The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-09-14

the young ladies is provided in tn.
main building. I.
All these things look like a ''move.
ment" of, themselves, but they arr
really only q beginning of what is in
the minds of the people. The great.
est thing is the stimulus that has been
given. The men that fought 50
~valiantly to get all political parties
and factions together for the stroke
that won the establishment of the
Industrial Institute and its location
are now working just as hard to de-
velop the primary and elementary
schOOls-bOth in their own parishes
and in the neighboring parishes. The
first step after getting the Industrial
Institute under way was to get a
trained schOolman for Superintendent
OF the public schools of the parish.
This was done. The schools have inn
proved. The Police Jury gives more
money. The citizens subscribe liber-
ally. They take interest. in their
schools. The teachers are well trained
and full of energy. They continually
strive to improve their teaching. The
Board has improved their pay. Both
will do still better in the future. The
next large thing to be done to Lafa-
yetee will probably be the erection
somehow of a splendid modern brick
structure for a city high school. The
need for it is seen and it will be done.
In ten years, in fact, all the towns of
southwest Louisiana will have done
the same thing, and thereby the most
powerful nucleus for continued
growth will have been established.
One of the most important functions |
the Industrial Institute has hitherto
performed has been that of serving as
a factor in this great popular move
ment. 1t stands as a ~rallying point
for the educational forces of the Sur
rounding country, a challenge to
those who fear self taxation for educa-
ton, an objective point for the chill
dren of all the lower schools to look
forward to. Four times within the
present year the Institute received
great public gatherings in the in
terest of education: First in January.
q meeting of five neighboring schools,
Scott, Pilette, Carencro,
and Lafayette; was held for the Op-
Dortunity of holding joint exercises
Incidental to the opening of the new
school term. Second in March, the
Agricultural Society and
Stock Breeders Association held
heir annual convention in the Insti- '
ute AuditOrium; and the lectures and
discussions which they had during
hree days were SO instructive and
to all who attended, whether I
or laymen, that the meeting {
'Ould be rightly considered part of {
n educational course in agriculture I
nd industrial development Thirdly, S
April Is, the athletic track meet
nd ~OratOrical contest OF the high
of southwest Louisiana was
ED, resulting in one of the most inn I
ortant organizations among the
chools OF the State. Schools were
from Leesville, Marks y
lille, Franklin, Crowley, Lake +
Lafayette, and others be- !.
ldes the Institute, and the Lake v
harles High School actually brought y
students over to Lafa- a
cite to attend the events. FOurthly, n
April 30 there was held at the r.
probably the largest gather n
g of school children eve, assembled
the ~State-called the first annual
of all the schools of Lafa-
ute Parish. l.
TWO THOUSAND CHILDREN
arched in q column q mile long.
lssing in review of the Governor of
e State and then assembled and
'ng america" together, and after !.
ards joined in a most interesting "
concluding with a strong u
ldress on education by the Gov 81
nor. And finally the school teach N
S of the town and parish hold meet ;s
Us at the Institute every month to =,
scuss their own professional inn :
ovement, and during the next al
holidays there will be held
the auditorium the great Conven-
of the Public School Teachers of