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STATE NEGRO SUMMER SCHOOL,
L" be Held ut Benedict College Juno 20
July l7-Tho Faculty hnnounccd-n1r.
McNInhan Glvoa Three Reasons WHY
Ambitious Negroes Shocld Attend.
SPECIAL Nows and Conrier,l

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Columbia, April 2l.-Tho State
Summer School for negro teachers
will be hold at Benedict College, be-
ginning Juno 20 and closing July
H. The object of this school, rs
last ycar, i3 to bottcr train tho
principals and leading teachers
among tho negro raco for positions
Of leadership in education; and &C.
lections have been made from among
tho ablest school superintendent in
tho state to teach in this school.
Tho faculty will consist Of Mr.. S. u.
Edmunds, of Sumter, as principal;
superintendent Il. g. Cocker, of
Marion; l.. L, Baker, of Lancaster,
and Prof. D. ID. Wallace, of Wolrord
College. In addition to thcso Il
course in drawing will be given by
Miss Gctz, supervisor Of drawing in
tho Charleston schools, and course
in manual training by Mrs. johnson,
who has given such Il course in tho
Charleston schools tho past year.
Arrangements have been made with
the authorities CT Benedict College
to have tho boarding department,
tho dormitorios and dining hall of
that institution open to students Of
tho summer school. Tho cost of
board will bo 50 for tho four weeks,
and everything will bo made MS
pleasant and rs comfortable, as pos
siblo for those who attend
Superintendent NlcNIahan has been
planning this school for some time
and has givon much thought to it,.
Apart from the question Of imparting
scholarship and teaching ability to
the teachers he states his main OBJ
ject thus: ''To give to tho negro tho
encouraging assurance that tho con-
trolling educational forces in the
State arc not indifferent to his wei,
faro and arc not content to leave
him to his own Lnaidod efforts; to
prevent tho Widening Of the chasm
between tho white people and tho
negroes; to remove prejudicos and
MISUNDERSTANDING; to oxtond to tho
weaker race tho encouraging aid Of
tho stronger"
In announcing tho second torn of
this school superintendent McMahan
desires to state thrco specific reasons
why ambitious negro tcachors should
attend:
1st. TO increase their scholarship
Gnd skill as teachers and to learn how
they measure up to tho standard Of
tho best educators among tho white
people.
End. TO mako known thoir ability
to the leading school superintendent
in the State whose knowledge and
recommendations would prove most
holpful to tho negro toachors seeking
to be employed in the graded schools
Of the towns.
3. 10 get tho white mans point of
vic win educational matters and thus
enlarge tho mental horizon.
Governor McSwceney has received
q draft on tho United States Govern
mont for S1,0G8.5O, which is tho fifth
payment on account Of the claims OF
this State against tho Government.
This claim was for tho faro Of re-
: cruits who came to Columbia ovol
the Atlantic Coast Line to be exam
ined for enlistment in the Spanish
American war. The claim was
worked through the Governors office
The money goes to the Atlantic Coas
Limo.