Evening journal., 1920-06-19
Loyal Response Expected to
Demand for Better Teachers

Educators throughout Delaware are
focusing their attention this week
upon plans for the summer session at
Delaware College, which cOnvenes on
Monday. June %, TO continue for six
weeks. Although the first day of the
Summer School is set aside for regis
tratlon and room assignment, scores
OF teachers have already forwarded
their applications 10 Director William
A. Wilkinson, thus putting themselves
in line for preferred dOrmltOry assign
ment. Conferences are being held
almost daily with prospective STU
dents, faculty members, admin
isiratlve officers and State Board
representatives, and there Is every
prospect that the session OF 1920 Will
break in a number OF respects all
former records established at the
Slale College.
Details looking TO the comfort and
advantage Of students attending the
session have been planned, in the light
OF the experience OF past years, with
the greatest care by Director Wilkin-
son and Dean Mary T. Rich.
The program as announced rs DrOau,
er in scope and more varied in appeal
tidu NNe llt Nn'ANA ~ eA' 'ftttN ~
stituiion. a fact which, together win
a teaching stan OF unusual ability and
the announcement Op the part OF col
lege authorities that credit VIII DC
given for work of college grade sue
cessfuny completed in the summer
School, promises an enrolment whlcn
will tax TO their capacities Doth dorni-
itOry and class room. ,,-,...
THE SIMMER School OF Delaware
College Is unique among the hundred'
of summer schools in session through
ont the United states, and second Ohi,
10 the public school Itself IN lt'
sturdy Americanism.
"Trained teachers N we would SAVE
our schools is the cry or ihe nailon
But everywhere there is ueafti. "
trained teachers. Results or siatlsiic.
compiled by the National Euucasilol y, ~
Association last February siipW .s sllS
$4,000. Or practically an ol t"c w., IN ,,n
teachers in the Onlteu Slsse-s, ,ar. S,e ''
/ satisfactorily trained as teacneIs,
LAST vear The total output OF teacl
ers wholly or partially trained by cor
ieges normal or high schools, as an
no,nred bv the United states Coniniiis nin
/ sioner of Education, was nut zi'VvSv,
0e71re which serves merely 70 Nus
trafe The h0plessness or prlhsl,u
schools m 10 the desired standap'
solely by this method. n,o nor
The nation must turn 70 the pdr
I tialiv or totally unframed, Dut con
scienfious teacher already IN th
service and upon her depend 10 saw
mo situation with a Willingness u
qualify for the new standard IN eou
Fe,v men and women, however, nav
in- once entered the profession, mt
II an easy matter 10 detach themselve
rom Ne work OF the world ana De
come even for short time, ono
/ more a non-producing student.
To meet this condition the Delawar,
Legislature OF 1917 blazed way Whlcl
has attracted the attention OF educa
\ TORS throughout the country, py ap
propriating the sum Of SioOO an
nually TO reimburse all teacners u
the employment OF the Stale l9r eN
lpenscs Incurred in pursuing techlnS,a .,.
Studies al the state COllege during tn
siv weeks summer session, a polio.
which has proved OF far-reaching AM
lhroadly beneficial results. Indeed,
] leading educator from Montana
t,yhich nv the way ranks first educa
lfionallv among States OF the Union
Iat the mid-Winter mcCtlng or he Ma
b tional Education Association held d
cleveland last February, referred o
the platform 10 this Delaware act a
the "most hopeful sign on the horl
J zon" in the eventual solution OF tn
teacher shortage problem:
Delaware teachers, with the wa
made possible. have responded loya
~ TO tho demand for more highl
TRAINED men and women in The school