The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-11-30
THE INSTITUTE !
THE COUNTY TEACHERS TO
MEET NEXT MONTH.
TWENTY-NlNTH ANNUAL SESSION
Official Announcement of the
List Of Instructors, the Subjects
to be Discussed and the
Entertainments.

County Superintendent George W. Weiss
has made his official announcements in
connection with the twenty-ninth annual
session of the Teachers County Institute,
of Schuylkill county, to be held in town,
in Ferguson's theatre, from December 18th
to III, inclusive.
The enrolment of teachers will com
mence at $3.50 a. m. on Monday, Decem-
Der 18th, and the institute will open at q
p. m. on the same day.
The teachers are expected to exhibit
school room work of their pupils. Fer
guson's hall, adjoining Ferguson's opera
house, has been rented for that purpose
Superintendent Freeman and a committee
of Shenandoah teachers will assist the
teachers of the county in placing and ar
ranging work for exhibition.
The county superintendent requests that
teachers make note of special difficulties
encountered organizing, governing teach
ing or in nything else pertaining to their
work. Put these questions in writing, and
hand them to the county superintendent,
on Monday, December IA, who will assign
them to instructors or members of the
Institute for answers.
The following subjects will be discussed
either by members of the institute OF by
the principals and superintendents in sep
crate session Language, spelling, pen
manship, physical exercise, what is the
maximum number of pupils that ought to
ha Gns hao har g o
Superintendents visits to schools; what he
should observe, &c, teachers meetings,
declamations, evening schools, school Ii
braries, monthly examinations free text
books. Should teachers, who lost time
through illness or otherwise, during a
school term be paid for the same2 Should
there not be q law limiting the times a
person can be granted provisional certifi-
cate? Should school boards employ
teachers who use tobacco2 Should not the
elements of physics take the place of
physical geography, when taught as u
separate study2
The instructors will be Hon. Henry
Houck, Deputy State Superintendent of
Public instruction, Harrisburg, Pa. Dr.
Thomas M. Ballet, City Superintendent
Springfield Mass. Hon. Thomas b.
Stockwell, State Commissioner of Public
Instruction, Providence, r. l. Prot.
George b. Hancher, State Normal School,
Kutztown, Pa. Miss Augusta L. Balch,
Supervisor and Institute Director in
Form, Study and Drawing), Boston, Mass
Dr. f. o. Lyte, Principal State Normal
School, Minersville, Pa. Dr. James Mac
Allister, Ex-City Superintendent ana
President of Drexel Institute, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Wednesday, December Is, will be drec-
tors day. The school directors Of the
county are invited to attend sll the sessions
during the institute week; but their pres
ence is specially desired on Wednesday,
December l6 We hope there will be
large attendance of school directors, and
that every district of the county will be
represented. Y3I
The following entertainments have been
arranged.
Monday-Major Henry G. Dane, one OF
the greatest orators and worl painters who
has made tour around the world with o
success little less than marvellous
Tuesday-Dr. James 4. Hedley, the
great orator of the West "The Sunny
Side of Life"
Wednesday-M Ollie TorbeLt and her
concert company.
Thursday p. Wilder the
great humorist, and the Park Sisters
Quartette,
Excursion tickets will be Issued on the
different railroads. Special trains will be
run on application.
Season tickets, securing reserved seats,
parquet and circle, Sl75i dress circle, $780,
enrolment tickets, securing admission
only, $780, single admission so cents. The
chart for sale OF reserved seat tickets will
be open at the box office of Fergulon's
theatre, Shenandoah, on Saturday, Decem-
Der u, at 1890 a. m. Before opening chart
parties desiring to purchase tickets will
draw numbers for position in line, Each
teacher in line may purchase any number
of tickets not exceeding twenty, and each
citizen in line may purchase any number
not exceeding ten.