The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-03-20

Alumni. ..t
Opportunities Of Post Graduate
Work in the T'a|ler City
High School.
When we consider how the Val
ley City High school has been
liberalizcd and extended to meet
social needs as well as college re-
quiremcnts and how rich the Higl,
school courses are, we can not but
easily understand a closer articula-
ton and unity of aim with life it.
self.
Previous to the present time
branches Of knowledge that were
taught were not sufficiently ex-
tensive nor otherwise calculated to
bring powers of mind into opera
ton. nor to qualify a youth to fill
|usefully many of those stations,
both public and private in which he
might be placed. A parent who
wished to give his child an educa-
ition that would fit him for active
life or would serve as foundation
for e1ninence in his profession
whether mercantile or mechanical
was under the necessity of giving
him a different education from any
which Our public schools could the1
| furnish.
Now the psychology of the in.
dividual mind and the vocational
aspect of school work is noted
The educational public adapted it
self to the two different aims O.
secondary education, fixed one fo
business or life and the other To-
higher collegiate training. In til,
present course of study the Higl
school pupil has a new freedom 0
choice between these courses no
permitted to the student followin!
the strictly conservative singh
course.
There has been in many institi,
tons definite collegiate recognition
and acceptance OF freshman an,
sophomore work done in Hig
schools. Ann Arbor, North Da
kota University, Illinois Univer
sity, Oberlin and many other col
leges now accept credits in exces
Of entrance requirements for ad
vanccd standing. Because of tn
fact that the majority of colleg
: students come from High school
and with over S. per cent of a
secondary students i'll our Hig
schools, this has forced the colleg
to recognize the work of the FIig
school. The public High scl,o(
; has become the distinctly Amer
: can school, upsetting all theories c
social levels and asserting a Wig
: orous democracy in education an
: life 1t has shown that it can
r aware of the needs of the indivic
! ual adolescent and his social r.
qulrelnents as future citizen.
TO what class does a POSTCARD,
, ate course appeal? TO the boy {
girl who because of financial COZ
ditions cannot meet the expens,
necessary to a college course.
number of parents keep their chi
dren at home the year followir
their graduation, because the
consider them too young to
sent away from home. In this the
is great danger, because during II
year out of school the boy usual
find work and Immediately r
wards in dollars and cents see
greater to them than the remot
rewards of learning; the girls al!
develop other ambitions. The pl;
of postgraduate work satisfies Il
craving of the boys and correc
the mistaken tendencies Of Il
girls. Thus, the adolescent age
spanned.
TO the boy or girl whose heal
does not permit their going aw;
to college this is a wonderful a
vantage. We have one girl no
doing postgraduate work bccau
of this. There is also the stl1de
who is slow or still rndevelope
who has not received the real co
ception Of his subjects, year