The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-07-20
MR.. BRADLEY Al KNOXVILLE.
He Writes Interestingly Of the High
School, the Rivers, the Parks, Etc.

nessee river with the great Smokey noun
tains in the distance. The grounds are
laid off in cement and gravel walks which
wind in and out among the buildings anc
under trees planted by former classmen O.
the University and which are marked by
engraved marble posts. A spreading elm
tree has at its foot a marble post on which
is engraved the "class Of 49," another, an
oak, has q marble post at its root with the
''class of 70" engraved thereon.
THE CAMPUS COURSE.
Under these spreading elms sundry
young pedagogues Of both sexes take what
is popularity known as "The Campus
Course" On any fair day, especially in
the cleaning, they may be seen by two's
in silent isolation dotting the college
scenery here and there with happy blotches
Of abandon, making pictures such as you
frequently see accompanied with the little
boy with the "bownarrow," as we used to
say. This Campus Course seems to be
very popular, judging from the number OF
pedagogues enrolled.
WHAT ONE MAY STUDY AT THE SUMMER
SCHOOL.
The average student is overwhelmed by
the comprehensiyeness Of the school.
When he sees the courses Of study laid out
before him he is perplexed by their com
plexlty. There is Kindergarten, primary
methods, grade. literature, games for
school room and play ground, a course In
story telling which Is very popular, school
music, drawing, art, arts and crafts, de-
sign, manual training, including basketry,
paper folding, mechanical drawing, wood
worksfor teachers Of grammar school, art
metal work In copper and brass, arts-craft
In hard wood and metal trimmings, etc.
And then there Is expression, physical
training, home economics, agriculture, in
Guiding agronomy, animal industry, horti-
culture, plant life, agricultural education,
etc. And then comes biology and physi-
ology and hygiene and geology and geo.
graphy and physics and astronomy and
chemistry and arithmetic and algebra and
geometry and trigonometry and hualyti-
zeal geometry and calculus and latin, from
Caesars day down to 1910, and Greek and
German and Spanish and French and Ital-
ian and history, taught by ten professors,
and civics and economics and English
grammar and composition and rhetoric
and English literature and lectures and
readings and plays and music festivals
and-but why go any further2 Any
course of study you may wish Is here.
From sansrit to sociology, from a, b, cs to
the fourth dimension.
In dispensing knowledge to the peda-
gogues there are over n hundred teach
ers and lecturers employed. There are
teachers from the South, from England,
from Canada, from Ireland, from Wales,
from the West, from the Hes Of the Sea,
and globe ~trotters from everywhere.
There are at present two and one-half
thousand pedagogues enrolled. They
come from everywhere. Youngsters who
are out for a good time and are having 1t;
elderly matrons with stern co%untenances
and "'pinch" more specs, trying to imbibe
1910 methods and shake off the old meth
DDS. The old country school "marster" Is
here, confused by the multiplicity and nov
city Of the courses. He usually sticks to
the ancient fundamentals, Readin', Ritin'
Rithmetic. Specialists are here from the
cities to take special courses. The direc-
tor of games In the New Orleans schools
Is here taking a course in how to amuse
children to recess. Games for children
play a prominent part in the summer
school curriculum.
BAsKETRY.
One of the best attended and most popu-
lar courses here is the course in basketry.
Imagine fifty pedagogues busy making
baskets. This work is for the third, fourth
and fifth grades and is a sort of introduce
ton to manual training which finds a
place now in every progressive school.
The little fellows delight in the work and
go at it with an avidity that is astonish-
ing.
The material for making the baskets
mats, etc., comes from the Island of NADIA
gascar. It is the inner bark Of tree. The
baskets look something like Indian work
and make not only an ornament but also q
useful household utensil.
PRIMARY WORK.
More attention Is given to primary
methods than any n subject. In order
to teach teacher primary methods proper
ly primary classes OF children are neces-
sary and these have been provided for the
summer school by the city. However,
there are not enough children to go round
and where the instructor has not the chill
dren she simply plays like the teachers are
children. Superintendents get into these
classes free, but they should pay at least
q quarter each hour, for in the way Of
amusement it Is ahead of the average
vaudeville. The teacher Of these classes
in every instance Is a live wire, a hustling,
energetic, up-to-the-hour instructor who
knows how to get results. She talks to
and questions the pedagogues just as If
they were children, has them to race
around the room just as If they were tots,
and to see how difficult it is for some of
the pedagogues to climb down off their
dignity and play and act like a child is
amusing. In these classes there are teach
erS old and pray and teachers Young and