The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-21
NORFOLK BOARD N
ADD" CAMPAIGN
INVITES OUTSIDE PUPILS TO NOR
FOLK HIGH SCHOOL.
NORMAL TRAINING EMPHASIZED

Advantages offered by the Norfolk
High School, Occupying Its New
Building, Pointed Out In Advertise.
ment in Weekly Papers.
The doors of the splendid new high
school building in this city are opened
this year by the free tuition act of the
last legislature to the pupils of every
school district where complete
twelve year high school course is not
maintained. Adding normal train
ing course, the Norfolk school board
has entered a campaign to popularize
this new department.
Every weekly newspaper in the
county outside of Madison, where a
twelve year course is maintained, will
this week carry an invitation to pros.
pective teachers and to ambitious
young people who would carry their
education farther than the local school
facilities permit. Advertising for
pupils is in short the course which
has been adopted by the Norfolk
| board.
Will Cooperate With Other Schools.
In this new policy the Norfolk
school authorities expect the co-opera.
| ton of the other scnols of this coun-
| ty. The Norfolk schools will not by
the new plan take any pupils away
| nf hnt
will give an opportunity to graduates
of the ten and eleven year high schools
| to complete their high school educa-
| ton receiving at the same time, If
| they desire, the benefits of normal
training. This should give an incen-
tive to many pupils in the smaller
schools.
Another class of pupils to whom
the present high school facilities of
the Norfolk schools will appeal are
the numerous eighth grade graduates
in the district schools who if they
would study farther must attend one
of the high schools of the county.
The lad" of the Norfolk board,
which will appear this week in the
Newman Grove, Battle Creek, Tilden
and Meadow Grove newspapers, is
self.eXplanatory:
The board of education of Norfolk
takes pleasure in calling the attention
OF the school patrons and of the young
people in this section of the state to
the splendid high school equipment
which Norfolk presents to the young
people of this vicinity as special
educational opportunity. The fine new
high school building has been COM
pleted and is ready for use with the
opening of school. No building better
planned, more convenient, or better
adapted to efficient high school work
can be found in this section of the
state
The assembly room is perfectly ar
ranged and lighted, and will seat at
full capacity about 300 students. The
class rooms are well equipped and
we'll lighted The laboratories are be-
ing equipped with up-to-date and eff
fective apparatus, so that the very
best type of investigation and scien-
tific work may be done. An up-to-date
and extremely us able reference library
is being added. Besides this the high
school students have access to the
city library of some 1000 volumes,
which is being added 20 with the
growing needs of the high school
especially in view.
The courses of study have been re-
vised and the new normal training
course has been introduced. This
consists of a nine week review in the
eleventh and twelfth grades of each
of the following SUBJECTS: Reading,
grammar, arithmetic and geography.
In addition a full year of American
history and civics is to be added in
grade XII and a semester of theory
and art of teaching. The normal
training students are required to OBJ
serve the teaching of the various sub
jects in the various grades, to visit
country schools, and to do practice
work in teaching. Upon graduation
and the passing of the proper eXamin-
atoms normal training students re-
ceive first grade county certificates.
Normal training graduates may have
their high school grades in the four
first.grade subjects and all certificate
subjects in which university credit is
given accepted by the state depart
ment for first grade certificate with
out further examination.
The normal training course is as
follows
Grade XI.
First semester
Geometry.
Cicero or German.
Physics.
Reading nine weeks and grammar
nine weeks.
Second semester
Geometery.
Cicero or German.
Physics.
English.
Grade XII.
First semester
Chemistry.
American history and civics.
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