University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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HUDUCTIU 5 51,3 Edueewoion and Home Economies. From the work begun in the sehoolsa of thefcity in 1890 developed the .Stout 'Training Schools, organized in. 1903 to prepare teachers of Home Economics and Industrial Education. In 1908 the Training Schools became The Stout Instihutae. Lorenzo Dow Harvey, under Whose direction the schools had gained a national repu- tation, became the first president. After the death of Senator Stout in 1910 the college was taken over by the state, To-day, as in years past, its stin- dents come not only from Wisconsin but from many statesg its graduates teach in every state in the Union as Well as in Canada, Hawaii, Cuba, the Canal Zone, and the West Indies.

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THE B ill 'f 1 'r K . I 1. 41 ,4- EE! ,Er , lfnlfi 3 iyt' li' ll 'll J A ' M 'jg is the only-as it was the iirst-college ' 1H A111e1.ica to give itself Wholly to 'she l?1ZZl1lIlII1g ,of teachers - of Home Economics md Industrml Education The college owes 1155 exlstenee 111 Menomome to the lumbermg mterests Whlch 111 1889 brought James H Stout to WISCOHSIH It was he Who coneelvod the purpose and the plfm of The Stout Instltute Through h1S generoslty 111 provldmg a, bu1ld1ng the equlpment and the teaollers Menomonle became the first 011,17 111 the Umtecl States to offer O1g311'l1Z6d and systemauc 1ne1,1 uotlon m what 1S to day called I11clust11a,l

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. . . The opportunities of an educa- tional type are many. Especially valuable is the training offered in the numelous colleges. In The Stout Institute, distinct- tive in its work, students pursue the customary courses in general subjectsg they also acquire definitely useful skills. They face the realities of work. Graduat- ing, they go to positions in elementary if and secondary schools, in high schools FX and colleges. With them into laboratories, I A shops, and classrooms they take a thought lv , , 'gin from age-old Wisdom,- that the happy gt., , I l ul l life is to be found in service to others. - l . ,, 5 ' I, I N f, TL- .- ' '-1: , lHrl'l!'3 F if mulll W N 1 ,N-. hai' ll l 'WT u I I YZWZL11, willllur I M IW:-,:'w,:1'?vl: 4 HU ,f-lx , ze ' -f ff' fc? y lIll lu ,- -s , eff ff if all 1 f I c llof'f-? x Ll - llllll ll 'll JOSEPH TONDRYK ---s if ,D ul .- - EDITOR AND Busnmss lVI1rNAG1a1c K, n r ,fif-: -, ' M, QI,-,,, MAJESTA SHEARER ASSOCIATE Enrron ,,- ,..- WH .,f-Eg .xf u ,, -. C - u -1- 1 Q XX xff males I x Xi X 9 l 'N fx n M Q7 1 1-?s'1' s ,llll 1