University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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have, along with a strong personality and substantial scholarship, professional preparation for their work. The seience-art of teaching is, no doubt, native, as the plant is, in the seed or germ; but to become a bud, much more a full blown flower, it must be cultivated under favoring conditions. Teaching, like any other highly complex art, should have for its foundation, not merely common sense, though it should have this; nor merely good sense, though it should have this also; but it should have, in addition, scientific and expert sense. Hence it is that the trend of thought and action in higher institutions of learning, is gen- eral and strong toward the establishment of Teachers, Colleges. The completion of Teachers College curriculum requires four full years un- less the student be able, by the quality of his work, to reduce the time. The required courses are: English 1, a course in English literature, philosophy 1, three courses in education, and such professional work in the courses for which special preparation for teaching is being made, as may be required by the head of the department concerned. In addition to these there must be taken a stifli- cient number of elective courses to make a total of fifty credits. Those who complete the above curriculum are granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts tB. AJ and the Bachelorls Diploma, the former being evidence of collegiate scholarship, and the latter, of professional preparation. Those who complete that part of the curriculum of Teachersy College here- tofore known as Normal College curriculum will receive the Teachers Diploma, which is the equivalent in law of a Second Grade state certificate good for three years. No one is admitted to Teachersl College who has not completed the work of a first class high school or its equivalent. Young men and women whose aim is Teachersl College and who have no high school advantages at home may do their preparatory work in the Preparatory Department of the University, Which is retained pending the establishment of a Model High School for Teachers' College. A Model High School as an adjunct to Teachers College is very much needed. It is the essential clinic where the problem of secondary education may be studied at hrst hand. The students of Education could thus be given the privilege of going, so to speak, behind the scenes and of getting the teacher's point of view It would be to Teachers College what the laboratory is to the department of science, a place where problems are presented and principles il- lustrated. This Model School should be what its name implies, a model both for the students of Teachers: College and for secondary education in the Whole state. It would be a place of observation and study of problems rather than a place for Klpractieef though some real practice might be advantageously secured. It should be located on or near the campus, should have a separate and profession- ally prepared corps of teachers, a student-hotly limited, possibly in number, and be under the control and supervision of Teachers College. The Recommendation Committee was appointed and organized to help gradu- ates and former students of the University, when worthy, to secure teaching posi- tions and to aid superintem'lents in their search for teachers or school boards in their search for principals and superintendents. Its purpose is to bring;r these two interests together for their mutual advantage. The chairman of this com- mittee is Dean Joseph Kennedy, of the Teachers! College, and the secretary is Mr. W. M. Oates. 27

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College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering HE College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering while one of the I youngest colleges of the University, having been established in 1901, stands second to none when the grade of work done is considered. That . the work is of a high-grade is shown by the fact that it won a silver medal for the University at the St. Louis Exposition, and one of the greatest engineering1 colleges in the land has accepted its graduates as candidates for post graduate 1 work Without conditions, To this college belongs the honor of being the hrst of the colleges of this University to have one of its recent graduates called as an instructor to one of the great eastern universities, an honor which might well be coveted by many an older institution. Its graduates are all filling responsible positions, such as Manager of a Cement Manufactory, Superintendent of a Street Railway Company Instructor in Ma- chine Design in a leading university or have charge of responsible work 111 the Designing or Constructional Departments of some of our largest engineering concerns. Thus it is seen that they are achieving success in various lines, 111- dieating that though the courses offered are primarily technical, thev are broad and thorough,n1aking an excellent foundation for a successful engineering careel The success of the graduates of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering 15 most gratif3ing to all who a1e interested in North Dakota and its State University. College of Law HERE are but few Changes to be noted in the College of Law since the pub- I lieation of the last Daeotah. Its courses of instruction have been strength cncd and membership increased. Larger quarters have been obtained, making possible the proper installation of the Law library. Although the school is still young its graduates are already spreading over the state and will become prominent in their respective localities. They will be found espousing,r different social and political ereeds but will be united, it is hoped and believed, in a com- mon desire for good citizenship and good government. There will always be stalwarts and insurgents and democrats and mugwumps among their number, and it is well that there should be. The province of the Law School is not to laet as a feeder or recruiting ground for any political faction 011 party. Its province is to teach the law as it is, legal history as it has actually developed, the cases that have actually been decided, and the reasoning which has controlled them, and the arguments which can and heme been made for and against every mooted proposition. lts duty is above all to insist upon that candid and honest attitude of mind which seeks after truth and follows conVietion wherever it may lead. Teachers, College EACHERS' College. whose primary function is the preparation of teachers I and administrative ofhcers for the high schools of the state, was established in 1905. From fifty to one hundred new high school teachers are required each year in North Dakota. and it was in response to this demand that Teachers College was established. It is now universally admitted that teachers should

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