Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-04-10
THE STATE SUMMER SCHOOL
VIII be Held In Spartanburg-.-An Elaborate
and Instructive Programme.

out the following "The summer
school will be held this year at Con-
verse College. This does not indi-
cate any lack of appreciation of the
admirable advantages Winthrop Col
lege has afforded. After much cor
respondence and many personal in
terviews with school men and teach
ers, we have decided, for this year at
least, to give to the people of another
section of the State the advantage
of having the school in their midst.
Spartanburg presents many attrac-
tions. 1t is not only city of push
and progress, but an educational
centre, with distinctivcly literary
atmosphere. 1t lies at the foot of
the mountains and its climate will
be cool and bracing, especially invit-
ing to the teachers coming from the
lower part of the State As it is on
the direct path, those who wish to
spend few weeks in the mountains
after the close of the summer school
will be able to do so with minimum
of railroad travel. The school will
be open on June Goth. The State
Teachers Association will hold it's
sessions at Converse College on the
18th and 10Th, immediately preceding
the opening of the summer school.
Three hundred teachers can be ac-
commodated at Converse College,
The charge will be S14 for the thirty
days, including the sessions of the
Teachers Association. President
Wilson and the matron, Mrs. Thomp-
son, are enthusiastic over the pros
pect of entertaining the State sum-
mcr school and pledge the reputation
of Converse for being first class in
everything that the table and ac-
commodations shall be all that could
be reasonably desired A limited
number of men may obtain board
and lodging in the Wofford dormito-
ries at the cost of SS and So"
1t is still two months and :, half
before the opening of the third ses-
sion Of the State summer school for
teachers, but the lines of work to be
offered have been definitely deter
mined and most Of the proposed in.
structors have been engaged. Al
ready the teachers of the State are
making their plans for attending the
school, and many boards of trustees
are taking action looking to aiding
their teachers to attend Superin-
tendent McMahan regards the pros
poets of the school rs most satisfac-
tory and furnishes the following in
formation, which will be given in
greater detail in the announcement
of the courses of instruction soon TO
be issued and distributed to the
teachers.
Freehand drawing will again be
taught by Prof. James William Pat.
tison, of the Chicago Art Institute,
with four lady assistants.
a course in South Carolina history
and one il general history will be
given by Prof. II. Means Davis, of
South Carolina College. That in
South Carolina history will be par
ticularly "live," having stress on the
personal element in our politics of
the past
A course of conversational per
sonal "reminiscences on South Caro-
lima history will be given by DR.. Jas.
II. Carlisle.
DIR. j. |. Mccain, of Erskine Col
legc, will teach English grammar,
with special reference to Buchlcr's
grammar, recently adopted by the
State Board for use in the public
schools.
Courses in English literature will
be given by Prof. ST. James Cum
mings, of the Citadel.
The effort to introduce into the
public schools the teaching of sing
ing at sight will be continued by
offering to the teachers the opportu-
nifty to be themselves instructed in
this art. The instructor this year
will be DR.. Il. ii. Peters, of Con
verse College. As heretofore, the
musical director will organize cho-
rus, whose entertainments will prove
one of the means Of amusements as
well as culture. The grand organ in
the new auditorium contributes to
make these choruses magnificent.
Prof. w. G. A. IIammel, of the
Maryland State Normal School, will
continue the course 50 admirably be-
gun last year in school physics and
in manual training. The latter work
(to which large number Of teachers
were necessarily refused admission
last year, he will be able plan on a
larger scale, as he will bring with him
an assistant trained in his methods.
Prof. j. V. Lewis, Of Clemson
College, will teach physical gcogra-