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BULLETIN
First District Normal School 
KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI 
VOL. XI MARCH, 1912 No. 4
Published Quarterly—June, September, December, March.
Entered June 25, 1902, at Kirksville, Mo., as second-class matter, under act of Congress of July, 1894.

SUMMER TERM.
ELEVEN WEEKS, MAY 28TH TO AUGUST 9TH, 1912.
 
The Summer School a Permanency. The great educational discovery of the preceding decade was the summer term; not the get-rich-quick, six weeks’ term, but the well organized eleven to twelve weeks’ term, fully duplicating all that may be done during any other term of the school year. The summer term is the great time saver. It obviates the loss and expense of enforced idleness in a long vacation during the best working season of the year. It increases the working efficiency of human life. It lengthens each one’s professional career. Formerly, three calendar years would have been necessary to complete a Three Years’ Teachers College Course. Now many students finish that course by attending three successive summer terms and two.intervening “regular sessions” of nine months each.

Another Way. Many students attend two summers and an intervening “regular session,” thereby completing an Elementary Course, and making definite advancement towards completion of an Advanced Course. The Elementary Course includes the fifteen units of a Four Years’ High School Course and also the academic and pedagogic work of the first year in the Teachers College Course. These capable people who secure the Elementary Certificate get choice teaching positions the succeeding year. They come back at the beginning of another summer term with replenished financial resources, attend two more summers and the intervening “regular session”, carry away an Advanced Course Diploma covering the Three Years’ Teachers College Course, and have some surplus credits to apply on a still higher diploma.

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Still Another Way. One of the most talented teachers and happily constituted young women now teaching German in a North Missouri High School, at a good salary, attended nine successive summer terms at this institution, taught during seven or eight intervening “school years,” then reentered the Normal School for the “regular session” of 1910-11. But this young lady was graduated from a Four Years’ High School Course prior to entering the first summer term. She therefore had, at graduation from the Three Years’ Teachers College Course, considerable surplus attainment to her credit. She can by attending the summer term of 1912 secure a diploma for the Four Years’ Teachers College Course. This diploma will admit her to the privileges of a teacher’s life certificate, valid for all kinds of public schools in all of the states of the west and the middle west, excepting one.

A Still Further Utility to Practical Teachers. The teacher possessed of a certificate of any kind, coming from a Normal School, has some advantages over other teachers, because the Normal School is the most widely known of the efficient agencies for the special preparation of teachers. Thousands of men and women teaching in rural schools have not in the past been able to continue their own education. The summer term comes to their relief with a special course rewarded by a special State Certificate. This is done through the Department of Rural Education. Students above eighteen years of age, who complete in this institution the last two terms of any two years of work covered by the Elementary Course, are recommended to the State Superintendent of Schools and receive from him a Two Years’ State Certificate based upon their Normal School instruction, and authorizing them to teach in any rural school of the state: Provided the course pursued by them includes the following subjects:

Composition, Grammar and literature...3 terms
American Literature and Composition, with Farm Themes...3 terms
Farm Accounts and Business Principles (through Arithmetic)...1 term
Advanced Practical Arithmetic....1 term
Algebra, through Quadratics...3 terms
American History...3 terms
Government of State and Nation...1 term
Physiology and Sanitation....1 term
Nature Study and Agriculture...3 terms
Commercial, Industrial and Physical Geography (combined)...1 term
Rural Life Problems...1 term
Rural School Organization and Management...2 terms
Rural School Methods and Observation in Model Rural School...1 term
Industrial Arts...1 term
Art, Handwork, Physical Education, Reading, Vocal Music...5 terms

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The Rural Life Department. The Normal Schools of the middle west are of late greatly agitated on account of the pressing demand for solution of the rural school and rural life problems of the country. In this agitation the Missouri Normal Schools have been specially active; and it is widely known and not doubted by anyone that the Normal School at Kirksville has at least paralleled the best things done by any institution of the country towards working out rural life problems. This institution never had in any other twelve months’ period so many visitors for definite purposes as it had in the past twelve months to inspect and study rural life problems as the same are being worked out at the present time in its Rural Life and Rural Sociology Department, its Model Rural School, and its gradually organizing Department of Farm and Household Economics.

