Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — WINONA SUMMER SCHOOL. [ARTICLE]

WINONA SUMMER SCHOOL.

The arrangements for the Summer School at Winona are rapidly being perfected. The pan as developed includes the establishment of a College Department, Department of Methods, Department of Music, Elocution, Arc and Physical Culture. The College Department will comprise wove in languages, ancient and modern, history, mathematics and social science, and natural and physical sciences The Department ot Methods will comprise instruction in Psycholo» gy, Pedagogy a id Kindergaiten. In addition to these courses, the Department of Methods will include lectures in scnool manage., ment ind supervision. The Department of Music will v e devoted extensively to chorus work, in addition to the work of special piano and voice culture. The Department of Elocution will be devote! to work in general expression, articulation, voile devejopement and reading. The Department of Ait during the present year will include free hand and perspective drawing, as wellas chromaticsand composition Lt is inte idedthat this work shall be adapted to the individual wants of the pupils. The Department of Physical Culture will comprise a general course for teachers who are or intend to become teachers of Physi-cal-Culture, and will include praccal training in the ordinary branches of athletics, such as base ball, tennis, track athletics, bicycling, boating and bathing The work of the school will be under the supervision cf Prof. John M. Coulter, President of Laks Forest University, and the departments have been placed in charge of specialists in their lines. The English Department of the school will be in charge of Prof W. E Henry, of Franklin College. Special attend n is invited to these courses, in view of the fact that the State Teachers Association of

Indiana and the State College Association have a special committee od the character and the amount of instruction in English for admission to college. Prof. Henry, who for years was a county superintendent, brings t o the work the very latest and best in Rhetoric and General English. Teachers are finding that recten ation is not necessarily freedom from work What teachers need is change rather than absolute rest. As a result, the summer school is becoming a feature of educational work which is more and more attention. The Winona Assembly and Summer School is simply an expression of the geneial desire of the educational people of the state for recreation of the kind which is most healthful. The work to be done at Winona during the present year will be probably largely experimental.— Whe" the needs of the teachers and the expression of their wants has become definitely known, the arrangements for the educational features will be modified to suit their needs. It is not intended that the work done shall be general university work, ahhough in certain lines those who are prepared to take instruction in that grade of vork will have the privilege of doing so. As a rule the work in all branches will be elementary, with a gradual developement into more complicated and extensive, lines as occasio . demands.

The college classes will convene in Chautauqua Hall, the chorus class in the auditorium, classes in voice culture as announced from the platform, physical culture in the Gymnasium, Kindergarten in Froebel Hall, and physical science in the Laboratory at 9a. m. Classes in Bible study at 10 a. m. in the Tabernacle. It is intended that all the school work shall be completed during the forenoon, the afternoon aud evens ing being left free for pleasure seeking, and attendance upon the general lectures of the Assembly.