The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-20


the Brigham Young college at Logan
delivered the first lecture at this saorn-
ing's session of the institute, on THE
Supericiality of College Education, .
pointing out certain useless exercises
which are introduced into the school
room. He also decauted upon the su-
pericial education which one acquires
at quacl1 business colleges, where adj
vertiselnents are thrown out that the
student can obtain q good education IN
business, stenography, commercial law
and political economy in six weeks
Also other places where 1t is assumed
that a knowledge Of German, French
and Lain can be acquired in three
months. He deprecated the bafbarous
practice of spending one-fourth of the
time in our schools in preparing the
pupil for q public display. The stu
dents are deceived into the notion that
they are making great progress, where
as their knowledge is very superficial
He assumed that there was not a
school in the state where q correct col
lege course was carried out 10 the
letter.
Considerable interest YVES shown in
a mathematical lecture delivered by
William NJ. Stewart, who demonstrated
how fractions could be better taught
by the comparison of quantities, and
gave as definition that a fraction -
the ratio Of one quantity to another.
Miss Bessie kimball gave the teach
ers Illustrations Of how she taught
simple numbers and fractions with tae
use of blocks This is in harmony
with Mr.. Spears method, which is be-
ing advocated by Professor Stewart.
DIR. HALLS LECTURE.
DR.. Hall announced as his subject,
Muscle Movements" While in Ger
many studying physiology he asked d
certain professor what subject he had
better pursue after leaving college, and
he was advised 10 spend the first year
studying one of the 25 muscles of a
frogs leg. This was somewhat hunnil-
iating AT first, bat as he pursued the
study he found that he must also study
electrical action, chemistry, the accu-
racy of curvatures, and in fact in this
muscle was the same mechanism as
that il man which had accomplished SO
much in the civilization of the world,
and was in fact one of the best studies
he had ever pursued.
Muscle building is brain building. In
educating the muscles you educate the
nerves and brain. At the Greek olym-
pic games all the talent from around
about ~as collected and muscular con-
We're Landed 10 the skies. and families
were proud when they traced reia-
1ionship to them. It has been stated
that the running broad jump or the
leap. as the Greeks termed il, covered
as high as 80 feet, which. If correct. IS
greater than has ever been attained
since. Only strong muscles can make
men great and nations free
In speaking of games he stated that
IA = on
the grid iron than great many
through confinement The best cure
fer morbid anger is boxing. In GER
tain colleges there are many devices
prepared for developing the different
muscles. II is not so much in what q
person knows as what they can do
skilfully, what you can demonstrate
clearly. Our triumphs are proportion
ate to our ability to exercise our mind
and muscles with skill that certain
ends may be attained.
SUMNER SCHOOL SESSION
After the usual opening exercises
had taken place Dr.. Hall appeared be-
fore the summer school at o'clock
TODAY and asked the assistance of sew
eral young men, through the medium
OF whom he illustrated the time re-
ouiTed for sensations 10 pass between
these persons. This was a preface to 4
lecture on child study at the ages Of
S to T. Il is observable that Whalers
harp0on their victim and then row
away from the brute before he lashes
the whaiers and overturns the boat,
showing that it takes some time for
the senses of the whale 10 be awakened
to the fact that he has been attacked
He then Illustrated how one thought
suggests another. The auditors were
asked to shout the first word which
came 20 their mind when the speaker
announced a word. He shouted boy
and the response was girl Nature Is
made up of correlated thoughts, and
sbis suggests a means OF acquiring
knowledge.
The most active age OF lie Is from
TO L. as is discovered by tests made.
At that time the child does not grow
much in quantity, but is being set in
quality II is 2 fitting time to begin 70
teach them languages, as then the FAC
ulty of language has its golden period
10 thoroughly understand Homer ono
should read his works in the original
before the age of 10. Diseases crop out
at this age affecting the eyes. ears
spine and in fact all organs of the body
are more or less affected. It is a time
when methods should not be forced
11pon them. but they should be given
an adequate amount of out door free
dom and amusement.
The speaker wound up by asserting
that at present we have no educational
philosophy which can be followed. He
smoke of Herbert Spencer and Froebel
s.nd stated that he had received more
satisfaction from the latter than any
other modern philosopher.
NOTES.