The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-07-02

evldences of prosperity in all section:
Oh the State. Our towns are rapid,
growing into cities, our villages int
towns, and our rural communities ar,
taxing unto themselves the ways ant
the co~nveniences of towns. This i:
all as 1T should be, and each fresh evi
n OF progress gives us reason tC
rejoice. But the greatest among al
these reasons for congratulating our
serves lies in the steady improvement
II our schools. The manner in which
cities, towns and neighborhoods are
oestirring themselves to better the
conditions Of their children by i'm
proving the schools in which they
study the first lessons of life, is most
encouraging, and we hope, ere the
summer is ended, to be able to tel
our readers of many notable improve
mehts throughout the State.
in %glancing through a few of last
weeks exchanges, we learned that
both Greenyille and Water Valley had
voted to issue bonds for the building
and equipment of fine up-to-date
school buildings. These ought TO be
ready for occupancy by the beginning
of the year 1905, by which tine, we
hope and believe, many other towns
will have followed this most excel
lent example in providing the best
possible opportunities for the chill
dren of today, and thus, for the men
and women Of tomorrow.
The Normal now in progress at the
University is as great a success as
its promoters hoped it would be. Last
years attendance reached about seven
hundred and fifty, and it is safe to
state now that this years will reach
the thousand mark.
And it ought to pass it. With the
attractive grounds, comfortable ac-
Commo0ations and u%nrivaled teaching
force, the State has provided for her
own the very best she could procure
for love or money. And it is a great
encouragement to the men who have
labored so earnestly to see that the
teachers are recognizing and en-
bracing their opportunities.
For several years past great num-
bers of our teachers have been assidu-
ously impressing upon the world at
large their belief in the truth that a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own land. To do this thoroughly
and completely. they have, with their
trunks full of lovely summer raiment,
bought their tickets for Knoxville,
Tenn, and most of them have passed
~serenely by or through u classic
little Oxford, with but a f1eetlng
thought of what great things might
be in wait for eager seekers, behind
the ivied walls, or meath the splendid
oaks of the campus. On swiftly
speeding trains they have fastened to
the quaint old college town OF TenneS-
see, all eager to sit at the feet or
these great teachers and learn what
they could never get at home. 1t
must make one of this summers look
ers on smile to hear Mississippi
teachers salving their conscience with
this good reason" while every n
knows that one of the chief attrac-
tions at the Knoxville Summer
School"-one of the very best of the
many good men in that faculty
comes from Mississippi. One of our
W university men-Dr. Saun-
ders. Perhaps if our teachers should
stand by Oxford as our own sisters
from over the line stand by Knoxville,
and if every Missisippian would do as
every Tennessean does in advertis-
ing their summer school, we, too,
might count our students by the thou
sands instead Of by the hundreds, and
would then have money to pay, and
the need to keep, all of these SPLEEN
did teachers WHO are so eagerly and
so wisely sought by other States to
lend attraction to their summer nor
mails.
Knoxville isn't so very much higher
and cooler and safer and better than
Oxford and Columbus-you know the
climate Is the chief reason for this
annual flight across the line-and one
has but to try it. 10 be SO convinced.
However, if one won't go to either
of these great summer schools right
here at home, and among ones own,
by all can go to Knoxville.
Go somewhere. to drink long
draughts from fresh fountains OF
knowledge, and seek e the
strength on which your pupils must
lean through the coming session
months until you give this opportunity
to yourself. You can not realize how
much you need refreshment and new
strength, nor how infinitely it will
benefit, through you, the children in
your charge.
Now, that each and every one of the
States great institutions of learning, |
her public and private schools, have ,
closed for the summer and commence
ments are dreams of the past, our
young people should give themselves
up to the very best and truest form
of rest and recreation, and spend as
much time as they possibly can in
the open air and sunshine with the
beautiful children of Nature as their
companions. There will be no lack.of
interest n pleasure, as we'll as bene-
fit, in this association, we assure you.
The commencement exercises of the
States great public school for girls
took place early last week, thus clos
ing the long and brilliant series of
commencement exercises in the Mis-
sissippi schools. Because of the sad
accident which brought to SO swift a
close the bright lives of two
of the /. /. and. C's. most be-
loved pupils, with the sorrowful
story of which our readers are
familiar, the closing exercises were
of a quiet nature, and at no time
was it forgotten that upon two of the
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