The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-12-07
THOMAS TADM0RE JR.
AN ABLE AND ENTERTAINING LECTURE
BY VENERABLE DR.. vsNAeLE.

The stark County Teachers Have an In.
struotive Session-The Institute has
Been O success.
The Stark County Teachers Institute
opeped in High School hall this morning
al O'clock, President ]. II. Focht called
the session to order. Over two hundred
pedagoaues, representing nearly ell stark
county schoole, are In attendance ana
many more are expected TO atenu
Saturdays convention.
Vice-President Paul Field OF the Board OF
Education delivered an address OF hearty
welcome to the visiting deleRates. He also
recommended the usefulness OF the early
education and thorough teaching OF our
cni,,.rsu III oil branches. President OF the
Institute J. II. Focht responded in an
equally intereOtipg address.
DIR. Venable, of Cincinnati, lectureu IN
teaching, His subject was good one ano
his ideas were made explicit by illustrs-
Mr.. Elmer Sluss, of Louisville, followed
with a pAuer on "Country Schooic,"s de
enunciated distinctly and ESe theme
caused q discussion by Professors Burns
| c. Hiper, G. G. Douglass and others.
Prof.W. Z. Bartsch drilled about twenty
young ladies who dexterously handled In
dian clubs and showed splendid training
| in calisthenica.
Prof, j, ], Burne had an excellent paper
prepared on Literature in the Fourth and
| Fifth School Readers His dissertation
on these courses of reading was HttenN
| lively listened to.
A recess was taken. Miss Esther Yates
| opened with a we'll rendered vocal selec-
| ton, "Stay, Sweet Swallow" DR.. Venable
closed the afternoon session with a lecture
ON Omitted States History.n
The continued session of Stark County
| Teachers Institute was held this morning
| - kan mi
present. j. II. Focht presided and called
the session to order Rt 3 go sharp. Prot'
j. s. Burns' lecture, THE Well.SprinRi
| of English was frat on the programme
| The Professor reviewed the writings ol
| Chaucer, Spencer, the noted writer's oi
the time of Queen Eliz abeth and comini
/ on down 10 bne present era OF writers. hli
address WAS quite lengthy, but very In
teresting.
| DR.. Vsnable followed with lecture OIL
"TeschinR." The weight of DR.. Venable'l
talk was on the subject of tact. DR.. Ven
able needs no word of praise as his excel
lence as lecturer is fully established.
A short inIermission was followed by
chorus of class of thirty pupils under
the direction of Miss Kate Harvey. Th'
| music was very creditnble to both teacher
and pupils. Under the direction OF Prof
BArtsch, fifteen scholars OF the SIKH
grade were put through drill In physica
culture, Indian clubs being the instru
| ments Of warfare. The exercise was loudly
applauded and was very graceful and al
tractive.
| Miss Da,zell, Of Alliance, read yer,
interesting paper on "CultivRtion OF th'
Beautiful" Miss Dalzell 10 in favor o.
beautifyinR the school room, incLIcatini
into the mind OF every pupil love OF th'
pure and good of life, and IN developing
the love Of the beautiful.
On motion of Prof. Sarver the meeting
was adjourned until o'clock.
A NEws-DEMoCRAT reporter had shor
but very pleasant interview with DIR. Yen
able this morning. The doctor processes
himself much pleased with his reception
in Canton and said some very nice thing
about Canton and the NEWs-DEMoCBAT.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The session was continued at / o'clock
opened by music by q chorus class. Mis-
Lizzie Cook read q paper on "Primer,
Philanthropy" giving the Fundamental
principles of the same, Miss Cook 10 on
of the most successful teachers I'M tn
city and probably knows wherewithal sh'
speaks.
"The lecture on Shakespeare" by Prof
Burns was intensely interesting. Th'
professor is q thorough student of the ina
mortal poet and wss nt his best this after
noon. The institute was closed by
THOMAS TApMoRE, JR.
Professor Venable made q great hit II
his lecture last night and under the Ruis
of @ charming story, embellished witt
mimicry, pleasant fancies and dee
pnthos he indirectly showed up all tn
follies and faults of the average schoo
and its effect upon the pupils. Will
there was no direct attempt at any time =
point the moral, the moral was In the In
cident, or anecdote and the way Il wa
handled. The treatment Of the subjac
was mastery and theRe was no intelligen
hearer present who did not realize thA
the sweetly sugar coated pill carried con
stitutional virtues with II.