Alumnae News of the State Normal and Industrial College

ALUMNAE NEWS

OF THE STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE

Vol. 3. No. 2.

GREENSBORO, N. C, JUNE, 1914

Price, 25 Cents a Year

WHAT CONSTITUTES A STAND-
ARD HIGH SCHOOL

In (I) New England, (2) New York,
(3) Indiana, (4) North Carolina.

A report made before the Southern Association of
College Women of Greensboro, N. C.

[Continued from last number.]
NEW YORK STATE

High school standards are fixed by the
Eegents of the University of the State of
New Yorli. An Assistant State Commission-
er of Education has charge of Secondary Ed-
ucation. The Regents inspect and classify
the schools; they also prepare uniform exam-
ination questions for the public high schools
(used in some private schools also) and
grade the examination papers. Thus the Re-
gents, rather than the separate schools, grad-
uate and give certificates to the pupils. A
few of the larger and stronger high schools
are not under the Eegents, but graduate
their own pupils. These schools, of course,
are independent of state aid.

All secondary schools approved by the
Eegents are entitled to share in public mon-
eys, etc., and are entered in the official lists
of approved secondary schools. All such
schools must meet the following conditions:

1. The term must contain at least 175
school days.

2. The instruction, equipment, and teach-
ing force must be satisfactory to the Ee-
gents.

3. There must be a regular attendance of
at least five pupils ' ' holding a preliminary
certificate or its accepted equivalent ' '.

4. Throughout the entire course, there
must be at least three recitations in English
during each school week.

Approved Secondary Schools are classified
as follows:

1. Junior Academic — with (1) an ap-
proved one or two-year course of study and

(2) apparatus worth at least .$100.00, and

(3) a library worth at least $200.00.

2. Middle Academic — with (1) an ap-
proved two or three-year course of study,

(2) apparatus worth at least $1.50.00, and

(3) a library worth at least $300.00.

3. Senior Academic — with (1) an ap-
proved three or four-year course, (2) ap-
paratus worth at least $200.00, and (3) a
library worth at least $400.00. Laboratory
facilities for individual experimentation must
be provided.

4. High School — with (1) an approved
four-year course, (2) apparatus worth at
least $250.00, (3) a library worth at least
$500.00, and (4) facilities for individual
experimentation. (Eight years of work in
the elementary school are always, I think,
pre-supposed.)

In the high school:

Recitation period — 45 minutes (generally).

No. recitations per week per student —

not more than twenty (prepared lessons ad-
vised).

No. recitations per week per teacher —
not specified. Not more than 30 is usual.

No. pupils per teacher — not specified.
Rarely more than 30.

Course of Study not prescribed. Various
courses recommended, ranging in periods
from 17% to 24 (including drawing and
vocal music), and in purpose, including Col-
lege Preparatory, Technical Preparatory,
Normal Preparatory, Commercial, Agricul-
tural, etc. It is stated that "the following
subjects * * * under normal condi-
tions, should be prescribed for all pupils in
a secondary school:

' ' English — four years.

"Ancient, English, and American History,
with Civics.

' ' Algebra and Plane Geometry.

' ' Biology and Physics. ' '

In ordinary eases. Physical Training (2
periods) and Vocal Music (1 period) are
advised, also Drawing (2 periods for 2 years,
1 period for other 2 years). Each of the
college preparatory courses provides for 2
foreign languages and for a year and a
half each in Algebra and Geometry. The
work done is not estimated in Carnegie units,
but I should judge that from fifteen to sis-
teen such units are included in each of the
courses offered, at least in the college pre-
paratory courses.

INDIANA

The following statements are quoted from
the ' ' State Manual and Uniform Course of
Study for the Public Schools of Indiana":

The commissioned high school shall include
not less than four years' work following the
eight years in elementary school. The high
school course of non-commissioned high
schools shall be uniform throughout the
state and shall follow a course to be estab-
lished and amended or altered from time to
time as occasion may arise, by the State
Board of Education.

The following enumerated studies shall be
taught in all commissioned high schools
throughout the state, together with such ad-
ditional studies as any local Board of Edu-
cation may elect to have taught in. its high
school; provided, that such additions shall
be subject to revision by the State Board of
Education:

I. Mathematics — Commercial Arithmetic,
Algebra, Geometry.

II. History — United States, Ancient, Me-
diaeval or Modern.

III. Geography — Commercial or Physical.

IV. English — Composition, Rhetoric.

V. Literature — English, American.

VI. Language (foreign) — Latin, Ger-
man.

VII. Science — Biology, Physics or Chem-
istry.

VIII. Civil Government — General, State.

IX. Drawing.

X. Music.

The Board of Education shall outline a
course of study in Agriculture, Domestic

Science and Industrial work, which it may
require city, town and township high schools
to offer as regular courses.

In rural, town and city high schools of the
state, a minimum requirement of one year's
work of five recitations per week, or the
equivalent, in Domestic Science and either
Agriculture or Industrial work shall be main-
tained, and no credit allowed in these sub-
jects for less than the amount of work thus
prescribed.

The law enumerating the studies which
shall be taught in commissioned high schools
is to be interpreted to mean that compe-
tent teachers of these branches must be reg-
ularly employed to teach the same to all
pupils who may express a desire to receive
such instruction.

Requirements for Graduation:

1. All graduates from commissioned high
schools must have completed not less than
16 units of high school work. A unit is de-
fined as a year's study of five periods a
week for not less than 32 weeks, provided
that, in a school where a course of not less
than nine months is maintained, 15 units
shall be acceptable for graduation.

2. Of these 16 units (respectively 5
units), nine shall be obtained in the follow-
ing subjects:

English — three units.

Foreign Language — two units.

Mathematics — two units.

Natural Science — one unit.

History — one unit.

Seven (respectively 6) additional units to
be taken in the above or other subjects as the
school authorities may determine.
[To be continued in the next issue of the News.l

Alumnae Notes

Eodie Buie, 1892-1898, Mrs. J. T. Ken-
yon, sends the following letter which is of
interest to our readers:

' ' I think of you dear people often, and
wish I could see you again ; but my days are
busy ones always, and I do not have much
spare time to write. I am much interested
in the proposed change of the college name.
1 have thought for a long time that it should
be changed, because up here they think of
the Normal as a little school, and nearly
always a colored school. The officials here
have come to me repeatedly to ask about col-
leges in the south in connection with exami-
nation papers of eligibles certified for ap-
pointment from the Civil Service Commis-
sion. There is no way in the world to tell
from an examination paper whether an appli-
cant is white or black — so bnmettes, as a
rule, are in danger of being discriminated
against. And I have noticed that the idea
here of a normal school is not anything like
my idea of the Normal College.

"We have changed our address again, and
are now at No. 1314 Kenyon Street, North-
west. I would be glad if you will change
the mailing list so I will continue to get the

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'News'. I do not see any of the Normal
girls often, except Eachel Brown Clarke.
We are still friends, and as we go to the
same church', we meet once a week anyway.

