The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-09-27

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Berea College. is for service. The
news items here recorded, all with
in the weeks activities, give an idea
of how the Institution reaches out 10
serve the people Of the mountains.
Dean McAllister has been called
twice since the opening Of school
TO address educational gatherings
in Lewis County. On September Is
he was the principal speaker at
Trinity where nearly q thousand
people held an all day meeting in
grove. He addressed q similar
, gathering at Garrison, September
%.
Joseph Van Hook spent several
days as representative OF Berea
at the jackson County Institute al
Mckee. He went in company of
n. S. Eubank Of Lexington.
The Normal faculty is engaged in
preparing term examination ques-
tions for the use OF all the rural
schools in Kentucky that wish TO
avail themselves OF the oppor-
tunity. The questions will be dis
tributed to the county superin-
tendents who desire them, who will
in turn distribute them among their
teachers. The questions are very
carefully prepared according TO
sound pedagogical principles and
cover the exact ground required IN
the State Course OF Study. The
questions, OF course, are free for
use Of any superintendent in the
State.
At every Normal chapel hour
Professor Hunt gives a flve-minute
discussion of the Great War TO date.
This provides a convenient and
pleasant way for every Normal stu
dent to keep up on this. the absorb
ing topic Of the day.
The rural school tournament
which was held at Berea last fall Is
to be repeated and will probably be-
come an established annual event.
Invitations are soon to be issued by
the Normal faculty TO all teachers
in adjacent territory to bring their
pupils and participate in the activ-
tiles Of the big day.
There seems to be a great dearth
OF teachers among the schools. Al
most daily calls are coming to the
various departments Of the College
for teachers. Most of them, thougI,
paying good salaries, must go IN
answered.
Students and others are urged to
inform Dean McAllister OF any for
mer Normalites now in the military
service Of our country. The list OF
such persons is to constitute Roll
OF Honor for the department.
The Normal faculty voted at their
last meeting TO recommend TO the
General faculty that picture Of
Mr.. Ritter, teacher in the Academy
who has been called to the colors,
be hung in the faculty room as q
recognition Of his service TO our
country.
Mrs. McAllister invited the entire
Normal department TO her home at
the vesper hour last Wednesday
evening. A most enjoyable hour
was spent in the playing Of games
on the campus and in pleasant so
cial intercourse.
Miss Jessie Moore, our specialist
in home economics, is working on
the substitution OF corn meal and
other less expensive food materials
for wheat flour in the preparation
of bread and pastries.
The poems required TO be taught
in the Kentucky Course OF Study,
over fifty in number, have never
been published in one volume. Con-
sequently, rural teachers without
good library facilities are unable to
secure many Of them. These poems
are TO be collected and published
in pamphlet form by this depart
ment and made available TO the
teachers OF the State at the cost OF
publication, which will be only o
few cents.
Conservation Meeting
A number Of the domestic science
teachers and boarding hall matrons
together with Mrs. F. o. Clark and
Mrs. McAllister were called together
by Miss Jessie Moore and held an
infomal meeting Tuesday evening,
September is, to discuss food con-
servation as related TO their work
in the Institution. Miss Dizney OF
the Vocational department gave an
interesting account Of the expert
mental cookery OF cotton seed meal.
soy beans and the like which was
carried on at Chicago University