Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-20
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR EEGULAR CORRESPONDENTS.

Teachers' rnstitute-End Of the ';and Fair
Tho Successful Contestants-News
About Town
The first of this years meetings Of the
teachers institute was held on Saturday
morning in the high school room of the
public school building, at Fifth and Locust
Streets. On the " Responsibility of Teach
er," Mr.. Hoffman said, some teachers are
able to influence their pupils for life, there
fore it is emincntly necessary that such
influence should he for the good. The re-
sponsibility of teachers for the mental,
moral and physical develOpmenlof pupils,
was dwelt upon at some length. MISS
Pfoutz thought each teacher should use
all the influence he or she can, as it is i'm
possible to aim too high in our moral in
fluence. Mr.. Ames thought it impossible
to associate with any one without lni1u-
encipg him or her for life, hence VIC should
be careful what that influence shall be.
Miss Dean then followed with drill in
reading with class showing the necessity
of sticking to one thing until it is really
known. Miss NOwlcn next had 4 class
drill i'm number which was both interesting
and instructive. After recess Miss Dinan
had q recitation III reading in the Third
Reader. Sic commenced by having
number of the words from the lessen writ
ten on the blac.. bOard' which she re-
auired the class to pronounce, after which
the class read L selection from the Third
Reader, the attention of pupils being call
ed particuIarly to the emphasis and the
meaning of the words.
Miss Pfoutz then took charge OF the class,
calling attention particularly to accent.
Miss Preston then took the question Glow
shall VIC teacl, morality in the SCHOOL,
She thought that teachers generally
thought less of the methods Of teaching
morality than of anything else, when this
is most important. The principal way to
teach morality is by example to teach
pupils honesty we must be perfectly hon
est ourselves in all our dealings with them,
especially in all the little things OF daily
life the teacher should see what is good
and conscicntiOusly follow it !; VIC should
make our school work the iiist object :;
gain the love and respect of the pupils ;
Study each pupils character in order to
gain this influence over them and thus
show where the weak points are and how
to work against them. "What can We
do this term to add interest and freshness
to the work % was taken up by Miss
Pfoutz. She said the chief thing was that
the teachers should como to the institute
xith the determination Of doing all they
<.an to add to the interest of the work. In
order to get the new ideas of the day, the
institute should club tugcther and sub
scribe for the leading educational journals
oftkc day. On the subject Of Readers
Miss Shuman thought words in the read
crs were too difficult and that the pupils
should not take up reading lesson in which
tho words were too difficult for them t"
understand. Institute adjourned.
The following articles voted for at tic
Citizens band fair were awarded Oh S:ttur-
day evening to the successful contestants,
whose names, with the names of the de-
fcated rs we'll rs the amounts subscribed,
arc given below: