The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-06-01

been done during the past year in the
departments of manual training. art
and writing by the high school pu-
pills. was Monday afternoon displayed
10 the public at the Hampton school
building and II was very large num-
Of persons who spent from ten min
utes tn more than an hour I'm looking
over the exhibits and expressing their
approval of what they saw.
Approval Is the proper word to be
used. for there were none who saw
who did not approve and commend in
glowing terms the excellence of the
thousand or more things To be seen.
all Of Them being To a more or less
degree interesting. according to- the
taste of the visitor. The only fault
one had To find was the profusion of
pieces in the display. thereby maxi
ing II an impossibility To examine each
piece with the minuteness which he
or she might have liked to use in
passing Judgment. On the whole.
however. the reporter saw a great deal
and examined a large number of ex-
hibits from various grades and he
thought the work was extremely good
and he heard so many of those pres
ent say IL was excellent, I'm varying
degrees. that he will commend II to
the public at large. who did not have
the pleasure of seeing the exhibit for
itsself. as being of high order Of
excellence and worthy of lengthy
visit and n considerable degree of
attention.
The impressions as gained by vis-
itor were many and varied. First,
exhibits were not the only thing to
demand attention. for there were a
number of the high school present
and large number OF visitors. on
presenting himself at the school. the
visitor was welcomed i'm fitting man
ner and ushered upstairs by one of
the members of the graduating class
from the Hampton school. Here he
was given the chance to speak to
other visitors. To- teachers. and was
kindly waited on by pupils of the
high school who insisted on his re-
freshing himself with nice cool LEM
onade which they seemed to have for
his special benefit. Following the
pupils took turns I'm showing the ex-
hibits To him and telling him how
they were made and how much inter-
est the pupils took In their work and
how there was always friendly
rivalry between them In the making
for the commentator Of their teach
er. The teachers also took a hand
In showing the visitors around and
telling him their part of the story Of
how the work was accomplished. all
Of which was I'm itself as interesting
as were the exhibits themselves. In
the meanwhile the pupils took turns
In playing on the piano. affording
music which Of itself was very pleas
ing and seemed To add interest To the
visit.
The exhibits, of course. were not
neglected by the visitor. These were
placed In greatest profusion around
the walls of the room. on tables and
at every place where there was any
space for them. The first were those
Of the tenth grade boys and girls and
went on To those Of the fifth grade
pupils. the lowest grade taught i'm the
grammar school department. The
high school department. however.
had the greatest number of exhibits
and 10 was their work which showed
up sO we'll and attracted the greater
amount of attention. probably be-
cause Of the fact that they had OBJ
tained excellence through length of
service in these lessons. All Of the
exhibits were interesting and showed
the painsts king care of the pupils
and the accurate training which
they had received from their teach
ers in order % accomplish such work.
This Is the second year that the
Palmer method of writing has been
taken up in the high school ana the
first year in which there has been
supervising p.'i"clpa! in this de-
p1rtucnt. Miss T.. w. Mclean has
had charge of the department and
the number "f fine exhibits showed
what had hceu dom under her tutc-
lagv There were exhibits iu this de-