The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22

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brick. and the quoins aud exterior |
trimmings Of cut stone. The IRON,
of the building presents three
square-topped gables, and two
squire towers OF unequal size and
height, through which are the main
entrances. Each end presents one
gable and two vantilaiiug shafts
Tse towers anil ansard portions or
the roof ar. h.nS .o,na'y slated.
The whole b III. :. i'll be heated
with steam, and a! ~ rooms sup.
piled with the best and most ap-
proved school furniture.
All recitation rooms win be sup.
piled with the best quality of liquid
stating bIsckboards. The gymhas-
ium will be supplied with rings.
wands. dumbbells and other appro-
pirate apparatus suited to both
gymnastics and cslisthenics-henee
suited to both sexes. It is hoped
and believed this room will prove q
real health preserver, even health
restorer. The gymnasium has been
the elixir of life to many an invalid
student.
The lecture room and lab
oratoFy furnish superior facilities
for instruction in the physical
sciences. The Lecture room will
be provided with q screen for Opt
cal experiments and projections,
with water, steam, galvsuic battery
connections, ordinary gas ;.also OKy.
gen and hydrogen under pressure.
The LaboTatory walls will DO suita-
bly, cased for apparatus, models, sc.
Work tables for twenty'four stu
dents will occupy the centre of the
room, each table supplied with q
sink. with water, gas, steam, saHd-
baths, and by means of G double set of
drawers, will furnish accommoda-
tions in two sections, for a class of
forty-eight students.
1oOthegn appliances include pneu-
matte tanks, a universal furnace, a
forge, wash stands, balance room,
a work bench, a turning lathe, 8
permanent battery with conductors
to the lecture room, and gas tanks
for oxygen and hydrogen from
which pipes are laid to the main
hall above.
The department will be equipped
at an early day with apparatus fol
| making measurements ofiimeneion
angles, weights aud time for illus
traiiug cohesi on, capillarlty, laws o.
pressure and motion, laws of sound
heat, light, and electricity and fol
practicing tie elementary expert
mPnts OF chemistry.
Among tho pieces already order.
ed, are Ritchie's Patent Air Pump
Hollis Electrical Machine, Groves
B ,ttPry, Balances. Magnets, Polar
iscopes, Microscopes. Meteorlo2i.
cal Instruments and Models of Ma
chiuery.
The equipment of this department
was made under the direction o.
Prof r. B. worth, after persons
inspection of several of the leading
Scientific Institutions of the East
aud it is believed that it will AFFORD
the most approved facilities for Sci
ence teaching. It was made in tn
conviction that the rudiments o.
ply steal science ought TO be learn
ed by every child, and that thu
Laboratory of the Normal Schoo
ought to educate teachers il
that conviction and to that end.
In the workshop, students will b.
encouraged to Tnanufacture simple
apparatus for their own u-e, to be
come their own property on leaV
ing the institution.
DISCIPLINE.
The discip inc of the school aims
to combine the two difficult quail
tics, kindness and firmness. Firm
nesSito guide or restrain the way
ward, aud reprove the thoughtless
kindness to help and encourage tbl
timid or needy. The aim in al
the exercises is to develop habits o
punctuality. regularity, industry
seIf-relisnce, self-control, respect
70" authority, respect for self, truth
fuliness, sobriety, in q word, thu
graces and qualities constituent o.
true character. Scholarship snC
character must in q degree precede
and underlie high professional st
tainments. These secured, we havt
the basis for the finer culture tina
ripens into the accomplished edu
Gator. This institution is modestly
but honestly and earnestly laborinE
to secure all these-6nd so nearly
as may be, in their duo order and
proportions.
EVILS.
At present we have two serieul
evils to contend with:
/ l. The low srsde of scholarship
with which pupils enter.
| 9. The shortness of their stay in
the school.
The body of our students entel
with low attainments, usually in the
rudiments. This necessi tates In
struction in subject matter, largely
to the exclusion of methods or phil
osophy of education. This can be
remedied only by higher grade Ia
our public schools. Time must
elapse before this change can be Of
fected.
| Second, many of our students
stay but one or two terms. This il
fatal to any high attachments OF
finished culture. The youth who
comes from the farm or shop with
mind lying fallOv for two or three
years, cannot get possession of his
powers in a term. His faculties un
disciplined, do not tighten around
their work. When such students
leave, they as rule reflect but lit
tie honor upon the institution or
win little for themselves, aud fear
they often do very Imperfect work
ia the schools they attempt to teach.
That sentiment which says . term
or two is sufficient to make teach
er Is both erroneous and vicious. Il
is hoped that in course OF timS this
will change, and that our student-
will possess more of the sentiment
of Milton, when he said: 81 care
not how late come Into life, so that
| come ut.
Ii time IL requisite to develop
skill Ia music, painting or any of
the fine arts. time must be requisite
to develop skill in this, the finest of
The Hne aris-the art of teaching
| The heightened course OF study is
having q favorable effect. Already
several students have decided to
take the full, or four years course.
This will make work men
that need not be ashamed.
While We must reject Pope's
heresy, "a little learning, . Danger
ons thing" We must insist that lit
tie learning aud less training cannot
make skiilful teachers.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
l, In view of the increased facil-
tiles in the new building for instruc-1
ton in Music, Penmanship and
Rr-aWinn racc0mmand that IL