River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-02-14
OUR RESOURCES.
The education Il institution of River
Falls, the fourth

Falls, the fourth
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
which has occupied handsome five
story brick building located in the
southeast part of the ity since 1879,
mas come To be an important factor in
The educational work of Northern
y iscOnsin, and it is presumed that
many OF its graduates find employ
ment in the city schools of st. Paul
ana Minneapolis, owing to the prox-
unity of the school TO those cities.
The building was erected on site of
zen acres 10y means of a gift of $25 900
~ the towns of River Falls and Troy
ana the county of Pierce, supplement-
"a by the sum of $65, 900 of the funds
If the state, and Was dedicated with
suitable ceremony on the 9Th of Sept,
1875. Alphabetically it is pleasing
ana its adaptation to use is believed
be the best in Wisconsin. It's
looms are light, high, thoroughly VEN
lated and unlfOI mly warmed. The
walls of all model rooms and those on
The second floor are papered with
taste, amply supplied with green
black boards and are furnished
with comfortable, modern sitJings;
globes, maps and physical apparatus
for objective teaching are in abund-
dnce. A complete system of renting
of all necessary text books is in use
and small but very select reference
liOl AIRY is at all times accessible. The
promise of the school in number of
otudrnts and in the quality ot the in
structIon has been verified by the he
suits of the fuuit teen years, and the
revival of learning in many remote
parts sf Northern aud Western Wis.
cOnsin dates from the advent of some
of The graduates and undergraduates
Of the school, who were able 10 do the
needt al thug III organic ttlOn and IN
sJi ucLIUn from the outset of their ser
vice, and the cities that have employ
rd these students have had like Occd
sIOns Tor cOn6ratuldtlOn. The school
is one OF four having identical courses
OF study, that continue four years and
extend To the freshman course of the
state university, to which normal
graduates are adInivted ON diploma.
LIS management seeks To ground its
students IN tie elementary branches
dhd To create true pedagOglc
NOTIONS OF THORJUGHNEss
ny means OF cpnoc, enlIouS study; and
he moral work of he school Is sutii-
cIenuy shown 10y the results of the
cuniidrnce placed in its students as
exhibited by their finn, modest mirn
10 JneIr places, ia the community, OF
..a.l. "a
model school of three departments is
app ndrd To the nOI NAL proper for
pui poses of the practice teaching, and
tneSe CRATES are we'll managed, thOi.
oughly taught, and the patrons are
believers IN the excellence of the
work. Unlike the minnesota nOt-
mails. the Wisconsin schools have no
duI matOries for boarding either ladies
ur gentlemen, but students find com
Portable homes with citizens at prl-
vdte houses, and the system Is approx
ID Toy the students ana faculty. Since
its establishment the school has
Taught more than fifteen hundred
students, ana it bias an honorable roll
of | Is graduates. It's enrolment thus
tail shows lis in the normal and % IN
the models. The support of NiscOn-
sin nOImals is derived from the IN
come of funds invested as proceeds OF
sales of lands given 10y the genel al
government for this purpose, tOgeth-
Fl with $4,000 direct annual tax, and
about $4,000 revenues from the
tuition fees of sub-normal pupils
THIS school drew flom such funds last
year sis, l24 O8 for Its aggregate eX-
prnses. On the walls of this house
are displayed some noteworthy tOpO-
graphic fiat maps OF the world, United
States, " ScOnsin and the Yellowstone
Park, carved out of clay, to a scale
according To the latest surveys, and
representing To the eye the great
characteristics of the land and bot
tom of the sea as nothing else Can do.
From tile United States map tie best
Imagination can readily discover the
eastern aud western slopes, aud the
great central PLAIN seems all alive
with the conditions that DR.. Draper
asserts Will IN three geneI atious make
il 1.-The center of human power.
THE DCL.Esr STUDENT
can see at "A glance the cause of North
ern India's mlasmas and he can like
y
to India. Th-se maps are wol thy of
the study of any teacher who looks u
self-imprUvsment or To suitably fuTn-
ishlng school house. fhey were
made by years of toll by Prof F. II.
KING, formerly teacher of the plIysI-
Cal sciences ia this school. but now in
the department of agriculture at the
Wisconsin university at Madison. 1t
is fair 10 say that the faculty in this
school tiles to impress its students
with the Importance of the elemen.
tary branches, and employs methods
that are well calculated 10 evoke the
best thought and the most sustained
interest of students. and the school is
in favor with citizens aud youth
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