The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-20
NUMBER NEARLY / 600
Graduates Of Mankato Normal School
Reach High Figure.
institution Was Opened 10 1868, Sec
ond One ia State.
Several Changes in Faculty Have Been
$3.50 Formally Announced.
Commencement Week Program---Ser-
mon BY Rev. Harmon.
From Wednesdays Daily.

button at the office OF President Cooper
The catalogues are small pamphlets
containing information stated clearly and
fully, so as to be ineligible not only
to students and other people accustomed
to the routine of college doings, but to
the general public as well.
In the front part of the book is a
historical sketch of the Mankato normal
The school was opened in 1868, being
the second normal school established by
the state. The General portion of the
present building was occupied in 1870
about one month before the first class
was graduated. In 1898 the legislature
appropriated $4,000 for the enlargement
of the building; it is now unsurpassed
for pleasantness and adaptation for the
purposes of normal school work. An ap-
preparation of $4,000 by the legislature
of 1901 has provided heating system
embodying the latest ideas of heating,
ventilation and heat control The
graduates of the school now number
nearly 1000, and several times this num-
Der have received in the school more or
less preparation for the work of teach
ing.
In the front part of the pamphlet is
half tone showing the normal school, it's
grounds and campus.
The chief purpose and plan of the
school is announced as special instruction
in the science and art of teaching; but,
as in nearly all other normal schools in
the country, thoroughssystem of aca-
demic instruction is at once the basis,
and, to large extent, the medium of
professional instruction in the courses
not designed for high school graduates.
General culture and accurate scholarship
are necessary to good teaching; but with
this culture and scholarship the teacher
must be trained in the principles that
underlie his art and in the application
of these principles to the practical work
of the school.
The school comprises two depart
ments, the normal school proper and the
elementary school and training depart
ment
The elementary school includes kim
dergarten, the usual eight grades below
the high school, and review class in
which candidates who fail in their en-
trance examinations will be given an op-
portunity to make up the subjects in
which they may be deficient, and stu
dents who wish to do so may review
carefully the common branches, before
entering upon the work of the normal
school,
The normal school includes an English
course of fifteen terms; Latin course
of fifteen terms; an advanced graduate
course of six terms, a kindergarten train
ing course of six terms, an elementary
graduate course of three terms and an
elementary course of nine terms.
The catalogue goes on to outline the
courses of study and to give such other
information, as any person who con-
templates entering the school, would de-
sire and need to know
There are half tones showing the
manual training shop, the assembly
room; the kindergarten, grammar class
and primary class rooms; the museum,
physiological apparatus, chemical labora-
tory and physical science class rooms;
the presidents general and private of
fees; and the girls glee club. There are
also cuts showing the plan of the
building in all its parts.
The lists of students in the back part
of the catalogue show total of 6S2
students in all departments of the
school combined.
There have been numerous changes
in the make up of the faculty, and the
list will be very different next fall from
what it was at the beginning of the
present school year. Miss Jessie M.
Phillips, who used to teach higher
mathematics, went south at the close of
the fall term. The general subject of
mathematics has been in charge of Miss
Alice v Robbins. Miss Jessie Spencer,
teacher of drawing and penmanship, re-
tires at the close of this school year.
She is to be succeeded by Miss Kate
Sparrow, who during the past two years
has been a student at the Pratt Insti-
tute in New York. DIR. George E. Part
ridge is still in too feeble health to re-
turn to work. His subject, psychology,
will continue under the general charge of
DIR. Hancock. Miss Edna S. Fisher,
teacher of physical culture, retires at the
end of this school year. Her successor
has not yet been chosen. Miss Frances
Fenton, teacher of grammar and rhet-
oric, also retires. Her work. so far as
the grammar is concerned, will be taken
up next fall by Miss Rebecca F. Colyer,
now high school principal at Winnebago
City. William 1. Thomas, now instruct
or in grammar and rhetoric at the state
university, will be added to the faculty
to handle the same subjects Miss Louise
Clark, teacher of the seventh grade at
Tracy, will succeed Miss Ellen C. Davis