The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-05-27
Summer SohooL Of the South.

Summer SehooE OF the South.
The preliminary announcements
coming from Knoxville, Tenn, con-
corning the outlook for the twelfth
annuali session Of the Summer School
of the South, indicate an exceptionally
large attendance The officials of
the Summer School, especially those
who are providing for the board and
lodging of the incoming students, are
being taxed to the utmost to meet the
extraordinary interest manifested
from all over the South.
1t is only necessary to name the
lecturers who are to instruct and en-
tertain popularly in the open-air pa
vilion. Jefferson Hall, in order to in
dicate the excellence of the program
provided. One or more popular lee
lures will be presented by such men
as DR.. Edward Howard Griggs; DR..
A. E. Winship, editor of the Journal
of department Of the philosophy OF
religion, University of Chicago; Mr..
Maurice Browne, director of The Lit
tie Theatre, Chicago; DR.. Edwin D.
starbuck, professor of philosophy Uni
yersitv of Iowa; DR.. Alcee Fortier,
professor of Romance languages, Tu-
lane University of Louisiana; Miss
Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the Child
ren's Bureau, U. S., Department OF
Labor: President and Mrs. Henry
Lawrence Southwich of Emerson col
lege of Oratory, Boston; Professor
Jaw William Hudson, professor OF
philosophy, University of Missouri;
DR.. Matthew B. McNutt, of the Depart
ment O. Caurch and Country Life, New
York City; Dr. Charles W. Kent, pro-
fessor of English literature, Universe
ty of Virginia; Professor George
Herbert Clarke, professor of English,
University of Tennessee; DR.. Bird
T. Baldwin, professor Of psychology
and education, Swarthmore college;
Supt. Lawton B. Evans, Augusta, Ca;
Rabbi Emil Leipziger, Terre Haute,
Ind; Supervisor W. X. Ttate, Colum-
bia, S. c.; DR.. Olin West of the Ten
nessee State Board of Health, and
Mr.. Richard T. Wyche of New York
City.
These "open-hour" lectures will be
varied with high class entertainments,
including concerts, al fresco theatri-
cal performances, readings, and the
presentation of several Of the very
best musical artists obtainable from
New York during the period known
as Music Week.
Among the more popular courses to
be offered in the class-rooms (all
told, there are some two hundred
available) we make mention of the
very interesting and soundly conduct
ed literature, offered by Dr.. Charles
W. Kent Of the University Of Virginia,
DR., Charles Bell Burke Of the UnlTer-
sitv of Tennessee, Professor George |
Clarke, Of the University of
Tennessee and DR.. Glen L. Swiggett, |
lately of the University of the South
and now of the University of Tennes-
see. DR.. Kent will offer a course in
the dramas of Shakespeare and an
other in Southern literature, in both
of which fields he is a specialist DR..
Burke offers courses in the romantic
age of English literature, selected
studies in American literature; the
short story; and college entrance re-
ouirements in English for 1913. Pro-
fessor Clarke will conduct a course
in the Victorian age, dealing with
Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Clough,
Rossetti and swanburne, with especial
emphasis on Browning; and a course
in the modern drama, covering the
dramatic work of Maeterlinck, Shaw,