The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1919, Page 85

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3 The cere Pioneee

Norra Carona Irems.— President J. Ph.
Schmidt and the Professors A. EH. Kunzmann and
W. G. Schwehn were inducted into their offices at
Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C., on the first
Sunday in October.— The mission at Greensboro
and High Point are now in charge of the Rev. H.
Wittschen.— A Girls’ Dormitory has been opened
in connection with Immanuel College, and Mrs.
MeDavid, the wife of Rev. John McDavid, is the
matron: For the present, a dwelling has been rented
to serve the purpose of a dormitory, but we hope
and pray that the Board may soon be enabled to
erect a building that will in every way serve the
purpose of a girls’ dormitory.

IntusrraTep Lectures,— Many years ago I was
trying to make it plain to a class in arithmetic how
to extract the square root of a number, but explain
as much as I would, it seemed impossible for the

class to grasp the idea. In utter despair I went

to my father, an old and experienced teacher, and
told him my troubles. “Why,” he said, “that’s
easy; what you want to do is to use blocks. Let
me show you.” He went and got a set of four
blocks of various sizes, and while putting them
together and again taking them apart, he gave his
explanation of square root. I borrowed his blocks,

‘Gayer Studio, St. Louis, Mo.
President J. Ph. Schmidt, Greensboro, N. C.

Gayer Studio, St. Louis, Mo.
Prof. A. E. Kunzmann, Greensboro, N. C.

Gayer Studio, St. Louis, Mo.

Prof. W. G. Schwehn, Greensboro, N. C.