The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-19
SANPETE COUNTY TEACHERS.
TWO DAYS SESSION OF THE
INSTITUTE.
Interesting and Instructive Lectures
By the Leading Educators of the
Country-Good Attendance.

Mount Pleasant, Dec. 1S-Whether
they can run as far in a day as can
the teachers of other counties, may be
yet to be proven, but nobody of peda-
gogues in Utah is wider awake earlier
in the morning than are those of San
pete county.
The county institute is an institution
not trial affair 1t came into the
present permanent state of existence IA
years ago at Manti Meetings are held
monthly at different towns.
The present officers are A C. Nelson,
Manti, president; D. c. Jensen, Mount
Pleasant, vice president; Miss Mile
Keller, secretary treasurer. The exc
cutiVe committee consists of President
Nelson, D. C. Jensen, J. f. Alfred, j.
NJ. Christensen and Annie D. Stephens
There are "A teachers in the county,
and there regularly attend these meet
ings nearly SO per cent Of the whole
number
The December session of the institute
! convened at Mount Pleasant Friday,
County Superintendent A. c. Nelson in
the chair.
Dr.. Tanner of Logan greatly disap-
pointed the body in being absent, and
instead of the lecture by him there was
substituted a drill on expressions by
Professor R. w. Livingston
Professor Livingston prefaced his eX-
ercise with a brief talk, in which he
announced himself as opposed to the
spelling book, because of the use of so
many words not common to the vocab-
ulary of the child or found in his usual
lessons, hence we prepare tests from
the text books in use by his classes,
from arithmetic, geogra ply, etc
Mrs. Professor G. H Marshall finely
rendered vocal musical selection,
sleep. Baby, Sleep"
Professor A. w. Jensen, principal of
the schools at Ephraim, presented the
subject of Moral Training" Among
| other excellent things he cited the fact
that different classes of people have diff
ferent bases for action, as the sociol-
ogist and the humanitarian, but he
4 could not base his principles on either
/ but on those teachings found in the
book of books, the holy Bible, and the
enlightened conscience.
How shall we teach the children?
First, from the open book Of nature,
showing the student must be taught
| the absolute reliance upon the supreme
! divine, personal mind, preserving and
/ directing all.
! Second, teachings should be taken
from the word of God. It teaches bet
( ter than any other book the origin Of
/ astronomy, geology, government, sociol-
! ogy.
Announcements were made for the
evening and Rev. j. D. Gillian pro-
nounced the benediction.
FRIDAY EVENING.
All the sessions were held in the pa
| latial school building, except that Of
/ Friday evening. This was in the L.
/ D S. meeting house, where the follow
ing proceedings were had:
The opening prayer was made by A.
| W. Jensen, after America" had been
sung by the assembled teachers. Pro-
fessor j. Frank Alfred of Spring City
| delivered a strong address on the new
and improved method of teaching prev
alent in our state and county. His SUBJ
! ject was THE Benefits Derived from
Institutes.
1. In their social character the teach
ers should know each other much bet
! ter for the most healthy cooperation
| 2. In their educational aspects, "as
! iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the coun-
/ tenance of a man that of a friend"
! Thus we come to oneness of thought
and uniformity of action.
! During his address he referred in a.
manner pleasing to his hearers to the
crude methods in the early schools and
! Institutes of the county, and related
| the TACT lndI ne nlnlSel1 went INTO the
mountains and cut the logs and placed
/ the roof on the first school house in
Spring City.
Mr.. Gillian then made a few remarks
on the subject of What Is Man?" A
| doXology was sung and Abram Johnson
! pronounced the benediction.
Adjournment was then had to 8
! o'clock Saturday morning.
SATURDAY MORNING.
The institute was called to order by
! County Superintendent Nelson and an
! appropriate hymn was sung, P. Chris