The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-02
T,EAFTEE5Ess, INSTITUTE.
LIST Of Teachers In Attendance.
third Days Proceedings.


of the preceding days, there being
eighty-two teachers present. The
roll was called by Secretary John
Wyttenbach. aAlthose present man.
Tested an increased interest in the
proceedings, which were of a very in
teresting and instructive character.
The teacher. who fails to attend the
Institute and participate in the ex-
crcises, cannot be as successful and
accomplish as much in the profession
as one who docs So tits a self evil
| dent fact that one week cannot be
betnployed to hetters advantage by any
teacher than By attending the Insti-
tute, and learning thevaluable lessons
that are taught therein.
The opening exercises consisted in
reading the 197th- Psalm, followed by
prayer, after which Prof. Cow ad-
dressed the Institute on the subject Of
Practical Grammar. He spoke of the
proper and improper use Of the Eng
fish labguage-tf1e abuse Of the Ian
guagezzand the frequentus Of Slang.
phrases q The following expressions
were criticised ard corrected: En-
Toying bad sheaIth;'7 8 He was fhoisted
1 down he eoaLpitig You have isQwna
il #iflfthe- needle very neatly5Y This
is q secret between you and L, y " Let
you and I take walk Sc All Of
which, were1e oEgeetedbylthe teachers,
and proper reaseas given for the cor
rections.
Prof Cow continued his remarks
about the Importance Of attention.
He said that there is nothing of more
Importance in school than that the
teacher sh9uldaeeure attention; that
hhe should train his scholars to close
attention. beeause itbelongsrto.one of
the4 high Is e infellectna gaaeomplish-
ments.s scf rsbn b.6r5fqs sEa as1 7GG
One reason why scholars are not
more attentive. at schools because.the
exercises are too long. II We were
eompelIea't6 listen to the greatest or
ator in the land day after day, We
4 would become inaGtentiEs, land why,
| then, should not The children. who at
| tend school day Alter day is i'm
pOrtant that the proper means be
used to train our children to atten
ton, because their moral and intel
PleetUd welfare.depehds upon'i@
During the-next half hour an inter
esting- experiment was tried. It was
said that very little faith could be
placed in human testimony. This
was dem0nstrated by felating a little
story TO Q teacher who related It to
another teacher, and so on. until the
eighth teaohdn received it andWrose it
on the bls ekr board, VIXEN the story
twas found tplsbe considerably mod
j iied. ri diIw 3if'vs1a42 Z. s5ss1u1
Prof. a 81 w. knight instructed a
class in pfadtieal Grammar. He re-
viewed them on case, and then ex-
planned the different cases and their
/ proper. uses. The verb was also taken
up, and, described. s Prof. Knights
object was topresene an easy meth
iod ".iof teaching children Grammar.
His instructions were very interesting
throughout. /. p, --s-..--,-
MFl A. J. Meeyutehad heard a class
in Arithmetic. He introduced a pracl
tical method of giving children an
idea Of distances ibylmeans Of asstiok
| and tape line. The class Bas sent to
the blackboard and drilled in prob
lens Ia lcoinpound numbers.
Prof knight heard recitation in
Arithmetic AID impaired some valu-
1 able information on that subject.
Prof. Cow continued his instruc-
| tons in mathematical geography
| There were some very interesting
queries put. in sthe i query box" "
which we're read and answered as far
asIpossible. eib ssaa
Rev. Mr.. AndTus delivered very
interesting address to the teachers Of
the Association.
The following resolution was pre-
hsented and adoptedtod s.ssslodW
Resolued, That every teacher in
Vanderburgh County ought to sub
scribe for and read the Indiana
| School ,}OI6aa1aa and Teacher.
| The Institute then adjourned to
| meet at Pm. to- day. , -
| .srr as q. TeTuy, IN M arrurzzDs,er
Below we present a list of the
teachers whose names have been en-
relied UP To the present date, and
those who teach in the city and
county are elassifd as city" and
district" teachers;
-G5tsf Tedehers.-8Iisses Julia Bier
bower, Mary Badger, Belle, Graham
Lizzie Reimer, Maria Leonard, Kate
Riley, Mary Weld, Lucy Baker, Mile
| Weld, Hattie Bierbower, Mary
White, sJonaie Cole, Anbas tWaek,
Carrie Wack, Mary Kripner, Mary
Maeer, Anna Farrell, Mary f5cLain,
Dora Nancy, Lucy Woodbury., Miss
Ogden, Emma Conn, Virginia Conn,
Fanny Dougherty, Ruth Gilmore,
Mrs. PlumersC Q. K. Goulding, Mary
O'Byrne, India. Lilly Elizabeth Dor
ris, Ada Talbot, Frances N. Tolbot
} Clara Baker, Mary, Leavenworth, So
phia HargraEe, Fanny McJohnston
Hulda Rahn, Professor A. NJ. Cow
) j. w. Knight, Andrew j. MeCutcb-
T an J lanes 0lByrne, Rev. S. Hecht.
*George H Jackson. zJame5 N.
Townsend. f
District Teachers.-Misses Il. e.