The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-04
CARRIES FIGHT
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DIRECT TO MEN
President Bricker of Wahpeton
School of Science Files
Letter
IN S TITUTION NEEDED
Gives Boy or Girl Required
Training in Applied Sciences,
He Says

President Garland A. Bricker of the
Wahpeton School Of Science. address.
ed a letter to every member of the
house and senate today, leaving it on
the desks.
A fight is being made against the
school. The board OF administration
has recommended that it be discon-
tinued. President Bricker advanced
arguments for its continuation, main
tanning that it filed a niche in the
education of the state which no other
institution does. .-
his letter was in part as follows:
Work important =.
yesterday, you listened to the
Presidents OF the University, Of the
Agricultural College, and OF the Nor
NAL School at Valley City, the latter
representing all the normal schools OF
the state We feel that one OF the
most important phases of education
in the state was not placed before
you, namely, vocational and trades
education, which is carried on at the
state School OF Science at Wahpeton.
Owing to this oversight, the Presi.
dent of the School takes this method
and opportunity of placing before You
for your consideration few matters
tnat are very important to North Da.
kota.
Education Defined
Vocation and trades education may
be defined as that sort Of education
that "hooks up" most closely to the
bread-and-butter phase of the life Of
young man or woman. In the
trades work we teach young person
the short cut to earning a living to
the exclusion of every sort of gen
eral' knowledge; willie in vocational
education we teach the young man
or woman the means Of earning a llv-
lihood, and at the same time train
him to be a good and intelligent citi-
zen Both lines of work are empha'
sized on the practical side.
The State School of Science is a
Scientific, Vocational, and Trades
School Of Junior College grade, so de-
fined in the legal enactments by which
the School was founded and under
which it is operating (see the State
Constitution and Che School Laws).
To these three lines of work we have
strictly adhered and have not gone
afield to duplicate the work already
done or intended to be done by the
other higher institutions OF the state.
If boy or girl of the state wishes
to learn trade or vocation IN from
one to five years--depending on the
nature of the trade or vocation ana
the degree of thorougnness desired
he can get this training at the state
educational institution designated Tor
that sort of training, namely, the
state School of Science at Wahpet0n.
scope Of Work
Our scope of work at the present
time is confined to the following:
Science. Vocational Agriculture
Homemaking, Business and Com
merce, Practical Mechanics lncluu'
ing auto, tractor, electrical, ana me-
chanical work, with shop practlce tna'
goes with them. wood and iron WORK.
ing. together with the scientlnc anu
arts subiects-as, mathematics. Eng
lish and economics-that necessarily
20 with these vocational and traces
courses to make them UNDERSTANDING
and capable of being used by the stu
dent in the most effective manner.
We do not aim to give courses III
professional agriculture, home econo,
mics, the liberal arts, or norma
training. Practically all or our graz
mates. and students who are not grad
yates, go back to the farm the nome,
the village shops and garages, tne
telegraph office, and business Offices
However, some of the graduates de'
sire to continue their college tram.
ing, and these may. after hnlshins
our Junior College department., Win
out loss of time, enter the junior
classes of the leading colleges ana
universities, including our own state
Ir,;,ors;ty and Agricultural College.