The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-13
Washington, D. @.
TEACHERS ASSEMBLY, NOTES.
WATER GARDNER.

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TEACHERS ASSEMBLY NOTES.
The next session of the North Caro-
lima Teachers Assembly, which meets
at Morehead City, June 18th, bids fair
to surpass any occasion of the kind
ever held in North Carolina. The work
of the session has been planned on a
different system, and will be conducted
differently from that OF any session yet
held.
The most important innovation is in
the introduction o. departmental work.
Half of each day will be devoted to
the study Of the subjects taught in our
public schools and academies, special
emphasis being given to methods of
teaching these subjects most success.
fully. Each subject will be handled
by a teacher of distinguished ability
and experience. There will be infor-
NAL discussions, and the opinions and
experience of all can be heard and dis
cussed. There will also be classes in
Elocu5iop, Vocal Music and Drawing;
and lectures on school Law and Civil
Government. Ali Of these departments
will be presided over by teachers from
this and ether Southern States who
are in thorough sympathy with our
Southern people, and who fully under
stand the conditions and needs Of our
schools and teachers.
Special departments are being or
gan zad for the County Examiners and
other school officers, college presidents
and professors, city school superin-
tendents and teachers, academy and
high school principals and teachers,
primary teachers. Each department
will be Ia charge of a committee ap-
pointed especially to prepare a pro-
gramme that will interest and instruct
those engaged in that particular work.
The Convention feature will be man,
aged differently, and is expected to be
more interesting and profitable than it
has been possible to max q it heretofore.
Questions will be discussed that will in.
terest ell classes of teachers and intel,
ligent citizens. The speakers will in,
clude leading educators and others
among them, some Of the leading
business and professional men and edi-
tors Of the State. So that the question
OF education and its influence end
effect upon the professions and bust
ness interests will be discussed from
every standpoint.
The evening, or Culture" lectures
will be of such a nature as to instruct
and entertain everybody. The pleas
ure feature will be looked after with
great care, and the music part of the
programme will be complete.
Hotel rates same az heretofore, and
railroad rates will be less than ever
cffsred before.
Official Bulletin, containing c0m
pIete programme and full information
will be issued about lac 18Th of April.
all the friends of education are invited
to attend.
W. h, Pane, Chancellor or the Uni
versity OF Nashville, and President Of
the Peabody Normal College, of Nash
vile, Tenn, will be at the Teachers
Assembly this year. President Payne
Is the leading educator OF teachers in
the South, if not of America. He was
tor several years President of the Nor
nal Department of the University of
mlchIgan. He made such a reputa-
Ilon IN that capacity that, in 1887, the
Board of Trustees of the Peabody Edu.
ea1lon Fund, composed of such men
as President Cleveland, J. Pierpont
morgan, DR.. ]. L. N. Curry, Chief
Justice Fuller, President Gillian Of
aopkins University, and Governor
Ior'er Oh Tennessee, sent a committee
70 see President Payne, with instruc.