The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23

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should possess approximately such
academic requirements as would be
implied by the B. A. or equivalent de-
gree. In addition, they should be
familiar with the special literature Of
their profession, including It's theory
and practice, and should have a GER
tain modicum at least of actual class
room experience in the teaching, un-
der expert observation and criticism,
Of high school classes Such training
can, of course, be obtained only in an
institution of college or university
grade, possessing an ample practice
Value Of University Facilities.
school of high school grade. The ideal
place for obtaining such training is
an establishmed university, possess
ing limited preparatory department
and maintaining, as one of its several
colleges, a teachers college, con-
siderable portion of whose teaching
staff may well be members of the reg
ular faculty in the college of liberal
arts In the university. In the early
history of law and medical schools
those institutions were, as rule, sep
arately maintained; but experience
soon showed the great advantage, from
the point of view both of economy and
efficiency, of having these schools con-
nected with an established university
and the separately maintained profess
sional school of any sort Is now the
rare exception. The same arguments
apply, and quite as forcibly, of course,
to the training Of teachers as to the
training of lawyers and physicians.
There are now AZ schools in
this state doing at least three years
OF high school work; 26 of these are
doing the full four years of high
school work; and these numbers are
rapidly increasing from year to year.
On a conservative estimate, this state
is going to need 100 new teachers for
its high schools, on the average, for
each of the next ten years. North Da-
kota has no more right to suppose that
other states will train these teachers
for her than she has to assume that
other states will train the teachers for
her common schools. There are, there
fore, quite as good reasons why the
state should maintain teachers COL
lege at the University for the training
OF teachers for her hiph schools as
there are why she should maintain her
two independent state normal schools
for the training of teachers for her
common schools The teachers COL
lege of the University was opened for
the reception of students in September
of this year and already has gradual
ing class of five members who will re-
ceive at the coming commencement
the two degrees, bachelor of arts and
bachelor of pedagogy.
Summer Session-For several wears
past there has been held each sum-
mer at the State University a summer
school for teachers, attended mainly
by the teachers of Grand Forks, Walsh
and Pembina counties Last summer
for the first time the University main
tanned a regular university summer
session in which instruction In MANY
subjects both of preparatory and COL
lege grade was offered and credits
received in these subjects were allow
ed to count toward the B. A. degree.
1t is expected that the University will
regularly maintain hereafter such a
summer session. Many members of
the faculty are glad of an opportunity
to employ a part of the long summer
vacation in remunerative teaching.
Through the medium of summer ses-
sion the elaborate and costly plant
rendered available for the instruction
and uplift of a numerous and rapidly
increasing body of young people living
in towns, whose summers would other
wise be profitlessly spent, as we'll as
of many teachers to whom a few
weeks spent at summer session of
the University bring not only a pleas
ant change of occupation, but an OPP
portunity to meet congenial fellow
workers, to add, without undue strain,
to their equipment for the exercise OF
their chosen vocation, and to kindle
anew, in the University library, labor
atories, museums and class-rooms, the
slender torch which must otherwise
burn low if, indeed, it be not alto
gether quenched
Number Of Colleges.
The University now consists of six
colleges, viz, liberal arts, mining en-
cheering, mechanical engineering,
medicine and the teachers college. 1t
still retains it's preparatory depart
ment, although with the multiplica-
ton of high schools in different parts
of the state, our preparatory depart
ment is gradually eliminating itself.
While the several colleges of the Uni
versity are all growing rapidly, some
of them by leaps and bounds, the pre-
paratory department is gradually
shrinking from year to year. 1t is
probable that preparatory depart
ment Will long be maintained, in the
form of model high school, with
numbers strictly limited to meet the
needs of our newly created teachers
college for a practice school and its
membership restricted to students liv-
ing remote from any existing city high
school,
On the 18th of May next the Uni
versity will open with appropriate ex-
ercises the new Scandinavian library,
for the purchase of which $4,000 was
subscribed by prominent citizens of
the state, mainly of Scandinavian birth
or extraction, and $4,000 was appro-
priated by. the trustees Of the Univer-
sity. Some three thousand volumes
have already been purchased, and
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