The Winslow mail., 1924-09-19
NORMAL SCHOOL
At FLAGSTAFF
WILL OPEN ON
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The fall term of the Northern Ari-
zona Normal School at Flagstaff will
open on Monday, September 20. A
great many young men and women
from Navajo county will be in attend
ance at the northern Arizona school
this year, greater number than ever
before, and a larger proportion of
men will be represented this term
than in past.
DR.. F. A Cotton. acting president
of the normal during the years leave
of absence granted to DR.. McMullen,
was in Winslow the first of the week,
making a personal survey of the pos
sibilities OF registering students from
this city and county, becoming ac-
quainted with the young people who
expect or desire to enter schools of
higher learning, and getting in touch
with educators here and the parents
of children who may in the next year
or two become students at normal. DR..
Cotton has been visiting, and will con-
tinue to visit until the opening of
school, cities in northern Arizona on
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places where he has already called,
indicate greater interest than ever be-
fore in the work offered by the normal
school
Especially to young men is DR.. Cot
ton presenting the desirability of do
ing normal work with the ambition to
become teachers, as there is a growing
demand for men to serve as principals
of smaller systems of schools and to
be teachers of manual training, COM
mercial subjects and coaches of ath-
letics, and to make the school days
of the young men students more COM
plete, the normal is arranging strong
athletic program for this year. The
school has secured the services of two
coaches who will be able not only to
turn out strong athletic teams but to
train the young men to be coaches
in the high schools of the state. The
coaching course should be popular
with the young men who are interest
ed in athletics,
DR.. Cotton in mentioning to rep
resentative of The Mail the classes of
students desired by the normal, stat
ed
The Normal desires, first, those
students who desire to prepare to
teach; second, high school students
who have completed at least two years
of high school work and find it i'm
possible or inconvenient to go further
in their home communities; and, third,
those students who have graduated
from high school and do not care to
teach but desire to do the first two
years of college work at or near their
homes.
THE numbers of those enrolling in
courses to prepare for teaching are
increasing rapidly. Our best young
men and women should be sent to
good normal school in order that they
may serve the state in the education
OF the young Their diplomas are in
surance policies, guaranteeing them
self-support at good salaries in case
of family disaster"
new department at Normal this
year is the junior high school, de-
partment that Dr. Cotton believes will
be of great benefit to the school, and
to it's student body, and patrons OF
northern Arizona. In speaking of the
proposed junior high school, Dr. Cot
ton said:
High school graduates who COM
plete this course will be admitted TO
the university of Arizona practically
as juniors Students in this depart
ment may take two years OF work
in English. in mathematics, in science,
in history and in the languages.
THE junior college courses should
be popular with students living in
Arizona along the line of the Santa
Fe railroad. 1t should also appeal to
those who are not financially able TO
go long distances to large universities.
Many young men and women who are
not financially able to go away TO
school should attend here for two
years. When they have finished the
freshman and sophomore years, they
will. somehow, find the way to COM
plete the junior and senior college
work in some other institution, as
of students similarly stu
ated have done ~ other states.
''The Junior college course should
also be popular with parents. AS
rule, students entering college leave
home permanently After graduating,
they get married, enter professions, or
other kinds of work that takes them
away from home. So it would seem
that parents should be glad to have
their children at home while complet-
ing the first two years of their college
course.
why not. therefore, establish a
strong Junior college in our midst
which students in Flagstaff may at
tend for the small incidental fee, while