The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-22

terms, one Of which extended through
the summer months. Thus the teacher
in the rural ischool could enter the
spring term and complete half year.
WORK before returning to his pedagog-
zeal duties In the fall: while the young
man whose interest In learning de-
Neloped late had a chance to shorten
the time spent in finishing his educa-
tlon by extending all the year round.
The majority OF those who enter
Lincoln Memorial university are there
because OF an earnest desire to obtain
an education, In spite of tremendous
financial handicaps. 1t was primarily
to serve these that the Institution was
opened. The school has its own farm.
gardens and dairy. operated entirely
by students, under the faculty who
have made special study Of agricul-
ture.
There are manual training shops
where boys learn useful trades, while
the commercial department has sent
forth many young man or woman on
we nigh road to successful business
career.
Practically all the work in the
dormitories. kitchens and dining halls
~ likewise attended to by students
desirious Of paying their own expenses
The classroom work Is 30 arranged
as to make 1t possible for these out
side duties to be fulfilled without inter-
ference in the courses OF study. Thus
hundreds OF young people. thirsting for
knowledge and yet without the means
of going to other colleges. have been
enabled to obtain degrees at Lincoln
Memorial university.
In many schools these young work
ers would be ostracized socially and
thus would miss many OF the pleasures
attendant upon college life. But Lin
coin Memorial university Is a pervSd-
ing spirit OF democracy that permits
OF no differentiation between the we'll
TODD student and the one who Is work.
ing his way. All mix and mingle on
one common ground, and many OF tho
leaders among the students are those
who are struggling hardest to make
ends meet.
Perhaps Lincoln Memorial univer-
sity's greatest claim to the nAms OF an
opportunity school Ia due to tho fact
that Its curriculum is arranged to suit
the needs of the student, instead of
the student being forced to ut the
curriculum, or else withdraw. This
decentralization OF tho course I'm
certain branches gives the school It's
real worth and usefulness, and makes
1t stand out apart from colleges whose
unbending requirements have kept
many an humble seeker of learning
from fitting himself for life.
TT would be difficult to estimate
what Lincoln Memorial has meant TO
rural community life in the surround
ing mountain sections. Boys and girls
have come to the school without ideas
or ideals. and. through the training re-
celved here, have gone back to their |
homes imbued with the spirit Of serv-
ice. to become the very life and light
Of their communities. They have been
the teachers and leaders OF their peo-
pie, always pointing the way to higher
achievements and ideals.
Tennessee has had a hard Tight for
advancement, and tho night
Is not yet over. A school like Lincoln
Memorial university has a big claim
to Its sympathy and support because
u the unique oportunlty It gives 10
the young people OF the south to OBJ
tain an education.
Churches and schools are the great
ut assets in any community The bet
er these, the higher will be the stand
ards OF life and thought No COM
munity can afford to cheapen It's own
worth by starving its schools Lincoln
Memorial university has been modest
n It's request for aid, but when II does
lsk. the people cannot afford to refuse
A generous response to 4 call OF this
character Is but golden Investment
or the future Of our own children and
lur own state"