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Show 147 school with practical s life and has brought practical choo l room."!" A bulletin of the Ricks Normal integrative aims as College life into the sets forth such follows: To give credit for intelligent practical work. To supplement fundamental theory as taught in the class room. To give practical application of theory and to make the sub ject matter more concrete by giving natural setting for the development of the lesson. To help the student spend his leisure time profitably. To help the student maintain the ethical and religious ideals of the school. To bring the results of scientific research and modern methods into the home and to adapt them to local conditions. To bring the school atmosphere and cultural ideals into the home. To enable the teacher to become better acquainted with the personal characteristics of the student and his home environment; and to learn the desire of the parent regarding his future.19 The projects in which students engaged included dairying, farm manage- ment, farm mechanics, bee culture, potato culture, dry farming, horticulture, horses, sheep, swine, and poultry.2o If project work in the Normon system barriers between school and home and between school also lowered barriers between school ious ideals successfully lowered figured prominently and in all and vocation, it religious practices. church schools but home projects allowed schools to promote spiritual to an even greater degree. during Relig the period, ideals in homes Writing in the 13 July 1919 Salt Lake City Herald, H. H. Cummings reports that "the moral and social instincts ls"Praises Results in Summer Project tork of Church Schools ," Deseret Evening News, 21 August 1919. 19George Harrison Maughan and Ethel Cutler, Vocational Education at the Ricks Normal College, p. 13, in the 1920 Ricks Normal of the Church of Jesus Christ College Bulletin Series, Church of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake Clty, Utah. Lbrary 2oIbid., pp. 15-60. |
