Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-23
TEACHERS TAKE
SUMMER COURSE
idany RegIstsr al University
Of Pennsylvania.
TERRI IS SIX Weeks
Every Branch of knowledge Covered
Up-to-Date Model Schooi-Womer
to Use Dormitories and Swimming .
PooI-SehoIarships Offered.

TO use DormitorieS and swimming 3
PooI-SchoIarships offered.
School teachers from nearly every
county in the state are registering for
the coming session of the Summer
School of the University of Pennsyh
vania. The term will begin on July j
and will continue for six weeks until
August 16. Lectures upon almost every
branch of knowledge, together with
excursions about Philadelphia and So
cial entertainments of various kinds,
will combine to make a pleasant va
cation for the students.
The feature which is attracting the
greatest number of persons is the
School of Observation. This is a model
school which will be conducted by
sixteen of the most expert teachers in
the United States. These instructors
have been selected from the cities
throughout the country which are be
lieved to have the finest systems of
public education. The model school
will have eight grades, two of which
will be ungraded. There will be
teacher In charge of each of the
grades, while the eight other teachers
will demonstrate how children should
be taught music, gymnastics, swim
ming, gardening and industrial work.
For Rural Teachers.
Especial attention will be paid to
the ungraded work, which will be con.
Quoted with view to helping the
teachers in the rural districts solve
some of the problems which confront
them. The famous Batavia system of
individual instruction will also be il
lustrated by an exponent of that
method. About 200 children will act
as the pupils for the model school,
which is located on the edge of the
university campus. The sessions of
the school will be from nine until
half past eleven every morning. Dur
ing this time the regular primary and
grammar school branches will be
taught the children, together with
half hour of organized play and ply,
sical exercise.
For the remainder of the day the
men and women who register in the
Summer School will be able to pursue
no prescribed work. The teachers viii
be permitted to do just as much or as
little as they like.
The courses in psychology are eX
pected to be the most popular. There
are thirteen of these, a majority Of
which have to do with the study of
the child. An exhibition class Of
twenty backward children will be
taught by Miss Elizabeth Farrell, in
spector of ungraded classes in New
York city. She will show how the il
corrigible, stupid and retarded boys
and girls who visit the psychological
clinic of the university may be edu
Gated. Another of the courses in psy
chology is that in educational psv
chology which considers the develop
ment of the child from the germ cell
to the age of fourteen years and dis
cusses the Influences of heredity, en-
vironment and disease.
Special Gymnasium Work.
The university gymnasium will he
thrown open to the students in the
Summer School. A corps of docto s,
professors and instructors will deliver
lectures and illustrate methods Of
physical training which will enable
the students to qualify as physical
directors. Both men and women are
registering for this course. During
certain hours the university swimming
pool will be reserved exclusively for
the women.
An abundance of courses is offcrel
in all of the modern and ancient Ian
guages. in history, the fine arts, in SO.
ciology, economics, the sciences and
architecture. In addition the students
will find plenty of opportunity for so
cial pleasures. Popular lectures, re-
ceptions, teas and excursions through
Philadelphia and the vicinity will con.
tribute to the amusement and recrea-
tion of men and women alike Trips
also will be taken in connection with
some Of the courses, as in physical
and commercial geography and botany.
The students in geography will visit
the wharves and docks of Philadelph' a
and will be given in this way an idea
of the vast shipping interests of the
state. They will also inspect repre-.
sentative manufactures in and about
the city Those who take the course
in botany will not only make eXcur
sions to the haunts of the variou;
local wild flowers, but will also have
the use of the botanic gardens and
the hot houses of the university, in
which grow every species of plant
Two of the best houses in the dor
Initory sys tenn have been reserved fol
the women. In charge of these will be
responsible chaperons. The houses will
be separated from those occupied by
the men by the entire length of the
system. A large reception room il
one of the dormitory houses will fur
nish a social center for the students
Through the agency of the Mothers