Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-11-09
The EDUCATORS NOTEBOOK.
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Hampton. Na.-Thc auditorium Ia ~
erected ut Hampton Institute ia memory
Of Robert Curtis Ogden will ~ less the
memorial Of Il man that the mnnnmcnt
of an epoch. Mr.. Ogden and the men
who labor,d with him led the movement
that brought coordination organiza-
ton Ia The education of the South. IN
successive conferences for education. he
gun in lSgS and continued to the end ot
his life one city after another. one
state after another. was aronSed 10 the
consciousness Of its own efforts. the
work already done. the need that re
mailcd and the necessity of treating the
problem of education in the ScIth ~ q
whole. lie organized the Southern Ed
u~cation Board, which cilr ted the coop
Grafton that was needed. I'm fourteen
wears iliiteracy among the whites 81
the south was cut in half. This great
forward Step nu one state. no one school
system. 10 oae organization or no one
man. accomplished. II il The Joint work
Of MI the forces whs-h make up the
greater south. slt among them all.
Robert 4. Ogden led.
ifiitI*tl. iti~ll- t.flHfati ftti tNftNNf1nm
out Persia ~~hnwiny evidence \ III new
liberalism. In the school recently o.
ciirl for The daughters of Persian par
entS. a. well w. i'll the schools NJ the
French Alliance and thc s-hocl> foun
dctl YIN .'mcrirl aud Germany III Persia
girls are attending IN increasing mum
hrr> hut with provision that. thrl SHAH
retain the veil. The ynnn. Persian. e.
pciallN the sons of arStncrat~ who have
been educated in Europe are eager for
the cnIaI .ipatinn NJ women aud desire iu
find ~ them educated companions. The
tendency j. toward the abolition az the
veil among Persian women and the .c-
ccptance of education.
Louisville. Ky. The results achieved
hA the Moonlight schools" ia the ken
fucks mountains form one of the most
encouraging chapters in American clm-
cation. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart Su-
Ierintentlent of the Rowan county
F~-hoolS. writes OF the results ~ follows:
We expect +" enroll a struggling few
put found how eagerly adults welcomed
IN opportunity when 1900 came the first
evening. We taught PERSONS from Is
1" III wears f age thai wear. having two
sessions Of two weeks each. The next
year W. had 4 six weeks session and en-
rolled lG00. IN these two wears We
taught more than 6Wn pcnpl, ia r.ad
AMI write. During the autumn ~ 1919
We made an effort ia completely wine
out iliitcracy. We enrolled $40 person.
Taught al illitcratcS in the count I'm
- ~ # these being impnSSiblrS.' Mean
while eight other counties III Krnfurk,
tired the method with success The ~rr
"ild year and twenty i've adopted IL thr
t"llnv I'LL. YEAR
bc> MONIES. Ia. The survey commits
SION appointed hf Dr. PhiIanlrr P
lariun- ! nitcl states Commissioner uf
iiHcation ~ make Il survey VI thr Iowa
state educational institutions II ALREADY
IA work. Yesterday they began tIr nrr
Sniial inspection at the State University
81 iowa City. This u the first Survr,
~ rs kind undertaken since The r~tnh
iI>hnicht Of is department of education
IN" members Of the commission will
recommend additions and changes in the
courses ~ the various Institutions ia
cflding The state agricultural ,~nIleae
and The stale normal ~ Cedar Falls
Washington The spelling book haS
followed The bavonet in The p~hilinnip..
ever since the United States began tc
extend control over these islands until
now there are 1900 schools taush, h,
i".ow teachers and enrolling more than
h'p"h pupils. These facts were laid
h'iore the Lake Mohnnk ronfercr,n ~.
'rhilt by Frank L. Cronr. direct Of
tinc7tion N the Philippines. TIE school
StSlcn- Re added. j. maintained hv tia
ihihppinc people ard Is a source ~ re-
Expense 20 the United States.
I hica"o. I'll. Twenty four " IN. pub
- Srhr'.iS Of Chicago haze been rc.ou
'hrh'lcd ~ Srpt. Ella fiagr Ymnn. ror
use ~ social c%rIitcrs. tn ~ orcu iva
evenings i week. beginning this wr.t
! lir alS" recommended that The oe~om
blt halls 81 TIE same schools ~ avril-Lr..
H. ne public welfare department; NY thr
CITY i"f rerrcatinnal purposes Thr ,rr
flhihrndHtioh> were based ,u \ Sur,r,
n ihr city IN ne welfare bnrrru vi,h
:'n eve I" the needs of niglhnrhnnd ,nr.,
inf places.
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