Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-05
THE Teachers INSTITUTE.
The Proceedings of the Third Days
Session.
Some Good Advice by the Super
intendent-A Lecture on Drawing
by Miss Parsons-Remarks by
DR.. Gordy, Prof. Little, and Prof.
Davis-No Session To-Day.

The third day OF the Teachers Insti-
tute opened with prayer led by the SUI
perintendent, and singing by the audi
ence
The superintendent called the atten-
ton of the teachers to an article by
Prof. Rice, in the Forum entitled, Are
Our Teachers Teaching?" The speak
err urged the members of the audience
TO study TO bring out all their powers
of teaching, asserting that many do
not know what powers they possess.
Miss Parsons continued her talk on
drawing. Several teachers had ex-
pressed to her a desire TO know how to
draw. BY studying things and the
laws Of things, any one may learn to
draw. though not many become artists.
The teacher should encourage the pupil
to study things and then by drawing to
express what he has seen. Besides,
balls and other things of primary form
are the first objects TO be Studied by pu-
pills. The instructor, while suggesting
the lessons to be taught, urged individ-
uality on the part of the teacher in de-
veloping the lesson, which is quite re-
freshing in these days of cut and dried
work. so cramping to the real teacher.
Miss Parsons used clay as she desired
the teacher TO use it in developing the
idea of form.
Miss Robinson gave a lesson from the
music chart of the second year, the
teachers singing the exercises. These
instructions are very helpful TO the
teachers.
After a short recess DR.. Gordy was
announced. and prefaced his remarks
by the statement that he had had pc
culiar experience in Wheeling; no one
had asked him to what political party
he belonged Usually, after he had de-
livered his lecture on Hamilton, people
supposed him to be a Republican, but
after his lecture on Jefferson they were
at a loss where to place him. He
thought he could admire both. Then,
in a few strong sentences. he contrast
ed the two men as TO their political be-
Hefs But one other man in American
history equalled Jefferson in his be-
lief of the people, and that man was
Abraham Lincoln. Jefferson's love of
man was a love of the liberty of the
whole human race, as is proven by his
introduction. when very young man,
of a resolution in the House of Bur-
10 n
ton of slavery.
Hamilton and Jefferson agreed on
but two points, and those were that
they both disliked the Constitution,
but for two opposite reasons; and both
agreed in supporting it, because 1t was
better than the articles of the Consti-
tuition.
Referring to the article of the Con-
stitution which reads, Congress shall
have mower to enforce all laws which
shall be necessary and proper" etc,
the speaker said that Hamilton would
droD the word proper from the resolu-
tion while Jefferson would have drop
ned the word necessary. In order TO
understand the principles of the FEEDER
lists and anti-Federalists two things
must be kept in mind; the effects OF the
French revolution upon the mind OF
Hamilton and Jefferson. In words that
burn and that your reporter finds it i'm
nossible to express. he depicted the
condition of the French people previous
10 the revolution, and the opposite eff
feet of this state of affairs upon the
minds of the two statesmen and the
Americans for whom each stood as a
type.
Not ]. c. Calhoun, but Thomas JEFF
ferson. first formulated the doctrine OF
notification. which originated In a
love of liberty and was a protest
against the alien law. The speaker
discussed the alien and sedition laws
which he characterized as the most I'M
American laws ever passed IN this
country.
Everybody in Virginia and West Vir-
ginia ought to remember that Jefferson
in 1884. tried TO have passed in Con-
gress a law forbidding the extension OF
| slavery. and upon this issue he was
elected TO the Presidency of the United
States Had he accomplished his pur-
pose. much that now bothers the boy;
and girls in the study OF history would
have been unwritten. The speaker
would not want to live in a government
the exponent of HamiltOn's idea, mol
would that of jefferson suit him better
Rut could these two statesmen come
hack. each would find a government