The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-05-03

les to Be Pursued VIII Be Elemen-
tnry--Expenses of Trip.
Cuban School Commissioner Frye
recently had an audience with Presi-
dent Eliot ut Cambridge, Mass and |
settled definitely on the plan of ac-
commodating the Cuban teachers who
are to visit the Harvard summer school
during the coming session, says the |
New York Sun. The curriculum has
not yet been fixed, but it will be sub
ject to change as the needs of the
pupils require.
Memorial hall, which Is usually clos
ed during the summer term, will be
opened and the same board served to
the Cuban teachers as the college boys
have during the summer time. The
dormitories, which are the property of
the college, will be given over to the
uses of the men, cost free, while the
women will De lodged in nearby houses
in small numbers just as do the school
marms who come to get little culture
during the summer months. Phillips
Brooks House will be thrown open and
uduc Tue ScucIdl utdu1udl tciS VI tuC
party while in Cambridge. Mr.. Frye
expects the entire expenses of the trip
will amount to $4,000 in round num-
bers.
President Eliot has taken the great
est interest in the movement from the
beginning and has done everything in
his power to arrange the matter so that
1t will be easy to accommodate the WIS.,
itors. When the Cubans arrive, they
will find the dormitories cleaned and
entirely ready for their use. The men
who now occupy the dormitories will
be asked to allow the Cubans to use
their furniture, but such as do not care
to do so will be allowed to store their
goods, and other fittings will be provid-
ed by the college. No very great trou-
BILE is anticipated in this matter, as
the college will be responsible to the
owners for any damage that may be
done.
The studies that will be offered to the
teachers will be elementary. They will
consist of English, geography, nature
study, elementary science, American
history, history of Cuba and the polit-
ical problems that now confront it.
Special lectures will be delivered out
Of course of the popular kind bearing
on general culture, and an endeavor
will be made to have these given by as
distinguished men as can be obtained.
When seen in regard to these mat
tiers, Mr.. Frye said: "The course will
answer a practical purpose. In giving
such a course we must not lose sight
of the fact that these people will have
to go back to their practical work in
the fall and that all of the study
which Is intended for them must have
this end in view. The lectures which
it is intended to give them as Incl
dental will be very important as open
ing up new fields of thought and study
to them, but the elementary work Of
the course will have an immediate eff
feet on the Cuban schoolchildren dur
ing the coming year. This work will
be most carefully done by Harvard in
structors, who will be instructed espe
cially in their work before they ente
upon 1t, and we hope to give some Ger
tiicate to those who take the course.
"The trips which we intend to hav
the teachers take to the various place
in Massachusetts, will also form n
small part of the work. At these place
l desire some distinguished person t
speak upon the place in question an
it's significance to Americans. Th
course on Cuban history will be mos
complete, for | want every Cuban VIII
comes to the United States to under
stand the history of his own countr
and particularly the present status Q
affairs there and their true signif
canoe. If we can do this, we will az
complish a herculean task, for it wi
mean that the coming as well as til
present generations Of Cubans will III
derstand things which It Is vitality In
portant for them to know. This woul
more than repay for the trip itself.
''The work of the teachers in til
summer school is in good hands and
not bothering me to any great exten
That is settled. My efforts will SOC
be directed toward making up IL
funds which will be necessary to pa
the expenses of the trip. This wi
involve some labor, but have implic
faith in the patriotism Of the Ne
England men and in the traditions
Harvard. The Cuban Relief associ
ton has assumed all responsibility Fl
the trip. Harvard men, | am sure, W
make it exclusively a Harvard matte
President Eliot also takes this view
it, and when he turns his hand to an
thing he rarely fails.
During my stay in Cambridge
shall probably speak several times {
the question of education in Cuba, b
! shall not be able TO do as much
this work as | should like to do.
want everybody to understand Il
gravity of the problem that the Unit
States as q nation took when it sa
hands off to Spain in the spring
1898, and | want everybody to tho
oughly realize that our responsible
has not yet ceased or shall cease un