St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-05
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NORTH DAKOTA
Coming Grandly to the Front in
All Matters Per, aiming to Edu-

Coming Grandly to the Front in
All Matters Pertaining to Edu-
cation.
Special Letter TO the Globe.
Whatever may be true of the rest of
Dakota, the educational forces are work
ing harm oniously in the North. The
territorial department. the county
superintendent and the ranka nd file of
teachers are uniting all their efforts,
and with results that keep all happy.
The necessity of organization, of all
working under a general directing
power upon one general plan, is fully
recognized. The department of educa-
ton, by means OF circulars of instruction
widely distributed, has afforded the
means of concentrated effort, and so
few are those that do not respond that
they are forgotten by the great active
majority. Examinations for licenses
are becoming uniform in fact, as well as
in name, county superintendent are
conducting the affairs of their offices in
a uniform manner, uniform course of
study for common schools is being rap
idly established, teachers institutes are
becoming as regular in their work and
almost as regular in their terms as nor
nal schools. and every white school
house upon the wide prairies shelters a
little flock that are feeling the influence
Of all this polariZed energy.
At the call of Assistant Superintend-
ent Wilson, the teachers Of the educa-
tional workers met during holiday week
last December, at Fargo, and there con-
ferred upon the work of the year. From
that convention went forth influences
that will act as long as there is Da-
kota. The
NORMAL INSTITUTES
are attended by almost every teacher in
their respective counties, At Larimore.
Grand Forks county, the last week in
March found nearly 100 teachers: the
first week in April nearly as many at
Bathgate, Pembina county; the sue
ceeding week, at the siX-months'-old
town of LangdOn, Cavalier county. were
all the teachers of the county but one
The citizens of all these towns exerted
themselves to make the meetings pleas
ant, as well as profitable. taking no
small part in the work of the daily ses-
slons, and filling the auditOTiumS every
evening. The University of North Da-
kota sent its president, Col. Homer B.
Sprague, to all of the above-named
places. where he lent the aid Of his
mature judgment and ripe scholarship,
giving at every town lecture that in
lJSelI was worth one week S attendance.
At Darlington the teachers of Foster
and Wells counties united in joint in
stitue April Is, which will give an i'm
petus to school work in both those
counties. At Minnewaukon the past
week Benson and Eddy county teachers
held joint institute, and the blizzard
scared resident of the cultured East
would be vouchsafed veritable revela-
ton could he but witness the profess
sional character and the common sense
nature OF the normal work done by the
shores of the Lake of ye Uncannie
Name" During May and June a series
of institutes Will be held in the new
counties next to the northern boundary,
as well as in the older and richer coun-
ties and everywhere citizens, teachers
and officers ara engaged in the common
effort to realize what Americans too
often boast without grounds. a system
OF public education which will rear the
children of the state into thinking cit
izenS OF the state. Gle JEI.