The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-07
CITY teachers Gather
Institute Began Yesterday After
noon in the i. n. {. A. Hall.
SrPT. StHAEFFER PRESENT
Two Addresses by Head Of the State Pub
lie Schools Large Enrol lnent OF
Teachers - Presideat Mitchell.
Of the school Board. Talks.

O'Clock YESTERDAY afternoon in the
Young Mems Christian Association hall
and will be continued each morning and
afternoon during the week until Friday
noon. For the institute proper there
have been engaged an unusually COM
petent corps Of instructors for nearly
every branch of common school educa-
tion, and several of the most prominent
ones will deliver addresses during the
evenings.
Yesterday afternoon there were but
one or two absentees from among the
many city teachers. The teachers
themselves occupied almost every seat
in the three sections forming the main
auditorium. while the space back of the
aisle seated comfortably the spectators.
To the proceedings We're attached an
initial interest and enthusiasm which
bCtOkcnS the great success and infiu-
ence for which the sessions are intend
ed. Addresses were given by Miss "A.
j. McNoilan. of the Bloomsburg State
Normal school on synthetic reading;
President George Mirchell,of the Scran-
ton board Of control, and n. G. Scha eff
fer, state superintendent of public
schools, whose subject was "PestaloZ-
III" the great Swedish Instructor. In
the evening Superintendent Schaeffcr
was to given lecture ON High
Schools" but the rain and snow per-
mitted the attendance Of but Il small
number and the lecture was postponed.
The institute was opcrAd by prayer
by Rev. Dr.. MOffatt. of the Washburn
Street Presbyterian church,after which
a chorus Of 80 thildien under the lead
crship Of Master Eddie DAVIS. of Belle
vue, sang several selections The sing
ing was to a piano accompaniment by
Miss Mary Harris.
OPENING OF INSTITUTE.
Supsrntcndent If City Schools How
ell. occupied but a brief period in his
address. formally opening the institute
and encouraging the teachers to profit
by it. That the event might be more
than passing successful he urged their
hearty cooperation and personal inter-
est in the proceedings The teachers
work. he said. Is elevat!rg and suggests
something higher than The mere tact
% salary making The instruction and
guidance of children and the young is
a duty of more than material lnspira-
tiOn. The calling is one. he said. which
suggests the truth that the king should
fit the crown rath-I than the crown fit
the king.
Miss McMollcn's tail; on synthetic
reading was one Of peculiar interest in
that it served to impress the need OF
reading as an ar. and of proper pro-
nounciation. She experimental with
the audience. she assuming the office
of teacher and the teachers forming a
supposed class. In the articulation of
vowel sounds. the pronounciatiOn and
use of diDhthongs and double conspn-
ants and of given words she showed in
Il practical manner that mistakes are
common among matured persons and
In consequence more care should be eX-
eicised in properly guiding the young
whose minds and habit foreshadow
later years. That 'the boy is father to
the man" she emphasized.
Then took place the enrolment which
was performed in a new way. The
three sections of the auditorium were
designated sections A, j. and G, re-
spectivcly, and each teacher wrote up
on a card the section and number of the
s?a: occupied. The cards We're collect
ed ana registered and the teachers in
structed 10 occupy the same seats DUR
ing each session,
Prof. G. B. Derman conducted a 15-
minute period oi singing.
PRESIDENT MITCHELI.'S ADDRESS
President Mitchell in Il measure les
sened the attention to what he said was
his inabilty to make speech by say
ing he was ~ ease in the school board
but lost confidence when he found him
self before an audience of such femin-
inc beauty. He referred to the large
sums of money and attention bestowed
ny the board in giving the city an array
of modern school BUILDINGS which
would compare favorably with those of
any relative city in the country. In
this policy the teachers had not been
forgotten and their needs were fully
Known to the board. The board had
raised the teachers STANDARD but had
not increased salaries. He believed
that the salary question would sosn be
favorably considered. (app'aus").
Superintendent Schaeffrrs address
on PestalozZi could not have been
other than an incentive to the audience
to recognize the. rea! elevation of its
calling. In vary pathetic way he
brought out the great suffering and
seif-denial of the almost immortal
Swede in becoming poverty stricken in
order 10 continue his school of practical
instl uction. tbs value of which was
not appreciated until after the great
pedagogue's death. The closing year
of the American revolution he said. did
not create greater sensation than did
Pestalozzi's work on Domestic Edu-
cation
THE EVENING LECTURE.
Superintendent Schaeffers evening
lecture on High Schools" was to have
begun at s O'Clock but at that hour onl5
a small number of teachers were pres
ent, owing to the rain and snow storm
and after quartette, led by Professor
Jones, had sung a selection city Super
intendent Howell announced that the
lecture would not be given. Today's
programme is as follows:
TUicSDAY--9 \. NJ.
Invocation.
Music
"Froebel and His Theory of Education"
Professor Twitmeye,
practical Composition. l.. $. Richard
Banking Methods" "..........: II. G. Shafel
"Phcnics" Miss McAlollar
Music
1.-The Boy Before Going to School,
Mrs. l.. NJ. Gates
1.-THE Boy in school ......... Prof. Phillips
"The Boy Out of School,. Judge Edwards
2P. NJ.
Music.
"Geography's Dry Bones Removed
MesSrs, HaWker and BurdcH