The Prescott daily news., 1914-06-08
GEORGE PEABODY SCHOOL
FOR TEACHERS OPENS JUNE 25
Many of Most Prominent Educators
In Country viii Be in Attendance
Offer More Than 200 Courses
Covering Every Phase.

the opening on June %, of George
Peabody College for Teachers in this
City. Peabody is the first teachers
college for the entire South. Leading
educators the country over are inter
ested in it's successful launching and,
as the opening is in the summer ses-
sion when teachers in institutions for
higher education are not engaged in
their regular work, many of the most
prominent school men of the country,
men who could not have been brought
here through any salary consideration,
are coming to Peabody to teach dur
ing the summer session. The result
will be the assembling in Nashville
of a group of educators such as has
never before been brought together in
the South. This faculty will offer to
the teachers of the South more than
200 courses, covering every phase of
educational work and the whole adapt
ed to the peculiar educational needs of
the South.
George Peabody College for Teach
ers as an institution is itself one of
the most interesting of recent devel-
opments in the educational field. 1t is
organized in its school of education
Tor giving in complete and extensive
way the higher training for teachers
in courses of undergraduate and gra-
al 70 nj lol
anywhere else in the South in its
school of country life for adapting
education for the improvement of CON
ditions in the home, on the farm, for
the betterment of child life through
the country schools, and for the en-
tire readjustment of rural life; and in
the school of applied arts for adapting
the student to his vocation.
George Peabody College for Teach
ers it is stated by men in charge,
does not duplicate the work Of either
the state normal schools or the state
agricultural colleges, and is not in
competition or conflict with any of
them. The work in the school of edu-
cation, it is stated, is above that done
by the normal schools, from which it's
students must be largely drawn. The
work in the department of rural life
is designed primarily for men and wo-
men who expect to devote their lives
to teaching in the country and to
other rural life leaders. such as coun-
try ministers, officials of farmers CO.
operative organizations, and farm de-
monstrators.
The school of applied arts coordi-
mates with the department cf educa-
tion in much the same way. It's pur-
pose, as stated by the teachers and
supervisors who will be able to see
that the girls in the schools Of the
South have opportunity to get the best
start for improving the home through
cooking and sewing and home decora-
tion, and that the boys in the schools
shall have similar advantages in
learning how to adjust themselves to
the industries in which they shall
engage, by means of courses presented
to them in wood work, iron work,
carpentry and the like.
These unique features Of the institu
tion have enabled it to bring together
an unusual faculty for its first sum
morsession. The student body will be
made up of teachers from all sections
of tie South, and in that wa!, too, IL
will tc gathering f unusual educa-
tional interest, since the individual
teacher will have at once an opportu-
nifty to get in touch with leading edu-
cational authorities and to exchange
ideas and experiences with other
southern teachers of all grades and
from all sections.
The chairman of the summer ses-
sion committee, DR.. Carter Alexander,
says that an unusually wide interest
is manifested by Southern teachers,
most of whom realize that the people
who go from the first teachers college
in the South during the first two or
three years of its existence will have
an immense advantage in getting good
positions That, he says, has been true
in regard to all of the real teachers
colleges now operating in the United
States, and to the departments of edu-
cation in the state universities.
There have just been completed at
Peabody two of the handsomest and