Morris tribune., 1897-07-14
To Be Held at the Morris High School
Building Commencing July 10 and
Ending August 10.
An Excellent Corps of Instructors-A
Synopsis of the Different Branches
to Be Taught.

| our eQucatlonal system 1noy are beyond question
very important factors, giving character and stand
ing to our common schools. The four normal
schools are crowded, but only very small fraction
of the common school teachers can afford to attend
them. We are thus driven to the conclusion that
the great majority of teachers-those whose highly
responsible duty it is to guide the intellectual and
moral development of children, have little or no
professional training 1t is the legitimate function
of the Summer School, planned and recognized by
by the best educators of this or any other state to
impart just this training. Manifestly, it must build
upon given foundation of maturity and scholar
ship, and as consequence it has been found neces
classes at sixteen years. and to require scholarship
sufficient to begin eight grade work.
The program covers academic as well as profess
sional work. and will be made as practical and as
county, as possible. The one session daily will
make it convenient for those within driving dis
lance, while the cool rooms of the High School
building will afford delightful place for study
even in the hottest weather A few lectures on
School Law, State Teachers Certificates Libraries,
Free Text Books Tree Planting, Temperance Hy-
giene and Hygiene of the Eye and methods of test
ing for defective vision, will be given in the after
noon The rooms will be open every afternoon for
the purposes of study.
The following are short syllabi of most of the
subjects:
MUSIC.
Object will be to teach the rudiments, how to
read notes in all the keys at once instead of learn
ing Ole key at time and to learn number of
patriotic songs to be used p the schoolroom during
the coming year.
NATURE STUDY.
Nature Study will be considered under the head
ings: Natural Phenomena, Field Lessons, Animal
Lessons, Minerals Plant Study.
PEDAGOGY.
The trend of this work will depend somewhat
on the classes formed, but will consist Of systematic
and thorough instruction in the principles of sue
to date educators
HlSlORY.
History is the life development of people"
1t is the intention of the instructor to present it in
such way to trace the lines of this development
These lines are five in number, originating from
five sets of ideas; namely, Social, Industrial, Relig
ious and Educational ideas.
The great end in view is to trace the growth of
the idea of Freedom and to nculate correct ideas
of citizenship
METHODS IN ARITHMETIC.
Methods based on the CRUDE Idea. Full ex-
PLANTATION of the principles of this system. How to
form the series with Applied Numbers based on
these series. Model lessons in Primary Number
Methods in higher work in Four Fundamentals,
Factoring, Cancellation G.. c. F., and L. G. NJ,
and in Fractions both Common and Decimal
METHODS IN LANGUAGE.
Poverty of Language of the average high school
graduate. Cause and Remedy. Vocabulary work.
Reproduction both oral and written. Nature study
as basis for Language work. History Stories and
Science basis for language work. Picture
reproduction Uuse of classical masterpieces Let
ter writing. Mechanical aids to written expression
CIVICS.
This work will be based on local organizations,
beginning with the town and school dis
trict, advancing to the city, county and state
Political Economy will be interviewer as far as is
practicable.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
The Sentence will be taken as the basis. The
work will be mainly sentential analysis on selec-
tons from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. This
will involve systematic work in all that is necessary
to the complete parsing Of any part of sentence.
ARITHMETIC.
Analytic work in Factoring, Greatest Common
Factor, Least Common Multiple Fractions, and