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Title: The Index
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois State Normal University
Subjects: Yearbooks, College Teachers colleges--Illinois Illinois State Normal University--History Illinois State University--History
Publisher: Illinois State Normal University, Normal IL
Contributing Library: Milner Library, Illinois State University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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. Miss Patterson made an appeal through a beautifuloriginal poem; the poster committee, under the direction of Miss Fuqua andMiss Sheldon, did very clever work; Mr. Linkins aroused great interest throughhis ingenious device of George and the ladder, which announced the progressof the campaign; Mr. Lathrop served most faithfully as treasurer; and thesoliciting committee, by its thorough work, brought final success. The amounts collected and sent to the national treasurer, Francis S. Phraner,were as follows: Faculty $ 672.25 Students 746.85 High School 166.50 School Organizations 11.50 Total $1584.10 The school manifested a wonderful spirit of co-operation from first to last.It felt the challenge of a great need and responded heroically. In the country at large the original goal of one million dollars was largelyoversubscribed. Thus the Students Friendship War Fund stands as the largestcontribution ever made for any cause by students and faculty members of theUnited States. •-. I % 67
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68 INDEX J» 1918 DEAN MANCHESTER WRITES THE BOYS Normal, Illinois, Monday, March 18, 1918. To the I. S. N. U. Boys in Service: Dear Boys—Boys in the camps, boys on the deep, boys in once MerrieEngland, boys in the trenches of France, wherever you are, two or three hundredof you, Dear Boys, this greeting from the Old School to you, to each and every one of you. Come back to us for an hour. Ah, here you are, in khaki and blue, backagain in your old seats at general exercise time. The bells have rung. Hustling like chickens before an approaching thundershower, are the belated stragglers. The whispering is subsiding, even back ofme where Miss Barton and Miss Colby sit. Perilously seated on the edge of hischair, over his glasses Mr. Holmes expectantly watches Mr. Westhoffs stick.All of this indicates that the singing is about to begin. Do you see the big flag hanging in front? and, with a little imagination,the service flag with over 200 stars soon to be placed in the balcony to the fro

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