The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-13
SUMMER NORMAL
 OF BROAD SCOPE President Whitfield Is Prepar-
 ing for Teachers Course MANY SPECIAL FEATURES Great Attention Will Be Given to Agri-
MANY SPECIAL FEATURES
Great Attention Will Be Given to Aari- cultural Subjects, With Practical Work and Subjects of h.
 terest to Women.

Columbus, Miss, March 12.-(SpeciaI 1- President Whitfield of the Industrial In- stltute and College is making plans for the most extensive summer normal school ever held In Mississippi, to be held at the local college from June 15 to Julv 10. The agricultural department will be a feature for by that time the ground now In cultivation under supervision of R. $. Wilson, state agent for the United States cooperative demonstration work. with headquarters in Columbus, will be bearing Of product, and those in attend ance upon the normal can have actual demonstration in this new field of college work.
 MT. Whitfield has recently issued booklet which goes into great detail con- cerning the coming normal. In this book let is pointed out that the Industrial Insti ute and College, "Mississippis pride,' is better prepared and equipped in every way to conduct the great normal than ever before. All 10 of the immense build ings which compose the school are prac- tieally under one roof. The work of making every nook and corner of every building completely sanitary was accomp- lished during vacation time last year From end to end and bottom floor to gar rets, every building is as clean as a pin and perfectly equipped for it's great work
 The new gymnasium, containing a large swimming pool, and every apparatus nec- essary for the education of the body" as MT. Whitfield calls it. has been com pleted. Athletics Is one of the hobbies" MT. Whitfield is accomplished w,,.. HI. believes in training physically as we'll as mentally and the normal will have a thorough course in physical training planned.
 To all Mississippians the potency of the scientific study of agriculture is obvious. MT. Whitfield believes in this, too, and IS endeayoring to educate Mississippi women along line that they will be com petent to manage their own landed in- terests or else be of valuable assist ance to their fathers, brothers or hus- bands in future years in this same voca- tion. The plot of ground being cultivated by Mir. Wilson is near the college campus, and the work thereon is attracting great Interest among many students, and will no doubt be equally as attractive to the older students next summer.
 Another new feature will be course in home sick nursing, conducted by Miss An derson, and other subjects will be taught by different members of the faculty, as follows: Physics. Miss Cora Q. Walker; home science, Miss Mabel Ward; geog- raphy Miss Nellie Kefrn; physical train ! ing, Miss Adele Koch; pedagogy and psychology, Miss Annie L. Fant; Eng gltsh, Misses Emma May Laney and Mamie Rice; mathematics, Misses Byrd Walker and Lena Ellington; history, Miss Belle Woods Montgomery; Latin. Miss Cornelia Hudson; drawing and school art, Miss M. H. Pennell civics, Prof. T. F. McBeath; sight singing, Miss Gertrude Crawford; sewing, Miss Jeffie Johnson primary work. Miss Annie L. Faust and corps of competent assistants.
 During the progress of the normal Presi- dent Whitfield will deliver lectures on the following subjeces: Why Is the Agri- cultural School Necessary? "The Relation of an Agricultural High School to Agri- culture" "The Curriculum of Agricultural High Schools, "Thc Relation of Agri- cultural High Schools to the Common Schools and Colleges" and "An Agricul- tural High School at Work"