"Please give my love to all the folks at
the Normal who know me, and remember
that I am always glad to hear from you and
always interested in all of you and in what
you are doing. Rachel's little girls will soon
be big enough to go to the Normal * *

Jessie Eskridge, 1S93-1895, now Mrs. Wal-
ter Eamsaur, is living in Gastonia.

We are sorry to learn that Susan E. Hall,
1895-1896, recently lost her mother, Mrs. B.
F. Hall, of WUmington, N. C.

■ihe recent Guilford County commencement
was a remarkable success. A large number
of our former students took part in the pa-
rade as the marshals of the children of the
various rural schools in Guilford County, of
which they have charge. The sewing and
cooking exhibits from the school taught by
Miss Eula Todd, 1895-1897, were most ex-
cellent.

Margaret Horsfield, 1896, is now teaching
at Salem College. She hopes to attend the
Sunday exercises during commencement.

Sallie Joyner Davis, 1896, has recently
completed a home of her own in Greenville,
N. C. She is taking great interest in plan-
ning the house and expects to enjoy the de-
tails of furnishing it.

Mary T>. Holmes, 1896-1897, is now Mrs.
A. J. Davis, 32 Franklin Street, New Lon-
don, Connecticut.

Ida Hinson, 1896-1897, is now Mrs. Eob-
ert L. Graham, of Charlotte, N. C.

Lessie Gill, 1897, Mrs. I. J. Young, of
Mistletoe VUla, Henderson, North Carolina,
in sending a check for the alumnae treasury,
writes: "I guess you can find a use for it
for some fund or other; if not, things have
changed greatly since I was there. I am
wishing for you all a happy commencement. ' '

We regret to learn of the death of Mrs.
T. K. Barnett, mother of Oeland Barnett,

1898, now Mrs. Joe Wray, of Gastonia, N. C.
The lotla High School building was burned

this spring. Miss Elizabeth Wells, 1898-

1899, who has been principal of this school
for four years, has assisted materially in
the formation of plans and laying of the cor-
ner stone for a two-story concrete building.

Johnston County recently held its very suc-
cessful county commencement. The Assist-
ant County Superintendent, Miss Lizzie
Kelly, 1898-1899, has done most excellent
work in the rural schools of Johnston.

Since Dr. L. B. McBrayer has resigned his
position as health oifieer of Asheville in order
to take up the work at Montrose Sanitarium,
Dr. Carl V. Eeynolds has been appointed his
successor. Dr. Eeynolds married Edith Ean-
dolph, 1898-1900.

Pearl Freeman, 1898-1901, Mrs. W. T.
Tadlock, of Windsor, writes of the Alumnae
News: "The college paper I received some
time ago aroused my interest in my old col-
lege and caused me to wish to be with you
all again. I remember with pleasure the
hours spent at the Normal."

Nannie T. White, 1898-1901, expects to
return to Franklin next year.

Annie A. Vaughn, 1898-1911, has been
granted a year's leave of absence by the
Franklin Graded School Board, owing to bad
health.

Jessie Whitaker, 1899, Mrs. D. A. Ricks,

of Mayodan, says that she does not wish to
miss a single copy of the ' ' Alumnae News ' '.
She wishes to know all about the girls and
keep in touch with her Alma Mater.

Lucy Hodges, 1899-1900;, is now Mrs.
Thomas Lee Hayes, of Boonville, N. C.

May McDowell, 1900, was principal of the
Cowee High School during the past year.

Lucy Neal Jones, 1900-1901, now Mrs. F.
A. Brooks, of Greensboro, has a niece. Mar-
guerite Brooks, in our present graduating

Louise Hussey, 1900-1901, is now Mrs. H.
D. Farrior, of Warsaw, N. C.

Mattie Dickens, 1900-1904, Mrs. L. F.
Brothers, of Shelby, writes that she and her
husband have a nice work in Shelby, and a
pretty, convenient little home. She has not
been strong enough to do any church work,
but is growing stronger.

Mrs. H. B. Hutchison, nee Meta Fletcher,
1900-1905, has a little daughter who is her
mother's namesake.

Mabel L. Haynes, 1901, sends the follow-
ing news from Cuba:

"My work here goes well and keeps me
busy most of the time. I wish you could see
my class of Sunday school girls — twenty last
Sunday, and all so interested in Bible study
and memorizing the Scriptures. Last Thurs-
day night several came around and recited
for me the chapter they had learned by heart.
Two who never had Bibles in their hands
until last October, recited each five Psalms
and the Beatitudes. One said she was the
housekeeper at home and copied off what she
wanted to learn and stuck it on the kitchen
wall, where she could see it while cooking and
wa.shing dishes, and thus learned it. The
other is a seamstress and memorized her part
while sewing. How proud I was of them
and what a pleasure to find interest in
spiritual things, when on every hand we have
everything against us. ' '

Mr. Hudson married Josephine Scott, 1901-
1904.

Bettie Faison, 1901-1905, now Mrs. Walter
Buhmann, of Winston, was in the city last
week on a shopping trip.

Lila Austin Shearin, 1902, sends the fol-
lowing card: "It would indeed be a source
of great pleasure to be once again with my
college friends. I find it impossible to at
tend the reunion, but my thoughts will be
of you, wishing for each a jolly, good time.
I would enjoy seeing the old girls, and espe-
cially the members of the faculty. Eemem-
ber me kindly to all. ' '

Lula Noell, 1902. Mrs. T. C. Markham, of
Durham, has a baby boy at her house who
is most too young to leave. She will, there-
fore, be unable to attend the reunion of her
class.

Miss Daphne Carraway, 1902, has been
of great service to the different county in-
stitutes by her address on "Primary Methods
and Story Telling in the School Eoom. ' '

lone Dunn, 1902, was recently called home
from the College by the illness of her
brother. We hope to hear good news from
him soon.

Ellen Hatcher, 1902-1904, is now Mrs.
E. P. ByrA, of Scotland Neck.

Miss Lettie Spainhour, 1903, who is now
a missionary in Soochow, China, sprained
both ankles this spring while playing on a
tennis court. As a consequence of this she
has been unable to walk for several months.

She hopes, however, for an early recovery
from this accident.

Lyda Faison, 1903, now Mrs. E. W.
Barnes, of Kings Mountain, was a patient
at the Charlotte Sanatorium last month.
Her friends will all be glad to hear that she
is regaining her strength after an operation.

Miss Florida Morris, 1903, has recently
had the pleasure of a summer in Europe.
On her way home she visited her sister, Mrs.
J. Lloyd Wade, Helena Morris, 1902-1903,
of Dunn, N. C.

Mabel Lee Brown, 1903-1905, now Mrs.
J. C. Sykes, of Orlando, Florida, has made
her home in Florida for six years. Her
husband is a dentist. They have one little
boy four and one-half years old, who attend-
ed kindergarten all the past vrinter. She
writes that the winters in Florida are fine
and several thousand tourists enjoy the win-
ter season at Orlando. Mrs. Sikes expects to
spend her summer this year in North Caro-
lina. She wrote inquiring about a magazine
or some kind of literature about the College.
We were pleased to tell her of the Magazine,
the Annual and the Alumnae News.

