Educational Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jul 2, 1908

Educational Notes

THE summer school of the Central Union Conference began at College View, June 23, and is to continue six weeks. A large number of teachers and those who are planning to teach are in attendance.

Brother W. C. Mathewson, who has been connected with Cedar Lake Academy the past year as principal, is to engage in ministerial work in the Western New York Conference during the coming year.

Word comes from the summer school being held at Graysville that, while the attendance is not as large as was hoped, a most excellent spirit prevails, and commendable work is being done by the school as a whole.

The Florida Conference has recently established an intermediate school at Fort Ogden. It now has an enrolment of thirty-two. The present term began May 4, and will close December 24. It is in charge of Brother B. D. Gullett.

The Huntsville Manual Training-School for the colored people has made arrangements for a summer school to be conducted from June 2 to July 28. Plans have been laid for an effective teaching course, and as nearly all the colored teachers are expected to be in attendance, a very important and profitable meeting is expected.

The Keene Industrial Academy has raised two hundred dollars for the Latin Union school. This is the largest donation received thus far, and this school has shown a very commendable interest in raising this large sum. It will greatly rejoice the hearts of our people in the Latin Union field to know of this generous help. We trust our other schools will do proportionately as well.

Sister Eliza Warner, the educational secretary of the South Carolina Conference, writes that they are planning to establish a number of mission schools in the State during the coming summer. The plan is to connect the school with isolated Sabbath-keepers as a nucleus, and draw the patronage largely from people not of our faith. We trust that this plan may prove of much benefit to the work in this conference.

Elder D. T. Shireman recently paid a visit to Washington on his way North. Elder Shireman is conducting an industrial school at Toluca, N. C. He is visiting the North to solicit assistance from those interested in education in the South, for the upbuilding of his school. This school publishes a little paper descriptive of its work, entitled the Toluca Industrial Advocate. Elder Shireman is certainly doing a most valuable work.

Brother J. W. Christian, president of the South Dakota Conference, writes: “We shall have this summer an army of student helpers numbering about twenty-one engaged in ministerial, Bible reading, and canvassing work; and still the doors are open for more who are worthy, and who desire to prepare to enter these various callings. The missionary enthusiasm of our schools is wonderful. It surely gives cause for rejoicing.”