1918 January catalog for Nebraska State Normal School

Vol. IV

· Jaa\lary 1918

No.I

Nebraska State Normal School .PERU, NEBRASKA 1918

Quarterly Bulletin ANNOUNCING

Special Emergency Courses AND

Summer School SUMMER SCHOOL BEGINS JUNE 3 1918

Peru Now Grants the Degree A. B. to Those Completing the Four Year .: J 1 f.• · ESTABLISHED 1867 Entered as Second Class Matter July I, 1915, at the Postofficc at Peru, Nebraska, under act of Aug. 24, 1912

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1918~19

Second Semester begins January 28, 1918.

Second Term Short Courses, including Wireless (Preparing men for Radio and Buzzer in the Signal Service), Jan. 28, 1918.

Forty-eighth Annual Commencement cises, May 29, 1918.

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Summer school begins June 3, 1918.

Fall Semester begins September 9, 1918.

Education is the chief bulwark of Democracy

Do not merely do your bit; do your best. Prepare for educational leadership by zealously training yourself while there is opportunity.

OUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU TUITION IS FREE IN PERU

C)iJ t Qountrp'~ Qan PERU 'S RESPONSE Scarcely had the call gone forth from the national headquarters announcing the country's call of men willing to sacrifice themselves if n eed be in the defense of national honor, when scor es of men . then in attendance and hundreds of alumni and former students promptly responded. Today many of these are occupying positions of trust and honor with the fighting forces in France and in the various cantonments throughout the United States. Nor were the m n alone in h eeding the call. Hundreds of women are giving unstintingly and unselfishly in numerous ways as opportunities afford. Many there are left who are trying scarcely less selfishly to share in patriotic service.

The spirit of service pervading faculty and studen ts alike found an opportu11ity for expression when the call came for funds for the Army Y. M. 0 . A. At a single chapel period, with quiet dignity but with patriotic fervor, two thousand four hundred dollars was pledged. To this sum should be added hundreds of dollars given as free will offering on various occasions for the Red Cross, Armenian R elief, investing in Liberty Bonds, and other patriotic enterprises. Hundreds of girls including the faculty women, are knitting and sewing for the enlist ed men, all contributing their bit toward the winning of the war.

Aside from all this the school officials, for eseeing the heavy inroads that the war would inevitably make on the number of men preparing for educational positions, set about making plans to counteract as far as possible the effect on the educational interests of the state. As a result, P eru has been and now is this year reaching more people than ever before in any other single year of its history. This widening of Peru's sphere of influence has been accomplished through the organization of study centers which are now in successful operation in a majority of the counties of southeast Nebraska; by correspondence courses open to any t eacher of the state; by conducting courses in the different lines of Manual Arts for conscripted men. One of the most successful undertakings in this line has been the Radio and Buzzer Service courses in which a large number of conscripted men are enrolled. This cooperation with the Federal Government will soon be ext ended to include a large number of courses. They will include the training of men and women for t elegraphy, radio and buzzer positions in the Signal Service, automobile mechanics, gas welders, draftsmen, bookkeepers, stenographers, typewriters ai1d accountants.

More than :five hundred resident students have been enrolled up to the present time, in addition to an equal number that have been taught through the Ext ension Department. This in the face of the fact that enrollments have decreased from twenty to sixty percent in a large number of colleges and normal schools throughout the United States.

P eru takes a pardonable pride in the f act that she has embraced the opportunities offered by the worldwide conflict an d has added t o her value of service.

Men and women interest ed in preparing for Government service in any of the lines which ar e offered at P eru should communicate with the Registrar in order to secure det ail.e d information concerning the courses in which they ar e most inter est ed an d for which they ar e best adapted.

GENERAL INFORMATION Th~ Second Semester will begin January 28. At this time students will find a large number of beginning classes, especially in all of the war emer gency courses as well as in the subjects leading to all th e grades of county, city, state and professional certificat es, the normal school diploma, and the degree Bachelor of Arts in E ducation.

SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS Never J1as the state of Nebraska felt so keenly the shortage of thoroughly trained teachers. Young men and women in selecting a vocation should con sider very thoughtfully the gr eat opportunities for service in the field of education. They should see a patriotic duty in preparing fo r educational leadership not only during the p eriod of the war but more especially during the period of r econstruction which ¡will follow. No thoughtful person doubts that brains will be in greater demand than brawn in the reconstructive perio-d. The p resent tendencies poin t to the fac t that salaries will increase in propor tion to the demands.

WAR EMERGENCY COURSES

While a number of the following courses are offered regularly each semester and summer school, they are now modified to meet the urgent needs of the hour. In some of these courses the work is being presented by teachers paid by the Federal Government as emergency war courses, while others are carried on under the direction of regular faculty members.

RADIO AND BUZZER WORK: This course is being maintained at the special request of the United States Government and is intended to train men for the Signal Service of the Army. The International Code is used and each student is required to receive and send at least twenty words a minute. One hour a day is given to special demonstrations and lectures on wireless instruments and their practical use in the army service.

Upon completion of the course a certificate of proficiency is issued by authority of the Government and is accepted at full value at the recruiting office or the regular cantonment. Signal Service men are ranked as non-commissioned officers with pay from $36.00 to $81.00 a month. The average length of time for this course is two hundred hours of actual practice. This means intensive work for 30 to 60 days.

GAS WELDING : The practical application of the Oxy-Acetylene welding process to mechanics. The theory of this type of welding and cutting is first taken up after which each student is given practical work in the handling of the gauges and torch. Exercises are given I

in welding cast iron, steel, aluminum and bronze as well as brazing all metals.

AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS : The object of this course is to turn out expert automobile r epair-m en and drivers. The theory of internal combustion engines is taken up in class work together with actual demonstrations. Special attention is given to carburetion, ignition, cooling, oiling, starting and lighting systems, etc.

Actual shop work, r epairing and driving will occupy about two-thirds of the time.

TELEGRAPHY: This is to prepare for actual work as an operator using the Morse Code with the r egulation sounder instead of the buzzer. Especially for those not in the draft who would like to prepare for some of the positions left open by men of the draft.

DRAFTING: The experimental use of all drafting tools together with the theory of mechanical representation. The complete blueprint with specifications ready for the shop is made by each student. This course is to prepare students for the r egular commercial drafting room or for service with the Government.

COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS

The Government is urging young people to take up immediately the study of commercial subjects in exactly the same spirit that has prompted them to attend classes in First Aid, H ome Diet etics, or for other benevolen t purposes.

The supply of those trained for st enographic and clerical work has alr eady been exhausted. Men and

women who have a good fo undation in English can secure the r equisite training in a very short time. Typewriter operators are also in demand. Commercial teaching positions which pay excellent salaries have been left vacant with very few available to tak e their places.

The Peru Commer cial Department is putting forth an extra effort to m eet these emergencies. The instruction is entirely free, while only a nominal charge is made for typewriter r ental.

Among the subj ects offered in the Commercial Depar tment are Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Correspondence, Typewriting, P enmanship, Accountancy, Business English, Commercial Law, Commercial Arithmetic, Orthography. Students registering in this department may take advantage of elective work in other departments wher ev er they are not barred by prerequisites.

SEED CORN TESTING The Agricultural Department in a ddition to offering practical work in Animal Husban dry, Vegetable Gardening, Horticulture, and Soils, is devoting much of its efforts just now to th e testing of seed corn in Nemaha and adjoining counties. This work is being undertaken in cooperation with the State Count3il of Defense . It is h oped that through the testing of seed corn in southeast Nebraska, which is known as one of the gr eatest corn producing sections in the Unit ed St at es, that the yield of corn for .1918 will be greatly incr eased. Those desiring t o have seed corn t est ed fo r per centage of germination s~10 uld sen d six k ernels from each of 100 r ep-

resentative ears, mailing them by parcel post to the Department of Agriculture, enclosing the name and address of the sender. A report of the t est will be made as soon as it is completed. The Department recommends that an ear test be made for every ear to be used as seed.

