The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-07
Fine NeD School For Boys
 VIII Open Here Sept. 25
BY sIIGNoN HALL


 Birmingham is making another stride forward.
 For she has just attracted to her borders three educators who are going to establish a boys school here. beginning this winter. and men who, in time, expect to purchase property on the outskirts of the town and to erect their own private school buildings.
 The three men are Basil Manly Parks, Robert A. Mickle and II. $. Jackson.
 Professor Parks intends to open the school September 25. in the quarters formerly occupied by the Margaret Allen school, which has lately been merged with the Birmingham Sem mary.
 Aims of School
 What the seminary is doing for young women of Birmingham and the state, the Birmingham University school will do for boys, declared MT. Parks yesterday.
 Our aim is to thoroughly train boys for college. university and for life, physically. mentally, morally; to inspire a love of learning and to show boys how to study; to assist in forming. in our students. just ideas of personal responsibility, discipline. to teach the boy how to orient him. self, how to find himself and discover his mission in life. We shall train him also, in proper respect for his elders. We feel this is one of the necessary things for young men or these days to learn"
 Professor Parks. who has a fine clear eye, and who is a thoroughly capable and impressive man, as well as an Al educator, related that one of the strongest points stressed in the college will be good manners.
 We feel that many boys never have the opportunity to learn what good form is-and really what politeness is. It shall be our ann, not only to instruct pupils in lessons, but to pre- pare them to go unafraid and grace fully into any circle of life. Polite ness certainly oils the machinery of our daily contact"
 Young men and boys who attend the new school will be subjected to firm discipline, though sympathetic understanding, from these men who will regard them from the three standpoints of pedagogy, psychology and the demands of society. While
  main idea is that the students shall progress in knowledge.
 Boarders Also
 Some changes in the Margaret Allen building are being made to adapt it to a home and school for boys. Professor Parks and his wife have already moved in, and are mak- ing their home there. Mrs. Parks will oversee the work of the dormi- tory dining room and Mrs. S. l.. Bald win of Charleston, mother of Mrs Parks, will be the "house mother" of the institution.
 Twenty boarding pupils will be ae- commodated. a number of whom have already enrolled. Day students to the number of 100 can be cared for, and 1t Is the plan. during the year. to cooperate with the Birmingham Seminary events, numerous entertain ments being given.
 The students will have chemistry and physics in the curriculum, so that those entering for their prep work since the school is directly planned as a preparatory institution for col leges-wiil be ready for their B, 5. degree.
 This school will be the only pre- paratory school for boys in the city. The faculty will be composed entirely of men, and three other educators are to be added.
 .s "Our institution Is not aimed to take the place of the public schools. Those primarily train boys to go into the business world. Our school aims to fit the boy to go to college. We expect to stress mathematics very greatly, and will cover algebra, plane and solid geometry, and trigonometry.
 Good English
 "we are going to exact good spoken English and spelling. Boys will be given diplomas at the end of their courses of study"
 Boys from II years old and through high school courses will be enrolled.
 Professor Parks almost needs no introduction to Birmingham, or to Alabama-the reason being that he Is akin to number of persons here,