The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-04
MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
They Rank Among the Very First
i'm the Northwest.

They Rank Among the Very First
in the Northwest.
Mankato public schools make use of
six buildings, giving thirty-eight good
school rooms well lighted, well heated
and well located. East MankatO has
now a good two-room building and a
growing school. These buildings are
all in good condition and well kept
and seated for their purposes. Most
of them have special apparatus for
ventilation, and this matter is at
tended to carefully in each Of them.
The board has spared no pains to make
these comfortable, well lighted, con-
venient and well arranged for school
purposes. Each member of the board,
while giving fatherly attention to the
building of his own ward, gives gen
erous, impartial care to the entire
schools.
In the High school building are the
High school and three grammar
grades. The first class graduated
from the High school in 1876, and good
classes have graduated each year
since. The high school now enrolls 14S
pupils which will be increased each
year.
The courses of study are classical,
scientific and general, and takes four
years of study after completion and
careful state examination in all the
common school branches. In this
school four years of study are given to
Latin, nearly four years to English in
lines of composition, rhetoric and
literature, American and English.
One year and half is given to
geometry and one to physics; other
studies in proportion.
The course is from one to two years
longer than the Academies and other
schools of the state. The High
school aims at mental training, broad
knowledge and scholarship and
thorough instruction, holding that
these are requisites for business, home
life, teaching and entrance into col
leges and universities. 1t takes the
young people time and hard work to
complete the courses, but the stronger
and heavier the courses of study the
better it pays in the long run. Lack
of scholarship and mental train
ing that come by thorough course of
study and long enough drill in
branch of study to think in it and
absorb it is the weakness of the young
people going into the vacations of life.
In addition history study in the
grades, two full years are put upon
United States history before they en-
ter the High school for further
study of history and civil government.
Much study of the various sciences is
being given in all the grades for their
practical uses and to fit them to enter
upon four years course in the High
school. And thus language, grammar
and literature are pursued in all the
grades. While the High school is ar
ranged, supported and dedicated di-
rectly to the service of the people of
MaDkato, it is the cause of large num-
bers of youth and families coming to
the city for the privilege of it's educa-
tiOn. The state pays directly into it's
treasury every year S40O, which pays
tuition of all pupils who may come
from this or other counties of the
state. Mankato feels proud of the
history of the High school for twenty
years, with it's scores of young men
and women sent out to all lines of
life. She also takes special pride in
it's standing in the community and
state today. While all the good the
past has had remains to make it's life
Of today glad, it is especially strong
and progressive with it's excellent
faculty, magnificent building and ap-
paratus and fine class of young people.