Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-07-02
NEARLY 600 TEACHERS ATnENp.
Forty-Two South Carolina Counties
Represented at Summer School.

Rock Hill, June 29.-About four
hundred and fifty teachers are as
sembled at Winthrop Collega,now at
tending the sumemr school. These
teachers represent forby-tYol of the
forty-four counties in the State, to-
gether with some from the. State, of
Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
The enrolment; !; Is increasing. daily.
Recitattoms begin. before. breakfast
at Winthrop and continue, through
the day. AT Gas students: are seen
coming from the dormitories to at
tend nature and gymnastic classes,
music and mathematics. " From this
time on up. to- eventide winthrop Is
like busy hive. Perhaps the most
notable thing about this summer
school is its spirit OF willing work
and personal INTEREST
At 1920 each morning the student
body and faculty assemble for. chapel
and open hour in the auditorium
After chapeliisltheo opanshour. Dur
ing this hour DR.. Bailiatt dean OF
New York; University. speaks oIp ed
ucations Or, Ballet. has a. country
wide fame. Perhaps, the. greatest
man in the United States In. the
realm of elementary education. ne
places, the problem of the child mind
very simply and: clearly before the
students. People, from Rock Hill
drift In to. hear him because his
theme is one OF notEonly school, but
of universal interest.
So the day goes. ON at Winthrop.
The evenings, that time of relaxa-
tion when one may enjoy the campus
to the full, are often filed with in
teresting programs
Evening Observation-Disclosures
A course OF lectures; on. school san
itation by DR.. Ward a, Iantern-siide
talk on the schools. of Switzerland by
Mr.. Tate and a recital given by Mrs.
Burnley, well known New York Inn
personator, shows the, variety in the
evening form Of entertainment. The
evening attendance Is by. no means
compulsory. Some of the evening en-
tertainments have am educational
turn, while Others are: purely pleas
urable.
Each Given, Chance.
Whenever there Is any one at Win
throp who has special message
which shoum be. heard by the student
body, DR.. Johnson allows time for
such talk. Miss Parrott, State or
ganizer of Canning and Poultry
Clubs, told of her Work, which in it's
practical application means so much
Another morning Miss Frayser, ex-
tension worker of Winthrop College
in mill villages aud rural communal
ties, gave an intensely interesting ac-
count of the work done in these COM
munities. This, is a pioneer work
which stirred the interest of all. Mrs.
Burnley, South Carolina woman,
gives sketches of negro life with a
fiayor all It's o%R, and she impeVson-
ates child to perfection.
The past week at Winthrop has
been given over to q meeting of
county superintendents. About tI1ir-
ty superintendent are in attendance
The presence of these gentlemen has
added much to the interest. One
evening the members OF tho Rock
Hill Alfalfa Association gave a DEM
onstration> Automobiles took the
superintendent and others interest
ed In the work to the college farm to
see the results on crop of corn
planted on alfalfa land and a crop
rotation which Is now being worked
out. Prof. Weeks gave an interest
ing talk on the work and plans of the
alfalfa association, which numbers
just ninety-nine to be exact.
Public Iavited.
The winthrop Summer School will
continue for six weeks, which will be
full of interest and work. The school
and It's activities are open to the pub
lie, and there is always something at
Winthrop worth seeing and doing.
President Johnson will leave on
Tuesday to attend the National Edu-
cation Association, which meets In
Salt Lake City. He will be absent
about ten or twelve days. He goes
as member of an important com
mittee of the National Educational
Association, which Is working on
report for the whole country cover
ing salaries, tenure of Office and PEN
sions of teachers. He lis also to re-
spond for the N. E. fA,. for the ad