Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-12-11
BarbourYille Baptist institute
Resumes Work After Holiday
Recess, January 5, 1915.

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THIs bulletin is for the purpose of
furnishing few facts concerning Bar.
bourville Institute. Any additional in.
formation will be gladly given.
I--HOw is the School This Year?
We have just passed the first term and
are enthusiastically at work. The spirit
among the teachers and pupils is loyal.
We opened this session with a decided
increase over the opening of last session
We have had more boarders and better
attendance than in any previous fall
term. Students and teachers are full
OF life, energy and snap, If you want
10 save time and money and get the best
educational advantages, this is the
school for you. The prospects are very
bright tor big school after Christmas.
2-What Kind of Faculty For 1t?
OUR instructors have been educated in
the best colleges aud universities of the
North and South. Not only are they
strong in points of intellect, culture
and refinement, but they are practical
teachers, all are active Church workers
and seek to develop the spiritual as we'll
as the ply steal and Intellectual training
of the pupils.
A--What Courses Does il Offer?
Gyammer School. This course is ar
ranged for those who are now preparing
TO teach and want special advantages in
the common branches. The grammar
school work is divided among the va
rious teachers and the pupils in the
common branches have the advantages
of our best instructors
B-Accademic Department.: Our
course in this department includes
twelve units of standard high school
work. Our work is accepted by the
best colleges. Never before has the
school had so many students in this de.
partment during the fall term.
This is the place for you to prepare
for college or university. Rememb Der
you get the very best training and the
cost is exceedingly low when compared
with many institutions of learning.
C-NOrmal Department: This
course is designed especially for those
who wish to prepare for efficient teach.
ing. 1t mbraces all the subjects taught
in our common schools. No school in
this section offers better advantages to
those who wish to prepare for teachers
examinations and to make u success of
teaching. Almost seventy per cent of
the teachers of Knox county have at.
tended BarbCurville Baptist Institute.
The pupils OF this department last session
nude remarkable success in securing first
grade certificates.
The President of the school, who has
charge Of methods and management, is
graduate of normal school and has
taken special work in pedagogy in che
University of Chicago. We are decided
ly better prepared to help teachers than
ever before.
D--MuSic: Strong courses are offered
in piano, voice, violin, history of music,
harmony, chorus and sight singing (ele-
ments of music). Miss Watts has had
school training in New York City, Chi.
cago and in the Cincinnati Conservatory
of Music. She has proven herself
very proficient teacher and her class is
numerically large. One has said,
Whatever the relation of music, it
will never cease to be noblest and pur-
est of arts" Come to Barbourville In
stitute for frst-cltss advantages in mu-
sic.
E-ExpressiOn and Oratory: We
can speak with pride concerning our ex.
preston work. Miss Carter, who has
charge of this department, is highly
educated and is an able instructor. 1t
is rapidly becoming one of the popular