The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-27
IN. DAG. NOTES.

SNhe board of pharmacy examiners
met in Fargo on Feb. IL to give the
state pharmacy examination to ap-
plicants. Asspecial class of students
from the college,swho have been under
Prof. Ladd, took the examination, the
majority passing and becoming regis
tered pharmacists in the, state of
North Dakota. i.
Professors Shepherd and Churchill
have bred up a variety of oats which
will yield 2.6 bushels more per acre
than the common varieties. This va
riety is Tatarian oats North Dakota
100. Thep have compiled a bulletin
giving a record of their work. This
will be ready for distribution in the
near future and may be obtained by
writing to thetcollege.
Prof. Mcdowell has resigned his
position at the college to accept a
position in the department of agri-
culture at Washington, D. c. in the
division of agronomy. He will travel
thru North and South Dakota, Min
nesota and Wisconsin,, to study farm
conditions and farm management.
A new bulletin, No. 80. will be
ready in a short time for public dis
tribution. Its subject is weed eradi-
cation by, chemical sprays. Prof.
Bolley is the author.
,3Dr. Van Els, state veterinarian, re-
Gently went to Grand Forks to see
about the killing'o of some cattle affect
ed with tuberculosis.
The class in rm3mechanics is busy
learning to tie various kinds of knots
and splice ropes.
The girls in the domestic science
class have been having lessons on
meats, the cuts best suited to various
ways of cooking, and the proper lway
in which to cook them. After drawing
a beef animal and locating the differ
emit cuts, the instructor, Miss Childs,
will take9t the class to a butcher shop
to see a half of a beef animal cut up.
The girls basketball team took it's
first trip on Feb. Is to Wahpeton.
This was a return game and both the
boys and girls team went. The A.
G, won both games, the scores being,
girls Is to l, boys 36 to I.
Governor Burke addressed the
students on Feb. IL in the college
armory. His subject was, "Lincoln."
He said, Lincoln was as high above
others, mentally, IS he vas physi-
cally. ! He vas a student mot because
he had so many books but because be
had..so few. Of all men who have lived
and died for their country, the name
which shines the brightest is the name
OF the great, plain Abraham Lincoln.
The class in physics are taking up
work and heat energy and are prov
ing the various laws in the laboratory
with various kinds of apparatus.
The text book used is written by Mil
likan and Gale and published by CHM
and Company. Great interest has
has been taken in watching the baro-
meter during this unprecedented win
ter weather.
During the winter the cadets have
target practice in the armory. At
the last practice the highest score
made. at fifty feet with seven grain
shells, out OF five shots, was 20, the
bulls eye being hit-three times, out of
the five. A lead target is used and
when the bulls eye is hit a gong rings.
After each person shoots the score is
taken and the marks made by the bhl-
lets are chalked over.
At the last of the board of trustees a
department of education was formed,
SO that any student in his junior or
senior year may take a certain amount
of pedagogical training and then when
he graduates from the college may
teach many high school or public
school in the state, without taking
further examination.
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