The Model Rural School, which will be in session from May 20th to June 28th, exemplifies in all particulars the best known ideals for rejuvenating the rural schools of the country. It has demonstrated that farm boys and girls learn music, art, manual training, household economics and kindred subjects, along with some exercises in gardening and farming, while at the same time carrying all their work in the typical school studies more rapidly and more thoroughly than the town children are able to do. Some people will not believe this fact. They are invited to come and be shown.

Through the new Farm and Household Economics Department botany is to be made a division of farm and garden crops; zoology, a concrete study in stock breeding and domestic animals; chemistry, a concrete experiment in commercial products, permanent soil ferctility and food values. Biology becomes concrete bacteriology. These practical lessons are made to reach all the way from the yeast in the bread to the disease germ in the well water and the food. The sixty acre School Farm, managed wholly by students, is to furnish the farm and garden products for the new Domestic Science Department.

Rural Economics and Sociology. During the past twelve months representatives of the Rural Life Department and of the Agriculture Department participated in the programs of educational conventions in Missouri and also in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, Ohio and Utah. In addition to all this, one member of the Rural Life Department, during the same period, delivered more than a hundred lectures before educational conventions in Missouri.
Among the classes shown in the daily program, pages 6 and 7, is one in Rural Economics and Sociology, including Rural Administration and Supervision. This course is specially devised for county superintendents of schools, but it is taken by many other ambitious students. It is conducted by one of the most widely known men among the scholars, authors and lecturers dealing with the rural life problems of our country, a man who goes right into

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the rural communities and faces problems at first hand. This man knows his business. Many town and city superintendents and principals of schools of various sorts will take the course in Rural Economics and Sociology.

The Daily Program, Pages 6 and 7. Attention is specially directed to the tentative daily program given in detail on pages 6 and 7. It can be readily seen that a large book would be necessary to describe, with any sort of definiteness, this large array of inviting and practical courses in academic and professional studies. But those interested in summer courses are specially invited to write for further and more definite information. It will be seen that there is scarcely a subject likely to be taught in the public schools of Missouri that is not abundantly provided for in this extensive program. The whole number of teachers in the faculty will be some fifty or more. Among them are many of the most vigorous thinkers, students and instructors of the middle west. They challenge comparison with the best and the ablest in other great schools and colleges. Among them are students and graduates of some twenty universities, an equal number of colleges, fifteen normal schools, and some twenty-odd technical schools. Twelve of them have traveled and studied in European countries.

It must be evident that the facilities for instruction in this summer term are exceptionally good. The libraries and laboratories of the Institution are among the best in the country. In agencies for objective demonstration and for illustration of studies, no school surpasses this one. The department of Photography, Lantern Slide Making and Photo Engraving is reputed to be the best of its kind in the country. The daily program, pages 6 and 7, does nor mention photography and lantern slide making, but classes in these subjects will be abundantly provided for. They will probably be taught by one of our own veteran students, who attended this Institution some part of every year from 1898 to 1911. He is one of the persistent geniuses, one of the most skillful of all the teachers of photography and kindred subjects, a real artist, who has worked his way up from the wholesome ambitions and the limited knowledge of a farm boy to a degree of attainment enabling him to rank with the best college men of the country.

Music. Again, the formal program, pages 6 and 7, fails to show the unusually good facilities of the Institution for music.

The Fourth Annual Spring Festival of Music, given April 16th and 17th by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, of some sixty-eight people, and the Normal School Chorus, of some one hundred fifty students, will go into history as the high water mark of musical programs in North Missouri from the beginning of history to the spring of 1912. Many public schools of Northeast Missouri now have good school music the year round, because of the stimulus felt and the skill acquired by teachers while students in the Music Department of this Institution. “Pinafore” on the Lake last summer was

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a remarkable production. Some similar program will, of course, be given during the summer term of 1912.

