The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-16
EDUCATORS AT PROVO.
Organization of the Teachers Institute
on Monday.
DIR. Baldwin's Interesting Lecture or
VIII and the Emotions-Dr. Talmage
ON Natural Science.


His subject was Psychology of Educs-
tion,'' and he handled it in mastery
style.
A Wooten delivered an instructive lee
ture on iArithmetical Language.
DIR. Talmage spoke on "Science and
Education'' and was followed with the
closest attention.
In the afternoon. DR.. Baldwin resumed
his lecture on ssEducation of Reason
carrying the lines of thought suggested
by him to their logical conclusion.
Professor Giles followed with an inter-
esting talk on Music" laying down
valuable rules for teaching the divine art.
Professor Brimhali spoke at some length
on Recitation.
DR.. Talmage concluded his lecture on
Science and Education-'
THE SUMMER SCHOOL.
The summer school at Provo resumed
work yesterday morning, Dr. Baldwin
opening with G lecture on "Wlll, and
The Emotions.'
The Will, he said, was Che strength OF
self. By this power, self achieved, over
come and controlled all things.
Feelings are OF but two kinds, Those
which affect the physical senses are SEN
sations Those which affect the mind,
the spirit, are emotions. The realm of
general sensations is so wide that
psychology cannot at present cover 1t.
We have hereditary tendencies which our
environments cannot change.
We are moved by instincts IN common
with the brutes--a blind impulse which
guides, but the source is too deep for con-
seriousness. When il rises to the level of
consciousness it becomes sensation. We
can see blind impulses to seek light. food
and warmth even in plants. Shall We
call that instinct too? 1t is wonderful.
ALI the works of God are wonderful.
Feelings which enter into our con-
sciousness, become appetites. This
craving for food and drink is the mani
festation of appetite; desire for some
thing to satisfy a need of the body. ANY
feeling, cherished, becomes stronger and
stronger, even to the point of subjaga
tion of the will. Therefore, suffer not
the least worthy of our sensations TO
master self.
We now enter the realm of the heart.
We use the word heart as>>the sum or
whole of the spiritual EMOTIONS. There
fore the true heart is LOCATED in the cere-
brum. 1t is the emotional self. Fore
bodings are evidence of diserrsngement
of the bodily functions. 1.-The blues'
indicate either bad Conscience. over
work, or indigestion. Prescience, / am
obliged TO leave for the present, an open
question; /, az psychologist, must re-
main on the solid ground of what know.
must not venture on conjecture. But will
say of forebodings, they usually do more
harm than good. IT they come clear cut
and tangible, let us meet them bravely;
il only misty, believe it would be better
TO wait the unfolding of the present,
which we know to be rightfully ours.
do not say this dogmatically, only give
my opinions and leave you to your own
honest Investigations, because each of
you has ali the light there is.
IL -
mary class work. The speaker con ratu
lated the audience on the intellectual
feast they had just enjoyed, and stated it
as her opinion that the teachers of Utah
are not behind the teachers OF older states
either in viii power or preparation for
their special duties.
We cannot separate the branches of
school work because they overlap, help
and support each other. Any teacher
who Is permitted to teach should be able
TO go into any grade and give
the souls he finds there the things
which they need for their growth. The
speaker proceeded 20 show how
the interest of children is drawn out to
trees, flowers, birds. butterflies. ants,
and all familiar, living things, through
their study and observation, their sym
patty and companionship with them.
Superintendent w. I. Browns subject
was stElocutiou. The object of this
talk on elocutIon is to assist you in some
measure TO detect faults Of manner in
reading and speaking, that you may be
able TO correct them. The physical part
comes first; because the position and
general appearance of a speaker make the
first impression on tbe hearers. A favor
able impression here ,lll help that we
may afterward make by our intellectual
ability.
A braced position is strong one, and
having the feet near together is a weak
position. The strong man will take the
weak position because his strength will
need no aid.
Anything we can do to preserve the
grace and dignity of the body will help
out respect for the mind.
Gave a short general exercise in call
isthenics, admirably adapted to develop
the chest and breathing muscles.
II is said that not more than eight per-
sons In one hundred breathe properly;
and not more than one in a hundred man
age the breathing organs properly.
If you contract the abdominal muscles
when you ;nhale, you do not give the
lungs ROOM to become well filed.
Dels2rte trained an actor on Just one
word; but he taught him how to deliver
IL in $40 different ways, with correct facial
and bodily action, and with correct man
agement of the voice. One word thus
Learned includes all others.
DR.. Taamage, speaking on ssNatural
Science said: The classification of
animals as vertebrates and invertebrates,
is not strictly scientific. but it is popu-
lar. The strictly scientific classification
is protoZoanS and metozoans-animals of
a single cell, and those OF many cells.
Since we must appeal to the physical
senses, in our instructions to children,
believe the stereopticon will become the
great substitute for the real creatures we
would show to our class; but would not
advise any teacher to buy one unless he
Will make himself master of its principles
of action.
Sight travels in q straight line. We
may bresk Its course, but it viii still
take straigh line in new direction.
For this ason we sometimes see
things where .ney are not. The lecturer
tried an experiment With coin in an
empty vessel, which was lust ont
of sight; then he filled Che vessel with
water and brought the coin into sight;
but when the person who was looking at
il tried 10 touch il, he touched beyond IL.
The bending of the ray was made very
clear on the principle that motion is
swifter when its meets less resistance.
The ray OF light touching the surface of
the water ElantWise, and therefore one
edge OF the ray touches the ..,rface of the
water sooner than the other The fact
that water offers greater resistance to the
motion OF light than does air, Joined TO
the slant accounts for the new direction
which the ray takes in reaching the coin.
He produced double convex lens and
threw an image of windows on a sheet of
paper, and illustrated by drawing the
directions which the rays of light took In
passing through the lens to reach the
paper. and showed why the image is in
verted. and demonstrated that the image