The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-22
REASON FOR 1T ALSO STATED
RESIDENT DIRECTOR MITCHELL
ACCUSES HIM OF "MALIGNANT
DISCRIMINATION"
MEETING RATHER STORMY
A Bit of Heat Injected Into the Ses-
Ing Yesterday Superintendent
Lewis Pulls the Law When the
Question of Spending Money for
Duluth Comes Up.

Duluth Comes Up.
The state normal school board met
yesterday and, as was expected, adopted
the report of the special committee re-
commencing a discontinuance of the
strictly elementary features of the nor
nal course. The report was bitter pill
for the presidents Of the schools, but
they accepted the inevitable with as
good grace as could be expected.
After the stormy meeting of the COM
mittee on Thursday the board settled
down TO a more dignifed method of pro-
cedure and there was no repetition of the
exciting session of the day before
The special committee submitted its re-
port, which was as follows:
COMMITTEES REPORT.
The special committee appointed by the
normal school board on Feb. 25, 1899, to
consider the resolutions introduced on
said day, in reference to the discontinu-
ance of the ''C'' class in the Winona
normal school, and the "C'' class in the
Mankato normal school, make the fol-
lowing report:
That what are known as the "C''
classes in the normal schools at Winona,
Mankato and st. Cloud, should be dis
continued from date, except as to those
That persons holding teachers certifi-
Gates of the second grade who shall have
taught in any public school in this state,
with ability and success for the term of
six months, should be permitted to take
special work In the normal schools of this
state and should be admitted to said
schools without examination for the pur-
pose of doing said special work
That the presidents of the several nor
NAL schools should revise their courses of
study so as to provide for standard of
admission in accordance with the above,
and for such extension of the courses Of
study as shall give professional training
training which shall supplement the
scholastic work done in the high schools
of this state.
4se MITCHELL SURPRISED.
When this resolution was read Director
Mitchell arose and said that he was sur
prised beyond measure at it's wording, as
1t was the first intimation he had re-
ceived that st. Cloud was to be included
In the report. 1t had not been so stated
at the former meeting and 1t was gen.
orally understood that only Mankato and
Winona were to be included in the reso-
luton. He was taken by surprise to
such an extent. he said, that he was at a
loss to know what to do. He regretted
that such action had been taken without
he. should have come with facts and fig
ures, giving his side of the case and he
should have had several representatives
of the ST. Cloud school present with him
to argue the matter. He asked If he
might be informed as to why the change
had been decided upon so far as st. Cloud
was concerned.
President Ankeny replied that after it
had been fully discussed and considered
In all it's features it had been agreed that
1t would be unwise and unjust to dis
criminate. If it was to. be a wise and
good thing he thought that st. Cloud
should be entitled to share in the re-
wards of the new scheme.
Director Mitchell said that he had con-
fidently expected that st. Cloud would be
omitted from the new order of things for
another year at least as he understood
1t to be a generally conceded fact that
the st. Cloud school was not upon an
equal footing, with the two older institu-
tions ST. Cloud, he argued, was not sit
uated so fortunately as the others so far
as tributary high schools were con-
cerned, and If the resolution included
that school 1t would cut off half their
population and give them little to draw
upon to replace the students so cut off.
MT. Lewis SAID Indt II ndQ Deen appd-
rent to the committee that if the stand
ard was raised in two schools and not at
st. Cloud that the result would be an
Immediate deluge of seventh and eighth
grade pupils on the st. Cloud normal
school, and a st. Cloud certificate there
fore would not have any significance
and indeed such a state of affairs would
leave matters just as they are now.
SUPT. JORDAN'S BOYCOTT.
1t was unfair, and Director Morey with
some warmth replied that Mr. Mitchell
evidently had forgotten his geography or
he would not say st. Cloud had no tribu-
tary high schools. AS matter of fact
there were more high schools tributary
to st. Cloud than to any of the other
normal schools. Then again he re-
minded Mr.. Mitchell that the St Cloud
people had gone before the legislature
and insisted that they were entitled to
the same recognition as tn two older
schools and had just good financial
backing and as large attendance; and in
every way were equal to the other two.
80 upon his own word Mr.. Mitchell stood
accused of confessing, that ST. Cloud was
not one whit behind the other schools in
any way.
Prof. Lewis reminded Mr.. Mitchell that
the Twin City high schools contributed
largely to st. Cloud. Then came slight
sensation.
I'VE will never get any Twin City pu-
pills so long as Supt. Jordan, of Mime
apolis, persists In his malignant and un-
Just boycott of our school. I might as
well speak plainly. Dr. Jordan has done
all he could to turn students away from
st. Cloud simply because we did not fol-
low his dictation and elect Mr.. Carhart
president Of our school. He has kept up
this bitter hostility continually since we
turned Carhart down. 1t Is time for
plain speaking"
President Ankeny thought that If this
was so the matter should be called to
the attention of the Minneapolis board
of education either by St. Clouds faculty
or by the normal board, and he was sure
the Minneapolis board would not toler-
ate any such prejudiced opposition. eff
this is a fact
1T is a fact-a most notorious fact %
warmly said Mr. Mitchell
Then the controversy subsidized and the
resolution was taken up. Director Phelps
urged the board to go slow and take no
precipitate step. Mr.. Mitchell moved an
amendment to let st. Cloud out of the re-