The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-09-07
The STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Review CT Work Accomplished at
the Meeting Last Week.

Columbia, Sept. 5.-The State board
of education is preparing course of
study for teachers reading circle,
which will lead to Is or 20 years
State certificate The plan is to ar
! range course of study that the teach
ers may read at home and study at the
county associations. This course will
be made to harmonic with the regu-
lar courses in the public schools and
also with the summer school and IL
brary work.
A committee appointed by the State
board in May reported at the meeting
Friday night and recommend a three
or four years course which shall re-
quire certain amount of reading and
study each year to be followed with
an examination either at the summer
schools or at the regular teachers
examination. It is suggested that work
be done the first year in English
grammar, language and literature,
pedagogy, arithmetic and civics. Dur
ing this year the teachers will be re-
quired to study such text books as
Beuhler's Grammar. Chubbs' Litera-
ture, James "Talks to Teachers, -
Peterman's civil Government, and
to read such supplementary literature
as "Enoch Arden,'' "Evangeline,'
"Birds and Bees,'' "Black Beauty"
Franklin's Autobiography, "Twice
Told Tales,,' "Gnlliver's Travels,''
Plutarch's Lives, y Robinson Cru
soc, - Self Help "Silas Marner,"
''Sketch Book "Tom Browns
School Days. "Stories of Bird
Life" all of which are found in the
regular library list.
The second years course will review
the first and do more advanced work in
composition, literature, algebra and
history. AS supplementary reading the
following will be suggested Lady Of
the Lake, "The Land Of Song"
"Lays of Ancient Rome, - Merchant
of Venice, - "Vision of Sir Launfal,"
"Horse Shoe Robinson. y "Ivanhoe, ;"
"Last of the Mohicans," Poe's
"Tales.'' Treasure Island,' Eye
masse," etc.
During the third year the course
will contain studies of southern l1tera-
ture. studies of Tennyson, geography,
nature study and manual training,
and for parallel or library reading the
committee suggest Pancoast English
Poems. Carson's Aim of Literary
Study, Koopman's Mastery of Books,
selections from Carlyle, Emerson,
Lowell and Ruskin, also Twelfth
Night, - Macbeth and Tempest, -
The report of the committee will be
printed and submitted to the State
board at the next meeting for amend
ment and adoption. The board does
not hope to get this course in opera
tion till next year, but they hope to
arrange one of the best teachers read
ing circles in the United States and
thus have teachers all over the State
studying, along the same line, at the
same time.
The State board, at it's meeting
Saturday, also voted to allow the
granting of a certificate to teachers
who successfully complete nine
courses of study in county or dis
trict summer school. a committee was
appointed to revise the list of col
leges whose graduates are allowed to
teach without examination, and report
at the next meeting.
A cOmmlCCeo was also appointed 10
prepare rules and regulations to gov
ern the award of scholarships to the
State institutions.
In an appeal case from Newberry the
action of the county board was sus-
tained, because said board acted
strictly within its jurisdiction under
the law. The action of the Saluda
board in dividing school district was
reversed, because the district was re-
\ duced below the constitutional limit
of nine square miles. A very COM
plicated appeal case came from Oco-
nee, which was heard, and q commit
tee was appointed to consult with the
attorney general and the superintend-
ent of education and prepare an order,
subject to the approval of the board.
After hearing and deciding rnany
other minor matters, the board ad-
journed Saturday.
Fourteen lives were lost in tene-
mant house fire in the East Side,