The New Mechanics Hall. Never has this Institution enjoyed a more marked and practical uplift than the one given by the completion of the new Mechanics Hall, a twenty thousand dollar, reinforced concrete, fire proof building. All forms of art feel the effect of this efficient utility. The new appliances for making, painting and burning pottery, the new manual training rooms, the mechanical drawing room, the forge room, the big machinery room and the bacteriology laboratory—these highly stimulating and utilitarian agencies are now placed within the reach of the teachers of Northeast Missouri.

The Coburn Players. July 1st and 2nd, the Coburn Players will give another of their delightful Shakespearean programs out of doors on the Campus under the trees by the Lake. For their coming and for the “Chapel Exercises out of doors,” a new and permanent earth stage is being constructed.

Out of Door Recitations. By means of some hundreds of folding chairs, large classes are able to leave the recitation rooms and carry the chairs to and fro with them, to seat themselves under the shade trees for such exercises as may be profitably and healthfully conducted out of doors. These out of door practices apply both to Normal School and Practice School classes.

The out of door classes of the Practice School last summer were a happy solution of numerous difficulties. The kindergarten, the eight grades and the high school class of the Practice Department will continue their exercises by the usual working program until June 28th.

The Vacation School. July 1st the “Vacation School” will again be organized. The regular attendance, fine spirit and enthusiastic interest in the scheme last year by both children and normal school students furnished ample evidences of the success and value of the scheme.

The program of the Vacation School consists in general of the following activities: story reading and story telling; music; drawing; cooking; organized play; activities in the manners, customs, and industries of both past and contemporary peoples; dramatization of literature; school gardening; sewing; knitting, crocheting, and other forms of manual training.

Commemoration Days and School Festivals receive special attention. This is to give opportunity for expressions of joy and gratitude on the part of the children through the play festival and also to show educational values for the benefit of Normal School students. By observation of the great historical anniversaries occuring in summer time; by utilization of regular lessons in English, history, geography, music and physical education; through dramatization, tableau and operetta, the student teachers are able to see how the play spirit in their own communities may be satisfied and utilized and how programs for entertainments of the richest kind may be given.

Most of the work during the Vacation School will be conducted out of doors on account of fresh air, sunshine, and freedom for exercises.

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TEACHER 
B. P. Gentry 
T. Jennie Green 
J. S. Stokes 
Lewis, W. A. 
Rouse, J. E. 
Bray, W. J. 
Daugherty, L. S. 
Eugene Fair 
E. M. Violette 
John R. Murdock 
A. Otterson 
H. Clay Harvey 
Byron Cosby 
W. H. Ziegel



Room 
17B 
19B 
12C
12C 
4B 
5B 
15B 
M.H. 
9C 
9C 
2C 
21B 
20B 
21B 
20B 
21B 
12B 
16B 
14B



First Period. 7:00-7:55 
Ovid 19B 
Ger. 4 or 5 yr. 
Oriental Hist.
The Tchg. of Alg. 
Alg. 3 qr. 
Alg. 1 qr. 17B 



Second Period 7:55-8:50 
Virgil 1 qr. 
Lat. 2 qr. 
Adv. Rdg. 
Ger. 3 qr. 
Col. Phys. 2 qr. 
6 p. per qr. H. H. Sci. 
Qual. Anal. 
6 p. per qr. Ch. of H. H. Sci. 
Zool. 
H. H. Sci. 
Greek Hist. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pl. Geom. 1 qr. 
Trig. 1 qr. 


