The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
PROGRESS OF E cnERs, COLLEGE
A New Course Added-Miss Dodge's History
of the College.

A New Course Added-Miss Dodge's History
of the College.
Examinations have been In progress this
week at Teachers College, and all regular
work was suspended.
1t is announced that on March Q and June l
the Teachers College Glee Club will give con-
certs. For April 9 and May IL chamber music
recitals are promised. A public lecture course
has also been arranged.
one OF the interesting functions in the month
Will be a reception given by Mrs. Peter w.
Bryson for Dean and Mrs. Russell. Mrs. Bry-
son is the founder of the Bryson Library, a
trustee OF Teachers College and u friend since
its opening. little pamphlet by Miss Grace
ii. Dodge has Just been issued for private cir
culation. 1t Is entitled "A Brief Sketch of
Teachers College" and tells of the modest be-
ginning Of the college eighteen years ago.
whom eleven young women became incorpo-
rators OF the Kitchen-Garden Association. Its
object was to promote domestic and industrial
arts among the laboring classes by giving their
children free instruction in household arts,
according to the principles of the kitchen
garden system invented by Miss Emily Hunt
ington. At the end OF four years this
association gave way to the need of
broader lines OF work and was reor-
ganized as the Industrial Education Asso-
citation. This outgrew its original object in
turn, and in 1888 the organization, founded as
Il phiianthroplc enterprise, had already become
a powerful educational force. 1t had "'cRangsd
It's platform of humanitarianism for one of
Puredy eauGatiEnal reform and advancement"
training OF teachers. The headquarters were
At . oniyersity place During lsS4,S5 the
industrial Studies was appointed. and the
nrst work in the system of grated sewing be-
unued. and cooperation with the New York
looking school opened up many new classes.
Of the college Miss Dodge says:
mThe impediatG demand for the college
put into practice the doctrines taught by the
association. II was apparent that TO train per-
sons sons equipped for a single branch Of i~nstiuc.
a professional training, was not to train teach
ers, but MECHANICS and cooks
~ is Il long stride from the insignilcanre of
lance q February, 1865. when T{eachcrs Col.
to become AN integral part of Columbia Uni
yersity and accepted the invitation. The pol
progressive. II has practically Allotted tie
PRIME me fh n bo one need SS]uppIied creates an:
the Horace Mann School To-" a bu nfiH 20 Of 5fa its
own own 81 MISS tS Dodge, who Is still acting as Treas
ing Office there who has been identified with it
from the beginning,
course which shall lend TO a secondary diploma
Tor this course was we'll founded is attcsted by
the Tact that already twenty-siX students are
entered, College graduates, without special
nedagoElc training are finding it more AMI
more dlfiicult every year TO obtain those posi-
ions Tor which they are in many aspects very
wei itleh. This one-ycar course has been nrO-
Vlded Tor them. consisting OF history and prin-
clples q education. psychology. applications OF
Psychology TO teaching, and methods OF teach
ing In secondary schools.
The first lecture in the public lecture course
VIII be given on Feb. ~ by Woodrow Wilson.
~ y, professor Of Jurisprudence in prince
1 Tbo UNIVERSITY, on =" The Teacher AS a CitiTem"
Story Of Niagara Uiiustratcdf' By Grove K"
Gilbert A; NJ; +, G.. s., A., g]ooIogist of the
Hnhltcd states Geological Survey, Washington,
Training" by G, Hanfori Henderson. iii H.
princiEal Of Pratt Institute High school
ship" by Jeremiah Jerks. professor Of p%oiiti-
economy and social and civil Institutions.
Cornell Unworthy: April ~. "OuT Civ school
system" by William H. Maxwell. Supcrin-
Of the New York Public schools,