The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-09
Thursday morning, Mr.. Charles gave

Inursoay morning, Mr.. Charles gave
lecture on the use of outline maps and
globes in the school, and on the necessi-
ty of map drawing,
Mr.Smith gave brief lesson in COM
pound numbers.
Mr.. Luke gave his method of teaching
arithmetic, as follows:
L. Matter-Elementary principles,
Fundamental operations.
III. Method-Present the subject in
its natural order, use objects for illus.
trations, teach the unknown from the
known, teach analysis previous to syn
thetic statements, teach one process for
particular thing, and that the most
practical; reviews sh ould be topical with
deduetive exercises. Under the head
of elementary principles he would teach
notation, Enumeration, addition. subtrac-
ton, multiplication and division, with
their applications to United States mon.
ey. bills and receipts. Under the head
Of fundamental operations he would en-
brace all questions proposed for solution.
All rules or synthetic statements should
be deduced from previous ANALYSIS, to
be comprehensive to the pupil
Miss Vonia Chamberlain continued
the history lesson upon the same princi-
pies as heretofore introduced.
Mr.. Charles fave lesson in spelling.
His methed, in some respects, was the
the same as that of Mr. Smith. He
would have the pupils study tho words
in common use.
Mr.. Luke then demonstrated the
principles of the extraction of the square
root.
Mr.. Gable gave an interesting lesson
in map drawing.
The following persons were appointed
a committee on resolutions: Vim. NJ.
Nichols, Miss Jennie Cooper, and Miss
Vonin Chamberlain.
The evening session was entertained
by Elder Chaplin, who delivered very
able and interesting lecture on the sub
ject of mathematics. 1t was lively, and
portrayed the science in its trne light.
The Institute voted him a vote of thanks.
Friday morning, the Institute opened
with reading the Scriptures, and prayer
by Rev. j. f. Chaplin.
D. d. Luke continued his lessons in
grammar.
Primary geography was continued by
Mr.. Charles, who also gave brief lee
ture in physiology.
Mr.. Luke demonstrated the principle
of the extraction of the cube root, basing
the same on the binomial principle,
which is, that the cube of a number
composed of tens and units, is equal to
the cube Of the tens plus three times
the square of the tens multiplied by the
units plus three times the tens multi
piled by the square of the units plus the
cube Of the units.
Miss Sarah Pierce gave very good
lesson on the mode of teaching children
by the word method.
In the evening, MIR. Chaplin delivered
an able lecture on the subject of Mora
Training. He received the thanks oil
all present.
The committee on resolutions made
the following report:
Resolycd, That We believe it the duty
of teachers to cultivate a professional
spirit by reading educational works, and
attending teachers associations.
| Resolved, That we consider it the du
ty of teachers to instruct their scholar.
in such things as will make them eff
cient scholars as we'll as good and mora
citizens.
| Resolred, That wo owe debt O.
thanks to Prof. Macomber, Elder Chap
lin and Rev. j. L. Chaplin for their able
and instructive lectures. Also to thos,
who have labored for us from day tt
day during this Institute.
| VIM. NJ. NICHOLS,
| JENNIE COOPER, Committee.
| V. CHAMBERLAIN
There were 102 names enrolled q
members, all of whom exhibited NOR,
than usual interest in the cause of edu
cation.