The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-28
TEACHERS INSTITUTE ADJOURNED.
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TO do what he has to do may be in
| creased and intelligently regulated,
and that the courage to use the power
| possessed may be AT hand when the
| sense of what ought to be done recog-
nizes the presence of duty.
The paper was heartily applauded.
| Superintendent Howard read an in
vitation from the Alameda County
| Teachers Institute to the teachers of
Sacramento to attend the annual con,
vention of the State Teachers Asso-
citation.
| fine recitation, "Carlotta's In
tended which was enthusiastically
encored.
1t was the expressed wish of the In
stitute that Miss de Laguna's talk on
The Teacher as a Moral Force be
published in one or both of the daily
papers.
THE KINGS ENGLISH"
With the deepest interest the teach
ers assembled listened to Harr Wag-
ner's address on The Kings English
teners back to the time of the Tower of
Babel, the time when, according to the
Bible, we all were brothers and spoke
the same tongue, from the fire-eaters
OF India to the Icelanders, he traced the
wanderingS of the scattered AryanS
westward. The separations and divi-
sions were explained. The language of
the Aryan race is like a banyan tree.
The English language, the branch from
| the parent stem, has grown larger than
the original trunk. The AryanS are to
language what Eve was to the human
race. They became rulers of history
! and perpetuated morals
He traced the Anglo-SaXon from 449
to 100, then from 1100 to 1850. He
| spoke of the Introduction of Latin into
the English language. Latin was used
in all affairs of government, and King
John III. was the first who issued a
! proclamation in English. He spoke
most lovingly of Chaucer, the Father
Of English Literature" The three
books having the most influence upon
the people We're the English Bible, Bun
| yOn's Pilgrims Progress, and Bakers
Saints Rest.
Look at the poetry of the Bible
| Where do you find such poetry as that
| of the Hebrews? THE Lord is my
shepherd; l shall not want; He leadeth
me beside the still waters" Where do
you find such a sermon as THE Sermon
| on the Mount?" Could anything be
more helpful in these hard times than
| the golden rule, DO unto others as you
would they should do unto your Can
anything be more true than 1T is more
blessed to give than to receive"
whether in the grandest palaces of the
rich or the novels of the poor.
The books that live longest are those
which are written in the language of
the common people. Johnson intro
duced the Latin into the English Ian
guage, and the talk of his time was in
| high flown sentences.
Latin being a dead language is there
fore put on monuments, the epitaph on
! Washington's monument is in Latin,
| and that on the monument erected
to the memory of the author of the
! Star pangled Banner" is in Latin.
We love the Anglo-Saxon. but there are
! things in the English language that can
| be changed for the better. We can i'm
prove our spelling. More lives are lost
in spelling silent letters than all the
railroad disasters.
! The grammar is wrong, for this rea-
! son: Based upon the Latin grammar,
originally and written long after,
! there are no words that de-
! fine in the English grammar
that are not borrowed from the
Latin. The same with our physiology
! and botany. Give US some textbooks
! in good old Anglo-Saxoni Anglo-SaXon
is the great colonizer of language.
The English language is the predomi-
mating language of the world. We can
now travel around the world knowing
no language but our own.
| Give your children a chance to show
/ their appreciation of goodIiterature. Tell
them of the pOets-read to them Shell
ily's "SkyIark," speak of the characters
of Longfellow, Lamb, and give them a
chance to express their own ideas so
as to have color life and soul in their
expression.
Mr.. Wagner spoke of how blind-how
very blind-most of the people are to the
blue of the sky, the beauty of the night,
the color in every object, hurrying
along through life with no thought of
these things
REPORT ON RESOLUTIONS.
In the absence of Julian w Johnson,
K. T. McKisicl acted as Chairman,
and read the report of the Committee
on Resolutions.
The report stated that the institute
had been of much, and it was to be
hoped of lasting, benefit.
Resolutions Of thanks were expressed
! for the aid rendered by the City and
County superintendent, the different
teachers who had prepared papers, the
lecturers, Professor Elmer Z. Brown,
Miss Esther NJ Wilson. a. B. Coffey
Earr Wagner and DR.. Robert McKen-
| zie, the different committees and the
city. The special report of the commit
tee was then read.
The answer to question / was no.
No. 2-Arithmetic To be omitted in
| the first year. In other grades, all sub
| jects to be pursued.
The answer TO the third question was
! laid over until the others had been
acted upon.
Yes. Language work, all the way
through.
5-Yes. Language and literature, in
Guiding history.
Understanding that the sixth ques-
ton meant the children taken col
lectively, their answer was yes. They
vary at different ages.
NO. Elementary training should be
the same in all cases.
This report secured the approval of
the institute. and the members then
listened to the answer to the third
question, on which the committee pre-
pared the following schedule:
First year-Language 90 per cent !;
history Including literature), 20 per
cent; natural science, 20 per cent.
numbers.
Second year-Language 30 per cent /;
history, 20 per cent; arithmetic, - per
cent; natural science Gncluding geog-
raphy), u per cent.
Third year-Languag 80 per cent
history, ID per cent: arithmetic, - per
! cent, natural science, ~ per cent.
Fourth year-Language, 30 per cent
history, - per cent; arithmetic, 20 per
cent; natural science, 10 per cent
! Fifth year-Language 30 per cent
! history. - per cent; arithmetic, % per
cent; natural science, II per cent.
Sixth and seventh years-Language
| ~ per cent; history, u per cent; arith-
metic, - per cent; natural science, 20
per cent.
/ Eighth and ninth years-Language
81 per cent; history, 20 per cent; arith-
metic, - per cent; natural science, 20
! per cent.
The institute acted upon the work for