The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-11
SUMNER SCHOOL
CLOSES FRIDAY
SEVEN STUDENTS GRADUATE
FROM UNIVERSITY In
SUMMER COURSES

The 1922 summer school session of
the University of Idaho which began
June 12 and lasted for nine weeks,
came to a close Friday, August IL.
Nearly two hundred attended the
various classes offered. Some were
working for certificates some for a
baccalaureate and others for a mas
ter'S degree.
A reception for the seven gradual
ing students and the summer school
faculty, given by Dean and Mrs. J. f..
Messenger at their home in the north
east part Of the city Friday evening,
formally closed the summer school
activities.
The several students who were ma
circulated from the university during
the summer school are: Miss Ruth
.Blomquist, Shelley, Idaho; Miss Gene
We've Dartt, Palouse, Wash; Mrs.
Edith Geek, Moscow; Miss Bernice
Mccoy, formerly state superintendent
of public instruction in Idaho; Miss
Smith, Valparaiso, Ind. Miss Eliza
beth Russum, Kellogg, Idaho.
Although these students have ac-
quired sufficient number of credits to
graduate they will not receive their
degrees until commencement, 1928.
All of the graduates are planning
to teach. Miss B1omquist will teach
in the Firth, Idaho, high school; Miss
Dartt, in the Glenns Ferry high
school; Mrs. Geek, in the Moscow
high school; Miss Mccoy, will prob
ably remain in Moscow; Miss Smith,
in Wyoming; Miss Woods, at Deary,
Idaho; Miss RuSsum at kellogg, Ida
no.
OF the entire number enrolled this
summer, practically all were seeking
some kind of a teaching certificate.
According to figures available, 21
we're raising their county school GER
tificates. The remainder were work
ing for state elementary or high
school certificates.
Because Of the lack of information
available, the exact number who we're
in school to get state elementary and
high school certificates is not known.
But the figures are rapidly being COM
piled. Many students who were un-
able to complete the requirements for
certification plan on taking exten-
sion courses.
there were three week, on Monday,
there were three a week, on Monady,
Wednesday and Friday, was taken up
by recital by the summer school
chorus under the direction of Pro
fessor E. o. Bangs, head of the music
department.
A full program of entertainments
and lectures has been provided, in
cluding two baseball games with the
summer school students of Lewiston
State normal, one at Moscow and one
at Lewiston, which Idaho won by
scores of "a to and % to5.
Varsity Players Entertain
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students with ''Her Money Man. soon
after summer school began.
Then came DR.. Edwin T. Devine Of
New York, editor of The Survey and
well known as writer on sociology
and as an emergency relief worker in
such disasters as the Ohio floods and
the San Francisco fire
Prof Ray K. Immel of the Univers
ity of Michigan, gave a reading, "The
DEVILS DISCIPLE Dean M. E. Hag-
garty, of the school of education of
the University of Minnesota, was a
lecturer, and three lectures were de-
livered by DR.. julius A. Leibert, rabbi
of Temple EMANUEL of Spokane.
DR.. John A. Lomax of the Univers
ity of Texas gave two readings and
lectures on cowboy literature and an
other on the religious songs and folk
lore of the negroes.
A home talent entertainment CEN
tered about tHome Brew" one-ace
p1aylet by Philip Buck. This was
written last year as a regular uni
exercise. Buck was a sum-
mer school student also. The sum-
mer school chorus, under direction of
Professor E. O. Bangs, supplemented
this play with a concert.
The grand finale in the entertain
ment numbers was the press and set
tier scene, Of the greater pageant to
be given next spring. Towspeop1e and
students attended it enmasse
and it was deemed one of the best
numbers on the entire program.
The summer school work for 1922,
as for 1921, was under the direction
If Dean J. F. Messenger. Dean Mes
senger states that the term just clos
I'd was one of the most successful in
he history of the institution.
THE students, who were mainly +
school teachers and superintendents
With a few advanced regular univers
ty students working for degrees, were
earnest in their endeavors and their
application brought the most salts
'actory results in the work.
Near the close of school vote was
aiken among the students on how long
should the summer course be. The
Of sentiment indicated that
| twelve weeks session divided into
wo parts would perhaps be the most
Just what will be done
las not been definitely decided
Prominent Methodist Visits Moscow
DR.. D. D. Forsyth, secretary of the