The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-19
HILO TEACHERS UNION.
Good Attendance and Profitable Octo-
Der Meeting.
object Lessons In Class Work Inter
t.-tIng Paper from Prof. Lyons
Pcu-Ouc-tIoH Box Answer

Pcn-Ouc-tIon Box Answers.
HLo Hawaii, oct. 16.-The Hilo
Teachers Union met in the Union
school building on October 4th. There
were twenty-four members and five
guests present. The election Of officers
resulted a. follows: Miss Deyo, presi-
dent; w. Ray, vice-president; Miss
COan, secretary
Miss Coan gave a short account Of
the gathering Of teachers September
~ in Honolulu 10 form an association
and TO plan for a summer school.
Questions were asked, especially a TO
the nature Of the work. Mr.. Smith
read a letter from Miss B-ckwith about
the methods Of drawing 10 be used in
the Honolulu schools.
The program work followed:
Kindergarten Cla-s-Mi-s Guild.
Hints on Teaching" "a paper
Bro. Henry.
Singing.
Object Les-On-"The Cow "-Nli-s
Brown.
Iutermis-iOu.
PhOuIrs-MT. w. Ray.
Dictation-Paper from Mrs. Alex
ander, Of Kauai.
Claz--Mr. Cyril Smith.
sSciepc.. in schools PROF. Lyons.
Question box.
Miss Guild conducted some pretty
exercises with her little Oues. Bro.
Hrnry's paper was read 70 the meet
ing. The gentleman who sent the
paper disclaimed originality. 1t then
III - Na.Hn aHHHaas
ment Of mauy excellent points, con
cisely put. IL secured Undivided at
tentiOu and much praise. The singing
was not class wOrk-it was an agree
able Ell eItaIument, however. IL was
followed by Mis- Browns object les
son. some Of her class came over
three miles. They did not absolutely
bring the COW into the room, but they
brought "A good mental picture of the
object, and described also the articles
produced 10y or from tue COW.
Mr. Rays paper on phOnics was
read by his brother. The school II .
five miles away, rather far to bring a .
class, 30 the paper Was not illustrated, .
though 10 gave good suggestions "a To .
methods Of teaching. Mr.. Smith took
a class To- the board to- illustrate Mrs. .
AleXander's methods for dlctatiOn fol- .
lowing this order: Statement sen
sentences addressing another person,
many of them being imperative.
Last came quotation mark and pos
se-sive mark sentences. DictatiOn
work is always an interesting sub
ject.
Miss Lyman read Professor Lyons
paper on Science in Schools, which
was so attractive and persuasive that
one felt drawn To start off at once with
81 Of ~ oh N
tramps to- return laden with flower,
fern, fruit, rock and shell for pupils
work and collections. y striking re-
mark i'm the paper was tnat the edu-
cation of young people is OF little value
unless il gives them something 10
think about. The work that he pro-
poses furnishes food for thought, and
thought that will lead to profitable
talk.
The first question in the box was,
What il this multiplier in the express
sion %? Answer: Read il, null
tiplied by %, or % times 3, as you
please, % in either case being the
muItiplier. Some teachers prefer to
use the word times, not the sign of .
multiplication. What is verse? re-
minds one of teachers examinations. /
The expected answer was familiar
enough, l. e., One line of poetry. .
the word for a group of Lies Is "objec-
tiOnable"
sThe Letter. was read by Miss
Weight from a magazine. 1t was the .
pathetic tale of the city teacher where
educational funds have run low. She,
this assistant, i'm company with all
other hard worked assistants, Is To
have her salary reduced on account of
hard times. She, who must be re-
spectfully dressed on the street every
day, who tries by snatches To take
some lessons to improve herself and
finds herself at once out of funds, VINO
can't afford money for magazine,
nor find time To read a newspaper. 1t
- this sort of person who il 10 be cut
down, while the principals who can
best afford the reduction are let alone
in their luxuries, one of which - To
spend their time in roaming about
their school buildings during school
hours. instead Of devOting themselves
10 work in their own class rooms, and
another Of which i leisure to read the
newspaper at home evenings. The
letter was bright and amusing, and,
with the question discussions, closed
the days program