The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-06-28
AUSPICIOUS
OPENING
FIRT WEEK OF TENN.
NORMAL
and David
son Represented.
Negro Teachers Receive Best of
Training-Negro Farmer in De-
mand-Strong Lectures Will
be Heard at SchooI-ExceI-
lent Faculty Selected.

The first week of the Summer
School of the Agricultural and Indus
trial State Normal School recently
erected by the State of Tennessee for
tho benefit of Negroes proves that the
new Institution is going to be inn
mensely popular with the colored
people of the state and country. Fully
$50 teachers from all sections of this
State, from Alabama, Mississippi Ar
kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, North
Carolina and Missouri are attending
the Summer School, with the largest
numbers coming from Davidson and
Hamilton counties More than eighty
came from Chattanooga, the home of
w. j. Hale, the president of the in
stitution.
The Summer School represents the
beginning of the work of the school,
which is designed primarily to pre-
pare Negro teachers for their work
IN training other Negroes in the pub
lie schools not only in academic work
but in agriculture and mechanical
arts.
Particular emphasis is being placed
upon agriculture, inasmuch as Ten
nessee is an agricultural state, and
a large proportion of the states
farming interest is in the hands of
Negroes as farmers and farm labor
ers. The course offered in the Sum-
mer School are teachers professional,
primary methods, industrial, literary
and scientific, supplemented by lee
lures from such individuals as j. w.
Brister, State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction; S, A. Mynders, Pres
ident of Western State Normal
School; Capt. Thomas H. Peck, of
the Department of Agriculture; DIR.
R. Q. Lilliard, of the Department Of
Health, and DR.. H. H. Shoulders.
The Normal is being erected by
the State at cost of approximately
100000 and already two of the larg-
er buildings are completed, the main
building and a dormitory for girls.
The dormitOry for boys and the heat
ing and lighting plant are now in
course of erection. The farm, which
consists of 165 acres, is in charge of
Mr.. B. ]. Carr. The Board of
Trustees have taken on a high stand
with reference to the needs and i'm
pOrtance of the work and have the
open endorsement and support of all
the leading Negroes of the State.
In discussing the outlook for the
first years work and the attitude Of
the colored people, President Hale
said, Zone of the most encouraging
features in connection with the open
ing Of our Summer School was the
very spirit that animated all the
teachers who have come from differ
ent points, representing the best
people among us, many of them grad
yates from leading colleges and uni
Verslties. These teachers, without
one exception, put on their old
clothes, scrubbed washed windows,
carried out rubbish and did other
tasks Of a like nature necessary to
get the two completed buildings in
shape for the opening. This repre-
sents the very thing that the State
school is designed to teach, that
labor is necessary and honorable. and
these teachers from all points in the
State, doing these things so willing
ly that few years ago, Negro edu.
Gators would not like to have done,
shows that our people everywhere are
grasping the sanctity of this idea"
President Hale has on his Summer
School faculty some of the best and
most prominent Negro educators in
the country among them Prof. w.
H. Singleton, of Chattanooga; Hoard
Fl. Robinson, of Oberlin; Miss Mac
c. Halves, of Atlanta and Columbia
Universities; Miss Edwina Smith. of
Pratt Institute; Misses Lillian Dean
Allen and Hattie e. Hodgkins. of
Fisk University; Prof. J. B. Bate,
of Nashville; Miss Laura Carey Prof
H. R. Merry, GAINESVILLE; Miss B.
P. Parmenter Mrs. Watson, Mrs
Brown, Prof. A. M. Meeks. Hampton
and Tuskegee Institutes. The regular
session will begin in September. by
which time the faculty will have been
increased to sixteen members. and
three buildings ready for occupancy.
The Institution will in every way
rank with the best Normal Schools
Of the country, and has at its head
an experienced educator.