The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-07
NORMAL NIATTERs EXPLAINED

NORMAL mAE9EEkS EXPLAINED.
Apropos of the bill now before the
legislature making certain appropria-
lions deemed necessary for the good of
the Normal school, the Topeka Journal
has the following to say IN justification
of it:
The model school and Kindergarten,
into which so many of the Lyon county
pupils 90, is, and has been for many
years, self supporting. All pupils in it
pay fee of five dollars per term.
The model school and kindergarten is
not retained as preparatory depart
ment for the State Normal school but
for the purpose of eXemplifying meth
DDS of teaching and of furnishing
classes in which normal school pupils
may practice teaching. No pupil can
graduate at the state normal school
without spending one hour per day for
one year in actual practice in teaching
in the model school. That such
practical school is absolutely essential
to the successful conduct of a normal
school is conceded by nearly all the
public normal school men in this coun-
try and in Europe. A large majority
of the state normal schools have model
schools attached.
The preamble in the law making the
grant of the salt lands to the state nor
NAL school reciteS that the regents
agree that no future appropriations
for running the school will be needed,
Except for water, gas, coal. and per-
manent improvements. BY "perman-
ent Improvements" as was explained at
the time, 1t was meant to include ap-
paratus. museum, library and other
supplies which are of more or less
permanent character. The legislature
of two years since acted upon that in
depreciation and made the appropria-
tions asked for those purposes as well
as for the new building.
When the new building asked for two
years since was completed, the appro-
priation did not supply sufficient furni-
| ture. Part of the furniture of the old
building was distributed into the new
and the incidental fund was drawn up
on to supply certain rooms. The bill
acted upon yesterday contained provis-
| ions for supplying additional furniture,
additional cases, additional apparatus,
| which surely comes within the meaning
of the term, permanent improvement.
The appropriation for clerk is de-
manded simply on account of the I'm,
precedented growth of the school and
the consequent increase of Office work.
For years the work has been partly
done by students. but the Office work,
for reasons stated in the report to'the
board of regents, has become so heavy
that competent and we'll trained clerk
is needed all of the time. 1t was stated
yesterday by one of the members that
he had never heard of clerk for a col
lege OF university before. The fact is
that there is scarcely a school or col
lege in the land but that requires some
one to perform this service. Nearly
all of the larger institutions of learn.
ing, particularly those able to afford it
employ clerk or treasurer, whose
duties are about the same, all of hi:
time. The legislature has been ap
propriating funds regularly for a
clerk for the State University, and
the Agricultural college has long had
a clerk. The character of the worl
requires that the clerk should be q
stenographer and an expert on the type
writer.
The charge that the Normal is a loca
institution is effectually met by al
, analysis of the attendance. Nintey-onC
counties in Kansas have been repre-
scented in the attendance in the last
one as half years. OF the S75 in at
tendence in the year closing June IA
1888, 5l3 were from outside Lyol
county. There were 206 in the mode
! school, which would leave, granting
there were none outside of Lyon count,
in the model, 156 against 6l3 from out
side in corresponding classes. 1t mus
be remembered that all schools have
large local attendence-see the cata
logue of the State University, tn
State Agricultural College. etc. Thi
is accounted for largely by the fact tina
, many families move there for the
purpose of educating their children.
While the Normal had SIS pupil
, | from oufoida tho oOIptv Loot voor RI
J state university and the agriculture
college had together but 647. Again
they had of Kansas pupils outside o
their home counties $50 pupils, Will
; the Normal had 469.
So it will be seen that the proportion
of representation from other than tn
home counties is actually greater il
the Normal than in the university AM
agricultural college.
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