The log cabin Democrat., 1921-12-24
NORMAL ENLARCfS WORK IN SUMMER OCCUPYHFNDRIX, X,CENTRAL Five Weeks School for County Su-
 perintendents, with Regular
 Summer Session.

Five weeks of instruction for coun-
 ty superintendents, along with the
 regular summer session of eight
 weeks, during which the plants of
 Central and Hendrix Colleges will be
 occupied, comprise the work mapped
 out for the Arkansas State Normal during the summer of 1922. The
 physical equipment of Hendrix will
 be used for the school for county sa-
 perintendents, which will be started on June 19, after the Hendrix sum- mer school and conference for mln- isters had adjourned on June r. At the Normal itself, the summer ses- sion will be started on June 12. Doyne Hall, the Caddo Club and pri vate residence will be used for hors- ing the students. and the Central College building has been secured to care for the overflow.
 Pres. B. W. Torreyson, State Supt. J. L. Bond and other officers of the state department of education are making extended study Tn prepara tion for the instruction to De given couny superintendents. Mr. Bond has made attendance compulsory for two of the five weeks, and strong effort will be made to have the full 75 su- perintendents in Arkansas remain for the entire term. Certain re- quirements have been set for county heads of education, and the instruc- tion given will be devised to meet them. Further advantages from the course will be the credits given those in attendance for degrees at the State Normal. All points made at the school will count toward the licenti- ate of instruction degree at the Nor nal.
 The plan as now being worked out is an elaboration of the first school of it's kind held in Arkansas, at the Normal last summer. Mir. Bond and his staff with the full cooperation of the Normal faculty, accomplished such outstanding results at the first school it was forthwith decided not only to make it permanent, but to ex- pand. Buildings of the Normal will be in use by the summer students and hence the arrangement to take over the full plant at Hendrix, move which met the hearty approva and full cooperation of Dr. John Hugh Reynolds.
 Instruction at the school will be given by members of the Normal faculty, officers of the state depart ment of education and one educator of national reputation, who will be assigned two hours of work daily Selection of the courses and the pro- fessors will be made by Mr. Bond ard MT. Torreyson. The school will ex- tend from June 19 to July 22, and the summer session from June l2 to July 29.
 Cores spondence courses for super intendents will also be started by the Normal's department of exten- sion on January and will be con- tinued weekly thereafter for an in definite period, it was announced to- day by H. L. McAlister, director of the department. The first series will be testing of schools in spelling and the teaching of spelling. MT. Me Alister will make the courses a per manent part of the work of his de- partment.
 School measurements on scale never before attempted in Arkansas will also be started by MT. McAlister and his associates on January ?, when county superintendents will be mail ed tests in spelling. The tests will be sent to the 75 county superintend- ems to select 10 rural schools in their territory for testing. Tests in other branches of public school instruction will be launched and completed by the department as ;,ll,, naccih1a