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VOL. I WINONA, MINNESOTA, APRIL 6, 1923 NO. 8 CONCERT COURSE WE HAVE A POLICY SIOUX CITY BECOMES The editors of the Winonan have a policy. FINALE, A MUSIC TREAT WE STAND for the best in the Winona State Teachers College. WINONANIZED The last number in the Concert Course will WE BELIEVE in humor, clean, good humor, During the vacation Professor Burton of the be given on the evening of April ninth at Ma- the best humor that the students can send. We Training School, went to Sioux City, Iowa, to sonic Temple. believe that there should be close cooperation take part in the meeting of the Northwest Divi- The Artists are Gladys Swarthout, soprano, between students and faculty through a better sion of the Iowa State Teachers Association, and Bogumil Sykora, cellist, and Agnes Blafka, ac- understanding of our common problems. while there met a number of former graduates. companist. The following program will be WE BELIEVE that there should be a co- Among those now teaching in Sioux City or given: operation between the editing staff and the nearby are Clarence Benz, Esther Groth, Miss I. English department,—to the end that the col- Pearson, Anna Soya and Avis Hyslop. All Pieta, Signore Stradella lege paper may represent the best literary ability. these students except Miss Groth who graduated Jeunes fillettes (Bergerettes of 18th Chantons WE DO NOT BELIEVE in a two-man, a this year were anxious to know of the plans for les amours de Jean Century) Wekerlin four-man, an eight-man paper. We want it to the new building and to hear how the school was Miss Swarthout reflect the entire student body. We want to able to hold forth since the fire. Many greet- II. hear suggestions as to policy, ideas, and develop- ings were sent to faculty members past and Concerto in A Minor Volkmann ment. Our aim, our ambition, our goal is that present, those specifically mentioned being Miss Mr. Sykora the Winonan shall reflect the college at all times Agnes Loughlin, Miss Lillian Miller, Mr. Everts, III. and from all angles. Mr. Goddard, Miss Deborah Smith and Miss Connais-tu le pays, from "Mignon" _ _ _ _Thomas Let us pull together, remembering that noth- Catherine Burkholder. Miss Swarthout ing goes of itself, and that our opportunity in Mr. Burton appeared four times on the pro- IV. the Winonan is our responsibility and duty. gram, twice before section meetings, once on Ballade in G Minor Chopin VIII. the general program and at the Superintendents Miss Blafka Bird Song from "Shanewis" Cadman Banquet. The meetings were well attended V. Just for This Humphrey Mitchell and Mr. Burton reports hearing some excellent Aria Lotti Thank God for a Garden Del Riego papers and discussions. German Dance Mozart Miss Swarthout This meeting which corresponds to our S. E. Mr. Sykora This concert should prove an exceptionally M. E. A. recently held is unusually large and VI. fine one with which to end the season. It is has to be divided into two sections, one meeting In the Silent Night Rachmainoff possible only because these artists are return- at Fort Dodge and the other at Sioux City. There A Rainy Day Robert Yale Smith ing from several engagements farther north were about 1700 teachers in attendance at the Charity Richard Hageman and happen to have an open date on Monday. latter place. A Dream Grieg Mr. Sykora is a Russian. After filling many her charming personality. Miss Swarthout important engagements in Germany and Berlin While in Winona Miss Swarthout will be VII. he started on a tour of the Far East. His suc- entertained at the home of Mrs. C. L. Elliott. A Tear Moussorgsky cess here was tremendous. The Musical Cour- Miss Swarthout and Mrs. Elliott studied music Variations Sykora ier for April 21, 1921 says—"The first who really under the same teacher. Mr. Sykora won the hearts of the Japanese was Bogumil It is hoped that the students will urge all Sykora, and now other musicians are coming to their friends to attend this concert. Japan. Sykora has opened the door for artists like Misha Elman and Shumann-Heink." The New York critics were very enthusiastic on his first appearance in that city. The New York Evening Post says, "He is an artist of unusual gifts." The New York Evening Globe says, "He possesses exceptional singing, volum- inous and sweet tone and technically he is probably without a peer in the world today." We would be fortunate to have him appear here alone but since Miss Swarthout is with him we are doubly fortunate. Miss Swarthout has appeared with the Min- neapolis Symphony Orchestra four times, the last in December. The Minneapolis Tribune says of her—"It is not the rule of the orchestral management to bring the same soloist to par- ticipate in these concerts in successive years; but, in the case of Gladys Swarthout, there was ample justification for so doing." Miss Swarth- out appeared in concert at Decatur, Illinois on the seventh of March. Her press notices were BOGUMIL SYKORA very enthusiastic praising her singing and also GLADY§ SWARTHOUT THE WINONAN

