The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-19
A Glimpse of the Work Done There---
A Good Summer,S Labor.
Special Correspondence of The Chronicle.

A Glimpse of the Work Done There---
Good Summers Labor.
Special Correspondence of The Chronicle.
CHAPEL HILL, July 16.-The Normal at
titude to be in here is that of unstinted
and we'll merited praise for the extraord-
rarily good work of Superintendent Tom
| linsan, his able corps Of assistants and the
attending teachers. The watchwOrd an
/ nounced at the very beg inning was ''work,
i and ''work" has been the slogan ever
| since.
| The running talks by the Supernten-
| dent every morning on school organiza-
ton, discipline, management and the like
are very instructive. Mr.. Tomlinson has
had an uncOmmonly successful career, as
a specialist in school work-in the teach
ing of teachers. After his experience in
other States he was chosen Supernten-
dent of the Wilson Graded School. At
the end of his first term of service there,
he conducted the Wilson Normal School
with such success that he was this year
made superintendent here; and he had
several offers made him last year of posi-
tiOns with higher salaries. He accepted
the offer made by the Winston Graded
School Board, and under his direction the
already famous building there has been
constructed and equipped.
Prof. De Graft is a whole Normal in
himself and his lectures were received
with great enthusiasm. He is perhaps
the foremost authority in this country on
school-room work and management
Prof. Myers's (of N. y ''Suggestions',
as he modestly calls his lectures and ex-
ercises, are extremely practical and help
full and especially his methods OF teaching
language lessons are happy boon to the
teachers who have been fumbling over the
disastrous technicalitieS of Grammar.
But what can be said of Prof. H. E. Holt,
Director of Music in the Boston public
schools He was the instructor i'll vocal
music. Prof. Holt is pure inspiration.
He delighted and surprised us all with the
simplicity of his methods of teaching mu-
sic to children or to adults. Mr.. Holt has
simply applied to the teaching of music
(what has never been done before) the
true educational principle of instruction
which the best teachers in other branches
apply to their teaching. His is the IA
tional method, exceedingly practical, ex
tremely simple, as easy as practical and
simple, and develops very rapidly in the
learner the true sense of music.
Miss Boice, of Philadelphia, is the in
structor in ''How to Teach Reading" We
have had Watson, Vance, Rayhill and
other celebrated elocutionists here, but
Miss Boice ''takes the rag off the bush.'
There are none Of those ''hifalutin", high
tragedy antics. She is teaching the teach
ers how to teach reading, one of the
greatest needs in our schools everywhere.
Those who have heard both Miss Boice
and Mark Bailey, whose pupil she was for
a long time, say that the pupil surprises
the distinguished master.
The Normal of 's4 will be long remem
bered by the teachers as one in which
much earnest solid work was done and
| from which great practical benefit was
derived. Profs. Phillips, MITCHELL Leazar,
| Harris, Lewis and Mrs. Humphrey COM
| pleted the faculty, which was the best any
| Normal School in North Carolina ever had.
Prof. and Mrs. Gore are spending the
Summer on the Hill
There are twelve young gentlemen TAX
ing Prof. Manning's summer course of law.
DR.. Mangum is enjoying his vacation
at home, which he finds as good a place
to rest as he can think of.
The frame work of Memorial Hall is
so nearly completed that you can see the
exact shape the building will be.
| The only mention [ heard at all of
| love making was made by ladies-not
| young ones at LnaU. But L was assured
| by matrons that several matches had been
made. | asked Prof. Tomlinson about
| this and his answer was so innocent
Prof. Henry E. Shepherd, Of Colum-
bia, S. c., is occupying Prof. Hooper's
house during vacation. Prof Shepherd
is doing literary work in which he brings
the Libraries into use, the subject of a part
of his Investigations being portions of
| North Carolina history.
"A 'walk-around" is thing after its
own kind The ladies and gentlemen
congregate in the ball room (Which dur
| ing the session of the Normal School is
called the University Library; a lady
| sings or recites selection; a club of stu
dents sing chorus; the chief marshal
blows a shrill whistle, whereat all arise
and walk around. The whistle blows
again for silence. President Battle makes
iocular announcement, and Mr.. Wilson
sits in chair on a table and plays the
| guitar. Then the ''walk- around proper
again is in order, and so on 0d ten o'clock
itum-in the most jovial off-hand way;
and everybody seems to enjoy it.
| How to Get $40 Worth of fWatermelons.
| From the Rocky Mount Reporter.
The person who will bring us the largest
Watermelon this season, will receive the
Reporter one year free.