Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-08-14


time was wasted in useless argument or
protitless discussion. The lecture system
was principally adopted, though the teach
ers were continually piled with questions
required to give examples, or undertake
certain exercises. At 1870 Monday morn
ing, the President, P. E. Morehouse, called
the Institute to order, the roll was made
out and by p. m. that day, the Institute
was fairly at work and business begun.
The following programme of each days
exercise was the order of the day, with
the exception of Wednesday forenoon,
when Prof. Kinney was unable to work
owing to an attack of cholera morbus:
MORNING.
8 to 9:15-Opening Exercises.
9:l5 to 9:30-Miscellaneous Business.
$50 to 10:15-Grammar. Prof. Kinney.
1O:15 to 1O:2O-Recess.
1920 to 11:2O-Reading. Prof. Kidd.
1l:2O to 11:3O-Recess.
1l:3O to 12:0O-Penmanship. P. E.
Morehouse.
AFTERNOON.
zoo to 2:1O-Opening Exercises.
2:1O to 2:4O-Penmanship P. E. More
house.
2:4O to 2:45-Recess.
2:45 to 3:45-Reading. Prof. Kidd.
3:45 to 4:OO-Queries.
400 to o4:2O-Arithmetic. Prof Kinney.
A number of our citizens were on hand
to attend the exercises, and judging from
the pleased appearance of their faces, we
judge they were entertained. Prof Kin
ney is a dark complexioned, moderately
built man, physically, and an earnest one
Intellectually. If independence of thought,
and a fearlessness in the handling of au-
thors is any virtue, then Prof. Kinney is
the most virtuous Of all, for never saw we
such handling of Grammars and grammar
ians as the Professor gave during the week.
The principle feature of Prof. Kinney's
cOuntenance is his immense black beard.
relieved occasionally by a line of white
teeth when the speaker is in earnest. As
his beard to his face, so is grammar to the
man. Prof. Kinney had no fear in assert
ing that the subject of Grammar far sur
passed in importance all other branches of
study. His course during the week was
as follows: From the very start the impor-
tance of English Grammar as a study was
enlarged upon. Elocution is a mere branch
which Grammar includes. English Gram
mar was' compared with the infected Ian,
guages, to show that the relations common
to those languages, actually exist in the
English, and that they must be denoted
either by the appropriate propositions OF
by arrangement of the words in certain
order in the sentence. The Professor ar
cues 1t will not do to depend upon the in
cldental information you may pick up on
this subject by an ordinary course of read
ing. You must make Grammar a matter
of earnest, thoughtful study. When YOU
commence to teach this science, begin
with the parts of speech, illustrating by
referring to the trees of forest, showing
that as those trees can all be reduced to
few classes-distinguisha by certain
characteristics-so may the hundred thou
sand words of our language be reduced to
few kinds. The pupils should be good,
plain readers, before taking up the study
of Technical Grammar" The first mode
of parsing, consists in simply naming and
defining the parts Of speech in any sentence
presented, and writing under the several
words character to indicate it's class.
The pupils style of utterance and general
delivery, must be carefully attended to
during these exercises. No hating or
stammering must be tolerated. A spirit of
promptness, accuracy, clearness, is to be
cultivated all the time. No study during
the recitation. All the study must be dore
before the pupils come to recite. A knowl-
edge of the classes of words of the modifi
cations of the several parts of speech, is to
be acquired by taking up one part of
speech at time and mastering its Etymolo-
gy before proceeding to another. Require
the pupils to write sentences involving the
part of speech under consideration in its
various notifications. Follow the master
ing of each part of speech by parsing
exercise SO conducted as to keep in view
the improvement of the pupilsin expression.
Remember all the time, that the study of
Grammar should improve the pupils in he
use of language. 1t should be made
teal as well as theoretical. After COM
pleting Etymology, take up the parts of
speech in order and illustrate their various
syntactical relations. A large portion of
Prof. Kinney's time was taken up in an
swering questions, parsing peculiar con-
structions, analyzing examples prepared by
the class. At times the questions came
like grape shot,-many at time,-but
Mr.. Kinney disposed of nearly all in an ac-
curate and satisfactory manner. Next
week we propose to give the conclusion of
this report. D.
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