The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-11
READYFORTHEWORLD
Bright and Beautiful Young Ladies
Finish Their Education.
THEIR ABLE ADDRESSES
At the Graduating Exercises Last
Night the Scene Was One of
Unmixed Pleasure-Flow-
ers and Rhetoric.

night before a large and brilliant au-
dience. which filled all of the seats and
standing room. both up stairs and
down stairs and extended out into the
hall. The class. which was composed
of Misses Martheil Arnold. Blanche E.
Evans. Mary s. Innes. Emma Hesse.
Matte Free. Luella Sheehan. Annie
Williams. Cassie Laird. Katie Lynch.
Julia Shea and Annie Turner. was an
unusually bright one. and the essays
were all interesting and their delivery
was excellent. The accompanying ex-
ercises and the surroundings were in
perfect harmony with the occasion and
the evening was one of great enjoy
ment throughout, and particularly 30
for the parents and friends Of the men,
beers Of the class. as well as the others
who took part in the proceedings. The
normal training, or postgraduate class.
was introduced by Superintendent
Hendricks two years ago and has since
proved satisfactory to the highest de-
gree. besides effecting a considerable
financial saving to the district. Only
graduates OF the high schools are adj
mitted to the class. and then only when
they are qualified to pass an examina-
ton for a certificate from the county
superintendent. The class is required
to complete the course in psychology,
the theory OF teaching, school manage
ment and didactics. and 1T is also re-
quired to spend a certain time each
day in actual school-room work under
the direction of the teachers OF the
city.
The present class has done all of the
substitute work for the last year, and
the members of IL taught about 400
days at a saving Of nearly $500. In
addition to the experience gained by
the post-graduates IL is also a great
convenience. as they filled the place of
the regular teachers much better than
outsiders could have done. This fea-
ture of school work is new in the west,
but Ii has been introduced in the best
modern graded schools of the east and
it's introduction in Butte was only ad-
ditional evidence of the careful and no
tably competent direction of which the
schools of the city have received un-
der Superintendent Hendricks. 1t is
also a plainly apparent fact that east
~ern cities don't need work OF this KIND
nearly as much as the west, as they
have normal and training schools while
nothing of this kind exists in Montana.
No feature of the system is of more
practical worth than the giving OF the
high school graduates an opportunity
to qualify themselves for teaching and
at the same time giving them employ
ment
Superintendent Hendricks also intro
duced the first elementary wand drills
and military features in Butte, and
now the boys of the entire city are or
Sganfzed into military companies, while
the girls and boys are thoroughly
trained in the system of physical Gull
ture. These exercises have had a most
civilizing influence, particularly In Gen.
terville where the boys, instead of
throwing clubs at their teachers, now
touch their hats to them. Rudeness
and rowdyism have become things of
the past. and since the system was in
troduced there have been no perma-
pent suspension, and only Few cases
of corporal punishment. The military
idea is carried out to perfectness, and
the scholars give prompt obedience to
their teachers.
A pleasing feature of to-night's exer-
cises was the physical culture move
ments. These opened with a wand
drill by 30 girls of the fourth and fifth
grades, which was very pretty. The
movements were all made together in
perfect time. and the picture presented
girls from the seventh and eighth
grades gave the feather movements of
the Delsarte system, and Is girls from
the high school gave a physical express
sion drill. The different pastures ex-
pressed expectation. hope, despair, fear,
delight, supplication and other feelings
in a manner that was surprising and
was applauded to the echo.
]. M. Quinn presented the diplomas,
and in so doing he congratulated both
ouDeflntenQGnI
schools on the introduction of the ply
steal culture feature. He said there
was great need of a union of all creeds
and people in support of the greatest
of all American institutions-the free
public schools. He placed the calling
of the teacher on a level with that of
the mother. and congratulated the peo-
ple of Butte on leading in higher edu-
cation and the training of teachers,thus
helping TO give dignity to the profess
sion.
The following is a synopsis of the es-
says delivered by the members of the
class
"woman-The Natural Teacher"
was the first essay on the programme.
and the subject was well handled by
Miss Marthell Arnold, who said. in
substance:
mature designed for woman the
care and instruction of children. and
has given to her to a greater degree
than men the quickness of invention to
vary different modes of teaching to
different dispositions and more pa
thence to make repeated efforts. In the
capacity of an educator woman frames
and builds the character of those who
shall in future years defend our liber-
ties, plan our country's future inn
provement and raise IL to unparalleled
glory. Sne trains the twig as the tree
should be inclined; she molds the
character and educates the heart as
well as the intellect. and she prepares
the future man. now the boy, for honor
or dishonor. She inculcates lessons of
manliness, patriotism. religion and vir-
tue. fitting the man. by reason of his
training, to be an honor to society, or
booming. by her neglect. to life of
shame and dishonor- In the great men
and women we see those lessons
taught them by their fathers and
mothers, and by her instilled. shining
forth in every action and deed. but to
those who can be taught only by ex-
amples we can give one noble evidence
of the advantages OF woman's infiu-
ence. Let us recall to mind the his
tory of the man who directed the des-
TIMES of our own proud and happy
country. Let us look at the moral
grandeur of his character. Let us be-