The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

tional progress in this state. visit to the Institution is necessary for one to appreciate the great school that Ala bama has builded for it's girls
 MonteVallo means mountain in tho valley, and is at the geographical cen ter of the state. The college is on an elevated plateau in a valley between two ranges of hills or mountains. The topography of the country is such as to render the climatic conditions all that could be desired Truly no more favorable location can be found for summer school.
 In material equipment the Alabama Girls Technical institute possesses 96 acres of land for campus and parks, 200 acres for farm, and 160 acres of woodland as a watershed for it's splen- did mountain springs The campus is undoubtedly the prettiest of all by ma ture and the work of the landscape architect has greatly added to the works of nature. The new broad ave- nue on recently acquired lands is to be the main line of future development
 With the large campus, extensive playgrounds, splendid gymnasium, phys ical training is made a most promi- nent feature of the school The ac- curate records kept for the physical development of each girl show wonder J most every pupil. Athletics here ii not for the few, but for all. The re- suit is that the Montevallo girls arc known for their beauty and physical strength.
 The work in playground supervision has attracted wide attention as no oth- CT school or college in Alabama offers such courses. Here the Alabama Girls Technical institute is leading in our st tnt EeeninQ with the o. gressive schools of other states. Physi- cal training is necessary feature. in education today. Montevalio prepares its pupils to teach this subject.
 The farm and dairy supply the din- ing room with the greatest abundance of fresh vegetables and purest milk. In this way the cost of living is great Technical institute is enabled to give the very best board at less than $1O per month. To be accurate, board, lodg- ing, heat, light and laundry are fur nished the girls at S1111 per month. There are few private families that live a well as the pupils at Montevallo.
 The faculty in the regular session is composed of 35 specialists, well trained in the leading colleges and universi- ties of America and Europe. In the summer school faculty are 26 members. all of whom are well known for their educational standing. In the training school are six teachers. Excluding names counted twice, the faculty num- bers 45.
 During the past year the attendance was as follows: Regular session 501, summer school 300, training school 160. making a grand total of 961. If there had been dormitory accommodations this number would probably have been 1900 or 1900.
 The academic standard has been gradually raised for some years, and 1t IS planned to bring 1t to real col- iege grade In 1917.,
 In technical work, the institute is clearly in the front rank in the south, and is only surpassed by the great uni versailles in the north.
 Among the academic subjects present. ed are English language and literature, Latin, French, Spanish, history math- ematics, chemistry, physics, bacteriol- ogy, psychology, sociology. education, plant culture, horticulture and floricu1- ture.
 The technical courses embrace:
 l. Home economies, including domes- tic art, domestic science, fine art, man ual training, dietetics, laundering, cos- tune designing, ,basketry, pottery. clay modelling, bookbinding. etc.
 2. Music-piano, violin, voice, pipe or gan, sight singing, public school mu- sic, harmony, theory, and music appre- ciation.@s It~-is perhaps not. generally known that the music course Is one of the most thorough in the southern states.
 3. Art and manual training: Freehand