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W. F. Moncreiff, conductor of the institute at Centerville in 1912, made the following statement in regard to the institute:

"In some respects this has been the most remarkable institute I have ever known. The cordial feeling and hearty cooperation among institute teachers and between them and their teacher-students has been most unusual. There has not been a jar or a discord of any kind. The work of the teacher-students has been the most serious, universal and enthusiastic I have ever seen. The pedagogical harmony in the faculty has been most happy and complete. The keynote of all the work has been the State Superintendent's most cherished pedagogical tenet-the unity and interdependence of home, school and community, and it has been sounded in perfect unison by all members of the faculty and reinforced into a veritable crescendo by the pedagogical, agricultural and domestic science departments. The work of these three departments could scarcely have been fitted together more perfectly had it been planned by the three teachers in conjunction, and the reason is that they all had the same pedagogical inspiration in their bones and blood and brain. But the most remarkable feature of the whole institute was the enthusiastic and intelligent response of teacher-pupils and citizens to this new idea of utilizing the home activities and interests of the child in the school, thereby vitalizing his school work by giving it motive and meaning, and fitting him for better practical service in the home and in the community. I have never seen citizens so aroused by an institute as those of Centerville were. The agriculture and domestic science classes were so crowded by them that it was impossible to keep a record of their attendance. Three hundred citizens at the institute would be a conservative estimate, and many of them were regular. I emphasize this to show how the people respond to the conception of the school as a function of the whole community and to the practice of actually introducing its every day activities into the daily program, for this was the chief difference between this and other institutes I have held."

These comments are sufficient to indicate the strength of the teaching force, the character of the student and the type of instruction at the various institutes.

Below is given a statistical description of all the State institutes held during the present biennial period.

STATE SUMMER SCHOOLS.

Summer School of the South, Knoxville, June 18-July 26, Brown Ayres, President.

Summer School of State Normal, Murfreesboro, June 5-July 12, R. L. Jones, President.

Summer School of State Normal, Johnson City, June 5-July 12, S. G. Gilbreath, President.

Agricultural and Industrial Normal School for Negroes, Nashville, June 19-July 5, W. J. Hale, President.

STATE INSTITUTES.

Clinton, June 10-July 5, S. H. Thompson, Conductor.
Cookeville, June 10-July 5, A. T. Barrett, Conductor.
Centreville, June 10-July 5, W. F. Moncreiffe, Conductor.
Bolivar, June 10-July 5, R. L. Bynum, Conductor.
Martin, June 10-July 5, H. E. Watters, Conductor.

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