The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22

demand.
The Summer School win offer special
inducements to young men who desire to
qualify themselves for supervision of
graded schools. The model graded school
will be of great value to this class of
teachers.
In the Department of superintendent,
which will meet daily. all questions re-
lating to the organization. maintenance
and management of graded schools Will
be infinitely considered. j. c. Course OF
study. discipline, school hours, reports
methods of teaching, etc.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC.
| Public School Music:
| The course of study will embrace
| sightsinging, musical theory and dicta-
| ton, planned primarily for the public
school teacher who has had no training
in music, but equally beneficial to the
choir singer and general music student
| Sightsinging and the elementary theory
necessary to read music at sight can De
taught successfully by the public school
teacher without THO aid of a music super
visor and this course is planned to meet
| this special need.
SUMMER SCHOOL CHORUS.
/
| A chorus will be organized and drilled
| by the Director of Music and will be
heard in a grand closing concert assisted
| by the best soloist available. Those hav-
ing fair singing voices, whether able to
read music or not, are eligible to mem
bership, No previous choral experience
| is necessary.
SUMMER SCHOOL ORCHESTRA.
An orchestra will be formed If suf-
fcent number of players can be secured
Those who play on orchestral instru-
ment are urged to bring their instru-
ments with them.
PRIVATE LESSONS.
Private instruction will be given in
Piano Voice Culture, Violin, Organ and
Harmony and Theory of Music. If de-
sired classes will be formed in Musical
| Analysis, Touch and Technic, Interpre-
tation and artistic piano slaying design
ed especially for the music teacher and
advanced players.
THE KINDERGARTEN METHOD.
A course for music teachers in the
Burrowes' kindergarten Method of Music
Lessons to Children will be offered by
/ a
method and will be the first opportunity
of this kind ever given to the teachers
in the South Atlantic States.
THE COLLEGE FARM
The farming operations of the A. and
NJ. College will be especially attractive
during the session of the Summer
School. The college at the present time
illustrates what can be done with an
old worn out farm. The various kinds
of farm crops grown in the State will
be seen, all grown by best methods and
worked with improved machinery.
Every field in the farm is under a
system of rotation, and cost of production
and results obtained recorded
Not only will the field operations show
many things of interest, but over 400
plats will show various kinds of cereals,
fiber crops and grasses, including corn,
| tobacco, cotton, wheat, rye, cowpeas,
alfalfa, Sofa beans, several varieties of
clover, Kaffir corn, sweet potatoes, pea
nuts, over 100 different grasses and for
age crops. All the important staple
crops of North Carolina are studied as
to methods of fertilization and culture.
The beef herd of Angus cattle is one
of interest and the care and methods is
open to every visitor.
THE COLLEGE DAIRY.
A large dairy herd of sixty cows will
serve as an example of dairy practice and
methods.
The milk and butter of this herd, all
under sanitary conditions will be used for
the table of the members of the Summer
School. The farm regularly supplies the
dairy products for the college. The col
lege has a large demand for butter from
the city.
The green house of the college will also
be available for study and illustration.
COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
The College has the following buildings
fully equipped:
| /. The Main Building, including recita-
| tion halls, laboratories and college Of
| fees.
| 2. Pullen Hall: In this building is a
large dining room, accommodates 900 at
tables at one time The library and
ready rooms and large assembly hall
holding 1000.
3. Textile Building: A complete mod
ern textile school, with cording, spinniAg,
dyeing, weaving and designing.
4. Mechanical Building: Black smith
ing, drawing, working and testing
! laboratories.
! 5. Primrose HALL This is a we'll
equipped building for study of biology,
bacteriology, botany, plant life, nature
strudy, zoology.
6. Dairy Hall: The milk of the college
herd is daily separated, tested, and made
into butter The dairy hall is one of
the most interesting places at the col
lege.
Z. Electrical Laboratories: These are
well equipped and furnish constant in
formation and interest. During the Sum-
mer School the power house will light
all the rooms by electricity.
8. College Hospital: This is available
during the whole year and will be avail
able to students in the Summer School.
8. Dormitories There are five in num-
Der, Watauga being the largest and ac-
commodating 100 students.
The college campus contains about 40
acres. The college farms about 400 acres.
Adjoining the campus is Pullen Park,
which contains about 35 acres, beautiful