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ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
RECORD NOTES—Continued
Facility and students were recently grieved to
learn of tlie death, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, of
Mrs. Carrie Kirk, mother of Miss ]\Iary Kirk, of
the High School Staff, iliss Kirk has the sym
pathy and the prayers of our group in the hour
of her hereavement.
The Rev. Henry Bowden, a graduate of St.
Augustine’s, now Rector of St. Mark’s Church,
Wilmington, iN". C., was the College Preacher on
October 25th. lie spoke earnestly and effectively
on the opportunities of Youth.
The students have taken steps to establish as a
monthly paper the St. Augustine’s Pen. Alumni
and friends are requested to write to Theodore J.
Jones for information as to subscription rates and
alumni notes. The interest and cooperation of
friends and alumni are solicited.
At the evening Chapel Service on October 27th,
Bishop Norman Binsted of the Missionary Dis
trict of Tohoku, Japan, made a splendid talk on
the Christian work that is being done in that
countrv.
President Goold attended the Southern Confer
ence on Education held this year at Chapel Hill
and Durham in cooperation with the i^orth Caro
lina Education Association. The general subject
of the Conference was Education and the Eco
nomic Dejjression. Among the speakers were the
State Superintendents of Education in various
Southern States and Dr. Edwin Embree, Director
of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
iliss Lillie Mae Sanders, who is a graduate of
tliree of our Church Schools, Fort Valley, St.
Agnes Training School for Nurses, and the Bishop
Tuttle School, has been appointed for district and
school nursing at the Voorhees School in Denmark,
S. C. She is the first graduate of the Bishop
Tuttle School to be employed in one of the Church
Institute Schools, and it may be of interest to see
how she describes her work and how much wider
it is than one would expcH-t:
“The problem I have is visiting the very ])oor
poverty stricken families with ten and fifteen chil
dren, some sick with malaria fever or some other
diseases, and no means of support, and I have abso
lutely nothing to give but advice and maybe a gar
ment once in a while. ... I am si)ending one-
half of my time on the canijjus and the remaining
portion in the community. I am examining all the
studcMits as th(‘y enter, in the various departments.
I am going to vaccinate all who hav(> not been vac
cinated. I giv(‘ first aid relief, and health talks to
the boarders and town students once a week. I
have started one clinic, a pre-natal clinic. I had
seven mothers at the first meeting. The doctor
was out also. I am having a class with the mid
wives twice a month on "Wednesday afternoons.
There Avere five present at the first class. I hope
to get some clubs started as soon as possible, so
that I can get the young people interested. They
seem to feel quite free in coming to me for advice
along various lines.
“How is the school ? I don’t need to ask if you
have a congenial group for I am sure you have,
for every year they come better and better, with
the exception of my class. It is the best!
“Oh, I am to start an Auxiliary here; so if
you have any material I shall appreciate it very
much.”
Denmark, S. C., Oct. 25, 1931.
OUR AIM
Among the academic aims and ideals of St.
Augustine’s the fullest development of the indi
vidual has long been the most important. She
has not set out to train doctors or blacksmiths, or
philosophers, but citizens, capable of fitting into
every honorable pattern of the life of the great
community outside. To this end St. Augustine’s
has stressed and striven for thoroughness in the
fundamentals, avoiding the fads of education and
the mass-production methods of instruction, real
izing that the indefinable but recognizable thing
we call character, or individuality, is, after all,
the real aim of eliication.
In the College there is an average of one active
instructor to every fifteen students. The ratio in
the High School is about the same. Further, the
faculty is divided into committees, each one of
which is responsible, as class adviser, for checking
the academic standing of the members of one of
the college classes. The advisers may also be con
sulted by the students, individually or collectively,
about their special problems, and any instructor
is free to call on the adviser for cooperation in
bringing to the student’s attention delinquencies
in his class work and trying to bring about im
provement in the same. It is believed that such
an arrangement promotes a high degree of indi
vidual treatment, makes for a better understand
ing between students and teachers and stimulates
both to greater and more effective effort. The
personal touch, in the best sense of the term, is
preservwl and fosterel.
As the College grows larger, with our ideal in
mind, we hope to avoid many of the evils of regi
mentation which are so likely to creep in with
expansion and «o remain where many t)f the larger
institutions have returnel in recent years—at the
standard of individuality of treatment and imli-
viduality of the institution. C.D.H.