Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-02

AfIcnNOON oEooAcN'
Tn Q Institute met at p. NJ, SUI
perintendent Hinton in the chair.
M ISIS Peab ody favored the Insti.
tute with piece of Instrumental
music, which WAS exoellently rem
dered.
Miss U. f. Watson gave class
exercise In primary numbers. The
class consisted of half dozen
small primary pupils. and the
promptness Of their answers and
the readiness with which they an
alyzed the several primary mum.
bers given them showed the thor
oughness OF the mental drill to
which they have been subjected.
Members Of the class were sent to
the. blackboard and indicated &C.
curately, correctly and promptly
the various operations in the four
fundamental operations of arlth-
metic.
F. G. Norton was then intro
duced and read q we'll written pa
per on school government, etc.
The speaker maintained that the
teacher was not to secure the high
est standard of excellence IN his
pupils through the influence of
fear, but that the greatest and
most lasting success can only be
attained by arousing the self-re-
spect of the pupil. The teacher
must endeavor to educate not only
the intellectual and physical fac.
ulties of the child, but should also
give due prominence so the cult
walton of the moral nature. The
pupil should be dealt with as those
who are possessed of undyiDg souls
upon the proper operations OF
which not only the future we'll be-
ing of the child depends, but also
the well-being of society. The
paper was we'll rendered and duly
appreciated.
Superintendent Campbell deiiv-
cred an Interesting, able and in.
structive address. Why should we
labor to gain knowledge of our
mother tongue? Because our sue
cess in all the avenues OF business
requires thorough mastery OF our
mother tongue. There il every
where demand for trained
minds. There Is q need for trained
and noble spirits. There seems to
be spirit of revolution in our
midst which would subvert our no.
BILE school system. Among those
who thus stand opposed to our no.
BILE Institutions are often those
who have been reared in, and who
owe all they are, to those institu-
lions. The speaker quoted from
q geography printed in 1906 and re-
marked that in all the minutest
sciences there has been an equal
progress made.
He would urge upon parents and
teachers the Importance of incul-
eating in the minds of the children
a love for knowledge for ito own
sake. To combat with the mate
rialisms and practi0alisms of the
day, let us hold up Truth. Let us
meet the attacks of the enemies of
our school system by the utmost
candOr, but at the same time we
must not cease our efforts to repair
It's inlperfectiOns The speaker be-
lieved that the State owed all her
children an education, including all
that IL practical and necessary to
Insure successful lives, embracing
thorough training in all the
courses from the Kindergarten to
the High School, without one miss =
ing link, but 1t must be presented
in order, as whole, not in detach.
ed portions.
Our space will not permit US TO
present even an epitome Of the
very able address, which was deliv-
cred in Prof. Campbell's usual
happy and impressive style. 1t is
needless to say it was we'll re-
ceived.
DR.. Carr delivered on able and
address on the subject
of horticulture and Its r61ation to
civilization. The speaker gave a
brief but interesting history of h0r-
ticulture and Horticulture 10 ancient
and modern times and of the great
attention paid by the ancients to
the cultivation of choice varieties
of fruits and flowers.
The Institute then adj ourned till
8 A. NJ. to-day.