The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-25
PRAISE FOR LEWIS
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC IN
PORT OF EDUCATORS
HIGHER NORMAL STANDARD
Lines of the Highest Educational
Development - High and Gram
Proper POsitiOn-ResOlutiO In
trOduced Before the Board.

| No appointment which Gov. Lind has
| made has met with a more cordial in
| dorsement generally than that of Prof. j.
| III. Lewis to be superintendent of public
| instruction. Already there are evidences
| abundant that Gov. Lind's confidence in
| Prof. Lewis, SO frequently expressed,
was not misplaced, and the friends Of the
| superintendent are more than gratified
| with his excellent beginning and with
! the splendid impression he Is making He
| has made a hit with the representative
| educators Of the state. No department
| of the state administration is more d.
rectly in touch with the people than the
| department of public instruction, and 1t
| is particularly gratifying to find at it's
head man with businessike IDEAS exec
utfve ability, courage and backbone and
withal energy enough to consummate his
plans and purposes. There is a general
feeling that Prof. Lewis is going to make
record and the people Of the state are
to be congratulated on having such man
at the head of this department.
One of the first acts performed by the
new superintendent was the introduction
of the normal school resolutions at the
last meeting of the board, and since that
| meeting letters of unqualified approval
have poured in from all parts of the state.
These resolutions, which are in keeping
with Mr.. Lewis well-known attitude on
the normal school question, will bear
careful consideration, and when properly
understood in all their relations will he
most enthusiastically Endorsed by the
best friends nf cd
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED.
These resolutions are:
Whereas, The scholastic work done In
Tn oae = class of the several normal schools
the seventh and eighth grades of the
graded and high schools of this state; and
loo MA,hereas, The. two hundred and seven
sofa are well equipped and abundantIv
able to do this work near the homes Of
the students now attending the normal
SCHOOLS therefore, be 1t resolved:
F1rSt-That what is known as the O.
| class IN the Mankato and Winona normal
schools be, and is hereby, discontinued
from GATE, excepting as to those students
already admitted and now doing work In
said class. "
,Second-That from and after Sept. l.
1900 the B class in said Mankato and
WlnOna normal schools be discontinued
Thlrd-That the presidents of the sew
eral normal schools revise their courses
or study so as to provide % for stand,
ara or admission In accordance with the
above resolutions; (2) for discontinuance
OF the academical subjects in the upper
classes, that are pursued in all the high
schools of the state: 80 for such an eX.
tension of the courses of study as shall
give professional training of the highest
order, and academical training which
shall supplement the scholastic worn
done In the high schools.
Another resolution was as follows:
whereas, There are now issued by the
WHICH, under the law and in the opinion
OF the attorney general may, by indorse-
ment, be made permanent or life certifi-
Gates, representing three grades Of schoI.
ast1c attainment; namely, the elementary
diplomas, representing about fourteen
terms work of twelve weeks each. in
academical subjects; the advanced d.
| work in academical subjects, and the d.
ploma of the elementary graduate course
representing four years acadernicaI work
IN the high schools of this state-all three
diplomas based upon certain amount of
training in professional subjects In ad-
d1t1on thereto, and
whereas, 1t IS wrong and unjust. both
ed course OF study, and to the school Of
hcers OF this state, that there should be
one teachers certificate based upon such
different amounts of scholastic prepare
ton, and
Whereas, the tendency of present con-
ditfons Is to discourage students from
taking the advanced course, inasmuch as
as much academical work. has practical
~ the same force and effect under the
law. Therefore, be 1T
Resolved, That the elementary normal