c \9o3 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESIDENT S OFFICE. Wffitmt §>tatr Normal §>rlinol. Short-grass Souvenir No. 2 and Spring and Summer Term Announcements. Vol. I. No. 1. Issued Quarterly by the Western State Normal School. HAYS, KANSAS. March, 1909. 3805 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/shortgrasssouvenOOwest FORE WORD. In asking your attention to matter and illustrations on the following pages, we desire especially to congratulate the young people of western Kansas upon the fact that in an unprecedented manner they are availing themselves of the opportunity presented to them for higher education by the state of Kansas in this institution. That comparatively they are in- creasingly making use of the means afforded them is strikingly shown by an analysis of figures in the fifteenth and sixteenth biennial reports of the Board of Regents for the State Normal Schools of Kansas, as follows : Enrolment increase, three schools, in last three years .... 865 Hays’ increase 225-26% Enrolment increase, three schools, in last two years 414 Hays’ increase 156-38% Enrolment increase, three schools, in last year 84 Hays’ increase 71 — 84% (3) 4 Western State Normal School, FIRST BUILDING; ENTIRE FACULTY AND .'STUDENT BODY ON FOOT-BRIDGE, FIRST YEAR. Western State Normal School 5 Program Offered for First Fall Term, 1902. Begin A. M. Room 2. Room 1. Room 3. 8:10 Arithmetic, A. Physiology, D. United States History (special ). 8:55 Geometry, D. English, B. Constitution ( special ). 9:35 RECESS. 9:45 GENERAL EXERCISES. Orthoepy. Spelling, B. Spelling ( special ) . 10:20 General History, B. Physiology (special). Arithmetic (special). 11:05 School Law and Management, C. Geography, A. Geography ( special). 11:50 United States History and Constitution, C. Bookkeeping ( special). Increase in facilities is shown by a comparison of above program with that given on the following page, six years later. Program Offered for Fall Term, 1908. 6 Western State Normal School ©’ 3 00 o £ _2 "hi bo • < a £2 ft ft No. 5. Latin, I. Kansas Hist., pre America] Hist., pre General Hist., pre hH a l-H B .2 ft -3 to g.s bO p bo >1 c a a a 6 A a g W g o *5 a g p '% cS h Q g . r o a 3 x hi O aS 03’ pq o PQ E-t 03 > _• >» bo > >< B © > jo o" o' > g a* 3 g o .g as* CO A Is +3 & o Is To hQ a P W rC tf P a W > ft a> a , bo rC a 13 . Is 1—1 >1 c4 hQ o S >j hi . 0 ) >1 fl >H O M s | o A 'o o X o 03 'o a: o >. co PH 1 as hi o cS 0) 4-> 0-2 B o a: o >» CO Pm >> *-• £ bo bo 03 6 5 > o, o A o PQ s ’33 >> >. a; rC Pm Ph by H >, •-5 hH 15 £ CJ C „ 2! hi ’-p .o cS 0) 6 A o s 8 o s ‘E C ? cS o o > 3 O o 3 js © bo ◄ a 02 .o 3 3 Pm Western State Normal School. 7 Floor plan of original building, same structure as shown on page 4. A comparison of floor plans presented above with those shown upon the two following pages will indicate our increase of room within five years. Second floor. First floor. Basement. FLOOR PLANS OF MAIN BUILDING. Western State Normal School 9 Second floor. First floor. FLOOR PLANS OF GYMNASIUM. 10 Western State Normal School. The School’s First Course of Study. (This course was the only one offered for first two years.) FIRST YEAR. A. 1. Arithmetic. 2. Drawing. 3. Elocution. 4. Geography, Physical and Political. Declamation. B. 5. Algebra. 6. Botany. 7. English. 8. General History. Methods, Common Subjects. Spelling. Declamation. SECOND YEAR. C. 9. Bookkeeping and Penmanship. * 10. Rhetoric. 11. School Law and Management. 12. American History and Constitu- tion. 13. Vocal Music.* Pronunciation. D. 14. Geometry. 15. Literature. 16. Methods.* 17. Physics.* 18. Physiology.* 19. Psychology.* Etymology. Essay. * Half-term subjects. A comparison of this page with the page following makes clear the ex- pansion within five years in the curriculum of the School. Western State Normal School. 11 Life Certificate Course of Study. NORMAL DEPARTMENT. FIRST YEAR. Required. Arithmetic ... two terms. Botany two terms. Drawing two terms. Elocution one term. Political Geography one term. English four terms. Elective. (Four terms to be taken.) Agriculture four terms. Manual Training two terms. Commerce four terms. Latin four terms. German four terms. Orthography gnd Declamation supplementary. SECOND YEAR. Required. Algebra two terms. Geometry two terms. Physics. one term. Music one term. American History one term. Psychology one term. General History one term. General Methods one term. School Administration . . . one term. Teaching one term. Elective. ( Four terms to be taken. ) Agriculture four terms. Latin four terms. German four terms. Zoology two terms. Geology two terms. Elocution two terms. General History two