The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-18
CONFERENCE ON
COUNTRY LIFE
BEGINS AT THE STATE COLLEGE
TONIGHT AND CONTINUES
UNTIL SUNDAY
CITY AND COLLEGE ARE COOPERATING
For The Entertainment of Visitors and
Commercial Club Has Special Com
mittee Assisting the College

All arrangements and details are
completed for the first South Dakota
Country Life Conference which will be
held at the State College beginning to-
night and closing Sunday. While sew
eral minor changes have been made in
the program, yet the schedule is filed
with strong addresses by prominent
men and women of this and other
states.
Both town and college are %co-operat-
ing for the entertainment of visitors.
The Commercial Club has a special
committee at work. Basket picnic
dinners on the campus will be in vogue
with free coffee furnished by the col
lege. The Commercial Club rooms
will be downtown headquarters, while
at the college they will be in the Y. NJ.
G. A. rooms. Here all parcels, lunch
baskets, and other luggage will be
checked. Various inspection trips
through the college departments and
town will be made by attendants at
the conference.
DR.. G. l.. Brown, acting president Of
the college, states that this conference
lis intended to cover those important
features of country life which have
thus far received very little attention.
/ ~, EpfIn,r ,uA ,rtI1 I,nat,, x,,.nl M
operation, with addresses by DR.. y. II.
Hubbard of the University of Wiscon
sin. On Saturday the problem of rural
schools and churches will receive
especial attention. / believe we have
an unusually strong list of speakers
and that the conference will be an
inspiration to those whose work is
concerned with country life problems"
The program is as follows:
Note:-Music will be furnished for
the program by the Music Department
of the State College.
Thursday Evening, June 18th
$3.50 Address-Governor Byrne.
Address-The Rural Renaissance
and After-W. A. McKeever, Prof.
of Child Welfare, University OF
Kansas.
Friday Forenoon, June 10th
Governor Byrne presiding
9:00-9:30 Address-Purpose of the
Condemnation. A. Il. Hitchcock,
President State Board of Regents.
~9:30-10:15 Address-The Conditions
of Success in Cooperation-Dr. B. H.
Hubbard, University of Wisconsin.
10:15-11:30 A series of Short Ad-
dresses.
(a) The Farmers Cooperative AS.
sociation-John T. Belk, Sec.-
Treas, South Dakota Farmers Co.
operative Association.
(b) The Grange-G. r. Malone,
State Master of the Grange.
(c) Community of Interest Between
Farmers and Bankers-R. E. Cone,
President James Valley Bank,
Huron.
II :30-12:10 Open discussion.
12:1O-1.30 Noon recess for lunch. Cot
fee will be served free on the cam
pus.
Friday Afternoon
1:30-2:15 Address-What Co-opera-
tlOh 10 h~CCOlupllSulu HIilOuS Lie
Farmers-Dr. b. II. Hubbard.
2:15-2:45 Address-Rural Education
and the Farmers Club-Prof. H. l.
Jones, Dakota Wesleyan University,
Mitchell.
Prof. H. c. Solberg, South Dakota
State College.
100000 Open discussion.
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Play Through the Rural School-Dr.
Henry Curtis. (In Old Chapel)
1905 100 Inspection of College.
Friday Evening
500 Address-The Needs of the
Schools of South Dakota-Supt. C.
G.. Lawrence, State Department or
Public Instruction.
Address-A Constructive Plan for
Human Welfare.-W. A. McKeever.
Saturday Forenoon, June goth
Supt. Lawrence presiding
9%:00-1O:00 Address-Making Country
Life Attractive-Henry S. Curtis,
formerly Sec. of Play Grounds Asso-
citation of America.
10: DOLL 100 A Series of Short Papers.
(a) School Consolidation-C. G. st.
John, Supt. Deuel. County Schools.
(b) Concreteness in Rural School
improvements. M. Guhin, Supt.
Brown County Schools.
(c) The Rural School as a Social
Center-Dilla Wimple, Supt. Lin
coin County Schools.
11~:00-12:00 Open discussion.
12:00-1:30 Picnic Dinner on Campus.
Free coffee will be served.
Saturday Afternoon
1902 :30-Eighth Grade Graduating