Arizona republican., 1916-01-22
NORMAL SHOWS
 SATISFA FACT0RY YEAR
Interesting to Note De- velopment of School for Year

The state educational institution at Tempe has just closed up it's work for the first half of this school year and It is interesting to note some of the results of these activities. During the first semester the registration has run up to 3S7 students, most of whom came from outside the country of Marcopa and represent ever. cOuncy of the 1 state. More than half of these room | and board at the school, while most of 1 i the remainder find accommodations II. the homes of the town. There are 9lI 1 young men included in the enrolment, | | lacking only little 0. re.ng 25 per 1 1 cent of the total and thus being q | , larger proportion of males to females | than is found in almost any normal l i school in this country. The reason for 1 tue large increase in the number or 1 young men attending is, of course, the | &ttractiVeness of the new utilitarian 1 courses in agriculture and industrial arts. These courses include manual | training, wood work, forge work, brass finishing, turning, Iatheing, metal work 1 and polishing, etc, etc, and are under the charge of two tXpert teachers: | while the department of agriculture affords instruction in animal husband ry, horticulture. school gardening, eX- perimental work, cereal alfalfa and cotton raising, etc. etc, and gives em- ployment to several students as assist ants. In addition to the BOT students mentioned above, there are 233 child ren in the training school, making a total registration to date of 630 in all departments. There will undoubtedly be 100 students CT oyer in the normal school department during the second half year.
 Although the present dormitory for young men has been refitted so that it can be made to accommodate about 1 thirty-five, yet there are over sixty dOmiciled on the campus, most of the other twenty being lodged in tempor- ary quarters which were hastily erect. ed at the opening of school to take care of the influx of students. This is due to the failure of the last legisa- ture to make proper provision for the expected increase but it is believed that the next legislature will relieve the crowded condition now prevailing
 Many of these students, both young men and young women, are helped through this school by finding employ , ment around the institution, as jani- tors Waitresses in the dining hall CT ? assistant matrons for the cottages, l seniors of maturity and discretion be- ? ing chosen for the latter places Others find work outside in the private homes ? of the town, either working in the house or as hired men. No school in ! the state lends such a helping hand to it's worthy and deserving students ? Seven young women finished their ? course at the close of this semester and } all have found ready situations await ! ing them. Miss Harriet Hurley and
 Miss Nirna Young of Phoenix are r teaching at the Osborn school nea, : Phoenix; Miss Sarah Wilson of Saf- I ford at Ray; Miss Ethel Woolf of | Scottsdale, at the Grand avenue school:
 Miss Ruth Phelps of Chandler at Ben son, and Miss Erina Hodnett of Tempe at Whitewater. Students graduating at Christmas seldom have to wait long for position and in this respect they are luckier than the regular mid summer graduates.
 The largely increased attendance
 especially in the number of young men.
 has made it possible to take a much
 larger part in athletics of normal
 school as they have never done before. There has also been organized an or
 chestra of stringed and wind instru-
 ments and also band both of which | iut t1o,s ,,l
 of the school. However, perhaps tho
 one thing which adds most to the at 1 tractiveness of this mos; attractive school is the new order of things with regard to the discipline. The old
 worn-out studyroom idea and the as
 scmblies twice daily have given place
 to the modern college idea of freedom,
 Inc students being held responsible for
 the work and attendance upon classes only.
 During the last half of 1915 many
 improvements have been made about
 the institution, among which may be
 mentioned concrete walks and curbs on the principal graveled drives and
 roads leading through the campus to
 the various buildings The old open
 blil ulCH HdS DeeH TepidCcu by q con
 crete conduit underground so that the
 unsightly weeds and Johnson grass on
 the athletic field has been completed
 with training quarters, dressing rooms and shower baths for the athletes. be-
 heath it. new wing has been added
 to the old dormitory for women, con-
 sisting of double -decked sleeping
 porch so that there is a clear and un-
 interrupted fund of fresh air all night
 long. Temporary cottages for two young men eac. have been constructed
 until prepayment new dormitory is
 provided for by the next legislature.
 Class rooms have been remodeled and additional ones added and the library
 now occupies the large. commodious
 and well-lighted room formerly used
 for the assembly room. A new ana