Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-01-25
] MlOORHEAD.
January Is, 1900.

DEAR ED1ToR SHEAR ::--
Permit me to make few state
ments in your paper, regarding 3
business enterprise Of the Moorhead
Normal School, and particularly its
students.
Ever since the first years existence
of our school, its 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 45C
and the graduating class consists Of
about so members.
The physical situation Of the school
is also such as to command the atten.
tion Of the Northwest particularly;
Situated in the heart Of the famous
Red River Valley, name familiar tc
Sbread- eaters" the world around, the
institution cannot help but become a
most important factor in the educa-
tional work in this great territory
Its future cannot we'll be estimated,
1t is like trying to conceive the ulti-
mate future Of the United States. Il
l - q q -
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
.benefc fciaries of the work done in
them. Not only 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 capita alist all placed On an equal
sbasis C'oufa Il "a meet tlle exactipnl
in lfe bitity ao thine ma
Y
Only ~ q HUI i|l VI ~ 81! yoiIle man d
woman may slacc and they ars
the standards by which the students
are judged and approved By the fac
.ulty. For these reasons, then, / say,
these schools are above all others the
schools Of the people, and the Moor.
head Normal School the institution oi
the people of the Northwest.
AS l 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 o1
efforts has been keenly felt for con
siderable time. The forces have beer
scattered and hence not as powerful.
as they might be if all l.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 mai1
cause for the mira culous progress il
every travel Of human industry dur,
ing the last hundred years. In fact
the history from 1900 to 1900 means
as much as the history from / to 1900
Now, the business enterprise il
this We have decided, faculty anc
students, to publish a monthly maga
zine and intend to make it worthyso
the institution. 1t will contain tht
news of the school, valuable literary
prod uctions Of eminent men an6
women engaged in the warfare
against ignorance, and hope that i
may reach every graduate of oul
school, the homes Of every person tht
least interested III the institution anc
as many other persons as are at al
interested to see some material ane
spiritual use made Of the money he q
She contributes to the maintenance o
these schools, and it is as genera
manager Of the proposed paper tha
/ make this announcement to th,
readers Of the S sSHEAF, and it i
hoped that a great number of sub
scribers will come from Warren anlel
vicinity The subscrip iption price i
very low, being only 75c ersannum
The first issue will ear il the lat
ter part Of r. ebruary
The officers are General Mana
Esf