The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-01-04
SCHOOLS OF THE
COPPER COUNTRY
A <. WINSHIP OF BOSTON GIVES
IMPRESSIONS OF HIS VISIT TO
HoUGHToN COUNTY
LAST YEAR.

In an editorial entitled THE Top of |
Michigan" which appears in the cur
rent number Of the Journal of Educa-
ton, A. e. winship of Boston, the
editor of that publication, describes
the schools of the copper country and
the conditions under which they are
managed. Mr.. Winship spend four
days in the copper country last fall in
teachers institute work, visiting the
schools and giving lectures. Extracts
from Mr.. Winships comment are as
follows:
Rarely have / had four more enjoy
able or more profitable days in the
copper country of the Keweenaw PEN
Ursula.
Calumet school district has the third
largest number of teachers among the
cities of the state. Only Detroit and
Grand Rapids have more although the
Saginaws. East and West, would have
more if they were one school district.
"The Calumet building cost about a
quarter of a million dollars, and has
every conceivable appointment and
equipment for a nobly modernized sec
ondary school, from the library and
Laboratories on the scholarship side to
all-around shop work on the other.
Calumet has demonstrated that
boys as we'll as girls can be tempted
to the high school, as there are twenty
nationalities enrolled in the high
school. This is probably the record
Despite the fact that it is a purely min
ing community, il is the third largest
high school in the state. The enroll
ment is 775 in a mining population OF
$4,000.
Calumet Public Library.
"The public library is so near the
high school that il can be used as free
lily as though it were literally in the
building. There are in the library 3d.
loco volumes. and the librarian could no
be more efficiently devoted to the
school use of the books If she were
simply a high school librarian. The IL
brarian keeps i'm close touch with thu
work being done in the high school
and brings out upon the study table
all books bearing upon the special worl
of every department Nowhere, so IA
as | know, does even a high school
normal school, or college librarian g
so far in this matter of helpfulness a
does the Calumet librarian.
art in it's various forms has bee
emphasized most nobly in this schoo
Even Brookline. that is supposed
lead the world, does scarcely NOR
than is done for the boys and girls {
mining Calumet
THE chemical and physics labora
: tories cost $4,000 in their equipmer
alone.
superintendent H. ]. Hall, who sue
ceeded II. IL. Kratz this year. wa
principal of the high school all the tim
it was being planned and erected. S
that his heart has been in every phas
of its evolution. He is a young MAJ
; graduate of Harvard, and a man {
l. much experience, and always success
II full experience.
"Houghton though in no wise 9
e large as Calumet. is nevertheless Il
: court centre of the Keweenaw penir
: sula. Both Houghton and HancoC
h have elegant hotels and every appoint
n ment of modern cities. Houghton Z
: a residential city, also, challenges az
miration.
: Michigan College of Mines.
"The state School of Mines ado
materially to the best scholarly al
T. professional life of the upper-upp
d peninsula. being one of the best, If n
= absolutely the best, in the Unite
g States.
: "The plant is adequate from evel
: standpoint. and the very atmosphe
: of the region round about it ton
d to any young man who studies here.
II "The literary side of the institute
makes for culture, as the social gui'
ance and association make for chara
ter. I have never known any collel
|. president to take higher view of pc
I sonal responsibility for the charact
of the young men in school and
theirlhfe work than does President
INV. McNair When one knows the con
binatlon of scientific, scholastic, al
II ethical standards, he cannot wond
at the rank held by the Hought'
School of Mines in the mining world
superintendent Eugene LaRowe
l Hancock has a compact district. al