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LECTURE FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Prof. F1tz Hugh of the State University
Addresses the Summer Normal.

Prof. Thos. Fitz Hugh, of the
State University, addressed the
BRENNAN Normal Friday after
noon at 2 o'clock. He was in
troduced by Prof. E. F. Taylor,
conductor of the Normal. He
came, he said, under instructions
from the Hon. J. M. Carlisle and
the department of education at
Austin to discuss certain ques-
tons of vital and imminent
moment to our public schools and
more particular to our rural
schools in Texas. The speaker
began with fundamental deini-
ton of education which places us
on unshakable ground in our
Texas view as to the right and
justice of State support by taxa
ton of the school interests; he
defined the education at which
our Texas teachers aim as the
intellectual, moral and physical
elevation and enobling of man,
and insisted that on the basis of
such definition the holiness and
righteousness of the cause is be-
yond cavil and worthy of the
dearest interest on the part of the
State.
The speaker. went on to discuss
our Texas system of education,
setting forth the place in that
system of the State University,
with its various departments, Of
the Normal schools, of the city
public schools with their organ
lied grades, and finally of our
rural and district schools. He
said the great burden of what he
had to say concerned the vital
question of the country schools,
in which such large proportion
of our Texas youth receive their
only training. He argued
strongly and earnestly for self
improvement in the teachers, for
the crying necessity of lengthen-
ing the school term, at least to
the constitutional minimum of
six months, and for the CONSOLE
dalton of the school districts and
for the organization of strong
central advanced schools fed by
fewer and more efficient primary
and grammar schools surround
ing them. He urged upon the
teachers plan for the organiza-
ton of the courses of study by
the standards of the best modern
authorities in educational theory
and practice.
He spoke of the Importance of
greater care in the keeping of
records of work and transmitting
them to successors, and of pro-
viding the pupils with card GER
tifcates so as to give rise to the
hopeful sense of progress and
thus encourage to ever higher
work until nothing short of the
University course will satisfy the
spirit of our Texas youth.
The professor dwelt on the
bond amendment validating the
So, 100000 county bonds in which
the money of the children was
invested and urged upon the
teachers to see to it that the
hideous injustice should not be
done the children, and that the
amendment should carry.
In conclusion Prof. Fitz Hugh
spoke of the State University,
commencing it to the hearts of
Texas students as the true and
strong friend of the public schools
and their teachers.
At the conclusion of Prof. Fitz
Hugh's remarks Conductor Tay-
lor concluded the exercises with
a strong appeal to the teachers,
endorsing and sustaining the
views presented by Prof. Fitz
Hugh. The remainder of the day
Prof. Fitz Hugh spentin examin-
ing the work of the Normal and
meeting the faculty and teachers
in attendance.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
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