Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
Summer School of the South

THOUSANDS. of teachers, and particularly those
in Southern states, will be interested in the
announcement that on June the eighteenth
the Summer School of the South, which is conducted
at Knoxville by the University of Tennessee, will
begin the most attractive and, what promises to be-
the fruitful session of its history. The session will
continue through July the twentysixth, term of
six weeks, a good vacations length. 1t should be
stated that the financial support of this school is
derived from liberal subscriptions from the people
of Knoxville, from the county government, the uni
versity itself and from friends of education in all
parts of the Union Only a nominal fee is charged
the student. The official announcement in the Uni
versty of Tennessee Record says in part:
This school was established in response to a de-
mand from the progressive teachers of the South
for summer school of high grade at aceessi-
BILE central point, with good summer climate and
attractive surroundings, and where good board and
comfortable lodging for large numbers of people
be had at reasonable rates. From the beginning its
has been unprecedented giving it the reputa
ton of being one of the largest and best summer
schools for teachers in the world. Every year i'm
portant new features have been added to meet
demands. Changes have been made as the need
for them has been indicated by experience The ad-
vantages offered this year greater than be-
FORE giving to Southern teachers their best oppor-
tunity for improvement.
The attendance at all these sessions has been
large the average enrolment being over two thou
sand-24S2 last year. Nearly all states of the I'm
ion have been represented including all the South
ern states. Among the students nave been teachers
of all grades-kindergartens, teachers of rural
schools grade teachers, department supervisors in
city schos city and county superintendent princi
pals and teachers of high schools and academies,
college professors-and all have found work adapted
to their special wants and general lectures and
tertainments attractive and stimulating to ALL
The presence of so large a number of men and
women of sound scholarship and fine culture, repre-
senting all phases of educational life, associated
terms of familiar equality, in itself gives to the
school superior educational and social value The
fact that ALL whatever may be the special interests
of individuals, come together to listen to the many
excellent lectures educational principles, practices
and politics. and that all alike join freely in the dis
cusson of the educational conferences have made
this the most powerful single influence in the recent
rapid educational development in these states. No
where else do so many Southern teachers meet to
work together, to learn to know each other and to
inspire each other to greater efforts.
The Summer School has the use Of the entire
plant equipment of the University including dor
mitores and dining halls recitation rooms, aborato
ries shops libraries museums farms, gardens, green
houses, etc. It has open Pavilion seating $500
people, assembly room.
Many improvements have been made recently in
the laboratories.
From Washington, D. C., Cincinnati, O.. Evans
ville Ind, Cairo, Ill, and from agency stations in
the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac and
of the Mississippi river all the main lines of rail-
will sell round trip tickets to Knoxville at the
price of standard frst-class fare (about cents
a mile) plus Is cents. Similar rates are offered
from points in Indiana and Illinois, along the lines
of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, Louisville
and Nashville Louisville, Hendersonville and St.
Louis, Mobile and Ohio and Illinois Central rail-
roads, including st. Louis, Mo. Application has been
made for reduced rates from the territory west of
the Mississippi river, and it is expected such rates
will be made. f,sII.1. tsu.t4nn