1920-12-01; Central Normal Life

              We make teachers
who make good.
We make teachers
who make good.
VOL. II
MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920
NO. 8
PROFESSOR BILLINGS SEVERS CONNECTIONS WITH CENTRAL NORMAL
PROF. M. L. BILLINGS RESIGNS
INSTRUCTOR ELEVEN YEARS AT
CENTRAL NORMAIr-GIVES
UP TEACHING
A GROUP OF PILGRIMS ON THEIR WAY TO CHURCH
Faculty, students, and alumni of
Central Normal -will learn with keen
regret that Prof. M. L. Billings, a
graduate of the Normal and a member
of the faculty for eleven years, his
work being in the department of psychology and education, has tendered
his resignation to President Warriner
and the State Board of Education, and
will sever connections with the school
which he served faithfully for a number of years, at the end of the Winter
Term. Professor Billings has given
up the teaching profession to enter
commercial work in Adrian, where he
will be employed as factory superintendent of the Raymond Garage
Equipment Company, manufacturers
of tanks, pumps, etc.
Professor Billings has contemplated
taking this step for some time and
resigned verbally to President Warriner the third *vveek after the present
term started, but retained his present
position until someone could be found
to take his place. As yet no successor
Iras'ljetfn*-T*g5;g^d*t0t!ontinu*_ his*wo.k.*
Professor Billings goes into a branch
of work that has always interested
him. Much of this work will be experimental work in the shop. It is interesting to know that Mr. Billings
assembled the first gasoline station in
existence. His new position will be in
the nature of perfecting the automatic
gasoline filling station, work upon
which he has been engaged during
vacation time in the summer. Mrs.
Billings plans to remain in Mt. Pleasant at their home on Normal Avenue
until spring.
Professor Billings' absence from
Central Normal will be felt by all who
know him personally but his absence
"will be especially missed by graduates
of the Normal, many of whom have
had the privilege of doing work in
his pysyclology and education classes
and who always found him an excellent teacher and an honest and sincere
friend, helpful in all the numerous
ways in which a teacher may help his
CHINESE EDITOR
SAYS JAPAN HAS THE SAME AMBITIONS GERMANY HAD TO
EXTEND EMPIRE
Central Normal Will Observe the Pilgrims Centenary with a Pageant Saturday Evening, December 11.
His colleagues will miss the deep professional interests he continually displayed in problems of education, his
scholarship, and his ability as a first
class teacher. In committee work requiring a keen business knowledge and
executive skill, Mr. Billings has always been selected to occupy a trustworthy position.
Alumni of Central Normal who were
his classmates preceding the time of
graduation from the school that was
pleased to  have him as  one of the
faculty, will   appreciate   having   recalled to them some facts of a personal
nature regarding Professor Billings.
Twenty-one years ago, in 1899, Mr.
Billings enrolled as a student in Central Normal on the Rural Course. After being graduated from the Rural
Department    in 1901,    Mr.    Billings
taught for two years in a rural school
in Lenawee County.   Eager   to   continue his education farther,   Mr. Bil-
| lings returned to the Normal to get a
Life Certificate which he received in
' 1907.    While  working  for  his  Life
Certificate Mr. Billings had time to
play basketball and baseball, playing
on the first Normal basketball five
that was organized here.   He was also
a member of the Phi Delta Pi fraternity before that    organization    was
defunct, and president of the    graduating class.
An A. B. from the University of
Michigan was his next aspiration,
which he fulfilled in 1909, and then
earned enough extra credits to take
his M. A. in 1910. While at the University.   Mr. Billings' work in science
C. M. N. TIES
DETROIT JUNIOR
[PLUCKY TEAMS FIGHT   BATTLE
ROYAL IN SLIME ON
GRINDLEY FIELD
(Reprinted from Detroit Free Press)
Football teams representing Detroit
Junior college and Mt. Pleasant Normal slipped, skidded, dove and
rolled in the slime of Grindley field
Thursday morning, and after 60 minutes of endeavor neither eleven had
proved to be the best mudhens. The
score was 6 to 6. It was the final of
the season for both teams.
After a scoreless first half, Junior
college rang up a touchdown in the
third session only to lose this edge
in the final btanza when Mt. Pleasant
put on a real comeback and drove the
Detroiters duwn the field for a score.
Navigation Nearly Closed
Navigating the lakes that inundated
Grindley field was a hard task but
the Mt. Pleasant sailors steered their
craft nearly to a touchdown in the
initial period but off the goal posts
something went wrong with the engines and the Junior college gridders
stopped them and snatched the oval
on downs.
Sarcastic remarks from Coach
Holmes     during     the     intermission
! Rubright L. G  Buchan
Loucks C  Kennedy
Kowalski R. G.'    Gogarn
Hill R. T  Lucker
Devers R. E  Ludwick
Lightbody Q. B F.   Beddow
Schlickenmayer,L. H  J. Beddow
Hanna R. H   Hicks
Isler. F. B  Sisco
Junior College  0   0   6   0—6
Mt. Pleasant 0   0    0   6—6
Touchdowns—Schlickenmayer, Sisco. Referee—Van Tassel. Umpire—
Drew. Head Linesman—Jones. Time
of quarters—15 minutes. Substitutions—Ertell for Lightbody; Boyd for
Kowalski; Lightbody for Ertell;
Chambers for Duncan; Snelenberger
for Calkins; Boudary for Buchan.
