The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-06-19
Normal Board Retains the Present
Head of the Mankato School.
Mr.. Washburne Does Not Favor Pro-
posed Trips of the ''Prexies"
Suggested That They Attend Session
of the N. E. A. in Boston.
Highs and NormaIs Should Be Placed
on an Equal Footing.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
c. H. Cooper was reelected president of
the Mankato normal school yesterday by
the normal board which held a session in
st. Paul.
A resolution to pay the expenses of
each of the normal school presidents
to the National Educational association
meeting was adopted, but later on when
it was being discussed j. L. Washburne,
the Duluth member, expressed his dis
approval, and said he would try to dis
suade President Bohannon from going.
Il do not believe much in this running
around to educational meetings outside
the state. These trips are more in the
nature of junkets than of an educational
nature. Let the presidents stay at home
and attend to business. If they attend
the educational meetings in the state,
they will get just as much good"
''But you believe in these professional
meetings yourself, and as a lawyer at
tend your bar association meetings." sug-
gested Supt. Olsen.
''Not on your life l don't, and / can
beat any of these theoretical lawyers
who put in their time running to bar
association meetings. 1t don't get them
b;pn, x,,ortb- ,y,,Io
President Millspaugh of Winona in
reading his annual report, deplored the
fact that the law gives the high school
graduate preference over the normal
school graduate. He considered it I'M
fair, and declared that they should at
least be put on an equal footing. Supt
Olsen said the high school board had
passed rule which did put them on an
equal footing. 'If you did, you exceed
ed your authority under the law" said
Mr.. Millspaugh.
He lamented the fact that there were
so few men teachers sent out from the
normal schools. Winona graduated but
two men this year.
Conditions in the business world have
changed" said President Cooper, Sab
sorbing many who in former years would
have become teachers; the present dearth
of teachers will compel districts to en-
ploy those who are not we'll equipped for
teaching and will enable many to Sc
cure schools, who in former years would
have gone to school. The larger develop
ment of the high school system of the
state will hold near home many who in
former years would have gone to the
normal schools"
The club women of Duluth petitioned
the board to institute department of
domestic economy at the Duluth school.
offering to equip the department. The
board granted the request.
President Weld of the Moorhead
school, said that he had received requests
from four counties for eighty teachers
from his school, far more than could be
supplied. He noted this as an illustra-
ton of the needs of the country districts
adjacent to normal schools, and as a
proof that normal schools should stick
to the course which develops teachers
for these districts.
President Shoemaker, of st. Cloud,
said that 60 per cent of the boys at the
st. Cloud school and 80 per cent of the
girls came from farms.
presidents: J F. Millspaugh, Winona;
c. H. Cooper, Mankato; w. A. Shoemak-
err, st. Cloud; Frank A. Weld, Moorhead;
E. w. Bohannon, Duluth.
There were a number of changes in
the faculties at the different schools
st. Paul Dispatch.
The following is the faculty select
ed for the Mankato normal:
Helen w. Phillips, higher mathemat-
les fall term only, $433.33; 'Defransa
A. Swan, geography, $l,lO0; Carolyn
NJ. Robbins, principal grammar grades,
81 200; Ulysses o. Cox, biology, curator
OF museum, $500; Fred L. Holtz, ply
steal science and nature study, $1,000;
Alice Virginia Robbins, mathematics,
81 600; Jessie Spencer, drawing and
penmanship, $1,000; Minnie S. Parry,
principal intermediate grades, $1,000;
Frederick Lyle Soaring, Latin $500;
Marietta V. Collins, director of kinder
garten, $1,000; George E. Partridge
psychology and history of education
81 500; Nellie Louise Woodbury., read
ing and physical culture, 5000; John A
Hancock, pedagogy and director OF tram
ing department, $4,000; Jeremiah 5
Young, history, civics and social science
81 600; S. Lillian Blaisdell, principal pri
mary grades, $1,000; Charlotte Buff
music, 5000; Frances Fenton, grammar
and composition, $500; Marguerite
Knowlton, literature, composition ant