The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-06
WORKS IN fine
MODERN BUILDING
Normal Budgetl

Modern school architecture is re-
ceiving more and more attention from
educators and all others who are CIV
en- the responsibility involved in the
erection of new school buildings. The
Budget gives considerable space this
week to some excerpts from the
"Daily Chronicle" of Bozeman, Mon
tana, in it's issue Of February z. Prof.
J. w. Wunn who was instructor in
manual training at V. c.. N. from 1912
to 1918 is at the head of manual
training work in the Bozeman public
school system and his department is
housed in this fine, new building. The
extracts are as follows:
"The building was erected after
several years of thought and months
of travel and observation of the latest
| and most modern structures in the
country. 1t was finally decided that
the Mark Twain school at Kansas City
| which is conceded by educators as be-
ing the model Of all Institutions Of
it's kind in the United States should be
followed. closely Within the past
month the school has been visited by
80 educators and school men from all
parts of the country and the concen-
sus of their opinions is that it sur
passes the Kansas City school and is
the finest and most complete institu-
ton of it's kind to be found in the en-
tire United States
Manual Training Department
"To the right Of the auditorium is
the manual training department
which educators are profuse in their
statements that it cannot be surpass-
ed anywhere. In this department will
be all the machinery, tools and be-
longings necessary to turn out any
kind of work handled by the young
pupils. Here will be given instruc-
ton to boys and girls in any line
| of mechanical effort they desire aQc
through the watchful observations OF
the instructor many youngsters vii
be set on the right road to future
work.
! "Incidentally, it is with much pride
that Superintendent R. J. Cunning
ham points to much of the furniture
in the various class rooms and men
tions the fact that it was made In the
manual training department by thu
instructor during the period Of thu
| epidemic, dIlu W1icll Vic SSHOoAo WV
closed.
Il All Furniture of Movable Type
Cali of the furniture of the building
is of the movable type with the ex
ception of the tables in the drawing
department and in the. cooking de
partment. AS in several of the othe
, rooms the tables and other fur
!. niture in the art department wer
; made by the manual training in
Z structor during the influenza cpl
demic.
"In 1916, when Supt. r. ]. Cunning
ham attended the National Teachers
Il Association convention in Atlanti
! City, he met some prominent educa
t tors who advised him to look at tn
, Mark Twain school at Kansas City
Mr.. Barnes, one Of the men, told MI
Cunningham that this school had tn
t reputation of being the best in tn
: United States for junior high schoo
, purposes. Mr.. Barnes passed throug
3 Bozeman couple of weeks ago an
: visited the Emerson school,, and h
said: 4 have always considered tn
E Mark Twain school to be the best o
5 its kind in the country, but after see
| ing this building l will have to sa
J, that Bozeman has the finest; it SUI
d passes the Kansas City school,
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