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A CHANCE FOR WOMEN
Opportunity School At Lander Col
iege, Greenwood

Board of Education of the Upper
south Carolina Conference will
onduct a unique school at Lander
college beginning July "a and clos
ng August 10. This school is for
iris over fourteen and women who
b youth did not master the 3
RS. While emphasis will be
laced on teaching reading, writing
rithmetic and spelling, yet the
tudent will have ali the cultural
ontact connected with a Christian
ollege. Aside from drill work of
he class room there will be good
ectures, musicals and educational
ictures.
The dates selected Tor holding
he school were chosen because AL
ust is often a vacation month in
9th country and mill and so will
ermit the women to utilize their
a~cation in a most valuable way.
The school is non sectarian and
on UNCONVENTIONAL. The teachers
re among the best in the state and
ere appointd because Of their pc
nliar fitness. In addition to the
ocular teachers there will be call
j to their assistance the best
aimed experts and specialists to
i've talks and demonstration les
bns on the preparation of foods,
ONE nursing, personal hygiene,
tc.
Any girl or woman who hasn't
pmpleted the fifth grade and who
annot attend a public school will
e admitted. Expenses for the
lonth have been reduced to a mini
Eum board of $3.50, laundry so
ents per week, books $1.50. to
$50 and railroad fare.
The classes will be small and the
upils will be classified according to
bility rather than grade, thus per-
hitting very rapid progress to be
pade. In one month it will be pos
bile for an adult to make as much
rogress as a child in an entire
ear.
The educated public is asked to
Esist in making this school a sue
ess by calling it to the attention
girls and women in need of such
kstruction. When an ambitious girl
unable to provide the means,
bme charitable, social or church
fganization is asked to send her
N a scholarship. a bulletin giving
etailed information may be had
rom Lander College, Miss Eliza
eth Alexander, Greenwood, S. c.
Superintendent j. E. Svearin.
ZEN says, "The summer school for
iris and young women realizes a
bng cherished dream and meets a
bng felt need. The enthusiastic in
crest of every minister and every
hurch has made this experiment
possible. The students are to re-
Give their introduction to books
Ind to culture in the fine atmos-
bhere of the college. They will
earn valuable lessons from books,
but far more valuable lessons from
inc another and from the summer
chool authorities.
This summer marks a new edu-
rational era in South Carolina. 1t
lees a novel school ~inaugurated to
bring learning to native white. girls
Ind women who in their youth had
ho chance. 1t beholds the State De-
bartment of Education opening
lander College for these forgotten
women from tenant home, mill vii
age and mountain cabin. They
humber over fifteen thousand,
these women. Over fifteen thousand
potential mothers and wielders Of
destiny; over fifteen thousand vot-
ers with no knowledge Of condi-
lions which the ballot may remedy.
Summer schools for teachers, min
sters, and doctors are an acknow-
edged fact; no doubt about the
heed for training there. Why not
GUNNER schools for illiterate wo-
men? Is it not fitting that the Up