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Title: The Index
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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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George Pfingsten.Dalton McDonald. Marien Lyons. Nellie Boyle.Emilie Wright. CONTESTANTS. Herbert Elliott.B. Wolfe. Vera Peck Eva Smith.Walter Pike. Harmon Waits. Daisy Benthuysen. Bertha Jeffries.Anne Hill. 26 XLbc flnfccr formation, and put up Little bets on the outcome: only little bets, you know, quite harm-5, .1 bos of Lowneys or a pair of gloves. And then all signs failed. The long victorious side was vanquished and the Wright-onians comforted themselves with the crust that at least they had one Hill which thePbiladelphians couldnt surmount. The debate of97 is memorable in that it proves the efficiency of grasping one ortwo strong points and hammering on them until they are driven in to stay. The instru-mentalists were both hampered with the mechanism of the Rubenstein Valse Brilliante.Only when the emotions are untrammeled in expression is playing what it should be.Tlie Philadelphian singer showed the ease in manner and expression which comes withlong training. Her voice, howeve

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