The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-08
WINTHROP COLLEGE IS
LAYING BROAD PLANS

LAYING BROAD PLAAS
Winthrop college is laying broad
plans to meet the great demands for
courses which the teachers aud clubs
of this State are making.
President Johnson has selected
man, of the very best educators III
the country to give courses OF lee
lures, and to hold conferences with
those who shall attend the summer
school Winthrop will offer to her
students this summer the services OF
the largest and most competent fac
ulty she has ever had, and will give
the greatest number of courses.
The fourth term will open June
19 and continue through July 27
Advance inquiries indicate an everi
larger enrolment than last year,
when the attendance was greater
than that of any summer school ever
held in the State.
TWO of the best known and great
est men in the United States: Dr..
G. Stanley Hall and DR.. C. Alphonso
Smith are among the members of the
faculty.
DR.. G.. Alphonso Smith, one Of the
best known educators and most dis
tinguished lecturers Of the South
holds the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial
professorship of English in the Uni
yersity of Virginia. He is an inspir-
ing teacher, an able speaker, and an
author of No mean repute. Besides
several text books on subjects con-
nected with his department he has
other works of general interest,".
Chief among them are his study OF
the American short story, What Lit
erature Can Do For Me, and mis- re-
cent achievement, The Life of o.
Henry. Several years ago DR.. Smith
was chosen to represent the United
States in Germany as Roosevelt E4-
change professor in English, while
there he gave, in German, a series OF
lectures on American Humor.
C. Stanley Hall is one of the most
famous of American educators. He
was born in Massachusetts, and his
studies have been carried on at Will
liams College, Harvard, Union Theo-
logical Seminary, Berlin, Heidelberg
and Paris, AS an instructor he has
taught at Antioch College, Ohio, Har-
ward Johns Hapkins University at
Baltimore, and since 1888 he has been
president and professor of psycholi-
gy at Clark University, Worchester,
Mass: the first school in the United
States to be devoted exclusively to
postgraduate work.
AS a writer and editor he is equal
" famous. His list Of articles ana
books is too long to mention. Among
them are the following Of interest to
teachers:
How to teach reading and what to
read in schools.
Contents of children's minds on
entering school.
Sheme of classification Sor Child
Study.
Adolescence.
He is editor of the Journal Of Phil
osophy, and Of the Pedagogical SEM
mary.
To DR.. Hall more than to any one
else is given the credit of having
aroused teachers to a sense OF the
value of experimental psychology,
and study of children in the class
room. Through his efforts nation
al association for child study was
formed. He is known as the father
Of child study and Of educational
psychology.
The college is to be complimented
upon having secured the services OF
so famous an educator. No ons
should miss an opportunity of hear
ing this intrepid devotee of concrete
human nature. whose genius all men
of his profession admire.
Col O. ]. Bond, superintendent OF
the Citadel will teach mathematics.
Colonel Bond is well known to pro-
gressiye teachers in this and other
States for his superior work in teach
Ing mathematics.
Miss Leila Russell will give courses
dealing with special problems fac
inc the teachers in the rural schools
of South Carolina. Miss Russell IS
a specialist in this line.
DIR. Snyder, president OF Woford'
is a member Of the faculty.
Regular courses, special courses,
short courses to meet all the needs
of the State are to be given.
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