Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-07-03
GOOD TIMES
FOR NORMAL
Much Now Equipment 10 ~, Inst0ll-
ed. 10 Prof,,tc Athletics. Facts
About Enrollmpnt

About Enrollnwnt.
The Southeastern state normal
sch' q will proua5'y enjoy the most
prosperous yes of It's history in the
scholastic year 19li-15 and the al
tendance will double that of the year
i,ai ended.
The reasons for the above are:
First. excellent crop conditions IN
Southeastern Oklahoma; second, the
new school law has raised the stand
ard of education by requiring profess
sional training Of all teachers which
must be obtained either in a state
normal school or state university;
third, an excellent faculty whose
years OF service in the Southeastern
state normal school has established
itself in the confidence OF the teach
ers and citizens of Oklahoma, to-
gether with a new president who Is
wide awake to the conditions in
southeastern Oklahoma and is in per-
feet harmony with educational fac
tors of Oklahoma.
The enrolment for the scholastic
years is as follows: 1909-1O, GA;
|1910-l1, 467; 1911-12. 452; 10 l2S1A'
654; 191S-14. 457. The aboy fhe
rollment does not include the ~
ents doing work in the training de-
partment. The number of graduates
has increased as follows: 1905;
.1911, II; 1912, 1S; 1913, 20, and
|191A19.
In accordance with the conviction
that normal school Is properly a
school for the training OF teachers
and being neither high school nor
a college. It has been the aim of the
management throughout 20 subordi-
nate all academic work to profess
ional. TO this particular end en-
phasis has been placed upon all
eourses in psychology, history and
courses and the training school. The
plan Of dividing the year into four
twelve-week terms is calculated to
offer advantages to teachers who
have only a limited time in which to
10 credit work. More than 60 per
cent Of all summer students have
done credit work toward graduation
Much has been done the past year
in completing the equipment Of the
various departments cf the school,
iThe chemical, physics. biological,
agriculture and domestic science
Laboratories have been equipped with
1.-THE most modern and up TO date APP
paratus for demonstrating Of all
work. in those departments. Two
Thousand dollars will be expended
during the coming year in complet-
ling the equipment in these various
departments. Two excellent work
ing libraries have been installed dur
ing the past year, being total OF
about s2.560 worth of books, divid-
ed into the model school library and
that of the normal proper An. equal
amount will be expended the coming
year.
In accordance with the pedagogi-
cal maxim that "The perfect man
must have a sound body as we'll as a
trained MIND" the Southeastern en-
courages athletics as much as is con-
sistent with good scholarship. The
football team of 1913 won the nor,
NAL school championship of Oklaho-
ma, the basket ball teams made q
good record and the spring track
team kept up the reputation estab-
lished in the other lines. The foot
ball team of 1914 will be even stron-
ger than last year and other athlet-
les be strengthened in like compar-
ison. A fine athletic field has been
completed which will lend encour-
agemsnt to the activities in athlet-
les.
Thirty-four thousand dollars hal
been appropriated to run the school
for 1914-15. The faculty consist
of a president. thirteen teachers In
the normal department proper. fou-
critic teachers. a secretary and Ii
brarian.
The prospects for the coming yebi
are bright Atoka, BRYAN. Love
Marshall. McCurtain and Pushmata.
ha counties all held their summer
Institutes in the southeastern this