THE WINONAN ADVANTAGES OF "DORM LIFE" who died at her home on Friday, March 30. Girls! If you do not come to Teachers Col- She left college a fortnight since, troubled with OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE lege for anything else, come for dormitory life. what seemed to be an eye infection. The Mayo WINONA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Here• you learn to appreciate your neighbor. Clinic, however, discovered what was an absces- FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1923. You can't get homesick. We sleep by bells, sed optic nerve, a very dangerous malady, which William Ott Editor-in-Chief eat by bells, and study by bells, so one need not even with recovery leaves results in blindness Orville Risser Assistant Editor worry about being late. There is student and sometimes insanity. Miss Johnson was a Avery Barr Business Manager government; during study hours it is so quiet member of the junior rural division, had earned Clara Kornek Dormitories Lillian O'Dell Pewee Section that one can hear a pin drop. This you do not very commendable records, including her period Dorothy Magnus Feature News have in a private home. You meet many girls of practice teaching in the schools of Gilmore Emma Kolstad Organizations and General News of different types and broaden your knowledge Valley and Pleasant Valley, where her work was Huldab Henning Main Building in a thousand different ways. Come and you appreciated both by the patrons and the pupils Sherman Mitchell Men's Athletics Robert Sonneman Exchanges will never forget the happy associations of dorm- of the schools. Marion Bagley Women's Athletics itory life. Miss Pearle Mallory visited the University of Helen Deterling Special Assignments Illinois and the Charleston State Normal School Mail subscriptions 51. 00 per school year or 50c per on. Monday and Tuesday of the current week. term. THE NATURE STUDY CLASS The study of birds has been of special interest The first election, so far as recorded, for the OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST to the Nature Study class at this time. The seniors for this spring is that of Miss Clara Many of our out-of-town subscribers are not time of the arrival of our summer resident birds Miller, who goes to Buffalo Lake. Calls for receiving THE WINONAN as our list of sub- has not been varied particularly by the irregular teachers, however, are coming so rapidly that scribers was consumed in the fire. We urge all temperatures of weather we have had during elections will no doubt take place very rapidly. who can aid us in making a new accurate list of March; consequently, the nature observers The fine reproductions of paintings from the out-of-town subscribers, to communicate at once have had the opportunity to study the appear- Congressional Library at Washington have been with out business manager, Avery Barr. ance and habits of the birds. repaired and rehung in the library. Aside from Besides class study and reports of individual the breaking of the glass, these pictures were ART DEPARTMENT observation, it has been planned that field not seriously injured, although they hung on the At the beginning of the new term Mrs. T. M. trips by the entire class will be taken. Miss walls where burning and falling timbers and Cassidy took charge of the college art depart- Christensen promises these trips shall be taken streams of water threatened their destruction. ment. Miss Bertha Speckman, who taught all at sunrise, the time of day at which the activi- The Winonan is informed that the variety of of Miss Ida Chamber's classes last term has ties of the birds are highest. These trips are electric fixtures, indirect, semi direct, and direct, gone back to her work in the training school. being looked forward to as a great help in the which were hanging in various parts of the li- The Drawing 2 class of twelve students, near- study of appearance of birds and in getting ac- brary building, is not the beginning of the new ly all of whom are specializing in the subject, quainted with their habits. equipment there, but simply a set of sample lights has been enjoying the work with Mrs. Cassidy. submitted by four different electric firms, who Part of the class time has been spent in making have offered bids from $800.00 to $1000.00 for three minute sketches of action poses from life. NOTES AND PERSONALS re-equipping the building. Most of the students have never done any It is expected that Honorable Frank S. Regan, The third fire at the Main Street Church since sketching from life and they have all been com- a lawyer, cartoonist and chalk talker, who has it was occupied as the office building of the col- paring drawings with enthusiasm. Other in- spent a good many years on the lyceum plat- lege took place during our vacation on the fore- teresting work has been the enlarging of photo- form, and who is a student of taxation, will noon of March 21. If these fires were not graphs and snapshots, work also new to most of speak at the General Assembly on next Monday started on the sloping roof of the building, we the students. Many of them have made ex- morning. He comes to Winona as a member would declare that they were "incendiary." It cellent drawings. of the "Flying Squadron," who are urging bet- is hoped that before