Eobie Price Johnston, 1903-1905, is now
Mrs. M. H. McCoDum, of Spray, North Caro-
lina.

Mattie Taylor, 1904, Mrs. J. E. Gill, of
Henderson, Eoute 4, writes that she has been
ill herself, her little daughter had pneumonia,
and in March she had to take the baby to
a hospital in Eiehmond. Mrs. Gill's friends
will be glad to know that mother and chil-
dren are again quite well. She writes:
' ' The last copy of the ' News ' was the best
ever. I always am glad to get it. ' '

Eleanor Myatt, 1904-1905, who was mar-
ried last September to Mr. Albert M. Noble,
is now living in Tutuila, Samoa. Mr. Noble
is Clerk of the United States Court in Samoa.
Judge Alexander Stronach, of Ealeigh, is in
charge of this court.

Mayme Ives, 1904-1905, is now Mrs. Wool-
lard, of Bethel, N. C.

Mattie E. Hobbs, 1904-1905, is working in
the office of the South Atlantic Lumber Com-
pany, of Greensboro, N. C.

Mary Davis, 1905, now Mrs. Jefferson
Walker Sewell, of Monroe, has a fine little
boy, Philip, one year of age on May 31st.
Mrs. Sewell recently had the pleasure of at-
tending grand opera in Atlanta for a week.
Mrs. Sewell 's mother in writing for her
daughter, says, "We are still deeply inter-
ested in the Normal College and ever will be.
Several of the Normal graduates are married
and living in Monroe, and they are women
worth while in our town."

.leunie Todd, 1906, is now teaching in
Worth, West Virginia. She hopes to be in
Greensboro for our commencement.

Blanche Stacy, 1906, was recently married
to Dr. H. F. Kinsman, of Hamlet, North
Carolina,

Georgia A. Willis, 1906-1907, is now Mrs.
George M. Task, of Eiehmond, Virginia.

Miss Mamie Hightower, 1906-1908, is now
working for the Greensboro Loan and Trust
Company in the Savings Department. She
has made a good record in the business world.

On April 2eth, Miss Louine McKay, 1906-
1909, was married to Mr. Walter Baxter, of
Guilford County. Margaret John, 1910, was
present at the wedding and played the wed-
ding march.

Mary Flanagan, 1907-1911, was married

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in January to Mr. A. E. Allen, of Middle-
sex, N. C.

Mary Foy Johnson, 1907-1908, is now Mrs.
J. F. Dobson, 419 Campbell Street, Wilming-
ton, N. C.

Lelia May Harper, 1907-1908, is planning
to attend the Summer Session at the College.

Margaret Brooks Cobb, 1907-1909, Mrs.
Jasper Garris, is living in Virginia. She
has two fine boys.

The. friends of Pauline Whitley, 1907-
1911, will be glad to know that she is
having a satisfactory recovery from her se-
rious burns. Though her recovery has been
tedious, we hope that she will soon be well
again.

MoUie Townsend, 1907-1912, is now work-
ing at St. George's Mission in Morganton.
She hopes to attend our Summer Session.

Frances Wright, 1908, though not teach-
ing during the past year, was of great assist-
ance to the teachers of the Highlands dis-
trict by conducting semi-monthly meetings
of the teachers of that district at which gen-
eral discussion of the methods of teaching
the subjects of the seven grades was taken
up; also the best book of the reading course
was discussed.

Daisy Holcom, 1908-1909, has taught this
winter at Brevard, N. C.

Miss Lala Johnson, 1908-1910, is now Mrs.
B. C. Shields, of Winston-Salem, N. C.

Miss lola Dale York, 1909, is now Mrs.
J. A. Pitts, of Oxford. Mr. Pitts is superin-
tendent of the Oxford Graded School.

Lena May Johnson, who attended the May
school in 1909, is now Mrs. James C. Gallo-
way, of Grimesland, N. C.

Miss Laura Campbell, 1909-1910, taught
at Moore's School House during the past
year. She received great praise at the re-
cent commencement for her marked success
in training children in difficult drills. A
very beautiful May-pole dance was given. A
picnic dinner was served on the grounds at
noon. The community is very enthusiastic
over the success of the year's work at this
school.

Miss Mabel Hoover, 1909-1910, is now Mrs.
Walter L. Hargett, of High Point, North
Carolina.

Edna Graves, 1909-1910, is now Mrs. J.
Ernest Holt, of Burlington.

Mary Belle Grier, 1909-1910, married Mr.
James Eoy Hutchison, R. F. D., Charlotte,
N. C.

Isalene .Tileott, 1909-1910, is now Mrs. P.
B. Cole, of Eoxobel, N". C.

Emily H. Joyner, 1909-1910, recently en-
joyed a trip with her father to San Domingo.
She was forced to return home earlier than
she intended on account of some political dis-
turbance on the islands.

Lila Grier, 1909-1911, married Mr. James
Torke Pharr, of Concord.

Effie J. Hughes, 1909-1912, was a recent
visitor to the College. She is always wel-
come among us.

Mary Louise Brown, 1910, is now visiting
her brother in Greensboro.

Mrs. Judson Blount, Clyde Stancill, 1910,
spent a short time with her friends in
Greensboro recently just after she attended
Margaret Goley 's wedding in Graham. She
expects to begin housekeeping in June and
ia very busy preparing for it. We regret
that she cannot return to Greensboro to at-
tend the Green and White Reunion.

Miss Bessie Coats, 1910, will be with us
at commencement. She writes that she has
been looking forward to this trip all the
year.

Miss Edith Hassell, 1910, has accepted our
invitation to attend the reunion of the Green
and White Classes at commencement.

Margaret John, 1910, is planning to rest
from her teaching next year. We regret
that she cannot attend commencement this
year, as she is detained by her school work.

Marion Stevens, 1910, is now teaching in
Goldsboro. Her school closes on June the
fifth. She expects to be with us during com-
mencement for part of the exercises.

Miss Margaret Kerr Scott was at the
College in 1910-1911. We clip the following
information from the press in regard to her
^\•o^k :

' ' Miss Margaret Scott, daughter of Mr.
R. W. Scott, of Alamance, has begun work
with the State Department of Agriculture
and is assistant to Mrs. Charles McKimmon
in the Girls' Club.

' ' Miss Scott comes from a family who
have made the soils obey every behest and
yield up aU that they had. She had practical
experience in tomato growing and from a
tenth of acre has canned 870 cans, 2,610
pounds of tomatoes, not counting the vege-
tables sold before canning began. She will
prove an uncommonly valuable addition to
the Girls' Club work. She knows how to do
the work as one who has been through all
phases of it.

' ' The department is organizing the girls
as it is doing the boys and has several divis-
ions. Mr. T. E. Browne has charge of the
boys and these are branches of the demon-
stration work headed by Mr. C. R. Hudson. ' '

The friends of Audrey Pruden, 1910-1912,
were glad to have her at the College for a
visit.

