Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-06-29

Chickens are scarce

slAkDs OF Whom are tadles- D0ee
this mean that the lady teachers
of Mississippi are making q
greater effort toward improve
ment than the gentlemen
Hon. J X Preston having
spent a few days with rs, re
turned to South Mississippi to
attend the Normal Institute at
Lake The teachers we're sorry
to see him leave, especially the
ladies'.
Special courses in several de
parsments have been arranged
for those Who desire to take
them, and a number ofthe teach
ers have tsken advantage Of the
same.
On Tuesday, June Goth, tn
teachers we're addressed BY
Chancellor Payne OF the Pea
body Normal College Nashville
Tenn Chancellor Payne has
made a lasting impression on
the minds of the teachers of
Mississippi, as beiog n man of
great intellectual power and a
teacher of the highest type, one
thoroughly qualified to train the
teacher for his responsible DO
sition.
The lectures of Prof. y Bs
nard, the ID rector of the InSti
tutsl on Methods of Teaching
and School Management are
hailed With pleasere and de
light They prove to be one of
the most interesting features of
the daily program: We are
Taught by him, among other
things, that tine true objects of
an education are LIST. Physical
iy-to train the body that il
may be stroug. healthy, vigo
rous, graceful and responsively
active to the will 2nd-Intel
lecfualiy-not to store the mind
with the accumulated knowledge
of ages, but to arm il with ener
gy and skill; not to enable pu>
pills merely to solse problems
IN mathematics, construe sen
fences IL grammar or answer
questions in philosophy, bat to
INSPIRE them with q love of
study, to awaken in their minds
an animating, life -giving power
that does not rest satisfied With
present Attachments, bu, is ever
striving TO open up new truths.
TO express new beauty or to
eontrive new ways Of IrssenIug
labor and efeeiing good. Sd
Morally, to strengthen the con
science and will by forming the
habit Of carrying out pure feel
ing aud good thought into i'm
mediate activity. TO secure ready
obedience 10 Law as the embodi
ment Ut right, to inpart a love
OF freedom. TO give a conscious
ness of individual power and re
sponsibility aud to develop IN
every child self>faith as the re>
suit of faith in God.
Nearly every county in the
State is represented at the In
stitute, and some of them by A
large number of teachers. This
means n desire on the part oil
the teachers of Mississippi for
self Improvement. Ii is hoped
that this is only the beginning OF
a grand onward movement in
the all important cause of edu
cation.
The following is q li>t of the
Lafayette county teachers at.
tending the Institute:
Misses Emma Hampton, En-
ma Crouch. Sallie Harris, MoIis
"a Sloan. Adella Rankin, SalIie
knight, Maud knight. Ada
Lynch. Allie Goolshy. Pfnkie
Turner, SalIIe Houston, Jimmie
Sparks, Myrtle Graham. Beulah
Rivers, Annie Kitehell, Matte
Stone, Susie Hodge, Lorenna
Barry, Gabrie Houston, Ivy
Graham, Dale Kimmons. Addie
Turner. Mona Villains, Mamie
Word. Julia Hall, Nay Nichols,
Leila Hodge, Jettie Givhan, Mat
tie Houston Pauline Ritz, Ollie
Jones, Clara Bart, Kate Me
Gowan, Ciaud Woodward. Susie
Furr. Mary Gathright, LAura
Hall. Laura Eads, Lizzie Porter.
Mary Greer. Hattie Montgeme,
~, Ollie GOolsby. Kate NcFar
land, Pearl Montgomery. Rnby
Reynolds. Julia Chandler, Lula
Lester, Belle Cook. Josie Hall,
Daisy Russell, Ida wilbourne,
Saline Wardlzw, Mamie Mont.
gomery, Emma Webster, Belle