The Elon College Weekly
VOL. 1. New Series
BURLINGTON. N. C, TUESDAY. MARCH 15. 1910.
NO. 5
And Elon Collegre, N. C.
The Teachers’ Normal Course.
For some time Elon College has been
plannmg to give a course to teachers, and
after due consideration it was decided to
give a Normal Course this coming spring,
opening on the 5 th of April, and closing
with the present scholasti year, June 1st,
1910. This gives two full months of in
struction by the faculty of the college, and
will enable the teachers who take the
course to make great headway in their
studies, and will prepare them for better
positions and for doing a higher grade of
work.
For Whorn Given.
In planning the Normal Course for
Teachers, the college has had in mind
several classes of persons who may be
benefitted by taking the course, and the
course has been specially planned to meet
the needs of these classes of individuals.
There are numbers of young men and
women who have not had any experi
ence in teaching who aim to teach in the
public or p ivate schools of the state th’^
com:ng year. Numbers of these persons
have not had the opportunity to study
the History of Education, the principles'
that underly mental training, the doctrines
of method, or any standard work on
pedagogy. They wish to study these
subjects that they may have guiding prin-
ciplfs in their minds, and that they may
nave me experience ol otiiers to guiae
them in iheir responsible and laborious
undertakings.
Many teachers in our public and high
schools have become dissatisfied with the
work that they are doing and wish to
prepare themselves for better teaching
and better \^rk. They have had a vis
ion of ■the teacher as he should be and
wish to attain to that ideal. Their souls
go out with a longing to be greater bless
ings to humanity. Like Pestalozzi, they
would be a true schoolmaster, and they
desire nothing more than the chance to
improve, and they seize every opportuni
ty to add to their knowledge of the sub
ject matter of the subjects that they teach
and to learn more of the methods and
principles of imparting instruction.
We have many teachers who, while
they know the work that they teach thor
oughly, yet they wish to widen the scope
of their vision, and wish to study those
subjects that are related to the subjects
that they teach. They would know more
of Mathematics, Literature, History,
Latin, Chemistry, Physics, &c., and are
anxious to have the opportunity to do
some work each year to advance them
selves along these line.'.
Many of our teachers have had no
contact with col ege society and college
life and wi h to become acquainted with
the inner workings of the college. They
have to advise students about going to
college. That they may do this intelli
gently they wish a Noimal Course of
study given in a college and by a college.
And such a course of study is hailed as
a blessing by all such teachers as can
take advantage of the opportunities that
it offers.
Then there are many teachers whose
salaries are insufficient to enable them to
buy the books and periodicals that they
need. They wish the advantages of a
good library and reading room that they
may come in contact with the best that
there is in the literature of the past as
well as to keep in touch with current lit
erature. The use of a good library and
reading room, even for a limited time
would be a great help to these teachers
who are working to keep up with the
times and who wish to be informod on
the matters that most concern the people
of the present day.
IVhat Elon College Offers these
Teachers.
In the first place, Elon College offers
to all teachers who attend this Normal
Course, a strong faculty of experienced
men and women who know their sub
jects and who know how to teach them.
This is the greatest factor in any institu
tion. President Garfield once said that
Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and
a student on the other would constitute
a University. The personality of the
teacher is one of the things that counts
in the wor: of education. And Elon
College possesses these teachers in the
person of the members of her faculty,
and teachers who attend this Normal
Course will surely receive from them
that inspiration that will help them in the
work that li-s out before them, and will
enable tnrm >o oe successful in ttie great
work they undertake to do.
All the lectures, recitals, entertainments
and other public enterta nments of the
college will be open to all teachers who
attend The teachers will also have the
advantages of all the religious meeting-
of the college. The college Sunday-
Schoil meets every Sunday at 9:30, a.
m. Divine setvices are held in the Col
lege chapel every Sunday at I I, a. m.
The Christian Endeavor Society meets
, evf ry Sunday at 7 and 7:30, p. m. The
Young Mens Christian Association and
the Young Womens Christian Associa
tion hold weekly meetings.
The Library of the college college
consists of over 4,000 volumes and
among these are the masterpieces of the
world's literature. Besides this the col
lege possesses a large number of refer
ence works, encyclopedias, e:c., from
which information may be gained on
almost any possible subject. The library
contains bound copies of the best papers
and magazines for years back, to which
the students have access.
In the reading room are some of the
best dailies and weeklies. Here also are
the leading magazines, and the student
has the best opportunity possible to ac
quaint himself with the events of the day.
The Course of Study.
The course of study offered to the
teachers is broad and comprehensive. A
review is given of all the studies taught in
the public and high schools of the state.
