Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-05-25
PRESIDENT EARLY INTERVIEWED
Head of Polytechnic School Makes A
Very Interesting Statement

Thomas A. Early, president of the
new State Polytechnic school, is in the
city on business relating to the school
and expresses himself as highly opti
mistic over the prospects of the insti-
tuition, to the preliminary organization
work of which he is now devoting his
best energies. That the school will
open next fall equipped in buildings,
appliances and faculty in way to en-
able it to perform it's intended service
to the people of it's community and
state is Mr. Early's confident predic-
tion.
In discussing his plans Sunday Mr..
Early said:
"Our original plant will consist of a
main building, two dormitories-one
for boys and one for girls-and a shop
building An attractive campus of
twenty acres is provided and we are
assured of adequate lands for demon
stration purposes and the raising of
products for the boarding department.
"The school will be comprehensive
polytechnic school and the general
purpose of it's courses of study will be
industrial efficiency. The curriculum
will comprise agricultural work-gen-
eral farming, development of the live
stock industry, fruit growing, poultry
work, farm cooperation, rural organ
ization work, dairying, and other in
dustrial work for boys and girls. The
manual training feature will be prom
inently featured, with practical shop
work, and carpentry, general manual
arts and mechanical drawing will be
taught.
mo department will be more import
ant than that relating to the training
of girls. Courses will be provided for
girls in all phases of nome life, the
course to be much broader than mere
emphasized will be household decora-
tion, caring for the sick, home SANTA
tion, home gardening, poultry and the
care of milk and butter.
There will be no sighting, however
of literary work. There will be a
heavy course in English and requir-
ed amount of history mathematics and
sciences. The English course will be
thorough in all departments.
ut is desired to emphasize the fact
that the cost of training will be as low
as possible and, in fact, within the
reach of every boy and girl with an
ambition to get thorough and prac-
tical education The tuition will be
free.
'The enthusiastic interest of the
people of COokeville and of that Sec
tion cannot be too highly commended.
Every citizen and institution of the
town is squarely behind the enterprise
and as an indication OF the profound
and whole-hearted interest of the peo
pie of Cookeville in the school, the
homes of the town have been placed
at the disposal of the authorities to
help out in case the dormitOry facili-
ties are inadequate when the school
opens early in September. Every pos
sible means of advertising and public
ity are being employed by the busi-
ness men of the town in the interest
of the school and it is predicted that
a full attendance of students will be
on hand at the opening session"
Mr.. Early expressed qualification ov
er the warm and active support assur
ed the institution by the state board
of education. 1t was cordially sympa-
thetic, he said, in it's assurances TO DO
everything possible for the upbuilding
Of the institution and to this was added
the inspiring assurances of like char
acter from school men all over the
state.
One of the main objects of Mr.. Ear
Iy's energetic attention at present was
stated to be the actual organization or
a faculty and the arrangement Of the
courses of study. That Mr.. Early's
broad equipment and extended expert
ence in practical school organization
work is guarantee of the success of
the institution under his management
Is the confident prediction OF his
friends.