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The State Teachers Ciab.

The State Teachers Ciub.
The second session Of the State Teachers
Club was held at the residence OF Prof..
LOUIS Pollens, in this city, commencing
Friday, Nov. IS, and continuing through
Saturday forenoon. On Friday evening,
after the meeting had been called 10 order
by the president. Edward Conant of Ran
d1lph, and the secretary's report had been
read, the club listened with great pleasure
to paper by Rev. j. II. Worcester, d. D.,
of this city. on The Moral Element IN
Elncaiion. Among sayages man was esti-
mated hy ms physical powers; among ciEii-
led people, now. he is estimated by his m
telleo.ual power. The time is coming, II IS
to be hoped. when he will ne
valued for his moral power Inc
| best powers Of man and the ones most
worthy of cGltivat ion, are the moral
powers Each higher power i dependent
/ upon a lower. the intellectual upon the phy,
steal, and the moral upon the intellectual
and physical Bodily health is cherished
not alone for its own sake. but for the sak a
| of the intellectual and the moral nature;
| The first care should should be for the moral
well-being. Pupils must be taught to
| choose the highest ends of living. Each has
power to do for himself what no one else
| can do for him. Each has Affixed choice OF
/ his own-a firm will which will go with
him where no parents eye can follow, no
teachers admOnitiOns reach him. II this Is
/ "a II i also true that others can do for him
what he cannot do for himself. This Is
I the whole rationale Of education. The
/ teachers will and purpose must sometimes
serve for the pupils wall and purpose,
when. for instance, the pupil is too young
or too inexperienced to appreciate the pro
I per ends of living. A teacher can see dan
1 gers which the pupil cannot. lie has the
! 9uoil's thoughts under his control and to
! some extent can control the innnence 81
/ the parents and society over the child.
To what motives should the teacher ap-
! PEAL There j. a temptation to use those
/ capable Of producing an immediate eject,
/ without regard - ultimate ends.
The spea ker referred to emulation a. he
| inr effective and convenient, but not one OF
/ the highest motives. Corporal punishment
also effective, bat not TO be appealed to till
all other motives have failed.
| The teacher needs to be right, not merely
! correct hat enthusiastic. and his character
must be an inspiration TO his pupils
The paper Of which this Is meagre and
! imperfect outline was received with great
satisfaction bY the club, and the topics
suggested were discussed by Professors
! Goodrich. lialsey. Pollens, Conant and
/ Leaycnwarth. after which the club adionrn-
1 cd uutl saturday morning.
L Don thc reassemhling of the c.ub an al
! DIRE wa riren hy the President, Edward
! Canqut. naun The Popular Idess Of Edu
/ cation. -pe8king with more particu-
/ lar reference 10 the Common and
/ High schools and Academic Mr. Conant
maintained that the courses Of study
/ sheuid be- enlarged. % Is 70 include
/ physiology. elements Of botany, mineralogy
/ philosophy and chemistry, drawing and
music That the best way to secure this Is
u obtain greater efficiency ii the common
Z brauchc--ieachers must prove themselves
masters # the common branches tirst ;
I Thar hv some means OF other. as By ex-
animation, pupils should be obliged 10
attain O. certain degree OF thoroughness
the common school branches, laying broad
the Foundations And that a certificate Of
| having clmpiated the common schO0. course
OF the high school course, should mean
something and mean the same thing every
where. teachers may not. iettered as they
are rs prescribed courses Of study, be able
OF their own will 70 enlarge the courses Of
/ study. b1t they can emphasize certain
| branches, and we can approximate % what
/ will be a better state OF things
G.. s. Halsey of the Burlington High
| School, read paper on the 30 Double Once
( Of Words. in which he illustrated the fact
that many words have two, three u some
times four different uses, and Mr. Halsey
maintained that nouns employed with ad-
/ iectiye uses, should be called adiectiyes and
treated and parsed as adjectiyes. and not as
/ nouns U.S. i for adjectiyes; snd ~ r.rsa.
And So on. regarding the same word as IN
fact several part Of spssch.
Thc-. papers were discussed hy Me--rs.
P1.leus. Lravenworth, Goodrich and saw
age. Adjourned to meet at Randolph on
The Thursday after the Commencement oi
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