The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-07-01

Board of Trustees, the close of the
tweney-fifth academic year of the
State Normal school here was fitting
ly observed in the auditorium yester-
day afternoon.
The meeting was called to order
with Hon. Hugh Mcdonald, resident
member of the State Board Of Normal
School Trustees, presiding. Mr.. Nc
Donald in brief and we'll chosen
address told Of some early acts in
Normal school legislation and how 1t
was that the State Normal school was
located at Valley City and then called
upon Dr. George r. Davies, who repre-
scented the State university.
Mr.. Davies read a paper on Nation
al Ideals and Education" the theme of
which was that if the school is to per-
form it's greatest service to the future
it must be the means Of developing
something more than individual and
national power; it must develop in
addition the spirit and the insight
which shall guide that power into
worthy channels.
"Changed conditions are making
heavy demands, but the insistent de-
mand of national ideals must remain
pre-eminent in the schools of demo-
cracy. If in the development Of a
mighty material civilization we lose
consciousness of the noble aims that
alone can humanize and make service
able our industrialism, than progress
may become curse instead of a
blessing.
ut was with the vision of the spirit
ual work of which the future held be-
fore the nation that our forefathers
established the public school. And
now under new conditions in great
industrial age there rests upon the
school the heavy responsibility of SOW
ing the seed of the abiding ideals that
shall bring forth into the modern
world this better age.
ITO this WORK our Normal school has
contributed quarter century OF SER
vice. As one who has known it init
mately for many years as a student,
teacher, and friend, may l render my
sincere tribute for its inspiration and
guidance in educational principles
worthy of our democracy. And may
wish for it through the high ideals of
literature, through the inspiring har-
monies of music and art, through the
service of mankind, through the en-
nobling of the common labor of life, it
may continue increasingly to be a
mighty force for the enforcement of
the realm of the spirit over that of
the flesh"
Prof. Arland D. Weeks, of the state
agricultural college delivered an ad-
dress on, THE Usefulness of the Nor
nal School" in which he emphasized
the professionalizing of the teaching
profession. He told of how less than
so years ago it was not thought nee
essary to train the teacher. He re-
viewed the history of education to the
present, when one would no more
think of employing the unframed
teacher than the unframed physician
or lawyer. The Normal school is high
ly responsive to the needs of the time.
Where originally the subjects were
taught, the upto-date teacher teaches
now the child.
DR.. Weeks declared that the value of
the Normal school to the social order
Of things is not impaired by the fact
that the people it trains teach but for
a short period. It's influence to so
ciety is wholesome and the woman
who practices domestic science in the
home, for instance, and takes her IN
A." degree is doing as big service as II
she taught.
The ideas inculcated by the Normal
school are wholesome for it empha
sizes the betterment of society and the
maintaining and extending of civil
zation.
TWENTY-FIVE Years Of Progress" was
the theme of Hon. w. L. StockWell, o.
Fargo. Mr.. Stockwell told of the ma
terial progress of North Dakota dur
ing the past quarter, century and sale
that no other state has made greater
progress. No state has acquired more
comfort during these years than ha'
North Dakota, was the conclusion
the speaker drew from picture o
conditions in 1890 and now.
The educational progress, the speak
er said, has been comparable, If no
superior to the material progress o
the state. This is strategic spot TO
a great educational institution at tn
junction Of two great transcontinenta
lines, with so ideal a campus spot.
This institution is the lengtheninI