The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-04

pearance. The floor in Inclined, and al
together the room will be one of the
most attractive of the kind in Minnesota.
The dining room and kitchen are also
on the first floor.
The second and third stories will be
used for study purposes and dormitores.
The basement will contain a gymnasium,
Sunday school room, cellars and heat
Ing apparatus. The entire building is
furnished in hardwood. except the base
ment, while vestibules are covered with
glazed tile Wainscoating. The material
used Is Twin City pressed brick in
: shades, giving "a very effective appear
ance. Inc trimmings are of Kaso.a
pink stones The building is piped for
water and gas and wired for electricity,
and no modern facility or appliance
looking to safety, comfort and convent
ence has been omitted
The building will accommodate about
$50 pupils. and it is thought 100 will be
in attendance in January. The present
faculty consists of DR.. NJ o. Bnckman,
president, with Dr. F. A. Schmidt, DIR.
f. =. Lund and Prof. E. Kr. Johnson,
IN charge of the various departments.
with these will be associated other
teachers as they may be needed. Inc
campus will be improved and sites left
Tor residences of professors and addi-
tlonal buildings. The college has per-
manent endowment fund of $4,000. the
interest of which is used for the pay
ment of salaries
tributary to st. Paul in Minnesota and
helghboflng states there is a Scandinav-
ian population, one-sixth of the total
number to be found in the old nome
lands of Norway, Sweden and Denwark.
Here is the natural center for the lore
most schools, newspapers and concen-
trated interests of this people. SO
thoroughly alive and loyal to American
institutions and methods.
Is there any reason why St. Paul, W tn
its admirable system of public and
parochial schools. academies, colleges
higher institutions of learning, should
not become the general center of NorS-l-
western education and business interests
The city schools, from the kindergarten
to the university, improved by the best
results of experience, taught by an &C
complished corps Of instructors, aided
by every modern facility and great pub
lie libraries-the state historical library
and museum alone being mine of IN
formation to students-afford to the
youth of the city and the state the
means Of a thorough, practical, business,
popular, technical, scientific, profess
sional or classical education. There Is
no need Of the youth of the Northwest
to pass by our doors to seek the portals
of any school in any land-eXcept tor tne
fancy of a anne.
Fifty years is not a long time in the
history of a race or a nation, but IN that
brief period thousands of earnest men
and women have moved along the val
leys, and over the prairies and through
the fields of the state; builded homes and
cities, swept away wild vegetation and
touched the fertile acres to the kindlier
issues, of wheat and corn and apples,
until now, throughout her length and
breadth Minnesota sglows and thrills
with the spirit Of progress and the quick
sening instincts of her splendid future.
Teachers and pupils of the first schools
in the state are still living. They lived
to see the rude log school houses give
way to the magnificent modern temple
of learning. They have lived to see the
trails over which they entered the coun-
try covered with tracks of steel, arms OF
which stretch to the Western coast to
greet the commerce of the myriad-peo-
pied nations of the Orient, and to the
East to grasp the traffic of the great
marts of the Atlantic. We are not only
getting trade, but the youth of other
states is coming to our schools.