The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-20
Teachers Are Taught at
the Summer School.
is AN ABLE FACULTY
The Teachers Who Are Taught Are
Given the Very Best BY a Faculty
hat is Both Thorough
and Bril-
liant.

Imagine, If your mind can grasp It,
seven hundred or more Southern edu-
Gators, of whom the great majority
are the North Carolina product, gath
cred at one institution to be taught.
and to get new wrinkles in teach
ing.
Yet that's what we have on hand
here in Raleigh in these aee:ing days
of summer that when very warm fleet
not fast enough to mortals who do
not enjoy the refreshing breeze and
the cool nights that abound ut the y.
and M. College.
For there's the school and the
cadet in gray with rifle a-shoulder and
drum a-taDping who possessed the
place a few weeks ago, has given way
10 Mr.. School Teacher and Miss
school Teacher, who have taken pos
session of the quarters and overflow
ing into all the adjacent buildings
have had, some Of them to come down
town and are enjoying life at the
Blind Institution and the Baptist Uni
Versity for Women.
Yes, the school marmS' are there
where once the roar of military was
heard. White dresses. lovely many
hued summer dresses of all kinds of
prettiness are the every day sight
Sweet girlish laughter rings out and
here and there the deeper notes OF
Mr.. Teacher are to be heard. They
are all being taught and taught vel,
at that for it is a strong facrfty and
there is an able corps of lecturers.
Just yesterday Prof. ]. b. Carlyle
spoke, and he is speaker of abilit.
and sence. He talked about the VOL.
Il L. L. Il -
we'll that all are chanting his praise
because what he told of Teachers
Qualifications" At one O'CLOCK
Mr.. j. w. Bailey addressed the civil
government class and discussed 1.-THE
state Management of the Liquor Trat-
fic." Last night it was the mi
mitable Polk Miller in some of his
day we are to have Mr.. F. II. Busbee.
of Raleigh. who will talk on mature
Study" and as he is an enthusiast on
the subject just watch out
Other great lecturers have come
and gone and some are coming.
There's John Temple Graves, of Geoc.
gia, the Wizard of Words; DIR. w. s.
Currell, of Washington and Lee, with
his illustrations of Dante's He'll ana
Purgatory. who on Friday night is to
give us the Paradise, DIR. Thomas
Hume, who has talked of Shakespeare
and the Bible: DIR. B. f. Sledd, whc'
has given a deeper love for Southern
Poetry; Dr. Dick J. Crosby of the
National Department of Agriculture
with his illustrated lectures on Schoci
Gardens; DIR. w. /. Register with
Civilization and Nervous Exhau>
ton; Mr.. W. j. Peele with bright
lights on civil government, and Monday
night Prof Edwin Minis, of Trinity
with delicious insight into the poe
try of Sidney Lanier Others who az
yet to be heard are Governor Aycock,
DR. Charles ID. McIver, DR.. Kemp p
Battle, Henry Jerome Stockard, DR.
f. III. Lewis and others of goodly
company whose names mean eic-
quence, inspiration, instruction.
It's the greatest Summer School In
the South, excepting only Knoxville
Last year about $50 were here this
year over 700 that tells he story OF
success DR.. Geo. T. Winston, preSi-
dent Prof d. II. Hill, vice-president.
and Mr.. C. j. Parker, business man
ager of the Summer School are all to
be congratulated. They have worked.
Success is theirs, and it has come be-
cause of the splendid faculty that Is
an ''uplift' to all who sit at thcli
feet.
There's John j. Blair, of Whining
ton. [ put him first because he ana
his splendid art work are prime draw