Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-04-10
Normal Notes.

Dr. Moran. an old student of the
Normal under Prof. Baldwin's admin
istrAJioG, now 4 resident Of Adair, |
made a few remarks to the school |
Thursday morning of last week. |
He spoke ola few of the many changes |
that had taken place since ne was a
student and complimented the school
and teachers upon the improvements.
He spent all the forenoon visiting the
various rooms and seemed well pleased
with the recitalons. There were sew
eral other gentlemen with him but
your reporter failed to obtain their
names.
On Friday morning April 5rd, DR.. i.
A. Call Of Lexington, Mo-, delivered a
most excellent lecture of about thirty
minutes in length on "The Teachers
Purpose" His sentiments, advice and
delivery were all very good. We had
no difficulty in understanding he was a
teacher and well acquainted with every
reef and shoal IN the line of teaching
He eulogized the profession OF teaching
as being the very highest man ever IS
or can be called upon to fill. That it
was the purpose, mission and aim of
the Eteachers, of all others, to work
earnestly and perslstently tor the down
fall of error and the final triumph of
truth, that it differed from all other
professional work, in that, men and
women did not enter the business OF
teaching to make money, which is cer-
tainly true. That only one man in all
Missouri was making any money by
teaching and he was making that by
keeping boarding house. He cited to
the fact OF the strike recently on the
Wabash line of R. Il. on account of low
wages, when they were getting from
$40 to $50 per month the year round,
and that the public feeling and senti.
ments were with the strikers; but we
as teachers are supposed to study hard
for about four years in school then toll
low 1t up by life of study and be ex-
emplary in all our ways and actions on
average salary of two hundred dollars
a year. In short the teachers are com,
PEELED to labor for less than any Other
workman. Said the mind should NO
be cistern but well of pure and Ilv
ing water. HIS remarks on the ust
and abuse OF text books were good
Those who were slaves to text book.
finally became sticks but used pro
! perly they facilitate the business o
learning four fold. They give tht
o mind thread on which the pearls arr
strung.
Sorry to learn so many students con
= template leaving at the end of thi
term. Our stay together during th
whole Or part Of the year, as the cas-
! may be, has been most pleasant.
Those who remain next term ma,
properly be called old veterans. Teach
a ers, whose minds are trained to study
during the summers heat, as we'll a
4 the winters cold, who have learned t.
J keep themselves always fresh and Wig
Il orous and strong. They have learne,
q to exercise the body while workin.
h with the mind. To all such the las
q term is really the best term OF tn
h year. The classes, not so much crowd
>, ed ; we have better chance at individ
!. ual recitation and more Efficient wor
d every way. The regular term exam;r
q alton Is now, at this writing, in ful
" operation. 1t is amusing to oDserv
= the various expressions on the faces c
X students emerging from class room
"a In many cases you can read tn
4 students own estimate OF his last tw
>. hours toll, in lines too plain to be mi:
"a taken.
% April s. The third term closed thu
lie evening. After the second examine
re ton period this evening the schoc
r assembled fo1 the last time in th
Chapel when, after few remarks b
the President, to those who conteu
plate leaving, in reference to the distr
hutton of catalogues among thei
d friends and otherwise extending thei
H. intluen ca in favor of the school, an
1t with sincere desire on the part of uh
y school that they might be successful i
IS all they undertook, they were dismis;
" ed.
II Had case of infammatory rheums
:, . tism of nearly all the large joints al
= cOmpsnied with high fever; gave Tor
galine in drachm doses every fou
I, hours, and aconite for the lever; to-da
$ my patient is able to be out and doin
d well w. W. Baxter. NJ. d., HersmaI
7. Ill.
i Diamond Spectacles at Hart & Nj
ler's.