The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-11
MOORHEAD NORMAL

President Weld left Moorhead Feb.
p, accompanied by his son Frank, for
Mobile, Ala, where he took part in
the national superintendent meeting.
After few days sojourn in this his
toric city of the gulf he proceeded
to New Orleans, where many of the
educators helped to swell the throngs
who went to see the famous Mardi
Gras. Here he visited many places
of marked interest: the state normal
school, where he made an address, the
orphanage established by Margaret
Haughery, near which, in Margaret
Place her statue is erected; the
wharves and ievees; the tropical plas-
as; Tulane university, and the marble
custom house. During the two weeks
of his stay in the south he wrote
many interesting letters to the school
and to friends, and sent scores of
briefer messages. on his appearance
at chapel the students gave him an
ovation.
Mr. Kingsford went to Breckenridge
March II where he gave an address
before the wilkin County Teachers
association on The Teachers Life of
Service.
Joan Of Arc, the senior class play,
has been brought to point of finish
In rehearsals that is distinctly graft
flying to the persons in charge. The
production as a whole, even with it's
seventy performers, moves off with
delightful smoothness and poise. The
principal Characters are filing their
roles with surprising skill, making as
symmetrical and convincing body
of chief performers as the school has
ever presented to the public in a class
play. The heroine is particularly well
cast; and the fact that all the leading
male parts are taken by capable young
men, is a refreshing and really ener-
giving fact that distinguishes this
play from the class plays of the past
few years. The pageant features will
be especially elaborate and costly.
on his return to the normal Thurs
day President Weld found mass of
professional mail awaiting his atten-
ton, as well as many matters of mo-
ment awaiting his disposal. At chapel
in the afternoon he acknowledged the
enthusiastic welcome which the stu
dents gave him, under the leadership
of Paul Tjonn, senior president, and
then proceeded in an informal fashion
to comment on southern patriotism.
He had been struck, he said, by the
frank enthusiasm of the southerners
for their state and section as well as
their respect for the country at large.
He marked the absence of portraits
and busts representing Lincoln. Even
the likeness of washington was rare.
In place of these tributes to our ma
tional heroes, so commonly revered
in the north, he found pictures and
statues of Beauregard. Lee and JEFF
ferson Davis. While he was in New
Orleans he witnessed the unwilling of
statue of Jefferson Davis. At this
ceremony the principal speaker was
the governor of Louisiana, son Of al
confederate soldier, who spoke not on
H. on behalf of the commonwealth but
of the army that fought under the
"stars and bars" He extolled Jeffer-
son Davis as a United States senator
of great ability, as a United States
secretary of war of the highest skill,
and as the hero OF the lost cause the
one man in all the thousands who
fought for that cAbse who was not
restored to citizenship in the reunited
union. These sentiments were uttered
with the ring of sincerity, and Presi-
dent Weld explained that he repeated
them for the same purpose that he
had made his comment in general,
simply to show the attitude of the.
southerner toward this section and his
country.
Miss ScoAeld went to Koochiching
on Thursday, where she took part in
a two days teachers convention
Mr.. Reed went to Milan Friday night
where he will give an address tonight
under the auspices Of the public