The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-02
ORECON'S NORMAL
SCHOOL WORK
Seventy Are In This Years Class
Largest Since School Organized.
STUDENTS TO III EXAMINED
Before They Eater the Sehool-lnterestiaq
Account Of Affairs At Aonmounh By the
tioa ,ea Young Of ihe Board
STUDENTS TO BE EXAMINED

The Hon. Benz. Young yesterday in
speaking of his rco,ut trip to Mon
mouth % attend the mr-ting Of the
board 5f regents OF the normal school.
nald b an AA,orian representative;
II arrived this morning from the state
Normal School at Monmouth. where I
attended a sp,sAnl rnscting Of the board
Il waS the nrsi opportunity had to
gc, acquainted with some of tn. Board
OF Regents since | was appointed. The
,n"nibcrs present w~re Scholneld. Of
Washington. White and Butler, Of Polk
Finn. Noitncr. Of Multnomah. and
Young. OF Clatsop The most Of them
are cariy pioneers from different ooun-
ties. and an, very Intelligent and well
fiutrd for the position.
Tho meeting WAS called for the pur-
POSE OF aso-rtainlng what could be done
ln rrgard to maintaining the school for
the future. as the funds arc now nearly
all exhausted. II WAS unanimously
agrcd by ths board that said school be
continued: and at the beginning of the
next term tn, board arc confident OF
inding some way 10 dispose OF the war
rants for the next twu years TO come
unlcra special scfasion of the legisla-
iurc should he called this fall.
"On the morning Of the 18th the boari
were invited to take their SEATS on the
platform with the faculty. So |. being
one Of the new members, naturally was
called upon Ia make few remarks In
behalf of the school which / did 10 the
bcs, ~ my ability while speaking 1
had gond opportunity 20 look over the
audience and see WIN wcrc there. and
80 my surprise found nine young Ia
Hes from Clatsop county, nearly all
from Astoria. most Of whom | have
known since they first entered the prs-
mary of our city school. | simply con
graduated them on their good common
>,nsc for entering school Of this kind
where they have such a nnc opportn-
nety of eicvathg and ftting themselves
for the profession they have chosen.
After the exercises were over. the As
toria young ladies all surrounded me,
and were glad TO mrvt ms. Some OF
them said they were rather lonesome,
and after | had advised them TO brace
up, one Of them remarked; "Ah. there
ls no place like home, sweet home"
In the afternoon We went through the
training department. which Is located
about 400 yards from the college-a
neat little graded school containing
eight rooms, with Professor Allen in
charge. He appeared to have a good
deal OF snap about him. Under the
present ruling OF the school, the above
named department is where the final
t,sst IL made whether or not the student
win make a SUCCESS In life as a teacher,
found, during our visit two of our
Astoria young ladies In full blast, eN-
planning TO the children different sub
jccts; and my opinion was formed right
there that those two would be success
ful teachers. | ALSO listened b others
who would not make u success in TWEEN,
ty years. Something transplred in one
room--I think the tlfth grade-which
was very amusing. The teacher asked
the class IL any could tell what could
make more noise than one pig being
caught under IA wire tence, The class
all hesItated. Finally Il little red-head-
ed boy by the name of Peter held up
his hand. Yes" said the teacher, you
may tell" 1.-TWO pigs" answered the
boy. which the visitors thought was
very good reply.
"In speaking OF the Normal School In
general, In all It's departments, II shows
good results; and the faculty with
President Campbell at It's head, have
been there for number of years, and
are well liked by all the students TINS
year there are 20 in the graduating
class, the largest one since the school
was organized; yet, of course, they do
not all expect to teach school. Instead
they fit themselves for other positions
'The board made some slight changes
I'm the time OF the course of study. In
one instance, 1t was made a rule that
by the next term of school all students
having graduated from any high school
win have to stand an examination be-
fore they can enter said Normal School
So. under this rule 1t behooves every
student of a high school to pass a good
examination. provided the student in
tends to ht himself for higher edu-
cation,
II enjoyed my trip up the valley. Ev-
erything looks beautiful; and indica'
tlons are that we are going to have a
large crop of wheat, and the farmers
are all rejoicing and all expect to get
on their feet once more"
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