Miss Ada Joyce, 1910-1912, sends the fol-
lowing card: "I am now at Stoneville for
the summer. Please send the 'News' here.
I surely enjoy reading it and do not want
to miss a single copy."

Mildred Edwards, 1910-1913, was a wel-
come visitor at the College early in May.

Nora Carpenter, 1911, was a recent visitor
at the College. She is teaching Domestic
Science at Monticello High School in Guil-
ford County.

Pearl HoUoway, 1911, has two sisters in
the present graduating class — Mamie and
Hallie Holloway.

Beatrice Bagley, who attended the May
school in 1911, was married recently to Mr.
William Lewis, of Fairmont, N. C.

Annie HaU, 1911-1913, of Milton, North
Carolina, was a recent visitor at the College.
She taught during the past winter.

Lillian Pitt, 1911-1913, Margaret Cotton,
1911-1912, Bert Spruill, 1904-1907, and
Havens CarroU, 1903-1905, have all been wel-
come visitors at the College this spring.

Hattie Burch, 1912, made a short visit at
the College as she was returning to Eos-
boro from her school work at Andrews, N. C.
She is planning to attend Columbia Uni-
versity this summer and will probably remain
there for the winter 's work if she can make
up her mind to tear herself away from the
boys and girls in her grade in Andrews. She
is very enthusiastic over the success of the
Andrews school.

Margaret Cameron Cobb, 1912, is planning
to enter Barnard College this fall.

Grace Eaton, 1912, has been laid aside
from her school work by whooping cough.
She wrote the other day for a catalogue of
the College. She wished this catalogue as a
means of entertaiament while she was shut
in. She hopes to attend the Summer Session
if she is strong enough.

Hattie Howell, 1912, had a pleasure trip
to Atlanta recently to attend grand opera.

Ara Jordan, 1912, now Mrs. Claude S.
Tate, of Littleton, N. C, recently sent us a
most attractive picture of herself and little
Virginia May, a fine little lady of seven
months. Mrs. Tate writes : ' ' We are al-
ready planning to send her to the Normal. ' '

Miss Ethel Skinner, 1912, made us a visit
at the College recently. Her visit was aU
too short.

Mary K. Van Poole, 1912, was a recent
visitor at the College. She accompanied the
representative of Pleasant Garden High
School who competed in recitation at the
recent high school contest for this district.
The girl whom Mary Van had trained car-
ried off the honors of the evening, and we
were, of course, proud of her success.

Miss Mattie Smith, of Benson, who at-
tended our May school in 1912, is now Mrs. '
L. Busbee Pope, of Benson.

Mary Louise Jones, 1912-1913, Susan
Guion, 1909-1913, and Lucy Guion, 1911-
1912, recently visited the College.

Catharine Ervin, 1911, has recently been
compelled to give up her work as teacher of
Latin in the Morganton High School on ac-
count of bad health. Miss Margaret Lewis,
who has been teaching in Hickory, wiU com-
plete the term for her.

Annie Davis, 1910, graduates on June
the third from Dr. White's Bible Teachers'
Training School in New York City. She is
sorry to miss the Green and White Reunion.
She sends us word that she has certainly
enjoyed the "Alumnae News" inmaensely.
She writes :

"I am very busy graduating. I have just
had my thesis accepted. Mine is on the
social teachings in Luke, the subject being
' Social Reconstruction as Evidenced in the
Gospel by Luke. ' We are planning our
new building, although the money has not
appeared so far. The student body has
pledged $1,-500.00 by June the first. They
are doing all sorts of things to raise it, —
blacking or shining shoes, doing practical
work, making candy, shampooing hair, etc.
The Italians will give a spaghetti dinner
Monday. I am having some wonderful times
here at the school and in New York. I shall
never regret one day spelt here. Mr. Keene,
the fine new president of the language school
at Nanking, China, is singing in the sitting-
room across the hall. Mr. S. G. Gordon was
here the other day. Dr. Zwemer's sister, of
China, is here, and has been sitting by me
at the table. That is just an instance of the
fine visitors who frequently stop with us. I
should like to be able to cast my ballot for
a change of our college name. ' '

Johnsie Coit, 1896-1898, recently chaper-
oned the pupils of her grade on a picnic
outing at Grant 's Creek, near Salisbury. The
party had an elegant spread, the last course
of which was delicious chocolate bonbons
made by the teacher.

(Coutinued on page 5)

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THE NEW COURSE OF STUDY

Bachelor of Pedagogy Coubse

Freshman: English, 3; Latin, or French,
or German, 4; Mathematics, 4; Vocal Music,
or Expression, 2; Biology and Botany, or
Drawing, 2. Total, 15.

Sophomore: English, 3; Latin, or French,
or German, 3; Mathematics, or History, 3;
Chemistry, 3; Dom. Sci. and Dom. Art, or
Drawing, or Physiography, 3; or French, or
German, 1st year, 4. Total, 15 or 16.

Biology and Botany is a pre-requisite for
Domestic Science.

Junior: English, 3; Latin, or French, or
German, 3; Psychology, 3; Physics, 3; Eural
Economics, or History of Education, or
History, or Mathematics, or Language, or
Biology, or Economics, 3; Manual Arts, 1.
Total, 16.

Senior: English, 3; Pedagogy, 6; Mathe-
matics IV, or Mathematics V, or Biology, or
Chemistry, or Physiology, or Physics, or Eco-
nomics, or Astronomy, 3; History, or Lan-
guage, 3; Manual Arts, 1. Total, 16.

Bachelor, of Arts Course

Freshman: English, 3; Latin, 4; French
or German, 4; Mathematics, 4. Total, 15.

Sophomore : English, 3; Latin, 3; French
or German, 3; Chemistry, 3; Mathematics or
History, 3; or French or German, 4; (a
third lang.) Total, 15 or 16.

Junior: English, 3; Latin, 3; French or
German, 3; Psychology, 3; Physics or His-
tory, or Mathematics or Language, 3 ; Ex-
pression, 1. Total 16.

Senior: English, 3; Latin, 3; French or
German, 3; Calculus or History, 3; Peda-
gogy, or Language, or Economics, 3. Total,
15.

Bachelor of Science Course

Freshman : English, 3 ; Latin, or French,
or German, 4; Mathematics, 4; Drawing, 2;
Biology and Botany, 2. Total, 15.

Sophomore : English, 3; Latin, or French,
or German, 3; Mathematics, or History, 3;
Chemistry, 3 ; Language, 4 ; or Physiography,
or Physics I, 3. Total, 15 or 16.

Junior: English, 3; Biology, 3; Psychol-
ogy, 3 ; Physics, 3 ; Language, or History, or
Mathematics, 3; Expression, 1. Total, 16.

Senior: English, 3; Chemistry, Biology

III, Physics, Astronomy, or Physiology, any
two, 6; Mathematics, or History, 3; Science,
or Language, or Pedagogy, or Economics, 3.
Total, 15.

