The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-11
WEST SEPTEMBER 1884

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& only one cent or two cents, or three cent
is not sold ut five cents. The profits o
the losses OF tho business are In Its pen
mics. sI5'. m 5s.5T 'lp' 7
To nll Appearances at least the people o
this part OF New England live comfort
, ably. They certainty have houses ant
grounds that arc suggestive OF comfort
Ihis Is tr,io even OF what may DO callct
the second and ihirl claS premises 4,
regards their tables, Ihardly suppose tlia
they live as well as tho people OF til,
Ohio Valley. Few people that I know o
10. While never wis m admirr o.
New England cooking yctit is only fair tt
say that 1t is very much superior to !
} great deal OF cooking TINT one meets Will
In the south. This however Is not saying
( very much for either section. The fact Is
MS gather ii, the people up here TO mol
seem to set rs much store by tho pleasures
oil the palate as they do in Your purt Of the
country. Like the old philosophers who
ate TO live rather than lived to eat thcy
make things go further than do your
people. Perhaps it is because that they,
MS people, set more. store on their men.
tai pabutum. They appear to 10 in moro
Tor that sort pouristmcnt. FUrinstancc,
when came here on tho LIST OF August
found II .snmmer school oi langsagsp
in iull tide, attended largely BY adul,
people. saw crowds OF persons climbing
the hill, to the University heights, every
day, TO attend this school Tor several
hours. And Just here | must digress a
little to tell you something about this
Summer school" ~ G
g..,. A COMMUNITY OF SCHOOLS. {,
This is, in the first place, Il community
OF schools-excclleut common schools and
high schools; also private schools; beside
m Academic Institute and University.
These run for nearly ten months Of the
year, and one would think that the people
had had enough Of schools until tho COM
mencement again in September But not
SO. They have what is designed to be a
permanent summer school of languages
mere, IN which the classics, as also the
modern languages, are taught during july
and August by what is known Us tho
"Sa'iveur' method. This method il to
teach Latin, Greek, French, German,
Spanish and Italian without grammar or
dictionary, and without spcakn: Il word
tot English on the part OF the teacher or
pupil from the first lesson to the last one.
and to make the pupil read the language
and also understand it when spoken, at
the end OF TIVE months.
You would perhaps say that this is i'm
possible, hut lhavesecn enough OF itin the
class room, and heard enough outside. to
impress me that it is quite possible. The
proof OF the thing is in the doing OF it, and
1t has been done mere, as it has also else
where, as, ioriRstance, at Chautauqtta, Mar
thas Vineyard, Amherst, Saratoga and
White Mountains, at all OF which, places
they have the same summer schools, con.
Quoted OH the same plan and under
the auspices OF sauvcur professors.
THE ROYAL ROAD.
The Yale and Harvard professors have
witnessed the workings OF this system,
and it was on the suggestion OF one of
them that it was first applied to Latin and
Greek. They and other eminent instruct.
ors endorse it ns success. In elect, they
pronounce it 4 "royal road" to the acquire
nent OF languages. Professor Peabody. OF
Harvard, says that ''it is the natural, and
The .:o:fy AQtdfaf, system, corresponding
point for point with the way in which Il
child learns his vernacuiar tongue" Us Pro.
| lessor Lee, oiNlssar College, SAYS that by
this method 'it is possible 10 prepare stu.
dents i'll six weeks Tor the Freshman class,
OF the different colleges OF the United
States" -
Having thus, no doubt, excited the in.
terest OF your readers, wish i. was posi-.
BILE for nc to convey to them on paper an
adequate idea OF The way in which Ian
guagcs are taught in this Summer
School'' here. Native teachers Of the
languages taught are employed, Prof.
Sauvcur himself being highly educated
and cSperienced.Fyenchmail. He had a
faculty OF ten assistants here, some oi
them graduates OF European universities,
and all skilled in his method. ...-
Perhaps ! can best illustrate the method
| by taking Latin. The class begins in
Cesar on account OF the simplicity Of the
Language and construction. They 20 over
and over such sentences rs "ODlnia GGilia
dirisa est in parties tres" being helped only
by readily made map on the blackboard,
from which they get to understand that a
country named Gaui is divided into three
parts. Then come such questions MS
"Nonne Gallo ct omnia diriSa,n pointing, if
need b., to the blackboard. Then follow
such intormixed questions as "Noane Gal
lm eA dirisaf "Nonne GaNia ta om-
MIA dieim" IN quot paries eat GalliG onniu
dtrisd" !" Ii the pupil hesitatcs
on such question rs the last one,
the professor holds up three fingers to
indicate that "ia q.tot ipoyiss'' means, into
how many parts? The interrosatory Oh
ject is always strongly emphasized by the
voice as well as by gesture, and in this
way the pupils soon grasp what is meant
1t is astonishing what medium OF in
structlon intelligent intonation and gcs-
tire can be made. All the responses OF
the pupils must be made in Latin, and
after few days they have quite vocabu-
larry at their command. They gradually
80 over twenty or thirty pages OF Caesar
in this way, which they are finally re-
quired to commit to memory, and uncon-
sclously, rs in the ease OF d child, come to
know Il good deal about the gender, num-
Der and tense OF the words, after which
the use OF Il grammar becomes easy.
SOME PUZZLES.
As with Latin, so withFrench and Ger.
man. Blackboard illustrations, emphasis
and gestures play the same part in these
also. For instance, in German they-beein
with such words as approximate closest to
English old Anglo.Saxon derivatives.
Example; "das is. mein finger; "das list
mein mittleiingcr"; "ist der winter kaltn?
list die rose an rosenbusclt in cartcn"?
And so in French, the teacher holds out
his finger and and Keeps saying, ".roila ie
doiH,' until the tyros in7French compre-
hend that he says there is a finger"
Thus they begin. tsii
Pardon this depression about the "Sum.
tner SCHOOL, Just closed here. 1t has per
haps made my letter unduly long, but
taken i'll connection with the lrs, part OF