Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-16 | Page 6 | Impressed by a New School

IMPRESSED BY A NEW SCHOOL C. E. Peterson, who formerly lived iu this city, but who moved to Idaho a year or two ago, has Just relumed re-lumed from an extended btisincr.5 trip through Nebraska and Colorado and is Iu tho city for a. few days. Mr. Peterson reports business quiet In the territory he visited, due to a largo extent to the extreme cold weather that bns prevailed. In speaking of his trip last night, Mr. Peterson said that tho thing that Impressed him most was a school located at Fremont, Nebraska. "This school is conducted on different dif-ferent lines from any other I ever saw," said Mr. Peterson, "and as an example of real mental application i8 wonderful." Tho school is tho Fremont Col-Ipge, Col-Ipge, a private Institution conducted by W. H. Clemmons and has an attendance at-tendance of over a thousand. MoBt of the students are boarders and a charge of $1 i?5 per week is made for board. Mr. Peterson brj'b ho took dinner-at the -school-and found tho students healthy and apparently yell fed, and ho said that the dinner served tho day he was there was all that could he desired. The school hours are from seven in Iho morning until Xlvo in the afternoon after-noon and, Instend of the usual recre-atious recre-atious of baseball, football, etc., lectures lec-tures and debates on popular toplcB arc substituted. This Is an altogether alto-gether unique departure from tho ub-ual ub-ual school standards, but tho results said to bo gained arc astonishing, so that the old saying of "all work and no play makes Jacka dull boy," does not seem to hold in this case. It does uot seom probable that the abandoning of all sorts of athletics In a school would provo popular with the students nor does it seem as though boys would take kindly to the hours, but Mr. Petcreon says that the atmosphere at-mosphere of the school Indicated a greater amount of application than usual and that a regular four year course Is crowded In three years by tho now method. -oo