The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1913-08-21
BtIE A ~ sroN SEMINARY An
NoiNCEMENT.

Noi NCEMENT.
Burr a Barton SEMINARY win BE-
sin the fall tenn of is eigatietl
year. Tuesday. Sept, 10, under mos
favorable anspsees and with Warrant
ed assurance OF very successfu
year in prospect
The near completion o. the new
Gymnasium Building with is nep
Science Room and other facilities
opens new chapter Ia the schools
long and interesting history.
The Teaching Eac,.
some changes win occur IN The
staff OF teachers Misses Ruth s
Perkins and Margaret L. Gilbert
nave resigned To take up special
study along social service lines, The
positions left vacant will be filled
py Miss Jane Perkins and man
teacher.
The Normal Course, introduced d
last year. will for the present. be
discontinued owing to lack OF suffi-
cient number OF candidates To form
class
The Normal Instructor. Miss Cora
II. Warner. has accepted position
elsewhere.
Miss Winifred Brush. assistant in
taaahtno ntapn usiII .,,,a, ,h. fF..oI
ers College. Columbia University
for special study
improvements and Acquisitions.
Since last falls announcement was
published, the following changes
and improvements have been made
A new recitation room was fitted
up by the trustees for use of the
Teacher Training Glass of last year.
rhe class in question furnished the
room with its complement of tables
and chairs. This room will now b,
devoted to the New Domstic Science
Department. The Trustees have al \
so constructed in the Girls Annex"
eight attractive new dormitory |
rooms, steam heated and lighted by
electricity, and have provided In the
| basement commodious toilet and
bath room for the boys with con
crete floor and open plumbing. A
new toile, room has been made
available for the girls hall These
,hanges have involved an outlay
cons' derably over 100000 They
will grealy increase the service
ability Of the Seminary and make
Tor first-class sanitary conditions.
The plumbing of the steam-heat-
er has been greatly improved at a
cost OF several hundred dollars
More remains to be done and will
be done as soon as consistently pos
sible.
Such changes as are being made
ire of substantial and perman-
mt character and have in view the
sTduldl FtuoNatioii VI thlb inv VI"
building until its physical condi- !
ton and appointments shall equal q
those of the best educational plants
elsewhere.
The students and teachers are do
ing their part also.
Partly by an entertainment tHia- I
wa.ha), partly by subscription on
the part of a few Trustees and 9th I
ers, fund was raised for providing
the Chapel with ninety school desks t
If the most modern and approved
type. at a cost of $4,000 Likewise
through the enterprise of pupils
and teachers, the Chapel has been /
replastered aud treated to two S
coats OF paint, shutters vanished, p
etc
Through the generous gifts OF
A few friends, four hundred folding a
Assembly Hall chairs at a cost 81
II $4,000 have been acquired for e
the new building. ~
a substantial beginning toward G.
aquipping the new Gymnasium has u
been made through the pledge OF u
10000 by Mr.. Dumont Clarke to- r.
ward fund for apparatus p
Funds for equipping the proposed r'
Domestic Science Department are az
urgently needed. also for the fur tt
lishing of the stage, society room, M
and science-room, and II
or the lockers In the lockerroom. al
II the new building. "
New Courses Of Study. IN
Courses In Domestic Science have 81
or some time. been under consid- n
ration, and beginning will be +
made this year. These will comprise
wo years work. one each IN
Cooking and Domestic Economy"
md one in sewing, respectively.
Conducted at first on modest fr
Gale, these courses will neverthe- Ji
ess, be very thorough going ana re
,ractical embracing an elementary ia
tudy OF the chemistry and the prin- III
iples OF cooking, cleansing agents. co
ousehold hygiene. etc, supplement m
d by actual practice on the cooking m,
ange and sewing machine. etc. lic
These will undoubtedly prove M
mong the most valuable courses in wa
be curriculum Whether as home O.
iaker, or teacher. trained nurse or by
andidate for other lines OF activity. re-
very young woman today should re- Br
aiye such excellent training as DE
lese courses afforded In our best IN.
econdary Schools. are now afford he
ig. eel
A New Departure. Of
In conneetian with these courses to
lere will this year be Instituted a tui
ew departure IN the work OF the no