Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-09-13
Winthrop Opens Next Friday.

ROCK Hill, Sept. -
in readiness for the opening of Win
throp college. The Dormitories have
been filled since July 10, admission
since that late being impossible only
in cases of Withdrawals A large
number of eligible students from
North Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Tennessee and other states have ap,
Piled for admission, but up to the
present none have been admitted.
At noon next Thursday all teach
ers and officers will have their first
meeting at the college. Next Friday
all new students will come for regis
~tration and scheduling, in order to
be ready for the opening Wednes-
day, September 20, at which time all
students must be present.
There will be a number of new
teachers this year, some of them fill
inc, positions recently created and
some filling vacancies made by res
ignations.
A separate department of physics
and astronomy has been established.
1. ofessor Coker will remain with the
department of mathematics, and
Preston H. Edwards, of Darlington
will be the head of the new depart
ment.
A separate department of political
science has been organized, with
William Garner Burgin of Mississip-
pi in charge. Professor Burgin comes
from the department of political
science at Mississippi State College
for Women, Columbus.
A chair of secondary education
has been established, to be filled by
W. D. Maginnis, former superintend-
ent of the winthrop Training school,
The new superintendent will be Will
liam Ross Bourne, Phi. D., Of George
Peabody college and former inspec-
tor of high schools in Tennessee.
The head of the extension depart
ment will give all his time to the
work of that department. The office
will be filled by DR.. A. P. Bourland,
we'll known educator and extension
worker, formerly professor of Eng
fish in Peabody college and more re-
Gently field agent of the Peabody
fund, Southern Education bureau.
The new director of music is A.
Andre Schmidt, recently head of the
voice department, Taylor university
Indiana. Associated with him, in
charge of piano and organ, will be
Nancy G. Campbell, a former teach
er at Winthrop and lately a student
lin the Chicago School of Music.
Other new heads of departments
are: Geography and geology, Grover
Cleveland, Nance, Phi. D., of Indiana
university; modern languages, Eliza
beth French johnson, Phi. D., of
Johns Hopkins university; home
economics, Alice B. Foote, M. A., Co
lumbia university, New York.
The new assistants and the depart
ments in which they will work are:
English: Louise Earle, M. A., Ran
dolph college, and Margaret Finly,
B. A., Winthrop college, teaching re-
Gently in Gunston Hall, Washington,
D. C.
Modern languages: Isabel Goodwin,
B. A. Sweetbriar college and Johns
Hopkins university.
Chemistry: Gertrude Eastman, M.
A., Mount Holyoke.
Biology: Marjorie Boyd, B. S., and
Evelyn Talbot, B. S., both of Sim
mons college, Boston, Mass.
Household arts: Mildred Aldrlch,
B. S. of Cornell univercity, and Lii
liam Indie, B. S., Teachers college,
School of Dancing, New York.
New York.
Household science: Ada Winifred
Hill, B. S., Vassar, and Agnes Med
lock, B. A. Winthrop College.
Expression: Sybil Smell, Curry
School of Expression and Chaliff
Schol of Dancing, New York.
Public School music: Katharine M.
Pickles, Syracuse university.
Piano: Alice K. Hoffman, B. S.
Maryland College for Women and
student of American Institute OF
Applied Music, New York.
Violin: Katharine Rand of Nova
Scotia.
1t is expected that President john