Volume 11 , Issue 38

The Western Normal College - by The Pilgrim Bard

The Pilgrim Bard, O. Scott Cummin, was living at Winchester, Oklahoma Territory. He wrote and dedicated the following musing May 12, 1903, page 39, Pilgrim Bard's poem about Northwestern Normal School - "The Western Normal College"

"Look ye! Once that hill was bare, sunset rested on a prairie; short the space since buffalo o'er the spot grazed to and fro; has Alladin's lamp and fairy caused the change so wondrous there? Look ye! Once upon that hill stood the roving red man's tepee; There at pow-wow and at dance roasted dog was served per chance; squaws and bucks, in blankets creepy, sought repose when all was still. Gone, the shaggy bison wild -- Gone poor "Lo," his business busted; far away the gray wolf's yell of the past the funeral knell; farmers, with the east disgusted, claim the place of nature's child. Look ye! Towering o'er yon slope stands a monument of knowledge; thing of beauty, massive, grand, builded by skilled workman's hand -- Alva's Western Normal College, nucleus of our country's hope."
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