the college abandons this The Drawing 1 classes have also been study- ter law enforcement. building most of the roof can be replaced in this ing color and have already exhausted whole Dr. Emanual Sternheim, a Jewish rabbi, well manner, the expense to be borne by the insurance boxes of color. known as a speaker and student, will speak at companies. A great amount of work is necessary in Draw- La Crosse on Saturday of this week, and efforts The office of the "Wenonah" has been trans- ing 1. It is hoped that students while in the have been made to secure him for a brief ad- ferred to the Main Street Church, south base- college will take more than one term of art work. dress to the college for Tuesday morning. To ment room. The editors were active through- There is a demand for good teachers of art, while his natural gifts as a speaker, he has added the out the vacation period, and reports promise a commercial art work is no less pleasant and training of a splendid English and European very fine edition. profitable. education and the advantage of social work in In the absence of Mr. R. R. Reed, whose seri- several American cities. ous illness we all sincerely regret, the college has THE COMMISSIONER APPRECIATES Miss Grace Kemp, teacher of the Homer school secured for work in English, Miss Clara Grant, WINONA was called home, March 22, by the illness of her a former teacher in Northwestern, and Miss The following letter will interest the members grandmother. Mina Venables and Florence Mildred Ward, a graduate of Mount Holyoke, of the college: Holt are very efficiently taking charge of the whose experience as a teacher has been in the Dear President Maxwell: school. Word has reached us that Miss Kemp's field of English. I arrived in Washington last night after a grandmother and aunt passed away last week. very pleasant and successful trip to Minnesota. A fine new Burroughs Adding Machine, cost- As my mind recurs to the many pleasant occur- Mr. W. L. Harris, who proposed the Minne- ing three hundred dollars and providing for the rences during the trip, the visit to your insti- sota Junior College Conference, and Mr. Everts, maximum sum of $9,999,999.09, has been added tution and the dinner with the Rural Life Club who has heartily supported the movement, to the office equipment. It runs by electric stand out conspicuously. I wish to thank you took part in the organization of the "Confer- power and is probably designed to keep account and your colleagues and your splendid students ence" in Minneapolis last Thursday. There of the text book sales which will of course run for your hospitality and kindness to me. It was will be some ten institutions, five in the south somewhat less than a million. indeed a great satisfaction and opoprunity and five in the north, who will cooperate in the New blackboards, painted on the "compo" which I had to come in contact with the mem- interests of athletics and other junior college boards partition in the Main Street Church, bers of your fine institution. activities. give the two auditorium rooms, the east room Cordially yours, The entire college is saddened by the report and the west room, a real schoolroom ap- JNO. J. TIGERT, Commissioner. of the unexpected death of Miss Alice Johnson, pearance. THE WINONAN

BUILDING PROGRESSES THE KING IS DEAD The high school teacher training departments COLLEGE HALL LONG LIVE THE KING now graduate about 1200 students each year, all The plans for "College Hall" which have been In awe we watched our college burn, for we of whom enter the rural schools. •The teachers completed sound good to us. The new building felt that our dearest and closest friend was being colleges are annually awarding about 500 first is to have three floors all of which are to be taken away from us. With what grief we saw class rural certificates for the completion of the above ground. In the front central portion of the walls crumble and crash to the ground. junior year. In addition to these, the teachers the building there is to be an auditorium with a How much a college building means to us we did colleges each summer are helping 2500 rural sloping floor and good sized stage and just be- not realize until we saw it taken from us. Would teachers. This total is quite sufficient at pres- hind it a large gymnasium. The school offices we not have given much to have it back?—not ent to meet the annual demand for new teachers will be on second floor. The halls will be wide so much for its material values as for the spiritual in rural schools. and go all the way around the building and effect which this grand old building imposed upon Even if more normal schools are needed in the there will be sufficient stairways so that all the us. state there is serious question as to whether the classrooms will be easily accessible and "jams" Our new building is to be erected on the ashes three places named are the suitable locations. unheard of. Won't we be proud of such a home of one of the oldest normal schools. Why shall The adding of teacher training facilities to the for our Alma Mater. we not Watch with intense interest the erection three schools named will tend to reduce or limit of this new