The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-11-04
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
NORMAL SCHOOL.

The Norm al school opened as usual
Wednesday morning and the work Of
the institution went along as though
nothing had occurred. save in the
faces of faculty and students could
be plainly traced the deep-seated
grief that possessed every heart over
the sudden taking off Of their beloved
president.
The executive branch of the school,
which is all important to the success
full enforcement of discipline and the
smooth running Of the educational
machinery, demanded attention and
received due consideration by the
faculty at a meeting in the afternoon.
1t was deemed wise and prudent that
a chairman of the faculty should be
chosen, who would preside over their
sessions and so far as possible fill the
place of president until such time as
the Normal board shall choose an
executive head for the Institution,
and for this place the honor fell to
Prof. Chas. f. Koehler by the unani.
nous voice of the faculty. An exc
cutive committee was also chosen,
composed of Prof. U. o. Cox, chair
man, Mrs. d. A. Swan and Miss LYDIA
B. Earha1t. Temporarily, therefore,
the school is splendidly Differed, and
its work will proceed uninterruptedly.
The future of the Mankato State
Normal school is assured. From the
day Of it's opening-now nearly a
quarter of century-to the present,
it has made steady progress. 1t has
always been wisely and judiciously
governed, and it's influence is felt
throughout the entire Northwest.
The citizens of Mankato take per-
sonal pride in it's past and will not
fail to give it all the moral support
needed to aid it in the future. While
the institution assumes a wide field
in it's educational work. and is in no
wise local, yet our people who live un-
der the very droppings of it's caves
naturally have warmer interest in
its work, take deeper personal in
terest in it's welfare aud have cause
for more scrutinizing care over it's
conduct than is or can be felt by
those living in more distant parts,
although the beneficial results are
the same. The Mankato Normal has
become part and parcel Of our every
day life. Its interests are closely al
lied with all other interests of the
city for the advancement of morals
and higher ideals of citizenship. 1t
has become intricately woven into
our social and material well being,
an nothing can happen it, either for
good or for i'll, that would not affect
the city in like way.
In the passing of events the school
has lost by death it's beloved presi
dent, the community an honored clt-
izen. In this bereave ment we all
share in common grief. But the
great educational Institution over
which be presided for so many years
will live on and on; the work of edu-
eating the young will continue. Its
future growth and value will be
greater and better because of the i'm
perishable imprint of a pure life and
the ineradicable precepts of high and
lofty motives left as an undging legacy
by him who so recently passed to the
beyond. Men are born to die; insti-
tutioDs are founded to live.
The question which today is upper
most In the minds Of our people who
have ever taken deep and abiding
interest in the Normal school is, who
shall sbe selected to succeed to the
presidency Of the institution? No
unseemlng haste is desired or wanted
IN the selection of any enc, but it is
wholly meet and proper, and an evil
Cence of that living interest in the
future of the school which has ever
been manifest by the people of
this city in it's success in the