Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-28
CLOSING EXERCISES.
YESTERDAYS PROCEEDINGS OF TIE
COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Resolutions Passed-A Majority Opposed
to the Proposed Pension Bill
Essays Read.

The Institute was called to order at $50
5. 4. yesterday. Roll called, minutes read
and approved.
The exercises opened with piano solo,
"Cachuea Caprice by Miss VIVA Barrett,
q beautiful and difficult selection, and ex-
eellently interpreted.
Professor Earin then exempI.fed his sys-
TEN of teaching industrial drawing. His
remarks were interspersed profusely with
blackboard Illustrations, and can only be
appreciated oy being heard.
During recess Miss Mamie Depew gave
recitation, "Poverty's Sleigh Ride" in q
manner beyond her years.
a recitation by Miss Grace Dudley fol
loved, entitled Miss Edith Helps Things
Along" displaying much talent.
Professor Garin resumed his exemplifiea-
ton, consuming the remaining time.
Afternoon Session.
After roil-call and an instrumental duet,
Superintendent Howard suggested that the
resolutions had better next be taken up,
and il was 80 ordered. The following were
Rssolred, That the thanks of the Institute are
due TO Superintendent W. 5. Monroe for the
valuable suggestions he has so happily given,
to all those who by their addresses, papers and
recitations have instructed and entertained the
member OF or body. to the lsdies and gentle
men whose must al talents have lent their
charm 10 brighten every session. and to the
REcoRD-UNioS and Daily Bee for their courteous
and impartial reports also TO Mayor Gregory
for his cordia- welcome and his kind Invitation
70 visit the l'r1Cker Art Gallery.
ResotUcd That It would be very agreeable to
country teachers il. in the future, the Institute
should be OPENED the first day at $3.50 A. NJ. in
Rcsoiued, That we testify our approval OF the
methods Of language work presented by super
iuteudent Monroe, by an effort TO carry out his
suggestion touching the study and description
of objects in natural history, and that the proper
authorities be requested 20 provide in the Office
Of the County superintendent suitable means OF
displaying specimens, selected once a term from
the work in .ais direction done in the schools
OF the cOuEfF.
Resolrea, That we note with approval the
prominence given to the various fOrus Of Ian
guage WORK, believing that accuracy and ease
of expression must necessarily be connected
with accuracy and readiness OF thought and
that all the departments Of our school work will
therefore be benefited by whatever increases
the power Of our pupils to handle with precision
that most valuable Of all tools-their native
language.
ResoiTed, That the tendency of the times is
too much toward an endesyor simply to please
the child, and not enough toward an endeavor
to fit him for mis- place in society.
ResOlrcd, That the teachers of sacramento
county disapproye of the indiscriminate use of
the title Professor that only such should be
addressed by said title as are occupying chairs
in q college or university.
Resolued, That the county and the city teach
ers unite IN rendering their sincere thanks to
superintendent Howard for the well directed
efforts that have made our last two Institutes
occasions OF both pleasure and profit, and for
the Uniform courtesy and consideration which
we have ell received at his hands
LITTLE BREEZE.
a resolution was submitted to the Com
mittee on Resolutions upon which the latter
was divided and they reported the same
back to the Convention without action.
The resolution suggested the propriety of
asking the Legislature at its coming session
to provide pension for teachers who had
become old III the profession and unable to
provide for themselves the common neces-
saries of life. The resolution set forth the
fact that the public educators who devoted
their life work to assisting in building up
the nation are as much deserving Of their
country as are the soldiers who battled for
its perpetuity.
The younger members of the Institute
were opposed to the resolution on general
principles, and TWO or three fiery speeches
were made in opposition to it.
One Young gentleman said he did not
desire TO have 1t go out that the school
teachers were mendicants or that they
wanted to become pensioners upon the
nation. II be could not make living in
the schoolroom he could go into the field
and hold 8 pillow.
Others explained that the Act was not in
the interest Of the young strong, and able
bodied, bat for the sged, decrepit, and in
firm. TWAS asked for those who had de-
voted twenty or thirty years in the pro-
fession, until their services were no longer
desirable n the school-room, and when by
their past duties they had uufitted hem
selves to fill any position even in the com
monest walks OF life.
They claimed that the aged individual
who had broken his health in years Of de-
vohon TO his country, in intoxicating the
spirit of patriotism and love for the per-
peiuity Of the PRINCIPLES of republican in-
situations in general, and the American
nation in particular, had sufficiently earned