The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-10
NORMAL SCHOOL FL0URISHES
DESPITE WORLDS FAIR.
Attendance mt Summer Session OF
WarensburE Institution Is Quite
Up to the Standard.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Warrensburg, No., July s-Although the
Worlds Fair has proved the strongest
kind of an attraction TO the teachers of
Missouri. appealing to them as school
Of instruction in itself unique and not to
be missed by any educator of ambition.
the summer session of the Warrensburg
Normal has proven as large a success as
any Of past years. The attendance at the
first term OF the summer session which
closed last Wednesday. has been $50 One
hundred and seventy-one were men and
359 women.
Many new students will enroll with the
beginning OF the second term Thursday.
Not only has the summer session grown
steaUly. year by year, till it now is as
large as the regular session Of the nor
NAL but an analysis of the character of
the attendance and the work done serves
to emphasize the Importance OF the sum-
mer session. Sixty counties of Missouri
are represented In the. present session.
States. OF the $50 students enrolled. sls
are graduates Of high schools. twenty
three are college graduates. and thirty
six are graduates of advanced normal
specially provided at the summer school
SiXty-one are suparintendents or princi-
pals of city or town schools in Missouri:
106 are teachers from city or town grade
and high schools. and Z35 are teachers
from rural schools. Many OF these teach
ers have had from six to ten years ex-
perience and one has taught for thirty
three years.
One Of the most popular features Of the
summer school Is the opportunity offered
to graduates of advanced normal courses
A: b. degrees These graduate courses
offered by the summer school are in ad-
dition to the full number of courses of
fered during the regular session. For this
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summer session and several additional in
structors are required to carry on the
graduate work.
A total Of seventy-ive courses are being
taught at this summer normal by thirty
one professors and instructors
They may be grouped as follows: Pro-
fessional: ten: English. seven: history and
csvics. nine: mathematics eight science
fifteen: foreign language. twelve; manual
training. four: drawing. three: music,
three; physical culture, two; kindergarten,
two.
Forty-nine student-teachers are teach
ing in the training school where l4s chill
dren are enrolled. In addition, there are
twenty children in the kindergarten.
One of the most interesting events of the
second term of the summer session, which
began this week. will be the laying of the
corner stone of the new $4,000 gymnasium
now being erected of brick and stone
This ceremony will take place early in
July.
Speaking Of the success of the summer
school. Professor ]. NJ. Gwinn. who has
the chair OF educational economy and
methods in the normal. said to The Re-
public.
I'VE feared that the Worlds Fair would
reduce the attendance of our summer
school to just about half what It was last
year. To our surprise and extreme graft
fication, the attendance is only forty-five
smaller than It was last summer: The
character Of the students enrolled Is a
further source Of pride to the faculty,
there being so large number of super
intendents and principals, high school
school teachers. graduates of colleges and
advanced normal courses as to clearly at
test the esteem In which our summer
school Is held by the teachers of Missouri,
and the Southwest generally"