Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-02
STATE NORMAL INSTITUTE
gnder Full Headway, with FIatter
ing Prospects for Successful
Session.
a Large Attendance Already Ar
rived and >tii' Coming On
Every Train.

For several days past, teachers from va1i-
| Gus sections of Tennessee, have been flow
ing into the city, and yesterday morning,
| according to advertisement they assembled
in chapel hall of the University of Tennes-
see, and completed the organization of the
State Normal Institute This is the first
session of this In ,,itute which bids fair TO
become popular in he fntrra, as it so ius,Iv
deserves.
After devotional exercises, which WI
precade each days work, Col Lockett,
principal OF the school, announced that the
books would be opened for registration, and
SIXTY PERSONS
attached their autographs to the roll as
pupils. This is better opering than the
mc5t s2nguine had hoped for, and it is
veJ gratifying to the faculty and
The public generally to see so much interest
manifested by the teachers. The majority
of the body is not looked for until Monday
or Tuesday, and if all come who have sign
fed their intention of SO doing, in a few
days the city WI be thio1oed with teachers
When the registration had ceased, the school
was organized into different classes, all pre-
sided over by efficient Instructors, who VIII
commence regular class work Monday moln-
ing and continue every day, except Sun
days, for four weeks. A regular course has
been selected by the facclty, and a certif-
cate of proficiency will be granted those
who have completed the prescribed course.
OBJECT OF THE NORMAL
New and more complete methods for the
instruction of young people are being dis
covered continually, rendering the old sys-
TENS of teaching obsolete 1t will be the
object of the institute to make known these
new discoveries in teaching, and lay down
specific and unquestionable rules for adop-
ton in all schools iu the State.
1t is literally a school for teachers. and not
one TO teach the elementary branches of
/ sciences or the conjG9ation OF verbs, but to
impart to teachers knowledge of how to
teach, which has been learned by the obser-
vations of the most skilled instructors in the
world, For this reason the school should
I be encouraged by every citizen OF the State
who is interested in education
AT THE oPERA-HoUsE.
The audience at the opera-houfe was not
large, owing partly, perhaps, to the threat
ening weatheI, but stu there was fair at
I end nee.
! Pro-. S. H. Lockett presided. After
muse by the band, The exercises were
opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Morrell,
1ec:or OF ST. JohL's Church.
Rev Jas. Park, D. D., then delivered the
ado 'oss OF leone, at the conclusion of
| which, he paid high tribute to Dr.. W. S.
Doak, state superintendent of public in
struction, whose grandfather was the
/ pioneer of education west of the Ale
ghcnie5.
DR.. Doak then responded in a
/ speech three-fourths of an hour in
leugth, which was listened to with
the closest attention. 1t was chaste, philo-
/ sophie, earnest, and at times eloquent.
/ ATter alluding to the usual reasons given
why men should be educated, ali of which
he said were good he went on to speak of
grander and greater reason than all others.
He then spoke of the disastrous tendencies
of The age, developed by certain
class of scientists who have made a great
deal of noise and nonsense about mans
sphere in life. He then spoke of the pow
ers which go to make of man a moral agent,
the intellect the sensibility and the will.
These he said must be developed. Man has
dominion over the earth because he has these
powers. The development of the intellect
is not mans whole duty, but to be perfect
man his other powers must be developed