St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-06
Minnesota's State Schools Of
High Grade and Great
Usefulness.
The Pressing Need Of All Is
Additional Room for
Their Work.
Review Of the Reports Of
Directors and Presidents
Of the Schools.
Appropriations Asked For
Amount to a Goodly
Figure.

Figure.
The present legislature will be asked
to appropriate something like SlS3, 600
for increasing the facilities and eff
cheney of the state normal schools.
AT first glance this amount appears
large. Friends of the schools, however,
maintain that if deliberate. unbiased
consideration is given to the facts of the
case they will bear out the statements
OF advocates of the system that the
sums requested by the different schools
are reasonable. 1t is asserted further
that the amount of money asked is
limited to the actual needs of the
schools.
The GLOBE has taken considerable
pains to ascertain the exact situation at
the different normal schools. Its repre-
sentative has personally examined the
school at st. Cloud, which alone has a
ladies' dormitory; and the school at
Moorhead, newest and most poorly pro-
vided for of the four. The dormitory
lCutulC VIII VI lul tllCl oIOiISs
AS to the bills to provide two new
normals, one at Duluth and one at
Tracy, this may be said: Examination
of a map of Minnesota will show that
Tracy, at least, has no possible chance
of securing what she asks. Only Brown
and Redwood counties divide Lyon
from Blue Earth. where the Man
kato school is located. In the
other direction Waseca, Steele,
Dodge and Olmsted lie between Blue
Earth and Winona. st. Cloud is an
ideal location for normal. Moorheat
has a tremendous sweep of country
which will send scholars to its school.
Duluth has many points in its favor as a
site for a fifth school, but it is not
likely to have its wishes in this direc
ton gratifed at the present session.
The committee on normal schools will
probably visit the head of the lake at
an early date simply to look over the
ground.
This article is written to give fair,
impartial statement of the needs of the
normal schools as those needs are pre-
scented by their advocates and well
WiSherS.
Crowded at Vvinona.
President Shepard, of the Winona
normal, calls attention to the pressing
need for additional room and more
teachers, if the efficiency of the situa-
ton is to be kept unimpaired. The
building is in splendid shape as it
stands at present, but the president
points out that the only normal school
in the country that compares with Wi
mona as to numbers in graduating
cIasses-that at Oswego, n. Y.-has
thirty more rooms. Additional room is
held to be imperaiively necessary for the
model and training school work, also
for recitation rooms.
A ladies' home is referred to as a
feature greatly needed. but for
the present overshadowed by the
want of room III the school
proper. Prof. Shepard has adopted the
rule of taking no more pupils than he
can handle well with present accommo-
dations. Consequently many appli-
cants are turned in sorrow from the
doors of the school. The proposition is
to build an addition at the rear OF the
present building, SO that the front
would not be altered in tie least. Care
ful figuring has resulted i'll an estimate
of $4,000 for building, furnishing and
heating and equipment of the labora-
tories. 1t should be stated that much
OF the available room at Winona is
taken up by the really admirable kin
dergarten training school, maintained
for dozen years past. whose graduates
have won laurelS in the educational
fields of many states and countries.
NEanLato Handicapped.
At Mankato a surprisingly steady
growth has been experienced. Two
years ago great urgency for extension
was pleaded on account of cramped fa-
clities. but relief was deferred with the
implied promise that at this session
Mankato'S needs would be given spe-
cial consideration. President Soaring
states III his report that the assembly
room is utterly inadequate to the needs
of his school. and is very badly located
on the third floor. He asserts they lack
proper rooms for laboratory purposes,
for natural history museum, for physi-
cal training, for Kindergarten, and
that the recitation rooms are entirely
too few to accommodate the additional
teachers and pupils.
The desire is TO complete an addition
partially erected three years ago, and
make some extensive alterations in the
old building. An architect has pre-
the resident director OF the school com
puteS $50. 900 as a fair and necessary
sum to be appropriated for the Mankato
school. Should the legislature acuuleSce
iE is confidently stated the usefulness Of
the school would be broadened many
fold.
ST.. Clouds Pride.
AS it stands at present the st. Cloud
Ioncifnd ~: ci,
When the building is completed as its
friends desire and the legislature origi-
nally planned, it will be handsome. com
modious and eXcellently suited TO fulfill
its destiny. To accomplish this new
wing must be erected at the north end
of the main building. The south wing
must also be completed, else much Of lis
capacity will remain unavailable. The
celiar,and ettic have been pressed into
service heretofore, though totally un-
suited to school purposes, especially for
Young children, at least ih4the present
state.
Resident Director Mitchell and Pres
ident Carhart went over the needs of
their institution very Systematically for
the benefit of the normal school COM
mtteP, With this result: 70 wipe out
debt heretofore incurred to make addi-
liOUdl IuUiii dFdildDlc. S1O.OUO, ~ Uullu
a new wing. $4,000; for necessary re-
pairs, $4,000; addition to current ex-
pense. 5000; total. $4,000. Specifica-
tons as to the proposed manner of
spending this money were very minute,
! and nearly every member of the com
mttee expressed himself as favOrably
impressed by the strong pleas of Messrs.
Mitchell and Carhart.
Attached to the st. Clold school is
ladies home. 1t is the envy of all the
| other schools, and the pride of the au-
thorities of the school. Accommodate
inc nearly all who at present desire to
avail themselves of It's shelter, it at
tracts to and holds at the school a class
of desirable pupils who are bound to do
splendid educational work i'll the future.
Located on the normal grounds. it is
home indeed to the inmates, and taeili-
fntpC ihpfT work small HprYnn