Bachelor or Science in Home Economics
Course

Freshman: English, 3; Language, 4;
Mathematics, 4; Chemistry, 3; Poultry and
Gardening, 1. Total, 15.

Sophomore: English, 3; Language, 3;
Dom. Science — 2nd term, Dom. Art — 1st
term, 2; House Architecture and Sanitation,
2; Chemistry, 3; Biology and Botany, 2.
Total, 15.

Junior: English, 2; Physics, 3; Psychol-
ogy, 3; Economies, 3; Biology, 3; Dom. Art
— 2nd term, Dom. Sci. — 1st term, 2. Total,
16.

Senior: English, 3; Food and Dietetics
and Household Accounts, 2; Theory and
Prac. of D. Sci. and D. Art, 2 ; H. Fur. and
Decoration, 2; Textiles, 2; Physiology and
Home Nursing and Care of Children, 3;
Rural Economics, 2. Total, 16.

Bachelor of Music Course

Freshman: English, 3; French or Ger-
man, 4; Solfeggio, 3; Piano, 5. Total, 15.

Sophomore: English, 3; French or Ger-
man, 3; Harmony, 2; History of Music, 2;
Applied Music, 5; Ensemble Playing, 1.
Total, 16.

Junior: Psychology, 3; Harmony, 2;
History of Music, 2 ; Solo, 1 ; Applied Music,
6; Normal Piano Methods, or Voice, or
Organ, or Piano, or Violin, or Junior Liter-
ature, 2. Total, 16.

Senior: Applied Music, 6; Counterpoint,
2; Analysis, 2; Public School Music, 3; or
Voice, or Violin, or Organ, or Piano, or
English, or Third Yr. Mod. Laug., 3; Piano
Teaching, 2; or Voice, or Organ, or Piano,
or Violin, or Junior Literature, 2; Solo and
Ensemble, 1. Total, 16.

In the Senior year of the Bachelor of Arts
and Bachelor of Science Courses, the three
hours of Training School work must be done
in addition to the fifteen required hours by
all students under pledge to teach.

No first year Language may count as
Senior work.

No student can take more than sixteen
hours, except under such regulations as are
adopted.

Counting of Music Eours: 2 lessons, plus
1 hour's practice, count 2; 2 lessons, plus 2
hours' practice, count 3; 2 lessons, plus 3
hours' practice, count 5; 2 lessons, plus 4
hours' practice, count 6.

It was moved and carried that the en-
trance requirements in Language for 1914
be two units of Latin and one unit of Mod-
ern Language, or three units of Latin, or
three units of Modern Language.

Those who present three years in one lan-
guage for entrance have freedom of choice in
the languages offered, and those who offer
two languages are required to continue one
of them. No student will be allowed to pass
by examination all language work required
in any course, but must take at least one
year in residence.

Three hour sciences are entitled to three
hours recitation and three hours laboratory
time.

We are publishing for' the information of
the Alumnae the new course of study, which
wOl go into effect at the opening of Col-
lege in the fall. All of the Alumnae can
see at a glance that certain changes have
been made, but it may be well to call atten-
tion to some of the more important ones. The
first and most important change is the in-
crease m entrance requirements. The re-
quirements up to this time have been nine
and a half units, while the standard women 's
colleges in this country require, in most in-
stances, fourteen, and in some cases, fifteen
units for entrance. Our requirements were
raised three units, making our requirements
twelve and a half. These additional units
are one in Mathematics, one in Language,
and one elective, which may be chosen from
Language, Science or History. Solid Geom-
etry covers the additional unit in Mathe-
matics, and an extra year of Latin, or a year
of a modern language, the additional unit
in Language. These changes in entrance re-
quirements have become necessary on account
of the higher courses which the High Schools
of the State are now offering their students.
It simply means that the work done by stu-
dents in the High Schools wiU not have to
be repeated after these students reach col-
lege, as was often the case heretofore. The
preparatory department will still give the
necessary additional preparation to those
students, whose home schools were not able
to fit them for the Freshman class.

The main change in the B. P. course has
been the introduction of two languages
instead of one. A student, working under
this course, may now study Latin and a
modern language, or may study the two
modern languages offered, French and Ger-
man.

The Home Economies Course was revised
with a view to training not only Domestic
Science teachers, but graduates who will be
able to supervise the Domestic Science work
in any given county.

In addition to Latin, a student may now
take the two modern languages in the B. A.
course.

In all courses, more electives have been
allowed, and all courses were revised with
the view to fitting teachers for the High
Schools of the State. From time to time, as
the courses of the secondary schools of the
State permit, additional units wDl be added
to the present requirements, until standard
college requirements are reached.

Just as this issue of the News goes to
print, we learn of the sudden death of the
good friend of hundreds upon hundreds of
old Normal girls,

MISS KIRKLAND

It is with sorrow that we print this news,
which will mean to the old girls the breaking
of one of the links which bound the Alnmnae
to the College. Spencer will never seem
quite the same without Miss Kirkland in her
usual place.

Hattie Howell, 1912, made a visit at the
CoUege on her way home from Gastonia.
Her many friends were delighted to see her.

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Alumnae Notes

(Continued from page 8)

It was a great pleasure to have Lizzie Eod-
diek, 1913, witli us at the College for a few
days on her way home from Rich Square.
We clip the following from the ' ' Koanoke-
Chowan Times":

' ' One of the most delightful features of
the entire program was the banquet given in
honor of the Governor and County Board
of Education by the Domestic Science classes
of the county at 6:30 p. m.; this banquet
was largely attended and was a marked suc-
cess. The following menu was served:

"Grape fruit with strawberries; turkey,
celery; rice, peas in patties; tomatoes, beat-
en biscuits; chicken salad, wafers; cheese
straws, olives; wafers; ice cream with straw-
berry sauce; coffee, cheese; mints.

' ' This menu speaks for itself, but mention
should be made of its excellent cooking and
preparation under the immediate direction
of Miss Eoddick, of Rich Square School, by
the school children; there were anecdotes,
speeches, good humor, and sharpened appe-
tites to make the occasion most enjoyable ;
Prof. Brogden delivered a most entertain-
ing and instructive talk on the necessity of
the proper preparation and cooking of our
foods; this banquet gave practical illustra-
tion of the good work being done in our pub-
lie schools in their Domestic Science Depart-
ments and brought attention to this great
service now being rendered our people by
this new department in our public school
system ; the banquet was thoroughly enjoyed
and the further fact that it was graced by
the presence of the Misses Kelly and Wil-
liams and that the large number of gentle-
men who attended have ever since been sing-
ing its praises, is a sufficient testimonial of
its brilliant success."

Mary Porter, 1913, visited the College on
her way home from Pranklinton.

Beulah Martin, 1907-1909, was married on
May 14th, to Mr. Edwin Gray Deans, of Wil-
son.