Direotions for making this test will be given to those making application.

NEW COURSES FOR RURAL TEACHERS The war condition m akes it more imperative than ever that provision should be made for supplying teachers for the rural schools. The Nebraska Legislature of 1917 enacted a law which authorized and directed the organization of two new courses for rural t eachers in the normal schools, with a special view t o preparing young people who have sufficient maturity an d knowledge of country conditions from actual experience so that they may go back into the country prepared t o render efficient and valuable service. For this purpose students who enter the rural elementary course must be at least sixteen years of age and must have completed the eighth grade or its equivalent. Upon completion of two years of work as designated by the law, an elementary rural state certificate, valid for three years in any county in N cbr aska, is issued by the normal school.

The advanced rural course is open to students who have completed either the elementary course or the tenth grade of an accredited high school or its equivalent. '11his is likewise a hvo year course. Those who complet e it will without state examin ations be given a first

grade rural state certificate valid for three years in any county of th e state. It will qualify the teacher to t each in any rural or smaller town or village school in the state. After thn~ o years of successful t•:!achi:ng it can be con verted into a rural state certificate good for life. Detailed courses will be sent to those inter ested.

THE PERU SUMMER SCHOOL The summer school at P eru for 1918 will begin June 3, and continue eight week s, closing July 2G . Complet e ca talog including a detailed statement of the summer school courses will be issued on March fir st and will be mailed to those r equesting it. In addi1,ion t o the emergency war courses her etofore enumerated and the courses leading to all the differ ent grades of rural, county, state and city certificates and the degree Bachelor of Arts, a number of courses will be organized that have for their sp ecific purpose the training of women for executive positions.

WOMEN AS EXECUTIVES It is apparent that with the thousands of men who have entered the Government service many executive positions that have her etofore been held by men must be taken by women. Ther e are thousands of women who with a little further special training will be admirably qualified for these positions. These will include high school principalships, assistant principalships and superintendencies of village, town and city schools, in all parts of Nebraska. Also a great many more of the high school positions will be :filled by women.

Some of the educational courses that will be offered at the summer session and next year are: School Administration, Secondary Education, School Management, Sociology, Graded and Rural School Round Tables, Educational Measurements, Sociological Education, Methods in Mathematics, R eading, Geography, and the various Sciences.

During the J918 summer school session, practically the entire faculty will be r etained as in previous years.

In addition to this a numb er of the strongest school executives in Nebraska will be employed during the entire summer session. It is hoped by this means to provide for the ex tra large number ¡who should be interested in attending summer school owing to the fact that so many of them during the r egular year were induced, through a sense of a patriotic duty, to take positions, because of the unusual shortage of teachers.

EXPENSES Board in Mt. Vernon Hall is $3.25 a week . It is hoped that we shall be able to maintain this price during the summer. This will be done unless a much greater change in cost price of foodstuff is made. Approximately one hundred seventy can be accommodated with board at the dormitory. Dormitory rooms, as long as there is an available supply, can be secured by young women at forty to fifty cents each a week, two persons occupying a room. Private board ranges from $4.00 to $5.00 a week. Furnished rooms may be obtained at prices varying from fifty cents to $1.50 a week for each

person when two occupy the room. Strictly modern rooms may be secured at from $8.00 to $12.00 a month, whether one or two p er sons occupy the room.

TUITION Tuition is free in the Peru State Normal School.

Small laboratory fees are charged in subjects where laboratory materials are used. In no case does this charge exceed the actual cost of materials used by the student. A matriculation fee of $5.00 is paid when the student first enters the school which gives him life privileges in the school. Textbooks may be rented for $1.00 a semester or summer term. It is required, however, that a student deposit $3.00 when taking out textbooks. $2.00 is refunded at the close of the semester or summer school, if the books are r eturned in good condition.

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING ANY COURSES OF STUDY, ADDRESS PRESIDENT D. W. HAYES, PERU, NEBRASKA.

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