Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas Normal
Volume !
San Marcos, Texas, June 9, WIf
No. 14
GREETING.
Summer Normal Stu-
dents
THE STAR, representing the i
school, extends a most, cordial j
WELCOME to all the new stu-j The new management of the
dents. Perhaps it would not be ; Star takes pleasure in submitting
amiss, also to give you from our! to you this the first issue of the
ripe experience a few words of “Summer” Normal Star. Wfc
advice.
In the first place, remember to
control and mind our motto.
Is the weather hot? Then
believe that with the materia!
we have to draw from we can
make tha Star one of the best of
its kind in Texas. This, howev-
think of the breezes that sweep | er. cannot be accomplished with-
through the auditorium and the out your aid. We shall need your
south rooms, or of the ice-tea j help, financially and otherwise, !
awaiting you at the other end of] and in return we mean to so con- j
seven succeeding issues of this
paper. It will do you good to read
them. As we said before the
Star will lend its influence to-
wards a united student body. It
will create a spirit of loyalty to
the Normal and other things con-
nected with it. Later on in life
when your Normal school days
are over, it will be a rare treat
to take your file of “Stars” and
read and reread and relive all of
the glorious times you have had
at S. W. T. N,
the line and be refreshed.
duct the paper that you shall be
Are the hills rocky and steep i glad to be one of its subscribers,
to'climb? Then think of the | The Star will help you get ac-
Take a lunch along from
Dailey & Son.
Ladies shirt waists, Adams,
B,
SCENE ON SAN MARCOS RIVER, SAN MARCOS, TEXAS
beauty of the valleys below and
the granduer of the hills aoove
and be strengthened.
Are the lessons long and the
teachers exacting? Then think
of the power of knowledge and
the virtue of obedience and be
comforted.
Are your boarding associates
troublesome? Then think of
your own superior
and be generous.
In short dear Summer People,
If you must kick apply at the
gymnasium every day from nine
until ten and from one until two
and be satisfied, and also happy.
quainted with San Marcos and 1
her people. It will draw you
nearer together and also act as a
medium for gossip, jokes etc., to
which you are all welcome, and
MAY ME COMES TO THE
SUMMER NORMAL
Once there was a village prod-
igy who was also the village
we earnestly desire that you will belle. When Mayme made her
all contribute something whenev- daily tour of the square, ail the
er you fee! so inclined. ; boys fell in line and trailed
In the Star will appear from: along; she had all the other girls
‘ time out” for hops and soci-
ables. Dad also promised her a
diamond ring to lead her class.
Mayme’s Dad was a leading cit-
izen and sat on the platform
every time the country was
saved; also Dad was a member
of the school board. Mayme
graduated with honors in white
organdy and sweet peas on the
side. In a faltering tremolo she
read the farewell words from
scented paper tied with flowing
blue ribbon.
She told her admiring class-
mates how sad it was to leave
the dear old school and the dear
old teachers and the dear old
principal (slow music with aud-
ible sobs) and go out into the
broad field of life to climb the
ladder of fame and soil on the
uncharted .seas of the future,
while picking the flowers of suc-
cess from the mountain sides of
i opportunity.
To find further fields for in-
tellectual achievement and great*
er scope for social conquest
Mayme decided to come up to
the Norma! and get a “stificate.”
Mayme took two corridor cour-
ses, one library course, and sev-
eral promenading units with ob-
servation work at the Fish Hat-
cheries on moon light nights.
i Incidentally Mayme registered
i for first grade work and took out
books- Class work seemed to
bore Mayme and recitation was
trivial and tiresome, besides it
interfered.
The State Board, being un-
aware that Dad was a leading
citizen and a school official, found
that Mayme’s average on the
State examination was 30 per
cent,
MORAL:—Sometimes promis-
ing nurselings do not, thrive in
an alien soil.
Adams store for everything.
time to time single articles which
disposition alone wiil be worth the little sub-
scription price. We hope to em-
body in the paper things that are
worth while and worthy of the
space they shall occupy. Indeed
it is safe to say that the succeed-
ing numbers will be better than
this one.
You cannot afford to miss the
in town hobbled and tied to the
fence when it came to looks and
style. In fact Mayme had a cor-
ner on the local style.. This oink
young thing did a tremendous
social business and had little time
to devote to mere books. Papa
allowed her three nights a week
in which to hold mass meetings
on the front veranda besides
“San Marcos banks are lovely.
But lovelier far to float
So gently on its bosom
With, only two in a boat.”
A word to the sufficient is wise.
Casey Jones at the Normal
—fifteenth edition. If you can't
sing, whistle; and if you can't
whistle, just hum; but keep up
with the procession, and Casey,
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Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911, newspaper, June 9, 1911; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614170/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State University.