Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-16

Proceedings of the Eleventh Day---Let
ture by Hon. o. p. Temple.

Proceedings of the Eleventh Day---Lec-
ture by Hon. o. p. Temple.
Reported officially for the CHRONICLE.
The first lecture yesterday morning was
one on Pedagogics, by Prof. F. L. Sedan.
He took for his theme Object Lessons, or
| the cultivation of the senses He recon-
mended the teacher to take up any object
which the child can understand, and, after
| having formed in his own mind plan of
the lesson, he may then lead the child on
| by means of questions Object lessons are
those given in connection with objects. He
| discussed the faculties of perception, con-
ception and thinking in full and exhaustive
manner, which showed him to be well
versed in psychology. 1t was one of his
best lectures and was highly appreciated by
the members of the Normal
The second hour yesterday was devoted
to map-drawing, under the direction of
Prof Garrett He first explained the
method of drawing hemispherical maps
and charts secondly, he explained new
method of drawing maps by latitude and
longitude, which was illustrated by an i'm
aginary country situated near the North
Pole, called Utopia, the name and situation
| having been suggested by the weather of
the past few days, and thirdly, he intro
duced method for impresslng the form of
the country on the memory. He gives
practical instruction each day in drawing,
and the maps commenced a few days ago
BY members of the class are already near
ing perfection.
The third lecture was one on botany, by
Professor McBryde He concluded his talk
on leaves, describing the various parts and
kinds, giving the technical terms for dis
tinguishing them. The terms and their
definitions are too long to be reproduced
here, and can be found In any text book on
botany. AS part of his lecture he describ-
ed the curious phenomenon of phyllotoxy,
of leaf arrangement, which may be reduced
to two forms-yerticillate and alternate. In
the former we generally have Just two
leaves at node, and this common form is
called opposite. In the alternate we have
them in whorls of two, three four, five,
eight, thirteen and twenty-one, making
either one, three, FIVE eight or thirteen rev.
olutions around the stem before we have a
leaf exactly above another
The fourth lecture was by Prof. E. S,
Joynes, on the characteristics of the English
language. He considered it yesterday in its
sentential structure. He said: The char
acteristics distinguish from any other Ian
guage. 1t is characterized by its logical
over grammatical form. Its relation is i'm
piled, not expressed. Simplicity of arrange
ment is a characteristic. In Latin we have
great liberty of position, and in English we
are with narrow limits. A natural coher-
ence marks the language 1t enjoys rhetor-
ical limits which tends to simplicity and Co
herence. 1t has great power of emphasis
We use emphasis to supply grammatical
form in words and expression. Force is
another characteristic-th simplest word.
being our most forcible.
At the conclusion of the Rotations Hon.
O. ?. Temple entertained the school for an
hour with an address on ''Our Pioneer
Educators" His speech showed deep re-
search and was logical and polished ad-
dress