The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-02
THE STATE NORMAL INSTITUTE.
A Larger Faculty and Longer
Session For 1889.
Also the State Teachers Association
and District Peabody Institute to
Meet With 1t.

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State Normal Institute will begin in
Morgantown on Tuesday, June 18th
as announced in the. advertise
ment in another column, to which
we direct attention.
The second week of the session,
on Monday June oath, there will
meet with it one of the six or eight
District Peabody Institutes to be
held in the State, which will remain
in session one week.
The fourth week of the session, on
Tuesday, July 9th, the West Virgin
ia State Educational Association
will assemble in connection with it,
and remain in session for the greater
part of week
An examination for Monongalia
county teachers will be held at the
close of the session. No county in
stitute will be held in this county
this year. Instead, the Mononga-
liza county teachers will attend the
District Peabody Institute during
the second week of the State Nor
NAL Institute. No tuition fee will be
charged for such attendance during
the week indicated above, and GER
tificates of attendance will be issued
emitting the holder to be examined
at any county examination in the
State. The Monongalia county
teachers are to be congratulated upon
this arrangement, as the instruction
thus provided them will be far SUI
perior to that usually given in the
county institute.
The first session of the institute
last year was venture-an expert
ment; but it proved very success
| full one. While the attendance was
not so large as anticipated, it brought
together one hundred of the most
intelligent and progressive teachers
in the State-who at its close, unan-
| imously voted it a success and ask
ed that it be made permanent. State
Supt. Morgan highly endorsed it in
the School Journal, as did also
County Supt. Glasscock in bis an
nual report In pursuance Of. these
gratifying results Of the first
sessions work permanent or
gaHzation was effected, and the adj
vantages of the institute are again
offered to the teachers of West Vir-
ginia.
But the institute of 1889 should
not be compared with that of 1888.
The organization is more complete,
and the session is extended to six
weeks. The Faculty is increased
from nine to sixteen instructors, and
the departments OF instruction from
eleven to twenty three. The Secre-
tary said to us yesterday: I'VE be-
lieve the twenty two departments of
instruction embrace every possible
subject connected with teachers
work. We only stopped where we
did because there was nothing else
to add. If someone will kindly sug-
gest anything that will make the in
stitute more profitable to West Vir-
ginia teachers. it will be promptly
added. Our Faculty is as large, the
departments of instruction as nu-
merous and comprehensive, the SEES
sion longer and the expense less than
the great summer schools at Round
Lake, Saratoga and Amherst.
The names of the men connected
with the institute insure its success.
The directors are those at the very
head of the educational work of the
State, while more admirable Presi-
dent than Prof. Purinton could not
be found anywhere. The instructors
are all specialists in their depart
,aents-the most eminent in our. own
State, and from abroad.
The conductor--Prof. Houck, and
the assistant condnctor-D Klemm,
are two of the most prominent insti-
tute men in the country. Prof F.
II. Crago. of Wheeling, was associa-
ted with Mr.. Houck in institute
work last year, and in a letter to the
Secretary few days ago, says: Let
me congratulate you on securing
Hon. Henry Houck as conductor.
This of itself ought to insure the
success Of the institute. He is a
host in himself, and | think can dc
as much as any other living man to
create an enthusiasm in the work OF
education
We are informed that the Normal
School Principals and public school
men everywhere are cooperating
actively with the IN anagement Of the
institute. The State Teachers As.
soci alton and District Peabody In.
stitute will bring together all the
prominent teachers Of the State.
Verify, the State Normal Institute
promises to be great Educational
Assembly Of all the educational PEG
pie Of the whole State OF West Vir
ginia. Every Morgantonian who il
a good citizen will hep the matter
ali he can. No worthier enterpris'
could ask for your encouragement