Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-01-25
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January 10, 1900.
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January 10, 1900
DEAR EDITOR SHEAF:- ..
Permit me to make a few state
ments in your paper, regarding a
business enterprise of the Moorhead
Normal School, and particularly it's
students. .-
Ever since the first years existence
of our school, it's circle of friends has
widened and the influence Of their
work in behalf of the Normal School
constantly increased. These facts
have been demonstrated in the won
derful increase in the enrolment.
We now number Something like $50
and the graduating class consists of
about 80 members.
The physical situation of the school
is also such as to command the atten-
ton of the Northwest particularly.
Situated in the heart of the famous
Red River Valley, name familiar to
"bread- eaters the world around, the
institution cannot help but become
most important factor in the educa-
tional work in this great territory.
Its future cannot we'll be estimated.
It is like trying to conceive the ulti-
mate future Of the United States. It
is simply impossible.
Then again, the Normal Schools
are pre-eminently the peoples
schools. They support them, pay
the taxes from which the money is
derived with which they are main
tanned. They also are the immediate
benefciaries of the work done in
them. Not onl y are better teachers
fitted out and prepared for the public
schools, but better citizens come from
them. We get better men and
women by virtue of the thorough ed
ucation, the high ideals of honor and
integrity placed before the students
and the noble characters of men and
women as instructors found in these
institutions. Here also are the chill
dren of the laborer, the farmer, the
mechanic, the lawyer, the doctor and
the capitalist, all placed Oh an equal
basis. Courag eSto meet the exactions
in life, the ability do things and
the 81 honor to stand llp fol right
these are here set up as the
only means BY which young man or
woman may succeed, and they are
the standards by which the students
are judged and approved by the fac
ulty. For these reasons, then, I say,
these schools are above all others the
schools of the people, and the Moor
head Normal School the institution of
the people of the Northwest.
AS [ intimated at the beginning,
many forces are at work in the inter-
est of our Normal School, and the
number is on the increase. But never
theless the want of a concentration of
efforts has been keenly felt for con-
siderable time The forces have been
scattered and hence not as powerful
as they might be if all were combined
to work in one channel or in some Or
ganized manner. You know organ
ization has been the keynote of the
nineteenth century and it is the main
cause for the miraculous progress in
every travel of human industry dur
ing the last hundred years. =. In fact,
the history from 1860 70 1900 means
as much as the history from 1 to 1900.
Now, the business enterprise is
this: We have decided, faculty and
students, to publish monthly maya
zine and intend to make it worthy of
the institution. It will contain the
news of the school, valuable literary
productions of eminent men and
women engaged in the warfare
against ignorance, and hope that it
may reach every graduate of our.
school, the homes Of every person the
least interested in the institution and
as many other persons as are at all
interested to see some material and
spiritual use made Of the money he or
she contributes to the maintenance of
these schools, and it is as general
manager of the proposed paper that
[ make this announcement to the
readers Of the 'SHEAF," and it is
hoped that great number Of sub
scribers will come from Warren and