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To secure to teaching the rights, prerogatives and advantages of a profession. To give a more perfect unity to our state educational system, by bringing the secondary schools into closer relations with the university." "Higher position in the public school service" meant, in the main, in the early days, city superintendencies and high school principalships.
The McGill Union, erected on Sherbrooke Street, as a centre of student activities, was also the gift of Sir William Macdonald, McGill's greatest benefactor, whose donations to the University during the Principalships of Sir William Dawson and Sir William Peterson amounted to over twelve million and a half of dollars.
To be sure, in some states legislation has spoken, as in Minnesota, requiring completion of collegiate work, and practically so in North Dakota, requiring completion of such work for superintendencies and high school principalships, and strongly recommending the same for all teaching positions in the high school.
The salary and professional opportunities of the office are not sufficiently attractive to draw men from the better school positions; hence the great majority of county superintendents come from the village principalships, the grades of town schools, or even from the rural schools. A marked tendency of recent years has been to elect women as county superintendents.
To these, others have been added, one by one, owing very largely to the great success of the movement and the growing appreciation of the value of professional preparation for occupants of such positions, until now they include city superintendencies, high school and grade principalships, subject supervisorships, high school, normal school, and college instructorships.
It was discovered, also, that, in spite of the efforts being put forth by the normal schools, the higher teaching positions superintendencies, high school principalships, etc. were going to men of collegiate attainment, even at the sacrifice of professional training which was then being recognized as very desirable. What was to be done?
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