Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-31

tending to become IeacuefS. Inc gel
! eral plan Is to make the norma
strictly professional schools for tn
exclusive work OF turning out traine'
teachers. There are three of these
and the institution at Glendale, whic
has been doing considerable work O
this character. will give still more al
tention to the preparation Of teacher
and also specialize along industrial
lines. t.s
Changes At Wahpeton.
The State School OF Science at Wah
peton will be held more closely to tn
preparation of students along scier
tiic lines and strong agriculture
department will be added there tina
can correlate with the work at tn
agricultural college. Instruction II
general rather than technical CONNER
cial courses will also be featured a
WahpetOn.
1t has for years been evident tina
there is little or no field for a state
school of forestry, as such, in NortI
Dakota. For this reason the regents
will undoubtedly recommend rather
radical changes at Bottineau and 1t Is
thought will endeavor to convert the
school there into one of the great agri
cultural schools of the northwest
training boys for agriculture and girls
in home economics and giving instruc
ton in the rudimentary commercial
courses. .,.
The work of forestry may properly
be transferred eventually to the agri
cultural college, where, with the ad
dition OF one professor, this work car
be handled better than at present
The tree nurseries will no doubt be
retained at Bottineau and others may
be established at the different sub-sta
lions at widely scattered points. This
will greatly facilitate the distribution
OF trees.
Wipe Out Classes.
One thing for which the regents are
to be commended is their evident de-
termination to wipe out classes IN
which only two or three students are
taking the courses. Some boards OF
other states will not permit a class
in which there are less than five stud
ents and the North Dakota regents
appear to hold the same view and TO
believe it would be wasteful ana
extravagant policy to continue classes
with less than that number.
While the board appears anxious 10
encourage everything that will be OF
a beneficial character, it is composed
of a bunch of hard-headed business
men V no will not tolerate useless fads
aud srlls. The members of the board
appear to hold to the view that the
taxpayers of the state should receive
as nearly as possible 100 cents on
every dollar spent for educational
work. ,..... ...,. f....e,..5 ..... ..
Rural School Problem.
Seemingly they realize that North
Dakota's, greatest problem Is the i'm
.proyement of the rural schools anu
they are carefully formulating plans
that will begin at the basic founda.
ton from, the one room school and
build up scltd structure to the high
er educational institutions or the
state.
It is understood to be. the plan OF
the board to promoIe the. work OF the
sub-stations along research and ex
perimentation lines, to encourage the
coal experiments in. the western part
of the state and also to recommend ia
the next legislature the uniflcation OF
all public health work, which Is at
present divided under three heads
without any coordination or systema'
tized work being accomplished. Be-
cause OF the prominence Of the pure
food work at the agricultural college,
that seems to be the proper place for
the location of the central authority
and direction Of the public health
work. ..-... u,
1t is understood that the board OF
regents will strongly recommend
consolidation of the two departments
of professional engineering at the
state university under one head, as