Catalogue of Simmons College, 1919 Summer School and Normal Page: 5
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SIMM.ONS COLLEGE BULLETIN
You are a busy teacher. We, too, are busy. But we have
taken the time to prepare this booklet to call your attention to the
fact that Simmons College is making an effort to meet the educational
demands of yourself and friends. As an experienced teacher
you have met face to face the insistent demand for teachers
having had collegiate training and holding collegiate degrees. If
your training is not already such as to meet this demand, our Summer
School offers you the opportunity for such training. If you
want to renew your certificate by examination, this may be done
through the Normal, as usual.
To most people in Texas, and especially is this true among
teachers, it is superfluous to say that Simmons College is prepared
in every way to conduct a Sunmmer Session, such as we are now
undertaking, in a most successful way. More than a dozen years'
experience has taught us how to meet the needs of teachers, busy
men and women, off as it were for a vacation, but using every
minute of the time to better equip themselves for the high calling
in which they are engaged. The physical equipment we are able
to place at their disposal-the entire plant of Simmons College,
dormitories, modernly furnished and well managed, lecture rooms
and laboratories, supplied with every piece of apparatus of value
to a student, and a library far superior to any outside of the
larger universities-all inl keeping with the high demands of modern
educational thought and progress.
You can't come to Abilene and Simmons College and spend the
summer and not go away feeling that your time has been well
worthwhile. I mean, of course, if you work while here. The high
moral tone of the City and the great spirit of the College will impress
you with a feeling you've not had and known before. You'll
not be the same man or woman again. Your whole idea of life
will be different. You'll count it a privilege to serve, and in service,
you remember, the Master was happiest.
Abilene and Simmcns College will treat you royally. In every
line of endeavor, America's best talent finds its way to Abilene
ani Simmons College. A part of whatever comes will be left those
who are here. And then, too, suppose nothing comes! Well, we
have already here everything that makes up a modern and up-todate
city. Abilene is "at home"--and a beautiful home it is,
eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, fanned every
minute of the day by the cool soft winds roving gently across the
far-flung boundaries of her rolling plains "at home" to her summner
visitors, conscious of the fact that she can make them happy,
without help if needs be. Come, then, and join us this summerfor
RECREATION-FOR PLEASURE-FOR WORK.5
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Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.). Catalogue of Simmons College, 1919 Summer School and Normal, book, April 1919; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth41678/m1/5/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.