The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-21
UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL.
A Programme Full of Interest and Instruction
Has Been Arranged.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Chapel Hill, NJ c.. May 20-The indi-
cations are that the next session of the
Summer School will be well attended I'm
usual efforts have been put forth 70 Offer
a greater number of valuable courses
than ever before offered. II is the inten-
ton of the University to build up an uI-
surpassed Summer School so that teach
ers in the South may find at Chapel Hill
the very best pedagogical advantages.
Applications for circulars are coming ev-
cry day some Of them from as far South
as Mississippi. In one lnticr it is sim
DIV impossible to call attention to all of
the courses offered The lecture course
in English is an entirely new feature Ct
greatest value and presents the best
thought in English at three of North
Carolna's leading Institutions. Professor
Sledd of Wake Forest College, r1Cst
successful teacher and popular lecturer,
will give a course of three lectures He
will discuss Southern Poetry AMI South
ern Poets, treating the conditions in the
Old South unfavorable to The growth of
literature, present achievements and
hopeful signs of the future, Poe, Hayne,
Timrod, Father Ryan, Sidney Lanier.
poems, chiefly Timrod and Lanier.
Professor ID. H. Hill, of the A. and M.
College, long a teacher of success and in
fiuence in our State will give three lee
lures on Southern Literature before 1861.
He will give special attention to the
treatment of Southern Lyrics and his Ice
ture on Sidney Lanier as an InnoVaiOf'
will be of greatest interest Professor
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tive feature of the Summer School Or.
Hume of the University will, in course
of three lectures, discuss The Literary
Study of the Bible, Tennyson Women
and Shakespeare's Personality. These are
among the very best lectures delivered
by DR.. Hume and they will be heard
with very great pleasure.
The lecture course in Nature Study is
also an important feature of the Sumner
School. Professor Atkinson of Cornell
will deliver three lectures on Botany
which will treat of the prominent AMI at
tractive features of plant life and lay
stress on the life and work of plants. Dr.
Atkinson is an author and lecturer of
note and last year had charge of the
Nature Study work of New York Ste ta.
Professor Pearson of Gulford College VAL
present the SUBJECT OF DfnltnOl0gy ana
the methods of studying birds Professor
Gore of the University will lecture on
Physics and present by illustrations and
examples and illustrations the laws of
motion the study of the atmosphere
barometer telegraph, telephone, &C. Pro-
fessor Cobb's lectures on Geology will
bring out the story of the eatrh as writ
ten in the rocks. the scientific study OF
scenery, the building of tie continents.
the interior sea, &c. DR.. Venable will
present three lectures discussing the fol-
lowing subjects: Water, it's occurrence.
function, composition and wonderful char
acteristics; fire, old beliefs concerning
it, false theories true causes. function in
nature. &C.; coal, it's nature carbon in
nature origin of coal, graphite, diamond.
Mr.. Sherman, State Entomogist will
discuss insects and their 1alsformat or5,
&c. Mr.. Ledley, of Maryland State Nor
NAL School will give a course of fifteen
lectures on Sloyd. He comes highly re-
commended by Prof. Hammel whose work
at the Summer School in recent years was
so beneficial to the teachers. Mr.. Led
ley was specially selected for this work
by Mr.. Hammel who was unable to come
to Chapel Hill this year.