The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-11-29

sltiors Of yesterd.y vs. errors. Miss ii. NJ.
Nelson followed with a similar report and
The excellent feature Of criticism on de-
port.
Nj. II. I. Smith and Miss II. VI Jones
were appointed critics fer TO day. The
following members were appointed 70 act
as committee on resolutions Messrs. Gil
liiand, Brown, Maynard and Colcord, and
Misses B. VI. Lyman, 4. L. Lyman and
II. Merritt. 4 short time vas then oc-
cupied in answering promiscuous quos-
tions which had been prepared by Prot.
Sanders. 1st regular exerci. e, Practical
Arithmetic, conducted by Prot. Cooper,
lie SAID that pupils were generally too
anxious to get through the book. This
was wrong. Pupils were prepared to go
on vixen they Thoroughly understood the
subject they were studying-not before.
Drill in Multiplication, and explanation
of subtraction with concrete numbers
criticism by the class. An intermissiou
was then had, followed by singing.
I'd. exercise. Phonetics. Prof Sanders
said, that in Phonetics as III music. fats
gowitb fats, and sharps with sharps z. 2.
subvowels are fats, aspirates are sharps
and when an aspirate follows a subvowel
it will be changed to its subvowel cogGate,
in bags the sharp after Cat 9 becomes
fat z. lie then III istrated the difference
between the name and the porcr OF the
letters to which lie attributes the difficult
" of teaching children to spell. Ad-
journed Until , ?. ".
~, AFTERNOON SESSION. ~ ~
1st exercise. Grammar, conducted by
Supt. Lewis. Mr. Lewis said he was not
understood yesterday lie would devote
a short time to explanation. He then
took up the prcnoun, and gave bis rca-
sons for calling the relative a ~coujuncuye;
also for calling the adjective prononn a
prouoniuaI adjective. He then explain
ed the objective case as the subject Of
the infniiirc verb. Moved that We have
a session tomorrow. Notion lost.
ID. exercise, Geography. The ques-
ton, why does tic sun shine igto thenorth
window ia SUMNER vas then called up
Nr. Lewis gave al explanation, followed
py | TO-, u Dotn a'''.o71 II 20 '"7
.I'a"u'.y .. '"o 49, ~: 80
.nen gave "a 0AP.',:o,'."' "ss5?",n3 a.,
the inclination Of the Earth's axis TO the
li"n' " ~ oo.'P''o ~" H,'"5 -
ptI'o ,''''.'"o - Too' " 20 >"
4 'e"P Je1t O.-ss Vou'u nv m" "as"I' =
Iiol' No'te' Suy@su ~ '-I -'l,N''a
'"@' t,'s'0 "''o 'o', hi"" 'o"S U'sS -
taA9 'i1 sun . te'o''oo u ''9 - ans
- '@Ss ? "ou'I . ul''uloS' ma ~ "a
f"rce IF ;ner,;s and con,~;nn,.I fare.
Pr Tooncr ,hon snoLo e Gc,1o.i,,l
formations and exIihifci sneeia,eHs e
The difsrpnt rolls Dolog he snrr,co
.,or, ga r,n, ,hara ie , uorf,r,a tau,,or,.
tnre and drscandinc fr,n Ills noit, a
feet oiras onc dcorae oflear of thc cam.
mon -thorn,onotcr. From Ills fact VIC
sunnosa the interior If fhn Fsrth to he >
molten mass. The rrooGs If this are Is,
volcanoes al over The surface IF the Earth
ID Warm sprjnos ana wells Sd. Tyan.
;,al veoatation IN Po,ar reoions.
He would now sneak Of the oceans
TIN Antarctic is inincd to ihe Pacific
Atlaotic and Indian Thova arc iii nojnt.
"A ot tho nor,harn avtramitv the 4t
lan,;c !. = liz The Tndi,n i trianola
-.I,ba De onaI D.,
"a oxoro;sa EI,ont;on Prof Coooo,
o1Ino,;rr,L l. arnra;.o TIA n,on,Lp,,
&c 10 Tns7itn,o n.ara canod ono hy one :,
stoad and oacb road . sLnrt evtr,ot
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aas. Aaionrnna 70 "a o|,olon,~
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hr' Da'lusou eiecteu u III. Tue o"'''
discussion Oh Tue question: iIo" eau p"
iGn'S D7 DeSG '"'e'es'0u III 'ne s'"ooiI
MISS ID. VI Lyman lCdU an S'eay ou I"'