The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-04-27


high school inspector apo1ogized fo1
his mistake saying he had looked III
the matter and had found that sucl
was not the policy Of our school am
that he had gotten US confused will
apother normal school. A school car
scarcely be better than it's faculty ant
the faculty Of the Forestry State
Normal School is well equipped to ds
high grade work. +
q On Monday this week, Miss Coch.
rane of the Commercial Department
proved her versatility by giving 8
most interesting talk on norma.
school located in Colombia, South
America. A synopsis follows: -. ~
"A Normal School In South America
Begota, the capitol of Colombia, is
situated almost directly south of New
York, but some four thousand miles
removed from our metropolis, and
only three hundred miles north of the
equator. AS in most Spanish built
cities, the streets are regularly laid
out ,and,. with block after block OF
low, squarish stone buildings, inter-
spersed here and there by high ca
thedrals or public edifiees and by the
great plazas or public squares, the
city presents a truly picturesque ap-
pearance. The tropic sun beats down
with dazzling brightness upon the
white or gray houses and the bril-
liant ,many-hued flowers which
abound everywhere the eye may look.
Bogota is on a plateau over eight
thousand feet high. The climate is
mild and agreeable throughout the en-
tire, the temperature seldom ranging
above 81 F. or below 81. The atmos-
phere is singulariy clear, thin and
pure. One is always comfortable while
walking about in the open air, but sit
ting still in the house for long at a
time will bring on strange coldness
and nunbness, and it is necessary to
get up and walk about. Stoves and
fireplaces cannot be used. The atnlos-
phere is so thin and light that fire
quickly exhausts the oxygen in the
room. .....
In the center of the city, in the
ruins Of an old convent, is the Escuela
Normal Central, the Central Normal
School of Colombia. The building is of
heavy stone, the outer walls being
twelve inches thick and the inner ones
not less than six. The outer walls are
even with the streets, but there are
large inner patios or courts filled with
gardens and fountains in the centers
of the various, parts of the edifice. -
The government pays the expenses
of the students who are doing sue
cessful work in the school, as the need
of trained teachers is keenly felt.
The normal school course covers S
years. Four years Of practice teach
ing in the Training School are re-
quired.
The school year lis from February
q to November so, with vacation of
ten days from July 20, Independence
day, to the first of August. There is
school six days week, and the hours
are from 6 A. M. to or $50 P. M.
This is a days schedule for first
year student: -- :,
CT Study -~.
7-S Mathematics
S-9 Spanish yr.
9-10 Religion ...
1912 Luncheon and rest
1871 Writing and Composition
1-2 History of Colombia.
2-3 Calisthenics
3-4 Sewing (girls( - .,..-.
$3.50 Dinner and rest
5-3O-6:30 Music
: Four or five meals are served daily.
Breakfast at five-thirty consists of
chocolate or coffee with milk, bread
and butter, cheese, a sweet bread or
crackers. z..;. =.
! Luncheon at ten: Fruit, rice, po-
tato or barley soup, rice cooked with
meat, eggs, friend potatoes, coffee
with milk, bread, some sort of .des-
sert. Ssss*
Dinner at four: A light soup, po-
tatoes cooked with meal, vegetables,
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