New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-06-25
THE NEW IBERIA NORMAL.

strides which education has recently
taken in st. Landry, is furnished
by the large and enthusiastic re-
presentation of teachers from that
parish attending the Peabody Sum
mer Normal here. Out Of the one
hundred and twenty-five teachers
present, more than half hail from
st. Landry, which augurs well for
the future of educational matters
in our parish.
Enthusiasm is the key note of the
work being done at the Normal {;
the able faculty are deeply inter
ested in their classes, and so
thoroughly imbued with their re-
spective subjects that instruction
from them is both privilege and Il
pleasure. Contact with cultured
minds, trained Judgment and mel
low sympathies-with those who
have gone further and seen more
clearly than we-must ever be pro-
ductive of great good; and it would
be impossible for anyone to attend
the class lectures even in the capa-
city of visitor, without deriving
profit. The following is the com
prehensive daily progam of work
Prof. J. f. Keeney, Principal New
Iberia High School: Psychology,
language, grammar, and school
government Prof. w. E. Taylor,
La. Industrial Institute: Botany,
geography, physics, physiology,
history of education; Prof. Il. H.
Harris, Principal Opelousas High
School ;Rhetoric, English andAmer-
lean literature, Latin; Prof. w. B.
Hale, New iberia High School: La.
History, U. s. History, general
history, writing, drawing, and vocal
music Prof. c. f. Trudeau, Princi-
pal Lafayette High School: Arith-
metic, algebra, plane and solid geo.
metry Miss Henrietta Lewis, State
Normal College: Model School.
Because of the interest thrown
into the work, dry mathematical
facts become living entities; alb
struse psychological labyrinths be-
come sunlit paths, inviting to pleas
ant recreation; arbitrary chrono-
logical data ane remote historical
events, glow with present day vigor
and become invested with an in
terest all their own; the supposedly
simple branches of language and
grammar suddenly develop un-
dreamed Of possibilities; the natu-
raj sciences loom up in grandeur,
and remind us of Tennyson's fam
GUS lines about understanding the
mysteries of God and man, if only
we could. understand SO simple a
thing as "fower in the crannied
wall"
The literature periods under our
own Prof. Harris are especially in
teresting. On entering his room,
we Immediately feel that we have
come into the presence of a ripe
scholar, and sit receptive while he
unfOlds the literary treasures be-
queathed us by the great dead,
whose footsteps echo down the
corridors of Time" Passages vib-
rant with intellectual stimulus, ex-
quisite beauties of thought and ex-
preston, tender glimpses Of heart
life-all become radiant with rarer
charms through his sympathetic
treatment.
1t is impossible to give an ade-
luate idea of the many advantages
enjoyed by the teachers in attend .
Bnce, and it is easy to understand
why some who are not teachers are
present for the general culture af-
forded. Then, too, the social fea-
lures of the session are likewise ..
Beginning with the ele- ,
CANT reception rendered the teach
,rs in the auditorium of the High
School on the first evening, pleas
mt attentions have abonnded. We ,
IRE made to feel welcome in every
sense of that pregnant word, and
he recollections of our stay here in
Iberia will remain with /,
zach one of us as most fragrant
cluster in the garland Of memory.
ADDIE HUMBLE READ. I