Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-09-06
cascade COUNTY TEACHERS
The Seventh Annual Institute OPENS
With an Unprecedentedly Large
Number Enrolled.
The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction and President of the
University Present.

Lne seventh annual cascade county
teachers institute convened at $50 a. m
Tuesday in the Whittier school build
ing. Nearly all the Great Falls teachers
had returned from their vacation visits
the representation from the country was
surprisingly large, and when County
Superintendent Swan, who presides
raped for order, he faced the largest
teachers institute ever convened in the
county. 1t was evident that the teachers
were present for whatever benefit might
accrue to them from the institute and
they entered upon the first days session
with a vim. Hon. Eugene A. Steere,
state superintendent of public i~nstruc-
ton, and DR.. Oscar j. Craig, president
of the state university at Missoula, were
present, and their presence and advice
adds greatly to the interest and value of
the institute.
K. e. Hammond of Great Falls was
elected secretary by reclamation, and
when he called tho roll it was found that
80 teachers were present. They were:
DR.. Oscar j. Craig of Missoula. Prof. e.
a. Steero OF Helena, Il. B. Swan. r. e.
hammond, Jessie l.. Rich, Agnes M.
Depew, Carrie Sanford, Margaret Gala
CHER, Edna Craig, Gertrude S. Anderson,
Grace Glasgow, Lizzie G.. Garin,
Cora Blodgett, Helen Dam, Kath,
ryn 7. Miller, Ida NJ. Farrow,
Eddie B. Dibble, Josephine Trigg,
Lizzie Strain, Sadie Patterson, Loia
Byrd, Dola Longeway, Mrs. E. G. iIol-
brook, b. Ii. Elliot, Alice Lillian Kings
bury, Eva B. Conner, Clarence Board
man, G. II. Robinson, May Gallagher, W.
&. Frisbie, w. q. Light, j. S. Davidson.
George l.. Cowdon, Helen Edgerton.
Mamie G.. Fortune, Mrs. Nellie Ewing.
Margaret O'Grady, Finette Ewing, Sarah
NJ. Conner, S. d. Largent, George ii.
Mullery, G. A. Graham, Annie HouJis-
ton, and Mrs. Clara Wood of Great
Falls; Ella Mum, Alice Moore, Gertrude
3. Stebblne, Sand Coulee; Marion Nc
Daniel, Cascade; G. w. Kellison, w. III.
Iarnall, Belt; M. NJ. Brownson, kibby;
L. l%'enner. Arlington. -
Supt. Steere was the first on the pro-
gram, with an address on the Duties of
the Teacher in the School," He advised
teachers to study the surroundings of the
school before the time to open the term
and to familiarize themselves with the
individual pupils. He emphatically
recommended that every teacher should
read the Evolution of Dod." He had
read and studied it, and had frequently
applied suggestions therefrom deduced,
to his work in the school room. The
teacher must realize that she must teach
from something besides books.
The first hour in the school room is
the crucial hour; then it is that the
teacher must win the regard of her pu-
pills, and particularly the leaders, for 10
out Of 20 pupils are led by the twentieth.
The teachers first aim must be to teach
the pupil to reason and think; the Sec
ond, to teach the pupil to store his
knowledge. He strongly condemned the
encouragement of ''cramming" for exam
nations and emphasized the necessity of
proper questions at the proper time
questions which incite the pupil to re-
search.
DR.. Craig supplemented Superintend-
ent Steere's remarks by al elaboration
of the text, "She teaches best who
teaches her pupils to think most and
best" He did not think it 60 necessary
to etudy the surroundings of the school
as the surroundings of the several pupils,
particularly in their homes. The child
must be made the central figure.
Teachers do not teach reading, writing
or arithmetic, but they teach the child.
A paper by G. I'll. Robinson on
Language caused the most interesting
and general discussion Of the day. He
recommended that language be taught
in early childhood. In the discussion
which followed, it was manifest that
of the city teachers approved of
Longs language outlines, now in use in
the Great Falls schools.
). A. Remington read an instructive
and entertaining paper on History"
which WIS SO complete and so fully in
accord with the ideas Of all that 10 criti-
cism was made. Supt. Steere demon
the theory of the four funda-
laws Of numbers and the law Of
in algebra.
An intermission was taken from noon
until 1870 p. a..
To the afternoon j, S. Davidson read Il
paper on "Arithmetic," and Supt. Steere
one On physical Geography. demon.
their methods of Touching.
The days lectures closed with an in
teresting lecture by DIR. Craig on 1.-THE
Culture of Attention" He is a pleasing
and as he dwelt on his Psyche
topic be held the attention of all
present.
When tho Cascade county teachers
institute met for the second day Wednes-
day, tho teachers present who we're not
enrolled OF the first day were Rhoda
Pierce, Arlington; S. A. Remington,
May E. Maye, Belt; May E. Bower, John
J. Elliott, Great Falls; Maggie Fergus,
Kibbey, and Mrs. W. H. Titus, Sun
River. There WAS also an increased at
tendance of spectators.
The program as published in Wednes-
TRIBUNE was adhered to. The
other subjects were Of little interest to
anyone except a teacher, but Miss
Edgerton's paper on "Civica" dealt with
the subject generally and was pro-
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