Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conundrum, without, of course, being able to recognize it when he saw it. If Catholics are sportsmen enough to become members or captains of the athletic teams, and gentlemen enough to be made class-day marshals, they are certain of a warm standing-welcome from all their (normal) fellow undergraduates. While as far as the faculty are concerned (being mostly reasonable men) all they are likey to demand in addition--since fortunately the University is no longer fettered by that rather unpleasant creed to which our worthy Founder subscribed--is that Catholics, in common with other people, maintain the required...
...Tuskegee Singers, a colored quintet from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee. Alabama will sing a group of plantation melodies and negro folk songs between 11 o'clock and midnight at the Yale-Harvard dance in the Union next Friday evening. These colored singers are making a tour of the United States and are singing at various colleges. The college from which they come was founded by Booker T. Washington...
...losses. Philanthropic patiences were said to be verging on exhaustion. With financial evils there were bickerings and disturbances. And when you have singers and musicians dissensions become wars and disputes pitched battles. Some subtle intelligence and masterful hand was needed to put the Metropolitan on its feet. The process normal to good business ? and the Directors of New York's opera have always been business men ? was to pick the best known success in the field of operatic management. Such a well known success was not far to seek...
...Hugh Findley in charge, learned how to do it in six weeks of experiments at the Peter Henderson greenhouses, Baldwin, L. I. The lights were turned on at 9 o'clock every night; turned off at 2 in the morning, giving five hours of light additional to the normal sunshine. Between time, the plants are allowed to "sleep." Celery plants doubled in size in six weeks, and roses, carnations, lilies bloomed eight days before their sisters grown by sunlight alone. The system will eliminate flower " famines " on such occasions as Easter Day, and dearth of out-of-season delicacies...
Representative Melvin Orlando McLaughlin (Republican) was the only one of Nebraska's six Congressmen so fortunate as to be re-elected last Fall. He has degrees from the Peru (Neb.) Normal School, the Union Biblical Seminary, Oskaloosa College, Omaha University, Leander Clark College. He has been a teacher, a United Brethren Minister, a college President and since 1919 a Congressman. He is President of the Lever Lock Rim Co., a Common Law trust company of Colorado, capitalized for $500,000 in shares of one dollar each. Last week he almost got into trouble...