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BULLETIN
OF THE
State Normal School,
FIRST DISTRICT, KIRKSVILLE, MO.

Volume II. DECEMBER,	1902. No. 3.

Published by the State Normal School.

Issued quarterly, June, September, December, March.

Entered June 26, 1902, at Kirksville, Mo., as second class matter, under act of 
Congress of July 16, 1894.

SUMMER SCHOOL.

Thursday, May 28th, to Wednesday, August 19th, Inclusive.

TWELVE WEEKS.

It requires more than 4000 teachers to conduct the schools of this Normal 
School district. Of this large number of worthy and ambitious people the great 
majority have no professional employment during the summer months. The 
summer school has been instituted for their especial accomodation. Last 
summer approximately 1000 teachers of this district attended summer schools 
of some kind. It is proposed o give opportunity for a much larger number to 
secure instruction during the coming summer under the most favorable 
conditions. For twelve weeks, therefore, from Thursday, May 28th, to 
Wednesday, August 19th, inclusive, the following courses will be given:

I. ENGLISH: Mythology, American Literature, Rhetoric and English Literature.

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2. HISTORY: Ancient History, Mediaeval and Modern History, Constitutional 
American History.

3. LATIN: Beginner's Latin, Caesar, Cicero and Vergil; possibly some other 
classes.

4. MATHEMATICS: Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, College Algebra; perhaps 
some other classes.

5. PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Physics and Chemistry.

6. NATURAL SCIENCE: Zoology, Botany, Agriculture and Physical Geography.

7. PROFESSIONAL STUDIES: Pedagogy, History of Education, Training School and 
Kindergarten Work, Psychology.

8. MANUAL TRAINING, Including Bench Work, Soft Iron Work, Wood Carving and Raffia.

9. SPECIAL COURSES FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS:

Special teachers' courses will be offered for those holding third grade county 
certificates and others preparing to secure certificates. This Course will include 
Practical and Mental Arithmetic, Grammar, Composition, Physiology, U. S. 
History, Civil Government, and Methods of Teaching these subjects.

NUMBER OF SUBJECTS EACH STUDENT MAY PURSUE: Each student may have 
three subjects requiring preparation and one exercise not requiring preparation.

AMOUNT AND CHARACTER OF WORK: One semester's work will be effectively 
covered in each subject undertaken. By a semester's work we mean the amount 
of work actually done in a semester of nineteen weeks in any high class Normal

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School or college.

CREDITS: All work done will count towards graduation and towards teachers' 
certificates. Grade cards will be issued for the work done and grades will also be 
entered in the records of the Institution.

TUITION: Tuition will probably be what it has been for summer schools heretofore. It 
will be made less if possible. There is a proposition under consideration to make 
allowances for students residing at a distance from the Institution It cannot, however, 
be stated positively just what the tuition will be except that it will not be higher 
than heretofore.

THE MARCH BULLETIN: Another Bulletin will be issued in March or about the first of 
April. Register names for this Bulletin and it will be promptly mailed when issued.

FULL PROGRAM OF SUMMER SCHOOL: The full program of the summer school will be given in 
the March Bulletin.

EXPENSES: Board and lodging, with furnished rooms can be had at from $2.50 to $3.25 
per week, owing to quality and distance from building.

TWO TERMS OF SUMMER SCHOOL: Many inquiries are made as to whether the summer school 
will be divided into two terms as heretofore, giving opportunity to pursue two subjects 
during the second term, i.e., to do a semester's work in two subjects during each of 
the two short terms. Until the adjournment of the Legislature and a conference with 
the other Normal School authorities, we are unable to state positively whether 
opportunity for such short courses will be given or not. The probabilities

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are that the three State Normal Schools will co-operate and offer practically the 
same terms and the same courses of instruction.

An Unusual Offer.

FREE REVIEW TERMS.

For the twenty school days beginning Tuesday, April 28th, students and teachers 
living in this Normal School District will be admitted free to three classes each 
for purposes of review and one class each for the study of new matter, provided 
they belong to one of the three following groups:

1. Former students and graduates of this school;

2. Teachers holding state certificates or preparing to be examined for such 
certificates;

3. Persons holding county certificates or preparing to enter the spring or 
summer examinations for such certificates.

Questions Answered.

Prospective students ask many varieties of questions. One of the most common 
questions is: "If I enter at such a time, can I graduate at the close of such a 
period?" Questions of this form we do not try to answer. We cannot answer 
them. No institution can eliminate entirely the time element. This school 
undertakes to do so just so far as it can be done without violating honest 
educational principles. We make this offer: We receive for purposes of 
classification, the grades from approved high schools, colleges and other 
institutions, subject for subject, masterpiece for masterpiece, experiment for 
experiment and hour's work for hour's work. It

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should be noticed particularly that we receive these grades from other schools 
for purposes of classification. After the student has worked a few weeks in our 
classes and his student habits and his scholarship can be compared with the 
standards here, he is given the advanced standing card on which the heads of 
departments declare just how much of his work should be fully accredited and 
entered on our records and just how much there is yet to do in the respective 
departments. This plan was not suddenly adopted. We have grown into its use. 
It satisfies both teachers and students. It simply places every student on his own 
merits. It gives every one the full benefit of all good work formerly done and 
enables every one to articulate with every department of this Institution at the 
highest point where he or she can effectively work. It gives each student 
opportunity to graduate in the shortest possible time and with the least possible 
loss of time and labor. It is our purpose to economize in both life and labor.

COMPARISON WITH OTHER NORMAL SCHOOLS: The three State Normal Schools 
have for several years tried to maintain uniform standards. It is of course not 
possible to attain more than approximate uniformity. As we understand 
ourselves, however, the three schools will continue to make requirements 
uniform so far as conditions will permit. This Institution, at least, will undertake 
to maintain as high a standard in every department as any other State Normal 
School in this state or in the Mississippi Valley. We will, so far as we understand 
ourselves, grant to prospective and real students whatever favors either of the 
other State Normal Schools of Missouri will grant and no more.

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LOCAL PATRIOTISM: No State Normal School is to be regarded as a local institution, 
yet each one, doubtless, is anxious to secure so far as possible the students of 
its own district. This Normal School District includes the 44 counties north of the 
Missouri River. This Bulletin will be distributed widely among the teachers of this 
district and while we do not look upon the other Normal Schools as competitive but 
rather as co-operative schools, we especially invite the students of this district 
to give their patronage to this school.

How to Enter and Secure Classification.

Prospective students of the summer school and of the regular session are 
specially urged to preserve and bring with them all grade cards, report cards, 
certificates and diplomas obtained from any other school. We desire to avoid 
the labor, annoyance and embarassment of examinations. Where a student has no 
school credentials, a letter from some well known teacher or other person 
connected with schools will be helpful. Our plan is to classify students, so far as 
possible, on the credentials which they bring. Then after a few days, the teachers 
whose classes the student enters will determine whether the student may remain or 
be returned to the office with recommendation for a change of program.

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Systematically Describe Your Scholarships.

Much time and labor can be saved if prospective students will carefully observe 
the following recommendations: When seeking to learn through 
correspondence what classification you can secure in this Institution, make a 
tabular statement of all the student work done by you. Put the items in 
columns: in the first column, the subject studied; in the second column, the 
school in which the subject was studied; in the third column, the text book used; 
in the fourth column, the number of months spent in the subject or text book; in 
the fifth column, the number of recitations per week and in the sixth column, 
the duration, in minutes, of each recitation or laboratory period. It is well to 
state also your age and if a teacher how long and where you have taught and 
what certificates you hold. Then your questions can be answered with some 
degree of definiteness.

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Tabular View of Courses of Instruction.

LATIN COURSE NO. I. 			ENGLISH COURSE NO. I.

FRESHMAN YEAR.