 
Third Period. 8:50-9:45 
Sallust 
Cae. 1 qr. 
Ger. 2 yr. 1 qr. 
Phys. Geog. 1 qr. 
M. T. W. F. Soil Mgt. 
Chem. 1 qr. 
Th. Chem. of Soils 
Zool. 
Roman Hist. 
Eur. Hist. 1 qr.
The Tchg.of Arith. 
Sol. Geom. 14B



Fourth Period. 10:15-11:05 
Lat. 1 qr. 
Cae. 3 qr. 
Ger. 2 qr. 
Col. Phys. 1 qr. 
Ph. Geog. Lab. 
T. W. Th. F. Rm. Crops 2 qr. 
M. Chem. of Farm Crops 
6 p. per qr. Farm Crops 2 qr. 
6p. per qr. Farm Crops 
The Tchg. of Hist. 
Am. Hist. 2 qr. 
Alg. 2 qr. 16B 
The Tchg. of Arith. 
Col. Alg. 1 qr. 


 
Fifth Period. 11:05-11:55
Cic. De Amieitia 
Ger. 1 qr. 
Electricity 
Phys. Geog. 2 qr. 
M. T. Th. F. San. Bac. 
6 p. per qr. H. H. Sci. 
M. T. Th. F. Dairying 
Chem. 2 qr. 
6 p. per qr. Ch. of H. H. Sci. W. San. Chem. 
W. Chem. of Dairying 
H. H. Sci. 
Am. C. H. 1 qr. 
Eng. Hist. 2 qr. 
Calc. 2 qr. 


 Sixth Period. 1:05-2:00 
Lat. 3 qr. 
Adv. Comp. 
Phys. Geog. Lab. 
M. T. Th. F. San. 
M. T. W. F. Soil Mgt. 
Th. Chem. of Soils 
Chem. 3 qr. 
W. Prin. of Physiol 
H. H. Arts 
Am. Hist. 3 qr. 
Eur. Hist. 2 qr. 
Civ. Gov. 2 qr. 16B 
Surveying in Field 
Analytics 2 qr.



Seventh Period 2:00-2:55 
The Tchg. of Lat. 
Pr. Sch. 
Phys. Geog. Lab. 
Phys. Geog. 1 qr. 
T. W. Th. F. Fm. Crops 1 qr. 
6 p. per qr. Prin. of Bdg. 
M. Chem of Farm Crops 
Prin. Breeding 
6 p. per qr. Fm. Crops 
Eng. Hist. 1 qr. 
Am. H. 1 qr. 
Surveying in Field 
Col. Alg. 2 qr. 


 
Eighth Period. 3:00-4:00 
Phys. Geog. 1 qr. 
W. Dom. Animals 
Org. Chem. 
M. T. Th. F. Dom. Animals 
6 p. per qr. Dom. Animals 
Med. Hist. 1 qr. 
Civ. Gov. Adv. 
Trig 2 qr. 
 
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A. P. Settle 
Goldy Hamilton 
E. R. Barrett 
Minnie Brashear 
Warren M. Jones 
D. R. Gebhart 
Coral G. Sykes 
C. D. & S. 
J. L. Biggerstaff 
C. B. Simmons 
Leota L. Dockery 
A. D. Towne 
Grace Lyle 
O. A. Parrish 
Lula Crecelius 
Helen Gray 
Meta Gill 
A. B. Warner 
H. W. Foght 
Susie Barnes 
Eudora H. Savage 
Laurie Doolittle 
Idella R. Berry 
Harriet Howard 
Marie T. Harvey 
Ada Cochran 
E. H. Salisbury 


 
23C 
26C 
25C 
27C 
14C 
15C 
15C 
16C 
2A 
33A 
M. H.  
29C 
33C 
33C 
33C 
27B 
27B 
25B 
26B 
25A 
33B 
33B 



Eng. Lit. 1 qr. 
Play in Ed. 
Gym. 1 qr. 
Art 3 qr. 
Dr. 1 qr. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Hist. Ed. 2 qr. 
*Ru. Ec. & Soc. 


 
Am. Lit. 1 qr. 
Lit. 2 qr. 
Lit. 3 qr. 
Voc. Mus. 2 qr. 
Form 1 & 2 
Gym. 1 qr. 
Gym. Adv. 
M. Tr. 
Sketch Class 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
El. Psych. 
Ru. Sch. Mgt. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
H. Sch. Eng. 
 

