The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1889-06-13
AN ADDRESS
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CoINTY SURF or SCHOOLS,
Arnettsville, May 81, $50.
I the TEACHERS Of Mo2soagaliia

l lksF0 me IL e0cnefS OF zM o3tQatgttttus
County.
consider it important and necessary
at this time to call your attention to
the matter Of Institute ATTENDANCE for
the coming school year.
No county Institute will be held in
this county the coming summer. But,.ln
accordance with arrangements with the
State Superintendent, a District Pea
body Institute will be held in connec-
ton with the State Normal Institute dur
ing the second week of its session from
June oath to June 29th-co conducted by
Hon. Henry Houck, Deputy State Supt
of Pennsylvania, and assisted by the
faculty Of the State Normal Institute.
Monongalia county teachers will attend
this Institute and will be given eertif-
Gates of attendance which will be receiy
| ed by examining boards the same as
county institute certificates. regard
this as a highly desirable arrangement,
as the instruction you will enjoy at this!
Institute will be infinitely superior to-
that usually given in county Institutes
| In this connection, deem it my duty
70 call especial attention to the unequal
ed advantages offered you by the State
Normal Institute, and to urge you to
profit from them by attending the entire
six weeks Don't be satisfied to come
only during the week you are compelled
to come, as you could accomplish very
little in SO brief a time. But in six
weeks you could make material progress
| in the subjects studied. You will bear
in mind that this Institute is not what
is usually known by the name-it is a
summer school for teachers, where sab
stdmtial rWorE will be done in all the
branches. The Faculty is composed
Of the ablest educators in our own State,
4 with eminent institute men from abroad.
The various departments will embrace
/ instruction in every possible: subject
connected with the work of the teach
| en-. In addition to the lectures in Ped
agogy, Methods of Teaching, ETC., the
textbook in all the branches will be Ia
ken up and thoroughly studied. The
work will be eminently practical, and
/ the methods such as. teachers will want
| TO take home with them and use in their
| schools. We direct your attention to the
following paragraph the Institute cat
alogue :, - r,,- H..
Don't stay away because your work is
primary, grammar, or ungraded country
| school, and you fear the instruction will
be too advanced to do you any good.
There will be something especially for
you. Special attention will be>given the
| branches taught in our public schools,
/ and nearly all the Instructors will as
isist in this work. The textbooks will
/ be gone through and thoroughly review
! ed, followed by a series of oral quizzes,
and sets OF written examination ques-
tons in Arithmetic, History, Grammar,
i Geography, Methods, Physiology, Pen
nanship, etc, with a view of preparing
/ the members for examination. / If you
| have been teaching on a number two
tcertificate, come and let the Institute
| assist you to get number one. 49,. :
Teachers will also remember that they
are now required to pass a satisfactory
! examination in Physiology and Hy-
/ giene, and the Effects of Narcotics With
4 all the apparatus Of the science depart
ments of the University, and anlemine1tt
/ physician alld5 lecturer as instructors
the! Institute offers you advantages in
| fthis subject which you could net peSsi-
4 bly, enjoy elsewhere. A.. -. RI
4 The advantages Of attending such u
4 school are apparent to every earnest
| teacher, who desires to get a higher Gull
4 sture and more liberal education, and
/ thus insure himself a better position and
better pay. ! appeal to all progressive
/ teachers to avail themselves of this OPP
i portunity for self-improvement, and to
4 encourage others to do so. J. s.
] Believing also that the best interests
/ of our schools and of our teachers de-
4 mand that the educational standard in
our county shall be raised and heexam-
nations made more searching and thor
ough, l ask the support Of every. teacher
4 in the efforts shall make to bring about
this result. / believe the instruction
4 of the State Normal Institute will prove
\ an Invaluable aid in meeting these adj
vanced requirements. f. ~ X
| Very respectfully, -
4. ss w. f. GLAsscocK,
| s5 @la County sup't,