English (Mythol & Am Lit)  2 Sem 	English (Myth & Am Lit)   2 Sem
Lat (First Book & Nepos)   2 "		Agri (or Ph Geog)         2 "
Algebra (Wentw New Soh)    2 "		Algebra (Wentw New Sch)   2 "
Rdg and Ph Cult	      2 or 1 "		Rdg and Ph C         2 or 1 "
Drawing, Music        1 or 2 "		Drawing, Music       1 or 2 "
Pedagogy Com Sch Br        1 "		Pedagogy Com Sch Br       1 "

SOPHOMORE YEAR.

Rhetoric 		   2 Sem 	Rhetoric 		  2 Sem
Latin (Nepos & Cae) 	   2 "		Oriental & Grk & Rom Hist 2 "
Zoology			   2 "		Zoology 		  2 "
Plane Geom 		   1 "		Plane Geom 		  1 "
Pedagogy 		   1 "		Pedagogy 		  1 "
Practice Teaching 	   1 "		Practice Teaching	  1 "
Music or Man Tr		   1 "		Music or Man Tr 	  1 "

JUNIOR YEAR.

Latin (Cic & Ovid) 	   2 Sem 	English (Am Lit) 	  2 Sem
O & G & Rom Hist 	   2 "		M & M H or Eng & Am H 	  2 "
Chemistry 		   2 "		Chemistry 	 	  2 "
Sol Geom 		   1 "		Sol Geom 		  1 "
Trigonometry 		   1 "		Trigonometry 		  1 "
Schools of Mo 		   1 "		Schools of Mo 		  1 "

SENIOR YEAR.

English Literature 	   2 Sem 	English Literature 	  2 Sem
Physics 		   2 "		Physics 		  2 "
Lat (Sal & Vergil) 	   2 "		Man Tr or 2d yr Ger 	  2 "
College Algebra 	   1 "		College Algebra 	  1 "
Practice Teaching     2 or 1 "		Practice Teaching    2 or 1 "
History of Education 	   1 "		History of Education 	  1 "


Note: For the Sophomore, or "Elementary", Certificate at least one Semester of 
Reading and Physical Culture is required. Of Reading and Physical Culture, 
Drawing, Vocal Music, and Manual Training at least four semesters are required. 
It will be seen that some election is allowed.

Note: For the Sophomore Certificate one semester in the Training School is 
required; two in Pedagogy are required.

Note: For the Diploma, including Life Certificate, at least two semesters in 
Training School are required; four semesters in Pedagogy and History of 
Education are required.

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LATIN COURSE NO. II.			ENGLISH COURSE NO. II

FRESHMAN YEAR.

Lat (1st Book and Nepos)   2 Sem 	Agr (or Ph. Geog) 	   2 Sem
Eng (Mythol & Am Lit)      2 "		Eng [Mythol & Am Lit] 	   2 "
Alg (Wentw New Sch) 	   2 "		Alg (Wentw New Sch) 	   2 "
Rdg & Ph Culture      2 or 1 "		Rdg & Ph Culture      2 or 1 "
Drawing, Music        1 or 2 "		Drawing, Music        1 or 2 "
Pedagogy Com. Sch Br       1 "		Pedagogy Com Sch Br        1 "

SOPHOMORE YEAR.

Lat (Nepos & Cae) 	   2 Sem 	Zoology 		   2 Sem
English (Rhetoric) 	   2 "		English (Rhetoric) 	   2 "
Anc Hist (O & G & Rom) 	   2 "		Anc Hist (O & G & Rom)     2 "
Geometry or Zoology 	   2 "		Geometry		   2 "
Practice teaching 	   1 "		Practice Teaching 	   1 "
Pedagogy 		   1 "		Pedagogy 		   1 "
Dr or Mus or Man Tr        1 "		Dr or Mus or Man Tr 	   1 "

JUNIOR YEAR.

