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EDITORIALS ORCHESTRA Orchestra is a new activity at the Eastern Al ontana Normal School. Students who can play a musical instrument should welcome the oppor- tunity to join it, for this activity will give another useful accomplish- ment to take into the teaching field. In many rural districts and small towns there is a need for musical education. Future teachers can accomplish much toward fulfilling this need. Students who play in the school orchestra will be able to conduct small orchestras in the communities where they will teach, and in this way they will help to arouse interest in musical work. The orchestra then, should be looked upon as having a great value and should receive the encouragement of the student body. CRITICISM SOLICITED If you have any criticisms or suggestions for improving the Rimrock Echo, the staff will appreciate your interest and try to respect your wishes. We want criticism. The only way our paper can improve is by conservative criticism, so if you have opinions on the matter, don't fail to express them. OUR ATHLETICS Athletics in the Eastern Montana Normal School seems to serve a efinite purpose, for it offers an added incentive for the attendance of men students. Men have a definite place in our scheme of elementary education, and men graduating from a normal school will be expected to have at- tained a high standard of athletic accomplishment. This does not mean that athletics shall take precedence over scholarship, but rather that there shall be a balance between them. Perhaps it is safe to say that the \man teacher,\ as a public servant should be representative of the \Theodore Roosevelt\ balance of brain and brawn. THE LUNCHEON CLUB Other schools have an advantage over us by possessing a campus and several buildings, at least, while we are handicapped for the reason that we have not even a building of our own. Consequently this means that we have great difficulty in assembling the whole school at a conven- ient time. However, this problem has been quite adequately solved by the Luncheon Club, which was formed in the first year of the institution of the Eastern Montana Normal School. At the present time we are not able to take care of the whole school in our meeting place at the Commercial club; therefore attendance at the noon assembly has not been made compulsory. As a result, we find that practically the same students attend from week to week, while others attend either seldom or not at all. Since this club has been formed for the benefit of the school, it is important that each one should take advantage of this assembly every Wednesday noon. The luncheon is always followed by an interesting and varied program, which makes the club a real pleasure as well as one of the most important organizations in our school. PICTURE COLLECTIONS This present day world of ours is such a complex one and brings with it so many devices for our comfort and pleasure that we often times pass things by with less appreciation than they deserve. Back in the time of Michael Angelo and Raphael, in the early six- teenth century, the only way that a reproduction of a great picture could be made was by hand, and then only a small per cent of the people ever saw even a reproduction. Now nearly every magazine contains one or more brightly colored pictures portraying historical events or life in other parts of the globe. All art magazines contain beautiful reproductions of the world's greatest works of art. We should collect and mount these pictures as we find them. Of course we can't take the children we teach to the wonderful art galleries of the world, but we can do the second best thing, and show them pictures of the things of which we speak and illustrations of the stories which we read and tell. 2 The RJMROCK ECHO The /MROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA NORMAL SCHOOL at BILLINGS, MONTANA Student Editor Beatrice Day Staff Class in Advanced Composition Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek Committee in Charge Jessie Allen, Margaret Brown, Emmy Lou Henton, Virginia Hurdle, Sarah Jane Jones, Agnes Kissee, Fred Kozenek, Lowene Lloyd, Lillian Lohse, Clyde Lucas, Ruby Maurer, Virginia Miller, Sarah Oja, Bernice Rogers, Alice Sweetman, Violet Young. Assistant Committee Iva Fluss, Frances Furry, Esther Lewis, Ena Raths, Dorothy Barker, Dorothy Kramer, Thelma Wendte, Opal Vandework. Subscription Price, 50 Cents THOUGHTFUL VOTING Are the votes you cast in the popularity contest going to be the result of careful forethought? You have an opinion as to the person who is most beautiful or most popular, and your opinion is as good as that of anyone else. Make it count. Discard all personal prejudices, if you have any, and make an honest choice. You know your faculty and fellow students well enough