Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-23
Teachers Institute.

the teachers present continued to in
crease steadily all week. One great OBJ
ject of interest and profit is the budget
box. In this are found all kinds of in
tricate and difficult questions, which
occasion much discussion. Friday az
ternoon the teachers visited the furnace
and rolling mill, under the guidance of
President Barney. While there, Prof.
Curren, Of Cincinnati, astonished all
present by plunging his bare hand into
the red hot metal, as it was flowing into
the moulds. Below is a programme OF
our daily exercises:
$50 am. to s:45 Devotional Exercises
Is minutes.
8 Business and Singing Is min.
9:S5 Arithmetic IS min.
9:45 Singing 10 min.
1920 Language Lessons s. min.
1O:S5 Recess and Singing 10 min.
lilo Geography IS min.
lbs Voluntary Ex., Discussions, &C.,
Is min.
u m. Theory and Practice IS min.
2 pm. to 2:35 Grammar So min.
2:45 Singing 10 min.
800 Reading So min.
1886 Recess and Singing Is min.
4:IO Theory and Practice IS min.
4:25 Voluntary Elk, Discussion, &C.,
Is min.
5 Spelling and Budget 30.
Tuesday evening, August 15, Prof.
Ogden said he would not lecture, but
serve up a kind of hash. 1t was GER
tainly a very pleasant dish, as all who
were present testify.
Wednesday evening Prof. Curren gave
select readings. His selections were
/" Darius Greene" by Trowbridge Oct
ting Under Way, by Mark Twain; Our
Guide in Genoa, by the same, and Hang
ing of Shamus O'Brien. Many were
convulsed with laughter. 1t is not GER
tain that all have stopped laughing yet.
His efforts proved him an elocutionist
of the first class.
Thursday evening Gen. Garfield lee
tured on the Relation of Government to
Public Schools. The speaker began by
stating that there are different laws for
public schools in the different States,
Rhode island and Delaware taxing the
extreme positions. The laws of the for
mer State not only provide for public
schools, but they also say that all va
grant children-those without parents
or guardians-shall sttend a specified
time. The laws of Delaware say that i
a majority Of the citizens of cities, towns
or villages so vote, a tax may be levied
for school purposes. In many places a
majority do not SO vote, and the result is
that they have no public schools. He
then said that there is now a bill on the
table Of the House Of Representatives
which proposes to give the government
at Washington control of the schools in
certain cases. When, in the judgment
Of the President, any State has not an
efficient school system, this bill proposes
that the government shall assess a tax Of
fifty cents per head on all the inhabit-
ants for school purposes, and shall or
ganize public schools. Although he was
unwilling to oppose any great educa-
tional measure, he strongly objected to
bill. 1t gives all power into the
hands of the government at Washing
ton. Everything must be dictated from
place, and hence would he another
source OF corruption. he then stated
a few years since the English and
French governments sent commission
ers to examine our school system. The
report vas very fattering to our schools.
They further said that their govern
ments must relinquish their hold upon
the common schools ana give them into
the charge of the local authorities. This
bill now in Congress proposes to take
them from the towns and villages and
and place them under the control of the
government. In other words, he thinks
the bill is not democratic. The speaker
then mentioned a few facts that he had
Just learned from the Office of the Coast
Survey, at Washington. The first is
hat the center of the territory of the
United States, exclusive of Alaska, is
hundred miles west of st. Joseph,
in Kansas. Second, if all the popula-
lion of the United States were placed on
large plane, the point upon which this
plane would ~revolve, would be in Will
mington, Clinton county, Ohio. Third,
a line parallel with the Atlantic coast,
drawn through this point, would extend
from the northwest corner of Penn
sylvania to Pensacola, Florida, passing
the corner of Southington, and
Braceville near Phalanx sta
ton. Consequently the city of Warren
being east Of that line, is, to use Yankee
parlanee, down east"
Friday evening President Hinsdale,
Of Hiram, lectured. Subject, The New
Man of the Old World. This man is the
German. The reasons he gave for the
of the Germans, both in the con-
test Of 1856 and the recent one, were his
excellent education and splendid dis
He quoted as authority NJ.
Renan, who said in respect to the strug-
gle Of 1856, that it was the seminaries of
Prussia that won her battles.
Next Friday afternoon the Institute
has set apart for the school officers of
The county. This is done in accordance
a resolution passed last year. We
hope we may see many directors pres
present. J. C. BARNEY,
J. A. EwALr, Secy. Pres't.
Death Of Samuel Mountain. Post
Marian Examination