The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
WILL ASK. FOR CASH
Normal Beard Requests an Ap-
preparation Of $3.50, ,0O0..
Money Is to Be Used For Sup
port and Repairs.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The state normal school board will
ask the Minnesota legislature for appro-
priations aggregating $35O,OOO for the
support of the state normal schools for
the two years beginning Aug. l, 1905,
about $4,000 more than was asked two
years ago.
The board recommends that $25O,OOO
of the amount be made available dur
ing the year ending July 81, 1906, be-
cause of the urgent need of extended re-
pairs at the schools.
The appropriations recommended for
the different schools follow: Winona,
$5S,25O; Mankato, $G3,O5O; st. Cloud,
$52, ,45O; Moorhead $4,000; Duluth, 1884,
535.
The appropriations recommended for
the year ending July 81, 1907, aggregate
about 100000, divided among the
schools as follows: Winona, $l7 500;
Mankato, $1,000; st. Cloud, $l9,75O;
Moorhead, $l9,75O; Duluth, $3O,25O.
One of the largest items recommended
was $35, 900 for ladies' hall at the nor
NAL school at Duluth. The member
from that city told the board that a
dormitory is badly needed. The attend
ance had not increased at this school as
fast as in other parts of the state, due
to the inadequate accommodations for
the students. If the appropriation is
allowed by the legislature modern
ladies' dormitory will be built.
1t was recommended that $1,000 be ap-
propriated for the purchase of addition
al land at St. Cloud, and 5000 for the
purchase of another lot at Mankato. In
both places it is hoped to secure more
land so that the institutions may be
enlarged when necessary.
The appropriations recommended by
the various members of the state normal
board were carefully pruned at the
boards quarterly meeting yesterday.
Every attempt was made to keep the
items which the board felt were badly
needed were badly sacrificed so that
more important appropriations might
not be denied by the legislature.
One feature of the work which the
board hoped to launch next year, but
abandoned because of the fear that the
legislature would not make the neces-
sary appropriation, was the establish
ment of model schools at st. Cloud and
at Moorehead at cost of $4,000 each.
This would enable the students attend
ing to get a great deal of practical work
which is now impossible. 1t was
thought best, however, in the interest of
the other items to strike out the model
schools.
On the suggestion of S. w. Leavitt,
of the board of control, it was decided
to make the accounting officers of the
Leavitt said large amount of money
passed through their hands and he
thought the state should be protected.
Presidents of the normal school were
allowed 500 to defray their travelling
expenses in coming to the meeting of
the board and making the necessary
visits in their districts.
Most of the morning session of the
board was devoted to memorial exer-
cises in memory of Charles A. Morey.
A number of the members delivered ad-
dresses eulogizing the work of their
late president. The memorial introduced
by J w. Olson, says:
president Morey, although conspicu-
Gus for his ability in professional and
business circles, was pre- eminent in the
work of popular education. Few of the
citizens of our state have given to this
important work more earnest or con-
tinuous support. He believed that the
most important among educational in
fluences upon the life of people, is a
thorough and systematic teaching of
teachers. This belief gradually grew in
to conviction which guided and con-
troled his whole life. To build up and
make efficient complete system of nor
NAL schools in Minnesota was his one
constant aim. Much of our best school
legislation may be readily traced to his
untiring labors. Combining as he did
the true conception with a most ardent
zeal, he lived to see the state normal
schools known and recognized as the