Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-13
to hear Rev. Robert Collyer's lecture ON


"Ulear Grit" Ii was an excellent dis
course, delivered In free 1ff hand man
ner, and abounded in good advice to young
people, "Clear Grit is In brief to be
able to save yourself to give yourself for
the benefit of others to ilnd something
to do ; TO do 1t with a will to bo able to
say yes" aud "no" on all proper
occasions against all temptation aud all
opposition. The first test Of clear grit is
the power to do good days work tho
second Ia tn get good home the third to
do it ut once, and the fourth to keep It.
All these points were pleasantly elabo.
rated, and n principal burden OF the
lecture was the advice to young men and
women was to get margied--nob not
some other time, but now, and raise and
educate families OF children. Tho
venerable lecturer was frequently ap.
plauded.
Thursday Morning. session was
opened with devotional exercises, CON-
Quoted by Rev. G. w. Seilhamer, Of the
Union Bethel. of this city, who read the
xix. Psalm and offered prayer.
Several selections were sung by tho
institute
IL. ii. Rneer, Conestoga; j. II. Eshle.
man, Mount joy; aud J. r. Foltz, Cer.
narvon, were appointed q committee to
conducted the election of the committee
on permanent certificates.
Prof. J. y. McCaskey made a statement
of the objects that may be seen under the
microscopes in tho second story of the
building.
LECTURE ON GEOGRAPHY.
Prof. Apgar continued his lecture on
geography. He said mathematical geo.
graphy should not be taught until the
ohild shall be able to reason, and to com.
pare cause and effect. Mathematical
geography teaches not only of this world
but of other worlds, Of the alienation OF
day and night, and Of the seasons, of the
| force OF the light and heat of tho sun, and
of the rotary motion of the earth on its
axis aud its revolution around tho sun,
| which cause those alterations and
variations. Prof. Apgar explained q,
some length the several motions of the
earth, aud the consequences of those
motions, and gave some hints to teachers
as to methods of teaching.
TACT AND TALENT IN SCHOOL.
Prof. B. Il. Brutaker read a paper o,
"Tact aud Talent 10 the school room.'
Tact and talent are the two greatest forces
at the command of the teacher
Happy is the teacher who possesse
both. Talent without tact ofte
fails while tact often succeeds eve,
where talent is wanting. At some lengtl
the speaker reviewed the scenes ant
| incidents usually found in school rooms
the good results that follow tact aud tn
unsatisfactory results always seen wher
this is wanted.
LECTURE on LITERATURE.
| Prof. Westlake, of the Millersville stat
normal school, read a paper on literature
Oue Of the most hopeful signs of the tim
is the attention which for the past feV
years has been paid to English literatur
in the schools. Formerly the principa
object of the colleges was to turi
out Greek aud Latiu scholars, Harvsr
for long time stood almost alone in til
direction, aud the Millersyile norma
school was the first of these institution
to give prominent place to Englis
} literature. The most that can be- don
in a short normal course of fe'
years is TO beget in pupils taste for goo
reading. He held that literature shoul
be taught in our common schools and tina
it may be taught. Pupils taste should
directed in the right direction prope
books should be placed in the
! hands in place of such trash as "Peck
Bad Boy" and the "Wild Rover of th
Rockies" Literature should be taught
the common schools, first because it give
) them language, enlarRes their vocabular!
gives them new words and ides models
J expression aud lays tho foundatio
for a good style second, it shouI
be taught because it strengthen
+ the mind third, because it facilitate
: | progress iu other studies; makes hi
better prepared to comprehend abstrac
. thought; it enables him to get CORE,
4 = - Il.
, which he is ignorant fourth, hteratul
should be taught because it prepares th
student for greater usefulness in societ,
1t will be found that those who stoo
highest in the schools, but neglected litel
ature, were not those who took leadiu
positions in the work of life, That liter
ture may be taught in the public sohoo
is proved by tho fact that it is taugi
In many Of them. The objectic
, | that there is no time in whiC
to teach it, and that there a.
too many studies already in the school
Is answered by saying that too much tin
Is taken up with the study of grammi
and arithmetic. He held that all that
worth anything in technical grammi
might be printed in little book of twent
pages and in large typo. Technical gran
mar, as Dana says of the Republics
| party, Iuusb go, DuJ uullkB tnt ItspuD
can party, it must not go just yet.
Music.
THE CULTIVATION OF THE SENSES.
$ Prof. n. c.. Sebaefler lsctured on Il
y above subject. A distinguished autht
has said that there are five gatewa
a by which the oitidel of the mind may
Q entered. These are the five senses, aud
, is necessary that all of them sha
= be cultivated to enable them to fulfi
g the duties of life. Statistics snow tn;
) a very large proportion of school childr,
have detective sight, from the improper
imperfect lighting of the school house
q The best light for school houses COM
! from the north the pupil shou
> face the east, in which side
2 tho building there should be
: windows. Some oooulsts say the
. should be no windows on the south side
: others say there may be windows in Il
A south, but that they must be shaded fro
the sun with white curtains that roll dov
!, from the top, not up from the bottom.
a would not say much about the sense
. taste and smell aud hearing but he wou
say something of the sense of touch. IT
sense of touch is more sensitive on Il
fingers than On the other parts of tl
Q body, but is much more sensitive on q
!, tip of tho tongue than on any other pa
y of the body. He reprobated those teache
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