Abilene Christian College - Prickly Pear Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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Training School The Training School is one of the best of its kind to be found. The students are taken from the first through the seventh grade. A corps of teachers experienced in handling children conduct the classes of the training school. Students of the college doing advanced work in education are permitted to make experiments on the children of the training vision of the teachers in elementary depart- ment of A. C. C. are permitted to do work with the children. Miss Rambo, assisted by the others in the training school has been very successful in her efforts. Now A. C. C. has a system of education that will permit a youngster !o enter the elementary grades and continue his learning in the school until he has received a B. A. degree. The students of the school now number somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred. Essie Rambo, B. A.

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Miss Bishop who attended Vanderbilt Uni versity last year is now head of the History Department in A. C. C. W. E. Brown, per- manent head of that department, is now in Johns Hopkins U. working on his doctor’s degree. J. S. Gibson is in charge of all work in the Geography Department. He will be on leave of absence next year. His courses in that field are among the best that can be had. Brother Carter, head of the Sociology De- partment, lacks but little work on his Ph. D. His courses deal mostly with the problems the human race is confronted with in every day life. G. A. Scruggs took his degree from A. C. C. last year and has been teaching history in the Academy'. His major was in Geography.