The herald., 1896-12-01

After singing the national hymn,
America, the invocation was pronounced
by Rev. J. A. B. Wilson.
Prof. M. r. Williams. president of the
county board of education, then ad-
dressed the meeting. He reviewed
briefly the work accomplished by the
board of education during the past year.
The time of adoption of nearly all text
books, not state series, expired last
June. In consequence of this several
important changes have been made.
The object of the board has been to sup
plant the old with something better. In
writing a wide separation from the Did
method has been made, and the slanting
hand has been supplanted to a con-
siderable degree by the vertical hand:
system of drawing was found unsatis-
factory, and a new system has been sub
stituted. Continuing, Mr.. Williams
said: We are here to consider this ques-
tion: "Is the public school, after all.
meeting the demand for good moral
characters?" This is the supreme end
of all education. Not what our pupils
have learned but what they have learned
to love will make or mar the moral
structure. The teaching of mathe-
matcs science and history is but
fraction of our work. The manner in
which truth is presented may make it
either attractive or repulsive. pure or
demands not only a higher standard Of
action but of thought a higher concep-
ton of the whole subject of purity. Let
us keep constantly in mind the fact that
morality, self reliance, character itself
must come from within. After all the
most we can give is the greatness of
good and true life, life that makes the
best of passing opportunity.
Professor Williams remarks were
we'll received, and he sat down amidst
hearty round of applause.
Professor W. N. Hailman then deliv-
Harmonious Development of the Heal
Hand and Heart. He said in part:
When the hand stretches itself forth to
accomplish anything it is but the pro-
jected soul. A training which does not
harmonize these two must result in
one-sided development of the indivi1-
ual To harmonize, then. is the end of
all soul work. To accomplish this sim
plicity, sameness of purpose and self
expansion are necessary. Too often
the head and mind are trained to the
sad neglect of either hand or heact
When we see the ruthless schoolboy taSe
the life Of an innocent bird it simply
means that the heart training has bean
wholly overlooked. Again others are
compelled to train the hand to the neg
lect of the head. But in order to gain a
well balanced personality all the or
gans must be trained harmoniously
The Office of the school should, be to nu~-
ture and feed the soul of the little child
who comes within its doors. Too often
1t stops at the memorizing of the for
mula of others and the soul lives out
side the school room undirected. Per-
haps If the conditions are favorable no
harm results, but how often the con-
trary is true.
The schools should, encourage socia!
development, a feature that has long
been neglected, but which is speedily
being brought to teachers all over The
country. Let the end of all training be
the harmonious development of head,
hand and heart, and wonderful results
will follow.
As announced in the program, the
work of the afternoon was divided into
sections in the rooms of the Spring
street school building. In section one
Prof Kirk spoke on Language in the
first and second years. This was fol-
lowed by discussion, Mrs Hilliard, Mrs.
Anderson. Misses McKibben, Cleve-
land, Anderson and Mccoy participate
ing.
In section two, Music. by Mrs. Rice in
the early part of the session, and Lam
guage. by Prof. Kirk, occupied the time
Prof Linscott gave an interesting talk
on Arithmetic, and a discussion followed
by Miss Thornton. Mrs. Mason, Miss
NOAiihOiAU6Sb MlSS 1dNlS anu MI. tTdck-
elton.
Prof. Suiscott gave an intersteing talk
in section four on Correct Methods in the
Study of History, followed by Miss Haz-
zard, j. w. Mosher, Miss Schroeder, Mr..
Townsend, Miss Connor and Mr. Couch
man.
Mrs. Bradfield occupied the latter half
OF the afternoon with technical talk
on Model and Object Drawing.
The program for today in section one
will be: In the morning. Early Geog-
raphy, by Prof. Linscott; Drawing, Mrs.
Bradfield; in the afternoon, Nature
Study, first and second year, DR.. Mara
Pratt; Vertical Writing, Prof Isaacs.
Section two, Drawing. Mrs Bradfield;
Numbers, by Prof. Kirk; in the after
noon. Vertical Writing, Prof Isaacs;
Child Study. DR.. Pratt Section three
Language, Prof. Kirk; Music Mrs. Rice;
Reading, Prof. Linscott; Morals and
Manners, Prof. Kirk. Section four, Es-
sentials in Arithemetic. by Prof Gut
terry; Vertical Writing, Prof. Isaacs:
Bookkeeping, by Prof. McCutchan; Mu-
sic. Mrs. Rice. Section five will meet
with the city institute in the high school,
but with that exception the exercises
above named will be held at the Spring
street school building.