Weekly Messenger - 1917 October 6

              Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XVIII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1917 NO. 2
FACULTY AND STUDENTS
VISIT THE LYNDEN FAIR
We are sure that Miss Ormsby, Miss
Keeler, Dr. Herre, Mr. Coughlin, Mr.
Chute, and students of the agriculture
and boys' and girls' clubs classes en­joyed
their trip to the Lynden fair last
week. Miss Ormsby and Mr. Chute spent
a couple of days out there, Miss Ormsby
acting as judge of the canned goods
and all things pertaining to cooking,
•while Mr. Chute was judge for. the de­partment
of manual training. The fol­lowing
is an account of . the trip writ­ten
by Miss Clara Locke:
The Lynden. Fair.
On Friday, September 28th, our ag­riculture,
class attended the Lynden
fair. About thirty - students, Mr.
Coughlin and Miss Keeler, left Eden's
hall at 9:40 a. m. in auto busses. The
day was pleasant and the highway fine.
Each farm passed had a good-looking
garden and occasionally a small field
of corn. Only one large field was passed,
which was of oats. The oats were being
baled and stacked right in the field. A
great drove of cattle were browsing
on the stubble.
Mr. Heed's poultry farm, which is one
of the most scientific and up-to-date
farms in the Northwest, was passed.
.The exhibits at the fair were very
good but there was much room for im­provement
in the arrangement of speci­mens.
There were three buildings of grade
exhibits. Nearly every department of
school work was represented, but par­ticularly
art, sewing, cooking, manual
training and agriculture. The latter
was of course the most interesting to
us. Mr. Coughlin gave us interesting
talks on the different vegetables as we
went along. The peanut plant, with its
clover-like leaf and the black Italian
potato, were very interesting.
A potato judging contest for grade
and high school boys was held just be­fore
noon. Two boys from one school
constituted a team. Mr. Carroll, the
county agriculturist, gave a talk on
judging potatoes just before the con­test.
He explained how the characteris­tics
of the variety of potato must be
taken into account in judging. For ex­ample,
the rough skin of the russet po­tato
would not count off as it is a
characteristic of that variety, etc. The
points on which an exhibit is judged
are the uniformity of specimens, the
smoothness of skin, texture of flesh,
depth of eyes, freedom from blemishes,
and color.
In the adult exhibit building was
nearly every variety of vegetable.
There was the usual array of corn­stalks
from ten to sixteen feet high,
and startlingly enormous squashes,
pumpkins, mangle beets, also the white
sugar beet and a new variety of cu­cumber,
dark green in color, small in
diameter and about two feet long.
The fruit .exhibit was fine. Among the
dried fruits were blackberries, straw­berries,
raspberries, currants, cherries,
apples, peaches, prunes, apricots, and
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Professor Miller Publishes
Splendid New Text Book
DR. ERVTNG E. MILLER
Professor Miller, author of "The
Psychology of Thinking," which was
published in 1909, is now putting out
his second book, "Education for the
Needs of Life." It is one of the "Home
and School Series" of the MacMillan
Publishing Company and is edited by
Professor Paul Monroe at Teachers'
College, Columbia University. The book
is beautifully gotten up, being printed
in large type on a relatively small page
with most attractive print. There are
six chapters as follows:'
1. The Biological Point of View in
Education.
2. The Meaning and Aim of Educa­tion.
3. The Child.
4. The Curriculum.
5. The Principles of Method.
6. The Teacher.
In the discussion of these topics the
question is raised as to what are the
needs of life in the development of
growing children and how these needs
are to be met.
Miss Morse will use this book in
education, six classes. The sociological
principles of education will then be an
active course.
Are You Doing Your Bit?
NEW DIRECTORY COMING.
The Student Directory, containing the
names, phone numbers, local and home
addresses of teachers and pupils, is be­ing
compiled and will probably be out
before November 1st. Get your cor­rect
address in now for this is the only
directory gotten out during the year.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
We are all anxious for improvements
in our school. A great change has re­cently
taken place in the Department
of Chemistry, which greatly interests
students of. that branch of work. The
old sinks, which formerly occupied the
space at the sides of the room and the
old tables have been replaced by mod­ern
tables. Instead of having to leave
their work to empty water, etc., into
the sinks, now students have the con­venience
of emptying it into the water
troughs set into the back of the tables,
from whence the water flows through
pipes inside of the tables and is drained
away through the sewer. In the back
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IMPORTANT.
Office hours school nurse—
9:30 to 12 A. M.
3:00 to 5:00 P. M.
All illness excuses are signed
during these hours.
The hours of 1:00 to 3:00 are
visiting hours. Please report stu­dents
who are ill in the morning
so that the nurse may call on
them during her visiting hours.
CALENDAR
MONDAY—
S:50—Assembly. Miss Keeler will
speak. - . .
9:40—Club meetings.
Student council meets divided asseni-biy.
TUESDAY—
10:30—Assembly. Musical program
under direction of Mrs. Thatcher.
Primary election foi< representative
to Student Board of Control. ._,,.,...
4:10—Adjourned regular meeting .of
faculty. Rooms 120.
WEDNESDAY—
12:55—Choral.
THURSDAY—
2:35—Assembly.
Motion pictures.
Mr. Bever will speak on current
events.
3:25—Board of Control meets.
FRIDAY—
8:00—Teachers' meeting.
Are You Doing Your Bit?
Dr. Nash told the students in- the
assembly Tuesday morning of his trip
on Monday to Olympia, where he at­tended
the first meeting of. the "Board
of Higher Curricula." This board has
been established this year by our state
legislature in order that representatives
from our higher institutions may or­ganize
to make their work more effi­cient.
The board consists of nine mem­bers—
Dr. Henry Suzzalo, president of
the State University and two regents
from that school, Dr. Holland, presi­dent
of the State College and two
Pullman regents and the president of
one of the three normal schools and
a trustee from each of the two normal
schools not represented. Mr. Showal-ter,
of Cheney, was elected by the
presidents of the other two normal
schools, as the normal president of this
board, while Mr. Lucas represented El-lcnsburg
and Mr. Thomas Smith, Bell-ingham.
Mr. Black, president of the
Ellensburg normal and Dr. Nash were
invited to attend and were made virtual
members of the board.
The meeting was held Monday morn­ing
in the governor's office and the
organization of the board was complet­ed.
Mr. Showalter, of Cheney, was elect­ed
president and Mr. Thomas Smith,
one of the trustees of this institution,
secretary.
Plans were suggested for a more uni­form
method of counting and registering
students and system for checking on
the same basis was discussed. It is
hoped that this board will be the means
of promoting a better spirit between
the schools, and of establishing a more
perfect harmony, so that all may work
together to conserve strength and to
minister more efficiently to the needs
of the state.