The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-11-06
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Organization and General Outline
of Proceedings-The Teachers
on Pronounclation.

j on Pronounclatlon.
, We have neither time, space nor il
! formation necessary to give anythin
, like an intelligent statement of tn
purpose and character of the variou
exercises daily recurring during til
week of the Institute. To give, on,
after another. only the bare announce
ments that At snch All hour such ,
person conducted such an exercise, a,
is frequently done in the name Of i
full report, is really only to give 8
programmes rafting skeleton of !
report" unclothed by any flesh Of
life or interest. In this dilemma, we
make synopsis of the meeting, which
shall Include as much of interest as
may be.
The only business nj the first ses-
sion, on Monday. eth alt, was per-
manent organization, effected by
/ choosing G. ". Rollins. President
! viii G. Johnson, V. p; Levi Diltz,
! Secretary and Miss Lizzie Murphy
Assistant. w. &. Johnson, Lizzie
Murphy and Jennie Robbins were
made com. on Programme and j. c.
johnson, Il. NJ. Elliott, G. +. Brown,
Jennie Focht and Mary Golden, com.
on Resolutions.
The rea! work of the Institute begun
on Tuesday, when the programme
was taken up, and with a few neces-
sary Interruptions, followed from day
to day by the same instructors upon
the same subjects.
Method OF teaching Physiology was
demonstrated by Prof. Vermillion, of
Durant, who armed himself with dia-
grams and charts, stepped outside the
boundaries established by any one
text book and taught on broad gauge
and practical! plan.
Prof Stubs, Of Clarence, treated
the subject of Grammar, much to the
satisfaction of the Institute. He adj
vocatng beginning by oral lessons,
aud laid down plan for procedure
entirely progressive and outside the
ruts into which teachers, iron bound
by the text book they adopt, are liable
to fall
Prof Freer, Of Cornell College,
pleased the teachers very highly by
the plain and practical method Of
teaching Geography which he pre-
sented
The subject Of Arithmetic was given
to Mr.. f.. NJ. Elliott, and treated by
him from day to day in way that
ELECTED the lively participation and
interest Of the teachers. Prof. Cook,
Of teaching History; Miss Hinkle
and Miss Murphy gave examples of
Primary teaching; w. q. Johnson
treated upon Writing; Mrs. G. Rigby
had the subject Of Spelling and J. c.
johnson explained object lessons in
Geography.
Beside these, and other daily exer-
cises in which the Institute found in
terest and instruction, Prof. Gibney,
the elocuiionist, gave several lectures
or lessons upon reading and oratory,
which were warmly praised II was
in one of these that he produced lit
tie story, written only for the purpose
Ofintroducing number Of words
many of them quite common ones
that are almost universally misprO-
case, and offered fine work on elocu-
ton which he held in his hand to any
teacher present who would come for
ward and read the selection pronounce
Ing correctly the twenty-five words
to which he referred. The first gen.
tleman to make the effort mispro-
nounced nineteen of them: the next
one fftcen and the third only two
test well sustained as any Of you can
assure himself by taking dictionary
and trying his own habit of speech
At the request of Prof Gibney. who
was unable to supply the demand for
his little story, we publish 1t herewith,
italicising the words in the pronnnci-
alton of which the test consisted
4 saciliegions SON of Beiio1. who
suffered from bronchitis, having ex-
haus'ed his .f,,onces. in order to make
good the deficit. determined to diiy
himself to some wealthy, ienieat and
docHe young lady. To accomplish
successfully his rogary. and forge the
letters hynaenoai, he armed himself
with coiiope and a cn'ol necklace of
chameleon hue. He also secured
suite Of rooms at the principal hotel,
and engaged the head waiter as his
cooajMor; he next dispatched letter
of unexceptionable caiigrophy, invit-
ing to the matinee, to be held on the
morrow, the handsomest Young lady
in town. She reroHcd at the idea and
refused to consider herself as suc11f-
cabie TO his desires, and accordingly
sent a polite note Of refusal; on re-
ceiving which. this misguided young
man procuring carJtae and bowie
knife, proceeded to an isoiated spot,
and deliberately severed his .iuguin
vein. and discharged the carbiae into
his ab1omeq,' it need not be said that
the result was fatal; the a"bris was
removed by the coroner.
The evening sessions of the Insti-
tute consisted, on Monday night, Of a
Sociable; Tuesday evening, lecture
by State Supt. Abernethy Nednes-
day evening was to have brought an
address 10y President Thatcher, Of the
State University, but he failed to APP
pear and Prof. Gibney the elocution-
isl, entertained the audience briefly
Thursday evening was Prof. Gihney's
own, and on Friday evening, be made