Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, May 1905Various
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Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, May 1905
Various
Agriculture -- Southern States -- Periodicals; Southern States -- Periodicals
Quite a large number of other schools can be enumerated that owe their
origin more or less directly to the policy of Vanderbilt University.
Among these are the Branham and Hughes School, Spring Hill, Tenn.; the
Peoples School, Franklin, Tenn.; the Morgan School, Fayetteville, Tenn.;
the Smyrna Fitting School, Smyrna, Tenn.; Pryor Institute, Jasper, Tenn.;
Union City Training School, Union City, Tenn.; Dresden Training School,
Dresden, Tenn.; McFerrin School, Martin, Tenn.; Howard Institute, Mt.
Pleasant, Tenn.; Jonesboro Training School, Jonesboro, Ark.; Fordyce
Training School, Fordyce, Ark.; Bridgeport Training School, Bridgeport,
Ala.; Luna Training School, Franklin, Ky.; Smith Grove Academy, Smith
Grove, Ky.; Weatherford Training School, Weatherford, Texas; Hawkins
School, Gallatin, Tenn.; Fitzgerald School, Trenton, Tenn.; Cornersville
Training School, Cornersville, Tenn.; Training School, Anniston, Ala.;
Bowen School, Nashville, Tenn.; Training School, Thomasville, Ala.;
Culleoka Academy, Culleoka, Tenn. Not all of these schools have been
equally successful; some of them, perhaps, have ceased to live, but
the training school idea is stronger to-day than ever before. In some
communities this kind of work finds little support or encouragement.
Consequently, no training school can live or succeed there. Honesty and
thoroughness are the qualities that have marked Vanderbilt training
schools, and some people wish neither of these in educational work.
Educational shams and fake universities and colleges still command the
admiration and patronage of many.
Special attention should be called to the Branham and Hughes School
at Spring Hill, Tenn. Though one of the youngest, this is now the
largest and one of the most flourishing of the Tennessee training
schools. Recently $15,000 has been spent for improvements of property.
The enrollment for the present year is 316, and nine teachers are
employed. The Peoples School at Franklin, Tenn., and the Morgan School
at Fayetteville, Tenn., are also meeting with great success. Both of
these have strong local support, having been provided with splendid new
buildings, with dormitories and gymnasium; both have strong men at their
head and more than 200 students apiece.
The result of this movement is that Vanderbilt University now receives
a majority of its incoming class from the best schools in the South.
In the fall of 1903 seventy-five students entered the University from
schools more or less directly affiliated with Vanderbilt and imbued
with Vanderbilt ideals. In September, 1904, four schools furnished the
University fifty students. Within the past ten years ten schools have
furnished the freshman class with more than five hundred students—that
is, more than fifty every year.
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