Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-11

MlSSOuTl. OO sluupiC, nouSS. "H'
patent were the demands and necessi
ties set forth in the paper, that the as
soclation passed a resolution recon
mendlng the negro teachers and thos
expecting to teach to attend Lincoln
Institute, as it was free for teacher
and accruing results would be to ben
eft the race.
In the evening Rev. John A. Brook
delivered a lecture on temperance o
rather intemperance. The lecture wa
we'll received and some loud smiling
done at the doctors portrayal of his
idea of the reliability of a politician
The audience was captured by the rec
itation of the Rum Maniac by Prof. D
M. Brewer, of Brewers Elo%cutionary
Institute of New Orleans. Prof. Brew
er is a Missouri boy and bids fair tt
make his state loud in her praises O
him.
Wednesday-After prayer by Rev
Leyburn and the routine business
Prof. A. V. Hamilton read a paper OIL
"Give us Better School Houses" The
discussion was participated in by
Profs. Wolf, Speaking, Buchanan,
Kirk and Smith. Conld this discussion
have taken place before a Lexington au.
dience,it would have borne fruit. Com.
parsons of work done in crowded
rooms with that of roomy well ventila-
ted buildings showed a dollar and cents
gain in both directions, but a health,
strength and activity gain in only n
In the case Of our crowded buildings
statistics show that the dollar and
cents gain is for the physicians, whose
specialties are the eyes, lungs and ner-
vous debility. In the other to the
patron. To the patron in better work,
quicker and more thorough completion
of the course of study and healthier,
stronger children.
"Manhood of the Teacher" was the
next paper, and was discussed by Profs
Douglass, Prentiss, Turner, Mrs. Math.
ews, Pres. Norton, Messrs. Loos, Hol-
loway and Steele. All agreed that the
utmost honesty and integrity should be
the characteristics THAT a high standard
of morality was a necessary concomi-
tant; but all these without decision,
persistence and integrity of purpose
must fail. He should be an example OF
true manhood to his pupils, clear
headed, charitable and just in all rela-
lions, with high regard for laws..and a
firm determination to enforce the
same.
cred Tape in the School-room," by
Miss Jennie Bratton. Miss Bratton
labored successfully to show that a due
recognition of the "thousand and one"
little things in the school room that
might be denominated "red tape"
were not without educational inlu-
ences. They teach obedience to law,
the first lesson the citizen must learn.
They cause careful, thoughtful work on
the part Of the pupil and thus promote
method and exclude slovenliness.
"The Teachers Work. by j. H.
VanAmburgh, was a good paper show
ing that by manner and action the
teacher conveyed to the pupil many a
lesson that in value must out-rank the
"rule of three"
j. R Kinks paper on the "Basis of
is regarded as ar excel
lent paper. The paper and discussion
an almost unanimous belief
that rigid Interchangeable laws requiring
a given per cent. were unjust to the
pupil. That basing apupil's promotion
a single examination to the exclu-
sion of his monthly grades was an in
A happy personal application
of this I'M from seating a man at a
table and requiring him, by putting the
cork-screw to him ten to
twenty times, to tell all about the rise
and fall in the prices of goods, the var
of the political complexion of
the country, etc., for a year. A boy
may have mastered a principle, may
have applied it successfully, may have
examinations upon it, may be
able to apply it hereafter, and yet not
be able to recall q text book statement
or calculation of it al the very moment
that he must write the answer. Anoth-
er boy may recall it at the minute, and
state it fairly whose mastery is not per-
A single examination is not a
fair, just test. The examinations
should run through the year for schol-
and the final examination should
show simply the child's retention.
Miss Trovelle's paper ON "Natural
Science" portrayed the Ease with
which a teacher in very short talks
might instruct children successfully in
many useful hygienic facts; how YER y
ignorant so many people were of their
surroundings and how some knowledge
of how TO live might be as valuable as
how to multiply, and how a knowl-
edge of the material for a beam might
be as available on occasion as how to
square it.
Miss Prewett's paper On "The Habit
of Reading" developed the strength of
the assembly. Supt. Fitzpatrick, of
Kansas, was strong in
his advocacy Of the standard novel as
portraying the prominent traits of
human nature, and cited George
Elliott as a philosopher, whose philoso-
ply ran through her novels, and which
reveal the motives that prompt and
give force to human action.
Supt. Greenwood advocated the
cause of the newspaper as a factor, set
ting forth current history, and of a
value not to be estimated in educating
the adult and equally potent and inter-
esting to the child. The newspaper
reader has his eyes open to the doings
of the people of the age in which he
lives and learns to weigh quickly and
decide promptly on issues whether
large or Insignificant.
DR.. Laws, of the State University,
made plain the fact that reading to b,