Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-14

recitation 0losed. Fortunately, nearly oil
good JefYersonian Democrats wore In the
grand torohiight parade 10 honor
Of tho triumph Of Cleveland and
honest government, whilo tho great
apostles OF Democracy were being SLAM
dered otherwise this modern Goliath Of
gas might have been hissed for his splen-
etic and snobbish utteranoes. No one
thought Of applauding him.
Friday Aorning.--The institute opened
with music, after which Rev. Thompson
Of 81. Paul's M. r. church. this city, read
tho XC Psalms and offered prayer, aftcr
which the long meter doxology Was sung.
eupt. Brecht regretted to notice that
many teachers absented themselves from
tho sessions of the institute, after giving
their names to tho roll keepers. He
animadverted ON such conduct and hoped
IL would not be repeated.
Prof. MoCaskey again called attention
to tho objects on exhibition under the
microscopes on the second floor Of the
building.
LECTURE ON LITERA e.
Prof. Westlake took tho floor AMI spoke
OF the methods of teaching literature in
the public schools. Ho hoped the time
would soon oomc when every school dis
trict would have library OF good books.
AAnVsNoA oshcaity tuob tCNchotb WIN
may DO very vel fitted for teaching arith-
metic or geography, may be but poorly
fitted to teach literature. The teacher
should not only be well informed Of lite
rary matters. but they should possess that
magnetism which will draw their pupils to
them; they should also be good readers.
One method Of teaching Is the birthday
method--entertainments 10 which readings
and recitations from the writings of dis
tinguished authors on their birthdays.
Another Is the Pittsburg method, where
instead Of confining the reading to the
birthday, they have stated times, say once
| . month, for reading each author. The
oral method il the only ono practicable for
be supplemented by interesting stories, by
the Same author, where this is praoti.
cable. These stories should DO in.
struotive, never silly. Prof. Westlake
| used the oral method In his own
classes ut the normal school. Tho use of
the Textbook was another method he had
| used with advantage. He regarded the
memorizing of good language to be a
| valuable exercise. 1t is also of great lue
| to know something Of the lives of the men
who have given us the advantage of great
thoughts. Biography is TO the study OF
literature what the guide book is to the
traveler-it tells him what there is to soc
| and how to SEE 1t. Teachers should use
their best efforts to raise library for their
schools this may be done partly by them
selves, partly by the pupils, by giving
literary entertainments aud by other
methods.
Music-The slumber song.
| COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT CERTIFICATES,
The committee on elections reported
the following as the result OF the election
for q committee on permanent oertifi-
Gates:
w. Reif Nauman, 255 Mary Martin,
| eli ID. B. LeFevre. 199 W. H. Butler,
POT l. 8. Geist, las Mary Musselman,
213 j. b. Hunsecker, 164.
The five having the highest number Of
votes we're declared elected.
TALK BY PROF. CoUGHLIS.
Prof. Coughlin answered some questions
in arithmetic and explained tho method BY
which he taught enumeration and notation.
| He afterwards gave an explanation of how
he tested the knowledge of the children in
the object lessons given them. He closed
with advice to teachers to keep their
health, to not grow old, to not take too
much responsibility; love your work and
then you will be able to love your chill
drsn.
| Music.
MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Prof Apgar continued his discourse on
mathematical geography, prefacing his re-
marks by stating that the Lancaster
county teachers institute was the largest
and best school he had ever attended, and
he thanked the teachers for the close at
tention given him His lesson descriptive
of the earth's real motion and the suns
apparent motion through tho heavens dur
ing the year was illustrated by blackboard
diagrams.
| SCHOOL ROOM EXPERIMENTS.
DIR. Croft, of Lswisburg. Pa, lectured
on easy experiments in the school. He
made 1t o point to send the boys and
girls Of his school home with question. In
this manner he sent them home think
ing, and get their parents to thinking, with
the result OF soon making them your
friends. He also made it point tc
interest the children with experiments.
These may be made without any apparatus
other than few simple articlesN Nlways tc
be found about the Sohdot house or child
rens homo. He made number of inter
estipg experiments.
sPEOIAL NOTICES.