Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-12-04
no. l--MISS MARY &. WILLIAMS.
NO. 2-MRS. MARY D. CHAMBERS. ,
NO. 8--DR. II. W. SELvIDGE.
NO. Nv. @. THOMPSON.

N Nv. O. THOMPSON.
ing just that need. Buildings for do
nestle economy and Industrial train
ing have been erected and equipped
at a cost Of $780, 600, and a corps Of
expert teachers has been engaged.
When its summer session opens, June
25, this institution will begin the work
of sending out trained Industrial teach
ers.
Reforms begin ordinarily at the top
and filter down. 1t would probably
have been forever impossible to estab-
lish Industrial education In the public1
schools of the south unless such an in-I
stitution as George Peabody College
For Teachers had first digniied and
emphasized Industrial education.
In preparing to meet the need before
it the practical arts department Of
George Peabody College For Teachers
has done some things that are unique.
In equipping the buildings DR.. R. w.
Selvidge, who has been principally In
charge, has kept an eye single to hay
Ing every student work In an environ
ment that will be as nearly as possible
like the conditions under which work
must be done after the student Is out
of school. In the department of house.
hold arts there is no general laboratory
in which all the students congregate.
Instead there is a series Of individual
kitchens, equipped as practical kitch-
ems are. Two girls will be placed In
each kitchen. 1t win be their duty to
keep it In order to buy the supplies for
1t and in every way conduct 1t as though
1t were their own. By this method it Is
quite reasonable to expect that the
young women will go back to the coun-
try and city schools Of the south not
only theore ically proficient in house
hold arts, but practically proficient, ca
pable of showing In actual work the
things that the girls they teach will
have to do in the homes Of the south.
The same principle is carried out In
the department Of Industrial arts. Man
u%facturlng industries are not, Of course,
so thoroughly individualized as house
keeping, but arrangements are made
that every student shall work under
conditions that are as nearly as posi-
BILE the conditions he would find should
he so out to make a living by practic-
Ing the Industrial art he has learned.
That is n of the big features in the
general scheme Of George Peabody
College For Teachers to make itself
thoroughly practical.
DR.. Robert w. Selvidge Is at the
head Of the department of industrial
arts. Immediately before coming 10
Peabody he was professor Of manual
arts In the University Of Missouri.
He has held similar positions in sew
eral Of the leading institutions and IL
author Of a book on 1.-THE Teaching of
Manual Arts"
Some Of the teachers are Mrs. Mary
D. Chambers, head of the department
or home economics In Rockford col
lege. Rockford, ILL.,; Miss Mary e. VIII
liams, supervisor of Industrial arts.
Danville, ILL.,; Professor William G.
Thompson, teacher Of furniture con-
struction, University of Missouri: Pro-
fessor V. P. Mckinley, teacher Of man
ual training in the State Normal
school, Troy, Ala, and author; Mrs.
Blanche e. Hyde, director of house
hold arts. Newton, Mass, and Mi--
Ada M. Field, teacher of nutrition.
Tsachess' college. Columbia university.