Mamie Dixon, 1S92-1895, has kindly sent
us recent news from her sister, Louise Dixon,
who is now a member of the Presbyterian
Congo Mission. She sends this message :

"Ton do not know what you are getting
into when you ask for African news, for
when any of the Dixon family gets wound
up on that subject it seems almost impossible
to stop them. I am sending you three of
our recent letters from Louise. It takes a
letter at least seven weeks, and even eight,
to reach us. Louise has almost entire super-
vision of the school at Luebo. They have
the natives in training and put them to work
as soon as they can do anything at all. She
speaks of Mr. Crane and his arithmetic.
She has been working on a Primary Physi-
ology. Several times she has spoken of be;
ing so thankful for her Normal training.
It has helped her in this work. If every-
things goes well, we hope they will have their
furlough nest year. ' '

News from the Congo. The following is
from Louise Dixon, 1905, now Mrs. C. L.
Crane :

"December 8, 1913. School is now over.
The weather is very hot. I have had our
house-cleaning and other jobs to take up my

time recently. Last week I had a new mat
ready to put in my room and so I moved out
everything, had a layer of new earth put on
the floor and pounded down so that all the
holes were smoothed over in floors and walls ;
then had walls white-washed and windows
washed. Now it looks fine. The next day
I had the hall cleaned and put up dark green
curtains. We wish to have the house in good
order before the boat comes. Last week I
helped the boys buttonhole and mark some
forty shirts — new home uniforms for our boys
and Mr. Martin 's. I wish you could have seen
the boys and Fikixa Saturday night. They
came in with their clothes (lubandus) tied up
like knickerbockers, — even had them so they
ran their hands in their pockets — then they
tied red blankets around them, scarf fashion,
and carried big sticks, and came in saluting
like the soldiers across the river. They are
up to something all the time, just like the
boys at home, and seem to enjoy our appre-
ciation of their fun. They are very proud
of new clothes, but are anxious for trousers
instead of lubandus. However, we prefer
the latter, as they are cheaper and cleaner.
"December 16. We heard yesterday from
Dr. Morrison, near Boma. He said that he,
Dr. Iiambeth, seven Methodist missionaries
and one Belgian Protestant, were on board
the boat. We expect them the last of this
week.

' ' We had an exciting episode at supper last
night. We remarked on the noise the rats
were making in the ceiling. Mr. Crane
looked up in time to see a snake drop from
the ceiling right behind him. I did not see
it faU, but Mr. Crane jumped up, nearly
kicked over the table, and Miss Pair caught
the lamp and saved it. In the meantime, Mr.
Crane pounded the snake with a chair. We
behaved real well. I do not believe any one
screamed. I got Fikixa to bring a stick and
the snake was soon dead. Don 't you wish
you lived in Jungle Land where things hap-
pen? I wish you could help us eat some
of these delicious, big pineapples which are
so plentiful now. They are so fine, sweet
and juicy. One slice will fill a great big,
flat meat dish — enough for dinner, supper
and bed time.

"January 22. We are just starting
school. I have to try the new teachers to
see where they can do best. Some cannot
write well enough for certain classes and
some cannot do the number work. Oh! you
would laugh if you could see the raw material
we have to use. It almost makes me cry
sometimes to see how pitifully little they do
know, but when we see grown men enter the
evangelistic work, start in the first reader
and plod on up, we feel like cheering them
on. Tuesday night Mr. Crane had to go
to the evangelistic class. He left three boys
to keep me company. Kabeya and Fikixa
are in the highest class in school — the Bible —
and I made them say all the multiplication
tables they know. Kabeya is about through
with them and Fikixa soon will be. They
think they know a lot, especially since they
have learned a little French now. Wlien
they finished their tables, Fikixa, a little
chap about thirteen, said, 'Mamu, I wish
you would give me Kaku's class in school to
teach'. We all had a hearty laugh at this.
I guess he chose this one class because it
is the kindergarten class of boys and they
are all smaller than he is. I told him to

grow a little more first. School made a fine
beginning. We had 4.55 on Friday. Mr.
Daumerey, the Belgian Protestant, has be-
gun a half-hour class in French every day,
and the natives are enthusiastic over that.
I never saw people so eager to learn lan-
guages and they are certainly gifted in learn-
ing these various languages on the Congo.
We are now enjoying some of the good pole
beans we brought from home. My Sunday
school class is in good shape. I had thirty-
five women present last Sunday."

Mary Hanes, 1909-1911, taught in a rural
school of six grades during the past year.
She is planning to teach somewhere during
the summer.

Elizabeth Hankins, 1900, now Mrs. E. R.
Clarke, of Wilmington, N. C, sends an in-
teresting letter and encloses a recent one from
her sister, Ida Hankins, 1903. Mrs. Clarke
says:

"We get a letter from Ida once a week.
She writes a little every day and mails the
budget at the end of the week. She keeps
well and is very much in love with her work.
She has just passed her third year's exami-
nation. She teaches three classes in Caro-
lina Intitute, Seoul, Korea, is supervisor of
three day schools established by the Metho-
dist Mission, and works in the native
church.

"Swanna Pickett, 1904, now Mrs. W. H.
Henderson, is living in Wilmington. She
has a lovely little two-year-old girl. My
baby, Elizabeth Ray, is the joy of our lives.
I hope some day to take her to the Normal
as a visitor and later as a student. Ida has
never seen her. In just a little over two
years we will have a grand family reunion. ' '

The following is the latest nev.'s from
[da Hankins, 1904:

"April 5th. One of my day school teach-
ers has come to me and said she could not
do the teaching that was required of her
and that she needed an assistant. I am
spending the whole morning with her, observ-
ing her teaching. It is my object to show
her how much time she loses in doing un-
necessary things. For instance, she has just
been copying her roll in school when she
could have done it at home. I will tell her
that privately. What she has just taken
twenty-five minutes to do could have been
done in seven minutes. She has had open-
ing exercises, but the children did not get
a great deal of spiritual good from them. I
shall tell her that, too. These teachers do
pretty well, considering the fact that they
have never had Normal training. The Union
Day School Committee will have a normal
class for a month next year. I am on the
committee to plan for it.

"April 7th. We are beginning the new
term and I am so much interested in my
classes. For fifteen minutes I have the be-
ginners and first grade children in singing,
and then for half an hour I have the begin-
ners in Catechism. Following this class is
another one in Matthew. I love to teach
Korean children. Those in the beginners'
class are just as cute and interesting as they
can be. They have no books and learn just
what I repeat to them. My teacher compli-
mented me yesterday and said my pronun-
ciation was good. Do not think, however,
that I am any bright and shining light when
it comes to knowing Korean, for I am not.
I hope to get the language by diligently

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plodding along day by day. Beside my
teaching today, I have studied seven and one-
half hours.

"April 11th. I have just finished my third
year's examination. On this there -were
ten questions with a 's, b 's and c 's under
each question. I answered all but one, so I
know I have passed. I have had to work
awfully hard lately, but I am going to let
up now on heavy studying."

