The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
NORMAL SCHOOL.
7 he CON mrnc,m nj Ezrrci>cs Grand Success
A splendid Ezhibl Of he Work.

The rooms of the Normal schy OF in the
Y. NJ. g. A building were scene of de-
| light and interest allday yesterday. Miss
Rowe, the principal, had the walls all COW
| cred with designs of fine work, the speci-
| mems OF the teacher pupils under her
charge Tables were loaded with models,
forms, and all the conceivable things used
| in kindergarten work, and in object lessons
| in our primary schools. One to visit this
exhibit will see the worlds fair depart
ment, in this line, in miniature, and real
| ze the study and labor these teachers are
doing
Both before and after noon the ladies
| were busy showing the various specimens,
and explaining the system. An unusul
| interest has been shown by the ladies OF
| the city in this work. for hundreds were
coming and going all the day.
In the evening, in the auditorium room,
| the commencement exercises proper were
given, and were of the finest and most
pleasing character The ladies were all
attired in modest and becoming costumes.
wearing beautiful boquets of roses,
geraniums, lilies and heiliotrope, with
ivy and myrtle.
The exercises opened with a song. "God
Speed the Right" by the class. Miss Cora
Kinkel executed a piano solo In beautiful
manner, and several songs were rendered
by the class in excellent style.
The essays were delivered in most grace
full style and good voice. and were as fol
lows:
Miss Minnie Lane took for her subject
U
to be a teacher in the full sense of the
term, and by narrating his views on the
purposes and objects of education showed
him to be philosopher who had learned
of Bacon and school master who had
earned his support by teaching the rudi-
ments. Miss Lanes idea in this finely
rendered sketch was to show the proper
education, the development of the mind in
the line of natural inclination that all the
characteristics may be worked upon to
bring success and development. She said
the school is not only to impart knowledge
and skill. but that it must. at the same
time. diffuse virtue and piety and develop
as well as strengthen perseverance,
punctuality, orderliness and Justice
Miss Cora Kinkel discoursed on What
Luther Has Done for Education" This
was well considered sketch of the work
of this great reformer, and showed this
young lady was we'll read and informed
on the underlying principles of govern
ment and justice. She pictured with his
torical instances and illustration the bat
tlefieds of thought against prejudice and
superstition. Showed how the idea of ''as
many minds as there are men" took hold
Of and directed the masses to seek educa-
ton. and make men, seek their own in
dividuality, and declare for their own
conscience. She said: Had there been
no Luther the English, American and
h.
emily, would be acting differently. would
be altogether different men and women
from what they are at this moment"
Miss Lulu Andrews subject was His
tory and Organization of Public Schools"
Every race which has deeply impressed
itself upon the human family has been
representative of some great idea. For in
life: with the Persians, light; the Greeks,
beauty; the Romans, law; our Anglo
Saxon, liberty and Christianity, and of
this idea Miss Andrews evolved the
thought that all forms of education have
their growth in the combination of the
various ideas coming down from the past
and forming desire. necessity and acquire
is inspired by this and the youth of today
is far in advance of the youth of the past,
and competency and almost perfection is
required in the art of teaching to meet this
necessity and fully instruct the young by
normal methods.
Miss Anna Wilson's subject was "What
Woman Owes to Education" This was
handled in decidedly strong and argu-
mentative style. She showed how educa-
tion had surrounded woman with comfort,
and opened the avenues of social, political
religious and scientific research until she
has found her place in the worlds work,
and achievements for good. for happiness,
for glory. She said, i'll conclusion: 1.-The
woman of today rises before US surrounded
by refining influence, and haloed with the
glory of an advanced education. Every
field is opened to her, every avenue invites
her, and the places that once knew not of
her, now resound with the trampling