The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-26
UNIVERSITY MEN
MAKE ADDRESSES
TELL WELL-ATTENDED MEETING
OF PLANS FOR NEW
SCHOOL

A well-attended meeting was held
on Saturday night at Recreation
hall to arrange for the opening of
the Goldfield School of Mines. F.
c. Lincoln, director of the Mackay
School of Mines. and Professor G.
E. Holman, who will be principal
and instructor of the Goldfield
school, spoke on the organization of
the school and the steps immediate
ly necessary for opening 1t.
The speakers particularly urged
hat miners and millmen of the dis
trict who desire to take the course,
or any special subject, register i'm
mediately on the entrance blank at
Recreation hall, where it may be
signed at any time. The course is
not only open to men engaged in
mining and milling, but to anyone
who registers, regardless of present
occupation. The necessity for early
registration was explained as being
on account of the opening of the
school on June 4, allowing but a
short time for the purchase of text
books and other preparations.
A man signing the register does
not bind himself to taking the
course, he merely signifies his pre-
sent intention of so doing and IL
he registers now for special sub
jects, he may change the subjects
later. After the meeting on Satur-
day night. IL men signified their in
tention of taking the course.
Professor Lincoln was introduced
by Walter Pratt, a former univer-
sity regent. Mr.. Lincoln said that
one of the advantages of the school
was to make the work of miners
and millmen more interesting to
them by giving a technical know
ledge of their work and that the
n would elaborate on ordinary
text books, frequently used by such
men in Independent study of sub
jects of interest to them and of
value in their work.
The registration blank contains
spaces for name, residence, previous
education. whether grade, high
school or college, and the subjects
that the prospective student desires
to take. The school will start with
two classes, the students being
graded according to previous educa-
tion and subjects taken.
Mr.. Lincoln explained that while
the school would start with two
classes, his past experience had
shown that, through students leav-
ing the course and new mes start
ing. it was impossible to maintain
distinct classes and that the school
rapidly developed into an institution
where each student had the advan-
tage of practically individual in
struction, the instructor develop
ing into a private tutor. He said
it is planned to keep the students in
classes as far as is possible and
that to aid in this it has been found
they will inevitably divide into
small groups at different stages of
the work.
In Goldfield it is planned to have
two sessions, one from 10 to IL in
the morning and the other from
6 to s in the evening. The same
grade of work will be taught at
each session on the same day, in
this way the changing of shifts
causing no confusion. Each stu
dent will be given two hours in
struction each day, except Saturday
and Sunday. The work will all be
lone in the class room and there
will be no home study, as it has
been found impracticable where men
work hard eight hours daily.
Laboratory and drafting rooms
will be open at all times on school
days and in the morning on Satur-
day and work in them will be done
, outside the hours of regular ses-
sions. The hours are arranged so
as to give students the maximum
amount of opportunity for recrea-
ton and So as not to interfere with
either recreation or work.
The school is well financed and
there is no expense attached to TAX
ing a curse in special subjects,
course he said that it could be com.
company reports that the raise
which was extended from the 1900