Latin (Cicero & Ovid) 	   2 Sem 	English (Am Lit) 	   2 Sem
Med & Mod Hist 		   2 "		Med & Mod Hist 		   2 "
Chemistry 		   2 "		Chemistry 		   2 "
Geom or Trig and Col Alg   2 "		Trig & College Alg 	   2 "
Schools of Mo 		   1 "		Schools of Mo 	  	   1 "

SENIOR YEAR.

Latin (Sallust & Verg) 	   2 Sem	Physics 		   2 Sem
English Lit 		   2 "		English Lit 		   2 "
{Physics or 	     }     2 "		{Col Alg & Analytics or}   2 "
{Trig & Col Alg or   }     2 "		{Eng Const Hist &      }   2 "
{Eng Const Hist (1) &} 	   2 "		{Am Const Hist.        }   2 "
{Am Const Hist (1)   }	   2 "		Manual Tr.		   1 "
Practice teaching     2 or 1 "		Practice teaching     2 or 1 "
History of Education 	   1 "		History of Education 	   1 "

Note: For the Sophomore, or "Elementary", Certificate at least one semester of 
Reading and Physical Culture is required. Of Read-ing and Physical Culture, 
Drawing, Vocal Music, and Manual Training at least four semesters are required. 
It will be seen that some election is allowed.

Note: For the Sophomore Certificate one semester in the Training School is 
required; two in Pedagogy are required.

Note. For the Diploma, including Life Certificate, at least two semesters in 
Training School are required; four semesters in Pedagogy and History of 
Education are required.

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Elective Courses.

The following four years' Elective Courses are offered, each requiring a sum 
total of twenty units of work, including fourteen academic units to be selected 
from the following seven subjects:

	 	No. of units offered 	Minimum to be offered by  
Subjects.	by the school.		student, if any in the
 					subject be offered.
English...............4.........................3
Latin.................5.........................2
Mathematics...........4.........................2
Science...............6.........................2
History...............3.........................2
German................3.........................2
Greek.................3.........................2

EXPLANATION.

A unit is two semesters' work in one subject. In any four years' elective course 
fourteen units may be selected from the above given list. To these three units in 
Pedagogics, including Training School work, must be added; also three units 
selected from the four following subjects, in each of which the school gives at 
least one unit: I. Reading and Physical Culture; 2. Vocal Music; 3. Drawing; 4. 
Manual Training.

But Notice: In order to graduate by an elective course one subject must be 
selected which will constitute the major subject or the contemplated specialty 
of the student. Around this subject others should cluster which will constitute 
related minors. To illustrate: One student is preparing to be a special teacher of 
Eatin. This student will present five units in Eatin; four in English; two in History; 
two in Mathematics; one in science. To these fourteen units the three units in 
subjects not requiring prep-

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aration and also the three units in Pedagogy must be added; but every elective 
course must include at least three units in English and two in Mathematics, 
these five units being recognized as constants.

No unit will be accepted unless all lower units in the same department are first 
accepted and in these elective courses no half units will be accepted.

What is called "free election" in the choice of subjects will not be allowed. All 
subjects must be pursued in natural order and all programs of students are 
subject to the approval of the interested Department Teachers and the 
President. For further information address the President,
						JOHN R. KIRK.

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DAILY PROGRAM FOR SECOND SEMESTER

January 19th to May 27th, 1903.

