The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-16
TEACHRRs' ASSOCIATION MEErryG.

TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MEETING
The Teachers Association of Wheeling
met Saturday, the l4th, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ; President F. s. Williams in the
chair.
The Secretary being absent, z. G.
Bundy was appointed Secretary pro ten.
The roll was called, and the minutes Of
The preceding meeting read and ap-
proved.
Rev. Mr.. Fuendling was then intro
duced and entertained the Association
for an hour in giving highly interest
ing historical sketch of the educational
system of Western Europe, especially
of that OF the German States. The
Reverend gentleman glanced briefly at
the origin, progress and present status
of the common school, academic system
and universities Of Prussia, detailing
very clearly several points of SUPERB
ority of the Prussian educational work
over that of ours, some of which are:
The object of method, the phonetic sys-
ten, more strict classification and rigid
examinations for promotion, more
correct balancing of the moral, intellec-
tual and physical development better
division of labor among the trades, even
of the common schools; by a system ap-
proximate to Profcssorships; more study
of nature and natures laws, by both
teachers and students, through outdoor
observations; and last, but not least,
compulsory attendance.
According TO programme, Prof Snow
don discussed the subject of Light,
giving very cloqucntly, but briefly, his
notions in regard to the origin and
properties Of light, as deducted from the
known laws governing that subtle
agency, and the known facts relating to,
and the laws governing the action of the
kindred agencies, heat, electricity, mag
netism, galvanism, and perhaps sound.
The gentleman very POLITICALLY described
light a. Nature Respondent robe, dress
Ing the ocean in glittering sheen and
clothing the earth in brilliant hues of
leaf and flower. Before the sun, be
fore the world thou vast; and at the
voice Of God, as with a mantle didst
invest the rising world of waters dark
and deep, won from the void and form
less infinite The Newtonian or Cor
puscular theory he rejects:
First, Because if room be filled with
light, and all the avenues be closed by
opaque substances, no evidences of light
will be visible.
Second, The uncomfortable velocity
of the atoms, coming from sun and stars
at the rate OF 1921 miles per second,
would drive them to the centre Of the
solid earth.
Sd. If the sun IS continually emitting
matter, it wall in time he exhausted, and
not leave Us even moonshine to work by,
&c, dc. The ,coce theory he also re-
iects, because Il wave that will pass
through glass will not pass through
cork or sponge, much more porous sub
stances; again, fan image he placed in
the centre of room and surrounded by
cameras, and the walls Of the room be
mounted with sensitive paper, each
camera, however numerous they be, will
throw the light as to make a fac Simile
Of the image on the walls; but the idea
Of the the image emitting infinite repre-
sensations ofitself is simply absurd; and
further, the idea that there is such mat
ter as ether is wholly gratuitous, no
satisfactory evidence of its existence
ever having been adduccl. What, then,
is light? Time was when God alone
existed, else, matter is eternal. God
created matter, which was at first mo
tiones- and dark, the infinite void of
space. Then, by His omnipotent power
he endowed it with .torce, atom moved
and associated with atom to form mole
culcs, and thcsewith each other to form
bodies aud systems Of worlds. Light.
then, is the effect of force acting on and
producing vibrations in ordinary matter,
and is no doubt a correlative of heat,
electricity, magnetism, &c, &c, for
each may he made to produce the other
Force is the word
4th. Sight and sound are both re-
fractcd and reflected according to the
same laws, and both produce chemical
action Sound is known to be vibra-
tons Of ordinary matter; why not light
also?
9Th On the disappearance of light
heat manifests itself Heat manifests
itself in the motions OF ordinary matter
and also in chemical action. Sight is
governed 10y the same laws, and is seen
in chemical action, and therefore = br-
lieved to be motion OF ordinary mat
ter. The gentleman believed that mat
ter and torcc are alike persistent, and as
the one i subject to change Of form, 50
Is the other to various manifestations.
Programme for next regular meeting
of the Association-"Nisit to Mammoth
Cave, Kentucky by Miss Sallic Ne
holm. \ free discussion of the Grade
School system. L. c. BUNDY,'
Secretary pro tenn.
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