Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-12
OTHER COUNTIES.

] uldllj W H. iTIce, NJ, >, Is. KObertS
Il. a. Pyott.
OTHER COUNTIES.
Prof n. b. Goforth, 7. b. Wilson.
j. a. Galyon and Prof. w. a. g.
Brown, of Jefferson county; p. III,
Tally and Prof. A. w. Wilson, of
Hamb len county; $. j. Ledgerwood,
of Union county; Superintendent J.
9. Park, of Greene county, and Miss
| j, G. Ordes aud Miss Henrietta Ordes,
of st. Louis, Missouri. -
EVENING SESSION.
Prof NJ. G. Butler delivered the
evening lecture at the First Baptist
church. AS Is usual with the Profess
sor, his address was both philosophical
and able. The subject was !" The Oh.
jects, Means and Methods of Right
Education
The lecture was followed by gen.
eral Discussion, which was participated
in by Prof. A. w. Wilson, of Morris
town, aud Rev. VIM. Aiken, of this
| city. Both hoped for higher educa-
ton of teachers. Mr.. Aiken thought
that what the teachers need is practical
instruction.
The Institute meets this morning Mt
the Bell House at the usual hour. The
evening lecture will he delivered at
the First Baptist church by Prof. ID.
II. McAnally at s o'clock. Subject:
The Qualifications and Work of n
Primary Teacher"
The Institute is a success. The large.
school room where the sessions are held
was crowded to OVERLOOKING Yesterday
and it was once thought that it would
| become necessary to remove to more
commodious quarters. The lectures at
night are well attended instructive
and entertaining and deserve the good
houses they draw.
From Daily Chronicle Aug. 81
An Interesting Report from the
Critic.
THIRD DAY.
The exercises were opened by PRAYER
from Prof y. w. Wilson, of Norris
| town.
After the reading of the minutes the
first thing in order was the
CRITICS REPORT.
Miss J. G. Ordes, of 1T. Louis, who
had been appointed Critic for Tuesday,
made her report, which was very
highly spoken of by all who were pre-
sent 10 hear it. Among the points
made were the following: In the
vocal exercises the pupils did not in
all cases give pure vowel sounds, and
aspirate sounds were very faint. The
pronunciation of the following words
was criticised: Papa, sea-shore, pro-
| nunciation. Instead of using the
sentence, "Our time is out" it would
have been better to have said, Our
time has expired" Instead OF saving.
1--WE aUW continue the subject il
| should have been, We shdIL,n If shall
| was meant. In mental arithmetic. the
concrete remarks were in many cases
given as abstract. Reasons were not
assigned for the different operations in
arithmetic. The sentence, THE class
in arithmetic should he short should
have been, 1.-The time of recitation
should he short" The sentence "A
numher larger than 8" should have
been greater, &c. The pupil who made
use of the blackboard did work that
met the approval of the critic In the
sentence, Write do1On the number,
the word " down" is surperfiuous.
In Grammar recitation, the sentence
open your books on the 25th page,n
should have been at the 18th page,
You may hunt for some object
words " should have been search, etc.
/ many dlioNC " ere given WITH the
| rising infection. The word directly
was Improperly pronounced derectiy.
Afternoon.-The word t,UO was pro-
nounced tn. There is four positions
for writing" should have been "there
| are, etc. are there was improperly
pronounced d'ther. The pronunciation
of the word aperture was criticised.
The word South was improperly pro.
| nounced Suth. One of the Profess
sors, during day, gave a meth
cd OF explaining to little chill
dren how the earth revolves, by looks
ing through an aperture at the stars as
they pass, etc. The critic asked,
How are we to cause the little chill
dren to see stars, while we are teach
ing Geography CLASP" Nobody
elses " should have been "no body's
else" entirely is correct, and not
" Entirely and only" instead of
"unly." The lady then continued as
ollows: "A matter that deservs Sc
we're criticism was the condition of the
floor at the time of adjournment-the
litter of paper was bad enough, but
appears nothing when compared with
thepools of tobacco juice. Who would
have thought, from the an.
pearance of this room that
1t had been occupied by the educators
OF the land-the leaders of the youth
full mind ?"
Atthe Lecture. The following words
We're pronounced incorrectly, "DevelN
Opmunt for development, ""bettar "for
better" hurd " for heard, /" "man
for " mar, all - for fare" "urth"
for earth, :" mOtha for mother,n
"ubsurve for observe" impartant
/ for important, divisions for divisions,
instltoot for institute, movemunts for
movements, buth for both, oppertooni-
ty for opportunity, jooring for dur
| ing, DC.
The report as above stated was high
| ly appreciated by all the teachers, and
was loudly applauded, twas consid-
cred a decided success. Following this
occurred an Interesting discussion on
the pronunciation of words, in which
some able teachers came Off second
| best. .. ..
President kirkpatrick was appoint.
ed critic of the day, Vice. President ],
/ a. Rayl, occupying his place in the