Teachers     First Period	Second Period	Third Period	Fourth Period	Fifth Period	Sixth Period
	     8:35-9:15		9:20-10:00	10:30-11-10	11:15-11:55	1:05-l:45	1:50-2:30
Kirk								Ped C B		Schools of Mo 	Hist Ed
Gentry 	     Mid. Fr. Lat. 	Soph. Nep & Cae Mid Cae Soph 	Jun Ovid 	Sen Vergil
Vaughn 				Mid. Fr. Lat 	Sub U S H 	Fr Lat 		Civ Gov 	Jun Cic
Shepard	     O. & G. Hist. 	Rom. Hist. 	Rom Hist 	Mod Hist
Weatherly 	(Mid. Jun. Chemistry) 		    (Mid Sen Physics) 	  	   (Junior Chemistry)
Daugherty 	(Mid. Soph. Zoology) 		Physiology 	Phys Geog 	   (Soph Zoology)
Jackson 			Agri 				Agri 				Agri
Settle 	     Mid. Sen. English  Grammar 	Mid Jun  	Mid Soph	Mid Soph
						English		Rhetoric	Rhetoric
Barnes 	     Fr. Eng. 		Tr Sch 		Tr Sch 		Tr Sch 		M Fr Eng 	Tr Sch
Parrish	     Tr. Sch. 		Tr Sch		M Fr Eng 	Tr Sch 		Tr Sch		Tr Sch
Prewitt	     Book Keeping 	Begin Alg 	Mid Fr Alg 	Fr Alg 		Begin Alg 	Solid Geom
Harvey       Plane Geom. 	Plane Geom 	Solid Geom 	Mid Fr Alg
Owen 	     R. and Ph Cult 	Grammar 	R & Ph Cult 	R & Ph Cult 	R & Ph Cult 	Soph Rhet
Tinkham	     Vocal Music 	Vocal Music	Vocal Music 	Vocal Music	Vocal Music 	Vocal Music
Bryan 	     M Tr 		M Tr		M Tr 		M Tr 		M Tr 		M Tr
Baer 	     Adv Dr 		Beg Dr 		Adv Dr 		Begin Dr 	Adv Dr 		Begin Dr
Adams 	     Kindergarten 			Kgn 		Kgn 		Tr Sch 		Tr Sch

By Miss Parrish:--Pedagogy 8:80 to 10:00 Sat. and 2:80 to 4:00 Wed.

By Mr. Harvey:--Trig., 12 to 12:45 daily; Analytics, 2:30 to 3:20, daily except Wednesday.
" " Gentry:--Latin, Horace, 7:40 to 8:35 daily.
" " Weatherly:--Organic Chemistry 2:30 to 4:00 daily.
" " Vaughn:---Const. Am. Hist., 2:30 to 3:30 daily except Wed.
" " Daugherty:--Zoology, 2:30 to 4:00 alternate days.
" " Goldberg:--German 2:50 to 3:30 and 3:30 to 4:10 daily.
" " Sipple:--Arithmetic 1:50 to 2:30 daily.
" " Goodding:--Arithmetic, 1:50 to 2:30 daily.
" Miss Johnson:--Ari thmetic, 1:05 to 1:45 daily.
" " Popplewell:--Algebra, 9:20 to 10:00 and 10:30 to 11:10 daily.
" " Dockery:--Latin 10:30 to 11:10 daily.
" " Tall:--Latin 11:15 to 11:55 daily.
" " Rucker:--Grammar, 9:20 to 10:00 daily.
General Assembly in chapel, 10:00 to 10:20 daily.
Noon Recess for hot lunch, 11:55 to 1:05 daily.

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Sophomores of 1902.

WHERE THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

Allison, Bertha, student, Kirksville, Mo.
Autenrieth, Lula, teaching, St. Louis County.
Banning, W. J., Co. School Commissioner, teaching at Brashear, Adair Co.
Bartholomew, Mabel, student, Kirksville Normal.
Bartlett, Hettie, teaching, Bethany City Schools.
Beck, Roy L., teaching High Hill School, Campbell, Mo:
Bell, Nellie, teaching, Green Castle.
Bierly, Mary, _________
Blake, Vera, teaching, Rockport Public Schools.
Bondurant, Maud, teaching near Bethany.
Boyes, M. A., teaching at Rolla.
Brown, M. O., teaching, Benbow.
Browning, Anna, At Home, Bible Grove.
Burch, J. E., teaching at Tolona.
Carter, A. S., student, Kirksville Normal
Damron, Cannie, student, Kirksville Normal.
Day, Ruby Vera __________
Dowell, Ella, teaching near Atlanta.
Downey, Nannie G., teaching near Eskin in Clinton Co.
Downing, C. V., teaching, Kirksville High School.
Doyle, Ethel, teaching, Huntsville.
Dralle, F. W., teaching, Rutledge.
Eubank, Estelle, teaching Kirksville City Schools.
Farmer, Dixie Belle, teaching, Middleton.
Gardner, R. L., student, Kirksville Normal.
Gilbreath, Lura, teaching in LaPlata.
Goodale, C. T., student, Kirksville Normal.
Goodding, Chas. J., student, Kirksville Normal.
Greenley, Anna L., student, Kirksville Normal.
Griggs, R. E., at home, __________
Hall, Harry D., teaching near Woodlawn.
Hall, Hattie Alma, teaching near Cameron.
Hodges, Roy B., in a bank at Kahoka.
Hopewell, Lulu, teaching, Kirksville Public Schools

