Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-11
COUNTY CONVENTION
OF kenncbec Teachers at Gardiner Large
Attendance Interesting Sessions.

| & NEni>El:. March 1T SpeCid -- he
opening sessions nt the second ANIMAL con
ventinn Of the Neunehec County Teachers
| Large delegations. including nearly all the
teachers os those c ties. were present from
| WaGe-viilc. Augusta. tEaltowell and GarIi-
n,r anil many Of tine conniry towns were
| represented
| The large hall of the high school huil.ling
WIS filled at the opening hour. 1890 \. NJ.
| Tie convention was called 10 order by
| President Robertson of Augusta and
| Ry. Nh Curbrane of iialloweil
| up ned the session with prayer. The first
paper was on "'tte trt of Questioning,
| read by Prof. y. !" Btsseu of Colby, a
| brilliant yuuuG instructor. He argued
against the Obi extreme customs of Loo
close application 10 the textbook it'll pure
m morizing a,sthy part of the pupil, huts,e-
/ III red a tend,uf,y t. drift too tar away from
tiit book The t,'st Of the good teacher is
| 70 ask good ,tu,s;iups, ahd the test of the
| sa,.d scholar is IL answer them. Question
! ins is an art of the Ii CHEST order with broad
underlying principles. He argued against
! la,ling questions by teachers, and
| showed how preperl, used questioning
could be of IT,. blghest advantage to
the pupil 1t WIS an able paper,
| full of valuable susge stions. Prof. Par
/ rnsteu af Pennington being kept at hom
hy Hines, 81. Ii !i,eusston OF the paper was
briefly taken ap 10y Mr.. osen of Water
| v,ne High School.
Prof. w. A lioughton. ti'c brilliant
I4tin scholar Of Buvduin. Iii not draw a
.r,n,parison between the RouIsn AMI Eng
/ Ii IA methods Of p-ononneine Latin, as the
prngrsmme ananunce,l hecause he thought
,a,r4. was no cus.tl,.iison to lre drawn. lie
vas strongly oppt sci To the oil or English
,netiiod. which i. utterly unn:tsonAhl. trri
!ass rni m ~ a language of H. ar,i
n,s,Ie strong rauneni, III favor nt th u,-w
| phn,ic. pr Rom n Huiiioi which Ia c'i5i'
INTO general use sisitia 90 yeas, h','i iN
mor,. liz. ~ near.r the original h'ugn"le
aud is y sr, AZ help in eiyHsntsgy aai Eug
Iish ucfiea'tou
After bs ptper rec''ss OF about I 80
| hour. Nj, taken tcr dinner ut flte t.vATs
lIot,l The sclieed !, ali was again iille'i ~
IL L. NJ, and ltr j. H. Hanson, the srnera-
BILE prime pal nf tohuru Classical Institute
| and the famous authority vi the dead ian
yuag,,s, devoted al taur to fighting vigor-
! oasl, the new or st-eaiie'i Roman method.
He clainetI that no p,.rsAn coald know how
the auoients pronounced Latin and he
! weull uot teach what hv knew neiliIat
about. til, resofe pronounced Il ike Ens-
| Hsh. He ss.w 10 reason fer calling 1t The
Roman pronunciation a. the Roman pro
nuneiatian Is lost t.rfver. just as the E3S-
lish pronunciation of Csiaucers time is lost
He e!selt M. un the I.sss uf the know ledge
of the Lttja accent ami quantity. Latin
names a,st.ts{i.,its anl ,'om4ion expression
as in tn, law, ctc, arr pronounced by the
Eaglish ttst-i besi even b. tito-" affpcstiu5
the ne. az tt.n j. NJ. lc,,la-lsl the corrnpsion
pt prunaiie ia IN Of g,n i-h worlds caused by
the nes u ct ei. He si,.ti., en able defence
of tn. ol an nc Il ,ls.-esed method
Prof l!ar .1ieri ot Bates College read I,
lcsrefuiiv prep sret article an Practical
/ Sttplirs prs,t teal s.sIuea'ion is modern
the aneienS- era nore dreane.s and phil
usapilers; but there Is danger in tue too
praeiie..i tend of the present movement
The strictly practical in any stu'ls is souie-
what limited and frasaastsary. He made
a r,lea fsr ;he science 5, mathematics, his
t,rs, literature and the dead languages il
their pl,c.,s.
| He was followed BY Principal W
IA. Host OF the Coay High school
Augusta in an inter. sting paper on the
ssr,,s. subject lie tsscit priacipally upor
tic rr.,. t.s 4 ss,Iae ot sti lying Latin and
Gr~.k.
What are si,e Rights Of the Duh and
Lazy Pupitsfr hgTnutousiy and seri'
onsly III .cussea b, President E. N. Smith
LOT Maine Wesleyan Seminary an Female
;Coiles.. II >at' shrre were many excuse
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