The Greeley tribune., 1905-01-19
WHATISDONE
AN INSIGHT INTO COLORADO
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Some Work Going on in Various
Departments of Great Ed
ucational Institu-
tion

The Normal school opened the
school year of leO4-5 with the largest
attendance it has ever had; nearly
$50 in the Normal department and
$50 in the training department. max
ing total of 800. This is exclusive
of the summer term: counting sum-
mer term and all, there will be
about 1000 students for the school
year. AT present, the senior class
numbers l20. thirty per cent larger
than any time in the history Of the
school. Not only is this school
marked in a very much larger
attendance. but the course of work
has grown so steadily and made
such rapid progress in improvement
in modern lines as to be strictly
unique. While the development of
character and high ideals of life
characteriZes the Normal schools
work, it has steadily held to the idea
of industrial education. All along
the line in the Training school, and
in the Normal department, the ideas
and ideals are realized in real life. 1t
is joy to see the students in the
various departments from the Kin
dergarten to the senior class-in the
II n ,art,,, tc
ious lines of school activity, such as
construction work, carving, basketry,
weaving. pattery, library, handi-
craft, drawing, fine art,
free hand and architectural
drawing. historic ornament, land
scape, literary societies. class work,
which develops the social inter-
change of ideas. feelings and senti-
ments, Christian association work,
sanitation, physical education, lab
oratory work in the sciences, field
work in the sciences, garden work
in nature study and the admirable use
of the library. All these activities
are corruated and specialized in the
real life of the students of the insti-
tuition.
The unitication of the work in the
departments of the Normal school
and the Training school in the way
of the suggestion and critic work
are admirably worked out. In each
Training school room there are about
30 children, and they are in the
midst of a library suitable to their
development, in the midst of mu-
scum and in the midst OF an art gal
ery. All this equipment is at hand
for those who are learning to teach.
The department of physical educa-
tion has been reorganized and bet
ter equipped than ever before. Full
credit is given for work done in this
department. There is physical ex-
animation and record of it kept con-
cerning each individual in the in
stitution, and such physical exercises
prescribed as will act as remedial
agent in bringing about a normal
condition where an abnormal con-
dition has existed. There are also
such exercises as keep up the physical
tone of those who are fairly normal
in their constitution. The work is
systematic and thorough. The
equipment consists of the full appa-
ratus that gymnasium contains,
such as fencing foils, basket ball, base
ball, medicine balls, foot ball, boxing
gloves. etc There are military drills,
more or less for all students, and
special drill for the cadets of the High
school section.
The psychological department is
one of the interesting places to
visit-models, charts and apparatus
are in abundance for illustrating,
demonstrating and developing the
subjects. Much attention is given
to genetic psychology. The child
ren are studied in their plays, games
and contests on the play ground, ath-
letic field and gymnasium. All the
students in the institution who are
studying the subject of teaching have
an opportunity to do work in this
field of investigation.
A very rich library is at the dis
posal of these students; all the best
work in the English language and
some in foreign languages are used III
the unfolding of the subject. The Ii
brary is a regular literary laboratory.