The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-14
NORMAL Notes.

| The Allen county Normal Institute
for 1882 convened Monday, July 10.
Prof. A. $. DIN, of Lawrence, who
so ably filled the position of Instruct
or the two previous years, now pre-
sides as conductor. The Professor is a
life long educator, and probably. no
man i'm the state is better qualified to
benefit county school teachers and help
them on to better endeavors and con-
sequently better work than he.
Greater experience has, it seems to
me, given him more GOODNESS and
has a greater flow of language-speaks
more evenly and smoothly than he
did in the days of yore. Ii student
teaching, the fault lies in his own per-
ceptive faculties. Under his conduc-
torship the Normal bids fair to be the
best in the history of the county.
Professors j. Z. Hamm and j. w.
Young are the Instructors. AS
teachers we feel more than usual in
terest in these young gentlemen be-
cause they are living embodiment of
what pluck and perseverance in the
teachers profession may accomplish.
They have both taught i'm the COM
mon schools of this county for several
years; but while many others have
been content to plOd along the even
tenor Of their way with no effort to ac
quire knowledge beyond what was alb
solutely necessary, these have found
time, in the midst of their teaching, to
take full Normal course, and this
summer they come among us with life
diplomas from the state Normal school
at Emporia. They have entered into
the work of the Normal with an
earnestness that has been in great
measure transmitted to the students.
Of these, some eighty-three have
been enrolled at the present writing
"Wednesday. So far as have been
able to observe, the answers are given
promptly and correctly, and the stu
dents appear to be labOring earnestly.
Statistics show that the average ac-
tive work of the county school teacher
is about three years, and in our case
this is proven by the old faces that are
missed and the new ones that have
taken their places.
Ofthose that were with US three years
ago the Probate Judge, aided and
abetted by certain ministers of the
gospel, has taken from us Miss Will
cox, Miss Maybe, Miss Cooley, Miss
Ray, Miss Bartlett, Miss Webster,
Miss, Price and others of the school
ma ANS whom we do not now recall.
These of the male persuasion who have
committed matrimony have not, as ii
general rule, quit teaching but their
presence seems to be required at home
as they do not attend the Normal.
The average male pedagogue this
is about seventeen years old his |
hands and feet are considerably in the |
way; just beneath his auricular APP |
pendage, on either side, there is Il |
small field but whether of oats, wheat |
or flax we can nor determine; the
chinch bugs are evidently bad. Be |
meath his nose there is also an upris- |
ing that is apparently uttcring a pro-
test that ''if it nose anything it will |
not be kept doom" There is evident
ly a latent hankering in this specimen
for the female pedagOgue. 1t mani
tests itself now in sly chances, small
notes, etc, but by and by it will as
sumo the form of boat rides, livery
rigs, moonlight promenades and ice
cream. Then it will be Gangerous-to
the pocket book.
But enough of this nonsense. We
are settling down to work, and next
week will give an idea of what work
we are performing.
Several lectures will he given dur
ing the Normal which il will be well |
worth the while of the general public
to attend. ORTHODOX.