The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
STATE NORMAL.
Improvements in the Normal school at
Spearfsh and New Attractions for 1890
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improvements III tne HOrmtbl school af
Spearfish and New Attractions for 1890
and 1891.
This school opens Sept. 18th, better
equipped for work than ever before.
During the vacation many improvements
have been made i'll the buildings the
laboratory has been fully completed and
furnished, and several hundred volumes
have been added to the reference and
miscellaneous library. The governor.
state superintendent, regents OF educa-
ton, county superintendent and other
persons that have visited the school
unite in pronouncing it an admirable
institution, second, so say those whose
observation has qualified them to judge,
department will be more thoroughly Or
ganized than ever. Typewritlng, short
hand and bookkeeping can be learned
here as thoroughly as anywhere else and
with less expense. Every department
OF the school will be better than ever be-
lore. Arrangements have been made with
Mrs. i. j. Preece, one OF the most dis
tinguished teachers of Delsarte in the
United States, to give instruction in
reading, voice culture and physical cul-
ture for four weeks in the early part OF
next term. She will teach each class in
school forty minutes day. The will be
absolutely free, the only expense being
fifty cents to each student for the
printed outline OF the course. Mrs.
Preece has taught in Sanfrancisco st.
Paul, CINCINNATI, Sioux City, st. Louis,
and other large cities OF the west. Last
winter she received $500 and all eXpen-
ses for five weeks work at Sioux City.
She has an offer CT 500 per week and
expenses to go to Cincinnatti. For pri-
wa, fol 1,1, l.,
Read the following from the Voice Mag
aZine:
Mrs. Preece Is an enthusiastic educator and
holds prominent place as teacher and expo
nent OF De!sartean principals and movements,
Boston and New York teachers OF this new svs-
TEN OF elecu1iOn and gestures. She has had
widespread notice srom the press OF the north
west and all the large northern cities for good
work in the schools. Although possessed of
sufficient means to place her beyond any iieceS-
sity Tor work i'll any field. her love. for her art
is too great to allow her to rest while there is
work to be done in improving the voice, car
rage. e',Se and grace OF the people.
The voice OF the people is the voice of God"
cannot be taken literally when we recall the
harsh, nasal, snarling voices that so many per-
sons have Love, SYMPATHY, majesty, god
i!ke qualities are not expressed through the
human voice as rule. That these qualities
are capable OF cultivation in nearly every voice.
Is now accepted ts al axiom and it is the PROV
ince OF elocuton to restore these lost chords, to
re-tuAe the harN whose strings are ruSted and
broken, As an earnest wOrker in this broad
held Mrs. Preece is recognized as a power by
every one with whom she comes in contact
Her work in st. Louis before her marriage is
still felt.
Students that do not enter school at
the opening OF the next term and get the
benefit OF Mrs. Preeces instruction will
deeply regret it when they find what
they have missed. Apply for seatnow
and come the first day. Send for cat
alogue OF the school to
+. L. Cook, Principal,
Spearfish, South Dakota.