The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-24
VALLEY CITY NORMAL.

IIlS pdISilts sE lCttSu TIC tttCl H ihay
noon The topic for discussion was,
Education in Sweden Miss Winsted,
a member Of the senior class, who re-
ceived her early education in Sweden,
read a paper on the Schools of Sweden.
The Glee club sang several numbers.
The y. w. c. A. girls have prepared
very interesting programme for their
next ineeting..t Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
Anderson, president Of the w. G. T.tl..
| will speak. The society is fortunate in
securing so able a speaker.
Miss Mexican of Sanborn and Mrs.
Goss of Darlington, both of the. class
of 1904, visited classes at the normal
Saturday
r. III, Johnson of toilette. a former
student, visited the normal this week.
Letters from various city and country
| superintendents have been received at
1.-THE office, inquiring for teachers. a
number of the members of the senior
class have applied and several have all
lready secured positions for roo6-o7.
The revised constitution for the stu
Idents' self government council was adop-#
Ited BY the students in mass meeting
lThuSsday.
| The physics class, in connection with
its regular work, is taking a series OF
| trips. The first occurred last week, the
Iclass gong through the mill. This week
/ Professor Ripley took the class to DIR.
/ P.ay's Office to make study OF the 4.
i Ray Many interesting experiments
were made by the members DIR. Fray
lis president of the board OF management
land takes great interest in the stu
ldents
i Mrs. Herrick gave a very instructive
Italk to the girls of the normal during
ichorus period Thursday, on general top
lies related to physical culture.
l% The societies are very busily engaged
upon their plays The Atheneum play,
i An Enemy of the People, will be given
lat the hrmory Jan. 27. This play was
lIwritten BY the noted Norwegian dramat-
list Ibsen, and is a splendid work. Miss
4 Steichen has charge of the play and a
lgood, production is assured.
ION the Incorrigible Child and the method
lpursued by Judge Lindsey OF Denver il,
Il ldealing with incorrigibles. He also gave
a brief review of the papers on this sub
Iject which were read at the meeting
4 in Louisville, Ky. Professor Mcfarland
Il wishes to have Judge Lindsey come here
next year on the lecture course as he is
/ a noted speaker. y. s.y 81 ..z
! Miss West. the librarian, is making
record of those who use the library
Il every day. 1t is gratifying to know how
u widely the, library is used by the
students.
u Professor Hatch being absent Satur-
Eday on a basketball trip. his classes were
i taught by student substitutes. ss
1 The juniors have been assigned parts
!. in their class play, A School for Scandal
/ iby Sheridan, who also wrote the junior
Eclass play selected last year. The diff
Iferent scenes are being rehearsed under
the direction Of Mrs Herrick, instructor
Lin elocution. !,
The class in methods in reading will
Commence a study of Irving this week
AS reading is particularly hard sub
! iect to teach much time has been giver
u to this class and the ground well coy.
Tered. The remaining periods will bt
n spent upon outlines for various poem:
! Ito be given in the grades.
II The students were greatly pleased te
q hear of the victories of the v. c. N
!. girls over the university and the Y. w
y C. A girls at basketball at Grand Forks
: M. Fritch announced the score in chape
4 and theS normal cheer was given. Oui
2 girls now have, the championship of tht
e Estate This is the only time the. unVer
e tsitv Girls have been defeated in their owl
. hall al
lA A juvenile library has been organized
al in the model school by the library sci
: lence class. This class IS for the stu
( ldents who wish to study the work con
Injected with a library.
Among the new books in the larg
2 lSllibrary is 10th Century Standard die
/. tionary which is attracting well deserv
= led attention This is conceded to be tn
+ newest and best dictionary published.
b The drawing class is rejoicing owe
& the arrival of the new desks. Thes
i are a great Improvement, being ot th
latest and most approved style. Ih
j drawing room is now artisticallv fur
LII nished 1he class has spent ali. inter
a esting weeks work on Greek and Roma
Z art. All the statues from different part
q of the building were on exl,ibition befor
b the class.
l.l President McF Garland gave, an i'm
q Ipronptu talk before the journalism clas
I'll recently ein which he made many en-
!. couraging remarks as to the work ae
q complisheds
/, A number Of Tower CITY people Wis
!. tied the normal Friday Other visitor
noticed were Captain Macarthur OF th
e regular army and Captain, Hildreth {
e Fargo who acconpanied Colonel Peak
& through the building Monday Thes
}. gentlemen were in the city inspectin
n,i Co G. A number of normal student
III attended the inspection Several Of If