The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-27
Teachers Meeting at
Houghton Satur-
day.
Over 100 Teachers Present.
The Andrews Case In the Circuit At
tracing Great Deal or Atten-
ti0n-Other News.

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school building Saturday. The morning
session was attended by about fifty
teachers and at the afternoon session
there were nearly twice as many in at
tendance.
The morning session was opened with
prayer by Rev. w. C. Hicks and solo by
Miss Sloekett. The first paper was by
County Commissioner William Bath on
"The Functions of the High School as
Fitting school for Active, Practical Life"
The gentleman advocated the placing OF
the purely Informative studies in the
lower grades and the devoting OF noon
time in the higher grades TO the teaching
OF self reliance The habit OF study and
the teaching the student to rely upon
himself in searching out knowledge would
be of the greatest benefit when the stu
dent bad passed out into that higher
school, the world Supt. Brock, OF Han
cock, led the discussion and he endorsed
the general line Of argument and added
| to il.
Miss Metcalf read very good paper on
Science in the Elementary Schools, and
the discussion was interesting to those
who had given the subject thought.
The event of the session, and indeed OF
the day, was the address OF DR.. Wads-
worth on "The Relation OF the High
School to the Mining School," and the
discussion that followed it. The speaker
said that the greatest good to both high
school and mining school would come
from cooperation. Some time ago the
subject Of normal schoolfor this section
come up, but the speaker declared that
should not proper support be given the
mining school from this section we could
not hope for the establishment by the
State of another institutionin our midst.
| Some of the high schools OF the county,
DR.. Wadsworth said, had added to their
curriculum the course OF study proposed
by the board of control and faculty of the
mining school and Others had not. Some
OF the high schools had sent students to
the mining school, but from the Hancock
school not one had been sent and this the
speaker was evidently under the impress
sion was TO be ascribed to the influence OF
Hancock superintendent.
OF course, after this address, there was
more or less rejoinder. Supt. Brock took
the occasion to state before the whole as
ISOLATION that the mining school author
titles were laboring uncer misapprehen-
sion and that he had realized this Tor
some time. The fact was, he said, but
two boys graduating from the high
school had gone to the University OF
Michigan and for or against such course
on their part anything he might have
said or urged would have been OF NO
avail. He declared that he felt no i'm.
partially toward any institution 81
higher learning and had used no influence
to get his students to go to one more
than another that he had been very care
fu in this regard. As for the course o.
study proposed by the mining school au
thorities he. in common with three Other
superintendents OF the county, thought
It would be Injurious to the school tC
adopt and press it upon the students, al
it was not properly arranged in many
WAYS. Besides, the course would not bt
recognized by the Michigan University
and for such recognition with the ad
vantages it carried with it his schoo
board had been laboring for years.
Prof. Arbury, formerly of the Hough
ton schools, also made remarks abou
the arrangement of the proposed prepar
! atory course.
The afternoon session opened with
piano solo by Prof. Johnson. The after
noon was devoted entirely to the subiec
of child study and begun with CAREFUL,
. prepared address by Supt Cooley, OF Cal
umet with plea for special child study
, He was OF the opinion that the creates
results would be obtained from the train
ing of the primary teacher in the study o
the child. This would lead teacher il
the right direction in forming the child
habits atthe very outset OF it's studen
DAYS, the most important time of all
Miss Dobbie read paper on How t.
Begin Child Study" which gave man.
practical hints.
, Under the head of "Home Environ
} ments." Miss Webb, OF Hancock, spoke @
the Importance of habit In education
following out the argument OF those pre-
ceding her. Mr.. McCone, OF Houghton
spoke of the imitation by the child OF tn
/ teacher and in very unique manner b
showed in a negative way the effect thi
J imitation might have. Supt. Boyd, Q
Dollar Bay, told OF plan of keeping rec
ord of the temperament Of child and PAL
ents, the circumstances in which the chill
was surrounded Mt home, etc, but sail
he had come to the conclusion that it di'
not pay for the trouble.
Miss Zieuen during the afternoon ses
sion gave pleasing vocal solo. The US
ual business meeting was held at the en'
of the program.
The case OF Mrs. Andrews against tn
Tamarack mining company in the circu'
court il one of interest, as proved by tn
number who are attending the session
of court and listening to the vigorou
work of Attorneys Riley and tray. Sat