The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-06
FINE FACULTIES IN
ALABAMA SCHOOLS
Universities Throughout Coun-
try Are Represented
90 HIGH SCHOOLS IN STATE
Progress of Secondary institutions of
State Is Assured In Great Num-
Der of Sympathetic Lines
Being Extended.
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, December 5.-(special)-
In the 80 high schools of Alabama 70
colleges of the country are represented
among the teaching forces. The total
number of teachers Is 345, with only 1O6
holding less than normal school diplo-
mas. OF this 106, SO did not attend any
college, the other So going only two years.
There are 1914 holding college degrees and
90 are normal school graduates
The colleges from which teachers were
graduated run the whole length of the
country The university has 20, Auburn
%, Florence normal II, Troy normal IA,
Southern university Is. University of
Nashville 10, hudson at Marion 9, Howard
8. Tuskegee Female 7, Peabody Normal,
Nashville, 9, Athens Female 5, Central
Female, Tuscaloosa, and University of
Tennessee 4 each.
Those colleges showing as many as
three are Agricultural and Mechanical of
Mississippi. Agnes Scott. University of
Chicago, Vanderbilt university, Jackson
VILE Normal, Erskine college, IS. CO,
Emory, Wellesley and University of Mis-
souri,. There are two each from Ran
dolph-Macon, University of Illinois, Johns
Hopkins, Wesleyan university (Ohio),
University of Georgia, Columbia, Alabama
Girls Industrial school, Birmingham col
lege. Southern Female (Georgia).
These have only one EACH Isabelle col
lege (Talladega), William and Mary,
Washington and Lee. University of Mich
igan, Carson and Newman, Hiawassee
(Tennessee). Brenau. Union university
(Tennessee), University of Virginia, Leb-
anon university (Tennessee), University
of the South, wooset IT, Shorter college
(Georgia), Womans, Baltimore. George
Washington university, Marion Military
(Alabama). Randolph-Macon CMen), Wes-
leyan university (Georgia), Highland
Home (Alabama), Winchester Normal
fTennessee), Richmond college, Mount
Holyoke, Oberlin. Trinity North Caro-
lina), Vassar. Albany IN. W Normal,
Princeton, Mercer university, Cornell,
Perdue Qndiana), Tulane, Hollins. Ohio
Normal, Virginia Polytechnic. otternien
(Ohio), Oberlin (Ohio), Dickinson, Univer-
sity of West Virginia, Radcliffe Q1ar-
vard)
OF the so high schools in the state there
are 20 state, with four-year courses, nine
district agricultural, with four-year
courses, eleven with four-year terms, and
20 city with the same length of service.
The number of high schools having
separate buildings is 40, those Offering
two years of French or German, 81: those
with laboratories 20, private high schools
offering French or German, 10.
Total number of pupils in high schools
this year, 1862.
j. ]. Doster, professor of secondary
education of the university, takes great
comfort in the showing made by these
figures. Think of the scope of ideals and
the experience in practice from all these
institutions brought to the Alabama high
schools, some of which are new and all
of which must be inspired by these
streams from many good sources" said
Mr.. Doster. 1.-THE progress Of the secon-
Diary institutions of the state is assured
In the great number of sympathetic lines
that will go OUT
The success of Mr.. Doster and Prof.
]. r. Rutland of Auburn, who are the
high school inspectors of the state, in
getting a good system of grading in the
new high schools is one of the forward
movements in Alabama school work.
They have brought them into close rela-
ton to the elementary schools on the
one side and the university on the other,
SO that not only they feed the university
and for all time assure its prosperity,
but they encourage high standards In the
lower schools. thus making fit the ma
terial that they must work up in the
educational economy Of the state.