The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-31
THIRTEENTH YEAR
State Normal School at
fIIensburg Opens Sept.
ENTRANCE EXAMS NEXT MONDAY
Tuesday VIII Be Registration Day
Last Years First Day Resistra-
ton May Be Exceeded.

The thirteenth year of the Wash
ington State Normal School at Ell
lensburg will open September 9th.
On Monday at 9 a. m. entrance
examination will begin for those
who apply for admission without
credentials.
Tuesday September s, is registra-
ton day. The office will be open at
8 a. IL. Last year ninety-four names
were registered on the first day
This exceeded all former registra
lions and is the record to be broken
this year. It is estimated and ex.
pected that this number will be ex-
ceeded
The courses are revised by the
board OF higher education and al
vanced will go into effect gradually
so that those who have been admit
ted will not find new work or addi-
tional requirements placed before
them. Special and fuller provis-
ion has been made for review classes
TO provide opportunity for mastering
the fundamental branches.
Many Improvements have been
made in the equipment of the school
during vacation. \ good cement
mas been laid in front of tne build
ing. The basement has been rear
ranged and new dressing rooms
have been fitted up 10 be furnished
with individual lockers. Additional
shelving has been provided in the
library and some new furniture has
been purchased, New apparatus
and appliances costing about a thous-
and dollars have been added to the
equipment Of the laboratories.
Among the new books purchased
Tor the library are set of the new
Cambridge Shakespeare. ami excel
lent sets of the works of Dickens,
Scott, Irving and Cooper.
The city as Well as the school is
20 be congratulated upon the acuui-
sitiOn by. the state of the block of
land lying Immediately north Of the
sch0ol grounds. A title to all of the
block, excepting two lots to be Sc
cured later, has been secured by the
state and the land is to be added 10
he school grounds, graded and i'm
proved. Thus suitable site has
been provided for the buildings
which are now greatly needed and
which must soon be secured to pro-
vide for the future development of
the school.
The faculty this year loses two
members, Miss Jennie Evans who
for the past year has had charge of
tee department of music and Miss
:da Remmele who for four years has
served the. school efficiently as phys
cal director and teaching of reading.
Mss Remmele's many friends, as
We'll as the members Of the school
who will all regret her departure,
viii be pleased to know that she
goes to a position more desirable to
her and with higher salary than she
received here, in the Moorehead
Minnesota State Normal School.
Miss Remmele's successor is Miss
Evalena Thomas who comes to Ellens-
burg with an excellent record of
preparation and of success as a
teacher and as reader To balance
these two losses the faculty has gain
ed besides Miss Thomas. Miss Mar
garet Steinbach. graduate of the
class Of 1897, to be assistant in the
training department. and has regain
ed Miss Mary Grippe who returns to
her former position as principal of
the training department after two
years sCE.,y at Chicago University;
and Ms annette Y. Bruce who af-
ter a yeafs s.uG- With eminent mus
zeal maa,e.5 in New York, returns to
carry forward her wcr'- here.
1t is welI recognized that while
grounds and buildings, books and ap-
paratus, suitable furniture and
healthful sanitary provisions are i'm
portant accessories 20 a school, its
character is determined mainly by
the worth and ability of the men and
women who constitute it's teaching
body. This institution has been for
tunate in the fact that its teaching
force has for several years changed
very gradually and that it has year
~ year grown stronger. The school.
which has steadily advanced in its
equipment, in its standards, in the
quality of the work and in the ability
nd efficiency of its teaching corps
-ras never so strong or so prosperous
5 it is at the opening of the year
903 and 4.