The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-01-06


mands upon the teacher are becoming
| greater and greater The teacher is now
required to be not only Psychologist
| phrenologist, physiognomist, etc, but a
| know all-ogist, and the Teachers Reading
| Circle aims to help the teacher acquire all
the varied knowledge required. After
| some reports and miscellaneous business
| Rev. j. i. Hurlbut, ID. D., of Chautau-
qua, gave a wonderful address ON ''The
Possibilities OF Spare Time" He said:
you can tell great deal more of what a
man is from the way he spends five min
utes Of leisure time than yon can from the
way he works i'll five hours, and if you
watch person in his leisure time you can
tell what his aspirations, his character,
and his principles are. A man can spend
his time SO that in two hours he will unfit
himself for any progress for a whole wee k
by what comes to him in his moments of
leisure, a man may have an inspiration
that will change his whole life, as did
Jeremy Bentham, who was made a phlan-
thropist by seeing the printed sentence one
day in a moment of his leisure the great
est good to the greatest number If peo-
pie would have plan and do something
every moment they would be surprised at
the end OF a year to see what an amount of
time they would save. He who has learn
cd to put his moments to right use has
gotten his leisure" The speaker told the
story Of the business man who told his
wife to pour out his coffee in six sancers
so that he could drink it while he was
putting on his oyercoat, but he did not
| recommend that kind of economy. One
may use his leisure to make him worse or
he may use it to make him better. In or
f,,,
pay the cost. He said that persons could
always get communion with the noblest
and best through the printed page. lie
closed with an appeal to puteyery moment
to good use.
Friday morning Snpt. Chas. Jacobus, OF
New Brunswick, delivered rousing lee
tire on ''Cobwebs' He said cobwebs
| will gather. We as teachers permit cob
webs to gather. We have cobweb
| thoughts. lie extoled the primary teach
er. He said there is no more responsible
position that teacher can fill this side of
a University chair than a primary teacher
| He believes in keeping the teacher where
she is most effective and increasing her
| salary where she is. The demand is for pro-
gressiye, wlde-awake, keep up to the
times teachers. He told the story OF the
carpenter planning a board, and said some
| times the board has to be turned the other
| way about on account of the grain. lie
| said the pupil must be turned the other
way, figuratvely. One of the most inn
portant cobwcbs is the neglect to teach and
develop the heart. Some leave out the
most important of the ''three his, which
may stand for the head, the hand and the
heart. 1t is dangerous to push the intel
lect ahead of the heart. We can't send tue
intellect to school and leave the heart at
home. As We build let MS realize that we
are building forever. Let ms build as
though the stones that we lay ill be held
sacred because our hands touched them.
Principal Phebus w. Lyon, of Summit,
then delivered magnificent lecture on
africa. !" for which he was rendered a
vote of thanks. There were number of
resolutions read and adopted, among them
being to provide penalty for cigar
cite smoking by boys, and one denouneing
posting OF show bills representing scenes
of murder and immortality.
The following officers were elected: Pres.
VIM. NJ. Gifin, Newark; LIST Vice Pres,
Il. X. Brace, Camden; 2d Y. Pres, Sarah
L. Poland, Jersey City; Rec Sec, A. u.
Guillord, Jersey City; Treas. II. e Har
rs, Bayonne; Cor. Sec, James Green,
Long Branch.
During the meetings kilograms of greet
ing were received from teachers in session
at Jackson, Miss, Denver, Col, and San
Francisco, Cal. The newly elected presi-
dent was escorted to the chair amid loud
applause, and in few moments the asso-
citation adjourned. The exhibition Of
school work was very good. and Woods
town school compared favorably with other
work that was exhibited We noticed the
following teachers present: Gloucester
coanty-E. j. iIitchner, VIM. Mlligan,
Ida Nichols John II. Tharp, ]. W. f.
Wilkinson, Mr.. Eldridge, Amanda Wilson,
Miss MeCaughan, Martie Hanes, Gertie
Garrison, Ella Haiues, Lydia Pierson, Mr..
Lake and Allen +. Lewis Salem county
II. Henry lIolme, f. S. Richards, James
A. Wentzell and Emma Reeves.