The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-08-17
To ADD NORMAL
TRAINING COURSE
BRookINGS HIGH SCHOOL GROWS
TO MEET DEMAND FOR BET
TER TEACHERS.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION t BE EMPHASIZED
Superintendent johnson Announces
Plans For Coming Year in City
Schools.

The addition Of a normal training
course and an intensive Course of ply
steal education in Brlokinss High
school beginning with the coming
term which opens Monday, september
4, mark the two most important in the
growth and development Of the school
in recent years. These new features
added to the facilities afforded by the
new high school building gives Brook
ings one of the finest high schools in
the state and will draw students from
all of the surrounding territory.
Superintendent S. w. Johnson an
that the athletic coach, p. E.
Nicholson, will devote certain hours
each day to physical education for
every student. The work will con
sist largely of organized play under
his supervision. Such games Is out
door volley ball and basket ball will
be played on courts built for the pur-
pose. Swedish exercises and drill de-
signed to build up a strong well bal
anced physique and to correct physi-
cal faults will also be used. This is
an important feature of education
with an additional value in the moral
training which the playing of games
gives to the youth giving his instruc-
ton in playing fair.
The normal training course which
will be organized this fall will give to
all graduates a second grade certifi-
cate emitting the holder to teach IN
the common schools of the state. Stu
dents will be given practical courses
in teaching in addition to study cour
ses of rural life problems and educa-
tional methods. This course will be
an attractive to many of the girls who
otherwise would go away from home
to attend some normal school and it
will better fit the high school grad
yates for teaching in the rural schools
thpn former graduates who have
written examinations to qualify for
second grade certificates.
The teaching staff for the coming
year in the city schools has been en-
tirely selected with one exception.
The full list Of teachers will be pub
lished in the Register next week. The
new principal, l.. E. Alvin, is on the
ground and is working with Superin-
tendent Johnson in planning for the
opening Of school which is only a little
more than two weeks away.
Athletic prospects for the coming
year are good. From present indica-
tons Brookings will have one of the
strongest basketball teams in the
state. Several of the old stars are re-
turning to school this fall among them
being Hutchendorf and Sherman. The
game of tennis will be urged for the
girls on the new high school courts
which have been built just east of the
new buildings. Supt. Johnson expects
to have a tennis tournament for the
girls next spring in connection with
the Sioux Valley track meet.
High school debating will be carried
still farther this year. A series of de-
bates and class and interclass contests
are being arranged in addition to the
regular contests of the debating lea
que. The high school newspaper and
the school band both promise to be
bigger and better successes this year.
Another new thing for the students
his year is the awarding of a series
of prizes on the basis of scholarship.
This will make ar additional incen-
I've to those who wish to excel in
scholarship. Prizes will also be
given for work in the manual training
and domestic science departments.