The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-03
The Noted Educator Will Attend
the University Normal.
SUMMER NORMALs LOCATED.
News of General Interest to Teachers All
Over the State.

$40 Capitol street,
Jackson, Miss, April y. 1895.
The State Superintendent is high
ly elated at the receipt of a letter
DR. w. I. Harris, United States of
Commissioner of Education, in
which he states that he will pay
Mississippi visit at the beginning
of the summer normal at the uni
yersity. Dr.. Harris has kindly
consented to take part in the exer
cises of the normal while he is
present. This news is hailed with
delight and enthusiasm by the
teachers of the State, who are anx-
ious to meet and listen to this most
distinguished educational leader of
the continent. DR.. Harris will be
present at the commencement OF
the university on June 6, aod dur
ing the rest of his stay will dis
cuss the subject of elementary ed
ucation as set forth in the famous
report of the committee Of fifteen.
of which DR.. Harris is the author,
and which was presented to the
department of the Superintendent
at the Cleveland meeting ia Feb.
ruary. He will also deliver sever
al lectures on general educational
topics. This visit will be a great
triumph for Mississippi, and will
afford the teachers of the State an
opportunity of coming in contact
with the educational officer of the
United States. DR.. Harris is re.
cogniGed on all sides as the pro-
foundest educational philosopher
of America.
Acting on the theory that the
teachers of Mississippi are worthy
of the best, Mr.. Preston has secur-
ed an array of talent for the tacul-
ties of the summer normals which
will make them far more effective
and attractive than any heretofore
held in the State. Among the
members of the faculty already
employed from abroad are to be
numbered Chancellor Payne, OF
the Peabody Normal College, at
Nashville, who will have charge of
the conductors school for two
weeks, from June 10; Mr.. Rose, Of
the same institution, will be the
director of one of the normals; DR..
E. L. White, Of Columbus, Ohio,
eminent both as a teache. and an
author of works on pedagogy; DR..
Phillips, superintendent OF the
Birmingham public schools; Miss
Marthilde f. Coffin, supervisor OF
primary work in the Detroit public
schools, and Miss Catalan, princi-
pal of the Powell public school of
Birmingham.
After mature deliberatlen Mr..
Preston has decided to locate the
white normals at the, University,
Meridian, Aberdeen and Brookha-
ven. A number Of places compet-
ed actively for the location OF the
normalA out after surveying the
whole field. the places above nam
ed were chosen rs most accessible
and suitable for the normals. The
meeting at Brookhaven will begin
about the oath or 25th; the Others
the first week in June, from the
3rd to the 9th. The trustees and
faculties have not yet been chosen
and assigned. This work is now
under consideration, and will oe
completed within the next week or
ten days, when circulars of an
nouncement will be sent to all the
teachers of the state through the
county superintendents.
The prospects for II season OF
brilliant work this summer are
most hattering, and Mr.. Preston
thinks that the attendance on the
normals will be increased nearly
or quite 80 per cent. as compared
with last year. Railroad rates O.
one fare for the first three days