Amy Joseph, 1912, has had during the past
winter a very interesting class of three little
girls to whom she has taught regular first
grade work. She went away the latter part
of January for a two months' trip and left
her class with Viola Joseph, 1911-1912. She
writes of her trip as follows:

' ' My trip was the best ever. I first visit-
ed a friend in Philadelphia, and then went to
see Janet Weil at Smith College. As that
■was my first visit at a northern college, it
was instructive and interesting. After a
happy week-end visit there, I went to New
York for ten days and then to Chicago to
help celebrate my grand-parents' fifty -fifth
anniversary. After visiting friends in St.
Louis, Missouri, and Toledo, Ohio, I returned
home and am again teaching my three little
girls. My winter has surely been a happy
one. ' '

Helen Hicks, 1906, has returned to Paison
from Washington City. Her position in con-
nection with the Census Bureau was tempo-
rary and lasted imtil -Tune, 1913. Since
that time she has taken a course in short-
hand which she hopes to put into practice
soon. She says that in her Census Bureau
work she prepared all kinds of statistics
from the number of people in the United
States to the average number of bushels of
corn per acre. All this information was ob-
tained from the books sent in by the dif-
ferent enumerators.

Alice Daniel, 1900, sends a newsy letter
from Oxford:

' ' Tor the past year I have led such a quiet
and busy life here at 'Tranquility' that I
have not come in touch with very many
Normal girls outside of our immediate fam-
ily. My oldest sister, Susie, is now Mrs.
W. J. Webb, the wife of a tobacconist in
Oxford. She has two baby girls, Bailey and
Kate. Sara is the wife of a Presbyterian
minister, Rev. J. F. Coleman, of Tennessee.
Last summer they spent their vacation with
us and brought their little girls, Alice and
Mary Venable. Bailey was married last
July to Mr. Richard Lewis, of Roanoke, Vir-
ginia. They have just begun housekeeping
in their new home, and seem as 'happy ever
after' as the story book couples. Thus, by
the process of elimination, I have been called
to ' Tranquility ' from my home mission work
in the western part of the State, and am
now trying to look after mother and home.
Mother was an invalid all winter, but has
recovered sufficiently to visit, and, after
spending Fome weeks with Bailey, is with my
brother. Will, before returning home. Last
session I taueht the |aiblic school here.
Wrestling with housekeeping and servant
problems is quite violent exercise for me, as
I have been engaged in other work so long.
My cook left a few weeks ago, and I am
now trying to train for help the best sub-
stitute for a cook I could get — a little negro
boy. Like the young folks of 'My Old
Kentucky Home', he has been rolling on the

little cabin floor — all merry, all happy and
bright — so long that his new life is probably
as tough a proposition for him as he is for
me. My church work occupies a good deal
of my time. I hope I can soon make a visit
to my Alma Mater. She has meant so much
more to me than I can ever express."

(The editors would like to remark that a
Daniel family reunion at the Normal would
be a fine plan and would add much to the
pleasure of the many friends of these four
old girls.)

Florida Morris, 1903, has written for us
a sketch of her trip to Europe, which we are
glad to share with the readers of the
"News":

' ' We had only five in our party, an ideal
number. We sailed from New York early
in June. Life on ship-board is an experience
that alone makes a trip worth while. As
we were on a White Star boat, everything
was English. If you do not care about
'eats', select another line. One eats about
six times every day. Only too soon the
grandeur of the sea and the beauty of the
moonlight are pleasant memories.

' ' We spenT one day in the beautiful har-
bor of Queenstown, the next day in busy Liv-
erpool. We visited ancient Chester, walked
on the old Roman walls, and saw many in-
teresting ruins. The green meadows, the
orchards, the cattle and the brick houses are
typically English.

"From Liverpool we went to Glasgow, a
city about as large as Philadelphia. Here
they have grand schools. Nearly all the
Scotch read and write, and it is the ambition
of every poor man to send his children to
college. There are great universities at
Glasgow and Edinburgh. From Glasgow to
Edinburgh the ideal journey is through the
Trossachs. From its picturesqueness of the
present and its pageant of the past, Edin-
burgh remains one of the most interesting
cities in Europe. We were in the English
Lake District for quite a while. We visited
the Shakespeare country and spent some time
at Oxford and London.

"Soon -we found ourselves on the channel
bound for Calais. France seems a little like
home. There is only one Paris, — truly a
beautiful lady who smilingly welcomes you.
She, like St. Qiappelle, is the jewel box of
Europe. It is almost impossible to believe
that her magnificent boulevards were once
drenched with blood. The gardens at Ver-
sailles are so lovely it is no wonder they have
turned the heads of kings. Brussels, a min-
iature Paris, came next. Here there are
many grimy workshops, where thousands work
unrecognized. Then there is the field of
Waterloo guarded by its lion. Antwerp
proved a very fascinating place. We visited
many wonderful art galleries, but saw noth-
ing that could compare with Reuben's "The
Descent from the Cross". Antwerp is
really a second Florence.

"Picturesque Holland, with its dykes and
windmills, came next. The Dutch people are
so clean and thrifty. No one seems to be
wealthy and yet no one is poor. There are
few people better educated than the people
of Holland, and there are none that have
more of the elements that make really good
men and women.

' ' In Germany we visited Cologne, with
its great cathedral. One of the cathedral
bells is so large that it takes more than

twenty men to ring it. We made a journey
up the historic Rhine, which winds in and
out among rocky fortresses and ruins of old
castles. The steamer stopped a while at
Coblenz, near which is the great rock for-
tress, Ehrenbreitstein. We next visited
Frankfurt, Berlin and Dresden. Of all the
German cities, I like Munich best. There
are many American students in Munich, as
there are so many advantages offered to one
to study there. In all of Germany there is
music everywhere. The children must love it
as they hear it all the time.

"It is a lovely journey from Munich to
Lucerne. Part of it is by boat; then travel
is aU a joy. We spent many days in the
Alps. To be ia the snowy Alps in July,
walking over glaciers, is a never-to-be-for-
gotten experience.

' ' My letter is so long I will have to stop
before telling you about the finest part of
the trip — my travels in MUan, Florence,
Venice, Rome and Naples. If I could visit
only one country again, I would choose
Italy. We sailed from Naples. The Med-
iterranean is a sapphire sea, — glorious in
color. We enjoyed the few days on it and
soon we were on the Atlantic, bound for New
York. ' '

Margaret Mclver, 1893, now Mrs. R. Bow-
en, of Rougemont, taught in the state high
school at Robersonville this year. Roberson-
ville is a progressive little town about twenty
mUes northeast of Greenville.

Emma Mast, 1898-1899, now Mrs. T. C.
Baird, of Valle Crucis, sends us sad news
from her sister, Lillie Mast, 1902-1904, now
Mrs. H. F. McBride, of Guanajuato, Mexico.

' ' Scarlet fever robbed my sister of all her
children in one month this spring. Margie,
aged two years, died January third; Frances,
aged eight years, died January thirteenth;
Gladys, aged five years, died February fifth ;
Floyd, Junior, aged six months, died Febru-
ary eighth. Two American doctors and a
trained nurse did all in their power to save
the children, but the dread disease proved
fatal. The fond parents are almost heart-
broken ; in fact this has cast a gloomy
shadow- over many lives. Lilly lost one child,
Hubert Brooks, in 1909. He was six months
old. Since this last upheaval in Mexico I
have expected my sister home, but as yet
have had no news from her. ' '

Ruth Tate, 1912-1913, who is spending the
winter at the Students' Art League in New
York City, writes that she is enjoying life
in New York very much indeed. She enjoys
especially the fine art exhibits, especially
the private exhibits which other cities can-
not afford.

