Jane Summerell (1891-1988) was a member of the Class of 1910 at the North Carolina State Normal & Industrial College, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A professor of English at the college from 1926-1958, she received an honorary doctor of humane letters from the institution in 1978. Summerell describes campus life, classes, rules and regulations, and the Literary Societies after her arrival at the college when she was fourteen years old. She talks about the prestige of the institution and discusses her impressions of Presidents Charles Duncan McIver and Julius I. Foust; Professors Viola Boddie, Edward J. Forney, Eugene W. Gudger, Gertrude Mendenhall, Mary Macy Petty, and William Cunningham Smith; Dean Harriet Elliott; College Secretary Laura Coit; and Mrs. Lula Martin McIver. Summerell also mentions the Curry Training School's Supervising Teacher Annie Wiley and the excellent English faculty.