Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-30

The American Institute of Instruction.


The American Institute of Instruction.
The American Institute of Instruction,
founded by the educators of New England
nearly fifty years ago, has come to be the
great rallYing point of Eastern educators,
and its influence was never greater than al
the present time. The meetings of the
last two years at Providence, r. l., and
Plymouth, N, H., in point of numbers and
interest, has never been eXcelled. The APP
preaching session which will be held in
Montpelier, Vt, July 10, IL and ~, will
equal any of the predecessors in its lite
rary and social features. The eminent
legal talent of Judge Aldrich of Massa-
chusetts, is secured for an address on The
Rights and Duty of the State in Relation
to Education. Classical scholars will be
interested in Professor darkness review
Of the Results of Linguistic Studies. A
fresh Topic The Rights of the Taught, will
be discussed in an original way by Prof.
w. M. Barbour, D. d., of Bangor Theo-
logical Seminary. President Hubert, of
Middlebury, VT, will lecture on Life and
Form; and teachers and students will have
Il rich treat in the paper of Professor Rug
giles, Of Dartmouth College, on The Place
of History in Education, and Methods of
Teaching it,. One of our prominent nor
maj principals will read a paper on Growth
in Teaching Power, and Hon. Henry Bar
nard of the same state will give interest
ing Personal Recollections of Schools and
School-men about 1910. Much is said,
nowadays, about the small value attached
N HpnprnpE1 opH Educational fDiflac
this subject will be introduced by Profess
sor Fuller, of ST. Johnsbury. Superinten-
dent Stone, who has honored nearly every
school office in New England will
help us to views of the Educational Out
look, and those who know the man,
know how to appreciate his sight and
judgment. An innovation of the election
of 1876, was the placing of women on the
Executive Board of the Institute; and, as
Il result, they will be represented at the
Institute by Mrs II. NJ. Miller. of Concord,
N. H., on Modern Reading.
AS New England is IL great industrial
workshop, the people us well as teachers
are deeply interested in all that relates to
industrial art and in answer to the great
and increasing interests in technical
schools, President Runkle, of The Institute
of Technology, Boston, has consented to
speak on the Russian System of Art Edu-
cation as applied at the Institute of Tech
nology, and will illustrate his lecture by
the shop-work of the students, feature Of
unusual attraction The recent struggle
over the Normal School question, in vari-
Gus States, will call out Il vigorous paper
from Rev. A, d. Mayo, of Springfield,
Mass, and the address will be made the
foundation for future discussion. Those
who cannot visit the Yellowstone National
Park, this year, will see its wonders, its
mountains, waterfalls, geysers, etc., in the
beautiful stereopticon representations of
w. E. Marshall, Esq, who has spent sew
eraI years in Montana; and the Paris
Exhibition of 1878 will be presented by an
ex-president of the Institute. Not the least
of the literary ATTRACTIONS will be select
and special readings by Prof. G. w.
Churchill, whose name in New England
always draws a crowded house
10 the literary attractions already mani
ed it may be well to state here, that on
Tuesday evening addresses may be expect
ed from the six State Superintendent of
New England; and on Thursday evening
will be a " field day for the Institute and
its friends, a season so delightful TO edu-
Gators of speech making, congratulation,
and mutual cdlcation or otherwise.
Excursions have been planned which
must suit the most Elstidious traveller. |
One party will visit our Switzerland among
the White Mountains; another will take
the train for Lake Champlain and its won
derlul scenery, stopping at Ticonderoga,
Ausabe Chasm, and other noted places.
Still another will take advantage of the low
railroad fares to visit Montreal, sail down
the St. Lawrence, and climb the Plains of
Abraham above the quaint old city of
Quebec. Others still will 90 to Memphre-
magog, and fish for trout in its clear waters,
and climb the hills of Northern Vermont.
Numberless are the ways to enjoy the
feast of fat things which the officers of the
American Institute have provided for its
members, and at Montpelier our friends
have in store a cordial welcome. As to |
railroad and hotel accommodations, our
space demands that these be postponed |
until next week. 1t will be sufficient to
state that the leading railroads of New
England will return members free of cost. |