Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-03
FEAST OF REASON.
Able Educators Talk on Entertaining
Topics

Yesterday morning at nine o'clock the
Peabody Institute, at the Y. VI. c. 4.
Hall, opened with the singing of that
good old hym, America" Prayer by
Prof. Crago followed Roll was then
called. DR.. Payne was the first to APP
pear on the programme, continuing his
remarks on Teaching" One principle
Of good teaching is TO create the appe-
tite without satisfying. There are
many people in the world who have
never had mental appetite II is a
good rule to leave the table hungry.
The teacher whose mind is 4 storehouSe
Of knowledge is the one most likely TO
fail by satisfying the appetites.
After the professors highly interest
ing talk, short recess was given. and
then DR.. Schaefer gave another talk on
history. In history We must interest
before we set the pupil to work. In
our reading We come across the name
great-Alexander the Great. Frederick
the Great-thiS word has become a part
of their names. We find in the church
Leo the Great. What makes men great?
Is ii money? fancy not. In the days
when Virgil wrote and Cicero Spake
there lived men SO rich that they put
pearls into their wine to increase its
value, but their names are forgotten.
Do we ever hear OF RothSchid the
Great? Does scholarship make men
great?
No it does not.
Charlemagne was called great because
he uplifted the condition Of mankind.
Men are great because they exert an in
flucnce on the period in which they live.
and may be in subsequent ages. In
whatever channel men
CAN REACH MANKIND
there shall we hunt the great men. |
would not have pupils study Jefferson
and Hamilton, but inventors like Morse:
study philanthropiSt authors like IIar-
riet Bcecher Stowe
In addition, We must study the law Of
historical development. Natural history
moves forward in ever recurring cycles.
The history OF man does not repeat it.
self Historical development implies
progress onward and moving upward.
One more point-the key to ali history.
Johannes Muller, the father Of history,
Librarian TO the Duke Of IIcSSe-CaSSel
studied carefully 4 little book. too much
neglected in the present day, the New
Testament. He said he had found the
key that unlOckS all the mysteries OF
history In the life Of Jesus Christ.
Promptly at two the afternoon session
began, DR.. Shaefer appearing first,
giving delightful talk on geography.
He objected to molding board and
putty in such districts where children
have but to look about them to see hill,
valley, mountain or river. The moment
a child is able to read a book concern
ing foreign lands. IL seems better 10
point out that which is in contrast TO
home.
Prof. Payne occupied the remainder
Of the time. Alexander Banc says:
The principal Of similarity is the law
OF grayitation OF the intellectual
world a mass /, committed To the
mind: the work OF the teacher is 10
cause that mass TO be d>integratcd,
then by interrogation cause it to be
asSimiatcd. Twelve o'clock having ar
rived, the meeting adjourned.
Prof. Payne again spoke following up
his morning theme Teaching is the
noblcst Of the professions, but the Sor-
rlcSt of trades. Trades deal with ma
terial>; professions with spirit lie
then made Il series OF equations repre-
Scntng various trades and professions.
He then gave a brief outline represent
ing 'the major movements Of the mind
in the act OF learning The teachers
art eliminates in character This closed
the afternoon session.
DR. Shacfer'S lecture OF the evening
was listened to with closest attention
by one of Whceling's most select audi
enceS. Pen cannot do justice to DR..
Shaefer's lecture; suffice it to say it was
the best Of the kind we have heard.