The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-03
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Terrell County Young Lady Writes About the Insti-
tuition and the Work 1t Is Doing
BY Mamie Fletcher.


itself, and then paint in water color.
Often we draw and PANT from ma
ture. The most important thing we
learn from this is color harmony;
that is, what cOlors will harmonic
and how 20 make them harmonic.
Over and over again does our teacher
have us study and paint color
schemes for rooms.
In the senior year is given wood
work, consisting in making screens,
easels, book cases, chairs and almost
any piece of furniture they choose
to make You would be surprised
at the work a class would accomplish
while spending from two to four
years under such excellent teachers
as Mr.. Fred Orr and Miss Annie Lin
| ton.
On the second floor are offices of
some members of the faculty; the
mathematics department with the eff
fcient teacher, Mr. T. E. Hollings-
worth, at the head, and our beloved
president. Mr.. E. c. Brunson, as as
sistant; the history department, of
which we are glad to say we have
Miss Mildred Shepperson as teacher
On this floor elementary science is
taught by Mr.. D. L. Earnest, man
who is so we'll known that no express
sion is needed to speak of his char
acter or qualifications as teacher
He is assisted by competent teach
err, Miss Chloe Allen.
The third floor is divided equally
between the two departments-do-
nestle science and physiology. Miss
| Celeste Parrish, the leading physiol-
/ ogv teacher of the south, and her
able assistant, Miss Alice Pritchard,
! conduct the physiology. The much
loved Miss Fannie Sale is teacher
| of domestic science. In this WORK
the girls learn to do housework, sew
ing and cooking Occasionally some
of the Young men take cooking.
We are so fortunate as to nave as
teacher of English Mr.. +. b. omlth,
who is considered the authority OF
the state on English. Miss Chloe
LLOYD. a former graduate OF TINS
school. is the qualified assistant.
The teacher of literature is MISS
Emily Harrison, who has spent some
time at Chicago University, one year
at Radcliffe, part OF HarVaru vi
I lege. and one year at Paris III prep
aration for her work.
We have we'll prepared teachers
for the different languages. Latlh Is
Taught by Miss Ida Young, French by
Mr. Joseph Lustreat, a Frencnhl man
| German and Greek by MISS LOUISE
Sprout, a German. ~
/ Under the talented teacheTS' MI
C. s. Stanage and Miss Claire Har-
den. students have excellent adVaht-
ages in music. Common school mu-
sic is compulsory .,oo
Last but not least is the practice
school, a building three stories III
height. The first floor is used 10,
the phvsical culture exercises, ana
the other two are divided into CLASS
rooms for the children.
The curriculum of this school eX-
tends through the eighth grade. An
the regular teachers are graduates
of the Normal. This practlce schOol
was established for the enenV VI ClIe
Normal students, who, when seniors,
teach there under the critical eye Vi
the regulars. ,-4o,-o,,
MANY people have the mistaken
idea that there is nothing at TINS 5
school elevating in the way OF social
and religious life. The girls are
divided into two progressive literary
societies. For this year one has tax
len up the work of English authors
the other that of American writer's.
The voung men have two debating
societies. which often come together
in nnbIfc debates. There is the Satur-
day Night Round Table, win MI