This review is given specially to help the
teacher to become master of the subject
matter that he will teach, and to prepare
him for the examinations that will follow
the course. Instruction in methods is also
given. An attempt is made not only to
indoctrinate the teacher in the facts of
knowledge and make them interesting to
those who learn.
The course of study is so constructed
that the teacher can take those parts of
the course that he thinks will be most
beneficial in his work of teaching. Then
it is so arranged that the teacher may
take any advanced work that he may
wish to take. Courses in Voice, Instru-
mentel Music, Art, and Elocution are of
fered to those who are interested in cul
tivating themselves along these lines. The
course is entirely elective and the teacher
may take just those branches that he
thinks will be most serviceable to him.
The faculty will be glad to advise with
the teachers in regard to the work that
they wish to take.
The Literary Societies.
There ate conducted in the college
two Literary Societies by the young men
and one by the young ladies. These so
cieties give their regular literary programs
on Friday evening of each week, and
their business meetings on Saturday
morniug. We feel that society work is a
great benefit to all students, and teachers
who attend the Normal Course will be
privileged to join one of these societies.
The college offers to those teachers
who attend an elevated, refined society
and college life. Her ideals are high,
and those who att“nd are s-—bv
a wholesome atmosphere of culture and
morals.
Those who room in the college build
ings have the advantage of steam heat
and electric lights, bath rooms on every
floor of the dormitories, servants’ attend
ance. nearness to their work, and plenty
of good, wholesome food. Those who
board and room in the village can get
good rooms and good boaid at reascni-
ble prices,
IVhy the Course is Offered^
At present, there is a tendency, and
we hope that this tendency may increase,
to articulate the public and high schools
of the state with the higher institutions of
learning. The standards of entrance in
the colleges are becom ng uniform. Since
the colleges take the students prepared
by the high schools of the State and car
ry them on in their work, it is nothing
but fair that they return to these high
schools what help they can by way of
helping the teachers do this work of prep
aration. And F.lon College wishes, by
giving this Normal Course to Teachers,
to emphasize the fact that the course of
study, from the primary grades th ough
the college course, should be one contin
uous whole.
And the college also had it in mind to
be of as great help as possible to the
teachers of the state who are struggling
to do in the best possible way the work
that lies out before them. Those who
do this work well are really the " noblest
Romans of them all." For they are the
men and women who prepare the great
majority of the masses of our men and
women for the work of life. Not more
than one in ten of those prepared in the
public and high schools of the state ever
go to college. The teachers in our sec
ondary schools give them all the prepara
tion for life that they ever get.
The Course of Instruction—Subjects
Offered.
The course includes instruction in
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry; in
Grammar, Rhetoric, and Literature; in
History of North Carolina, History of the
United States, and in General History;
in Physiology and Hygiene; in Read
ing ; in Drawing; in Latin and Fiench ;
in Agriculture and Physics; and in ad
dition to these courses are given in Ped
agogy and in the History of Education.
The college offers instruction in the
college classes to all who wish to take
advantage of the opportunity offered for
advanced work.
In fact, the courses offered are just such
as will make the teacher a person well
fitted and well prepared to do the work
of the school room. He can strengthen
himself in his weak points and can obtain
that general culture that will make him a
well rounded teacher.
Expenses.
The expenses of attending the Normal
Course for teachers are as low as it is
possible to make them. There is no
charge at all for tuition. The only
college charge is the charge that Ls made
of all students, the matriculation fee of
$3.00 and the library fee of $1.00
1 hese fees amount to $6.00 in all
The coiiege oners boaru aiio luom
with every convenience that the regular
students of the college receive at the
same rates that the students of the col
lege pay. Board and room with lights,
heat, and servants’ attendance will cost
$25.00 for the term. This will make
the total cost $31.00. Those teachers
wishing to board in private families may
do so. The cost of board and room
for the eight weeks term will be from
$20.00 to $25.00.
We do not believe that any teacher
can spend from $25.00 to $35.00 with
more advantage to themselves than to
take the Teachers’ Normal Course that
Elon College is now offering.
Those Who Should Attend.
Elon College opens wide her doors
and offers every resource at her command,
to all teachers who are prompted by a
desire to prepare themselves for the best
possible work in the school room. Those
who wish to prepare themselves for ex
amination that they may secure a better
certificate, who wish to be able to accept
a better position with the confidence that
they can do the work successfully, and
who wish to advance themselves along
lines of general scholarship, are asked to
consider the advantages of the course.
We feel that there is nothing that
Elon College can concern herself in that
will be of more lasting good to our peo
ple than to help those along who are pre
paring to teach the young of our state.
And we offer the Normal Course of
Study for teachers with the hope that we
may benefit many directly and hundreds
indirectly.
Finally.
Teachers desiting any further informa-
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