Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-30
THEY SAID GOODBY,
Closing of the Most Successful Teach.
ers' Institute Ever Held in
Allegheny County.
Why BOSTON SCHOOLS ARE GOOD.
fwo Wealthy Ladies Who Devote Both
honey and Intelligence to
Their Improvement
THE LIFE OF A COUNTRY ScHeOL-MARM
Is Described BY One, Who Finds Bitter aud Sweet in
Her Profession.
Why BOSTON SCHOOLS ARE GOOD.
THE LIFE OF COUNTRY ScHeoL-MLRM
Is Described BY One, Who Finds Bitter aud Sweet in
Her Profession.

Goodby, superintendent Hamilton"
"Goodby, goodby, goodby."
Thus did the Teachers Institute, which
has been in session during the week, close
yesterday morning. and with numerous
hsndshakes and kind expressions did the
teachers bid adieu to the instructors who
have given them so much valuable informa-
tion throughout the session.
The formal programme presented yester-
day morning was very brief Prof. Caugh-
lin delivered an address upon the "Tests of
knowledge" DR.. Winship did likewise upon
the 1920 period OF the boy. and after the re-
ports were heard from the various commit
tee chairmen the session was closed
by Superintendent Hamilton with a very
appropriate address, in which he thanked
the speakers for their efforts and the
teachers for their attendance. When res
cued shortly afterward from a bevy of fair
school teachers, who seemed determined to
make of him a professional hand-shaker,
Superintendent Hamilton said: Though
it is probably bad form for the management
to praise extravagantly, yet 1 must say the
institute just closed has been
The MUST SUCCESSFUL,
enjoyable and beneficial of any ever held in
the country. / think an indefinite amount
OF good will result from it. / am delighted
with the institute, but am glad it is over as
feel the need of rest" And he really
looked SO fatigued that it was with reluct-
ance he was relinquished once more into the
hands of the shakers.
Prof Caughlin made his escape from q
shaker community long enough to say: 'It
is seldom have had the pleasure of address,
ing such an intelligent body of teachers as
1 have talked to here this week. 1t has
been glorious institute, and the plan of in
struction, though more general than is
usually adopted, has been very gratifying
to me, as believe that each captain in the
educational army will plan his own skirm-
ishing after the battle is outlined by the
generals. Allegheny county may congratu-
late itself upon having a progressive, ener-
getie and enthusiastic Superintendent as
well as an intelligent class of teachers, but
then the two naturally go together-one
calls for the other"
DR.. Winship was surrounded BY a fOrmid-
able but attractive guard of adieuers, but,
with the courtesy he always shows, he
''bunched" the goodbys and said: 81 have
been engaged in educational work all my
life and have attended any number of insti-
tutes, but never any equal to this one. 1
have been very much interested in the ad-
dresses by different professors, aud especially
in those given by Superintendent Caughlin,
who divides the honors of the best institute
worker in the State with Superintendent
Hamilton.
INTERESTED IN OUR SCHOOLS.
81 have been greatly interested in the Pitts
burg public school system which is SO Justly
noted for its excellency and in the display
that is to be made at the Exposition by the
pupils of the schools"
In reply to question as to how Boston
raised her public school standard to the
high notch that proclames it pre-eminent in
the United States DIR. Winship said: ''In
the first place, we pay the highest salaries
of any city in the Union to our teachers,
and then, great deal of our success is due
to the energy and ambition of two wealthy
ladies who employ agents to represent them
in continual Improvement of the schools and
menting for the public good.
Mrs. Quincy Agazziz Shaw, the daughter of
Louis Agazziz, ten years ago introduced the
kindergarten work into the Boston schools,
and has in the ten years that she has con-
trolled it put into the work 5000, 900 OF her
own money. The city during the past year
has just accepted the work, taken the re-
sponsibility from her hands and appropri-
ated $4,000 for the payment of teachers,
l,,.. - Il III Al
necessary psrspharnalia for the work.
"Mrs. Mary Hemmenway is the other lady
who is continually using private means for
public good in the educational field, and to
her efforts Boston is indebted for its cooking
schools, run upon the same plan that Mrs.
Shaw did the kindergarten. Just at present
she is engaged in the Swedish gymnastic
scheme which she will introduce into the
schools this coming year. After carrying
these inonations through the experimental
periods they are turned over to the city, but
the expense OF everything, excepting the
teachers, is still assumed by the wealthy
advocates"
~. WOMEN OF RARE VALUE.
"a few such women in city are of in
estimable value to a public school system,
as you can readily see," concluded DR..
Winship.
A pretty rural school teacher wanted to
shake hands with some ore, as every one
else seemed to, and she succeeded in shak-
ing hands with several. She was a Maud
Muller style of girl, refreshing in her very
innocence without the assistance of the cup
of water.
"HaYe you enjoyed the institute ?" she
was asked.
'f0hl ever so much"
"How long have you been teaching?"
'fJust one year. Oh dear, on DEAR
What the ''Oh dear, oh dear" had to do |
with tie question is not known.
'Do you enjoy teaching?"
Immensely. get $50 month and $40 |
for coming to the Institute"
A city High School graduate, at present |
teaching a country school, said: "There |
are lots of hard features and lots of
of pleasant ones in the life of the country |
school teacher. When first go out to take |
charge of my school am desperately blue. |
Everyone is good and kind to me, but find |
the atmosphere SO different from that to |
which / am accustomed at home. But
after the school is fairly open and 1 get ac-
quainted with nv pupils and naturally be- |
come interested in them, become more rec
onciled to my lot, and even in time look |
with resignation upon the glaring pecullari-
ties of my boarding house, which at first tax
nv patience to the verge or tears often"
H"But there is certain pleasure in being
the school teacher, as you are called in a
country district for you are treated with
considerable Difference by the kindly farmer
people and their children, especially il you
come from the CITY,"
A PLEASANT HOMAGE.
SIT is almost laughable at times and yet
1t is pleasing homage that makes the life