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

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TEACHERS COLLEGE DEPARTMEN T whose function was to be the professional preparation of teachers was established at the University by the organizing act, or charter of l883. The department was known up to I905 as the uNormal Department, and extended two years above the completion of a high school curriculum. In 1905 Teachen College was organized as an extension of the Normal Department to a full four-year college curriculum. There had been, up to 1910, in connection with the University what was called e Preparatory Department. In that year practically all of this department was transferred to the Educational Department of Teachers College and transformed into a Model High School to serve as a laboratory for the Department of Education in the way of opportunity for observation and practice, and for the study at first hand of problems in secondary education. This Model high school has a complete corps of teachers chosen on account of their professional preparation and training in their respective lines of high school work. The Model high school is housed in Teachers College building and is under the immediate supervision of Professor C. C. Schmidt. The chief aim and function of Teachers College is the preparation of teachers for secondary and higher education. Special curricula are offered in all subjects taught in high schools, including manual training, domestic science, commercial subjects, music and drawing. Those who complete the four-year curriculum, making one or two subjects, or lines, their majors, receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts and also the Bacheloris Diploma in Education, the latter being the professional instrument and good as a state certificate of the highest class. Those who complete the special two-year curriculum receive the uTeachers Certificate, which is also good in law as a state certificate. The degree of Master of Arts may be secured by those holding the baccalaureate degree from a college of recognized standing, by. pursuing, for one year in residence, a major and two minor subjects The major or minors may be in Education, subject to the rules and regulations of the Committee on Graduate Instruction. The legislature of I909 appropriated $60,000 for a new building for Teachers College. This was ready for occupancy in the fall of l9l0. This new building, located on the new campus just east of Science Hall, is the most beautiful and complete on the University campus. In the basement are the manual training and domestic science departments, the fan-room of a scientific system of ventilation, and an excellent gym- nasium. On the second floor are six recitation rooms with oflices attached, and oflices of the Dean of Teachers College and the Superintendent of the Model high school. On the second Hoor are four recitation rooms, a parlor for the young women of Teachers College, and a beautiful auditorium that will seat about 325 people. On the third floor are the Commercial department, a large room for Art and Design and two other recitation rooms. The interior finish of the building is in oak and the color scheme is simple, restful and artistic. The external architecture is academic Jacobean and will be the type, or standard, for future buildings on the campus. The University of North Dakota is the first state university in this country to realize in practice what they are all now aiming at-a separate building for their

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handling, storing, burning, briquetting and gas production. The fuel and gas testing laboratories and the experimental gas plant at the School of Mines and the briquetting and larger gas plant and mine at the Mining Sub-Station provide splendid facilities for training in coal and gas work. On account of the importance of the clay products among the mineral resources of the country, and especially because of the large deposits of valuable clays in North Dakota, it has seemed particularly desirable that considerable attention should be given by the College of Mining Engineering to various lines of clay working. For these reasons a Ceramic department has been established in the School of Mines. This department has been equipped with a variety of clay working machinery for making brick, tiles, sewer pipe, etc. In addition to this there is a complete model pressed brick plant capable of producing 10,000 small pressed brick per clay. For the manufacture of pottery there is reproduced on a small scale the essential features of the larger potteries, including crusher, pulverizer, clay mixer, purifier, filter pump, pug mill, jollies, throwing wheels, moulds and glaze making machinery, as well as pottery kilns. The student may thus produce a variety of wares, from common brick and tile to the more artistic pottery. Besides the technical instruction, a large amount of experimental and research work is also given in the College of Mining Engineering. To aid in this work there has been established at the School of Mines an Experimental Station, and at Hebron, in the coal and clay region in the western part of the state, a Mining Experimental Sub-Station. The work of the two stations is carried on jointly. Certain lines of investi- gation which require much laboratory equipment and research will be taken up at the School of Mines, but when conclusions have been reached by experimental work in the laboratories these conclusions will be put to a practical working trial in the testing plant of the Sub-Station, for the purpose of proving their correctness and value on a practical or commercial basis. In this manner, by combining the technical and the practical, it is the purpose of the College of Mining Engineering to serve the state in every way possible, not only by aiding in the investigation and development of its resources, but also by sending out young men who shall be well fitted to fill important places in their profession with credit to themselves and to the University, and who, with a training cultural, scientific and technical, shall have sufficiently broad and high views to become active, useful and noble members of society.

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School of Education and an organized Model High School in connection with it. The University of Toronto, we notice, has just recently completed a building for its Teachers College and has a similar organization and Model high school. Several state universities have recently organized similar schools of Education and have been before their legis- latures for ways and means. The University of North Dakota is at the front. TEACHERE COLLEGE