Peru State College - Peruvian Yearbook (Peru, NE)

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Pf.ru Academy....................................1864 Peru, Nebraska. State Normal...................1867 Peru, Nebraska. State Teachers' College . 1921 Our College For a decade there has been a gradual transformation of Normal Schools into Teachers’ Colleges. On January 1 more than 50 of the 180 Normal Schools in the United Stales had attained this distinction. The Nebraska Normal Schools have been gradually moving in this direction for several years. On March 25, Governor Samuel II. McKelvie signed the bill which legalized this change. The bill had passed both Houses of the Legislature unanimously. The law provides that students who complete the four year collegiate course shall he granted Bachelor of Arts degrees and shall he known as graduates of the Nebraska State Teachers’ College. The new plan does not eliminate the old advanced course, but gives it its proper name, the two year collegiate course. One completing such work will be given a diploma which is a three year certificate and becomes a life certificate after two years experience. Doubtless this briefer course will be the popular one for years. The four year course makes it possible for students to remain in their own school and prepare for any public school position in Nebraska. One completing this course will be granted in addition to his A. B. degree a University certificate authorizing him to teach in any Nebraska high school. The next catalog of this institution will contain the outline of the new four year course and definite instructions as to majors and minors. 'fhe specific advantages of a Teachers’ College are the added dignity of a group of Senior College students, the attractiveness of such an institution for well trained faculty members and the prestige of a diploma from a college rather than a normal school. Every indication is that we will have in the old Peru Normal next year not less than fifty Senior College folk. The old degree. Bachelor of Arts in Education, was granted to twenty-five people in the last biennium. In all probability the number receiving the A. B. degree during the present biennium will be doubled. E. L. Rouse, ’08. President. Os he EEBnmm P«KC • »

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Good thoughts ure blessed guests, and should be. heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory. SPURGEON. P«jro -1

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Everything, that happens to us leaves some, truce, behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make, us what tve are. —Goethe. Page 6 m EEsnmsK