PEABODY NORMAL COLLEGE. A co educational training school in Nashville, Tenn., founded in 1575 through a benefaction of $1.000, 000 by George Peabody. planned to foster the cause of intellectual development in the South. Dr. Barnas Sears, president of Brown Univer sity, became the agent for putting the plan into practical operation, and soon realized the necessity of establishing a college for the specific purpose of training teachers for the public schools. Nashville was selected as the most favorable location, and upon the offer of the trustees the buildings and endowment of the University of Nashville were accepted as a foundation. The college was opened with thir teen students, under the presidency of Dr. Eben S. Stearns. who was succeeded in I857 by Dr. William H. Payne. James Davis Porter became president in 1901. The development of the in stitution has been rapid, as shown by the in crease in students from 178 in 1887 to 07 in 1901, when there were 36 instructors. The degree
of licentiate of instruction is conferred by the college, and makes the holder eligible without examination for any teaching position in the State. The university confers the degrees of bachelor and master of arts, sciences, and let ters. The college is supported by the State. the 'niversity of Nashville, and the Peabody Board, which maintains nearly two hundred scholarships, distributed by the general agent of the Peabody Fund. The holder of a scholarship, which is good for two consecutive years, re ceives $100 per year, and railroad fare to Nash ville and return. The college is equipped with well-arranged studios, laboratories, a gymna sium, and a library containing. in 1903, 20,000 volumes. The Winthrop Model School affords opportunity to the students to observe methods of teaching in actual application. In 1902 the building and grounds were valued at $200,000, and the income was about $80,000.