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Hougland, Flora, teaching at Bethel.
Howell, Roberta, teaching, Putnam Co.
Ingrum, Marie, teaching.
Jones, Roberta, teaching, Putnam County.
King, W. N., teaching, Danville, Mo.
Malone, Kula, teaching at Callio.
Mathews, Bertha, student, Kirksville Normal.
Mathews, Irma, Country school near Revere.
Maupin, Jessie, teaching, Happy Valley, Harrison, Co.
McClure, W. T., student, Kirksville Normal.
McClanahan, Maud, teacher, Moulton Iowa Public Schools.
McKenzie, I. M. ___________
McQuary, Amy, teaching Center Point, Iowa.
Miller, Lowa, student, Kirksville Normal.
Moore, Clifford, teaching, Oak.
Morelock, Daisy, teaching, Bevier, Macon County.
Morelock, Isabelle, student, Kirksville Normal.
Motter, N. P., Fegley.
Murdock, S. H., Milan.
Murray, Jessie, teaching, New Hampton.
Nichols, Oleta, teaching near Fulton.
Nichols, Vertner, teaching near Fulton.
Overfelt, Geo. G., teaching in Monroe Co.
Rodgers, Ethel, teaching in Milan.
Ruffer, Minnie, teaching at Festus.
Rule, Lena, teaching near Parkville.
Ryals, Sallie, ____________
Rucker, Grace, teaching, Moberly.
Sandry, W. J., teaching, Novinger.
See, W. J., Centralia.
Shibley, A. P., teaching near Meadville.
Shoop, Raymond, student, Kirksville Normal.
Shoop, W. W., Clerk in store at Connellsville.
Sipple, E. M., teaching at Westville.
Smith, Agnes, teaching near Ravanna, Mo.
Smith, Eizzie, Maysville.
Snedeker, C. M., ____________
Sparks, Minta, teaching near Paris.

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Sparling, Jno. N., teaching in Scotland County.
Stone, Leta Belle, ___________
Switzer, E. B., teaching near St. Catherine.
Thompson, Leena, teaching in Macon County.
Traughber, Myrtle, teaching in Wyoming.
Tummond, Leila, teaching in Novinger.
Vantine, Bess, teaching, Bradley, Ill.
Weedon, Lillian, student, Kirksville Normal.
Wells, Rose, teaching, Bonne Terre, City Schools.
Westcott, L. Principal of School at Rutledge.

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Calendar till Close of Summer School.

First semester Ends .................Friday, Jan. 16, 1903
Second Semester Begins ..............Monday, Jan. 19, 1903
Third Quarter Ends .................Friday, March 20, 1903
Fourth Quarter Begins ..............Monday, March 23, 1903
Baccalaureate Sermon .................Sunday, May 24, 1903
Graduating Exercises (Sophomores) ...Tuesday, May 26, 1903
Alumni Association Meeting ..........Tuesday, May 26, 1903
Graduating Exercises (Seniors) ....Wednesday, May 27, 1903
Summer School Classification Begins .....Wed. May 27, 1903
Summer School Begins ...............Thursday, May 28, 1903
Summer School Ends .............Wednesday, August 19, 1903