The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-04
THE INSTITUTE
The Third Days Exercises Upto'
the High Standard.
r. GoRDY,s HISTORY TALKS.
Are one OF the nt.t Features OF the
Ii,%stituis-nr DoathAt, OF the unlyer-
slty, Talks on Lansnsss-ni. Theories
Excite Intsrtst-sii,s Jacobs speaks on
the Subject OF Physical Cu~itars-othsr
ssaiafs. Of the Day.

At . O'clock yesterday morning the roll
was called at the Wheeling teachers In.
stitnte and but very few failed to am
swer TO their names. DR.. Douthat, OF
the university. offered prayer and a song
WAS sung, after which the 80" teachers
were allowed 10 go to the hall below,
where for a half hour they were instruct,
ed In physical culture by Miss Jones.
This proved both Interesting and profit
able. Misc Jones Is surely an adept In
her chosen calling and Is doing great
good. During the absence tOf these
teachers, the. time was spent In pleasant
converse by the teachers and quite q
number of subscriptions were secured
for the West Virginia School Journal.
Miss Parsons was the first speaker for
the forenoon, and she spoke particularly
spoke OF paper folding. In this there Is
the beginning Of manual training. They
here cause their fingers toido what their
ears hear. She gave quiteSa numbersof
examples OF paper folding.
i Dr. GOrdy followed, Hegflrst asked
quite a number of questions c1ncernlng
his talk OF yesterday, One OF the ques-
lions brought out this Important fact:
That In order that apperceptlon be per-
feet, 1t Is necessary that the objective
and the subjective be in the mind at the
same time.
No difference what we are teaching or
undertake to teach, the what must5get
Into the mind through the subjective,
factor and the objective and the sub
Jective must be In the mind at the same
time. The teacher must be sure TO bring
| whatever he wishes to teach Into relation
with what the pupil knows already. In,
teaching geography, for instance, the:
Wheeling teachers would use nil tho
knowledge the pupil possesses concerns
Ing the city OF Wheeling, In order to
| teach all about other cities. In teach
Ing arithmetic to the child, you use the
| objects until the concept Is formed In the
| child's mind; then the objects must,be,
done away with. We teach too many
things In arithmetic that are OF no use
to the child and that never will be Of use
to him. We establish wrongN relations,
After a short recess and another song.
DR.. D0uthat gave n talk on Words"
He began by saying that the subject was
a broad one--a great one. Not great be-
| cause all the people. of the world think
| about Il, but because OF Its age. The
| talk will be one nor to give Information
| than to tell how to teach. The subject of
language has been a study to him for 10
| years-not only in one language, but In
| many languages. The world Is divided
| on the subject Of language. So II Is on
| the origin. OF a Some think with
| Darwin that he was evolved from a no.
mad to what he Is. Others belives he
came into the world the full grown man..
So some think language was evolved
from the chirp, the twitter. the growl,
etc, Of the lower animals to what we
! 80, .ornfts ~ ntLaeS fbtnIya ~ n aJl,,tpA.
origin.
In talking OF language We will attempt
to answer Ave questions concerning lam
guage-what.i It Is, when 1t began, where
It. came from, why we have It, and how
we came to have language. Words
show US what races have lived IN the Diff
| ferent parts of the world. The names OF
| rivers, mountains, cities, stand as mon
uments to show what nations settled
and what people lived there. The talk
was bath interesting and instructive.
Afternoon Session.
The roll was called and West Virginia
Hills" was sung. Then DR.. Douthnt
gave another talk on language. Lam
guage Is an Intelligent production OF.
sounds or forms by which We commmi-
cate our Ideas and feelings one to an
other. One school says language Is ar
bltrary and conventional; /. e., 1t makes
no difference what anything Is called. a
certain sound is made to represent a GER
tain thing and 1t was ever afterwards
called that. He does not agree entirely
with that opinion. Every time you
speak you select a word to express your
thoughts. Then why did not the first
manfwho spoke select words to express
his thoughts?
He compared language 10 a stream;
the beginning of language the head OF
the stream, and language as we now,
have II, the mouth. Reasoning by In
duction, he argued that the theory that
language Is arbitrary Is not correct.
There never was a word formed but
was formed in a logical manner. The
original man was a barbarian. The his
tory OF man Is not In the caves, not In the
skulls, but in, the language. Through
words we arrive nearer the original man
than in any. other way. There is some
thing In his speech that carries us back
to. the beginning. Some consider the In
dian a barbarian and that he. cannot rea-
son logically; but he q express at least
fifty ideas by using the same words.
If the words we use to-day can be
traced back to antiquity, then the orig
inal mar must have either been lntelli-
gent or he received language by inspl-
ration. He Is Inclined to the former.
The doctor askedyth teachers to think
during the year to come on the question:
Are there more than four distinct ideas
in the universe?
After. recess, DR.. Gordy talked on the
subject OF United States History. He
began by calling attention to the fact
that Thomas Jefferson, who became
President In 1901. had a theory thnt no
other man living had thus for had. His
theory was that government should be
entirely for! the benefit of the governed.
lie was obliged to violate his theory In
the purchase OF Louisiana and in many
other ways. Tho energy, of the Amerl-
can people could never have been hem
med In by the theories that Jefferson had
when he became President. The doc
tors talk was fully as interesting as oil
his former: talks were. The teachers are
all anxious to hear, every word that falls
from his lips, and they listen with the
utmost attention.
The institute has Increased in interest
from the very first hour. The hall Is
daily crowded and no doubt II Will SO
continue to-day. This Is the last day,
and 1t will doubtless be. the best day.
Institute Notes.
Miss Nettle L. Graebc, one fof the
Richie teachers, has failed to answer to
her name at every roll CALL The reason
for this is that she now answers to an
other name, as several weeks ago she
became Mrs. T. NJ. Carman, Her, fellow
teachers wish that she may be Just as
<sEE$Ss, Mr.. a. II. Cransby, OF No.
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