Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-27
SUMMER SESSIONS, JUST CLOSED,
SHOWED ENROLMENT
OF Sis.
INCREASE OF 100 PER
CENT OVER LAST YEAR
More Than 800 Rural Teachers Prepare
to Teach Agriculture, Home Eeonom-
les and Manual Trainins-Many su-
psrintsndsnts, Principals and High
School Teachers Attend.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Ames, July 2T-Moro than 300 rural
teachers who have been attending the
summer session at Iowa State College
which closed Friday, are going back
to their home schools with big ent:usi-
asm for the teaching of agriculture,
home economics and manual training
to country boys and girls. and thereby
making their common school training
of direct practical value to them.
This was the largest attendance OF
rural school teachers at any summer
session in the state. In addition 100
principals and high
school teachers studied agriculture this
summer, making a total of nearly 500
teachers who will be able to conform
q year in advance to the new law.
requiring these subjects in all rural
and high schools. Practical laboratory
exercises with material easily dupli-
Gated in any rural or grade school
formed the chief basis of the work
given, so that these teachers can enter
their years work with a definite plan
for making the work interesting.
Enrolment Of 615.
The demand for instruction along ag-
gricultural and industrial lines sur
passed all expectation of the college
authorities. The total enrolment for
the session was els, an increase Of $50
per cent over the 1913 session, the
largest per cent of increase in any sum-
mer school in Iowa or the middle west.
This is but the third year of the sum-
mer session at Iowa State College, and
an enrolment Of more than 600 is IN
itself remarkable.
In addition to the teachers, 100 reg
ular college students took regular COL
lege courses, as did the superintendent
and principals. OF these enrolled, sixty
two were already college graduates
who were preparing themselves for
work in the better paid fields of agri-
culture. A small group of home makers
and farmers who came for special prac-
ticai work made up the gross total.
Many hundreds of other Iowa teach
ers will be affected by the new law
requiring the industrial branches which
becomes operative in July, 1915. The
college is now making plans to care
for another big summer session en-
rollment which will probably reach the
thousand mark next year.
lbraham Student at Ames.
Ibraham OF Mespotamia, farmer IN
the Tigris valley, has reached the new
promised land in search of an agri-
cultural education. This fall he will
study agricultural engineering and hor-
tictlture at Iowa State College.
Ibraham has had varied career in
search of an education. When he I'm
ished the primitive schools of Bagda
as faithful Mohammedan. he directed
his way to Constantinople, to attend
college there. But the young Turks
were uprising, the city was in a tur-
MOL, and Ibraham studied at Beirut
instead.
BY paying 10 per cent of the crop
to the Turkish government Ibraham's
family enjoy the use of many hundreds
of acres OF land along the banks OF
the Tigris. Ibraham decided that the
use of American machinery would en-
able them to greatly increase their
profits. When he arrived in New York,
to study American methods the Turkish
consul there sent him directly to Iowa
State College.
Ibraham has spent few months in
the southern states studying methods
of cotton production. He will enter
his four years course at Iowa State
College in September.