The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-19
THE SUMMER SCHOOL
At Knoxville Has Been a Great
 Success.


 Reports from Edgar c. Murphy. Exec utive Secretary of the Southern Educa- ton Board. indicate that the Summer School for the white teachers of the South at Knoxville. Tenn, has proved a striking success. Indeed, the attendance and enthusiasm are far beyond the an ticipations of the promoters of the ef. fort. At the time Mr. Murphy left Knox vile about 1,7O0 teachers had been en- rolled and numbers were still arriving The prospects were that the total at- tendance would go to 1.SOO.
 This Summer School of the South owes it's existence partly to the authori- ties of the University of Tennessee part ly tO the people of Knoxville as q com Hiunity. and partly to the generous as distance of the friends and members ol tke Southern Education Board. The school has thus been able to command the ger vices of one of the largest and ore of the most distinguished faculties ever gathered for su;h an occasion. and the cost of attendance has been put sufii- ciently low to place the school within easy rench os hundreds who could not have attended more expensive insdtu- lions.
 The home of the school Is the Univer- sity of Tennensee- No more beautiful location could have been selected. The altitude is high. the climate is especially pleasant at this time of year and the campus and the buildings of the Univer- sity, situated upon a charming and com handing hill. form tho inspiring sur rcundings for the work which the teach CTS have to do.
 For they are doing real work. The Summer School of the South Is not play fhn .roN ..Ha q. not lacking. the dominant note is seri- ous and practical. These teachers are earnest men and women. They are wo- men and men of high character and the average of intelligence and capacity is most gratifying. It is an inspiration Q look into their faces and to realize that the children of the South are under the resourceful and hopeful influences which these teachers represent.
 The delegation from Atlanta is about 1s0 strong. The largest delegation is. of course. from Tennessee. the next largest being from Georgia. and Alabama com ing third. Every Southern State Is well represented. Mir. Murphy was put down as the director of the platform exercises. but he was not sufficiently strong to full i'll all the duties of his position. He con sIucted the chapel exercises so long as ho remained in Knoxville, and he deliv- e cd one of the lectures before the gen eral audience at the open hour. Mr. Jo- seph B. Graham, Field Agent for the Southern Education Board for Alabama. is expected but he has not vet arrived.
 The promoters of the school had little idea that the attendance this first sum nler would exceed 800 teachers. The sr- ri9ai nf more than double this nmRlhec ratprally created a,liitle confusion in the cpeping days. but the. citizens of Knox vile and tho authorities of the Univer- ssty proved equal to the occasion. The teachers all seemed to be most enthusias- tie in their enjoyment of the advantages afforded them, ard the probabilities arc that rext year the Summer School of the South will open with an approximate at tendance Of 200O teachers
 Such a gathering is prOnablv unique in orr Southern history. l. indicates the ev>rwhelniiny interest of the South in the Krrut cause If the education of all the reople. No one can move among thes2 hundreds upon hundreds of intelligent