Summer School Diary, part 3H - 1914

193 I only wish I might write every word of her lecture for it is teeming with wonderful thoughts. And she herself shows the inspiring effect of music on a persons life.

"One who has laughed and suffered and understood leaves a poem and the aged man reads -- pauses -- then gives a smile and a kinder word to the one he meets; and one there comes with a life so white and gentle and strong, so kind and true and wise, that life is sensitive and very glad and all who meet her learn to love. And this is Art!'

Sunday July 26th Mrs Wagner assisted by Miss Knapp, Miss Dunlap and Mr Goodrich gave an Organ Recital at the Congregational Church in honor of the Summer School

Would that space permitted me to write of the beauty of each selection But we will go back to our School room filled with the memories of melodious sounds and if we do not endeavor with all our power to teach our pupils the inspiration to be gained from good music then we ourselves are not music lovers

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July 27

Bleasdale Address

Deputy Superintendent B G Bleasdale addressed the assembly of the Summer School Monday. He congratulated the teachers on attending the Summer School. He said that its influence is felt in every part of the state and hoped that it had become a perminent thing. He urged the teachers to make use of the Deputy Superintendent when he pays a visit to their respective schools Instead of permitting him to sit quietly back in a chair and watch the teacher and school, ask him a lot of questions and hear him conduct a recitation. The teacher should expose her school to him and get from him the very best he can give her to aid in the work.

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State Superintendent Bray

State Superintendent J E Bray spoke to the Summer School during assembly period July 28

He congratulated the teachers upon their faithful and earnest attendence at the Summer School

From him we learned that in Nevada seven out of ten teachers are really trained.

In speaking of the various training institutions he mentioned the Summer School.

Several ammendments will be made to the Course of Study this year.

Education should be more practiced the hand as well as the head should be trained. Manual and domestic arts are introduced into the Course of Study and should have as prominent a place as the subjects of Arithmetic and Geography. Nevada has made great progress in an educational line during the last seven years.

Prof. Bray's closing injunction was that teachers should direct their energy towards the production of better citizenship through the development of a high standard of character

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July 27,

The Candy Party.

The last week of Summer School was full to over flowing with good times and we scarcely had time to prepare for the dreaded exams. Monday evening Miss Deringer started the ball rolling with an informal candy party in the recreation room of Manzanita Hall.

A large number attended and we entertained ourselves by cracking (and eating) nuts for the candy, advising those who did the cooking, pulling taffy, "licking" pots and eating the finished article.

Miss Oakes and Miss Hancock entertained us with musical selections which were greatly appreciated. The cooks proved themselves very capable and the candy was thoroughly enjoyed. Miss Deringer was an excellent hostess and all regretted it greatly when Miss Howe informed us that it was after ten oclock and time for all children to be in bed (or beginning to study.

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Campus Excursions.

"See your own country first," is the common admonition given to travelers. But the reverse is generally what happens. So it was with the SS. of 1914. Our excursions about the campus were made the last week of the session. However none the less interesting for that fact.

Having already become more or less familiar with Morril [Morrill] and Stewart Halls, the new Library and Gymnasium, the first place to be visited was the Chemical Building. Here we were met by Dr. Jacobson, who conducted the party from floor to floor and from room to room, explaining the different work performed therein. Apparatus were set in motion and experiments performed for our benefit. The glass-blowing feature was probably the most attractive. Two more pleased girls would have been hard to find than those who bore away the souvenirs made.

The Electrical and Mechanical Buildings were the next visited. Mr. Dell Pruett was our guide here. It was indeed interesting to see all the costly machinery here, many pieces of which have been donated by generous corporations. But where the crowd