Union College Summer School by B. E. Huffman

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1909

Union College Summer School

By B. E. Huffman

THE second session of Union College summer school opened July 7, and continued for six weeks. The enrolment, numbering eighty-five, consisted of church-school teachers and intermediate-school teachers from the Northern Union and Central Union conferences, also of college students making up back work or working for college credits. The following course of study was provided, and in most of the subjects offered classes were organized and good work done: Old Testament history, New Testament history, the sanctuary and its lessons, the Testimonies and the spirit of prophecy, Bible nature, physical geography, elementary physics, descriptive geography

physiology and hygiene, botany, agriculture and school gardening, eighth grade arithmetic, advanced arithmetic, algebra, English grammar, rhetoric, literature, manual training, pedagogy, educational psychology, school management, primary methods, general history, denominational history, history of missions, United States history, civil government, drawing, painting, elocution, and teachers' review.

College credits for one term's work were granted to students who completed in six weeks the work usually done in twelve weeks by college classes. This could be done only by those students who devoted all their time to one or two subjects, with a possible exception of a few who were doing review work largely.

The faculty consisted of C. C. Lewis (president of Union College), J. G. Lamson, H. R. Johnson, W. H. Buxton, D. E. Huffman, H. U. Stevens, S. A. Smith, Mrs. C. C. Lewis, Miss Elsie Andrews, Miss Edna Schee, Lawrence Anderson, and B. E. Huffman. Besides these, Miss Katherine B. Hale spent two weeks giving instruction to the teachers in primary methods and Bible nature. Prof. Gerhard Gerritson spent two weeks with us introducing his system of teaching sight singing, and Prof. M. M. Hare, educational superintendent of Iowa, assisted part of the time in the review classes. Examinations were given the teachers in the order indicated below:—

July 14, penmanship; July 18, United States history and physiology and hygiene; July 21, United States Constitution; July 25, civics; July 28, orthography; August 2, geography; August 4, reading; August 8, grammar; August 11, Bible; August 15 and 16, all remaining examinations.

Although the weather was unusually warm, the several classes did very good work, and the summer school marked an advance step in the development of our educational work. Our teachers go to their schools with a new inspiration and zeal for the perfect work of Christian education. B. E. HUFFMAN.