Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-26
TAUGHT
County Superintendent Mar
shall's Normal.
THE EXERCISES AT THE INSTITUTE

as Well as q Large Number of School |
People Present-Outline OF the Lectures
The List of Those in Attendance to
Dafc-Gems of Thought.
Seventy teachers were on hand at
$50 O'Clock yesterday morning at
the opening exercises of Supt. Mar
shall's fourth annual institute. Bv
noon the list had grown to 12O. and
before the day closed nearly one hun
dred and sixty school ma'ams and
masters were industriously engaged
in bsorbing inspiring lectures and
digcsting new thoughts and ideas.
Occasional showers kept the tenn
pcrature slightly under control, but
the humidity of the atmosphere kept
the palm leaf fans busily waving.
The institute is going to be de-
cidcd success, just as it has been for
the last four years. The teachers
are enthusiastic and interested, and
the instructors are Entertaining and
efficient in high degree. DR.. Hen
nv Mccormick, of the state normal,
is well known to the teachers, and is
an old favorite. AS usual, he is
looking after his specialties-geogra-
phv and history.
Dr. W. o. Krohn, of the Cham
paign university, got in from Chi
cago yesterday morning at 1920. He
is comparatively young man, and a
stranger to the teachers, but made 4
splendid impression yesterday. The
doctor is graduate of Yale college,
| l., 10 S,,I OF, 80 Il
principal German universities and
their methods. He talks every day
on the science of education, treating
il from psychological standpoint.
Since his return from Europe he
spent some time at the famous Clark
university, giving lectures under the
supervision of G. Stanley Hall, whose
articles in the Forum have lately at
tracted so much attention. Supt.
Marshall has been fortunate in secur-
ing so talented n professor to bring
before our teachers this growing
idea of child study. Anyone who is
at all inclined to find pleasure in
watching the growth and develop
ment OF a child, will be greatly in
torested in listening to DR.. Krohn's
lectures. Most astonishing state
mcnts are made concerning the reg
ular unfolding of that most wonder
ful part of the individual-thc mind.
Yesterday Afternoon.
Dr.. Krohn's first exercise in gram
mar Yesterday afternoon was pleas
] antlv conducted by discussing par
agraph from Hawthorne. An Undue
tive method by which pupils can ac-
lquire reasonable knowledge Of the
parts of speech was nicely illustrated.
There are only seven parts" OF
speech, an intersection not being
properly part of language.
Mr. Hatch in his talk on science
work gave many reasons why nature
study should receive proper atten-
ton in not only High schools, but in
all grades down to the primary.
Nothing will so fit the child's mind
for thorough and critical work in the
upper GRADES as little judicious
work in elementary science. They
like il and will always be easily in
tercstcd in it. This work can be very
: easily done in connection with lang
uage. reading, drawing. geography,
and even arithmetic. Study with
the children the real things or OBJ
jects procured by the children them
selves. Don't depend too much on
Textbooks. Omit all technical clas-
siiications. and try to make ..prac-
ticalty" the guide as to what should
or should not be studied.
THIS Mornings Session.
At this mornings session a vocal
music exercise in the assembly room
by Mr.. Housed ushered in the work.
Supt. Marshall sprung something of
surprise on the teachers by calling
the roll. Those schoolma' ans who
didn't think it was necessary to be on
time will probably be more prompt
hereafter. Mr.. Housed knows all
about vocal music, and he teaches it
in an easy and practical manner.
There are two sessions daily of the
music class. Prof. Mccormick s
half-hour on history was used up by
a dissertation on Securing the pu-
pills attention, and suggesting good
methods of assigning the lesson.
DIR. Krohn in his second talk on
child study. stated that at birth the
child is much inferior to many of the
lower animals. At this stage of life,
the two senses first developed are
those of touch and temperature.
In the first week of the baby's' life
: the sense of hearing is either not at
all or very imperfectly developed.
Hearing is developed, however,
sooner than seeing. This sense is
also the last to leave at death.
The sense of color appreciation
comes at about the age of six weeks.
Yellow seems to be the preferred
one in most children.
most interesting illusion was
made to the famous case in New
York hospital of boy who arrived
at the age of Is without having dis
played single sign of intelligence.
One day by accident he was noticed
to observe q slight sound. His edu-
cation was Immediately begun
throurh that one channel and TO-DAY