building—watch it with almost the the adequate support of the present six state same interest as does a father his growing son. teachers colleges. THE NEW COLLEGE HALL Is not this new building a big promise for the For these and other reasons the Winonan be- While seven state buildings have for several future education of our state? It is we of the lieves that S. F. No. 774 should be promptly de- years been in use by the college, the original or next few years that have a great task before us. feated. This bill was originally introduced in main building was nearly as large as all the A new building! Ah, every heart should the House and was there killed, but its friends others combined, and it was the center of college have sought to revive it by its introduction in activities. Out of the ashes of the "old main" throb when the time comes that the old and the Senate. will arise the new "College Hall," built at a cost new students shall gather for the assembly in of over half a million. the new auditorium. It will be a holy and TEACHING, A PROFESSION Here in "College Hall" will be housed the of- sacred assembly of co-workers. We should be The professionalizing of all teachers of Amer- fices, the auditorium for 1000, the college gym- proud of every line that is put in to the new ican public schools promises to become a reality nasium, the laboratories, class rooms, shops and home and it is we students of today who are in the near future. The State of Washington studios for all departments, all provided with to establish the standards for the new home. has just enacted a law fixing the minimum the best equipment to be found. The building training beyond high school with which a person will be fireproof and will conform to all modern A BAD BILL is eligible to take the teachers' examinations at standards of sunlight, fresh air, sanitation, A bill has been introduced at St. Paul as S. F. twelve weeks for the present year. For the cleanliness, and convenience. No. 774, which proposes to establish teacher year 1924 the requirement will be twenty-four The corner stone of the original state owned training departments in the three Agricultural weeks; in 1915, no person may teach who has building at Winona was laid by Governor Mar- Schools at St. Anthony Park, Crookston, and not had thirty-six weeks of training; and after shall on October 19, 1866, with elaborate cere- Morris, and provides that the graduates shall January, 1926, no one may teach in the State of monies. While the new building will be well receive first grade certificates. Washington who has not completed two years of under way by commencement day, 1923, it is This bill is not in the interest of better pre- professional training. If Washington can make proposed to lay the new corner stone at that pared teachers. In the first place these schools good on this standard, she will anticipate by one time, with exercises befitting so great an event. are in session but six months in the year. Their year a similar standard which was adopted in What more deserving cause for the public course is three years in length for eighth grade the much larger state of Pennsylvania some two expenditure of so great a sum as a half-million graduates. It would be unfortunate to require years ago. can be found than the cause of elementary high school gradutes to attend a teachers col- Minnesota with her present twelve weeks of education? There is none, for to grow American lege for one year, or a high school teachers professional training as prerequisite for the first boys and girls into high-minded citizens is the training department for one year, that is forty- class certificate must very promptly add to this most fundamental and indispensable enterprise five months beyond the eighth grade, in order to requirement. Most states are quite too fearful supported by the state. That is the cause to secure the same certificate which could be ob- in their attitude in this matter, for wherever an which "thoroughgoing, willing, and practical tained in an agricultural school in eighteen adequate standard has been set there has been devotion" the Teachers College gives itself. months. no delay, and no scarcity of applicants, in meet- ing the standard. Some ten years since, when the elementary diploma was eliminated from this college, there was no perceptible falling off in attendance. Apparently any state can have the kind of teachers it wants.

A MINNESOTAN HONORED Miss Ada Cumstock, just elected president of Radcliffe College is the daughter of former resi- dent director Cumstock of Moorhead. She was the dean of women in the University of Minnesota before accepting the same position in 1912 at Smith College.

An interesting letter from Dr. Nimocks, Physician at the Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota, reports that they have had an epidemic of flu there lately. As the institution combines an agricultural college, normal school, and a preparatory department, there is a much wider range in the ages of students than we have, with double the enrollment. Dr. Nimocks likes DECEMBER 3, 1922 the college and is kept constantly busy.

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