Mary Applewhite, 1894, now Mrs. J. Yates
Killian, of Newton, sends an account of the
community work that is being done in Ca-
tawba County. She is vitally interested in
this work and helps it in every way possible.

"Co-operation is the key to the commun-
ity spirit that is abroad in Catawba County
and which is so rapidly bringing it into the
front ranks of progressive counties of the
state. Farmers' Unions and the United
Farm Women are working together to bring
about the best conditions possible to their
neighborhoods and they are meeting with
marked success. There are three or four
school districts that are taking the lead in
this work and in one of these the local farm-
er's union, in order to know actual eondi-

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tions and just where to begin improvements,
took a district census last summer with the
most telling results. Below are some of the
quetions asked :

1. Are any or all members of your family
members of any church?

2. Do you attend regularly?

3. Do the children attbxid Sunday School?

4. Have you ever been visited by a min-
ister?

5. Have you a Bible?

6. Do you take a church paper?

7. Do you take a county paper?

8. Do you take a farm paper?

9. Do you take a woman's paper?

10. Do you take a child's paper?

11. Do you take a mother's magazine?
32. Do you take any other paper?

13. Do you get the Farm Bulletins?

14. Do you attend the Farmers' Insti-
tute?

15. Does your wife attend tht. Woman's
Institute?

16. Did you visit your school last year?

17. Do you examine the children 's school
books?

18. Do you provide individual drinking
cups for your children at school?

19. Do your children read the library
books ?

20. Do you read any?

21. Have you had your children examined
for physical defects?

22. Any dead?

23. Died of what disease?

24. How many in district?

25. Any bottle-fed children?

26. Do you use patent medicines?

27. Is your house screened?

28. How often do you clean your well?

29. How far do you carry your water?

30. Do you sleep with windows open sum-
mer and winter?

31. Do you believe in frequent bathing?

32. What size biscuits do you bake?

33. What size loaves do you bake?

34. Do you keep a good supply of stove-
wood?

35. Who chops the wood?

36. Have you a washing machine?

37. Do you believe in hollow horn and
tail in cattle?

38. Do you use patent stock food?

39. Do you farm by the signs of the
moon?

40. Do you belong to a farmers' organi-
zation?

41. Does your wife belong to a woman's
elub?

42. Does your boy belong to a corn club?

43. Does your girl belong to a tomato
club?

44. Do you clean your stables once a
week?

45. Has the County Commissioner of Ag-
riculture visited you?

46. Have you invited him?

47. What kinds of roads do you have to
your homef

"The Union paid a man $1.50 a day to do
this work, which was comp/eted in three days,
and as a result the citizens had at a cost of
$4.50. a fund of priceless information that
enabled them to begin bettering the condi-
tion of their neighborhood vrith intelligence
and enthusiasm.

"In this same district, a Harvest Home
Day was held at the school house which is

the center of communitj life, and such a
days as it was. I wish I could tell you about
it in detail. Crowds of people from all
over the county were there ; interesting talks
were made by men and v»omen on live, help-
ful subjects, and at noon a bountiful picnic
dinner was spread. The splendid social
hour, of itself alone, was worth the trouble
and expense, but much good was accomplish-
ed. Nor has the neighborhood stopped at
that day alone — there are frequent joint
meetings of the Local Union and the United
Farm Women, which bring the people out
in a social way; their school is alive and
means something to the community; there
are occasional lectures aud other entertain-
ments. In fact, they are ' doing things '.
Other neighborhoods are doing much the
same work, but in different ways, but all
with wonderful success and just because the
county is learning the meaning of that far-
reaching little word 'co-operation'."

Dr. and Mrs. John Wayne Lasley

request the honour of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

Lola Jeannette, '09

to

Mr. Edgar Samuel Williamson Dameron

on the evening of Wednesday, .June the tenth

nineteen hundred and fourteen

at half after eight o'clock

Front Street Methodist Episcopal Church

Burlington, North Carolina

College Notes

Miss Mendenhall entertained the faculty
and alumnae at a reception at the Green
Cottage. In the receiving line were Miss
Mendenhall, her sister, Mrs. Hobbs, Miss
Fort, Miss Boddie, Miss Mary Petty, Mrs.
Foust, Annie Mclver Young and Laura Weill
Stern.

The T. W. C. A. entertained the Seniors
by a Forest Carnival, given in the Peabody
Park. The singing, dancing and costuming
were beautiful.

The Adelphian Literary Society presented
scenes from the Tempest in honor of their
sister society. The principal parts were
taken by Fannie Starr Mitchell, Gladys
Avery, Frances Summerell, Katherine Erwin.
Refreshments were served in the society haU
after the performance.

Miss Birdie McKinney, '02, and Miss Cora
McClelland, of Columbia College, wUl have
charge of the Latin Department during the
Summer Session. Miss Frances Womble will
teach two periods a week in the same depart-
ment.

Mr. John Henry Highsmith, of the Wake
Forest faculty, together with Mr. Connelly,
who was in charge of the Training School
this spring, will conduct the Pedagogy De-
partment.

Betty Aiken Land will assist in the Train-
ing School.

Miss Eva May Bryan is spending the sum-
mer studying French at the University of
Wisconsin.

Miss Cora Strong is taking a course in
Astronomy at the same University.

Dr. E. W. Gudger is doing his usual re-
search work at the Tortugas for the Car-
negie Institute.

lola Exum is acting as Lady Principal
during the summer months.

Ethel Kelly, 1908, sends the following re-
port of her rural work in Northampton
County. She is now rural supervisor under
County Superintendent P. .J. Long:

"Sewing and cooking have been taught in
four of the rural schools. In a one-teacher
school the teacher gave two periods a week
to sewing. She instructed ten girls from six
to eleven years of age. They learned the
running, back and fell stitches. They made
aprons and work bags and had these on ex-
hibition for county commencement. In a
two-teacher school, both teachers taught
twenty girls sewing. If time allowed, these
recitations were conducted in school hours,
if not, the children asked teachers to remain
after school for the lesson. They made hand-
kerchiefs, aprons, caps with overcasted edges,
crocheted card cases, jabots, center pieces
and ties. The exhibit from this school was a
most creditable one.

* ' Cooking was taught in two schools. A
small alcove room at one school, and an
empty room near by at the other, were fitted
up with a small equipment for this work.
Fortunately a teacher in each school had
had training in cooking. Each one agreed
to give two periods a week to this work.
As a result fifteen girls had sixteen lessons
in cooking. They were taught the best
methods of preparing bread, beginning with
popovers and ending with raised bread. Next
year these schools will arrange to have a
regular teacher. ' '

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