 
Gr. & Comp. 3 qr. 
Rhet. 1 qr. 
18 C. Prose 26C 
M. for Grds. 1-4 
Harmony 1 & 2 qr. 
Play Supervision 
Play Supervision 
M. Tr. 
Dr. 1 qr. 
Art. Hist. 1 qr. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Prin. Teach 25B
Hist. Ed. 1 qr. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. (Kgn.) 
Ru. Sch. 
H. Sch. Math. 


 
Rhet 2 qr. 
Lit. 3 qr.
M. for Grds 5 & 6 
Voc. Mus. 3 qr. 
Reading 
M. Tr. 
Art. Hist. 2 qr. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Sch. Admin 
Ru. Life Probs. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. (Kgn.) 
Ru. Sch. 
H. Sch. Hist. 
 

 
Rhet. 3 qr. 
19 C. Lit. 
Gr.&C. 2 qr.25C 
Voc. Mus. 1 qr. 
Ctpt. 1 & 2 qr. 
Reading 
Mech. Dr. & Pr. Sch 
Lib. Instruction 
Lib. 
Lib. 
School Economy 
Ru. Meth. & Obs. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. (Kgn.) 
Ru. Sch. 


 
Shakespeare 
Gr. & Comp. 3 qr. 
Gr. & Comp. 2 qr.27C 
Bigo. & Hist. 
Inst. & Orch. 
M. Tr. China Ptg. 
Dr. 1 qr. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Ru. Sch.
H. Sch. Mus. 
 

 
The Tchg. of Eng. 
Lit. 1 qr. 
Adv. Comp. 27C 
Harmony 3 qr. 
Tennis 
Forge Wk. M. Tr. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
High Sch. Probs. 
Pr. Sch. 
Pr. Sch. 
Hand Work 
Pr. Sch. 
Ru. Sch. 
 

 
The Tchg. of Eng. 
Teachers' Special 
Tennis & B. B.  
Dr. 2 qr. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Lib. 
Science Education 

Orchestra Practice, 1 p. per wk. * LIBRARY HOURS:—School Days, 7:30 to 12 and 1 to 5, Saturdays 9 to 12 and 1 to 4. Heads of Departments and several others help one or more hours each in Pr. Sch. Daily. Chorus Rehearsal 1 p. per wk. Tues., 6:45-7:45, Play Hour for Men and Women. 
*"Rural Economics and Sociology" includes Rural Administration and Supervision. This is the Course for County Superintendents 
The Vacation School for children will open July 1. 
  
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"Approved Grades." The announcement of the State Board of Education is that 
"A student may receive two credits towards a teacher's certificate if he attends 45 days, and may receive three credits if in actual attendence 60 days, provided that he has in that time completed the work for which he is credited. He may receive four credits towards a certificate provided one is a pedagogy for county certificate, and provided further that he in continuing and completing work for which was previously begun in the same school, and has been a student in the same school for 100 days during the spring and summer terms of 1912, and is pursuing only subjects previously studied in the school."  

It is evident, therefore, that a majority of those summer term students desiring such credits on county certificates will, on account of not being present in the spring term, be able to receive credit for three academic subjects, and three only, i. e., subjects requiring preparation, such as literature, mathematics, science, etc. But the student pursing three studies for such credits may have one or two exercises not requiring preparation, such as, vocal music, drawing, reading, manual training, physical education, pottery, etc. For the exercises or drill subjects as well as the studies he will receive permanent credit in the records of the institution. 

Expenses. The incidental fee is $7.00 for those entering for the first time within a period of twelve months; $6.00 for those who within twelve months have paid a first enrollment fee. Room and board costs from $3.25 to $4.50 per week in private families; books, at usual rates. Average cost of all books and stationery is believed to be from $4.00 to $5.00 per student. 

For further information, 
Address 
JOHN R. KIRK, President.  

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