The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-31
VALLEY CITY NORMAL

DR.. Allen Hoben, associate professor
the University of Chicago divinity
school delivered a series of five
lectures in the normal auditorium
beginning Sunday evening and closing
on Tuesday evening of his week.
These lectures were delivered under
the auspices of the Hazlett foundation
n h speakers general theme was
The Religious Education of Boys.
Under this topic he spoke The Revival
of Idealism, Biology and Boy Nature,
Religion and Play, Choosing a Voca-
ton and Adolescence Inc Boy Nature.
This is a part of the country for
idealism," said the speaker on Sun
day evening, where you are not
crowded n jostled by neighbors and
immediate necessity. You seem to
have space for ideas. In the east
with its crowded cities the final
product is not idealistic in the sense
Of being devoted to a cause. We must
look to these parts of the country that
lie nearest to pioneer conditions for
future leadership"
That there is a demand for teachers
In his state is seen from the records
of the education bureau at the normal
school which at present show calls for
teachers from sixty separate COM
munities, each asking for from two to
four teachers to begin work next fall.
Nineteen members of the senior class,
of 1852, have received contracts during
the past few days to teach al Sawyer,
Mott, LaMoure, Pembina, Wyndmere,
Berthold, Devils Lake, Courtenay,
Tolley, Dickey, Dickinson and Chaffec,
-
Miss G~enevieve L. Lyford, kinder
gartener at the normal school, delivered
a series Of six addresses at various
points on the 500 this week, on the
Kindergarten Movement, and on Mon
day will give the same address before
a gathering at Williston. Miss Lyford
has appeared under the auspices of
the Women's club and school people at
Wimbledon, Courtenay, Darlington,
Harvey, Velva and Minot, where she
showed examples of the work done in
her department at the normal school.
That the exhibit of the normal
school at the gathering of the super
intendents of the, National Educa-
tional association, at Philadelphia
recently, had merit is seen from the
superintendent, who pronounced it
the best. So said Prof. F. H. Selden,
of the manual training department in
an address before the students on
Saturday Professor Selden attepGcd
the Philadelphia. meeting and said in
part:
THE real object of the exhibit was
to show the possibility of teaching the
fundamentals of the work apart from
any definite trade instruction. 1t is
believed that If regular school shop
work is made a definite science and
thoroughly taught, that the pupils will
go out from the common schools well
fitted to enter any Industrial line. 1t
is also believed hat pupils having
such a training will have more rea-
sonable assurance of success on enter
ing some Industrial line, than they
would have, had they spent the same
smount of time In the ordinary study
of trade processes"
The Princess Bonnie, an original
comic opera in two acts, the words
and music of which were written by
Willard Spencer. author of the Little
Tycoon, will be presented in the
normal auditorium by a school cast
on June 2. On June 1, the Minneapolis
Symphony orchestra. will give two
concerts in the auditorium and or
June 3 the Choral society will present
Dvorak's st. Ludmila, an oratorio.