The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-12
VALLEY CITY NORMAL

Through the efforts of Congressman
George M. Young, Of this alslElct. ele
normal school library has been mas
a government depository for onclal
documents and publications. ms
will mean that every publication rs
sued by the government will De man
ed to the library without special re-
ouest and MAJ there be used by the
citizens Of the state. These puolca-
tons number about 1000 a year n
reuire over fifty feet OF shelf room.
How to o and serve a 40 or oo
cent meal for 1OA cents is n Of the
things the Chautauqua school, CON
Quoted by Miss Nellie w. FaTnsWorth,,
of the domestic science department OF
the normal school and Miss MINNIE ..
Nelson, is teaching e~ighty-hve Barnes
county farm girls. Scientists n m
vestigators of the high cost of living
may diagnose the case as they VIII,
but to the girls it is simply household
economy, applied as set forth IN 1he
lectures of Miss Farnsworth. In oroeI
to give the girls the greatest amount
Of practical instruction, they are
divided into squads, each squad In turn
preparing the meals for a day, under
the personal supervision or the
students of the domestic science de-
partment, who are also gaining a
valuable experience in assisting MISS
Farnsworth in this manner.
That between 5000 and 1000 chill
dren die annually from tuhercalesi
which could nave been prevented oy
open air exercises, was a statement
made Shy DR.. Henry S. Curtis, or the
Playground Association of America, in
the hrst of a series of addresses on
| the play movement delivered before
the students during the general exer-
| cises each day of this week.
'There is no work today for the city
boy to do; modern science has enabled
| man to press the button and the WORK
is done. The school is educating the
| child. and organized play is merely In
| cidental. Thus the heart and lungs
the basis of health, are not given a
| fair opportunity; to say nothing OF
| the grace and physique, which result
| from games" This theSspeaker urged
| must and will be remedied by organic
| ed play, the play ground and the play
| director. Just as much needed for the
| recreation of inhabitants of the coun'
| try sections as for those Of the city
Almost the entire student body and
| the aCulCy members dSSSIHplSu al tAS
| chautauqua on Friday, normal schoo
day, and al 4 o'clock took part In 8
normal school programme. presided
over by President Mcfarland. The
large .chautauqua audience also de-
lighted in the programme, consisting
Of an address by several of the citizen!
of Valley City, and members OF TIT
faculty. Several" musical number
presented by the department OF musi'
were features Of the programme. II
the evening a model school cast pre-
sented Sakakawea-the Bird Woman
a dramatization made from thu
original documents Of the Lewis ant
Clark expedition by the Misses Mar
garet G. Burns and Eula J. Miller
| critic teachers in the model school.
A feature of normal school day a
! the assembly, arousing much interest
was the charts showing in a. graphica
way the growth of the school in tn
number Of students, instructors am
graduates. A resume shows twenty
one students enrolled in 1891; 315 IL
1901; and 737 in the normal depart
ment in 1912. In 1893. there were thre'
graduates; in 1901, 1S; and in 1915
1856. In 1891, there was one instructor
in 1901, II; and in 1912. Sd.