The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
STATE NORMAL

Never Man Spake Like This Man" He said that there are three fuadamental truths with reference to Christ. L He was and is the Son of God. 2. He was and is the revelation of the Fla her. 8 He was and is the pattern man. His humanity honors motherhood, eGno5lcs childhood, dignifies manhood, and crowns age nothing else could. He wss and Is the type of all that is great and good. He was a carpenter by trade and thus ne dignfies all honest labor. He was the Great Physician who never lost case; the preacher of righteousness who never preached a funeral sermon; the lawyer who pleads our cause successfully at the court of heaven; the merchant who deals in goodly pearls; the husbandnan whose fruitful fields are a delight: ana engineer who builds a highway from earth tc heaven; philanthropist who makes many right, magician who wrought wonders then and now. He is the incon,par ble teacher. His manner of teaching Is that
 
 moDwealth. The effect of this action on the public school system will be far reaching. Ii is undoubtedly the ddtv Of the university to furnish the greac rnass of men and women who arc to teach in the high schools of Alaba ma. More than one half of these hign school teachers are women. This sit dation will continue to obtain inIef!- nitely. It is essential that these teach CTS shall have an opportunity to secure standard college training. This train ing should include the work offered in the school of education. Such an or portunity Is available to them in no other college in Alabama.
 The School of Medicine
 lt is gratifying to report that the School of Medicine in Mobile is main- taining it's high rank as a class A in stirution. It has steadily developed in strength and efficiency. There Is, however, need of definitely assured legislative appropriation of sufficient nize to maintain the present status of the school only the action of the governor in releasing a portion of the conditional appropriation made by the legislature of 1911 has saved the school. Any backward step at this time will mean nothing less than annihiiation he national standardization agencies are now demanding a further strength ching of the courses of study. and a further improvement of the equipmet { of the school
 I deeply regret to report to the trustees the serious Illness of Dean Bondurant who is now in a Philadelphia hospital Some weeks ago he sent me letter resigning the deanship. It has seem ed proper, however to take no action or this resignation for the time being. ! have. therefore, appointed pr. T. H , Frazer as acting dean, pending Dr. Bon | durants recovery.
 If is a matter of regret that inc city commissioners of Mobile did not see theii | way clear to grant the recent request oi the university authorities in the matter oi l the desired medical control of the citS hospital. Acting Dean Frazer reports tC me that he has entered into an ora agreement with the authorities of the hos pital which, it is hoped, may lead to lsatisfactory adjustment of the situation | have accepted his agreement as a tenn l porary expedient, with the understand l ing that 1t is acceptable to the standardiz | ing agency of the American Medical as tion. As an ultimate solution of th' problem 1t is obvious that the agreemen does not meet the needs of the situation which would seem to demand complet, medical control of the city hospita through direct contract with the citA commissioners. Any satisfactory con tract must of course cover the point originally set forth in our petition to th commissioners. I express the hope tha in due time such contract may be made
 The Summer School
 The sumemr school continues to develol with remarkable rapidity. It's growth ha been phenomenal. Three years ago ther were only 243 students enrolled. Las summer we registered 633. The content O the curriculum has been greatly enlarge, and enriched It is clear that the tim boc pfta ha pic cIat ttIrn increase the small appropriation mad for the support of this great enterprise which has contributed so largely to tn | growing efficiency of the entire publi school system
 New Gymnasium
 Some months ago the executive commit l tee, following a period of earnest discus | sion concerning the. physical welfare o the student body, resolved to procee without further delay to the erection o | the central unit of a new gymnasium The alumni had already accumulated | small fund, and I am persuaded tha l through them the two wings will in du time be added. The old gymnasium in fact a mere section of buildin | designed and partly used for other pur poses It is practically no gymna sium a l all The executive committee felt that tn | lauthorities ought not to continue to sub | ject the institution to the persistent an just criticism that no adequae provisio has been made for the physical trainin l of students. Such criticism has bee made for period of years It was there fore, decided that immediate action shoul 1 be taken to correct situation tha | should have been corrected long ags Young men who shall hereafter come ! the University of Alabama will find tha adequate provision has been made fo | their physical well being In the moo ern gymnasium that will soon be avai able.
 The School of Law
 1t is gratifying to report to the legi lature the rapid growth and expansio | of the school of law. It Is no long' possible to complete the course withl less than two full sessions. The scho is better organized, better manned ar in every way more efficient than 1t hs been at any time in its entire history. Y the time has come when three-yes course should be inaugurated. There al today few two-year schools conducted Ill der the auspices of state universitie Within the near future such schools " cease to exist No college VIII pc U definitely rated as Class A institute if it continues to maintain a two-ye' law course Many institutions are no recurring at least two years Of collet training as a prerequisite for admissie to their schools of law, and in addition full three-year course for graduation law. Alabama is perhaps not yet reae to demand college training as a prerequ site to admission to the law school B it is certainly high time to be requirir a three-year course for graduation. It
 earnestly hoped that the legislature W give this matter favorable consideratio The school of law now lacks the teac