to be competent judges in your selection, Bestow some thought upon the matter and give to this contest a sig- nificant meaning. Note the plans for voting published elsewhere in the paper. Do not forget to vote. LET'S GET ACQUAINTED When you go to Luncheon Club next time why sit by someone you already know? Why not sit by a stranger, get acquainted, and learn something.new? A wide association gives a great amount of knowledge. A DIFFERENT CAMPUS MUSIC NOTES It was after a hard day's work at school that I returned home to find a letter from my former school- mate, Peg, telling me that she was going to stop in Billings late Satur- day afternoon, and spend the eve- ning with me. Peg had attended a very exclus- ive college in the east, and was on her way to accept a position on the west coast. In my letters I had never been able to convince her that our school came up to the standard which hers did. \Of course,\ she wrote, \your teachers may be just as efficient, your class- es just as good, and all that, but having the kind of a school that you do, I do not see how you can have a campus. When I think of my college days and all that our campus and its traditions meant to us, well, I just don't see how you get along without one.\ During the next day when I did not have classes, and very often when I did, I was thinking about Peg's visit, and that campus ques- tion. To say meekly that we did not possess a campus would not pass with a girl of Peg's type. I remembered that in her letter she had said that she did not see how it were possible to obtain the full benefit of college life without hav- ing a campus. I thought also of the many good times we had had, and, among the best, our Sketch club outing on the rims. Then and there I hit upon my solution. When I met Peg at the depot, I was confident that by following the program I had mapped out, I could be a royal entertainer. As we climbed into the shabby roadster, I remarked, \Peg I'm going to show you our E. M. N. S. campus. \Campus!\ she exclaimed. \Yes the age of miracles has not entirely passed away.\ Then as she noticed that we were leaving town, she asked in a very puzzled tone, \We're leaving town, aren't we?\ \Yes I answered, \you see our campus is quite extensive.\ Before she had time to question me further, we were climbing the hil on the Rimrock road, and I was explaining the Boothill monument to her. We drove on and found an ideal camping place on top of the rims. The setting sun found us squatting before our fire toast- ing weiners and marshmallows. As it grew dark, the soft glow from the campfire in its boulder shel- ter, the rising moon with the tall pines silhouetted against its white light, and the brilliant lights of the city below, all combined to Innate Capacity Tests Given All students of Eastern Montana Normal School who have taken any kind of music since the beginning of the fall quarter were required to take a battery of six innate-ca- pacity hearing tests. These were tests in rhythm, pitch, time, intens- ity, consonants, and tonal memory. These tests were given for the pur- pose of finding those students that should be encouraged to take up music as a vocation or an avoca- tion. The results serve as a guide to the instructors of music, for they furnish a fairly accurate idea of what to expect from each student. Orchestra Is Growing The Eastern Montana Normal School orchestra, under the direc- tion of C. V. Ridgely, is growing, not only in numbers but also in accomplishment. The students are able to play ten pieces, after a fashion, says Mr. Ridgely. The membership is now 16, and 9 or 10 more students will be ready to en- ter within the next few weeks. Many students are taking advan- tage of the opportunity for indi- vidual lessons in music. Miss Cress has 36 students in piano, and Mr. Ridgely has 32 students doing indi- vidual work in voice, violin, cello and other instruments. GLEE CLUB FORMS QUARTETS The glee club is doing some real Work this quarter. Each person may choose his partners for a quar- tet or trio and the group is then given a song to work up. When this has been given considerable practice it is sung before the rest of the glee club members. This plan gives a chance for the stu- dents to show what they can do as individuals. make a beautiful scene, so beauti- ful that Peg had forgotten about our campus. As we sat there I told her of our lovely camping place near the south bridge where we had had our second year picnic, our yearly trips to Custer Battlefield, and the summer quarter trip through Yellowstone Park ,and ended by saying, \You see how mistaken you were in believing that our school had no campus.\ \Oh said Peg, \I see now, and to think that we were so well pleased with our traditional cam- pus, that we could not see beyond to know that a campus might share in the beauties of a national park.
