The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-15

The quarterly meeting OF the dlIO
Teachers Union was held January 10Th
at the Hilo Boarding School, in ac-
cordance with the invitation kindly
given by Mrs. Terry last October
There are thirty on the roll twenty
four of whom were present, besides the
nspector-GeneraI and eight guests
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 rolI-call quotations
were taken from Shakespeare, as:
"And often times excusing of fault
Doth make the fault the worse oy the
excuse.
Or,
.sIf all the year were playing holidays, y,
TO snort would be as tedious as to work
Or,
Devise, wit; write, pen
And MANY others brief and apt.
After reading the minutes the sec
retary reported the sending of a letter
from the society to Mr.. Atkinson, con-
veying their sincere regret that ne nau
felt obliged to retire from the position
which brought him SO often among u.s.
and expressing the hope that he would
he 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.
RolI-call by quotations from Shake
speare.
Reading of minutes.
Business items.
"CIass work in Mental Arithmetic"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mr. Kay
"a Study in Language. miss Coan
Lesson on Map-drawing MIR. Swain
Paner Miss Deyo
School exhibitions and closing exer-
cises.
Reading exercise. ........ ...Mlss west
Jetter-writing. Mr.. Maltere
Question box-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 a class to take such journey.
The questions embraced a number OF
arithmetical subjects, including frac-
tions. 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 I'D among six boys to give each
boy two-thirds of an apple? etc., etc.
The exercise took about half an hour.
Miss Coan presented a class Of six in
Fourth Reader. Their subject was the
study of poetical forms under three or
more heads. % Poetical diversions
and changes in word forms. t(2)
Rhythm. 3D. Rhyme. Their detn1-
lions were accompanied by suitable ex-
amples and by scanning vocally and on
the boards. They appeared self-pos-
sessed and gained some compliments
for their efforts.
Miss Severance read a 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 1t Is
rather taking; teach carefully until
pupils understand the words of songs,
makingt 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
eve among so many in the audience
who do not we'll 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
ice cream, for all of which our hostess
received many thanks.
Miss Vests class in Second Reader
appeared next. They did we'll in
bringing out pronouns to be used in
place of various nouns presented in
sentences, by the teacher. Mr.. Towns
end praised the method of placing the
sentence, or illustration, before the
children in advance of the explana-
ton. In other words, working from
the object to the result. Miss West
also developed the proposition by plac-