Show r The Normal Society met as usual Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day afternoon in R Room om 32 The amendments amend amend- meats ments to the Constitution and By Laws By-Laws Laws s as s reported by the committee were taken up but when the President was abo about t y r ja half through re reading lending ding these Mr 1 Baird p raided rai-ed the cry No quorum quorum present It was then necessary to appoint Mr Hoopes a committee of one to scour the building for absentees or their proxies s while Miss Noble as sergeant at s guarded the door to tb se see that those already 4 present did not leave till the committee reported Mr Baird and Mr Andrew Larsen became chief filibusters and tried f. f to effect an adjournment but were promptly sat down on by the house jj On the return of the committee the s 1 r reading of the Constitution and Laws By-Laws I. I was continued and they were were adopted j The inaugural address delivered by Mr vIr i Decker the newly-elected newly president was most appropriate We can safely say that if the Normal Society would adopt the v views and suggestions offered by Mr 1 Decker it would become second to none Mr Baird read an excellent essay o. o on oI The Effects of ot Gunpowder on Civilization tion Mr Sorensen in rendering his his report as critic d dealt alt rather severely with the members who refused to vote on questions questions questions ques ques- and with th those se who came to the so society with apparently no other purpose than to effect an adjournment and yet severe as his criticisms were they seemed as far as we could judge to be well- well founded At the next meeting a lecture will be given by Professor Stewart I |