Weekly journal-miner., 1913-08-06
(From Tuesdays Daily)

AIIOHl uSSOdy DdllyI
 High up in the Sky city wher, the air is always cool and fresh ana pure, and the stately pine ever breathes forth in health-givine fragrance, in the protecting shadow of the majestic San Francisco Peaks lies the Northern Arizona Normal school, one of the youngest but one of the most promising of all Western schools.
 This institution has an enviable record to look back upon. In the past four years under the energetic and efficient direction of President Blome, she has registered the phenomenal gain of two hundred per cent in attendance; in the last school year the increase was thirty three and one third per cent, and the Summer school just closing was more than a third larger than that of the year preceding. In these four years, too, her equipment has been steadily added to, so with in creased size has come increased eff ciency. The Northern Arizona Nor nal school now offers all the standard. courses to be found in any well-appointed first class school of its kind Agriculture, manual train ing and domestic science are features recently added to the curriculum. These three courses answer the call for instruction in things practical that is arising over the country.
 In a region such as Arizona where the problems of farming must be all reduced to a scientific basis, agri- cultural studies are of especial bene- fit. The result must be not only better farming, but renewed and in creased interest among our young men and women in Americas great est industry. That there is real edu- cational development in working in telligently with the hand as well as purely with the brain is no longer denied by leading educators and all are agreed than no girl is truly educated who has not acquired the arts of cooking and housekeeping, hence, manual training and domestic science have come to be fixed courses in our best schools, and along with agriculture are no more to be dispensed with in a live Normal school than is the training depart ment.
 The training school of this institu- ton IS one of the best of its kind anywhere. It is under expert man agement and given the most careful consideration. It has more than kept pace with the rest of the de partments in growth, an increase of one hundred per cent in enrolment being its record for last year.
 New Buildings.
 By year ago, Northern Arizona Normal school had outgrown her building equipment Students were applying for entrance and there was no place to put them. The dormi- tories were full and running over. New buildings were needed badly, and at once, the State Legislature ANopciiuSN hODig lO lilC llSSu dIu dp- propriated over eighty-eight thousand dollars for new dormitories and a central heating plant. By Christmas time, 1t IS confidently hoped, splendid new home for girls will have been completed, a generous addition built onto the boys dormitory, and a central heating plant erected to radiate warmth and cheer through out the school. The architect and engineers are now on the ground and the work will be rushed to com pletion at the earliest possible date.
 The opening of these fine new buildings will, without question, mark a new epoch in the career of prog ress and growth of this remarkable little school-the beginning of her greater and larger future
 Secrets of Success.
 What is the secret of success of Northern Arizona Normal school? In the first place, we would answer, her organization and administration is such as to invite praise and ad- miration. She has back of her a loyal and enterprising educational board, and at her head, as president,