The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-29
THE SUMMER NORMAL
A PRACTICAL TEACHERS OBSERVATION
OF ONE DAYS WORK.
Something of the Professors and Their Mode
of Teaching--Devotion to Their Call
ing by Teachers.
ing by Teachers.

Chapel Hill, n. c., June 2S.-(SpeciaD
ments of the summer school The teach
ers came here to profit by the instruction
given. 1t is a school, and not merely
holiday outing of four weeks for the
teachers. The teachers who are here and
who came think that such a statute as
one of our sister States has in her school
laws would be only just and proper. 1t
is that in the public schools those teach
ers who attend the institutes for teachers
held inthe summer are to have the prefer
ence in position. Certainly it requires an
unusual interest in teaching and true de-
votion to her profession on the teachers
part to bring a teacher to Chapel Hill to
study during such hot weather as it is at
present.
A days work here may be of interest
from a bare outline even. A few words
may be said in regard to the more im-
portant subjects discussed by the teach
ers in the various departments from day
to day.
DR.. Chas. A. McMurry lectures in the
chapel in the morning after the opening
exercises. His lectures during the first
week have been on concentration and
correlation of studies. He has been ex-
employing his method of concentration
in geography, taking certain sections and
studying, not only the geography, but
the history and the various relations of
the section under discussion to other
sections and places. Our knowledge
Oh ArNc Of IN
terest and in remembering the main facts
all we have time to remember or use-we
associate with them the minor details of
knowledge.
Prof. Jackman teaches during the next
hour on nature work, its place in the
schools and its necessity as a part of
education His work he illustrates by
observations and drawings made by the
pupils in the school with which he is
connected.
DR.. Hume's three courses in English
the Literary study of the Bible, Tenny-
sons Idyls of the King and AnglO-Saxon
are interesting as the Doctor knows
how to make them, and are largely at
tended.
Miss Bryant lectures on the Tempest
also. Her lectures are clear and direct
in style and her Interpretation of the play
good.
The work Of Prof. Moses has been
spoken of before. His talks on primary
teaching are most valuable, and, the
bright little girl of his gives point to his
method by demonstrating its success in
practice.
DR.. Milne, of New York State Normal.
has charge of the work in mathematics,
together with Mr.. Noble, of Wilmington,
The arithmetics and algebras of DR.. Milne
have already won, perhaps, the foremost
place as textbooks for this kind. The
talks of DR.. Mines on the principles OF
arithmetic, algebra and geometry are of
practical benefit to all who hear him.
Prof. GOrdy has not come yet, and the
department of history is under Prof.
Alexander Graham, of Charlotte. His
work is well known.
DR.. H. 4. Linscott, of the University.
has class in advanced Latin, and Prof.
Mclaughlin, of Wadesboro, a class of
beginners Latin.
This would give full days work or
more of lectures, though there are many
departments not mentioned yet. The
more important ones will be spoken Of
later.