The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-05-29
Over 100 of the Best Known People
of the State to Participate in
Weeks Activity.
MANY SOCIETIES REPRESENTED.
Board of Health, Art Society, Libra
ny Commission, and Federation
of Clubs Will Assist.


and entertainers in series of one day
stands for one week will give pro-
grams of wide scope to the people Of
six Northern Minnesota cities begin
ming June II. Bemidji is one Of the
six cities that will enjoy this "Tent
University" The others are Cloquet,
Coleraine, Grand Rapids, Crookston
and Brainerd.
A staff of 100 will accompany the
University train which starts out
June for the southeastern section
soing to southwestern next, and
coming north the 18th.
A local committee is busy arrang-
ing details regarding the week
Without doubt this will be one of the
greatest things ever secured for Be-
midi. Besides six stellar evening
entertainments, six days OF day
work" will be given by the foremost
experts of the state.
The University of Minnesota is the
sponsor for this popular and con-
Gensed version of education, and be-
fore the travelling troupe of educa-
tors and entertainers make their last
night stand 100000 people of the
state will have taste of Browning,
a slant at Blackstone, suggestion
of Aristotle and whole lot Of sci
entific agriculture. There will be
nothing pretentious in an academic
way about the portable University.
Undignifed and Tapping tents will
supplant the staid walls Of campus
architecture, and there will be no
burly stake drivers with unpleasant
prods to keep the rising generation
from peeping under the walls of the
scholastic tents.
Descending from the esthetic with
a dissertation on art, the program in
it's wide versatility drops to such
mundane subjects as "Why is Pig?"
There is not a class socially, econom-
ically or vocationally that will not
find appeal in the three rings of the
big main tent, while side shows deal
ing with the latest creations OF sci
ence, such as liquid air and the mono
rail car, will be offered to those
who incline to the unique. Dramatic
readers and grand opera singers with
$1,000 vocal chords and no discords,
will entertain the unsteady enthusi-
astic, the Glee club will "barnstorm
the entire route,as will the Dramatic
club in it's presentation of ''The Mer-
chant of Venice
Prof. Samuel F. Quigley, general
manager of the week, said yesterday
that everything is ready for the
travelling institution of higher edu-
cation, and the university train,
with a staff of 100 persons, will
leave the Twin City next Sunday to
begin the tour of southeastern Min
nesota. .....
The purpose of the week as set
forth by President George E. Vincent
in a recent letter to the editor OF the
Pioneer are as follows: .. :.<L
First: To emphasize the fact that
town and country are one commun-
ity. ~
Second: To stimulate all the in
terests and activities of this COM
munity.
Third: TO promote better un-
derstanding between the body of cit
liens and the men and women who
are trying to serve them.
Fourth: To leave in each COM
munity influences which will have
progressive and permanent effects.
The following institutions will be
represented: -.
The state board of health, the
state art society, the agricultural ex-
tension division of the University,
extension division of economic and
political science, the college of edu-
cation, the department of public in
struction, the state normal schools,
and the state library commission,
the Federated Women's clubs, the
University dramatic club, and the
University Glee club.
All of the day programs will be
free to the public, while there will
be admission fees to the special even