Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-03-31
SCHOOL OF METHODS
Arrangements For the Coming
Season at Roanoke.
Fully rs Largo an Attendance Expected
as Last Year Distinguished Teachers
and Lecturers WHO VIII Compose tho
Faculty Several Norfolk Members.

have been about completed. Other
places have made application for the
school. but it has been decided to
| locate again at Roanoke, the policy
always being to remain at one place as
long as indications point to large at
| tendance. The enrolment at Roanoke
last year was seven hundred, the
! largest in the history OF the school,
making this the largest summer school
| in the United States, and there is rea-
son to look for certainly as good an
| attendance for the coming summer.
The large Lutheran Church, opposite
the Commerce School Building, in
which lectures were held last year, has
been rented for larger classes. This
church, one of the finest in the State.
has an auditorium that will seat seven
hundred, and a. Sunday school room
with n capacity of four hundred
The faculty shows strong array of
talent and is as follows:
METHODS.
Pedagogy-Dr. Emerson e. White, of
Columbus, Q.
Psychology-NIiss Celestia E. Par
IRISH, Woman's College. Lynchburg. Va.
Talks on Teaching-Hon. James l..
Hughes. inspector of schools in To-
ronto, Canada.
McCloskey, State Normal, Edinboro,
Pa.
Arithmetic-Prof. ]. Luther Sheppe.
principal of schools. Roanoke Va.
Geography-AIiss NJ. Lizzie Harvey.
Lynchburg. Va.
History-Prof. ]. a. c. Gambler, Rich
mond College, Richmond.
Manual Training-Prof. Walter ].
Kenyon, State Normal, Lowell. Mass.
Model School-Ariss Lucy Davis,
principal of the Model School, William
and Mary College. williamsburg. Va.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.
English Literature-Dr c. w. Kent.
University of California. Berkeley, Cal.
General History@Prof. II. w. Page.
Professor of Literature, University of
Virginia.
Economic History of the United
States-Prof. T. w. Page, Berkeley.
Cal.
United States History-Prof. ]. A. C.
Chandler Richmond College. Virginia.
Grammar-Miss e. Lillian Peters.
LynchburS, Va.
Arithmetlc-Prof. ]. Luther Shame
Roanoke, Va.
Penmanship-Prof. +. t. Painter
Roanoke Public Schools, Va.
Conversational German-Miss Win
ston. High School, Norfolk. Va.
Latin-Prof. Winston Parrish, prin-
cipal OF schools. Norfolk. Va.
Reading-AIiss Mamie c. Davis.
principal of schools. Lynchburg, Va.
Drawing-Miss Anna NJ. Sncad.
| Lynchburg Va.
studies in Shakespeare-Prof. Henry
IL. Southwick, Emerson School of Ora
tory, Boston. Mass
Chalk Modeling-Miss Mamie C. Da-
Wis, LynchburE. Va.
| Physiology-Prof. ]. Luther Shcppc
nf col nIs-
| Civil Government-Dr J. A. q
Chandler, Richmond College. Va.
Music-Prof. Curtis Munson, Spring
field Mass
Studies in Homer-Prof Frank p.
| brent. secretary of the Board of Edu-
cation. Richmond, Va
EXPLANATORY
or the above instructors. Professors
Painter, Chandler and Brent. are new
men. not having been connected with
| the school before. The same is true Of
| Misses McCloskey, Peters. Snead. and
me teacher of the Model School, Miss
Davis. Prof. Kenyon taught geogra
phy in the School OF Methods in 1890
but has since made n speciality OF
manual training. and has no superior
as an exponent of this subject. Prof
Kenyon and Miss AIcClosley, tho
teacher Of primary methods, were also
engaged this year for the great Martha
Vineyards Institute. Miss L. L. Davis
conductor of the Model School, is the
principal of the training school of Will
liam and Mary College. and has few
equals IN her department. Misses
Snead and Peters are teachers. re-
spectively, OF drawing and English in
the Lynchburg public schools Prof
FAINTER has long been connected with
the schools of Roanoke DR.. Chandler
is an a: NJ. of William and Mary, and
a Phi. ID. of Johns Hopkins. and is nj
l present professor of English at Rich
mond. For the last two years he has
taught United States History in one
of the Peabody Institutes with such
marked success as to induce the Schoo
of Methods to give him Call" The
other instructors named above have
been with this school for some wears
and have contributed to its great sue
cess. Miss Parrish is one of the most
widely known teachers in Virginia. and
has reputation as one of the leading
woman teachers in the United States
| No other school in the country has In
its department OF Methods such n com
Dlnation OF talent as Drs. White and
Hughes and Miss Parrish.
DR.. Kent will deliver this year a Sc.
ries of ten lectures on American liter.
ature. five on English poets. and five
on END of the Centuries In English
Literature" This is DR. IIent's fftf
year with the School of Methods. Wher
he first began this work. he was as
signed room with about eighty pu.
pills. but In few days teachers begar
to crowd the class room until he wa.
compelled to move into the auditorium
and before the end of the Normal the
entire school of five hundred Assem-.
bled every day to hear him. and thi.
has been the case ever since. At Roam.
okc last year nearly hundred of the
citizens Of the town were enrolled ir