The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-10-05
Notes Of Hampden.Sldney College.

The course Of lectures on Education
10 be delivered by Dr. Elmer Jones,
head of the Department Of Education
in the State Normal School, Farmyille,
will take rank among the attractions
of the winter season. There will be
ten lectures, the first, on Chinese Edu-
cation, illustrating the Oriental
methods Of teaching, and the last, on
Manual Training in the Public Schools,
exhibiting AN important phase Of the
educational work Of the day. The eX-
act dates Of the lectures, which will be
open to the public, will be announced
later.
The Limitation Of students TO 80 i'm a
class, by action Of the Board of Trus-
tees, renders advisable TO prospective
students early applications for en-
trance. 1t might be pointed out that
this year we have Z in the Senior Class,
% in the Junior, 80 inithe Sophomore
and a. i'm the Freshman.
Our good friend Dr. Hooper, Of Chris
tiansburg, has presented 10 the Col
lege two faded papers the Chapel
Rolls 1857 aud 1859. II you find
among your papers any that might be
Of value TO the College, send them in.
Vol. No. 3 Of the College Bulletin,
giving not little information about
the College, has just made il appear
ance. Il states that there are already
on the ground ia students, making
the increase i'm new men 20 percent.
and the increase IN both old and new
nearly 10 percent. already, with Others
TO come.
Due TO the increasing importance Of
experimentation in psychology, not
only as a means of scientific research
but as a pedagogical method, the Col
lege has this year established Labora-
tory Of Psychology as an adjunct to the
regular lectures and classroom work
in this subject.
The first half year will be given TO
the analysis Of complex experience in-
to its simplest terms together with an
examination Of the physical and ply
siological corralates Of experience,
Having fixed, in so far as the E ne al
lows, the dimensions Of the science the
second half year will proceed to astudy
Of synthetic psychology.
Little need to be said to the scientist
in defense Of a laboratory. There are
two ways Of learning a fact-to be told
about it and to experience it. The
second way has these advantages over
the frst-it gives the student know
ledge Of the fact, not merely belief in
the fact, and it creates memory Of
the experience which holds long after
the formulated law is forgotten. Hence
the necessity Of the empirical method
i'm science and its value in teaching.
DR.. Stevenson Smith, the professor
who Will have this WORK in charge, is
entering upon it with a saneness and
directnes that guarantee success. He
has been cordially welcomed and al
ready ranks not only as cultured
gentleman but as an inspiring teacher.
Prof Whiting, in the department Of
Latin and German, is again among
Prince Edward friends, the same ac-
curate scholar, thorough teacher, and
courteous Christian gentleman. He
occupies the home in which DR.. Peck
once lived and which he himself oc-
cupied when formerly connected with
the College.
Rarely if ever have the College
grounds appeared so beautiful As at
this season, and with the painting TO
be done this Fall the buildings will ap-
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