelps | Teaching near Morrisonville, Illinois. | |
| Anna M. and Katie M. Jones | Teaching near Fairfield. | |
| There have been so many poems | Humorous reference to bad boarding house food. | |
| The reading contest | Winners of contest announced. | |
| The Philomathean | Presents mock trial. | |
| Prof. Hull's theory | Humorous parody of poem. | |
| The Normal Lecture Course | Faculty speak and perform demonstrations to raise money for reference books. | |
| Ida Perry | Now at home. | |
| John S. White | Teaching near Cresco. | |
| Laura Mann | Teaching in Logan. | |
| The Philomatheans and Alpha societies | Are flourishing. | |
| Some good dramatic talent | "Merchant of Venice" produced last month. | |
| After a lengthy and extended discussion | Faculty decide that baseball should not be taught to children under five. | |
| Only one number | One issue of TSO will be published this term. | |
| Lucien S. Scott | Marries Sarah Wells. |
| Article | Article Summary | |
|---|---|---|
| E. W. Babcock | Offers clothing. | |
| Theo. Hazlett | Offers clothing and shoes. | |
| Photographs | Offers photographic services. | |
| The Gazette Office | Offers printing services. | |
| Wise & Bryant | Books and stationers' supplies. | |
| Wilson & Williams | Offers dry goods. | |
| D. R. Pierce | Offers shoes. | |
| C. C. Shockey's | Offers fruit and candy. |
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| Article | Article Summary | |
|---|---|---|
| Reason and faith | Poem makes analogy between sun and moon and reason and faith. |
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| Article | Article Summary | |
|---|---|---|
| A taste for reading | The wonderful reward of cultivating a good taste in reading. | |
| My autograph album | The wonderful memories evoked by her album. | |
| Scientific: some curiosities of arithmetic | Professor Wright offers some interesting math problems. |
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| Article | Article Summary | |
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| Catacombs of Rome | Description of the catacombs. |
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| Article | Article Summary | |
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| Advantages of literature | The pleasures of enjoying good literature. | |
| Ignorant criticism | Should rise above such criticism. |
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| Article | Article Summary | |
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| Humboldt | Essay on the achievements of Alexander von Humboldt. | |
| Our work | Essay on the importance of the teaching profession. | |
| Our need of education | Will be the reward of hard work. |
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| Article | Article Summary | |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Pierce, Mary L. Chapman, and Edward M. Rand | Teaching in Osage. |