Courier Democrat., 1901-01-31
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STATE NuRsrA1. REPORT.
Biennial Report of the Managers
and Fncuhy Mt MnYyille.
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biennial Report of the Managers
and Faculty Mt Mnyville.
The biennial report. of the board Of
management and the faculty of the
state normal school, located in May
Vile, has just been issued, and contains
some very interesting information in
regard to the work done and the pro-
, gress made during the past two years.
The members Of the board of managers
are: Rev. Henry Ritchter, Lynchburg.
president: G. M. Johnson, Dwight; N.
ID. Nelson, Mayville; B. S. Russell.
jamestown; e. Y. Sarles, Hillsboro.
The members of the faculty are: Jo-
seph Carhart, "A. NJ, physiology. and
pedagogy; w. E. johnson, history nd
geography; D. E. Willard, A. NJ, nat
ural science; Ida E Moore, A. B., Lat
in preceptress; Katherine r. Latin.
music, drawing and librarian Thomas
II. Grosvenor, A. B., English; Clyde r..
/ Travis, mathematics. Critic teachers:
Anna Barnum. primary; Gertrude Nc
Dermott, Intermediates; Myra L. Dake
second intermediate.
During the two school years covered
by the report the school has given in
struction to S66 different students, who
came frcm Canada, from five states
other than North Dakota, and from
twenty counties of North Dakota. OF
these, about $50 are teaching in the
common schools of the state. Owing to
the phenomenal growth of the state.
the rapid increase in the number of ele-
mentary schools, and the growing de-
mand for teachers who have been sci
nY1fi 11yrf froS 1I,.,,
and governing a school, the demands
upon the school for trained teachers
has been greater than the school could
supply. In 1898 the school graduated a
class of 8; in 1899, class of 13; in 1900.
class of 90 The building is quite in
adequate to accommodate all who ap-
ply for admission. At the close of the
first week of last winters term-the
close of the first week in January, 1900
students were requested to advise
their friends who might be contemplat-
ing entering that they could not be ad-
mitted because of the over-crowded
condition of the building, and such no.
| tice was published in the state papers.
Through the generosity of Mr.. J. L.
Grandin, who donated $1,000 for that
purpose, 900 volumes were added to the
library OF the INSTITUTION.
The aim of the institution is to pre-
pare young men and women for the
| teaching service of the State of North
| Dakota. To the extent that the pur-
poses of an institution determines it's
character, all the work Of the school is
professional 1t does not give general
culture for its own sake; it does not aim
to prepare young men and women for
college nor for the general pursuits of
life. 1t gives general culture; it's grad
yates are admitted to the state uni
versity and to other colleges without
examination; it's professional work upon
the common school branches and other
subjects includes a preparation for
business and the moral education
which qualities young men and women
to be safe guides to the states children.
is a good preparation for complete
living" and is beneficial in all the
walks of life; but these results, though
actual, are incidental, and are accom-
plished because the part is necessarily
included in the whole.
President Joseph Carhart, who was
for a number of years at the head OF
the state normal school at St. Cloud,
Mimi, has. during the three years pre-
, vious to the present during which he
has been connected with this institu-
, ton, given a great impetus to the
school, and it is during this period that
the school has made it's greatest
growth. Through his influence the
school has come to have a recognized
standing at the head of the common
school system of the state.