Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-29


and Evening sittings ut which Several
Excellent Papers are Read Provoking
Profitable Discussion Freely Partici-
pated In.
Thursday the Territorial Teachers, In
stituts cid It's second days session in the
High School building. The papers read
ell bore evidence OF careful study and were
the cause of calculating much inter
esting as well as instructive comment
from those who discussed the subject on
which the papers treated. 1t is satisiact-
DRY to know that all present express them
selves as hopeful for the best results to
those in attendance at these sessions. The
visiting teachers are being attended to as
siduously by the resident teachers and
other citizens and everything possible is
being done to convince them that the
wretched smelter smoke that STILES every
thing outdoors does not suppress the hos
pitabie feelings Of the citizens.
MoRNNG SESSION.
The Institute was called to order ct 8 q.
M, by President Wylie. The first thing ] n
order was the reading of committees APP
pointed by the chair. They were as fol-
lows:
Committee ON observation-disclosures Garlic
ton, Steere, Hammond, Mrs. Merrill, Mrs.
Morsehead.
Committee on school law-Messrs. Lo-
gan, Carleton, Mahoney, Misses Layton
and Brown.
Committee on observation-disclosures. Rus
sci, banks, Burchard, Mrs. Cummins, Miss
Wolf.
The morning programme wat then taken
up, beginning with an exercise on arith-
metic by w. Soper, of Burlington. He gave
the members OF the Institute the benefit Of
an original method OF work in this branch.
He spoke of the highest common factor, OF
simplification, multiplication and division
of fractions and decimals. Also OF q short
method Of finding interest at any per cent.
for any length OF time. His remarks were
received with earnest attention by the
teachers present.
An active discussion followed conducted
by Messrs. P~axson, Mahoney, Carleton,
Miss Stanley and others.
After a five-minute recess a paper upon
the relation OF mathematics to science was
read by Miss F. Il. Harpham OF Butte. The
points brought out by this paper were the
fundamental relation OF mathematics to
all science in the inanimate and animate
world, and in the higher life otmental Of
Tort applied to art.
Owing to lack of time the discussion was
omitted and the last paper of the morning
was read by Mrs. Cummins of Helena upon
the subject of General VS.. Special Culture
Through Language" The lady first spoke
of the objection m My made hat the
higher branches do not help to gain a i've
lihood, and met it by the assertion that
the man who knows two languages has the
mental power of two men who
know but one. A further point was made
that education should be proportional
rather than partial-for breadth rather
than aptitude. Pupils should be prepared
for noble manhood and womanhood and
one important factor in such preparation
is command of language for Language is
the key which unlocks all human thought"
English language should receive especial
care and attention for both language and
literature should become a part OF the edu-
cation OF foreign-born children to help them
In being true and patriotic American citi-
gems.
A short discussion followed in which
mention was made of the periods OF a
child's education which insensibly shade
into each other. By correctly teaching a
child he will grow into the full appreciation
OF the facts.
The Institute a then adjourned until
la n. M.