terms. History and Civics two terms. Chemistry two terms. Physiology one term. Physics one term. Music one term. Orthoepy and Essay supplementary. THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS. Required. Psychology, including ) Child Psychology, ) three terms. Teaching .three terms. History three terms. Biological Science . three terms. History of Education. . .two terms. Expression two terms. Literature .two terms. Mathematics one term. Drawing one term. Physiography .one term. Principles of Education, one term. School Administration . .one term. Physical Science one term. Physical Training .one term. Elective. ( Seven terms from elective list of first two years.) Students completing two years of above course receive a One-year State Certificate; those completing three years, a Three-year State Certificate; those finishing the en- tire course are awarded a Diploma, which is a Life Certificate. Oration, Etymology and Vocabulary supplementary. Note.— A term includes nine or ten weeks. if 12 Western State Normal School its available within 300 yards of present buildings. Three handsome steel rowboats are now the property of the School. Parties can row nearly two miles up the stream from this point. Western State Normal School 13 SKATING SCENE. CLASSROOM SCENE. 14 Western State Normal School. Faculty Roll at Opening of School, 1902. President. Jasper N. Wilkinson (Illinois Normal University). Resident Faculty. Principal. William S. Picken (Kansas State Normal School). Assistant. Anna Keller (Kansas State Normal School). THE GYMNASIUM. Western State Normal School. 15 The Faculty, 1908-’09. Names are printed in the order of election. PRESIDENT. JOSEPH H. HILL, A. M., D. D. (Kansas State Normal School and Northwestern University). Resident Faculty. PRINCIPAL. WILLIAM S. PICKEN (Kansas State Normal School). ASSISTANTS. ANNA KELLER (Kansas State Normal School), Directress Model School. ERNEST B. MATTHEW (Kansas State Normal School), Mathematics and Pubic Speaking. HARRY L. KENT (Kansas State Normal School), Natural Science. LULU BICE (Western State Normal School), Librarian. CHARLES A. SHIVELY, A. M. (State Normal School and University of Kansas), Pedagogy. JENNIE E. NICKLES, A. B. (University of Kansas), German. ANNETTE FOSTER (Kansas State Normal School), English and Latin. JOHN S. BIRD, (Kansas State Normal School), Commercial Subjects, Shorthand, and Typewriting. JULIA M. STONE (Kansas State Normal School), Model District School. J. L. PELHAM, B. S. Agr. (Kansas State Argicultural College), Agriculture. J. H. BEACH (Kansas State Normal School), History. C. D. FRANKENBERGER, Janitor. 16 Western State Normal School . GRADUATING CLASS OF 1903— The first class. Rear view of present plant, with new wings of main building nearly completed. Earth from excavations and contractor’s shed and debris not yet cleared away. THE CLASS OF 1908. Western State Normal School 17 18 Western State Normal School. GRADUATES. Since the School was organized, fifty-six young men and women have received diplomas, seventeen having completed postgraduate courses. The following schedule represents the present status of these graduates: Men. Women. Teachers, district schools 1 6 Teachers, city schools 1 5 Teachers, high schools 2 Principals, city or village schools 5 Principal, county high school 1 County Superintendent 1 Bookkeeper 1 Students, other educational institutions 4 1 Students, postgraduate courses, this school 10 • 8 Student, music 1 Librarian 1 Housekeepers 5 Unclassified 1 1 Deceased 1 25 31 Western State Normal School. 19 The following article from the Western School Journal, of July, 1908, presents one feature of the Western State Normal School so well that we have ventured to copy it complete : THE MODEL RURAL SCHOOL AT THE WESTERN NORMAL SCHOOL. Mrs. L. J. Wilson, Hill City. The tendency of the present in all lines of education as well as invention is toward the practical. The man with a practical idea demands attention at every turn. The Kansas State Agricultural College had this in mind quite early in its history when it laid the foundation for teaching the mechanic arts, and later in sending out its wheat-lecture trains and its institute lecturers, car- rying the principles of practical scientific farming, stock-raising, and dairy- ing to the farmer’s very door. This is practical education. The introduction of manual training and domestic science into the schools in every city and village of our land is evidence of this very idea of reaching the great masses with the practical phases in common-school edu- cation. The founding of model graded schools in connection with our normal training schools as aids to teachers