Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-05-25
THE COLLEGE HERE
HAS NO SUPERIORS
And Doubtful If Any 9th +
is It's Peer.
E 1ucator Gives Fiig h
Praise to I bird Dis
trict School.

trict Agricultural College is stronger,
superior to any of the other colleges
of this character / have visited IN
no respect does it appear inferior to
them. 1t appears to me a well-rOun l.
ed institution along the lines marked
out for it's work. l should say with
emphatic positiveness that it is max
ing good in fact that It has already
made good and demonstrated that it
is here to serve a most useful purpose
in the development of Georgia."
This was the comment made by
Mr.. NJ. l.. Duggan in talking with a
Times-Recorder representative rela-
tive to the Americus agricultural col
lege, at which he had just passed an
entire day.
Mr.. Duggan is thoroughly compe-
tent to judge and his words carry with
them the force that comes from a life
time devoted to the educational needs
Of the state. Mr.. Duggan is county
school commissioner of Hancock coun-
ty, where he has introduced a numbet
of progressive movements, and he is
also one of the directors of the Tenth
District Agricultural College.
Has Visited Several Colleges.
81 have visited several of the dis
trict colleges, have learned all I could
about them and their methods of op-
GRAFTON, and intend to visit the others
as opportunity offers. I had heard A
great deal about the college here and
decided to see for myself whether the
reports of the progress made here
were well based. I am now satisfied
that they We're. My days experience
at the college has removed any lin
gering doubts and has convinced me
that the Third District College has eS-
fectually demonstrated the wisdom of
the state in creating these institutions.
have never seen an educational in
stitution whose work had a closer ap-
better calculated to turn out all-round
men and women, full of ambition and
equipped with exact, definite know
ledge of a practical character. When
saw, for instance, one of the girls
giving a cooking demonstration and
then showing what she could do in the
sewing line, and little later on pro-
viding some sweet piano music, felt
convinced that a high type of useful
cultured help-meets were being edu-
Gated here, women who will help to
make the future Georgians a race OF
able, strong, noble men and women
And the boy who, in addition to the
field work, can make a plowsharc
or any other tool of the farm, can keep
/ an ordinary set oe books, can turn
out and drill like a soldier, and then
can ravish the ear with sweet strains
from a brass instrument, is pretty
apt to be a man worthy of such a
woman, men who will be great fac
tors in the future welfare of the state
and nation.
The Military Feature.
'I was doubtful as to the advisable
ity of the military feature before
came to Americus," continued NJ
Duggan. Military life and agricul-
ture are opposites. But from what
learned I appreciated the value of this
feature in creating obedience to dis
cipline, in giving the boys better
carriage, in awakening iu them d
higher sense of patriotism, in Civ
ing them alertness of mind and body
and instilling a proper pride in per-
sonal appearance So I am not sc
much from Missouri now on the mil
itary proposition as I was, especially
as there seems to be no desire to lei
it assume other than a reasonable
subordinate position in the work oi
the college"
Among the other visitors at the
commencement exercises this week
has been Mr.. A. L. Todd, assistant
school commissioner OF Tennessee
That state has been thinking OF put
ting in three agricultural colleges
Mr. Todd had heard OF what wa" be-
ing done at Americas and came here
to sac for himself and secure all the
information possible. He was tX-
tren ely interested and expressed him
self as well pleased witt the work
done here.