The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-01-17
NORMAL SCHOOL MANAGERS.
Their Meeting in St. PauI.---WiII Con-
fer With Board of Control

the members of the board of control
understood that the normal board was
first to pass upon all accounts, and pre-
pare a clear statement of them for
the board of control, which would then
audit the accounts. This view was
accepted by the other members of the
normal board.
Towne & Smith, the general on-
tractors, were present and wanted their
money. 1t was.6gured that there is
due $2S, 6O3. "a.
President Ankeny said this could be
paid in an hours time, after a com-
plete statement had been submitted,
but that neither the normal board nor
the board of control could act without
a statement.
Director Eastman of st. Cloud pre-
sented a number of recommendations
from President Kleeberger of the st.
Cloud school.
The first was that pupils training
for kindergarten work be relieved of
tuition and placed or the same plane
as those training for other work, pro-
vided they would sign a pledge to
teach in the public schools of the state
for two years after graduating.
The directors of other schools were
opposed to this, for the present year,
as it would mean the refundment of
tuition fees already paid.
Supt. Olsen did not think as much
of the kin%dergartens al ONE educa-
tors.
"They may be all right for big
cities, like Minneapolis and st. Paul,
where the mothers have not the time
or lack the disposition to care for their
own children" said he, "but for
most places 1 think the best kinder
garten is the child's mother"
The st. Cloud proposition was not
adopted.
Another proposition was to arrange
a plan by which some one at the school
might handle supplies for the stu
dents, allowing the latter to buy them
at cost.
Director Clark of this city opposed
the idea altogether. The regular
dealers paid their share of taxes for
the support of the schools and were en-
titled to the trade.
Secretary Olsen said the dealers paid
no more taxes than other people and
the saving of profits meant more to
students who were saving wood wash
ing dishes and doing other hard work
to pay their way through the schools
than it did to the dealers.
Eight school teachers at st. Cloud
will be allowed $5 per month each as
critic teachers in the normal school
at that place.
In the afternoon the financial state
ments of the Duluth normal, school was
placed in the hands of a sub-commit-
tee. This committee will confer with
the state board of control.
The board passed on to the board of
control the question of an early open
ing and a summer session of the Du-
luth normal. The plan was to open
the school March /. and have a sum-
mer session. The main objection to
this course, al stated yesterday, is that
it is out of the ordinary and will in
terfere with the attendance at the
school. Pupils, it was asserted, would
not be ready to enter March 1. One
director denounced the whole scheme
as an experiment.
do we experiment enough in our
normal work." asked Supt. Olsen. 81
think that that is one of our troubles.
Whether it is an innovation or not
! should bear no weight
The board, however, did not like to
take the responsibility without know
! ing how the board of control would
feel about it, so the president and the
secretary were appointed to confer
with the board of control.
The matter of the payment of the
contracts for the Duluth normal goes
over until the next meeting, owing
to mislaying contractors slips.
The selection of a successor Of Presi-
dent Kleeberger of the st. Cloud nor
NAL school was postponed until the
meeting in March. His resignation
was accepted.
The board is not certain that it