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10 THE NORMAL RECORD. trying to catch the petals as they did snow, but failed in trying to pick them up to throw. On the other side of the orchard were the woods, aud between tbem was a little brook with a small foot-bridge over it. The woods were lovely. The grass bad started, miking a green blanket with different colored flowers dotting it here aud there. The trees were bright, fresh looking green, and the sky above them was deep blue with nut a cloud in it. The children had a One time gathering flowers aud moss in the woods and wadiog iu the brook. About t.weive o'clock they found a cool pleasant place to eat their lunch. It was by tbe brook on a large flat stone that the lunch was spread, and everything did taste so good out there with everything smiling and laughing around them. In the afternoon they took a walk do vn the creek where the water ran over the rocks, and plunged down into a deep bole, white aud foamy. Tom said. "O look, it is laughing out loud and talking to the trees." Jane gathered a lot of plumes and reeds that were growing by the brook aud bowing and bending gracefully toward the stream, as if they were answering some question. Then, they walked back to the bridge, and when there the children were so tired that Mrs. Day said for them to sit down on the rocks and she would read to them from a bouk she had put into the basket. Just before sundown they started home, their arms full of flowers and grasses. When they had passed through the orchard and into tbe road the sky was lovely. Uver head it was deep blue, aud the goldeu sun just going down behind (be purple mountains made the sky iu the west rosy red. When they reached home buth children sat down on the steps very tired, but they said, "O hasn't it been a lovely day. All things seemed so happy and cheerful, as if they had put on their company manners torus " Mrs. Day said she thought it was because they were happy that everythiug around seemed laughing. ^yix^<M>^y^>^rm>^ SOLILOQUY OF THE ASSEMBLY CLOCK WITH APOLOGIES TO SHAKESPEARE. TO STOP, or not to stop; that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler for a clock to suffer The insults and stares of brazen students. Or to take up hands against the turning of the wheels, And by opposing stop them. To stop, to sleep Gu no more and by a stop to say we end The ticking and a thousand natural shocks That clocks are heir to, 'Tis a consumation Devoutly to be wished. To stop, to sleep; To sleep; Perchance to rust: Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of earth what change may come, When we have shuffled off this main spring coil, Must make us pause: There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would hear the whips and scorns of time, The janitor's key, the Doctor's gaze, EXCHANGES The pains of over work, the pendulum's delay, The insolence of students, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes When he himself, might his quietus make By gazing into some student's face? Who would time record, To tick and turn uuder a dreary life, But that the dicad of something after death That undiscovered trash pile, from whose bourn No clock returns, puzzles the dial And makes us rather bear the twists we get Thau to fly to others that we kuow not of? Thus thiukiug does make us all lose time, And thus is the janitor caused to swear, And enterprises of great pith and moment Are caused to be Ave minutes late, — Soft you now,—The Pre-ident, Doctor, iu thy announcements, be all tbe chapel time consumed. — EUGENE M. KNIGHT. The exchange editor may scratch a pen, Till the euds of his fingers are sore, When some one's sura to remark with a jest, Rats how stale! I've heard that before. - Ex. In the words of the old adage, "There's more truth than poetry in this," We do not wish to pose as a martyr but is there anyoue, we ask, more deserving of sympathy than the Exchange Editor? If we try to give strictly
Object Description
Title | The Normal Record. December 1903 |
Original Date | 1903-12 |
Description | The Record. Published by the Associated Students of Chico State College. |
Creator | Chico State College |
Location of Original | Archives |
Call Number | LD723 C57 |
Digital Collection | The Record: Chico State Yearbook Collection |
Digital Repository | Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. |
Description-Abstract | The Record served as both a student magazine and a commencement program for Chico Normal School. In the year 1903 it was published every month - except the Summer months of August and September. |
Date Digital | 2013 |
Language | eng |
Rights | For information on the use of the images in this collection contact the Special Collections Department at 530.898-6342 or email: specialcollections@csuchico.edu |
Format | image/tiff |
Filename | index.cpd |
Description
Title | 1903_12_NormalRecord.016 |
Original Date | 1903-12 |
OCR- Transcript |
10
THE NORMAL RECORD.
trying to catch the petals as they did snow,
but failed in trying to pick them up to throw.
On the other side of the orchard were the
woods, aud between tbem was a little brook
with a small foot-bridge over it. The woods
were lovely. The grass bad started, miking
a green blanket with different colored flowers
dotting it here aud there. The trees were
bright, fresh looking green, and the sky above
them was deep blue with nut a cloud in it.
The children had a One time gathering flowers
aud moss in the woods and wadiog iu the
brook. About t.weive o'clock they found a
cool pleasant place to eat their lunch. It was
by tbe brook on a large flat stone that the
lunch was spread, and everything did taste
so good out there with everything smiling and
laughing around them. In the afternoon they
took a walk do vn the creek where the water
ran over the rocks, and plunged down into a
deep bole, white aud foamy.
Tom said. "O look, it is laughing out loud
and talking to the trees."
Jane gathered a lot of plumes and reeds
that were growing by the brook aud bowing
and bending gracefully toward the stream, as
if they were answering some question. Then,
they walked back to the bridge, and when
there the children were so tired that Mrs. Day
said for them to sit down on the rocks and
she would read to them from a bouk she had
put into the basket.
Just before sundown they started home,
their arms full of flowers and grasses. When
they had passed through the orchard and into
tbe road the sky was lovely. Uver head it
was deep blue, aud the goldeu sun just going
down behind (be purple mountains made the
sky iu the west rosy red.
When they reached home buth children sat
down on the steps very tired, but they said,
"O hasn't it been a lovely day. All things
seemed so happy and cheerful, as if they had
put on their company manners torus " Mrs.
Day said she thought it was because they were
happy that everythiug around seemed laughing.
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