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Our Exriinngrs. 21 ! i 4 ' loathsome types appear, and Ihcy satisfy their detestable motives bj' calumniating and imprecating whatever is unlike them selves. They crowd into darkest corners. They cannot hear the light. So if you would go un wounded, I pray 3011 pass not near their haunt, for, upon the first ap proach, they sock their cursed fangs into the purest llesh. If you would destroy them, protect well your ankles, (for their backbones are too weak to allow them to strike higher than the hcclstrings) and take a sharp sickle in your hand and cool ly clip their hemls as they thrust them into the light beyond their shaded retreats. NORMAL KOTOS. Students' day this term passed off quiet ly and pleasantly. Sir. Leslie Lewis tilled the Principal's chair with appropriate dig nity; Miss Grace Wi'son ofliciated as pre ceptress. Those phantoms created quite a sensa tion a few evenings ago as the cadences from their angelic voices broke upon the ears of our slumbering youth. " Oil f come, angel band," Come again. The dormitory, under the efficient man agement of our ever popular host, Sir. Pierce, is one of the great attractions of the school. Nothing is more conducive to health than the hearty laugh in con nection willi the festal board. And these arc never lacking here. Wo are sorry, however, that the lack of rooms prevents any of the gentlemen from boarding there We hope the Board will soon take meas ures to amend this, and give us all the advantages now restricted to the "gentler sex." J. B. Piper, 'TG, is teaching in Xenia, of this stale. Success to you, Bradford. "We had a call from old Fentmorc not long since. Prank is always well re(a)d up, and it gives us great pleasure to have an occasional chat with him. Professor Thompson has been absent for a few days, holding an institute in the w ostein portion of the Slate. Prof. D. B. Worley is preparing for a concert. All friends of the Normal are cordially invited to come and hear us sing tiic first of next month. Miss Anna Brbwn, '7G, who has been teaching in Miss Bell's place, left the school last week. Miss Brown has many warm friends at the Normal. We under stand she will teach in Palmyra. A new society has been established in the Normal. The object of the society is to give those who do not attend either the Philomathean or Everett societies a chance to improve. The students of the Normal regret very much that they arc to lose Professor Thompson, but we believe the state has made a good choice, and thai he is a man who will ever look after our best educa tional interests. It is not known who will succeed hint. We are not. much in favor of women's rights as regards suffrage, but we can tru ly say our society this term, under the administration of a lady president, is do. ing exceedingly well. The officers for the present term are Miss 3511a Logan, Presi dent; Leslie Lewis, Vice President; Lilli an Bain, Secretary; and W. SI. Clary, Treasurer. B. OUR EXCHANGES. One among the best is the Adrian Col lege Recorder. The Oct. No. starts out with a short, well written poem, "Un achieved," from which we have the fol lowing stanza: 1 urn pad for the work Hint has never been wrought lly tlio lmiiilH tliat wero pinioned and pout. 1 lament that the deed could not equal the thought. Nor the action the spirit's Intent. The Jewel is also before us. Tt has one rare feature, that it is a western journal and therefore does not possess that despis able conceit so characteristic of eastern