The Greeley tribune., 1905-08-03
At NORMAL SCHOOL
Attendance During the Term
Will be Large

Will De Large
The bulletin of the State Normal
school for 1904, 1905, 1906 is out.
1.-THE school enters on its fifteenth
year next fall with better prospects
than ever before. The attendance
the coming school year will easily
reach l, 200. Thirty instructors will
have charge of the different depart
ments.
There are two courses offered by
the school, one two years in length
and fitting for elementary work,
and another of three years, preparing
for high school teaching. The func-
tion of the Normal school is to
make teachers, and already the
school has sent out 800 graduates,
the greater part of whom are teach
ing. The equipment of every de-
partment is large and adequate to
carrying on the most progressive
work.
The coming term new depart
ment, that of history and sociology,
will be established. Prof. r. Il.
Miller of Binghampton, N. Y, will
have charge of it. Prof. Miller was
trained In the Syracuse university
and received special training in his
tory from DIR. Mace. He has been
superintendent Of the Binghampton
public schools for eight years. where
he has put into operation modern
method of teaching history to chill
dren from the primary departments
to the high school. He comes to
the State Normal with both educa-
, tion and practical experience.
The trustees of the school have
established four new fellowships.
J This makes eight fellowships now
given by the school, the fellows be-
! ing selected from the graduates OF
, the school. Each person so selected
is given $500 as a salary for one-half
Of his time. spent in teaching, the
remainder of his time to be given to
doing post graduate work. The fol-
, lowing persons have been selected SO
, far for the fellowship for the ensu-
r ing year:
5 Mrs. NJ. ]. Brown, fellowship pri-
mary department of the training
r school; Miss Mary B. Reedy, domes-
tic school: Earl X. Terry, manual
!, training; Miss Hilma Bentson,
, modern languages; Miss Blanche D.
5 Sibley. fellowship in mathematics
. in high school section; Miss Helen
= Garrigues, reading in high school
I department..
' Beautiful rest rooms have been
fitted up in the east hall, where
: students may enjoy seclusion when
free from study. DIR. Snyder has
just returned from the meeting ot
S the National Educational associa-
t tion, which he pronounces the great
est of the kind ever held. He paid
3 tribute to the fine address of Presi-
l dent Roosevelt, who, while under
tremendous pressure of domestic
t and foreign affairs and depressed by
/ the death of Secretary Hay, re-
! sponded to the call Of the teachers S.
f DR.. Snyder said
This address touched real life.
, The theme of it was Ideal Citizen
ship, and the part the teacher plays
D in realizing it,"
DR.. N. c. Schaffer of Pennsyl-
r vania, elected to the presidency OF
the n. E. A., is personal friend OF
DR.. Snyder and has visited him here.
DR.. Snyder was reelected to the
: council of education for six years.
< The council is composed of 60 of the
S recognized leaders of education in
e the United States.
D Next year the n. E. A. will in
: corporate under the name of the Ma
t tional Education Association Of the
United States in order to more Sc
curely care for its permanent endow-
3 ment. 1t was particularly crafty
ing to DIR. Snyder to hear such we'll
known educators as Superintendent
Maxwell, president of the associa-
tion, speak of the Colorado State
Normal school as one of the best
Normal schools of the world and the
best of the west.-Denver Republi-
can.