Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-11-14

found seated in the car. One young lady
was evidently committing her history to
memory, another mumbled mathematical
rules from an open book and then closed
her eyes repeating semi-audi5ly. Two
o. three boys also were at work with
their text books Just as hard as they
could. Between the two girls who sat
opposite the president q French novel
lay with Zola's. name on the cover.
City Superintendent Harlan called cut
from among the audience inquiFing Of
DR.. Rsub more details as to the incident.
The president replied with q smiling 81
wont say Every one laughed, as 1t was
directly perceived that Mr.. Harlan had
clinched the fact that the street car Zola
students were certainly not pupils of any
of the public schools OF the city as they
are ali having vacation during the
present two days institute. DR.. Raub
paid marked tribute of praise to the
manual training school, but asked
"Where is the apparatus for the girls z"
DR.. 6. NJ. Phillips, principal of West
Chester State Normal School next spoke
OF the topic Hints on Teaching Arith-
metic." He questioned whether teachers
nowadays are using proper methods OF
teaching the fundamental rules. We
teach too many ways Of doing the same
thing. Valuable time is wasted. A great
deal can be left out of the arithmetic. A
great deal Of what is taught is OF no use
whatever. Arbitration OF EIchanse" IL
not known by Brown Brothers, the largest
foreign exchange dealers in Philsdslphia,
80 DR.. Phillips sscertsinei b. visiting the
bankers. The Drexels got mad on being
asked about it-they had never heard Of
it. Allegation is another useless thing,
nobody ever uses il. The question was
| put at large meetings in Pennsylvania re,
suiting in the fac. that among a great
concourss of practical business men no
| one in the audience had ever used square
root. II don't say" said the speaker
"leave them out, but let us teach the els
mentary parts first and thoroughly.
Adjournment was made at noon.
Friday afternoons, which was the clos
! lag session Of the first annual institute
1 OF the public school teachers OF this city
was another extremely njoyable gathering.
/ The continued large attendance Of city
teachers was noticeable. Upon the plat
4 form along with the presiding officsr, City
Superintendent David s.. Harlan, we're
+ Bishop Coleman, an old member Of tho
Wilmington Board OF Education; Psesi-
dent Baird, =, II, Baynard, :. hJimond
saith, Esq, Dr.. James Il. Morgan ind
Abner Z, Bailey.
President s!ias 5. Neh OF the National
School OF Elocution aud OratorY WAS the
first speaker, who made an extremely IN.
tslestins address upon 1.-The o iects 10 lie
Accomplished 10 Teaching Recalling" He
classified them al Thought giving or tbs
getting Of thought; expressions; and
thirdly, the two already mentioned
I trested IN combination. It IA tue bust.
ness OF the teacher Of reading to see,
for instance, that the pupil obtains
thought from the arithmetic text books,
that ID from it, atithmetieal language. Tie
object should be- TO develop thought from
printed language, Heading should be
taught go that the thought OF the history
lesson will be absorbed Independent OF the
letter press. The speaker believed that the
ability TO read that Is to recognias the text
Ia moro valuable requirement than the
majority OF ali other scholastic accomplish
ments OF the pupil. II a child has acquired
expression aud you put a thought in its
head by reading Il will express the book
thought readily In It's own wotds
Two conditions are necessary for media
OF expression, voice and body, aud usxt q
thought. With these existing expression
comes. The speaker was emphatically IL
favor more OF extemporaneOus speaking
than oil oral reading, The former Prove.
. that thought, the overt intention OF tht
study Of eading, has been isgitimataly be
gotten. He favored also what is describsi al
eyegymnastlcs, that Is the automatic Feeog
] milton Of words and families OF words al
. the adult uEcouselousiy always does II
4 reading, for he does not look at each word
) HIS mind only is az work while the sem
i mechanical process Of phrase gathering
proceeds as II rapidly scans the pTlGted o.
written page. He claimed tnat had al!
public speaker the mental consciousness o
: what he reads Of speaks mis- audience wou!C
4 On n al Ina. IA 90.
t reeds aloud that II Il allowed TO stop /,
4 think OF the wor' the teacher does wrong
a Reading literally speaking, wien properl,
n done should be- automatic, thinking alone
: and that upon the subject matter shoIlt
occupy the chi'5 mind.
= DR., G. II, Phillips Of the West Che4te
. Normal School was the next speaker. Fl
L made al extremely Interesting address
d upon the subject 81 banks and BANGING.
d, II was not expected that the topic W3ul
o AFFORD the attractions that Principal Phil
!; lips introduced 10 bis listeners. He Is 4
!. easy, pleasant, versatile speaker, and PIE
II seItsd the suhiset in such manner ina
IS all were sorry When ne abruptly stopped
u He gave an explanation OF the natiJut
d banking system VI the cOultrY using n
u illustration notes, checks and drafts While
y he bad obtained TWO or three hours prev
!. ousy at one Of the Wilmington banks. II
. explained the working OF the BANKS taeI
"
II various officers. He gave useful infoTmt
al ton, quite new to very probably eVeIyou
10 In the large assembly room upon simp
ID subject OF properly drawing baak check
K He closed with q most graphic and iEte
a estinR description Of a visit 10 the Ne
=, York Clearing House,
III A5ner p. i liley was' the next Rpeake
40 He talked enthusiastically OF the success
OF the present institste, and expressed b
I'd conviction that the money,RpprOpriatei /
the Board Of Education could not has
Il. been better expended. Samuel II, B4yuul
- WAS also strongly IN favor OF the teacher
=. institute, Ha paii 4 marked tribute TO Il
=. scholastic efficiency Of the recsn. gradual
40 OF the hiRh school ia asserting that be
RI not IND himself able to cope with the!
le- After apologllinR for being the youuge
~ member Of the Board OF Education al
lst promising that he would aid Ia any clio
10. made IN the direction of manual trAiuil
II. To- the girls, the speaker save place to l.
u James II. Morgan. Dr. Morgan express
ID himself az somewhat tlmorous IN gettli
ny ~ before hts old teachers 70 give them n
he advice. He acknowledged that he III
he been very bad boy, ia asked In clo-i
Of that they you'll have Il little patisa1a ".
~, tue black sheep. A little kindness mtg
L. transform, but certainly added harsh
40 will not.
". Presidsn, BAIRD, who was next int
~ dueed, humorpu4ly asked for an tnstitu
KY Tor the members OF the Board of Edut
a tio1. They are all good men, but he
MT lleved they could be made bstter STILL
81 then told thrilling story Rbont some 4
M !OrReries being perpetralGd By some lad
"a, Of the city. This was done every year
~ said. He would not explain further n
the EN- asked the reporter not 10 report
he details which he mad not cOnhded the
ma The partial revelation OF thase wldsspre
Mo fDrgeries was the direct resultgf Or phil