The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-08
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
The closing Session shows no
Abetemen. Of the 1nteres.
SEVERAL RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Thanking the Instructors, tho Y. NJ.
ca. aud others-A Very Enjoyable
Programme Marks the Concluding
Days EIerciscs-A Profitable Au.
nual Gathering which Should DO
Repeated.

the last day aud last session Of the In.
stitute was called to order BY superin.
tendent Anderson. After singing
Precious Jewels" the roll was called,
nearly every teacher answering present.
Devotional exercises were conducted by
Rev Mr.. Hayden. Of the Disciples
church. He read few verses Of scrip
turo, commenting on these, and offered
a feryent prayer.
DR.. Quarles, in beginning his talk,
said tho rose was gone and but the two
thorns were leit-roterring to the fact
that Miss Sullivan had gone home. He
hoped, though, that although the fra.
granco Of tho rose Is gone the thorns
might scratch a little at least thus
making an impression that may DO last
ing. lie commenced the discussion Of
his subject by referring again to the
ancillary powers OF the mind. They are
two In number, memory and express
sion. He discussed especially that Of
expression. Il is tho method OF making
our thoughts known 70 oshers. II Is
our mind that docs this, through the
various organs OF the body. Our per-
sonal modes OF expression are through
gesture and language. The non.per-
sonal modes arc color. shape aud sound.
The first two appeal to the eye aud the
latter 10 the ear.
ue then proceeded to discuss the
sensibility, the power by which we teeL.
It Is both simple and complex. that is,
our feelings are. Nero feelings are the
simple, such as pleasure aud its an-
tithosis, pain. The complex emotions
are divided into three classeE, aaec-
lions, desires and hopes. The alice.
tons come from experience and in no
| other way. We may err in our benevo-
lent as we'll Us In our malevo!ent alice
ton. The affections so in pairs. Each
has its opposite. The desires follow the
affections. What we have an affection
for we desire. The desire IS the most
important class OF tho feelings or sensi-
bility. Hope follows desire, and is the
most complex OF all tho feelings. There
arc four elements OF hope; first, n pleas
urnble feeling; secondly, an affection for
the thing hoped for, and finally, de.
gree OF expectation.
The will Is tho last powor oil the
mind. Tho motives or things TINT
move the will are both external and In
ternaI. The external are mere occasions
OF acting. Tho internal motives are tho
other two powers OF the mind. The
thoughts or opinions are tho remote,
and the feelings arc the immediate mo-
tors Of the will. Determination fol-
lows tho motives, aud finally volition
or willing.
After a short recess Professor Irish
took u2 the subject OF grammar, as he
said, to get all out Of 1t there is in it
First he discussed the different kinda
of clauses used in grammar. lie next
called attention to the conjuuctivo nd.
verb. 1t is always found in subor-
linaie proposition, and is part Of the
subordinate proposition. In speaking
of grammar, be said it was hegeometry
of the Language, aud under teacher 1t
will deveiope thought as well as
geometry will. He spent some time
diagramming different sentences on the
blackboard, and answering quite u
number Of questions asked by the dill
ierent teachers.
Another recess was taken. after which
Misses Ida Ramp and Maude Noble
gave piano Duet which was very finely
rendered. DR.. Quarles began his last
talk by thanking the teachers for the
patient manner in which thew mad thus
| far listened to his talks on the dry sub
iect OF psychology. He proceeded to
discuss the freedom OF tho will. Those
who deny the freedom OF the will are
fatnlists. There are threO distinct forms
OF fatalism, materialism, !. c, that tho
brain is the mind, that tho mind is but
a force, etc. Secondly. social. To this
class belong the evoutionists. Thirdly,
the theological form OF fatalism.
Tho doctor dissents from fatalism in
nil its forms. We arc tho authors Of
our own acts. Our wills arc free, else
NO are not accountable for our own acts.
The mind is unit. It's the mind that
thinks. 1t is tho mind that feels. II is
tho mind that wills. How important
then that the mind be rightly trained,
that 1t be pure, so that We have puro
thoughts, pure feelings, and these will
DO followed by pure acts. Tho doctors
last words were such that all were
greatly impressed with them. His en-
comium pronounced on tho teachers
profession, and especially tho primary
tenchcr's, was simply grand. Prof.
Irish followed in his farewell talk. Ho
gpoke Of the work OF the week, just
drawing to q close. He said he was
satisfied that tho teachers would enter
their schools next week stronger than
thew ever wero before. He urged tho
tenchers 10 remember that back OF all
teachjnr there must DO character. In
snenking again OF literature, hO said
that during tho week VIC. have but
touched tho border land OF this great
subject. lie spoke Of Whittier, who
died Just two years ago to-day, and lust
n month later across tho water died the
great Tonnyson. Our two great poets
arc both como. 1t makes no difference
when an author was born or when he
died, but 1t makes grent difference
what ho wrote. 1lo pitIod that
tencher who docs not see, and cause her
pupils to soc, tho bOautios OF an authors
works.
The professors parting words werc
vorv affecting, and he as we'll as DR..
Ou9rles leaves with tho best wishes OF
all.
At the close Superintendent Anderson
made some pleasant remarks conccrn'
ing tho work OF the week. !,
The session closed by singing God
DO with you till We meet again., and so
closed one Of tho best, II not tho best,
institutes over held In Wheeling.
Tho following resolutions woro pre-
sentod by a committee appointed to