Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-10-12
TO START MILITARY
DRILL AT AG. SCHOOL
Football Practice Begins Literary
Societies Organize Courses
Other School Notes

Supt. P. E. Miller, of the Univers-
ity farm school, announced today
that the school would institute a
course Of military drill for all of the
| boys attending the institution dur
ing the present term. Mr.. Miller has
been assured by the University of
Minnesota authorities, that the I'm
tied States government will furnish
the Norris Agricultural school with
rifles and side arms. The military
equipment will be sent through the
State University. Mr.. Schweikhard,
director of athletics, will have
charge of the military instruction.
Mr.. Schweickhard received special
instruction in this work at the Uni
versity of Chicago this summer.
Coach Schweikhard is arranging
a schedule for the University farm
school football team with the high
schools of this vicinity. A number
of the players of last years team are
on hand this year and will furnish
a nucleus of good team, is the pre-
diction of the coach. There has
been a large number of candidates
out to practice this week and the
entire school is showing a great deal
of interest in the football team.
The girls and boys literary socie-
ties have been organized and the
literary and social activities of the
school begin this week. Tomorrow
the senior stock judging team and
the Junior grain judging team will
accept the invitation of the Stevens
Township Farmers Club, to Judge
the grain and stock at the annual
township fair given by the farmers
club on that date.
One of the most interesting of the
new courses offered at the University
farm school is the course in COM
mercial millinery. The course is a
very popular one and is being taught
by Miss Keenan,, the new domestic
teacher. Nearly all of the girls at
the school have enrolled in special
classes in nursing and first aid to
the injured, given by Miss Florence
Hulett, a member of the base hospit-
al at Fort Smelling, and who is sub
ject to call as soon as the hospital
unit is called into service.
Many of the boys are enrolling
into the course of traction engineer
ing. The course will be organized
into several squads, to give each
student better opportunity to oper-
ate one of the tractors of the Uni
versity farm school. A new tractor
was received by the institution this
week.
Fred B. Snyder, president of the
Board Of Regents, of the University
Of Minnesota, was in Morris Satur-
day afternoon to make a speech be-
fore the Liberty Loan Committee,
and in the evening visited the Uni
versity farm school and made a
speech to the students and faculty
there on Food Conservation. Mr..
Snyder in his talk to the students
dwelt chiefly upon the need of con-
servation of the wheat supply in the
United States. Even if the United
! States has a surplus of wheat, it is
not enough to supply the deficit in
Europe, said the speaker. "The Un-
tied States should also make every
effort to conserve the supply of sugar
was another important lesson to be
gained" said Mr.. Snyder. ''In this
country there is 80 pounds of sugar
used per capita, per annum. In
France they have learned in the last
three years to use only "a pounds
| per capita"