The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-09
Ned FOR NORMAL SCHOOL
j. ID. BOND THINKS THERE SHOULD
BE ONE BETWEEN TWIN
CITIES
ASKS AID FROM LEGISLATURE
Suggestion That the Pedagogical
Department. of the University
Be Merged Into a. Nor
MAI College.

J. D. Bond. assistant superintendent of
public schools in5Sts Paul, is working like
trooper to bring to the attention of
the present legislature the need of q
normal school between the Twin Cities.
He has just written a lengthy article for
the Minnesota School Journal anent the
matter showing why such a school should
be built, and he hopes that before an
other week the legislature will have
taken the matter up.
Most of the leading educational men
In the state are in favor of having such
school and will do all in their power
to have the matter come to a head Mr..
BOND says, in part, in his article:
Now, it seems to me, the time has
come Wnen the department of pedagogy
at the University of Minnesota could be
merged into normal college with full
four years course like the normal col
lege of Columbia university of New
YORK city. This would require that one
or two new buildings should be erected
within reasonable distance of the univer
sity campus.
Certain 1t is that the pedagogical de-
partment of the university must be great
~ enlarged and strengthened if it is to
succeed IN the future. 1t is no secret
that the time has come when the de-
partment must be aided by better facili-
ties, more instructors and therefore in
creased appropriation by the legislature.
inns or the department will cease to be-
come a potent factor in the education OF
the teachers of our state. An institution
that can furnish an advanced course,
sucn as a normal college would offer, is
necessity and he who would oppose
such an institution would, it seems to
me, oppose any system of education be-
You'd the first year in the university or
college.
I'VE know that a large part of the
taxes, of the state for the four normal
schools tSOon to be five, counting the
new school at DULUTH are paid paid by
the residents of the Twin Cities, Mime
tants of these cities should request the
legislature to grant the university re-
gents an appropriation sufficient to erect
buildings and equip normal college, a
college which would be the legitimate
outgroWth of the pedagogical department
of the university, how could the people
of those sections of the state where
normal schools are located object?
No other section Of the United States
equal in area to that occupied by the
Twin Cities, and containing 100000 in
habitants, can be named which has not
either state normal school or a normal
college. The city of Milwaukee, Wis,
demanded and obtained a state normal
school when it had only one-half the
population of the Twin Cities. At pres
ent the nearest state normal school to
these cities is one in Wisconsin. thirty
five miles away, while the nearest one
in our own state is Seventy-f1ve miles
distant.
"a normal college located near the
boundary line Of the Twin Cities, on the
interurban line Of street cars, in that nat
ural wooded park section sloping down
to the Mississippi river, lovely spot,
ready made by natures hand, and where
it could be reached by the inhabitants of
either city for one car fare would be a
certain success. This normal college
would be as much a part of our great
university as the agricultural college is.
This sprang from an obscure department
of the university, and was not as we'll or
favorably known in the state as the de-
partment of pedagogy is today. But be-
ing properly located. housed and en-
dowed now it has become the pride not
only of the Twin Cities but of the. en-
tire state