Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-19
HAS HAD A
WIDE EXPERIENCE
in EDUCATION
DWIGHT T. SMITH OUT FOR SU.
PERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION

Progress and the adoption of up
to-date methods in the administra-
ton of school affairs in the state of
Nevada is now an outspoken pop
ular demand. The state has passed
the stage where it will be satisfied
with backwoods methods in educa-
tional matters. Every man, woman
and child is interested. Hundreds
of new families that are now con-
templating making Nevada their
future home, look upon the schools
of the state as of the first impor-
lance.
So, when there was a vacancy on
the republican state ticket caused
by the death of Nevada's veteran
educator, Orvis Ring, the central
committee diligently sought for the
right man to place at the helm of
the schools of the state.
They selected Dwight T. Smith of
Virginia City, instructor in charge
of the State School of Mines at that
place. He is fine scholar, an ex-
perienced instructor and keenly
awake to the needs of the Nevada
est population and in the remote
and sparsely settled rural districts.
He believes in a uniform standard
throughout the state. He wants a
pupil to have the same advantage
in one section as in another section
of the state. He wants this uni
formity of standard to apply to the
scholarship requirements, on the
part of the pupil, and to individual
ing corps as a whole. He also be-
lieves in sufficient latitude for the
development of individuality and
aptness along special lines He be-
lieves in specializing in teaching in
the larger schools. He believes in
free text books, so that the poorest
child may have an equal advantage
with the child of the most wealthy
But he would have the free tex
against graft scandals in this state
Professor Smith was born in Els
meralda county, raised on a rancl
and educated in the Nevada publ
schools, until the course mapped GU
by him took him to the Laurel Hill
Military school in California and t,
the University of California. HI
completed course in mining engi
nering at Berkeley and followe
with postgraduate work in scienc
and literature. His university re
tanned him, later on, as one of it
corps of instructors in science.
For a number of years he wa
field assistant in the work of tn
United States geological survey, pei
forming important services in tn
oil and gas regions in southern Cal
ifornia. Under this bureau, h
made a geological survey and re
port on the YeringtOn copper dis
trict in this state, which is an au
thoritative work.
When the University of Nevad
wanted a man to take charge of tn
School of Mines at Virginia City,
telegram was sent to the Universit
of California to recommend mar
That university promptly recon
mended Dwight T. Smith. He &c
the position against some twenty
odd applicants, and has conducte
the Nevada School of Mines for tn
past six years most SATISFACTORY!
He is eminently fitted for the wor
needed at this time in the publ
schools of Nevada, and if electe
before his term is out will hav
done everything possible to plac
them on par with the schools {
any other state in the union.
Personally, Mr.. Smith is energet
and full of enthusiasm for whateve
he undertakes He is in the prim
of life and vigor, with qualification
and experience to make him one {
the most valuable servants of til
state uou hafora tho noor1o