River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-04
Normal Notes.

A class of normal school students
in manual training has been organ
lied and will recite daily from 3:15
to 400 O'Clock under the direction
of Professor Forden.
There was no session of the school
on Friday, it being the custom TO
offset the day following Thanks
giving by teaching election day.
Miss Silliman spent the Thanks
giving recess with her parents at
Hudson and Miss Gilfllan with
friends in Minneapolis
Rhetoricals for the current year
will be delivered Wednesdays, sue
cessive recitation periods being
devoted to that end for successive
weeks.
The Pilgrim Play" as presented
Wednesday afternoon by the pupils
of the intermediate department un-
der the competent supervision of
Miss Scofeld was of deep pedagogi-
cal significance, emphasizing, as it
did, a most wholesome method of
teaching history. The successful
presentation of the play demanded
a thorough study of the manners,
customs, occupations and the re-
! ligiouS and educational life of the
Pilgrims. In the second place, the
representation invited a critical
study of motives of these people in
their pilgrimages, as we'll as of the
adjustment of the most slender
means to the achievement of the
great and worthy ends. These mo-
tives and actions found expression
| in such documents as the Mayf1oWer
compact and in Governor Bradford's
first Thanksgiving proclamation,
familiarity with which are indis-
pensab1e to the students of history
All of these vital and difficult ele-
ments were approached easily and
effectively by children from to II
years of age through the medium
of the play. The knowledge gained
was valuable, the method used was
suggestive, and the pedagogy on
which it was based was sound.
Mrs. Mabel L. Conklin of New
York. National Supt. of the White
Cross movement of America, will
give a series of lectures in this city,
Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and Z.
Mrs. Conklin is talented speaker
and none should fail to hear her.
Admission free. A collection will
be taken at each lecture. Follow
ing is the program:
Saturday, p. m.-Young women, How to be
beautiful. M. E. church.
Saturday, 3 p. rn.--General public, ''That boy of
yours. M. e. church.
Sunday, 3p. m.-Mass meeting for men only
| Reading room.
Sunday, 7:3O p. m.-GeneraI public, "The double
standard. Gong. church.
An epidemic of the hoof and
mouth disease prevails among cat
tie, hogs and sheep in the New
England states, and serious loss
has already occurred. To prevent
the disease from spreading beyond
the Hudson river and to stamp it
out where it is the Secretary of
Agriculture is sending one hundred
veterinary surgeons to the infested
districts. He hopes to have the
disease eradicated in fa0nth. In
the meantime England will buy no
cattle shipped from New England
ports.
We learn from the West st. Paul
/ Times that the Board of Afi1iation of
the Chicago University have placed
the Humboldt High School of ST.
Paul, of which H. S. Baker Phi. D.,
is principal upon its list of co-opera-
tive high schools. This action was
taken upon the recommendation of
a special agent who was sent to
visit the school. This action of the
board gives to the graduates of the
Humboldt school the privilege of
admission to the Chicago Univer-
sity upon a certificate of the princi-
pal and puts them in line to secure
the prize entrance scholarships.