NORMAL LUNCH ROOM BROKEN
INTO
Thieves cut through a screen,
opened a window in the Normal Lunch
Room one night last week and stole
from the place some of the stores
kept on hand. The matter has been
turned over to the local sheriff, Mr.
Coon, who is conducting a silent investigation that will undoubtedly result in the detection of the criminals.
As this is not the first time the Lunch
Room has been entered and theft
practiced, the offenders will be hardly dealt with.
CHARLES C. BARNES
PROF. M. L. BILLINGS.
students and possessing a keen sympathy that always made him a close
friend of the student body and popular
with-them, %
When 'Porfessor Billings V leaves
Central Normal, the school will lose
°ie of its stanchest supporters and
a» indefatigable whacker in its .behalf.
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was of such a high grade that he won '. brought a Junior ralley in the third
a membership in the Sigma Xi Society | period and three times thd Normals
which in science carries with it the j were forced to scrap under their goal
same degree of honor as is associated posts. On each occasion Detroit was
with the Phi Beta Kappa in literature denied a touchdown by a margin of
and arts.   After his graduation from inches.
the University .he returned to Central But 'before the quarter terminated
Normal as instructor in psychology Detroit was under the Mt. Pleasant
and education. His application in his goal posts again and this time Schlic-
work as a member of the Normal kenmayer found his way to a hole
faculty won him an associate profes- opened by Devers and Hill, and
sorship, which place .he has filled with , threaded his way through for a touch-
honor to himself and the school that; down.   Isler missed goal
has employed him. His teaching and
work on the athletic, social, and yearbook committees aroused respect and
high regard. The teaching profession
will be decidedly poorer when he
leaves its ranks. His friends wish
him prosperity in his new undertaking.
Miss Sherwin, of the department of
physical education, spent Thanksgiv-I
ing vacation with one of her students
in Lansing.
Normals Retaliate
The Normals were full of fight
after the kickoff and in the fourth
chapter worked their way down the
chalkmarks for'a score, Sisco going
over on a wild plunge. Detroit Juniors played valiantly to keep its hard-
earned lead but the Normals were
under full headway and could not be
checked.
Junior Col. Mt. Pleasant
1 Duncan... L. E  Calkins
Heym	
"Don't expect China to grow into an
efficient Republic in a few years, for
we are tied to a past of forty-five
centuries of recorded history," said
Dr. Ng Poon Chew, Monday evening
when he addressed an audience of students and townspeople that filled
Normal Auditorium to the doors.
Dr. Chew, who, as he put it, "was
born in Southern China, but came to
America as soon as he discovered his
mistake," is known in America and
Europe as the Chinese Mark Twain.
Everyone who heard his interesting
and instructive speech of Monday evening feels that he well deserves the
title.
A very fine description of the old
and new methods of Education in
China was given by Dr. Chew. "In the
old days," he said, "Chinese boys were
expected to learn by heart the books
Confucius wrote five hundred years
before Christ. They went to school at
four-thirty in the morning and stayed
until half-past eight in the evening.
Their whole education consisted in
memorizing the classics. Nowadays
the schools are conducted much like
the American schools, and teach many
of the same subjects. It is to the people in these modern schools that the
world must look for the future of
China."
"The missionaries," said Dr. Chew,
"are responsible for the present position of China. Their broader religion
and education opened a new era for
China.
"While the present republic is a
republic only in name, it is most decidedly better than the old monarchy
was or a limited monarchy could be.
The people of China must be educated
up to their positions. We do not expect to accomplish such a tremendous
task in a few years; it will require a
generation or two. Such great works
must progress slowly."
Japan, Dr. Chew believes, is China's
greatest enemy and America her
greatest friend. The Japanese constitution, he points out, is patterned
directly after the German constitution,
and the aims of Japan are all typically
German. She has no national soul,
simply a desire for power. China, she
believes, is the best source of power,
so she is exerting every effort to keep
the Chinese national organization in
a poor condition, and to increase her
foothold in China. With the control of
China in her hands, Japan could wage
"n indefinitely long war against the
re<*t of the world.
The educated people of China foresee
the situation, and are looking to
Am*r!ca for aid. With the help of
America, China will, in time, take her
place among the great nations of the
•"orld; without that help she will become a Japanese stronghold and a
menace to the liberty of the world.
New   Business   Manager  of  Central
Normal Life.
Jeannette MacCallum, an alumna of
Central Normal and now teaching
kindergarten in Hastings, spent the
Thanksgiving vacation with Denzil
Slentz.
   Miss Ronan visited friends in Far-
L, T  Burkett well last week end.
Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Rowe had as
.their guests for dinner last Friday
evening, Prof, and Mrs. I. A. Beddow,
Mrs. Beddow's sister, Miss Erland,
Superintendent and Mrs. Ganiard, and
Mr. and Mrs. Miller.
Miss Amy Burt, of the department
of history, delightfully entertained
Prof, and Mrs. Oliver Troutman, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry A. Miller and Mr.
Chase and son, Baker, with a turkey
dinner last Wednesday evening.
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