Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-21
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Annual Gathering of the Teachers OF
Wayne County at CenfreSflIe.
THURSDAY MORNING.

1
At the morning session of the insti-
| tute the large room in which we are
| holding our sessions was crowded with
teachers, there being about loo present.
Among those who were with US for the
| first time this week were: Prof VOL
ford, of Fountain City; Prot Porter. of
| the Richmond High School; Alonzo
Gardner, of Richmond; Prot Raglan. of
| the Richmond Normal School; Miss
Clara Stanley, of the Boston school /;
Miss Mariana Stubs, of the Richmond
High School. Paul Leibhardt, of Mil
| ton, spent the forenoon in the institute
also, Thomas Allen, Of Hagerstown
The new Wayne County Manual is a
| book which is handy in form, neat in
| appearance, and is filed with matter
that is at present useful and in the fu-
| ture will be guide to the work TO be
done in our common schools. The first
| bound numbers of this manual was
given the teachers this morning and
distributed to, every one in the room.
Superintendent Macpherson deserves
| the thanks Of all the teachers and pat
rons of our schools for the work he has
done ON this book Almost every kind
of information that could be desired
| concerning the schools of the county is
found Systematically arranged in this
| little volume.
After devotional exercises and sing
ing, Mr.. Macpherson distributed among
the teachers copies of his new Manual,
and the institute, led by Mr. Macpher-
son, studied the plan of the work and
its contents.
After this work was finished DIR.
White gave the institute one of the most
instructive lectures he yet has given, on
the Development of Mind, discuss
ing many of the underlying principles
and maxims of the education of chill
dren.
The third exercise of the morning
was the second lecture on 'sAmerican
Literature" by Superintendent Study
He spoke at length of the great value
the township libraries had been in the
past in educating the pupils of Indiana
In knowledge of literature and of the
work that can be done by the teacher
with the aid of these libraries in instill-
ing in their pupils knowledge and love
of good literature He gave a brief ac
count of the works of the historians
and novelists of America. A list of six
poets and six novelists and five his
torians were placed upon the board, and
the entire body of 80 teachers were
each asked to write on piece of paper
the names of all the works of these
seventeen great writers that they had
read. The result Mr. Study has not yet
thoroughly studied, but it clearly shows
that In both the number of works read
and their character the teachers of the
county stand very high.
The fourth hour of the morning was
used by DIR. White in giving instruction
on the subject of the Recitation in
the fifth grade reading work This
ended the best attended forenoon's ses-
sion the institute of this year has had.
AFTERNOON.
The first hour was occupied by DIR.
Erastus Test, who gave his lecture on
The Effects of Alcohol on the Human
System and how this should be taught
to the pupils of the schools The Doc
tor received the closest attention by the
entire institute during the entire lee
ture. His lecture was clearly and elo-
quently given.
The second hour DIR. White gave his
second lecture on The Principles and
Maxims Underlying Teaching in all
Kinds of Instruction" He discussed
particularly the following principles
l.. instruction in both matter and
method must be adapted to the capa-
bility of the pupils mind.
Second. There is natural order In
which the several faculties should be
exercised, and the corresponding kinds
of knowledge taught.
Third. There is variation in the rela-
tive attention to be given the several
faculties of the mini, and in CORE
spending kinds of knowledge in the
several grades.
Fourth. Primary concepts and ideas |
in every branch of knowledge must be |
taught effectively.
The last hour in the afternoon the |
teachers were favored by an article on |
Higher Education" read by Superin.
tendent johnson, of Milton.
This closed the days work. During
the afternoon the attendance reached |
160.
During the day several township
trustees visited the institute, among |
whom were Paul Leibhardt, of Wash
ington township; Elias Scott, of Harri-
son township; Mr.. Jones, of Centre
township; Mr.. Peelle, president of the
Centreyille school Eoard; Messrs Con-
rad and Allen, of the Hagerstown
school board: Perry Clark. of Centre
vile.
Rev. George Iliff, Josie Iliff and Miss
Ida Tiff, of West Richmond, spent the
day at the institute
Thomas Harrison and his wife and /
sister came over Wednesday evening TO
DR.. Whites lecture.
This evening will be the time of Pro
fessor Bryan's lecture
Eli Wineburg and Thomas Pile at
tended the institute at Connersyille.
Brandon f. Hunt. of Whitewater,
was called home to-day on account of
n oLnoss II, his &>milr-