64 LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE

Florida. The first session was held in 1913 with an attendance
of 140. Dr. John A. Thackston, Dean of the new Teachers'
College, was made head of the summer school. There were
seven members of the faculty during that term, with eight
groups of courses offered, with two or three classes in each
group.
 The summer school was a success from the start. It grew
 in enrollment and effective work steadily until the war period
 cut down the attendance about twenty-five per cent, but quickly
 recovered in the session of 1919.
 When Dr. Cox became dean of the Teachers' College, he
 became director of the summer school, and Dean Norman
 succeeded him in turn.
 President Murphree took keen interest in the summer
 work. Especially was he instrumental in starting a teachers'
 employment agency in connection with the summer school,
 for the purpose of assisting students and graduates of the
 University to secure positions in teaching.
 In 1921 a small demonstration school, with beginners and
first grade pupils in one class and fourth and fifth grade pupils
in a second class, was established to provide practical training
in methods of teaching. In 1927, courses in law were opened
to the summer school students for the first time and proved so
successful that they have been added to the permanent sum-
mer school curricula.
 From an enrollment of 140 at the beginning, Dr. Murphree
and his associates in the summer school saw this department
of the University work grow to 1,269 in the summer of 1927,
with plans for a faculty of eighty-nine this summer following,
and for thirty-five general groups of study.

The General Extension Division
 "Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming
 at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achieve-
 ment" -R. F. HORTON.
 As the work of the University expanded on the campus,
it was felt that this expansion should be reflected in taking
the University to the farthest corners of the state by means
of a General Extension Division. Accordingly, in 1919,