The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-27

School ROOM in which the Phonic Method
of teaching beginners was taught, has
been especially helpful to me this year.
mo feature of the Summer School was
more profitable or enjoyable to me than
the practice school l trust that the past
term is but he beginning of the many
successful ones yet to come"
Il expect to attend your Summer School.
was very much pleased with the school
last summer and feel like l can not say
too much for it. The benefit l received
has paid me several times"
'The work last summer was a success
indeed 1t was a source of much pleas
ure and benefit to me-"
Resolutions offered and unanimously
adopted bv the students:
''Resolved, % That the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, with its breezy
rooms, beautiful campus. and attractive
SURROUNDINGS is an ideal place Tor a
Summer School.
..(2) That the School here has been an
ideal school. stimulating, instructive and
poWer-giving.
.(3l That we commend its methods and
its teaching staff as in every way worthy
of the confidence and support OF the
teachers in and out of the State.
90 That our hearty thanks are OK
pressed to President Winston and the
other managers of the School, to Mr.. B. S.
Skinner for his admirable management of
the dining-hall, to the papers of the State
for their excellent reports of the proceed
ings. and to the citizens of Raleigh for
their courteous and Warln-hearted hos
pitality.''
WHAT RALEIGH'S NEWSPAPERS SAID
From editorial in the News and Obser-
yer, August l, 1903:
The session of the Summer School,
conducted at the A. and NJ. College, came
to an end Yesterday. It has been a sue
cess in every way. 1t has brought to Raj
eigh several hundred of the flower of the
State-men and women who have conse.
Grated their lives to the education OF the
children While they have learned better
methods and exchanged ideas, the city
has been helped by their presence. They
have made July the pleasantest month OF
the year, and brought entertainment, in
struction and diversion to all the Raleigh
people who have been wise enough 10 at
tend the lectures and entertainments that
have frightened the month.
THE instruction has been OF high or
der. The success Of the School has demon
strated that right here at home we have
talent second to none. They have nGt
only done faithful and excellent work, but
the instructors have stimulated the
teachers with a new zeal and enthusiasm,
and inspired them with nobler concep-
ton of their high calling. The good et-
feet of this Summer School will be felt
in every school touched by its influence.
1.-THE people of Raleigh say goodbye
to the neutrality-suspicious. the scores
of beautiful women pedagogues-wIth
genuine regret, consoled only by the hope
that they are all as much in love with
Raleigh as Raleigh is in love with them,
and that when the Summer School OF
1904 opens, every one OF them VIII re-
cord their names on the roll.
1T has been estimated that the value
of school property of the city approx'mates
one million dollars. Why should this en-
ornous outlay of capital lie idle several
months of each year? The example of
the summer term set by the University
of Chicago is spreading all over the
country. The Southern teachers can not
expect to keep pace with the teachers OF
the North if they waste the period ex-
tending from the last Of May till the mid
die of September. Our climate is not
hot enough 20 demand such a wasteful
sacrifice of time and opportunity. The
great civilizations built up around the
Mediterranean Sea prove that such eli
mate as ours is not inimcal to the devel-
opment of the highest forms of culture
that are made possible only through in
cessant toll"
Great preparations have been made for
the 1904 session. Entertainment Will be
provided for all who come.
The Prospectus, containing As pages, is
now in thc hands of the printer. 1t IS
handsomely illustrated and will be of III
terest to any teacher. A copy may be
had by addressing Mr.. Chas. j. Parker,
Secretary and Business Manager, Raj
egh. n. G.