The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-21
/ f. Sidney M Southard, High Priest.
Reported for he Globe.
Rutland Comfy Teachers Institute.
ANNUAL SESSION.

The annual Teachers Institute for Rut-
land county met Wednesday afternoon in
town hall, Fairhaven, and was called to
order at 9 o'clock by John II. French, Sec
rotary Vermont State Board of Education.
About twenty teachers were there in at
tendance.
After reading of Scriptures and prayer
by Rev. l.. N. Beaudry, J. II. French, Ii.
D., opened the exercises by showing upon
the blackboard some Of the curious things
of figures, which occupied about half an
hour, when recess was taken to await the
arrival Of the Saratoga train, which bl ought
strong achievements to the scene of nc
ton. They were met at the depot by Seth
Thompson, superintendent of schools for
Fairhavcn, who conducted them to the
hall, where they were assigned quarters
among the people OF the village.
Secretary French resumed the afternoon
session by saying that most of the teach
crs were aware that once Il year a public
meeting of town superintendent was held
to consider the interests of education and
also to examine teachers When he first
commenced to labor IN this state the sub
icct Of photography was very little under.
stood, especially among superintendent,
and between the teachers of the primaries
and the superintendent, that subject had
been very much neglected. He announced
that during the week especial attention
would be given to that subject, and pro-
ceeded to define the subject photography;
the definition of which as given by our
standard dictionaries embraced four distinct
subjects, viz; Letters, sylablcs, separate
words and spelling; the first of which can
be divided into two casses-large and
small letters, and called upon the class to
give examples where capital letters can be
properly used He then passed TO the
sounds or rof letters, illustrating them
by dividing them into three groups, and
then called for the class to name the classes
into which letters are divided.
He announced them as follows:
1.-Nowels which are pure and impure,
and gave examples on the blackboard to
illustrate their pure and impure sounds
3 Consonants, of which there are two
classes, one that has some voice, and one
that has none.
3.-SOunds of vowela, which are found
IN seven letters. two Of which "w' and
"y," express the sound of two letters, and
the vowel sounds which can be divided into
fifteen distinct sounds.
4.-Consonant sounds there are twenty
two letters that are sometimes consonants,
and nineteen that always are. for which
the sounds are divided into three parts,
proper sounds, substitute, and other sounds,
all of which are sometimes silent.
5.-Spellng book marks, which are used
to express different sounds for letters
AT the close of this part of the services
the institute was adjourned until Sp. M,
when Mrs. Kyle of Essex, read an essay
upon temperance, which was instructive
and very interesting.
Rev. Franklin Tuxbury delivered an ad-
dress upon ''thc wonders of physical geog-
raphy.
The session will commence ut 0 Il. H., to-
day when the other parts of the subject of
photography will be taken up and gone
through as carefully as the one of yester-
day was. In the evening Miss Bromley of
the Normal school at Castlcton, will read
an essay upon teaching power" and Prof.
II NJ Sceley of Middlebury College will de-
! liver his lecture on ''leaves."
In our next issue we shall give an alb
stract Of Mr. Kyles' essay and Mr. Tux
burys address. Il.