The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-06-10
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

SrEARFIsI, S. OAK, May 26, 1910.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE THINKING
Ole ATTENDING SCHOOL AWAY FROM
HOME:
My Dear Friends:
What are your school plans for next
year? If it is your purpose to fit
Yourselves f1r''ar l,rce .ching for ad-
vanceu sl,1N.I1s III college, or for bust
ness, let me urge you to consider the
advantages offered by the State Nor
mai School at Spearfish, South Da-
kota.
Here are few of them:
l. The buildings and equipment cost
about $4,000. Many similar institu-
tlons have a greater investment, but
the buildings are extremely well
planned and we'll kept. 1t is not
easy to find anywhere rooms SO
bright and homelike, and so we'll a.
dapted to their purpose.
>. We have about 30 teachers, all
experts Several of them graduates
of our great normal schools, and most
of them have advanced degrees in
some of best universities. They
know how to teach. Their hearts
are in the work.
3. Excluding the teachers college
it is doubtful if there is a training
school for teachers in the United
States that covers a broader field
than this one. All grade work, high
school work, commercial college work,
much Of the work of music schools
and industrial schools: and two years
OF college work are admirably done
here.
4. The Training Department cover
ing the first eight grades of work, is
SO well equipped and so skillfully con-
Quoted as to afford rare advantages to
seniors fitting themselves for teach
ing. In visiting so state normal
schools | found nothing better.
S. A special teacher of domestic
science, one of wood work. one of
evolution, public speaking, and
physical training for girls, and addi-
tional help in the commercial depart
ment have been secured, no CONNER
cial college can do more for you than
we can do, and the cosLof commercial
work here comparatively smsll. We
are putting in new commercial furni-
ture.
6. Every hour Of college work done
here saves an hour in college and
costs much less. You can fit your
self here for the junior class in the
best colleges. Why not do the first
two years of your college work here
and save several hundred dollals of
your money?
I. Sixty new steel lockers and
ample dressing room and bathing
facilities are to be added before fall,
to the boys equipment for athletics.
Our Athletic grounds are second to
none in the state.
s. Our library room is about sixty
feet square and elegantly furnished.
We have 10000 books and l25 periodi-
Gals. We are just now adding $4,000
worth of books. l have never seen
another secondary school libraby so
well equipped with reference books.
The library is in charge of an expert
librarian and an assistant.
9. Expenses are very low. A girl
can secure a delightful home in our
Women's Hall on such terms that her
entire expenses per year for every
thing needed in school and Hall will
fall below $3.50.
10. Students entering this school
are not required to repeat any work
reasonably well done in other schools.
We classify them as far along in our
courses as the credits they BRING will
justify and then Of course expecr them
to make good, we really give entrance
examination, but classify whenever
possible on credits from other schools.
Write a postal for our beautiful i'll
ustrated new catalog, the best we
have ever issued. 1t is nearly ready
and gives full information. In ad-
dition to sending catalog l will gladly
answer questions.
Yours very cordially,
+. p. Cook, President.