Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-07-10
THE OXFORD NORMAL.
President Hardy of A. & M. College
Makes TwosAddresses-TeIIs
of Cotton Crop.


lectures of the course in the great
Mississippi summer school were de-
ilvered last night and this morning by
President j. @. Hardy of the A. and
M. College. His earnest address last
night brought out the dignity and
increasing Importance of the public
school teacher. He demonstrated
with the utmost clearness the fact
that all increase in civilization de-
ponds entirely upon the teacher.
He said: Il can conceive of civil
cation without doctors, without law
yers, even without preachers, but
there can Enever be civilization
without teachers. So long as
children are born into the world un-
developed there will be need Of in
structors whose ideas of the future
are grand, holy, advanced and no.
ble.'
The lecture this morning showed
the need of skill in the south. 1t
demonstrated the fact that all ad-
III III w Ildb 1lHc,
depends upon material success. Pres
Hardy grew eloquent with his theme
and let his soul and his intense in
terest prompt his utterances. As he
held bundle of cloth before his
audience he exclaimed: "See what
skill combined with knowledge will
do. We bought this cotton tseven
cents pound Our boys worked on
it with skill and knowledge and
now it is worth nineteen cents a
pound; seven cents of raw material,
eighty three cents of skill and knOwl-
edge. We have an abundance of both
in Mississippi. Let US combine them
and not spend all our time raising
the cheaper of the two and paying the
north and east for the more expen-
sive."
Prest Hardy is much impressed
with the wonderful progress made at
the state university. He says that
with medical department and train
ing shcool for teachers it as most
glorious future before it.
The regular work of the summer
school continues to provoke interest.
Supt. Whitfield is much pleased
with the awakening in kindergarten
work under the inspiration of Miss
Ward of Chicago. Miss Ward is a
kindergarten teacher of wide reputa
tion She graduated from one of the
best schools in the country. She
conducted most successfully a kin
dergarten training class in Iowa col
lege, has done work in various
chautauquas in the central states and
much to the pleasure of Prof. T. L.
Trawick will help to conduct the in
stitute at our own chautauqua at
Crystal Springs this summer. Kin
dergarten work is in its infancy in
Mississippi. There are only few
training teachers in this line in the
state. Many Of our neighboring
states, as Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and Texas, have many kindergarten
schools From the interest, how
ever, which is being shown in Miss
Wards class one would think that the
state will have many we'll trained
young women for this work, and that
very soon. Miss Ward is working
very hard here. Supt. Whitfield gave
her charge of all young women who
are to help conduct institutes thi:
summer to whom she gave instruc
tions in primary work. The regular
class work started with an enrollmen
of twenty, which has increased t.
nearly two hundred. Miss Ward ha
about thirty children which she
teaches to show the practical applica
tion of her instruction. 1t is an inter
esting sight to see teachers dotting TIL
campus in groups making baskets o
raffia, weaving doll hammocks anf
other articles with cord, making
models from Mississippi clay-wbicl
Miss Ward says is very sketchinI
with charcoal, all evidences of tn
Hand Work hour
MlsS NdIu says blldt eio Is SUI pAloo'
to find the state so we'll up in highe
education and so behind in this mos
important and fundamental work
Every primary teacher should b
trained in this work; for it is thu
basis for the understanding for tn
child and it is the means of learning
how to gain and hold the interest o
children. Miss Ward came to sta
four weeks, but her efforts have bee
successful that she has been induce
to remain six weeks. After she hs
finished here Supt. Whitfield will ST
cure her aid in the institutes of tn
various counties.
Such instructors as Miss Ware
with her inspiring methods, are I'll
causes of the success of this wear