The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-20
THE PRINCIPAL
TALKS ABBOTT q
FEW! !IIlGS
Largest Fall
Term Enrolment

n
The Fairmont Normal ii gssslng
along nicely The students are doing
good, conscientious work.
Miss Ware will give an entertaln-
ment next Friday night. All adini
sion fee will be charged at this enter
tainment.
Next Tuesday night Miss Stewart
will give a recital. Miss Stewart re-
cital will be free. Several ots her M
pills will take part in the ptSgSa anne:
The model department 4 mosite
along very satisfactory. Miss 5eoEgeI
the teacher, is a graduate III iIIndel-
garten work, She is also tpe VOCAL
lst and twice a week she giyeBins stfiic-
ton to the class in vocal music
Miss Cook, librarian, who has been
sick at her home in Cameron Is ex-
pected to resume her duties at the
Normal by the end Of this sxselS
DR.. Mead, who is holding meetlne At
the Presbyterian Church, has igen
two very good chapel talks.
Dr. Bibberts who was here Tie
interests Of the w. G. Z: usgaye ~
excellent lecture on Tobacco
Edward Mills also gave ane 81
dress in chapel.
DR.. Barbe, Of the University of Agest
Virginia, said to the principal of The
Fairmont Normal School q teW sdsys
ago: do you know that We have the
largest attendance at the University
that we have ever had in4the tali
term?"
The principal Of the Normal schooi
replied: 81 congratulate You. 20 yolI
know that we have the largest attend
ance at the Falrmont Normal Se have
ever had in the fall term.
The Board Of Regents had very
important meeting at Huntington Iast
week. The board compiled lts report
for the coming State Legislatures q
which 1t made Recommendation foE
the appropriation It wants In Tie
two years.
The Parkersburg State Journal lla
published an article saying: An en-
deavor will be made at the meetins oi
the State legislature In JanHary tn
pass bill to abolish the Nornal
schools and to inaugurate q system q
High schools in all the smaller towns
in the State that can support them
The Principal Of the Fairmcat
NAL school says that this State could
never have made the progresstt has
had II not been for the Normal schools
The cry from almost every county a
the State Is for more Teachers unit
Superintendent Miller had 10 call 2
fourth examination. And yst the
State Journal would abolish ths only
satisfactory means we have fof en-
ing good teachers. So many third
teachers will be employed thls elr
that the inevitable result mex yelf
viii be a demand for better teschers.
and under the condition the instltlitss
cannot furnish them, the Gasye g
cannot furnish them, the High schools
cannot furnish them; the only schools
that can in any degree supply ske DE-
mand for better teachers are the Nor
NAL schools. Not a State inSthe IN
lon with their many years Of expert
ence in educational work ever adopted
such plan as the State Journal pro
poses. To abolish the Normal school
and to look to the High schools sjWould
set West Virginia back ten years q
Educational progress. No State has
found better means for supplying sItll
full teachers than by or through Is
Normal schools
The Fairmont Normal School ls
equipped to give net only good aca.
d4mic instruction, but with ~ at
teacher, Its elocption teacher ttsyocsil
and instrumental music eche5s its
kindergarten and model school lteaeh
ers is able to give training Beyond
anything that has. ever been cllered
lin this section Of the State! Theprop
er thing to do Is. to thoroughly p
and support these schools and to sup
ply them with the most capable ana
skillful teachers to be found, for teach-
ers Of teachers should be the hest
teachers,
Atlie Dent at wheeling here
Ito spend u few days 81 hIs home ON
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