in city grades, and later the model rural school for teachers of country schools, are of inestimable value to both the inexperienced teacher and her pupils. Such a rural school was established last year, in connection with the other departments at the Western State Normal School at Hays, with Miss Julia Stone as principal. The old barracks building, formerly used by the soldiers on the Fort Hays reservation, has been removed to the Normal campus and fitted up with convenient furnishings for a country school comprising all grades from the chart class through to the graduating class. This department is intended to give instruction to teachers of rural districts in the manage- ment and teaching of schools in any country district in the state. Here may be found the conditions and perplexities found elsewhere, and the teacher is always ready to assist not only her own pupils but the pros- pective teacher how to meet all such difficulties. The equipment is very simple and inexpensive, yet useful. The seating is suitable to the various sizes of the children ; good light, and plenty of blackboard room within easy reach of the children is provided. There is a small library, including dictionary, also a cabinet containing such articles as cotton-bolls, acorns in their cups, butterflies, cocoons, etc. Pictures of Washington, Lincoln, and Longfellow, also home-made maps and charts, adorn the walls. A sand-box at one side of the room is used by pupils in elementary geography class. A table near the teacher’s desk is well loaded with various devices (many of them home-made) for teaching numbers, spelling, sentence- building, and other work. Some suggestions for busy-work were shown in paper-folding, paper-mat weaving, and home- made valentines and May baskets. A class in elementary agriculture finds a place on the somewhat crowded program, and a near-by plot of ground has been prepared for the children’s vegetable garden, where lettuce, peas, beets and potatoes make an appe- tizing display in the geometric plot. Students regularly enrolled in the Normal School are required to visit the rural school and observe the work from time to time so as to be the better prepared to educate the children who later will come under their guidance and instruction. What better preparation, so far-reaching in its scope, could be planned for the improvement of educational conditions among the great masses of the rural districts? 20 Western State Normal School, MODEL DISTRICT SCHOOL INTERIOR. Western State Normal School. 21 Drop-curtain down. Drop-curtain up. TWO VIEWS OF STAGE OF NEW AUDITORIUM. 22 Western State Normal School. Spring Term, Commencing March 29. The spring term is our crowded term. Last year nearly 100 students not previously enrolled during the year entered. An unusually rich program is always provided for this term, and teachers whose schools close about this time of the year find it to their advantage to enroll with us. Expenses of living in Hays compare very favorably with those of other western cities. By combining the spring and summer terms, one- half a year’s work, or one-eighth of the four years required to complete the Life Certificate Course, can be finished. Almost before the lapse of time has become deeply impressed upon them many tea 2 hers have this course over half completed, and that without ceasing to teach considerable terms of school yearly. And the half-way point is marked by the receipt of a one-year state certificate, while an additional year gives the three-year state certificate. When one reaches this milestone— only a year from the life certificate— the rest of the course reasonably seems brief. With the helps the state so generously provides here, to despair of scientific preparation for the life profession of teaching is a mark of the weak teacher. i Western State Normal School. 23 Summer Term of 1909. We confidently expect this to be the best summer session yet held. Begins June 1. The scholastic year begins with this term. Make your plans now to attend it. Closes July 30. At this date, March 1st, we confidently hope to enroll a total for the current year of not less than 400 students. Let an unusually large number of western teachers enroll for the summer term, and make next year's total enrolment mount well up toward 500 Students. 3 0112 1056545 8 24 Western State Normal School. THE WESTERN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. In session every month of the year except August. Expanding facilities, increasing faculty and multipli- cation of students. The only state educational institution in the western two-thirds of the state. 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