The herald., 1896-05-24

edge. Many of them are distinguished
graduates Of the foremost universities
CT the country and nearly all have UNDER
gone special university training for the
branch OF study over which they preside.
In f. b. Dresslar, A. M, Phi. D., the SUI
perintendent of the model and training
department and lecture in psychology
and pedagogy, the faculty boasts dis
tinguished scholar, one whose works on
his life study are known and apprecia-
ted not merely in this country but in
the various educational centers of
Europe. DR.. Dresslar Is a graduate of
Indiana and Clark universities; he may
be called an expert in all sorts of school
life and has made special study of
the relation between teacher and pupil,
the magnetism of the pedagogue and the
receptivity of the student. Pedagogy Is
too closely allied in the public mind to
pedantry and in the very word there
popularity seems u danger of priggish-
ness. The pedagogical habit" and the
pedagogical atmosphere" are apt to
SCARE the layman, but DR.. Dresslar's
teaching bears no faint of such danger.
1t Is but lately that a chair of pedagogy
was, az tablished in the normal schools,
and the Los Angeles school indeed was
one Of the first to recognize the supreme
Importance of this work. The true mo-
tive and viaiCct of teaching, how b5St
to reach the child, forms the basis of
DR.. Dresslar's teaching.
Melville Dozier, b. p, of Firman uni
yersity, South Carolina, is at the head
of the mathematical department, and
is also skillful astronomer. He has an
able lieutenant in the mathematical
work in Charles T.. Hutton, A. M, of st.
Johns and the University of California.
Sarah p. Monks, A. M, of Vasar is
the curator Of the museum and lecturer
in zoology and botany. Harriet Il. Dunn
of the Illinois Normal university teaches
i'm m
Josephine e. Seaman of the New York
Normal college, Agnes Crazy, A. B., of
the University of California, and En-
ma j. Brock, also of the University of
California; at present Eta Il. Moore of
the universities of Oregon and California
is filling the post of Miss Crazy, who is
Ill. Alice j. Merritt of the University of
Michigan lectures in botany and geo.
graphy. Mrs. May A. English of the
University of California presdes in the
chemical laboratory and also lectures in
physiology. Physics are in the able
hands of James HI. Schults, A. M, NJ. D.,
of the University of Syracuse. Ada M.
Iaughlin, who for twelve years was SUI
perintendent of drawing in the public
schools of st. Paul, Mimi, is the in
structor in drawing and Juliet Powell
Rice of the Chicago conservatory of
music attends to the cultivation of the
sister art, music. The sloyd work,
which has only lately been introduced
into the curriculum of the school and
has already proved a most attractive and
valuable factor in both mental and
nlanual training. finds fitting expo
nent in Charles M. Miller of the Sloyd
training school and the Throop universe
ty of Pasadena. Sarah j. Jacobs of the
Hemingway school of physical culture,
Boston. commands in the gymnasium.
James +. Chamberlain of the county nor
NAL school is a special teacher Of geo.
graphy. Zibella Ebert of the Emerson
school Of oratory, Boston, teaches voice
culture and reading.
The critic teachers in the model and
training school, specially selected by
the board of education for superior ex-
cellence, are as follows:
j. H. Monlux, A. NJ, high school;
Albertina Smith, eighth grade: Alice
Gregory, seventh grade; Franc Hawks,
sixth grade; Kate F. Osgood, fifth grade;
Clara M. Preston, fourth grade; Frances
H. Byram, principal, third grade; Agnes
Elliott, second grade; Carrie Reeves,
first grade.
THE PRESENT TRUSTEES.
The governor of California, James H.
Rudd, and Samuel Il. Black, state SUI
perintendent are ex-officio members of
the board of trustees. The five menu
bers constituting the board are A. r.
Pomeroy, j.. r. Wilson and j. Marion
brooks of Los Angeles, T. P. Lukens of
Pasadena, and F. A. Molnyneaux of Po-
mona. Principal Pierce is secretary of
the board.