The Coconino sun., 1924-08-01


by Captain John o. Anderson of the
a 40-mile gale in Lake Michigan. The
en- to shore by rope ladders, strung by
| his feet cured of interfering or feeling
| like they are going to when he walks
across the ballroom floor. He learns
hands and to understand that they
are in place and inconspicuous when
he isn't thinking about them.
In short he gets while he is still
comparatively a youngster the social
polish, sand froid, savoir faire, and
the other things the fiction writer
calls it that makes him at ease and an
asset in any social gathering, losing
/ the -paralyzing feeling Of gauch-
erie and uncouthness that every young
man and woman inherits and ordinar-
! lily has such hard, long and painful
time outgrowing, and which SO many
always carry as a handicap.
That is an attempt to express what
modern methods of education, methods
not bound by red tape, are accomplish
ing at this Normal school. For here
| it is realized that culture and devel-
opInent consists Of many things.
Cramming a student with the con-
ventional facts of the old-time res
| tricted curriculum may turn him out
, an encyclopedia. But if he is dumb
in action and expression, no matter
| how full he may be of knowledge he
| never can be a success in this modern
world where so much more is requi-
site to success than merely a head full
of the ordinary textbook stuff.
And the aim is to insure future sue
cess to the student, at least to fit him
or her out to be leader in whatever
community he may become part of.
No mention has been made Of the
frequent, faculty-guided hikes and
other expeditions, of tours by the
concert party, of special boy scout
and camp fire training, with all the
valuable things they give the student.
| Nor to many other contributing fac
tors in this all-around program of
development, mental, physical, social,
inspirational and ethical, that the
entering student finds himself gather
I
pleasantly and rapidly forward until
he is turned out with all the improve
nent in many different directions that
his particular mentality and temper
ament has been able to absorb.
BY these methods our Normal school
has become a big cultural center of
| the southwest.
In discussing the school with Presi-
| dent McMullen, he said:
"The Northern Arizona Normal
school is entering upon the last lap of
its most successful school year.
Many visitors from other parts of the
state, after seeing the studious attit-
ude of the summer school and the fine
equipment that the state has provided
here, go away with the realization
that the state of Arizona has an in
stitution growing up within its bor-
ders unobstensibly and quietly, which
ranks with the best that the east, or
for that matter the west, has produc-
ed.
"The toy-making particularly att
racts the eye of the visitor, and signs
made by the construction class call
attention to the fact that on August
] the big annual toy sale will be held.
The receipts from this sale form
community fund for the retaining
school, by means of which the school
is able to furnish itself with equip
ment that the appropriations will not
provide.
''The library is the focus of the
studying of many students, it being
continually inhabited by from eighty
to one hundred earnest workers. The
educational museum room is pressed
into service as a reading room, these
days.
Already great many reservations
have been made for the fall, and with
the addition Of the junior college clas-i
ses in English science, mathematics,
history and mechanical drawing, the
attendance of those young people who
desire the first year of a college edu-
cation, the service of the institution
to the northern part of the state
should be greatly enhanced.
can analysis of the summer school
enrolment shows some very interest
ing factors. Twenty-one states are
represented, and the country enroll
ment stands as follows: Apache, 38;I
Cochise, 27; Coconino, so; ella, 7;I
Graham, ID; Greenlee, a; Maricopa,
$50, Mohave, 5; Navajo, 80; Pima, 18;
Pinal, ID; Santa Cruz, q; Yayapai, 20;
Yuma, is.
"Then enrolment by states: Ark
ansas, 2; California, Is; Colorado, 4;
Illinois, 2; Indiana, 2; Kansas, a;
Michigan, /; Minnesota, 2; Mississippi,
1 Missouri, 2; Nebraska, 2; New Mex
leo, 16; New York, Oklahoma, 10;
Oregon, 1; Tennessee, /; Texas, 81
Utah, 1; Virginia, 1; Wisconsin, /.
"All of this goes to show the wide
appeal that the Normal school at
Flagstaff makes. A similar study
normal schools would show that the
local attendance formed the great
bulk of those served by the school, but
because of its peculiar climate advant-
ages, Flagstaff appeals widely to
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