Wichita eagle., 1888-08-17
NORMAL NOTES

or the Soul, Rev. B. j. Pinkerton mad
our morning petition to the Ruler of al
We then sang with energy, Think of til
home over there"
Prof Pinkerton then made few brie
and pointed remarks calling attention t
the new catalogue issued by the CARTEL,
university, and referring to the uuexceile
educational facilities which the institu
ton Possesses.
We were then entertained by some yer
grandIloquent remarks by an ambition
young man whose purpose seemed 10 be I
exhibit his unexeeptional oratorica
powers, but whose real purpose q
was finally developed was to sell a histori
cal chart. He consumed all his time il
expatiating upon other subjects and forgo
to say anything about his chart until b.
was called down, when he became anxiou
to say only few words IN reference to it
Please be brief gentlemen when you com,
to see us on business.
Then came the very interesting bu
somewhat monotonous exercise which i
known in common parlance as roll CALI
Two hundred and forty persons re
sponded to their numbers. There wer,
many visitors present also. We are al
ways glad to see visitors. Come let u.
reason together. Parents, we are friend.
oyou and your children. Come and en-
courage US in our work and let us CO
operate so as to produce the best results.
| In geography the eastern continent was
studied by outline. Principal attention
was given to the location of mountain
chains. rivers, lakes, CULTS, bays, cities. etc
| The relation Between mountain systems
| and water systems was given and the reel
tatlon was chiefly confined TO Europe, al
though the continent of Africa was touch
ed incidentally. Some discussion was in
dulged in regarding the modern explora-
tons in that dark continent and the prob
able effects of them upon it's futurte
In the bookkeeping class the time was
employed in debating the items for new
day book This class is progressing very
rapidly and are now ready to be considered
as amateur accountants
We now proceeded to inbibe some of the
principles of that science which is con-
sidered as such bugbear in teachers
examinations-arithm The Aceita-
ton consisted of an exercise in mensura-
ton, and geometrical forms, plane sur
faces, right angle, triangles, Isoccole's
triangles, parallelograms and rectangles
We're relent!essly pulled apart and ex-
amined to establish data upon which to
found principles and rules, which were
futher rendered remarkably perspicuous
by means of numerous problems We
Will venture to say that the questions on
this subject at the coming examination
will be bereft of all terror, because of the
thorough work that is done in these reel
tations.
The grammar class was found busy con-
Jugating irregular verbs and declining
prOnouus, SO we thought 'twould be best
to leave them in those blissful occupations
and investigate the proceedings of the reci-
tation in the room where constitution is
wont to be promulgated The result was
that here was found lively discussion of
the time the electoral college meets to vote
for president and yice-president, of the
method of caunting the electoral vote and
of the way the house Of representatives
elects president in case the electoral col
lege fails to do so. In photography the
usual spelling exercise was pronounced,
definitions of diphthonN, mutes and semi
vowels were given, and some time was de-
voted to phonetic spelling, which was
quite interesting.
In psychology we considered to-day the
sources of knowledge upon which we can
predicate judgments.
1t was agreed that in order to state a
Judgment we must take into account, not
only the knowledge furnished by (a) our
OWN observation, but also (b) that gained
tI,<,
intuition Id concurrent testimony of OBJ |
servers and eXperimenters in this line of
study. Then having the knowledge fur
lished from these sources we are justified, [
ogically in stating any particular judg- |
nent.
Well, we had a picnic. You should |
rave seen Mr.. Larimer eat watermelon. /
lie did 1t without any apparent effort. He 7
eemed to apprehend by direct conscious |
less that the proper place for him was ON |
he outside of as many watermelons as he /
ould conveniently surround.
Prof. Shull was not at all slow in the |
performances Of the evening. He was,
however, unfortunate in getting stuck on
and bar, but by dint of muscular exertion
nd ELUSIVE perspiration he got off and
vent on his way rejoicing. The order OF
he evening was games of various sorts.
coating. etc. Everyone seemed to be hav-
ng real nice time Such occasions
re to the teachers life as the cases TO
Africa's deserts. Let US have more pic
les. We have social nature as well a.
n intellectual nature. We should cuiti-
ate the many sides of our being and thus
reserve it a harmonious whole.
We are thinking strongly of having an
Their picnic next week but it will be ar
anged on a more economic basis than the
,st.