The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-28
Normal Notes.

vanished under the persuading in
fluence of Old Sol, whose genial rays
have this week shown increasingly into
the benign (some of them are sx9)
countenances of the pedagogues.
The Professors complain every
Monday about poor lessons, and l
think it incumbent upon me, as the
oracle of the Normal, to rise and
explain tkusly: We always make it
a point to study our lessons on Sunday
evening so as to be sure and have them
for Monaay morning. 1t must be ac-
cident, but someway it always falls
out that nale and female pedagogue
study their lessons together, and they
study them SO hard, and protract
them So long that their physical pow
ers are so worn ouS that when Mon
day comes, although they know their
lessons perfectly, they have not the
necessary energy to make the correct
answers. Professors, do you not know
| now IL Is yourselves
We are following the course Of study
laid down by the State Board of Edu-
cation, as, indeed, all Normal teachers
are pledged to do. In some respects
this is better course than we have
ever had before, and in other respects
vastly inferior. The introduction
of Intellectual Philosophy and school
management is to be approved. But
I think the whole course tends too
much toward theory, and as a conse-
quence too little toward practical
matters. There are some in the
school who are well enough prepared
to take up the theory and run the risk
of making the examination all right,
but these are few, and when young
man is wondering where in nature
Mt. st. Elias is, and mentally chasing
it from one continent to another, there
is not much use to talk to him about
forming new concepts.
The class in orthoSrapby have
located the organs ofspeech, and given
the functions of each have classified
the elementary sounds into tonics,
subtonics and atonics; have made
table of the vowel sounds of the lam
guage, and are become quite proficient
in their enunciation have given the
classification of words and the rules
FOR spelling. Prof. j. c. Hamm has
charge.
The class in reading are doing good
work. Reading books are brought by
the members of the class and the va
rious theoretical steps are emphasized
by practice. Prof. J. c. Hamm in
charge.
Penmanship is taught by Prof.
J. w. Young. Judging from one
recitation to which we listened, the
work is we'll done. The letters are
taken up one at a time and analysed
according to the Spencerian theory.
Theclass in Geography have studied
our commerce and commercial rela-
tons with other nations have drawn
maps OF the county; system of govern
ment.; the officers and their duties
Government surveys; maps of the
State and our resources, and have now
passed to IA life on the Ocean wave"
and are now now considering perpet-
ual motion by. which its waters are
always vanishing and yet grow no
less.
J. G.. Hamm has charge of the class
in Grammar. This is given over to
the consideration of "How to teach
grammar" and some good ideas have
been advanced; but for all that some |
teachers will insist that they scea you
yesterday. When we, as teachers, can
use the verb sec, and get others to use
it without numbering the Presidents |
American, we will have achieved a
great victory. u seen you Yesterday"
said damsel to me. "You sav me,
you mean," ] replied. "Well," she
said sharply, "I did saw youri
Prof. Young, the TEACHER of arith-
metic, is making the exercises quite
He has evolved from his
own Uranium some problems which
make the students dread the appear
ance of "Young's Arithmetic"
Prof. Young also teache. U. s. His
grade. We have finished the
early settlements, In ter-co,onial wars,
war, and tomorrow
have the administrations.
Prof. DIN teaches all the sciences,
md his proportion of the low err grades.
and Intellectual Philosophy
run through the entire month, while
and Bookkeeping occupy
each two weeks. In Natural Philoso-
ply there are at least two advocates of
the Corpuscular theory of sound. This
;heory is that sound is substantial
of the same nature of Odor,
magnetism, etc. We have no space to
give the comparative merits of the
wave and Corpuscular theories. but to