Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-08
AMONG TIE SCHOOLS.
The Past Week Has Been a Busy
One
With Both Teachers and Pupils
Examinations Coming-The New
Relief Maps Delivered-The Fri
day Literary Performances.

This has been a busy week IN schooi
circles. The Seniors are looking for
ward to next Thursday, as that is the
day that they appear before the Superin-
tendent to show either what they know
or what they do not know about gram
mar. and also to test their ability III
writing. These interesting and import
ant DAYS VIII come and the boys ana
girls for a week. or two beforehand
study as they should have done all
through their school life, then the dread
of these days would be taken away.
The Juniors will also be examined on
the 18th inst. in history, orthograpny,
spelling and definition, the two former
being final.
The fine relief maps purchased by the
Board of Education at its last meeting
have been delivered TO the different
schools. and now if our boys and girls
do not learn geography it will be their
own fault for these helps are surely so
good that the most careless pupil CANNOT
aail to be interested in this most import
ant branch of our school course.
There are some parents who think the
study of geography is Of no account
whatever, and some even go so ar fas to
tell their children that they do not wish
them to study 1t. This gives the teach
er trouble and it s almost impossible
to get child TO succeed in what the par
ents do not wish it to study. Geography
is a most useful study. It gives a cul-
ture that no other study can give, when
properly taught. Teach il in connection
with history-and t always should be
thus taught-and there is no more in
tereSting study in the entire curriculum.
This is true according to the opinions Of
the most foremost educators of the day
The mind of the child should be 80 de-
velOped that it is a full rounded whole,
and this can be done in no other way
than by teaching the proper amount of
science, language and mathematics
Our public school course has this in
view, and when properly finished it gives
to our community boys and girls well
qualified for life's duties even if they
get no more school education but if they
wish to go farther they have a fOunda-
ton on which to build that no special
school can give. If parents would real
lie this especially as to their boys, we
would soon have much better citizen
ship.
A book agent having for sale Victor
Hugo's Shakespeare, Dickens and
COOpers work, visited the schools dur
ing the week. He was born, reared and
educated in Paris has been a professor
in Harvard College, and to say he IN
dersJands his business does not half ex-
press what one feels when he explains
the works for sale in his inim!table
manner. He is surely a cultured gen
tleman, to say the least of him. He
made many sales among the teachers.
The literary performances IN the diff
ferent rooms of our schools on Friday
afternoons is getting to be one of the
very best part of the weeks work.
There is no hour that does so much
good for the pupil as is the hour spent
in this way. In many of the rooms the
pupils take charge and conduct the en-
tire exercises. This teaches them to
depend on themselves, and they also
learn enough parliamentary law to ena-
bic them, when they leave school to
preside over deliberative assemblies.
and they VIII thus be able to do. without
embarrassment what many good men
otherwise cannot do. These exercises
ought to be encouraged by the parents.
The new geographical maps purchas-
ed by the Board of Education have
been delivered. They are very fine. and
viii greatly add to the interest in teach
ing geography.