The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-06-13
STATE COLLEGEA
VERY BUSY PLACE
THE TEACHERS INSTITUTE FOR
SIX COUNTIES DOING Elk.
CEllENT WORK
NOTED MEN APPEARING ON THE PROGRAM
Summer School Has Opened-larue
Number OF Students Taking Ad.
vantage OF Training

The activities this week at State
College are in full swing and the work
OF the Summer School and the Teach.
ers' Institute are only a little ahead
of the work in some of the special
war courses hat are offered.
The institute of the six counties of
CodingtOn, Hamlin. Kingsbury, Miner,
Moody and Brookings is busy every
minute Of the day and the attendance
is exceedingly good in view of the
fact that the war has made an awful
invasion into the teaching ranks.
Nearly four hundred are taking the
required course and the faculty that
has been engaged are giving them a
most thorough instruction in the
studies assigned by the state depart
ment of public instruction. Monday
evening there was a reception at the
home Of President and Mrs. Perisho,
and the faculty members of State Col.
lege assisted in the entertaining the
guests. Tuesday afternoon State Sup
e~rintendent Lugg was the speaker at
the afternoon assembly and delivered
a fine lecture which appealed to the
teachers Of the state to keep up our
present high standards during this
period of world strife. Yesterday af-
ternoon, Prof. Thos. L. Gibbons of
Baltimore, conducted the assembly
period with a musical hour which was
very entertaining and instructive.
This talented gentleman Is to have
charge of some community singing at
the band concert on Friday evening
in the park down town.
Ex-Gov. George A. Carlson of Colo
RADIO. addressed the assembly on Tues.
day afternoon while in the city on his
way 10 Castiewand. His addraas WAS
n great treat and commanded the
closest attention. Last evening ex-
Gov. Ferris Of Michigan, a man who
has appeared before our teachers be-
fore. was the speaker at the evening
lecture. AS usual he commanded the
interest of his hearers and the big
auditorium was well filed with an at.
tentive crowd.
All Of the county superintendent of
the six counties are in attendance and
giving all their time and efforts to
making this institute even more sue
cessful than the others hat have been
held previously.
In addition to these activities, the
Summer School has started in for it's
regular seasons work and nearly two
hundred have been enrolled in their
course. OF course the bulk of the stu
dents will not arrive and begin their
work until ext week, but the indi-
cations are that there will be a record
attendance.
The special war course offered by
the college for students in shorthand
and typewriting is taxing the facili.
ties of the institution almost to the
point where they will have all they
can attend to. But with all this ex.
ira demand for the course, Professor
Schlatter, head of the commercial de-
partment, is determined that no one
who desires the instruction shall be
turned away and Is working himself
and his force of assistants overtime in
order to keep up with the demand.
Many who are taking this course are
doing it with the sole purpose Of ft-
ting themselves to help out during the
war and take the place of others who
are needed at the front.
The people Of South Dakota can be
justly proud of the grand work that
is being done at State College along
the lines which make for patriotic en-
deavor and feel assured that with the
instruction given the state will always
keep up to the splendid record Of
achievements evidenced in the Liberty
Bond, Red Cross and other campaigns.
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