The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-05
SUMMER SESSION PLACING THE
WINONA NORMAL ON HIGHER
PLANE.
IS STRICTLY PROFESSIONAL.
TEACHERS OFF lone EXPERIENCE
AND HIGH ABILITY AMONG
THE STUDENTS.
ONLY NoRMAIst in, NORTHWEST
which Has Attained Such High RINK
-Enrollment Rapidly In
creasing.

WINONA, Mimi, July 4-The con-
t1nuous session of the normal school at
Winona has opened with the most sat
lSfactory promise for success of the
new plan. For some years past this
school has wished to advance its
standards of admission to those of a
strictly professional school; but not
until recently has the necessary au-
thority been granted by the state nor
NAL board. .a
The inauguration of the plan of con-
tinuous sessions has furnished the OPP
portunity of such reorganization of the
courses of study as to place the normal
school at Winona on the same plane
as to the standards of admission and
courses of study as the normal colleges
at BrldgeWater, Mass, at Albany. N
Y, and Ypsilanti, Mich.
In no state normal schools of the
West, excepting possibly that of Mil
waukee, are the same exclusive stand
ards maintained. The following data
from the present enrolment for the
summer quarter confirms the claim
Only high school graduates, former
students and teachers in actual SER
vice have been admitted. Something
more than half of the enrolment are
nigh school graduates holding records
Whlch would admit to the regular
courses OF the state university. The
remainder are nearly all teachers in
service.
The average of the students is
twenty-five years. The average length
of teaching service for the entire
school is about four years, and varies
from one term to twenty years. The
character of the high school graduates
entering is shown by the fact that IS
per cent have already had experience
in teaching, and over so per cent have
enrolled for the two years advanced
professional course.
Teachers from city schools OF Min
neapolis, st. Paul. Duluth Winona and
from a large number of the smaller
cities of the state are found in the
enrolment. The number of graded
school principals is noticeably large
1t is safe to say that so high class
of professional students have never
been enrolled in any normal school in
the West.
This standard will, hereafter, be
strictly maintained and students will
be expected to obtain their necessary
preliminary academic training in the
eighty nine excellent high schools of
| the state. The only exception to this
will be in the case of rural school
teachers of successful experience and
| excellent scholarship. ""~
In addition to the regular faculty Of
! the school the following special teach
, ers are employed for the special va
| cation term: ~
Miss Katherine H. Clark, of Boston, Mass,
as special kindergarten director, gives a
| course to primary teachers with practice in
| kindergarten primary methods.
| Mrs. Fanny Jones, primary teacher of the
| Mercy school in Minneapolis, has charge of
| Model school critic and illustrative teacher
| Miss Marian G. Winchester, of the ST. Paul
| City Training school, has similar work in
| the fourth and fifth grades.
Miss Della j. Long, also of the St. Paul
| City Training school for teachers, has charge
of the critic and illustrative work in the
sixth and seventh grades Miss Long has
just returned from two years professional
| study in the Leland Stanford university
! California
| Miss Katherine Williamson, a teacher OF
long experience who has recently finished a
| course in the Chicago university, will have
| charge of geography and methods in drawing
with special courses in blackboard sketching
Mrs. Lenora Austin Hamlin formerly teach
er of elocution in the St. Paul High school
! and of the most efficient and successful
| teachers in the country in her special sub
| ject, will have charge Of reading, rhetoricals
| and special class and individual courses in
| expression.
1t is the purpose in this, as in other
subjects, to bring to the teachers the
best opportunities and instruction Of
fered in any normal schol in the West
1t is believed that this purpose has
| been accomplished.
1t is certain that a large addition t.
| the enrolment will follow the Fourth
| OF July recess.