The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-01-17
Society sincerely Regret the Retire.
ment of A. T. Atkinson as Inspector
General-Interesting Program Car
ried Out-Vote of Thanks, Etc.

1nSpecJOT-Generdl anu elSrnI SueSIs
making thirty-three at the meeting.
Mr.. Townsend opened with prayer.
The members of the Program Com
mittee were Mrs. Terry, Miss Weight
Miss Matte Richardson. At Mrs. Ter
rvs suggestion the roll-call quotation
were taken from Shakespeare, as:
And often times excusing of fault
Doth make the fault the worse by tn
excuse"
Or,
eff all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Or,
Devise, wit; write, PEN
And many others brief and apt.
After reading the minutes the sec.
rotary reported the sending of a letter
from the society to Mr.. Atkinson, con-
veying their sincere regret that he had
felt obliged to retire from the position
which brought him so often among US
and expressing the hope that he would
be able to keep on still with some act
i've but not over-fatiguing duty with
the Board of Education. The program
was represented as follows:
Opening prayer.
Roll-call by quotations from Shake
speare
Reading of minutes.
Business items
"Class work in Mental Arithmetic"
................. Mr.. Ray
"a Study in Language. Miss Coan
Lesson on Map-drawing". Mr.. Swain
Paper by. ...Miss Deyo
School exhibitions and closing exer-
cises.
Reading exercise. Miss West
Letter-writing. .......... Mr.. Maltere
Question blackboard work.
Zach teacher is asked to hand in one
question upon blackboard work, so as
to bring out different methods, accur-
acy, neatness, etc.
Mr.. Rays class of nine walked in,
five miles, from Papaikou, and had to
walk back during the afternoon. They
were volunteers, as one could hardly
require class to take such a journey.
The questions embraced a number of
arithmetical subjects, including frac-
tons, as: How many nails in shoes for
four horses? Answers varied, because
some thought shoe had six, others
eight, nails. How many apples. must
be cut up among six boys to give each
boy two-thirds of an apple? etc., etc.
The exercise took about half an hour.
Miss Coan presented class of six in
Fourth Reader. Their subject was the
study of poetical forms under three or
more heads. d. Poetical diversions
and changes in word forms. 90
Rhythm. g. Rhyme. Their idefini-
lions were accompanied by suitable ex-
amples and by scanning vocalIy and on
the boards. They appeared self-pos-
sessed and gained some compliments
for their efforts.
Miss Severance read well-prepared
paper on Drawing" from Mr.. Swain
of Laupahoehoe. Though he was alb
sent, he had provided some good illus
trations on the board, and his work
was very clearly and nicely arranged. |
Miss Deyo, in her paper on CLOSING |
Exercises" gave some excellent sug-
gestions about the material to be used
and the methods of preparing and pre-
senting such material; select reading
lessons the children like; try mental |
arithmetic for one exercise, as it is
rather taking; teach carefully until
pupils understand the words of songs,
making reading lessons of them if
necessary. AS much as possible, how
ever, keep the drilling of show per-
formances out of school houses Pro-
vide enough of show to entertain the
eye among so many in the audience
who do not well understand English,
and who grow weary of recitations.
At the close of the reading Mrs. Ter
~ invited the teachers to remain
through the noon hour with her, and
forthwith was produced, on dainty
china, a delicious luncheon, including
ce cream, for all of which our hostess
'eceived many thanks.
Miss Vests class in Second Reader I
next. They did well in
bringing out pronouns to be used in !
'lace of various nouns presented in |
entences, by the teacher. Mr.. Towns '
nd praised the method of placing the !,
entence, or illustration, before the +
hildren in advance of the explana- e
ion. In other words, working from Q
be object to the result. Miss West =
lso developed the proposition by plac- s