Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-08

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STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, MAY.
WILLIE.
President Hillyer attended the Tri
County Teachers Association. meet
ing at Grafton last Friday and adj
dressed the meeting on the subject
Intelligent Education.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hillyer entertained at
six o'clock dinner last Saturday e"en
ing with the Rev. and Mrs. Tharald-
son as guests Of honor, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Travis entertained at dinner on
Sunday for the same honor guests.
MIR. and Mrs. Tharaldson have been
visiting their son, C. L. Tharaldson
and his wife, for a few days.
The row Of cottonwood trees in
front of the normal school buildings
is being cut down. Some six years
ago u first attempt to start a row Of
elms between the cOttOnwoods was
made and Il continuous effort has
been the plan. But it is impossible
to get a growth of elms since the
other trees take SO mu' h. of the
strength from the soil and make too
much shade. 1t was therefore decid-
ed to remove the cOttOnwoods and
to give the elms a chance. For 4 few
years the trees will be- missed but
the Gins will last forever and futur
generations will enjoy ; the change
greatly. 8
DR.. Charles Harris OF Bismarck
was at the school on Tuesday and
leCtured before the students and fac
ulty during the afternoon giving his
lecture on Venice. During the evening
he gave a lecture for the school and
the general public, his subject being
England. Both lectures were illus
trated and the pictures shown were
taken by Mr.. Harris and the slides
prepared by him. The lectures were
greatly enjoyed. This is the second
time DR.. Harris has visited the
school as lecturer.
Several members of the senior
class have been located since the
list of SO was given two weeks ago.
Now about SO OF the rs members have
signed contracts, and several others
have returned contracts on account of
the salaries being 100 low. In some
cases nese salaries We're SIS and in
other Eases but $50 per month. 1t
looks as il all will be located quite
early this year. Among those recent
ly located are Miss Maud Warren at
McClusky and Miss lnez Soldahl at
Cooperstown.
The Dakota Literary Society held
its regular meeting last Saturday
evening rendering the program as fol-
lows: "
Vocal solo-Anga Onstad.
Readings
Knowledge and Morals'-Alma
Engen.
Charles Stewart and the Burgler''
.Betsey Knudsen.
Anger and Enumeration"-Ida
Maxwell.
Universal Peace'-Evalin Hester
Piano Solo-Edith Sundt.
Readings
"The Going OF the White Swan
Myrtle Fendring.
Negro Dialect Poems'-Olga John
son.
"The Arena Scene" from Quo Va.
dis-Anga Onstad.
Fortnightly-Lula Tornbom and
lnez Thatcher.
Mr.. Travis, as chairman of the
committee, appointed by the North Da-
kota Education Association, has Just
finished a questionable on State
Uniformity of Textbooks for North
Dakota and has sent out over 1000
copies of this QUESTIONABLE, sending
about 200 within the state and the
rest outside. This QUESTIONABLE was
sent to- states which now have such
uniformity, to those having county
uniformity and to those not having
uniformity of texts in any way. The
committee expects to secure such re-
plies as will give valuable testimony
to the workings Of this plan of Sc
lecting texts for the public schools.
This information will be organized
aud the answers tabulated to assist
the committee in forming a report to
present to the association at its Bis
marck meeting in October of this
year.
The class studying Domestic Sci
ence served a ~four-course dinner at
$50 last Friday evening. Covers were
laid for fourteen and the dinner was
excellent in every particular. This is
the practical side of the study and
surely the guests enjoyed it. The old
saying that too many cooks spoil
the broth" may be true but there
were none too many here then even
though there were several.