Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-07

| If the teachers put as much energy into
school work this fall rs they do in these
discussions, the result will be a glorious, a
roaring success.
/ We have passed on to imbibe some his
torical principles from Prof. Naylor, who
has such charming way of asking fel-
low just the very question he can't answer.
He may be familiar with everything else,
both within and without the book, but
| this one thing makes him feel cheap, to
say the least
| The subject of the inter-colonial wars
was here outlined as follows: King VIII
liam's war, Queen Anne's war, King
Georges war, and the French and Indian
war. The time. causes and results of each
were dwelt upon to a considerable extent
and clear ana concise ideas were left to
rankle in the minds OF those who attended
this class
Under methods, was given an object les
son on primary arithmetic, by Mr., Rob
bins. 1t was principally the CRUDE meth
cd, somewhat modified. 1t was quite in
teresting, but left the impression that the
gentleman would carry it too far.
AS we now felt rather spell bound we
entered the photography class, which is
L
is not a Butcher OF the Kings English"
by any means and we could then account
for the strange noises, which sounded
something like groans, which had been
emenating from this direction. They
were nothing more serious than the or
biography class, spellngby sound. Those
letters which have more than one sound
were arranged in columns and examples
of hard and soft sounds were given. The
elementary sounds were divided into
mutes, semi-vowels and liquids. These
terms were defined and spelling exercise
consisting of fifteen difficult words was
pronounced. The one who misspells the
least number gets prize, and we all feel
pretty csnfident just now.
Geography consisted of an exercise upon
Sedgwick county, its rivers, railroads,
towns, value of lands, position with regard
to commerce. its congressional and muni-
cipal townships, were all separately taken
up and expanded (all but the Arkansas
river and it was found that the teachers
had good general ideas regarding the
subject.
IL was getting close to noon and we
thought to investigate one more subject
before taking something more substantial
for the support of our physical beings as
well as for our mental.
This subject was school organization and
we entered the room just in time to hear
lady finish her argument upon the
preparation of teacher. She contended
that teaching was profession next in i'm
portance to the ministry. and that when
teachers will attend training schools and
fit themselves for their work they will be
recognized as profession and will receive
better remuneration for their time and
talents. In further discussion one gentle
man insisted that the teacher should al
ways stand in front Of his class when
teaching. because, he said. ''if you are
reaping wheat you would not be in a corn
field at the same time But Prof. Lori
mer only smiled and said. mo, but you
will occasionally get behind the reaper"
1t was decided that a teacher should be
able to conduct a recitation and at the |
same time attend to other little affairs in |
the school room.
HETEROGENEOUS.
It's nod thing TO see teacher asIeep At |
our institute.
Why IS Prof. Larimer like An eight day |
clocks Because be is hard TO s'wind up"
Why does our professor of Arithmetic /
make Us all feel as happy as big Kansas |
sunfowert Because he is always so-Shull |
(social) in his nature.
All methinks vaguely distinguish in /
the far-off distance vigorous ejaculation /
of the appellation commonly given to 70
dunts. Is it not merely Imagination
We are going 10 have a grand social this /
Tuesday evening. Come everybody. /
Bring Jour friends and have good time
as Prof Lorimer says.
"A feast of soul and flow Of reason.
Arc a splendid thing Ia proper season"