The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-09-08
OUR NORMAL SCHOOL.
An Auspicious Opening for the Present
Y~ear-Increase Of Numbers, Thorough
ness in Work, Loyalty Of Spirit.

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Normal school, watching the order and
work OF classes. methods OF teachers and
morale OF students, and to say that we
were gratitied would not be stating it
strongly enough. We were delighted.
The enthusiasm of the school is contag-
ious, Tor as we went from recitation room
TO recitation room, we caught the inspir-
alton OF the work and took a special de-
light in it. Everything, of course, is
done in time like clockwork-no friction
and no haste. In the conducting of rec
itations We observed that while the Of
forts OF the instructors were directed to
drawing out Of the students the material
facts and principles OF the subjects OF
study and an accurate or even scientific
statement of them, the underlying and
Interior object OF the recitation was to
develop a faculty for imparting this
mirds which they may hereafter be
called upon to teach.
The thoroughness of teaching and dis
cipline was observable in all the instruct
ors, and met with a corresponding earn
estness on the part of the students. The
classes are large and the accommoda-
tions of the school almost fully utilized
at this early season. There are now in
the Normal forty more students than at
the same date last year. Others con-
tinue to come and il it continues as it
has every year the aggregate attendance
this year must surpass any year in the
schools history.
There are present now in the senior
class Is candidates for graduation this
year ten more han last ~year,-eleven
more than the previous year, and seven
teen more than any year before that.
There will be one addition to this num-
Der; n who has but a part of a years
work to complete.
In the second year a like increase is
present, while the largest increase is
naturally in the first year class.
There are Is or 80 who had spoken for
dormitory rooms or written that they
were coming into the school, that fail to
come because of the close times. Many
Of these will enter later, at the opening of
the spring term.
Nearly all the counties east of the Mis-
souri, are represented, and some that
never were before.
The work of the school is thus ap
portioned among the several instructors:
President Beadle-Pedagogy, Psyche
logy and United States History.
Prot. Dempster-Arithmetic, Physics
and Algebra.
Prof. Gof-Engllsh Literature, Ameri-
can Classics, Composition, Rhetoric and
Grammar.
Miss Whalen-Algebra, Geography,
Physical Geography.
Miss Mawson Vocal Music, Zoology,
Drawing, Physiology, Elocution.
Miss Pryne-Civil Government, General
History, Book Keeping.
Miss Wright-Methods.
In connection with the last named
topic comes in a very interesting and
important part of the work, the mode.
school. Here are six classes of young
pupils, ranging in years from four tc
fourteen, graded off according to ability
into a half dozen grades and taught il
as many different rooms by members OF
the senior class and those studying the
practice OF teaching. A systematic or
der OF exercises and appointments Of
teachers from the senior class is made
for each day, and here one can see in
practical operation the teaching OF tn.
little ones from the earliest in the kin
~dergarten work up to the advanced stud
les OF our common schools. In addition
to her regular normal classes of Meth
DDS, Miss Wright, ably assisted by Mis-
Nellie Collins, s~upervises the manner ant
work OF these students of the highe
classes as they engage in the practical
work OF teaching others. 1t is thus
| great and thorough work which is being
done by our Normal school in fitting
teachers for our public schools.
n AS We have already said, and we TAX
) pleasure in repeating it, the students o
the Normal school are high in character
earnest in work, loyal in spirit, and not
w!thstandlDg the hard times, which ha
: no doubt deferred many from attending
: this year, the school is fast outgrowinI
its accommodations by the demand upol
it. The state must do something at ono
to meet the rapidly growing demand
: upon it's valuable work.
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