The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-15
Tells Impressions
of Columbia Univ.


see whether or not the required nine
foot candles are provided. am sure
chat the physics student will sympa-
thize after their experiment in meas
uring candle power. Ihave work also
with Mr.. Evenden, a normal school
man from Monmouth, Oregon. He
and I feel particularly brought to-
gether because of our friendship with
Miss Blanche Fridd whose tragic death
50 wrung the hearts of the oldtime
alumni and teachers of Valley City.
II might go on at some length in
regard to the faculty members many
of whom I have learned to know in
possibly the best possible way, that
is, by way of the handball court.
among the students here is Mr..
S. A. Courts, of Courts test fame.
He and I "bached" together in his
beautiful apartment on Riverside
Drive, just above Grants Tomb, while
his wife was away and I feel particu-
larly favored in getting to know him
in this intimate way. He starts an
interesting experiment tomorrow in
testing the results of the night school
work with foreigners in the city
schools. DR.. Finney and myself were
fortunate in being chosen as two of
the twenty helpers.
''To show how cosmopolitan the
student body is I shall just mention
some of the men of the group in
which l find myself. There is Martin,
head of the training school in Me-
braska normal school; Grant, SINH
larly placed in the University of Ar
kansas; Woodsbridge, from mission
college in Japan; Didcoct, former high
school inspector of Illinois, now head
of secondary education in Peabody
College, Nashville, Tenn; Frost, head
OF rural education in the same COL
lege; Pittman, doing rural work in
Oregon.
"Add to this the fact that last year
there were more post graduate STU
dents in education in Teachers Col
lege than in all other post graduate
work in all other colleges in the Unit
ed States combined and you will have
some conception of the magnitude of
the work done here.
"But must not neglect to mention
that have had many pleasant visits
with Major Crane, president of the
Minot Normal school. He is on leave
Of absence doing reconstruction work
in education in the hospitals. He has
been in New York City a good bit
overseeing the framing up, by the var
;ous experts, of the short courses that
his work demands.
''Then there is Miss Miller of the
Minot Normal who used to be in our
training school. Her desk is right
back of mine in the seminar room and
we talk of North Dakota quite fire.
quently. Other North Dakota people
whom I see occasionally are the White
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews.
"But the strongest impression of all
is that one of the most essential
things in teachers career is to re-
new his inspiration and to revamp
his ideas by occasional attendance at
some school for teachers. And, al
though it seems long way from Co.
lumbia to Valley City, those two insti-
buttons have this work in common and
each, in it's own field, is doing it we'll.
81 should mention the great number
or Orientals that are here, many of
whom will undoubtedly be heard from
in years to come. They come from
Japan, China, the Philippine Islands
and many other parts of the east.
''The other evening we were eating
chop suey and chow main in a Chinese
restaurant wondering how a young
man near us managed so we'll with
chop sticks when a chauffeur came in
and saluted the young man and said,
the chains are on, sir, and the car is
ready Evidently we had young
prince from democratic China.
':Then there is the young librarian
in the seminar room whose national
ity we have been unable to make out.
In talking with her the other evening
I discovered that she had her masters
degree from Columbia, her bachelors
degree from Hanover, Indiana, and
that her early education was obtained
in Singapore.
"Tritely but truly, the world is
SMALL.